" Scootaloo, what the hay! I thought you had stopped bowling ponies over!" "It was an accident! He got in my way! It's not my fault!" "Is he dead?" "Lemme help him, maybe ah can get mah cutie mark in healin' stuff!" "Um, girls? Give him space. You kind of just knocked him out. Besides, I think he's waking up."

I opened my eyes, hazily taking in the view above me. Orange, white, and yellow filled up my vision, fuzzy blobs of color that I couldn't name even if I tried. As my vision cleared, I saw three, younger looking ponies looking down at me, invading a little more than what was comfortable of my personal space. I jumped, and sat up quickly, and collided heads with all three ponies. Huh, that's a new one. I thought, grasping my aching head. The three young fillies were sitting in a line, expressions ranging from curious to sheepish to guilt. All of them were rubbing their heads like I was. I quickly examined their flanks. No mark. Wait, what? Now I didn't even know what to think. I guess it was some wacked up version of pony maturity. We stared at each other for a few seconds, before Rainbow Dash sighed and said, "What is it with you and awkward introductions? You can't talk when meeting someone, but then you can't shut up once you get started! Anyways, meet the cutie mark crusaders."

"Ah'm Apple Bloom!" The yellow one with the red mane and pink bow told me with a cute southern accent.

"Scootaloo!" That one saluted, and I noticed her voice, mane style, and basic mannerism strongly parodied Rainbow Dash's.

" And I'm Sweetie Belle!" The purple, pink, and white pony's voice cracked on her name, as she pounced in front of the others and flapped her arms. Ok, so she wants to be a bird. That's cool.

"I'm John Smith". I said, standing back up on all fours.

"That's a funny name!" Scootaloo looked at me, trying to change her face into a look of disbelief, the exact same face I saw Rainbow Dash doing a few seconds earlier.

"Well, your name's Scootaloo. And I presume that is your scooter that crashed into me?" I remarked after noticing the blue scooter on it's side a few feet away, wheels still spinning.

"Heh, yeah. I kind of lost control. It hasn't happened for a long time."

"Wait, why are you called the Cutie Mark Crusaders?" I asked. This time Sweetie Belle spoke.

"We're trying to find our special talents to get our cutie marks! It's taken a while though. We've tried ice skating, bowling, zip lining, candy making, baking, apple bucking..." I tuned her out for the better part of three minutes. "... swimming, lion taming, chimney sweeping, and just now, pony smashing! You never know when you might need to knock down a pony. We keep on trying new things!"

"That's... cool. But why are you trying those things? Why not something you already know how to do?"

"Cuz we don't think it'l lead to our special talents! And anyways, ah think that we would've figured them out already, if we knew what to do!" Apple Bloom said. Wow, her accent was really cute.

Scootaloo examined my flank. "An hourglass cutie mark? How'd you get that?"

OH. CUTIE MARK. That's what it is. It makes so much more sense now. Oh shoot, how did I get it?

"Um, that's... classified? Only the coolest ponies can figure it out."

"Well, I'm a cool pony! Let's see... you make hourglasses? Your special talent is being on time? Uh, you really like sand?"

"How about none of the above?" Special talent. Ok, so cutie mark comes when you realize your special talent. Got it.

"Ugh, well, I'm not giving up yet! I'm the second most coolest pony in Ponyville!"

"So then, who's the coolest?" I heard a throat clearing, and Rainbow Dash striked a pose in mid air.

"The one and only! Squirt here still needs to learn to watch where she's going. She'll never be as cool as me though, not in a MILLION years."

"Wait, Scootaloo needs to watch where she's going? You crashed into the library yesterday. There's still a big hole that is, oddly enough, Rainbow Dash shaped." Derpy said, looking at Dash. Rainbow blushed. "Heh, yeah, still working on my landings. But Squirt here just knocked a pony down, on the ground, with her scooter, which could've easily been avoided. Therefore, your argument is invalid, and I win. MWAHAHA!" Derpy stared at Rainbow Dash. She opened her mouth as though to say something, and then shut it, giving up. "Whatever Dash, we still need to get John here over to my place, to show him the special thing, remember?" Rainbow nodded, and told the Cutie Mark Crusaders to go ask Fluttershy if they could help out with her animals again. Seeing the three of them tumble over to her cottage, I seriously doubted that the animals would live to see the next day. Fluttershy would have fun. We continued on our way back to... Ponyville? That's kind of a strange name. Ah well, at least I'll get to meet new ponies and stuff. I'll need to make as many friends as possible, because as long as I'm here, something is bound to go wrong, and having other peop-ponies to back you up is always nice. "How did you get here anyways?" Rainbow Dash pulled me out of my thoughts with a question.

