New World

As she walked into the room, Twilight was allmost prancing from excitement. The creature had awoken, it was probably just as intelligent as she was, it knew basic communication and it was an entirely new species! How could she not be excited?

'Calm down Twilight, no need to get overexcited... But it's so difficult not to!' While Twilight was having a fight with her own thoughts, Celestia had walked over to the cage which held the creature. The cage was anything but small. It was originally desinged to hold newborn Hydras. So the cage was almost a room on it's own. She quickly moved over, the schoolfilly in her allmost taking over.

"So, what is it?" Twilight's excitement faltered a bit at that question, because of the small amount of information she had regarding that part. The creature looked mostly like it was a more advanced primate. It was around two meters tall. The only hair it had was a messy brown mane and a messy short beard. It wore a set of clothes, probably to protect itself from extreme weather conditions, which consisted out of a dirty light blue tee shirt and dirty dark blue pants. It even wore some dirty brown shoes. Even though it wore clothes, it's muscles were clearly visible, like he breaks stone for a living, making it seem like a he. But the most amazing thing about him were his eyes. His eyes were a lively light blue and full of intelligence. A long story short:

"I honestly don't know." She answerred bluntly. "He looks like a bit like a hairless primate. Maybe he evolved from primates over a long period of time?"

"That's a possible explanation. Have you tried asking him?" Celestia said, completely oblivious to the confused look on the creature's face.

"We tried talking to him, but he doesn't understand our language." Profesor Bright Eye said. "He did seem to know we were talking, and made it clear that he didn't understand us. Also funny, he walks on his hind legs."

"That's too bad. I hoped the two of you had a bit more information. It seems I was wrong."

"B-b-but P-p-princess! W-we... I-i..." Twilight was panicking, to put it softly.

"Calm down Twilight. I was only teasing you. You did fine." Celestia said while smiling, making Twilight sigh in relief.

"Well, I think the first thing we should do is find out what he eats. We don't want to starve him to death." Bright said. "But I doubt he will tell us himself. But this should be easy. We just pick out multiple kinds of food and place it in front of him. The hardest thing to do would be researching his behavior and instincts."

"Remember Bright, he's not some kind of test subject. He's a sentient creature just like us, and we should treat him as one." Twilight said matter-of-factly.

"I know, I know. But we can't talk to him so we have to find things out one way or another." Bright walked of together with Celestia to get some food, while Celestia would continue her duties.

"True." Twilight said, before she was left alone with the creature.

'I have honestly no clue what they are talking about. But what I'd give for some food right now.' Now almost all the pain had dissapeared, he noticed how hungry he was. His stomach confirmed the fact with a loud rumbling.

'I wonder if these creatures taste good... No! Bad mind! These creatures are sentient! And... Where did the guy and the big one go? And what is the girl doing?' The girl was pointing at herself and repeating a word over and over again. It reminded him of the time he tried telling his name to a zombie pigmen...

'Of course! She's telling me her name!'

"Twi. Light." She said.

'Let's see.'

"Twili?" She started beaming after his attempt, and she started nodding furiously.

'It's been a while since I have talked. I almost forgot what my voice sounds like!'

"Twi light. Twilight."

"Twilight?" She was litterally bouncing up and down when he said her name.

'Twilight... Maybe, she could teach me how to talk again! Wait, now she's pointing at me? Maybe she wants to know my name? What was it again? Steff? No. Stephano? Nope. Stephan? Nah. Steve... That was it! Steve! It's been so long since I got to use my name again!'

"Name. You."

"Steve." His name was Steve.

"Steve." His name was Steve. He told her his name. He told her, his name.

'He told me his name.' Twilight was amazed at the progress she was making.

"He told me his name!" She started bouncing up and down again, Steve looking at her with a mildly amused look on his face.

"Oops... Heh." She stopped bouncing and looked for something, or nothing, while feeling rather awkward.

"Uuhhh... I'm gonna... Uuuhhhh.... Oh, what the hay. You can't understand me anyway." She walked away, hoping to get away from the awkward situation.

'It's just like that one time I told The CMC how I got my cutie mark. I couldn't stop saying yes. Boy, was that awkward.

'Twilight... Huh. Sounds like a nice name. But I should really get some food. Maybe I can get out of this cage?' He walked over to one of the sides and grabbed one of the bars, checking it's strength. 'Solid metal, grade two, able to withstand explosions. That sure is strong metal.' He has allways been an expert in judging the strength of objects. A mist flew out of him into his hand, forming into an iron pickaxe.

'Now let's see how strong it really is.' With a smile at the corner of his mouth, he slammed the pickaxe into the bars. The forcebehind the blow itself allready cracked the bars. After a few more hits he had removed one square meter of bars. The bars turned into mist and entered his body, adding to his inventory. It wasn't long before he had made a hole big enough for him to walk through.

'Too easy.'