EPISODE 2: A Human in Equestria Part 2
A day has passed after everything that happen at the hospital, and Ponyville's one and only local human boy was sleeping peacefully like a baby as it becomes morning in Ponyville. The sun rose brightly and brilliantly, the sky cleared with hardly a single cloud in sight as a gentle breeze passes through town, and all of the ponies in town slowly woke up to begin their daily lives with talk about the strange creature that Twilight and her friends brought in the other day.
The door to one of the patient's room, one belonging to the human Chris, opens up to reveal the same nurse pony from the other day this time pushing a cart with warm soup for the patient as she enters the room.
"Good morning, I've brought you your-" Nurse Redheart cut her sentence short when she saw the human boy was still sleeping.
Chris was sound asleep, hardly making a noise except for talking in his sleep which he muttered out loud, "ZZzzZz… Hey, let go of my eggo waffle… that's mine… zzZzzZz."
Nurse Redheart giggled to herself and smiled, That's adorable, it's amazes me what kind of dream everypony has or in this boy's case every human. Though what is an eggo waffle?
"Chris, it's time for you to wake up," Nurse Redheart smiled as she walked over to the side of Chris' bed and gently nudged his arm to him to wake up, and it seemed to work as Chris started to stir and his eyes slowly flicker open and close as he gets the sand out of his eyes and wakes up, stretching and yawning as he stood up sitting.
Rubbing his eyes and looking over to his side to spot Nurse Redheart, Chris smiled warmly at her but still has that groggy look in his eyes, "Mornin'… *Yawn*"
"Good morning to you, too, sleepyhead," Nurse Redheart smiled as she pushed the cart over to him, "I've brought you your breakfast, it's the important meal of the day to make sure you're healthy and we need you to make a quick recover so please eat up. I've brought you some warm soup and a glass of orange juice so I hope this is acceptable for your kind to eat."
"Oh! Yeah, soup is good and orange juice is excellent to have as well! Thank you, Nurse Redheart," Chris smiled back, now fully awake, as Nurse Redheart places the tray on Chris' lap to eat. Chris noticed the spoon by the side of the bowl, and looked at the nurse with a surprised expression, "Huh? You're aware humans can use utensils?"
"Well considering Spike always has hands, and you have as well, I believe you do. Plus other ponies also use utensils as well, so it isn't strange to think that at all," Nurse Redheart smiled, "Now, eat up. You're going to need your strength today."
Chris nodded and took a spoonful of the soup before him, the soft faint warm fragrant of the soup had a very alluring scent to it as Chris took a whiff and the delicious aroma of the soup made his nose jumped in delight as he has never smelled anything this good in a long time except for his aunt's cooking, as he blew on the spoon to cool down the soup before inserting the spoon into his mouth to eat the soup.
Chris' eyes shot wide open, frozen in place, while having the spoon still in his mouth. Not reactioning after a few seconds of eating the soup, Nurse Redheart began to worry and panic.
"Oh dear! Is something the matter? Is it too hot, do you dislike it?!" Nurse Redheart began to worry as she wasn't sure if the soup didn't boat well with a human, thinking there might be an ingredient that he didn't like or something.
Chris slowly got out of his daze and smiled widen, with a twinkle in his eyes, and he claps his hands together, "Amazing!"
Nurse Redheart was taken aback by Chris' sudden change of behavior from being frozen in place to energetic happiness.
"This is the BEST soup I have ever had in my entire life!" Chris exclaimed happily as he quickly wolfed down the soup at great speed and drank his glass of orange juice soon after looking very satisfied with his meal, "That was absolutely delicious! Thank you for the meal!"
Given a slight nod at the nurse, Nurse Redheart shook her head in surprise and gave a very half-amused smiled, "Well, I have to say, I've never seen anypony scoff down on soup like that before! But I'm very happy you've enjoyed it and thank you very much."
As soon as Chris finished his meal, there was a knock on the door and Nurse Redheart went over and opened the door, to reveal the six ponies and dragon from yesterday coming into the room.
"Oh, welcome back everypony. He just finished his meal and we're allowing him to leave today, but please allow him to get ready first," Nurse Redheart smiled as she walked out of the room.
"Hey everyone!" Chris welcomed back his new friends since yesterday with a smile.
"Good morning, Chris, I hope you're feeling much better today!" Twilight said.
"I am sure! I feel much better! Better than usually anyway," Chris noted as he took note of his body as it felt a bit stronger than normal.
"Yay! That sounds great! That means we can party all night long! Ooh, you're going to love it, but everypony loves parties and I throw the best parties, so I'll make sure your party is the super-duper-uber-best there ever was!" Pinkie Pie bounced around happily until she stopped directly in front of Chris' face with an over-exaggerated beaming face.
