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(Wow! Four pages on my word processor.)

Book the Fourth AKA Getting to know the locals

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Back at a certain blue box. . .

A brown earth pony sat under the console on a raised platform in the middle of a giant room. All of the sudden he rolled out and sat upright quick as a flash. With a look of worry slowly turning into one of amusement he said, “Oh, dear, I just let him go with the most navigationally challenged pony that I have ever met. Oh well if anything bad happens, it's just a quick jump with the TARDIS.”

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In Ponyville. . .

Ditzy and I walked through the small town. Everyone was friendly to me and I was courteous to them. Ditzy even introduced me to a couple of friends of hers. My biggest surprise came in the form of a bubble gum pink pony that gasped and ran off almost immediately. I looked at Ditzy and she just smiled and replied, “That's just Pinkie Pie. She's definitely going to throw you a party later. She always throws parties.” I nodded and proceeded to continue walking around. There were so many ponies of every type. (EVEN UNICORNS!) I was so caught up in the moment that I didn't see that I had gotten separated from Ditzy and stopped paying attention to where I was going. I then bumped into a unicorn and we both fell. I got up quickly and offered a hand. . . er, hoof to help her up. She accepted my help with, “Thanks man.” I smiled and asked, “What's your name?” “Oh, it's Vinyl Scratch, but you might have heard of me by my stage name: DJ Pon3.” I shook my head and informed her, “Sorry, Vinyl I've never heard that before. My names Tyler by the way.” She looked slightly confused and voice her confusion, “Who hasn't heard of DJ Pon3? Even that Classical diva Octavia knows that name.” I looked away embarrassed and said, “Sorry I haven't heard much from news here. I just sort of stumbled into an old friend near here, um. . .” I paused, whether to build suspense or cover the fact that I was lying I can't remember now. At this point, Ditzy came up to us and said hello to Vinyl and started pulling me away to meet the other ponies of ponyville. Before I let her drag me away I finished my sentence, “I would like to see one of your shows, Ms. Scratch. My dad always told me to try something new every new place I went.”

Ditzy then dragged me off to meet a strange pegasus that had a rainbow colored mane and tail. I mentally prepared myself for some pun on it and wasn't disappointed as she introduced herself, “I'm Rainbow Dash, the coolest, most awesome, greatest flier in all of Equestria.” I scoffed and was immediately shot a look from a small orange filly that I assumed was a pegasus, I looked around uncomfortably and replied, “Er, hello Rainbow Dash, the Great, I am Tyler, the one very concerned over his own well-being at the moment.” She laughed and said, “That is the longest title I've ever heard.” I looked down and scuffed the ground with my foot. . . hoof (darn vernacular) like I was getting praise and replied, “Thanks. I put absolutely no thought into that name. Glad I can think on my hooves here.” Ditzy's eyes lit up but Rainbow didn't notice it (due to the laughing). “Well see you later Tyler, the long-winded.” She turned to Ditzy and said, “Goodbye, Derpy.” With that she turned to the young pegasus that was next to her and ran off saying, “Let's go, Scoots.” The orange filly ran after her I shook my head and chuckled muttering, “Long-winded, I'll have to remember that one.” Then turned to Ditzy and asked, loud enough for her to hear, “Did she just call you Derpy? Is that some sort of nickname?” Ditzy looked down like she was ashamed and replied, “Yeah, it's not a very good one though.” I nodded in agreement to this and looked around. My eyes were drawn to two other unicorns one purple and the other white. The purple one had a small something on her back. I began to shy out of the way and asked Ditzy softly, “Is there anywhere that I can get information for this place.” She nodded and showed me to the library. “Here it is, Tyler. This is the library.” I nodded and stepped inside and pulled out a couple of books that looked like history books. “Ah, Ditzy you can do whatever you want to at the moment I have to read these books. You know, so I don't stand out.” She nodded and I noticed something about her eyes one was looking away from me and the other was looking straight at me. Unnerved by this I asked, “Um. This might be a bit personal but, way are your eyes like that.” She blushed and looked away, the one eye trying to stay focused on me. “I . . . don't want to talk about it,” she replied. I nodded and said, with a reasonable voice, “Of course. If you don't want to talk about it then there's a good reason. I guess I'll here it when your ready to tell me. Thank you for putting up with me Ditzy.” She smiled and replied brightly, “No problem, Tyler. Whenever you need me Just ask someone for Derpy.” I looked at her and said, “I most certainly will not, Ditzy. We're friends and I wouldn't use a nickname if I'm looking for you.” With a smile on her face Ditzy went out the doors leaving me to study in peace.

