As we walked through the massive golden doors, I finally got to see what a really fancy medieval castle may have looked like. The floors were made of a white marble with red carpet going down the middle, the walls were also a white marble but with a gold outline. There were fancy chandeliers, portraits of, what I could guess, famous ponies that made history, maids cleaning expensive vases and sculptures, and guards standing at attention along every hall.

"Quite the place you two got here, it's very impressive but I personally find it to be overwhelming." I said still looking around like a kid in a candy shop.

"*giggle* It can be at times, but when you have to live here to keep a country in order the castle grows on you." Celestia tells me.

"Really?" I ask with a questioning look. "How long does one have to live here before that happens?"

"A century at least, it took me almost a millennia." Celestia says in a sad tone.

'Must have brought up bad memories from the past.' "So where are we going now?" I ask trying to change the mood.

"We are heading to the throne room where the Day and Night Courts happen." Luna says. "Sister, I am going back to my chambers, it is too early for me to be up. And human," Luna turns to me. "I will send some guards to find you when Night Court begins."

"Very well Luna have a good-"

"AAAAAAUUUUUUNNNNNNTTTTTYYYYY!!!!!"

Everything came to a complete stop after I recovered from the posh sounding yell of a stallion. I looked around to see what was happening, all the mares around me had flattened their ears and had a mixture of fear and tiredness in their eyes, the princesses just looked tired and had enough. The maid quickly gathered their clean tools and left in the opposite direction of the voice, and all the nearby guards all gathered up in groups of five and started to do their 'patrols'. All who were left were the princesses and myself.

"And there is my queue to leave, so you later tonight human." And with a loud pop Princess Luna was gone.

"Traitor…"

I turned to see Celestia with a face of betrayal and her left eye twitching. Then I hear the sound of hooves clopping on the floor at a brisk pace, “Aunty there you are, I need you to get rid of one of the masseuses. She chipped one of my nails and didn’t clean my mane with the oils that we ordered from Saddle Arabia, instead she used that trash from Ponyville.”

If you told me that I would meet someone that embodied the saying, ‘Money makes the world go around.’, I would have called you crazy. But seeing is believing and damn do I believe, before me was a unicorn stallion that was about neck high, with snow white fur and a golden mane dressed in some white spa robes, who was flanked by two buff looking stallions in royal purple armor with golden trim and both armed with a halberg. The entitlement and ego that is just radiating off of him is nauseating, makes me want to punch him in the face and shave him hairless.

Celestia just facepalms, “Blueblood, please tell me you didn’t have your personal guard ‘escort’ her out of the castle?”

“Of course not Aunty, she is a devoted member of your church, so I wanted to see the look on her face when the goddess she worships fires her from her job.” Blueblood said with a sneer.

'Wow', I just look at Blueblood with a dumbfounded face. 'Not only is he a whiny arrogant bitch, but also a spoiled narcissistic cunt.'

"No I won't do that dear nephew, ever; anywho I have a guest to take care of before I go to Day Court." Celestia said jestering to me.

Blueblood seems to finally notice me with a surprised face of disgust, "That's a guest? I thought it was a hairless ape for the zoo."

"*Gasp* Prince Blueblood how dare-"

*FWOOSH!!*

Blue flames erupted from my staff as my anger grew, all the ponies in the hallway froze with shock for a second, then Blueblood's guards regained their focus and went into action to protect their charge. They came at me trying to skewer with their halberds, I simply flick my wrist to my left imprinting them into the marble wall, they’re not dead mind you, just ‘immobilized’. I slowly walked toward Blueblood, staff still alive with blue flames of fury, until I was face-to-face with him looking down.

“I'm sorry what was that about a zoo?” I ask with fury in my voice.

Blueblood attempts to back away from me, but instead trips and falls on his ass.

“B-b-back away ape, don’t y-y-you know who I am?! I’m P-p-prince BlueBlood of Equestria and I will not be bullied by-oof!”

I cut off his little speak by slamming my foot into his chest and holding it there so his back stays on the ground.

I look down on the prince with flames behind me, “Now listen here prissy bitch, I am a human and I will be regarded as one. What you’re going to do from now on is leave me the hell alone for the duration of my stay at this castle, and if you ever cause any trouble for me I’m going to rip off you balls and shove them up your ass so every time you shit, you shit all over your balls! Do I make myself clear?!”

“........”

“DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?!”

“.......”

Then I hear the faint sound of a liquid running, I turn my head to get a better scope of where the sound is coming from only to get hit in the face with a pungent smell, horse piss. Looking back at the downed prince, I see his eyes have rolled back into his skull, he’s foaming at the mouth, and he peed himself in his white robes.

