I didn‘t know what was happening, I fell into that hole, and suddenly, I am in an open field, and not even the good kind with daffodils, I mean sunflowers? Yuck.

“So much for discovery and adven-” I stopped myself as I stared into the field closely, and I noticed it.

Or rather, I noticed them.

“Is this a dream?” I ran as fast as my legs would take me, I slowly closed in, what I coveted getting closer with each passing second, I wanted it so much it hurt. “They are everywhere… I’ve done it!” I exclaimed out loud, if a bit over excitedly, stopping and gazing upon my discovery, trembling on my hooves as I absorbed the sights..

I stared into the field, and I saw my price: they frolicked in peace, talking, trotting, and grabbing things with their ‘hands’ I had finally achieved my one dream, I found them, the humans, and I was gonna enjoy it fully.

“Lyra.”

One of them approached me slowly, it stared at me with eyes filled with wonder, its hands began closing in on me, I flinched instinctively, but it did not back off, I stared back nervously and I let it touch me, it began caressing my mane, ruffling it, and then, it slowly closed in its face, and before I knew it, it had kissed me.

“H-hey, what are you…!?” I asked shocked slowly backing away.

“Lyra?”

I was stopped by the human whose hand was slowly massaging my flank, I froze and found myself enjoying the moment, and then all of a sudden, its hand went down, until it finall-

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“Lyra!”

The green mare jolted off the bed at the sound of the angry voice, she found herself on the floor muzzledown with a bare tingling sensation in her hunches, she recovered quickly and got on her hooves.

“Eh… M-morning Bon Bon.” she greeted her partner with a light blush on her face.

“What’s the matter, Lyra, are you sick? You are all red.” Bon Bon voiced with concern.

“N-no, it’s nothing!” she quickly replied, grabbing the sheets and covering her shame, her face getting a brighter red.

“Are you sure?“ she began approaching Lyra and got to her side of the bed, she looked upon the floor and noticed a certain smell when she got closer, her noise twitching as it caught the smell and recognized it.

“Eh… I can explain…”

“You were having suggestive dreams about humans again, weren’t you?” Bon Bon said with a dull stare, Lyra jumped at the accurate depiction of her dreams and only hanged her head in shame, no words needed to explain the situation.

“Clean yourself up and get your flank downstairs,” she finished irritated, and trotted down to get breakfast.

"Oh, come on! You know it's the hands! I still love y- Ugh..." Lyra sighed in defeat, simply tossing the sheets and heading for the bathroom.

...

Both mares ate silently, the room’s ambient being relatively calm, only the sounds of their chewing hanging in the air as they ate.

“Hey, Bon Bon?” the room’s temperature seemed to drop as the words left Lyra's mouth.

“What is it, Lyra dear?” Bon Bon replied without so much a glance.

“Well, it's about what I was telling you yesterday…” she had told Bon Bon about her not-so-close-encounter with the human, though she had spend most of the time complaining about Twilight having custody of it than anything else, getting Bon Bon annoyed beyond belief. The meeting that the Mayor had conjured to confirm his existence didn't help matters.

“Yes? What about it, Heartstrings?” Lyra froze as Bon Bon emphasized her second name, something she usually reserved when she was about to snap.

“Tread lightly…” she thought and gulped, carefully planning her following words.

“We could go out and take a trot…? Just the two of us…?” she finished more as a question than a statement.

The mood in the room instantly changed, and Bon Bon launched herself at her partner, nuzzling her affectionately, both fell back as Lyra lost her balance and landed on the floor. Bon Bon blushed a bit and got on her hooves, then fixed her mane clumsily.

“Eh… Yes, I would like that very much!” Lyra gave a sigh of relief and quickly grabbed the now empty plates from the table with her magic, she gave a forced smile and she moved to the sink and began washing dishes, she would enjoy the walk... All while coming up with a plan to break the news to her.

“And that’s why I’m telling you to walk carefully, wouldn’t want another broken foot thanks to your negligence, now would we?”

John sighed exasperated at the doctor and nodded; wanting to keep Ditzy out of the ordeal, he had put the blame to himself as he told the doctor a lie of what had happened, and of course, as any doctor would, he forced reminders of how he should care about his well being and not to overexert himself, not something easy for John who was standing with the help of makeshift crutches.

