By the time I opened my eyes it was morning, with me looking like some stranded person on the bridge where I witnessed the spectacular Sonic Rainboom. Throughout all the training me and Rainbow Dash had done, I'd would have never thought she would be able to pull it off. I guess I've learned one thing while being here in Equestria and that's to not underestimate any pony.
"Man, that was still cool, if only I had my camera or phone right about now..." I continued to stare at the sky, day dreaming over how cool it was to see the Sonic Rainboom and how I wished to see if again.
Just then a short yawn came from beside of me, not only that, but I could feel something warm near my side. "Huh, what was that?" I asked, rolling over to find out who was there.
"Hmm..?" I saw Apple Bloom sleeping right next to me, not showing any signs of waking up. "Whoa, what's going on here!?" I said aloud noticing the filly at last.
Apple Bloom yawned. "That was the greatest Sonic Rainboom eve " Apple Bloom woke up and noticed she was waking up right beside me, she looked at me in confusion.
"W-Why are you sleeping so close to me..?" I asked, trying to contain any suspicion of the little pony.
"Well... I forgot what I came here to get ya for...," She replied, pondering on her ideas. "Oh right!" She said getting up and shuffling my hair.
"Um..." I said.
"I had came too get ya, mister Alex." Apple Bloom said, smiling.
"It's obvious she dodged my question..."
"Oh, what's the problem then?" I asked, letting myself up.
"My sis wanted ya to come and see her because she found someone like you!" She replied, running a little ahead of me.
I was silent the moment and thought about it for a while. "..." My eyes widened over the realization of what Apple Bloom just told me. "WHAT!?" I said, suddenly picking up the pace to catch up to her.
*****
Apple Bloom laughed as I tried to keep up, racing to get to her as we sprinted across Ponyville all the way to Apple Acres. I asked her how the person she was talking about looked like, the suspense was sorta killing me. She kept saying that it was a secret until we had gotten there. By then, we had approached our destination, and as I ran I realized something.
"Huh, so when you said sister..?" I asked.
"Yup, Applejack's my big sis, guess I forgot to tell ya, haha." She replied
"Could have fooled me with your names matching and all."
"I see...but..." I had stopped running a little and Apple Bloom did the same.
"She's blonde and you're red manned..." I said, pointing at her.
Apple Bloom was lost over where this conversation was going. "Yes, and..?" She replied.
"Uh...erm...nevermind, let's just hurry!" I said as I took the lead ahead of Apple Bloom.
We arrived at the barn and I saw what appeared to be a red coated stallion with and orange mane. He looked rather content and much more buff than any of the other stallions I've come across, must work out or something.
"Who is that?" I asked, looking at the stallion.
"Big Macintosh, how is sis keepin' up with her?" Apple Bloom asked with delight.
"Big... Macintosh?" I asked, turning back to him.
"Eeyup." He replied.
I looked at him for a moment, then put my hand on my chin out of wonderment. "Lemme guess, big brother?" I asked with a glance.
"Eeyup" He replied again.
"Deals with the heavy work on farm?" I asked.
"Eeyup." He replied once more.
"Quite a vocabulary you've got there Big Mac..."
I ended the conversation and rushed into the barn and saw Applejack standing and looking into a stack of hay. "Applejack, so you are here!" I said.
"Ah, Alex, glad of ya to come runnin' just in time!" She said moving out of the way for me to see the piles of unorganized hay. Next thing I knew, there was a slipper that was found on one of the unsorted hay stacks.
"A pink slipper?" I said confused.
"Hey mister Alex, you should take a look at this!" Apple Bloom said pointing her hoof towards a set of assorted hay that had moaning coming from it. I looked over to see who it was... and to my surprise I was shocked.
"N-no way..." I said, stunned for the moment.
"Is there somethin' the matter partner?" Applejack asked, looking with worry.
"There's just no...no...no way..." I said, still looking at the unconscious person in the hay stack.
"What's wrong Alex, is it evil?" Apple Bloom asked with unusual excitement.
"WHAT IN THE NAME OF EQUESTRIA IS MIA DOING HERE...and...in pajamas?" I said, flustered.
"Wait, are you tellin' me you and her know each other?" Applejack asked.
"Ooh, better than you know Applejack... better than you know..."
"Well yea, she's where I came from, but the one thing that doesn't make sense is why and how did she get here?" I asked, trying not to look over at Mia.
*****
{"Ever heard of déjà vu?" asked Mia.
"Um, you mean the water, right?" I asked, smiling.
"Noooooo, silly!" Mia said facepalming. "Déjà vu is when you've experienced something multiple times, it's actually really fun!~♪" Mia said sighing in adornment.
