“How long are they going to stay in there?” Thomas asked slightly irritated

“Chill out dude, you know how long it takes for girls to change into different clothes.” Alex responded

“I don’t know if you already forgot, but these girl, aren’t human, and only thing they are changing is Twilight’s illusion, seriously what takes them so long.”

“They must wait for 6 changing rooms to be free at the same time, don’t worry dude it’s only 12:53 a.m. and we are staying here until 7 p.m. we got plenty of time.”

Thomas couldn’t help it, he was excited like a small kid on Christmas Eve, also it bothered him that he for some reason looked forward to seeing Rainbow Dash in swimsuit, even though it was only an illusion.

After another five minutes girls finally showed up, even though both guys knew that under that illusion they are still naked ponies, they had to admit they looked really hot in those imaginary swim suits.

“Finally, I was starting to think that you will never come out.”

“Well pardon me but..”

“No time to talk, all right, here are your watches, they serve as tickets, you use them whenever you want to use any of these sweet, amazing, huge water slides.” Thomas said with huge excitement.

“All right Alex, I know you are not too big of a fan for extreme water slides, so I’ll go alone, girls we meet here at 6:50 p.m. ok let’s head out!”

Right before he wanted to run towards his first goal he was stopped by Rainbow putting her hand on his shoulder, he imagined that in reality she put her hoof on his waist or something like that.

“What is it Dash?”

“You want to go to those extreme attractions without me? The bravest and coolest Pegasus in all of Equestria and beyond?”

Thomas smiled at idea of spending his day not only in aqua park, but also with Rainbow Dash by his side while going on all of these rafting slides and other things like that.

“Are you kidding? Of course I wouldn’t go on them without you, come on let’s go.” He said and took her hand with his own, he didn’t realize what was he doing, he also didn’t realize that Dash started to blush a little.

After those two left all that was left was Alex and 4 girls, all chuckling at their friends excitement.

“Ok let me explain you a few things.” Alex said

“You girls see this sign with a map right there? It’s the map of Aqua Park with all of it’s attractions marked, these things are scattered all around this place, so you won’t get lost and can plan which thing you want to try next.”

They all went to the board, and both Fluttershy and Alex decided to go for the time being to the artificial beach, while Twilight and Pinkie wanted to go eat some ice creams, AJ who was now left alone was still looking at the map thinking where to go first, when she suddenly heard a voice behind her.

“Howdy there miss, can I help you with something?”

Applejack turned around and saw a quite tall guy, he seemed to be around 1,90 meters, he had short brown hair and blue eyes, he was quite muscular.

“Howdy, Ah don’t think ya can help me here partner, ah am just wonderin which attraction should ah go first.”

After hearing her accent, boy’s smile widened and he said

“Well I’ve been here a couple times so I think I can recommend something.”

Applejack and also smiled.

“Names Michael, nice to meet you.”

“Ah am Rebecca, nice to meet you too.” After their introduction Michael decided to suggest going on the attraction called “Three-headed Snake Slide”
Applejack agreed and they both went there, both oblivious to the fact that they were both blushing.

“Duude that was so amazing, where are we going next?!” Dash stated completely excited after they finished their Rafting Slide

“I’m glad you like that, honestly I usually am doing these thing alone cause most of my friends don’t like that kind of fun.”

“Well you ain’t doing it alone no more, so where do we go now?”

Thomas couldn’t help to smile when he looked at the map of Aqua Park, and he marked their next goal in his mind.

“All right I think you will like this one, it’s called The Bomb Bay.”

“Cool what is it?”

“If I’ll tell you it won’t be a surprise right?” Rainbow got even more excited and this time it was her who grabbed his hand as and pulled him in the direction of their next goal.

He also started to blush but unlike her he decided to tell her what she was doing.

“Ekhm Ashleigh, what are you doing?” She looked back at him and realized that she was holding his hand, she immediately released it and said

“I’m sorry I don’t know why I did that I..”

“We can hold hands if you wish.” Thomas said with a little bit of hesitation in his voice, and strong blush forming on his face, after she realized what was he offering her, she also started to blush.

They just stayed there avoiding each other’s gaze, when Thomas decided to take the initiative, he walked up to her and gently wrapped his hand around hers, which if it wouldn’t be for Twilight’s illusion it would be her hoof.

She accepted his hand and they, this time, slowly walked towards their next destination, they were still blushing and avoiding each other’s gaze, but they both smiled.

“So how did you and Thomas met?” Fluttershy asked, they were both laying on sunbeds, enjoying their peaceful relaxation, nobody was around so Alex could use her real name.

“We first met in middle-school, back then he was quite popular guys in the school, while I was the guy who always got bullied, one day he saved me from some guys who were trying to beat me up, after that we became best friends, if there’s someone on this planet I would trust entirely it would be him, you could actually even say that he is something like, our universe version on Element of Loyalty.”