“The one time I want a pony to be scared of me,” he thought as the doctor repeated the same tired lines.

“Yes sir,” he replied automatically.

“And don’t do anything rash for at least a week.”

“Uh huh.”

“In fact, don’t do anything rash at all!”

“Got it.”

“Your bones aren’t as strong as a Ponies‘ after all.”

“Tru- Hey! I find that offensive!” he remarked getting an amused chuckle from nurse Redheart in the side, the doctor cleared his throat and stopped talking, obviously taken aback by the comment.

“So, where is Twilight again?” John asked as he tried to scratch under his cast, and getting his hand slapped for his efforts. “Ouch!” by a hoof.

“Miss Sparkle will be returning shortly, she said she needed to retrieve your x-rays as well as make copies of notes of our analysis.

“Couldn’t she wait?”

“Calm, er, 'yo'self.”

“Excuse me!?” John said more than a little surprised at the nurse’s use of human lingo.

“Miss Sparkle told me to tell you that in case you got… Antsy… What is that word for anyway? If you don‘t mind me asking.” she asked politely, genuinely interested to John’s chagrin, he cursed himself for using too much internet talk back home, probably getting some words to stick in Twilight’s mind.

“Eh… It’s human for “please, wait a bit, I’ll be there soon, please have some patience,” the nurse nodded understanding and the group became silent once again.

“Hey John!” he smiled as he saw his favorite unicorn run towards him with a few folded scrolls on her magical.

“About time! You sure know how to keep a gentleman waiting,” the three ponies stared into each other’s faces confused. “Eh, gentle… Colt? ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ were made as the three understood.

“Shall we go then, eh, my good ‘sir’?” she asked standing besides him.

“We shall!” both went on their way, but not before thanking the doctors and a few more warnings from the pair. As they walked, less murmurs could be heard throughout the town, and none of the ponies ran away, their fear now replace by curiosity, as John got a few hellos from the passing ponies, much to his surprise.

“Eh… What’s going on?” he asked as he waved to a greenish mare.

“Oh, I didn’t tell you, but the Princess send the letter yesterday and the Mayor decided upon a meeting, that’s the reason I wasn’t with you in the room when Ditzy arrived.” she explained.

“So, now they like me?” he asked a bit reluctant.

“Eh… Sure!” he raised his brow at the lack of confidence in her statement, but didn’t make an issue of it as they walked through what appeared to be a market, he noticed a few ponies making business and receiving golden coins in return for different foods like apples and carrots.

“Eh… So how much do I owe the hospital…?” he asked as he noticed a yellow Pegasus give a few extra golden coins for a lettuce.

“What do you mean? We have free health care here in Equestria,” John stopped on his tracks as her words sank in.

“This place is awesome,” he said in a low voice and he resumed his awkward walking while absorbing the sights, an activity that he quickly got bored of, as every building looked the same to him, that is until he noticed a building that oddly enough, looked like a gingerbread house, as he did, his stomach growled ferociously.

“I take it you are hungry?” Twilight looked upon the area where John’s eyes had fallen upon and noticed the place, getting a big smile upon her face.

“Uh huh… So, can I eat that house or what?” Twilight stared at him, a look which said either laugh, make fun of, or facehoof. “What? I’m hungry!

“The sad thing is that you aren’t the first one to ask that, come on, lets get you something to eat, I need to introduce you to somepony anyway," Twilight agreed, and John grinned widely, but stopped listening as the words ‘get‘, ‘you‘, ‘something‘, ‘to‘, and especially ‘eat‘, filled his thoughts.

They walked straight into the building, an overwhelming sweet smell filling John’s lungs instantly.

“Oh geez, I think I just got diabetes,” he coughed, the words coming out more like gibberish than anything else.

“You’ll get used to it,” she perceptively assured him.

“Well, if it isn’t Miss Sparkle.” said a chubby looking pony from the counter, giving a forced smile as they approached.

“Good morning Mrs. Cake, and before you ask, this is John, you’ve probably already heard of him.” she said, noticing the nervous glances she gave the human.

“H-hello dear, Cup Cake is the name, it is a pleasure to meet you,” she introduced herself, while John nearly giggled at the name, and his response came out as a cough, as he tried covering his incoming laughter, causing a barely audible growl to come out of the blue mare.

