"Can we put this up to vote?"

"No."

“Well, I still don’t think I should go, what if they don’t like me, Twi?”

“For the hundredth time, it will be fine, my parents are understandable ponies.”

“That’s what all girls say!” replied John with a scowl.

“WILL YOU TWO BE QUIET!? I’M TRYING TO SLEEP HERE!”

The sound of Spike's voice had been enough to reduce the pair’s conversation to a soft whisper before it quickly died down, so in its place, John chose to stare out the carriage’s window to observe the mostly empty streets of Canterlot, not very surprising since only a few rays of Celestia’s still rising sun peeked over the horizon.

“Remind me again, why do we have to visit them at this ungodly hour?” asked John softly with an annoyed look on his face.

“Because my parents live in the outskirts of Canterlot, and we have to head to Ponyville tomorrow. Not to mention that I want to spend some quality time with my family before we go,” responded Twilight in the same volume without glancing away from a book.

John sighed and looked to his side at Spike who was slumped over on the seat, having fallen asleep face down. Seizing the opportunity, he moved over to Twilight’s side in order to light up the spark of conversation.

“How come you aren’t so nervous about being late anymore, you sure were yesterday, not to mention I heard that you go nuts when you fall behind on your studies or whatnot,” Twilight put the book down and gave the sleeping Spike a knowing glare, Spike's reply was simply a snore.

“Well, if you really want to know, that’s because the Princess told me I’ve been gone for only a day, well, from yesterday. Anyway, I managed to actually get ahead with... Yesterday's events, and I am a day ahead! And before you ask, yes, it means exactly what you think,” John blinked a few times absorbing the meaning of Twilight’s words and fell back on his seat, realizing the implications.

“Two weeks gone on Earth time, huh?” Twilight gave him a sad smile and laid her head on his shoulder, he responded with an awkward smile that faded as he took a deep breath, and let the worry slip to the back of his mind.

“So, yeah… What are your parents like?” he began, trying to shift the conversation elsewhere. "I could learn a thing or two about her family before meeting them," he thought.

“Oh! Mmm… Well, let’s see, my dad is an astronomer, or rather, was, he retired, but when I was a filly, he used to take me to the observatory where I could use their specialized telescope to look at the stars, even if a bit useless, what with Princess Celestia never being able to keep them in the same place without Luna‘s help, but it was a lot of fun!” she said reminiscing on her filly hood memories. John nodded with some wonder, the fact of the 'pony with the power to move stars' still in his mind.

“O-oh, and your mom?” he asked after an awkward silence.

“Mom was more of a stay-at-home pony, but she did her part by writing short stories, she wasn‘t famous or anything, but she should have BEEN!” she finished a little too loud, causing Spike to jump a bit in his sleep. “Sorry, I can‘t seem to get over that quite yet, it seems… I‘ll tell you the story another time,” she said, her cheeks donning a light blush.

“That‘s okay, dummy.” he placed a hand over her mane and ruffled it, gaining an annoyed look from the mare. “Carry on.”

“Ahem. In any case, mom, right. Every time I went to bed, she used to tell me a story, but the great thing was that she used to tell me a different story each time, and I never fell asleep while listening to them… I… guess that defeated the purpose, huh?” she giggled slightly and then clopped her hooves excitedly “Oh, I can’t wait to see them again!”

Nervousness aside, John couldn’t help but be happy for her, if not slightly jealous of her upbringing, but shoving it to the backlog of his mind, he decided upon another change in topic.

“Princess Celestia is the main ruler of this land, correct?”

“Quite a change in topic… but yes, you are correct in saying she is. Along with Luna,” John nodded in understanding,

“So, how come she isn’t a Queen?”

Twilight readied herself to respond, but stopped, her brow furrowed while she put her hoof on her chin, she mulled over the question for a few seconds, but then, dropped her hooves to the ground in defeat and stared at John surprised. The rest of the trip went by quietly and neither spoke, as the topic had broken any chance to recover the conversation.

The silent was short lived, as it was broken by the driver’s voice.

“We have arrived, Ms. Sparkle,” both bolted off their seats at the sudden voice, while Spike remained fast asleep, but was quickly woken by the sudden stop as he fell off the seat.

“Wha! Who! Where!” exclaimed the young dragon in a daze.

