Bubbles

Chapters

Chapter 1
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5 (edited)
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
"Last" Authors Note
Chapter 13
Sequel is out.
Chapter 2

Chapter 1

Bubbles

An anthropomorphic MLP fan fiction.
You sigh loudly as you stare up at your bedroom ceiling. Two things are clear. 1. You are not going to sleep anytime soon, despite it being past midnight. And 2. You really should dust your ceiling. With another sigh and a grunt you sit up and swing your legs off your bed. You run a hand through your hair as you stand. You quickly dress in faded blue jeans, a red shirt and your converse shoes. You grab your mp3 player, keys, and phone, and slip out into the night. This was one perk to living by yourself in a small apartment in town. You put on headphones and start to play some Nightcore as you walk. The night is as beautiful as ever, the moon full and bright.
“If this doesn't get me to fall asleep, then I have no idea what will.” You think to yourself as you walk. You take a deep breath, inhaling the cool air, along with a mouthful of car exhaust. You start to hack up a lung, and your eyes start to water. This was one of the many cons of living in the city. You shake your head clear and start to head in a seemingly random direction, though in a few minutes you come across your favorite place in the whole city: the park. With nothing else to do you start to walk the nature trail.
As you walk you get lost in deep thought, as often you did when ever you went on your walks. You get so deep in though you fail to notice the deer in front of your face till is runs away, you get so startled you fall on your butt.
“Ouch, what the-?” you ask to nobody particular as you stare in the direction the deep had gone. You get up and start to dust yourself off when you see a moving light down the path. You squint to try to see what it is but it's too far away to even try to guess what it would be. It was probably another person, your first reaction is to run but oddly you feel attracted to it. You start to move to the light, slowly so that if it is somebody, you don't give away your position. What feels like hours you come into range to see that the light isn't accompanied by anything, or anyone. You decide to approach the light until you are inches apart. To your surprise the thing emitting the light looks like multiple round orbs, the first thing that comes to mind is “Bubbles”. You reach out to them, but before you make contact the bubbles start to float away, you decide to follow them. No matter how fast you walk or how slow, they always stay just out of reach. The bubbles continue down the path and you continue to follow them, always just out of reach. The bubbles fly forward at a sudden pace and for the first time far ahead of you. You start to jog to catch up, then the jogging turns into a full run.
You dodge branches as they appear in your vision, and the path becomes really rocky and uneven. You dodge under a low hanging branch and when you come back up your foot catches a rock and you fall face first on the ground.
“Fuck!” you yell as you cough into the dirt, you slowly stand back up to see the bubbles floating right in front of your face. The moment you lay your eyes on the mystical bubbles you feel your anger floating away and soon you feel yourself become entranced in the mystical glow of the bubbles. They don't seem to be flying away anymore so you slowly raise your hand, the bubbles don't float away, even as you start to move your hand closer and closer, till your finger tips and millimeters away from the bubbles. You press one of the bubbles with your middles finger.
POP!
“Uh, oh,” was the only thing that escaped your lips before each bubble popped in a rhythmic tone. Soon each bubble was popped and the mysterious light faded with the last bubble. You start to feel extremely sad, and you hung your head. A sparking noise flooded your ears and you look up to see little static electricity in place of the bubbles. The sparkling doesn't stop and the mysterious light returns, the sparkling expands and soon in is at least as big as your head, the light expands with the now lightning. You take a step back the moment you do, the lightning and light disappear, the forest calm all around you. The light and lightning come back with a powerful vengeance and you are suddenly blinded, you can feel yourself being thrown. You don't know when but you feel yourself start to black out.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
You wake up and you suddenly notice something is wrong, the first thing you realize is the sunlight now peeking through the tree tops. The forest you see is the second thing that is wrong. It looks different as the trees are all thicker, and darker that before you blacked out. The next thing that you noticed wrong was everything seemed animated. You, slowly and slightly shaking, stand. This is when you notice the third thing wrong. You look at your arms and see them covered in light red colored fur, a few shades lighter than your red shirt. You start to panic when you hear music in your ears, till you remember you had your headphones on. You take them off with shaking hands and you spot a river nearby so you head to that. You peer over the edge of the river bank and look into the depths of the river, you jerk back in surprise, falling on your butt. After catching your breath you build enough courage to look at your reflection again.
You see a being with your short hair cut and color, but with red fur all over it's face, and it's eyes are a deep indigo color. It's face apparently had grown a muzzle also. You bring your head back and you slowly feel darkness fill your vision, you don't even feel the ground as you black out again.

Chapter 3

Bubbles

An Anthropomorphic MLP fan fiction
'Oh sweet Jesus my head...' was the only thing you could think of at the moment. You opened your eyes and slowly sat up, holding your head while you did. You can hear music come from your bottom left so you scoop up your headphones and place them around your neck, hitting the pause button that is on the cord. You take a deep breath and very slowly turn so you are on one knee, and slowly stand. You roll your shoulders and tilt your head to the left as far as it will go, you close your eyes as you do, you feel and hear the machine gun pops. You tilt your head to the right and your neck pops a few times. You push your head a little farther and you feel a big pop and you sigh in relief. You open your eyes and are greeted with instant pink.
“HI!” you hear the pink mass exclaim very loudly and you jump back in surprise, making you slip on a stick and fall on your butt.
“What the f-AHH!” you yell as you fall on something very hard. You lean to the right and pull a big rock out from under you. You give it a glare and toss it across the forest floor. You feel a present to your right so you look over at a pink... whatever you are... crouching down next to you. It spoke in the most...bubble gummy, the only thing you can think to call it, voice you have ever heard.
“Ca-a-n y-o-u u-n-d-e-r-s-t-a-n-d m-e-e-e-e-e?” it asked, extremely slow, drawing out the words and making weird hand gestures beckoning between you and it. By the voice, its... uh, anatomy, and it's cloths (a pink tutu like skirt and a yellow shirt under a pink tank top with pink slip-on shoes) you can tell it's female.
“Uh,” the only thing you can think of saying right now.
“Great, ya done broke him, Pinkie,” another voice said, womanly and southern. You look to your left from where the voice came from and you saw another female... whatever the heck you are, this one was wearing a red and white checkered flannel shirt, skinny jeans, cowboy boots and a worn stetson on her head. This one was orange with yellow hair and a yellow tail... wait... tail?! You looked back at the pink one, and sure enough she had a tail also. You in between your legs and you see a black tail with red tips, the same color as your hair, swishing back and forth slightly. You start to feel light headed again and you remember to breathe.
“Hmm, that's odd. I could have sworn there was intelligence when I scanned him,” yet another voice said, this one more academic sounding, again womanly. You look to your left and past the orange one. This one had what looked like a school uniform on, a dark purple shirt, bucked shoes with knee high white socks, and a purple vest over a white dress shirt. She was purple with purple hair, a pink highlight streaking though her hair, next to a horn... wait... a HORN?! This is just getting weirder and weirder. You spot three more of them behind her. One was white with purple, curled hair, she also had a horn poking out of her hair, wearing a white dress. One was cream colored with long pink hair (in which she was trying to hide behind) who wore an overly big yellow sweater and a light pink skirt. The last one reminded you of Skittles, because she had short rainbow colored hair, she was a light blue and wore a blue track jacket and blue shorts, along with white sneakers. She also had light blue wings, which she was using to hover.
“Great, the first alien we get and it's stupid,” Skittles, as you have dubbed her, retorted, rolling her eyes.
“I prefer the term 'being street smart',” you say with a slight groan as you stand again. “Though I have been known to get into some pretty elaborate debates,” though most of them were about video games.
“Oh! So you do have intelligence!” the purple school student exclaimed.
“Yeah, I have a question though,” you say.
“Yes?”
“WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU!?” you yell and start to hyperventilate. They all freeze at your outburst, to be honest you had no intention to yell. The school student looked at the others before looking back at you.
“Well I’m a pony, just like you,” she said with a tine of uncertainty. You raise an eyebrow.
“Do I looked like a freaking pony?” you ask.
“Um, yes?” she asked in an apologetic voice. “Though you probably didn't look like this before, right?”
“Um, no I did not, where am I and how did I get here?” you ask frantically.
“Well you are in Equestria, more specifically, the Everfree Forest. As to your question of how you got here, I have no idea,” she said with an apologetic smile.
“Ah, well... what now?” you ask.
“Um, I suppose we can bring you back to Ponyville and contact the Princess,” she suggested.
“Alright,” was the only ting you say.
“I'm Twilight Sparkle, by the way,” she introduced herself.
“My name's Applejack,” the country girl, or you suppose it would be mare, introduced herself, shaking your hand.
“HI! I'm Pinkie Pie!” the Pink mare exclaimed jumping up and down in front of you.
“My name is Rarity,” the white mare said with a tilt of her head, she sounded like she came from high class.
“The name's Rainbow Dash!” the rainbow haired mare said as she landed. You were going to stick with Skittles.
“I'm Fluttershy,” the yellow mare said going quiet at the end, you almost didn't hear her. 'How appropriate of a name' you can't help but think. You introduce yourself.
“That's a weird name,” Skittles remarked. 'Yeah I got the weird name'
“How about we get going, ah don't want to be in this forest any longer than I need tah be,” Applejack said, looking around her nervously.
“Yeah, lets go,” you say.

Chapter 4

Bubbles

An anthropomorphic MLP fan fiction

“Wow,” you said when you stepped into your room.

Your room was huge. It was about the same size as your old apartment and a hundred times as fancy. There was a massive bed in the corner with an end table on each side of it, a big couch in the middle of the room and a TV on the wall with a game system hooked up.

You immediately made your way to your bed and flopped onto it, and you swore you were in Heaven. You probably would have fallen asleep if the others weren't waiting for you. So with a groan you get off your bed and walk back to the others.

“It's amazing,” you say.

“Well, our rooms and right down the hall if you need us for anything. I’ll come get you when it's time for dinner. Other than that you can go anywhere in the castle you want,” Twilight said. You nod your head and they leave, shutting your door behind them. You kick off your shoes and fall onto the bed once again. This time content on going to sleep. You toss your headphones onto the end table and rested your head on the softest pillow you have ever felt.

~~~

Bang Bang Bang!

“Huh?” you sleepily ask, jerking awake.

“Yo! You in there?” you heard from your door. You panic slightly and start to flail around dangerously close to the edge of the bed, until...

Thud!

...

“Aww, dammit,” you groan to yourself, slowly picking yourself up.

You stumble drunkenly to the door and wrench it open to find Rainbow standing there. She started to snicker when she saw you.

“Dude, nice bedmane,” she said with a snicker. You rub your eyes, trying to wake up some more.

“Did you need me for something, Skittles?”

“Yeah, dinner has been called. I have to escort you. Twilight would have done it but she got caught up with reading in the library and asked me to do it.”

“Oh, right,” you say before backing into your room. Rainbow follows and sits on the couch. Meanwhile you hunt down your shoes and slip them on.

“Ready?”

“Yeah let's go.”

~~~

“How can you not get lost in this place?”

“I'm just saying, you've been here how many times?” you ask, walking through a hall that neither you or Rainbow recognize.
She got you lost about ten minutes ago. “I think I remember seeing that same plant five minutes ago.”

“Oh shut up,” Rainbow said growling in annoyance.

“Why don't you just ask for directions from one of the guards?”

“Because I don't need directions!”

“Geez you're just about as stubborn as a man with directions.”

“Well I don't see you trying to help any!”

“I've tried to ask for directions, but you keep insisting you don't need them!”

“I don't!”

“Whatever, I'm asking for directions,” you say as you pass another guard.

I turns out that you were in the completely wrong wing. Another five minutes later.

“And then- finally! Where have you guys been?” Twilight asked when you walked through the big doors.

“Ask Skittles,” you say with a grumble, taking a seat next to Twilight. Rainbow just rolls her eyes.

“Well you are here now. That's all that matters,” Celestia said in her motherly voice. Just then doors on either side of the room flew open and out came ponies in waiter outfits, carrying platters of food. They deposited the food on the table and left. The whole process lasted for a total of about ten seconds.

“Dig in,” Celestia said. With that being said, everybody started to take food and eat.
It was all very delicious. Talk had resumed but you were too engorged in your food to truly pay attention. Dinner had lasted an hour and ended with desert and small talk.

“So have you made any progress with your project, Luna?” Twilight asked her, taking a spoonful of her ice cream.

“Yes!”

“Really?” Celestia asked.

“Er, no not really,” Luna said, putting her head down.

“I'm sure you'll get it, Princess,” you say.

“Yes, it is only a matter of time,” Luna said, putting her fist in her hand.

You finished up your pie that you had and let out a big yawn. You checked the time on your phone; 8:03. Damn, was here longer than I thought.

