Ponyville, 12:00 P.M.

The walk back to ponyville was uneventful. John and Spike talked about how there live had been up till now. Turns out that just the day before Spike and his friends were celebrating the defeat of a villain. Discord had gotten loose and wreaked havoc on the poor town. Eventually, he was resealed in his stone prison thanks to Twilight and company. John meanwhile was contemplating something.

"So from what I can gather, I got here just a few hours after discord was defeated." He said looking deep in thought. He was so in thought that he didn't notice somepony was walking towards him also lost in thought. The two bumped into each other and landed on the ground. John lay there on the ground for awhile as he held onto his stomach. He opened his eye's to see if the other person was ok. His eyes landed on a pale yellow pegasus with a soft pink mane. She looked a lot better off than he felt at the moment.

"Excuse me Ms. Are you ok?" He wheezed out as he got into a sitting position. The Pegasus sat there for awhile before looking up see how the other person was doing.

"Oh, I'm sorry Mr. I was lost in thought about what to do about--" Her voice trailed off as she got a good look at who or rather what she had knocked over. Her eyes went wide and she zipped over to see if the strange creature she had hit was ok.

"Oh I'm so sorry!" she repeated as she began to look over john's body checking him for any scrapes and bruises. John just sat there as he was tended to. He felt awkward, to say the least. Getting a doctor check up was one thing. But getting a full blown examination from a pony he just met was a new experience.

"Um excuse me Mr?" John just chuckled.

"John." He said extending his hand. "And you are?" He asked. Fluttershy looked at his furless appendage and then looked to spike. He shook his head and she took his hand in her hoof and gave a soft shake.

"My name is Fluttershy," she said a bit timidly as she studied the skeletal structure of john's hand.

"Once again I'm sorry for running into you." John just stood there admiring Fluttershy's coat and mane paring. It was a soothing mix, to say the least.

"It's fine. I wasn't exactly paying attention to where I was going either." As the talked, Spike cleared his throat.

"Hey Fluttershy not to interrupt but you wouldn't happen to know were Rainbow, Pinky and Rarity are would you?" He asked. Fluttershy thought about it.

"Um well last I saw Rainbow was still teaching some new weather ponies the in's and out's of weather duty. Pinky was heading over to sugar cube corner talking about throwing a party. And Rarity was in her shop working on some new order's." She said listing the things off.

12:05 P.M.

Sugar Cube Corner.

Mr. and Ms. Cake were unsure of what to do. For the past half an hour they had heard crazy laughter coming from the kitchen and both were too afraid to go in and ask. So they both sat outside at the front counter taking orders. Somehow Pinky was able to keep up with, well whatever she was doing in there and the normal order's that were coming in so they left her to whatever crazy device's she had at the moment.

Ponyville Weather Station.

"Come on Hot Shot you can do better than that!" Rainbow yelled as Hot Shot completed his 50th lap around the track. He meanwhile was panting furiously.

"Wh-what -i-is t-t-the -point- of this?" He said gasping for air with each word as he dragged himself to the finish line.

"I've told you already this is to help build up your endurance. If we have to catch an out of control storm one day were gonna have to give it everything we've got to make sure it cause the least amount of damage possible." She said bringing Hot Shot a bottle of water. "Here drink all of this and take a fifteen-minute break. Next is wing up's" She said. Hot Shot just groaned and flopped over in the grass.

Carousel Boutique.

Rarity was hard at work on a one of kind dress from a special customer. She hadn't met the client but she was very specific on the style, patterns and color's to be used in its construction. She had just gotten done making the outline of the outfit. The dress itself was a simple one. It was a one piece made of soft red velvet fabric with a nice gold trim. The client had also asked for several bracelets made of silver with simple Ruby stones set into it for decoration. She worked diligently to perfect her client's

order and to ensure that she was not to be disturbed she had placed a noise dampening spell all over her room.

12:10 P.M.

Back in the street.

John, Spike, and Fluttershy had decided to head over to Sugar Cube Corner to check up on Pinky. Spike had explained how Rarity gets so engrossed in her work and Rainbow Dash was working right now. So the group got to talking as they walked and John had told Fluttershy all about how he got here, minus some details the Princess's had told him to keep secret. All in all, he liked talking to Fluttershy. She was calm collected and a really kind individual.

"So John how do you like it here so far?" Fluttershy asked. He thought about it.

"Well I've only been here a couple of hours but I love it here already. Thre's so mutch to do and see. Plus everyone is so nice and friendly." He said looking at everything along the way. Some ponies even stopped and waved. He waved back and got a few smiles. The atmosphere was so jubilant that john had little worries in the way of making friends. Then he heard a strange sound.

