Another day, another discovery. Or at least that's what I always say. and I'm usually right. In fact, I'm most commonly right about pretty much everything, which gets me a barrel-full of mixed responses. Some find it incredibly annoying, while others are fascinated by my ability to "predict the future", as they call it. Others still find it amusing to put this so called "power" to the test. It very nearly always passes. I have of course been accused of using spells, but that theory has been shot out of the sky by some tests that were run. Me being a unicorn has nothing to do with my aptitude of knowledge.

The only reason I'm good at anticipating outcomes is because I have an incredibly high level of intelligence, as well as some astonishingly fine attention for detail. I don't see it as a gift or a power, I see it as a tool, in a way. I don't use it for good or for evil, I use it for science! I'm probably the first pony to ever even think about truly learning about the world around us. Of course everypony knows that clouds contain and are made of water, but how did the water get there? Why did it condense into a semi-liquid form? And I'm not talking about the manufactured clouds from Cloudsdale, I mean the ones that form naturally. These are the sorts of questions I ask, ones that poke at the fundamental level of things.

While it does unnerve some ponies, most others have begun to appreciate these questions, especially the more astute ones. While I do appreciate and use my talents of discovery, I am never one to boast. I have seen a few others with profound aptitude for a certain craft, but they had unfortunately been braggarts, and consequently had been shunned and on a few occasions exiled. For me, others seem to do the bragging, but luckily are paid no attention.

There is, however, a different reason I disapprove of boastfulness. I wouldn't like to overdose, ever! ERROR-)!#

(Sorry about that, but I can't input certain information, or that happens. I'll see if I can override the security and remove the block, but until then you'll be seeing some of that.)

Well, when I first arrived in Ponyville, I found it rather odd that nopony knew some of the things I had deduced and talked about them freely. TREMENDOUS mistake. One night in a bar, I started a conversation with the bartender that quickly moved to my field of interest. Unfortunately, he found quite a few of the things I told him to be "witchy", as he put it, and very promptly proceeded to oversee my arrest on account of..... actually, I'm still not entirely sure how he persuaded the guards to arrest me. Probably told I knew some form of Dark Magic. I shudder at that awful thought. Anyways, I quickly found myself en route to Canterlot Castle to be fined, put in court, and most probably jailed.

When the day finally came, I found myself to be on trial with the judge being none other than Princess Celestia herself! I still don't know what that bartender could possibly have said that would have resulted in me being judged by the Princess. When asked what I thought of my crime, I told them the honest truth: "I've not the foggiest what I have done wrong or why I am on trial with the highest of all judges."

This of course got a collective gasp from the assembled, except for her honor. She looked oddly smug and I could feel something tugging at her humor. ERROR-)!#. "Your Highness, I politely request permission to speak freely." I asked. With a knowing smile she replied,"Granted." I simply asked, "Why the dickens do you look like you know exactly what's going on here and that I was going to say this before I did?" This, of course, got another collective gasp from the entire populace of the court room, as well as disapproving looks from multiple patrons. Their hatred and loathing felt like toxins being pumped directly into my bloodstream ERROR-)!#. Then, to eveypony's surprise, the Princess chuckled.

"Well, I personally see quite a lot that's wrong with the bartender's description of your crime. Would you mind telling me exactly what you told him?" she asked. "Well of course not!" was my rather enthusiastic reply.

I then proceeded to repeat my entire conversation with the bartender.

After that, I duly noted that most everypony had gone several shades paler than their original coat colour. The few exceptions were the Princess, a lavender coloured unicorn mare in the front row who looked intrigued, a pink mare next to her who looked like she hadn't paid attention to my monologue at all and was bouncing, literally, 2 meters in the air, and lastly another orange mare a few seats away with a Stetson on her head. I could not tell what colour she originally was as she currently looked rather grey and her eyes looked very......for lack of a better word I shall say blank.

"Well now, I do believe that the situation has been resolved. You are found NOT GUILTY," said Princess Celestia with a bang of her mallet,"and are furthermore invited to dinner with me, my personal student and her friends. CASE DISMISSED!"

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"Wow, I never thought of it that way!" said the lavender unicorn, whom I now knew as Twilight Sparkle, Element of Magic. When I had learned who they were, I'd had several impulses in the span of a few seconds, leaving me rather shaky: 1st to destroy, 2nd to consume, 3rd to run ERROR-)!#, 4th to calm down, 5th to stop having impulses.

The conversation seemed to have a routine to it. Twilight would ask me a question, I would answer with my opinion and expand on it, Applejack would try to refute some aspect of it, I'd put a hole in her argument, she'd look sheepish and admit defeat. Rainbow Dash looked incredibly bored through most of it, but I saw her eyes light up like a super nova when we got to the topic of speed and velocity. She actually seemed quite knowledgeable on the subject. Rarity would comment on and applaud each and every argument. Fluttershy just sat there and looked terrified by everything. Pinkie Pie........ where do I even begin?

She randomly yelled out things that had either nothing at all to do with the current conversation or were a fact that hadn't even been mentioned yet that she shouldn't know. She even commentated on the conversation-"He's got a real whooper of an argument there! But what's this? Applejack comes back with a zoomin' quick attack..... only to have it shot down by the opposition with a good helping of....what's it called? Oh, LOGIC!"

She would also pop out of odd, illogical, and just plain impossible places to make short and loud explanations of things said exactly, and I timed this, 0.4 seconds after they were said. I felt like I needed to test her on, well, pretty much every possible thing! She defied all logic, yet seemingly made sense. And the joy coming off her was more of a feast than the kitchen staff could ever offer! ERROR-)!# At one point she said, " Hey mister, what's with those crossed out bits from before?" An extremely confused me deadpanned, "What?"

"Weeeellll, HE hasn't even mentioned your name, your coat colour, where you're from, or anything like that! All THEY know is that you're a unicorn, not even your gender, and I meant those bits where you can't see what's going on 'cause there's a line through it!"

"What was all of that?" I asked Twilight. "Pinkie Pie." was was simple response. "Well now, where were we...." and the conversation continued full speed ahead, although a portion of my mind continued to think about what Pinkie Pie had said. After the dinner, we were all leaving, when Twilight asked where I was staying. "I haven't entirely nailed that down yet....."

"Well you're welcome to stay with me for awhile, until you get yourself a house. It'd be lovely to have somepony with such high caliber knowledge to talk to. And I still need to find a subject you you don't something about!"

So I figured, why not, and agreed to stay with her temporarily.

What I didn't know, was that this was the start of a chain of events impossible to stop, that would completely change my existence. I still don't get why Celestia, of all ponies, invited me to dinner! But I do have an idea...