Both Alex and Fluttershy laughed at his last comment. After few moments of silence Fluttershy asked again

“So I was wondering, after I heard the kind of music you sing I thought that you would rather go with Thomas and Rainbow for some extreme attractions but instead you are just laying here with me, why is that? That is, if you don’t mind answering.”

Her last statement was so quiet Alex barely heard it, after few moments of thinking about his answer he said.

“Yeah I like this type of music, but I also enjoy doing nothing and just simply relaxing in peace like that, actually I think that because my music is so loud I subconsciously am looking for some peaceful and quiet entertainment after singing.”

After he looked over to Fluttershy and made sure she was still listening he continued.

“That’s probably why I enjoy watching MLP so much, it just helps me calm down and relax a little, also that’s one of the reason why you are my favorite character from the show.

Fluttershy lifted her face from sunbed at his statement and formed a little blush on it.

“I am your favorite character?”

Alex simply nodded

“But why would you pick me when others are so much more awesome than me, like Rainbow Dash or any other pony in particular.”

He frowned at her statement, then lifted himself up and stood before her

“Look Fluttershy, I think you are the most amazing pony out there, you are fearful, and yet when your friends are in danger you won’t hesitate to do anything to help her. You always would look out for other ponies, whether they were your friends or strangers.”

Fluttershy’s blush was now covering her whole face, she wanted to say something but Alex continued

“Your kindness is something that I think is lacking in this world, I think that’s why I chose you as my favorite, also in my opinion you are more beautiful than rest of mane 6 taken together.”

Now even Alex was blushing, and Fluttershy couldn’t help it as she let out few small tears of joy and hugged him friendly, he hugged her back and she whispered in his ear.

“Thank you.”

“You’re welcome Shy.” He said smiling, after few moments they broke their hug and Alex pointed towards the pool

“It seems that they are about to start creating some artificial waves, do you want to try it out?”

Fluttershy smiled and simply nodded, then they both walked towards the pool.

Both girls were walking around the Aqua Park side by side while licking their ice creams, twilight took vanilla while Pinkie decided for strawberries.

After walking for few minutes Pinkie saw a huge water slide

“Twily we need to go there now, look at it it’s all so spiral and long, and it seems like fun, and it is so big, we have to go there right now.” Pinkie said

“You know what, just go there alone Pinkie, I don’t feel like risking my life for a bit of adrenaline.”

Pinkie frowned a little but quickly started to smile again and she left for the water slide.

Twilight finished her ice cream, and sat down on one of the benches, she didn’t realize that someone was already siting there, until he sneezed making her fall of the bench.

“Oh my goodness I’m sorry are you alright?” He asked

“It’s ok I’m fine.” Twilight said while looking at the boy, he was rather short, she would say that he’s 1.70 meters at best, he had short curly black hair, he was quite skinny like Alex, he also wore a pair of glasses. After she accepted his hand and he helped her get up she realized that he was holding a book.

“What are you reading?”

“Oh it’s nothing interesting really just some boring history book.” To his surprise Twilight smiled and asked

“What kind of history book is that?”

“Well it tells about what was happening on Earth during last 1000 years, it’s called “Millennium of History” and I think it’s quite interesting.”
Twilight came now closer to him and asked

“Could I borrow it when you finish reading it?”

This question caught him off guard, he never thought that hot girl like this one would be interested in earth’s history, or any other scientific project.

“Sure I already read it though, I can give it to you right now.” He said while giving Twilight his book, he smiled and asked

“What’s your name?”

“I am Tara, and you?”

“My name is Albert, so why are you sitting here on the bench instead of having fun on water slides?”

“Oh you see, I’m not a big fun of these type of things, especially those big ones.” Twiligh said while looking at the attraction Pinkie wanted her to attend

“So why won’t you go on smaller ones then?” He asked

“I would but I’m waiting for my friend who’s right now having fun on this huge water slide right there.”

“Seriously? What a coincidence I’m too waiting for my friend to finish his death ride.”

Twilight smiled and said

“Then I guess we could wait together, you could tell me something about Earth’s history, cause I never really had any chance to learn about it.”

He was quite surprised by her statement but he quickly shrugged it off and said.

“Sure why not.”

“Ah have to say it certainly was fun.”

“Of course it was, so where do you want to go now?” Michael said

“Well Ah think Ah will still let you decide, ah have no idea which one of these devilish slides should we pick.” Applejack replied

Michael chuckled a little and then looked at map, before he could say anything he heard a quiet growl from behind him.

“Ah think ah might be a little bit hungry.” AJ said while blushing a little in embarrassment.

“All right, we could go to some restaurant, any preferences in food?”

“Ah will eat everything that ain’t meat partner.”

Michael was little surprised by the fact that she was a vegan, but he quickly shrugged it off and looked at the map.

“There’s this little restaurant which server very good salads.”

“Great let’s go.”

After few minutes of walking they sat down and ordered something to eat and drink, then AJ realized something.

“Oh no, Ah think Ah didn’t took any money with me.”