Slowly the others finished up also, even Pinkie, who ordered the whole desert menu. The girl ate fast. Though you were perplexed as to how she ate her ice cream so fast and had not gotten a brain freeze. You just chocked it up as Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie. But once she and the others finished you all departed to do your own things. Twilight went to the library, Rainbow Dash and Applejack went to bed, Rarity and Fluttershy went to the gardens, and Pinkie Pie went somewhere. You went to your room and grabbed your headphones, planning on walking through the castle to think.

~~~

You found yourself wandering around near the library. You contemplated getting a book or talking to Twilight but you decided against it, instead just wondering around in the light of the moon. You pass a balcony with it's door open and you decide to step out.

It was a beautiful sight. The lights of Canterlot were glimmering around, but the real beauty was in the sky.
“Such a beautiful night,” you say, craning your neck towards the sky. Even with the lights from Canterlot, the night sky wasn't all that blocked out.

“Isn't it?”

You spin quickly to where the voice came from and saw Princess Celestia sitting on a chair behind you.

“Oh, uh, sorry Princess, I didn't see you there.”

“It's quite alright, would you like to sit?” she asked, pointing to a chair beside her.

“Sure,” you say and sit down next to her.

Neither of you talk for a while, the two of you just content on enjoying the beauty of the night sky. Celestia breaks the silence first.

“Luna has really outdone herself with this night,” she said, taking a deep breath.

“Yeah,” you say dumbly. You two sat in silence for a few more minutes until you remembered something. “Princess?” you ask, getting her attention.

“Hmm?” she hummed, turning her head towards you.

“You said that you had some bad news that we were going to to discus?”

“Oh, yes,” she said, clearing her throat and sitting up a little straighter. “It is the matter of your staying for maybe a year or more. Not the staying itself, I am quite happy to have you here. It is, however, hard to get a proper job and pay for rent without being a legal citizen.”

“Oh, right.”

“We can make you a proper citizen, but it will take longer that what a normal pony would have to go through, on account of you being from a different world.”

“Right.”

“Though I can make you a temporary citizen. This lets you get a job and you are able to rent property, though you would not be able to purchase property.”

“That's alright, how long will that take?” you ask, looking at the sky again.

“You only need to sign some papers tomorrow and that will be that,” Celestia said, also looking up at the night sky.

“Oh.”

“Yes.”

A breeze started to blow through and Celestia let out a shiver.

“Well, I hate to cut this short but I’m getting a little cold and I think it's time for me to retire for bed,” she said standing up.

“Good night, Princess,” you said, bowing your head. She returned the gesture and left. You stayed for a few minutes until you also got cold. You check your phone again for the time; 10:45. You rose from your chair and went inside. You closed the door to the balcony and set off to your room. At least you would have if you knew where you were. You didn't even see any guards to ask directions. With a sigh you continued down the hallway.

~~~

You've been walking for a while now and you still have not seen any guards or anybody else to ask directions. You were walking past a door when it opened and something came flying out of it. It passed just in front of you and you jump back, your foot caught a loose piece of carpet and you were sent to the ground.

“Ow,” you say, rubbing your butt. You look at the object that had been thrown in front of you and you were surprised to find it being a toaster. “Dafaq?”

“Infernal contraption,” you hear from the room. With your curiosity piqued, you stand up and look inside the room.
It looked like a science lab. Tabletops with beakers of unknown substances, stools, notebooks, etc. Standing in the middle of the room was Princess Luna, her arms crossed and in a white lab coat. She didn't see you with her back mostly turned to you, so you picked up the toaster and knocked on the open door.

“Um, Princess?” you ask a little hesitant. She turns to you with a face of light surprise on her face. You hold up the toaster and say, “I think you dropped this?”

“Oh, yes,” Luna said, her horn glowing a dark blue and soon the toaster it self started to glow a dark blue. In a moment it was floating through the air and landed on Lunas hands. She turned to a table and threw it on it, clearly mad at it. You would have left, but your curiosity was still quite piqued.

“So, whatcha' working on?” you ask, thinking you might be of assistance.

“Nothing important,” Luna said, running her hands over her face. “I have been trying to understand some of the newer technologies of today. Things have been difficult to understand since my return. I’ve managed to figure out how a lot of things work, but this toaster keeps confusing me,” Luna explained, glaring at the toaster.

“Well, do you need any help?” you ask with a shrug.

“I suppose it couldn't hurt.”

“Great!” you say, walking to the toaster.

You pick up a screw driver and put the toaster on it's side. You start to unscrew the screws holding it together. With the side off, you start to take out the components, Luna hovering over your shoulder, keeping a close eye on the parts you extracted. Soon you have all of it dismantled and turned to Luna.

“Alright, so,” you begin, “from what I can tell, the electricity runs through this cord to these pieces, which heats the metal coils, thus toasting your bread,” you say, pointing to the various pieces.

“Is it really that simple?” Luna asked, picking up and inspecting random pieces.

“More or less.”

“I feel rather stupid that it was that easy I had so much trouble, but, alas my research of the toast is complete, and if I didn't have your help, I believe this would have taken much longer. I thank you,” Luna said, sticking out her hand and you take it.

“It was fun,” you say, “I'm pretty tired so I'll be off to bed.”

“Alright, have a good night.”

“You too.”

You turn to leave and just as you leave you remember that you have no idea where you are. You quickly stick your head back in the room.

“Um, could you point me in the right direction?” you ask, smiling sheepishly.

~~~

You let out a loud yawn and stretch out your arms as you look out the train window. That morning you signed papers and are now a temporary citizen. It felt good. Sorta like you finally belonged. Though now you had another problem on your hands. You needed a job.

Author's Note

And with that another chapter. Sorry for the delay, i messed up my shoulder and couldn't move my whole left arm so i ended up typing more than half of the chapter wiht one hand. it wasn't fun. Anywho, as always i thank Flaming Reign for proofreading. There's not much left to say so i'll end it here. Upvote, downvote, favorite, comment, or not, it's up to you.

Chapter 15

Bubbles

An anthropomorphic MLP fan fiction

Florist?

You kill everything you touch.

Waiter?

Bad at remembering people's orders.

Music assistant?

The only thing you know about music is how to listen to it.

Chef?

The most gourmet thing you can make is ramen noodles from scratch.

Mailman?

Can't memorize routes.

Mover?

Not very strong.

You let out a big sigh as you let your head hit the table you were at, careful not to hit your soda.

“What's wrong?” Derpy asked. You sit up and rub your forehead and let out another sigh.

“It's hard as hell to find a job in this town,” you say crumpling up the newspaper in front of you. You got back from Canterlot two days ago and you've been trying to find a job ever since. Being a temporary busboy won't get you very far, and you would need a better job.

“Ah, well I think Zecora is looking for an assistant, you could ask her.”

“Nah, I don't know too much about potions and I’m not exactly the most fit,” you say, taking a drink of your soda, taking in your surroundings.

You were sitting at a small table in the middle of an outside restaurant, waiting for Vinyl, who was late to the lunch you all had rearranged. A waiter had come by twice but you both refused to order without Vinyl, so you only ordered drinks. You had a Dr. Pony and Derpy had a Mountain Do.

“Hmm,” Derpy hummed into her drink. She scanned the street looking for Vinyl. She quickly put down her drink and stood up.

“Vinyl! Over here!” she yelled out, waving her arm to catch Vinyl's attention. A few patrons looked at Derpy with a questionable look but didn't pay her any mind.

A few seconds a slightly sweaty DJ dropped in the remaining chair around your table.

“Sorry about that...” she said, panting and taking off her glasses to wipe the lens, “...Octy had me pick up a few things that she just had to have,” she rolled her eyes and put her shades on again.

“It's whatever,” you say, waving over a waiter. The waiter came quickly with a notepad at the ready.

“Are you ready to order?”

“Yes, can I get the Tomato soup and Grilled cheese sandwich?” you ask.

“Can you make that two?” Derpy asked.

“May as well make that three, and a Mountain Do,” Vinyl added.

“Certainly,” the waiter said before turning to the kitchens.

“So what did I miss?” Vinyl asks, scratching her nose.

“Not much, just some complaining,” Derpy says with a smirk towards you.

“You know, I find it a completely necessary complaint,” you say with a shrug.

“Uh huh, keep telling yourself that,” Derpy said, taking a drink of her drink.

“I will.”

“What complaint?” Vinyl asked with an eyebrow raised.

“Me trying to find a job.”

“Oh... You're right, that is something to complain about.”

“See?” Derpy just rolled her eyes.

“Need some help?” Vinyl asked.

“Sure, whatchu got?”

“Well, what is your special talent?”

“Um, I don't know, fixing electronics I suppose,” you say, scratching your cheek.

“Really? Well there you go!” Vinyl exclaimed, throwing her hands into the air.

You only raise an eyebrow.

“Haven't you seen my ad?” you only shake your head. Vinyl sighs loudly and grabs the crumpled up newspaper and smooths it out. She flips through the pages until she gets to the page she was looking for. “See? My ad.”
You look closely to where her finger was pointing and found an extremely small ad. You had to squint to even make out the title.

“Could you have made it any smaller?” you ask, pulling back.

“Hey! That only cost me one bit for the whole month!”

“Whatever, what does it say anyway, I can't read it.”

“It's announcing a new add onto my store: an appliance repair station! The only problem is I can't find anypony who is qualified for it and it's a little boring to me,” Vinyl said with a big sigh. The waiter returned with the food and drink. Vinyl immediately dropped her Grilled Cheese sandwich into her soup and started to poke at it with her spoon, her tongue sticking out of the side of her mouth.

“Alright, do I need to set up an interview with you?” you ask, taking a bite out of your sandwich. Vinyl momentarily abandoned her soup and sandwich.

“Why not now?”

“Well, alright.”

“Ok! First question: Do you like waffles?”

“Yeah, I like waffles.”

“Do you like pancakes?”

“Yeah, I like pancakes.

“Do you like Prench toast?

“Yeah, I like Prench toast.”

“Do-do-do-do, can't wait to get a mouthful!” you both shout simultaneously with goofy grins on your face. Derpy just looks at the two of you like you lost your minds.

“You're hired!”

“Really? That easy?”

“That easy,” Vinyl said going back to her soup. “Just show up tomorrow at 9 and I’ll show you to your stations and what not.”

“Alright, cool.”

“Hehe, I'm going to work you so hard,” Vinyl giggled to herself.

“Why do I suspect that it was a bad choice to agree to work for Vinyl Scratch?” you ask Derpy who had a small smile on her face. She shrugged her shoulders and went back to dipping her sandwich in her soup.

~~~

“About time you're here,” Vinyl said as you walked through the door. She was putting stuff on the shelves.

“Yup, so what first?”

“First, we need to get you a uniform,” she stood up and stretched her back. “Follow me.”

You followed her to the back rooms and she led you to a room in the very back. It was a small room and it had three lockers on one wall and a pile of electric blue vests in a box.

“Take one of those two lockers,” Vinyl pointed to the last two lockers then pointed to the box of vests, “and take a vest. Meet me back in the store when you're done.” With that Vinyl left.

You chose the locker on the far end and picked up a vest. It felt very soft and light, upon closer inspection you can see three diamonds on the inside of the collar. You slipped it on and buttoned it up to you chest level. You didn't need to put anything in your locker so you went back into the main store area. You found Vinyl fiddling with the cash register.

“I'm done Vinyl,” you say, getting her attention.

“Alright good, now I need you to familiarize yourself with the store so you can point ponies in the right direction when they need it, alright?”

“Alright.”

~~~

It wasn't a big store so it didn't take more than half an hour to figure out where everything was. You walked back to Vinyl's office where she was playing music and sipping a big cup of coffee, she feet on her desk.

“Hey Vinyl, I’m done,” you say. You had to raise your voice to be heard over the music. Vinyl turned it down.

“Alright, come with me,” she said heading back to the main store. She led you to the cash register. “Do you know how to work one of these?”

“Yeah.”

“Good, now I like this store to have some good music going, so over here,” she scooted over to the speaker that had a laptop behind it, “is where I’m trusting you to play some decent music. Play some music from your MP3 Player, I loaded the songs onto my laptop so just go to the music and play something. Got it?”

“Yeah I got it.”

“Good, now I’m going to go back to my office to do boss stuff.”

“Sleep?”

“Like I said, boss stuff. Now if anypony comes to get something repaired, I have a bunch of manuals in one of the back rooms with the tools needed to fix them. I don't have a proper station set up so you're going to have to do it on this counter. Okay?”

“Yeah I got it, now how much do I charge?”

“Here, use this to help you,” Vinyl said as she reached under the counter and pulled out a laminated paper. It had a list of prices on it. “Any more questions?”

“Nah, I’m good.”

“Alright, don't buck up,” Vinyl said as she disappeared behind the curtain.

You took a deep breath and walked over to the laptop. You navigated through her music and found a folder that was labeled “Alien Music”. You opened it and found that she really did copy all of your songs. You scrolled through the albums and selected Eiffel 65 Europop album and let it play.

~~~

You were sitting at the counter, playing a game on your phone, when Vinyl came out. She let out a big yawn and stretched her arms above her head.

“So, how's business?” Vinyl asked, rubbing her eyes.

“Uh, it's not that bad I suppose. Someone came in needing a laptop screen replaced, that was the highlight of my day so far,” you say, scratching your chin.

“Huh, wanna get some lunch?” Vinyl asked, looking at her watch.