"Eh… OK," Chris said with a stunned look in his eyes as Pinkie Pie backs away with glee, "Though I'm still wondering where I'm going to stay."
"About that… we thought about it and…," Twilight began to speak up to get Chris' attention, "You can stay at my place. My home is your home and since you love books there's plenty to read and you can learn about Equestria and everything there is to know about our world that way!"
Chris seemed taken aback by this suggestion, "Really? Are you sure? I don't want to impose on you or anything."
"It's no trouble at all! I'm more than happy to let you live with me and Spike!" Twilight said with a reassured smile.
"Why, thank you so much! You're really kind, you didn't have to!" Chris smiled warmly. This is the first time in his life anyone has shown him such kindness… in the back of his head recalls the faint words his uncle said to him, though barely.
Twilight suddenly gasps and claps her hooves together, surprising everyone in the room, "Ooh! I just thought of something! I think this is a perfect chance to have one of those 'sleepovers' at my house!"
"Yay! A party AND a sleepover at Twilight's house! This is definitely going to be the best day ever!" Pinkie Pie agreed wholeheartedly and jumped up and down excitedly.
"A sleepover? Sounds like fun, I'm definitely up for it!" Applejack expressed her thoughts on it.
"Aw yeah, that's what I'm talking about! This is going to be so much fun!" Rainbow Dash zoomed around the air happily.
"A-A sleepover at Twilight's…? Oh, I would love to go," Fluttershy smiled, showing a bit more earnest than yesterday and the girls starting discussing about the sleepover as Spike walks over to Chris.
"Wow! I would have never have thought they go this far already and so fast too! You're really something! But, man, am I glad you're staying with me and Twilight! It's going to be a blast, dude!" Spike exclaimed, happy to know he'll get to pal around with Chris very soon.
Chris sat there, completely stunned. He never thought he could make others this happy, but no one has ever invited him over to their houses or sleepovers and are hardly nice to him except for some adults and his family. A sad smile washes over Chris' face as he faintly recalls his memories, blurred as they be, and feels the warmth and sadness underneath them.
"Are you alright there, sugercube?" Applejack asked, who was just a few inches away from Chris' face. Realizing how close Applejack was to his face, Chris yelped and shuffled away to the back of the bed.
"Huh? Me? I-I'm fine… it's nothing, really," Chris said with his hands frantically waving in front of him with a nervous smile to try and play it cool.
Applejack didn't seem like she believed him, given that suspicious glance at him, "Are ya sure? Ya look like ya were thinkin' about something there for a second… ya really had nothin' on yer mind?"
"Yeah, don't worry about it Applejack," Chris said with a reassured smile.
"If you say so," Applejack said with a nod, but still didn't fully believe him but dropped the subject all the same.
"Well, I think we wasted enough time at the hospital! Come on, let's show Chris around Ponyville," Twilight brought up to like everypony know what the real reason was for coming to get Chris from the Ponyville Hospital.
"Yeah! It's about time, come on let's go Chris!" Rainbow Dash shouted with joy.
"Alright," Chris smiled as he slowly gets out of bed.
The moment Chris' bare feet touch the floor, a cold shiver jumped from his feet all the way up to his spine and head, and caused him to twitch in response to the sudden coldness, "Whoa! That's cold!"
As he fixes and straightens himself up he looks around to see the ponies gawking at him, now getting to see how truly tall he was which compare to them he was a giant! At least two ponies tall and about a quarter as well and the ponies stared at him with awe. He might be taller than Princess Celestia herself they thought to themselves.
"Wow… you're so tall," Fluttershy stuttered still looking at him in disbelief at his height. True when the ponies found and carried him here to the hospital they didn't really think he was that tall, but now seeing him standing up they were surprised at how tall he really was.
"Amazing! So all humans stand on their hind legs?" Rainbow Dash asked in awe and she circles around Chris to get a better view, which was making Chris a little bashful.
"Well, there's just legs and humans are bipedal creatures, two-legged animals, so yeah… but we can crouch on all four if we want to," Chris explained, feeling the heat on his face as the ponies stare at him like that.
"And Rainbow Dash, they're called 'feet'… just like Spike here. You haven't forgotten what Chris told us the other day, now did you?" Twilight reminded Rainbow Dash with a playful gesture.
"Yeah, yeah, I remember," Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes in amusement.
