Once I left our void of a home, I once again found myself within my familiar forest home. I, in order to get to Ponyville faster and avoid freaking out any ponies, had done some short teleports on my way out of the forest. Just as quickly as I had arrived back in my forest, I was out, looking around I noticed a nearby lively-looking town and a nearby lonely-looking cottage, though from its condition it did not seem abandoned.

'Whoever lives in a house this close to the forest, while nopony else lives out here must be brave, yet craves isolation,' I thought to myself. Then looked back over to the town and walked towards it making sure not to bother anything that is alive or an object.

After a couple of minutes, I arrived in town, yet... it seemed abandoned suddenly, though I could've sworn I just saw activity her. I then move towards a house either shaped like a tree or is a tree, and noticed the sign in front of it: Golden Oaks Library.

I looked back at the tree-house, 'A library, eh?' I thought to myself, 'Maybe I can get some help here.'

I knock on the door a wait for a response. When nothing happened I knocked again.

This time I did receive a response and the door opened to reveal an adult female unicorn with a lavender coat and a dark indigo mane with a pink stripe and purple stripe in it. She looked up at me with her eyes widened, getting ready to slam the door shut.

"Wait," I borderline demanded/pleaded, as I used my hand to hold the door open, "please, I have a few questions I need answers to," I said gently, calming her down a little, though not a lot.

She then took in a deep breath and exhaled, then responded, "Ok," she then waved me in with her hoof, "come in."

I crouch down to enter through the doorway, and looked around before slowly raising myself to being a bit hunched over.

She then walked over to a table near the center, with what looked similar to the head of a Trojan Horse as center piece, and waved me over.

I walked over and sat down, legs crossed, and straightened my back.

"So," she started, albeit nervously, and summoned a tea-pot and two cups, "tea?"

I thought for moment, then nodded, "No sugar or cream please," I stated.

She nodded, then froze for a moment, frowned, then looked at me for a moment.

"Wait," she said, confused, "you don't have a mouth."

I shook my head for a moment, before responding with, "I very much do have a mouth, though if you see it, you will more than likely be mentally scarred by it." I then frowned, as an old memory came up, "I learned that the hard way."

Twilight frowned, but nodded her head as she poured my tea and passed it over to me.

"Thank you miss...?" I said, realizing that I don't know her name.

"Please," she waving her hoof dismissively, and smiled a bit at me, "just call me Twilight, everypony does."

I nodded, "Alright, Twilight," I said, I took a sip of the tea after forming a small hole at where my mouth should be, and started to ask my questions, "You wouldn't happen to know where Princess Celestia currently resides would you?"

Twilight nodded, "Of course, but..." she gained a look of curiosity, "might I ask why you need to see the Princess?"

I nodded, "Well, it has come the attention of me and my brothers, that your Princess has called a summons to us."

"Oh, right!" Twilight exclaimed, "The Princess had called a summons of 'The Faceless Ones', I had forgotten about that..." she paused then looked at me in confusion, "Wait... you mentioned 'brothers'?"

I nodded my head, "Yes, it's a bit of a long story," I replied, then looked off to the side, "but... one that I will tell at a later time, for I am uncomfortable telling anyone about it."

"I see," Twilight said, nodding in understanding, I looked back to her, "back on the subject of Princess Celestia..." she paused in thought, before smiling and nodding to herself, "how about I take you to her directly?"

I thought about it before I nodded, "Thank you, Twilight," I responded earnestly, "I prefer to become someone considered friendly in the pony society."

She shook her as she giggled a bit, "No need to thank me," she stated, "after all what are friends for?"

I tilted my head in confusion, then i straightened up in realization, '... wow... I barely had to do much and I already have my first friend in...' A few flashes of memories appeared before my eyes.

"Are you OK?" she asked, worried, shaking me out of my small trance, "you seemed, gone... like... lost in your thoughts."

I nodded as I responded, "Yes I am fine, just... remembering something from before."

"Alright," she said, "I'm going to go get my friends and let the town know that you're not a threat."

I tilted my head in confusion at first, then nodded, "Alright," I stated, "go ahead."

I followed Twilight out of her home crouching once again to fit through the doorway and closed it once I was out. I turned around and noticed something different... there was a lot more ponies in front of him than he remembered.