"Oh yea... being able to relive my life over and over again is veeeeeery fun." I said sarcastically.
"Well sometimes it happens to other people, Nichole said if it WERE to happen, it would be in a totally different way!" She stated, pointing at me then herself.
"Really, I don't think I believe that." I said, pouting.}
*****
"I think she's wakin' up!" Apple Bloom said, trying to get my attention.
"Ooooooh, ow..." Mia said with her eyes still fully closed.
"I hope she she doesn't panic once she opens her eyes." I whispered to Applejack and Apple Bloom.
Mia was moving around a lot as she shuffled the hay until she groaned a little as if she was sleeping and finding a comfortable position.
"Mmm...huh...?" Mia had raised her head and her eyes were still half shut. "What...is going on?" She asked, wiping her eyes for a clear view. She finished wiping her eyes then caught sight of the three of us staring at her with patience. She observed the room with complete attention, then looked back at us.
"I just know she'll freak out, wish I had my camera for this moment too, hehehe!"
Mia made a content face and said. "What a bizarre dream." and went back to sleep on the stacks of hay.
"W-what..." I said with a confused expression.
Apple Bloom and Applejack both looked at me with joyous smiles. "Well, I guess she's not afraid of us..." Applejack said.
"And that means she's okay with Equestria, let's show her around!" Apple Bloom said jumping with joy.
I facepalmed myself and held the two ponies steady. "Not really, she thinks she's dreaming, I hardly doubt she realizes that you two are really real!" I said looking at them frustrated a little.
"Oh...um, sorry mister Alex, please don't eat us..." Apple Bloom said with shaking legs.
I groaned at Apple Bloom for even thinking I'd do that and walked over to Mia and shook her to wake her up, then she rubbed her eyes again and caught sight of only me this time.
"Mia, you're NOT dreaming, you're in Equestria!" I told her, supporting her shoulders so she wouldn't fall back to sleep.
"Nyan, I want a cat dream now, nyan nyan~♪" She replied with a purr.
"She's lost it, I might need to snap her out of it!" I said under my breathe.
"Alex, are ya sure it's workin'?" Applejack asked, unsure of my method for waking up Mia.
"No worries, it's fine, I've got the perfect solution...but you'll have to promise me to close your eyes." I said, looking at the dream dazed Mia.
"Huh, why do ya want us to close our eyes?" Apple Bloom asked.
"Please, j-just trust me..." I said.
"Your little pony eyes don't need to see this type of interaction among humans, especially when I might have to be asked questions by your sister..."
Applejack and Apple Bloom closed their eyes.
"Okay, maybe a tiny peck on the forehead." I said nearing towards Mia's face.
"Hmm, oh wow...this dream feels so realistic, but there's no way " Mia was interrupted sleep-talking and then she blinked her eyes once and started to blush. "You...kissed..." She said.
"Yes, yes it was ONLY the forehead, like you did to me." I said shifting my head from her.
She looked around for a while and noticed what she seeing was real. I had told her about everything that had happened ever since I had gotten here all the way up to the scene of the Sonic Rainboom. She actually wasn't quite shocked to hear all about this stuff up until the point of her saying "Don't worry, Alex, you're not used to stuff like this so naive~♪" then she patted my head with a smile.
*****
After a while Mia understood the entire situation without freaking out. I hate to say it but, she took this whole being stuck in another world full of ponies much better than me.
"Wow, so where I'm in is called Ponyville, part of the world of Equestria and I dropped from the sky and landed inside of a barn house that belongs to an apple family?" Mia said summarizing everything up.
"Eeyup!" I said ironically imitating Big Macintosh as he peeked inside for an instant out of curiosity then returned to attention back outside.
Applejack and Apple Bloom still had their eyes closed then I tapped their heads to give sign that they could open their eyes.
"Oh...MY GOSH!" Mia said with sparkling eyes.
"Oh, she's awake!" Apple Bloom said with joy. Mia rushed over to cuddle her so suddenly.
"You are just too adorable!" Mia said, hugging Apple Bloom.
"What's going on she's... she's tickling me, haha!" Apple Bloom said caught in Mai's hugging trap.
"Uh...is that supposed to happen?" Applejack asked as she looked after her sister being adored.
"Don't worry, that's just Mia being Mia, she's into cute things..." I said sighing then smiled.
*****
Apple Bloom, Applejack, Mia and I decided to stroll over to Twilight's house while Big Mac was left to do his remaining farm work. The ponies and pegasi were looking at Mia with first signs of suspicion as they did to me as we walked along the pathway. I had to make sure Mia wouldn't do something drastic to further the misunderstanding of her being here, in other words, I had to prevent her from hugging any of the other ponies.