“Sure I was getting hungry anyways,” you say. You turn off your game and slip your phone back in your pocket. “Where are we going?” you asked as the two of you stepped outside.

“Eh, we gotta get Lyra, I promised to hang out with her for lunch. I was planning on letting her decide.”

“Alright, let's go.”

The two of you walk down the street and turn onto another, then another. A few minutes of walking later and the two of you came upon a brightly colored store. The two of you walked in and you noticed all of the candies that lined the walls in jars, bowls, bags, and what not. You could pretty much deduce that you were in a candy store.

“Yo Lyra!” Vinyl yelled from your side. A few seconds later and said mare came from a backroom wearing a ridiculous looking apron. It was bright yellow with purple frills on it. Both Vinyl and yourself snickered at the site of it.

“Shut up! Bon Bon's making me wear this stupid thing,” Lyra huffed with a light red to her cheeks as she crossed her arms.

“Sorry, sorry,” Vinyl said giggling a little, “you ready for lunch?”

“Yeah, let me just tell Bon Bon and get this damn thing off,” Lyra said, turning back to the door she came from. A few minutes later and Lyra reappeared. “Lets go.”

“Wait Lyra!” you heard a somewhat familiar voice yell. You turn to the door that Lyra came from and saw Bon Bon in the same ridiculous apron that Lyra was wearing.

“Yeah Bon Bon?” Lyra asked. Bon Bon tossed Lyra a bad of bits.

“I need a couple of bags of sugar, we're almost out.”

“Sure thing, anything else?”

“Nah, I’m good. It's good to see you again,” she said to you. You nod you head to her and smile.

The three of you left and started to walk down the street. Lyra and Vinyl started to talk to each other so you put on your headphones and played some music, you also started to observe the weather, because you had nothing else to do.
It was sunny, with a few clouds in the air. It was nice and cool, but when ever there was a breeze you couldn't help but feel cold. You guessed it was turning to fall. Though it was just the start of summer on your world, so you guessed that the time zones were different. Twilight would probably want to know. Another thing about this world is that it had a sort of calm to it. Something that just made you feel as though you were in a perfect world. Something that made you not entirely want to go back home. Of course you knew you had to go back home. You had people counting on you for things. You think. You're pretty sure you had people that needed you for something, but whenever you try to think of what that could be, you find yourself drawing a blank. You just shrug it off. You needed to get home. That was that. You don't belong here.

Author's Note

More fluff. i promise the story starts to pick back up next chapter. i mostly added this to show how much time has pasted and what season it is and that stuff. Proofread by Flaming Reign. there will be another time skip next chapter, just about a month or so. nothing big. anyway, Upvote, Downvote, comment, favorite or not, it's up to you.

Chapter 16

Bubbles

An anthropomorphic MLP fan fiction

You let out a big yawn as you walked down the sidewalk of Derpy's neighborhood, listening to Linkin Park as you walked. It was an early, Sunday morning, normally you would have work, but Vinyl had to take the weekend for a string of gigs in Manehatten. So you had the weekend off. You called Derpy and the two of you agreed to hang out today. This is where you were headed with a paper bag of muffins in hand from Sugarcube Corner that had gone stale.

You made it to Derpy's house and turned off your music and rang the door bell. A few seconds passed and a big muscled mass of a stallion in a pink bathrobe answered the door. You met Derpy's father, Crunch, a few weeks ago and he scared you. He glared at you like he does with every male who looks at one of his girls, or so Paint says, but Paint came to your rescue.

“Oh hey, come on in!” she said merrily. “Stop scaring the poor boy,” she said patting Crunch on one of his massive arms. Crunch stepped aside and let you pass, though he never stopped staring at you. “Derpy! Your coltfriend is here!” Paint yelled up the stairs. She always teased you and Derpy about being marefriend and coltfriend. Every time she said it, it scared the shit out of you. Not because you didn't want to date Derpy or anything, but because she decided to only say it around Crunch. Said stallion cracked his neck as his glare doubled, making you start to sweat.

Please hurry up Derpy!

Just then Derpy came running down the stairs. She had a newspaper under her arm and she didn't look like her normal happy self. She looked kinda irritated, sad, and it looked like she didn't get a good nights sleep last night. She sat down on the couch and pulled her shoes on, then a light red sweater with a muffin over the heart. You yourself wore a sweater, grayish blue with black bands around the arms.

“Bye daddy,” Derpy said, standing on her tip toes to kiss Crunch on the cheek. “I'll be back by noon. Let's go.”

You followed her out. Now you knew something was wrong as she usually liked to stay for a few minutes and watch you squirm under Crunch's gaze. With the newspaper still under her arm she took off down the sidewalk with her head down. It had gotten colder over the past few days and you could almost see your breath.

You decided to let Derpy talk when she was ready and you let your mind wander, though not too far in case she started to talk. She started to grumble under her breath and you started to get slightly worried. You looked up in time to grab her sleeve and pull her towards you so she wouldn't run head first into a light pole.

“Wah? Oh, sorry,” Derpy said looking a little embarrassed.

“What's up Derpy? You seem out of it,” you say as you started to walk again. Derpy let out a big sigh and handed you her newspaper. You look at the page it was folded to; it looked like the for sale/ rent page and she had a few ads circled. You read one:

One Bedroom

Kitchen

One bath

Living room

Office room

1000 bits per month

You looked at another and saw that it said pretty much the same thing, as did the others she circled.

“Can't afford these housing options?” you guess. Derpy nodded. She pointed to a bench and the two of you sat down.
“I'm trying to prove to my parents that I’m adult enough to be able to get my own place. The only problem is I can't afford any of the housing on a mail mare’s salary. At least not mine,” Derpy said, putting her head in her hands. “I don't want to ask them for money because I want them to see I can do this, you know?”

“Well, have you though about getting a roommate?”

“Yeah, but all of my friends either have a home already or are about to.”

“Hmm,” you hum, still looking at the newspaper. Something clicks in your head. “What about me?”

Derpy looks up at you with an eyebrow raised.

“The Cakes have put up with me for far too long, I’ve done this before on my world, my salary couldn't cover all of the rent, but together I bet that we could do it. If you want of course.” Derpy just looks at you for a few seconds.

“…”

“YES!” she yelled as she grabbed you in a big hug. You swore you heard one of your ribs crack. “Oh thank you thank you thank you thank you!”

“Derpy!” you gasped, “I need air!”

~~~

That was a few weeks ago. You found yourself thinking back to the moment as you hauled the last of Derpy's boxes from the moving wagon to your new apartment. It was a nice and cozy thing. It was located near the market area so you both were somewhat close to your jobs. It had two rooms, one bath, kitchen, living room and a hall closet. It wasn't the best, but it was nice.

You set down the boxes you were carrying down on the floor, next to the very worn couch. You plopped down next to Derpy who was resting on it.

“Moving is hard,” she complained, then took a sip of her soda.

“I did the most.”

“Yeah, but I supervised the most. It's hard work.”

You roll your eyes and made your way to the small fridge to get a soda. Her parents had taken the news rather well; Paint increased her teasing and Crunch didn't kill you... yet. Dinky however wasn't so understanding. She was very sad to see her sister leave, even if it was just halfway across town. Though she cheered right up when she heard that she would get Derpy's old room, which was twice the size of her room. You had spent the past weeks finding and buying stuff for your new apartment.

Derpy stood up and stretched. “I suppose I should get the rest of this stuff to my room,” Derpy said before taking a box in her arms and walking back to her room. Your rooms were just across from the hall from each other. They were about the same size, Derpy's a little bit bigger, but with your amount of possessions it looked like your room was a lot bigger.
You sat down in front of the modest sized TV and dragged a box close to you. Inside it had a some-what good stereo system and a DVD/VHS player. Vinyl sold it to you for cheap as a house warming gift, even though it was an apartment. You personally just think she wanted to get rid of it. It didn't take long to hook it up, and Derpy was finished with her room when you got done.

“So that's the amazing stereo system?” she asked as you started to put things back.

“Yup,” you say.

The two of you moved to the couch and fell down on it at the same time, making the old couch creak. You grabbed the remote to the TV and turned it on, content on watching TV. However, the only thing that would turn on was static. You and Derpy both facepalmed at the same time and slowly turned to look at each other.

“We forgot to order satellite TV,” you both say at the same time. You both let out a big sigh and hung your heads.

“Wanna just get a couple movies at the movie store?” you ask after a few seconds of silence. Derpy thought about it for a few seconds before nodding her head. You both stood and grabbed your sweaters and headed out into the town. The sun was started to set and there weren't many ponies out and about at this time of day. You both started to walk to the movie store but your stomach started to growl loudly before you could make two steps. Derpy giggles rather cutely before heading into the opposite direction of the movie store.

“Let's get dinner!” she said. You shrugged and followed. You both decided on a fast meal of ordering a couple daisy sandwiches and eating them in the park. It was rather cold but the park was very beautiful in the sunset.
In the middle of your sandwich Derpy looks at you and giggles.

“What?” you ask.

“Your true hair color is showing,” she said, taking a bite out of her sandwich. You subconsciously run your hands though your hair. It was a lot longer than when you first got here, almost to you shoulders now, but not quite. You hair grew incredibly fast making you spend a lot on hair dyes. A little bit of blond was showing through and you have yet to dye your hair. Same with your tail.

“Yeah, I gotta dye it again, though I’m thinking about letting it grow out.”

“Defiantly grow it out, but you should keep your true hair color. It looks nice,” Derpy said, reaching up to mess with your hair. You blushed for some reason, but you had no idea as to why. You swat Derpy's hand away with a roll of your eyes. This makes Derpy giggle again.

You quickly finished your sandwiches and started to walk to the movie store again.

~~~

It was a simple movie store; it had rows upon rows of movies to choose from. Ranging from horror to porn in a blocked off adult section. Derpy left it to you to select a horror movie while she found a movie herself. You were conflicted between two different movies. Buckets of Blood and Hannimare.

Hannimare's review made it sound just like Hannible from your world and while that was a great movie, but you've never seen a movie that came close to Buckets of Blood.

You got a couple packets of microwavable popcorn and rented the movies Derpy and you picked out. You paid because Derpy “conveniently” forgot her wallet. You both quickly made it back to your apartment and you popped in Derpy's movie, as per her request, while she popped the popcorn. With the popcorn popped and the movie in the DVD player, you on one side of the couch with Derpy on the other and a big bowl of popcorn in the middle of the both of you, you started the movie.

~~~

There are many awkward moments that a movie can make with certain scenes. Reminding how you and an ex got together with said ex sitting next to you with her new boyfriend, reminding you of how your late grandpa liked his pancakes, making your sensitive grandmother collapse in a crying fit, or why your girlfriend broke up with you in the first place, while you still loved her.

However, none of those could compare to sitting next to your best friend, watching a romantic comedy about two best friends getting together, and said romantic comedy having a rather intense sex scene.

You both just stared at the movie, blushes on your faces, not daring to look at each other, with the sex scene showing no signs of coming to a close.

After a few moments of this you clear your throat and stand up, grabbing the half empty bowl of popcorn.

“I think I’ll make some more popcorn,” you say, making your way to the kitchen.

“Good! Good good good, great!” Derpy said, her voice barely above a whisper, her eyes never leaving the TV.

~~~

Buckets of Blood had Derpy on the edge of her seat, while it had you yawning. It wasn't a bad movie per say, it had a good plot, it's just it was cheesy as hell. There was way too much blood, not enough actual gore, and the killer was just very clique. Though one good thing about the movie, was it had Derpy very jumpy. This of course gave you the very smart idea of trying to scare Derpy as she was in the bathroom.

You hid next to the door, content on jump scaring Derpy. Just as she was coming out of the bathroom you jumped at her and yelled really loudly.

…

You've never been dropped by a girl with one punch before until when you tried to scare Derpy. You're pretty sure Crunch had trained her to protect herself.

Derpy apologized and after a few more minutes of cleaning up the two of you went to bed.

“Night,” Derpy said, standing in her doorway.

“Night, Derpy,” you say, closing your door. Oh, it was going to be fun living with Derpy; That much was clear.

Author's Note

Thanks to Flaming Reign for proofreading. And with that another chapter. plus five bonus points fro anybody who can find the referance in this chapter. as always, Upvote, Downvote, comments, favorite, or not, it's up to you.

Chapter 17

Bubbles

An anthropomorphic MLP fan fiction
“Hey! It’s time to get up!”

“Tacos?!” you shouted as you jerked awake.

“…”

“What?” you heard Derpy ask. “Er, I made muffins, if you wanted one.”

“Aright,” you groggily slurred before digging your head further into your pillow.

You must have dozed off because before you knew it Derpy was back pounding at your door.

“Hey! Are you getting up anytime soon?”

“Ugh… Yeah!” you say. You snuggling closer to your pillow one last time before getting up. You stumbled out of your bedroom and into the living room. Derpy walked in from the kitchen.

“About time, it’s almost ten,” Derpy said, sitting on the couch.

You make your way to the kitchen to get some coffee and a semi-warm blueberry muffin. You take your food into the living room and sat next to Derpy, who was watching a DVD she brought from her house.

