After the time-consuming encounter with the journalist I walked alongside David and Rainbow Dash as they led me to Sugarcube Corner. I got inside the building and the humanoid ponies turned their heads to watch me. Some noticed me and decided I wasn’t worth the time and turned back to whatever they were doing. Other’s seemed petrified and left when I was farthest away from the door. It wasn’t really anything new but I was confused as to why they’d be afraid of me even more in here then outside.

“So has your race ever had to fight dragons?” asked Rainbow.

“No. Not yet that is.” I flashed a smile at her.

David looked at me suspiciously. “There are dragons in your world?”

“Well yes, there are.” I lied.

“What are they like?” asked Rainbow.

We stopped in front of a line that held waiting ponies who wanted to order what sweets they wanted to rot their teeth with.

“Well… violent like expected. Though our city-state is small enough so that we don’t need to worry about them. They’re also several miles away from us. If any one of them gets too close, then we will have to either kill it or drive it away.”

The pony in front of us looked behind her and saw David looking over at Rainbow and I. She followed his eyes and they locked onto me with a confused look, before she scowled and poked the stallion in front of her. I noticed this, but showed no signs of acknowledging it.

“Wait, who’s your king?” asked David.

“Oh, the king of the empire is Oden.” I told him with a smile. “He’s the greatest king in all the land; he’s capable of raising and lowering both the sun and the moon. He’s been doing it for centuries and that’s only the beginning of his miracles.”

“Pfft whatever, Princess Celestia can do the same thing. Not only that but we have two goddesses that rule Equestria. I’m sure they can beat your Oden.” Rainbow boasted arrogantly.

I noticed that the stallion in front of us maneuvered over to the right side of the line in front of me. Again I ignored it, but mentally noted to watch him for anything strange. Not only that, but now he was glowing with a red aura.

“Are you kidding? Oden has created the Human race in the image of himself!” I boasted a little too loudly. “I bet he could take ten of your princesses, and still come out on top.”

“Oh, you think so, huh?” Rainbow replied with a challenging grin.

“Oh I know so.” I countered with my own grin matching hers.

“Hey.” started the stallion in front of me. “You shouldn’t talk that way about the Princesses.” he was facing me and I didn’t notice him turn around.

I looked at him strangely. “Sorry, but my opinion is my opinion. Oden of the Empire is very powerful and gifted me with abilities of my own. If you feel differently I’d understand. Granted neither of us have met the other god.”

“You should know your place human.” he remarked hostilely. “Ponies are superior to you, and you shouldn’t argue whose god is better.”

“Well, that’s up for speculation.” I retorted thoughtfully. “You ponies have yet to show spiritual awareness, and you even are more susceptible to greed than the average human.”

“You know what, I’ve had it up to here with you.” he put his hoof eye-level to me and continued threateningly, “And you’d better learn your place before I make you.”

I noticed a few onlookers with very worried expressions looking between me and the stallion with the red aura. I questioned the divines choosing of auras, to be with only ponies that actually want to harm me. Or at least ones with intense ignorance.

“Hey, you’d better back off buddy.” interrupted Rainbow Dash, giving the stallion a disapproving glare.

“Stay out of this, money lover!” he yelled at Rainbow Dash.

An impressive amount gasps filled the room and nearly everypony was watching the scene. The ponies in line moved away from us, and David took a few steps back but refused to leave us entirely. I suppose that’s honorable, considering his skill sets don’t really give him the experience to deal with someone who’s racist or not human.

“Hey you say that again, and I’ll buck you into next Tuesday!” snarled Rainbow Dash.

The stallion was about to say something back to her before I interrupted them both.

“Ponies please, stop fighting! Listen, I understand you don’t like humans, but there’s no reason to take out your anger on a mare.” I told him specifically. “And Rainbow don’t worry about fighting my battles I can deal with a ponies ignorance.”

“You’d better shut up if you knew what’s good for you, yah monkey.” he growled scowling.

