Chapter 3 The party and the letter

Fear and doubt, that was all it could be read on the faces of most ponies after the introduction of this creature, there was silence for one full minute, nopony dare to say anything or even move, what if this creature was evil or even worse than the monsters? There was absolutely no reason to trust this creature, even if he had aided them against the monsters, no reason to trust something you have never seen before.

FM: ………..well not kind the reaction I was hoping for-he said looking a little disappointed- well I guess I must go wash this awful things, is there some place for me to take a bath twilight?

Twilight: yes in the library-with the aid of spike she got up on her hoofs- I have a bathroom big enough for you I think

FM: thanks-he was about to move when……..-UFFFF-….he got lifted by magic-

Rarity: now darling, a shower will not be enough to remove all this ….ummm…..filth; you are coming to the Spa with me for a proper cleaning-she said starting to walk away with him in mid air-

AJ: oh hold on just a little second ‘re  sugar cube-se said putting herself in the way of rarity- that fancy dancy spa of you’s aint gonna do the job for such a mess it is –

FM: Hey Im not an object so don’t call me it!-still held in mid air-

AJ: ah ok, no offense intended sugar cube-“none taken” has his reply-, for such a mess ‘he’ is right now-he turned to see him with a big apple family smile on her face- what ya’ll need is a good scrubbing on da apple family washroom partner-she said happily-

Rarity: but my stars applejack! Obviously he needs to be tended delicately who knows what awful wounds he must have after fighting all those monsters

FM: “im ok, just covered in scorpion blood, blue blood, and its intestines, and other things I don’t know what the hell they are”-he thought while seeing rarity and applejack starting a discussion of where he should go to clean himself, finally he decided to intercede their fight seeing nopony doing it, in fact many were smiling seeing the silly fight go on- ladies, ladies-he said and they both stopped- I am flattered that you offer me the best you can to help me even though we just meet, but Im fine, I have no serious wounds I only need to clean myself up, miss rarity can you please put me down?-she nodded and let dropped him gently on the floor- thank you, and miss applejack, I would love to wash myself at your home but I need to speak in private with twilight sparkle regarding some important matters that we must attend at once-he bowed down to both of them respectfully, rarity was smiling very content with his actions, while applejack just nodded and said “If ya say so partner” he then turned to spike and twilight- spike, lead the way please, ladies, sirs it was a pleasure meeting you all and I hope we can start a wonderful friendship, good day

Everypony was surprised that this creature, this so called human, had manners and all were comfortable with his introduction and his way of talking, specially one white unicorn with purple mane

Rarity: What a gentlecolt!! If only more colts could express themselves like that, he must be really well mannered and very polite too, but he really does need to work on his fashion-she said almost dreamily-

Fluttershy: he seemed rather……….nice-she said still on little chad’s back-

Pinkie pie: OH OH OH! I must start working on his WELCOME TO PONYVILLE PARTY! But probably will need another party or maybe 2 mmmmmmm OH I KNOW *SWUUUUSHH*-and she was off-

RD: she is totally random ha ha

1 hour later at the library

FM: ah it feels good to be clean again!-he cheered heading for the living room, now clean and fresh after a long bath, with a big sheet wrapped around him waiting for his now clean clothes to dry up- hey spike, how is twilight doing?-he asked sitting in a comfy little chair-

Spike: well at least she is better than earlier but she is still weak-after arriving at the library twilight decided to go and rest on her room- she’ll wake up soon I think

FM: that’s good to hear, I was worried something bad had happened to her-he gave a relived sigh- so monsters like that attack you guys every day?

Spike:-he shrugged- not really they had been coming a lot lately but this was the first big attack since……..since 2months ago-his face saddened clearly- we lost many that day.

FM: oh……..so there have been casualties, like who?-(note: remember that spike knows why he knows so much about it Ponyville and everypony)-

Spike: berry punch and her sister, cloud kicker and granny smith, among others

FM: wait, granny smith died? How applejack, big mac and applebloom took it? Are they fine now?-he asked really concerned-

Spike: well I don’t know all the details but they killed the lupus minors that killed granny smith-fullmetal looked at him with a surprised face- and I think they are fine now but I don’t really know for sure

FM: so this monsters are really a menace, no wonder you wanted extra help if the royal guards can’t protect Ponyville-he said seriously-

Twilight: -coming out of her room- indeed- “twilight!” was the word spoken in surprise by both dragon and human as she walked down to the living room with them- as I told you before monsters are attacking everywhere they can’t help us because they must protect the larger cities even though we are so close to Canterlot-she said laying on the floor besides spike-

FM: I see, oy!, speaking of Canterlot Im wondering 2 things

Twilight: such as?