“What’s this?” you ask, taking a big bite out of your muffin.

“Doctor Whooves, now shush,” Derpy said, leaning on the edge of the couch, her eyes glued to the TV screen. You just rolled your eyes and ate your muffin while watching with her. It wasn’t half bad. The muffin and the show.

~~~

You two watched the whole season Derpy had on DVD and you loved it. You could swear there was a series like it on your world but you couldn't think of it at the moment.

“So what’s on the agenda for the rest of today?” you ask, cracking your neck as Derpy put the DVD back in its case.

“Well, I'm going to the park to meet up with Dinky and Mom,” Derpy said, standing up. “You should come.”

“Is Crunch going to be there?”

“He has to work on Sundays, so no.” Derpy said, then asked, “Why do you ask?”

“No particular reason,” you say, standing up. “I'm going to take a shower. Need to use the bathroom?”

“Nah, I’m good.”

“Alright.”

~~~

You let out a big yawn as you stepped out into the outside world. You turned around and locked the door and walked after Derpy. You two were going to catch Dinky and Paint on the way to the park so you two started to walk to it.

“It looks like it's going to rain later today,” you say looking up at the gray clouds in the sky.

“Yup, the newspaper says there is going to be a bad thunder storm around five tonight so we have to make the best of the day as we can.”

“Right, I keep forgetting that the weather is controlled here.”

“Hmm.”

The two of you walked in silence for a little bit till Derpy asked a question.

“What are tacos?”

“Hmm?”

“I heard you say tacos this morning. What are they?”

“Well, they're a Mexican food, they're pretty good.”

“What are they made of? Maybe we could make them for dinner tonight or something.”

“Uh, a tortilla shell, lettuce, tomatoes, beans, sour cream, cheese, hamburger, and other things.”

“Ok, what's hamburger?”

“Hamburger is-” you stopped abruptly when a thought came to you. Probably not a good idea to say it's made up of cows. That might not go over too well. I think I remember her saying that one of her friends was a cow. “Er, never mind. Forget I said anything,” you say, picking up your pace.

“What? No! You can't just do that!” Derpy exclaimed as she ran in front of you and stopped, making you stop. “You can't just avoid my question.”

“Yes I can. Like this. See?” you say with a smile on your face as you walk around Derpy.

“Dammit! What are you hiding?” Derpy asked as she started to walk behind you again.

“It's best you don't know.”

“Why?”

“Because you'll look at me differently.”

“Why?”

“Because it's not common amongst ponies.”

“Why?”

“Are you really doing that?”

“Why?”

“You really are doing that.”

“Why?”

You sigh and face palm making Derpy laugh.

“DERPY!” you both hear and you two start to look around. It doesn't take long to see Dinky running towards you two with Paint following at a slower pace. It took Dinky a few seconds to get to you two and when she did she was completely out of breath. “I... found... you guys,” she said panting heavily between each word with her hands on her knees.

“How are doing kid?” you ask, ruffling her hair.

“I'm good, how are you?”

“Slightly annoyed,” you say glaring at Derpy out of the corner of your eye making her giggle and put on a big smile. “But good all the same,” you finish with a half smile.

“That's good, so what are we doing at the park?”

“Walk the nature trail, play at the playground, maybe some other stuff. What did you bring?” Derpy asked.

“Mom brought a basketball,” Dinky said, looking back at Paint who was almost to you guys.

“You up for some basketball?” Derpy asked you.

“I don't like basketball.”

“What? How can you not like basketball?”

“I just don't like it.”

“Celestia you're weird,” Derpy said, making Dinky giggle. You just roll your eyes.

“We going to the park or not?” Paint asked as she finally made her way to you.

“I agree, let's go,” you say starting to walk to the park.

“What's with him?” Paint asked.

“Oh he's just being a Mr. Grumpypants,” Derpy said making Dinky giggle. You found yourself rolling your eyes but you had a smile on your face time.

~~~

“The park is pretty empty today,” Paint observes as she spun the basketball on a finger.

“It is getting colder and it's going to rain today.”

“True, true. Welp! Let's go play some basketball!” Paint exclaimed as she ran towards the basketball court, Derpy and Dinky
ran after her while you just smiled and walked. You sat on a nearby bench and watched them play for a while, them taking turns shooting hoops. They played HORSE, Around the World, and a few others that you didn't know about. About an hour of watching them play Dinky shot the ball and it bounced off the rim, making it go down the court. You, being the gentleman you are, chase after it and manage to get it before it got off the court, on the other end of the court.

“Hey!” Paint yelled. “You should play with us!”

“Nah, he doesn't play basketball,” Derpy said, then she started to snicker and with a playful smile on her face she said, “I bet he can't even make one basket.”

This got you chuckling, and your chuckling attracted the attention of Derpy.

“What's so funny?”

Instead of answering her, you just readied a shot and once you had it all lined up you took the shot.

Swish.

Derpy just looked dumbfound at what just happened.

“W-w-what?” she ask, just staring at the bouncing ball. You started to walk towards her and once you got close enough you patted her on the back.

“It's not that I suck, I just don't like to play,” you say with a big smile, then walk back to your bench.

“I'm done,” Derpy said, walking to sit next to you. Paint just started to laugh.

“Can we go walk the nature trail now?” Dinky ask panting a little.

“I think that is a good idea,” Paint said, “what about you two?”

“I could go for a hike,” you say. Derpy just nods her head.

“Good, lets go!” Paint said, scooping up the basketball and taking off to the start of the nature trail, Dinky right behind her. You look at Derpy who was looking at you and with a nod of your heads you both stand up and walk after Paint and Dinky.

~~~

“How long is this damn thing?” Derpy complained as she got to the top of the big rock hill that the nature trail went over.

“I can't be too much longer,” you say. You wipe the sweat off your brow and look down the rest of the trail, which went around a small bend. Paint and Dinky ran ahead leaving you alone with Derpy. “Come on.”

It wasn't hard to walk it, it was just so long that it was pretty taxing. Derpy started to walk next to you, hunched over with her tongue hanging out of her mouth. You're sure it would have looked adorable if she wasn't panting like a dog. You walked with your head down so you wouldn't trip over any roots or rocks, so you weren't prepared for what came next.

“AAAAHHHH!” Derpy screamed and she started to run into you, clutching at your sweater. The sudden movement made you backpedal and you tripped over a root that you had taken extra care not to trip over.

“Shit!” you yelled as you fell. Right on a rock. “Oh fuck!” you shrieked as the rock jammed into your back.

“Shitshitshitshitshitshit,” Derpy kept repeating as she buried her head into your chest and clutched at your sweating with a death grip.

“Derpy? What's wrong?” you ask as you pull the rock out from under you.

“Is it gone?” she asked.

“Is what gone?”

“The... snake!” Derpy hissed the word.

“...the what?”

“The fucking snake!”

“Um, Derpy? It's too cold for snakes to be out.”

“What?” Derpy asked tilting her head up.

“It's too cold, snakes are probably hibernating now or something,” you say.

“Oh,” Derpy said before getting off of you. “Sorry. I’m just deathly afraid of snakes.”

“It's fine,” you say holding out your hand. Derpy grabs your hand and pulls you off the ground. “Let's go, I’m sure Paint and Dinky are waiting for us.”

~~~

Paint had taken you out for lunch then you all had hung out for a while after that. It was 4:38 when you went home. You went home alone because Derpy had gotten an emergency call from the post office and she had to go in and help sort out the problem. You stopped by the movie store and returned the movies that you had rented and you rented three more movies. One was a horror movie that looked good, one was an action movie which you got to see how they did action movies without guns and cars, the last one was a comedy that you though Derpy might like. It had started to rain when you were leaving the movie store so you ran home.

You tossed the movies on the couch and went to your room to change into your pajamas. You grabbed a towel and put it on the couch so you could toss it to Derpy when she came back in. The storm was pretty bad but with nothing else to do you put in the horror movie and started it.

It wasn't until halfway through the second movie that Derpy came home. You tossed her the towel when you made sure that she could catch it.

“Thanks,” Derpy said as she wiped her face. She clutched her sweater tighter and quickly walked past you. You though nothing of it until you heard, “MEOW!” Derpy stopped in her tracks.

“Um, Derpy? Did you just meow?” you asked.

“Um-” Derpy started but she was cut off.

“MEOW!”

You raised an eyebrow and stand up. You walk over to her and turn her around. She had an innocent smile on her face and you looked down at her chest and saw movement. You just stared at it for a few seconds. You were slightly aware you were staring at Derpy's breasts. They weren't too bad.

“...Derpy? Do you have a cat?” you asked.

“Well I couldn't just leave her out there to drown or something,” Derpy said pulling a black and white stripped kitten from under her sweater. “Can we keep her? Please? I can take care of her myself I swear!”

“Derpy, she might belong to someone.” This made Derpy very sad.

“B-but...”

It truly broke your heart to see Derpy like this so you quickly came up with a solution.

“Look, we will put up posters around town tomorrow and if nobody claims her, we can keep her.”

“Really?”

“Yeah I could do with a pet,” You say with a half smile while petting the kitten behind the ears.

“Oh thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!” Derpy exclaimed, suddenly hugging you. She quickly let go of you when she realized she was still wet. “Sorry!”

“It's fine, why don't you go get in a dry change of clothes?”

“Right!” Derpy exclaimed then she excitedly ran to her room. You went to the kitchen and fixed something up for the kitten. Derpy returned and set the kitten down so she could eat. Once the kitten was fed Derpy, the kitten, and yourself went to the living room to watch the last movie. Derpy must have been very tired because halfway through the movie she fell asleep on your shoulder. You didn't want to wake her so you just left her and began to pet the kitten in your lap, who was purring rather loudly.

After the movie was over you picked Derpy up and took her to her room and laid her down. You yourself went to your room, it was still early but you yourself was tired. The kitten decided to sleep with you and had laid next to your head. You gave her a quick scratch behind her ears, making her purr. You fell asleep rather quickly and with a smile on your face. Something you've noticed that you have been doing rather a lot lately.

Author's Note

And with that a new chapter done. i thank Flaming Reign for proofreading, like always. sorry about the delay, tight scheduals and all that. i'm a little shaky on this chapter so feedback would be much appreciated. anyway, upvote, downvote, favorite, comment, or not, it's up to you.

Chapter 18

Bubbles

An anthropomorphic MLP fan fiction

“Ugh...” you groan as you walk through your front door, dragging your feet. You immediately walk to the couch and fall face first on in.

“Meow,” Kat meowed before jumping onto the couch with you. She crawled up to your face and started to rub her face against yours. It's been a week and both Derpy and yourself have asked everyone about the kitten, but nobody knew where it came from. So in the end you two adopted it and named it Kat. Well, Dinky actually named it when she found out you two had a cat.

You let out a sigh as you pet her behind the ears. You hear footsteps from down the hall.

“Rough day?” Derpy asks as she makes her way to the kitchen. You sit up and stretch out.

“Yeah, Vinyl has decided to pick today to move around a very heavy DJ station at her house.”

“At her house?”

“Yeah, she said that she would pay me a bonus at the end of the month.”

“Man, I wish my boss gave me bonuses.”

“Psh, not if it means moving heavy ass shit around,” you say, stretching out your very sore arms. You take this time to actually take a look at Derpy.

She looked very beautiful. She had just enough makeup that it still kept her natural beauty and made it stand out more. She had curled her hair somewhat so it had a slight bounce in it when she moved. She had on a black blouse that revealed a modest amount of cleavage and a black skirt that went to her knees.

“...wow Derpy, you look... great,” is the only thing you can say.

Derpy just giggles and blushes.

“It's for a date tonight,” she said, fingering her skirt, making it clear that she is nervous.

You feel your smile falter slightly at the news that Derpy has a date for tonight. You try not to let it show.

“A date huh? What time?”

“At 8, which is in,” Derpy checked the wall clock, “about half and hour. I’m so excited!” Derpy couldn't help but giggle.

“Oh,” you start to feel sadder and sadder the more she talks about it. “Who is taking you?”

“Caramel, he asked me yesterday!” Derpy squeed.

“Oh, ok.”

“I can't believe it, I haven't gotten asked out since junior high,” Derpy said excitedly.

“Oh,” you say through a big yawn. “Dammit. I think I should go to bed.”

“I made dinner, if you wanted any.”

“Maybe later,” you say, standing up. “Well, have a good time with your date,” you said to Derpy, though you can't say that you really meant those words. You're not too sure as to why.

“I will, goodnight.”

“Night.”

With those parting words you slowly shuffled to your room. You took off your clothes and put on your pajamas, then fell into bed. You didn't go to sleep at first, your mind was too crowded with the fact the Derpy was going out on a date. Though, after about ten minutes you find yourself starting to slip into sleep.

~~~

Your growling stomach woke you from your slumber. You tried to just roll over and ignore it, so you could get back to your dreamless sleep. However, your stomach seemed to be content on keeping you awake. After a few minutes of this you throw off your blanket and get up. Your alarm clock says it's 9:03.

