Like a Bullet from a Gun

"So," said Celestia, just finishing chewing on an apple. "We need to arrange where you are going to stay. Hold on, let me just check..."

As she said this, her horn glowed and a screen appeared next to her. She appeared to be browsing through houses available, but all of them seemed to be sold out. That is until, she reached the bottom of the list.

"Ah hah! I have two houses in Ponyville that are next to each other available for sale. Would it be okay if you could share a house with two people each?"

"Yeah, that would be fine." responded Alex.

"Okay. Also, I will apologise for advance for this, all four of you will be woken up at quite an early time..."

"Why is that?" inquired Connor.

"You are living next to a Miss. Scratch, the resident DJ."

Rhod took this opportunity to sigh, and smash his head into the table repeatedly.

"Of all the people we had to live next to WHY did it have to be DJ P0N-3? Why god, why?!"

"I'm sorry, but these are the only housing choices in the immediate area. If you would want to live in another location you would have to live in Manehattan or Fillydelphia."

"Oh. My. God." said Alex as he snickered away.

"What is so funny, dear?"

"Your city names are so, so, punny!" Alex could not help himself anymore. He burst out into a full onset of laughter, while everybody around him just looked at him, wondering 'WAT'.

"Okay, I've regained composure. Go on." Alex's face was still red from all this laughter.

"Anyway... This is the only housing option that I could find near here, so I'm sorry but this is your only option."

"I guess we can manage... Hopefully..." mumbled Daniel.

"Moving on, we need to find jobs for you, as I can guess that you do not have the same currency as us?"

"Even if we don't have the same currency we don't have any of it."

"Okay," said Celestia, as she flipped a golden coin onto the table. "This is a Bit. This is the national currency for Equestria, everything is bought and sold with it. Since I am not allowed to just give out free bits whenever I want, I can only give all of you 500 bits to share. Don't worry, I will pay for the housing."

"Thank you, your highness."

"You are welcome, but as I said please call me Celestia. You will need to find jobs, I will arrange if I can find any once you move into your new accommodations. You should be able to leave the palace by tomorrow, or the day after at the very latest. I will arrange with the mayor of Ponyville about the housing tomorrow. For the meanwhile, go and get some rest. We have a busy day tomorrow."

"Yes, Celestia."

Piledrive stood up from the dining room table, and slowly made their way to their individual quarters. As Alex reached to door to his compartment, he thought about how the Mayor would react to this. It's not every day a member of royalty comes up to you and says "Hi there, is it okay if I can keep 4 aliens from another world in two of your houses? Thank you!"

If this ever happened to Alex, he probably would have jumped out of a window there and then.

Alex's thoughts were slowly washed away as the peaceful hold of deep sleep took over.

Ugh! Why are mornings so bad?!" mumbled Alex, as he awoke from his bed.

Usually he would not be this cranky, but he had a meeting today. With the Mayor of Ponyville. Alex mainly was worried that as soon as he and his convoy that were escorting entered Ponyville they would have apples thrown at them or something.

"Ah, Alex! You're awake!" said Twilight, whom Alex had recently realized had been sitting in a chair on the opposite side of the room.

"Shit! Don't... do that. How long have you been there?!"

"About half an hour."

'Freaking pervert' Alex said, in his head of course.

"Why are you in my room?!"

"I just wanted to study the breathing patterns of humans, to see if they are similar. And long story short, they are!"

"Yippee. Now you can quit your paper round!" said Alex, sarcastically.

"I don't get it..."

"I didn't expect you to."

"Oh, ok! That solves it!"

Alex gave Twilight a quizzical look, then made his way down to the dining hall for breakfast. Twilight was following shortly behind him.

"Do you know what is on the breakfast menu today?"

"Suprisingly, yes! I do. It is a nice platter of daisy and hay sandwiches, with assorted fruit."

"Daisy and Hay Sandwiches. You have got to be kidding me..."

"What? Do you not like daisies? Or are you allergic to-"

Twilight suddenly realized what Alex meant, and let out a long "Ohhhhhhhhh...". to advertise her understanding.

"So you understand now?"

"Yes, I will check with the Princess to have the hay removed from the sandwiches, because you are allergic to it!"

Alex's palm nearly went through his skull at that moment.

"No, Twilight. Humans don't eat daisies, or hay for that matter."

Twilight let out a long "Ohhhhhh..." for the second time in a minute.

