As Sam sat on Aurora’s back, while his new friends showed him around Ponyville, he was feeling a lot better after what happened that morning. Sam was liking Ponyville a lot. He had made a lot of new friends already. The Crusaders were showing him parts of Ponyville he hadn’t seen before, like the schoolhouse they all went to, a place called a spa, and some shops and stalls where they sold food and flowers. Sam even saw Applejack at an apple stand. She waved as they walked by and they waved back.

“So,” Apple Bloom said as they kept walking, “How are ya likin’ Ponyville so far, Sam?”

“It’s great,” he said, “Everyone seems really nice.”

“You’ll really like it here,” Scootaloo said, “Ponyville is the best place to be in Equestria.”

They kept walking around, but after a little bit, Sam felt like someone was watching him. He looked back and saw two earth pony fillies. One was pink, had a purple and white mane and tail, blue eyes, and a tiara on her head. The other was grey, had a light grey mane and tail with a braid on one side of her head, blue glasses over her purple eyes, and a blue necklace around her neck. Sam turned back to Aurora, tapped her shoulder, and whispered in her ear.

“Aura, do you know those two ponies behind us?” Sam asked her. Aurora looked back at the two fillies and frowned.

“What do you two want?” she asked. The others turned around and frowned when they saw the two.

“We’re not interested in you guys right now,” the pink one said. She then pointed at Sam. “We’re more interested in that.”

“Hold it!” Scootaloo said standing in front of Aurora, “He’s not a thing! He’s a human being!”

“Human?” the grey one asked.

“That’s right!” Aurora said stepping forward a little, “There were humans here in Equestria a long time ago, and if you studied history like some of us, you’d know that!”

Sam got off Aurora’s back and stood behind her. The pink one started laughing.

“You’re so much like your mum, Shadow!” she said, “An egghead. Now about that human, does it have a name?”

“Not ‘it’!” Sweetie Belle said, “’He’! His name is Sam.”

“Heh,” the pink one said, “Human names sound weird. Don’t you think Silver?”

“You said it, Diamond,” the grey one replied. So these two were Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, the ones who tricked Aurora and Scarlet into going in the forest and the bullies at their school. Sam was really hoping he wouldn’t meet them on his first day here. Sam then fiddled with his Omnitrix and transformed into a frog-like monster with horns.

“MICLAS!” Sam roared, but the goofy look of Miclas didn’t help the situation he was in.

Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon looked at him and began to laugh. When Sam became Miclas, his emotions seemed to increase causing him to either get upset, mad or happier much faster and easier. He was starting to get tears in his eyes as he sat on the floor. What they were saying was hurting.

“If you two don’t mind,” Apple Bloom said, “We’re busy showin’ him around Ponyville.”

“Well, for your information, I do mind,” Diamond Tiara said. She then looked at Sam/Miclas. “You listen up. You’d better not stand in my way, or else...”

“Or else what?” said a new voice. They all looked behind Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, and they looked behind themselves and they saw a brown earth pony filly, a yellow unicorn, a pink pegasus and a blue earth mare standing there. The brown filly had a pink and red mane and tail that were short, green eyes, but she didn’t have a cutie mark. The yellow one had an orange and yellow large puffy mane and tail, had a treble clef with a diamond for a cutie mark and had pink eyes. The pink pegasus had her mane done up in two large pig tails and was coloured purple and green, her eyes were also pink, and her cutie mark was a five-pointed star. And the blue mare had her dark and light blue mane done up in (all things) a ponytail, her eyes were also pink, and her cutie mark was a music note on a heart. Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon looked nervous while looking at them.

“Well, well, well,” the filly said walking up to them, “I come here for a visit, and imagine my surprise at seein’ you two pickin’ on my coz and her friends.”

She stopped in front of them and looked at Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. She then looked back at Sam (who due to his emotions changed back to normal), smiled, winked, and looked back at the two fillies.

“Can’t even give a new guy some space, can ya?” she asked them. Sam moved to Aurora’s ear and whispered to her.

“Aura?” he said, “Who are they?”

“It’s Babs Seed, Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze and Sonata Dusk,” Aurora whispered back to him, “Babs is Apple Bloom’s cousin.”

“You two best back off if you know what’s good for you,” Babs said.

“Why are you siding with him?” Diamond asked, “He’s a freak!”

Adagio, Aria and Sonata walked up and stared down on the two fillies.

“No he ain’t,” Babs said, “Any friend of my coz is a friend of mine. Now like I said, you two best back off, or I’ll be tellin’ your mothers. Get me?” Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon backed up a little when Babs finished talking.

