Starlight was reading The Anatomy of Humans in her bedroom while Leo watched television with Axel in the living room. It was late at night. Not one pony was hustling and bustling about. Starlight yawned, she had been reading for an hour and had gotten to chapter three, which was describing a human's diet. She read that humans weren't so different from ponies, but she'd already found that out years ago. There was a knock on the door, Starlight's ears perked up when she heard Leo's footsteps. Her eyes widened. She ignited her horn and teleported herself in front of the door, finding that Leo was a few feet away from it. "Leo, you know the rules, you cannot and I mean cannot answer the door. Celestia knows who might be behind it!" Starlight reminded and turned to open the door.
Twilight Sparkle was standing outside, with a purple and green dragon on her back. "You see?!" Starlight pointed to Twilight. "This mare is exactly why you can't open the door! She might kidnap you and run tests on you! And I might never be able to save you!" Leo nodded. Axel was now at his feet, narrowing his eyes at Twilight and Spike.
"Hi! I'm Twilight Sparkle! Don't mean to brag but I'm Celestia's student and I thought that I should research a bit more on humans! I can send this information to the Princess!" Twilight said, a bit intimidated by both Axel and Starlight's facial expressions.
Starlight stepped forward. "I'm Starlight. Now, listen here. You may be the student of Princess Celestia, but that doesn't mean I automatically let you lay a hoof on Leo. And how the hay did you find where we lived?!" She raised her voice.
Twilight stood there for a moment. "I sort of... Weakened your spell so that when you exited the library, you'd think that I'd still be stuck when I was actually following you here. I went back home got this list of questions and a notepad and quill." She admitted, opening her saddlebag to show all the items she had mentioned.
"You're a smart unicorn..." Starlight said grudgingly.
"Why thank you! I went to the School for Gifted Unicorns as a filly!" Twilight chirped.
Starlight froze. She was getting flash backs. When Sunburst earned his cutiemark, when their friendship was shattered. She was remembering it all so vividly.
"Was it something I said..?" Twilight asked, concerned.
Leo shook his head, Starlight hadn't really told him much about Sunburst, only that he was an old friend. "No, I don't think so. She'll be fine. She's the calmest pony I know." He picked Starlight up. "You can come in if you'd like, though."
Twilight was slightly confused, the calmest pony he knew? Then she had to be the only pony he knew. Just earlier, Starlight was blowing a fuse just because Twilight came for an unexpected visit.
"So, what research did you want to do?" Leo asked after he put Starlight in her bedroom.
Twilight emptied out her saddle bag on the table. "Spike, why don't you go play with that... Rare dragon!" She rushed to Axel, who seemed less than amused. "Wow! I didn't know that Starlight owned all this information that all of Equestria didn't know about!"
"Now," Twilight cleared her throat as she sat on the couch next to Leo. "Where did you come from?" She asked, levitating the quill over her notepad.
There was a long pause. "I don't really know... I was just... Here. The only thing I knew was that my name was Leo and that was Axel." He motioned to the dark dragon, who was eyeing Spike. "I met Starlight and then I started living with her and then here we are now."
Twilight nodded. She jotted down some notes. "So Starlight is your only friend?" Leo nodded. "Well, you need to branch out more! Come on, you're going to meet my friends!" She declared.
"W-Wait... Right now..?" Leo stuttered, he'd never gone anywhere without Starlight and felt it would be wrong to do so.
"Yes!" Twilight got up, packing her things back into her saddle bags. "You need more friends! I should know because I could've never defeated Nightmare Moon without my friends!"
"Nightmare Moon? But Twilight, Starlight didn't say I could go with you." Leo replied, nervously glancing over at Starlight's bedroom door.
"Don't worry, we'll be back before she even knows you'll be gone!" Twilight assured.
Minutes later, Twilight had managed to drag Leo with her on her journey back to Ponyville. They didn't notice Axel slipping out with them. Spike had, however. But he said nothing, after all, the dragon was slightly bigger than himself and could easily beat him in battle. Twilight had magically cast a spell to teleport herself and her friends to one area, her laboratory.
"What in tarnation? One second Ah'm on the apple farm bucking some apples and the next, Ah'm in some fancy house!" Applejack said.
"I know right! I was busy practicing my flying for the Wonderbolts and then I'm teleported here!" Rainbow Dash agreed, looking at Twilight accusingly.
Twilight had teleported one other pony in the lab other than herself, Leo and her friends.
"What am I doing here?!" The mint green mare asked. Lyra's gaze fell upon Leo. "How did a human get here?! Did he use the portal!? But he seems used to seeing ponies, he must've been here since a young age... Though the portal is at Canterlot High school, so he might have been younger..." Lyra analyzed him, not as shocked as the others.
"A human?" Fluttershy squeaked in surprise.
"No pony told me humans were this... Shockingly good looking..." Rarity said, earning a look of disappointment from Spike.
"What are these things?" Pinkie Pie asked, poking Leo's fingers with her hoof.
"They're fingers, humans have five on each hand, as well as five toes on their feet. Fingers help the human grip things, kind of like unicorns, but more manual." Lyra explained.
"How'd ya find him, Twi?" Applejack asked curiously.
"Starlight's house, she even had a rare dragon!" Twilight replied.
Meanwhile, a furious Starlight had recovered. She realized that Leo was gone. "Twilight..." She muttered under her breath. Axel motioned for Starlight to follow him, which she did. She ended up at the Golden Oaks library. Axel pointed to a wall. "Hmmm.... Must be a secret hatch." The unicorn's horn lit up. The wall moved, slowly but surely. Starlight ran into the lab. "Don't you touch my Leo!" She screamed.