An unexpected visit

You awaken to the sound of breathing. Something is loudly huffing into your ear. You move your head a little, only to be reminded of a heavy throbbing in your head. You also notice that there's a little weight on your head as you start to recall what had happened. You feel absolutely dreadful as your head is on the verge of popping. It feels like you've been drinking for three days straight, only to get the hangover all in one go instead of three separate times.

You try to move a little again to get rid of that weight on your head. As you do you hear Twilight give a little grunt.

"Just a little longer..." She says, more asleep than awake.

You move a little more and now you feel the pony slowly slide off of your head. You feel a little better now that the weight is off, but your head still feels like bursting any moment.

"Wow..." You start with a crackly voice, heavy with sleep. "That really sucked."

You look up at Twilight who was now slowly opening her eyes to look at you.

"Yea, that was worse than I expected it to be." Twilight said as an answer to your previous statement.

"Probably has something to do with the interspecies thing. I've done this before with other ponies but it was never this bad." She grunted out while putting a hoof to her head.

You lay there for at least thirty minutes until the inevitable happens. You hear a loud grumble from your mid section and well as from Twilights stomach. You have now idea how long you've been out cold but you do know that it was long enough to make you hungry as a horse (no pun intended). So you decide to get up.

After taking almost an hour to get up and out of the guest-room, you decide to rest on one of the chairs in the kitchen to rest your still throbbing head a bit. But your stomach doesn't agree with that, making more grumbling sounds as to remind you that you're low on fuel. 'Fine' You mumble to yourself before getting up again and heading over to the cupboards to find yourself some food.

Twilight said that she won't mind if you got yourself something to eat, as long as you would bring her something as well. You aren't a great cook but there is one thing you learned to make very well when you were a student on Earth. Sandwiches. If there was one thing you could make it was sandwiches.

You look around the cupboards to find something edible. You see bread and cheese, not enough for a sandwich. You look around the kitchen again only to find that you had missed the enormous fridge standing next to the cupboards you were trying to raid earlier. You open the fridge and find a few more ingredients to use for making a proper sandwich. Lettuce, eggs and surprisingly mayonnaise.

You go back to the cupboards to get some spices which you had already located earlier. Some salt, pepper and also some olive oil. You still feel surprised at how similar everything is to what you remember from Earth.

After you prepared the sandwiches you walk back to the guest-room to a still half-sleeping pony. You place the food in front of her as she slowly begins to sit up straight, her mane falling to her side in a rather comical way. You can't help but give a little smirk at the sight.

"What're you laughing at." Twilight said grumpily, but then eagerly picked up the sandwich and started eating.

After you both finish eating your college-style sandwich she turns to you.

"So. Did it work?" She asked, although she knew it had to have worked, after having experienced the after effect.

"I don't know. Let me just think for a bit." You tell her as you try to remember the alien memories. It doesn't take very long to find them. They're all memories of school and lectures and reading books, but for some reason the were happy memories, as if you enjoyed every bit of the events.

"I guess the memories also contain your feelings you have with them?" You half-ask Twilight already knowing the answer. She just nods at you, and immediately regrets doing so as her head is still a little sensitive.

The memories Twilight gave you are very informative though, and are well worth the pain. You now know how to keep magic from accidentally leaking out, which could have disastrous consequences if it did. But that's about the only thing she let you learn. How to keep it in check, and how to vent it if you get overfilled. She didn't give one bit of information on how to cast a spell.

Twilight doesn't know how you react to magic, and she doesn't know if you have a finite storage of it, like all ponies do. She probably taught only these specific things to you to ensure that you're not a threat to her or her friends, which you don't want to be. You like her... as a friend.

"So I guess I won't be doing much with my magic then, will I?" You say smugly to Twilight as both of your headaches are starting to subside.

"Well I don't really know how potent your magic is, so before I teach you any spells I would like to conduct a few experiments. Out of precaution of course." She replies with a little grin on her face and an inspecting eye looking all over you.

"So what's with the clothes anyway?" She ask out of nowhere.

"I'm sorry, WHAT? Why would you ask that?" You almost squeak, your face starting to feel very warm.

"Well..." She started with a sigh. "I've noticed that you've worn these clothes ever since you got here. And that was over two weeks ago. I just wondered if you weren't getting uncomfortable in them. I mean we ponies don't very often wear clothes, and I am personally not very fond of wearing them either. They just get in the way."

You looked at her, then at your clothes, which were dirt and sweat stained and were indeed not very comfortable at this point.

"The problem is really." You said still your face a little flushed. "Since I didn't get any time to pack some stuff before coming here, these clothes are my only set. At least you still have a natural coat of fur covering yourself. I don't."

"What's so bad about that?" She asks in reply.

"Well, imagine yourself being fully shaved of your fur, and then having to walk around like that." You say trying to explain what it would feel like to you if you started to walk around without clothes.