“Fine,” Diamond Tiara said, “You win this round.” She then looked at Sam with an angry frown again, pointed a hoof at her eye, and then at him. She then looked at Silver Spoon. “C’mon, Silver Spoon. Let’s leave these losers for now.”

Silver Spoon nodded and the two of them walked away. Sam stepped out from behind Aurora and stood next to her as Babs turned around to look at him.

“You alright, little guy?” she asked.

“Mm-hmm,” Sam said nodding and wiping away the tears from his eyes, “Thank you for stopping them.”

“No problem,” she replied, “I really hate it when bullies pick on others like that. Name’s Babs Seed, Apple Bloom’s cousin. What’s your name?”

“I’m Sam. It’s nice to meet you, Babs,” Sam said.

“Oh, My, Celestia!” Sonata explained as ran up to Sam and started hugging him, “he’s so cute!”

“Calm down,” Aria said, “you’re going to him into oblivions.”

“Oh,” she notice and placed Sam back on the ground, “Sorry”.

“Well anyway, dear”, Adagio said before coming forward, “I’m Adagio, this is Aria, and this is Sonata.”

“It’s nice to meet you three”, Sam replied.

“You were awesome, Babs!” Scootaloo said, “If you hadn’t stepped in, I would’ve given them a piece of my mind.”

“Heh, thanks Scoots,” Babs said, “So, what’s new, besides Sam there?”

“Other than that, not much,” Apple Bloom replied.

“Hey Babs,” Sam said, “Why were Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon scared of you?”

“Let’s walk,” Babs said, “And I’ll tell ya.” Sam got back on Aurora’s back and tey all started walking again. “About a year ago, when I was living in Manehatten, I got bullied for being a blank flank. I came down here to visit Applejack and Apple Bloom for a few weeks. Applejack, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo were at the train station to meet me.”

“Hey Aura?” Sam asked, “Why weren’t you, Scarlet and Twist with them?”

“Me and Scarlet were helping Twist with a special contest,” she said, “It was the Summer Harvest Festival when Babs visited, so Twist, Scarlet and I missed the chance to meet her.”

“So anyway, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo wanted me to join the Cutie Mark Crusaders when they showed me their clubhouse. I was unsure ‘bout it at first, but then they showed me the parade float they were going to ride in the Summer Harvest Parade. I was impressed, but then Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon showed up. I thought they were gonna start teasing me like I was back in Manehatten, so I joined them, started pickin’ on my cuz and her friends, and wrecked their parade float.”

“Over the next few days,” Apple Bloom said, “the three of them were pickin’ on us a lot, and they even kicked us out of our clubhouse. We then came up with a plan to get back at Babs. We built a new golden apple float for the parade and booby-trapped it so it would head straight into a lake. On the day of the parade, Babs took the bait and drove off with the float after we started the timer on the trap. Applejack then told us she was proud of us that she thought we were makin’ Babs feel special, and then she told us that Babs was being bullied back in Manehatten. We realized that we turned into bullies too and tried our best to save Babs from the trap.”

“The trap went off before they could catch up,” Babs said, “They managed to push me out before the float fell into the lake, but they fell in instead. Later at the farm, we all apologized to each other, started over, became friends, and I joined the Crusaders too. Next day though, we were at the train station, because it was time for me to head back. Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were there too, and they started picking on my friends again, but I stopped ‘em and told ‘em I would tell their mothers about their bad attitudes. They stopped teasing them even after I left for a while. But when I came back today, I arrived in time to find they hadn’t stopped completely.”

“Thank you again for stopping them Babs,” Sam said.

“No problem little guy,” she said.

“Hey Sam?” Aurora said, “It’s getting pretty late. We need to get back to the library.” Sam saw the sun get low in the sky. It was a pretty sunset.

“Okay Aura,” he said.

“We’ll see ya tomorrow Sam,” Apple Bloom said.

“Bye girls,” Sam said waving to them. They all waved their hooves at him too and left for their homes.

When Aurora, Scarlet and Sam got back to the library, the sun was almost all the way down behind the hills. Sam was pretty tired after today. Aurora stopped walking and lowered to the ground to let Sam climb off.

“Hey, Sam,” she said, “Why don’t you open the door?”

“Uh, why?” he asked.

“You’ll see,” Scarlet said.

“Okay,” Sam replied a little nervous. he climbed off Aurora back and walked up to the door. Sam grabbed the door handle and opened the door inside. It was black dark in there. “What’s going on? Twilight? Sunset? Spike? Are you there?”

