After making their way back into town and saying their goodbyes to the princess, and also some more thanks for her generous gifts. Twilight and Brandon started to go towards Sugercube Corner where the party was said to be held at. They talked a bit more, though she could tell that he was nervous about something.

"Hey, why are so nervous? I hope you're not planning on ditching your own party." She said as they made the last turn and Sugarcube Corner was right down the road.

"It's not the party, you sure you're not going to say anything about what the princess gave me? I don't care if you tell them that I'm now an official citizen and everything, but the house thing..." He trailed off looking at her.

"Yeah, I promise not to say anything and believe me Spike won't tell either. Pinkie on the other hoof might bug you since she seemed to have been there when Celestia was telling you about everything." She answered.

"So you did see her then, that's good. Even if she does know about it I'll just act like nothing like that happened. And thanks, and can you make me a promise?" He asked his tone a bit more nervous than it had been.

"Sure, whatever you want." She answered giving him a comforting smile.

"Well can you promise me not to let me drink, not even one drop of hard apple cider?" He asked.

"Is that it? Oh, I can definitely promise you that." She answered with a slight snicker, and he raised his eyebrow in suspicion.

"And what's so funny?" He asked still suspicious.

"Oh nothing really, like I said I promise that not a drop of hard apple cider will even be in your cup." This time she had a small smile that told him that things might not exactly go as he wanted, it's a good thing he asked for two days off though.

"So what are we waiting for?" He asked realizing that they were standing in front of Sugarcube Corner's door. "Ladies first."

"Such a gentlecolt." She said walking in the door that he opened for her and quickly following.

"SURPRISE!" Ponies screamed as they walked in.

"SURPRISE!" Pinkie popped up a little late. "Shot, I'll have to work on that. Well anyways happy birthday!"

"Thanks." He said putting a big smile on as Pinkie started to sing a random song, and some of the others joined in.

After that, he went around and mingled a little bit and had a few laughs. He could feel stares of curiosity on him the whole time but ignored them mostly. When he finished talking to an orange mare that was named Carrot Top he went over and got himself some punch.

"So sugar how ya liking the party so far?" Applejack asked walking up to get a cupcake.

"Oh it's fine, everyone here is nice and everything." He replied taking a sip of the punch which tasted like a mix between oranges and apples.

"And what's wrong if it's just fine?" She asked.

"Well it's not that the party isn't great, it's just I've had a little bit of an overwhelming gift before I came here." He answered.

"Ah, Twilight told me the princess came to visit ya. So what did she give you anyhow?" She asked giving him a curious look.

"Well, the first one was telling me I'm now an official citizen of Equestria." He said giving her a genuine smile.

"That's great, but there's something else that's bothering ya. Come on and tell me what it is." She said nudging him a little.

"Fine, but you have to promise not to tell Pinkie, I'm pretty sure she'll already be planning a 'Congratulation On Becoming A Citizen!' party." He said sighing at what would be the third most likely party, though he could kill two birds with one stone.

"Um, keeping secrets ain't really my strong suit. So if anypony ask I might end up telling them anyway, but I'll try my best." She replied.

"That's good enough, well it's the other gift that Princess Celestia gave me." At this, she raised her eyebrow. "She gave me a house, and she told me that she'll take care of the bills for six whole months."

"Wow, just wow. I knew the princess was nice and generous and everything, and I knew that once you've saved up some bits she would buy a house for ya. But to do it this early, and is even willing to pay the bills for ya? She must really want to make a good impression on you for some reason." She said a sudden smirk came on her.

"I don't think it's that Applejack. Though I do agree with you that she does seem to want to make a very good impression. I think it's because since I am the first human here she's just trying to help me fit in, and if more of my kind shows up and they see me living comfortably and not in a dungeon or anything. That'll make a good impression on my world's leaders and thus making the first bridge of diplomatic negotiations easier to make." He answered somewhat coldly.

"Look I doubt the princess would actually use you like that. And if our two worlds do come together, then yeah it would look good that one of their kind has already become integrated into our world. But I honestly think the princess might have a thing for you for some reason." She said her smirk growing at his reddening face.

