Okay, let's see how these wings work...
I walked around the market stands and looked at what kind of things were being sold. It was mostly food, since all I could see was a huge variety of fruits and vegetables. Cherries, carrots, lettuce, onions, potatoes, berries, bananas, apples, oranges, the works., Others had their own store, like SugarCube Corner. There was also a fancy-looking house full of decorations, fancy windows with a carousel-looking thing with a flag on top. And along with looking around I was trying to figure out what damn muscle I was supposed to move to work my wings!
One of the ponies approached me. She was a unicorn had an aquamarine coat, a pale light blue mane, and golden eyes. She was soon followed by a cream-coloured earth pony, with a curly pink and blue curly mane and tail and sky blue eyes..
"Hi there! You must be new around here!" Said the unicorn.
"You seem to be having trouble keeping your face normal. Are you okay? Did you eat something bad?", asked the other pony with concern..
"Yeah, I literally got here yesterday." I said, "and what's wrong with my face?"
"You seem to be making some really funny faces around here, we couldn't stop looking at you and wonder what you were doing." said the aqua unicorn.
...My concentration face... crap.
Ever since I was little, I had this habit of making really weird things whenever I am focusing on something really hard. For example, I stick my tongue out when I am writing, my thumb sticks up when I'm eating (weird, huh? I guess I won't have that problem here), and when I was trying to flare my nostrils, I made some really strange faces until I finally learned it. I guess the last one came back to haunt me...
"Oh... It's because I am trying to learn how to flap my wings. I can't seem to figure it out so I’m kinda focusing too hard and I end up making these faces."
"Wait, you never used your wings before?" asked the cream pony, shocked at my answer.
"How old are you anyway!?" asked the unicorn - she had the same expression as her friend.
Shit... how old AM I in this body??
"Uh... would you believe me if I told you I have no idea how old I am?" I grinned sheepishly.
"Maybe... seeing as you can't even flap your wings after all these years, unless you got hit in the head and you're having amnesia." said the unicorn. "Do you at least remember your name? We haven't introduced ourselves yet"
"My name's Johnny Bass, nice to meet you!" I said.
"Name's Lyra Heartstrings, this is Bon Bon. Nice meeting you Johnny! You said you got here yesterday. Where are you from?" she asked.
"Eh... not from this world, I can tell you that. I wasn't even a pony a few days ago!"
"So what were you before you were a pony?" Bon Bon asked.
"A human, but I don't think you guys got that kind of species around here do yo-"
"A HUMAN!? I KNEW IT! I KNEW THEY EXISTED!" Lyra screamed and started jumping around with joy, "This is awesome! I heard tales of creatures that walked on two feet and had things that poked out of their arms and could grab stuff with them, but I was always told it was an old pony's tale!"
How the hell did these ponies know about humans!?
"So... if you're not from this world... how did you get here?" asked Bon Bon, while she struggled to hold Lyra in place. "Lyra, calm down! You're making a scene!"
"What in tarnation is going on 'ere?" said an orange pony with a cowboy hat, and a thick southern accent. She started walking towards us.
"He's a human! He's a human!" blurted out Lyra. "He's not from this world!"
"Well I don't wanna butt into yer conversation, but your screamin' is scaring away mah customers. I got apples to sell!" said the angry cowboy pony (cowpony, cowgirl pony, I don't know man...). "Sorry fer that, sugarcube;" she said to me, "You seem new here so I can't really blame you fer this. What's yer name?"
"Johnny Bass, nice meeting you."
"Applejack, pleasure to meet ya. When did you arrive 'ere in Ponyville?" she asked.
"Yesterday, I woke up outside Ponyville in a thunderstorm, and I got rescued by Rainbow Dash. I can tell you the whole story later, if you want."
"Ohh... so you're the fella she was talking 'bout this mornin'. I heard about your accident; sorry to hear that..."
"I'll move on, don't worry."
"Lyra! Look at the time! We have to go to Pinkie Pie's to help her with the party she's throwing tonight!" said Bon Bon as she pointed towards the Town Centre clock. "That's the Johnny she mentioned in her invitation, remember?"
"Oh yeah! I completely forgot about that!" said Lyra, "sorry Johnny! We gotta hoof it for now, see ya at the party!" and with that they ran off to SugarCube Corner.
"Okay, bye!" I said while waving a hoof at them.
"So yer looking to buy sum apples, Johhny?" asked Applejack.
"Actually, I don't have any bits right now. I'm looking for a place to work and get some cash of my own."
"Well why didn't you say so? We can always have some help at the farm; just drop by any time! If yer up for the job I mean."
"Sure! I'll come by tomorrow morning - I got stuff to do at the moment."
"Alright then. If ye need any help, don't be afraid to ask me. I'm the most reliable pony around these parts!" she said, walking back to her apple stand, which had a whole bunch of baskets filled with apples.
Okay then, I guess that counts as meeting new ponies, time to scratch off that checklist... If I can use that quill somehow...
I walked over to a table at The Daisy and Rose and reached into my saddlebag, placing the checklist on the table. I picked up the quill and put it next to the paper stared at it pensivly.
I don't think there's such thing as hoof writing, is there?
I tried to pick up the quill with my hoof. Nothing.
Of course...
"Hey Johnny!" yelled Rainbow Dash from above waving a hoof at me. She was kicking the clouds and clearing the skies.
"Hey Rainbow! I have a question about writing, can you come down here for a sec?" I yelled back.
She flew down and walks over to my table and looks at the paper and quill. "Don't tell me you don't know how to write..."
"That's the thing, I know how to write... if I had hands... how do you do that with hooves?" I asked.
"Johnny... that's impossible, we can't grab tiny stuff with hooves." she explained. If you pay attention to your hooves you can see that you can move them slightly and hold bigger things like an apple."
"I knew that!" I gave her a grin. "I was just making sure you knew that too!"
"Uh huh..." she rolled her eyes. "Just use your mouth to write, like this.", she reached for the quill, and I felt her mane brush against my neck, it smelled nice. Like a breath of fresh air. And since I’ve been used to living in a city environment, fresh air was rather hard to come by. Ugh, snap out of it, Johnny!, I shook my head and paid attention to what she was writing.
Hi, this is Rainbow Dash. I am writing this on Johnny's checklist to show him how to "mouth write", because he is too lazy to figure out how to do it by himself.
"Hey!" I whined. Rainbow Dash just stuck her tongue out and laughed.
"I'm kidding about the last part, Johnny, calm down!" she giggled.
"Okay, thanks for the help anyway,” I said, "But I got one more thing to say."
"And what's that?"
"You smell like a breath of fresh air, and I love fresh air."
She smiled, punched me on the shoulder and flew back to the clouds.
"Ow?" I yelled as she flew away.
She stuck her tongue at me again, and went back to clearing the sky.