Click.

“SURPRISE!!!”

Sam jumped. Inside the library, there were decorations hung from the walls, balloons blown up, and a few tables that had plates of food on it. There were also a lot of ponies inside too, and they were all smiling at him.

“Wh-What is this?” I asked.

“It’s your ‘Welcome to Ponyville!’ party!” said a new voice. Sam looked around the library to find the pony who the voice belonged to and he saw a pink pony bouncing up to him. Sam saw that it was Pinkie Pie.

“Hi there!” she said, “I’m Pinkie Pie! I put this party together for you! Were you surprised?! Huh huh huh huh?!”

“Y-Yes, I was,” Sam said, “But, why did you run away when I said hello to you?”

“Well,” Pinkie said, “I know everyone here in Ponyville, and I know I’ve never seen you before, and if I’ve never seen you before, then that means you’re new here. You were all ‘Hello,’ and I was like, ‘*gasp*’, so I rushed over to the library and told Spike we needed to put together a party for you! Do you like it?!”

“I do,” Sam said as his eyes started filling up, “Thank you Pinkie.” he walked up to her and hugged her.

“Aw,” she said smiling and returning the hug, “You’re welcome, Sammy.”

“Sammy?” Sam asked looking at her.

“That’s my nickname for you,” Pinkie replied, “You like it?”

“I do like it, Pinkie,” Sam said, “Thank you again.”

Pinkie hugged him again and brought him over to the floor. Sam saw Twilight and Spike again, and they walked up to me.

“So, did you have fun with Aurora, Scarlet and her friends?” Twilight asked.

“I did,” Sam replied, “They showed me other places around Ponyville, and I even met Apple Bloom’s cousin and Adagio and her sisters.”

“Sounds like you kids had a lot of fun,” Twilight said. Just then, Sam heard my stomach growl. Twilight giggled. “You’d better get something to eat, Sam.”

Sam nodded his head and went over to the snack table. While he was getting a few cookies, someone started talking to him.

“Hey there!” said a voice, “You’re Sam, right?”

Sam looked next to him and saw a grey pegasus with a yellow mane and tail, bubbles for a cutie mark, and yellow eyes, but her eyes were looking in different directions.

“Uh, yes,” he said to her question, “I am. Who are you?”

“I’m Derpy Hooves, the mailmare,” she replied, “It’s nice to meet you.”

“It’s nice to meet you too,” Sam said. He kept looking at her eyes for a little bit. Could she see okay with them?

“If you’re wondering about my eyes, I was born with them,” she said, “I do have accidents with them sometimes, but I can still see okay. I just don’t know what goes wrong.”

“Oh, okay,” Sam said. Just then, he saw someone from behind her looking at him. When he looked, they disappeared. Sam looked back up at Derpy and pointed behind her. “Who’s that?” he asked.

Derpy looked behind her and smiled. “That’s my little muffin, Dinky,” she said, “Come on out and say ‘Hi’ muffin.”

A unicorn filly walked out from behind Derpy, stopped next to her and looked at me nervously. She had a very light purple coat, a yellow mane and tail like Derpy, and yellow eyes like Derpy too, but no cutie mark. She looked... cute.

“H-Hello,” Dinky said holding out a hoof to him, “It’s nice to meet you.”

Sam wrapped his hand around her hoof, and they shook. “It’s nice to meet you too, Dinky,” Sam said, “Are you friends with Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo?”

“Yes, I am,” she replied, “They’re my classmates too.”

While Sam was talking with Dinky and Derpy, he met Dinky’s older sister, Sparkler. She was a unicorn like Dinky with a pink coat, a purple mane and tail, purple eyes, and three diamonds for a cutie mark. After Sam left them, he met a white unicorn mare, with a bright blue mane and tail, big purple sunglasses, and a music note cutie mark. Sam couldn’t see her eye colour because her sunglasses were blocking them. Her name was Vinyl Scratch and she was playing some music for this party. It was fun to dance to.

Later, Sam was drinking some lemonade when he felt somepony’s hoof tap his shoulder. He turned around and saw two ponies: a unicorn and an earth pony. The unicorn had a bright green coat, a light blue and white mane and tail, orange eyes, and an instrument cutie mark. The earth pony had a tan coat, a blue and pink mane and tail, blue eyes, and three candy wrappers for a cutie mark. The green one looked very excited while she was looking at Sam.

“Uh, hello,” he said.