The ponies watching us kept acting as if the word ‘monkey’ was a derogatory slur around here. I was utterly perplexed at the uses for the word monkey as a derogatory term here and I decided I’d figure out as soon as I could.

“By Oden...” I groaned. “Why are you using the word monkey as a derogatory term? It’s just not effective and sure as hell isn’t really insulting.”

He smirked as if he was successful in something. “Well monkey’s like you are only good for throwing their poop at each other. Now go back to the zoo where you belong.” He said getting in my personal space.

“Well at least you’re trying to be insulting.” I noted out loud. “Still isn’t going to get me a reaction. Though, if you get any closer I might think you swing the other way.”

A chorus of ‘ooooooooooohs’ echoed around the room, while the stallion did a double take and took a step back from me. His glare then intensified tenfold and threw his hoof at me as hard as he could. Sadly I wasn’t able to bring power into my nerves fast enough and speed up time so his hoof slammed into the side of my face with enough force to throw me against the wall on the other side of the room.

Fortunately though, I had the obsidian shield that kept me from experiencing knockback, and my head turned only an inch away from its original location. Of course the damage didn’t multiply when I was hit, because I was a Terrarian. He looked shocked as he heard the collision with his hoof and my face and I didn’t even move. I was also able to get a lot of information about him during the contact.

He drew back his hoof with a horrified expression that mirrored most of the other ponies around us. Although to their credit some were actually awed by my display of resilience. I put my hand up to my mouth and felt for blood. My hand came up empty, as my face didn’t even come up with any results of any blood.

“You know…” I started darkly. “You really shouldn’t have done that.” I glared at him. “Get out.”

“O-or what y-you gunna hurt me?” he taunted with a stutter, lifting up his hooves to a boxing pose.

“Yes…” I let my single word sink in for a few seconds. “Yes I will.” I didn’t need to say anything else before another hoof came at me and I easily pushed it aside without much effort. “And for the record. You ponies are weak.” I threw my own punch at him and to his credit, he put his hooves in the way of my punch but my fist simply broke through it, and his arms smacked him in the face.

He stumbled backward and almost fell until he corrected himself and stood upright. He gave me a frightened look as I stood there without attacking. He slowly scooted his way around my right keeping a meter minimum distance and escaping through the front door.

“Two fights in one day.” I groaned out loud, rolling my eyes. “Confound these ponies.”

I walked toward the front desk that held a small assortment of cupcakes and other sweets. I noticed my companions weren’t following and I looked back at them questionably.

“Oh right.” Rainbow snapped out of her daze and walked up to me with David in tow.

“Seriously? What makes me so terrifying?” I exclaimed to the room. “I don’t go out picking fights. Hell most ponies pick fights with me. Seriously, why aren’t you going back to doing what you were doing?” the room was silent for a moment.

“W-well you’re strong.” stuttered a close mare to my left.

“Yeah, it doesn’t mean I’m going to hurt you.” I reply softly.

She looked down at her hooves and shuffled uncomfortably. “I-I know.” she got back in line behind us and one by one, everyone calmed down and the day continued.

"And a long day this will be."

I looked back at the pony at the counter, to see a nervous Mrs. Cake that kept eyeing me warily. David ordered a dozen chocolate cupcakes while Rainbow ordered a few sugar cookies. I decided I wouldn’t take anything.

“Seriously?” asked Rainbow. “Nothing? Not even a milkshake? Dude this was the whole reason to coming here.”

I responded simply, “I came here to spend time with someone I hoped would accept me. And so I did. But I don’t really need food.”

“Ugh, you’re so weird.” she groaned.

“That’ll be twenty bits.” Mrs. Cake stated more comfortably now that everyone was back to normal.

“Uh wait, I only have ten.” Rainbow admitted dejectedly.

“I got it.” noted David and he pulled out a small pouch of bits and counted ten out. “I’ll pay half of it.”

“Sure.” Rainbow smiled happily.

“Thank you.” replied Mrs. Cake. “Have a nice day. Oh, and what was your name, dear?” Mrs. Cake asked looking at me.

“Troy.” I answered her with a blank face.

