"Yeah, thanks Mom. I love you too. No, I'm not just sitting around doing nothing. Tell sis that I said "Hi". Thanks. Bye." *click* "Let's see, bills are paid: Check. I've cleaned the house: Check. Well, now that all of that's done, the only thing left to do is just relax and enjoy some me time. Hello PlayStation."

Hello, my name is Mathew Reed. I like to draw, read, sculpt, and play video games. I don't have a girlfriend and I hardly get to hang out with my friends since I rarely go outside anymore. But that doesn't mean I'm a nobody even though I liked to watch My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. What? Even though it's originally made for young girls yet males like myself aged 18-35 like the show, I'm no means a Brony whatsoever. None. Period. That was a while ago. Not anymore. I did manage to finish college though. So at least there's one thing that isn't boring about me. But I'm not here to brag about my life. Instead, I'd like to tell you the story on how a certain magical pony princess from another world and even her world changed my life, or should I say, our lives for the better. Okay, so there I was, in my room, playing video games on my PS2 minding my own business.

“Aaaand, done!” I said as I finished up a game on my PS2. "Whelp, I’m bored. What to do now? Maybe I’ll just take a walk to kill time. Or maybe aimlessly surf the internet until something catches my eye."

As I pondered what I would do to spend the rest of the early afternoon, I took notice of an uncanny purplish gleam in the center of my room reflecting on what seemed to be nothing. My eyes darted across the room, seeking a source for the glow.

"What the..." I asked myself in bewilderment as my mind began to formulate possible causes for the gleam until eventually settling for one. "Man, they were right about TV screens ruining your eyes." I muttered, taking off my glasses in order to wipe off the foggy residue with my shirt.

Upon putting the glasses back on, however, the lenses didn't appear to be the culprit. I once again took off the glasses in a fruitless attempt to rub my eyes, an action which failed to disperse of the glow.

In addition, a small gust of wind began to blow. Confused, I looked at my window to see that it was closed. I then got up and checked my air vent. The lack of flowing air through it told me that the air conditioning was off.

Whatever was going on was seriously starting to freak me out.

"I’ll b...ack, gir...!” A feminine voice shouted vaguely, seemingly from nowhere.

Further discombobulated, I looked around to realize that there's no one around me.

“Whoa, what? I know I'm not high or anything. I don't even smoke.” I mumbled, scratching my head in confusion

*Crackle Crackle*

*Whish*

*BOOM*

A loud crash almost made me you-know-what in you-know-where.

"WHOA!!!!" I hurriedly ducked for cover behind my bed as the purple light quickly brightened and expanded, making the area flash a blinding white.

“Somebody here?” I asked aloud.

No answer.

Instead, the gleam became a bright purple glow, as the swirling winds increased in intensity and an electric crackling sound began to emit from the strange, inexplicably bright light. I covered my eyes as the shining, luminous light became too bright for me to stare at directly.

After a few seconds, the wind, light, and crackling noises dissipated in almost an instant.

Trembling with the sudden intensity of a crack addict hopped up on caffeine and adrenaline, I slowly peeked from behind the side of my bed farthest away from the explosion to find my jaw almost dislocating in shock at what I laid my eyes on.

"M-maybe I am high. What the?" I uttered shocked at what I saw.

“Wow, what a trip. That took a lot out of me. Next time, I should probably ask for help from Rarity.” A small, strange talking animal muttered to itself after emerging from what I’d guess was some kind of portal.

Anyway, I stood there looking at her. She looked sort of familiar, but it couldn't be who I thought it was.

“What the heck? How does something like this even happen?” I thought to myself.

She broke me out of my trance when she spoke.

“Oh, hello there!” The home invader spoke aloud.

I almost moved to hide myself back behind my bed, but figured I’d surrender, as the being had already spotted me.

"Drat! Might as well come out now." I thought, still afraid beyond belief of what was standing in front of me.

“Um...hello.” I sheepishly replied.

“Hi! My name is Twilight Sparkle! Who..." She trailed off, taking on a look of total astonishment. "...and what, may I ask are you?” The strange creature asked as I crawled from cover, ironically looking as confused as I did.

