As the chariot approached Ponyville, Adam once again recapped everything that had happened previously. He’d met up with the leader of the lands, which was apparently known as “Equestria”, which Adam thought was incredibly cheesy. He’d also learned basic knowledge of how the  world worked differently from his own, which he never even asked for, but after his situation had been fully explained, Celestia had insisted on telling him about how the weather and all that worked.  Honestly, Adam had no idea how weather didn’t just work on its own, and had relented in trying to convince the Princess that’s just not how weather works, but gave up after a couple minutes when he actually saw it in action outside of the castle window. He also learned about how the sun and moon worked, as well as the certain species of ponies, what they were capable of, and the tales of the “Elements of Harmony”.

“We’re here, sir.” One of the Pegasus chariot pullers said.

“Yeah, thanks.” Adam said curtly, and got off of the chariot, which then left back towards the castle.

“Hey, you guy there!” Came a voice from his left. Adam turned to his left and came very close to dying from laughter and shock. What he saw before him was a purple pony with a pink streak in her hair along with a horn, a white pony with purple hair and a horn, an orange pony with blond hair in a…ugh…ponytail, a yellow pony with pink hair, wings, and was currently hiding behind the orange one. But the two ponies that really got to him were the pink one, which was bouncing up and down with excitement, and a cyan blue pony with wings, and RAINBOW hair. It took Adam a while, but he finally recovered and professionally faced the ponies in front of him.

“I want to know one thing before we get started to know each other here.” Adam began. “How much dye do you guys go through in a week?”

“Dye?!” The Rainbow-haired one practically shouted. “I get this SO MANY TIMES! It gets SOOO ANNYOING! Why does everypon-“ She was cut off with a hoof to her mouth from the purple pony.

“I’m sorry, but she can get kind of hotheaded sometimes. To answer your question, we don’t use dyes for anything! We’re born this way, if that’s what you’re asking.” She responded. “I don’t believe we got your name. May we?”

“My name’s Adam Jensen. Obviously you can just call me Adam. Now I’d like to know your names, but seeing how this world is, your names are probably going to be ‘Pinkie Party’ and ‘Rainbow Fun’ or something.”

The pink one practically exploded before the rainbow-haired one could do so. “My name isn’t Pinkie party, its Pinkie Pie, silly! But I do love throwing parties! Oh, and I just realized I don’t know any Adam Jensens, so that means you’re new in town! Wait a minute, that means-“ Pinkie Pie let out a massive gasp, jumped into the air and held there for about five seconds. Without missing a beat, she practically flew off into town without another word.

“I thought only pegasuses could fly.” Adam commented.

“First of all, its pegasi, Adam, and secondly, don’t try to figure out Pinkie Pie. She has this uncanny ability to defy all logic, so we all just tack it to ‘Pinkie being Pinkie’.” The purple pony said. “Anyways, allow me introduce myself. My name is Twilight Sparkle. I’m Princess Celestia’s prized student, and I own the library in town.”

“Well no offense, Twilight, but your name is pretty gay.”

“That wasn’t very gentlecoltly, sir!” A posh voice responded from his left. Adam turned and saw the elegant, white unicorn mare with a fancy mane giving him a dirty look. “You should be ashamed for treating Twilight like that!” She made a pouty face. “Anywho, my name is Rarity. I’m a fashion designer, and I work at the Carousel Boutique. I must say, please stop by sometime soon so we can take care of those garish clothes you’re wearing.”

“Yeah, nice to meet you too, Rarity.” Adam responded, rolling his eyes, which of course the ponies couldn’t see due to his HUD visors. Suddenly, his vision was filled with cyan blue.

“My name’s Rainbow Dash!” A voice said as the figure slowly backed up to be the rainbow-maned Pegasus. “I’m the fastest flier in all of Equestria, and some day, I’m gonna be a Wonderbolt!” She exclaimed, doing a quick backflip, followed by a neat landing on her hooves.

“Wonderbolts?” Adam asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Yeah, they’re the awesomest fliers ever, and one of these days, I’ll be with ‘em! Oh, and your sunglasses are really cool!” She added, hoping to get on his good side now that he wasn’t being incredibly aggressive to the ponies.

“They aren’t sunglasses. They’re Heads-Up Display visors to help me see things better.” He responded, trying to keep the technology as concealed as possible.

“Heads-a-what?” Rainbow asked, tilting her head to one side.

“Never mind…” Adam muttered, shaking his head. After a long silence, the orange pony approached him.

“It’s a pleasure to meet ya’ll, mister Adam!” She exclaimed with a Southern twang as she savagely shook his hand. “Mah name’s Applejack! I work on Sweet Apple Acres farm, so if ya’ll ever want some apples, make sure ya’ll stop on by! We got the finest apples in all of Equestria!”

Adam waited for her to stop shaking his hand. “Yeah, good to meet you.” Adam then looked around for a moment. “Where’s the yellow one? I thought there was a yellow pony.”

“Oh, um, t-that’s me.” A small voice squeaked from behind Twilight.

“Well why don’t you come out? I still need to meet you.” Adam said.

“Oh, um, o-okay, I’ll come out. I-I mean, if that’s okay with you…” The voice said as the yellow Pegasus came out from behind Twilight. “M-my name is… Fluttershy…”

Now, most ponies, even with their better hearing than humans, would have to ask Fluttershy to repeat her name. However, with his hearing augmentations, Adam had no problem at all hearing what she had said. “Well the name suits you, Fluttershy.” Adam looked around. “Well, I’ve met you guys, so I guess I’ll be going to try to find a hotel or something since its getting late.”

“Nonsense!” Twilight exclaimed. “You’ll be staying with me!”

“What?!” Everypony else (other than Fluttershy) yelled, including Adam, although the way he said it, it was less of a yell and more at normal volume .

“Well, I mean, the Princess sent him over, so I guess he should be staying with me! Besides, I have so many questions to ask him!” Twilight clopped her hooves. “Oh, it’s going to be so much fun learning about a new sentient species in Equestria!”  

Rainbow Dash approached Twilight. “That’s all you have to reason? Besides, I doubt he wants to be barraged with billions of questions all night!”

Twilight shook her head. “No, Rainbow. He’d fall right through your house, he’d hardly fit in Fluttershy’s house, Rarity would give him a makeover, (to which Rarity responded with a muttered ‘he needs one’, Pinkie Pie is crazy, and I think he’d prefer a bed rather than some hay in a barn!” She let out a sigh. “Come on Adam, let’s get you inside. You still need to meet Spike!”

As Twilight dragged Adam inside with her magic, everypony else simply stood there in front of Twilight’s library, befuddled.