I had arrived in the forest I have come to call home, I find that, despite my absence, not one pony has entered my portion of the massive forest. Without anything to do until morning rolls around, I teleport around the forest a bit, until I have found an old, abandoned-looking shack, that once might have belonged to a lumberjack, but hadn't seen use in a long time. Entering, I found that despite the time that has passed and it's lack of use, the building still seemed to be rather sturdy, along with what little furniture was here. Finding a bed, despite it being rather small for my tall body frame, I laid on it and went to bed, hoping that daylight would arrive quickly.

I was sitting alone at a table, again, and despite having my favorite sandwich, peanut butter and blackberry jelly, I still felt down in the the dumps.

"Hey, freak!" I heard the familiar voice of ???????? call out to me.

I looked in the direction of where the voice came from, and sighed, noticed ???????? had his two lackeys with him as well.

"What is it this time ????????," I asked in a deadpan tone, "gonna mock my lack of friends, mock how I'm somehow the reason my other friends died, or how that I'm somehow a disgrace to my own family?"

"Nah," ???????? said, then punched me right right in the nose, knocking me on my ass and causing my nose to start bleeding, "you don't seem to care about any insults we have thrown at you, so we're gonna kick your ass and send you home with broken bones and *maybe* a concussion."

They started kicking me while I was on the ground forcing me into a fetal position, unable to do anything else to protect myself in that moment.

"HEY," shouted another familiar voice, "YA'LL ARE GUNNA HAVE YOUR ASSES HANDED TO YOU ON A SILVER-FUCKING-PLATTER IF YA'LL DON'T FUCK OFF. RIGHT. NOW."

"Hey guys," ???????? said as he stopped kicking me and looked to the other kid, "seems like the new kid from out of town wants to play too."

The other two stopped as well, and all three proceeded to approach the new kid, and that was their last mistake.

As soon as ????????, got with range, the kid, spun around and hit ???????? in the face with the back of his shoe, straight up knocking him to the ground. The other two were shocked by this, and before they could shake off the shock, they both got choke slammed into the ground, knocking the air out of both of their lungs. The kid came towards me as the two fled, ???????? being carried by the two.

As he got up to me, I was now sitting up, but held up my arm to protect myself from any potential harm, though when none had come, I lowered my arm and looked at the kid before me.

"Heyya, the names Tobias, Tobias ??????," he stated with a friendly smile, holding his hand out to me, "but most of my friends call me Toby, I'm the new kid in school."

I smiled, as I took his hand and he helped me up, "I'm ?????, nice to have another friendly face around here-"

I woke up, startled, looking around, finding myself in the old shack still, and my hand up to my head.

'What was that?' I thought, 'That didn't feel like a dream, but it wasn't vision that would be helpful here, it had humans... maybe some of my memories?'

After a while of thinking, I shrugged and got up from the bed- *THWACK* and hit my head on the ceiling.

"Damnable pony houses..." I grumbled, before trying again, this time having a large hunch, as I then proceeded to exit the building.

Once I was outside, I stretched my body, earning some painful and satisfying cracks and pops from my stiff joints, and breathing in the refreshing forest air, something I believe I will never get enough of. Once I finished my morning stretch, I straightened out any wrinkles in my clothes and headed towards Ponyville.

Once I exited the forest I once again noticed the cottage from when I first exited the Everfree, but noticed a couple things:

1) Fluttershy was behind the house, suggesting that she lives at/owns the cottage, fitting for the shy pony.
2) Their were a LOT of animals around the house.

I decided to go visit her for a few, hoping to have her get used to my... unique appearance, and to hopefully become friends.

Walking up to the front door, I called out, "Miss Fluttershy are you home?"

I heard an 'eep', the sound of something solid hitting wood, and the sound of... chickens freaking out a bit?

But before I could begin to question it, the front door to Fluttershy's opened, revealing said mare, her eyes closed as she was rubbing a spot on her forehead where her coat seemed to be a little messed up.

I then realized what some of noise earlier was an crouched down to her height, quickly saying, "Oh my goodness! Are you alright? Did I cause that? I'll come back later if needed."