"Alright… let me get changed into my regular clothes, and we'll go," Chris spoke up as he went over to the desk next to his bed to grab his clothes that Rarity cleaned and left there for him yesterday. However he realized he was in a room filled with girls, ponies or not they were still girls, and felt his cheeks turning red again as he looks back to see that the girls are still present in the room, "Um…"
"Huh? Is somethin' wrong, sugercube?" Applejack asked, seeing Chris stopped in his track and look around the room with an embarrass look in his eyes.
"Erm… well… you see…," Chris was hesitant in telling them because it was really embarrassing for him to say it out loud.
"Yes, what is it?" Twilight spoke up, curious as well.
"W-Well… Y-You see… I'm a guy… and you're all girls, except Spike here, but… I… um," Chris fumbled on his words trying to get out his meaning to them.
Only Rarity caught on what Chris was trying to say and gasped upon realizing it, "*GASP* Oh dear heavens me! How could I forget! Girls, we need to give Chris his privacy so he can change into his clothes. Come along now, we must leave the room for him."
"Huh? Why?" Rainbow Dash asked, clearly not getting the message.
"No buts! We must give him his space," Rarity said while nudging Rainbow Dash out of the room as the rest of the girls and Spike followed suit and left the room, "Now take your time and come out when you're ready Chris."
"*Sigh* Thank you so much, Rarity," Chris sighed in relief when Rarity realized why he was so embarrassed and felt uncomfortable changing in front of girls in the room, even if they're not humans themselves.
Finally alone, and no wandering eyes to watch him, Chris changed back into his regular clothes and removed his hospital gown. He put on his short-sleeved black t-shirt, his baggy blue shorts, socks and black sneakers followed by his red short-sleeved hoodie jacket, black fingerless gloves, and finally put his family heirloom necklace now which he noticed was also cleaned. He mentally thanked Rarity for taking the time to clean his pendant as well.
Chris steps out of the room, kicking his sneaker's tip on the ground to see and feel the springiness of it and smiled seeing his sneakers are still light but tough as usually, and everyone… erm… everypony greeted him with a smile.
"Whoazie! You're clothes look amazing, I love it!" Pinkie Pie shouted happily and hopped around Chris.
"Heh… um… thank you?" Chris said with a wry smile, still having trouble getting use to Pinkie Pie's enthusiasm.
"So where to? What's the plan?" Chris asked seeing as he's completely new to Ponyville and not sure where to go.
"Plan? Oh! That reminds me, ah still have some work left back home. I'll catch up with y'all later! Take care," Applejack suddenly remembered as she galloped away.
"Goodness! I totally forgot about those orders I have to finish! I must be off, but I look forward doing business with you Chris about your clothes! Until then, take care darling," Rarity bowed as she left in a hurry.
"Um…," Fluttershy spoken up floating in the air and she starts to leave, "I just realized… I forgot to feed the animals as I wanted to see how Chris was doing, so I must be going. Goodbye."
"Oh, that's right! I had some stuff I had to take care of first!" Rainbow Dash clapped her hooves in annoyance and hovered in front of Chris, "Now listen here buddy, I'm leaving Twilight with you so you better not do anything funny or hurt her in anyway, got it mister? Or else I'm going to take you down in 5 seconds flat!"
Rainbow Dash playfully punched his right arm and smiled, "I'm just kidding, since you're a nice guy and all, but if you do, do something to her, I will come after you! Alright, see ya later!"
And with that she flew off like the wind out the window, leaving a dazed Chris looking where she took off to and then… slowly rubbed his right arm, "Ow… that kinda hurt."
"Oh no!" Pinkie Pie suddenly gasped and stopped hopping around mid-air and looked at the clock on the wall, "I have to get going as well! I have a lot of orders to fill, like baking some cakes! Chocolate cakes, cupcakes, milkshakes, oh my! Okie-Dokie-Lokie then, I'll be seeing you guys later! Bye bye Chris!"
And goodness graces she flew with that one hop, defying the laws of physics in the process, as she goes off her merry way to her work place. Chris stood there in awe from seeing Pinkie Pie's leap of faith and couldn't believe it… was she really an Earth Pony or secretly a Pegasus?
"OK... see you all later, I guess?" Chris stood there baffled, not sure what to say.
Twilight giggled in amusement at the look on Chris' face, "Don't worry about it, you'll eventually get use to it and you'll find how much fun Ponyville really is! C'mon, me and Spike will show you around."
"This is going to be great! Where should we start first?" Spike asked excitedly on Twilight's back.
Chris giggled but his eyes caught sight of a pink-haired nurse from before, Nurse Redheart, and walked over to her, "Nurse Redheart?"
"Yes, dear?" Nurse Redheart answered the boy's question with a smile, happy that he was saying goodbye to her in the end.
