"Say Princess, or Twilight, whatever you casually go by now. It’s nice you invited me. One question though, why did you invite me to the Royal Tea Time Extravaganza?”
“Well I, you see. Okay look, the annual Royal Tea Time Extravaganza requires all ponies with royal status to attend. And you, if ya forgot, are royalty.”
“Ooohh. I still don’t get it.”
“Look. This is a royal gathering. Just, go stand in the corner over there," Twilight points a hoof towards the nearest corner, “If you don’t know what to do. Or you get bored slash you’re too shy to talk with every other creature!"
“Okay. One other question though, who or what is attending this extravaganza?”
Twilight’s about to speak before one of the royal servants runs up frantically to her.
“Princess... your Highness, the guests from the Diamond Dog kingdom have arrived."
Both Kyle and Princess Twilight can hear in the other room all sorts of barking.
“You stay here now. I’ll be back with the whole company of Diamond Dog royalty. No pressure!” Princess Twilight saying the last part like her normal ‘Twilighting’ self.
Kyle nodding his head in agreement.
***
“So, you are a royal servant from the Diamond Dog kingdom. My name’s Kyle, nice to meet ya.” Kyle said, friendly like, holding his hoof out for a hoof (or paw) shake.
Though the diamond dog he’s speaking to appeared to not understand a single word he just said, as the diamond dog is just staring at him, cross-eyed, panting with its tongue out.
“Okay. Nice to meet ya too.”
The pony and diamond dog spend the next five minutes in silence, both aimlessly staring at one another.
“Uh, Prince Kyle?” Royal Guard Gallus asks, hoping to break whatever Kyle and the diamond dog royal servant are doing.
“Prince Kyle? Kyle? Look this way!!” Gallus bursts out loud the last part, not realizing that everyone right close to the three of them all heard him.
“Huh? Oh hey Gallus. What’re you doing here in Canterlot?” Kyle asks the griffin after finally getting his attention.
“Ahem,” Gallus coughs purposefully, moving closer to whisper something in his ear, “This scroll is for you. It’s from somepony you know.”
“Somepony I know?” Kyle whispers back, taking the scroll from Gallus, then watching the griffin fly away.
“Somepony I know.”
Kyle says to himself before opening up the scroll, reading as it says:
Dear Kyle,
It’s me! You're old friend. From middle school. Listen, I know of how I treated you during that time. If ya wanna meet up, I’ll be at Pony Joe’s tonight 'til closing.
If ya wanna meet up, then see ya later tonight, if not, I guess I understand.
Your Old Friend,
Richard
“Huh? Well I’ll be...” Kyle says to himself after reading the scroll sent to him from an old friend of long ago.
Richard eh? I think I remember him, I think. He was that one who sat with me at lunch during middle school. We always used to talk the latest in motorsports.
I didn’t really think we were that close. I mean, we did race our motorbikes almost every weekend. Plus there was that one time.
Oh yeah. THAT time. Oh boy, what a time. Why, I still have the bruises on my hind corners.
Kyle giggles to himself, thinking of all the stuff him and his long ago buddy Richard did during their middle school years.
“Hey! Whatcha giggling to yourself for?” Princess Twilight asks Kyle as she flies over to him.
Kyle finishes up his giggling to reply back. “Oh, it’s nothing. It’s stupid, actually. Why, ya had to have been there!”
“Inside joke, right. I know all about that experience.” Princess Twilight pouts out.
“It’s- it’s nothing. Well it is something ‘cause I just received a letter from an old friend of mine. He asks if I wanna maybe meet up with him.” Kyle explains to the Princess, levitating the letter over to her so she can read it for herself.
“Really. Well, do you remember at all of your guys’ friendship? Were you the best of friends, or the worst. Or somewhere in between?” Princess Twilight asks Kyle after taking a quick peek at his letter.
“Uh, I’m not actually really sure. Aside from the usual weekends/lunchtime, we weren’t really that much in the way of friends. We were more... well knowned acquaintances.”
“Okay. Well, if you wanna go, you can. I won’t stand in the way.” Princess Twilight replies back.
“Won’t stand in the way? But you're, like, the 'Princess of Friendship'. Aren’t ya supposed to tell me of what I should do, and how I should do it?” Kyle asks sarcastically.
“Normally I would. But as I’ve learned over the years, one single friendship between two different creatures is unique. Not one solution I could give can help you. I can advise you on what you can do, but still, only you can make things right.”