"Hey, you guys never said anything about having jet's?" He said as he looked around for the source of the aftermentioned noise.

"Uh, what's a jet?" Spike asked as he looked up at John. John looked back to him.

"You know it's a giant flying machine made of metal that kind of look's li-" His sentence was cut off however as the noise got louder. This time when he looked up he was speechless. Flying in their direction was what looked like a prismatic missile. Fluttershy gave the object a wave and it turned towards them.

"Um, Fluttershy is it really a good idea to get the missile's attention?" John asked as he backed up a little looking ready to run if need be. Fluttershy just giggled.

"Oh silly that's not a missile. That's our friend Rainbow Dash." She said still just as calm as ever. John was somewhat skeptical that the wild blur coming at them at a what he believed was a good mach 2 or more was a living creature but given his situation what he was and wasn't willing to believe at this point was wearing thin. The pony John guessed was getting closer by the second and a good ten seconds later was right on top of them. They stopped at a blazingly fast pace flared open there wing's and glided the rest of the way down to earth. John had to watch this one as she, he was getting better at distinguishing male from female now, came to a stop right in front of them.

"Sup everypony?" She asked as she trotted up to the group. As she neared she gave Fluttershy and Spike a soft smile. then her eye's settled on John.

"Wow Flutter's who's the Dog?" she said looking at John with mild curiosity. He was a little irked but hid it and put on a smile.

"The name's John." He said as he extended his hand. Rainbow gave him a look of surprise.

"Wow, dude. You speech equestrian?" She said her wings flaring in surprise as her eyes expanded to match. John just laughed.

"Yes, yes I do. So you must be Rainbow Dash?" He said taking a wild guess as he looked at her coat and mane colors. He began to notice a pattern here.

"Hey Rainbow! Wait up!" Came a loud shout from behind all of them. Rainbow just grumbled as she looked back.

"Hurry it up Hot Shot!" She yelled back. John looked beyond Rainbow and saw a red and yellow speck on the horizon.

"Oh my who's that?" Fluttershy asked as she tried to hide behind her mane. John looked at her and tried not to laugh and cry from just how cute she was being right now. He bent down and gave her a soft pat on the back. She looked up at him for all of five seconds before she sighed and leaned into his hand. He just smiled. Rainbow turned back to john.

"So we're you from?" she asked as she sat down. John just looked around decided to say screw it and plopped down on the dirt road as well while they waited for Rainbows friend.

"Well I'm from," John told her the whole story again minus a few details. Rainbow sat there and listened.

"And then the Princess's sent me on the next train to here." When he was finished Rainbow sat there for a second.

"So let me get this straight. Your some kind of interdimensional space alien that somehow ended up here with no prior warning or reason?" She said looking at him with a skeptical gaze. He nodded his head. She just looked from him to Spike. He gave her a nod.

"Well ok." She said still looking a little lost. "If the Princess's can trust you then so can i. Just don't cause any trouble while you're here." She warned giving him a soft glare. He in return gave her a mock salute.

"Yes, Ma'am!" He said laughing as he did so. Rainbow couldn't keep a smile from forming on her face. Just then Rainbows friend caught up with them. John gave him a concerned look.

"Hey, buddy you ok?" He said reaching out to the stallion. Hot Shot just stood there panting as he caught his breath and glared at the ground. He just waved the new voice off.

"Oh no, I'm just fine you know. I just need to catch my breath and probably go throw up somewhere." He said as his feet began to wobble.

"Wow, there big guy," John said as he caught Hot Shot who finally gave in to his overworked body. John was surprised at how light he was. He couldn't have been more than a hundred pounds. Which was saying something. John hoisted Hot Shot up and held him close to his chest as he looked over to the group. They stared as he hooked his arm's underneath Hot Shot's flank and set the upper half of his body over his shoulder.

"Ok, so where do we take this guy?" He said as Hot Shot groaned. Rainbow and Spike were on the verge of laughing and Fluttershy looked concerned.

"Oh my we better get him over to Sugar Cube Corner quickly." She said as she spun around and lead the way.

12:20 P.M. Sugar Cube Corner.

John was getting a lot of stares what with a full grown stallion slung over his shoulder and all but he mostly ignored them and kept on following Fluttershy. For one so timid she could take charge of a situation when she needed to. Finally, after a good ten minutes of walking, they came across a building that looked like it belonged in a little kid's fairy tale. John thought about that and where they were. "Yeah this whole place reminds me of a little kids fairy tale." He thought. As they got closer John was surely tempted to try and take a bite out of the building itself. He wrangled his thoughts in however as soon as they entered the building.

