Crossing Anthology

Rarity and I left the cottage and kept walking through random areas of Ponyville, Rarity kept looking up in the clouds as if she was looking for something. I then asked,

“Rarity, what are we looking for?”

“Rainbow Dash, she already decided to come with us but you should still get to know her.”

“Rainbow is another Pegasus right? Is that why we’re looking in the clouds?”

“Why yes, Pegasus ponies can live in clouds they can walk on them, and Rainbow usually lounges around on a cloud whenever she’s not trying to break some flying record or come up with some new trick.”

“Had my jetpack not broken in the exosphere I’d try flying up there to find her.”

All of a sudden a rainbow blur traced itself across the sky.

“Oh good, that must be her! Rainbow Dash!”

Rainbow Dash stopped in mid-air to look back at us and said,

“Oh, hey Rarity! What’s up?”

“I just wanted to introduce you to my friend here, his name is Lemmour, and he’ll be coming with us tomorrow to help find Spike.”

Rainbow flew right in front of me to introduce herself,

“Hey there, the name’s Rainbow Dash, A.K.A. The fastest Pegasus in Equestria, I’ve got the prize to prove it.”

“Yes well, I’m Lemmour. I’m from Atevia; I just got to this planet a couple hours ago.”

“’This planet?’ how did you travel from another planet?”

“I used a jetpack; it allows me to travel at supersonic speeds.”

“Jetpack ay? Ha! I bet it’s nothing in comparison to me!”

“Well, I can’t exactly beg to differ; it broke into pieces upon my arrival, overuse I suppose.”

“Hahaha, that’s something you won’t see from me, I never get tired!”

Rainbow raced circles around me at incredible speeds, almost as fast as I once was.

“Has Rarity ever told you about my world renowned sonic rain-boom?”

“No, I’ve never heard of such a thing. What is it?”

“Well it involves me going and sonic speeds, then finishing off with a powerful wave of rainbow that goes out for miles in width. Then for a matter of minutes I’m able to trace a rainbow across the sky. Trust me, they don’t call me Rainbow Dash for nothing he he.”

“Interesting…”

“So, you tell me you use to be fast huh?”

“Yeah, I’m not sure how fast I am on my feet though; I always used my jetpack for transportation.”

Rainbow had a grin on her face, she then asked,

“How’s about a race then? Let’s just see how fast you can go.”

Though I had things to do, and should probably get to bed early. But I liked Rainbow Dash, so I agreed to her offer. With a smile I said,

“You’re on!”

Rainbow drew a line into the dirt road, she then pointed to the entrance to the Ever Free Forest and instructed,

“First one to the forest entrance wins!”

I prepared myself, while Rainbow didn’t even need to. She then quickly said,

“ON-YOUR-MARK-GET-SET-GO!”

And there she went, faster than a bullet, faster than a bat out of hell to the forest entrance. I hadn’t even gone 10 meters from the start. From the finish point she yelled,

“I WIN!”

I was amazed by her speed; she rushed back over to me in the blink of an eye and asked,

“Wanna rematch?”

“… No thanks, I need to be going now, it was fun though, and see you tomorrow.”

“Okay, see ya Lemmour, later Rarity!”

Rarity and I walked along a dirt road, on one side was the forest, on the other was an apple orchard, there must have been over a hundred some acres. I then began to imagine that the next person we’d see would have some food for us. On the far end of the road there was a gate that we walked through. Rarity then looked up at me and said,

“Here we are Lemmour; I’ve saved the most repulsive for last.”

“Repulsive? Looks no different than most places I’ve seen on Earth.”

“It’s just so… Uncouth and disorganized here. So backwards, so manner less.”

It wasn’t bad; it was just a farm, almost like a farm you’d see in Virginia. It had a red barn made up to be a residential home, and a small stand set up just outside of it, perhaps for concessions. Rarity and I walked to a cellar opening, Rarity stomped her hooves on it and yelled,

“Applejack, come out!”

The cellar opened and out came a smaller pony, yellow coat, with a red mane. Rarity then greeted herself,

“Oh hello there Applebloom.”