"Have you tried the punch?" He asked taking another drink.

"Nah, I've been too busy talking until I came over here." She answered taking the hint.

"Oh hey Brandon, hey Applejack. What are you two talking about?" Lyra asked as she walked over.

"Nothing much, just found out today that I'm an official citizen now." He answered before Applejack could.

"That's great! So you having fun? Because you two been over here for a long time, and man I'm starting to sound like Pinkie." Lyra said making both him and Applejack laugh.

"Yeah, I think we were having fun. So what about you? You enjoying the party?" He asked.

"Yup, it's great as always. So you gonna get drunk?" Lyra asked giving him a hopeful stare.

"I wasn't planning on drinking..." He started to say.

"Aww, but you're so funny when you get drunk. Though we've only seen you drunk once, it was still fun." Lyra complained.

"She has a point, you come out of your shell a lot more. And you loosen up, and I think you need to loosen up a little. Here have some apple cider, Apple family recipe of course." Applejack said filling up a cup with it.

"Look as much as I like to drink some of it, I promised not to get wasted or anything." He said not accepting the cup.

"You don't have to get wasted, just get a little tipsy. I promise not to challenge ya this time, and I'll make sure Berry Punch or Rainbow won't either." Applejack said putting the cup in his hand, and then a sudden purple glow came around it and the cup disappeared. "What in the hay.."

"Hehe, looks like she is keeping an eye out." He said chuckling.

"Wait, who are ya talking about?" And then Applejack eyes widened remembering the purple glow. "You got Twilight to make sure you don't drink any cider didn't you?"

"Yup, and glad I did. No offense but rather safe than sorry." He answered smiling with the victory.

"Fine, but you best start to relax more and have some fun. After all, this is once again, your party." Applejack said.

"Yeah, it's no fun when the guest of honor isn't having fun. And I was so looking forward to seeing you do your drunken dance again." Lyra said but there was something up with her tone. "So do you know when you get to open your presents?"

"No, Pinkie told me that she'll let me know. Oh and by the way, where's Bon Bon?" He asked looking around.

"Oh, she had a big order to do and decided to finish today. She said she'll try to make it before the party ends. Though knowing her she'll actually be here in another hour giving her plenty of time to enjoy the party." Lyra answered.

"Well, that's good to hear." He said taking another drink from his punch.

"So how come you asked for two days off then?" Lyra asked.

"That was just in case I do drink, or if someone spikes the punch and I get drunk that way." He replied and he could have sworn he saw what look like panic in her eyes like he just caught her doing something. "You were just planning on spiking my drinks weren't you?"

"What, no I wasn't," Lyra said not making eye contact.

"Please, it's written on your face." He said.

"Yeah, you were planning something alright." Applejack said with a chuckle.

"Alright fine, I was planning on doing that," Lyra said with a defeated sigh.

"Well just make sure Twilight doesn't catch you." He said with a small wink filling up his cup again and putting it down. "Speaking of which I just might go talk to her, you mind watching my drink for a minute?"

"Yeah, no problem," Lyra answered with a big grin plastered on her face.

"I think I have to talk to her as well, how about I come with ya?" Applejack asked with a similar grin.

"Hey the more the merrier." He said shrugging his shoulders and walked over to where Twilight was sitting with Applejack.

They talked a little bit and Lyra came over and brought us all drinks, and she had to assure Twilight that the only alcoholic ones were for her and Applejack. But she gave a little wink to him and he just shook his head as he accepted his 'punch'. After that, he did start to actually relax a bit.

"There you are, Brandon! Come on its present time!" Pinkie said popping out of thin air and then dragging and chocking Brandon over to where there was a small stack of presents, and she gave him a hard whack on the back clearing his lungs of the liquid.

"T-thanks." He said after the last cough.

"No problem, now shut up its present time! Which one do you want to open first? Ooo, how about this one?" Pinkie grabbed the largest one and sat it down next to him.

"Who's it from?" He asked as he read the name on the tag. "Well lookie there, it's from Twilight."

