“I suppose...” The three of us sit in silence. “So what exactly happens at this gala?”

“Nothing extravagant. What you see is all that’ll happen until midnight.”

“The Gala ends at midnight?”

“Yes my good fellow.”

“Then if nothing really exciting happens, why stay?”

“Oh it’s just for show. Receiving an invitation from Princess Celestia is a high honor amongst the Canterlot nobles.”

“I see.” I let that thought marinate. “Tell me if this is wrong, but is it true the nobles are here to just try and get more wealth or something to that effect from Celestia?”

“It is sad, but true.”

“Heh, knew it. Well, knowing the girls something’s bound to happen.”

“‘The girls’? Oh! You mean the Elements of Harmony. You’re friends with them?”

“Yeah.”

“Oh wow, it must be an honor to be friends with them.” Fleur said.

“Eh… It’s not as great as you think it is.”

“Oh? Why not?”

“Well, Rainbow Dash, the element of Loyalty, is almost obsessed with being the fastest in all of Equestria, and likes to fight. Rarity, from what I know you should know who she is,” they nod “she’s always fussing about how everyone’s not wearing ‘fashionable clothing’ no matter the situation. The others I can’t complain about but they all are good friends to hang around with in the end, just not as glamorous as you say it to be.”

“You speak as if you never had friends before.” Fancy inquired.

“It’s not that I never had friends. It’s just been a few years since I’ve had friends.”

“Really?” I nod. “How can anypony go so long without somepony to talk with or be with?”

“It may be human nature. But in all seriousness I don’t really need freinds. And where I come from that goes for almost everyone.”

“My word...”

“And that doesn’t mean we’re all not lonely bastards. I still like having friends. Hell, it’s the only thing I got at this point.”

“What do you mean?”

“I don’t have family here, I’m the only one of my kind here, and I’m still getting used to the whole ‘society of ponies and other intelligent creatures’.” I list things off using my fingers. “And being born in a society where there is only one sapient species it’s a little difficult to get used to all of this.”

“Really?” I nod.

“It’s a lot to take in isn't it?”

“Yes, it is.” Fancy Pants looks to the table, lost in thought. And Fleur is looking at something behind me. She then points to whatever is behind me. I turn around and witness a giant, green tidal wave.

“What the fuck!?” On instinct I take to the air with. Narrowly avoiding to gain wave. I look to where to wave came from and everything is bathed in green… goo. It’s definitely thicker than water. “The fuck is this?” I look around and spot the girls and Celestia. Twi’s shoot magic beams at the goo but nothing happens. I make my to them.

“Twi, what the hell is this stuff?”

“The Smooze.”

“Who?”

“Discords friend, the Smooze. He somehow got into the jewelry storage room and he’s ruining the Gala!” SHe shoots the slime again. “And none of my magic doesn’t have any effect on it!”

“Then how the hell are we gonna get rid of it?”

“I don’t know!”

“Aaaaah, eeeeeee!”

“What was that?” Me and Twi ask at the same time. We look over to where the noise came from. Fluttershy and Treehugger are stuck to a wall.

“Aaaaah, eeeeeee!” And Treehugger’s making to noise.

“Uh... why is she doing that?”

“I don’t… know?” I look to Twi and the green goo is retracting. From the looks of it it’s receding to the center of the room, when the goo clears my wings stop flapping and I drop to the ground. All the goo clumps up and form into a large blob of slime, with a blue top hat and tie. Wait, Discord’s wearing an orange tux… That sly bastard, he definitely knows about us. How else would he make that Dumb and Dumber reference!? There’s no fucking way in hell he would just decide to come here in an orange suite and have his… friend in light blue.

“Whelp, I’ve had enough for today.” I begin to walk away.

“What?”

“I’ve already had enough crazy for today.”

“But this was the only crazy thing to happen today! Sorry Princess.”

“It’s alright Twi. This has turned better than I expected.”

“I- wait, what?”

“I haven’t seen this much action in years! Lets have some more fun!” I make a complete one-eighty.

“That changed my mind.” Celestia smirks at me. I giver her a ‘yeah shut up’, and she just giggles in response. *Heh, bitch.* I smile inwardly and spend the rest of the night dancing away with the girls.

“Ugh, I’m getting too old for this shit.” I down a mug of apple cider. After the gala me and the girls decided to spend the night at the castle. And holy FUCK I wish I lived there. The beds they got are something of another fucking world. Since I found out you lay on clouds if you got wings I thought laying on clouds was the best thing ever. But those clouds got nothing on those beds. I even asked Celestia if she could have made for me. She said maybe.

“What, you all hungover? Told ya not to drink so much.” Aj said, she thinks I got drunk, cute. The girls and me are hanging at Pinkie’s place. Up in her so no one can see us in our current state. Twi and Rainbow where hit hard by the booze, Rarity is still passed out, Fluttershy is still bleary-eyed. I didn’t think she would drink as much as she did. Oh right, the ponies running the gala brought alcoholic drinks, I don’t know why.

