Chapter 4: Close encounters of the third kind
“...Doctor Whooves!” Twilight called out.
“What now?” I asked, although I already knew what she got at.
“He is like you. He has no aura too!” Twilight was obviously excited.
“No what?”
This time I honestly had no idea what she was talking about. Such a thing like “aura” was neither mentioned in the series, nor was it popular in the fandom.
“It’s like a magic force field that surrounds everypony. Only unicorns can sense it. Everypony has its own unique aura.” Twilight explained with a proud smile.
She obviously enjoyed it to know something I didn’t know.
“So it’s like a fingerprint!” I tried to impress her by showing my readiness of mind.
“A what now?” Twilight asked clueless.
“Just forget it.” I sighed.
I already expected Lyra Heartstrings to appear out of nowhere, like: “Someone said fingers?” Fortunately that didn’t happen.
“You wanted me to meet this Doctor Whooves, forgot?” I tried to come back to her actual thought.
“Yes, yes of course, but there’s one problem. What do we tell other Ponies. I’m quite sure they want to know who you are and where you come from and I think not everypony would believe your incredible story.”
“Like me...” Spike interrupted again after remaining silent for quite some time.
“Spike! Keep silent! Where was I?” Twilight thought for a brief moment. “What’s your name anyway? After all that happened I still don’t know how to call you.”
“Well my name would be...Quick, make up something! Something that matches your cutie-mark.”
I looked at my flank. My cutie-mark obviously seemed to be...a pencil.
“That fits, I guess...”
I forgot to mention before. I like drawing quite a lot and I’m pretty good at it. I am, what people would call a natural. Not that I could draw incredibly realistic persons or animals, but I had some skills and a sense of the space I need for drawing and such things. All in all I could draw some real neat pictures without having a model in front of me.
“Quick,..a name that has something to do with drawing. Pencil Draw...no! Pencil Line...no!"
I hated my actual name and I wanted to start a new identity here in Equestria. Then I had an idea.
“I used to call myself “Xenosaurus” on various forums and “Xenos” is a Greek word, which means “stranger” or something similar. I guess that fits perfectly."
“...Xenos!” I finally finished my sentence.
“Xenos huh? You humans do have strange names. Is it really your actual name?.” Twilight asked.
“Let’s just say it’s the name I prefer to use...” I answered with a light smile on my face.
“I see...I won’t ask any further questions then.” Twilight said and smiled too. ”Shall we go now?”
“Sure.”
When I passed Spike he whispered: “I am watching you!”
I couldn’t help but grin. He was just too adoreable when trying to look serious.
Spike noticed that and gave me a dirty look. I immediately tried to control my facial expression.
“This is not the time for making enemies...” I thought.
As we went outside Twilight warned me:
“We might meet some of my friends on the way. They might act a bit weird sometimes, but they are nice Ponies.”
“I know, Twilight.” I gave her a bright smile.
“Oh, I forgot...TV-show and so on.” She smiled back.
Right on cue a pile of pink cotton candy bounced right in my direction. Before I could even open my mouth I was...well...pinkied.
“Oh my gosh, are you new you must be new because I don’t know you and I know eeeeeeverypony in Ponyville I’m Pinkie Pie and you are???” I noticed that she didn’t even bother to inhale.“ Do you like parties of course you like parties everyone likes parties I-“
“PINKIE !” Twilight interrupted the pink mare.
“Nice to meet you Pinkie Pie, I’m Xenos and yes I AM new in town.” I tried to sound self-confidently.
“You do have a strange name don’t you? Where do you come from? Do I know it?”
Although I thought to be prepared for this, I was overwhelmed by the pink mare’s hyperactivity.
“Let’s just say I come from far away...” I tried to cut the conversation short.
“I never heard of this FAR AWAY. Where is it?” Pinkie asked innocently.
*facehoof*
“Pinkie we really have to go now!” Twilight insisted.
“OkeyDokeyLokey, Twi. And for you Mister I will throw a WELCOME PARTYYYY.”
I expected that.
“See you later.” She said and bounced away just to come back a second later and say: “Oh, I almost forgot...” Then she jumped right into the air, letting out a long gasp and then quickly galloping away.
“I’m really sorry she is just being-“
“-Pinkie, I know,” I finished the sentence for her and we both laughed.
Then we continued our way to meet Doctor Whooves.
Twilight told me that the Doctor was living somewhere outside Ponyville together with Ditzy Doo the mailmare of Ponyville. Although I already knew that I was kinda surprised that she actually was the mailmare, because that has never been confirmed in the official series.
“Do they exist because there is a cartoon of them, or is it that because they exist there is a cartoon of them?” I thought.
I hoped that the Doctor would have some satisfying theories for this phenomenon.
Finally we arrived at Ditzy’s home.
“Is anyone here?” Twilight called out.
Suddenly a grey and yellow cannonball hit me right out of nowhere and threw me on the ground.
“I’m so sorry. I just don’t know what went wrong!”
“It’s okay Der...eh...Ditzy.”I mumbled, still disordered by our crash, but still alert enough not to use her fan-given name. I didn’t know if she would take it as an insult.
Ditzy Doo looked at me with excite. I was immediately hypnotized by her oddly crossed eyes. They seemed to move constantly in circles.
“How comes you know my name?” she asked innocently.
“Twilight told me. We came to see the Doctor. Is he anywhere around?” I asked the grey pegasus.
“Of course he is. He lives here in Ponyville.” Ditzy giggled.
“No I mean, is he here now, in your house?” I asked a bit more impatient. Ditzy really was a bit slow minded.
“Nope, he isn’t in the house.” Ditzy giggled again.
“Then where is he?!” This pony started to get on my nerves.
“He is, in fact, in the garden.” Ditzy gave me a bright smile.
*facehoof*
“Come with me, I’ll show you were.” Ditzy said and trotted towards the house.
As we followed her, Twilight whispered:
“She acts a bit simple sometimes, but she’s one of the nicest mares in Ponyville.”
“Already noticed, Twilight, already noticed...” I whispered back.
Ditzy led us to small garden where a blue phone box was standing. This confirmed my theory.
“This universe actually IS physically effected by our imagination...or the other way round...”
Then a sepia brown Earth Pony stallion came out of the phone box. I tried to steal a glance at the inside, but couldn’t see anything.
Then the Pony began to talk with a distinct British accent:
“Ditzy, who is this? Haven’t I told you not to bring strangers here?”
END OF CHAPTER 4