"Louder!" he heard a faint voice, which surely came from far. Lacy's head perked up at that, but soon returned to his breakfast.

He was tired. The entire weekend was spent in the library with Twilight, who came up with the idea, that on free weekends, they will have a common study session, where she teaches Lacy about things in Equestria, and in exchange, Lacy tells her more about his own world. This was the first weekend. They mainly talked about anatomy and customs. He learned a lot of interesting things.

One of them was that why didn't need ponies to wear clothes all the time to hide their private parts. Not only because of the tail and fur. It helped, but it wasn't all. Though Lacy never tried to catch a glimpse of anyone's genitalia, that didn't mean it never happened. For example, when Twilight was talking about the cutie marks yesterday...

(Flashback)

"So these cutie marks just appears, when you discover your special talent?" Lacy asked to make sure he got it right.

"Yes. Just like I told you, when we first met, cutie marks are important and unique. It is basically a pony's essence." Twilight explained.

"I see. And it appears usually while you're still a child?"

"Yes. The studies showed that most ponies got their marks at the age between eight and twelve. I got mine when I was eight."

"And how literal is it? I mean, yours is one big and some small stars. You said your special talent is magic, but based on your cutie mark, it could mean other things. Like astronomy."

"It doesn't have to be exactly that thing, it only has to be connected. Take my friends, for example. Rarity has a special talent of finding gems, not only diamonds, like her cutie marks showing, or Fluttershy have a special bonds with all kinds of animals, not only butterflies."

"I see, and how is it so visible? You have fur. Shouldn't it hide it, or something?" Lacy continued the questioning.

"It's actually our fur that changes colors." she gave the simple answer.

"Then how does it always look the same? I mean like when there is a strong wind it can deform it easily."

"It won't because it isn't static. It always changes the way to show the same image, no matter what happens." Twilight explained, then turned around. "Come on, you can try it." she then started to get closer to Lacy, while still showing him her flank.

Lacy's face turned red at this and not because of anger. He didn't expect this. Twilight's was now mere centimeters away from him, the right side of her hindquarters almost touching. He backed up a little.

"What's wrong?" Twilight asked, slightly confused.

"You want me to touch your butt?" Lacy gave her the blunt response.

"You don't have to, I just wanted to show you how is it works by offering you to mess with my fur at that part so you can see as it constantly changing colors." Twilight gave him the answer, but now it was her time to get some. "Why? Is it wrong where you're from?"

"You see, if you are an adult then you usually don't touch others' butts, only if you are in an intimate relationship." He explained. "Or if it's required for some kind of medical examination or treatment." He added.

Twilight immediately wrote down the information, then realized what she was doing in his eyes. Her cheeks turned red and gave an awkward laugh and pulled back. Then an idea came to her.

"Spike." she turned to the dragon who was there with them in case Twilight needs him to find a book. "I think you can go and take a nap now. Thanks for your help, but we can manage from here."

"Come on Twilight, I'm curios too." the dragon tried to protest but after a harder glare from the mare, he decided that a nap wouldn't be a bad thing either. After he went upstairs, they waited for a little before continuing.

"I think I know what comes now." Lacy commented.

"I realise it's important to get clear on this topic, so neither of us would do anything that would send the wrong message to the other."

The next hour went on with Twilight and Lacy both explaining each other about different signs. It turned out, though, that what most likely meant harassment for humans was completely normal to ponies. Physical contact and nudity was a common thing here. Most ponies were more friendly and had more genuine intentions than humans. So many things that for humans would implicate more intimate relationship between two people were every day between two pony friends.

Of course, there were some common grounds as well. Twilight told Lacy that flashing is a thing here too, but here it's almost always intentional. That was the moment when Lacy learned about a kind of magic that almost every sapient creature here capable of doing. They can decide when to show and when to hide their private parts, more likely the former, since the basic state is when it's invisible. Technically, when someone flashes, that means that he or she turns off the spell for a very short time, while stands in a position so the 'target' can see it. Though Twilight added, this isn't happening so often nowadays.

Nobody knows how did it came to be. Twilight told him that it's probably knowledge that was lost at that time when there wasn't harmony on these lands. Basically, the whole thing is, that since birth, you can't see it, you can't even feel it when touching there. Foals can't control it, and the only time it shows is when they relieve themselves. They usually learn to control it after they get their cutie marks, or in other creature's cases, about the same age a pony would. It's the parents' job to teach them, but if they can't, school teachers also capable of that.

It was also interesting that this ability was only for the quadrupedal species. Bipedal creatures couldn't do it for some reason.