“It’s not that Aj, this stuff can’t get even get me half drunk.”

“Oh a heavy weight aren’t ‘cha?”

“Yeah, I’m just reeeeally tired.” I let my head collide to the tiny table I’m sitting at. “I didn’t even feel that.” Aj snickers.

“Heh, sure yer just tired.” Using what little energy I have left, I bolt up and look directly at her, scowling.

“Does this look like shit-hit drunk to you?” Her smirk instantly disappears.

“Uh...”

“Fucking thought so.” I fall onto my back on the floor. *Is there any way you can help me Ruby?*

~Yes I can convert magical energy-~

*Don’t care, just do it.*

~As you wish.~ A rush of magic later I feel fully revitalized. I bolt up with jump.

*Thanks for that, and sorry for being short with you.*

~I understand, you were very tired.~

*Thank you.*

“Uh Ember? You alright?”

“Yes I am Aj. Yes I fucking am.” I say with a proud smile. Using my newly revived body I walk out the room and begin to head home.

“Hey, where are you going?” Rainbow asked.

“Oh, you’re awake. I’m just gonna go home and do things.”

“What… things?”

“Human things that your little pony mind wouldn’t understand.”

“Hey...” Twi muttered.

“I only mean Rainbow Twi, you’re a genius. Unlike Rainbow.”

“Hey!” Rainbow lazily shouted. “Ow, my head.”

“I wonder how your head hurts, there’s hardly anything in there.”

“Buck you...” Meanwhile Pinkie, Fluttershy, Twi and Aj are having a good time. Rarity is still passed out.

“Whatever pea-brain, I’m going home.” Without saying another word I do just that.

“Good morning Spark.” The desktop turns on when I talk.

“Good morning Ember.” I walk over and flop onto my chair in front of Spark. “Have you completed your latest project yet?”

“Yes, I have. I just need to figure out how to transfer you to your new body.”

“... Can I see it?”

“Uh… Sure.” I reach up and turn the camera towards the humanoid body in the corner of the room, hoisted in the air by a system of pulleys. Oh fuck I said anything about my setup huh? Well, it’s almost like a small lab with desks containing equipment and, shit like that, almost these a shit-ton of wires all over the place. How I got all this stuff? It’s good to be friends with a being as powerful as Celestia, with all the connections she has, and that I can… I’m gonna call it spawning, things like the wires. The really difficult thing was to set everything without it going up in flames, literally. “I just need to find a way to hook you up to it so can cross over.” Now that I look at the newly built andriod it almost looks like that girl robot from Ex Machina. But all of it’s features are completely artificial. Nothing looks realistic.

“I think I can take it from here.”

“What?” I look back to Spark and she’s covered a bright grey aura. And a cord seems to materialize from thin air. “I… uh… heh… fu...”

“Where can I connect?” I it took me a second to answer.

“B… back of the… head.”

“Thank you.” The thick black cord floats in the grey aura over to the android. And the tip disappears behind the back of the thing’s head. In a split second the whole body lights up a bright grey, light seeping through the indents of each limb. As soon as it started it stopped. I dumbly look at the desktop and it’s completely fried, smoke is billowing from the tower.

“Ember, can you help me down?” I twist my head back to the android, or I should say Spark?

“... Spark?”

“Yes, it is, can you help me?” She tries in vain to get the chains holding her up off. From the looks of it the metal around her face seems to animated like Golden Streak, magic seems to make anything work outside of physics...

“O- of course.” I use my magic to remove the metal bindings and gently place her on the ground. She stumbles a bit but quickly recovers. “... How do you feel?”

“I feel... different. But in a good way, I like this.” She looks all around herself.

“Good, but uh… can I ask you something?”

“Of course.”

“How did you do this, all of this? ‘Cause my mind is a little blown at the moment.” She giggles. Wait WHAT!?

“I discovered I can use this… magic while you were away. Though, I haven’t fully tested my new abilities. As far as we both know I can perform simple spells and I can ‘create’ objects.”

“But… how!? How is this possible!?”

“I theorise I have these abilities because I am a conscious being.”

“I know that! But I wasn’t created here. I was brought here by a wormhole. I don’t even know why or how I can use magic. And considering what metal makes up most of your new body is...”

“Is what?”

“Is iron. And iron is a magic deterrent on this world. I wonder how we are able to use magic.” (A/N: If you didn’t know we have iron in our blood, now you do.) We both fall silent for god knows how long. My thoughts were running a mile a fucking second trying to come up with a reason as to how Spark using magic is possible.

“... Paradox.”

“What?”

“Both you and I are living paradoxes. And we live on a world that is full of contradictions that go against the very laws of physics. Could it be that this magic is dark energy?”

“What? No… It can’t be that, we use dark energy to power interstellar space ships. No… it must me a different form of energy… Or maybe...”

“Something left over from a black hole?”

