//------------------------------// // 7 Purple // Story: For science // by Znegil //------------------------------// I guess I had dozed off in the warm sun. As I opened my eyes again, a purple unicorn was studying my appearance. "Wow, you have really... ", she began. "Huge udders? Yes, I know.", I said a bit annoyed and got into a sitting position. "... beautiful eyes, small but beauti... wait what?", she finished confused. "Oh sorry, I didn't mean it like that.", I tried to justify myself very embarrassed. "It's just... a lot of times..." "Rainbow Dash?", she asked. I just nodded. "Well I can see that they are quite big compared to us, but I have no frame of reference for your kind.", she said in a surprisingly analytical way. Silence between us... "Anyway... Hi, I'm Twilight Sparkle.", she offered me her hoof. I shook it, happy to have a way out of that situation. "I heard you are an expert in magic." "Well, I know a few spells and learned about it since I was little.", she seemed a bit flattered. "But there is still so much I don't know." She sat down in the Grass before me. "You seem to be a fascinating and intelligent creature. Rainbow was gushing about you. I heard you want information about our world... I would give you all the information you want, in exchange you will tell me everything about you and your kind. Does that sound fair to you?", she looked at me, head crooked to the side and smiling. This offer made my mission so much easier. "Yes, I gladly accept." "Of course I have to inform Princess Celestia first to get her approval, but I am sure she will love the idea." I was pretty sure I remembered that name... "The pony who controls the SUN?" "You already heard of her, great. Don't worry, she is really nice, she wouldn't hurt anyone." A pony who moved a f***ing celestial body, I wasn't ok with someone having this much power meeting me. I guess my feelings had been very visible. Twilight laid a hoof on my hand. "I promise you, she won't hurt you. The worst outcome I could imagine is her ordering you to leave this world. But I think she will be curious about your kind too." To my surprise, she was able to calm me down. I took a few breaths... "I'm quite curious.", she said. "How did you manage to come to this world?" "We were able to create a portal so we could connect with any point in the universe... or in any other dimension too, we are not sure about that yet." "What kind of spell did you use to make that happen?", she asked, and somehow a notepad and quill appeared, levitating next to her. "None, we don't have magic in our world." Notepad and quill dropped to the ground. "How can it be possible to create a portal without any magic? That's impossible!" She looked at me as if I was insane. "Magic is equally impossible in my world, so we had to be very creative with building machines instead. It's extremely complicated. I think we should talk about something else until you know the basics of it." "Right, there is so much else we can learn from each other... Say goodbye to Fluttershy. I live inside a library, we can do so much more there. You can stay in the guest room." Well, it made sense, but I didn't like how she just decided without asking me. Since she promised me huge amounts of knowledge, I decided to let it slide. I searched for Fluttershy and found her on the other side of her house feeding squirrels. I decided just to wait until she finished, I didn't want to scare her or the squirrels. When she finally turned around to walk back to her house, she spotted me and smiled. "How did your talk with Twilight go?", she asked while she came closer. "Quite good, she invited me to the library to learn and said I could stay in her guest room." "Oh... that's nice.", she said a bit gloomy. "What is it?", I asked as I noticed her change in mood. She looked to the ground. "It was quite nice to have somepony around the house to talk to, aside from my animals." I went down on my knee to look directly in her face. "Well, I was going to visit you on my ways to the portal anyway, if this is okay for you." "Of course, that would make me very happy.", she already started to smile again. "But you should consider inviting Rainbow to a slumber party now and again. You could have just as much fun as we three had together.", I told her and brushed a strand of hair out of her face. "It would be far too boring for Dashie to spend her time with me...", she whispered. "That's not true, you are very interesting and funny, plus I'm sure Dashie isn't hyper all the time. Please invite her, okay." She giggled. "You wouldn't call Dashie hyper if you had met Pinkie Pie yet." I tried to remember the pictures she had shown me. "The pink one with the puffy hair? Into parties?" She nodded. "Well, I will try to ask Dashie, maybe she is interested..." "I'm sure she would love to spend some time with you... and you have at least one thing she is very interested in.", I said and grinned at her. "What would that...", she started to blush furiously when she understood my innuendo and moved a bit so her udders weren't in plain view for me anymore. Only a few days later after I had met more ponies I realized she had a pretty big pair for a pony. "Stop that.", she whispered and playfully hit me with her hoof. I stood up again and waved goodbye to her. "I promise I will visit you soon." "Bye.", she said smiling. To my surprise, Twilight was standing next to the cottage looking at us. "It's interesting you make friends so fast.", she told me when I got near her. "Friendship is an important and powerful thing in this world." "Back in my world I never had many friends and hadn't been popular in school.", I pondered. "But the ponies I met here so far are so welcoming and lovable, of course I want to be friends with them. But including you, I only met three ponies, so there are clearly not enough data points to verify your theory." Twilight's face showed pure glee. "You know statistics?!" I was surprised from this sudden expression of happiness. "Sure, it's part of my training as a scientist." She jumped around me. "Oh this will be so much fun, all the math we can do together." She kept on jumping around me while I packed my things and we started to make our way to her library.