Opening her eyes, she looked at me and had a look of recognition, she stated "Oh, n-no, it's quite alright, I was s-surprised was all, a-and I wasn't being careful where I was, p-please, come in."

As she turned around and re-entered her house, I followed her inside and examined the interior with great interest.

It had a great many birdhouses, enough for a flock and a half, plenty of what I assume to be mouse holes, some even having doors, a doggie-door connected to the back door, plenty of perches and nests for birds, several cat trees for cats to climb, scratch, and play on; there were a lot of toys of many varieties for a small army of pet owners, and enough pet food to last one cat it's entire life.

I noticed the comfy-looking furniture and decided to sit down one the green couch, and waited while Fluttershy went into a different room. After a few seconds, I felt something, thumping on one of my hands, and when I looked, I was both puzzled and surprised. I found a tiny white rabbit thumping its foot on my hand in an impatient posture, and instead of trying to figure out what it was trying to tell me, I slowly reached to it with my other hand.

Once the rabbit noticed the hand he looked ready to bolt if spotted any danger, I stopped moving it closer to it, began lowering it to his level, and waited.

After a few moments, the little rabbit seemed to get curious and got closer to my hand, and, once it got close enough, it began to sniff at my hand. After a little bit of this, I began to move the hand again, this time, side-to-side, watching as its eyes tracked it, wary, but not scared if I'm reading its expression right.

Then, I slowly moved my hand to its head, and began to gently pet it, then began to pet its back and shoulders, and the little thing looked like it was having the best massage of its life.

"Wow," said the voice of Fluttershy, slightly startling me, and making the rabbit jumped up to my eye-level, surprising me a little, "Oh, I'm sorry Angel, I didn't mean to ruin the moment."

"That's this little one's name" I asked, looking as the rabbit fell back onto the couch, thinking back to when it seemingly tried to run me off, "I guess it does seem to be protective."

"Oh, he's not as easy to get along with when it comes to new ponies... or creatures," she stated, looking at the floor, her face half-hidden behind her hair, and then looked to me, her hair no longer blocking her face as her eyes seeming to sparkle with joy, "but, your the first one who managed to get him to be comfortable you in such little time."

"Well, he does seem like the type to get aggressive towards those who would take something he likes," I stated, shrugging with one as I continued to pet him with the other, him leaning into it, "All, I did was follow some instructions I read in a book I read... many years ago. Is there something here he likes that I'm not immediately seeing?"

"W-well," Fluttershy stuttered, half-hiding behind her hair again, this pony is just too cute, "you do happen t-to be sitting in his f-favorite spot."

If I had any visible eyes, I would've blink a few times, "Wait... this little guy likes to sit where I'm currently sitting?" I asked as I carefully picked up Angel, stood up from my spot, and placed him where I was sitting. I, then sat in the spot he took up before I moved him, and then continued to pet him and asked, "Angel does like carrots... right?"

"Yes, in fact I have some-" Fluttershy said, before she was interrupted as a black tentacle flew by her, into the kitchen, then retreated back into the living room with a carrot in its grasp. The carrot was then dropped into my hand and the tentacle retreated into my back.

"Sorry about that," I apologized to Fluttershy, whom is currently in shock from the fright she received, "I just prefer to get what I need myself, it just seems faster to me."

Fluttershy, barely recovered from shock, then asked, "H-h-how d-did you know w-where it w-w-was?"

"I seem to have a sixth sense about plants, whether harvested or not," I stated, as I break off a small piece of the carrot and give it to Angel, who is now looking at me warily again, but not as much as he did the first few times, as he began to chew it.

"A-and the..." Fluttershy stopped and looked uncomfortable for a moment, as if looking the right word.

"My 'tentacle'?" I asked, having the tentacle come out of my back and wave it a little for emphasis.

"Y-yeah," Fluttershy said, looking a bit flustered, can this pony exist without being cute?

"I, more often than not use it for utility based purposes, such as quickly grabbing something, while one or both my hands are preoccupied," I explained, "Though, with the very few fights I have ever had, they come in handy whenever I'm in combat, but I haven't had to fight except for the few rare occasions to help ponies escape the Everfree Forest."

