I awoke one morning...

It only took five minutes after my encounter with the young colt to finally make my way to Twilight's door. It may have been night, but I still hid from sight behind a neighbouring house. The lights were on inside, so that meant if I waltzed on up to the door and knocked, it was going to get answered. I strode up to the door, making sure that I still had not yet been spotted. Having raised my fist to knock upon the large red door, I paused to comprehend what my following actions would induce. The unicorn might answer, and upon realizing it's me, flip out or question my existence. On the other hand, Spike might answer the door, probably only pausing to consider what I am before letting me in. It didn't matter what scenario I pictured, Twilight was going to over-react in one way or another. Before I did anything though, I heard the voice of another talking with the purple mare. It didn't sound like the baby dragon, or Owloysius hooting for that matter. Disregarding whoever the third pony may be, I knocked anyway.

THUD THUD THUD

Spike lazily acknowledged my arrival with a "I'm coming, I'm coming. Sheesh. Who could that be at this time of night?" before I could hear the door handle's inner-mechanisms slide and groan from years of use. The door swung open with a slight creak as the dragon looked up to see whoever was willing to disturb the important meeting going on inside.

I looked down at him and asked, "Is Twilight Sparkle in? There's an important issue that I need to talk with her about, concerning my race."

Spike stood there for a second, clearly sleep deprived from catering their guest, processing what I just said. "Uh. Yeah, she is. She's kinda in the middle of something though. Can it wait until tomorrow?"

"I'm afraid it can't", I replied, "It's of the utmost importance." I could hear trotting coming from further inside the library, before Twilight herself spoke up.

"Spike? Who is it? Can't it wait?"

"No. It can't." I called into the librarian's home. Twilight gasped, recognising my voice. I heard some more trotting accompanied by quiet murmuring before the door was opened to its full extent, revealing the mare herself. Spike had walked back inside, only to go straight upstairs after mumbling something about 'sleep-deprived hallucinations'.

"Alex! How are you here? Come inside, it's freezing out there!" Hmm, no flipping out or over-reacting. Guess I was wrong.

I walked inside and shivered. Twilight was right; it was quite cold out there. I walked further on inside, before stopping completely and staring at the other guest. It was Princess Celestia herself. This was going to make my planned 'discussion' with Twilight all the sweeter.

I went down onto one knee and bowed my head. "Good evening, your majesty. It is an honour to be in your presence." Sweeten her up; this is one pony you don't want to mess with.

"Good evening, Alex, I take it? There is no need for the formalities. So you are the one who was kind enough to take care of one of my little ponies while she was lost on your planet. Twilight has told me quite a lot about you. You're right Twilight; human anatomy is very interesting indeed."

I just stood up, attempting to understand what she was trying to imply. I eventually turned to the librarian and asked, "What's that supposed to mean, Twilight?"

"Um... Nothing. Why, what do you think it means?" She replied, not daring to look me in the eye.

"What did you do to me while I was unconscious?" I demanded. "I want to know!"

"Nothing! I promise! Humans are just so different from ponies and you couldn't really say no, so I may of removed your clothing to further inspect your anatomy?" She smiled at me sheepishly, hoping that I wouldn't get too angry over what she had done. Fat chance.

"YOU DID WHAT? YOU STRIPPED ME NAKED?! I WAS UNCONSCIOUS! YOU COULD OF AT LEAST TOLD ME WHEN I WOKE UP!"

"Oh... Oh my. Twilight was right about the short temper, too." Celestia mumbled to herself, while looking onto the situation, as to prevent it from falling on my ears.

"It was for science!" Twilight tried to meekly call out, I however, was not going to have any of it. I was going to flip out at her deliberately for killing off my species, but these series of events just re-lit my already smouldering fuse.

"OH, SO KILLING OFF PRETTY MUCH THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE WASN'T ENOUGH, YOU JUST HAD TO PUSH THE BOAT OUT THAT LITTLE BIT FURTHER NOW." Flip-out with a princess deity in the room, check!

It appears that accusing a pony of mass-murder can make a certain 'thing' click in the heads, as Twilight suddenly stood up on all fours, glaring into my eyes.

"HOW DARE YOU ACCUSE ME OF SUCH A THING? I WOULDN'T EVEN CONSIDER KILLING A FLY, LET ALONE A WHOLE SPECIES!"

Celestia tried to but in before any more shouting occurred. "Is there something wrong? Has Twilight offended your race in any way? If so, I would like to apologize on her..."

"OFFENDED?" I cut in before turning to face the princess, "SHE KILLED ALL OF THEM BUT ME!"