"I... walked. Then I got lost in the Everfree forest, and that's when I found you and Derpy."

"You walked here from Canterlot? You do know that's way up there, right?" She pointed to a far away city/castle up on a mountain. Crud, I said I walked from there!?

"Um, yeah. It took a while though, and-hey! We're here! So what's Ponyville like anyways? Are all ponies here like the Cutie Mark Crusaders and you two and Fluttershy? What do you do around here? Are there any male ponies? Wait, there has to be, or else how do you... never mind. Any good resturaunts? What do they have?" I tried to ask as many questions as possible to get Rainbow Dash off of the topic.

"Um, Ponyville's great, no, weather patrol, yeah, no comment, sorta,... true?" Dash tried to remember my questions. She was close enough, not everyone can have a memory like mine. I looked around Ponyville, taking in all of the sites. It was a quaint little village, full of cute little houses buildings. One I noticed was shaped like a gingerbread house. Everywhere I turned, ponies stopped to look at me. Am I really that abnormal looking? Did my regeneration leave me looking super strange? I mean, I was the only male pony I've met so far, so I couldn't really go off of what females looked like. There were still no red ponies. I really wanted to try that blushing thing. We approached the gingerbread building, Derpy giving me little facts about the town and naming the ponies as we passed them. This pink pony started bouncing out of the building. Bouncing? How do you even do that? I was just making up my mind to try when I was alone in a place where no one could see me when the pink pony locked eyes with me. She had a light pink body, bright pink poofy mane, and blue eyes. Her cutie mark was three balloons. That was kind of-

*GASP*

She took me out of my thoughts as she jumped up into the sky. Ok, this pony was weird. Bouncing, and... flying? What the hay?

"HI! I'm Pinkie Pie, what's your name? I know that you're new here, because I havn't seen you before, and I've seen everypony in Ponyville, because I know everypony! I should throw you a party! With gumdrops and streamers and sugar and balloons and confetti and- where did you come from? Did you drop out of the sky like SHOOM and then ran over here like WHOOSH! Do you like bananas? I know you like bananas. Bananas are good! Why aren't you wearing a bow tie? Or a fez? Oh, I just remembered! I had a present for you! I knew you were looking for it, so I kept track of it! Here you go!"

She pulled my sonic screwdriver out of nowhere and tossed it at me. Wait, why does she have it? How does she know about my obsession with bananas, bow ties, and fezzes? WHAT

"Um, thanks?" I said, as the screwdriver hit me in the face. I examined it closely, apparently the buttons were gone. Cool, how was I supposed to use it then? I guess its just all telepathic now. Also, how was I supposed to carry this thing? I looked around, and I noticed all the ponies who weren't unicorns carrying things in their mouths, or tucking it in their mane. I picked it up with my mouth, and promptly spit it back out. That tastes disgusting. I picked it up again and quickly put it behind my ear, out of sight. That's better. Now I have it and I don't have to taste it.

"Wait, how did you get my sonic screwdriver?" I asked Pinkie Pie. Rainbow Dash and Derpy gasped, and then started whispering furiously to each other. When I turned back to face Pinkie Pie, she was gone. Wait, where did she go? Nopony can move that fa-

"WHEEEEEEEEE!" A voice called out from above me, and I see Pinkie falling from a few feet above me. What the hay? How did she get up there?

"How are you doing that? I am loving it! You're like, Houdini, only one slightly creepy pink pony and he was shorter, will be shorter. Anyways, how did you do that?" I started speaking to her, unintentionally matching her fast paced style of talking.

"What do you mean? You just climb up the side of the invisible box, and then fall back down. Easy peasy icing squeezy!"

I stared. You know what, I'm just going to add that to the ever growing list of things that I don't understand in this place.

I blinked, and she was gone, bouncing and giggling fifty feet away from me. What is this- I don't even- UGH. Never mind.

" That was Pinkie Pie. She's like the craziest pony here. You get used to her after a while." Rainbow Dash looked at me sympathetically. I didn't even know she could make that face, she just didn't seem like that type of pony.

"Let's hope so. So where were you taking me again?"

"Over to my home. Come on, we need to show you something." Derpy said, her and Dash already starting to fly away. I decided to follow them, because unfortunately, they were my best bet to actually understand anything in this town.

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