Fluttersaiyan

                                                             Chapter 2: Acquaintances

I slowly opened my eyes to bright white sunlight filtering in through the windows.

I quietly and slowly sat up. I was still in Fluttershy’s cottage, so last night certainly wasn’t a dream. I slowly looked around the room taking in my surroundings for about the fifth time since I’ve been here. I turned and looked at the couch. To my surprise she wasn’t there. That was good news to me; if she had moved from last night then she was definitely okay. I walked to the door and looked outside through the window next to it. It was clear and sunny outside. I opened the door and walked out slow and cautious. It was a warm summer day outside, probably 85 degrees out. I headed around back to see if I could find her. I did. She was tending to some of the animals in cages, like the bunnies. I opened the gate into the fenced area so casually as though it were my own place. The hinges squeaked a little which caused her to look in my direction, my cover had been blown.

“Uh, hi there.” I said as kindly and as calmly as I could.

She looked a little scared, but she remembered that she had rescued me and dragged me into her house, and that after all of that I probably wasn’t going to hurt her but rather thank her.

“Um, hi.” She replied quietly. She seemed incredibly shy and timid.

“So. You saved me last night didn’t you?” I asked, as if I didn’t already know.

“Y-yes.” She replied just as quiet.

“Uh, look, I’m not going to hurt you or anything. I want to thank you for saving me, I’m very grateful.” I told her.

We were about 25 feet away from each other, and to make the conversation a little more, conversation-y, like a chat between friends, I walked towards her a couple of steps. She backed up slowly at a distance equal to my two steps.

“Please, don’t go, I just want to talk to you for a minute, you don’t have to worry, I don’t bite.” Of course, saying “I don’t bite” never really sounds good even if it’s the truth.

I think she believed me, because she came back towards me.

“My name’s Dako. And I know this may be weird but I know who you are, and I can explain how, but right now I think I should explain myself first.” I didn’t want to freak her out to much and flood her with my knowledge so I didn’t explain the cartoon yet.

“Um, okay, Dako. I’m, Fluttershy, nice to meet you.” She replied quiet and softly.

I kept taking steps toward her until I was about 10 feet from her. She was still standing next to the cage of bunnies. They all stared and looked at me like any other bunny would whether they had seen people before or not.

“There was quite a storm last night, wasn’t there?” I asked. “Did you know I found you in a creek last night and saved you?” I began letting her know how she got back to her cottage.

“That was you?” she asked. “Thank you, you saved my life, but how?” she was asking me questions now, and now I could let her know who I was.

“Well, I woke up in your cottage and I decided to go looking for you when I found that you weren’t there. I followed that path there into the forest and found you trying to save a badger. You slipped and were pulled in by the current, so I dove in and carried you out. Simple as that.” I finished with a proud, an almost heroic smile on my face.

But she must have known it wasn’t as “simple as that”, because she asked me another question.

“But how?” she asked.

“Well, it helps when I can do this.” I then demonstrated my ability of flight by hovering off the ground about five feet into the air. She seemed stunned.

“How are you doing that without wings?” she gasped.

“Uh, well it’s complicated. You see, I am from the planet Earth, well not your Earth, but from a different dimension.” I began explaining how even though I was from an “Earth”, I was still from another planet. And although I looked like the humans there, I was a saiyan. And I explained how being saiyan gave me all of the cool abilities I had, although I still had no idea how I got to Earth in the first place. She was thrilled; after all it sure was some amazing story.

“So I was just hanging out with friends of mine and I was picked up by a tornado, I blacked out and the next thing I know, I wake up here on your couch.” By the time I finished my explanation of arrival she was sitting down, but like a dog, on her rear. It was the most, adorable, fucking thing, I have ever, seen. Of course I didn’t burst out Awing like some complete weirdo; I have more self control than that.

“You should meet my friends,” she began. “Especially Twilight Sparkle, she would love to meet you.” She said in her quiet, yet still excited way. So I agreed, she spread her wings and flew up into the sky, slow, low, and gentle. Then I followed behind her, the same speed as her, I gently lifted off the ground and followed.

Her cottage was probably 10 miles outside of Ponyville, and we were flying about 20 miles an hour, and about 20 feet off the ground. I politely kept the same speed as her, but this was taking too long. So I got the idea to show my full flying ability.

“Hey.” I said as I flew right up next to her. “Do you wanna go a little faster, I mean, if that’s okay with you?” I tried to ask politely almost like her.

“Oh, well I guess we could.” She replied. Now we were going at close to 30 miles an hour, which I guess is pretty fast, although it’s not 60 miles an hour down and interstate highway.