"Wow, I guess getting used to this place took time, huh?" Mia asked sticking close by to me.
"You got that right!" I said snapping my fingers. "But when you go through all the things that I've been through...getting citizenship in this world is CRAZY!" I said doing a "coo-coo" sign. "Oh, by the way I never asked how you got into Equestria." I said, playing with Apple Bloom as we walked.
"Oh, hehe, right, actually it started when I was going into my bathroom and " I stopped Mia by putting my hand on her shoulder.
"On second thought... it's best to not know..." I said blushing. She laughed a little and looked at me happily.
"Well... at least that explained the pajamas."
"Can...I ask how you got here then, Alex?" She asked intently.
"Well...um... I just..." all of a sudden I was interrupted by some pony.
"He caught a fever when he went outside." Twilight said, carrying Spike.
"Whoa it's another person!" Spike said, excited.
"Whoa, a dragon!" Mia reacted, a bit frightened.
"Oh yea, I forgot to tell you that there were dragons in this world too!" I said, laughing a little by Mia's reaction.
Spike was confused and then Mia immediately started hugging him, Twilight was taken aback by what was happening.
"You are just the CUTEST little dragon I've ever seen, I'm so happy this is real!" Mia shouted.
"Ahaha...HEY I'm n-not cute!" Spike said, trying to deny the truth.
"Uh...is that supposed to happen?" Twilight asked.
I just shrugged and smiled. "That's just Mia being Mia!" I said.
Mia had to let go of Spike and we continued to walk to Twilight's library.
"Guess you were out getting that checklist done again huh, Twilight?" I asked.
"We were comin' to see ya." Applejack said, walking ahead of everyone.
"Wow, so you're Twilight...Alex said you helped him when he got here!" Mia stated, adoring Twilight in every way.
"Nice to meet you..." Twilight said waiting for her name.
"Oh, it's Mia Valentine, great to be here in Equestria!" Mia proudly said.
"Hmm, she's more than happy to be here than you were, Alex." Spike said laughing.
"I had a hard time, okay!?" I replied in a mild tone.
*****
Applejack and Apple Bloom decided to stay a while to talk to Mia a little to know more about her and how they could become friends, I'm confident to say that her and Apple Bloom are already friends. After a while, they had to head back to Apple Acres. Mia was looking all around Twilight's library in awe.
"Wow, this place is amazing and not because it's in a tree, but look at all the BOOKS!" Mia said jumping around.
"Well, I do love all of the books I have, but their technically not mines." Twilight said with a smile.
"Wait, you never told me they weren't yours!?" I said turning around looking at the Magic to Use to Travel to New Worlds book.
"Nah, Twilight had got access to this place by Princess Celestia!" Spike said ordering books one by one.
"Princess Celestia?" Mia said with confusion. "Sounds like a lovely name!" Mia said so astonished.
"Oh right, I never mentioned her to you haven't I, well I'll make sure you'll get to see the princess, Mia!" I said with a thumbs up to her.
Mia had hours to getting used to Equestria and it's wonders as Twilight explained everything to her, I couldn't have done it myself... really, I couldn't. It turned night and Fluttershy came to check on me, but in the process Mia was forced to hug her for her innocent appearance.
"Yea, she'll learn that hugging ponies will be a little too overboard..."
I had said goodbye to Mia and she decided stayed over Twilight, who actually enjoyed her company a lot more than she let on.
"Have fun sleeping in a cramped area, hehehe." I said laughing.
*****
Fluttershy and I reached the cottage, I wasn't that sleepy since I woke up pretty late, but Fluttershy insisted that I should. We went inside, she flew over to help prepare my bed for me.
"Uh...Fluttershy it's fine, there's no need to do my bed, haha. " I said stopping the anxious pegasus.
"A-are you sure, mister Alex?" Fluttershy asked, holding the covers.
"Of course, hey... if fair I should be the one doing something for you." I implied.
Fluttershy put on a small smile. "Well, if that's okay...then I won't fix your bed..."
I nodded. "Good, I'm happy that you "
"...this night." Fluttershy finished.
"Wait, that's not what I meant..." I wasn't able to explain myself once Fluttershy shut the door. "Well I'd better get to sleep, just hope Mia will be okay in a world such as this..." I yawned and started to get comfortable in my bed. "so she came here after going into the bathroom..." I shook my head of the idea. "Maybe I really shouldn't have asked in the first place, haha."
I said to myself then went soundly to sleep.