Rubbing your face with a hand you push open your door. You walk to the kitchen and open the fridge. You take out the leftovers and inspect them. You start to feel Kat claw at your leg.

“Kat, don't,” you say. You move her away with your leg but she comes right back, this time she meow loudly. You look down at her to tell her to stop but the living room light catches your eye. Seeing as how you were half asleep when you walked through it the first time you weren't surprised that you missed it being on. However you are surprised to see Derpy sitting on the couch, her head down. You walk to the living room more than a little confused.

“Derpy?” you ask when you get right next to her.

She looked up at you and it was clear that she had been crying, her mascara was running a little. She quickly looked away when she saw the expression on your face.

“Oh, hey,” she said, turning her head away from you and wiping her eyes. She turned back to you when she was finished and gave you the most fake smile you have ever seen.

“Derpy, what's wrong? Why aren't you on your date?” you ask, sitting next to her. You honestly felt concerned for her seeing how she was so excited fro this date.

“Oh, well, Caramel didn't show up,” Derpy said, looking at the floor again. You felt your teeth clench as anger started to flow into your mind. Derpy started to shake her head and laugh a fake laugh. “I should have known when he didn't even ask for my address.” Derpy looked like she was on the verge of tears again.

Snap.

You stood up quickly, spit out the tooth you cracked from grinding your teeth too hard, and stormed to your room. You probably should be feeling pain for the cracked tooth but you were too mad to care about it. How could Caramel just stand Derpy up like that! You scream inside your head. People who did that to girls like Derpy got you furious. You took a few shaky deep breaths to try to help you calm down. You had to be calm for what you were about to do. You took a few more deep breaths, more even this time. You used a technique you learned from your psychology professor to help you calm down pretty fast, and soon you were ready. But damn your tooth really hurt.

You went to you closet and picked out the nicest shirt you had, which was a plain black t-shirt, the nicest pair of pants you owned, the one with no holes, and put them on. You grabbed your shoes and a sock. You spit on your shoes then wiped them as best you could, then put them on. You grabbed your bag of bits, which had quite a lot of bits in it, your set of keys, and a brush. You quickly moved to the bathroom and searched the medicine cabinet for pain killers. You down two pills dry, then attacked your messy mane with the brush as quick as you can. You manage to make a somewhat improvement with your mane, and you step out of the bathroom. The whole process took you about five minutes, the calming down exercise too the most of the five minutes, and Derpy was still sitting on the couch. You pick up your sweater off the hook on the wall and walk to her.

“Come on Derpy,” you say. Derpy slowly looks up at you. Seeing you were fully clothed and pulling on your sweater she knew you wanted to go outside.

“Nah, I’m fine. I was just about to go to sleep,” Derpy says with a sad smile.

“No, you're coming with me,” you in a firm tone.

“I'd just rather this day be over,” Derpy said with a sigh.

“Well too bad,” you say. You grab her hand and pull her off the couch. “We are doing this one way or another.” Before she has time to complain you pull her outside. You let go of her hand to lock the door behind you. “There,” you say satisfied. You turn back to Derpy who had a look of confusion on her face.

“What are you doing?”

“We are going to go out on the town and have a good time. Maybe a movie and dinner, something like that,” you say with a smile. Derpy just looks at you with a questionable stare.

“You seems a little too happy,” she says. It was true, you aren't normally this happy.

“Well, one would be pretty happy if they hadn't had a date since ever,” you say.

“So... this is a date?” Derpy asked cautiously. You hold out your hand.

“Come with me and find out,” you say with a smile. You see Derpy grow a smile herself and she reached out and you took your hand in hers. “How does a movie sound?” you ask, pulling her to the movie theater on the outskirts of Ponyville.

“Sounds wonderful,” Derpy said, her smile growing bigger.

“Well then, allons-y!” you couldn't help but say. You were becoming a huge fan of Doctor Whooves. Your outburst made Derpy laugh loudly and her laughing made you laugh. You were sure this would be a good night.

~~~

“So what would you like to see?” you ask Derpy, looking at the movie posters.

“Well, the new Daring Do movie is out, can we see it?”

“Yeah, sounds fun,” you say. The two of you walk to the ticket booth.

“Hello, how can I help you?” the ticket mare asked. She had a bright green mane and light blue fur.

“Can we get two tickets for Daring Do and the Temple of Diamonds?” you ask, sliding her the correct amount of bits.

“Sure, the movie is just about to start, so you should hurry and grab some seats and snacks,” the mare said in a cheerful tone as she slid two gold tickets to you.

“Thanks,” Derpy and you say as you both grab your tickets. You walk down the hall to the movie theaters but stop in front of the movie theater you were suppose to be in.

“I was going to get some snacks, what would you like?” you ask Derpy.

“Um, anything with chocolate, and a Dr, Pony, please.”

“Sure, how about you find some seats,” you suggest. Derpy nods and heads inside. You quickly walk to the snack bar and pick out a couple chocolate bars and get two Dr. Ponys. You walk up to the pony manning the cash register, and pay for the snacks, and also you order a large bucket of popcorn.

You manage to make it back to the movie theater. The lights have yet to dim so you saw Derpy well enough. She had chosen seats in the very back where there weren't a lot of ponies.

“Thanks,” she said as you handed her her drink and chocolate bars.

“Yeah, no problem,” you say as you sit down. The lights dimmed and the movie started.

~~~

“Wow!” Derpy exclaimed as you left the movie theater. “I can't think of how they are even going to try to top that in the next movie!”

You laughed at Derpy's attitude. The movie was great and you filled up on candy and popcorn, so your stomach wasn't growling anymore.

“It was pretty good, wasn't it?”

“Good?” Derpy looked at you like you were crazy. “It was more than good, it was the best movie ever!”

Again you laugh and shake your head. You feel Derpy grab your hand again and you look over.

“So, where to next?”

“Well,” you start, looking up at the night sky. It was cloudy and it was blocking out the moon. “It's a good night for a walk through the park, how about it?”

“Sounds fun,” Derpy said. You both started to walk to the park but you stopped when you felt Derpy shiver.

“You cold?” you stupidly ask. She had on a shirt and a skirt, of course she would be cold. She began to shake her head but you already started to take off your sweater. Once you got it off you handed it to Derpy who seems a little reluctant to take it, but she took it still.

“Thanks,” she said as she slipped it on. It was too big for her as the sleeves completely hid her hands and the waist of the sweater came down to mid thigh on her. You couldn't help but think of how cute she looked in it.

“Well, come on then,” she says, taking your hand once again.

It took the two of you about ten minutes to make it across town to the park.

“Are you sure you're ok?” Derpy asked you for what seemed like the thousandth time.

“Yes Derpy, I could handle the cold when I had no fur, I think I can hand more now that I do have fur,” you say with a chuckle. Truth be told the slight breeze in the air was making you a little chilled but you didn't show it.

“Well, alright,” Derpy said. The two of you walked through the park entrance and you walked on the path through the empty park, making small talk, mostly taking in the hidden beauty of the park at night. You kept sneaking glances at Derpy along with the scenery.

“Oh, wow,” Derpy said, looking at a pond. The pond was reflecting the lamps the lined the sides of the path into what almost looked like bright white fireflies in the mostly calm waters and it looked absolutely breathtaking. You began to pull Derpy closer to sit on the bench that sat in front of the small pond.

You both sat in silence for a little while, just looking at the pond and the trees around it.

“You know,” Derpy started, breaking the comfortable silence, “most ponies don't even think about me more than being a clumsy mailmare with messed up eyes,” you look at her and she looks at you. “Yet you became my best friend, got an apartment with me, got a cat with me, then went out on a date with me. Why?”
you sit in silence as you think of your answer.

“Well... to be honest, I don't have too much of a clue. I suppose one of the reasons I became your friend was you accepted me as what I am. Once I started to get to know you better and better, I found out that you were one of the coolest ponies there was. I don't care if you have 'messed up' eyes, it's what's on the inside that counts, not the outside,” you finish with a big smile.

“...”

“Celestia that was corny as hell,” Derpy said, giggling.

“Yeah, I’m not one for words like that,” you say, rubbing the back of your neck sheepishly.

“Well, I’ll take it,” Derpy said. She rested her head on your shoulder.

You started to rub your thumb over the back of her hand, you were still holding hands, and smile. After a few minutes you felt Derpy lift her head off your shoulder so you looked over at her.

She was looking at you with half-lidded eyes and a smile on her face. What you did next was completely on instinct.

You took your other hand and ran your thumb over Derpy's cheek. You leaned forwards and Derpy met you halfway.

It wasn't a brief kiss and it wasn't an intense kiss, but it was a gentle kiss, much like a first kiss always was, but it held a sort of spark with it also, filling you with a new found energy.

After a few seconds you both broke the kiss and you both had rather dopy smiles on your faces. Derpy squeezed your hand tighter and scooted closer to you and rested her head on your shoulder again. She let out a content sigh as she did.
The rest of the night was a little bit of a blur. You remember Derpy and you getting colder so you both went back to your apartment. It was a short walk and you and Derpy held hands the entire walk there, walking very close to each other. Back in the apartment you both immediately went to your rooms, claiming tiredness. You and Derpy shared a good night kiss before you went to bed. Even as you now lay in bed you can still taste Derpy on your lips. She tasted a little like muffins and cherries. It was an odd taste but it was still pleasant. As great as this evening went you still were kept up by something that came to your thoughts as you undressed. You still had to get back to your world, and you're sure Derpy couldn't come. If she wanted to go with you anyway.

Author's Note

And it is finally out. i thank Flaming Reign for proofreading. Upvote, downvote, favorite, comment, or not, it's up to you.

Chapter 19

Bubbles

An anthropomorphic MLP fan fiction

“Wachoo!” you sneezed loudly. You sniffled and wiped your nose with a tissue nearby.

“I though you said you got over your cold, or whatever it is,” Vinyl said, stocking some stuff on the stands. You've been sick for a while. It sucked because it made you have to stay in bed for about two weeks, and it made you miss most of Nightmare Night. If there was one thing you hated, it was being sick.

“I though so too,” you simply said, letting out a yawn you rested your head on your hand with your eyes closed, listening to the song on the speaker, which was a song by the band Gorillaz. You hear the bell above the door ring as the door opened and let in a gust of cold air and snow but you don't open your eyes. It had begun snowing the day after Nightmare Night and your body wasn't quite ready for it at first, but now it wasn't so bad.

“Hey you,” you hear from in front of you. You slowly open your eyes and look up.

“Hey Derpy,” you say with a weak smile. You pull your head off your hand and let out a very large yawn. You had to admit the coat she switched out for her sweater looked rather cute on her. It was the same color gray as her fur and the sleeves were long enough to cover her hands and had black bands on the upper part of the sleeve. It also had a hood that Derpy often wore.

“Tired?”

“I got no sleep last night, and the amount I had managed to actually get, didn't help any.”

“Could it be the medicine?” Derpy asked. You had taken some rather “experimental” medicine from Twilight. She said it was completely safe and it was suppose to help get rid of your cold, and it has been working so far, it just has some rather interesting side effects. Nothing drastic, but you were surprised when you pissed rainbows. You just shrug at Derpy's question. “Hm, well are you ready for lunch?”

“Yeah, let me get my coat,” you say before turning around and walking to the locker room. As the days got colder you swapped your sweater for a black trench coat that you picked out at the thrift store. It was well worn and even slightly torn in a few places and it was a size or two too big for you. Derpy hated it, but it kept you very warm so you loved it.

“When are you going to get rid of that hideous thing,” Derpy asked when you reappeared.

“When it starts to get warmer. I'll be back in half an hour, Vinyl,” you tell your boss, who just waves you out the door.

“So where do you want to go?” Derpy asked as she intertwined her fingers with yours.

“How about that one place we went to last Wednesday?” you ask, through yet another yawn.

“Sure,” Derpy said with a giggle, “are you going to fall asleep on the way?”

“That may be a possibility,” you say as you start to walk.

“Well, it's not that far of a walk so try to keep it together. You can sleep back at your job.”

“Now that sounds like a plan.”

You both walked in a comfortable silence. Ponies smiled and greeted you both as normal but when they saw your hands intertwined together they smiled with an added something that made their smiles warmer. Derpy seemed to giggle and blush whenever you got one of those warmer smiles, and that warmed you up even better than your coat. It was going to be a good day despite the little cold that you had.

You were walking past an ally, close to the buildings, almost to the restaurant, when you saw a flash of metal. You reacted out of instinct as you pulled Derpy back and put up your arm to shield your face from harm. When you felt the bat make contact you felt as though your arm was on fire and you yelled out in pain as you went down.

Everything seemed to slow down to a crawl as you lay in the snow, trying to put together what happened. You couldn't hear Derpy yelling your name as you groaned and cradled your injured arm, it felt like it was on fire. Nor could you hear anything else that was going on as you could hear just a few seconds ago. Though you could hear the sound of the snow crunching underneath as Body Slam walked out of the ally, metal bat in hand. He walked up to you and stopped at your head. You tried to do something but it felt as though you couldn't move.