"Oh. Right, I think I can understand how you would feel having to walk around like that." She said, obviously still thinking about walking around without coat, and lightly flushing her face in the process.

"I might have a solution though. Rarity, the white unicorn from before, she's a fashion designer and stylist. I don't think she would mind to make you some clothing, although it would have to be all custom made, as you're obviously not a pony." She chuckled at her own obviousness.

You start to think back of the day before, not paying much attention to Twilight who started to talk about things Rarity had accomplished in her profession, about why she actually had to transfer her memories.

"So why did you actually use magic on me and the other ponies yesterday?" you ask her suddenly, very curious about what she had planned before it all went haywire.

"Well I tried to put a spell on you which would be necessary to keep you from getting you killed at the place where I wanted to bring you to." She said still not giving away where she was going to go. You let it go for now but you plan to ask her again in the near future.

"Can we go to Rarity please? " You ask Twilight, only wanting to get out of these filthy clothes, have a bath and get some clean clothes on before night would settle in. 'What time is it anyway.' You wonder to yourself.

"Hey Twilight, how long where we out?" You ask her as she looked up from a book she was now holding in front of her face. You have no idea how she got it but that's not important.

"I'm not sure. At first I thought it was morning, but now that I look at where the sun is it must be evening. I guess we slept shorter than I thought." She said as she quickly dove back into her book.

*BONK* *BONK* *BONK*

Twilight's head snapped back up away from her book as she looked at the door. She slowly got up from her seat and started walking toward the door as another set of thuds could be heard.

"C'mon Twi. Open up already. We're all rather worried 'bout you'n that human." Applejack sounded from outside the library. She pronounced 'human' more like 'hue-maihn' making you chuckle a little.

"Ugh. I'm coming." Twilight, still with a slight headache, said as she opened the door.

"Anything wrong girls?" She asked her friends as they all filed through the door with worried expressions on their faces.

"Well we hadn't seen ya'll fer three days, an' we thought sum'in bad mighta hap'ned ya know." Applejack said again as Twilight's eyes widened.

"THREE DAYS?!" You almost screamed and stood up from your chair, hearing it hit the floor behind you with a clear 'thud'.

Every one of the ponies looked at you in surprise, noticing only now that you had been sitting on that poor chair. No wonder you felt so hungry when you woke up. You've been out for the past three days, but it only felt like a few hours.

You look at the others and then at Twilight. She has the exact same expression you have, shock.

"I don't understand. This should have knocked us out for two hours at most, if it would have knocked us out at all. This doesn't make any sense. Of course I expected that it could knock us out for longer than that, seeing that you react strangely to magic, but THREE days?!" Twilight seemed to be in deep thought as you were just about to state the obvious.

"I guess your magic has more side-effects with me. You better be more careful when experimenting on something from a different world." You just say bluntly, already past the shock of having been in a coma for the past three days. You have gotten quite used to being knocked out here in this world of magic.

"But How?! This really doesn't make any sense." Twilight kept on going trying to make sense of everything.

"Does it make sense that I was transported to this world? Or that I have magic even though I come from a non-magic dimension? Or that I was able to do a invisibility spell without having learned one" You tell her, trying to stop her from trying to make sense of all these things that don't make sense. This did seem to make her train of thoughts to stop.

She now looks at you with big eyes, as if she'd just had an epiphany.

"That... Actually makes sense." Twilight immediately walked to one of her rooms and quickly came back with quill and parchment, taking notes. You don't get how that makes any sense but apparently it did to her.

"Uh, Twi, whatcha doin'?" Applejack looked at her while the bookworm walked over to you and started poking you very lightly with her horn at different places.

"I just need to confirm something." She mumbled just loud enough for everyone to be able to hear.

"No seriously Twilight what are you doing?" This time it was you who asked the question. She didn't seem to have heard you at all or she's just being plain rude and she's ignoring you.

"Okay. Fine. As long as you don't poke my privates it's fine with me." You sighed as you figure you can't get her attention at all when she's this focused on something.

You look at her friends who were now all looking at you with a little smile on their faces, and their eyes slightly squinting. Only seconds later Rainbow burst out laughing as she fell to the ground, unable to keep flapping her wings in sync. This made the rest also start laughing at your previous comment.

This got Twilight's attention.

"What?" She was now looking at her friends who were rolling over the library's floor, chuckling in the process. "I wasn't planning on poking his privates, you know." She sighed looking from her friends back to you.

"Anyway I've got enough data for now, although I would like to run a few more tests on you, to see how magic reacts to you, and vice versa." This scared you a little.

"What kind of test? I hope not as painful as the memory transfer." You ask her, but now everyone stopped laughing and they looked from you to Twilight.

"Memory transfer?! Why in Equestria would you ever do that?" Rarity spoke giving Twilight an accusing look. "You know that it hurts the castee three times more than the caster. Not to mention the possible side effects."