Twilight, still angered by what I had accused her of, spoke up. "THE SPELL SENT THEM TO LIMBO! YOU KNOW, THE PLACE WHERE NOTHING EXISTS? I NEVER KILLED ANYPONY!" Twilight used logic. It was super-effective!

"Say what now?" I replied, turning to face Twilight with a quizzical expression, dumb-founded by what she just said.

"The spells effects should of worn off when we left! However, if a certain somepony stayed behind instead of tagging along for the ride, you would have known that by now!"

"So you weren't going to leave me to die alone on my planet?"

Twilight face-hoofed. "Of course not!"

"Oh... Sorry about the misunderstanding then." I couldn't think of a suitable reply. "Well... I'll leave you two to carry on with what you were doing... Enjoy the rest of your meeting. Celestia, please do tell Luna she's done a wonderful job of the sky tonight."

I turned on the spot to face the door, about to take my first step before Spike spoke up, having just woken from his sleep due to mine and Twilight's shouting. "Hey, Alex... Do you even have a place to sleep tonight?"

Turning back around, I spoke up to him from the base of the stairs. "Yeah, a small hammock in the Everfree forest. Don't worry about it. Thanks for asking anyway."

"What if it rains in the night?" Celestia responded. "I do not care if you are not one of my little ponies, but as long as you're in my kingdom you shall be treated as such."

I shook my head, declining the alicorn's statement. "I don't want to burden anypony while I'm here."

"Nonsense," She replied, "Twilight, how would you feel about letting Alex sleep in the library tonight?"

"After the little 'chat' that we just had?" I replied, "I'm fine with sleeping in the Everfree."

Twilight cleared her throat, drawing everypony's attention. "I believe I heard you apologize when you realized you were wrong, so you're welcome to stay if you like."

"Um, thanks." I retorted. Looks like I have a place to stay for a while. I wasn't expecting the sudden bout of kindness after what had happened, so I was at a loss for words at the time. "Uh... um... Do you two still need to finish whatever the meeting was about? I can wait outside, if you need me too..."

Celestia spoke up, "There's no need to do that as we were finishing up our conversation when you came in Alex, I was just about to leave for Canterlot so I would have a few hours to spare before raising the sun."

Celestia stood up and walked past me before opening the library entrance with her magic. She was taller than me by at least half a foot, which made her slightly intimidating as she trotted by. The fact that she was supposedly the most powerful being in existence didn't help with the loving and caring image either. "Goodbye Twilight, Alex. Please do try to get along while I'm not here. Good night."

"Good night Princess", Twilight called out. I was just about to say the same thing, but before I could the Sun goddess had closed the door on me. Pffft... Royalty.

"So now what?" I asked Twilight.

"Now we find you a place to sleep." She replied while cleaning up whatever mess the Princess and her had made during the meeting.

"I'm fine with sleeping on the wooden couch. As I said earlier, I don't want to be a burden."

Still cleaning, Twilight spoke up. "There's a spare guest bed upstairs. Are you sure that you don't want it?"

"Yeah, I'm sure." Wanting to change the topic of discussion, I asked what the meeting was about. "So what were you and Celestia talking about anyway?"

"Pinkie and I's trip to your world, along with you as well." She replied in a matter-of-factly tone. So that explains Celestia's enquiry then. "That was the reason why she came over, actually."

I took this as an opportunity to try and make up for what I did earlier. "On the subject of my world, is they anything you would like to know about it? I'll try to give as much information as I can."

Twilight jumped at the chance to learn something about an alien planet, dropping everything she was doing and rushed over to where I was stood while levitating a notepad and quill. Something about this told me I was in for a long night.

"Before we get started," I said while walking over to the large wooden couch in the centre of the room, "There's some ground rules that I need to set: One, no asking anything about the human body. I do not want to go through that again. Two, if I say that it's a bad thing to talk about, then all discussion of the topic stops there - No exceptions. Three, when would you like to get started?"

Twilight would not stop asking questions, I have no idea how one pony could want to know so much. She must have gone through twenty different notepads by the time the sun had finally risen; causing me to question how much of the stuff I had said was fact or just opinion. Looking out of the large observatory window upstairs, it had only just dawned on me how long our conversation about Earth had been. Twilight looked like she didn't need the sleep at all, while I on the other hand felt as though I was about to pass out any second.

"Well," I said, stretching out my arms as I spoke, "It's been nice talking with you Twilight, but I think I need to get a couple of hours sleep before I do anything else. Good night." My head then promptly fell onto the side of the wooden armrest I had been using throughout the night.

Twilight watched me confusedly, immune to the effects of staying up late from many previous nights of studying, before muttering to herself. "Good night? It's nearly six in the morning..."