This world is... unbelievable. Though maybe it's better for them, since they don't necessarily have to wear clothes and it's also hard to rape someone. Lacy drew the conclusion for himself.

(End of flashback)

He was happy though that Rarity made him a few things he could wear and though he could not give anything to her in exchange at that time and she said that she doesn't want anything, he still promised he will repay her somehow.

After finishing breakfast, they began to clean up the place. Books and parchments everywhere. Twilight's OCD kicks in and starts to give Lacy and Spike orders which book goes where. They were halfway through it when Rarity, Pinkie and Applejack came and joined to help them finish it faster.

Soon they were finished. Twilight just put the last book in its place.

"Last one." She then turned to her friends. "Thank you so much for helping me clean up all these books guys, it was a crazy weekend of studying." Her eyes moved in circles in the opposite direction of each other for a moment.

"What the fuck?" was Lacy's reaction, and though he only muttered, all of them heard it and by the looks on their faces, they still didn't appreciate this kind of language.

Twilight ears perked up suddenly, and soon everyone could hear someone yelling louder and louder, meaning that someone was getting closer. They didn't even had time to react as the next moment a cyan colored pegasus came through the window and hit the bookcases so hard, all the books landed on the ground. Now the library was in a worse state than when they started to clean up.

The whole thing knocked everyone on the ground as well. Lacy let out a painful groan as he got up around the same time as the others. His back was hurting, but otherwise he was fine. He didn't know if he should yell at the pegasus or check if she or anyone else has any injury, but before he could decide, he saw Fluttershy landing.

"Rainbow Dash, you rock." she said enthusiastically then let out a quiet cheer. Just now she realized that the sight before her wasn't exactly what you normally see in a library. "Did my cheering do that?" she asked.

"Yeah, your voice resonated on the perfect frequency to knock down every book from the shelves." Lacy said sarcastically, but Fluttershy didn't get it, she just blushed and looked apologetically.

"Sorry about that ladies," Rainbow said as she got up, then turned to the human "and, sir. That was a truly feeble performance."

At first everyone thought that Rainbow finally got some self-criticism, but of course it turns out she was talking about Fluttershy's cheering. They also learned that the Young Flier Competition, that Rainbow mentioned a few days ago, will be held soon and that is what she's practicing for.

"I wish you all could come to Cloudsdale. Fluttershy is a great support, but her cheering isn't really inspirational," said Dash.

"Why can't they all go?" Lacy asked, not really understanding the problem.

"Cloudsdale is a city in the sky. It's floating on giant clouds, so only pegasi can go there." Twilight explained. "That is why we cannot be there to support Rainbow."

They have a fucking flying city here... Though this one is probably not like Columbia.

After some more talking, Rainbow decides to head off. Fluttershy is about to go as well but before she tells them, that she even though she practiced hard and tried it many times, she didn't get close to make the Sonic Rainboom and still thought, that it's because of her week cheering performance.

"I guess we better get this cleaned up..." Twilight said as she looked around then put on an annoyed expression. "again"

Lacy groaned, then picked up a few books.

"Go on! Go on!" Rarity said and poked Twilight with her horn.

"Go on what?" Twilight asked, starting to get angry.

Rarity wanted Twilight to find a spell, that'll get them to Cloudsdale. She was worried about Rainbow, who clearly looked nervous about the competition. Soon they found a spell that'll give wings to a pony for three days, but according to Twilight it's a really hard spell. Nevertheless, she agreed to give it a try and Rarity volunteered to be the test subject.

Twilight fired up her horn and Rarity got wrapped into some kind of magical cover. Her face gave away her thought that this might not be her best idea.

But when the spell ended, and everyone got to see the result, they all knew that it was worth it. Her wings looked like butterfly wings and it looked gorgeous.

"It's beautiful!" Rarity exclaimed after inspecting her new appendages. The others only nodded in agreement.

"Sorry, everypony, but I don't think I can do this again. It's too hard and requires too much magic. We need to find another solution, if we all want to go to Cloudsdale." Twilight told the others.

While Rarity was still too busy inspecting her wings, the others were thinking and looking through books.

"How does it feel?" Lacy decided to interrogate Rarity. "I mean, you just got more appendages."

"It feels a little odd, if I'm honest, darling, but I can use them just fine."

She got fond of them immediately she was floating since she got them and could hardly take her eyes off of them.

Soon Twilight found another solution. A spell that allows cloud walking to a non-pegasus. It was easier to cast, so she targeted Pinkie, then Applejack, and then herself with it. Then turned to Lacy.

