I awoke one morning...

"Alex?"

"Ugh... go away. I'm busy."

"Alex. Get up, now." The purple dragon was stood by the wooden couch, wondering how I could have slept on something that resembled a large chunk of wood. I, however, refused to open my eyes. I wanted sleep, so I was going to do anything I could to get it.

"No. I was having a nice dream until you interrupted it. If I fall asleep now, I might go back into it."

"Fine then, you leave me no choice." Spike picked the longest claw he had on his hand and jabbed it into my back. Needless to say, I shot up after that.

"AAH! You little... That hurt." I rubbed my sore side in an attempt to ease the pain. "Why do I even have to get up, has something happened?"

"No, Twilight just wanted me to make sure you were up before half twelve."

"So what is the time then?"

The young dragon had to think about this for a few seconds while mumbling numbers under his breath. His eyes lit up by the time he was done adding up the time. "Half nine. Why'd you ask?"

Before I replied, I stretched out my arms to pop a few joints. "I have three hours of sleep left and you woke me up?"

Spike shrugged. "I thought you might want to get up early, chill out man."

I brought a hand to my head. "I fell asleep when the sun rose. I do not like getting woken up earlier than I have to. I'm going to talk with Twilight about this, you know."

Waving off my reply, Spike muttered a 'whatever' before returning to his daily tasks. I proceeded to rest my head back on the oak armrest and got some more shut-eye.

I opened my eyes. All I could see was a bright white. Nothing more, nothing less - just white. Blinking my eyes to help them adjust to where-ever I was, they eventually focused enough to tell me that I had woken up in my bed. Scrutinising all the details of my environment, I eventually came to the conclusion that I had just been dreaming. I sat on the edge of my mattress, going through the false experiences I had lived in an attempt to see which ones were worth remembering. Ten minutes of sorting through dreams, I finally decided that I shouldn't dwell on the matter and went downstairs to get breakfast.

Opening the cupboards to reach for whatever I felt like eating, I pulled out a bowl and grabbed a cereal box. Setting my culinary implements down upon the kitchen table I looked around, it was quiet, as in really quiet. Someone else should have been in the house. Ignoring the absence of everyone, I made breakfast and ate up. Just another day then...

Having had breakfast and gotten dressed, I finished all my daily chores before heading up town to buy some energy drinks. A strange sense of déjà vu washed over me as I walked through the automatic doors of the shop. Looking over to the counter, no one was at the till. I called out over the many shelves of the store, "Hello? Can I get some service?" Hmm... No reply...

I was about to just walk out of the shop with the items before I heard a buzzing sound, like that of a humming bird's wing. I've heard that before. Oooohhh shiiii... I turned around to see a sky-blue blur slam into me, knocking me out.

"What the..." Ow... Why does my head hurt?

I opened my eyes, only to meet the long, dark planks of wood that made up the floor of Twilight's home. Rolling over to lie on my back I stared up toward the ceiling of the library, wondering what had happened in the past few days to lead me to this point. Eventually getting up, I walked over into Twilight's kitchen to see if there was anything worth eating. Nothing in here, or in there... what about in here? Nope. More nothing. Having opened up every cupboard and drawer in the kitchen all I could find was pony-based food, that of which I didn't eat.

"Hey Spike! Is there anything in here that I can eat?"

The sound of small footsteps could be heard as the young dragon walked over to the kitchen doorway. He looked in and found me standing by a group of open pantry doors, idly looking over their contents.

"You're looking at a whole load of food right now. What's wrong with it?"

"It's all plants. I don't usually eat daffodils and grass." I replied, "Anything other than pony food?"

"What about dandelion pancakes? Everypony likes those." Spike suggested, as he pulled out a bag of flour to start making the breakfast in question.

"Have you ever considered making it without the flower?" I asked.

Spike just looked over to me as if I was asking the dumbest question in the world. "How am I meant to do that? You need that to make the batter itself."

I face-palmed. "I meant take out the dandelion so it leaves just the pancake. Has anypony ever considered doing that?"

"Um... No. Now that I think about it, nopony ever has." It was as if he had an epiphany on the spot. "That's an amazing idea!"

Haha! Free pancakes! "So are you going to make a batch then?"

"Can't see why I shouldn't. Wanna help?"

"Why not?" I replied. "What do you need and where is it kept?"

Having baked Equestria's first ever batch of plain pancakes, Spike and I were eager to start working our way through the mountain of batter. Both grabbing a fork from the cutlery drawer, we sat down at the table and looked upon the pile of pancakes. I hovered my hand over to the batter and scooped up a piece. Turning to face Spike who had already scooped up some pancake, and with the most solemn expression I could muster, I spoke. "For science."