I take my foot off his chest and step back to look at the carnage I created, “I may have gone a little too far, can’t say he didn’t deserve it tho.”

I turn to see Celestia face palming, "Faust damnit, this is exactly what I want to avoid. I'm terribly sorry that you had to meet my nephew like this."

"And I'm sorry I destroyed your wall."

"It's quite alright, it can be fixed. And thank you for not permanently injuring Blueblood, even if he can be a rotten being at times." Celestia said with a chuckle.

I just give her a deadpan look.

"....all the time." She reiterates.

"That sounds about right." I nod.

I then hear someone running from around the corner of the hallway, "Ah Princess there you are, I've been looking everywhere for you. Day Court is….about….begin…., should I call the guards, Princess?"

Everything about this new mare with grey fur screamed 'I'm a secretary'. She had the clipboard, the raven black bee-hive hairstyle, the secretary clothing that came out of a 80's movie, and a face that meant 'business only' with her half-glasses. This mare wasn't a bad looker either, I'd say she was about 5' 5", an earth pony, mid-thirties, an average body with a little curve and a C-cup maybe.

"No it is quite alright Raven, Blueblood had it coming." Celestia said turning to Raven.

"When doesn't he deserve it?" She counters with a monotone voice.

"Indeed." Celestia giggles. "Raven, I'd like you to meet Antonio the Human, he will be staying in the castle for the foreseeable future."

Raven turns to me, looks me up and down, "Let me guess, the prince called you a hairless ape and you pummeled him."

"Close." I chuckle. "I left a boot imprint on his chest, he's currently foaming and he pissed himself. I also cratered his two guards in the wall." Jestering to the two stone angel guards.

"Ha, I like you already. Once your actions here spread through the castle, you'll have earned some fans from the Night Guard and maids. You'll get spite from the Day Guard tho, they tend to be the children on nobles." Raven explains.

"Anyway, we've delayed Day Court long enough. Princess, shall we go?" Raven said, pulling a watch out of her pocket. "Also, are we bringing Mr.Antonio with us?" Turning to me.

"Yes we are, I want him to see what Day Court is and have him near until dinner." Celestia smiles.

"Wow, possessive of me already, Celestia? You didn't even ask me out yet." I joke.

Raven stumbled for a second before fixing her half-glasses with one hand, “Mr.Antonio, please refrain from flirting with the princess.”

“Do you want me to flirt with you instead?” asking with a smirk.

The fur around her cheeks got a little lighter, “......No comment.”

“Either way let’s get a move on to court.” As I gesture the mares to lead.

We quickly walk through the maze like hallways of the castle to make up for lost time. In the meantime, I'm lost in thought wondering about the rest of this world and if I'm going to encounter beings from the warp or worshipers of the chaos gods. Demise was once here before if those wall paintings are to be believed, if so then I think I can safely assume I'll come across one of his worshipers sooner or later.

Not much later I hear the sound of high-society, you know, blah blah complain blah blah money blah blah fashion blah blah.

'I don't want to deal with the nobles here nor make an unnecessary scene.' I thought.

So I covered most of my face with the hood on my robe, "Hey Raven, how do I look?"

She turns to me with a raised eyebrow, "Like a wandering mage that bought an overpriced staff and a cheap robe."

"Prefect." I say with a smile with confused Raven.

"Why is that perfect?" She asks.

"Tell if I'm wrong, but don't nobles in general ignore those who they deem lesser than themselves?"

"Ah, I see what you're getting at." Raven picking up on my idea. "You want to look poor so the nobles will ignore you."

"Right on the nose, Raven. I will hide in plain sight, more or less."

As we got closer to the crowd of nobles and normal citizens, my disguise seemed to work almost immediately. The look of disgust and disdain they all have was just what I wanted, it also didn't take long before they started to gossip about me being near their princess.

We reach a large golden door that most likely leads to the throne room. Celestia turned around with arms wide open, “Thank you my little ponies for being patient, I had some very important eirens that had to be done quickly. Now, let me set up first and I’ll be right with you all.”

Once she, Raven, and two guards walked behind those golden doors and closed with a loud bang, most nobles turned their attention to me. Mind you that I keep forgetting the female to male ratio is 10:1(somehow), and because of this, all but one of the nobles that are currently berating me with questions and accusations are female. The only dude that I saw was a white unicorn, about 5' 10", in a very sharp looking suit with a monocle, and three crowns flawlessly sewn into his suit on his right shoulder.

After a good minute of the female nobles getting in my face, the only male noble decided to speak up, "Now now ladies," All eyes were on him now. "why don't you give the poor stallion some space. He doesn't look like he has ever been in a situation like this before."

"And you be correct, I haven't ever been surrounded by mares before." I comment. "Mr…."

