//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: Bright Green Eyes // Story: MLP FIM: The Friend from Outer Space // by Blaze Ishtar //------------------------------// It was late at night, Princess Twilight Sparkle and her friends, Starlight Glimmer, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Applejack were laying down on the grass up a hill, gazing at the stars. Twilight was pointing out all the constellations and pointing out the different types of stars she sees in the sky. It was one of the very few times of the year where you can actually see all the stars at night. Rainbow Dash fell asleep while the rest of the girls were looking up, she didn't know what she was missing. Twilight pointed up and said, "Do you girls see the Muffin and the Apple?" At first the rest of the gang couldn't see it, but then Pinkie Pie shouted and pointed it out, "Oh! Oh! I see the Muffin! It's right there underneath that bright star!" Applejack, being the farm girl she is, notices the constellation shaped like an apple, "And I see the Apple right there!" Pinkie Pie then sees something nopony else notices and asks, "Hey Twilight, what's that green one up in the sky?" Twilight then responds back, informing Pinkie, "Pinkie, there's no such thing as a green star, it's been scientifically proven." Pinkie Pie, looking confused, points at it for Twilight to see, "But there's one right there..." Twilight looks up to see a green, comet looking object, falling down to the planet. It was quite strange, she's never seen a space object that's green. Why is it green? Where did it come from? Applejack freaks out a bit, "Is that thing there a meteor!?" She asked as she took cover behind a nearby bush and used her cowgirl hat to cover her head. Twilight calms Applejack down and tells her, "Don't worry, it's a shooting star, it's too small to be an asteroid. I don't know why it's green though." Applejack gets up, embarrassed. "Right... I uh... I knew that. It's not like I have some shelter underneath my barn in case of asteroid crashes and whatnot." The girls watch as the shooting star crashes into the Everfree Forest, Twilight, being the one always enthusiastic for magic and science, says, "I've never seen a meteorite or a shooting star crash land nearby, come on girls, lets go see if we can find it!" The rest of the gang, except for Rainbow Dash (who was still asleep), follow Twilight. Rainbow Dash wakes up and sees the girls run, she quickly gets up and shout to them, "Hey! Where are you guys going!? Wait for me!" Thankfully she was able to catch up, thanks to her speed. Everyone stops as Twilight slows down and looks around, "Hmm... it should be around here somewhere, I know my way around the forest and I saw it crash land by a specific tree I sit by to read in privacy." Rainbow Dash looks around, "There's a gazillion stupid trees! How do you know you're always sitting at the same one? Wait... what're we looking for exactly?" Starlight explains to Rainbow Dash, "We're looking for a green meteorite that crashed here into the Everfree Forest." Rarity was thinking for a moment and asks, "What if the meteorite is actually made of emeralds? That's why it was green, normally I don't like green, but emeralds are beautiful, and emeralds are just what I need to finish the dress I've been working on all week!" Pinkie Pie interrupts , "What if it's actually a comet made of a special kind of ice!? I can make some great snow cones out of it!" Twilight crushes Rarity and Pinkie Pie's fantasies, "Pinkie, Rarity, meteorites and space junk don't usually contain emeralds, and if it were a comet, part of Ponyville would've been destroyed by a shockwave. Anyways, lets get moving." The Mane 7 venture out through the forest, stepping over rocks and mud and shoving leaves and branches aside to make a path. They continued to search for about two minutes until they noticed a small crater up ahead, there is still a bit of smoke coming out of it, indicating that whatever had crashed there hadn't been there that long. They found where the shooting star had landed. "We found it! I can't wait to take it back to the castle and examine... it...?" At first Twilight was excited, but when she looked, her face went from being happy to a shocking expression. All the girls stood next to Twilight to see what she's looking at. There was a pony inside the crater, but it looked very strange compared to many ponies out there, its fur was all black, it didn't have a mane or a tail, and there was no mouth or nuzzle visible, leaving the girls to wonder how it can breathe. Fluttershy was shaking in fear a little, "I-Is it a changeling? It must be one of the bad ones if it's not colored." Twilight looked closely at it, "No, it has no holes in its legs, I don't think this is a changeling." Twilight slowly went down into the crater. Rainbow Dash grabbed Twilight's hoof, "What're you doing!?" Twilight shook off Rainbow's hoof, "We gotta make sure its alive!" Twilight slowly reached one of her front hoofs out to the pony. Twilight was sweating, hesitating to wake up the pony, hoping it survived the crash. The girls were scared for Twilight, Fluttershy even looked away, whimpering. Twilight touches the creatures fur, but its fur was burning hot, Twilight couldn't keep her hoof on it that long before jerking away. The creature's eye sockets slowly began to open, revealing two, large bright green eyes. It looked up, making Twilight jump out of the crater, it had two foggy circles in its eyes that resembled pupils. It slowly got up and stepped out of the crater and looked directly at them. "....... Hello... are you okay?" Twilight tries to approach it. The creature didn't respond, it just stood there and tilted its head. Leaving the girls to look at each other, they tried different ways to communicate with it. Rainbow Dash got up close to it, "Hello!? Can you hear me!? I am talking to you!" All the creature did was blink. No reaction. Rarity tried to give the creature a scarf, "Here darling, it's a little cold out here, you might want to wear this." But the scarf immediately caught on fire as it touched the black fur of the creature. Twilight tries feeling the creature's fur again, but immediately jerks away as she lays her hoof on it. "Ow! He must be hot from falling down here! Are you okay?" The creature didn't respond, it looks over the girls and sees a small pond of water, it walks past the girls and begins drinking the water, despite it not having a visible mouth. (SLUUUUUUUURRRRRP) When it was done drinking, the entire pond was dry, the ducks within the pond were shocked that they were sitting on dry land all of a sudden. The girls looked at it with shocking expressions, mouths open wide, pupils and irises become tiny as they saw the creature suck up more than 800 gallons of water, possibly more. Steam came out of the creature's ears, it lets out a moan of relief, again, "despite it not having a visible mouth." Twilight went up to it and felt its fur again, it was now cold. "Amazing! It was burning hot from falling out of the sky and it cooled itself off by drinking a whole pond... which was even more amazing!" Fluttershy looked worried, "Ohh... I hope those poor ducks can find a new home soon..." Applejack looked a little worried, "Um... If he... or she...... uh... what gender are you?" The creature, as usual, did not respond, all it did was stare at Applejack and blinked its eyes. "Err... I'll just call you a "he" for now. Anyways, if he can drink a whole pond, I just hope he's not able to eat an entire apple farm." Applejack looked at the creature's belly, "He didn't even get big from all that there water!" Twilight looked around and thinked for a moment, "Girls, if he came falling out of the sky, he must be from another world, so he most likely can't understand us. We should try to take him to Canterlot tomorrow and see if Celestia has a solution to getting aliens back home. Until then, I'm gonna let him sleep in the castle" Rainbow Dash relaxed against a tree, "What makes you think Celestia can solve this?" Twilight looks over to Rainbow, "If Celestia can control the sun and moon, she must know something about creatures from other worlds." She looks over to the creature, "Follow me, sir. I don't know if you can understand me, but I can get you to shelter." She puts her hoof around the creature's shoulder and guides him to her castle, the rest of the girls follow them back to Ponyville.