"Here's what I know about my current situation... I'm not from this world, possibly not from this world, either" I began in a cautious voice, unsure if Rarity would believe me. At that that first tidbit of information she did go a little bug-eyed but otherwise said nothing. "I am what's known as a human, and on my world, the world of Equestria is a TV-" I stopped, realising that none of the ponies would know what television was. "On my world the world of Equestria is a fictional story, not real, and neither is magic, our magic is all smoke and mirrors."

"A story, darling? Not real? I find that a little hard to believe." Rarity replied slowly. "While I can believe that you are not from Equas, given that nopony has ever seen anything like you before, I assure you I am quite real and not a fictional character."

"Oh I fully believe you're real, I'll get into why in a bit, but I have proof that you guys are a show in my world" I said with a grin looking forward to this next part. Rarity just looked at me as if to say 'this should be good.' "Your name is Rarity Hooves and hold the element of generosity, you have a sister called Sweetie Belle, and a parents who, while you find them quite embarrassing, you still love them dearly. Your friend Applejack holds the element of honesty and lives on an apple farm with her grandmother Granny Smith, her older brother Big Mac and her little sister Applebloom, who is also one of Sweetie's best friends. Your friend Rainbow dash is the holder of the element of Loyalty, has an adoptive younger sister in the form of one Scootaloo, who happens to be Sweetie's other best friend, the three of them making up the cutie mark crusaders.

I took a breath and grinned at Rarity, who was bug-eyed again, but i wasn't finished "another friend of yours is Fluttershy, holder of the element of kindness, she lives close to the everfree forest with all her animal friends and joins you for weekly trips to the spa and was the one who redeemed Discord, lord of chaos. Next we have Pinkie pie, resident party pony and holder of the element of laughter. Finally we have Twilight Sparkle, holder of the element of magic and, depending what part of the timeline I dropped in, alicorn and princess of friendship, her brother is Shining Armour, captain of the guard and married to Cadenza De Amora, or Cadence for short, alicorn of love, who is in turn niece to the rulers of Equestria, princesses Celestia and Luna, alicorns of the sun and moon, respectively." With a grin I looked up to see Rarity's jaw had dropped at this point. "Convinced now?"

It took a minute for Rarity to respond due to my lengthy speech "W...well yes dear, I am, but you got one thing wrong. It was Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie who redeemed Discord, not just Fluttershy herself."

I blinked in surprise, it seems that Author me decided to change one or two small details, but that made sense, who else could keep up with Discord's chaos but Pinkie pie? that reminded me. "Oh one other detail I realised" I told her "I worked out that not only am I in Equestria, but it turns out I am in Equestria in a story that a different version of me is currently writing."

Rarity looked at me in surprise for a minute before she burst out laughing, well, Rarity's polite style of burst out laughing anyway. "Sorry dear, but that is quite preposterous, I can believe that you're from another world where this world is fictional, based on what you've told me, but you expect me to believe that we are in a story that is currently being written by another version of you? No sorry but whatever conclusions you have come to about that simply cannot be true." Upon seeing the time, Rarity got up and started towards the door "come now dear, we must be off, Twilight asked to meet you once you woke."

I went to get up before I realised that I didn't have a stitch of clothing on me. "Um Rarity, before we do that can you bring me my clothes?"

Rarity looked at me in surprise "whatever for, darling? Surely you don't need them?"

"Except I do, it may not be necessary for ponies to wear clothing but humans like me have developed a deep sense of shame, to us going out without any clothes on is the visual equivalent of one of you ponies passing wind in front of both of the princesses."

Rarity looked scandalised at the thought. "My dear I am so sorry, I had no idea that was the case. Even so we must come up with some alternative as the garments you were wearing are not fit to be worn right now. Whatever happened to bring you here left them both ripped in many places and completely filthy! I am sorry but I could not live with myself if I let anyone, pony or otherwise, wear such things."

At her response I did some thinking and came up with an idea. "In that case can you go find Rainb-no Pinkie pie please? And Bring her back here, I'll let you know what the plan is when I do." A couple of minutes later had pinkie before me as well. "alright first, before I tell you girls my idea, I'll need you girls to first tell me what was the last 'interesting' thing that happened in Ponyville."

"OOH, ooh, I know this one" Pinkie Pie called out. "The map in Twilight's castle that tells us to go places sent Rainbow Dash and Twilight to the wonderbolt academy." It was a good thing I had watched the show and knew what to expect, otherwise I would have had trouble keeping up with Pinkie Pie.

"Right, thanks Pinkie, so Starlight is already Twilight's apprentice?"

"Ahuh, and a couple of weeks ago she and Twilight convinced Trixie to become Twilight's apprentice too."

"Huh, that never happened in the show, another difference, anyway now I have an idea what to expect later on in this story."

"Oh! You're talking about the story about our show that Corey from the other side is currently writing." Rarity looked at Pinkie Pie in surprise.

"Pinkie! You believe that too?"

"Yup, I loved the ending" this time it was my turn to look at Pinkie Pie in surprise.

"Wait a minute Pinkie, if the story is currently being written, how have you read it up to the end? never mind there won't actually be a way for it to ever exist in this world in this world in any form."

"Dissy gave me copy, written down on paper." I chuckled in surprise, I should have known. Rarity looked between the two of us and hung her head.

"First Pinkie Pie, then Discord, now there's a third one of you with logic I can't follow." I gave Rarity a grin.

