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// Meeting 
// Story: A Non-Brony's Tale 
// by HybridSoldier 
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As Jerry's sight went from black to double-sighted and finally focused, he noticed that he was still on the floor, but this time, along with "Granny Smith", the orange pony, "Big Mac", there was also a bright yellow foal with a bow on her head. Unlike the others, she had no "hip tattoo", instead looking like a normal pony.

But the strangest part is, there were five more ponies in the room. One of them was purple, the other was light blue, another one was yellow, just like the foal, and another one was white. 

However, the pony next to her was strangely enough, pink. Not only that, but she was bouncing, something that a pony would never normally do.

"What are those freaks?" Jerry thought.

Then, he realized that he accidentally said that out loud. Almost immediately, the ponies grew angry, with rather strange looking eyes that he only saw in cartoons.

Then, Jerry realized something.

Everything was rather....brightly-coloured, and it hurt Jerry's eyes as he rubbed them.

"Ugh....what are those colours?" Jerry thought. Then, another thought struck him.

"Where am I?", said Jerry.

The purple coloured pony, and thus all the other ponies grew less angry and began to exchange banter among themselves.

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It was the most confusing time in Twilight Sparkle's life. What was possibly an Everfree monster was laying right in front of them, and yet, it wasn't hostile. It never even tried to attack her when she came, and Applejack's account made it sound like it was scared of them or something.

"Applejack, are you sure that that's the monster Granny Smith saw?" Twilight Sparkle asked. In response Applejack shook her head "yes".

"I'm sure that that's who it is!" Applejack replied, "I would've gave it a hoof beatin' for scaring Granny Smith had it not been so peaceful!"

"That's strange, to say the least." Twilight Sparkle said. "It's also strange that a monster would teleport like that. It must've been sent in by some sort of teleportation spell."

"Yeah, but I've never seen such a disgusting-looking creature before." Rarity chimed in.

"Do you think that it could be shy?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Yeah, I think." said Twilight Sparkle.

"Maybe it's scared of all of us." said Fluttershy.

"Then we could throw it a wonderful and fun welcoming party!" Pinkie Pie bounced as she said those words. "Don't you think?"

"Yeah, I don't know," said a wary Twilight Sparkle. "It might not be the kind to be enlightened by parties."

"Maybe so...." said a disappointed Pinkie Pie. 

Suddenly, Pinkie Pie had an idea.

"Maybe we could bring it a welcoming gift!" said Pinkie Pie.

"Maybe it's just trying to get close to us, to get into the right position to attack!" said Rainbow Dash, not liking Pinkie Pie's optimism.

"Of course, being a rather...disgusting creature, it could be like that," said Rarity, also sharing Rainbow Dash's suspicions.

"How do you know that?" asked Applejack.

"Yeah, this old creature isn't hostile one bit!" said Granny Smith.

Big Mac could let nothing out but three words: "It's definitely not."

Rainbow Dash then pointed towards Big Mac. "You don't know!" said Rainbow Dash, "For all I know, it might be a rather cunning creature, looking for a chance to attack!"

Just as the tension was about to get worse, a magic aura surrounded the bickering ponies, breaking them up.

"Calm down!" screamed Twilight Sparkle, "It's definitely not hostile! Do you see it?" Twilight Sparkle pointed towards the monster, and then noticed something.

It was standing up on all twos. Then, it spoke again.

"What's happening?"

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For a while, Jerry had listened to the banter, and while there were some things that he didn't understand, he could hear a few things like "Applejack", "monster", "hoof", "teleportation spell", and "creature". He could also hear arguing near the end of the banter, and then the purple pony yelled, like it was angry.

At that point, Jerry had enough and decided to ask the ponies about their world and what they were talking about, starting with:

"Who are you?"

"Who are we?" asked the purple pony. "Well, I am Twilight Sparkle."

Then it pointed at the pink pony, "This is Pinkie Pie."

Then, the blue pony with a rainbow mane. "This is Rainbow Dash."

And she went on and on about the other ponies. The white pony was "Rarity", the yellow pony was "Fluttershy", and the orange pony was "Applejack". 

Then, Jerry felt like something was familiar about the names. Then, it clicked.

"Hey....do you know a show called 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'?" Jerry asked.

Yes, Jerry did watch Friendship is Magic, but it wasn't his cup of tea. To him, it was a little too girly. However, he was familiar enough to at least know the names and premise of the show.

Once he asked the question, though, the ponies looked at him as if he was crazy or something.

"My Little Pony: Friendship is-what?" Rainbow Dash asked.

Then Jerry facepalmed himself. He made a mistake asking that question, as the ponies wouldn't know what that was, so he asked them another question.

"Okay, nevermind. So, do you know the 'Elements of Harmony'?, asked Jerry.

"Yeah, of course!" said Pinkie Pie. "We have them!"

"Pinkie's right" said Rainbow Dash. "We do have them!"

"Okay," said Jerry. "but do you know Princess Celestia?"

"Yeah, I'm her student." said Twilight Sparkle.

Jerry realized that the information was spot on, then decided to ask them another question.

"Okay then," said Jerry. "do you live in a place called Ponyland?"

Then, like his first question, they met him with the same look.

Before Jerry could ask, he was interupted by Pinkie Pie.

"Of course not, silly!" said Pinkie Pie. "You're in Ponyvile!"

Jerry, of course, facepalmed himself again.

"Of course, how could I be so blind?" said Jerry.

"Anyway," continued Jerry. "I have one more question."

"What?" said Rainbow Dash, who was getting slightly impatient.

"What are those hip tattoos?" asked Jerry.