"Ah where are my manners, I am Sir Fancy Pants owner of the Canterlot Times." He said with a small bow and then offered a handshake.

I shake his hand, "Antonio, I'm a wandering wizard."

"Ah, so I can safely guess that you came to Day Court to ask Princess Celestia some sort of magic related subject?" Fancy inquired.

"I just came back from the Everfree Forest after I found an ancient temple that was made by human hands."

In response, I got a bunch of gasps and murmurs from the group of nobles, even Fancy Pants went wide eyed at my mention of the human temple.

"Truly? A human temple?" I nod "This is an incredible discovery, you must tell the princess immediately!" Fancy said excitedly.

"I will Sir Fancy Pants, I will, but I assume there is a line of sorts in order to talk to Princess Celestia, correct?" I see a couple of nods in the group. "Then I can guess that I am last in line, so I will bring this discovery to Princess Luna when her Night Court begins."

"Mmmm, I see the logic there. It's a shame tho, I would have liked to see the announcement myself." Fancy saided shaking his head.

"Indeed, Sir Fancy-"

"Please, call me Fancy."

"Very well, Fancy, maybe if we meet again we can have a hard drink together and wash the weight of life away for the moment." Holding out my hand.

Fancy gives me a hardy grip and shakes,"I would like that very much, maybe I'll get to introduce you sister. She tends to have a good nose for alcohol, plus she has a knack for drinking me under the table." Ending with one of those 'good memories' chuckles.

"That sounds like a swell time, now I'm off. Have a good rest of your day Fancy, and a good day to the rest of you." Turning to the group of female nobles. Scoffs and turned heads are their response, "Pleasant bunch they are." I say sarcastically. Fancy chuckles a little and we give each other a short wave good-bye.

'Well that was interesting, I like Fancy, he seems like one of the few nobles that deserve the title.' I thought while walking through the castle's halls. After getting lost twice, I finally asked one the guardmares for directions out and to a good food joint. She escorts me to the entrance and tells me of a place called Donut Joe's. I like the place already.

I thank the guard and as I walk off I put my staff away in my ring. Following the directions that were given to me, I got to see quite a bit of Canterlot in all of its glory and grime. Many of the ponies that were wearing expensive looking clothing, had their noses held up so high that I'm surprised how they could even see where they were going. The sounds of the city were a mixed bag, there were sounds that you'd expect like a stand owner trying to attract customers. But there were also petty arguments that I heard as well, one that I laughed at was a 'born with a silver spoon in their mouth' mare complaining to the owner of a pastry shop that she only got one strawberry on her cake instead of two, and threatened to bring the owner to court over it. I got a good laugh out of that conversation.

Eventually I got to my destination, it was one of those 60's diners with a large sign on the roof saying 'Donut Joe's, I shrug and go in. Walking in to the sound of a bell chime, I look around the place. There weren't a lot of people at the moment, but that didn't take away from the charm of this place. It gave off the feeling that Starbucks has; a place to meet up with friends and enjoy a bite to eat, but this place only sold donuts and surgery drinks. Behind the counter I see a unicorn stallion with tan fur, a light brown mane, an apron on with a name tag saying 'Joe'. Currently he was cleaning a milkshake glass before he looked up to me.

"Slow day huh?" I asked while walking up to the counter and sat down on one of the bar stools.

"Yeah no kidding, most of today's orders were take-out." He looks me up and down trying to see my face under the hood. "Never seen you around here before, you new to Canterlot?" He asked.

"You can say that, I just came from the castle after deciding that the line to talk to Princess Celestia wasn't worth it."

"Ah, understandable. So what can I get you?"

"Before I order anything," I pull an ancient human gold coin from the ring's inventory. "can I use this as payment?"

"Hmmm." Joe picks up the coin and eyes it for a while. "This coin looks like a Bit but it's not, on closer inspection the coin lacks the sun and moon symbol of both princesses on the front and a small picture of Canterlot on the back." He explains to me.

*Da-Ding*

Walking into the diner was a mare that was wearing a purple cloak, big red rimmed glasses, and a grey cloche hat. Everything that this mare wore screamed 'this is a disguise'.

"Well if it isn't A.K. Yearling. I have seen you in quite some time." Joe exclaims to the mare.

"It has been some time Joe, your place is one of the best break spots in Canterlot, when it's not packed I might add." Yearling says with a giggle. "Am I interrupting anything." Looking between us.

"Nah nothing like that, but since you're here I could use your help with something." Joe said leaning on the counter and motioning Yearling to come closer.

"What can I help with?" Yearling said in a confused tone.

"You know your history and most things ancient right?"

"More or less, I've done my research for my books."