"I think you'll like it, Brandon," Twilight said after realizing it was, in fact, her gift, though the neat wrapping along with the neat writing made it obvious.

"Come on and open it already, I want to find out what you got!" Pinkie said bouncing in place.

"Fine fine." He said and started to unwrap the gift and he couldn't help but give off a light chuckle. "Well look at that, why doesn't this surprise me?"

"What is it already?" Pinkie said her impatient's showing in her voice.

"It's a typewriter, good thing we already started to discuss that book huh?" He asked turning to Twilight.

"Yeah, so do you like it?" Twilight asked with a nervous grin.

"Well, I don't like it. But I do love it, so thank you very much Twilight. This'll save me a bit of money." He said giving her a small wink and she let out a small laugh.

"Time for the next present!" Pinkie said placing another one in front of him.

"This one is from, you?" He looked at Pinkie she had a huge smile. strange how her smile is always contagious.

"Yeah, now open it!" She said still a little impatient.

"Okay let's see what we have here." He said again unwrapping the gift and opened the small box which somehow shot out confetti out of it.

"So what's in there?" Applejack asked.

"Well, Pinkie here got me a book." He answered though his face was a little red, and he closed the box.

"What kind of book?" Twilight asked.

"I rather not say." He replied. "Next gift please?"

"So do you like your present?" Pinkie asked.

"Um, yeah I might give it a read." He answered.

"Okay, now here's the next one then." Pinkie said grabbing the next one.

As he opened them he was glad to see they weren't like Pinkies gift, something he was going to hide away. He got some clothes from Rarity, a signed picture from Rainbow, a small tool set from Applejack, and Lyra gave him a picture frame. Though he did have to wonder where Fluttershy was.

"Oh, um sorry I'm late. But Mrs. Doe was giving birth, and um sorry I um, didn't bring you anything." A quiet voice said.

"There you are Fluttershy, don't worry you didn't have to bring me anything anyways. And I understand." He said though she still seemed a bit nervous around him. "But it's a good thing you showed up, and you have impeccable timing as well. I just finished with the last git and wanted to talk to you."

"O-oh, really? Um, why w-would you want to talk to me?" She asked trying to hide behind her mane.

"Well, I've recently decided on something earlier today and need your help." He said giving her a smile.

"And what help do you need?" She mumbled.

"Now remember I have Twilight's permission as well, but I decided that I wanted a pet. She said you were..." He stopped when he heard her squeal with joy.

"You want a pet?" She asked giving him a look of pure joy.

"Um, well yeah." He answered a little taken aback by her sudden burst of confidence.

"What kind of pet do you want? I have so many to chose from, let's go and get you one then?" She said trying to pull him out of the door.

"Wait, I was hoping to stop by tomorrow!" He said the tugging on his arm stopped. "I mean I would like to finish the party and all."

"Oh, I'm so very sorry. I didn't even think about it, I'm so sorry!" She said looking away in embarrassment.

"Don't worry about it, is tomorrow okay?" He asked.

"Oh yes, come by anytime you want." She replied with a big smile.

"Thanks, so how about we go back inside and you tell me about the new young deer that was born today?" He asked her eyes lightening up again as they went back in.

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The next morning he woke up with his body completely sore with soreness he felt before. Apparently, Lyra went a bit overboard with his drinks and got him pretty drunk. Though this time he could remember everything that happened, then he took a look at the room he was in.

"Well, maybe not everything." He said to himself.

He recognized the room as the guest room in Bon Bons and Lyra's house, which was upstairs from the shop. Though how he got there or why was a blur, and his body hurt all over. Though since he could remember everything, he felt a sense of relief that he didn't do anything too embarrassing.

"Hey, Brandon you awake?" Lyra voice asked through the door.

"Come in." He called not wanting to move.

"Oh good, how you feeling?" She asked opening the door a guilty expression on her face.

"Well, no headaches or anything. Just really sore, but how did I get here?" He asked.

"Oh after I realized that I may have given you too much to drink..." He raised an eyebrow at that. "Okay, I did give you too much. But yeah, Twilight started to realize that I was the one who was getting you drunk, so..."