“Er, sorry, I meant to say it’s an honor to meet such a fine mare as yourself,” he said dramatically, causing the slight anger induced blush on her to become a sheepish one.

“Y-you are too nice, dear. Just don’t let my husband hear you, he tends to beat up stallions over it,” she laughed heartily along with Twilight.

“Oh, you are such a charmer!” John forced out the words out of his mouth giving her a fake laugh.

“Ahaha… But seriously, he does, be careful of what you say,” she reiterated, the smile on his face dropped as he noticed the serious stare she was giving him.

“ANYWAY! Have you seen Pinkie Pie? I wanted to introduce her to John.” Mrs. Cake stopped her staring and turned her head to Twilight.

“As you can see, most of our merchandise is still here sweetie, so no. Pinkie Pie asked for the day off and went Celestia-knows-where.” Twilight looked slightly disappointed but shrugged it off, and instead begin eyeing the goods on the counter, Mrs. Cake shrugged her previous doubts off and wore her business face.

“So, what can I get y- Er…” Twilight looked upon where Mrs. Cake began staring and face hoofed as she noticed John eating a couple of muffins off a counter.

“What? I wold you Ah was hungry!” Twilight glanced from John to Mrs. Cake, giving her a sheepish smile and taking a bag of bits out of her satchel, she eyed John again as he grabbed yet another muffin and dropped the whole bag in Mrs. Cake’s awaiting hoof. "As it turns out, not everything is free in Equestria, John."

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“This was a wonderful idea!”

“Yeah.”

“We never do this anymore after all!”

“Uh huh…”

“Lyra?”

“Bon Bon.”

“Can you pay attention?”

Lyra groaned and returned her attention to her cream colored partner giving her the best smile she could muster, she only stared without a trace of emotion on her face.

“What are you doing?” she accused her.

“What do you mean? Can’t I enjoy the sights?” she rebutted, fearing that her plan might be discovered.

“You haven’t been ‘enjoying the sights’ as you say, you have been looking for something, and I think I know what that might be!” she finished raising her hoof accusingly at Lyra, she sighed as she did and only gave her a sad stare.

“Okay I was, but can you blame me? It‘s sort of my life goal after all…” Bon Bon only shook her head, not knowing how to respond.

“You just don’t get it…” she whispered in a voice so low that Lyra didn’t catch it.

“What?”

“I said fine, go ahead, look for your precious human. I’m not gonna stop you.” she huffed and trotted away without saying another word. Lyra stood there realizing what had happened and cursed, but she quickly reassured herself.

“I-its okay… Everything will be fine, I’ll get the human, a- and then I’ll go talk to Bon Bon. It‘s perfect.” she congratulated herself for her plan, and resumed her trot at a much faster pace, looking for her much wanted price.

Meanwhile, a heartbroken Bon Bon stared from afar as she noticed her mare friend get away from her, resuming her search without so much a glance back. Bon Bon was not longer able to keep her feelings bottled up, and she galloped away, tears leaving a nearly indistinguishable trail on her way home.

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“Hey, I told you I was hungry! Besides, I thought it would be LESS expensive…” he said as he took a bite out of a cupcake, giggling as he remembered the mare’s name while doing so, tripping with his own crutch but being caught by Twilight just in time.

“Heh… Cupcake.” he laughed as she picked him up.

“Ahem!”

“Er… Yes?” he asked in the most innocent voiced he could manage.

“You ate somepony else’s order!”

“That’s besides the point…” he argued weakly.

“Why are you acting so immature all of a sudden?” she asked slightly exasperated of his odd behavior.

“Excitement over a new place? I don’t know! I haven’t had this much excitement in quit- no actually, I have never had this much excitement in my entire life” Twilight stared at him slightly taken aback by his statement.

“I guess this can be exciting for you, but nothing that even genuinely excited you back in your world?”

“The closest would be when I hanged out with Fra-…” he stopped his sentence as his mood darkened, he stared into the last piece of the cupcake he had been eating, suddenly, it didn’t look too appetizing.

“Oh, I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean to…” Twilight apologized already knowing what was on his mind and realizing the sudden change of mood.

“No, it’s fine, I kind of brought it to myself.”

“You really miss her, don’t you?”