"You see, this guy here," motioning to me, I wave comically "brought in this coin and wanted to buy some food with it, but the problem is that it's not a bit and that's all I know about it." Joe explains, passing the coin over to Yearling.

"So you're asking me if I can figure out the origin of this coin." Yearling said, glancing at it.

"Pretty much." Joe nods.

"Fine, I'll help." Yearling says in a bored tone.

At first she just lazily looked over the coin, then something caught her enough for her to bring out a magnifying glass. That's when she started to frantically turn the coin over, and examine it. Then she stopped, put the coin and magnifying glass down softly, slowly turned to me, grabbed both of my shoulders, and began to shake me in a violent frenzy.

"WHERE DID YOU FIND THIS COIN?!"

"I-i-in a t-t-e-e-m-m-p-p-l-l-e-e."

Yearling's pupils became pin pricks, "CELESTIA DAMNIT ANTONIO!! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!"

A.K. Yearling AKA Daring Do grabbed the front of my robe and pulled me nose to nose, "I didn't think it was important at that time." I sheepishly said.

*Da-Ding*

"Not important? NOT IMPORTANT?!" Daring roared. "YOU FOUND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES BEFORE ME AND YOU SAY THE THINGS YOU FOUND INSIDE ARE NOT IMPORTANT?! Shaking me even more to the point my hood fell off. "AND TO TOP IT ALL OFF, YOU ARE THE ONLY HUMAN ON THIS PLANET, MAKING YOU A WALKING MYTH!!"

I just look at Daring for a moment, "You need to calm down a bit."

Daring eye twitched, "CALM DOWN?! HOW THE BUCK CAN I CALM DOWN!" Shakes me even more violently. "WHAT ELSE DID YOU FIND IN THE TEMPLE?! WHAT ELSE AREN'T YOU TELLING ME?!"

I grab both of her arms at the wrists to stop the shaking, "If you stop shaking me I can tell you." I say as I let go and de-crumple my robe.

I breathe in and out to calm myself, look Daring straight in the eyes, and boop her right on the nose.

The move stuns her for a second before scrunching up her muzzle and covering her nose, and looks at me with a confused look.

"I booped the snoot of Daring Doot." I say with a grin.

Daring's face went from confused to rage so quickly, "RRRRAAAAHHHHAAAA!!" While screaming at me, she gave me a rage-infused right hook to the jaw. As I flew and landed on my stomach, I heard several gasps from the peanut gallery that our argument acquired.

As I was dazed and getting to a knee, I felt one of my teeth rolling around on my mouth. I check my teeth with my tongue, but all are accounted for. 'Must have regrown instantaneously and I didn't even feel it.' I summarize.

"*GASP*, oh my Celestia, Antonio I'm-" Daring began before I raised a hand to stop her.

I get to my feet, dust off, shake my head a bit, turn around, spit some blood and a molar into my hand, and I give Daring one of those nodding 'Well done' faces.

"Feeling better?" I ask her as if nothing had happened.

She looked at me with a face of confused-alarm, "'FEELING BETTER'?! I just punched you in the face and you lost a molar, then you ask me if I'm feeling better?! Anyway we need to get you to a doctor or something-"

I put my hand in front of her telling her to stop, "Daring Do, you're my first friend on this planet. I would gladly take as many blows as needed to calm you down. Now, I ask you again, are you feeling better?"

"*Sigh*, yes I am, thank you for that." As she massages her forehead, then pulls me into a hug. "And I'm sorry for punching you."

I return the hug, "*Chuckle* No apology needed, but I'll accept it out of kindness."

"Also," She looks up to me and I look down. "don't boop my nose again…..unless I say so." Mumbling that last part in my chest.

"What was that last part?" I ask.

"Nothing, nothing." Pushing me away and turning, finally noticing the group of ponies watching us with their mouths open.

"......Buck, it's you seven.
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In front of the door was a mixture of colors, sizes, and species. The six mares and a purple lizard all had their mouths open with shock, most likely from what they witnessed between me and Daring.

Rainbow Dash was the first of the group that I noticed with her rainbow mane, she was a pegasus with a cyan body ment for speed. About 5' 3", a really toned body with her muscles being really defined; looking at her chest, I have determined that she must be part of the A-Team(I'm an asshole). She's wearing a sleeveless top with a rainbow thunderbolt on the front over a sports bra and some shorts.

Next came the other elephant in the room, the purple alicorn with the cute school girl outfit. Everything about this alicorn was purple, purple fur, purple mane with purple stripes, purple wings, and even a purple horn. She even wore a purple sweater vest over her white dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows. Luckily, the skirt that went to her knees was black, it also had a star with several smaller stars surrounding it on the side. The purple alicorn was about my height of 6' 3" without the horn, and a healthy looking body with DD-cups.

