It All Begins With a Spark

Chapter 8

Pinkie Pie bounced constantly as she led the purple colt all over Ponyville, showing him absolutely everything there was to do and see and almost everypony there was to know. After the tour, Pinkie told Creative that she would now take him to see her best friends.

"OK, so I think we should go see Rarity first." Pinkie said with the constant smile she seemed to have.

"Sounds good to me, lead the way Pinkie." Creative replied.

She led Creative to the building she had pointed out earlier as Carousel Boutique, "Here we are." Pinkie said.

"Your friend lives in her shop?" Creative Spark asked, thinking Pinkie was just confused between her friend's home and business.

"Yeppers!" was Pinkie's only reply, before she knocked on the door.

After a few seconds the door was answered by a white mare with a deep-purple curly mane and tail.

"Well hello there Pinkie, darling." Rarity said with a weary smile and several random fabric samples draped around her shoulders; Creative mentally noted her sophisticated accent, and he thought it suited her well.

"Hiya!" Pinkie replied as she perked up.

"And to what do I owe your... unexpected... visit?" Rarity asked .

"Him!" Pinkie said pointing with her hoof to Creative Spark.

Rarity looked over at him, "Oh, hello dear, I can't say I've seen you before." she said inquisitively, wanting to get back to work.

"He's new in town." Pinkie chimed in before Creative even had the chance to say anything.

"Y-yes, my name is Creative Spark, it's a pleasure to meet you." Creative said, holding out his hoof.

"Well, it's nice to meet to you too.. Oh, I simply love your mane style. Very.... modern!" Rarity said, brightening up a little.

"Thanks, I think yours is quite beautiful too." Creative said with a smile, blushing only slightly.

Rarity blushed as she waved her hoof in a modest manner, "Oh, stop it, you're too kind." she replied.

"Well, we need to get going now Rarity, I need Sparky to meet the rest of the gang!" Pinkie exclaimed.

Creative Spark winced a little when Pinkie called him 'Sparky', for that was, in fact, coincidentally his mother's nickname for him when he was a foal.

"Well alright, Pinkie, it was nice to meet you Creative Spark." Rarity said as she backed into her Boutique with her cloths draped over her.

Creative Spark was about to say farewell, but Pinkie grabbed him again and led him off to their next destination.

***

Pinkie decided that she would introduce Creative to Rainbow Dash next. She took Creative to Rainbow's Cloud house just outside of Ponyville. On the way to Rainbow's house pinkie told Creative Spark about her friend.

"Here we are!" Pinkie stated as the arrived underneath it.

Pinkie had told Creative that her friend lived in a house, but the only thing Creative Spark thought when he saw it was 'castle'.

"Wow, now that's a house." Creative said.

"Well duh, that's what I said it was." Pinkie said, apparently she had misunderstood what Creative had meant.

Rather than argue with Pinkie Creative just nodded, "Yes you did, but I didn't expect this." he said.

Pinkie pulled out a megaphone out of nowhere, "Hey Rainbow Dash!" she called out into it.

After a few seconds wait, Rainbow came out the front door of her house, and flew herself down to her pink friend, "Jeeze, Pinkie, you know this is when I usually take a nap." Rainbow said before letting out a yawn.

"I know, but I just thought you might want to meet my new friend here." Pinkie said in reply.

Rainbow looked over at Creative, "Hey." Rainbow said.

Creative smiled, "Hello, Rainbow Dash, I've heard a lot about you." he said.

Rainbow had a smug look on her face, "Not surprising, I am pretty awesome." she said gloatingly.

Creative chuckled, Rainbow caught him doing this, "Something funny about that?" Rainbow asked.

"Not particularly." Creative replied.

"Do, you want me to prove how good I am?" Rainbow asked with a hint of a challenge in her tone.

"If you want to." Creative said.

"Alright then, let's have a race." Rainbow said.

"Where to?" Creative asked.

"We still have to see Applejack, Fluttershy, and Twilight." Pinkie said.

"Alright, well I know that Fluttershy was helping AJ today, so why not make it a race to sweet apple acres?" Rainbow suggested.

"Makes sense to me." Creative said, agreeing with Rainbow.

"Alright, Pinkie give me a countdown." Rainbow said, getting into a crouching stance.

***

Rainbow had definitely proven herself, she had flown faster than Creative had seen anypony fly before.

"That's just what I needed today, a good race to get me feeling my best." Rainbow said, not even out of breath.

