“Ah Manehattan!” Rarity said excitedly as she along with the rest of her fellow Elements of Harmony as well as Spike were getting off the train that had taken them to Manehattan, they had wanted to go on a trip to the city and Applejack’s aunt and uncle Orange had agreed to set up hotel rooms for them to stay in for their trip. “I can smell the generosity in the air; this is my kind of city!” Rarity said looking like she was going to faint with excitement as they were walking into the city itself.

“Ah can’t wait to see my Aunt and Uncle Orange again, along with my other aunt and uncle who live here with Babs.” Applejack said thinking it would be the first opportunity to see Babs ever since she had gotten her Cutie Mark. “She would want to cut my mane when ah meet her again...” Applejack laughed to herself.

“I can’t wait to see the museums and the musicals that they have here....” Twilight said bursting with excitement herself, looking at Rarity the other Elements of Harmony knew that she was going to burst into a song of what life is like in Manehattan when..........

Rarity looked shocked when she discovered she had bumped into a colt, “So sorry about that dear.” Rarity said helping the colt up with a sheepish look on her face. “Are you okay?” Twilight asked concerned when she looked at the colt herself.

The colt was a unicorn with a brown mane and tail, light green fur and his Cutie Mark was of a test tube. The colt seemed to be in his late teens and Twilight thought he looked about the same age as some of the slightly younger students of Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns. The colt looked shocked, excited and nervous at the same time when he looked at Twilight and realised who she was. Twilight then noticed that the colt had dropped a large hardcover book he was reading when Rarity accidentally knocked him over.

“Is that Star Swirl the Bearded’s Book of Incredible Advanced Arcane Magic Volume XVI?” Twilight asked looking excited as it was a book she had read several times herself. The colt after taking a deep breath nodded as Twilight gave him the book back.

“Yeah, my school’s semester had ended so I checked this out of the local library so I can read it for fun when I am not busy.” The colt said before deciding to introduce himself “my name is Peter Wallflower, nice to meet you Princess Twilight!” the ponies knew that other ponies in Equestria would know the news about Twilight ascending to alicornhood but Rainbow Dash had her eyes widened as Twilight returned his greeting.

“Wait you read that book for fun, looks like Manehattan has its own egghead.” Rainbow Dash muttered as Twilight glared at her. “Nice to meet you Peter but we have to get going, we might see you again at another time.” Twilight said as they waved at Peter and Peter waved back as he started reading his book which he was using his horn to levitate.

“I wonder if anything is going to happen in this trip, something usually does....“ Spike muttered passing a newspaper stand of the Manehattan Bugle with the headline “SPIDERPONY STRIKES AGAIN!!!!!”

In the offices of the Manehattan Bugle:

“YOU SAW PRINCESS TWILIGHT AND YOU DIDN’T EVEN GET A PICTURE? WHY DO I EVEN BOTHER WITH YOU WALLFLOWER!” the newspaper’s owner and publisher from his desk where Peter was inside a little later. The boss was an old unicorn stallion with a printing press Cutie Mark, grey fur, black mane and tail, black moustache, silver business jacket and a red tie. He had gotten word from one of his informants that he saw Peter meeting Princess Twilight and had called Peter to his office when he arrived.

“Because of my Spiderpony pictures Mr Jameson?” Peter responded and his boss Jolly Jameson grunted in response. Jameson then used his horn and levitated a bag of bits. Peter looked excited when he saw it.

“This is for your pictures in the last edition of the Bugle, get me an interview with the Princess and I will triple your usual pay Wallflower.” Jameson told Peter who saluted as he walked out levitating the bag of bits. As he exited Peter waved to the other employees of the Bugle which included a Changeling typing up a story, two earth ponies delivering some notes and a griffon rearranging some files.

“Surprised you still have your job Wallflower, not a good idea making Jameson angry today of all days.” said an earth pony photographer and Peter laughed. Tonight Jameson’s wife was forcing him to take her to see Hinny of the Hills which was something he had been trying without success to get out of for quite some time.

*page break*

Sometime later the six Elements of Harmony were having lunch with Applejack’s Aunt and Uncle Orange. “Wow Spike, I didn’t think you would treat one of your comics like that.” Pinkie Pie commented pointing to the Power Ponies comic book Spike was using as a coaster for his mug of apple cider. Spike grumbled wordlessly.

“Don’t worry; it’s just one of the worst issues ever, the one where Masked Matter Horn gives up her marriage for a deal with Discord to save her dying uncle.” Spike said in a dismissive tone, “there are better issues out there: like the one where the previous Humdrum comes back to life as the Red Cloak after being beaten to death by Mane-Iac......” Spike finished taking another sip of his cider.

“Well if you like those costumed ponies, then you will want to take a glimpse of Spiderpony if you get a chance.” Uncle Orange commented to the confusion of the young dragon and six ponies. “Don’t you know about Spiderpony?” Aunt Orange asked looking confused to the idea that they might not know of what they are talking about.

“Spider-what? Beg your pardon but ah don’t think we know anything about a spider pony.” Applejack said as Uncle Orange then got the newest issue of the Manehattan Bugle which had a picture of a young unicorn in a blue and red full body costume (with his tail showing) slinging from what seemed like a web as he was saving two foals from a building that was on fire.

“Wait Manehattan has its own superhero, just like Mare Do Well!” Pinkie said excitedly as the six ponies had their eyes widened while looking at the picture, “Mare Do Well, we heard of that pony. Showed up in your town for a few days in a tacky purple costume.” Uncle Orange said and a look from Twilight stopped Rarity from going off into an angry rant at the ‘tacky purple costume’ comment.

“Been saving ponies in Manehattan for two years now, surprised you did not hear about it in Ponyville.” Aunt Orange told them as they kept looking at the picture while reading the article.

“Girls, I think this might be something that we could look into.......” Twilight said intrigued at the idea of finding out how this so called ‘Spiderpony’ was making that web. “I think I can figure this out at least: since so many crazy stuff happens in Equestria it just kind of blended in with everything else.” Twilight thought to herself.

Twilight then faced the girls and said “Well I think I know who the first pony that we can speak to who might be able to tell us about this Spiderpony.” Twilight said pointing to a bit underneath the picture that said:

PICTURES BY PETER WALLFLOWER

I have seen many crossovers, but one of the few that merges one franchise with the MLP world is Friendship is Showtime and I wanted to try that idea. I am using a Manehattan as I could not think of a New York pony pun. I wanted to give the Spider-Man Cast new names so they can better fit into the MLP Universe, I used Wallflower as (in his original origin story at least) he was described as "Midtown High's Only Professional Wallflower".