“Can I show you something?” I asked, if she said okay then I would go ahead and take off at full speed, then make a sharp 90 degree turn upward and into the sky and do a couple of loop-de-loops.

“Um, okay.” She said. Perfect.

I took off at full speed, and I could feel and hear the wind intensifying as I accelerated. The wind got louder as I got faster. I probably hit 60 miles an hour in one second, then to 100 miles an hour in another second. I could’ve gone faster if I wanted, but then the sharp turn into the sky wouldn’t be so sharp. I shot upward straight into the sky, and at about 200 feet up began turning into a loop. As I came back towards the ground I continued my circle for a second loop. When I had reached the peak of the second loop I cut all power and let myself free fall back to Earth. I came closer and closer to Fluttershy, and when I was about 50 feet above her I “slammed on the brakes” so to speak, until I stopped level with her. I was smiling like someone who had just gotten off of a roller coaster. By using the energy I did, it was close to someone running a marathon, at the speed of the 100 meter dash. So I was panting and breathing hard.

“Whew, what, did you, think of that?” I said between breaths.

“That was amazing!” she said again with her quiet excitement. “You should really show that to Rainbow Dash.”

That wasn’t a bad idea. I think once I was properly acquainted with the other ponies I would do just that. Besides, it seemed like I would be here a while, might as well hang with them. After 20 minutes of flying we arrived in Ponyville. We landed outside of Twilight’s place at the library. Fluttershy knocked on the door with her hoof and the door opened as we were greeted by Spike.

“Oh, hello Fluttershy. Whoa, who’s that guy?” he wasn’t really scared, but confused and surprised to see, well, me.

“Oh, this is my friend, his name is Dako, I found him during the storm last night.” She didn’t give much explanation, but it was her word, so Spike let us in.

As I walked in saw Twilight studying her books, and Rainbow Dash with her own pile of books.

“Hello everypony,” I said again casually and nonchalantly as though I lived here forever. “Twilight, I see you’re studying as usual, and Rainbow Dash, more Daring Do, am I Right?”

All three of them, Spike, Twilight Sparkle, and Rainbow Dash, turned to look at me in surprise confusion and concern. One, I was so casual, two, I knew their names, and three, I was some strange creature they had never seen before. Spike was just surprised that I knew Twilight, and Rainbow’s names. And upon hearing my voice, Twilight jumped a bit and let out a startled shout.

“Ahh! Who are you? And what are you? And how do you know our names?” she asked, then she turned to Fluttershy. “Who is this?” Before Fluttershy could answer, Spike did.

“She said he’s her friend, and that she found him during the huge storm last night.” He began. “She said his name is Dako.”

I looked at Twilight. “Pleasure to meet you ma’am.” I said half as a joke, and half for real. Half as a joke because it was such a hilarious (to me) amount of casual behavior for being such a stranger, and half for real because I’m polite like that.

“Well, where in Equestria did he come from?” she asked.

“Well, I didn’t come from Equestria.” I began explaining. “You see I’m from Earth, but not this Earth, another one, some alternate dimension. How do I know? Because where I’m from, you guys are a cartoon made for entertainment, and I watched this cartoon, that’s how I know you all. I’ve seen your adventures, right from when you guys used the elements of harmony on Nightmare Moon” After that, everyone’s jaw dropped, even Fluttershy’s, now she knew how I knew her name.

“What’s a cartoon?” I heard Rainbow Dash ask.

“Well, it’s like, like your book. Yeah, it tells stories, and it has a series of, episodes. Only a cartoon is like a book you can watch. It’s a series of moving pictures and drawings on something called a television.” I did my best at explaining, thank god I’m so intelligent.

“O-kay.” She said slightly confused.

“Anyways, who am I? Well, I am from another Earth. It is populated by all kinds of animals, just like the one’s you have here, except for hydra, manticores, and cockatrices. And there’s no pegasi or unicorns, and our ponies don’t talk. Instead of ponies, we have people. The human race. But even though I look exactly like a human, I’m actually a being from another far away place that was inhabited by beings known as “Saiyans”.” After this all had time to sink in with them I could only think of the “seems legit” meme.

“So if you’re not a human, what makes you different from them?” Twilight asked. Excellent question and I have an excellent answer, one I always use when explaining to other people what makes me different. I then proceeded to lift off of the floor about two feet.

“But I don’t know, what do you think?” I said sarcastically. What? I just have a great sense of humor. Now Rainbow Dash’s jaw dropped again.

“Whoa!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. “I wanna be first to hang out with the new guy!”

