Pinkie Pie bounced over to Starlight before her smile turned into a frown as she began to speak in a worried tone.
“Starlight? You okay?”
I slowly walked up behind her and started to look at Starlight my voice was wavering.
“Starlight? Come on get up!”
Starlight didn’t move for a moment before letting out a cough that lasted for a couple of seconds before she began to stand up her eyes seemed to be looking around the room rather frantically before her eyes fell on me they seemed to physically glitch out turning into a faint red before returning to their original purple coloration she smiled before shaking her head.
“Ugh… I’m fine, but my head is pounding”
Starlight said holding a hoof to her head she winced a bit when it touched her face but she wasn’t bleeding anywhere “At least no one got killed” I thought before shaking my head I couldn’t think of any of these ponies dying and I surely didn’t want to. I began to open my mouth to speak to Starlight before I noticed Pinkie Pie practically tackled Starlight with a gigantic hug. Her eyes were practically sparkling and she had a big grin on her face.
“You’re okay! Oh I know what this needs a Magical Recovery Party!”
Pinkie Pie seemingly stretched her neck before disappearing it was very strange but questioning it wouldn’t help me anyways. Starlight smiled before starting to use her magic to grip a broom that ended up lodged under the bed she seemed alright so I began to step out of the room holding a book in hoof “I’ll leave you to the cleaning”.
Starlight didn’t respond or If she did I hadn’t heard I was too far away from the door at that point. I began to lose myself in a train of thought as I wandered the castle halls for a bit “I wonder if I should leave… I wouldn’t want anyone to see me failing to use magic” a stumbled past the Kitchen again I stopped for a moment and looked around grabbing a spare red apple, I whirled my head around noticing Spike wasn’t around I smiled. “Not that I care” I thought before finding my way back to the entrance of the castle.
“I wonder how Twilight navigates everyday, she should really invest in some sort of map” I said before pushing the door open a slight breeze hit me as I did catching the view of the town from ground level It wasn’t much different but I still couldn’t believe what I was looking at there were a couple of ponies here or there nothing too major I bet I could find a quiet spot fairly quickly. I started to walk around I saw the Town Hall I could probably get a map that made it easier to get around “Would they worry if I didn’t know my way around? Nah… it should be fine” and with that I set off towards the Town Hall.
While walking I swung my head around look at the buildings nearby “It really is a nice place I might need to write something about this before I leave… nah no one would ever believe me” I said shaking my head before bumping into someone’s backside being sent backwards as I fell looking upwards I saw the pony turning around with a blank expression on their face.
“Oh sorry! Guess I blanked out again”
She said with a somewhat sweet smile on her face I noticed she had a pink mane and sort of peachish skin she also had a cutie mark with three tornadoes. She reached down a hoof to help me up I oddly tried to grasp at it until I was eventually able to wrap my hoof around it and come back to a standing position,I rubbed my head before I spoke
“Oh it’s no problem, I’m fine”
She seemed more relaxed when I said that. “At least I think so I’m not so good at reading social cues or body language” I thought before noticing there was a crowd of ponies on the street.
“What’s Everyone, I mean Everypony doing here!”
The Pink Maned Pony looked at me strangely before shaking her head
“Today is Discount Day, there are stands everywhere, I thought you would know already Princess”
She said gesturing her hoof around the area I suddenly noticed a couple of food stands around although I was confused “What the heck is Discount Day? The show never showed this” I thought shaking my head going along with it.
“So uh… how long will it take for everypony to clear out?”
The Pink Maned Pony shrugged or as much as you can shrug being a quadruped and turned back to the crowd sighing.
“Must be great being able to just levitate things”
I frowned “Wait am I gonna be here all day?” I thought rather unamused, I should have taught myself how to fly. I had eventually decided to try to make my way through the crowd as I walked forward I managed to avoid a couple of ponies running around before I came to a stop right after I had exited the sea of ponies.
“Whew… I made it!” I said somewhat exhausted I shouldn’t have done so much physical exertion.
I looked up in the sky to see a rock or something falling from the sky In retrospect I should have moved out of the way when I saw that it was a full grown pegasus mare speeding in my direction but by the time I even processed that information I had been tackled into the ground. They gray mare with a messy blond mane bounced up off me within a couple seconds she was wearing a
brown cap and a brown bag.
“Oh hey, Twilight I think I have some mail for you”
She said quickly checking her bag before pulling out a small envelope and handing it over. I awkwardly moved my hoof around a couple of times trying to grab it before it fell on the ground “I can pick it up later” I thought and stared at the Mailmare for a couple of seconds with a worried grin.
“Uh… thanks, Derpy”
Derpy did a rather odd salute before flying upwards again crashing into a sign and various other objects on her way. I stared at the ground trying to will my magic to work on the piece of paper but it didn’t budge even a little.
“Was Derpy’s voice always that… strange?”