"Okay, I'll arrange for you to only have fruit then."

"That would be very much appreciated."

"It is no problem, Alex. I'll see you at the dining table!" Twilight said, as she darted off towards the dining room.

After Alex had had a delightful meal of Apple Fritter and Water, Alex followed Celestia out of the castle along with the rest of Piledriver. They were surrounded by a multitude of guards, escorting them throughout the city of Canterlot.

"Celestia, are you sure that the Mayor will allow us to stay?" inquired Rhod.

"I spoke to her last night. She said she would be honoured to have you as guests, and she has arranged jobs for all of you."

"What kind of jobs?"

"She will tell you when we arrive. She just told me that she had jobs for you all, I know nothing more."

"I hope I can actually do what she asks me to do..."

"I'm sure you will, darling. She said that none of the jobs were going to be extremely difficult."

"Phew."

It took the convoy nearly two hours to make their way down to the small village of Ponyville, and instead of having fruit thrown at them when they arrived, they were met with lots of cheering. Some photographers had also gathered for photos for magazines, and many of them were shouting things along the lines of "Piledriver! Alex, put on a pose! Man this is gonna go great on the front page of Equestria Daily!"

Rhod could not help but chuckle at the use of the word 'Equestria Daily', as he had been an avid reader of the site ever since he had became a brony. That reminded him; how was he going to explain bronydom to these ponies? And even worse, how was he going to explain the R34?!

Rhod's thoughts were quickly interrupted by the arrival of the mayor.

"Why, hello there! I am the Mayor of Ponyville. I will lead you to your accommodations. Would you care to follow me me, please."

It took them another twenty minutes to arrive at their new homes, and Alex was surprised at what they saw. The houses that were given to them were almost twice the size of the rest of the houses in the village, and they were decorated more posh-like. The walls were made of the finest timber, and instead of the roof being made of thatch like the rest, it was made with stone.

"Wow! Celestia," Alex said. "I cannot thank you enough!"

"Do not worry about it, it was all in good thought."

"Now," the Mayor began. "I have arranged jobs for all of you. Alex, I would like you to be a libraries assistant at the local library, run by a Miss. Sparkle. Daniel, I would like you to work as an assistant for a sweet shop run by a Miss. Bon Bon. Rhod, I would like you to work as a baker at Sugarcube Corner, run by a Mr. and Mrs. Cake, and last but not least, Connor, I would like you to help a Miss. Rarity with her shop. I will lead you to all these destinations later. Please, settle into your new homes. I will be back shortly to give you a tour."

"Okay, so who wants to bunk with me?" asked Alex.

"I will." responded Daniel.

Okay, so it is me and Daniel in the house to the left and Rhod and Connor to the house on the right. Let's unpack and then get to buisness."

All of the people who had hired them were worried that they were not going to get the jobs done, but what they did not know was that Celestia had had Luna run a mind scan to see what job they were best suited to. And the job that they were best suited to is the job they got.

"Okay, would you please follow me, I will show you all the great landmarks of this wonderful village."

As they kept on walking, they came across a large building which looked like a carousel.

"This, is the Carousel Boutique. Connor, you will be working here with Miss. Rarity."

They kept on walking, and they came across a building that looked like a 1 to 1 scale model of a gingerbread house.

"This is Sugarcube Corner. Rhod, you will be working here with Miss. Pie."

Again, they continued walking until they came across a large treehouse. And by treehouse, I don't mean one that a child would build in a tree, no no. This was a treehouse. It was a house carved out of a tree.

"This is the local library. Alex, this is where you will be working with Miss. Sparkle, who I assume you have met."

For the last time they continued walking, and they came across a run-of-the-mill sweet shop, with a sign on the front saying "Bon Bon's Bon Bons."

"Daniel, you will be working here with Miss. Bon Bon. I do believe that those are all the places that you need to know at the moment, so I will leave you to explore. I have to get back to town hall, Applejack and Carrot Top are argueing over what the national fruit of Ponyville should be. A carrot isn't even a fruit, for Celestia's sake. Anyway, I have to go. I hope to see you another time!" the Mayor said, as she trotted towards a large building in the middle of the town.

"She seemed nice." said Alex.

"Yeah, I agree." responded Daniel. Who has the 500 bits that Celestia gave us?"

"I do." replied Connor.

"Come on, let's find a cafe, I'm thirsty as fuck!"

"Same."

And with that, they set off to explore.