I've awoken feeling warm and completely cozy. I yawned and noticed Pinkie was cuddling me with her arms wrapped around me and she even nuzzled my face with her own while sleeping. I lightly blush, as I realized I also had my arms wrapped around her and was touching her long poofy hair. I was a little taken aback from how soft it felt and gently rubbed my hands through it. Well, looks like I'm stuck here until she wakes up. After a while I heard her make an adorable yawn, before she looked at me with a huge smile on her face.

"Good morning, Marky!" She exclaimed excitedly, "Did you sleep well, because I sure did!" She then tightened her embrace and gave me a kiss on the cheek, "Sleeping with you was so relaxing and cozy. Was it for you too? Oh, I hope we get to do this more often."

Before I could try to respond to the excited girl on me, Pinkie let go of me and got out of the sleeping bag.

"Come on, I think the others are waking up too."

I simply nodded, before getting out of the sleeping bag myself and saw the others getting up and yawning. Sunset in particular, stumbled out of bed, still half awake, before somehow carefully walking down. Must be used to navigating down from her bed, without any clear focus.

"Good morning girls and my future husband," Sunset greeted, without thinking, before yawning.

"What was that last part, Sunset?" I asked.

"Huh? Oh!" She exclaimed in realization, "I meant guy. Yeah, guy," She finished sheepishly while rubbing the back of her head.

Great, not only is one of them interested in me, but is also thinking that far ahead to marriage. Geez, we haven't even had one date yet.

"Geez, Sunset. At least go on one date with the guy, before even thinking about marriage with him," Rainbow teased, causing said girl to blush heavily in embarrassment.

"You should also not get your hopes up Sunset, darling. For all we know he could end up marrying someone else," Rarity added, giving Sunset a dirty look, which was returned.

God, it's too early to deal with girls bickering and fighting over me. If I'm going to deal with it, I want to get some breakfast.first

"Settle down girls," Applejack told the bickering girls, before addressing all of us, "Why don't we get some breakfast and continue the rest of the day on a good note?"

"Yes, since this is a special occasion, why don't we eat out for breakfast? It's on me. Let's all take a quick shower, and we can get today started." Sunset suggested.

"Why don't you take one first, stud?" Rainbow suggested, before giving me a teasing grin, "I just hope you don't peak when we take ours."

"Rainbow!" Most of the girls scolded, while the girls and I blushed in embarrassment.

"As long as you girls don't do it to me," Was my response before grabbing some clothes from my backpack.

"That's going to be a hard deal to agree to. Harder for some than others," Rainbow chuckled, causing Pinkie, Rarity, and Sunset to blush heavily.

"Speaking personally Dashie?" I asked with a teasing grin.

"No, don't get ahead of yourself," She denied, looking away while blushing.

I simply chuckled before entering the bathroom. Seriously, though, I hope none of them actually try to get a peak.

I was waiting with the girls, except Rarity and Rainbow, outside Sunset's apartment for said girls. Rarity insisted on helping Rainbow get ready, due to our bet from last night. Finally, after what seemed like hours, they both left the apartment.

"May I present the new and improved Rainbow Dash," Rarity announced.

"Must you do that Rarity?" Rainbow asked, annoyed, before slowly moving into view.

"Of course. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity and I wanted to take advantage of it," Rarity responded with a grin.

"Let's just get this over with. The sooner the day is over the sooner I can get back to normal."

"Hopefully, you learned you can't win against him," Applejack added with a smirk.

"Oh, shut up! He just keeps getting lucky," Rainbow snapped, annoyed, before sighing, "How was I supposed to know he was skilled and would get lucky against Sunset?"

"Getting beaten over one hundred times in that one game alone wasn't enough to tip you off?" I asked with a smirk, "Not to mention all those times I beat you at Daring Doo."

"Yeah, well..." Rainbow tried to respond, blushing lightly, before looking away.

"He didn't get lucky, Rainbow," Sunset told her, looking serious.

"What are you talking about?" Rainbow asked with a raised eyebrow, "You two were on par with one another and I still don't know how you get a tie in a fighting game, but he got lucky and dodged your final attack. If it wasn't for that you would have won."

Sunset shook her head, "No, it wasn't luck that allowed him to do that. It was pure skill. I could be wrong, but I developed the instinct to tell the difference."