“Hmm. Well Troy, I personally welcome you to Ponyville. I’m sure you’ve met Pinkie already?” she asked.

“Umm no, I can’t say I have miss.” I replied.

“Oh, well that’s unfortunate. PINKIE!” she shouted upstairs. “THERE’S A NEW PONY!” she looked back at me with a grin as David and Rainbow Dash went to go find a place to sit.

“We’ll be over here watching.” Rainbow called back to me without looking in my direction.

I found myself watching her tail swish side to side. It was something she didn’t do before now. I went to follow them and a pink ball of fur interrupted my movement.

“Hi! You must be the new pony I heard about! Except you’re not a pony and instead you’re a human! WAIT! I KNOW YOU!” she shouted as she jumped back and pointed an accusatory hoof at me. “You beat up that big bully Steel Builder!”

The whole room went silent and watched Pinkie recounting the story of my first fight here.

“He had his goons all around you and you went like, POW BAM SHOOM, and they all were knocked unconscious and then you gave Builder a sword to fight you with and then you were all like, ‘I fight fair fights!’ and he picked it up and you totally kicked his flank!” she exclaimed, mimicking my motions at times.

I looked around the sweet shop and I noticed all eyes were on me again.

“YOU WHAT?!” shouted a mare from across the shop. “THAT’S AWESOME!”

I was utterly surprised by the amount of racket the entire shop started making. Apparently everyone hated ‘Steel Builder’ or something, because the whole shop started to cheer me for my victory. I actually felt sorry for the guy for being so unlikeable.

“Uh ok...” I trailed off awkwardly.

“Your ponies are bipolar as fuck.” I told the divine.

“I love them dearly for it.” he mused.

“What’s your name?” asked Pinkie.

“Troy.” I told her knowing what I was getting myself into.

“THREE CHEERS FOR TROY!”

“Hip hip!”

“HORAAAAY!”

“I say again, your ponies are BIPOLAR AS FUCK!”

“I still love them dearly for it.”

“HIP HIP!”

“HORAAAAY!”

“HIP HIP!”

“HORAAAAY!”

And everyone had a gay old time.

“Ugh.” I groaned.

I walked over to a snickering Rainbow Dash and an embarrassed David. After a few minutes, the chatter died down and Pinkie joined us by sitting down on my right. David was on my left while Rainbow was in front of me. Each was eating something except for me and Pinkie.

“Can I have some chocolate cupcakes?” asked Pinkie.

“Sure.” responded David. “Just don’t eat-”

Pinkie picked up the whole box and stuffed all the cupcakes in her mouth and ran off.

“-all of them... like... last... time.” David finished dejectedly.

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” Rainbow laughed at his misery.

“Hey, I paid for those!” David growled, responding to Rainbow’s laughter.

“All right, what will we do next?” I asked.

“Well, we can go hang at Applejack's.” suggested Rainbow with a smirk on her face.

“Sure, I’m game.” replied David.

“Oden.” started the divine. “My sun goddess Celestia, is almost to town square. I suggest you meet up with her. I’ve told her you have an impressive foresight ability, so she expects you to be there.”

“Actually, I’m going to explore.” I explain to them. “I’d like to get used to the layout of the town.”

“Uh, want me to take you on a tour?” asked Rainbow Dash.

“No. A guide is for helping me find a location. Memorizing the location is an adventure all on its own.” I smirked at her. “I’ll find my way back to the library later.”

“Ok sure. You think you can find it in such a short time?” asked Rainbow.

David spoke up with a worried expression. “I think you should stay with us. I almost got lost without Rainbow’s help showing me around town.”

“It’s ok, I know what I’m doing. This isn’t the first time I’ve been to a different town.” I gave them a reassuring smile. “Besides, if I do get lost then chances are I’m just learning a new place in town. Besides I can go without food or water for a very long time. I’m sure I’ll figure out the layout by then.”

“Ugh fine, if you insist.” Rainbow gave up, rolling her eyes. “But if you get lost, back track, ok? I don’t want you to stay lost in a new town. You’ve already met the tough guys, you know?”