This crowd of ponies that I swear weren't there a few moments ago, were making a lot of noise and I noticed that Twilight was trying to get their attention to talk.

I cleared my throat loudly, making the crowd suddenly silent, "Umm..." I started, uneasy with all of the attention on me, then gestured towards Twilight, "I believe Miss Twilight here wanted to say something."

They all looked at her waiting, she was wide-eyed at first, then relaxed and smiled, "Thank you," she said, looking at me, then back to the crowd, "Don't worry everypony, it just another 'Zecora-situation', nothing to be alarmed of."

The crowd 'oohed' and started to do things that were normal... well, normal for ponies anyway.

"Hey Twilight," I heard a female voice say, with a hint of a tomboy- er... tomcolt?- noticeable in the voice.

I looked over to Twilight and noticed a female pegasus with a rainbow mane and cyan coat.

"Hi, Rainbow Dash," Twilight responded with a smile, "good timing, I wanted to see if you could come with me to Canterlot."

"Eh, sure?" Rainbow answered confused, "Why wouldn't I?"

I decided to step in, literally and figuratively, beside Rainbow, "Because she is taking me there per my request," I answered, slightly startling Rainbow, "My apologies, I didn't mean to scare you, though I thought it would be best for me to answer this question."

Immediately changing her body language, she responded, "Me? Scared? Pfft, please, there is not a thing that can scare Rainbow Dash," she puffed out her chest in pride.

"You might change your mind once you see the rest of us," I stated, waving my hand in a circle as if trying to conjure something, "we all don't look the same, but we have been told that we are some the most intimidating beings in existence."

"Oh yeah?" Rainbow said in a challenging tone, "is that a challenge?"

"Oh no," I replied, waving my in front of me, "I don't challenge others, especially when it comes to the amount of terror you can stand."

"Why-" Rainbow started to ask.

"RAINBOW!" Twilight shouted with a disapproving look aimed at her, "You don't need to prove yourself against being with unknown powers, so please, do not attempt to make yourself a person he doesn't like."

After being lectured by Twilight, she pouted and responded, "Fine," then started to fly away, until a magenta aura appeared on her tail and on Twilight's horn, and pulled her back.

"And...?" Twilight asked, annoyed.

Rainbow sighed, and, begrudgingly, continued, "I'm sorry and won't do it again."

I chuckled a bit at the childish act, "No need to apologize," I said, "I practically bragged, which resulted in your..." I rubbed my chin in thought, looking for the right word, "... rather aggressive response, so I apologize."

Rainbow looked at me in confusion, at which I held out my hand to shake her hoof, then she shrugged and smiled, "Eh, no biggie," she responded, shaking my hand.

"Anyways," Twilight said impatiently, gaining our attention, " are coming with us or not?"

Rainbow remembered her question from earlier, looked to me for a moment before looking back to Twilight and nodded, "Sure, might be cool to hangout with..." she then quickly whipped her head towards me, "Um, I never got your name."

I mentally facepalmed for not introducing myself sooner, "Once again my apologies, I'm called Slender Man, you may call Slender if you wish," I furrow my brows noticeably, "but please refrain from calling me 'Slendy', I only allow those who are children or with high energy to call me that, they get a pass because they might either forget, or will not process that tidbit of information." For some reason I could swear I heard someone say, 'my ears are burning', but was unsure.

"Seriously, it's not a problem," she replied with a nervous smile, then looked back to Twilight, "anyways, I don't think I will mind hanging with him."

"Great," Twilight said, a seemingly forced smile on her face, "now we need to-"

"Introduce him to the rest of us?" said another female voice from behind me, a hint of posh in the voice.

I turned around to see four other mares, the one closest to us being a unicorn with a fancy, royal purple mane and a pure white coat.

"Oh, Rarity!" Twilight exclaimed in surprise, and looked at the others, "I see Applejack, Pinkie, and Fluttershy are also here, perfect!" She then gestures towards me with a hoof, "This is Slender Man," she introduced.

I did a small bow in respect, "The pleasure is mine," I said calmly.

Rarity nodded with a smile, "I like you already," she stated, "you have nice taste in fashion and great manners, I'm Rarity, a fashion designer."

The earth pony, next to her wore a stetson and had a blonde mane and orange coat, tipped her hat towards me, "Howdy, the name's Applejack, but you just call me AJ," she greeted.