“Oh, t-thanks.” answered Twilight a bit startled.

“Wait, I recognize that voice,” John said, quickly hopping off the carriage and looking at the front, he stared at a white pegasus, he wore armor like the pony beside it, but his head was bare, revealing his oddly pink mane, something that the pony seemed to realize as a low growl came out of him when recognition filled his features.

“You!" the stallion said in rage.

"Um... Hi, um..."

"Oh, this should be good,” he began.

“Listen, I’m sorry… Eh, what’s your name again?”

“Gleaming Guard….” he growled

“Yeah, Gleaming Guard, listen, I was a bit paranoid yesterday, and I may have gotten out of hand, and… Look, I’m gonna be punished by the Princess, I’ll get my just desserts! So we are even, right?” he smiled awkwardly and extended his hand to shake his hoof.

“… I don’t see you rotting in prison like you should have been,” he retorted angrily.

“There is no need for that, guard!” Twilight intervened, but John only stared confused.

“Wait, what? Oh come on, it wasn‘t that bad, was it?” John asked perplexed at Guard’s response.

“Being ridiculed by all of the members of the royal guard including Captain Shining Armor isn’t!?” he complained in return, leaving John empty of arguments. “That’s what I thought, and another thi-”

“Well, wasn‘t it your job to keep him in that room? Besides, it's not like you could be ridiculed more than you already are,” everyone turned to the sound of the feminine voice just to see the accompanying pony besides Guard. The brown earth pony only gave an annoyed look to her companion before speaking.

“You were ridiculed because you failed to beat a single hue-man or whatever, who according to the Princess, is as dangerous as a colt,” John resented the words, but remained from commenting as she continued to help him, focusing instead on the stranger's cutie mark.

"Is that a patch of dirt?" John thought confused, tilting his head over the vaguely dirt-like mark.

“And you!” John straightened up as the pony directed her attention to him. “Count yourself lucky that the Princess had compassion on you, what you did counts as assault, and it normally brings a pony thirty days in the dungeon, oh, and trust me, you would not last a single day there,” she finished giving a devilish smile that only brought John to gulp in fear.

Twilight approached the mare and extended her hoof in reluctant gratitude. “Thank you, Miss, I’m sorry if my friend here caused a-” she backed slightly as her hoof was smacked by the strange mare.

“Don’t think I don’t have words for you, Ms. ”Celestia’s favorite”, but I will keep them in check, wouldn’t want you to tell on me,” she finished her words dripping with venom.

Everyone remained silent at the sudden turn of the situation.

“Y-You are not gonna yell at me, are you…?” asked Spike shaking in fear and hiding behind the carriage’s door.

The strange mare only chuckled and gave the dragon a rough pat on his back. “Don’t worry, short stuff, I know how you are worked to the bone by Ms. Sparkle here, besides, I wouldn’t want you to eat me in the future because I insulted you,” she finished and laughed heartily, meanwhile. John fell a slight tingle of dejavu in the back of his mind.

“I-I would never!” Spike answered, horrified at the prospect of eating a pony.

“Heh, I like you already. Alright, Guard, get your flank in gear and let’s get out of here,” she motioned towards the stallion, smacking his plot with a loud smack, Guard yelped at the action and stood ready.

“Who are you, and what is your problem?” asked an irritated Twilight.

“That’s for me to know, and for you to find out. As for my name, I suppose I can tell you,” she took off her helmet revealing a jet black mane, pushing the helmet upon Guard's head, who only cried out in pain at the roughness. “Rough Patch,” she finished, shaking her wild looking mane out of her eyes. She nodded towards Guard and both of them began their trot back to the castle while John, Twilight, and Spike simply stared at the carriage until it finally disappeared from sight.

"Hey, Twilight?" Spike began.

"Y-yeah, Spike?"

"Isn't what Ms. Patch did sexual harassment?"

Twilight didn't reply. John simply stared at the pair

“WHAT AM I DOING WRONG, HERE!?” John yelled in confusion, still staring at the road.

“I hope I’m on time!”

Shining Armor trotted quickly through the halls, he had gotten his assistant to look over the troops as he left, but his worry didn’t come from that, as he had taught him well and knew he could do a good job permanently replacing him in the guard if the need ever arose.

Not that Shining would let him, of course.