“Plus after this, I got a very long and possibly unexciting two hour meeting with royalty of the Diamond Dog kingdom.”
“Oh,” Kyle thinks to himself for a second, “On second thought, sure. Why not. I’ll go and see him. Plus, he stills owes me for that one time.”
“I’m not gonna ask what that one time was. Good luck with your friend.” Princess Twilight wishes upon Kyle as she flies back over to where she was before.
“Okay, I will!” Kyle shouts back at the Princess, getting everycreature’s attention (except for from that same diamond dog from earlier). “Oh, and thank you! You’re a good friend, and your friendship guidance helps make me a better pony!!”
Princess Twilight turns around and gives a big smile towards Kyle.
Kyle returning the favor with a big smile of his own.
***
(25 Years (Or Moons) Later)
“And that, is how I knew Princess Twilight Sparkle and her friends. The end.” Prince Kyle finishes telling the twenty young fillies all around him at the School of Friendship his story of how he knew Princess Twilight and her friends, plus the rest of his life story.
“Yeah right. You of all ponies actually knew the six most important ponies of the last century. What a farce.” One of the fillies listening, a white colored, orange haired male unicorn, rudely heckled.
“Well, I thought it was sweet,” The teal colored, purple haired female earth pony says sweetly, “Especially the parts where he mentions his problematic love life.”
Kyle’s smile disappears, going to a concerned look. “Oh. Well I-“
“Alright you guys, that’s it for now. You better get back to class before your teachers start getting worried. Especially Trixie.” Headmare Starlight saying that last part more quietly, after telling all of the students gathered around Kyle to get back to their classrooms.
“Ugh! Finally. That story was so the worst.”
“Hmmphm.” Nearly everyone else (besides that earth pony mare from before) nodding their heads in approval as they all leave as one big group.
“Uh... sorry about that. If I would’ve known of how they would react before, then I-“
“It’s no problem. Not everypony will get my story.” Kyle interrupts Starlight as he watches all of the students walk away, having his attention more on that one particular earth pony from before. Seeing her look back towards him, seeing her smiling hopefully at him.
“Yeah. Plus besides, I’d prob do the same thing if I was their age again.”
“Okay. Anywho, I should get going. Sorry I won’t be able to accompany you to the train station. Work is just so busy now this time of year.”
“Oh, it’s no prob. Plus, I got one more item of business to take care of.” Kyle says as Headmare Starlight walks away from him and back to her office.
***
(Later That Afternoon)
“So, Rose Streaks, you look exceedingly lovely tonight.”
“Ya know you don’t have to keep saying that? Plus, we’re here.” Kyle’s old friend, Richard, tells him.
Kyle kept saying that to not only himself but Richard for the whole walk over to the restaurant.
“I do. Oh, how could I not have known! How could I not possibly think of my actions!! I-“ *slap*
“Kyle,” Richard stops Kyle’s nervous rambling with a slap on the cheek with a hoof, “You’re acting weird again. Unlike every other time.” Richard mumbling the last part to himself.
“I know. I just really want this evening all over with. With a new girlfriend mind you. But what if she doesn’t have that much interest in me? What if-“ Kyle interrupts himself as a thought had just occurred to him.
Kyle thinking of everything that he had went through up to this moment.
Thinking back to the day when he (almost) jumped Principal Clover’s cart, and how Rose Streaks was there to see it.
Then thinking back to that summer where he met the Mane Six, going along with them as a fellow staff member at the School of Friendship. Of all the ponies (and creatures) of whom he’d met while there. Of all the interactions he had with everycreature.
Only for it all to end very badly for him, as Rose Streaks broke to him the news of her moving away. How heartbroken Kyle was. It was a dark time for him then.
But then, those same six ponies from before came to him and made Kyle feel something.
Remembering how the six of them called Kyle their friend truly changed his life, mentally and physically (‘cause of the alicorn wings he received later on).
The coronation of Kyle’s role into Equestrian royalty happened next, then there was saving every creature from certain star falling destruction doom.
That summer was sure something.
And even though Twilight and the rest of the Mane Six aren’t always gonna be there for him, Kyle’s made other friends that truly care about him. Like Principal Clover, Rose Streaks, Ryan, and now Richard, of whom the two are now officially best friends.
Who knows, maybe if Kyle never actually met Twilight that one time in the town square of Ponyville, and her not giving him the idea to storm Area 57, his life would be different.
“You know what, I got this.”
The End