"I would like to personally thank you for taking care of me all this time, despite the fact I'm such an alien creature to you ponies," Chris respectfully bowed to her as he thanked her.
"There's no need to bow to me, I'm happy to help. Now if you ever feel sick or got hurt don't hesitant to come to this hospital again or come see me. Our doors are always opened up to you and I will take care of you again once more, but please refrain from hurting yourself too much in the future," Nurse Redheart said with a smile.
"Will do! And thanks!" Chris smiled and waved goodbye and he followed Twilight and Spike out the front doors of the hospital.
Nurse Redheart stood there as she watched her patient leave in good health and high spirits.
What a good boy, Nurse Redheart thought to herself.
"Wow! So this is Ponyville!" Chris exclaimed as he, Twilight, and Spike wandered around throughout the town of Ponyville and it was a pleasant quiet little town. There were no tall buildings, just normal houses, lots of trees and flowers, and there seemed to be a lot of streets with a bright blue sky in the air with no a single cloud in sight. A perfect little place to live, and Chris could see various kinds of ponies as far as the eye can see in this town, each with a different style of mane, many different body and mane colors, some with clothing and some without, and each with different body types.
It was a little overwhelming to see so many ponies, as Chris never seen so many before especially with the various body colors they had, but it truly was an amazing sight to behold.
"Whoa… that's a lot of ponies!" Chris stood there in awe, as Twilight and Spike laughed at his expression and reaction to the sight before him.
Twilight giggled at Chris' gawking face and rolled her eyes, "Sheesh, you make it sound like you never saw a pony before!"
Chris chuckled embarrassingly after Twilight points that out, but suddenly remember something he wanted to ask something about them, "Oh yeah, that reminds me… Twilight, I've notice this from time to time, but… what are those strange tattoos on you ponies' flanks?"
"Tattoos?" Twilight repeated the word with a perplexed expression and it donned on her, "OH! Those aren't tattoos, they're called cutie marks!"
"Cutie wha-?" Chris asked bewildered, not having a clue what Twilight said.
"Basically a cutie mark is a special mark that appears on a pony when he or she have discovered their unique talents that set them apart from the rest and they acknowledge their talents, whether they are aware of it or not," Twilight explained, smiling to herself near the end of her sentence possibly referring to herself on when she got hers, "They all appear in due course, but it's the thrill of discovering who you are and what you're meant to be is the best part of learning about getting your cutie mark. Any pony can be great at anything, so it's a special time for the ponies to experience all kinds of things. Don't humans have cutie marks as well?"
Cutie marks, huh? So that's what those markings on the girls' flanks were before. Twilight had a pink six-pointed star with sparkles around it, Rarity had three blue diamonds, Rainbow Dash had a cloud with a lightning bolt coming from it with the lightning being a rainbow-colored one with four of Dash's colors, Pinkie Pie had three balloons two of which are blue and the other yellow, Fluttershy had three purple butterflies, and lastly Applejack had three apples on her flank. Though Chris wasn't exactly sure what each of the marks represent for their talents.
"So that's a cutie mark… a symbol of one's own unique abilities that oneself has discovered," Chris hums to himself, "And as for your question, no. Humans don't have anything like a cutie mark to show their talents… the closest thing would be a beauty mark, but that's something some humans are born with but has no real meaning to them. Humans have to show their talents or work at them to show everybody what they're good at… sometimes humans have more than one talent as humans are very adaptable. They are humans with many multiple talents."
Twilight looked surprised by this new information about humans as clearly they have things that set them apart from ponies greatly despite having some common grounds between the two, "Really? Humans don't have any cutie marks AND they can have more than one talent? That's amazing!"
"Yeah! I mean, usually ponies have one talent they're really good at and their cutie marks show it… but humans can have more than one talent? I guess that's why they don't have cutie marks then as they have so many different talents at once," Spike said quite impressed with humans, "Though… why do you say everybody? Why not everyhuman like with everyone here saying everypony?"
"Hehe, well that sounds weird firstly and second humans are a 'somebody' so that's why we say 'everybody' to refer to everyone. Now that I think about, the letters b and p are the same… flip them over and they can be either b or p so everybody and everypony," Chris chuckled as he explained and the little bit about the flipped letters to make two different words.
"I suppose your right, that's interesting to know," Twilight giggled, "Now let me show you some of the places around here."
Twilight pointed with her hoof to a very strange building, to Chris' standards, as it looks like a gingerbread house with a brown chocolate roof with frosted on it, the tower being a layer cake in design with real candles on top, candy canes and more, "That there is Sugar Cube Corner, where Mr. and Mrs. Cake live and bake all of the goods for everypony to enjoy as well as where Pinkie Pie works and lives by renting the loft area of the building. The tower with the layer cake design is her room. So if you ever want to get some goodies, this place is best place to get them!"
