You have no mother fucking clue what happened the past few hours. One moment you were infront of Sugarcube Corner, the next you were getting bombarded with questions by Pinkie Pie, and now around evening you're in a "Welcome to Ponyville" party, sitting in a corner as the entire fucking town parties. You knew everyone was friendly, but you didn't think you'd be in a party for YOURSELF within a day. You try to casually drink a soda, feeling the slight burn of it in your throat as you swallow. The cola is a bit different than Coke, but it isn't necessarily worse, it's like a mix of Dr. Pepper and Coke, but with a teaspoon of sugar added into it to give it a sweeter flavor. The name is "Ponific Cola" or whatever.

Anyways, you try to stay away from everyone, but it feels like literally everyone wants to meet you. You're fine with a single person, but having a few hundred ponies try to talk to you isn't the best thing for your nerves, so you're in a bit of a nervous state as you accidentally drop your soda, the glass bottle breaking near your hoof.

"Feck" you whisper to yourself, quickly teleporting it into the trashcan nearby with your magic. Quickly looking around to make sure noone saw that, you try to relax again, sighing.

"Sir, are yah okay?" You hear someone say, and you turn your head and look down to see Applebloom standing beside you, a concerned look on her face. Dawwww, she's adorable!

"Oh, uh, yes I'm fine, what's your name little filly?" You stutter, clearing your voice. Smooth Nate, smooth.

Applebloom cocks her head sideways a bit, confused but answering "ahm Applebloom, what's yer name? And why do you look so nervous, are yah shy?" She inquires, now speaking in a concerned tone.

"I'm Nate Collins, and I'm... yes, I guess I'm a bit shy, I suppose. Just not used to large parties, that's all" you answer, hoping that'll satisfy her questionnaire. Instead, that makes her ask more questions.

"Oh, then why don't I help you meet some ponies? Then you won't be so nervous!" She enthusiastically exclaims, giving you a large smile. You'd say no if you're going to be honest, but that smile... uggghhhhh, damn your weakness to adorableness!

"Well... I suppose that would be fine..." you say, nearly whispering towards the end. Why are you so nervous, it's just a filly! Applebloom starts walking off, with you following along. You get through the crowd, nearly tripping over a few times. She leads you towards another corner of the room, where you see... the Mane 6 by the punch table. Yeah, you started using that spelling now, might as well.

There's... Pinkie Pie, who hasn't spotted you yet. Pretty cute, but not the type of person you'd trust with your life typically, there's Applejack right beside her holding a cup of punch while talking to Rainbow Dash, who look to be bantering with each other. You gotta say, their athletic builds are pretty sexy, and that country look with Appl- what the fuck are you thinking these are PONIES. Maybe your transformation spell worked too well...

Anyways, to the next of them is Fluttershy speaking with Rarity, Fluttershy looking adorable while Rarity looking, well, radiant (hehe did the funny), and then next to Rarity and at the end of the punch table is... hoollyyy shiiittt it's fucking Twilight Sparkle reading a book.

You feel your heart explode as you stare at her, taking in her absolute beauty. When you watched the show, you always had her pegged as your favorite character, but here... she is like another being. Her purple fur is the perfect color, with her body looking not as athletic as someone like Applejack but certainly not as soft as someone like Fluttershy. Her purple eyes captivate your brown as she reads her book quickly but with precision. Her- wait a goddamned second, you're not going to fall in love at first sight with a pony of all things, especially one that was in your favorite television show ever, and ESPECIALLY not your favorite character from it. It's like if you fell in love with, I dunno, Gordon Freeman as you tried to escape from Black Mesa, it just does not compute-

"Uhm... Nate, are yah okay? You look like your out of it... and why are you starin' at Twilight like that?" Applebloom questions, helping you get out of your admittedly embarrassing thought process about a sexy purple unicorn. Wait, did you say sexy? GOD DAMMIT-

"Y-yeah, I'm fine... just spaced out, that's all" you say to her, wiping the sweat off your forehead. Is it hot in here or what, can we get a window open?

"Uh, if you say so... hey y'all, this is Nate... erm, sorry, what's yer name again?" Applebloom says to the six ponies, who look at you and Applebloom. Instead of you answering, however, Pinkie Pie runs up to you, hugging you tightly.

"Hey Nate! Hey guys it's Nate Collins! He's so cool and amazing and we hit it off so well we're going to be the best of friends together, right???" She exclaims while giving you a noogie on the head, while you blush slightly at the sudden affection from her. Jesus, you feel like a younger brother getting picked on by their older brother infront of everyone. But, it does feel nice in a way, so you don't mind. The first pony to walk up to you is Applejack, who gives you a hand- er, hoofshake.

"Hello partner, I'm Applejack. If mah sister and Pinkie have no issues with you, then I shouldn't have any either. If you're in need of apples, then my family has you covered in Sweet Apple Acres" she speaks in her country accent, giving you a smile as she backs up to let someone else talk to you.

Next up is Rainbow, who looks you up and down for a moment while in the air, before landing and saying, "hey, you seem cool enough I guess, and anyone that's friends with Pinkie is fine with me" while holding her hoof out. You take a moment before registering she wants a hoofbump, so you end up awkwardly hitting her hoof back in a way that makes you both uncomfortable, but it doesn't seem to affect her too much. The next person- ugh, PONY to approach is Rarity, who looks you up and down in a similar but more lady-like way than Rainbow. After a few moments she smiles, now speaking up.

"Well, Nate darling, I'd be happy to have you as a friend, but there's something I think I should do for you" she says, looking into your eyes with a weird gaze.

"What d'you mean?" You ask, looking away from her eyes in a mix of embarrassment and the fact that you just feel uncomfortable looking into a person/pony's eyes, just something you never liked to do for an extended period of time.

"Well, it's your... how should I say this... mane, it's very ragged looking and it looks like you haven't combed for days! What have you been doing recently?" Rarity says, looking concerned.

"Oh, I've just been settling into my new home, haven't had much time for that sorta...thing..." you say, slowing down at the end due to Rarity's ever burning gaze. But, she eventually just smiles and nods, saying something about understanding, and the next pony to step up is Fluttershy. Applebloom at this point ran off to do something else, so you're left alone with the six ponies infront of you.

"Um... hi, I'm Fluttershy..." Fluttershy... shyly says, brushing her front left hoof on the floor. You smile, feeling a bit more confident in your speech.

"Hello Fluttershy, um... how's your day?" You ask, now speaking in a more gentle tone than you're used to.

"It's been good... um, do you like... animals?" She asks, with her speech barely able to be heard over the party going on that you honestly forgot was happening.
"Oh yeah, I love animals! I used to have a few pet cats when I was younger" you enthusiastically say, which makes her face go from nervous to one of glee.

"Ooo, what were their names? Were they cute?" She exclaims, something you both expected and didn't expect. She walks closer to you, which you presume is to hear you better.

"Well, the oldest was Patches, she was a bit of a... I guess brat is the word, but she was nice enough, then next is Space, who was the cutest little furball I've ever seen, but she was always not one to like strangers, and the last two were brothers, Bob and Bobby. They looked pretty much the same, except that Bob had a large and fluffy tail while Bobby had a thin and short tail." You go on to talk about other pets you had, like a parrot and a hamster, and Fluttershy seems to have liked the conversation enough. After her, it was time to meet the one, the only... Twilight Sparkle! Unless if there's another Twilight in some other generation of MLP that you never knew about, like with Spike.

Author's Note

I tried to show off a bit of what Nate is as a character in this chapter, but I feel that I was a bit too... on the nose, I think. I hope it's fine for now as I'll try to explain his personality later in the story.