Suddenly there was a pink earth pony in my face, with a bright pink coat and a slightly darker pink mane, which startled me.

"HiI'mPinkiePiedoyoulikeparties?Doyoulikecake?Whatisyourfavouriteflavor?Whatabout-" she spoke so fast it took me
a moment to register what she said before she was interrupted.

"Pinkie!" Twilight exclaimed, getting her attention, "slow down, he just got here-"

"It's fine Twilight," I said nonchalantly, "First off,
would you slow down a bit please so I can understand you easily?" I asked receiving a nod with an extremely wide smile, "secondly, in response to your sentence... hi, yes, yes, um... I think I would have to say either strawberry or red velvet, and I will answer your other questions later for when I have free time."

Pinkie frowned for a moment, which suddenly turned into a small smile as she nodded and replied, "OK, I will get back to you later on with them."

Rainbow then pointed to the pegasus mare hiding slightly behind Applejack, "And this here is Fluttershy," she looked to Fluttershy, "come on Flutters, you've got to meet him."

I leaned over and noticed Fluttershy, a bright pink mane and a butter-yellow coat, was hiding behind her mane.

I then waved my hand, "Hello, Fluttershy," I said gently, "there is nothing to fear," I then reach over and pat her on the head, causing her to freeze in place for a moment.

"See?" I said, a bit confident, then in a somber tone, "I do understand how you feel, you aren't comfortable with meeting new ponies, right?" Fluttershy nodded in response, and started to relax. "Well, that is alright," I stated, then with a bit of reassurance, "I am patient, and can wait for when you are ready to talk with me." She smiled a bit and nodded, and I nodded in response.

"OK," Twilight said, "now that we are all acquainted, do the rest of you want to come with us to Canterlot? Slender here is going to meet the Princess."

Applejack, Pinkie, and Rarity all voiced their agreements, while Fluttershy, at first reluctant, nodded.

"OK, then," Twilight stated, "then we are off," and suddenly there was a flash of light and we were elsewhere.

I suddenly felt dizzy, then felt like throwing up, but I swallowed it, leaving a terrible taste in my mouth and with nausea. Twilight noticed that I didn't look so good and became worried.

"Are you ok?" she asked.

I nodded and replied, "I- urp... I'm OK, I think that's the first time I've been tele- uurrrp... teleported by something other than myself to be honest."

"Sorry," Twilight said, she closed her eyes as her horn glowed, and I see a flash of light, leaving me feeling better all of a sudden, "There, that should help."

"Thank you Twilight," I said, and was then reminded of the terrible taste still in my mouth, "Yeeesshh... does anyone happen to have a mint on them?"

"Here you are darling," Rarity said, floating a mint my way with her magic, as Twilight starts walking towards a booth, "always a good thing to keep a mint on hoof, for any reason really."

I take the mint in hand, place the same hand over my mouth, which I quickly open and close, start moving the mint inside of my mouth.

"Thank you once again Rarity," I said, mint still in mouth.

"You're welcome deary," she replied, then gained a look of confusion, "Though, how did you... put that in your... 'mouth'?"

I sigh, "I'd rather not talk about," I said looking off to the side, then back to her, "at least... not yet."

She nodded in understanding, "Alright, only whenever you feel ready," she stated.

Twilight then came back with seven tickets, "Alright, we are ready to go!" she exclaimed, passing each of us a ticket in her magic.

"Wait," Fluttershy said suddenly, "what about Spike?"

Twilight smiled, as she relaxed, "He and Owlicious, are going to look over the place for the night, they'll be fine," she said, waving a hoof dismissively.

'Spike?' I thought to myself, looking to Twilight, 'Eh, it must be someone she knows.'

"All aboard!" called the train conductor, "Train to Canterlot, Fillydelphia, and Baltimare!"

"That's our train," Twilight stated, "let's go girls," she then looked to over to me, "and Slender."

We all walked onto the train, though I unintentionally caused the train conductor some fear with just my appearance, waited until the train took off.

Author's Notes:

Geez already another divided chapter? and it's literally been two chapter... anyways hope you guys have enjoyed this chapter. Anyways as a reminder there is still the mini competition that has been held since chapter 4, so someone could still have an interview with one of these characters. So... this is Ultimate Brony signing out.