“I've told you that you don't belong here, freak. Now I’m doing something,” he growled. Time seemed to continue normal as he cocked the bat back and as he swung.

~~~

Darkness. That's all that's around you. You're not sure what happened, and you couldn't think properly, like your brain didn't want to work right. It kinda sucked. You're not sure how long you've been in the darkness, but it seemed to go by quickly. You're not sure how you know, but you could just feel it. Like when you don't dream about anything and your dreams are filled with darkness, but you know it's going by quickly.

There is a light. You're not sure where it came from, or how long it has been there, but you see it now. And it seems like just the act of seeing it makes it grow. Slowly at first, but it steadily grows faster and faster till your entire vision was filled with this white light. Then darkness again. But this darkness was the type of darkness that came with having your eyes closed.
You could feel something soft underneath you, and it felt absolutely amazing. It kinda sucked you in a little, and it felt nice. Like you haven't ever slept on anything soft, then you sleep on something soft for the first time.
Then you started to smell cleaning supplies. It was kinda sharp to your nose but not overly so.

Gaining some sense back in your head, you open your eyes. And see nothing. Or rather just darkness. You close your eyes tightly then open them again. You no longer saw just darkness. Now you saw a ceiling. You let out a groan as you rub your eyes, trying to rub the sleep out of them.

Slowly you lift yourself up so you were able to look around. You saw that you were on a bed that was able to move and had guard rails. You next saw that you were in a room that had another bed like yours, next to yours, only empty. You couldn't tell much of the room you were in because the light was off and the only light in the whole room was from a lamp on your other side. You look over and you don't see much. You see a window and a desk that a mare was sitting at, her head resting on her arms and her eyes closed.

Derpy. Guess I’m in a hospital.

You didn't like hospitals too much. There just wasn't a lot to do and it was always boring. You tried to go back asleep, but you weren't tired, so you got the great idea to just stare up at the ceiling. You were bored within seconds. You could tell it was seconds because you could hear the ticking of a clock somewhere.

Letting out a sigh, you sat up again and looked over Derpy, who was still sleeping. You almost felt bad about what you were about to do, but you figured that she would want to know you were up and ok. You looked over on the table to the side of your bed for something to throw.

Perfect. You thought to yourself as you spotted a pen. You took it and took aim at Derpy. You lined up the shot and stuck your tongue out, squinting at Derpy. You pulled back and then threw the pen at Derpy, which hit her right on the tip of her nose.

Bulls-eye!

“Ngh?” Derpy grumbled as her eyes fluttered open. She rubbed her eyes and gave out a cute little yawn. “Hmm?” she mumbled as she rubbed the tip of her nose.

“Good morning beautiful,” you say. She blinked a few times, trying to register what was said. Her eyes fell on you and started to grow when she realized that you were awake.

“Ohmigosh! You're awake!” Derpy exclaimed as she threw her arms around you in a tight hug.

“Ow! Derpy!” you cried out at the pain that shot through your head. You clutch your throbbing head with one hand.

“Oh! I’m so sorry!” Derpy cried, backing away a few feet. You just looked at her and you dropped your hand.

“It's fine Derpy, just a little headache,” you reassured her. You hold out your arms, “How about a little gentler hug this time?”
Derpy smiled and hugged you again, much gentler this time. The two of you didn't let go till a few minutes later.

“So, what happened?” you asked. You could remember somethings but not all of it. Derpy took a deep breath and pulled her chair next to your bed. She sat down and held you hand.

“Well, Body Slam hit you and you fell, then he hit you with a bat. He was going to hit you again but luckily Rainbow Dash and Applejack showed up. They didn't catch him but they did hurt him pretty bad,” Derpy said. You started to rub your thumb over her knuckles.

“Are you ok?” you ask. Derpy looks at with a questionable look upon her face.

“Am I ok? I should be asking you that!”

“Oh I’m fine, I’ve been in worse fights, honest,” you say with a reassuring smile on your face.

“Why does that make me even more nervous?” Derpy asked, a smile playing at her lips.

“I have no idea,” you say with a chuckle. The two of you sit in silence for a few minutes till a question made it's way to your mind. “What time is it?”

“Uh,” Derpy pulled out her phone, “1:18,” and as if on cue, she let out a small yawn.

“How late did you stay up?”

“12, maybe?”

“You need to get some sleep.”

“I would, but that table isn't the most comfortable thing to sleep on.”

“Well, I could always scoot over and you could get in bed with me,” you suggest, waggling your eyebrows. Derpy breaks out in a fit of giggles.

“Wow, you are much more flirty today, any reason?”

“I'm tired. I get rather flirty when I’m tired.”

“I've noticed,” Derpy said with a small laugh. She stood up and walked around your bed and to the empty one next to it. “I'll just sleep here. I don't want to catch your cold you still have.”

“Alright,” you say with a roll of your eyes but with a smile on your face. You let out a yawn. “Night.”

“Goodnight.”

And with that said you fell asleep almost instantly... is what you would have liked to happen. But the truth was, you couldn't sleep. What Body Slam said to you kept coming back to you. No matter how you though about it, you couldn't help but agree with him. You don't belong here. What has made it worse was that you kept trying to come up with an excuse to leave, but no matter what you thought of, you had no excuse to leave. Not that you wanted to leave. You just had to. Right?

Author's Note

I thank Flaming Reign for proofreading.
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Chapter 20

Bubbles

An anthropomorphic MLP fan fiction

“Mmmm,” Derpy sighed as she nuzzled your hand even more.

The two of you were sitting on your couch, you sitting normally, and Derpy with her head in your lap, a blanket draped over her body, while you only had your sweater for warmth. Your toes were frozen. You started to absentmindedly scratch behind her ears, but she didn’t seem to mind. Quite the opposite actually. And that is what you have been doing for the past hour or so, scratching Derpy behind her ears, with Kat laying under the covers with Derpy. It was snowing pretty hard out so you couldn’t do anything. It was snowing too hard for either of you to go to work so you decided to lounge around the house. About an hour of lounging the power went out and you didn’t have any spare fuses to fix it. So with nothing else to do you and Derpy just sat on the couch. You lit some candles, but Derpy only had scented candles so now the house smells like pretty flowers. You only had one lit and it sat on the coffee table, but you had one in the bathroom, one in the kitchen, and one in each of the bedrooms.

It’s been a little more than a week since your little trip to the hospital and you have completely recovered from the little cold you had. Though you have yet to stop pissing rainbows. You made a mental note to ask Twilight about that.

Though ever since your trip to the hospital you have had your mind elsewhere, and your friends have started to notice.

“Hey,” Derpy said, snapping you back to reality. You look down and see her looking up at her with concern in her eyes. “Are you alright? You seem a million miles away.”

“Uh,” you say, scratching your chin, “yeah. I’m fine.” The tired tone in your voice said otherwise.
Derpy sat up and looked at you. “No you’re not. What’s wrong?”

“It’s nothing,” you say, getting up. “Gotta use the bathroom.” You pick up the zippo lighter from the coffee table and bring it with you to light the candle in the bathroom.

The candle you lit smelt like rainfall.

You don’t use the bathroom at first. Instead you just looked at your reflection.

You got your mane cut a week ago to get rid of the black and red tips and it hung down to your neck. Same thing with your tail. Your eyes looked tired and you had bags under your eyes, but they were only noticeable if you looked for them. The light from the candle light up your face, making it look a little spooky. Staring at your reflection you find yourself being taken back to an old memory. It was the last time you had spoken to Momma Melody.

~~~

“There you go, Momma,” you say as you straighten your back. You had just carried a very heavy box of toys into the playroom on the second floor, from the donation truck out in front of the street.

“Thank you child,” Melody said, patting your arm. “I wouldn’t know what to do without you around.”

“Probably pay someone to do it.”

“Perhaps, or perhaps I could be stronger than I am now,” she said, making her way out of the room.

“You may be short but you’re a lot stronger than what you give yourself credit, you know,” you say following her out.

“I ain’t short! I’m fun sized, dammit!” Melody said shaking her fist at you. You can’t help but laugh. It truth she was pretty short. Just at five foot? Give or take an inch or two.

The two of you go to the kitchen and she sits at the table with the paper. You fill a teakettle and set it on the stove, taking out a few tea bags. The children were all playing out in the backyard with one of the volunteer people, a nice cute girl in your year. The two of you became friends when she had mistaken you for another helper. You wait for the water to boil before fixing two cups of tea. You set one in front of Melody and you lean on the counter, adding sugar to yours.

“Thank you child,” Melody says before taking a sip.

The two of you sit in silence for a few minutes until Melody put down her paper.

“So tell me; when are you going to leave?” Melody asked, sipping her tea.

“I though you like having me here, Momma?” you asked, sipping your tea.

“I do, don’t get me wrong. It’s just you have your whole life a head of you. What are you going to do with it?”

You set down your tea before talking. “I- I’m not sure, to be honest. I was just going to go through life one step at a time. You know, tackle one thing at a time. I have too much to worry about now to worry about my future.”

“Poppycock!” Melody yelled, making you jump. “You should always know what you are to do in life.”

“What about you? Did you always want to run a home for orphans?” you countered.

“This isn’t about me, this is about you.” She always pulled that card. “I know what is going to happen to you in life.”
“Here we go,” you say letting out a big sigh. She used to be a fortune teller and she has a habit of telling you your fortune. That wouldn’t be a problem if her predictions weren’t so vague.

“Yes, here we go. One day in the future you will find yourself in a new place, with new friends, a new job, and an all around better life. Then you will be torn in staying there and coming back to your old life.”

“That just sounds ridiculous.” She ignored your remark.

“You will need to choose. And only you can make that decision. You will have to choose a life in a place you don’t belong, or a life in the place you were meant to be in.”

“I would obviously take the life of where I was mean to be,” you say, taking a big drink from your cup.

“Are you sure? This will happen, child. You need to think about this long and hard. Starting today.”

“It won’t ever happen, you know.”

“Have I ever been wrong before?”

“Well, no bu-“

“Exactly, I have never been wrong, and I never will be.”

“Then which one would you want me to pick, Momma?”

“I just want you to be happy. But that choice is for you alone,” Melody said, standing up. “Thank you for the tea. I’m going to take a nap, ok?”

“Yeah alright,” you say, draining the rest of your tea. You turn around to wash out your cup.

“I love you, you know that right?” Melody asked. “You were the child I couldn’t have, and I could not be any more proud.”

“Thanks, and I love you too,” you say, turning around. You put a smile on your face. “You were always the mother I needed.” It was true too.

Melody smiles sadly before turning around.

“Good bye.”

~~~

You could feel tears on your face as you came out of your memory. The low wick on the almost gone candle told you that you should probably hurry up and get your business done. You quickly used the bathroom (you were totally keeping the rainbow piss, it was too awesome) and get out. Through use of magic the water still ran in the house, as well as the gas stove. Just not the heater or electricity.

“Hey, I though you may have fallen asleep,” Derpy said. She was laying on the couch, taking up the whole space of it. “I was thinking of making lunch, anything specific you want?”

“Nah, just whatever you want,” you say. You tried to cover up the bit of sadness in your voice, but Derpy caught it.

“Hey, what's wrong?” she asked, sitting up. She patted the seat next to her.

“Nothing,” you say as you sat down. “Just thinking of old memories.”

“Oh. Did you want to talk about it?”

You just started at your hands, thinking if you did want to talk about it.

“It's just my adoptive mother, was always right. She's dead and she's still right. Derpy, my mother is dead, and she is still right. How ridiculous is that?”

“Mothers do that sometimes. But how is she still right?” Derpy asked as she leaned on your shoulder, taking one of your hands into hers.

“The last time I talked with her she told me I would have to make a decision. Live a life in a place I shouldn't be, or live a life in the place I was meant to be. And she is still right. Stay here, or go back to my world.”

The two of you sat in silence for a few moments.

“So, which life do you choose?” Derpy asked quietly.

“That's just it Derpy. I want to choose this life, but I can't.” You say, rubbing your face.

“Well, why can't you?” Derpy asked.

“I just can't.”

“Well, I’m sure Princess Celestia would would be happy with you staying here forever.”

“I'm sure she would too, but it's not that simple.” Derpy sat up and looked at you.

“Well, why not?”

“It's just not,” you say, standing up. You walked a few steps away and ran your hands over your face and through your hair.

“But why?” Derpy asked, her voice sounded pleading. You look over at her and it looked like she had tears in her eyes. “Is it because of me?”

“Of course not Derpy,” you said, quickly moving to comfort her. You gave her a big hug and held her close. “You are part of the reason I’m having so much trouble figuring out if I will go or not.”

“I just don't understand. Why do you have to go?”

“I don't belong here.”

“Why not? You have friends, you have a job, you have ponies who love you. Why do you have to go?”

“Because I’m not a pony, Derpy.” Derpy sat back and looked you up and down.

“Well, I beg to differ.”

“Look, I may look like a pony, but I didn't grow up like a pony.” You straighten up and look at her. “Derpy, I was a human. I swore on a daily basis. I got mad just because someone cut me off on the freeway, then had thoughts of running him off the road. Derpy, I ate meat. Sure I only ate it when I could afford it, which wasn't often, but I still did it. And I have done so much other stuff that a pony doesn't do! … how can I be a pony when all my life I have been a human?”

“...I-I'm not sure.” Derpy said quietly. She stood up and quickly walked to her bedroom. You would have went after her but the way she moved told you to stay away.

In hindsight, it probably wasn't a good idea to just lay everything on her at once.

Your really wished you could just go for a walk. It would be much easier to just walk and clear your head and not have to worry about this stuff right now. But you can't, and you have to worry about this stuff right now. But you couldn't. Of all the times for you to stop worrying, it had to be now, when you had time to worry about it. You fall back on to the couch and let out a big sigh.

“The universe hates me doesn't it Kat?” you ask as Kat climbs onto your chest and curls up. She let out a meow and began to purr. You really needed to talk to Melody right now. You always did talk to her when you had a big problem and you didn't know how to solve it.

“Momma, why must you do these things to me?” you ask. “Why must you tell me of my future before it happens?”

You know she can't hear you, wherever she is, but it still kinda makes you feel better.

“In the human world, I have a job, I have people who need me, I have a life. Not the best, but one all the same. And here I have friends, I have a job, I have a girlfriend and some other things. But no matter how I look at it, I can't find a compromise between the two of them. God, I wish you were here right now.” you say, turning over. You forgot Kat was on your stomach when you rolled over and she fell off you. She let out an annoyed meow before she started to clean herself.
With nothing else to do, you just look at her, the candle was almost out and it cast the room into an almost twilight feel. After a few second the candle finally went out with a very tiny fwoop.

You just lay there in the dark. There was a little light coming from the window, but it was still too dark to see anything. You turn over onto your back and just look at the gray window. You found yourself thinking back to Momma Melody.

She always loved cooking pies, and she taught you how to make them too. She always liked to tell people jokes, and she taught you how to make your own jokes. She loved children and she felt rather obliged to take care of the ones who couldn't take care of themselves, and she taught you how to have a heart. But one of the most memorable things about her, was that she always wanted to see other people happy. She didn't care if she was happy, just that other people were.

You started to smile at an old memory of her giving the last slice of her favorite pie to a baby, who decided that it would make a better hat. You were only nine at the age and you looked at Melody and asked why she would do that if she knew he was going to just waste it. And she told him, “Simply because he was happy with it.”

From that day you did all you could to make others happy. From telling a joke, to carrying books. It made you happy that others were happy and you figured out why Momma Melody did it.

However, now that you think about it, in the need to make others happy, you have stopped trying to make yourself happy.

…

Perhaps, it's time to change that. You thought after a few minutes of thinking.

But first, you have one last pony to make happy once again.