“Uh...My name is Mathew...I’m...a human.” I barely managed to shakily murmur as I was still looking in shock at the creature standing before me and talking; in perfect English, no less!

“Well, Mathew, I’m very sorry to have alarmed you like this. You see, I was practicing this spell I had recently learned which was supposed to allow me to travel great distances across Equestria, and I-!” She started to say.

“Okay, sorry to interrupt, uhh...Twilight Sprinkles, but you don’t even have to finish that sentence for me to have a ton of questions.” I skeptically interrupted, the fear in my voice mostly gone as I figured from the tone of the creature's voice that it wasn't here to rip my brain out or do something freaky like in a typical science fiction movie. “Also, you aren't in any place called ‘Equestria.’” I added.

“Sparkle.” The unicorn-like extraterrestrial being with wings corrected matter-of-factly. “But what do you mean, ‘not in any place called Equestria’?”

“Exactly what I said, er...Twilight. You are not in Equestria. You are in America.” I told her.

“America? What the hay kind of country is that?” She asked me.

“Certainly not one where you’re from, I’m guessing.” I muttered under my breath.

“Odd...I seem to have made a bit of a miscalculation in the incantation. Still, I guess I’ll have to mark this down as a new kind of spell.” Twilight pondered for a minute in silence.

As the creature was wondering what had happened to transport it to this place, I surveyed every inch of its small, horse-like body. It had such a strange, yet...cute look to it. Like a teddy bear, or a pet. Either way, I felt compelled to touch it. I slowly approached the somewhat-small, purple alien and laid my left hand on the top of its head and applied very light pressure with my fingers. It instantly became apprehensive, as I’d expected.

“What are you doing?” Twilight asked in surprise after shaking my hand off of its head and backing away.

“I’m...uh...obtaining knowledge...and stuff...yeah, that's it.” I answered uneasily, realizing how foolish my excuse sounded as soon as I uttered it.

“Other than the fact that you can talk and that you don’t look like anything I've ever seen before, you seem pretty tame. Are you housebroken?” I asked, assuming she was some sort of animal that had lost its owner.

“You mean like some kind of pet?” She asked, raising an eyebrow at me in what seemed like offense.

My eyes widened in surprise at its knowledge. “Well, you’re dead-wrong if you think I’m some stray animal. I’ll have you know that I am a pony.” I almost laughed at the irony of Twilight’s statement about not being a stray animal.

"I fail to see the point in that remark. But alright, that rules out the possibility of being a lost pet, I guess..."

“A pony, huh?” I asked, tilting my head slightly and raising an eyebrow myself. “Not sure how being a pony is different from being an animal." I said.

"It's a huge difference, actually." She said matter-of-factly again.

"Right...but I guess that you being a horse...!" I started to say before I was once again cut off.

"Pony." She corrected.

"Sorry, 'pony'...explains the mane, wings, horn and tail. The wings and horn must mean you're a winged unicorn. But that doesn’t explain the fact that you’re purple and so are your eyes, along with the oddly...straight dark blue mane and tail with purple and pink highlights.” I said while staring at her.

Don't you hate it when you remember something and then forget what you remembered later on? This is one of those times.

"Yes, I am an Alicorn. But what's so strange about my appearance that...?" The alien horse...er, pony didn't finish its question as it noticed me leaning to the right to get a better look at its body. I noticed a tattoo of some sort adorned on its backside.

“Hey, what’s that starry-looking thing on your butt? That some kind of branding?” I asked rather brashly.

The alien’s jaw dropped a little as it blushed in embarrassment at my admittedly rude comments and question.

“You’ve got quite some nerve, talking to a mare in such an incorrigible manner.” She stated in annoyance, glaring at me.

I was about to stick my foot further into my mouth with yet another idiotic comment regarding its...I mean her gender. However, I caught myself and instead slid backward a couple of inches in apprehension.

“I’ll have you know that I was born the way I am, and I’m proud of it. Also, to answer your question, this is my Cutie Mark.” She explained, turning her body to face sideways, looking back at her flank. “It is a symbol of my special talent, which deals in the infinitely vast and ever-expanding subject of magic."

"Whelp...now I'm really lost. What sense does that make??" I thought.

"But that’s enough about me for now; what about you?” She asked hoping that I'm not gonna stare at her again.