A Good bit later the pile of books on my left reduced to one, the door opened and I heard a girl ask, “Can I help you?” I looked up and saw the purple unicorn that I had seen earlier, and she had the weird small creature on her back. I looked around the room then back to her. “Um, no, thank you Miss, I think I'm doing alright.” I blinked a few times in sudden realization. “No-pony came in here during all of my studying. What are you doing here.” She examined the books I was and had been reading then turned to me and replied, “I live here. Why are you so interested in history?” I glanced around quickly and realized that no one was going to get me out of this jam and replied, “I've always been told that those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. So I'm learning everything I can so that I don't make mistakes like the first settlers of Equestria did.” She nodded, taking my excuse as the truth while I mentally jumped for joy at the fact that I had remembered that fact considering that I had just skimmed over it. She looked at the last book in my next to start pile. “You know if you want you can barrow this one.” I nodded and stated, “Thank you miss, and sorry for barging into your home. I didn't know that when I came in.” She nodded and said to the creature on her back, “Spike do we have any bags.” The creature slid off her back and looked around the house for a minute and came back with a small bag. The unicorn thanked it and placed the book in the bag and I was out the door. I walked back to the TARDIS. There was a note on the door,

Dear Tyler,
You should be seeing this note by the afternoon, more likely in the evening.
You should head over to the Sugercube Corner. Located right next to the Carousel Boutique, near the center of town.
See you there, The Doctor
P.S. Just leave the book in the Police box. It shouldn't go anywhere.

I looked at the note suspiciously. Mostly because the Doctor had said the Police box shouldn't go anywhere. Has it wandered off on him before? I sighed and entered the Police box, placed the book on a table that was inside and exited and closed the door. I looked at the note again and asked, “OK, how do I get to Sugercube Corner?” I heard a noise behind me. I whipped around and saw Spike standing there. “Hello Spike,” I said calmly sinking to be at his level, “Do you think you could show me to Sugercube Corner. I'm . . . supposed to meet a friend there.” He looked at me weirdly and asked, “How don't you know how to get there when your meeting your friend there?” I was awestruck, I didn't show it of course, but still. I gave him a nervous smile and replied, “He . . . always forgets to add the small details.” Spike seemed to believe me and we started off. We where about half-way to Sugercube Corner (using my current knowledge) when Spike burped up green flames and a small note. “Uh oh,” Spike muttered. I looked at him strangely and asked, “What's wrong Spike?” He turned and immediately jumped on my back replying, “Urgent message from the princess, we gotta hurry to Sugercube Corner. It's that way.” I replied by rearing up and took off as fast as my new legs could take me.

Sugercube Corner was dark when we entered. I stayed low to the ground ready for anything when the lights suddenly turned on and there where balloons and streamers everywhere. I jumped what must have been ten feet. The pink pony that I had seen earlier bounced up beside me and gave me a pat on the back, where Spike wasn't sitting, and said, “I'm Pinkie Pie. Why are you wearing the cloak? Are you celebrating Nightmare Night at this time at your old home? Don't you love parties? Wow mister, you must have really needed this party, if that's how you react to surprises.” I scowled at her and replied, “Well, where I'm from that could be the difference between life and death.” Spike cleared his throat and I calmed down quickly. “Sorry about that, I can get annoyed easily. My name is Tyler, and the little dragon is looking for some-pony.” The pink pony nodded and pointed to the purple unicorn that had been with him earlier. I nodded to him and he slid off my back. I turned back to see the pink pony bounce off to be with the unicorn. I shrugged as best I could and looked for the Doctor or Ditzy. I saw Vinyl on stage messing with a mixing board so I decided against trying to make conversation with her, when a sea blue unicorn came up to me and introduced herself excitedly, “My name is Lyra. Ditzy told me that you believe that humans exist.” I grinned as I thought how clever Ditzy really was, when she wanted to be, and replied, “Hello Ms. Lyra.” I bowed and continued, “I do believe that humans exist, but they live on a different universe than us. Which is why no-pony can find any proof on them.” I nodded as the pieces lined up in my head. Humans, Protheans of the Equestrian galaxy/universe. I smiled as the Mass Effect reference hit my full thought. “Maybe they lived on another planet and tales were whispered on solar wind.” She nodded furiously and I saw other ponies giggle. I smiled at the irony of the situation, here I was, a born human, able to blend in with the local population, with the Doctor's help but still. I mentally laughed at the fact that the 'nut' was the only one that was able to comprehend what might happen. A few more ponies walked up and we had a few conversations. (Bon-Bon, Berry Punch, and Colgate for those wondering.) When I bumped into a yellow pegasus with pink hair. . . (YOU KNOW WHAT? FORGET THE DANG VENCULAR!) She almost immediately started apologizing as I helped her up. I put my hoof in front of her and she 'epped' as I apologized for bumping into her. She stuttered as we continued talking, “M-m-m-m-my name's, um, Fluttershy.” The last part was so soft that I couldn't hear it over the other noises at the party. “I'm sorry, could you say that again? I couldn't quite hear you.” She mumbled again, “My name's Fluttershy.” I caught it the second time. “Hello Fluttershy. My name is Tyler.” I took a polite bow and she blushed as I continued. “Are enjoying Pinkie's party. Cause to tell you the truth it's a tad too noisy for my taste. But, she threw it for me. I can't complain. Oh, how uncivilized of me, due you need something?” She nodded and replied, “Twilight needs to see you right away. She said something about the precipice of disaster.” I nodded and motioned for her to lead on. We headed into a small room and noticed some of the other ponies I had seen earlier. The purple unicorn walked up to me and asked, “Tyler do you still have that book I lent you?” I was slightly confused, “Uh, yeah I do. Is there any particular reason?” She nodded and replied, “Yeah. The princess wanted us to see something about a prophecy.” I nodded and took off back to the TARDIS, grabbed the bag, ran back to the party, and handed the bag to Twilight. She levitated a the book out of the bag and opened to a page. “Here it is every-pony. It says here. . .”