Unlikely Endeavors

"Ivory, sweetie. Ivory wake up." Ivory started to hear as her body was woken from her sleep early.

"Ha-wa..." She was able to get out as she rolled over to her side and opened her eyes. She found a blurry image of her mom as she stood on her bedside.

"The Princess has called for a town meeting, she said everypony must be in attendance unless they are sick, and I don't see you running a fever."

Ivory let out a few pretend coughs, "Oh nooooooo..... I must have caught something......"

Her mother gives a small chuckle as she steps to the door frame.

"Be ready in 10 minutes, or I'll have your father come wake you up instead."

That got her up.

Ivory reluctantly dragged herself out of her bed and started to get ready. Brushing her mane, coat, and tail, preening her wings then heading to the bathroom to use it and brush her teeth. 15 minutes later, she was ready as she headed down the hall to the living room where her mom and dad were waiting.

"Any longer and you have made us late Missy." Her dad told her.

"Well it's not my fault mom woke me up with only 10 minutes to get shit done."

"Language," Her mother added "Let's just get there before we are actually late."

With that the three headed to town hall, which was located right in the center of town. As they approached they could see the rest of the small town coming from their houses to all gather in front of Town hall. They all joined the crowd and waited for whatever this was to start.

These happened every so often, but not at this short notice. Usually they would notify the town a week prior. So this had to somewhat important, hopefully not another giant monster attack like so many times before.

After about 5 minutes of waiting the princess came out from behind the curtain onto the small stage that was set up in front of the hall. She made her way to the center of the stage and stood in front of the podium, her horn started to glow as she started to speak, amplifying her voice.

"Hello Ponyville, and thank you for arriving on such short notice. As many of you might have already known, there was an incident a few weeks back on the outskirts of town. We had kept it a secret for all your safety, but I feel it's time to tell you all. Due to some sort of magic anomaly, a portal was created to another planet, or even universe, we cannot be for sure yet."

What seemed to stir up the crowd a little, ponies chatting to one another.

"But what we do know, is that with this portal being open for a short period of time, a human named Chris was forced through it, the alien some of you may have seen coming to the castle."

She seems to motion back behind her as the alien stepped forward from behind the curtain and got on stage, walking over to Twilight's side. Some ponies of the crowd gasp, most of them just stare, even some 'awes' as well.

"This is Chris, as I said he is a human from the planet Earth, a very far away place from what we have found out so far. As far as we know he is the only of his kind here in Equestria, being no other history of his kind before him. you can see that he is also not dangerous in any way and is very kind. He can speak Equestrian and is intelligent."

Twilight smiles over at him as her horn glows other his mouth as well.

"Oh wow that tickles," he says quietly "Oh I'm on. Hello everyon- pony!"

He looks to twilight and she nods back.

"my name is Chris as Twilight said, I am just like you in maybe ways, just maybe not looks. My world and yours share many things, ponies being one of them. Ponies in my world are uh... a little different from you guys, but it's mostly the same. Let me get a few of the obvious questions you guys might ask out of the way. No I can't fly by conventional means like some of you can, and I don't have magic from where I'm from, at least not the kind you have. I'm also a omnivore, which means I eat plants and meat, but don't let that scare you, I won't try and eat you. Other then that I'm just a nice guy trying to get back home, feel free to come ask me questions and I'll do my best to answer them."

The crowd mumbles to themselves as Twilight steps back up to the podium.

"Thank you all for coming to meet Chris, we both appreciate it greatly. We just wanted to let everypony know that he is not a threat, and to make his presence in town clear. We will stay around here for a while to greet and answer any more questions you might have with him. Other then that thank you again and see you all around town."

A good amount of ponies started heading back to their homes as the crowd thins out. But still a large group of ponies hang around the stage as Twilight and the human come to greet them.

"Well that will be interesting with that thing walking around town all the time." Ivory's mother says as she turns around and starts heading back home.

"that's for sure." Her father adds as he starts to follow her.

"wait, are you guys not going to go say hi?" Ivory asks.

"If I have to talk to him then yes, but I'm not getting close to that thing on purpose."

Ivory huffs at that, "Fine, I'm going to go say hi."

"But Ivory we don'-"

"Twilight said he's not dangerous, and she is standing right next to him. There is nothing to worry about." And with that she makes her way to the group formed around Chris.

Her parents give each other a concerned looks before starting to head back home.

Ivory patiently waited her turn as the human met with and greeted the ponies in front of her. Some were just saying hi and introducing themselves, other asking questions about him or where he's from. Eventually the crowd thinned to just a handful of ponies as Ivory made her way to the human.

The human smiled at her as extended his claw towards her.

"Hi I'm Chris nice to me-" He seemed to just stare at her for a moment with a unreadable expression on his face. Causing Ivory to get a little worried, "-et you... You're the one I seen when I came here." he stated at he continued to stared at her.

Ivory gave a small nod "y-yeah that was me, I didn't know what you were at the time so I uh... kind of booked it back to town, heh..." Why was she so nervous? stop being so nervous!

I kept his claw and as he gestured towards her again.

"Well, good to meet you again," his smile ensured her, as she placed her hoof in his claw, shaking her hoof with his claw.

"I don't think you told me your name?"

"oh yeah, I'm Ivory Sky, good to meet you." she smiles back at him, it was pretty cool to meet someone from another universe.

"Ivory huh... did you lose a book?" He asked her.

She was very confused at the question, how could he of own that?

"Are you a mind reader?" It was a valid question, he was from a different planet.

He chuckles slightly at that.

"No no no, nothing like that, it's just I found a book on the way back from my house and it had Ivory scribbled into the front cover, I'm guessing it's yours? I actually completely forgot about it with how many books twilight has given me to read."

"Yeah! It's defiantly mine, I must have dropped it when I was running back to tell the Princess about you. I'm so glad you found it, it's one of my favorites. Do you have it with you?"

He shakes his head, "No not on me, it's back at the castle. How about you stop by later and I can find it for you, that sound good?"

Ivory nods, "yeah no problem at all, I'll see you later!"

"See you later Ivory."

She smiled to herself knowing that her book wasn't gone forever anymore. She left the small group of ponies and let Chris talk to the rest of them as she started on her way back home.

He seems like a nice guy.