After a few minutes of hiding in the cupboard- Wait, are I sure that was a cupboard and not a closet? Does it even matter? Why are I asking me this? Do I not trust me? Not really, no. Fine! Go buck myself!

After a few minutes of hiding in the whatever, Nerdy led me to the school's canteen to look for Twilight (who hadn't been pulled in with me) and discuss the plan for the pancakes. We joined the queue for food.

"These ingredients should all be provided, right?" I asked, looking down at the recipe again.

"Yeah, there shouldn't be any problem," Nerdy replied. "They give absolutely loads of stuff for different things. You're allowed to make anything as long as it's baked."

"These are gonna be the best baked pancakes ever!"

"How do you even make baked pancakes?" We reached the food and he grabbed a few things. I didn't recognise a lot of the food, so I just picked the same things he did.

"Easy; you just stick the frying pan into the oven." Nerdy gave me a weird look.

"I don't think that's how baking works." We headed to an empty table.

"Do they provide frying pans?" He sat down.

"Yeah, but-"

"Then it should be allowed." I copied the movements he made and sat next to him.

"But the heat needs to come from the underside of the pan."

"So?"

"So if we put it in the oven, the heat will come from above."

"Then we'll flip the oven upside down." There was an awkward silence.

"What?"

"We'll flip the oven."

"I-Is that even-? What?"

"If we flip it before we put the pan in, the heat will come from underneath."

"Even if we both tried, we couldn't flip it!"

"I can do it myself." I picked up one of the alien foods off of my tray.

"...You've flipped ovens before?"

"No, but I've flipped more impressive stuff."

"Like what?"

"I once flipped God."

"...What?"

"He had a dick at the time 'cause he was male, but yeah I flipped him by punching him in the face."

"I... Am so confused..."

"Cloud!" Called a voice. I looked towards it to see Twilight and what looked like Primo-Fluttershy coming over to our table.

"Hey, Twilight," I replied.

"What happened to you earlier?" The two of them sat down.

"I'm gonna bake pancakes." There was another awkward silence. Twilight sighed.

"Yeah, okay." I bit into the sandwich-looking thing in my 'hands'. Huh, this is pretty good. Twilight leaned up close to me to whisper into my ear. "Don't tell anypony else about us not being from this place."

"M'kay," I replied, mouth still full of whatever. OH GREAT. MORE MENTAL IMAGES. She got away from my ear.

"I've decided to run for Princess of the Fall Formal."

"Why?"

"I think somepo-body needs to put a stop to Sunset Shimmer's evil ways." I rolled my eyes. Did she really have to make it that obvious? Probably. Fair enough.

"Then I'll do some research on... Stuff, as well as look for that thing you misplaced." Twilight frowned slightly.

"Research? On what?"

"This city is pretty different to where we moved here from, I want to find out about some differences and see if anyone back home is interested." Her eyes widened.

"Good thinking!"

"You moved here together?" Asked Primoshy.

"What are you talking about?" Asked Nerdy. "I thought you two were-?" I kicked him under the table just as an excuse came to mind.

"We're siblings," I said quickly.

"Siblings?" Primoshy asked.

"Yeah, can't you see the resemblance?" I threw an arm (or at least I think that's what they're called) around Twilight's shoulders.

"No...?"

"Sucks for you." I picked my not-sandwich back up and continued eating. The four of us ate in silence for a while until somepony (maybe I should just think some'one' for a while, so I don't confuse myself and accidentally say something seen as weird here. I really hope the some'one' isn't weird to these things...) walked up to our table.

"Hey, you're that new student that beat up Gilda, right?" She asked. I swallowed before replying.

"Yeah?"

"I'm Slash Fentry."

"That's... Nice? What do you want?" I took a drink, revealing the cupped liquid to be normal water. This is just asking the universe to throw something weird at me... Come at me, universe!

"We should bang!" I spat my drink across the table. TOUCHE, UNIVERSE, TOUCHE.

"What?!" Everypoone at the table exclaimed.

"Oh, you don't like people being too direct? That's fine, I'll just change my personality for no discernible reason until you want me." Could it be possible that this universe has an equivalent to Changelings and that she's a really bad actor?! "I'll be back later then!" She left. There was an awkward silence.

"Anyway, uh," I said, trying to change the subject to get inter-species boning out of my mind, "what's this made of?" I motioned to the not-sandwich.

"Beef," replied Nerdy.

"Beef?"

"Yeah, y'know, cow?"

"C-Cow?"

"Yeah." ... "What's wrong?" ... "I thought you liked it?" ... "Hey, is your skin supposed to be that pale?"

Author's Notes:

"Oh, you don't like people being too direct? That's fine, I'll just change my personality for no discernible reason until you want me."

Makes as much sense as the source material!