"Well... I'm glad that... I was able to... help." Creative said between gasps, trying to catch his breath.

"WOOHOO, That was awesome! I knew Rainbow Dash would win, but still it was an awesome race." Pinkie's voice said.

Creative Spark, looked back to find Pinkie behind him, "How do you do that?" he asked.

"Do what?" Pinkie asked cocking her head to one side.

Rainbow flew over to Creative's side, "Don't ask, just go with it. It'll drive you crazy if you keep thinking about it." she whispered.

"Right." Creative whispered back.

"Oh look, there's Fluttershy and Applejack over there." Pinkie said, apparently forgetting about the question Creative had asked, and trotted over to her friends. "Hey Applejack! Hey Fluttershy!" she yelled over to them.

***

After meeting with Applejack and Fluttershy, Pinkie  "So, who are we going to see now?" Creative Spark asked as he walked behind Pinkie, who was bouncing forward again.

Pinkie Pie looked over her shoulder, "Well, Twilight is the only one left, I think you'll like her, she's really into books and reading and all sorts of smart-pony stuff. I think you two will get along great." she said cheerfully.

"Oh good, an intellectual pony, to talk to." Creative said with a smile.

"Yeah, but she kind of has a problem with organizing things." Pinkie said.

"You mean she leaves everything strewn across her house in random stacks and piles?" Creative asked, That's what he did.

"No, she has a bit of OCD. Everything has to be neat and tidy." Pinkie said.

"Oh, well that's better than what I though." Creative said.

Pinkie led Creative to the Ponyville library.

"Um, Pinkie, this the library." Creative said, confused.

"Yeah, I know. This is where Twilight lives." Pinkie said, as if he should have known that.

Creative raised an eyebrow, but Pinkie didn't seem to notice and knocked on the door.

After a few seconds a lavender unicorn mare stepped out of the doorway."Oh, hey Pinkie Pie, what's up?" She asked.

Pinkie stepped aside, "I found a new friend, and wanted you to meet him." she said.

"Pinkie, you didn't just grab him and start dragging him through town did you, remember how that worked out last time with Cranky?" Twilight asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Of course not, I learned my lesson." Pinkie said proudly.

"Well alright then." Twilight said.

The unicorn mare, which Creative now knew was Twilight, looked over at him, "Hello, my name is Twilight Sparkle, what's your name?" Twilight asked.

"Hello Twilight, I'm Creative Spark, pleasure to meet you." he said.

"What is it you do Mr. Spark?" Twilight asked.

"I'm an inventor actually, but my technique could use improvement." Creative replied.

"Oh, what is it that you invent?" Twilight asked with interest.

"Well, I usually make things that help people, mostly medical equipment, but sometimes I make other items." Creative said.

"So are you a doctor then?" Twilight asked.

"No, not really. I know some things of the trade, but not many." Creative said.

"Oh, well if you need any books on the subject then I will gladly supply them to you." Twilight said with a smile.

"I appreciate that, thank you." Creative said.

"So, where do live?" Twilight asked.

"Well, at the moment, nowhere. I just got here today." Creative said.

"Oh, well there aren't any hotels in Ponyville, but I do have a spare bedroom in the library." Twilight said.

"Wow, thanks, How can I ever repay you?" Creative said.

"It's no trouble really, you can even the library's basement as a workshop for your inventions." Twilight said.

Creative Spark was Surprised at how generous Twilight was being, he never expected to just be invited to stay at somepony's house on his first day.

"Well, I'd better get going, I've got a party to set up." Pinkie said, before she left in a blur of pink motion.

"How does she do that?" Creative wondered out loud.

Twilight chuckled a bit, "Don't ask, it'll just drive you crazy if you keep thinking about it, believe me, I know." she said.

"I'll trust you on that one." Creative said.

"Well let's get you unpacked, the spare room is this way, follow me." Twilight said

***

Twilight and Creative had finished unpacking creative's belongings, which was fairly easy since he had very little. As Twilight walked into her room she smiled. She had taken a liking to the new pony pinkie had just brought to her. She was very interested in his work, being a bit of an inventor herself, maybe he could teach her something new about the art of tinkering. Perhaps Twilight could teach him something new as well.

***

Pinkie Pie had planned a party for Creative's arrival in Ponyville, apparently it was a normal occurrence for the townsfolk of Ponyville. Everypony enjoyed the party that night, and they definitely got their fill of sweets. Creative Spark had to admit that even though Pinkie seemed a bit disorganized most of the time she could make a fine cupcake.