He left the main areas of the castle and came across a now familiar empty hallway, he put his hoof on an indentation at the very end of it, and a bright light shone as a door was revealed to him. He trotted along and closed the door behind him, the passage sealing itself as he did, he followed yet another small hallway and found himself in a room, specifically, his and Cadence’s room.

“Shining!” as always, Candence threw herself at him, covering him in a flurry of kisses. While it was something he would be embarrassed of outside, she knew him well enough to know he enjoyed it whenever they did it in private... among “other” things.

“Are you ready yet?” Shining asked her, hopeful that she had prepared before they left, he loved the alicorn, but as any mare, she took her time getting herself ‘beautiful’. He could have argued with her over how she already was, but she would only say otherwise and waste more time.

“Yes, yes Mr. Impatient, wouldn’t want my guard in ‘Shining Armor’ to lose his patience, now would we?” she said giving him puppy eyes.

Shining rolled his eyes at the sentence, the obvious tease not missed, much to his annoyance.

“Alright. ‘Mi Amore, Cadenza’,” he replied back as she stared back at him, puffing her cheeks in mock anger.

“You know I hate my name! Just stick to Cadence and we'll be married longer,” she huffed and turned her back on him, but was quickly turned back by her husband's magic and placed at snouts length.

“You know you love it,” she blushed slightly and gave him a quick peck, he smiled at the “surprise attack” but made not attempt to stop it, as he was ready to deliver proper “punishment”.

That is until his ‘duty clock’ kicked into gear, of course.

“Wait, we are gonna be late!” he rushed to their bed drawer leaving Cadence hanging with her mouth slightly open, she pouted looking at her husband frantically searching for his bowtie. In any other occasion, she would have used her magic and forced him to finish what he had started.

But Twilight would be there, so she could wait. 'Besides, we got allll night.' still, she couldn’t help but feel slightly disappointed. '*sigh* And here I thought stallions were the forward ones,' she thought disappointed, and with a shrug went the opposite direction to get the bowtie her husband had forgotten about.

After recovering from the strange event, the group walked across the street, noticing the two floor house that John assumed to be Twilight's, John moved his fingers nervously, not knowing how her parents would react to a creature from another dimension hanging out with their daughter.

“Okay, I’m seriously not helping my own case, stop betraying me, brain!” he stopped his self-inflicted anger as Twilight knocked on the door, freezing him on the spot, and time began slowing down for him,

The handle turned…

“Twilight, I -”

The door began opening.

“- think we should-”

A white colored hoof came into view

“-GO!”

“Twili!”

“God dammit!”

A grey-ish unicorn greeted them at the door, her oddly colored white and purple mane drew his attention, but he quickly averted his gaze as he caught her eye. The obvious mare displayed a big smile at the sight of her daughter, and reached out to give her a hug,

“Mom!” Twilight returned the gesture and both mares hugged.

“Oh, Spikey-Wikey, how I’ve missed you!” looking behind Twilight, the older mare noticed Spike and reached out to him, giving him what seemed to be a bone crushing hug, based on the purple dragon’s face actually turning slightly darker.

“Ah… Mom? You are crushing Spike,” Twilight warned, and the older mare realized her actions. quickly dropping the dragon to the floor with a thud, leaving ’Spikey Wikey’ gasping mouthfuls of air.

“And…. You must be, er, ‘John’, correct?” she reluctantly raised her hoof and awaited for John to raise his hand in return.

John stared at her hoof looking from Twilight to Spike, to the floor, and back to Twilight again, resisting the urge to run off, he reluctantly raised his own hand in return. Twilight’s mother only stared at it with a raised brow, awaiting any further action from the limb, she shrugged and moved her leg back, bumping John's hand with force.

“Ouch!” he grabbed his hand in pain and stared at a red bump on his palm, he looked back at the mare and saw a look of shock on her face.

“Oh my, I’m so sorry! I didn’t know you didn't 'hoofbump' as the kids say nowadays!'” she profusely apologized to John, causing an awkward silence to follow through.

"Mom... You aren't a kid..." Twilight mumbled.

“W-where are my manners! My name is Twilight Velvet!" Velvet began, ignoring her daughter's comment. "And in case you were w-wondering, I am Twili’s mother. P-Please come in!” she hurried the group inside, John followed courteously and bumping his head in the process. After carefully avoiding further injury, he was thankful as she led them to a spacious looking living room, where John sat in a small sofa with Twilight and Spike at his side while Velvet took a seat herself.