~~~

Knock knock knock

“Hey, Derpy?” you call out. You wait a few seconds before the door opens.

“Yeah?” she sleepily asked. It sounded like she just woke up.

“Um, I made some muffins if you wanted any. They're blueberry.” It was tough, but you made then in the light of a candle.

“Um, sure I could go for a muffin right now,” Derpy said. She followed you to the kitchen and sat down at the table. You took a plate piled with muffins off the stove and placed them in front of Derpy, who took one.

“Mmm, these are pretty good,” she commented.

“Yeah, I thought they turned out well,” you say, taking one. “Oh I need you to remind me when this storm is over to go to the library.”

“Why?”

“I have to send Princess Celestia a letter asking if I can stay in Equestria forever.”

Derpy stopped chewing and looked at you. You couldn't quite place her expression because of the low lighting.

“Really?” she asked after a few moments of silence. “I though you needed to leave?”

“Well I got to thinking. All my life I have made others happy. I think it's time to make myself happy. You know?” Derpy just kept quiet for a few minutes.

You're not too sure as to what happened next. All you know is you were on the ground, getting hugged very tightly by a crying Derpy and your head hurting.

Oh yeah. This was the right choice.

~~~

~A few days later~

"Dear Princess Celestia,
I want to stay in Equestria to live out my life here. After some hard thinking, and a visit from certain memories, I have come to the conclusion that my life would be much better here. Sure I had a life back in my world, but I wasn't happy with that one. So with your permission, I would like to stay here, live with Derpy Hooves, and work at Vinyl Scratch's electronic shop, fixing electronics and such.

I suppose I should include some sort of lesson I have learned. Twilight says that is what she and her friends do and she suggested I do the same. So, here is the lesson I have learned; While making others happy is one of the best things you can do, you also have to make yourself happy.
It's kinda selfish, but hey, who isn't once in a while.

-Signed, The Alien."

“What a fine report,” Celestia commented as she read through it, a smile on her lips. She handed the letter to Luna, who was trying to read it over her shoulder. Luna read it, rather fast.

“Sister,” Luna began, “when are you going to tell him that the spell you showed him was a fake? Or that he can't even go back home?”

“Meh,” Celestia shrugged. “He's smart, he will figure it out sooner or later.”

“And if he doesn't?”

“What he doesn't know won't hurt him,” Celestia simply said as she sat down on her throne.

“Another thing, why does he refer to himself as 'The Alien'?”

“I'm not sure,” Celestia admitted. “Perhaps it's some human thing?”

“Hmm, maybe,” Luna said, walking back to her chambers.

Author's Note

Proofread by Flaming Reign

"Last" Authors Note

Bubbles

An anthropomorphic MLP fan fiction

Last Authors Note
“And here you go,” I said as I stapled the papers that just came out of the printer and handed them to you. For those of you who don't know, I have white fur, a very light red, messy, shoulder length mane, with light blue eyes. I was wore baggy blue jeans, black boots, and a black long sleeve shirt that had white stripes running around it.

“Thanks, Multi,” you say as you flip through the 62 pages. “This looks great.”

“Hey, I simply wrote down what you told me to,” I say as I turn back to my computer. I hit the print button again and wait for the printer to spit out the pages.

“Why are you making two copies?” Derpy asked.

“So I can add it to my little collection of stories that ponies have wanted to be written,” I say as I put the printed pages into a binder and mark the spine of the binder with the word “Bubbles”. I walk over to a small bookshelf in the small room which was a library, and put up the binder next to one that is titled “Remembering”. I turn around to face you and Derpy again. “Any questions?”

“I have one, why is it in the second pony perspective?” Derpy asked.

“I though it would be a bit funner if it was like that,” I say, scratching my chin.

“Why did you cut yourself out of it?” you ask.

“Huh?”

“You cut yourself out of it. You basically cut out half the story.”

“Well,” I began, “I thought it would make the story better if I wasn't in it. You know?”

“I'm not sure I do know.”

“It's an author thing,” I simple say to put the subject to rest. “Any more questions?”

“No, I’m good.”

“I'm fine.”

“Good then. Now we have spent too much time in here and if we don't get out before Fox get's here,” I say, making my way past them to the door but stop before just opening it and look back at them. “Well, I will get an ear full.” I open the door to reveal an unamused mare. She had light brown fur with a light red mane and tail with white tips, and her mane going into a pony tail. She wore jeans, sneakers, and a rather reveling t-shirt. She had her arms crossed and was tapping her foot. I close the door and look back at you and Derpy. “Never mind.”

I open the door and put on the most sincere smile I have.

“Hey, babe I was just coming to find you,” I say hoping she buys it.

“Uh huh,” Foxtrot simply say, clicking her tongue. “Just get ready. Pinkie's party starts in a few minutes and we still have to get down there,” she says before turning on her heel and walking back down the hall.

“Dammit,” I curse under my breath. I turn to you two. “Alright, get out. Fox is already mad at me. We can't be late to this party,” I say, pushing them out the door. I quickly walk back to my desk to grab my top hat. It was white with a black ribbon hanging off the back. It also had a golden quill that looked steampunkish in the ribbon around the hat. I put on my old top hat and head out the door and into the living room, where everypony else was putting on coats. You had your trench coat, Derpy had her long sleeved coat, Fox was putting on her coat with was a purple zip up coat the came way past her waist. I walked to the coat rack and grabbed my coat. It was a simple red hoody. The thing was, it always was always the perfect temperature and it was the softest thing ever.

“You guys ready?” I asked. Everypony nodded so I opened the door and stepped out. It was night time and the only light came from street lamps and building lights. It also was snowing, making everything look positively beautiful. I set off down the road everypony caught up. You and Derpy held hands, while Fox did what she always did whenever we went out in public. She hung off my arm. It was a little difficult to walk at first, but after a few years of dating her it gets easier.

“So how have your lives been?” Fox asked you and Derpy. “It's been a month since you got the letter saying you can stay, right?”

“Just about, yeah,” you reply. “It's been good, and it will hopefully keep going good.”

“That's good,” Fox said. It was quiet for a few moments until she spoke up again. “So when are you getting married?”
The sudden question made them stumble a little, making Fox laugh.

“When will you stop asking ponies that, Fox?” I groan.

“When you ask me to marry you,” Fox replied, snuggling up to my arm.

“Perhaps when we are older,” I reply, putting the lid on the subject. “So how did Crunch take the news?”

“He surprisingly, took it well,” you say.

“He threatened you, didn't he?”

“Yup.”

I let out a small laugh. Crunch was a little scary.

“Hey, I just want to say thank you for writing our story. It'll be great to look back on when we're older,” you say after a few moments of silence.

“Of course. I had fun writing it. Just tell your friends about me if they want something written,” I say with a wide smile.

“There's Sugarcube Corner,” Fox said, she started to pull me along with her. “Come on! I don't want to miss out on the cake!”

I let out a sigh and turn to you and Derpy and we all ran to stay at pace with Fox. “Help me.”

Of course the only thing your two did was giggle.

Author's Note

Meh, i though i would do something differently for the last authors note. in all seriousness, i had fun writing this fic. i love and thank all you viewers, all the comments, favorites, and stuff really meant something to me. so thanks you all from the bottom of my heart. sorry but you don't quite deserve it from the top. perhaps if you gave more comments.
Anyways, i must give out a special thanks to Flaming Reign, for having to put up with all my errors while proofreading.
I must say, i'm kinda sad to end this fic, but happy also because now i can focus on more fic ideas. well anyways, please leave a comment for any feed back you have. perhaps you want to comment of how i did this authors note. i was thinking about doing it in later fics.
Anyways, thank you and i shall see you around.

~MP

Chapter 13

Bubbles

An anthropomorphic MLP fan fiction
You slowly woke up from your dreamless sleep and let out a big yawn as you sat up. You slowly look around the room and find it the same as when you went to sleep, however Pinkie wasn't in sight. She usually woke you up, so waking up on your own was a little surprising, but you figured you just woke up early, you did go to bed early last night, after all. With another yawn and a stretch you stood up and started to make your way downstairs in your pajamas; white tank top and red plaid sleep pants. Like always there is no light save what is coming in from the windows and the kitchen. You head to the kitchen expecting to find Pinkie and Mrs. Cake like always, but today you only find Mrs. Cake. She was sitting at the table with a mug of tea in front of her, she didn't acknowledge your presence.

You make your way to the coffee machine and pour yourself a nice big cup of coffee and sit across from Mrs. Cake at the table, adding in the usual sugar and cream.

“Morning, Mrs. Cake,” you greet before taking a sip of your coffee. Mrs. Cake smiles at you tiredly.

“Good morning, dear. How did you sleep?” Mrs. Cake asked taking a sip of her tea.

“Pretty good, how about yourself?”

“The baby's woke me up a few times but not bad overall.”

“Mmmhmm,” say taking a sip of your coffee. “Where's Pinkie at?”

“The library, she said something about Twilight needing her help with something,” Mrs. Cake said through a big yawn.

“Ah,” you say. Silence falls between you two and the only sound that could be heard was the sipping of
coffee and the thunk of the mugs getting set on the table. On your second cup of coffee Mr. Cake came in and sat next to his wife. You quickly drain your coffee and excuse yourself to Pinkie and your room to collect some cloths for today. There were still clouds in the air and it looked chilly so you grabbed a blue long sleeve shirt and your worn out jean pants, some
boxers that you picked up in one of the shops, and a towel and made your way to the bathroom.

In the shower you couldn't help but think of what Princess Celestia wants with you. Hopefully she found you a way home, but you're not sure. You try to dispel those thoughts from your head so you can concentrate on getting clean, but you find yourself thinking about something else that has been bothering you for a while now.

You stare at your tail, which was slowly swinging back and forth. Like it always does. You have seen Pinkie use her tail to get things that were behind her while she was mixing cake batter before so she wouldn't have to turn around, and you pretty jealous. Though you didn't let it show on your face. You had asked Pinkie how she does it but she just shrugs and says “I just do”. But she did give you tips so you could try on your free time, which you were doing now.

“Come on... move dammit!” you hiss at your tail. You squinted your eyes and glare at it with all your worth, but it doesn't seem to do anything. Until...

Twitch.

“Yes!” you yell throwing your arms up, forgetting that you were in a shower. You victory was short lived as you felt yourself falling back and you breath catching in your throat. “Shit!”

Bang!

…

“Owww,” you say holding the back of your head wincing at the pain. “Good job, dumbass.”

Knock knock knock

“Are you ok?” you hear Mr. Cake call.

“Yeah, I just fell,” you call back before pulling yourself up and finishing your shower.

Stepping out of the bathroom you toss you clothes into the clothes hamper that was in the hallway and made your way upstairs. Sugarcube Corner opened up in a few hours and you wanted to catch up on your reading.