Chris stood there in awe at the building and whispers to himself, "That place looks like something out of the Hansel and Gretel story!"
"Now, Chris, you can't eat the building," Twilight giggled misunderstanding his staring that he wanted to eat the place.
"Wha-? No! I mean… we don't have buildings like that back home, so I'm just in shock that's all! But it does looks delicious," Chris commented.
"Really? So I guess regular houses then?" Twilight pondered.
"Mostly," Chris answered.
"Moving right along," Twilight continued, "That there's the Carousel Boutique, which is where Rarity lives and her store she manages. She makes the best clothing in Equestria, though ponies from Canterlot mostly buy them, and she is looking forward to doing business with you, considering you're going to need some more clothes, so now you know where to go to visit her."
The building that Twilight pointed to had a normal yet unique design. The top of the building had a merry-go-round theme with the two purple pony silhouettes and continued down to the next floor except without the pony figures instead with the purple bars where they would be, and in front was a door and a few windows. It had a very unique appearance and Chris was impressed with its simply but unique design.
"Wow… that's a really beautiful building. Did Rarity design? It looks amazing!" Chris said in awe.
"I'm not sure, but I guess since it fits Rarity's style. She'll be happy to hear what you think of her home," Twilight smiled, "Well then moving onto the next…"
"Hey! Is that, that 'human' thing?!" a voice suddenly interrupted Twilight as Chris, Twilight, and Spike looked around to see a whole herd of ponies circling around them… or more precisely Chris.
Chris looked around him to see a whole bunch of ponies came up to meet him, most of them curious and excited while some seemed a little hesitant to approach him and merely stared at him from a distant, but this kind of attention was not something Chris was looking forward to. Chris tried to tuck his head back into his shirt as he didn't like the sudden spotlight he was receiving and it made him very nervous and slightly afraid.
"Whoa! Look how tall he is!" a young filly said excited look up at him who was towering over her.
"Look at those clothes! They're something alright! And look at that mane! I've never seen one that faded into a different color like that!"
"He's not dangerous now is he? Though he does look harmless," another mare said, "Do you suppose he likes ponies? Is he very friendly?"
"Hey! Where's your cutie mark? I can't find it anywhere!" another colt said searching around his 'flank'.
"Eh… wha?" Chris blushed in embarrassed and covered his rear with his hands, not feeling comfortable they're checking his 'flank' for a cutie mark that doesn't exist for his kind.
"What's your name? Can you tell us how you got to town!?"
"So this is that strange creature that Twilight and her friends brought into town the other day? My, he looks quite charming," another mare noted.
There seems to be a lot of female ponies around here than male ponies, Chris thought to himself even though there were a number of males in the crowd as well. However the more attention he was getting the more he felt pressured and nervous and he wanted to run away but was paralyzed with fear to move from his spot.
"Now, now, everypony! Give him some space! You're making him nervous!" Twilight shouted, as she could see the unrest in Chris' eyes and body and clearly did not like the unwanted attention. The ponies suddenly stopped and took a few steps back, feeling a little ashamed of surrounding him like that and apologized.
"Well now, as much as you like to ask him questions, we have a tour to continue to show our guest here so if you excuse us," Twilight said as she nudged Chris out from his spot he was frozen in and galloped away with him as he was more than willingly to get out of there as quickly as possible.
"Ahaha… pant… thanks Twilight… pant… I really didn't have a clue what to do back there," Chris panted as he manages to get away from the herd of ponies, "Honestly I don't like being in the spotlight… I'll take the sidelines anyday!"
"You're not much of an attention seeker, are you?" Spike asked.
"Nope," Chris smiled.
"Well let's continue with the tour, shall we?" Twilight spoke up again, "And hopefully we won't run into any more ponies wanting to ask you questions."
"Hehehe," Chris chuckled, "It's never that easy…"
After spending a few more hours showing the rest of Ponyville to Chris from the Marketplace, Spa, Bowling Alley, Café, and to other various stores located throughout the town, as well as more groups of ponies interested in Chris and started to ask him more questions which Twilight had to pull him away time and again as he didn't feel comfortable yet around such a large group, but was slowly getting use to it.
"Well… that was a fun day," Twilight said as the sun had already set and night has fallen, "The other ponies did ask me and my friends about you when we first brought you through town, but I didn't think they would be that curious and suddenly surround you like that! Sorry about that."
"No problem… it was an interesting experience to say the least," Chris said, though he would be lying if he said he enjoyed the attention he was getting as they moved around town.