Then came the pink earth pony that looked like she injected pure sugar into her veins. Her mane was hot pink and super curly, I won't be surprised if she could store things in there, she had about DD breasts and a plump body that didn’t detract from how much of a looker she was. She wore a tight light blue t-shirt with a party cake on the front that showed off her assets, a short pink skirt, and light blue leggings with party accessories decorating it.

To the right of the pink one was a white unicorn; from her curled royal purple mane to her silk white one-piece dress screamed ‘glamour, fashion, and high-society’. She was a 5' 10" beauty with the body of a model and C-cup tits to boot. The necklace with three blue diamonds she wore seemed to enhance her beauty even more.

Behind the group was an orange earth pony with a Stetson, that stood above all including me.From what I could guess she was 6'5", but not only that, her body was ripped with muscles. Her biceps looked like they could crush my head, and her legs made the blue jeans she was wearing look like skinny jeans. The red and white plaid t-shirt not only could barely contain her DDD breasts, but didn't even cover chiseled abs. She also had freckles on her face, her blonde mane was in a ponytail, and I saw three apples on the left sleeve of her t-shirt.

Attempting to hide behind the purple alicorn was a crouching yellow pegasus with a pink mane covering her eyes with her hands. This pegasus was much bigger than Rainbow at about 6', and her bust was almost Celestia size at maybe an E. She wore a thick pink turtle-neck sweater, and a green skirt that went down to her ankles, that also had three pink butterflies sown into the fabric.

Last but not least was a bipedal lizard of some sort. He had purple scales, and a green underbelly and fins that went down his back. I'd say he was about 4'5", he wore a purple hoodie and blue jeans. He just looked between me and Daring with an uninterested face, shrugged, and walked to a bar stool. "One hot chocolate and gem covered donut, please Joe."

Joe just blinked a couple of times before chucking, "Coming right up Spike, not even interested in what happened here?"

"I've been on a lot of adventures with the girls," Thumbing to the still shocked group of mares behind him. "that most things like this don't surprise me anymore."

"Ah." Then Joe goes into the back to get Spike's order.

I look between the group and Spike, shrug and sit next to Spike. "Antonio the Human." I say holding out my hand.

He turns to me, eyes me up and down, then shakes my hand, "Spike the Dragon, Hero of the Crystal Empire."

"Dragon huh? I thought you were a lizard of some sort, but then again I haven't even been on this planet more than 24 hours, so what do I know." I shrug.

"And I thought humans left this planet thousands of years ago."

"The humans of this planet did." I explain. "But I'm not from this planet, I'm from a different dimension. The pod that I fell in should have lit up like a firework when I entered the atmosphere."

"Oh, that was you? The girls and I were having a star lit picnic when we saw you light up. When we heard you crash land, we wanted to go see what landed but get up that idea when we found out you landed in the Everfree Forest." Spike said.

"I see, speaking of your friends," I turn to look at the still shocked group with mouths still open. "are they going to be ok?" I ask Spike.

"Yeah they'll be fine, give 'im a couple more seconds, or you can try to say something crazy to snap them out of their stupor." He suggests.

I think for a second, "Well back in my world I was never invited to someone's birthday party before."

"Really?" Spike asks with a face of mild shock.

"Yeah." I confirm.

"Wow, that is crazy."

Then we both hear the sound of gears screeching to a halt. We look around for the source of the sound until we look upon the pink on. She had her head down but her entire body was shaking like a small earthquake.

"OH BUCK!" Spike yells before diving behind the counter.

I didn't even get a chance to ask what was going on before a pink blur slams into me at what felt like Mach 1. I was forced on my back on top of the counter and the pink one looked down on me straight in the eyes while grabbing my shoulders.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'YOU'VE NEVER BEEN TO A BIRTHDAY PARTY BEFORE?'"

"I just never been invited to one."

"THAT'S CRAZY TALK, WHEN WE GET BACK TO PONYVILLE I'M INVITING YOU TO MY BIRTHDAY PARTY." She continues to yell.

"That's very thoughtful of you, thank you, but can you stop screaming in my ears?"

"Oh, right, sorry." She says with a big smile.

As she begins to shift around off of me I look down and see ‘white cloth heaven’. “Huh, white.” I mudder.

The pink one suddenly stops, slowly turns to me with a saucy smile, “If you wanted to see, all you had to do was ask. Here, have a closer look.” She says with a flirty voice.

She scoots up, lifts her skirt up, and begins to smother me with her crotch. The moment I inhaled, it smelled like I was inside of a bakery. I tried to move my head around in order to speak, but that just made her more excited and turned on by how wet she was getting.