“What? What about all the...!?” I asked, but she cut me off again.

“In due time, Mathew. But for now, I'd like to familiarize myself with my surroundings...As you can see, I’m entirely new to this country.” She said while looking at my room.

“Fair enough. Quick note, though: I think you’re in a whole another world, given that you look way different from any horse on this planet and you can talk but haven’t seen a human before. Anyway, what do you wanna know?” I asked nonchalantly.

“Hmm, where to begin...? Ah! You said you were a ‘human,’ right?” She asked me.

“Yea.” I answered.

“Well...what’s a human?” She asked with utmost curiosity.

"Really? You don't know what a human being is?" I questioned, shocked at her realization.

"I can't say I do." She replied. "I haven't seen anything quite like you before. Would you mind enlightening me?" She said sitting down on her haunches.

“Sure. Ah, well...let’s see...” I pondered as I rubbed my chin, trying to begin a proper explanation of my species. “Okay, do you have monkeys where you come from?” I asked her so I can explain the 'human' thing better.

“That we do.” Twilight answered, her eyes widening in eagerness to hear what I had to say.

“Good, that's going to make this easier. So anyway, humans are like monkeys, but...we don’t have tails, most of us aren't nearly as hairy, and we are able to stand completely upright on two legs, seeing as instead of having ‘forelegs’ like you, we have ‘arms’ and ‘hands’." I said while showing her my hands and feet.

"Interesting..." Twilight mumbled to herself before giving me a once-over. "Do you have a gender? If so, then are you male or female?" She asked rubbing her chin.

"Yes, I have a gender. I'm male. There are two predominant genders in this world, by the way: Male and Female." I said with a smile.

"I see...I also can't help but notice your clothing." She exclaimed while looking at the clothes that I'm wearing.

"What about it?" I asked.

"Is...is it common for a human to wear clothes?" She asked.

I almost gave her a look like she was crazy, but it took mere seconds to understand the inquiry, as she wasn't wearing clothes herself. Odd that she even knew what 'clothes' were, though.

"Yea, we wear clothes on a regular basis." I exclaimed.

"Really? Why?" She asked a bit confused.

"Well...for lots of reasons. But we'd be here all afternoon if I went into that." I said to her hoping that I didn't have to tell her that we wear clothes because of a certain taboo that we need to keep in check.

"Mm-hmm...I see. Is there anything else you'd like to teach me?" She asked yet again.

"Let me see...humans are also capable of speech, as evidenced by the fact that this conversation is unbelievably happening now. As I’m assuming these 'ponies' are the dominant species in your world, humans are the dominant species here. That's just the basics from my point of view, though.” I exclaimed.

“Wow, I see…!” Twilight responded in thoughtful understanding. “Well, what about ponies? Are there ponies here?”

“Well…yes and no,” I answered uneasily. “You see, while there is such a thing as horses and ponies here, ‘ponies’ of your kind would supposedly be…how you say, ‘not real.’ Your look seems like you were drawn out of a cartoon of some sort...no offense." I said non-offensively.

"None taken." The mare pardoned, though when I got to the subject of her appearance, it struck a chord in my head.

"Hmm...interestingly enough, there’s this kids’ TV show I’m sort of familiar with that your look reminds me strongly of. I think it's called My Little Pony or something like that, and there’s tons of toys and books and whatnot based on it.” I said.

“What!? So what you’re saying is, in this world, a world that is strikingly similar to mine is known about and visible through this...‘TV’ device, but not tangible, or believed to be real?” She asked in shock.

“I guess so. I’m also going to guess that in your world, humans don’t exist, and that there’s nothing that even hints to us existing?” I wondered.

“100% correct.” The Alicorn responded. “At least until now, anyway. Say, seeing as there’s the possibility that my world’s already known of, has there been any research done in order to prove its existence?” She asked a bit curiously.

“Research?” I asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Well yeah." She responded most seriously. "You know...magic tests, teleportation spells, et cetera.”

“Um…if your idea of ‘research’ includes ‘making toys and merchandise for human children, girls specifically, but recently missing the demographic, instead attracting humans my age and older,’ then I’ll say it’s going swimmingly!” I responded sarcastically.