The other girls simply looked stunned at her statement, before eventually shaking their heads.

We entered the mall, and everyone seemed to stare at Rainbow in shock and awe. Rainbow groaned while Applejack chuckled at the attention she was getting.

"Figures, they would react that way to you being more girly, Rainbow," Applejack teased.

"Oh, shut up!" Rainbow snapped.

"Oh! Rainbows!" We all heard in the distance.

Rainbow became more annoyed and even groaned into her hands, before the hobo looking guy, I saw a while back, walked right up to us.

"Zephyr," Rainbow groaned in complete annoyance.

So, that's Fluttershy's brother, Rainbow told me about.

"I was just here chilling with the guys," Zephyr began, trying too hard to be cool, "Then I saw you and the girls arriving. Usually that's an awesome thing, but when I noticed what you were wearing it was even more so."

"Uh yeah," Rainbow responded both awkwardly and in annoyance, most likely hoping for the conversation with Zephyr to end as soon as possible.

"I have to say I am surprised Rainbows," Zephyr began with a cheeky grin, "Hoping to impress a certain someone?" Zephyr asked, pointing at himself.

I could hear Applejack chuckle and a few seconds later most of the other girls joined in, while Fluttershy simply groaned into her hands and Twilight looked confused.

"Well... I..." Rainbow stammered trying to find the right words

"I just want to say mission accomplished! You manage to look more awesome than usual," He complimented with a smirk, before he licked his lips, making Rainbow groan in disgust, but he didn't seem to notice, "Is this your work Rarity? Nicely done, I have to say."

"Oh. Thank you, Zephyr... uh darling," Rarity responded awkwardly before mumbling, "If I can call you that."

"How are you, Flutter Butter and the rest of these lovely ladies?" Zephyr asked, rubbing his hair, trying to be flirty, "I see you have a new girl with you. I assume she's the Twilight you told me about flutters."

Most of the girls seemed annoyed and disgusted, while Twilight looked confused and Fluttershy groaned harder and facepalmed.

"Uh yeah that's me," Twilight answered awkwardly.

When Zephyr seemed like he was about to respond, he suddenly noticed me and he raised an eyebrow, "You have a boy with you, huh?"

"Yeah, I'm..."

"Why is he with you all? Wouldn't you rather spend time with me?" Zephyr asked, rubbing his messy hair.

Most of the girls shook their heads, while Fluttershy groaned for what seemed like the hundredth time in the past few minutes.

"Hell No!" Rainbow exclaimed in complete disgust and to my surprise put an arm around me, "I am much more willing to spend time with him than you. Even though he's the one responsible for me having to wear this in the first place."

"His fault?" Applejack asked with a chuckle, "You didn't have to challenge him, you know."

Rainbow gave her a dirty look before giving Zephyr a serious one, "Go away Zephyr we don't want to spend time with you."

"Playing hard to get as usual Rainbows," Zephyr simply responded with a smirk, "You so love to play that way. I suppose I should be grateful he got you to wear this. Just stay away from my Rainbows and don't bother trying with the other girls. I doubt you would win them over."

I can think of four that beg to differ. Before I could tell him so both Pinkie and Rarity embraced me and gave him a dirty look.

"I'd rather have him as a boyfriend than you," Rarity told him before kissing my cheek.

"Yeah, I already kissed him on the lips twice and even slept with him and I can't wait for more." Pinkie added kissing me on my other cheek

I began to heavily blush from the affection, while Zephyr's eyes widened and he stammered, "Well, I... better get back to my friends. See you later Rainbows," he told us before blowing Rainbow a kiss and walking away.

Rainbow groaned into her hands in complete frustration, "Of all the people to run into today, it had to be him,"

As we got deeper and deeper into the mall, the girls and I encountered someone else that made most of the girls groan in annoyance.

"Rain-brooms, what brings you here?" Trixie greeted the girls with a cocky look.

"It's a public mall, Lulamoon," Rarity responded somewhat bitterly.

"What are you up to Trixie?" Rainbow asked glaring at the girl, "Planning on doing something terrible again?"

"Still bitter over me trapping you I see," Trixie simply responded, yawning, "The great and powerful Trixie is simply advertising her magic shows" She finished dramatically, holding up a flier that seemed to be even more poorly drawn than the last one I saw.

