Suddenly he bumped into someone.
He fell backwards and shook his head to recover from the sudden bump.
He looked up to see a pink Earthpony with blue eyes and ballons as cutie mark. Her hair was a real mess in Alternate´s eyes, but he guessed it´s just how the pony liked it. He stood back up and brushed some dust of his coat before appollogizing to the pink pony.
"I´m sorry I bumped into you. I didn´t look where I was going.", he smiled apologizing.
He heard the pink pony gasp and saw her run away, leaving Alternate View confused. He stood there awkwardly with a raised brow, looking after she pink pony.
What the hell just happened?, he thought as he watched the pink pony run into a shop. He looked at the shops sign and read Sugarcube Corner.
He shrugged it off and walked towards a big tree that kinda looked like a house. Not exactly like Zecoras house, but a bit at least.
As he came closer to the tree he saw a sign that read Towns Library. He smiled and went inside.
"Uhm, hello? Anypony here?", he asked. He heard something fall. The sound came somewhere upstairs.
He searched for the stairs and quickly found it. He ran up the stairs just as quickly as he found them and saw a pile of random stuff lying on somepony. He quickly helped the pony up that has been burried by the stuff.
"Are you ok?", he asked her worriedly as he helped her up.
He now noticed that he saw this pony already somewhere. It had to be at the wedding, for he hadn´t been anywhere else to meet her or anything. But he also noticed something had changed about the purple pony in front of him. He saw a pair of wings atached to her that weren´t there at the wedding. This pony in fron´t of him was an alicorn! A princess!
As soon as he progressed that thought he bowed briefly and appologized that he hadn´t noticed sooner that royalty was standing in front of him. He heard of this new princess, but he didn´t know that that princess was living in Ponyville.
He remembered the name. Twilight Sparkle was it if he wasn´t completely wrong.
The princess though shook her head at his appology.
"No, don´t appologize for something like that. I don´t want to be seen only as princess and nothing beyond that.", she explained.
Alternate nodded understandingly and gave her a warm smile.
"So, you came in here and asked if anyone is here. Why? What did you need?", she asked smiling back at him.
"A place to stay would be nice!", he laughed.
"Oh, so you´re new in town? Oh! I´m sorry! I didn´t even introduce myself! I´m Twilight Sparkle! And what is your name?", she looked surprised, but then smiled again.
"Oh, yeah right. Uhm. . . My name is Alternate View. But I like to be called Alternate.", he replied.
"Oh! And you said you need a place to stay?"
"Yeah, I´m kinda clueless to where I could live."
"Maybe you could stay here at the library! I got a spare room anyway."
Alternate was surprised at what he just heard. He accepted and nodded eagerly. Twilight quickly showed him a room in the back of the library and after having a small discussion with him about paying for the room, she left him alone for him to unpack in peace.
Alternate stretched a bit and threw his head on a bed that stood right beside a window. He closed the curtains and turned a small light on. He quickly looked around and made sure he was not being watched in any way even possible.
He took in a big breath and transformed into his original form. He threw himself on the bed and closed his eyes, though he made sure he wouldn´t fall asleep anytime soon.
A loud knock on his door scared him good enough to throw him off the bed and without even having to think he transformed back into the unicorn, which took him a moment longer than usual because of the sudden scare.
Upon having transformed he quickly got to the door and opend it, being grabbed and pulled outside by someone he couldn´t catch a glimpse of yet.
He panicked for a second but said panicking soon went away as he saw that it was the pink pony he bumped into earlier.
"What is happening?", he asked, but got unheard.
The pink pony procceded to drag him outside and he stopped questioning it soon. As soon as they were outside someone threw confetti at his face making him a bit irritated which was soon replaced by a surprised look followed by a (slightly confused) smile as he saw the dozens of pponies standing in front of him. Every single one of them greeting and welcoming him.
"HELLO!", the pink pony from before was standing now in front of him and throwing more confetti into the air. "I wanted to welcome you to ALL of ponyville! With a few exceptions of ponies who were to busy of course!"
"That is all nice and I apreciate it! Really! But. . . I don´t know your name?", Alternate said a bit awkward, but still smiling.
"Oh right! Haha! How could I forget? My name´s Pinkie Pie! I´m the towns very own Partypony!", the upbeat pink pony exclaimed, which made Alternate chuckle a bit.
"Well, my name´s Alternate View, nice to meet you, Pinkie Pie.", he said politely, which made Pinkie frown a more playful looking frown..
"Aw, don´t be so polite! You can be all yourself here, silly!"
"Uhm. . . Ok, sure! Thanks anyway!"
"OH! The only ones that weren´t here were Rainbow Dash, Apple Jack, Fluttershy and Rarity!", then she gasped, "UH! I know! I´ll introduce you to them! C´mon! Follow me!", she beamed and started hopping away. Alternate followed her, hesitant at first.
Alternate sighed on the inside a bit. Sure, he wanted to get to know the towns ponies more, but couldn´t that have waited until tomorrow? You know, to give him some rest? Help him settle in in a completely new enviroment? No? Ok, maybe that´s just me.
"Ok, fine!", he said following the pink earthpony.
On the way Pinkie Pie talked and talked to Alternate about the weirdest stuff that has happened to her or others. And even though Alternate wasn´t interested in some of it, most of it actually entertained him and brought a smile on his face.
Suddenly Pinkie stopped talking and stopped in her tracks. "Here we are!", she smiled and suddenly bursted through the door of a chic looking two stories house.