Sorry this chapter took so long to write, I was busy till like 12 o' clock because I had to--Wait you don't give a f*** about my personal life! Here's your chapter.

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"Dang it!" Twilight yelled when she woke up. Sharky had left in her sleep. "*sigh*...Maybe he just doesn't care about me..." She said sadly. "No, that can't be it, he got into bed with me to keep me warm. He must care! Oh, and look, he put Spike here to keep me warm, he thought of me." She reassured herself. "He problably had to deal with something... or went off to experiment more..." She sighed again. "It is nice to meet someone else interested in science, but come on!" She got up and trotted to the bathroom. She took a long bath and thought. When she got out the sun still hadn't come out. She toweled off her coat, but let her mane air-dry. She trotted downstairs and saw Sharky curled up in a corner. "Oh no! I never even set up a guest bed for you did I?" She chided herself. She trotted over to him and saw that he was still asleep. His face was contorted and he didn't look like he was resting well at all. "Maybe if I just lay with him for a second he'll feel better..." Twilight knew she was taking advantage of his bad dream, but she tried not to think about it. She curled up on her side next to him. He stopped shaking when she did. She was staring right at his face and her gaze locked on his lips. "He's asleep. He never has to know..." She mused. She inched her face closer to his and closed her eyes. She could feel his breath on her muzzle. It was warm and relaxing. She almost reached his lips, but her nose bumped into his! His eyes flickered open. Uh Oh! Twilight thought to herself.

"Mmmmm... huh? Wet-mane Twilight?" He gave a short laugh. "For once, I like where this dream is going." He then closed his eyes again and wrapped an arm around Twilight. She had been holding her breath, but let it out when he closed his eyes. After a little while his breathing evened out and she knew he was asleep. She closed her eyes and kissed him on the cheek.

"G'night Sharky..." She said, very interested in what he had said while awake. She thought about it for awhile and became very happy. I do have a chance! She cheered in her head. Then he mumbled Fluttershy's and Rarity's names and she was mad all over again. She sighed and gave up on trying to figure out Sharky for now. She closed her eyes and fell asleep.

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"Hmmm? Oh good morning Twilight." I said as I walked in the kitchen groggily. She was sitting at the table reading.

"Hm... Oh... Yes, good morning Sharky." She looked at me and blushed. (Geez she blushes a LOT) "I made you breakfast!" She blurted out as she pointed to a plate across from her.

"Well thank you!" I shouted. "You shouldn't have!" I went over and sat down. The plate had a piece of buttered toast, some fruit slices, and one sunny-side-up egg. I dug in hungrily. It was pretty good. "Wow Twilight! I didn't take you as the cooking type!"

"Well it was kind of an experiment really." She turned her book around and pointed to the chapter name.

"Cook and present a simple breakfast." I read aloud. "So you decided to make me your test monkey?" I said, faking anger. Her ears flattened and she looked upset. (I said it before, I'll say it again. I'm a dick.)

"Oh...I'm sorry I didn't mean to off--"

"Bwahaha! I'm kidding Twilight! It was delicious, thank you!" She gave me an angry stare, but then her face softened.

"No problem Sharky, I'm glad you liked it." She smiled. "So what do you plan on doing today?" I thought for a second.

"I think it's about time I got a job." Twilight's eyes widened.

"No! If you get a job you have to leave more often!" Twilight shouted. She blushed again when she realized what she yelled.

"Don't worry, I won't leave the city limits. You don't have to worry about me getting hurt." I said, figuring she was still scared after finding my torn-up shirt yesterday. "I think I'll start at Sweet Apple Acres." I dashed out the door.

"Wait!" Twilight yelled after me, but I was already gone. She sighed. "...That...HUMAN!" She shouted angrily. She lifted up her book and hit the table in frustration. Had Sharky been there, just for that moment, he would've seen that the book was entitled: "101 Tips to Help You Snare that Stallion" Twilight sighed. "Well... Check item number one off..."

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I set off running at a brisk pace, when suddenly I realized something. I was running through snow, the trees wouldn't be needing care right now! I cursed my own stupidity. I then turned back around and decided to see if I could find work with Fluttershy. Then I realized, IT'S WINTER. Still no work for me there. I decided to head to town. I contemplated working with Rarity, but I have no fashion sense. Nope. Working with Rainbow Dash? No, I couldn't retain magic long enough yet. Plus, she acted funny. Twilight's only job I knew of was being Celestia's student, and I'm pretty sure I couldn't do that! Well that covered about all the mane 6 except--

"Oh hi Sharky How are you? I'm great I've just been really busy at Sugarcube Corner. Anyway, Rarity was bragging about how good of a cook you were and I was wondering if you would mind helping me and the Cakes out because we get a lot of orders during the winter and it's really hard to keep up with even with my speed and I'm really fast when it comes to baking cakes and why do you have a purple horn?" I blinked a few times to clear my head and looked down at the pink pony. She had finally stopped. I had to wait for a second before everything she had said straightened itself out in my head. Luckily I was a little more ready for it after having seen her for the first time.

"Well the horn wouldn't make sense even if I explained it to you, but did you say you needed help at Sugarcube Corner?" She noded so fast her head looked like a blur.

"Eeyup that's what I said because we are really backed up on orders because we had to put all our orders aside to deal with Hearth's Warming day and New Year's day orders, so now we have to deal with all the orders we put aside and we're still getting new orders so we're getting really far behind and we're gonna start losing customers unless we get more help!" I was really happy for the job offer, but one thing still didn't make sense.