"She told you that you would have to take care of me? How Bon Bon take that news?" He asked still not moving much.

"Well she understood, but I still got an ear full after we managed to get you to bed. Neither one of us realized how strong you are since the doctors didn't let you work out in that month at the hospital? Because for somepony to say that they were only allowed to get up was to use the bathroom or to do simple exercises it sure doesn't seem like it." She said with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah, I'm sure. Guess I'm just regaining muscle after being able to move around more. So I do remember most of last night, but there are some parts that are still fuzzy. Mind filling me in?" He asked.

"Sure, just tell me the last thing you remember." She replied sitting on the bed.

He quickly described the last thing he remembered clearly, which for some reason she started to giggle. She then told him that they stayed for two hours after that, and they got to see him dance again. Though he wished she wouldn't have told him that they managed to convince him to take his clothes off, which made him now feel that he was still in fact naked.

"Oh, don't worry. No pony is gonna judge you, especially since they think you're already weird for wearing clothing all of the time. But they understand that you're from a different culture and everything, but seriously it's nothing to be ashamed about." She said after laughing at his reddened face.

"I know, it's just that it's embarrassing for me to be naked in front of a girl. Even if they are ponies." He replied feeling self-conscious right then.

"So that's part of the reason why your face is sooo red right now? Well, your clothes are still over at Pinkies, so you're going to have to walk around naked just like the rest of us for a little bit." She giggled as he let out a groan.

"You serious?" He asked hoping this was some kind of joke.

"Nope, Pinkie says she wanted to keep the clothes you wore over there. Though if I were you I wouldn't pick them up, I mean you did start a prank war on her." She reminded him.

"Right, so she'll probably do something to them. Unless that's what she wants me to think." He said though he didn't want to actually suffer from a headache right now from trying to follow what Pinkie might be planning.

"Don't worry Twilight wouldn't let Pinkie go for the rest of your clothes, and I know Rarity would kill her if she touched the ones she made for you." She said helping him stay off that headache train.

"Yeah, probably." He mumbled.

"So come down when you feel like it, and don't worry we won't judge you for being naked. Besides you have a nice little butt." She let out a laugh as his pillow was thrown at her and she left the room.

"Great, now what am I going to do?" He asked himself, he could use the blanket to cover himself but Bon Bon might not like that.

So he just decided he would let himself die of embarrassment for one day and started to make his way downstairs. Though he did his best to keep himself covered, hoping that no one would notice him. But then again how could they not miss the only thing on two legs?

But after realizing as he walked past the counter waving bye and thanks to Bon Bon for letting him stay the night, and walking outside that he had nothing to be worried about. Though now he did get more curious stares, he figured he would have to do this at some point why not now? So he made his way to Fluttershy's cottage, a thought ran across his mind.

"Wonder who's gonna be more embarrassed, me or her?" He asked himself mostly because he was still very embarrassed himself right now.

He wound through town getting a few more stares but no questions or harsh and judging stares where given. That he was appreciative about. Upon coming up on the clearing that he knew Fluttershy's cottage was he speed up getting there much faster, and he gave a light knock.

"Oh, um coming!" A barely audible voice came, and after a moment Fluttershy opened the door. "Oh Brandon, it's you! Please come in, if you want to that is." She said moving out of the way and waving a hoof to the inside.

"No problem at all, I would love to come in." He replied stepping inside.

"Oh my, what happened to your clothes?" She asked finally noticing.

"Um, well at the party last night my clothes got left over at Pinkies. So I haven't gone and picked them up yet, mostly because I may have started a prank war with her. As for why I didn't go pick up some of my other clothes is because I might as well get used to uh, being nude." He said his face feeling extremely hot and he kept looking in any direction other than Fluttershy.

"Oh, okay. That makes sense, now what kind of pet are you looking for?" She asked walking over to the couch and sitting down waiting for him to answer.

"Well, I don't know. Can you show me what you got?" He asked looking around.

"Of course, let's start outside." She suggested.