“That makes to the most sense. After all, we only know so much about them, besides them having immense gravity and physics breaking qualities. Yes! That could be it! Remnants of a black hole! But if this is true, then what got rid of it?”

“Could it be possible whether two were orbiting each other? Like a binary system?”

“And what, the two ended up shredding themselves?” Spark nods. “That… could be entirely true.”

“Indeed.”

“Hmm…” We both fall silent again. I walk over and sit back down on my chair.

“... Ember?”

“Yeah?”

“Is it alright with you if we go… outside? I would like to see what it is like.”

“Sure.” I smile. “Lets go.” With Spark in tow I lead the way outside. When she witnesses the trees, grass and other shit she just stands in place, awestruck. I just snicker and stand by her, for minutes in end.

“It’s… it’s...”

“Beautiful?”

“Yes, I would never think this planet would look so beautiful.” She looks to the forest. “But the forest looks… evil...”

“To the ponies that live here. It is. They don't control the weather there, animals fend for themselves, and foliage grows wherever it can.”

“So, it’s a little peace of Earth on this planet?”

“Yeah, pretty much.”

“And the ponies are terrified of that forest because of it?”

“Yup.”

“And yet, from what you’ve told me, these ponies have dealt with and defeated monsters and evil beings that had the power to take over their country?”

“Yes.”

“Ponies are weird.” That comment made me burst out laughing.

“Hoow... phew… yeah. That’s true.”

“But they are… special.” She remarks.

“In a good way?”

“I suppose. Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy have stared death in the face numerous times.”

“True, true… Changing the subject though. Do you want me to show you around town?”

“That would be nice.”

“Alright, follow me then.” We walk into town and I take on an unofficial tour of the place. I show her where the market is, where the girls live, Sweet Apple Acres, etc. fucking etcetera. It was nice showing her around. Despite the fact that she’s an android. And she looked like she enjoyed herself. Being able to walk around and do… things. I can tell she was excited to explore, just like a child. Then she saw Twi’s castle… Spark almost ran straight inside. But I held her back and told her that’s where Twi lives, and that I would go if she wouldn’t mind giving us a tour. To be honest I was a little giddy myself, I’ve never seen the complete inside. I knocked on the front doors a few times and stood back. And you know something? It was really relaxing to do that, to tour around the town, admiring all the scenery and junk, I couldn’t help be feel… composed after that.

“Is she coming?”

“She is, just be patient.”

“Ok.” Just then the doors slowly swing open.

“Ember!? What a surprise! And who’s that?” Twi points a hoof to Spark.

“Spark, meet Twilight. Twilight, meet Spark.” I greet them to each other.

“Greetings.” Spark starts.

“Hello Spark. Are Ember’s friend?”

“In a sense, yes.”

“What?”

“Nevermind that Twi.” I interrupt. “We came by because Spark wanted to take a tour of the castle, if you have time for that.”

“Oh. Uh… Ok. I have time for that.” Her face droops a little. “Follow me.” She turns around and walks back into her castle. Me and Spark look at eachother.

“Why is like this? From what you told me she should be excited to show us.” She whispers.

“I don’t exactly know, but I think it has to do something with her new home. Remember that her tree house was destroyed?” She nods. “I think that’s the problem. And I don’t think she likes her new place.”

“I agree.” We both look back at Twi and follow.

“And this is the main corridor, it leads to every part of the castle. Makes it easier to navigate.” Twi’s been leading us like this for god know how long. If this isn’t depression I don’t what is. And while the tour was… interesting to say the least, the whole Twi’s mood was affecting us. So much so that Spark wanted out. But I managed to tell her to bear it until we leave. I explained that the others will eventually notice and do something about it. They always do... right?

*This is sad…*

-What? THat fact that Twilight is sad about something?-

=I thought we established that it was because of her old home.=

*Yes, we did. And yeah it’s sad. I just hope the others come by later.*

~They should.~

*Yeah.*

“And that’s my entire, empty castle-home.” Twi concluded, she then walked away without another word. “See you guys later.” Spark and me are left in silence at the main door of the castle.

“That was… sad.” Spark finally spoke.

“Yeah… that was. Fuck I wanna go help her, but I don’t know how.”

“My best suggestion would be to just leave a note telling her to get out more. If what you have told me about her is correct, she spends numerous amounts of time in here.”

“I know, but I don’t that’ll help. She still lives here. Maybe if it felt more like home for Twi… Meh… I’ll just put it up to the girls. Lets go Spark. It’s getting late.”

“Alright… but, how will I sleep?”

“You don’t, at least, not like me.”

“What do you mean?”

“This is something I put I did before you transferred, I input a… system that slows all process. Much like a computer going into sleep mode. In this case it’s supposed to simulate sleeping.”

“Why would you create such a system?”

“Why to keep me from insanity my little android.”

Author's Notes:

I think it's pretty evident that I'm not following the show's story line. Why? 'Cause for... reasons. and...stuff.seriously the episodes rarely follow each other so why should I try?