FM: the first is that, why haven’t the princess showed up yet?-at this comment twilight too became aware of that fact- I mean shouldn’t she know or felt the summoning magic or something?

Twilight: good question, the only thing I can come up about it is that maybe because I am the bearer of the element of magic and she is no longer connected to them maybe she couldn’t feel it, does that sound probable?

FM: quite in fact, maybe that’s it

Twilight: and your second wonder?

FM: why haven’t you written a letter to her?

Twilight: I wish to maintain thi- I mean you as a secret for now, until Im ready to tell her-she smiled nervously, he could tell she was hiding something but decided not to push it- by the way Im wondering, what does your name mean?

FM: it’s a name my master gave me; it means “Precious silver blood of dragon”, but my real name is Jack, it was my master name too-he said-

Twilight: mind if I call you Jack instead of Fullmetal?-“not at all” was his answer-that aside would you like to go around the town to socialize with everypony?

Jack: ok, I will, but I’ll go alone, you are far too weak and need some rest and no buts-he said the moment twilight opened her mouth- spike take care of her while Im gone, ill be back in an hour or two, I do want to meet some ponies in person-*insert big ass smile*-

Spike: but what about your clothes?

Jack: they should be dry by now-he went to the bathroom and put on his not so dry clothes on- oh well they’ll dry on the suns heat, cya!-and with that he was gone-

Spike: WAIT!!-the door opened again reveling his head- what about that?-he pointed to at his laptop bag-

Jack: MY LAPTOP!!-he came back running to it- I didn’t even noticed it before!! Thanks spike, CYA!-he grabbed the bag and he was gone, again-

Spike: lap-what?, oh whatever ill ask him later, and you-he looked at twilight- its back to the room for you

Ponyville streets

Jack was traveling along the streets of Ponyville admiring the view with a smile on his face; he noticed that the repairs on the wall and the cleaning of the battle were also taking place earth ponies, pegasi and unicorns all working together to clean everything up, it was a good sign, it meant they take care of each other greatly and that they didn’t care about race, color or gender, if only humans could be this, friendly, “well I can dream after all”-he thought- he also noticed that many ponies were in fact avoiding him, it was going to take some time to gain their trust.

???: HELLO!!

Jack: AAAAAHHH!!!!-he screamed surprised at the un expected greeting from behind, he then turned around to see who it was, it was a light green mare unicorn with silver and baby blue mane and tail and the figure of a lyre on her flank as her cutie mark and really excited, if the big shinning eyes and the open mouth was anything to go about, behind her was another mare with milky fur, pink and deep blue colored mane and tail and the figure of three candies on her flank as her cutie mark and a look of fear on her eyes, he recognized them immediately, they were Bonbon and Lyra- oh! you almost gave me a heart attack!!-he semi-shouted at Lyra pointing at her-

Lyra: sorry human! YIIIHHH a human, see I told you they were real bonbon!!-she was really excited but bonbon didn’t replied-

Jack: yes im real, and my name is Fullmetal or jack for short, and you are?

Lyra: oh Im Lyra heartstrings but you can call me just Lyra, and over there is my best friend bonbon, oh Celestia, I have so many questions to ask you, I always knew humans were real but no one believed me, HA! On their faces, I wish to see all of those foals who made fun of me now hahaha!

Jack: hehe-he found sympathy on her- you are funny, and of course ill answer any of your questions Lyra, so where do we begin?

Lyra: can you make music?

Jack: -sited on the ground still holding his laptop bag on his left hand- of course, you we use---

About an hour later

A big crowd of ponies were around jack now, about 50, all listening to the questions of Lyra and other ponies and the answers of jack, some were very simple, how can you walk in 2 hooves?, what do fingers do?, why don’t you have fur?, others were more complex, like how do you use magic?, what is technology?, how can humans fly with no wings?, fortunately for him, rarity, rainbow dash, applejack, the crusaders, and even fluttershy were there in the crowd near Lyra so he didn’t had to explain everything later, he also made an instantaneous friend in ditzy doo and her daughter, with the single question of “humans do like muffins?” and the answer he gave was “Some do, I personally love muffins” after that a muffin was in his mouth out of nowhere with ditzy hugging him tightly and dinky doo smiling at him warmly, “me friends of human who likes muffin, muffins best are!!”, after some questions it finally came, the one question that he feared, the same twilight made but didn’t respond.

Fluttershy: I would like t-to know, w-what do you eat? If that’s ok-she said a little nervous but no longer afraid of the human, she was currently floating in front of him-

Jack: well, I eat many things, I can east veggies and some plants, but I can’t eat grass, hay or flowers like you do, also humans are omnivores by nature-he said hoping that would be enough-

Rarity: excuse me jack darling, but what does omnivore means?