"With a flier like this," Rainbow teased, chuckling, "Who's the five-year-old, you got to draw it?"

"No, I have seen five-year-olds who have drawn much better art," Applejack added with a smirk.

Trixie gritted her teeth and her face flushed red in anger, "Trixie is great at many things and drawing is one of the very few she isn't good at. I am looking for an expert artist to do it, but none has met Trixie's standards."

"Even though yours doesn't meet the standards of most four-year-olds," Rainbow quipped.

Trixie groaned in anger, before calming down when she noticed me, and she quickly walked right up to me.

"Oh Marcus, right?" She began sounding nicer than when she was addressing the girls, "I was impressed with your actions during the friendship games and am glad to see you managed to survive you know what."

The rest of the girls were stunned at her statement and their jaws hit the floor.

"Oh thanks," I responded back.

"Am I the only one wondering why Trixie is suddenly talking like a normal person?" I heard Rainbow mumble to Applejack, who nodded in agreement.

"Not counting our experiences with magic, it's the strangest thing I have ever seen," She mumbled back.

Trixie either didn't hear them, or ignored them and she gently rubbed my cheek, "I'm sure if that hadn't happened you would have won it for us, and I find that impressive."

"Oh, I don't know about that."

"Modest too. Trixie loves that character trait the most!"

"Well, Lulamoon it was... well we saw you again and we must get going," Rarity interrupted, giving Trixie a dirty look.

"Very well," Trixie scoffed before giving me a smirk, "Feel free to see Trixie any time. She is much better company than these rain-glooms."

This caused the girls except Twilight to glare at her, before they led me away.

"Damn stud you really are a chick magnet," Rainbow commented, "First Pinkie, Rarity, Sunset and now Trixie. When will it end?"

"You forgot yourself on your list, Dashie."

"Don't flatter yourself," She responded, lightly blushing.

"How dare she even think about talking like that to my... I mean you, Marcus, darling," Rarity snapped annoyed, "I warn you to be careful around her. We don't exactly have the best relationship with her."

"Thanks for downplaying it, Rarity," Rainbow responded annoyed, "She's always full of herself and considers herself the best. God she's annoying."

"You're one to talk Dashie."

"As much as I hate playing devil's advocate for Trixie of all people, he got you there Rainbow," Applejack commented with a chuckle.

"Yeah, yeah. At least I am really the best you know," She responded with a cocky grin on her face.

"Why don't we all forget about her and have fun here," Sunset suggested.

The girls and I nodded in agreement.

"So, what should we do?" Sunset asked.

"Pet shop."

"Party shop"

"Book store."

"Sports store."

"Why don't we all split up and enjoy ourselves for a while, then meet back here," Sunset suggested.

We all nodded in agreement before most of them went on their way. Rainbow walked right up to me.

"Come on study, let's go see what kind of sports equipment you should get for our training."

"Ok?"

Rainbow and I entered the sports store, where she got looks due to her dress. She groaned and tried her best to ignore the stares, as she led me down various aisles.

"Ok stud we should get you some basic equipment to start out with," She began, grabbing my hand, "That should be easy enough for you to practice, then we can go from there."

"Sounds good."

She continued leading me and picking out different balls for me to practice at home with. Once she was done, she took me to the cashier.

"Rainbow is that you in that... outfit?" The cashier asked.

"Yeah, I lost a bet," She simply responded annoyed.

"I see. Is this your boyfriend?"

"No," She denied, blushing, "What makes you think that?"

"The fact you are holding his hand."

"Oh," Rainbow stuttered, completely embarrassed, "No, I'm showing this newbie the ropes. That's all," She then let go.

After that whole thing, we left, and I placed my new items into my backpack.

"Alright, Stud. Feel free to do whatever. I am going to talk with some peers."

"Are you sure?" I asked before smirking, "I want to see their reaction to you wearing your dress."

"Just go!" She snapped annoyed, blushing heavily.

Messing with her never gets old.

I wandered around the mall, looking for something to help pass the time, when I noticed Twilight in a bookstore deep in a book. Being curious about it, I entered and walked right up to her. She noticed me and blinked in surprise.

"Oh, hi Marcus," She greeted me, "I'm just reading through a book that shares my name."