"Come to think of it, you're very comfortable with being in another world considering you've been here for a couple of days," Twilight brought up with her hoof to her mouth as she thought about it, "Normally wouldn't you be worried and nervous to be in another world?"
"Well," Chris folded his arms and closed his eyes, "Truthfully most people would, but to be honest with you I'm quite the very open-minded person. Besides…," Chris opened his eyes with sparks in them and smiled, "It's not every day you get to go to another world, so I might as well enjoy the ride! I may be able to go home one day or not, so I want as well enjoy this experience to the fullest, ya know? It's a once in a lifetime opportunity!"
"Hehe, it doesn't seem like anything fazes you," Spike said, "But that's awesome to think like that. I don't know, but that sounds really cool when you think about it… traveling to other worlds! How amazing is that?"
"Yeah," Chris chuckled as he looked up to the sky and sees the stars and the full moon and smiles happily to himself, "Even the sky is the same back home."
"Is something the matter?" Twilight asked looking up to the sky to where Chris was looking at.
"Nothing, it's just… I really love the night sky," Chris hummed happily with a big goofy grin on his face, "Nighttime is my favorite time of the day, though I do like daytime, but there's something so magical about the night that I can't help but like. When I look up at the stars as I feel the magic in the stars and see the different worlds up there… countless worlds with the same sky."
"Wow! You sound quite the romantic," Twilight giggled with a mischievous smile on her, "And I think a certain somepony would be very happy to know somebody loves the night skies and appreciates as well."
Chris blinked and looked at Twilight with a curious twinkle, "Really? Who are you referring to?"
"You'll see one day," Twilight laughed as she strolled over to a big tree up ahead, "And this is the final stop of the tour… my place! This is the Golden Oaks Library where yours truly lives and is Ponyville's local library, and as of today your new home!"
Chris looked up at the gigantic tree before him. It was a natural tree but there are many features added to, especially the windows and door, to make it more like a building but still retain its origins as a tree with the beehive that Chris spotted and made him nervous as he's scared of bees with their little stingers of death, two balconies with one with a telescope for stargazing, a lantern, and more.
"Wow," Chris was utter flabbergasted by the tree's outward appearance and his mouth hanged open, "This place redefines the word 'treehouse'! Just look at this place! It's amazing! Do I really get to live here?"
"Yup," Twilight smiled, finding his expressions adorable, "Though I have to find you a room first to stay in, but for now let's go in and check out your new home."
Twilight walked up to the door and opened, and looked back at Chris, "After you my good sir."
Chris stood there with an amused smile on his face and folded his arms, "You know, it's the gentleman that opens the door for the lady, not the other way around, so next time allow me."
"Oh! How very thoughtful!" Twilight giggled, "I'll be sure to remember next time. It's nice to have a gentleman around."
"Hey!" Spike cried out loud, resenting that statement.
"Oh, Spike… you know what I meant," Twilight smiled, "Now then, let's get inside."
"Very well," Chris said as he stepped inside Twilight's home however the entire place was dark and couldn't see a thing which was normal since Twilight was out and no one was home, "Um… Twilight do you have a light switch or something?"
"Oh don't worry," Twilight smiled, "The lights should be coming on… now!"
"SURPRISE!"
Chris was greeted by a huge and loud announcement from the room filled with ponies, causing him to jump in the air yelping and step back as he wasn't expecting it, and noticed that it seemed like the entire town of Ponyville was in here, somehow despite the large space of the house, spotting some of the ponies he encountered in town today. Among them he spotted Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Fluttershy in the crowd as they all walk up to him.
"Girls? What is this?" Chris blurted out, but recalled Pinkie Pie saying she would throw him a party… but he didn't expect right away!
"Hi Chris! And can't you tell silly? It's your welcome and Pinkie Pie's newest bestest-best-friend party!" Pinkie Pie giggled out loud at Chris' silly question as this was the most common thing in the world, "I've invited everypony in town, as I know everypony in town, to come to your party!"
"My… party?" Chris breathed out the words from his mouth, but didn't register to him. This was really a party… and it was for him? This wasn't a joke or a dream is it?
"Yeah! Sorry for leavin' ya like that at the hospital, but we needed to get everythin' done so we could help Pinkie Pie set up this here party for ya!" Applejack explained.
Chris looks back at Twilight to see if she knew, and she smiled back at him to confirm his suspicious and smiled back. So the tour was a clever decoy to keep him distracted so they can set up the party in secret, but also get him learning about Ponyville so it didn't seem suspicious. Ingenious Chris thought to himself.
"I hope you find it to your liking, since we're not exactly sure what humans like at parties," Rarity said pointed out the number of decorations throughout the room.
