"How are you feeling?", Twilight asked after what seemed to be an awkwardly long stare. Red sat there, continuing his stare after finally snapping out of it.
"hahaha..HAHA HA HA ha... Now this is rich. I must be dreaming or something.", Red laughed in disbelief.
Twilight gave an uncomfortable laugh, "hahaha.. uhm.. nope you're awake, this is very real alright..", she said, giving an awkward smile.
Red started to get annoyed, he gave a hard glare. "We'll see about that.." he muttered, he looked around. "All I have to do is just fall and force myself awake... But how..", Red muttered, looking around until he spotted the window beside him. Twilight's pupils shrunk as she saw him push open the window and tried to crawl out. "This fall should wake me up from this nonsense.", he grunted. He got half way out before he felt himself being dragged back into the room and placed back onto the bed, and the window closing before him
"Hey! What gives?? How did you do that?", he sat there dumbfounded as twilight slapped him across the face.
"Is that evidence enough? You're awake! Now calm down, you probably have a lot of unanswered questions.", Twilight said in a calmed down tone and a fixed composure.
Red sat there feeling the sting on his face as he felt something weird.. It wasn't hands.. It was hoofs! He jumped, which twilight again used her magic to keep him immobile.
"No, calm down. You're going to be alright..", Twilight said still trying to calm him down.
"Alright?? What the hell is going on?? Where am I? Who are you? Why do I have hoofs instead of hands? Where's Shorty?!", Red yelled.
That last question had thrown Twilight off a bit. Celestia told her why he is here, she knew what had happened to Shorty, but she didn't want to cause more of a ruckus. She knew that one of the princesses had cast a mind eraser spell on him, but did it erase too much of his memory?..
"My name is Twilight Sparkle, you are in Ponyville, and-", Twilight finally answered until Red interrupted.
"Look I don't care! Just tell me how to get out of here!", He demanded, thrashing around in an attempt to escape Twilight's spell. A voice yelled from downstairs
"Will you two keep it down, some of us are still trying to sleep ya know?", The voice downstairs yelled.
"And who the hell is that??", Red asked Twilight.
This was going nowhere, she tried a different approach. "Now you listen here!", Twilight said with her voice slightly in a more demanding tone. "I know you're confused, but if you calm down, then you'll have all you're questions answered. Okay?", Twilight got up in Red's face in an attempt to intimidate. Red wasn't buying it, he didn't flinch at all, but he realized that if he was ever going to get anywhere, he had to chill out. He lowered his eyes, and relaxed.
"So be it..", He said lowering his eyes to the bed.
Twilight changed her expression, she smiled, "Now, You're in Ponyville because.." She sat there, wondering if she should answer it honestly, she remembered what Celestia told what happened to him, she knew he was going to lose his shit if he found out.
"Because..?", Red asked raising an eyebrow
Twilight turned and bit her lip trying to think of something, she thought of it for a few seconds before turning back to him, "Because..", She was about to answer only to find out he was not on the bed. Twilight panicked, she looked all over the room, and heard the door opening and slamming behind.
"This can't be real! None of it!", Red said to himself outside the house. He looked around trying to find a way out. He looked around and saw off in the distance, a nearby village, He ran off to it seeking answers.
Twilight ran downstairs, "Spike! Why didn't you stop him?!", she yelled running by him. Spike grumbled something in response, and went back to sleep.
Twilight ran outside in a panic, looking all around, she ran behind her house, she looked up in the branches, looking everywhere and praying that he didn't run of into Ponyville by himself. She knew it was pointless looking around the house and came to the unfortunate conclusion that he did run off into Ponyville. Twilight knew that if a certain someone didn't recognize a face, well.. ya know. Her pupils shrunk again, and ran off as fast as she could.
Red ran off into Ponyville, trying to find any answers. He started to slow down and stopped in the middle of Ponyville, and looked around with his mouth open. There were ponies everywhere, walking around, carrying stuff, having tea, playing. Not a single human in sight.
"Where am I..?", He asked himself amazed at his surroundings.