“Yeah, don’t worry. I’ll keep that in mind.”

I stood up from the table.

“Bye.” stated David.

“Goodbye David, Rainbow Dash.” I responded and walked out the door.

I walked down the streets that I recognized all too well. I came to a realization that all the buildings were slightly larger as well. The ponies were regular sizes of a human and that meant the houses needed to be bigger. I was also happy to see ponies paying less and less attention to me, the closer I got to town square. I began to pass the market and I looked in at it to see Applejack at her usual place by the apple cart. Her Stetson was larger to fit her bigger head and she was wearing blue jeans with an orange shirt that matched her coat almost exactly. I actually thought she was shirtless at first.

Though admittedly, that would be interesting to see, I know it wouldn’t be as much as a turn on as a human woman. Or maybe Isis… hehe. I continued my walk toward town hall knowing Celestia would show up soon and possibly unannounced as well. I doubt that she’ll give me much of a chance to talk and start spouting orders and rules to me.

I almost passed by Town hall without knowing it. I did a double take at the new size of the building, and I shrugged it off as being a fact of 'humanoid' Equestria. I walked over to the front door and sat down on the steps and waited. The sun was high in the sky, and my awareness spread several meters around me like it always has. I was aware of the world on a level that no one could possibly understand. I closed my eyes and faced the sun.

But I didn’t need to wait long as Celestia began to descend from the sky being pulled on a chariot. I didn’t need my awareness to be able to see her to know where she was. Her spiritual energy was large enough that I could feel it without looking for it. She touched down on the street in front of me so quietly that I couldn’t hear it at all. Celestia got out and came into my mind's focus and she whispered for her guards to hold back and stay by the chariot. Her figure was the most awkward thing to look at, considering her size and her humanoid form. It was rather disgusting to look at, actually.

She trotted silently toward me, curving around to my right so she wouldn’t block the sun and alert me to her presence. She sat down next to me and began to open her mouth to speak, but I caught her off guard.

“BOO!” I shouted and she flinched.

I laughed out loud. “HAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, you’re a sneaky Princess.” I said to her looking her in the eye.

She cleared her throat. “Yes, well I’m Princess Celestia.”

“Actually let’s go into formalities right now…” I told her. “How’d you learn to sneak like that? I assume your sister correct?”

“How do you know I had a sister?” she replied suspiciously.

“I’m a new creature in a new world. Surely someone will tell me more about the government here.” I responded.

“Well normally, ponies bow when I approach them. It’s a sign of respect.” she stated neutrally, but I could tell it’s more of a command than anything else.

My response is kept to a neutral tone, “Well, I would agree with that assumption. I’ve seen and met ponies that called me a monkey that should be praying for Celestia’s wrath, if I don’t buzz off or something. I’m sure you know how it goes.”

I felt Celestia flinch when I said that. “Ponies still don’t like humans? I was sure I’ve taken care of that when I gave my speech a month ago.”

“Well you only gave David clearance. But I don’t mind. I am an artist of the spoken word and a politician. I convinced many otherwise, and I plan to continue while I’m here.”

“I’m happy you find your stay here… active if you will. But I’d like to explain to you the rules for staying here under my protection.”

“And that is where my issue begins. You’ve degreed no hunting in your territory, correct?” I asked, standing up and walking forward.

Celestia did the same and we found each other eye to eye in front of each other.

“Yes, and I hope you wouldn’t resort to disobeying that decree.” she responded with a scowl.

The guards took it as a sign to move forward and Celestia did nothing to stop them as they surrounded me and flanked her. I watched them with my mind’s eye and watched Celestia’s movements.

“I don’t really plan on it. But I want to convince you to remove it.” I responded.

“I won’t change my mind about hunting in my kingdom.” she stated sure of herself.

“If you just allow me to try-”

“No.” she cut me off, leaving no room for argument.

I sighed in disappointment. “Very well, if you don’t want to listen to me, then I guess I’ll have to be without food for another century or so.” I replied dully.