She let out a small chuckle.

“Nice one. You’re pretty funny,” Twilight complimented. “But seriously, what about the magic? Can’t humans use magic?” She asked raising an eyebrow herself.

“Sadly, no. There isn’t one magic bone in our bodies. It's all physical labor and technology for us. The closest thing to magic we have here is maybe...optical illusions and strange ways to exceed the believed physical limitations of the body.” I exclaimed.

“How peculiar...you can’t even do something like this?” She asked as her horn began to glow a bright magenta and, within a second, my entire body was engulfed in the same luminous shade of ethereal light.

“Whoa, what the...AAAAHHHH!!!!!!" I screamed as I began to involuntarily float into the air, thrashing about like a fish out of water. She levitated me over my bed, and loosened her magic grip. The glow around me disappeared instantly as I came crashing onto my bed face-down. Twilight giggled again.

“Cute.” I flatly stated with a fake smirk after lifting my head. She giggled a little more. “Ahem! Well, to answer your question: No. No we can’t do that.” I said, getting up off the bed and standing in front of her.

Comparing my height to hers, her head seemed to meet a little below my waistline. Her size overall was pretty close to that of an actual pony in this world, though maybe a little bit smaller. It was sort of hard to tell, given I didn't necessarily have a reference guide for this sort of thing.

“Whoa, you’re huge!” Twilight exclaimed looking up in surprise. “Are all humans this tall?”

“Mm, not really.” I said, unsure. “I’m six feet tall, while I think the average height for humans...at least, in America, is somewhere lower. But then, there’s many other humans who are taller than I am. Some by a little, others by a lot. That, and humans have various body shapes and sizes. In terms of shape, I’m pretty lean.” I told her.

“Is that so? Interesting." She said in astonishment.

I went to show her more of the place and what was in it. She had so many questions about what all of the stuff I had was.

“So...wanna play some Playstation? There’s tons of games to play.” I asked.

“Like what?” She asked.

“You’ll see…” I answered as she climbed off of me to allow me to grab two controllers and turn the TV and game system on. I handed her one of the controllers and grabbed a CD case to show her some of the games I had. “I got quite a few games for us to play together. Would you like to play some...Sonic...? Street Fighter...? Mortal Kombat...? Halo...?”

“I don’t know what any of those are, but I suppose I’ll pick...that one.” She said, pointing a hoof to the disc with the design of a black dragon on it.

“Mortal Kombat it is. I have to warn you, though. This game is a bit uh...graphic. I dunno if you can handle it.”

“What harm could a series of moving images do to anypony? Or human?” I raised my eyebrows and gave her an ‘I warned you.’ look before I put the game in. Shortly, we were immersed in a virtual world of intense violence and ridiculous amounts of blood. The first thing we saw was at the title screen, where a yellow ninja had punched a blue ninja in the face.

“I get the feeling this game has a bit of violence in it.” Twilight hypothesized.

“And your feeling would be right.” I was sure to enter the tutorial mode that allowed for the practice of finishing moves and picked a particularly brutal one, just to see Twi’s reaction.

“Now, are you absolutely sure you won’t get scared?”

“There’s nothing to be afraid of. Why are you so afraid of what I might-? *GASP*” She didn’t finish as she turned to the screen to watch the blue ninja rip another ninja’s head off, the spinal cord attached, with his bare hand and present it to the camera. The look on her face changed from one of naïve confidence to wide-eyed shock and disgust.

“Turn it off, turn it off, turn it off!” She begged as she hid behind my back.

“I told you.” I said, breaking into a laugh as I took the game out.

“Oh, dear sweet Celestia, that was horrible!” She said still breathing heavily.

“That it was. That it was. Why don’t we play something a bit more...friendly?”

“I don’t mind the violence, but that was just grotesque.” She said as she returned to her original position.

“Noted.” We spent some time trying out various games for her to play. I tried my best to keep her away from any games that showed a lot of killing in them. We started off with simple run-and-jumpers like Sonic the Hedgehog, which she caught the hang of very quickly. We also played Street Fighter. She was quickly able to learn the controls of the game, despite its notoriously confusing moves list descriptions. Nonetheless, Twilight proved to be a much faster learner than I could’ve anticipated. We didn’t play it for very long, due to her needing to use magic to be able to press all of the buttons, which didn’t help her headache. Otherwise, she actually proved to be a very challenging and analytical opponent; especially with Chun-Li and Rose (her two favorites). She beat me a few times, to my surprise and teensy bit of humiliation.