“PINKAMENA DIANE PIE!” Screamed a posh voice. “Will you please get off that….um….creature, it’s not proper for a lady to sit like on somepony.”

“Mm a muman.” I say muffled under the pink one now called Pinkamena Diane Pie.

“*Moans* He said he’s a human Rarity, and Antonio?” Looking down at me with her bedroom eyes. “Just call me Pinkie or Pinkie Pie.” Leans in closer to my ear and whispers, “Maybe we can meet up later for so fun.” Before she could continue with her flirting, the orange cowgirl graples Pinkie by the waist and lifts her off of me.

“Down girl, I know that look anywhere. You are not going to try to get in bed with another random stallion this trip again. So when we get to the castle you are bunking with me tonight, so I can keep an eye on you.” The cowgirl says with a Texan twang in her voice.

“But AJ!” Pinkie whines. “I need the real deal, my toys aren’t cutting it anymore.”

“The final answer is no, Pinkie.” AJ says ending the discussion.

Not a second after I sat up from the counter, I came face to face with the purple alicorn. She was looking me up and down while writing down notes, I think. Then she stops, rolls up a parchment and walks over to the counter.

"Spike?"

He finally comes out from his hiding place, "Yes, Twilight?"

"Can you please send this to Princess Celestia." She says handing him the parchment.

"Sure thing." Before blowing green flames on the paper, which then turned into a cloud of sparkles and flew away through an open window.

I hold my mouth open and have my finger up like I was about to ask a question before closing my mouth, then just sighed. "Magic, God damn magic, I don't even want to understand it just yet. I feel my mind will fry if I try to study it." I say to myself.

"Anywho." Getting the attention of everyone in the small diner. "I guess this is not a bad time to introduce ourselves to each other since I have no idea you ladies are," I see a few nods in the group. "I'll go first. My name is Antonio, and I am a human from a different dimension." I get a few gasps and woahs from those who didn't know already. I turn to Yearling/Daring, "Since Rainbow Dash is part of this group, I can safely assume that they know of your other identity."

"*Sigh* Yeah they know who I am."

"Great, that makes things easier for me." Turning back to the group. "How about the purple alicorn goes new."

"Very well, I am Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship. I came to Canterlot with my friends and number one assistant, Spike, because around noon I got a scroll from Celestia saying she has somepony she wants me and the girls to meet."

"I'll go next, I'm Spike as you know already. I also make sure that Twilight here doesn't kill herself from her late night study sessions or experiments." Spike says with a smirk, Twilight just rolls her eyes.

"I'll go next but before I start, how do you know about me since you came from a different dimension?" Asked Rainbow Dash.

"Daring here for one, and Captain Spitfire, who escorted me to Canterlot while I was on my floating garden." I explain.

"Wait, that was you, with the blue flames staff?" Dash said with a surprised face.

"Yup."

"Awesome, I'm Rainbow Dash and I'm the fastest flyer in Equestria and a member of the Wonderbolts." She says with a prideful grin.

"Indeed you are daring, you passing your promotion test with flying colors really proves that." Said the posh white unicorn. "Oh pardon me, where are my manners. I am Rarity Belle, owner and seamstress of the Carousel Boutique where every garment is chic, unique, and magnifique. Do come by some time, I would love to see what a human would look good in.

"She also has branched out her business to here in Canterlot and Manehattan, both are run by friends and fellow seamstresses of her's." Said Spike throwing his two cents in.

"Name's Applejack." The cowgirl said, holding out her hand. I take her up on her offer and we shake hands. While we shake, I think she wanted to test my strength because she tightened her grip on my hand. But instead she got the sounds of several bones being crushed.

She immediately let's go, and her eyes were filled with horror. "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to do that! I just wanted to see how strong you were." Applejack said with a shaky voice.

"Ow." I said with a straight face. I pull my hand back, look at it for a moment, then I quickly reformed itself to its original form. Testing my fixed hand with a few flexes, "Much better." I turn to Applejack. "Not harm, no foul." I said holding out my fist.

She was hesitant for a moment, then fist bumps me. "Thanks."

"Woah, that was so cool! Do it again!" Dash said with excitement in her eyes.

"Hehehe, maybe later Dash, and I won't be answering any questions Twilight." I said without turning to her. "Maybe another time."

"Aaaawwww." I hear her say with a poof a second later, I assume it was a notepad of some sort.

"Oo oo oo pick me next." Said Pinkie raising her hand.

"Ok Pinkie you can go next." I said with a chuckle.

"Hehehe, I'm Pinkie Pie and I work at Sugarcube Corner Bakery. I hope we can be great friends in the future Antonio." She said with a big grin, then in a flash she gives me predatory eyes and licks her lips before quickly changing back to 'normal' Pinkie.