"Oh, that series," I simply said.

"Yeah, I heard good things about it, but it's not really for me so far. A shame."

"Yeah, you're better off reading something like Harry Potter or Hunger games."

"Oh?" She asked me with a raised eyebrow, "I have never heard of those books before."

"Seriously?" I asked annoyedly, "Yet you heard of Twilight. Geez, I know crap spreads quickly, but this is just unbelievable."

"Calm down. It's not like those are popular series or anything," Twilight responded.

I only laughed in response, making her even more confused.

"Everywhere else in the world they are. It's weird. Ever since I moved here this city seems to be somewhat isolated from the rest of the world."

"What do you mean by that?"

"I mean this place is unique in many ways. Everywhere else everyone's skin tones were much more limited in color for starters. I never thought I would meet colorful people. Many popular songs and sources of media seem to be unknown here, with a few exceptions," I explained, giving the first Twilight book a dirty look, "You also have your own unique sources of media that I never heard of as well."

"Oh. That's interesting," Twilight mumbled in astonishment.

"Yeah, if you're interested in those two books, you might have to look them up online. I doubt they would be here or available anywhere around here, due to that fact, but you never know."

"I will keep that in mind."

After that interesting conversation with Twilight, I stumbled upon a pet center and saw Fluttershy playing with adorable little bunnies. I quietly walked up to her, and a few stray bunnies noticed me, before walking right up to me. Taken aback by the cuteness, I gently lowered down and gently petted them. They nuzzled my hand and more even arrived, surrounding me. They then gently jumped on me and covered me, nuzzling my entire body.

"Oh my," A gentle voice began, making me move my eyes to discover it was Fluttershy looking astonished, "I have never seen them act that friendly to anyone else before. Are you usually this good with animals?"

"I'm not sure. I have never interacted with animals like this before, but it seems like I am." I chuckled and gently pet a few of the bunnies."

"Oh, that's great," She began, looking stunned with a light blush on her face.

"You know this feels great actually and I don't mind spending more time with animals."

"You do?" She asked, sounding excited, "I can help with that. I have all kinds of animal friends for you to meet."

"Sounds good to me."

After spending some time playing with the bunnies with Fluttershy, I decided to move on and find something else to do. I eventually stumbled upon Applejack arm-wrestling with a random dude with a small crowd watching. She had a cocky smile on her face while her opponent was sweating and tried harder to put her down, only for his hand to slowly move and slam onto the table. The crowd cheered while Applejack's opponent frowned.

"Maybe now you will consider girls can and are stronger than boys," Applejack teased, making the crowd chuckle.

Applejack then noticed me and smiled, "Howdy Marcus. Did you see this?"

"Yeah, what's going on?"

"Oh, some jerk was just being rude and insisting that because I'm a girl, that means I'm weaker than any boy. I just got done proving that isn't the case."

"Good for you," I responded genuinely.

As far as I know, while there are differences in the way females and males' bodies are that give males an advantage in certain fields, that isn't absolute and there are exceptions.

"Speaking of which I noticed you keep in shape and since you are Big Mac's gym buddy, I was curious on how strong you are. I was hoping for the chance to see for myself." Applejack told me.

I managed to resist the urge to flinch, when she mentioned her brother and slowly nodded.

"So, you want us to have a match?" I asked.

She nodded, "Just so you know. The only ones who have ever beaten me were Big Mac and Bulk Biceps, though I won against the latter more times than he beat me," She explained before chuckling, "Oh and you didn't hear from me, but Rainbow has gotten close, though still hasn't won once against me."

"That's fine," I simply responded, approaching the table.

We grabbed each other's hands and placed our elbows on the table. To my slight shock she was slightly blushing.

"Is something wrong?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Oh. No. Your hand is quite warm, and you have a strong grip," she told me awkwardly.

"Just try to focus on the match. I don't want to win due to you being distracted."

"Right," She responded, regaining her composure, "Ready? Go."

We both began to try and move the other's hand onto the table. I was a little impressed by her strength. She doesn't look like it, but she is really strong. Almost as much as Big Mac, during our matches. After a few moments of a stalemate, I noticed Applejack sweating a little.

"You really are strong," She told me with a small grin, "You might be as strong as my brother, but I'm not done yet."