"If you guys are so far behind, why aren't you there helping still?" She gave me a weird stare.

"Because when the Cakes heard about you from Rarity, they asked me to go find you immediately!"

"Aww that's nice of them, I'd be happy to help! Will you show me to Sugarcube Corner?"

"Sure!" She said happily. She started bouncing off in one direction. I had to jog to keep up with her. After only about 2 minutes, Sugarcube corner came into view. She bounced in and I followed her into the kitchen. I was assulted by a storm of flour and egg as I walked in. The Cakes were BLAZING through the kitchen. No seriously! I'm pretty sure they were leaving skid marks! The first thing I noticed was how inefficient hooves were in a kitchen. They were whisking, cracking eggs, and pulling out pans with their mouths. I guess it was considered normal here though, so I wasn't too thrown off.

"Hello there!" I shouted over the noise. The Cakes both looked at me and their mouths dropped open.

"MONSTER!!" They yelled at the same time. Damn, I guess they weren't at the New Year's party. I sighed loudly.

"I'm not a monster! I'm here to help you bake! I'm Sharky, nice to meet you." They closed their mouths and looked less afraid, but were still wary.

"Oh, sorry friend. Nopony told us you'd be so...different. Or so tall..." Mr. Cake explained. I laughed.

"Don't worry about it!" I reassured. "So, where do I start?" He thought for a moment.

"Why don't you help Pinkie?" He suggested. "She's making the batter for orders right now." I nodded and walked over to Pinkie Pie. She was moving freakin' FAST, but she couldn't work very efficiently. No hands and all, you know how it is. She was moving WAAAYYYYY faster than I was, but I was still getting more work done. ( Fingers biatch ) Eventually we got into a rhythm where she ran and got me things needed for mixing and I prepared the batter when she did. After about the first hour I started to feel really...bouncy. Like I just got an injection of pure sugar. I could feel my hair curling up.

So this is Pinkie magic huh? I got the sudden urge to break a wall, but not a literal one. I don't know what that's about. We soon finished about 100 batters and had to wait because the Cake's ovens couldn't keep up. The ovens here worked rather quickly, so that was a big deal. We decided to help decorate the already finished cakes. This job was more fun because I got to apply my inner artist. I made a wedding cake, a birthday cake, a retirement cake, a ping pong tournament cake (wait what?), and even a filly shower cake. After that the Cakes caught back up on the batters so we went back to making that. We worked for 8 hours straight alternating between making batter and decorating. Normally after a hectic day like that I would have been tired, but I am SOOOOPER high on Pinkie magic right now.

"Thanks for the help Sharky it was really nice of you to stop what you were doing and help me because I'm sure that you're busy and all but you still helped us and that was nice. Anyway I got your payment right here!" She handed me a few bits of different colors with her mouth. One was gold, 2 were silver, and there were 5 copper ones.

Wow, Coal Buck was right about the currency here. I thought to myself. "It was really no problem Pinkie, I really liked working here, it was a lot of fun, in fact I don't even feel like I should be paid, it was more like a game than work. Anyway Twilight is problably wanting me back home right about now so I should go."

"Ok, have fun with Twilight! I'll see you back here tomorrow right?"

"Wouldn't miss it for the world!" I yelled over my shoulder. My hair was now pink and curly and every step I took made me bounce. I decided the bouncing was fun and started skip-bouncing. Each bounce made me jump about as high as Super Mario. I laughed at myself. "WAHOOOO!" I started shouting with each jump, mimicking the red-capped hero's accent. I bounced next to a light post and all the sudden I was standing on top of it. I looked around in confusion for a second until I realized what happened. "YES!! I GOT PINKIE PHYSICS!!!" I jumped into the nearest tree and ended up tumbling down the stairs in Twilight's house. Just as planned. Yeah ok, I really had no idea what would happen, but it was a good bet. "Twilight I'm home!!!" I shouted. Spike peeked his head around a corner.

"Twilight left to do...something. Dude, why's your hair pink?" He asked.

"Oh that? Well you see I'm from a low-magic planet so when I came here the magic started copying the nearest magic being and changed me to match it, so whenever I stay around somepony for awhile I get their powers and look kinda like them. Well actually this is the first time my hair has changed, usually only the parts of me that have to do with the magic I copy change but I guess that since Pinkie is an earth pony my physical appearance changed as well as my natural abilities." He looked totally unfazed by my speech speed. I guess he's used to Pinkie Pie.

"I'm gonna tell you the same thing I told Twilight when she explained this to me...: WHAAAAT?" He looked totally confused. I sighed again. I tried to focus on expelling the Pinkie magic so I could talk slower. Suprisingly it worked, and I managed to calm down enough to be coherent.

"Look..." I said with an annoyed tone. "It would be easier for me to show you."

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"Spiiike I'm back!" Twilight yelled as she came in. She climbed up the stairs to her bedroom and saw Spike asleep in his bed, but that's not all. "D'AWWWWW!!" She squealed. Sleeping right beside Spike was a toddler-sized Sharky, sound asleep as well. She levitated Sharky to herself, baggy clothes and all. She nuzzled his face and trotted over to her bed. She got under the blanket and placed Sharky right next to her. Soon after that she fell asleep, totally forgetting he would absorb her magic now and be full-sized in a few hours.

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I'm gonna show you guys the songs I use for inspiration. Here, here, and here. Yeah, I know I'm weird. I listen to the originals, but I figured you guys would appreciate these more.