“Yeah… I…” he wiped a few tears already brimming in his eyes and continued. “I guess I feel bad for not visiting her before I came here,” he said, his words filled with remorse.

“But it couldn’t be helped, you know that, John.”

“Maybe…” they walked silently for a few seconds, the conversation having died down by the sudden topic, the murmurs of the ponies passing by, along with a few ‘hi’ and ‘morning’ greetings given by some of the them, but only half-heartedly returned out of respect by John.

Twilight noticed this and decided to intervene.

“Come on,” she tugged softly at John’s pants and changed his direction.

“Where are we going?” he asked weakly.

“Just follow me.”

They walked for a few minutes returning to the market area they had passed earlier that same day, and made their way to a stand, where a slightly bigger than normal red stallion watched over with a bored look on his face.

“Good morning, Big Mac,” Twilight greeted the stallion who just nodded in response.

“Have you seen Applejack?”

“Eenope.”

“Do you know where she might have gone?”

“Eenope.”

“Thank you, I’ll see you around,” she thanked him a bit frustrated at the lack of information and walked away, leaving John utterly confused on thespot. Big Mac only stared at him with disinterest, not saying a thing.

“So what? No back-handed comment about me? No gasp?” he asked as Big Mac stared at him with the same boring look.

“Nope.” John’s eye twitched as he heard the repeated words come out of his mouth, it had only been said three times, but it had lost all of its meaning in John’s book.

“Why not?” he asked, confident that he would get a different response out of him.

Mac stared at him silently, he looked him up and down for a few seconds then grabbed an apple, he threw one at John who barely had time to catch it with the crutches in hand, and Mac held another. He put the apple between his hooves and crushed it as easily as if it were a grape. Not surprised by his feat, John tried the same, but the apple didn’t budge at all as he tried, he tossed the apple back to Mac and only stared at him.

“Well played…” he groaned, nodding at him before walking away, Twilight waiting for him just a few feet away. “Nice guy, he must be a riot in parties,” Twilight only gave him a quizzical look which John simply ignored, and walked away for ten seconds before returning to Twilight.

“So… Where is the library again?” he smiled awkwardly as he asked.

"Nice to see you return to your clueless selfm," Twilight teased, getting a growl out of John, but smiled, his spirits lifted by the short exchange of words.

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It was a fine morning in Ponyville, the birds were chirping as always, there hadn’t been a disaster for at least a month, and Ditzy had made a new friend, with a new species no less! It was a relatively good day for the mailmare, as she followed her route, surprisingly, avoiding crashing into a single pony. A rarity that only added to the joy in her day, albeit, not as significantly as the strange creature who had forgiven her easily for her mistake.

A feat even stranger than not crashing into fellow ponies.

“Here you go!” she inserted a few letters into the mail slot in Carousel boutique and checked her bag, only to find one package left over, one that she had saved for the end, she put on her satchel once again and flew back to the post office.

She didn’t have to fly for long, as it took her a few measly minutes for her to arrive without a cinch.

That is until she crashed through the door, hitting a couple of mail ponies in the way and landing in the locker room where her bag safely landed on its usual hanging spot.

“Derpy, are you okay?” came the sound of a concerned voice behind her.

“Y-yes, I’m fine. Thank you, Courrier.” she thanked the white earth pony mare helping her to her hooves.

“You sure do know how to make an entrance don’t you?” she joked as she looked back at the other ponies who were being given similar help, while others picked up letters that had been thrown about in her path.

“Oh… Whoopsie…” was all she could say before she made her way to help her fellow mail ponies, an apology to all already forming in her mind.

“DERPY!” her coat hairs stood on end when she heard the voice call her, she gulped and turned slowly, only to find the door to her boss’ office open. A mare nearly twice her height stood there, waiting for her to notice her, and then, walking inside and slamming the door shut when she did.

“I guess she wants me in her office, huh?” she asked rhetorically, laughing awkwardly as she did.

“It will be fine, she knows it was an accident, and if not, I’ll back you up, okay?” she assured her before Ditzy turned the knob of the door and made her way inside.

“Please, sit down.” her boss instantly said, and Ditzy wasted no time in doing what just that and let her flank slam on the floor, waiting for the words that were sure to come.

It was always the same words after all.

“You are back early.”