"Do you want to come with us to Cloudsdale?" she asked. "I know that you are new to our little group, but we all want you to be part of it, while you're here. Besides, not many flightless creature get the opportunity to travel to Cloudsdale." she reasoned.

"Are you sure the spell's going to work on me? I'm from a magicless world after all." Lacy said his doubts, but after seeing her confident smile, he gave in. "Well, I said that I'd look my time here as some kind of vacation, so why not?"

Soon, they all were aboard on a balloon to Cloudsdale. Rarity was flying ahead of them. On the entire way, Lacy was nervous. He didn't fear of heights, but stepping on a cloud while hundreds of meters above the ground was a different thing.

These thoughts disappeared when he first looked at the city. It was a magnificent view. Many buildings made of cloud but he also saw some which wasn't but he didn't even questioned how was that possible, because the whole view took all the place in his brain. The white, or light colored buildings, the rainbow falls, pegasi flying around. It was beautiful. Lacy was glad that he came with the girls. This is something no human will see ever. He is the first and only.

Wish, I had my phone with me even though there is no camera that can return this beauty.

As they landed in a clearing, Lacy spotted Rainbow and Fluttershy. They were didn't notice the balloon, though they were too occupied staring at Rarity's wings. Rainbow only saw them when Pinkie jumped out of the basket. Rainbow got a mini heart attack but soon calmed down as she stayed on the clouds. Applejack and Twilight followed their pink friend, Lacy, however didn't leave with them.

"Come on, Lacy, trust me!" encourage him Twilight.

It wasn't a matter of trust for Lacy. He was about to step on a cloud. Something that is basically just water and air. Last time he checked, he could only walk on solid things. But he went this far and had faith that somebody will catch him somehow if this won't work.

He took it slowly. One leg over the basket and moved down till it reached the cloud. Then put a little pressure on it, but only sank a little bit. As he put more and more weight on that leg, it didn't go any deeper. After that, he finally stepped out completely and stayed on the cloud. He still couldn't believe it. He was walking on gas, basically.

He reached down to touch it. It was like foam.

He finally calmed down, didn't even noticed that the whole time he was panting.

"Took you long enough." commented Rainbow Dash. "But thank you for coming. All of you. To be honest, I started to feel a tiniest bit of nervous but I feel better now that you are here." of course, everyone could tell that she was a lot more nervous but nobody mentioned. "Hey! We got some time before the competition. Me and Fluttershy could show you around."

Everyone was glad for the opportunity for some sightseeing. Just looking around, the view was special. Lacy however found the design of some cloud building familiar. With those pillars, it looked a lot like something from the ancient Greek culture.

It's really ironic, that the pegasus ponies would build in that style, since if I remember correctly the pegasus is a creature from the ancient Greek mythology.

Rarity was the only one who was more occupied with watching her own reflection than the beauty of the architecture. Other pegasi also stared at the butterfly-winged mare. Every one of them found it gorgeous. She flew around the others and even though Twilight warned her she should be careful because it's not really durable, she didn't really listened to her friend.

Applejack came up with the idea of seeing the weather factory, so that is where Rainbow led the group. Upon seeing the large, could-made group of buildings with rainbow falls, normal and storm clouds, Lacy's jaw dropped.

This place is unbelievable. And to think they are making the weather in a fucking factory, like it's some kind of massproduced shit... If humanity ever made progress in full control on weather and the place won't look like this, then it's unworthy of its name.

Since Rainbow Dash was the captain of the weather team in Ponyville, she was allowed to give a tour to her friends. It was mandatory to wear a lab coat-like garment and a hat, but because of Lacy's size and anatomy he could only put on a hat which was small and because he was already wearing clothes, the security pony let him in as well.

"This is where they're making the snowflakes." Rainbow Dash explained as they entered the first building. "Each one is hoof-made. As you can see, it's a delicate operation."

Many ponies were here, looking at snowflakes under the magnifying glass.

"They can make something that small with hoof?" Lacy asked but didn't get an answer because Rarity's wing created a small breeze and all the snowflakes started to fly around, ponies chasing after them. They decided to move on.

The next department was the rainbow maker. Many small pools of colorful liquid. As they walked to one of the pool, Pinkie decided to put her hoof in, then licked that hoof. Her face literally changed colors.

"Spicy!" she managed to say before dashing off.

"Yeah, rainbows aren't know for their flavour." Dash told them.