Row upon row of every kind of pastry, dessert, cake, and other surgery confection's imaginable lined the walls of the shop. John had to hold on tight to Hot Shot so he didn't just drop the poor guy and go look at all the tasty treats.

"Oh my god. I'm going to need a diabetes shot after just walking in here." He said. As he scanned the shop his eyes settled on two ponies sitting behind a checkout counter.

"Hello, deary's how may we help you?" The wide blue one asked in a sweet voice. John just stood there and pointed to Hot Shot.

"Oh dear, what happened to him?" She asked. At that, the whole group looked to Rainbow Dash. She just rolled her eyes.

"The doofus ran himself ragged that's what happened." She said as she went over to the counter. John followed as Hot Shot began to stir at the smell of so much food. When he came to he looked around.

"Huh. where am I?" He asked. Them he felt himself up off the ground. Then he felt something warm holding him like he was a foal. He craned his head over and came face to face with John.

"Heya." He said giving Hot Shot a smile. Hot Shot's face lit up and he instinctively wiggled about trying to get loose from Johns grip. John, for the most part, tried to hang onto the squirming stallion.

"Wow hold on there buddy. You nearly fainted a little while ago." He said. At that Hot Shot stopped his wiggling and just sat there. Finally, he huffed and laid his head back on John's shoulder.

"Fine. But you better not try anything funny," he warned. Then he thought about it.

"Hey what's your name anyway?"

"My name is john." There was a huge crashing noise from the back of the building and an instant later a pink blur came zipping out the back and nearly ran into John.

"HUH!! OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH! ITSYOU! YOURFINALLYHERE! OH, I HAVE SO MUCH PLANNED!! ITS GOING TO BE A SUPER AWSOME ULTRA AMAZING PARTY!" John just stood there trying to keep his balance as Hot Shot Tried to crawl further up John's chest to get away from the crazy pink mare that was assaulting them with her voice. John meanwhile was trying to not lose his balance or his hearing. The pink mare's ranting was cut short, however.

"Pinky!" Rainbow Shouted.

"Yes, Dashy?" She said in normal, not shouting and not run on sentence inducing voice. Rainbow gave Pinky an annoyed look.

"Pink's could you please tone it down a notch. Now as you can see we have two new Visiter's today." She said pointing a hoof to John and Hot Shot. They both gave her a nod. Pinky just Smiled and waved excitedly at the two.

"Now Pinky could you go on ahead and get something for our new friends here. "Don't worry about paying. I got this." She said turning to the two male's waving off their protest's. They both gave Dash a sour look to which she just stuck her tongue out at them. As she set the small gold coins down on the counter John stood there looking.

"Wow, you guy's use gold?" He asked. Spike nodded his head.

"Yup. It's one of our most abundant metal's around." He said as he and the rest of the group found a booth big enough to fit all of them. Fluttershy and Dash got on one side, while John got on the other and sat Hot Shot down next to him. Spike was having trouble getting up until John leaned down.

"Come here you." He said as he hoisted Spike up and sat him down next to him. Spike just laughed and took a seat. A little while later Pinky had gotten all of their food and brought it over to their table.

"All righty. So I'm Pinky Pie and I'll be your server for today." Pinky said as she came over to our table wearing a pair of roller skates. John was fascinated as she glided around the store on two hooves. How she kept her balance was a question he wanted to find an answer to. Fluttershy, Rainbow, Spike and Hot Shot all ordered a simple cupcake. John was looking through the menu for something less sweet.

"Um, Pinky do you guy's happen to sell something not coated in sugar?" He asked. Pinky gasped, Spike laughed, Rainbow rolled her eyes, Hot Shot grumbled as he ravenously munched on his cupcake and Fluttershy just sat there as calm as ever. Once Pinky got her hyperventilating under control she gave John a skeptical look.

"So you want something less sugary?" John just laughed.

"If it's not to much trouble?" He said a smile on his face. Pinky just looked a little lost as she literally racked her brain trying to think up something the store had that didn't have sugar in it. As Pinky's brain began to reboot Spike and everyponie else burst into conversation. John got through the whole menu and when he couldn't find anything worth eating set it down on the table and then preoccupied himself with finally taking in his situation.

"How has my life come to this? Me of all people being sucked into a world full of talking ponies. How sad is that? I'd better be able to get home. But first, I should at least enjoy myself while I'm here." "Hey, You ok?" The voice startled John for a sec. He dragged himself back to the present and saw the group looking at him. He just smiled.

"Yeah, guys. I'm fine. Just lost in thought is all." They all gave him a nod and went back to their conversation. John just sat there and thought about his place in this new world. Next Chapter: Chapter 4: The Dress Maker's Dilemma. Estimated time remaining: 9 Minutes