Ditzy was taken aback by the words, and with her expectations destroyed, she improvised. “Er, yes s- er, ma‘am. I finished quickly today, you see, I ha-”

“I don’t want your life story, Ms. Whooves.” Ditzy silenced herself and waited for her boss’ following words, not prepared for what she was going for next.

“What will I do with you, Ms. Whooves?”

There it is.

“I will try to do my best, I promise!” Ditzy assured her.

“I know you will, now, since you finished quite early, you will stay for another hour to help the other workers who you happened to get behind on schedule, getting them caught up with their mail,” Ditzy cringed, already knowing there was no point arguing, and nodded.

“Yes, boss… will that be all?” she asked as respectfully as she could.

“Yes, return to work,” the mare replied, going back to some papers on her desk.

Ditzy gave her one last look as she slowly closed the door, sadly looking at the name plate in her desk. Darling Doo, it read as always.

“Love you too, sis.” she thought sarcastically as she closed the door behind her, and headed to the other ponies, ready to get the day over with..

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“Are we even close?” John asked for the third time in a minute.

“Quit complaining.”

“Is that any way to treat your brother from another mother?” Twilight rolled her eyes and turned to John, giving him an amused smile.

“Sorry, just a bit tired, I guess,” he stopped and moved his arms, getting rid of the stiffness the crutches had brought.

“Well, we would have been there already, but you walk so slow with those crotches,” she replied, getting John to sigh. Twilight looked around the area and found a bench on the side of the street, she made a beeline towards it, and allowed John to sit to rest.

“Phew! Thanks Twilight.” he said grateful, as he let his head rest on the seat and he looked upon the sky, absorbing the sights.

“Huh…”

“What?” Twilight asked.

“The sky.”

“What about it?”

“It’s the same.”

“The same?”

“Yeah… It reminds me of home.”

Twilight smiled and sat next to him, she looked upon the still sky, appreciating the clear weather that Ponyville was scheduled to have that day.

“You know? I don’t really look upon the sky much nowadays, I spend my time studying, researching, or hanging out with my friends… Speaking of, I should give my thanks to Rainbow.”

“Who?” John asked looking at Twilight, she shook her head and turned her attention to him.

“Oh, she is one of my friends. You’ll meet her soon enough,” she responded, and both resumed their sky sighting.

"So… what are you gonna thank her for?” John asked curious after a few seconds.

“Clearing the skies, of course,” John stared at her confused, but he chose to humor her.

“Clearing the skies? What is she? A weather pony?” he laughed at the sheer absurdity of his statement while Twilight eyed him amazed.

“Why, yes! How did you know?” John stared at her with a dumbfounded look, his mouth hanging open.

“… Huh!?” Twilight giggled a bit and tried to explain.

“Well, we need them, clouds don’t move on their own you know?” he only shook his head and gazed back upon the sky and spied a lonely cloud, he stared at it and noticed it. Not a single sign of movement.

“… Your world is freaking weird,” Twilight only smiled and leaned on him, both enjoying their relatively quiet rest.

“Don’t worry Twilight, I’m coming!”

Or so they thought…

“What was that?” John asked, already holding Twilight for dear life. "A pony?"

Both jumped slightly on their seats and looked around, finding a small dot in the sky, slowly getting bigger.

"Did it come from that?” she squinted her eyes but didn’t manage much, John not having much luck either.

“Is that a rainbow…?” John asked tentatively, noticing a multicolored line in the sky. “Don’t tell me rainbows are like animals too! Like, unicorn rainbows or something!” he only held on to her a bit more forcefully, causing Twilight to roll her eyes.

“That’s absurd.” she looked up and noticed it coming along faster. “But this might still be bad… John, get ready.”

“Why?” John asked nervously.

Twilight’s horn began to glow purple.

“This might get ugly…”

Author's Notes:

I think I'm getting lazy on releasing chapters for this thing.

Fear not.

Or do.

...

Just read.

Spoiler Notes 5 03/31/18
Revisiting this was... painful. I won't say that I was trying to incorporate all types of humor and drama to see what worked, but i will say I did exactly that. The subplot introduced here wasn't exactly something I am happy with, but I kept it. I do feel my dialogue style began developing here, getting a itti-bit more natural... at least comparatively speaking!

Also, yeah... I did get lazy with chapters.