The most fun we had together was when we were playing co-op in a game by the name of ‘‘Splosion Man,’ where teamwork was absolute key for level completion. We were on-point with coordination for the most part, with each of us making an occasional mistake that got us both killed again and again.

After a while, I went to look at the messages on Skype on my computer only to find nothing. I then went on Facebook only to find nothing as well. YouTube had nothing as well, so don't bother asking.

"What are you doing?" Twilight asked.

"I'm just looking at my computer for stuff. It does all sorts of things, calculations, plays games, music, watch videos and connect to the internet which is possibly the greatest collection of information and some of the stupidest stuff you can imagine at the very same time. I guess you could call it a kind of 'magic window'. Here. Let me show you where you currently are." I threw myself into the chair and wheeled it over to the desk. A couple mouse clicks later and I had brought up Google Earth. Twilight Sparkle was amazed, her jaw hung open seeing an entire globe turning slowly in front of her. He clicked a few times and the picture blurred as he zoomed in eventually reaching where he lived. "We're right there." I said pointing to the screen.

"So this is happening now? If you were to go outside could I see you there and here as well?" She asked excitedly.

"Nah, this is a static image. It was taken maybe 2 years ago before I even moved here and it'll stay until they decide to map this area again. Okay, lemme show you something else. " I smiled at her and she liked the fact he had the same passion for learning and teaching like she had.

We spent the next two hours hopping from site to site, I taking her on a tour of the internet

She wanted to try it herself, but I simply said that she cannot do that on her own, or she might run the risk of breaking something and end up costing me my next electric bill. She ended up pouting again. My heart exploded just by looking at her cute little pouty face.

"Ok, wanna hear something cool?" I asked the mare.

"Like what?" Twilight asked back.

Well...there's this thing called rapping." I said.

“...Rapping? What is that?” She asked.

“Y’know, Rap? Hip-Hop? It’s a music genre!” I said.

“Well it sure as hay doesn’t exist in Equestria, to my knowledge.” Twilight pointed out.

“Whaaaaat?” I was bewildered. “Hip-Hop doesn’t exist there? You, my dear little pony friend, have much to learn. Basically, Rap is a sort of abbreviation for the phrase, ‘Rhythm And Poetry.’ It’s basically reciting a poem to the tune of a musical beat. That’s as simple as I can make it sound.”

“Interesting...” Twilight wondered.

“What kinds of music do exist there?” I asked my purple pony friend.

“We have various styles, such as classical, rock, polka, pop, and so on..." She said naming the music genres.

"Yet no rap or Hip-Hop? I'm not sure whether to be astounded or offended. Where's the black culture? Or, whatever the pony equivalent to 'black' is."

"Ok, let me grab a piece of paper and a pencil so we can brainstorm your lyrics.” I said while getting a pencil and some paper.

“Alright!” Twilight said eagerly awaiting to do this rap thing.

“Oh, and just for good measure...here.” I said as I got up to grab a black cap from my closet and place it on Twilight’s head facing backwards. “There. Looking all G’d up now.”

“G’d up? What’s that mean?” She asked in confusion.

“Nothing.” I laughed. “Now let's see watcha got, Lady T-Spark!” I said getting ready.

“…What?” She asked a bit confused.

“First rule of being a rapper: You gotta have a stage name.” I said with a smirk.

“Ooookay…?” She said still confused.

“You’ll understand. Now let's get to work.” I said getting ready.

We spent a fair amount of time brainstorming lyrics for Twilight to recite, I even took the extra step in going onto my computer and searching for instrumental hip-hop beats for her to go along with. It took longer than I’d expected trying to write up the lyrics, considering she was trying to fit in all these big, intellectual words, most of which I didn’t even think had rhymes to them; especially a particular forty-five letter-long word I had no idea she’d even known.

Once that slight nuisance was out of the way, we tested her song out on various instrumental beats I looked up on my computer.