Chris could spot the banner on the highest point in the room, 'Welcome to Ponyville and Pinkie Pie's Newest Bestest-Best-Friend Ever Chris Party" was written on it and Chris shook his head in amusement with a smile on his face when he saw it, and pointed the colorful decorations around the room with the pink streamers, table filled with various snacks and treats, a disco ball… in the middle of the room? Chris had to double-check his vision to be sure he was seeing it right, but there it was a silver disco ball hanging. And then there were the large stereos and DJs in the back with records and tapes to play with a white-colored blue mane pony with shades stationed at the DJ, and many balloons around.
This wasn't a simple welcome party… this was the ultimate huge welcome party for a celebrity or those night clubs, except it didn't have that night club vibe to it. Chris could hardly believe it… this was his party. He never, ever, in his life has been to a party before let alone his own since his family couldn't afford parties as he recalls. Seeing everypony here for him, even if most of them didn't know him, made him feel completely warm and happy inside. A single tear rolled down his cheek hardly believing this was all real.
Everypony suddenly looked worried and concern, as they never see anypony at Pinkie Pie's cry a single tear like that, and Pinkie Pie looked even more worried and sad thinking she did something wrong, "Are you alright, Chris? Why are you crying? Do you not like the party?"
"What?" Chris shook out of his daze and felt the tear on his cheek with his hand and smiled, "No, nothing's wrong… it's just that… I… no one has ever thrown me a party before or invited me to one. It's just… a shock to me that you all went out of your way to do this for me. I'm just… really happy… no one was never this nice to before."
"What!? You never been to a party before?! And no one even invited you!? Why! That's totally unheard of, I mean everypony likes party so everypony should join in on the fun!" Pinkie Pie seemed completely shocked and floored to even think, let alone hear or relish the idea, of leaving others out to party.
"It's alright… it's alright… it's all in the past, anyway. But thank you Pinkie Pie," Chris smiled, wiping the tear away, "So let's party! Um… seeing as this is my first one… what exactly do I do?"
Pinkie Pie jumped up and darted over to Chris and giggled, "What you don't know? C'mon, I'll show you!"
Everypony in the room started to have fun, dancing on the dance floor with the rock and roll type of music playing in the background, some eating at the snack table, other chatting with each other, and others doing who knows what in the other areas of the room with their own party games some even playing 'pin the tail on the pony' which Chris thought was very ironic.
Pinkie Pie showed Chris to the dance floor, with the disco ball lighting up the room, and asked him to dance with her, but Chris stated he didn't know how to dance and didn't quite like being the center of attention of the room. Pinkie Pie did her best to encourage him to dance by doing anything he feels no matter how silly or awesome it seems and so Chris starts by shuffling his feet back and forth as Pinkie Pie grinned happily that he was dancing, even if he was shuffling his feet, and slowly warmed up to the dancing as he started added more fluid motions to his arms and legs and did a little silly dance with his arms circling and his legs swinging around with Pinkie Pie shouting "That's it!" and made her happy that he was enjoying himself as he grin from cheek to cheek and started to use some of his martial arts to form a unique dance in the mix.
After the dancing Chris headed over to the snack table and grabbed as many desserts as he saw, licking his lips in anticipation as they all looked delicious to him as he has a very big sweet tooth and took a bit into a few of them and fall in love with the food here. It tasted much better than back home, even better than his aunt's which he has to agree with himself, and chatted with Applejack who made some of the desserts along with Pinkie Pie. He continued to chat with his new friends and some other ponies from before, finally answering some of their questions which in turn caused them to ask more.
A few hours has passed since the party started and it finally came to an end as it slowly becomes midnight. All of the ponies left, saying goodbye to Chris and wishing him the best as he stays in Ponyville with everyone and hopes to meet with him again as they returned home leaving only Chris, Spike, Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Fluttershy left in the house.
"Now that the party is over… it's time for the sleepover!" Twilight expressed herself with delight as her horn lit up with a purple aura around it and summoned sleeping bags, pillows, and books to her and her group as she starts to set up the sleepover with her friends.
"Um… Twilight," Chris tapped Twilight's shoulder to get her attention, "I hate to put a damper on the mood, but… shouldn't we clean this place up first?"
Chris pointed to the mess all around the room as Twilight gasped upon seeing it, folding her ears down, and smiles nervously.
"Oh, right," Twilight laughed nervous, "I forgot about that."
"Don't worry everypony, I'll get right now it. You girls just enjoy your sleepover!" Spike said as he picked up a dustpan and brush to sweep up this mess.
"You sure you want to do this alone? Don't you want any help?" Chris asked seeing the mess around the place was a lot and didn't like the idea of Spike cleaning it up all by himself.