"Hey, either you follow the logic or go mad trying, if it helps, I for one know that most of what Pinkie and Discord does falls under rule of funny." I said, giving a fist/hoof bump. "Anyway, back to my reason for calling Pinkie here, Pinkie you were there when I came out of the train, so you know about how I change between human and pony with a sneeze right?" At her nod I continued "right so where I came from I'm one of seventeen to thirty-five percent of humans who suffer from what we called the photic sneeze reflex, what that means is that I sneeze when light is shined on my face bright enough or long enough, which is what I'm gonna get Rarity to do with a spell." Pinkie looked at me with a confused expression but Rarity looked like she was following along.

"But why do you need me then?" Pinkie pie asked.

"Your Pinkie sense" I said, simply. "After i sneeze from Rarity's light spell and transform into a pony, you've read this story, you know about us humans' nudity issues, I'm going to give you this blanket, what I need from you, Pinkie, is this; I need you to focus on your pinkie sense and use it to let you know when I'm about to sneeze, and when I am, before I do, I need you to cover me with this blanket again, to keep my modesty intact until it's no longer needed. I know how reliable you can be when the situation calls for it so I am trusting you with this, can you do this for me?" Pinkie gave me a serious look and nodded firmly.

"Okay darling, I'll get that light spell ready, don't worry" Rarity spoke up.

"Hold on a minute first, Rares." I said, holding up a hand, "I got one other small thing I need to do first. "Can you get me some paper and something to write with?"

"Whatever for, darling" Rarity said, handing me the requested items.

"Writing down a spell given to me by the other me, it uses letters from a different language from my world call Greek, and consists of 8 letters which roughly translate to another name I've used a lot, Flamecid, according to the other me I'll need to get Twilight to draw these letters in the air, then I'll need her to cast 8 beams of magic through those letters and hit me with them. That will draw energy from the universe in the story where I actually am Flamecid and give me Flamecid's 'magic' so to speak." Having finished writhing I showed the two ponies the 8 Greek letters: Φ-λ-α-μ-ε-χ-ι-δ. "spoken in Greek, these letters are, in order; phi, lamba, alpha, mu, epsilon, chi, iota and delta. I'm sure Twilight would love to learn the whole greek alphabet later."

I looked to Rarity and asked her to cast the light spell, now that I was ready. "OK dear, if you're sure, how bright do you need the spell? I don't want to accidentally blind you."

"Oh, about as bright as a summer day's landscape." I said simply.

"Alright, here goes." I decided to close my eyes anyway, to avoid any chance of damaging my eyes. I could feel the light spell shining on my face and a tickle in my nose, wait... here it came... "ACHOO!!!"

There was a puff of smoke as Corey sneezed before it dissipated to reveal him in his Sparkle Green-green form. Rarity had appreciated the muscles she saw on Corey's human form but she had no idea he'd still have as many muscles as a stallion. She had been told what he looked like as a pony but nopony had told her that he was drop dead gorgeous, rippling muscles across his whole body under a lovely green pelt and simply fabulous hair of a darker shade of green that was indeed consistently sparkly, depending on the light, she was stunned. "Are you alright, Rarity? You've gone quite a bit red." Corey spoke up noticing she wasn't saying anything.

That snapped her out of her stupor, alerting her that, yes, she was blushing. "I..it's nothing dear, I'm just a bit flushed from the heat of the light spell." Pinkie pie smothered a fit of giggles, causing Corey to look at her in confusion and Rarity threw the party mare a glare, warning her of bad things to come if she revealed anything.

"W...well..." Rarity cleared her throat, getting their attention in the process. "Well anyway, don't you want to go and get Twilight to cast that spell for you, dear?" Rarity said in a rushed voice, hoping to move on as soon as possible.

"Yeah I do, I'm gonna get Pinkie to lead me to the library so Twilight can cast that spell. But can I ask something else of you first Rarity?"

"Of course, dear, what is it?"

"Can you whip up some clothes for me? As quick and simple as possible, just something to cover my legs in human form and something to cover my torso too. After that can you get the other girls as well as Mayor Mare and meet us at the Library please?"

"I'll get right on that darling, See you at the library in a little bit"

"See ya bye" said Corey, as he and Pinkie walked out the front door, Pinkie carrying the blanket on her back. Before she could move though she heard Corey sneeze again. "Thanks Pinkie, it's really bright outside today, let me just take a wide-eyed look around and we'll be on our way." At his second sneeze Rarity tittered to herself and began on Corey's simple clothing request.

Rarity had a crush on the new pon... pers... Corey! Rarity had a crush on Corey. Pinkie wasn't entirely sure of that fact, but she did know that Rarity certainly liked what she saw back in there, Pinkie couldn't wait to tell Rainbow Dash, this was a goldmine of prank opportunities waiting to be realised. She snapped out of her thoughts when the sight of the crystal-tree-castle came into view. In the time it took them to walk to the castle Rarity had already finished the simple clothes Corey wanted and gathered everyone to meet them there, Corey had asked to take the scenic route to get a good look at Ponyville in person. "Well," Corey started, "time to begin the show."

Author's Note

third chapter finally done, sorry for the long wait and thank you readers for waiting. the reason for the wait is my house was having it's wooden floors redone so i was away from my pc for a week and then it took me a while after that to work up the motivation to finish this chapter. As long as I don't take too long a break before starting/finishing the next chapter I should be able too keep enough motivation to release chapters regularly/semi-regularly