None spoke. Each one of them sat simply staring at the floor, all except for John who after scanning the house and finding nearly no differences to any of his world’s houses, gave quick glances at Twilight who only seemed to fidget nervously in place while Spike only sat with a boring look on his face. The silence was finally broken as Velvet started the conversation.

“Would you like something to drink?” she asked, and Spike perked up at the mere mention of beverages and spoke.

“Would I?” he eagerly answered. Velvet smiled at him and made her way to the kitchen, leaving the trio on their own.

“Twi! You are not helping me here!” John hissed desperate for the pony to pitch in.

“Okay, okay, sorry! I-I got nervous when she hurt your hand!” she took quick breaths trying to calm herself down, she gave John a quick smile and nodded.

“Everything okay, dear?” Velvet called from the kitchen.

“Yes, mom!” she replied with new found confidence.

Velvet reappeared from the kitchen with a tray and four glasses of a reddish liquid. topped with a few cookies on the side. She set the tray down in a table in the middle and motioned all to grab, something which all of the present guests did.

John sniffed the drink a bit, getting a familiar fruity aroma to fill his nostrils, his appreciation of a smell was cut short as Twilight had noticed and he’d been jabbed in the ribs by the mare’s knee. Noticing his rudeness, he took a sip of the drink and his eyes widened in surprise.

“Fruit punch! Finally, something that isn’t made of hay!” he gulped down the rest of the drink in one gulp and let out a satisfied sigh after doing so, receiving yet another elbow to the ribs from his foster sister.

“Where is dad, mom?” Twilight asked Velvet, trying to keep her attention from the pained human.

“He is out doing some errands, dear, he’ll be back later,” the older mare put her hooves on her ‘chin’ and stared at both Twilight and John, eyeing them suspiciously. Realizing that his chance at a first impression was gone, he figured he didn’t have anything to lose.

“Sorry about earlier, ma’am, my name, er, is John. John Pennick. It is, eh, very nice to meet you,” he said bowing awkwardly, something that caused Velvet to giggle silently.

“No need to be so formal, you seem like a nice, eh, stallion. You remind me of my husband a lot, actually. He was much more nervous than you,” confused, John looked to Twilight for answers to the comparison, but only saw the same confused look in her eyes.

“Ah, what do you mean, ma’am?”

“Call me Velvet.”

“Er, okay? Eh… Velvet, what do you mean?” he asked again trying to get a concrete answer.

“Well, when he first met my parents, he was a mess! He was far worse than you!” John cringed at the turn the conversation was taking, and he gulped realizing the nasty dive the topic could take if he didn’t intervene.

“Eh, ma’am, it’s not what you think,” he said, trying to explain without getting Twilight to realize, as her obliviousness had not allowed her to figure out what her own mother had in mind. “She thinks we are together… Crap, crap, crap!”

“Oh, horseapples! I can see you two are very close from the way you talk, you can’t fool me. I don’t know how you, er, stallions do your things, but please, I must ask you that you be careful with my Twilight, she is a fragile filly… I just said that out loud, didn‘t I…?” Velvet finished with a slight blush on her face.

At this point, the room had taken a very awkward mood, even Spike who seemed to have tuned out most of the conversation seemed slightly flustered. John looked at Twilight who surprisingly, still held a quizzical look on her face, but it didn’t last long, as the mare’s mind had finally deciphered what her mother meant.

“M-m-m-m-mom! I-it’s not what you t-t-think! It‘s not like that!” she nearly shouted causing both John and Spike to fall off their seats in surprise.

“O-oh my, it isn’t? I mean, I only thought… Oh dear, I’m so sorry!” she responded, moving her limbs frantically in denial.

“Here! This might help you understand!” Twilight said, making a parchment float out of her sack and levitating it towards her mother.

“What is this?” she opened it with her own magic and began reading, her features showed slight confusion, but the confusion suddenly gave way to a warn smile instead. "Well, that makes a little more sense now, doesn't it?" she said in realization, handing the parchment back to Twilight.

“Spike, can you take this upstairs to my old room?” Twilight asked, giving him her satchel. Spike saluted Twilight rather dramatically and made his way down a hallway.

