Brothers In Friendship

"Fluttershy…House…Ponies…" He mumbled. He immediately opened his eyes and sat up; he was on a sofa, in the house.

"Where-no, I've asked that, who are you?" he asked the purple one, who was still here, along with the orange one.

"Well, I'm Twilight Sparkle, and this is Applejack-", Ben cut her off,

"And that's Fluttershy?" he asked. "How…How did you know that?" asked Fluttershy timidly, and then she stared at the floor, as though she wasn't allowed to speak.

"Applejack, can you go the library, and tell spike to write to the Princess, tell her to come as soon as she can…" she was cut off again; Ben started to sing, softly.

"You're insecure; don't know what for…" he started.

"What?" said Applejack.

"Huh, was I singing again? I tend to do that when something reminds me of a song, can I continue? I like that song" he said.

"Ah suppose so" she said.

"Your turning heads when you walk through the door. Don't need make-up, to cover up. Being the way that you are is enough." He started once again, but soon was interrupted by Twilight,

"Uh, what reminded you of that?" she said.

"Easy, Fluttershy" he said.

Fluttershy reminded him mainly of the part of the song that went "I don't know why, you're being shy, and turn away when I look into your eye eye eyes." He stood up once more. "I hope you don't mind me saying-and you probably do, but-you are amazing" he said, looking at Fluttershy, he didn't just want to get a girlfriend as soon as possible, or anything like that, but she was just beautiful.

Fluttershy's face went a pinkish colour, indicating a blush. "Why, urm, thank you?" she said, or rather asked.

"No, really, I mean, usually I tend to keep away from people, but- for one, you're a pony, and two-you are really cute, being shy." He said.

"Your acting a little weird" said Applejack.

Ben replied with "No, it is merely that I find Fluttershy attractive-NO WAIT!" but it was too late.

Fluttershy blushed and giggled "Oh my".

"Well, that's precisely what I was hoping never happened" he said. Fluttershy giggled some more, and walked into a kitchen type area. "Oh smegging hell!"

"What's that mean?" said Applejack. Twilight had been stood in the same area for around five minutes looking so confused she could blow up.

"It's a word from… well, a TV series on my planet called "Red Dwarf", it's really funny" he said. He hurried over to the front door. "Can we go outside?" Ben said, he'd not really seen this new world, just a back garden type area.

"Sure…" said Twilight, opening the door, god knows how.

"Wow, how'd you do that?" Ben said.

"It's magic" she said.

"Holy smeg! Actually, remind me not to use that word, but magic, you're kidding right? Magic is fake!" he burst out.

"I can assure you it's not, see?" she said, using her horn to pick up a vase. "No, no, that's just as real as me kissing you right now, and I'd never do that. Well, maybe?"

"Ben?" said Applejack. Ben looked at her. "Have you ever seen a talkin' pony?" he shook his head. "Ah reckon it's shock" she said.

Ben looked at Twilight, "Yeah, either that, or I am deeply in love with you all. That didn't sound good, did it?" he said, causing Applejack, Twilight and Fluttershy each to shake their heads, or say no or not really.

"Okay, I'm sounding a little pervy…" said Ben. He had been here like what, 2 hours, excluding his nap-time, and he had made himself look like a total smeg-head.

"BEN!?" said a familiar voice from outside.

"Ku-er, Rainbow?" said Ben, for the boy stood in front of him had burst through the front door, was his good friend Kushal, although he only told Ben his real name.

"Who is this?" said Twilight.

"Twilight, meet my best friend Rainbow Cow Dragon!" he said.

"Ben, what, where-I don't understand, why are we in a world of talking ponies!" he said.

"Well, neither do I, which pony did you meet first?" he replied.

"Well, I met a Pegasus called Rainbow, lol, and she introduced me to Pinkie Pie, and Rarity." He said.

"Oh, so ok, Twilight are they some of your friends?" Ben asked her.

She looked at him, and made a calculating" face. "Well, yes. We call ourselves the mane 6, not all the time, just like at… places" she said.

*When was the last time we called ourselves that?* thought Twilight.

"So, Rainbow, have you managed to make yourself look like an idiot yet?" asked Ben.

"No, but Rainbow Dash flew into me, she seems to do that a lot…" he answered. Rainbow entered the house; he looked at the giggling pony in the kitchen. "Why is she lolling?" he said.

"Well, you see, I said I found her attractive, and now I look like an idiot!" whispered Ben to Rainbowcowdragon. Rainbow looked at him, and laughed hysterically.

"Just like you, eh mate?" rainbow said. He kept laughing.

"You haven't made a fool of yourself, showing your emotions are a sign of trust." Said Fluttershy; now that she had stopped laughing.

"Well, I think there's a 0 to 100 chance of me being with a pony" he said, sarcastically.

"I don't see a problem" said Fluttershy, not understanding the sarcasm Ben had used. Ben face palmed.

"Fluttershy, I was telling a joke…" he mumbled. He walked over to rainbow, and opened the door. "Can we go and see some things now?" he asked.