We both placed the batter into our mouths and chewed slowly. I swallowed while watching Spike, who seemed to be enjoying the pancake. "So what do you think of it then?" I asked.

He looked back over to me before replying. "This is pretty good. I'm still amazed that nopony has ever thought of this before."

"Well..." I replied, "We still have loads of pancake batter left. Up for a big breakfast?"

"Sure... Hey, I bet I can eat more of these than you could."

"Ha." I scoffed, "Is that a challenge?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Why yes it is." The young dragon sounded confident that he could out-eat me. I looked back at the plate of pancakes in front of me. This should be easy. "Challenge accepted."

"3..."

"2..."

"1..."

"GO!"

Walking down the long, well-trodden path to Rainbow Dash's home, Twilight took a moment to pause and think about her following actions. Should she really tell Dash that the human had followed them to Equestria? Shrugging at her own thoughts, the purple mare carried on down the path. Stopping occasionally to wave to a friend or somepony she knew, Twilight had finally made her way to the floating collection of clouds that were the self-proclaimed-best-flyer-in-Equestria's home.

The unicorn called up to her friend. "Rainbow Dash! I'm here with the newest Daring Do novel for you!"

Like a bullet, the sky-blue pegasus shot out of her upstairs window to meet her friend. "Where is it?! I've been waiting weeks for this!"

Twilight levitated the new book out of her saddlebag and hovered it over to Dash, who grabbed it in her mouth. The pegasus then signalled for her friend to follow her back to her home. Enabling the cloud walking spell, Twilight slowly made her way up to the front door and waited for Dash to open it. Once inside, the sky-blue pony placed the book onto a magically enchanted shelf to stop it falling through the cloud. "So Twilight, how's it hanging?"

"I have actually had a pretty interesting evening last night." Twilight replied, "A certain someone had turned up during my monthly meeting with the Princess."

"'Someone'?" Rainbow Dash questioned the unicorn, "Don't you mean somepony?"

"No, I know what I meant. The someone in question was Alex."

Surprised at the fact that the human had been found in Equestria, Dash replied, "What, you mean the guy who I ended up in bed with on a different planet?"

"Yes, that 'guy' as you referred to him as. I have no idea how he managed to follow us."

Dash shrugged, "Maybe he just jumped into the spell when it went off?"

"That would be a plausible idea, but then he would of came through at the same time we did. So what caused the delay?"

"I dunno. I wasn't the one who studied magic for half their life. You're the egg-head Twilight, you figure it out."

"You're an idiot..."

"Ugh... How am I the idiot? You accepted the challenge."

"Why did we even make so many? Oh Celestia..." I clutched my stomach, groaning at the excess weight I had put on from eating too much. The eating contest had went smoothly until Spike and I had reached our fifteenth pancake each, then it became a struggle for the both of us to finish off the last few.

"Oh turnips..." Placing a hand over his mouth, the baby dragon rushed to the toilet. A slight retching sound could be heard as Spike emptied his stomach.

"HA! I win! In your fa... oh dear..." Covering my hand with my mouth to stop the pancakes going the wrong way, I ran to the toilet door. Slamming my first down on the door in desperation to let Spike know what was about to happen, he knocked back, before telling me to go find somewhere else to throw up. Turning back around to try and find any other places to show the world the wonder of partly-digested food, no available place could be found. The kitchen sink was there, but I doubt that either Twilight or Spike would want to clean that up. With it being my last option, I ran to the front door and threw it open before running behind the library. The small flower garden growing behind the large oak that was the library needed replanting after I had finished.

Walking back inside, feeling considerably lighter, I found Spike in the kitchen cleaning up all the things we needed to make the large batch of pancakes. Spike turned around to acknowledge my return before returning to the washing up. "So where'd you throw up anyway? The library doesn't stink, so I assume you went outside."

"Yeah. About that," I answered, "whose flowers are planted out in the library garden?"

Spike stopped what he was doing and turned back around to stare at me. Wide-eyed, he replied, "You haven't... Please tell me you didn't throw up over those flowers..."

Having taken the time to reflect on what had happened, the flowers did look quite nice. "Um... why? Were they important?"

"Those were Twilight's prized melior venefi!"

Confused by the exotic name, all I could muster for a reply was "What?"

Face-palming, Spike explained the name behind the plant. "melior veneficus is Latin for 'better magic'. Twilight uses those to help her concentrate when making new spells."

"So they were valuable then?"

"They only bloom once every five years! Yes, they're valuable!"

Great, another thing Twilight can hate you for. "I'll go see if any of them survived..." Taking this as a chance to leave the area, I made my way back out of the library and headed for the edge of town. I figured now would be the best time to explore Ponyville and avoid the wrath of the librarian when she returned.