I shook my head before a wind kicked up blowing the envelope off the ground and slapping it against my face as I stumbled back. “At least I don’t have to pick it up” I thought carefully raising my hoof to my face and sliding it off. Crumpling the paper slightly in my hoof I continued to walk towards the Town Hall “I swear everything is trying to stop me today” I thought as I started to speed up into a jog, looking around I finally saw the streets calm down only a couple of ponies just hanging around. I took a deep breath I liked being alone “I may like a show about friendship but that doesn’t mean I need to get everyone to be my friend” I thought before slowly opening the door to Town Hall with a loud creak the place was dark like it was unused or closed.
“Hello? Anyone there?”
I said shakily as I was beginning to get scared I heard the door slam shut behind me as my breath started to get ragged, then the lights powered on practically blinding me.
“Surprise!”
I heard as about 30 ponies assaulted my eardrums as Pinkie Pie bounced over to me doing that ear piercing fast talking thing, It was fairly hard for me to pick up what she was saying exactly “I’m still wondering how she figured out I was coming here” I thought very frazzled.
“Happy Birthdayversaryrecovery Party!”
I looked at her dumbfounded
“Birthday what-”
Pinkie Pie bounced up as there were various banners and streamers of different color hung up around the place as there were three different tables full of cupcakes,donuts,cakes and other sweets. The other ponies started moving around.
“Well I had a couple of parties backed up so I figured I could combine the three into one Giga Party!”
I opened my mouth then shook my head and closed it again. I then closed my eyes and took a deep breath in.
“Okayyyyy…”
I said dragging out the end of the sentence in a exasperated sigh before she stuck a hoof in my mouth quickly causing me to choke before she pulled it out again, slowly hacking for a couple of seconds before looking back at her angrily.
“Pinkie what the Fu-”
Pinkie Pie whipped off her hoof on a napkin and looked back at me jittering in place.
“Woah Woah Woah Twilight you can’t say that here there are children! Besides it’s a party have some fun with it… hold on I gotta check out Starlight’s reaction!”
She said before zipping off leaving a cloud of smoke where she once was. I noticed her across at another light violet table talking to Starlight, the party was alright I guess there was some sort of music going on? It sounded like a bunch of teenage girls singing about friendship laced over a pop tune. There were ponies kinda crowding around but I just sat there near the entrance looking downwards at the map I had trying to figure out where to go from here. I faded off into my memories as the sound faded into blank noise I saw my old cramped cluttered house that had layers of clothes on the floor and pizza grease all over the couch cushions my old little 36” Panasonic Television that I bought in 2000 I felt a pang in my chest did I miss my old crappy life? No time to figure that out I felt a hoof tap on my back snapping me out of my longful thoughts. I think it was the Kid who’s birthday it is today he had a kind of squeaky voice I was guessing he was like 7 years old or something but I don’t know how to tell how old a pony is.
“Hey what’s wrong Princess?”
I now looked down at the kid he had a very tangerine kind of coat color and a rather dusty brown hair. He didn’t have a cutie mark but his little wings fluttered on his back. It was cute but I didn’t stare for long I just leaned against the door frame letting out another sigh as the wood creaked when I shifted my weight.
“Just thinking about some things Kiddo”
He blinked before quickly retorting to that question with curiosity.
“What are you thinking about?”
I looked at the kid and gestured my hoof around in a circle before dropping it to the ground. I didn’t feel like specifying what I was thinking about it would probably break this kids mind or something.
“You know, home and stuff”
The Tangerine kid as I’ve decided to call him for now looked up at me with wide eyes which seemed to have star like sparkles in them clearly excited.
“You mean that big Shiny Castle near the end of town? I’d love to be there too”
I looked at him blankly “I guess anyone would love to have their own castle” I thought. Tapping the creaky floorboard with my now relaxed hoof before replying.
“I guess… It’s kind of empty for being so big”
I said in a monotone voice my mind wasn’t entirely focused on the Tangerine Kid, as I thought about a couple of routines I used to do at home even if I only did come up with Work,Sleep, Watch Tv and Eat. “I’m an interesting guy… right?” I thought to myself trying to think up something I had done with my life I could call Interesting I came up with absolutely nothing “Has the most interesting thing that happened to me is being dropped of in a world full of talking ponies?”. While my brain was whirring like a high end PC Tangerine Kid finished his little story or whatever he was rambling about I just shook my head slightly like I was listening. He squeaked and popped up hurriedly like he just remembered something.
“Well I oughta get back to my parents bye Princess!”
I nodded then watched him scramble out the door along with a couple of other fleeting ponies. I whispered almost as if I talked too loudly the whole building would collapse and stood straight.
“Looks like the party's over”
Pinkie Pie then walked over and I mean walked over like normally It made me a bit shocked but eh she had a grin on her face like she just ate the greatest cake of all time and fidgeted around in place like she was about to hold back an explosion from going off. She looked from me back to Table a couple of times as the room dimmed, the sun was setting now so everything had a sort of orange tint. Once she gets to me she practically unloads questions rapid fire at me like a minigun.
“So how did you like the party? Was the food is great? Did you like the streamers? Were you surprised?”
I reeled my head back like her words actually slapped me right in my face. I stared ahead as Pinkie Pie sat next to me watching the Sun fade into the horizon line I just nodded my head with a complacent tone.
“You did good Pinkster you did good”