She then tried harder and managed to move my hand about half an inch, if I had to guess, but I quickly moved it back and even moved hers a little onto the table. I noticed her looking impressed and she even seemed to be blushing a little.

"No, I ain't going down yet," she said determinedly, closing her eyes.

She then began to muster every strength she had, and it became harder to hold her in place. I took a relaxing breath, as I felt sweat form on the top of my head, before pushing harder and slowly began to move her hand further down.

"No, not yet" She cried out, as her hand was a few inches away from touching the table.

She then panted, sounding exhausted. She shouldn't have done that and tired herself out. With one final strong push, I moved her hand onto the table, winning the match. The crowd went wild after a few moments. They must have been stunned to see her lose. She opened her eyes and stared at her hand, pinned on the table, in awe for a few seconds, before looking at me with a blush on her face.

"Applejack, are you..."

"Date me."

"What?"

"Oh. I mean you really are strong. I'm impressed," She explained nervously, "Looks like I have someone else to look forward to beating one day and I will."

"Good luck. Even your brother only won against me about half the time," I responded with a smirk.

"That makes it even more worth it when I finally beat you both."

Applejack and I were walking back to our meeting spot, since she received a text from Sunset saying it was about time to meet up and decide what to do from there.

"A shame she had to send that text so soon. We could have found something else to do," she told me and to my slight surprise she gently rubbed my hands.

"Yeah, right."

We arrived at the meeting spot, where the others were waiting patiently for us.

"Hey, you two were together?" Sunset asked.

"Not for long," Applejack responded somewhat bitterly, "Though, I guess we will have another opportunity later."

"Well, I think we should cut this short. I remembered I have another game stream later today and I want to relax before then," Sunset told us.

"You forgot about that?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah, I kind of had something else on my mind," She explained sheepishly with a light blush.

"I think we all can guess what," Rainbow teased, making her blush harder.

"That's ok Sunset. We still have Sunday to spend all day together," Rarity assured her.

The rest of us all nodded in agreement.

I entered my room feeling curious, I looked up Sunset's channel, which was easier to find than I feared, and looked at her stream. The game she was playing reminded me a little of Fallout, as her character was walking through an open world wasteland and encountering weird creatures. I was a little stunned that she had tens of thousands of views and hundreds of supporting comments in the chat with a few being paid ones. I was taken out of my thoughts, when she read a certain paid comment.

"Hey Sunset. A long-time viewer and first-time contributor. I'm curious if you have a crush on anyone," She began, before blushing and stuttering, "Oh. Yeah, I do. I won't say who he is, and I hope he's watching me, since I told him yesterday, I stream. It's kind of weird because it formed very quickly, but I couldn't help it! He's just so awesome, you know. He's smart, a talented artist, and he's even better than me at video games. The latter is what really sealed the deal you know," She explained before her blush darkened, "Oh. I think I said too much. Thank you for the donation and the question, even if I feel a little embarrassed."

I felt my face heat up, when she managed to move on and continue playing the game, as I read the comments encouraging and congratulating her. Well, if her marriage declaration wasn't enough of a clue, this right here is a clear answer. Seriously, how am I getting these girls to fall for me? I shook my head and cleared my thoughts. You know her live streams are doing well, and it seems to be a good thing for her. Maybe it will be a good thing for me to try. It just might help me become more social. Everyone else seems to be impressed with my art, maybe I could show it off and become the Bob Ross of my generation. Seriously, though, no one could replace that wonderful man. Though the general idea might be a good one to try.

A simple chapter where important things are introduced. First of all, since Marcus has spent time with Rainbow, Sunset, Pinkie, and Rarity, it's time to focus more on Applejack, Twilight, and Fluttershy and develop their friendship and relationship a bit more. Another thing I hint at is here in this fic the real world and the Equestria girls world are one in the same. I like the idea of a main character who is from our world, but wanted to do a different spin on it, instead of it being a different universe entirely. Whether or not you like it, I wanted to give it a try. Also if any of you are a fan of the Twilight series sorry if I offended you. Those books just don't appeal to me and if you like them, that's perfectly find by me. I just couldn't resist making a few harmless jabs.

Next chapter: The girls invite Marcus to spend Sunday with them and he ends up having to deal with certain ones fighting for him.