Fluttershy cracked the door from the basement, and she looked out on her friends and her neighbors. She came to Twilight and helped her back to her feet.
“Don’t think badly of him. He’s just alone here.” She then looked to me, “I’m sorry for having run away from you. I didn’t mean to make you sad.”
“It’s ok.” I said. We all sat there in silence for a bit before Lyra spoke up for me.
“This is Adam. He’s a human.”
“What are you doing here Adam?” asked Twilight a little shakily.
“I was sent here. I didn’t come by choice.”
“Where did you come from?” she continued, I could tell strength was returning to her.
“From a faraway place. Farther then you could imagine.”
“Just how far away exactly?” asked the blue Pegasus, suspicion still on her face.
“I came from the other side of the cosmos.”
Somewhat satisfied, she continued with her questions. “What exactly do you plan on doing here?”
“Where I was wasn’t all that great, so I just want to live a new life here.”
“One last question,” she paused, “Do they have anything that can fly really fast where you used to live?”
I was stunned for a second. Then I burst out laughing, almost to the point of tears. The orange pony with the hat looked up at the Pegasus with annoyance.
“Now hold on there, Rainbow. Yah don’t need to pester him about that stuff right now!”
“No, it’s fine! I just—you must really like to fly!”
She smirked “I’m only the best flyer in all of Equestria! Call me Rainbow Dash!” I had to chuckle one last time.
“And you!” I pointed to the orange pony from before, “You have an interesting country accent! What’s your name?”
She crossed one forehoof in front of the other, almost like a curtsy. “Much obliged for the complement! And Ah’m Applejack. I saw you chasing after Fluttershy like my dog Winona does with stray cats! I live at Sweet Apple Acres; you probably saw our barn in passing.” She gave a smile. I smiled back.
She then had a spark of realization cross her face. “Oh, by the way, do you have apples where you’re from?”
“We do, and I love’um!”
She gave a little kick of her back legs at this. “Yeehaw! I got myself a new customer! And you look like you could eat a lot too! No offense there partner.”
“None taken.”
I then looked to the white unicorn. She seemed to be distracted, though: she was looking into a handled mirror held aloft by her magic, and was inaudibly muttering to herself. Applejack gave her a nudge with her behind along with a cough. This startled the unicorn to look around and then give a nervous laugh.
“Oh sorry! Is it my turn? You’ll have to forgive me! My hair is being unreasonably disobedient today.”
“You seem like a very classy pony! You wouldn’t happen to own the large fancy building would you?”
Her eyes lit up, “Oh! You mean my Boutique! Yes, I do. I design all kinds of outfits for all kinds of ponies from all over Equestria! My name is Rarity, by the way!”
I looked down at my environmental protection suit, which by this point was pretty torn up, being made mostly of leather, with sparse bits of aluminum to reinforce the joints. “I may need your help soon then anyway. My, ah, suit is falling apart.”
At the mention of the word ‘suit’, she gasped in delight. She practically flew over to me and grabbed my head with her forelegs, shoving my scrunched up face into hers. “What sort of fashions do they have where you’re from? Do you wear clothes all the time or only on special occasions? What about—“
“Hold ON Rarity!” Applejack saved me from starving of oxygen, as Rarity seemed to be taking all of mine. Still with stars in her eyes Rarity was half thrown/half pulled away from me.
“Worse than Rainbow Dash, I swear!”
Twilight was smiling at the display of all her friends meeting me, when she noticed something. She frowned a little, and looked around. “Where’s Pinkie Pie?”
At that, we all began to look around for the pink pony. And that’s when the music started, the confetti fell, and we all noticed everything was decked out in party gear.
“What?”