Jack: first, don’t look bad at me for what Im about to tell you, specially you fluttershy I really want to be friend with you-deep breath- omnivore means that I can eat veggies, fruits and meat-at the last word many ponies of the crowd looked at him with some fear- don’t get me wrong I don’t eat ponies even if I eat meat, we humans need meat to survive, well most of us need it, I usually eat meat from chickens, fish or other creatures-some were relieved, some were not- fluttershy?-he said trying to gain her attention, which was focused on the ground-

Fluttershy: I-I understand e-even animals eat other animals, but p-please don’t hurt my animal friends here-she looked at him with teary eyes-

Jack: of course not fluttershy, I think I’ll have to be vegetarian here so I don’t think I’ll be eating meat anytime soon-he said petting her mane a little in which she smiled back at him-are there any more questions?

Vinyl: can you make music now, I want to hear what kind of music humans make!-she said rather curious-

Jack: well, Im not exactly a musician but I do have music-he unpacked his laptop and turn it on- this right here is a piece of technology from my world, it’s called a laptop, it’s like a big library that can hold almost any kind of information and can be carried anywhere you go-“ooooohhhh” of surprise from crowd was a little reply- now humans have different tastes for music, I personally like it all with the exception of some kind of “music” out there, this is a classical piece of a great musician named Beethoven “the fifth symphony”-he then played the song on the laptop and it was so quite that everypony could hear-

As the music played all were enjoying the wonderful music and sounds it made, so peaceful but so full of sentiment and passion, it was “simply marvelous” as rarity would say, when the song ended jack speak again.

Jack: now something more from my time, it’s a gender of music we call “Rock” the name of this song is “Knights of Cydonia”-again the music began and it was totally different from the previous one, more party like, then some time after the song ended- and of course we have the techno music which is usually for DJ’s-at this Vinyl’s eyes gleamed with joy- this is called “Electrical snake”

More music and genders of music came and go for about half an hour, then he noticed the sun was starting to go down, making way for the moon and the night to arrive, he said that he had to go back to the library to see how twilight was doing, everypony  said their thanks and good welcomes to jack, that and some giggles after everypony started to leave, he grew curious and a little concerned about what they could be giggling about but shrugged it off.

He went back to the library and open the door, which was unlooked, and then noticed it was quite dark inside for the time it was.

Jack: Spike! Twilight! Im back-no response- spike? Twilight? Are you guys here?-again no response, he stepped inside the library until he was in the middle of the living room, then hell was unleashed-

Everypony: SURPRISE!!!- lights went on reveling almost a lot of ponies standing everywhere inside the library-

Jack: “oh how could I forget? Pinkie pie throws parties for everyone new in town”-he thought as he smiled- OH! A PARTY!-he then was tackled to the ground by a pink dash- hehe –ouch- hehe hello there pinkie pie-he smiled at the pink pony above him-

Pinkie: HI! Hey how did you know my name? can you read minds? IT MUST BE GREAT, I wonder If I could do it? Maybe I can but maybe not, you like the party!?, were you surprised? I  knew you loved parties because everypony does love parties!!! Although you are not a pony but COME ON it’s a party how can no pony love parties? Want cake? This is YOUR welcome to Equestria and Ponyville party after all!!!-she asked-said-shouted, really fast and bouncing above jack-

Jack: no I can’t read minds but twilight told me all your names after I arrived-he lied, but it was a white lie, right?- can you get off me please pinkie?- “okey dokie lockie”-she said as she bounced off of him- thanks, now everypony!-he got up and everypony looked at him- I don’t want to party-many got a little sad about this, specially pinkie- I WANT TO PAAAARTY!!!-he said as everypony shouted and cheered happily and the party started-

Games, bobbin apples, dancing, eating snacks, drinking juice and other things, talking with everypony on the party, getting to know each other was the main goal he was looking for, having a great time, well, that was just the bonus, Lyra was practically latched to him asking more questions and dancing a bit him, vinyl had picked the job of the DJ for the party, ditzy was dancing with Dr. hooves and her daughter dinky was playing along with the crusaders, twist and many of the fillies and foals, including the little pipsqueak, he had gotten on a talk with rarity about the fashion on his world and how she would do some clothes for him if he would model for her, applejack and big Mac  had a word with him about the attacks and how things were going, he made a great friend in macintosh, even if his vocabulary was so short, rainbow dash only talked with him about teaching her some moves of flying from his world which he agreed to teach her another day, fluttershy was unexpected she didn’t talked much but he had asked her if he could hug her, she blushed but said it was ok, she was soft and warm, and her wings felt so nice and ticklish, he even danced with twilight and her crazy yet funny dance moves, all in all, it was a great, great party.