“You’re human so you’re an omnivore. You can eat plant life.” she firmly noted.

I knew she was doing this because she commanded my respect. I have yet to show any to her and question the laws she put forth to keep her ponies safe. I knew I was poking the bear now, but I needed to if I wanted to get more experience with dealing with the gods and deities.

“That is where you’re wrong Celestia.”

“That’s Princess Celestia citizen.” chimed in a guard firmly.

I ignored him and continued. “I’m not a human.”

Celestia raised an eyebrow then rolled her eyes. “Then what are you?” she asked, her voice taking a skeptical tone.

I looked around the area and nopony came to investigate the chariot yet. There were no ponies to witness what I was about to do.

“I’m…” I replaced the lucky horse shoe with my angel wings. “A Terrarian.”

Celestia’s eyes widened for a moment before she looked at me with a certain amount of scrutiny, then asked, “Why would you lie about your species?”

“Because if the ponies thought me of anything other than a human, then they’d alienate me as much as they would when David showed up for the first time. I don’t want to repeat that incident.”

“How did you know David was here in the first place?” asked Celestia suspiciously.

I thought for a moment before letting out a sigh and placing the wings back in my inventory with the horse shoe back in the accessories.

“I’m here to take him away.” I replied simply.

Celestia’s brow furrowed. “You can take him home?”

“No, but I can take him to my home. But I don’t want to just give him the opportunity to come with me right away. Ponies seem to accept him, more than they accept me by a great amount. I can only assume they’re used to him and he’s found a new home here. I also want to gauge his personality personally, so I can determine if he’s worth bringing back to my world.”

“I understand. How long do you plan to stay?”

“Well I’m hoping not long, considering how many fights I’ve actually gotten into today.”

The guards stiffened and pointed their spears at me.

“Fights?!” Celestia exclaimed loudly with a hint of irritation.

“Started not by me, I assure you. Ponies find me an easy target and they seem to want to fight me often. I don’t really like it and it feels wrong every time I have to defend myself.” I lowered my head.

“Very well, I’ll accept your statement for now. But I don’t want to hear a single complaint from other ponies… but on that note I hear from one of my most faithful ponies that you have an ability to read another’s mind. I want you to refrain from ever using that. But along that note, I want you to teach me that skill, so I can use it to properly judge somepony who would claim to have been assaulted by you.”

“I can’t teach it.”

“Then for your sake you’d better not get caught using it.” she narrowed her eyes at me.

I in response I rolled my eyes. “Such aggression.” I commented, trying to show her what she looks like.

The other Celestias I'd seen seemed to care about public opinion and their image. If this Celestia is anything like the others, then she’ll begin to think through her statements rather than fight back at mine.

“You’d better hold your tongue, Terrarian.” she replied in a surprisingly aggressive tone.

“She needs a bit more discipline.” I told the divine.

“Well... you’re kinda pulling this out of her.”

“True true… she still shouldn’t let me get to her.”

“You know, you could reveal yourself to her at any time to end this.”

“I was told you’d likely pair me up with a pony in this town. Who’d you choose so we can wrap this up.”

“I need to remind you that you’re speaking to a Princess.”

“One I have no respect for. Now, tell me who so we don’t have to deal with each other.”

Celestia almost growled at me from her intense glare. “Fine. Your pony is my student Twilight Sparkle. I hope you get lost on your way there.” she sneered looking away from me.

“Ok divine dude. Who the fuck am I talking to?”

“Divine... dude?”

“No really, who… the… FUCK!”

“Oh, well my goddess of the sun, Princess Celestia. She’s kind only to those who show respect. David actually did a better job at talking to her than you did.”

“Maybe it’s because I know I’m more powerful. I need to keep a lid on that one.”

I turned to leave but the guards stopped me.

“We aren’t done.” Celestia stated behind me.

I didn’t need to see her face to know she was looking at me irritably. In fact I could see it without looking at it.

“What do you want?” I ask without turning around.

