Like a Bullet from a Gun

After a heartfull meal of bananas from Princess Celestia's 'Banana Bag', the questions started hitting Alex like an arrow to to the knee.

"So," asked Celestia. "What should I call you humans as a whole?"

"Piledriver."

"And what are your individual names?"

"Alex."

"Daniel."

"Connor."

"R-Rhod."

"Is there anything the matter Rhod? You look much more tense than the rest of your colleges."

"I know, it's just that I'm speaking to a member of royalty, I don't want to mess things up!"

"I can see what you mean. My sympathies, I didn't want to make you uncomfortable."

"Oh it's okay."

"Anyway, I would like to ask you a few questions, if that is okay with you?"

"Yes," said Alex. "Go ahead."

"Why and how did you arrive in Equestria?"

"I don't know why we arrived here, but we were involved in a test gone wrong, and we don't know what happened next because we blacked out. But we awoke in a clearing and our vehicles were on fire."

"Hmm... Interesting. Oh, I almost forgot! We have two ponies that would like to join us today. I would like you to meet Twilight Sparkle, and I believe you already know Lyra Heartstrings."

Lyra walked into the meeting room first, her light green mane swaying. Next walked in Twilight, who Alex instantly remembered as the purple pony that was part of the six that found their clearing.

"I remember you," Alex went on. "You were one of the six that found our crashed planes, weren't you?"

"Ahh, yes! I did find your vehicles! Although I still had no idea why you had to run off, I had so many questions to ask you!"

"Indeed. Now Celestia, go on with the rest of your questions, would you kindly?"

"Yes. What were those vehicles that you arrived in called?"

"Planes. F-18's if you want to be precise."

Twilight then got out a notebook out of presumably nowhere and started jotting down notes.

"F-18's... Got it!"

"What is your home planet called, and what is it like?"

"Our home planet is called Earth, and it is quite-"

"Woah woah woah, stop a second!" exclaimed Twilight. "Your planet is called Earth? Our planet is called Earth!"

"Oh really?"

"Yes! Fascinating..." said Twilight as she jotted down more notes.

"Anyway, as I was saying. Earth is very much similar to here, except everything looks a little bit more dull, and less bright."

"Hmm, interesting. What do you eat?"

"Well, you already know that we eat bananas, thank you for those by the way, and we are omnivores, and I'm going to presume that you are herbivores?"

"You are welcome, and yes. We are herbivores, but in my travels to other countries I have tasted meat. It was disgusting, to say the least."

"Well that is your opinion, but one of the main reasons me and my squad are best friends is because we all have a dying love for bacon. Baaaaaacoooon..." Alex drooled.

"Okay... well, I bet that Twilight would like to ask you a few questions. Twilight?"

"Ah yes! Do any of you like books?"

"I like books, Daniel, Connor and Rhod don't particularly like them."

"Great! I like books too, I even run a library! Maybe you could come over sometime, *wink wink*"

"OKAY! LET'S CHANGE THE SUBJECT."

"Oops," said Twilight, blushing. "Sorry."

"Don't.. do that."

"I won't again, anyway, does your planet have any religions?"

"To be honest, we have to many. The main five are Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and Sikhism. But these religions have started many a war, and killed millions of people."

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that..."

"Don't sweat it."

"Lyra, do you want to ask a question?"

"Yes, but only one. Does your race know about our race?"

As soon as Alex heard this, he turned white. So did Daniel, so did Connor. Rhod nearly fainted.

"So? Do you know about us or what?"

Silence.

"Piledriver?..."

Again, silence.

"Answer me!"

"Okay! Fine!" blurted out Rhod. "We do know of your existence, we have a TV show about you!"

"Umm... what is a TV show?"

"It's like an adventure played out on a glass screen. Anyway, there is a TV show about you and most people have heard about you. I know most of your names, for Christ's sake, not to sound creepy, but, you know."

There was silence from Celestia, Twilight and Lyra, until all at the same time, they blurted out:

"Cooooool! Who is the main character?!"

"I bet it is me!" Lyra exclaimed. "I have the most intresting life out of aall of you!"

"Oh please, I'm a princess for crying out loud, it's definitely going to be me!"

"THE SHOW IS ABOUT TWILIGHT AND HER 5 FRIENDS!" shouted Rhod, at the top of his voice. "It's about how you and your friends go around saving the day and crap, and to prove this I know that you defeated Nightmare Moon after the first day that Twilight moved here. Is that true?"

"Umm... Yes! Oh my Celestia, I'm famous! Yippee!"

"Okay, calm yourself now."

Twilight's answer to calming down was to jump around like a crazy person and do some strange sort of dance, much to Princess Celestia's amusement.

"Okay, I can safely say that this meeting went splendidly. Guards, could you please escort Piledriver to their individual rooms? I will speak to them tomorrow to arrange where they are going to stay."

"Yes, your highness. If you would like to follow me, gentlemen?"

As the squad exited the room, they looked behind them as Celestia waved to them.

"Well, this was an interesting day..." shrugged Celestia, as she made her way to the throne room.

The room that Alex was staying in for the time being was very glamorous. The walls were decorated in paintings, all in frames, and the floor was made of marble. The rugs were made of cotton, and the bedsheets were were made with the finest silk, embroidered with gold lining.

It looked like a room that royalty would stay in, Alex thought. But then he promptly realised that this was a room that royalty occasionally stayed in.

Alex looked down at his watch. 7:35 pm. Had it been that long already?

Alex, being very hungry, decided to make his way out of the room he was staying in to find the dining hall. He passed a guard on the way out.

"Excuse me, but could you tell me where the dining hall is?"

"Down the corridor first door on the left. Her highness and your friends are expecting you, you'd better be swift."

"Thanks, kind sir." said Alex, as he bolted his way down the hallway.