“Yeah! That’s the spirit!” I said. I just wanted them to be as comfortable around me as I was around them. Show them I’m a nice guy and real good person, regardless of species, I mean look at Spike, he’s a dragon and he’s nice too.

“So, do you guy’s wanna hear more about me and my world?” I asked.

“Yeah!” They all shouted. Perfect, they’re really warming up to me now. I began to tell them various stories of life on Earth, my Earth. I told them about my life and how I found out about my powers and found out how I was saiyan and the huge coincidence behind it all with Dragon ball Z. I shared stories about how my world worked, its countries, the governments in different countries, and how people lived in my country, American life. Then explained all about the technology, iPods, computers, the internet, cars, everything. They were blown away by the similarities of our worlds. Especially the names like Manehattan and Manhattan, Fillydelphia and Philadelphia. When me and Fluttershy first arrived it was around 10:30 A.M., but by the time I was done with all the stories it had grown dark outside, and a clock in Twilight’s place said about 7:24 P.M.

“Well it sure has gotten late, time really has flown, it’s time for me to go guys.” I said, but perhaps I should’ve been more specific, they thought I was leaving leaving.

“What!?” they shouted surprised.

I stared at them blankly for a moment.

“Oh! Ha ha! No! I mean, I have to go to bed soon, ha ha! No, seriously, I have no idea how I got to Equestria! I’m not leaving already!” I explained laughing. I saw them all sigh in relief.

‘Yes!’ I thought. ‘They really like me now, they thought I was leaving for real and they all got freaked out! I’m one of them, no longer an outsider. This is great, now the chances of being chased out by an angry mob fueled by fear have been lowered.’

“But, where are you staying?” Twilight asked. “You could stay here, in the library. We have plenty of room.”

“Well, Fluttershy did find me, I think I’ll stay with her. Besides, I think I like the rural country life better.” I said. Twilight looked slightly disappointed, I could tell. Even after my lengthy explanation I’m sure she still had plenty of questions. I still had to meet Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Applejack. Me and Fluttershy flew back to her cottage together, but much faster this time, probably because it was getting dark, and I think Fluttershy was starting to get a little scared. I pulled out another trick. I powered up the Kaioken and lit the landscape below us in a bright red. Now we could see a little better. We got inside the cottage, and I helped her feed the animals indoors. After that we began getting settled for bed. She made my bed on the couch I first woke up on.

“Um, Fluttershy, that couch is pretty comfortable, and I can sleep on many things, even the bare floor. But I was wondering if I could sleep with you in your bed.” I was fine for the fact that I was no longer in my own world, but I didn’t really want to be entirely alone, after all, I slept near her all night after I rescued her.

“Oh, um, well…” She sounded a little uneasy, and began to blush a little. Ok sure, my request was a little weird, but I wasn’t a pony requesting to sleep in the same bed as her, I was a person. It might be like letting your dog sleep in bed with you, which not everyone does, but some people do. Yeah, like a dog, that’s it.

“Don’t worry, if you’re uncomfortable with it you don’t have to, it was just a suggestion, but after I had saved you and all, I just wanna make sure you’re okay.” I explained to her.

“Okay.” She finally said.

“Really? Are you sure?” I didn’t want her to feel pressured.

“Yes.”

I headed upstairs with her. She climbed into bed before me and pulled the covers over her. I sat down on the bed, pulling back the covers when she stopped me.

“Don’t you want to take your clothes off?” she asked.

“Well, I can. But, that doesn’t seem weird to you?”

“Not at all” she replied. After all, they don’t regularly wear clothes.

Just because I lived in Texas doesn’t mean everyone owned an oil well, rode horses or stage coaches, or wore cowboy boots and cowboy hats, and said “Howdy partner” to everyone. I still don’t know why to this day that is such a stereotype, especially when in Houston, or “H-town”, people were more likely to say “Yo dawg, what up?”  Anyways, not because of some stereotype, I wore cowboy boots and blue jeans, with a bright orange collared shirt. I took off my boots and socks, my shirt, and my blue jeans, then pulled the covers back.

“What about that?” She asked pointing at my boxer briefs. This time I was turning a little red.

“Heh heh, no, I think I’ll keep these on, if you don’t mind. Trust me, if I do it’ll save us both a ton of embarrassment.” I said. And that’s all I needed to say, she let me keep them on. Finally I got into bed. Ah, bed, how good it felt to be in one.

“Good night Fluttershy, sweet dreams.” I said before rolling over, and eventually falling asleep. I had no trouble falling asleep either, despite my given situation.

“Good night Dako.” She said before falling asleep herself.