The door slammed shut behind Adam. “So what’s the enthusiasm? You want to throw a tea party?” Adam asked dryly.

“Not really,” Twilight replied, throwing books and scrolls everywhere around the room with her magic. “I want to know more about you…” She paused. “Humans… and those kinds of things.”

“Well, I guess I could be having a worse evening.” Adam muttered.

“What?” Twilight asked. “I didn’t quite catch that.”

“Nothing.” Adam said, shaking his head. “So what do you want to know?”

Twilight gestured him over to her kitchen, where they sat down to…not eat, but talk. “Well, first I want to know, how did humans get along with ponies in your world?”

Adam shrugged. “Ponies where I came from weren’t anything like ponies here.” He said. “For example, they couldn’t use magic because there weren’t any unicorns, and they couldn’t fly because there weren’t any pegasuses.”

“Pegasi, Adam.” Twilight corrected. “And if there weren’t any unicorns, I guess humans were pretty good at using magic?”

“Actually, magic doesn’t exist there.” Adam replied, drawing a huge gasp from Twilight.

“No magic?!” She practically shouted. “How could your world function if it doesn’t have any magic?!” Twilight practically exploded. A world without magic?! Preposterous!

“We make up for it with technology.” Adam said, hardly taking note of Twilight’s anger. “For example, the largest part of technology is called augmentations. Augmentations improve a human by adding cybernetic implants, and nanotechnology, which basically means using millions upon millions of tiny machines. If one were to be augmented enough, they could become a super-soldier, like me.”

“Woah, hang on, you use technology to make super po-er, humans?” Twilight interjected, eyes widening. “And you’re one of those?”

Adam laid back in the chair. “Yeah, I guess you could say that. I guess you guys don’t have much technology here, then?”

“Well, the furthest we’ve gotten to is a basic railway system and lightbulbs.” Twilight said sheepishly.

“What a shame.” Adam said emotionlessly, face unchanging. “Anyways, if you want to see my augmentations in action, I guess I could do that for you some time.”

“I’d love that!” Twilight exclaimed.

“Hey Twi?” A young, male voice called from the common area. “Where’d ya go?”

“I’m in the kitchen, Spike!” Twilight answered. A few moments later, a small purple and green lizard came jogging into the kitchen.

“Hey Twilight, I was just- woah, is this the visitor guy?” He asked, gazing up at Adam.

“Yeah, I guess you could say I am.” Adam responded, sticking out his hand. “And it looks like I can finally have a proper handshake. My name is Adam. I guess you’re Spike?”

“Yup, that’s me!” Spike said, proudly puffing out his chest. “Twilight’s Number One Assistant!” He cleared his throat and shook Adam’s hand. “Uh, nice to meet you Adam.” He said sheepishly. “Twilight, I was just about to ask you if you wanted to go to bed soon. Luna’s already brought up the moon!”

Twilight glanced out the kitchen window. Somehow, her short conversation with Adam had taken a really long time. “I guess so.” She said. “But I want to learn more about your world tomorrow, Adam!”

“Got it.” Adam said. “So, uh, where am I going to sleep?”

Twilight giggled. “I have an extra bed in my room that you can use. Spike, go set it up for him!”

“Got it!” He said, saluting to Twilight.

“C’mon, let’s go upstairs Adam. You should probably get some sleep too.” Twilight said.

“Alright.” Adam said. As they finished walking up the curved stairs, they reached the bedroom, where Spike had somehow already gotten the bed ready for Adam and was sound asleep. Adam climbed into the small bed and pulled the small blanket over himself.

“Good night, Adam.” Twilight said softly, climbing into her own bed and turning off the lights. Both adults fell asleep at the same time.

Adam walked through the labs of the familiar manufacturing plant. No one was there. It was just him, looking around the place he once thought was destroyed. However, as most people would be frightened by this sort of thing, Adam showed no emotion. In truth, he didn’t like the feeling of the factory, but was nonetheless showing no emotion, as usual. He closed his eyes and took a breath, then continued on. At least, he tried. He realized he couldn’t move. Panicking slightly, he looked down at his feet; but they weren’t there! They had been replaced by hooves! Adam was now fully panicking, hoping to find help somewhere, but no one was in the factory. Alarms and klaxons went off everywhere in the lab, the roof breaking open to reveal mercenaries falling down into the factory. Two of them rushed over to him and grabbed him by two hooves. “We have it, sir, we have it!” One of them said. Adam recognized that voice; it was Michael Zelazny! But when Adam attempted to reason with him and tell him who he was, all that came out were neighs and snorts, as Adam bucked furiously. “Sir, it’s acting up!” Michael shouted as he knocked Adam out with the butt of his rifle.

Adam shot up in his bed. Looking around, he noticed that he was still in Twilight Sparkle’s room, on her spare bed. Adam’s legs were dangling off the end, his feet against the floor. ‘Feet?’ Adam thought to himself. He breathed a massive sigh of relief. He was still a human, just still in the pony world. He then noticed that Twilight was still sleeping soundly, although the sun was slowly sending creeping tendrils of light across the room. Adam got out of his bed and activated his silent walking augmentation, so as to not wake Twilight up. As he approached the stairs leading to the common area of the library, a delicious smell wafted towards Adam. He detected the smell to be eggs. Now, although Adam didn’t have to eat food for long periods of time, he would still prefer to eat rather than not. Walking into the kitchen, he saw Spike wearing a small pink apron as he prepared breakfast for the three current occupants of the tree. Adam couldn’t help but chuckle at this, which made Spike jump a little bit.