“Hiya Rarity!”

I immediately noticed her country accent; it made me remember a couple of my old friends. Rarity asked Applebloom,

“Is your sister home?”

“Yep, she’s out there, buckin ‘em apples ‘n what not.”

“Thank you, Applebloom.”

Rarity and I walked into the acres, there we saw Applejack bucking her back legs at trees to shake down apples, impressive strength. We went up to her, Rarity then said,

“Hello Applejack. Busy today aren’t we?”

“Ay Rarity, yep, just buckin down the last batch of apples for the day.”

Applejack looked at me and quickly asked,

“Who’s ‘is big ol’ fella?”

“Applejack, this is Lemmour.”

I introduced myself,

“Hello there.”

Applejack put out a hoof and wrapped it around my hand shaking it rapidly,

“Howdy there, nice to meet ya. So where are you from? I reckon I ain't never seen anythin' like you before.”

Rarity intervened and said,

“Applejack! Don’t be so rude.”

“It’s alright Rarity; Applejack can ask what she wants. To put things short Applejack, I’m an alien.”

I kind of got tired of explaining my history over and over with these ponies, so ‘alien’ is a good word for the situation.

“An alien huh? Y’all ain’t gonna suck out my brains or not’in are ya? Heh-heh.”

Funny, she made a joke about the ‘stereotypical brain-sucking alien’ while I had to listen to her paint huffing, howdy-doody accent. I didn’t retaliate,

“Hmhm, good one.”

“So tell me some about yourself, Lemmour. How come ya came to Equestria?”

“I came here originally to find my friends, if they’re here. Now it seems that I’ll be helping you all find your friend.”

“Oh you mean Spike?”

“Yeah, Rarity and I have been walking all over Ponyville today asking the other ponies if they’d be willing to come along on the search for him, would you like to come Applejack?”

“I’d be more than happy, but how come you’re helping us?”

“Since Twilight wanted to search all across Equestria, I figured I’d take that opportunity to look around for my friends while following you, plus I believe I would be quite the asset.”

“How so?”

“Observe.”

I raised my hand to the sky and fired a large laser into the sky, far enough to make a circular hole in the clouds. Applejack was stunned by what I could do. Meanwhile a gray pony with a yellow mane poked her head out of the cloud I shot. She had weird eyes one looking at me, the other looking at Applejack and Rarity. She looked confused so I said,

“Uh, sorry! My bad!”

She simply flew away to another cloud, I noticed on her thigh though she had a tattoo of bubbles. Then I came to think of it, every pony here had a tattoo, so I finally asked,

“Okay, what the hell is up with all these tattoos you ponies have, so far besides Applebloom, every pony here has a tattoo of some sort.”

Rarity and Applejack looked at each other for about a second, and then began laughing. Rarity then answered,

“Oh darling you’ve got a lot to learn here, they’re called cutie marks. They’re a mark received after a young pony learns his or her destiny in life.”

“Don’t your kin got’em Lemmour?”

“No actually, I don’t believe I’ve ever seen one.”

Then out of nowhere, I had another flash of a mental image, it was an image of a cutie mark Rarity and Applejack previously mentioned to me. The mark was of the sun. The mental image was gone. I then asked,

“Is there possibly a pony that has a sun as his or her cutie mark?”

“Yes actually, you must be thinking of Princess Celestia.”

‘Celestia’ that name repeated itself in my head, ‘Celestia… Celestia… Celestia…’ Why was the name burdening me so much?

“I was just wondering…”

“Oh alright, say want somethin' to eat? I got some mighty fine apple fritters at the barn if y’all want any.”

Rarity agreed to it, but I opposed the offer,

“No thank you, actually I think I should probably go on back to Twilight’s library, I need some sleep.”

“Do you remember the way back?”

“Yeah I think I do. Nice meeting you Applejack, and thanks for showing me around Rarity, see you both tomorrow!”

“Bye!” Rarity said.

"Nice meetin' ya partner!" Applejack yelled.

I mumbled to myself quietly,

"... Yeah whatever, Apple-Bob-Thorton..."