After 5 hours of a great party everypony started to leave, exhausted from the activity or simply because it was too late, but not before the cleaning the remains of the party, which was surprisingly fast, he had promised to help fluttershy tomorrow with some animals and also help the apple family with the farm, and of course promised the crusaders to help them get their cutie marks, without telling them what they were good at, that would ruin the fun, soon only he, spike and owlicious were awake, putting everything in order.

Jack: man, if this was a welcome party I DO want to know how a BIG party would be-he said picking some books on the floor- have you seen those kind of big parties spike?

Spike: yes, a lot of them, but this one was really wild for a “welcome party”, hey owlicious can you pass me the book on the desk please?-he asked from a ladder where he was on the very top putting some books on the shelf-

Owlicious: hoo-and then flied to the book, pick it with his claws and brought it to spike-

Spike: thanks!

Owlicious: hoo!

Jack: hey spike, can you do me a favor?-he asked putting some book where they belonged-

Spike: sure, what is it?

Jack:  I need to write a letter

Spike: a letter? Then how could I help you?-he asked as he stepped down from the ladder-

Jack: that’s the thing spike; it’s a letter for the princesses-he said looking at him seriously-

Spike: but……why?-he got a little nervous about this- why would you write a letter for the princesses, is there something wrong?

Jack: is just that, twilight said that she wanted me to be a secret, but o don’t feel too comfortable about it, besides sooner or later they are going to find out about me, so if twilight won’t tell them then I will, will you help me?- owlicious was just staring at the scene, knowing it could mean problems-

Spike: I…..I……don’t know, but you are right………I guess………I guess it would be ok, I mean what’s the worst that COULD happen?-he was sweating a little now, he couldn’t deny him, if he did then maybe he would leave on his own to Canterlot to talk to the princesses himself, and that would be worse than a letter, in other words, he had no choice but to do it-

Jack: great-he grabbed some ink, a quill and a scroll and wrote a note down, after finishing it he began to read it to spike-:

“Dear Princess Celestia and Princess Luna,

I have arrived today to your world from a summoning ritual performed by your faithful student Twilight Sparkle, in the intent to help the town of Ponyville with this monster menace seeing that they had no military support to protect themselves, today I have defended your ponies from scorpion things---“

Spike: scorponoks-he interrupted, then jack crossed his previous mistake and put below the real name-

“----from Scorponoks that threaten the lives of your ponies, I mean no harm to them or both of you, I wish to speak with your highnesses as soon as possible to discuss my functions and stance here in Ponyville.

Sincerely, Fullmetal “Jack”, The Human”-  how does that sounds spike?

Spike: formal, way too formal, it's almost like twilight would do it  hahaha

Jack: maybe hahaha, well, send it please-he leaned forward to spike and extended the scroll-

Spike: right away-he took the scroll and filled his lungs with air-

Meanwhile on twilights room,

Twilights had gone to rest a bit on her room as she was still magically weak from the summon, he could hear voices and some laughter down stairs, that made her smile, she couldn’t here much but she knew a conversation was taking place in the living room, she got up to hear clearly what was going on, and then she heard it.

Jack: Sincerely, Fullmetal “Jack”, The Human”- how does that sounds spike?

Spike: formal, way too formal, almost like twilight would do it  hahaha

Jack: maybe hahaha, well send it please

Spike: right away

Twilight:”OH NO IT CANT BE”-she heard her number one assistant fill his lungs with air, she knew what was going to happen next-“I MUST STOP THEM”-stepping out of her room- DON’T SEND IT SPIKE!!-but it was too late, green flames surrounded the scroll and vanished into thin air- oh no…..

Now in the current present

Jack: what’s wrong twilight? Why didn’t you wanted spike to send it?-he asked a bit confused-

Twilight: the reason……………the reason I didn’t sent a letter to princess Celestia myself is BECAUSE summons are forbidden jack!!-she semi-shouted quite panicked-

Jack:……………..

Spike:………………

Owlicious:………….hoo-in a low, low tone barely noticeable-

Jack/Spike: WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME BEFORE!!!????

Suddenly a flash of light came from outside the library, followed by a knock to the door, all 4 sweated a little, worried of what would happen now neither one was brave enough to open the door, then another louder knock  was heard.

????: Open this door right now in the name of the Royal Pony Sisters!!-a firm male voice stated-

Jack: …..great-he went to the door and opened it revealing one white pegasi at the door with 5 unicorns behinds him and 4 other pegasi above him and behind them, the two princesses with a not-so-happy look on their faces- mmmmm, hello?-he said smiling stupidly-

Chapter 3 end

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