Eventually, we finished this little project and I couldn’t wait to see the results...

“Okay, I’ll play the beat. You ready?” I asked.

“Yeah. Um...how did that phrase go? Oh yeah! Drop that funky beat, yo!” I cracked up at that. Priceless. Nonetheless, I began the beat for her.

“Get ready!” I said getting ready to start.

“Okay. Here goes nothing. Yeah...okay...ready to um...lay it on ‘em...” She said, nodding her head to the opening jingle. As soon as the first drum set sounded, she began.

I’m a pretty little pony who’s a connoisseur of books.

I’m more than meets the eye, you could tell just by my looks.

I represent the fair town of Ponyville.

And now I’m here to show you all my mad mic skills.

As a filly, I was silly, chose my talents over friends.

Reading books willy nilly from beginning to end.

In the city of Canterlot, born and raised.

In the libraries is where I spent most of my days.

Studying the entirety of the day away.

Not exactly the best way to live..but hay.

It got me enrolled in an exclusive institution.

So I figured books were my only suitable solution.

I even got my Cutie Mark at the entrance exam.

And got recruited as Princess Celestia’s right hand...

Or should I say ‘hoof,’ given that we’re ponies.

Not changelings or illusions or any kind of phonies.

I spent my whole life studying up on magic.

Which made my social skills look unbelievably tragic.

'Till one day, I was assigned to make the move to a town.

Not on a high mountainside, but way down on the ground.

I was reluctant at first.

Not sure what to expect.

I feared the worst, but I could only accept.

That I was given a mission to stop Nightmare Moon.

And gain some friends as an ultimate boon.

In the end, I succeeded and made five friends.

Who’ll have my back all the way to the end...

Rainbow Dash...she’s a blast and a half.

Loyalty is her element; she’s always there in a flash.

Then I got Pinkie Pie, who’s all that and a laugh.

And since Laughter’s her element.

She’ll get you laughing fast.

Next up is Fluttershy, who’s a heck of a mare.

She’s the element of Kindness.

Always able to care.

Then there’s Rarity, who’s got no ferocity.

Quite the opposite, representing Generosity.

Last, but not least, there’s Applejack.

A pony I know has got my back.

She’s the element of Honesty, without a doubt.

She tells no lies; no matter what it’s about...

Silly me; I never actually mentioned my name!

It’s Twilight Sparkle, and the element of Magic’s my game.

Our experience and friendship has become a big part of me.

And that’s exactly what makes us the...

Elements of Harmony! Word!

I ended the song and stared in amazement at the unicorn.

“How was that?” She asked excitedly.

“Outstanding!” I said clapping my hands.

“Really?” She asked smiling.

“Yeah, that was amazing for your first time! I’m impressed!” I said, giving her a thumbs up.

“Aww, thanks!” She smiled warmly at me. I smiled back.

Dinnertime came, but I didn't know what I felt like eating. So, I asked Twilight what she liked eating.

“A lot of things. Mainly fruits and flowers, but I’ll eat sweets, too.” She said.

“I see...is there such a thing as ‘pizza’ in Equestria?” I asked.

“That there is! I don’t have it very often, so I could go for that.” She smiled.

“Okey doke. Whatcha want on it?” I asked again.

“Just cheese is fine.” She said plainly.

“Alright.” With that, I picked up my phone, called the nearest restaurant, and placed a delivery order for a large cheese pizza. I was given a thirty-minute waiting period. “It’ll be here in a half-hour."

Thirty minutes passed and we soon heard a knock on the door.

*KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK*

“Sounds like the pizza’s here. I’ll get it.” I gathered up the money out of my wallet before rushing to the door to pick up the pizza and pay the delivery guy.

Once we got all settled, I decided on a movie. "What's that and those there?" Twilight asked.

"TV and movies. You know, popular entertainment?" I said.

"Oh like in books and plays?" She asked excitedly.

"Kinda like that yeah." I said while picking out my favorite movie. Spider-Man 2.

Twilight had to admit she was intrigued and she wanted to learn more about me and my world so we decided on a course of action. She would introduce me to aspects of Equestrian life as well as her friends while I would try to do the same to her. but for now, it was movie time. She loved every single minute of it. Well, except the part where Doc Ock had to die. But she still enjoyed it nontheless.