Twilight had said yes, as long as they didn't do anything to hurt any pony. So for about five minutes now, Ben and Rainbowcowdragon had been walking through the pony town, getting strange stares.

"Racoon?" asked ben.

"What?" said Rainbow.

"Well, the Ra from Rainbow, the Co from Cow, and the on from dragon, Ra, co, on?" asked Ben, simplifying the statement.

"Yeah, no… just call me, uh, Rai-gon for short" he said.

"Why can't we know your actual name?" asked Twilight. She focused on Kushal, Studying him [Kushal is Rainbowcowdragon].

"Well, uh, I don't trust some folks with my name, so I only tell people my name that I really trust. Like Ben." He finished. Twilight just looked away and sighed. "It's not that I don't trust you, but I don't really know you…" he said.

"Rai-gon?" asked Ben. Kushal looked at him,

"Yesh?" he said, thinking what Ben could ask him out of the many questions going through his head.

"Well, its just-do you remember anything after the…you know what?" he said.

Kushal looked at him regretfully. "NO!, I mean, no… I just woke up in a small pond" he said.

"What 'you know what?'" Twilight asked, still listening to the conversation.

"Er, Ben, should we tell her?" whispered Kushal.

"Well, I suppose it couldn't hurt…" said Ben.

"Well, before we came here, we were, erm-let's just saying we were…goddammit-we stole from a shop!" he shouted out.

"What?!" screamed Twilight, stopping and looking scared slightly. "You stole from a shop?! What did you steal?" she asked, looking as though a murder had been committed. [Over-exaggeration].

"We stole some drinks, fizzy pop." Said Ben.

"Whatever for?" said Twilight. Ben slouched to the ground, laying on the floor now.

"We-are moms were good friends, and about a year ago, we were robbed' Kushal also collapsed to the floor' and my mom was…killed." At this Twilight looked more devastated by this than anything she had ever seen in her life.

"And Rai-gon's mom?" She asked, as politely as she could.

"Well, she couldn't handle life anymore, so she killed herself…our dads fell in love with other people, and they didn't want kids, so- for around 3 or 4 years, we've been living in an abandoned shop…" he finished.

Twilight looked as though she had just been told she had cancer, or something worse. She literally had tears welling up in her eyes. "That's terrible!" she said quietly.

"Can we pretend I never said that?" asked Ben, Twilight just stood there looking shocked.

"S-Sure…" she said.

"Rainbow?" asked Ben. Rainbow looked at him, "I think we may have broken her…" he said. Rainbow agreed.

There was a knocking at the door. "Twilight?" said Ben. Twilight came out of her depression, and looked at the door,

"Oh, right" she said. She trotted up to the door, and she used her magical horn powers to open it.

"I still say magic is not real" said Ben. Kushal looked disappointed.

"What? But you can see it!" he shouted.

"I know it's real, I'm just not used to it yet." He said.

The pony who had just entered was Pinkie Pie, looking happy as usual. "Hey? How are you? Who are you? Where did you come from? What's your name?" she spat out. Ben rushed over to her, and out his hand on her mouth.

"Please-Pinkie, I assume, one question at a time!" he said.

"Oki Doki Loki!" she said. "Question 1…" she said. Pinkie enjoyed the thought of interrogating a never-before seen species. "What…erm, are your names?" she said. Ben decided to speak first,

"I'm Ben Foster-" he was cut off, well, he actually just stopped speaking so he could witness Pinkie stand on her hind legs, and shake his left hand with her two front hooves.

"Okay defying physics, lovely. Anyway, I'm Ben, and my friend goes by the name of Rainbow Cow Dragon" he said.

"What a silly name!" she screamed. 'Was she always this hyper?' thought Ben.

"Second question, what animals are you?" she said. She was bursting to shout all the questions at once, but resisted.

Kushal answered this next question, "Well, Ben is human, but I'm a Rainbow Cow Dragon!" he shouted.

"KUSHAL!" said Ben,

"Oops" he said soon after.

"Ben! Now they now my name! Ugh, I suppose I'll have to trust you now, and I'm actually a human too…" he mumbled.

"Twilight?" she said.

"Yes Pinkie?" she said, she looked happier than before.

"Have you got everything ready for the sleepover?" she said. Twilight sighed,

"Pinkie, I told you everything was ready this morning, before I went to see Fluttershy.

'A sleeper? With girls?' thought Kushal, 'I must be there!' he thought. "Can we come?" he said.

"Well, urm, I don't see why not, but it'll be girly…" said Twilight. Kushal thought about it some more…

"And? As long as there are girls there…" he said, with a smug look on his face.

"Are all six of you sleeping over?" said Ben. Twilight closed the door, as it was starting to get dark.

"No, Fluttershy is busy tonight" she said.

"Oh, well, I just thought of something, where are me and Kushal going to sleep?" he said. Kushal playfully punched him in the arm,

"Silly-head, I'm sleeping here *wink*." He said.

"You could always stay at Fluttershy's cottage" she said.

"Yeah… I embarrassed myself earlier…" he mumbled.