“Mom, please don’t bring such topics with Spike around,” she asked blushing slightly.

“I shouldn’t have assumed… The Princess’ letter was a surprise, and it only said it was somepony speci-”

“Twilight!” she was interrupted as a male voice came from the front door.

John slowly turned his head to look at the source of the voice, where he noticed a stallion standing with a big smile on his face, a piece of his well kept mane “Or is that hair?” covered one of his eyes, and the blue mane that covered his body was adorned with a cutie mark of a crescent moon inside another crescent moon.

Choosing to get the initiative this time around, John got on his feet quickly, only to hit his head in the roof once more, causing him to fall back on his seat.

“Uh… What is that thing?” the blue stallion asked pointing at the injured John.

“He is the one from the letter, Night Light!” Velvet replied through hissed teeth. "From last night!"

“O-oh! I’m sorry,” he apologized, picking John in his magic and sitting him down comfortably on the sofa.

“I think it might be better if you two relax, I’ll make breakfast for us all, okay? Spikey, want to help?” Velvet suggested, followed by rapid steps that could be heard from the hallway, leading to Spike showing up with a big grin on his face.

“Of course! I gotta show you my new found cooking skills, mom, besides, John here doesn't like hay, so you might need some help there!” he took an apron seemingly out of nowhere and ran into the kitchen, being quickly followed by Velvet.

“We’ll be in my room for now, dad, expect us down here in a few minutes,” Twilight said, while Night Light only nodded as John was already being dragged behind the unicorn before he could protest. He was taken up some stairs, and the pair made their way into a rather empty room, containing only a bed and Twilight’s satchel on it. She closed the door behind them and released John.

“Well, that went as well as you expected it to,” he began sarcastically.

“I know, I’m sorry,” she said looking down at the floor, her ears dropping.

“It’s alright.” he began putting his hands on her withers. “I’m actually more surprised that you weren’t overly paranoid about this.”

“About that… I actually was. But the Princess made me promise that I wouldn’t go all… nuts over this,” she said showing her blushing face.

“Did much better than me for sure, good job, Twili,” he said giving her a pat on her head, something that she responded turning her head at him and giving a wide grin, followed by a rather strange squeaking sound.

“What… the heck was that?” he asked looking at Twilight with a confused stare.

“What the heck was what?”

“Never mind,” he sighed, giving up. There was a pony that moved the sun, so a squeaking pony wasn't much different.

“Still, it seems this is going to be a looooong day…”

“I thought you didn’t want to be late!” Cadence complained, walking down the pony filled road with Shining running quickly behind.

“I know, but I wanted to give the guards a break after yesterday’s drill! Besides, we couldn’t take the guards in the entrance or the Princess’ own escorts. I’ll just go ahead and admit I completely forgot about our ride…” he said, giving her a sheepish smile.

“Well, I don’t mind walking for once, but we are going to be late,” she said giving him a sly smile, to which he responded with a twitch from his eye.

“No, I can’t be late! It’s been ages since I’ve seen Twili!”

“It’s been two weeks, Shining,” Cadence said rolling her eyes. Just as Twilight could be paranoid, she had found out that Shining himself held a paranoid side of his own, but unlike Twilight’s, it was more controlled, only being his inability to be late to anything. It didn't help that his love for his sister wasn't helping his paranoia much either.

“Well, who knows when I’ll see her again? Besides, I want to ask her what she was doing, and maybe she can tell me her experiences in that world the Princess send her to.” Cadence gulped at the mention of “world”, being Captain of the Royal Guard had the merits of allowing him to know secret details about the Princess’ actions.

Unless those actions involved Twilight and her special “somepony“ of course, something that surprisingly, her auntie Celestia had forced Cadence to keep secret. For the moment at least.

“Hey Shining, I have a question. Did you tell your mother we’d be there this early?” Cadence wondered.

“Oh? Not really, why do you ask?” Cadence’s eye twitched but she remained cool. Choosing to learn everything, she asked a follow-up question.

“So, what will we be late to? You never told me why you wanted to go so early,” she asked, keeping her poker face on. If her auntie Celestia had taught her anything, it was to keep a straight face when necessary.

