The pinkish pony flinches when I speak. But after a second she looks at me curiously, even though there’s still fear in her eyes.

“Uhh… H-hi...” I don’t know why she’s still scared to death of me. But at this point I’m determined to get on their good side.

“What’s you’re name.” Fuck it’s like talking to a five-year-old.

“I-it’s L-lilac.”

*These ponies and their fucking weird names.* “Lilac?” She nods shakily. “Well, nice to meetcha Lilac.” I slowly hold out my hand, she steps back, then looks to Twilight, then back to me. Then to my hand, I think realization hit her, as she put her hoof to my hand and we shake.

“I-it’s nice to m-meet you too, E-ember.” She smiles sheepishly. I smile the most disarming smile I could muster. “And sorry about… Freaking out and… calling you a monster.”

“Eh… It’s alright. To be honest, my people would do the same thing.”

“Really?”

“Eeyup.” I do actually say yes like that. Out of the corner of my vision I saw Applejack give me a weird look.

“Ember?” I look to Twilight. “I think you should go introduce yourself.” I was about to ask her why. But I saw that there was a large group of ponies staring in our direction. More specifically me.

“Alright, just stay by my side.”

“Why?”

“For reassurance? I don’t know, something like that.” Sarcasm can be a fun tool to use. Twilight’s cheeks tint a light pink, but it quickly goes away.

“Right... Girls?” They all look to Twilight. “Follow me and Ember.” I can hear Rainbow grumble something.

“I still wanna buck you right in the head.” The others didn’t hear, so I just gave her the over-the-shoulder-look.

“What am I supposed to say when we get there?” I ask Twilight.

“Just introduce yourself and reassure them that you won’t hurt any of us.”

“Ok.” I say just as we get to the front of the crowd. I look at all the ponies before me. Some cowering while others look at me with curiosity. The occasional, ‘What’s that thing?’ from a little… foal? Yeah, I think they call the babies, foals. “Greetings ponies of Ponyville,” They all jump at my voice, and it’s kinda hard to come up with what to say at the moment. I never spoke in front of a crowd before. “My name is Ember and I mean you no harm. I am a human hybrid from the planet Earth.” When those words leave my mouth a light green pony jumps up and shouts.

“A HUMAN!?” The pony rushes to the front, knocking other ponies out of the way. When she gets to the front she screams like a fangirl. “I KNEW IT! I bucking knew it! You all said I was wrong! But look! Humans DO EXIST!” I was brought down to my knees, covering my ears from all her yelling and squealing. My hearing’s as sensitive as an owls! Have you seen how they react to high pitched noises!?

“Oh no! Ember!” Fluttershy quickly comes to my side. “What’s wrong? Are you hurting?” I didn’t respond, I couldn’t. My ears were having needles driven through them.

“Lyra!” I hear another voice from the crowd. I hear movement as another pony comes up front. I didn’t look up, I just wanted the loud noise to stop. “Lyra! Stop! Look at what you’re doing to the poor thing!” The squealing stops and I hear a gasp.

“Is it over?”

“Yes, sorry about Lyra, she gets like this when anything about ‘Huomans’ come up.” I look up. I bet it’s a pathetic sight; me on the floor, tears in my eyes, all because I couldn’t stand that high pitched screaming. The two ponies in front of me are… unique to say the least. The light green- mint green pony has light green with white striped hair and tail, golden yellow eyes, and from my viewing angle what looks like a small harp on her butt. The yellow pony has pink and dark purple curled hair and tail, clear blue eyes, and three candy-looking things on her butt. I get and wipe the liquid from my eyes. The crowd’s looking at me wide-eyed. “It’s okay. I’m fine now.” I look at the two ponies in front of me. The green one, Lyra I think, has a face of shock, then downcast.

“I’m sorry.” She whispers, she looks up to me. “I’m sorry, I was just excited to finally see proof of humans...”