So they went outside and she gathered all of her little animal friends that wanted to be somepony's pet. He looked at them all, and couldn't believe at her selection though. From what he could see she had Flamingos, Toucans, Bats, and some of the more impressive stuff like Eagles and Hawks.

"So, um, do you like what you see?" She asked.

"Yeah, you take care of all of these by yourself?" He asked looking at her in amazement.

"Oh yes, all of the little cute animals come to me." She answered.

"Yeah, little." He said looking at the bear that was sleeping in the sun.

He looked over his choices again having a bit of a tough time to chose one, he did like them all. But he wanted to make sure it was the right pet, and also maybe a cool looking one. When he passed over the eagle again he noticed that right by it was a little white with black spots on it, a cute little rat.

"And what's this one's name?" He asked pointing to the rat, this made the Eagle fly up and land over in the tree for obvious reasons.

"Huh, I've never seen her before." She replied.

"Really? So it's a girl then?" He asked looking at Fluttershy again in amazement.

"Yes, I've never seen her before. Hello there little one, if you don't mind me asking what's your name?" She asked the little rat, which made him a little confused until he remembered that she had the ability to talk to animals. Twilight explained that after one day a mouse had crawled into her mane and she was talking to it.

"So what's her name?" He asked after they seemed to be done.

"Oh, she says she doesn't have a name poor thing." She said giving the little rat a sad stare. "I don't suppose you don't have a name for her do you?"

"Hmm, let's see." He said squatting down to get a good look at the little rat. "How about Daisy?"

At that, the rat started to squeak something that he couldn't make out and turned to Fluttershy who was listening intently. He waited until the conversation once again was brought to an end, though that took a moment. But what alerted him that it was over was Fluttershy giggling at something.

"So what's funny?" He asked.

"Oh she likes the name, says it's her favorite flower. But she, um, wants to know if you'll consider her to be your pet?" She asked digging at the ground. "I mean you don't have to, she'll understand and so would I if you want another pet or something."

"What are you talking about another pet?" This made her look at him with curiosity. "The reason why I decided to give her a name after all was because I was hoping she be my pet, if I didn't I would've let you come up with the name." He said a big smile spread across her face.

"Oh thank you, thank you, thank you. She said that she didn't have anywhere to go, because a mean old snake kicked her out of her old home. I would have offered her a place to stay with me, but she wanted to really go with you." She said with a bone-crushing hug.

"N-no problem, c-can't b-breath..." He managed to say.

"Oh, sorry. So you'll take her then?" She asked again.

"Of course, I think having a pet rat would be nice. So if I remember all I have to do if I have any questions or concerns I come to you right? Also for food for her and everything?" He asked.

"Oh yes, you two can visit anytime." She answered.

"Okay, great. Well better get back to the library, come on Daisy I'll show ya your new house. At least for a little bit." He said bending down holding out his hand and she climbed in and he sat her on his shoulder.

"What do you mean by a little bit?" Fluttershy asked.

"Oh yeah right, I'll be moving into a new house soon. A cottage not too far from here actually, just don't tell Pinkie okay?" He asked giving her begging eyes.

"Okay, if that's what you want." She mumbled.

"Well thank you for helping me find a pet, I'll come by to buy some food for her. I don't have any bits on me right now." He said reminding both of them of his situation.

"Well here, let me go get some for you. At no charge, consider it my gift to you." She said and before he could respond she took off to get the food.

"Fine, well Daisy looks like me and you are new friends." He said looking at his shoulder, her response was a small squeak.

"Here you go, now remember to only feed her twice every day with a small dish," Fluttershy said coming back with a small bag of rat food and gave it to him.

"Thanks again, I guess I'll um, see ya around neighbor." He said waving to her as he started to make his way back into town.

"Make sure you take good care of her and remember only two times a day with a small dish. And also make sure she gets plenty of water, she seems pretty thirsty!" She called and he chuckled as she kept reminding him.

"Well this has been a good day, now all I have to do is hope Pinkie isn't going to try to pull something right now." He said laughing.

Author's Notes:

Well this is back for a good minute. Hope you all enjoyed the new chapter.