“Breakfast, of course! It’s been years since I’ve had my mother’s coo-” he didn’t get to finish his sentence as he was lifted in the air by the Princess of Love. "-king..."

“…” she only stared at him without saying a word.

“You are mad, aren’t you?”

“…”

“I‘ll take that as a yes…”

“Nice fireworks…” John had been staring outside the window for a few seconds, and he had happened to catch an odd display in some part of the city, oddly enough, the fireworks were clearly visible in the daylight.

“What fireworks?” asked Twilight staring outside but seeing nothing.

“Twilight, you can look outside once dinner is finished,” Velvet reprimanded her daughter. Dinner became a silent treat again, as the group ate quietly. Night Light then suddenly cleared his throat, and all present turned their heads to him.

“So, John, was it?” he said, keeping his eyes aimed at him.

“Ah, y-yes sir!”

“So… I certainly hope you haven’t done anything too… Crazy with my daughter.”

“Oh, Faust…/ Oh God…” Twilight and John groaned in unison respectively, dropping their heads on the plates in front of them.

“Night, they aren’t really together that way, I thought I told you already,” Velvet intervened, looking at her husband disapprovingly.

“I had to make sure, you know, besides, a pony really needs some good p-” SLAM!

The five of them turned their heads to see two ponies make their way in, it was a strange sight for all of them; a pink alicorn that was oddly enough, carrying a slightly charred looking white unicorn in her grip.

“Good morning Ms. Velvet, Mr. Light, sorry for barging in, but where is your nearest bedroom? As you can see, Shining collapsed on the way here and I need to get him to bed,” Night Light silently pointed with his hoof at the hallway leading to Twilight’s room, she nodded and followed the path there.

“Is it just me, or was that Cadence and Big Brother?” Twilight asked. Velvet and Night Light looked at their daughter and simply nodded. “Yeah, that’s what I thought…”

"I bet you he was hoping for your cooking again, dear," Night Light laughed.

Minutes later, Cadence made her way downstairs and headed straight for the kitchen, she hugged all of the ponies including Spike, then, she moved back to the table where she took a seat between Twilight and John.

“Sorry about the unexpected visit, Shining planned it as a surprise, but as you can see, he is a bit out of commission at the moment,” Velvet set down a cup of tea in front of her, and giving her thanks, Cadence brought the cup to her lips.

“Is my brother okay?” asked Twilight with worry.

“He’ll be fine,“ avoiding any more questions, she turned her attention on John. “You must be the hue-man auntie Celestia told me about.”

“Auntie? Princess Celestia is your aunt?” John replied, his nervous demeanor drowned by his curiosity.

“Yes, and I honestly wanted to meet you. You are the one who kept Twilight safe in that world, correct?” John only nodded in response, getting a smile from the pink alicorn.

“Then it’s my pleasure to meet you! My name is… Cadence, and any friend of Twilight is a friend of mine,” she said, extending her hoof, one which John grabbed between his hands and shook, wanting to avoid another injury.

“Ah, yes. Before we were interrupted, I wanted to ask you two about that.” Night Light said, taking the conversation back. “What is my Twilight to you then? Coming to this world willingly without any prior knowledge of it? There must be a reason as to why,” looking at Twilight, John gave her a smile which she returned, knowing she wouldn’t mind if he were honest.

“Well, sir, I guess I could say I think of Twilight as a sort of adoptive sister.” all present but Velvet gave a surprised gasp at the revelation.

“But Twilight, you’ve been only gone for a day! How is that even possible?” Spike exclaimed in astonishment.

“A week in his world, actually. But yes, we got quite close in a small amount of time, and honestly, neither of us quite know how it happened,” she answered giving an honest-to-good laugh.

The other three gave her a dubious look, but didn’t question the issue. But slowly, the awkwardness dropped to normalcy, as the group merrily chatted about random topics on each other’s lives, the conversation went by smoothly for over an hour, and everything seemed to be fine for what many would confuse as a real family.

That is, until somepony interrupted.

“So, I take it you are the human,” all turned their heads towards the source of the sound and found the no-longer-charred white unicorn staring at them. He made his way to table greeting all of the ponies present and sitting between John and Cadence.

“How did you know about him, Shining?” asked Cadence surprised.

“I’m captain of the Royal Guard, I think I can find out things involving my sister on my own,” he said giving her a smile, but turned to John, turning his smile into a serious scowl.

