Rainbow and I were neck in neck, neither of us letting the other have and advantage. Then I remembered something. "Wait a minute, I can boost while flying!" I gathered some energy and a dark blue aura cloud surrounded me, and I now pulled ahead of Rainbow, and made her stagger from the force of breaking the sound barrier.

"Hey, no fair!"

"Why don't you just use your sonic rainboom?" I asked teasingly. Ponyville came into view. "C'mon Dashie, if ya don't do something I'm gonna win!"

Her eye twitched and she shot upwards, then she shot back down, I saw the cone of the second phase. "Uh oh." I could always turn super with the master emerald to increase my speed, but where's the fun in that? I increased the energy in my boost as she slowly caught up, then we both crashed into a hill at the same time.

I got up and found my body was slightly damaged, I pulled out the master emerald and placed my hand on it, repairing the damage. After putting the emerald back I walked over to Rainbow and found her laying in the crater with her hoof to her head. I reached out my hand and she looked up at me, accepting the help I pulled her up. "Call it a tie?"

"Yeah, for now." We dusted off and spotted the rest of the main six running towards us.

"Rainbow, are you alright, that was a pretty nasty cra-" Twilight stopped when she saw me, as did the rest of them...except for Pinkie.

"Yeah, I'm fine Twilight, just got caught up in our little race is all." Twilight took a cautious step forward.

"What are you?"

"If you must know, I am a robot, my name is Metal Sonic by the way. And before you ask, I'm not here to destroy anything, yes the princesses and Chrysalis know I'm here, no you can not take me into your home to run some tests on me."

Twilight just froze in place as I answered every question that was going through her head. "How did you know what I was going to say?"

"Oh, I know a lot of things, like when Discord will be released again, what Celestia has planned for you and when a certain empire will be returning. Oh, you might want to get some home insurance."

"Why?"

"No reason, you'll see in a few months. Also, Rarity."

"Um, yes?"

"Stop leading Spike on, you either show some interest in him, or you tell him that it's not gonna happen, trust me, it will be better for the both of you."

"He's right Rarity." Added Applejack in a neutral tone.

"Well, I suppose you're right, it isn't fair on him." Admitted Rarity with a saddened tone. "Oh it's going to break his little heart." I let Applejack do the rest of the talking while Twilight kept looking at me.

"See something you like?" I asked teasingly. She blushed and Pinkie and Dash fell on their backs laughing.

"N-no, I was just admiring your design."

"I'll take that as a yes." Her cheeks flushed. "I'm just teasing, don't take it so seriously."

She huffed. "Can you at least tell me where you came from?"

"I believe that Pinkie will cover that." Right on que, Pinkie jumped in front of me.

"You come from an alternate dimension where our lives are actually in a form of entertainment, you were a normal teenager until you went to a convention and bought some gems from a creepy guy at a stall and you were brought here as the character you dressed as and are now stuck here for eternity *Squee*"

"Yeah that's about right." Twilight just stood their with her jaw to the floor. "It's Pinkie don't question it." After answering a few more questions that Twilight had I told them that I needed to get used to the area so I needed to go.

"Alright you bucket of bolts, you better come back so we can race again." I fist bumped Rainbow.

"Don't get your hopes up Dashie, and watch out for those mountains."

"Shut up, Metal!" I chuckled and wished them farewell.

As promised, I returned before nightfall to the castle, where I found only Luna waiting. "Hey Luna, is Celestia sleeping or something?"

"No, her and Chrysalis are discussing the terms of the truce." It's good to know that these ponies didn't just blast Chryssie away, should make things more interesting around here. We began walking through the gardens. "So, sir Metal. While you are here, where will you sleep?"

"I'm a machine Luna, I don't need to sleep. Gives me time to admire your beautiful night." She blushed. "Aww, you're so adorable when you blush." Her face was now rose red.

"Um, uh, thank you, sir Metal."

"Hey, just Metal will do." She nodded and we continued walking through the gardens. "Hey, where's my chaos emerald anyway?"

"My sister has it in her possession, she will return it when you meet her again." I could always just call it back with the master emerald, but I'll give her this one, anything that makes her trust me or makes her more comfortable about me being here. I have three rules when being a displaced.

1. Don't cause major disturbances on your first week
2. Don't bitch and moan about not going home
3. Don't do anything stupid

I'm sure there are a lot more rules to follow but those three are most important. My thoughts were interrupted by Luna tapping my claw.

"Earlier you said that back on your world, I was the best princess, was this true." I put my arm behind her neck.

"Are you kidding me, they adore you, and so do I, there was a vote to decide who was the best princess, and you won no contest." Her blush was returning.

"Do you really mean that?"

"Of course I do, Luna, you can trust me."

"So...you adore me?"

...oh boy, I know where this is going.

Like I said earlier, I'm not going to stop it.