Lacy wanted to try it though. He bent down and put his left index finger into the pool. It felt odd, like many other things he encountered since he got here. It was like a dilute cream, or at least that was the closest thing he could compare.

And now I'll be the first human who could react to 'Taste the rainbow motherfucker!' with 'Already did!'

As his tongue made contact with his finger, he knew Pinkie wasn't exaggerating. It was like taking every kind of spice you can get in a supermarket and putting into water. The taste went through his entire body in a form of shake.

"Not bad." he finally gave his opinion. The others just stared at him. "Though I need a glass of water." he added but didn't have to wait for long because Pinkie offered him one immediately.

They then spotted Rarity, followed by three pegasus, all admiring her wings. The girls and Lacy just rolled their eyes at this.

"Hey!" one of them shouted. "It's Rainbow Crash." they all laughed as they approached the group. They noticed Lacy but didn't give him any mind. "You should forget about the Sonic Rainboom and get some wings like these." he pointed at Rarity and they all laughed again.

Rainbow just sighed and became upset. Her friends just looked at each other, unsure how to handle the situation. The three male pegasus then took off.

"Hey you three worthless pieces of shit!" Lacy yelled after them. Everyone flinched at his words. The three pegasus all turned back to him, looking surprised and angry.

"What did you call us?" one of them questioned him.

"At least you have some self-knowledge." Lacy told them.

"What the hay are you anyway?" another one asked.

"Human." Lacy gave the simple answer.

"And who do you think you are, that you can say things like those about us?" the third one joined as well.

"Since it looks like you can insult others just like that, I wanted to try it as well. But since I'm better at it, you best apologise to Rainbow Dash than get out of here."

"Or what?"

"Or I'll fucking fry your wings. I miss meat and wonder if you taste like chicken. I love chicken wing." he threatened them.

Their eyes widened and quickly flew away.

"What in Celestia's name was that?" Twilight asked angrily after she got through the shock of what happened. "You can't just say things like that!"

"Yeah, it was a meany thing to say, mister. You should do meany things because then mean things will happen to you and I don't want things like those to happen to anypony becau-" Pinkie's rant was cut short, after Applejack put a hoof in her mouth.

"I agree with them." the orange pony said. "Those words were too harsh."

"It wasn't nice." Fluttershy told her own opinion.

"It was absolutely barbaric behaviour." Rarity commented as well.

"Thank you for taking my side but it was really uncool." said Rainbow Dash.

"Well, it's how I deal with bullies and other idiots and it was working for me so far." Lacy shrugged.

"We will talk about it later." Twilight told them. "Now I think it's best to move along."

They continued the tour. The next department was where the clouds were made. Of course, wherever they went, the ponies were all fascinated by Rarity's wings. This only made Rainbow Dash more and more upset. Since all the ponies' attention was turned to Rarity and she even took it to the next level by giving everyone a show off. Twilight at first tried to make Rarity stop but was unsuccessful, then tried to calm down Dash.

The final straw was when a pony suggested that Rarity should enter the competition and she even considered competing. Rainbow was not outright scared. Not even her friends could calm her down, but there was no time. They had to go to the arena now, because the competition was about to start soon.

Upon entering the arena, they all wished luck to Rainbow and went to take their seats while Rainbow joined to the other competitors. Rarity was nowhere to be found and because of this, ponies noticed that there was a bipedal creature, twice as big as them in the place. The place was full of pegasus ponies, they were the only wingless ones.

Lacy noticed the three stallions he got into an argument earlier. They noticed him too, but were trying to avoid eye contact.

"Fillies and Gentlecolts!" they all heard the announcer. "Please rise and join me in welcoming our beloved Princess Celestia!"

All ponies turned to the same direction and saw the white alicorn descending to her own secluded box with two pegasus royal guard. Everyone cheered loud as she waved. She noticed Lacy and gave him a nod, the ponies’ mouth hang open at that, Lacy returned the nod.

"Please welcome our celebrity judges for the Best Young Flier Competition: The Wonderbolts!"

Six ponies, all in the same blue outfit, flew, each leaving behind a trail of smoke. They put on a little show, then three of them flew away, other three went to the judges’ position. And the competition began.

As the show went on Lacy couldn't help but watch them in wonder. Every pegasus had their own set of tricks. The girls were talking about whose performance did they like the most so far and also exchanged some worried words about Rainbow Dash.

Since every pegasus took only a few minutes to show their skills, after one hour the last competitor was announced now, which turned out was Dash and Rarity. They will both show their moves at the same time.

Lacy could see the stage fright on the colorful pegasus. While Rarity started her own performance, which was some kind of strange air ballet.