“It’s alright, Lyra. You didn’t know that would hurt me. And really, there’s no real harm done.” I smile brightly, she smiles back.

“Thank you.” She’s about to walk off, but a look of excitement takes her face.

“Oh! Almost forgot. You are a human, right? You kinda don’t look like one...”

“Technically, yes.”

“‘Technically’?” I nod.

“Back on my world my physical form was altered, that’s why I look like this.”

“Can’t you change back by stopping the spell?”

“Eehe… That’s the thing. We don’t have magic where I come from. It was our advanced technology that changed how I look. And it’s irreversible.”

“Really?” I nod. “That’s so awesome!”

“Anyway!” Twilight decided to interrupt. “That’ll be enough for now. As Ember here needs to get settled in to here. You all can ask more questions tomo-” I put a hand over Twilight’s mouth.

“I’m not doing a Q n’ A with over a hundred ponies.” I remove my hand from her mouth.

“Ehe… Right. That’ll be all everypony! Go back to… Whatever it was you were doing!” And they all just do that. Without even giving a second look.

“That sure was something...” I remark.

“I have to agree with you on that Ember.” Rarity chimes in.

“Are you sure you’re ok sugarcube?”

“Yeah, I’m fine now.” I notice that Rainbow’s smirking. My wings flare as I jump in front of her. “I could tear your throat out if I wanted to right now. You absolutly NO idea who you're messing with.” Her eyes shrink when I threaten her, but she quickly recovers and scowls. I had a bit of a fighting reputation back on earth.

“As if you could touch me! I bet I could buck you in the fa-” I grab her neck before she finishes.

“I’ve dealt with people like you, and you’re no different, fucking bigot. So how about we try to get along before I do something-” My hand tightens around her neck. “I’ll eventually regret. Does that sound better?” She nods rapidly. “Good.” I let go of her neck and walk off. “C’mon Twilight, I need a place to sleep.” Kinda glad the others didn’t see.

“In the middle of the day?” I stop.

“Do you have owls here?” She nods. “I’m a hybrid between an owl and a human.” I let her connect the dots.

“Oh! You’re tired?” I nod.

“Yeah, I’m fucking tired right now. And I need a dark place to sleep in. You have a room like that where you live?” She nods.

“I have a basement, I just need to move some equipment and put a bed in there.”

“Perfect. You mind showing the way?”

“Oh! Of course not! Follow me!” Twi walks on ahead with me in tow…

We got to Twilight’s place, I think. With my drowsiness, I’m barely paying any attention to my surroundings. I just kept concentration on Twilight while she lead me through the town.

“Here we are!” If it weren’t for her speaking out loud like that, I probably would’ve tripped over her. I look ahead her, and my eyes widen.

“You live in a tree?” She nods. “Awesome.” She blushes for some reason.

“Anway, lets go inside.” She hastily opens the door and walk in, I follow her in suit. I kinda had to crawl through the opening. But once inside I was astonished, it looked bigger on the inside than it did on the outside. I peak back outside to see this true. Twilight giggles. “No you’re not going insane, there’s a dimensional displacement spell placed on my home.”

“Huh, to think I thought magic was fake here...” She chuckles at my remark, I yawn. “Anyway, you said you have a basement?”

“Oh! right! I just need to rearrange some things in there and put a bed in there.”

“Is there anything I can do to help out?” She shakes her head.

“No, you just stay right there, and I’ll come back everything’s ready.”

“Okkaay...” I say as she walks to the stairs that I didn’t notice before. She then, walks behind it? From my angle, it looked like she disappeared behind the staircase. I straf to the side and see that there’s a second staircase, heading down. *Ah, that must be the basement.* I hear the clip-clop of hooves from the hallway. I step back as Twilight comes back up.

“Alright! Now to get the bed. It should be able to fit your, impressive, stature!” She has an appraising look on her face as she walks up the stairs.