As soon as the movie was over and we had our pizza, we watched yet another movie: Iron Man. She didn't really like this movie all that much once it was over, I kinda didn't either. But what can you do?

After some time, I decided to see what was on TV. And once I flipped through the channels, I settled on The HUB for a bit. And to my amusement, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic was on. It was playing Season 2: Episode 14, The Last Roundup. My first favorite episode. Twilight stared at it like you couldn't believe.

"So you weren't kidding about the whole re-imagining thing." Twilight said still all wide eyed at the show that was playing.

"I told you so." I said with a smile.

Once that was over, I went to show her some more episodes like 'A Canterlot Wedding', 'One Bad Apple', 'Apple Family Reunion' etc. on my computer. She didn't want to be reminded of the whole wedding thing again, so I skipped that one and went for the other

ones that didn't remind her of what she did wrong.

After we watched T.V., I felt like doing a little bit of stargazing before bed. Twilight did to. So, I invited her to come outside with me. I wasn't really afraid of having her be seen by others since it was dark out, but I was still very cautious about the whole situation. Spreading the blanket down on the ground they set up their telescopes and Rick pointed out certain interesting sights and areas in the sky.

"Right there... " I said motioning to Twilight to look at where my finger was pointing. "...is the planet Jupiter. Biggest planet in the solar system. And you should be able to see two of its moons, actually just their shadows right now."

Twilight was amazed. Never before had she seen an extraterrestrial planet in such detail. The bands of colour, the swirling vortex of the Great Red Spot and the Galilean moons were all there in front of her eyes. I would occasionally find another stellar object for her to see and admire.

Finally, when she felt that her head was swimming we decided to lie down as I named the constellations and gave stories to them when I knew them. We were currently lying down, as Twilight described the night sky and the constellations to me.

"And that one right there,.." Twilight said pointing with one of her hooves. "...is the Great Pony. Those four stars make out his body, those stars are his legs and those stars are his head. The ancient ponies used to say that he circled the sky and made it move. And over there, that one bright red star is the eye of Stormwind the Dragon. If you look closely a little over to the right of that you can see the smoke coming from his mouth. And then over there you can see the twins Canter and Bollux, sons of the Great Pony. They were both great sportsmen and adventurers that helped out the pony heroes of old and some even say led the first ponies to Equestria. Then if you see over there right behind the Great Pony, there's a triangle with that bright star at one tip, the red star on the other side and that binary star at the bottom. That's Kick'em High the Trickster. He was an Earth Pony that went about tricking the gods and teaching ponykind about all sorts of things. As a punishment, he was tied to the Great Pony's tail and was forced to walk behind him for all eternity...." I listened to her go on and on about the constellations and the stories behind them.

We searched for almost every constellation we could find while looking at the stars. until Twilight spoke up. "Why do I feel so comfortable with you?"

"What seriously?" I started to laugh at that. When I saw her face fall slightly I quickly waved my hands and continued. "It's nothing bad, I was just laughing because I felt the same way. Twi it's weird, it's really weird but you and I just click. I can't explain it but I just 'get' you. You open your mouth and say something and I know how you're feeling and what you're talking about." I said.

"That's exactly how I feel!" She said happily then sighed. "It's usually so difficult to talk to the other fillies, I'm always afraid they won't understand what I'm talking about but with you, unless it's a cultural thing I know you're going to get it." She finished.

After some time, Twilight spoke again. "Hey Mat?" She asked, using my nickname in the process.

"Yes?" I asked back.

"Do you wanna visit my world and see what it's really like there?" She asked again.

"I do indeed." I said with a smile.

And with that, we left with a *POOF*

*POOF* We arrived next to Twilight's tree house in what looks to be Ponyville.

"Wow." I said in awe.

"Pretty nice huh?" Twilight asked while looking at me.

"Indeed." I said again yawning a little.

"I'm glad you like it. Now, let's head off to bed." She said again yawning as well.

And with that, man and pony came together as one and felt truly happy as we drifted off to sleep. Next Chapter: Chapter 2 - Meeting The Gang/PAAAAAR-TAY!!! Estimated time remaining: 3 Hours, 56 Minutes