"I had no cho..." Twilight started but you interrupted.

"Wait. What! So you're saying that Twilight had three times less of a headache than me and than she let me make her breakfast?! You're really unbelievable you know that." Now you were the one looking at her with an accusing look. She's a sadist.

All she did was look at you with a *Squee*, ears laid back on her head and making her eyes as big as she could.

"So. Why did you do the transfer darling?" Rarity asked again, also giving a slightly accusing look directed at Twilight.

"I don't know if you all noticed this, but when I accidentally released his 'seal' on his magic he almost immediately used it, without knowing he did. That meant that he didn't have control over it. You probably have noticed that the amount of magic he has is really high, so in order to..." This time she was cut of by Rarity.

"So in order to keep him from potentially hurting not only us but also himself he needed a crash course in controlling magic?" She finished Twilight's sentence, which in turn got her an angry glare and a little nod from the purple bookworm.

"But did it work? Can you do all those things Twilight can?" Rarity started to show a lot of interest in you at this point.

"Nope. She was mean and only transferred the memories from basic magic control, and no spells whatsoever." This made her jaw almost hit the floor.

"So little information and you still managed to get knocked out for three whole days?! I think we should all be careful with magic around you." Rarity gave a nervous chuckle and looked to the ground again.

"I think we should inform Celestia about these events. For something to have this much magic could be a problem in various ways." Twilight stated and walked a little past her friends, before shouting. "SPIKE! SPIKE?! Spike? Anyone know where spike is?" She now looked to her friends.

"Spike has been sleeping on my couch at the Boutique for that past three days, since you had locked the door before your little 'memory transfer' with this human here. You even put a magical lock on it." Rarity said with a little edge to her voice.

"Oh, right. Forgot about that." Twilight seemed a little uncomfortable.

"The poor baby dragon has been worried sick about you, all he did was ask if the library was open again and if you were okay. Poor thing." Rarity said laying emphasis on almost each word.

"Sorry, but could you get him? I need to send a letter to Celestia informing about the current events." Twilight was being pretty serious, although she did really bad about making the baby dragon worry.

"Ah'll go get'm." Applejack was out of the library before she even finished her sentence.

"Oh yea almost forgot. I think that the surprise I was planning will have to be moved to an indefinite date. Too bad though, I really wanted to see your reaction." Twilight said with a sad smile.

After a few minutes Applejack had returned with an over-sized, green-bellied, purple-backed lizard. You understand why it's a baby dragon although it isn't really what you had in mind.

"Twilight! You're okay." The baby dragon Spike said as he ran to Twilight for a hug. After several minutes of hugging and Spike being convinced that Twilight was okay she put on her serious face again.

"Spike, I need to send a letter to the Princess immediately." Twilight said as Spike was suddenly holding a piece of parchment and a quill.

Dear Princess Celestia,

I take it that you have already been notified about our visitor from a different plane. He is currently staying in Ponyville and I have personally seen to it that he has been treated well. There has been an event though that I want to inform you about. I went to cast a spell on him which triggered something in his body to release a seal which was holding his magic. I have found that his magic is vast, but he has yet to learn spells. I would like to hear your thoughts on this matter, and hereby invite you to Ponyville to personally meet him.

You faithful student,

Twilight Sparkle.

Spike wrote down what Twilight said and then he burnt it. Just like that. No reason whatsoever. He just breathed a green flame and the letter went up in smoke. You just look at the dragon and then at a smiling Twilight with confusion.

That confusion was quickly taken away as the dragon started making a choking sound and then burped, a little green flame leaving his mouth again. When the smoke cleared away from his face he was holding a letter in his claw and he handed it over to Twilight.

Dear Twilight Sparkle,

I have indeed heard this rumour of another being entering our world via unconventional means. It gives me great pleasure to hear that he has been properly cared for. I am surprised to hear though that this creature has had a reaction to your magic. I will see to arrange a visit to Ponyville soon. In the mean time please refrain from using magic on him. I will personally come to see why this reaction took place.

Her Highness,

Princess Celestia.

The letter had the royal seal on the bottom stating it was in fact from the Princess herself.

"So what now?" You ask Twilight and her 'gang' of ponies.

"I guess we'll just have to wait for Celestia to come by, before I can begin my tests." Twilight said obviously sad she couldn't start experimenting right away.

"Before she arrives, could I maybe get some new clothes?" You say, looking over to the ivory unicorn.

"Oh, but of course darling. Those old rags you're wearing currently just won't do in front of royalty, and they also don't look all that comfortable, am I correct?" Rarity was in her element the moment you said the word 'clothes' and she was already practically dragging you to her Boutique. "You really need to come with me darling, I need to take your measurements before I can make anything for you."

She had dragged you most of the way to her boutique and when you were there she immediately started on her work for a new set of clothes for the bipedal creature.