“Um… Thanks, I think...” *That wasn’t fucking weird at all...* I just continue to stand in place, contemplating how to take that little remark she made as a compliment, or something else… Just then she comes back down. Followed by a huge mattress floating after her, covered in a pinkish mist. “So that’s what magic looks like...” I mutter under my breath.

“What?”

“Nothing, just never thought magic would look like… That...”

“What do you mean?”

“Don’t you see the pink mist surrounding the mattress?” She looks to the thing, then back to me.

“No.”

“Oh… then I must be-”

“Oh! I know what you mean, you can see magical auras! That's impressive for a species who hasn't used magic themselves.” She says as she walks back down stairs. I decided to follow her this time, luckily the hallway was just high enough to allow me to stand upright.

“I’ve been meaning to ask you something about that.”

“What is it?”

“If I’m in a place where magic does exist, does that mean I get to use magic like you?” That made her stop.

“I… actually don’t know. Maybe? I never really did any research about that particular subject...” We walk by each other in silence. we got to the bottom of the stair and Twilight opened the door. And I didn’t expect to see what I saw. A bunch of comically old machines were pushed up against a wall, and shelves the held beakers of varying shapes containing liquids. There’s even a table the held more science equipment.

“Wow, I didn’t expect to see this. Is this like, your laboratory?” She nods.

“Yes it is!”

“Huh. Another scientist.”

“Thank you for not calling me a ‘mad scientist’.” She looks at me sharply. “What do you mean by ‘Another scientist’?” Oh yeah, that...

“Oh! Right, well, when I was younger, I used to be quite the scientist. I experimented on elements, acids, bases. I would even create little robots to help me.”

“Roobaughts? What’s that?”

*Should’ve known...* “Imagine a pony completely made metal and circuits. Then add as much intelligence as an average pony.”

“A machine that’s as capable as a pony!? Or, human?” I nod. A feather, paper, and a small little ink bottle, float in out of nowhere. The feather’s tip dips into the ink in rapidly scribbles across the paper. She looks at it with extreme interest.

*How is she doing that and levitating a bed? Multitask? Ugh…* “You can multitask with magic?” She looks to me and nods.

“Why, yes I can! Magic is my talent after all.” She says as we head down, the bed setting down on the basement floor.

“Well, as much as I would love to continue talking, *yawn* I need to get some sleep. See you back at midnight. If you can stay up that long that is.“

“Oh don’t worry, I can stay up longer than that.” I chuckle as I walk up to the bed and lay in it.

*I wonder why she’s doing all of this for me… There’s no way in hell she’s doing just because, there has to be some reason...* I think right before I enter dream land…

I’m in some kind of void, inky blackness as far as the eye can see. This isn’t the first first time I end up here when I clock out. It just means I’m lucid! I snap my fingers and the place is filled with stars, galaxies, star clusters. You get the picture. And one particular galaxy comes up front; the Milky Way. We’ve already started to populate on other Earth-like planets here, the most recent one was the M-17 mission to OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb. Yes, that’s real planet we discovered. Anyway, I was just looking at the stars and galaxies when a voice spoke out.

“Ah, so this is the new present I felt earlier.” I quickly look around and spot a dark blue figure, it gets closer to and it’s another pony. But it looks dramatically different than the ones I’ve seen. It’s, or her if the feminine voice belongs to it, its hair and tail seem to be made up of twinkling stars of the night. With a light blue, and see-through, border. The eyes a teal blue, and it looks like she’s wearing a collar, crown, and what look like shoes, for a pony. All a light blue. “Greetings, new creature. I am Princess Luna.” I’m gonna go ahead and say that most of these ponies are female.

“Ah, you must be one of the princesses Twilight was talking about?” Her eyes widen, I guess she didn’t expect me to respond with Twilight.

“You have already met our subjects?”

*She’s speaking old english, great…* “In a way, yes.”

“And Twilight has already spoken of us to you?” I nod, she chuckles a little. She stops and clears her throat, apparently remembering something. “*ahem* Well, creature,”

“My name’s Ember.”