~~~

Noon came around faster than you had expected and before long you found yourself on a train to Canterlot to meet with the princesses.

You had your headphones on, playing fantasy trance techno, as you watched the land go by out the window. You were sitting next to Twilight, who was reading a book, Rainbow was sleeping next to Applejack, who was talking with Pinkie, and Rarity and Fluttershy were talking to each other.

As you look out the window you feel your eyes get heavy and soon you found yourself in a dreamless sleep.

~~~

Your nap ended pretty quickly when you felt yourself getting nudged in the ribs. You jerk awake to find Twilight looking at you. You pull your headphones to your neck and pause the music.

“Sorry to wake you, but we're here,” Twilight said.

You quickly rub your eyes and look out your window. What you saw made you gasp quietly. Before you is a beautiful city. Tall buildings stretched to the sky, and many Pegasi were flying in the sky. Colorful plants lined the sidewalks, and the whole place had a clean feel to it.

You followed the others off the train and there you were greeted by two guards ponies.

“Mrs. Sparkle, we are to guide you to the castle, where Princess Celestia awaits you,” one of the guards said in a gruff voice, taking a step forwards.

Twilight nodded her head and the guards started to walk and the rest of you followed. You were looking at the buildings, trying to take everything in, so you didn't notice when Twilight fell back and started to walk next to you.

“How do you like the city?” she asked with a smile on her face.

“It's beautiful.”

“You should see it at night, it's breath taking.”

“Yeah, though some of the ponies here seem really full of themselves,” you say as you passed a mare in a big bouncy dress with her nose turned to the sky.

“Yeah, a lot are. But I assure you that not all ponies from Canterlot are stuck up.”

“I'll believe it when I see it,” you absentmindedly say.

“You know, I’m from here,” Twilight deadpanned.

“Oh,” you feel your ears lay flat on your head. It was a weird feel, to say the least, but you couldn't think about that right now.

“Er, sorry.”

“It's fine.” Twilight seemed to forgive you for now so you tried to change the subject before she decides it's not fine.

“So how was your child- er, foalhood?” you ask yourself, trying to see if it sounded right.

“It was alright,” Twilight said, seeming to cheer up some. “I didn't have too many friends, I always had my nose in a book.”

“Uh huh.”

“Then I got chosen for Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. I couldn't make any friends there because I had to study so I could be the best I could be. I wasn't always lonely though, I had Spike. I hatched him for my entrance exam, and I got to raise him.”

“They let you take care of a baby alone?”

“Oh no! The nurses and staff help me, along with my parents and of course the Princess.”

“Ah, I bet it was hard work, huh?”

“Sometimes, but I managed.”

“Yeah.”

“We're here!”

You looked up and saw the most beautiful castle you have ever seen.... though the castles you have seen in pictures have been abandoned and were never well kept so there wasn't much competition. The castle doors slowly swung open and you saw many guards ponies watching your every movement as you walked through the castle foyer. You were guided though a set of big wooden doors to what had to be the throne room as there were two thrones in the room. On each throne sat a being, one was Princess Celestia, dressed in similar clothing as when you met her for the first time, and another Alicorn, who looked like Celestia, only smaller. You feel as though you've met her somewhere, but you can't pin point where, exactly. You can see a small blush and her eyes widen a little when she spots you, making you confused but you shrug it off.
You and the others quickly bow to the two of them.

“Rise, my little ponies, there are no need for such formalities,” Celestia said rising from her throne and walking towards you.

“Princess!” Twilight exclaimed as she rushed forwards and hugged the princess. The princess returned the hug before addressing the rest of the crowd.

“As I am sure you are wondering why I wanted you all here, I think we should talk in my study,” Celestia said. She beckoned a hand as she started to walk to a door off the side of the room. She turned to the other Alicorn, who was still looking at you, though her blush was gone now. “Luna, I believe you had work that you desperately needed to get back to?”

“Oh yes! I almost forgot, sister, thank you for reminding me,” Luna said before her horn glowed midnight blue for a second and she vanished. The rest of you continued on your way to Celestia's study.

“What is Luna working on?” Twilight asked Celestia.

“She is trying to figure out how the toaster works,” Celestia said with a smile playing on her lips.

“Oh,” Twilight said before striking causal conversation with Celestia. You tuned them out and went to trying to memorize the path you were taking. You lost yourself on the fifth turn. The hallways reminded you of The Mansion in Resident Evil 1. You just hope there aren't any zombies. Well you were with a princess who rose the sun everyday, so you were probably safe. But still.

“Here we are,” Celestia said, snapping you out of your thoughts. Celestia opened a wooden door and everyone filed in. Inside was big wooden desk, papers and such littered the desk in an unorganized fashion and a big comfy looking swivel chair sat behind the desk, which Celestia sat in. The walls were lined with bookshelves and each bookshelf had plenty, if not too many, of books on them.

Celestia's horn glowed gold for a moment and in the room there were now seven comfy looking chairs. Celestia gestured for you to sit and you each did.

Hot damn! These are some comfy chairs, like a bean bag filled with the fluffiest feathers!

“I am sure you are wondering why I called you here today,” Celestia said, she turned to you. “Especially you.” you only nod in response. “Well I have some good news and some bad.”

Celestia stood up and walked to a bookshelf and looked at the spines of the books. You weren't sure what she was looking for as the spines didn't have anything written on them. She apparently found the one she was looking for she pulled it off the shelf. It was very big and very blue. She walked back to the desk and sat down once more, she flipped through the pages until she found the page she was looking for and slid the book towards you. Curious you looked at the page. There was a spell that was titled “Dimension traveling. Warning, not complete.”.

“That is the spell that will send you home, however, as you can see it is incomplete. This makes it a little hard to preform this spell.”

“Yeah, no kidding,” you say looking though the pages of the spell; it was about ten pages altogether.

“However, I will personally, along with many researchers work on this spell to make sure it gets complete.”

“Really?” you ask. Celestia must have heard the disbelief in your voice.

“Is something wrong?” she asked.

“No, no. It's just, why are you doing this for me?” you ask, sliding the book to Twilight; you knew she wanted to look at it.

“I believe you are lost. I am just merely trying to help you back onto your path,” Celestia said with a motherly smile.

“Huh, well then I suppose I should thank you, but I don't know what I could do to show how much this means to me.”

“There is no need to do anything, just allow me to help,” Celestia said with her motherly smile that made you just want to trust her and made it as though everything was ok in the world.

“Princess,” Twilight said, getting Celestia's attention.

“Yes, Twilight?”

“This spell, even though there is a bunch already done, finishing this spell will take a lot of time.”

“Yes, that is another thing I wanted to speak with you about; finishing this spell will take months, maybe even years. This is where the rest of you come into play. I need you to teach him, teach him how to be a pony as it will serve him well in his stay here,” Celestia said, gesturing towards you.

“We could do that,” Rainbow said.

“Sure!” Pinkie exclaimed.

“Most defiantly,” Rarity said with a smile.

“It'll be easy,” Applejack claimed.

“Y-yes,” Fluttershy squeaked.

“You can count on us, Princess,” Twilight said confidently.

“I have faith in you,” Celestia said before standing up. “I think it is time to show you to your rooms.”
The door swung open and two guards were reviled.

“These two will show you to your rooms, I have some things I have to do, so I’ll see you all at dinner tonight.”

“Wait!” you say before you leave, “What about the bad news?”

“I think that can wait for this evening.”

With that being said the guards turned around and headed down the hallway, the seven of you followed behind.

Author's Note

Alright, first off i want to appologise for the latness of this chapter. i had computer troubles. just for something to put out there, i am planning on making this about twenty chapters, give or take a few, the main character should be back in ponyvill by the end of the next chapter. this weekend, im not sure if there will be a chapter as it is my 17th birthday this sunday, but if i do what i did on my other birthdays then there should be a chapter.
I thank Flaming Reign for proofreading.
anyways; Upvote, downvote, favorite, comment, or not, it's up to you.

Sequel is out.

The sequel

Chapter 2

Bubbles

An anthropomorphic MLP fan fiction
Twilight was busy star gazing, taking a closer look of the Moon, when a bright flash light up the sky.
“Ahh!” Twilight pulled back in surprise as the light was magnified through her telescope. She started to rub her eyes, trying to get her vision back, when she heard somebody run up the stairs and open the balcony door.
“Twilight? Whats wrong?” Spike asked as he rushed to her. Twilight's vision started to come back.
“There was a flash in the sky and I got momentarily blinded, I’m fine now,” Twilight blinked a couple of times.
“Oh ok. Do you know what the flash was? I saw it inside,” Spike asked looking up at Twilight.
“No Spike I don't, I should write to the princess-” Twilight started but was interrupted by a belch that came from Spike, a scroll floating in the air. Twilight snatched the scroll out of the air. “Or she could write to me...” Twilight trailed off as she read the letter.
Dear Twilight Sparkle,

It has come to my attention that there seems to have been a disturbance, as indicated by the flash of light. I also sense a great disturbance in the Everfree Forest, and it would be greatly appreciated if you and your friends could see if this disturbance is anything to worry about. I advise you to take the Elements of Harmony as a precaution.

Signed

Princess Celestia
“Hmm, Spike, take a letter,” Twilight said as she rushed inside, “Dear Princess Celestia, the girls and I will check out the Everfree Forest first thing in the morning. Once we are done I will contact you with a letter. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle.”
Spike wrote with his tongue in between his teeth, he finished the letter with a flourish. He then cleared his throat and blew green fire on the letter, making it fly in the night sky. “What do you think made that flash of light?” Spike asked when he turned back to Twilight, who was already looking through the books.
“I have no idea, but maybe one of the books has the answer,” Twilight said as she continued to pull books.
“Alright, just don't stay up too late. Remember what happened last time you stayed up too late reading book?” Spike warned as he started to climb the stairs.
“Yes, I remember,” Twilight said with an air of annoyance, “are you going to bed?” she asked, to which Spike nodded his head. “Do you need me to tuck you in?”
“No, Twilight,” Spike groaned with annoyance, “I'm 13, I don't need you to tuck me in at night,” Spike said as he closed the door to his room. Twilight just shrugged and set the stack of books she gathered on a table and start to read.
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“Can't I just stay in the library?” Fluttershy asked in a shaky voice as she nervously looked around the forest.
“Sorry Fluttershy, but we need you in case we have to use the Elements,” Twilight said as she used her magic to move a branch out of the way. Twilight, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Rarity have been walking through the Everfree Forest for the past hour or so, and the combination of the spooky noises, creepy shadows, and knowing what type of things that live in the forest, was starting to get to everypony. Well, everypony except Pinkie Pie, who was talking a mile a minute.
“I wonder he will be like, like if he's nice or a big meany. I hope he is nice, then we can be friends and I’m friends with everpony. And if I never met him before, then I get to throw him a party. A Welcome-to-Ponyville-weird-guy-we-met-in-the-Everfree-Forest party!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed, literally bouncing as they walked.
“How do y'all know that we are even going to find somepony?” Applejack asked though gritted teeth, very annoyed with having to hear this pink pony for the past hour non-stop.
“'Cause he's laying right there!” Pinky exclaimed and she pointed through some bushes. They all looked over the bushes and to their much surprise, they say a light red colored stallion laying next to a river.
“How did we miss him?” Rainbow Dash asked as they made their way to the body. The stallion had short black hair, with red tips. He had an average build for an earth pony covered in a red t-shirt and clearly worn out blue jeans. A pair of headphones were laying on the ground next to him with music blasting out of them.
“Ah don't know, but he must be lost,” Applejack said as she crouched next to him and put two fingers on his neck.
“Is he dead?” Rainbow Dash asked as she hovered over the body.
“Nah, he ain't dead, just out cold,” Applejack said. Twilight's horn started to glow as she cast a spell. “What spell, are you castin'?” Applejack asked when she saw Twilight.
“A spell that will let me know where he came from,” Twilight said as sweat started to form on her her forehead. She looked like she was in deep concentration and her horn started to glow brighter, till the purple glow around her horn dissipated. “Huh?” she asked in surprise.
“What's wrong, darling, did the spell not work?” Rarity asked.
“No, it worked. Though apparently he isn't from this world.”
“What do you mean he isn't from this world?” Fluttershy asked, shaking slightly. Twilight looked at the mysterious stallion then she started to back away, beckoning the others with her hand. After about ten feet away she told the others, “Well his magic signature is non-existent. All earth ponies have a little magic in them, that's what helps them grow what they grow and efficiently, but he has no magic in him what so ever.”
“So what do we do with him? Leave him?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“No, but we have to tell Princess Celestia about this,” Twilight said.
“Uh, Twilight?” Applejack asked, interrupting Twilight's train of thought.
“What is it?”
“He's wakin' up,” Applejack said as she looked over her shoulder. The red stallion was now sitting up and holding his head, a low groan escaping his lips.