"You're in ponyville!" A bubbly voice said in front of him. Red fixed his eyes before him. He saw a pink pony with pink hair with a huge smile. She stared at him for 10 seconds as he stared at her trying to figure out what was going on before she spoke up again, "HI! You must be new, I'm Pinkie Pie! What's your name?", She asked leaning uncomfortably to his face.
Red backed up a few feet, "Uhm, er.." He said sputtered forgetting his name for a sec for the sudden question before answering, "it's.. Red.", he said trying fixing his composure.
"Red? That's a silly name!", She said in a cheery voice.
Red looked at her, he tilted his head with more confusion, "How so?", he asked.
"You're not red! Looky!", She said, pulling a mirror from behind her seemingly out of nowhere. She placed it in front of him.
Red's eyes grew wide as he looked into the mirror and saw himself.
He had grey fur, and a black and white mane mix and wings. He stood there in disbelief as what was before him. He put a hoof up and slowly leaned in to touch the mirror, before Pinkie Pie pulled the mirror back behind her disappearing somehow. She leaned in again "See! No red anywhere." She said with a cheery smile.
Red stood there still in disbelief before he shook his head. "Hey, do you happen to know who's in charge around here? Who runs all this?", He asked, he knew the answer since Shorty talked about her all the time, but he wanted to make sure that this wasn't all a trick.
Pinkie Pie giggled, "Well, if you're talking about who protects this town, that would be Celestia."
Celestia... That confirmed his suspicions, He was in MLP. He tried to come up with solutions as to how he ended up there, until pinkie pie spoke up again.
*GASP* Pinkie pie gasped, Red looked back at her.
"I was right! you have to be new! that means...", Pinkie said, pulling out a cannon and pointing it at Red. Red's pupils shrunk and he ducked.
-POOF-
A bunch of party decorations and silly string flew popped out of the cannon, and slowly landed on Red, who was on the ground holding his head down.
"A WELCOMING PARTY!", She threw her hoofs in the air throwing more party materials and sprinkles up.
Red popped one eye open, to see an angry Twilight walking to her. Red jumped up and backed up slowly.
"Why did you leave?" Twilight asked, pointing a hoof at Red.
"You know him Twilight? *GASP* Are you two dating?" Pinkie asked with her eyes wide
Twilight glared at her, "No we're not, he left the bed when he wasn't supposed to."
Pinkie's eyes grew larger, "oohhh!.. So you two..", pinkie said before getting cut off.
Twilight blurted, "NO PINKIE!", she said with a blush.
"I'm sorry for leaving, Twilight.", Red finally responded. Twilight and pinkie both turned their stares to him. Red had his head down, trying to contemplate all that is happening.
"I'm just confused at the moment, there seems to be more going on than I can take.. I'm just gonna have to get used to this while I can.", Red responded with his eyes still on the ground. "Can ya help me out? I don't know where to go. I don't know what to do.."
Twilight smiled and walked up to him putting a hoof around him to, "That's okay, I know how you feel. How about I show you around, you can hang out at my place in the mean time.", Twilight said with a comforting smile, Red looked up from the ground to her.
"Thanks.", He said with a smile.
Pinkie jumped onto both of them, giving them both a huge hug, "Awww! *GASP*, I forgot I need to get prepared for your party! Gotta go!", She let them both go hopping away. They both gasped from the release of the hug, it wasn't the softest hug.
Twilight looked back at Red, "Come on, I'll show you around.", she said with a smile. Red smiled back, as she led him across town showing him all the shops of the town.
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-Lurking behind one of the buildings a shadowy figure had been watching Twilight and Red walk around.-
"Now this is interesting...", The figure whispered to themselves. "Where oh where did you come from, friend...", The voice whispered. The figure kept staring..
"What the..?", The figure kept staring until it noticed something odd about red.
"Where is his cutie mark?.. All adults have a cutie mark, but yet... this one doesn't... odd..", The figure whispered before turning around and teleporting away.
END OF CHAPTER 2