"Hip tattoos?" asked Pinkie Pie.
She was confused, as were the other ponies. The question that the creature asked them sounded weird. Then, it hit them.
It was talking about their cutie marks.
Twilight Sparkle stepped forward, and then asked the creature. "Hip tattoos? Don't you mean cutie marks?"
The creature let out a sound, then said: "Cutie marks? That's what they're called?"
Then it burst out laughing as it dropped to the floor.
The ponies couldn't help but look confused. Then, before they could speak, it continued.
"T-that's the most girly thing ever! Pfffft! Cutie Marks! That sounds like some sort of girl's tattoo line!"
Then, it laughed some more, whooping, yolking, guffawing, everything under Celestia's sun. Just when the ponies didn't know when it was going to quit, it stood up and stopped laughing.
"Okay, so they're called cutie marks, right?" the creature inquired.
"Yeah, they define what we are and what our talents are." explained Twilight Sparkle.
"Anyway," said the creature. "my name's Jerry Martha Washington. I'm from Sheltered Shrubs, Connecticut. Nice to meet you."
It then reached out it's hand and grabbed Twilight's hoof. In response, she used her hoof to separate itself from it's hands.
"Nice to meet you to-" Twilight said, but was interrupted.
"Can we show it around Ponyville, Twilight?" Pinkie Pie interrupted. "Can we, can we?"
"Count me out!" said Rainbow Dash.
"Sorry Twilight, but I need to tend to my farm and make sure that Granny Smith's okay." said Applejack.
"I don't know, it still kind of freaks me out," said Fluttershy.
"Well, this ruffian is dirty, but at least it's not hostile like I thought he was....." Rarity said.
"Well, I guess that leaves us, then." said Twilight Sparkle. "Come on, Pinkie, we need to show it around. You too, Rarity."
"No thanks," said Rarity. "I need to keep my Carousel Boutique in tip-top shape."
"Okay then," said Twilight Sparkle. "Time to go, Pinkie."
"YAY!" screamed Pinkie Pie.
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Jerry had honestly not expected the pink pony to explode in happiness and ask if he would be shown around Ponyville. But he hadn't said anything opposing the proposition, and now he was stuck being shown around town.
Before he could think more, he was out of the door, and as he walked around, he was suprised that the town almost seemed different. While Sheltered Shrubs was your "traditional suburb built in the 1950s", this town looked like it was from the 1450s to him. And not the nostalgic 15th century town, either.
Everyone seemed stuck in the same time period as this town, carrying baskets with their mouths, carrying grocery baskets with their mouths, trading. It almost made the setting of Lord of the Rings look modern.
Then, he spotted Pinkie Pie pointing at a caurosel-like structure in the middle of a large space where the roads met.
"Is this the town hall, or..." said Jerry.
"Yeah, silly, it is!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie. Then, Pinkie Pie had an idea.
"HEY!" shouted Pinkie Pie. "Let's go to the Sugarcube Corner!"
Jerry was rather wary about the proposition. "Hold up, the Sugarcube Corner? Is it like-WOAH!"
Before he knew it, Pinkie Pie had interrupted him. "WHEE! It can be fun, showing such a friendly creature around!"
"Human, I'm a human!" clarified Jerry.
"Hu-man?" asked Twilight Sparkle, confused. "I have to study more about that back at my library."
"You're a librarian?" questioned Jerry, surprised. "No way, can I check out a book?"
Twilight was now confused at this fallacy. "No, you cannot check out a book because I live there!"
"Hold up, you live there? Like, with no one visiting to even buy your books?" Jerry began to crack up.
"What's so funny?" Twilight asked.
"With all those books?" Jerry began to laugh.
"Hey, that isn't funny at all!" said Twilight, who was now starting to get insulted.
"How isn't that funny when you have all those books, and yet you don't let people check them out?" Now Jerry was completely laughing to the point of tears, and it sure was starting to get on Twilight's nerves.
"As you will see here," said Twilight Sparkle. "you have yet to even know the reason why I live at the library."
"What, because you read way too much?" Jerry asked.
"HEY!" Twilight yelled. She had been called a "bookworm" and a "shut-in" before, but she was clearly not as insulted as what Jerry just said.
Just as she was reaching a boiling point, Pinkie Pie alerted them to the Sugarcube Corner.
"Hey look, there's the Sugarcube Corner!" said Pinkie, as she pointed her hoof at something that looked like a large gingerbread house.
"Let me guess, you live there, too." said Jerry, sarcastically.
"Actually, yes, I do."
Jerry broke out in laughter.
"Come on, let's go." said Pinkie, clearly tired of the insulting comments.
Inside of the Sugarcube Corner, Ms. and Mr. Cake was serving costumers when Pinkie, Twilight, and a strange-looking creature walking in all twos came in.
As Mr. and Ms. Cake were about to hide, he noticed that the creature wasn't at all hostile and went back to their normal positions.
"Oh, sorry for our...little outburst here" said Mr. Cake. "Who is this....newcomer?"
"Oh, this guy?" said Pinkie. "He's a hoo-man, though I clearly don't know what that means.
As Pinkie and the Cakes were introducing Jerry, Twilight was showing him around.
"So this is Ponyville's idea of a 'candy store', right?" Jerry asked.
Twilight was confused. Candy store? What was that?
"What's a 'candy store'?" asked Twilight. "I know what candy is, but a store that contains candy and nothing else? That sounded absurd!
"Hey Jerry," asked Twilight. "what's a candy store?"
Jerry began to explain.
"Well, a candy store is where candy is sold and bought." explained Jerry.
"Wait, but aren't candy technically sweets?" asked Twilight.
"Yeah, but in my world-" Jerry explained, but didn't say it for long, because he was afraid that he would give the fact that he was from another dimension away.
"What was that?" Twilight asked.
"Oh, right. Where I come from, candy stores exist." That was a better way to explain, and Jerry certainly thought that.
"Okay then." Twilight said.
Then, Pinkie Pie rushed over to them, or rather, bounced.
"Hey, hoo-man," Pinkie said in an excited voice.
Jerry sighed, grimacing at the pronunciation. "What?"
"Do you wanna live here?"
Jerry was taken aback by that sudden statement, as he has never expected the pink pony to ask him that.
But what was even stranger was that she had asked him to live here, in this bakery, as he knew what it was now.
"Hold up, you're expecting me to live in something that's clearly not a house?" Once again, Jerry broke out in laughter, as he fell down to the bakery floor again, catching the attention of many ponies, including the yellow filly, who was accompanied by two other foals of the same gender.
Jerry then got back up, and then, as he stood back up, he said one word.
"No."