Name's Joe
The day after.
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Hey Logic, been a long time since you talked to me in my dreams.What do you wanna talk about?
Nothing much, just think we should plan our day for tomorrow, seeing as how we won't be able to help on the farm.
Hmm, we don't know everything that's to happen tomorrow, we'll plan from there, but a main goal should be to find the local blacksmith to get all the plans for the bullets and the actual weapon for use with qaudrupeds.Perhaps even get that collapsible bat idea sold.
Good plan, we may be able to get our old wooden prototype from home.Do you remember when we made it in shop class, back in high school?
Yeah,and it only had one problem, being the fact the inside is hollow so we would need to make a metal mold on the inside to keep it all together.
Well, I'll alert the boys to the plan.
Personally, I don't agree with going through with all this.I don't think it would be good to give the ponies the schematics for the weapons.I honestly think the idea should die with the human race.
True, but we have no choice, it was far too late the moment we came into this world.They would have found out eventually.Besides, even if we had left the weapons at the home that first day we had left the house and into this land, odds are someone would have found it before the weapons corroded out of use, or eroded in entirety.
You have good points, but I don't like 'em.
Neither do I Tex.
When I awoke, I rolled onto my back and swung my broken legs onto the side of the bed, and lifted myself into my chair, and rolled into the main room of the library.I then rolled into the kitchen of the library to prepare food for me,Twilight, and Spike.Might as well be a good house guest, eh?Speaking of the kitchen, it was strangely very modern despite the 17th century appearance of the home.Anyways, I looked for the ingredients to make a breakfast sandwich I had invented a long time ago.
"Let's see, 6 eggs, potatoes,bread,oil, bacon, wait no, hay bacon.Not eating that.Wait, how did they turn hay into bacon?"
I got three pans, a bowl, and a whisk.I cracked the eggs and poured the contents into the bowl.I whisked vigorously until the eggs were liquidated, then soaked the 6 bread slices in the eggs, and placed it in two of the pans.As that was cooking, so was the bacon, and the soon to be hashbrowns in the same pan.After they had finished cooking thoroughly, I mixed them together and placed 1/3 of it within two pieces of bread three times.
"Good, everything seems to have gone well." The breakfast sandwiches were coming out very nicely when I heard Twilight and Spike coming down the stairs.When Twilight entered the kitchen, she had a shocked look on her face, either from forgetting I was there, or surprised I was cooking something.Possibly a bit of both.
"You're making breakfast?"
"Yeah, I felt the need to be a good houseguest.Though I'm not sure if you'll like what I made, so just tell me your opinion and If you don't like it I'll just whip up something else."
"Ok, what are they?"
"Well, it's a breakfast sandwich composed of french toast,fried potatoes, and for you and Spike, a little bit of hay bacon."
"Fried potatoes?"
"What, you say this as if it is't common."
"Well, it isn't.We mostly eat them baked, but fried?Actually, that doesn't sound too bad."Twilight responded.
"Well, either way, enjoy."
They both sat down at the table's pillows,(Ponies sitting on chairs is apparently very uncomfortable due to their anatomical structure, which brings up the question why make a wheel chair?), and began eating.I rolled forward to the table and joined them in the meal, a meal which they appeared to be enjoying according to their looks of confusion and satisfaction.
"Wow, this is actually really good." Spike said to no one in particular.
"Well, humans have several great qaulities, ingenuity is one of them."I responded.
Twilight suddenly stopped eating, took a cartoonishly large swallow and stated,
"I almost forgot to place the healing spell on you."She got up, Telekinetically got the medical book from my world and one from hers and proceeded to go to the correct pages in each for the spell and for the picture's of the legs bone structure.
She aimed her horn at my legs and filled her horn with magical aura.She then made a grunt and I suddenly felt a tingling sensation in my legs, slowly spreading upwards at a pace about at a millionths of a snails tread.She lifted her head up and trotted to the other side of the table to continue to eat her breakfast.
"So, how does the spell work?"
"Well, to put it into simple terms a non-magic user may understand, I have to focus on the bone's template and commence the spell, which speeds up the process of your cell's restoration process, but it still takes awhile.The spell is constantly taking small doses of magical aura from the area in all living things to keep the spell going.Assuming all goes well, it should take about a week to finish."Twilight explained.
"That's incredible,your kind is absolutely fascinating."I responded.
"So is yours, I read a few chapters of that book on your kinds history at the party and it's amazing what your's has done.Even if it might seem primitive, but your kind were able to do quite alot even without magic."
"As I said, Humans are ingenious little buggers."
"You talk about them as if you aren't one."Spike chimed in.
"Well, sometimes I wish I wasn't.For reasons I'd rather not talk about."Spike looked kind of saddened at this for whatever reason.Possibly thinking of what might have caused my response.Not like I'll ever tell him.Maybe if I'm here to the point he can mature a bit more.Eh, who knows?
Anyways,eventually Twilight and Spike left to help Applejack while I was given the job to get groceries using a small bag of money Twilight had given me, after carefully explaining the money values of the multiple kinds of bits, being
15 Bronze to 1 Silver,10 Silver to 1 Gold, and 20 Gold to 1 Platinum.Easy enough to remember.I explored the market looking for the items on a small list Twilight had given to me with the bag.I had a single problem in the market that I didn't wish to face.I, due to my appearance, still turned some heads in the market.The fact that even though Celestia had said I was peaceful, a good portion of the ponies still feared me and they gave me either outrageously low prices that my conscious wouldn't allow me to accept or gave me ridiculously large prices simply because I was new here.I eventually saw a glint of purple and white, and thought, why that's Rarity.She's a business woman so surely she can help me find the right prices.So I sought her out for help.I had rolled up to her and tapped her on her shoulder, while saying,
"Excuse me Miss Rarity, but I require some assistance with something."She turned around and was at first shocked and made a slight squeal before remembering who I was.
"Oh, It's you darling, I forgot you were here in Ponyville,I apologize.Um, what would you like help with?" I leaned in so I could whisper,
"Well, I don't know what's a good price here and a bad one, due to me being,well an alien."She made a caring smile and took the list from my hands.
" Well, for the vegetables I would head to Golden Harvest, she's behind you, the one with an orange mane and yellow coat.
For the flower's you should head to Lily's stand, it should be up ahead on the left,she's the one with a blonde mane and pink coat.You can get eggs from Yolk, he's the pony with a yellow mane and white coat to the right up ahead.Mr and Mrs Cake own the place your party was held at last night, you can get bread cheap from there seeing as how they don't sell as much as their other divine creations.Also, I can give you some rubies.Just find me after you get the groceries."
Got all that?
Yeah.It's been noted, although I think we'll need more mental index cards at this rate.
"I was actually going to ask about that.I know you go out to get your gems, so I was wondering If I might be able to go along sometime after my legs heal."
"Why do you wish to go, If I may ask?"
"I actually wish to see some gems myself and perhaps make tools out of them if possible.I have plans and ideas that I must try out here, seeing as gems are so many in number."
"Well, I might be able to spare a bit more right now, we had a slight overhaul recently."
"No, that's fine.I'll just wait until I find them myself."
"No, I insist."
"No, it's alright.I can wait."I replied,trying to win the argument between two dapper individuals.
"Alright then, I'm off to my store."And she trotted away.
I just sat there for a few moments, thinking about how things might just be getting mundane around here.
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