Blueberry muffins and Gryphons

As we walked down the hall, I decided to ask a few questions to figure out the date in the show. I would have to be subtle with my queries. I wrote a short note to twilight.

(So, are you the same Twilight Sparkle that is the princesses student?)

She looked over at my note.

"Why yes, yes I am. How did you know?"

Think fast! (Lucky guess. By the way, how's your brother doing?)

Close enough.

Twilight looked at me suspiciously.

"Why do you ask? Do you know him?"

I thought for a moment.

(I'm not a spy. I'm just well informed. and paranoid. So, has anything important happened in the past month or two?)

She still seemed suspicious, and looked at me awkwardly before responding.

"Yes, my brother got married last week."

Well that sure is helpful. So it's one week after the royal wedding. I should probably be glad I'm not a changeling.

"Well, here's his room. He was found sleeping, and still hasn't woken up yet. My friend fluttershy has been trying to wake him up."

I walked into the room and noticed a few things.

First, a small, white gryphon laying in the bed in the room, snoring loudly.

Next a small bundle of fur and d'awwww sitting next to it, known to me as Fluttershy.

Finally, my heart, which was suffering from a d'awwww overload.

Must not dawww. . . must not. . .

"hello Fluttershy. I see he's still not up yet?" Twilight said, prompting Fluttershy to let out a small, and may I say cute, squeak of surprise.

That's not helping the d'awwww....

I apparently had a stupid grin on my face, as I noticed fluttershy staring at me. I shook my head and regained my composure.

"Sorry 'bout that, just thought you looked familiar."

At this, Twilight gasped.

"You spoke! The spell did work!"

"Well would ya look at that! Ok now back to the problem at hand." I responded.

"What's a hand?"

"Figure of speech. Ok! So this looks ALOT like my buddy Basil from school. However, I must test something first!"

I walked over to the side of the bed and looked at the stand next to it. On it was my friend's green backpack.

"Yup, definitely him."

Now I proceeded to latch onto the side of his bed and shake the mattress. He didn't budge.

drastic measures time

With a huff and a shove, I flipped the mattress.

The other ponies in the room let out a collective gasp as my friend thudded to the ground.

No response.

"Okay guys, this is definitely my friend. Unfortunately for him to wake up he needs some type of food."

Fluttershy let out a small ,terrified ,and cute squeak. The others looked at her as she whispered something to them. I caught the word 'carnivore' in there. Twilight and Applejack went pale.

I could guess the subject.

"Don't worry, I meant like a cookie or something! Gosh, its not like I would be so barbaric as to actually eat a sentient being!"

When I said this ,they all seemed to calm down a bit.

"Ok then, what should we get him?" Twilight asked.

As I was about to respond, I was cut off by a pink pony pouncing from private places.

"Here yah go!"

"AH!"

She was holding a large cookie above my unclenched talon that was somehow in front of me.

Wait a second! this isn't where I parked my hand!

I grabbed the cookie. It looked chocolate chip and was about 6 inches in diameter. Perfect. I held it over my friends beak for a second, when he suddenly took a sniff, and bit into the cookie. I let go of it as his beak grabbed hold of it, saving my talons from certain doom. His eyes shot open, and he looked around.

"Hello there Basil. If you would please, not freak out-"

"Woohoo! Im a gryphon! BEST DREAM EVER!"

At this point I did the only thing a friend can do in those type of odd situations. I punched him in the arm.

"Ouch!"

...

"I'm not dreaming am I?"

"Nope. Also, I'm Joshua. Now stop freaking out, you're gonna scare them." I motioned towards the ponies. I leaned over to him and whispered,"Don't freak out, but we are in the MLP universe." Now, my buddy basil wasn't a brony, but he certainly didn't hate the show either, He just never had the chance to watch an episode.

Maybe I can get him back home and just stay here myself. I don't have a terrible life at home, but this is a dream come true. A small aura surrounded basil's beak for a second.

"What was that?" Basil asked, slightly surprised.

"A translation spell. Okay, now that you are up, let's try and find out how you got in the middle of the Everfree." Twilight said. Basil looked at me and asked ,"What's the Everfree?"

"An evil forest filled with monsters, which reminds me." I whispered into his ear. "No meat for now. We can't be scaring the local herbivores." He let out a disappointed "Aaaaaawwww....".

"I'm serious, Don't."

"Don't be sad! Ooh, I know!" Pinkie pie came out of nowhere. "Have a cookie!" She handed him another giant cookie."I haven't forgotten you either Joshy!" She handed me a blueberry muffin, my favorite kind!

"She knows that blueberry is the superior muffin!"

I bow to her in mock respect.

"I am at your service my liege."

Pinkie pie leaned in close to me for a second and whispered" So you haven't told them their cartoons yet have yo-"

I cut her off with a talon clamped over her mouth. Her eyes widened with realization. "Well that's not the normal reaction... Oh well!" I decided to not question it. The others were looking on in bewilderment.

"What... just happened?" Rainbowdash asked.

"I think Pinkie Pie just got a gryphon to pledge allegiance to her. . ." Twilight responded.

"Yup! He's gonna work with me at the bakery!" Pinkie said.

"Wait... What? I didn't... Oh well, I'm ok with this." I was a bit shocked that they took it seriously, but at least it was one of the better ponies I could have pledged to. Rarity or Rainbowdash would have been terrible.

At this point Basil was getting done with his cookie.

"So what are we gonna do Josh? We can't live in the hospital. Oh yeah, and thank you for the cookie, Miss Pie was it?" My friend can be very polite to people he sees as nice, such as those who give him cookies.

"Well, first thing we gotta do is see if anyone else got transported here. Do you remember anything before passing out?" I asked.

"Well, I was over at Noah's house, when I saw a flash of light over by where he was. I looked over and he was gone! Next thing I knew I felt something hit my head, and then blackness." My buddy Noah might be here? This could complicate things. He is rather stubborn, and is very bad at adapting to new environments. This one time I went to a bonfire party with him. Someone forgot to bring fuel for the fire (AKA wood and gasoline) ,and he nearly broke down into tears. He didn't even realize the giant forest right next to us was full of, you will never believe it, WOOD! I swear, the guy has book smarts out the wazoo, but when it comes to common sense he has next to nothing.

Twilight was scuffing the floor and making an impression of the kid who got into the cookie jar.

"Twilight, is there something you wish to share with the rest of the group?" I asked.

"Well, there was something else out there where they we found you... I'm not sure if it's your friend though. It's not a gryphon." She answered. I shot an eyebrow up at this statement and looked at Basil and shrugged. He shrugged back. Very informative.

"Care to elaborate on what it was then?" I asked.

"It was a machine."