"She has a little face on her makeup." Lacy said and his friends laughed a good at this. The man chuckled too, but not because of his comment but the sight of Rarity in that ridiculous outfit she was wearing.

Lacy stopped paying attention to her and turned to Dash, who finally began her own performance. Because of her stage nervousness, though she made a few mistakes. Like hitting one of the cloud pillars, or launching a spinning cloud towards Celestia. Then the final part began. She began to fly upward.

Rarity did the same, but only for getting the perfect position for her finale. The colorful sunlight that bathed the whole arena through her wings was a truly magnificent view. But it didn't last long. Her wings suddenly vaporized.

You flew too close to the sun Icarus. Lacy thought before realising that Rarity, one of his new friend, who made his clothes completely free, was falling towards the ground which was hundreds of meters away. The Wonderbolts flew after her, but in her panicked state she knocked all of them out. Now four ponies were falling to their end. Everyone watched horrified, but then Rainbow Dash went after them. She was behind but lost the distance fast. The ponies and Lacy hoped that she can catch up with them, then somehow save them, though it seemed unlikely.

BOOM

Everyones jaw fell. A colorful wave went in every direction horizontally, and Dash now left a rainbow trail behind her as she flew. She caught all four of them in the last second. The ponies all cheered in the arena, Fluttershy was jumping and shouting. Lacy just watched as Dash flew with Rarity in her hooves and the Wonderbolts on her back. When she got back to the arena, a few pegasi went to help her, and grabbed the unconscious ponies and the unicorn.

Soon Lacy and the girls joined to Rainbow Dash and Rarity the latter was placed in the balloon's basket.

"I want to apologise to all of you for getting so carried away with my beautiful wings. I guess I just lost my head." Rarity told them.

While the ponies were forgiving her, Lacy couldn't help himself.

"It was an outstanding performance, though. Not groundbreaking but -" he was cut off, when Twilight hit his side, the others’ expression was disapproving too.

"I'm especially sorry for being so thoughtless for jumping in the contest in the last minute after you had to work so hard to win it." she said as she turned to Rainbow Dash. "Could you ever forgive me?"

"It's okay. Everything turned out alright." Rainbow told her. Lacy wanted to comment more to it but because he didn't want Twilight to hit him again, he remained quiet. He also noticed that the Wonderbolts were coming to their direction. "I just wish I could've met the Wonderbolts while they were awake."

At that moment, the fiery maned one tapped her shoulder. They thanked Rainbow Dash who was repeating 'Oh my gosh' over and over again while fangirling.

The next one coming was no other than Princess Celestia, with her two guards. The ponies and Lacy bowed.

Rarity then apologised to her as well and then Celestia named Rainbow Dash the winner of the competition. While Applejack, Pinkie, Fluttershy lifted her and they run away, Celestia turned to Twilight who was still standing at the balloon with Lacy and Rarity.

"So Twilight Sparkle. Did you learn anything about friendship from this experience?" she asked her student.

"I did, Princess. But I think Rarity learned even more than me."

"I certainly did." Rarity then began. "I learned how important it is to keep your hooves on the ground. And be there for your friends."

"Excellent! Well done, Rarity."

Rainbow Dash meanwhile came back, and that three stallion came to apologise to her as well. She then left to hang out with the Wonderbolts.

"It's good to see you again, Lazlo." Celestia began talking to the human. "I hope you fitting in right in Ponyville."

"Yes, Princess. This place and the ponies are really friendly."

"I'm glad to hear it. I regret to say but in these few days I could got closer to a way for you to go home but there are still many things I have not tried yet so don't lose hope."

"Thank you!"

"And tell me, have you made any friends so far?"

"Well, I think Twilight and the other consider me as their friend, but I couldn't really interact with others because a certain purple unicorn expropriated me for the weekend." Twilight blushed a little as both the princess and Lacy turned to her.

"Me and the girls consider you our friend." Twilight said after a few seconds. "She even stood up for Rainbow Dash when a few ponies laughed at her and while his method was questionable, his intention was genuine."

"I see. Well, I hope you will make more friend and you will collect more and more good memories. I must bid you farewell now. I have to return to Canterlot." They all bowed as she took off, her guards following her.

"I think we should go home now." Twilight said while they all entered the basket. "But we will have to talk about your action." Lacy groaned as he was mentally preparing himself for the scolding that'll come soon.

Author's Note

Well, this is the first rewritten episode chapter. Don't worry, not every episode will be such a copy and there will be plenty of original chapters.