“I see. Well, Ember, Allow me to be the first to greet to our great country.” She lowers her front half in some kind of bow.

“Um… Thanks?” At this point things are really getting fucking weird. “How do I even know that you’re not a part of my imagination, or a dream?”

“Hasn’t Twilight told you of our ability to enter one’s dreams?” I smack myself in the forehead.

“I really need to start asking questions about this place…” She chuckles a little.

“It seems so.” Just then I remember something.

“Oh! I just remembered! Is it true that you control the rising and setting of the moon and your sister” does the same with the sun?” She nods. “I still have a hard time believing that...”

“Why dous thou not beleive us?” She asks a bit sharply.

“I’m sorry, but I’m from a world where magic like yours does not exist. I come from a world where we have such advanced technology that we can alter our physical form, travel to nearby planets, solar system, make us stronger, smarter, even increase our lifespan if we had the money to do so. You’ll have to excuse me for being a little skeptical about magic in general.” My little rant caught her off guard, if her awed face contributes to that.

“You… Wha… How? A world without magic?” She apparently changed to present english, wierd… “How is that possible?”

“Like I said, we have advanced technology far beyond what you currently have, you make up for by having magic. That’s another thing I’ll have to get used to.” *That’s going to suck, alot...*

“This is… Astounding, to say the least, we will need to go into your species and your, technology, when we meet again.”

“Why can’t you just ask now?”

“I would, but you’re waking up.”

“Huh?

“Until next time, Ember.” She fades away and my vision goes black, I open my eyes and see that Twilight’s right in front of me. Looking at a clipboard, failing to notice me awaken.

*This might be due to her being a scientist, but this is ridiculous.* “Twilight! The fuck are you doing?” That made her jump, nearly four feet to the air. The clipboard drops and she looks to me.

“E-ember! Didn’t expect for you wake up so early!” I scowl at her. “Eehehe..” Her ears fold back and the same light pink tint appears on her cheeks.

“What. Were. You. Doing?” I repeat.

“I… Was just studying you while you slept!” My eyes narrow, I bet that looks a bit terrifying; yellow eyes peering at you in the darkness.

“Is that all?” She nods rapidly, I continue to scowl at her. “I somehow can’t believe you.” I say a little sarcastically. The floor became the object of her affection.

“I’m sorry. I just wanted to know everything about you and your species. I guess I got a little too excited.” I get up from the bed and stretch, my flaring and nearly touching each edge of the room. A few popping sounds emanating from my back.

“Isn’t that the understatement of the century...”

“I’m really sorry. I invaded your personal space, and I had not right to.” I look to her, she’s downcast. And I get a certain feeling I haven’t felt in a long time; compassion.

“Hey, it’s ok. As far as I know, you didn't do anything besides look at me, still a weird thing to do, but whatever. No harm done, right?” I look to her expectantly.

“Yes! All I did was… study you, closely...”

“Good! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go outside.”

“Why?” I look at her with a ‘are you shitting me?’ face as I flare my wings.

“Need to exercise my wings, if I don’t they get cramped up, plus I just want to be outdoors.” Kinda had make up the former, doesn't matter if I do that or not. I just want to see what it's like outside.

“Oh! Ok then, I need to go to bed anyway. Goodnight Ember.” She says with a yawn. She walks up the stairs with me following her.

*Thank you for having a tall enough hallway…* I think as I make my way outside. Twilight heads upstairs, we both wave to eachother as I open the door and crawl outside. I close the door and look up, the night sky was filled with stars, more than what you see on Earth, I was left awestruck. “I wasn’t expecting this, but… Wow… this is amazing.” It is! I’ve never seen anything like it, it’s like looking at an image the Hubble Space Telescope took. Accept from the ground and not from a screen. My wings flare as I crouch and jump. My wings flapping effortlessly as I ascend. *This is gonna be an amazing sight!*

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