"He he he, I look forward to a good friendship too Pinkie." I said, chuckling nervously.

Last but not least was the pegasus with the pink mane, who was now trying to hide behind AJ, and failing to do so 'cause of her big frame.

"So AJ, is the shy one behind you scared of me or something?" I ask pointing.

AJ just sighs and facepalms, "Dang namit girl, stop trying to hide and introduce yourself. Antonio isn't going to bite ya," She turns to me. "right?"

"Only if she's into that kind of stuff, hint hint wink wink." I said chuckling.

Rainbow lost it and was on the ground laughing, and AJ shook her head with a smirk. Everyone else either groaned or massaged their brow, except the shy one, she turned red and fainted in a puff of steam.

"I think I fried her brain with that one, oops. She's going to be ok right?" I ask with a little concern.

"Yeah she'll be fine, sugarcube. I appreciate that you're concerned for Fluttershy here." AJ said as she gave Fluttershy a piggyback ride.
"Come on y'all, let's not make the princesses wait." The girls give AJ a unanimous nod of agreement.

"Ah come on, I just got my donut and shake." Complained Spike.

"Then why don't you take it to go?" I ask.

".....That'll work." Before he chugs his shake and grabs his donut. "Thanks for the food, Joe." Spike said as he catches up with the girls walking out the door.

"No problem, kid." Joe said with a smile.

"And sorry for the scene we caused." I said. "Why don't you keep the coin as a 'I'm sorry' gift."

Joe was flabbergasted, "Wow, um, that's one Tartarus of a gift. Thank you, I appreciate it a lot, it'll make sure that I can stay open even if I'm in the red."

"Happy to help Joe." As I gave him a two-finger salute, and began to walk off to join the rest of the group outside.

"Antonio?"

"Yeah, Yearling?"

"Can I meet up with you tomorrow at the Equestrian National Museum around noonish? I'll be in the lobby waiting."

"Sure, I'll be there."

"And I'm A.K. Yearling in public, so please address me as such whenever we are together." She said with a serious tone.

"Don't worry, I will, you don't need to be so serious about it."

"I have my reasons, but I won't go into details as of right now. Now off with you, go join the 'Mane 6' before they leave without you." Yearling said trying to shoo me away.

"'Mane 6'?" I ask with a raised eyebrow.

"The Canterlot Times called them that at one point and it stuck. Now go!" Pointing to the door.

"Fine, fine I'm going. Later you two." As I put my hood up before walking outside.
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As we walked towards the castle, I began seeing the situation that the stallions of Equestria are in, or at least Canterlot. One that I saw was essentially a pack mule for a mare, and when he dropped a small bag from the dozens he had to hold, he was beaten violently. When the beating stopped, he silently picked up all he dropped and followed the mare, now with a limo. Another I quickly saw in an alley, was being pimped out to another mare for a lump sum. From the glimpse I got, the stallion was wearing some very revealing clothing and looked like he just got out of a brawl. None of this sat right with me at all, did stallions/males have so little rights that getting beaten in public and no one bats an eye at it normal, or was it just here in Equestria? I had to ask.

"Hey Twilight, I have a question."

"And I have an answer." She responds with starry eyes.

"Do stallions here in Equestria have so few rights that getting beaten in broad daylight from a mare, like the one we passed, is a normal part of one's life?"

Her excitement quickly leaves after my question, "Yes, since the stallion birth rate has gone down over the centuries, Celestia saw it necessary to create a law and a few addendums to current laws at the time to try to curb the declining birth rate." She explained in a somber tone.

"By the tone of your voice, I'm guessing that it didn't turn out too well."

"Yes and no, stallions died at a much slower rate but the laws didn't help with the birth of them. It also didn't help stallions when a new political party was created that believed in the complete and absolute domination of all males."

"And Celestia let such a group form?"

"The group formed a little over a century after Princess Luna was sent to the moon, so Celestia was still in a very emotionally vulnerable state."

"Ah, such an event would cloud anyone's mind." Twilight nods. "So this group took advantage of Celestia's plight and went for a power grab, then let me guess, slowly placed bills in front of Celestia that would further their goals, and she signed said bills into law without carefully checking them thanks to her vulnerable mind." Finishing my guess, I turn to Twilight. "So how much did I get right?"

"Most of it actually." She said mildly surprised. "You did pretty well for somepony that hasn't read the history behind it."

"Well, such a situation is very common in both fiction and history from where I come from."

"Why would things like that be that common in your world?" She said a little scared.

"Let me put it this way for you, princess. My world has perfected the art of war and killing each other, the country that I'm from agenda most of the national budget on the military."