“Dude, what the heck? I didn’t even hear you come downstairs!” Spike exclaimed.

“Oh, I must’ve forgotten to turn that off.” Adam said to himself as he deactivated his silent-walking augmentation. He cursed himself for being so mindless, as he was now down to a single battery cell.

“Turn what off?” Spike asked.

“Something that lets me walk silently.” Adam explained. “I used it so I wouldn’t wake up Twilight, but I guess I forgot to turn it off when I came downstairs.”

Spike shrugged. “Well, I’m making breakfast right now. We’re gonna have eggs and daisy sandwiches, since Twilight loves those so much.”

The last item on the menu hit Adam like Rosie O’Donnell sitting on someone. He realized he couldn’t eat most of the things a pony would normally eat. “Yeah, I think I’m going to pass on the sandwiches…” Adam said.

“Let me guess.” Spike said. “Humans can’t eat flowers and stuff?”

Adam nodded. “That’s the simple way to put it. But eggs are great.”

“Well, they’re almost ready!” Spike exclaimed. He looked down. “Oh, uh, they…are…ready…” he trailed off.

“Burn them?” Adam asked.

“Only a little!” Spike protested. “Here, I’ll give the least-burnt part.” Spike handed Adam a plate of eggs, along with an apple. Adam dug in, and by the time Twilight had come downstairs, Adam had already finished off everything on his plate.

“Oh, good morning Adam!” She exclaimed happily.

“My, somebody’s awful happy this morning.” Adam said near-emotionlessly.

“Well, I decided to not pound you with questions this morning.” Twilight said, causing Adam to breathe a sigh of relief. “I’m going to show you around town instead!”

Adam facepalmed. “Now?”

“Of course not NOW, because you DID promise me you’d show me how your augments work, remember?”

Adam sighed. “Alright, let’s do that then.” After Twilight finished her breakfast, Twilight took him into the common area of the library, where there would be plenty of room to do tests.

“Alright, so the first thing I want you to do is set up a relatively strong wall, preferably out of bricks or something.” Adam instructed.

“Well,” Twilight said. “I don’t just have bricks lying around, but I can set up a low-energy magic barrier!”

“Do it.” Adam said. Horn glowing, Twilight constructed a quick, relatively weak magical barrier. Adam brought back his arm, mechanism in his hand spinning into a tight ball of steel, and he then proceeded to punch directly through the barrier, shattering it into tons of invisible pieces.

“Wow!” Twilight exclaimed. “That was amazing! Not even Applejack can break a barrier!” She made a mental note to herself that if she pissed him off, to set up a very thick barrier.

“Alright, the next thing I want you to do is find me something heavy.” Twilight went inside, and a few moments later returned with Adam’s favorite: a refrigerator. “You sure you don’t need this?” He asked.

“No, this has been broken for a couple years now.” Twilight explained.

“Well, alright then.” To Twilight’s shock, Adam not only picked up the fridge, but threw it across her house.

“Oh my Gosh, that’s amazing!” Twilight bounced happily, much akin to Pinkie Pie. “I mean, I’ve seen ponies pick up really heavy objects with telekinesis, but never seen a pony pick something like that up on their own strength and then THROW it!”

“Yeah, alright.” Adam said. “Next I- uh” Adam stopped. He really didn’t think innocent ponies needed to know the destructive power of the Typhoon. “Next I want you to meet upstairs on your balcony.” He said as he activated the GlassShield Cloaking System. Twilight sat there, amazed that technology alone could make somepony disappear entirely. But she figured it would probably be best to simply follow his instructions and meet him at the balcony. She trotted up the stairs, and sure enough, when she approached the balcony, Adam was standing there, waiting for her.

“That was really cool Adam!” Twilight said, not having nearly enough time to stop herself from sounding like Rainbow Dash. She cleared her throat. “What I meant was, why do we need to be up here on the balcony?”

“Watch.” Adam said as he leapt off of the third-floor balcony.

“Adam, wait!” Twilight yelled. But it was too late to catch him with her telekinesis. In horror, she dashed over to the balcony edge, only to see Adam engulfed in some sort of yellow ball. After seeing him walk back inside, she decided he’d probably wait for her in the common area again. But as she entered the encirclement of books, there was not an Adam to be seen. Confused, Twilight began to trot to the kitchen, only to have the crap scared out of her when she felt a tap on her shoulder.

“Surprise.” Adam said, only to be met with a hoof to the face. “Well I see someone can’t take a joke.”

“That was for jumping off my balcony without telling me what you planned to do!” Twilight yelled. “Well, anyways, what was that yellow bubble thing?”

“That’s called the Icarus Landing System.” Adam responded. “It allows me to fall from any height without fear of death or injury.”

“Wow, any height?” Twilight could just see the possibilities lining up. “That's incredible! Your technology can do some things nopony really remembers how to do with magic!” After a few more minutes about talking about magic and technology, Twilight led Adam out of the Library to go explore Ponyville. Adam simply sighed. He knew today was going to be a long day.

((A/N: Sorry this took so long to get out guys! I really didn’t have much access to my computer. The next chapter may be out soon though!

-Dash))