Crys arrived at Ponyville's town hall, as soon as he opened the doors he immediatly regreted it. The town hall looked like it had turned into one of DJ-Pon3's parties. He looked up and the roof had his face painted over it. 'Was t-that really necessary' he thought nervously before he realized he was walking, he stopped and saw Celestia 'examining' a five-layer cake, that also had hs face on it. Crys looked around to see if there was anypony he knew, but it was a little hard due to the ponies he didn't know.

"Oh, you must be Crystal Hoof, so nice to see you.", a pony asked from behind.

"D-do I know you?" Crys asked still looking around.

"Well not yet, I'm..." The pony seemed unable to come up with her name. "...Karma?" She sounded unsure of her own name.

"Okay? You sound a bit unsure about that."He said still trying to spot his friends, but as soon as Crys finally looked into her red eyes, it seemed that a blue streak went across them. "Wait-"

"Um.. Well it was nice to meet you. I'm sure we'll met again soon.", With that being said she left into the crowd, 'Very soon' she thought to herself as malevonent grin spread across her face.

"Okay... That was weird, now where's Pinkie at?"

"Right here silly!" Pinkie said," How's the party going?"

"It's wierd and... well... just uncomfortable." Crys rubbed the back of his neck.

"Ohh, so your just shy?"

"No... not shy... just... introverted."

"Isn't that the same thing?" Pinkie looked confused

"Well... um... yeah pretty much."

"Well look over there," Pinkie gestured towards Fluttershy and a White Pegasus stalion with a brown mane with a yellow streak going through it and a matching tail,"She's shy, but having a great time." she started to whisper in Crys's ear,"Can I tell you a secret?"

"Sure?"

"Do you Pinkie promise?"

"What's that?"

"Copy me 'Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye'." She said shoving a cupcake into her eye.

" Cross my heart and hope to fly , stick a cupcake in my eye? Do I have to do the last part." He said copying Pinkie's gestures.

"You can just pretend." Pinkie said

"So the secret?" Crys continued.

"That's my boyfriend she's dancing with, don't worry, I told him to go dance with her."

"Why?"

"Don't worry about it, after they're done dancing I'll introduce you!" After finishing what she said, she ran off.

"Can this get any weirder?" he asked himself before noticing Spike running towards him.

"Oh, there you are Crystal, Cadence asked me to come find you."

"Uhh... sure, but could you please not call me 'Crystal'?"

"Why?"

"Just sounds like an old mares name." Crys explained.

"Yeah, kinda does." Spike acknowledged this,"Here follow me."

"Okay, mabye Cadence won't just run off on me." Crys said with some bitterness, following Spike

"Huh? What's been going on?"

"Well first some random pony comes up and introduces herself, She didn't even sound sure of her own name."

"That's weird, so what else?"

"Well, what's a 'Pinkie promise' worth?"

"That sums that up, just don't break it."

"Okay?" he continued to follow the small dragon towards Cadence, Shining Armor, and Flurry Heart. He then realised the most peculiar group of creatures he had ever seen, a dragon, hypogriff, yak, gryphon, a pony and a changeling.

Spike noticed that Crys had stopped following him,"Uhh... Crys, you know you're not moving, right?"

"Oh, sorry just got a little distracted."

"What were you looking at?"

"It's- nothing, it's nothing." he lied and contined to follow Spike.

"Okay, then lets go."

"Oh, Crys there you are." He heard Cadence's voice from around the corner near a wall.

"Hi Cadence." He said with a false smile

"Okay, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, nothing's wrong." Keeping up the false smile.

"Okay are you gonna sit there and pretend like nothings wrong, or tell me what it is?" she said with a smirk.

"I'm just a little-"

"Uncomfortable, I noticed." she giggled a little at this.

"You know I don't like to be a part of big gatherings like this. Especially one with my face everywhere."

"Oh, come on you can at least try to enjoy it. And if I'm remembering correctly, this would be the first actual party you've ever been to."

"Wait, this is the first party you've ever been too." Spike said trying not to laugh.

"So what if it is? I'm just not a 'party pony'." He said to the both of them.

"Oh look here comes Shining Armor, and Flurry Heart?" Spike pointed out, as Shining Armor walked towards the two ponies and Spike, while Flurry Heart laid on top of his head.

"Yeah, I think I'm gonna go now." As Crys tried to leave Cadence pulled him back using her magic.

"Sorry Cadence, apparently everypony here is extremly thirsty." he said cathcing sight of Crys,"Oh, it's you."

"Yeah, me." He said nervously

"So Crys how would you like to meet Flurry Heart?" Cadence asked trying to change the subject.

Crys looked at Shining Armor's facial expression and decided he wanted to be anywhere else except there,"Maybe some other time, I promised somepony I'd meet them over there sooo... bye."

Crys started heading towards the variety of pies on the other side of the room,'Seriously, nopony even touched the pies. Oh well guess that makes more for me.

"Pie? Sure I'll have some." A white stalion pegasus said to himself then noticed Crys not to far away,"Oh, hi there I'm Fallout Sheildhunter." Fallout introduced himself,"I'm guessing you're Crystal Hoof."

"Wonder how you figured that out?" Crys replied sarcastically,"So you like pie?"

"Yeah, she's great. Wait how do you know about me and Pinkie?" He asked.

"There are to parts to this answer. First, Pinkie told me. Secondly, I was talking about the food pies, not Pinke."

"Oh, I mean I'd prefer ca-. Why did Pinkie tell you that? You weren't trying anything funny, were you?"

Crys noted that he was several head heights taller than himself,"No, trust me. I'm just not a 'Pinkie' type pony. Also, what happens if I break a 'Pinkie Promise'?"

"Don't tell me you pinkie promised her something." Fallout said as he face-hoofed,"Just- just don't break it, you should ask Applejack how that went for her."

"Okay? I have a question. I mean, that is if you don't mind."

"Sure, ask away."

"What was it like dancing with her? I mean with anypony really."

"Well, I definitly didn't expect her to be such a good dancer. You know you can go over and dance with her, I really want to get in a dance with Pinkie tonight."

"I mean, I would, but the party's almost over and I'm not a good dancer."

"Well if you change your mind there's a wide varitey of mares who might want to dance."

"Yeah, I think I'm going to leave a little early. I have a feeling that Pinkie's going to force me to dance with somepony."

"I honestly wouldn't doubt that." Fallout agreed.

"Anyways, I'm going to leave, see ya." Crys said as he casualy walked through the wall."

"That would suprise me if I didn't know Pinkie." Fallout said as he went to look for Pinkie.

Author's Note

Some of this is loosely based off of this blog post by FalloutDude 50 who was also nice enough to let me use his OC Fallout Sheildhunter