Twilight stopped talking after that, from where I was standing she was in deep thought. As we walked, I saw a massive white cathedral with Celestia's cutie mark on top of each pointed roof and in the form of a giant stained glass window. 'Must be where the religion Prince Blueblood was talking about is based. Got to check it out later.' I thought.

As the Mane 6 and myself made our way to the golden entrance of the castle, they were saluted to by the guardmares on duty, all I got were ice-cold glares. I shrugged and moved on with the group as we walked to the throne room. We waited just outside the throne to be announced to the princess, once announced the doors were opened by two guards with their magic. Upon seeing the throne room, I was very impressed. The floor was made of marble with a ceiling easily over 50', the ceiling was 'held up' by pillars and between almost every pillar was a stained glass painting of Twilight and her friends' victories over some sort of obstacle. Spike even got his own stained glass window, he was lifting up a heart made of crystal and the heart looked like it was doing something, what I don't know. At each pillar were tough looking guardmares in heavy armor with a spear and a sword at her side, they must be the elite guards of the military.

The long red rug that we were walking on went all the way up to the two thrones that were at a higher elevation, and four large blazers at the side of the staircase that connected to the throne level. The two thrones themselves were fairly large, but knowing how big Celestia is then it made sense. One was made of a whitish yellow material and had a light gold cushion as part of the backrest. There was also a golden sun connected to the back of the throne, and there was one large white alicorn that was sitting in it. The other throne was dark blue, a dark purple cushion, and crescent moon made of a black metal on the back of the throne. Since it was empty, I can assume that Luna was off doing something else.

Celestia got up from her throne with a smile, and with a 'jump, hop, and skip' she glided down, and landed a few feet in front of the group.

"Twilight and friends, it's so good to see you again." She said with a smile, hugging everyone including Spike, whose head was absorbed in-between Celestia's massive knockers. He struggled for a few seconds, before going limp and accepting his fate.

"The kid is in desperate need of something, Celestia." I said giving her a deadpan look.

"And what would that be, Antonio?" She said turning to me.

"Air." As Spike was tiring a darker shade of purple.

"Oh." She finally let the kid go, dropping him to the floor.

*Gasp* *Cough* *Cough*"Worth." Was all he said when he finally caught his breath.

"Ha, too true." All the mare in the room looked at us a little puzzled. "Guy thing, don't worry about it."

"Moving on, I thought I asked you to join me in Day Court, Antonio. May I ask why you left?" Celestia said looking down to me with a raised eyebrow.

"Well, the nobles in line didn't take too kindly that I was with you when you came back to start Court again. It also didn't help that the female nobles were eyeing me like a slab of meat when I was talking to one Sir Fancy Pants, lovely guy by the by. He even invited me to drink some spirits with him and his wife, he seems fun to be around and the only noble, so far, that I genuinely like." I explain.

"Oh my, you must have met some members of 'Pouvoir des filles', do be wary of them. They tend to forcibly take whatever they buy out right, and unfortunately we have so far been unable to catch them red handed." Celestia saids with a sad sight. "But I'm glad you met Fancy Pants, he's one of the few ponies that are deserving of the noble title, his wife is also in that group, FYI, so you should hit it off with her fairly well." She said trying to end on a cheerful note.

"I hope I do, it's not good if the wife hates you when you're friends with her husband." I chuckle. "On a side note: the political group that wants to place all males under their hoofs is literally called, Girl Power. Is that correct?"

"Oh, you understand Prance?"

I just facepalm, "That has to be one of the worst playground names for a group ever, it also didn't help that they tried to be fancy with it either. That's like when the teacher is taking attendance and you say 'graveyard' instead of your name 'cause you wanted to be cool and edgy."

"When you put it like that, it does sound silly." Celestia said giggling into her hand. "Now, I believe we should rap things up here. Girls and Spike, you are free to roam and enjoy yourselves, I'll send somepony to get you when dinner is ready." She turns to me and claps twice. "Chocolate Cream, would you please come in here."

The large double doors open and in comes a brown colored mare in a maid outfit. She walks up to Celestia and gives her a deep bow, "Yes, Princess?"

"Can you please show Antonio here," Motioning to me. "to one of the ambassador guest rooms." She saids in a motherly tone.

"Of course Princess." She turns to me. "Sir will you please follow me." And motions to follow. I nod, "See you ladies at dinner." I say with a finger bang. Most just rolled their eyes, Spike smirked with a single chuckle. I then proceed to follow Chocolate Cream to my guest room.

Author's Note

Procrastination is a bitch, so I'm going to try to stick to a schedule so I can get the next chapter out a little quicker.

Thanks for the support on this trainwreck of a story.