"Oh my!" Fluttershy said, a little shocked, "I hope none of the animals tried to harm you," then under her breathe, she stated, "or were harmed by you."

I waved my hand a little in a nonchalant manner, "Oh no, the animals of the Everfree are too afraid of me to do something so deadly, more often than not, it is Timber Wolves that I had to deal with..." I then began to kind of stare off into space as I remember something, "occasionally, I have deal with... unnatural forces within the darkest portion of the Everfree."

"'Darkest portion'? What do you mean?" Fluttershy asked, and I sighed sadly.

"That would be another story for another day, I'm glad to have talked with you, but-" I said, before being interrupted by familiar popping noise and an even more familiar voice, which immediately caused me to become angry.

"Oh Fluttershy, I brought the cucumber sandwiiiiiiii," Discord started to say, but once he noticed me, he drawled on, eyes widened, and his pupils continually shrinking.

Holding back most of my rage, if I had a mouth and teeth, they would've been clenched as I greeted Discord, "Hello, Discord."

He then closed his mouth and spun his head, then gained an obviously nervous smile before saying, "Slendy, when did you get back from the dead? From what Sunbutt and Lulu told me, you and your brothers had been killed as a random casualty between Ms. Black&Dramatic and Celly."

At first, I got confused when he said, what I presume to be, his nickname for Nightmare Moon, because he said 'black and dramatic', yet it sounded different.

Shaking the thought out of my head, I then stated, "Guess you haven't been keeping up with current news then, because, we've been back for about... 3 weeks now? Also, last I knew, you were taken care of by the new wielders of the Elements."

"Well, this adorable and kind pony here," Discord said, holding up Fluttershy, before carefully placing her back down, "managed to do something even I thought would never happen, she reformed me."

I manage my best skeptical expression, considering I have no face, it wasn't easy, but I think Discord got the gist if what he said next was any indicator.

"Now, now, I know that it may seem crazy," Discord started, then struck a pose while holding a life-like miniature of Equis in his claw, "the Master of Chaos, the Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony, the very being who wanted to warp all of Equis into his own personal playground," as he said that, the mini-Equis started changing shape, state, color, etc., until it suddenly stopped and went back to normal as he finished, "a good guy now?"

"Well, I could tell you all about it, over some tea perhaps?" Discord said, as Fluttershy entered the room with a fresh pot of tea and three cups, "I know it's not your *favorite* tea, but I do know your favorite snack to have with tea."

Discord then snapped his fingers and a plate of scones appeared, with blackberry jam and clotted cream on the side as topping.

Partially skeptical of the scones, but with a hint of glee, I looked back to Discord, and asked, "Are they-"

"-strawberry filled?" Discord interrupted, then smiled smugly, as he answered, "Indeed they are, my good sir."

I picked one of the scones up, cover the top of it in a thin layer of the blackberry jam, then added a dollop of the clotted cream in the middle on top, and took a bit of it, hiding my now semi-visible mouth from Fluttershy's view. If I had eyes at the moment, they would've widened, and be sparkling with joy at the moment.

"You like it, I take it?" Discord asked, with the sound of victory in his voice, and I nodded in contentment, and finished the scone off, bits of the scone land and stick to my suit.

"I'm impressed," I stated, looking at Discord, "not a lot of ponies could make scones *remotely* that good a thousand years ago, well done."

"Yes, yes," Discord stated, bowing as if he was before an audience, "you are quite welcome, but before we get *too* far off track, let me tell you all about my reformation, and maybe you can tell us about how you are still alive?"

I shrugged as I stated, "Sounds fair to me."

Then he began to tell how he was reformed by the kindest pony in all of Equestria.

Author's Notes:

Well, this one might not have Slender Man being in public, but in a previous chapter, he was already revealed to all of Ponyville, so, that would've been somewhat repetitive if I tried that again, so I thought I'd throw something different into the loop instead.

Also quick announcement, if any of you can guess what it was that Nightmare did at the end of the previous chapter, you can get another interview chapter.

Hope you all enjoyed!