“You had better find a better attitude for yourself, or you’ll find out the hard way that playing the bad boy can get you into serious trouble.” Celestia warned me.

“…I already know my flaws. I know most of them slip by without my knowing, but I try to keep myself from pissing off everyone I meet.” I responded. “Although to be honest, my hostility is a little out of character. I’m not sure what caused it.” I put my hand to my chin and thought deeply, still refusing to turn around. “Sorry for that.”

I felt her nod her head. “I forgive you this once. Don’t let it happen again.” she motioned her guards to follow her.

Her guards gave me an disapproving look and followed her in a V-formation back to the chariot and strapped themselves in. Once they were in position with four surrounding the chariot, they started to move forward faster and faster until they were in the air. I watched them go off into the horizon and then I looked back down at the town hall. I was very surprised that no ponies were outside investigating at all.

It was a little unnerving that the Princess would show up and no one would notice in a small town like this. I wondered if Celestia planned out the meeting in an open area where no one could listen. If there were ponies, I’d most likely put on an act to make myself look good. But one on one allows me to express my personality better. Clever girl; I’m the one who’s supposed to have the foresight, not her. But then again the divine could have assisted her and I wouldn’t know about it.

“That was a test, wasn’t it?”

“Yes.”

“What did you learn?”

“You like to pick fights.”

“Huh? You could have learned that from the fight count from today alone.”

“I needed to make sure.”

“You also could have just asked…”

“Well then, it wouldn’t be as fun to watch my goddess verbally assault a secret divine.”

“Touché. You know what? I like you.”

I smiled to myself as I walked back to the library. After I left town hall, it seemed ponies began to go outside as if something was previously keeping them inside. I’m sure that had to do with a divine power influencing their decisions. But then they started looking at me with confusion and wonder. Some even seemed awed and those were the closest to the town hall. Those actually followed me a little while and then one of them came up to me and tapped my shoulder with their hoof.

I looked around to see no less than ten ponies behind me and I smiled and shook my head.

“How may I help you?” I smiled at the mint green mare in front of me.

“W-well I wanted to know… well, we wanted to know.” she corrected herself, motioning to the ponies behind her. “You have wings, right? Does that mean you’re not human?”

I thought for a moment and smiled warmly at her. “Haha! Yes, I’m not human. But I’d like you ponies to keep that a secret for a little while. I don’t really want to be treated as another alien race, you know? Then we’d have to go through several months’ process to, ugh, convince everypony I’m not a threat.” I rolled my eyes. “You all understand, yes?”

They nodded their heads in unison with smiles.

“Yes.” answered Lyra. “Ok, well that’s all we really wanted to know. Oh, what did you and the princess talk about? She seemed pretty mad about something you said.” she had a worried expression.

I sighed audibly and looked at her with an uninterested look. “The Princess and I had a disagreement about her no hunting law. She didn’t really take my argument well. Since then the conversation only got more and more… heated I guess? Whatever, she didn’t seem all that happy when I questioned her laws, which by the way is very understandable.”

“Oh ok. Well my name is-”

“Lyra Heartstrings I know. I know a lot of things here. Though I’m busy at the moment. Need to find and rehabilitate Steel Builder.”

“S-S-Steel?” Lyra stuttered, completely forgetting my knowledge of her name.

Which now that I think about it… wasn’t a good idea.

“We had a scuffle earlier in the day, and I gave him a subconscious command to meet me at the library one on one. More so we can talk.” I gave her a warm smile and pointed behind me. “I-If you don’t mind.”

“Oh. OH! Sorry we’ll let you be on your way.” she apologized and stepped back.

I nodded my head and continued on my journey to the library. I could tell the group of ponies were moving around me and trying to reach the library themselves to see what Steel and I would do when we meet. I ignored their occasional prying eyes and I moved through town semi-oblivious of the other stares ponies were giving me.

Some seemed more interested in what happened earlier in the day, and I saw some of the ponies who were near town hall gossiping to groups and slowly the prying eyes increased in size as I walked. I reached the library in record time, and I sat down two meters from the front door and closed my eyes.