"Don't worry, dude! I got this!" Spike smiled proudly, but Chris still wasn't convinced.
Chris pondered a bit and smiled, "How about you let me help you? The work will go by twice as fast with me helping along."
"What?" Spike seemed surprised by his offer, "It's OK, you don't need to do that! I got it covered and this is no big deal, really."
"But it was my party and I feel bad letting you do all the clean up, so allow me to help out, OK?" Chris said as he crouched down to Spike's level and stretched out his hand, "Friends help each other out, right?"
Spike looked at Chris' hand and back at him, and smiled, "Yeah, that's right. I appreciate your help dude! To be honest, I wouldn't mind getting some sleep soon," and Spike took Chris' hand and shook it.
"Look at that, they're best friends already," Twilight said, "But you boys better not stay up too late, you hear me? We got a busy day ahead of us!"
"Sure thing Twilight! Also would you girls like some tea, while we're down here cleaning up?" Chris offered as he grabbed a broom from the closest that Spike pointed out to him earlier.
"Oh, that would be most divine! Thank you for the offer," Rarity said, "Two cubes of sugar, please, if you would."
"Alright, Spike, let's do this!" Chris pumped himself up, "When we're done cleaning we'll show they won't recognize this place! It will be even cleaner than before!"
"Yeah, you got that right!" Spike joined in on Chris' fun.
It took them about a half an hour to clean up all of the mess, throw away all of the trash, and remove all of the decorations from the room and are currently in the kitchen cleaning the dishes.
"Wow! We cleaned up so fast! If I was doing it alone, I still wouldn't be half way done!" Spike said looking back to the even cleaner room that both he and Chris spent cleaning earlier, "You've been a big help and your height certain helps a lot too!"
"Glad to be of some service!" Chris smiled and then softly whispers to himself, "To be honest, it's nice to be needed by someone."
"You say something, dude?" Spike asked.
"O-Oh! N-Nothing, nothing at all! Let's hurry up and clean these dishes so we can bring the girls so tea," Chris said while cleaning the last stack of plates.
"You know, it feels like we're the servants, doing all of the housework for them," Spike joked a bit.
"Yeah, it does, doesn't it?" Chris joked with him too, but suddenly got an idea and leaned over to Spike, "Ooh! Spike I got an idea, listen to this!"
"Huh?" Spike lend Chris' his ear, or feather-winged ear, and listen to Chris' idea as he whispers to him and Spikes chuckles at the notion, "Hahaha! Oh man, that's a good one! We have to do it!"
After finishing their chores, Chris made their tea and brought one tray up and Spike carrying the other up the fleet of stairs to the girls' room which is Twilight's room and opened the door to see all six of them huddled together around in a circle who were possibly having girl-related subjects to talk about which either Chris and Spike know anything about.
"I hope we're not disturbing you ladies, we've brought you some refreshments," Chris said as he settled down the tray of tea and Spike likewise with some snacks for them as well.
"Oh, thank you so much Chris and Spike! That was very thoughtful of you," Twilight smiled.
Chris smiled at Spike and gave him the signal as both of them suddenly did a bow with their arms under their chest, like a proper gentlemen would, and both said, "Your welcome, your Majesty."
Twilight's suddenly bugged out and blurted out random words together to try to form a sentence after the little stunt Chris and Spike, not expecting it all especially their word of choice, "I-wha-your-Majesty-what-the?"
Both Chris and Spike laughed to themselves for a mission success and walked over to Spike's side of the room to set up their sleeping bags as the two shared another good laugh together.
"Oh man! Did you see the look on Twilight's face! That was priceless! That was a good prank Chris!" Spike couldn't stop himself from laughing.
"I know, right? I do enjoy a good prank or two now and again," Chris snickered to himself showing off his 'devilish' side.
The other girls in the room were initially shocked at first but suddenly burst into a bundle of laughter at the boys' little prank.
Twilight suddenly snapped out of it and rolled her eyes as she placed a hoof on her head.
"Boys…," Twilight muttered to herself, but also got in a giggle.
In the mist of shadows, hidden away from plain sight, a strange glow watching over all of the events that has transpired that day in Ponyville with the arrival of the mysterious creature known as a Human called 'Chris Corona'. The pink glowing sphere giggled, a rather feminine laughter quite fitting to its gender, as she watches the Human, in amusement, as he interacts with the residents of Equestria. The faint pink glowing aura of the mysterious sphere slowly fades away into the darkness… while uttering these words to no one in particular, but to the one the mysterious entity has been watching;
"Will you be the one who will able to fulfill my request?"
EPISODE 2 END