“Now, what did you do with my sister in that world of yours?” he asked his voice barely keeping control.

“I didn’t do anything,” John deadpanned, not enjoying what the white unicorn implied.

“Oh, are you certain?” he turned to his satchel and retrieved a parchment from a pocket. Twilight opened her mouth, but Shining responded before she was able to. “Yes, sis. This is your report. And I’d like to read a certain part out loud.”

“I knew I had forgotten to remove something, it was a mistake on my part, I‘m sorry John!” Twilight exclaimed out loud, confusing John.

“Anyway, may I? Ahem!” he begin.

‘On my stay with the subject know as John, I came across different objects from his world, one of them he called a ‘TV’, but upon further inspection, I came to the conclusion that it wouldn’t be safe to come into contact with said item.’

“Is that why you barely watched TV?” John commented, but Shining gave him an angry stare, causing him to gulp in response. “Continue…” Shining cleared his throat once again and resumed reading.

‘I resumed my inspection, and came into contact with what I’d refer to as ‘adult entertainment’ for humans, my knowledge of the human physique was not developed enough, but I quickly deduced the pictures were female. I began copying the positions of the females, at the moment, thinking they were relaxation techniques, but to my surprise, found that I was copying dubious positions, I was not able to regain my composure as the subject made his way back into the room.’

‘With regret, I had displayed myself indecently a-I think I'll stop there." Shining said, rolling the parchment and putting it back on his saddle, which he quickly took off and put on Twilight.

“Wait, so you did things with my daughter then?” Night Light began, getting on his hooves instantly, his face showing his fury at Shining’s reading.

“No, it wasn’t like that!” John began , trying to defend himself.

“So you didn‘t look at my daughter‘s genitals at that point in Twilight‘s report?” Night Light asked with an incredulous look on his face.

“… Okay, maybe it did go like that, but w-”

“I’ll show you what you get for messing with my sister!” Shining said, grabbing John with his magic.

“No, wait Shining!” Twilight began getting on her hooves.

“Crap!”

“I think I made more enemies here in two days than I did back on Earth in my entire life…”

The trio made their way into the train's private cabin, getting only minor stares and comments from the passerby ponies which John appreciated, as the day had not gone his way thanks to the morning’s misunderstanding. They were able to escape, only being able to say goodbye to Cadence and Velvet.

“I’ll send dad a letter tomorrow. Although my brother might need some calming down before we can talk…” Twilight made her way to the seat and groaned in annoyance.

“Luckily your sister-in-law was able to get them with… what were those hearts again?” he asked, remembering the event.

“It’s her love magic," she explained vaguely. "Unfortunately, it’s temporary, so I really need to talk to them about it,” John nearly began an argument over how love magic couldn’t be real, but if smiles made squeaking noises, he didn’t have a chance to beat her in Equestrian logic.

“You two are certainly revealing a few things I didn’t expect,” Spike began sitting next to Twilight, who just stared at him.

“… I just remembered, Spike, can you read this part of the report for me?” she said taking out a scroll.

“Oh, sure? Let‘s see…”

‘As I checked for my belongings, I came across a minor inconvenience: my assistant had forgotten to pack food as he had been instructed. A reprimand is in order when I return.’

“Uh… I can explain?” he replied giving the report back to Twilight.

“You are grounded, young dragon,” she said, snickering as she did

“Oh, great,” both human and pony laughed as the train began its trek, moving along the railroad, making its way to John’s new residence: Ponyville.

John looked outside the window, and thoughts came into his head, filling him with many different feelings, but only one thought took over in his mind.

‘It certainly can‘t get any worse… Right…?’

Author's Notes:

Sorry for the delay, busy doing other things as well as writing this, stressful, but enough about the whiny author.

Enjoy the chapter!

Notes 3
This chapter was fun~
I got the idea to use Velvet and Night Light when I was rewatching "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" and I liked their designs, after some research, I put them in, they might or not return later on.

In the case of Shining and Cadence: I love what I did, I'm sorry. Some might say that it's 'out of character' but come on! We don't really know what they do when they are alone, maybe Cadence is a tsundere! You don't know! Princess or not! Also, it's fun to think that she'll jokingly hurt her not-so-perfect husband.

Yay, violence!