“Don’t worry Rebecca, what kind of gentleman would I be If I would let you pay for anything.”

Applejack was surprised by his kindness, and started blushing a little

“Ya really don’t have to.”

“Yes, but I want to, besides who wouldn’t want to help such beautiful girl?”

She now could feel that her whole face was becoming red.

Soon their meals were done and they started eating.

After few minutes of eating in silence Michael asked

“So Rebecca where are you from? Cause I can tell from your accent that you aren’t probably from here.”

Applejack quickly tried to think about some ideas but she could only think of one thing.

“Ah would rather not talk about it, bad memories, and stuff.” She said and started to look in other direction

‘She’s a terrible liar, but if she really doesn’t want to talk about then I don’t think I should ask.' Michael thought to himself

“Ok sure, where are you staying now?”

“Ah am staying at my friend's house, and you?”

“I am living with my parents and my little brother, we recently moved to the city, we used to live on the farm until then, I honestly liked it more before.”

“Ah’m sorry sugarcube.”

Michael perked up a little, when he heard her call him like that

‘Is she? No that’s impossible it must be my imagination’ he shrugged it off and said

“You don’t have to apologize for anything, come on, let’s finish eating and try out other attractions, this Aqua Park is quite big.”

Applejack smiled and continued eating, she didn’t know why but she really liked spending time with this guy even though she met him not even an hour ago. She felt comfortable around him and for some reason she even felt that she could tell him everything, which made her feel guilty for lying to him.

Everyone started to gather, Rainbow Dash and Thomas with huge grins on their faces, and few drops of sweat, from spending their whole day running from one attraction to the other without any breaks, still holding hands. Than Alex and Fluttershy showed up, they have spent their day at Aqua Park in much more calm and relaxing way then first pair, even now Fluttershy could hardly look at Alex without blushing. Next pair was Twilight and Pinkie, Twilight was holding some kind of book, while Pinkie was bouncing happily. Last pair to show up were Applejack, and to everyone surprise Michael.

“Hey Rebecca who’s that guy?” Dash asked

“This is Michael, Ah met him when we parted ways.”

“Nice to meet you.” After everyone introduced themselves to Michael, Thomas starred at Applejack and Michael, and realized they both had a small blush on their faces, this sight reminded him something, and then he realized he was still holding hands with Rainbow, he quickly but gently left her grip and they both started to blush again.

“Well I assume that today was good fun for everybody but we must take our leave now, it was nice to meet you Michael.”

“Yeah I think I will go back to my house as well, hey Rebecca.”

Applejack turned her head towards him

“I was thinking maybe you could give me your phone number.”
Both Thomas and Alex smiled at Michael statement while Applejack not knowing what he was talking about still blushed a little though she didn’t know why.

Thomas quickly realized that she doesn’t know what phone is so he interfered.

“Rebecca recently broke her Phone but if you want I can give you my number, she’s staying at my place anyway so you can call her anytime you want.”

Michael was surprised that friend about which Applejack spoke before was guy, but he shrugged it off like anything else and happily accepted Thomas’s number.

After saying goodbyes to everyone he turned to Applejack and kissed her lightly one the cheek. This caught her completely off guard, and her face became crimson red, he was gone before she could say anything.

After AJ got few jokes about her new “boyfriend” from Rainbow Dash, and Alex asked Twilight where did she get that book from, they all went separate ways into changing rooms. Then they went out of them and were ready to leave the Aqua Park, they went outside and got into Alex's car starting their journey back home.

‘I do hope I will be able to come back her sometime again, perhaps even with Rainbow Dash.’ Thomas blushed a little at his own thought, and after calming himself down he joined his friends conversation about their day at Aqua Park.

After they finally arrived at Thomas house it was 7:43 p.m. each of them said goodbye to Alex, as he took off towards his own house.
Thomas unlocked the door and went inside.

“Today surely was a good day don’t you think?”

They all nodded in agreement.

“So who’s up for some fresh salad.

Again all 5 girls nodded

“All right, I’m on it, by the way Twily, how long are you going to keep this illusion on?”

“Oh well it’s going to disappear in 2 or 3 hours from now anyway, and I thought this might be good occasion for you to at least pretend to be spending some time with humans once in a while.”

Rest of girls laughed a little while Thomas only spread a cocky grin on his face, he was about to teach Twilight a simple rule

“Don’t joke about person who’s making your meal.”

Then they all heard weird noise and turned around to look where it came from, in his living suddenly appeared a flash of light, and after few moments it changed into a some kind of figure.

It was small, really small, it had green spikes on its head and tail, and was fully covered in purple scales, except his belly. Thomas then realized what this creature was, but before he could say anything Twilight spoke

“Spike?”

Author's Notes:

Pheew, I have to say it was hard for me to write this chapter, I don't really know why.
But I do hope you will enjoy it, even though I can't help it but feel that it's one of my weakest chapter thus far.

Best Wishes
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