“Hello,” the earth pony said, “It’s nice to meet you, Sam. My name is Bon Bon, and you’ll have to excuse my friend Lyra here. She saw you with Twilight and Aurora earlier today and got excited.”

“Why?” Sam asked.

“A human...” Lyra whispered.

Sam looked at Lyra confused.

“Is there something wrong?” he asked her.

Just then, she picked him up in her forelegs really quickly. Sam was startled.

“Oh no, nothing’s wrong!” Lyra said, “It’s just that your arrival just won me a lot of bets!”

“Huh?” Sam asked.

“Lyra! Put him down!” Bon Bon said. Lyra did, but kept on looking at him.

“Sorry about that,” she said, “Anyway, my full name is Lyra Heartstrings, and I’ve believed in humans ever since I was little filly, but other ponies thought I was delusional. But now that you’re here, everypony now sees that I was right!”

“Settle down, Lyra,” Bon Bon said, “Don’t scare him. He’s still a child.”

“Right, sorry,” Lyra replied, “Anyway, do you think you could answer some questions I have about humans for me sometime?”

“I’d like to help you,” Sam said, “But I don’t think I’ll have every answer for you.”

“I know,” Lyra replied, “All I ask is that you try your best, okay?”

“Okay,” Sam said.

“Thanks a lot!” Lyra said happily. She then leaned her head down and hugged him, and Sam hugged her back. After we finished, Sam heard a clock ring. Everyone in the room looked at a clock and saw it was 10 o’clock.

“We’d better head home now, Lyra,” Bon Bon said, “It was nice meeting you, Samuel.”

“It was nice meeting you too, Bon Bon and Lyra,” Sam replied.

“See you later, Sam!” Lyra said as she and Bon Bon walked away, “And thanks again!”

“You’re welcome, Lyra,” Sam said waving to her. He looked around the room and saw that ponies were leaving the library or helping clean up.

“Hello again, Samuel darling.”

He looked behind him and saw Rarity standing there with something red in her magic.

“Hi Rarity,” Sam said, “What’s that?”

“It’s your first new set of clothing,” she said, “It’s a good thing I finished it in time tonight. I imagine sleeping in daytime clothes must be very uncomfortable.” She moved the red thing in her magic to Sam. he took it and unfolded it. It was pyjamas.

“Thank you Rarity,” he said smiling and giving her a hug.

“You’re very welcome,” Rarity said hugging him back, “Sweet dreams.” After she finished hugging him, she left the library next. After a few minutes, most of the ponies said goodbye and welcome to Equestria to him as they left. Pinkie Pie was the last one.

“So Sammy,” she said, “Did you enjoy the party?”

“I did, Pinkie,” I said, “Thank you.”

Pinkie picked him up and hugged him again. After she put him down, she bounced out of the library.

“Goodnight, Sammy!” she said.

“Goodnight, Pinkie Pie,” Sam replied. He yawned after Pinkie left. He was really tired.

“Tired, Sam?”

He looked behind him again and saw Sunset standing there.

“Yeah, I am,” he answered nodding.

“Let’s get you to bed,” she said, “You’ve had a long day. Twilight’s is already tucking Aurora and Scarlet in.”

She picked him up with her magic, put him on her back, and began walking up the stairs. They got up to a room that had two beds and a basket in it. Spike was asleep in the basket and Aurora and Scarlet were asleep in the smaller bed.
"Aura offered to share their bed with you," Twilight said.

"Okay," Sam said, "I'm going to go put these pyjamas that Rarity gave me before I get in."

"Alright," Twilight replied, "Goodnight, Sam."

“Goodnight, Sam,” Sunset said.

"Goodnight, Twilight, Sunset," Sam said, "And thank you again for letting me stay with you."

"You're very welcome," Twilight said with a smile. She leaned her head down and kissed him on his cheek. Sam went into the bathroom to change into the red pyjamas. After he finished, he walked out and into the bedroom again. Twilight and Sunset was fast asleep in their bed. Scarlet was half-asleep to allow Sam to climb in between Aurora and herself. Sam almost fell asleep when he felt something being placed over him. Sam looked down and saw that it was Aurora and Scarlet's hooves. They then shuffled closer to him.

"Aura, Scarlet, what are you two doing?" he asked.

"Just making sure you stay warm tonight," Aurora replied as she rubbed her cheek on mine, "Goodnight, little brother."

"Goodnight, big sisters," Sam replied. A little bit later, he fell asleep.

Here's chapter three. On the next time: Sam has an eventful day out with Spike.