I open my eyes to fine myself face-to-face with a pink earth pony with a curly mane that smelled like...cotton ca -- wow, I guess that fanfics more-or-less are a reliable source, after all.
"How...am I not surprised by this."
Ironically, the aforementioned pony is astonished by my sudden remark, and goes flying backwards as a result, revealing the presence of five other ponies...they were expecting me.
I start to sit up, and I can feel...I can feel wings spreading.
"Why helloooo~~...." says the first voice I hear, which is followed by a growl that instantly reminds me of Roy Orbison...but fortunately for me, it turns out to be just Rainbow Dash...a rather lasciviously looking Rainbow Dash. At this point, though, I'm not sure whether I should be worried by this.
"Do ya think ya could wait a lil' bit at least bafore ya start hittin' on the poor pony?!"
As I sit up I quickly shake my head in an attempt to fully get myself out of the 'realm' that I had just left.
"Actually...I can't believe I'm saying this, but I agree with Applejack here..." I say without even opening my eyes yet.
"Huh? What tha hay is that suppos'd ta mean?"
"What that's supposed to mean is that I can't believe I'm not wanting to get hit on..."
As I finally start to regain my senses, I find my new friends laughing at my joke, despite the sincere truth in it.
Noticing some movement in front of me, I exclaim "Pinkie! Stop breaking the fourth wall!" to the party pony who I see ahead of me, prompting a 'sorry' out of her, before she takes off for what I'm guessing is preparation for my 'welcome to Ponyville' party.
"Wow...you already know a lot about us, don't you?" says a voice to my immediate right, whom I turn and find to be Twilight.
"Well...that goes both ways here, doesn't it?"
"Girls, we should probably let him be a bit while he's still recovering. Formal introductions can wait until later." says another voice, coming from the right of Twilight, which turns out to be Rarity.
With some whining from Rainbow, they start to leave.
"Don't you think I should ask some basic questions first?"
They stop momentarily before they leave, with the exception being Twilight, who walks back over to me with a chuckle.
"Alright then, ask away."
I go straight out with them. [color=crimsond]"Where am I currently, what time is it, I'm hungry, and where's the bathroom?"
Twilight laughs. "That penultimate one wasn't a question."
I smirk. "I never said they were all questions."
"Touché." she says, as she starts to help me up.
I stumble as my new hooves make their first ever contact with the Equestrian ground, but fortunately Twilight quickly catches me with her magic.
"It's weird, isn't it? Having to take your first steps as a full...grown...stallion." Twilight says as she turns away with a nervous laugh as she says those last three words, desperately trying to hide her deep crimson blush, which she's not doing a good job at.
I start to catch on. "Alright, how many of you are attracted to me?" Twilight responds with only a deeper blush. I let out a sigh as I look down and shake my head, facehoofing. "This...is going to be interesting..." I add, wiping my hoof down my face.
Twilight also lets out a sigh. "That's an understatement..."
I look back up at the purple unicorn and wittingly add "As is that."
With another nervous laugh, Twilight promptly showed me the way to her bathroom, making certain to use her body to help me keep my balance as I'm still getting used to my new body...although I can tell that Twilight is taking advantage of it for the visible excitement that she's getting just from touching me. However, I'm not minded by this, albeit only because I am now fully aware of the intense crush that each of the mane six apparently has on me. I do need to be extremely cautious, though, as I don't want to do anything I might later regret, even if it seems to be worth it at the time.
After establishing those mental guidelines for myself, I also realize that that doesn't mean that I can't have any 'fun' with this...so long as I don't take it too far, though by the looks of it so far, I have a feeling that I won't be wearing the 'daddy pants' anytime soon.
I clear my thoughts with another shake of my head, finding that we've just arrived at the bathroom. As I maneuver myself in, I decide with a smirk to give Twilight an intentional bump with my flank.
Afterwards, I feel much better -- I guess that simply needing to piss like a race horse...wow, another pun?... was what had been making it so difficult to get a hold of my senses. As I walk out -- which I now find to be instinctive -- and I can start to smell something...something that caused my eyes to widen...
FOOD!!!
I make my way towards the source -- swiftly, but carefully -- and, judging by the position of the sun in the sky, which I can see through a window, I determine that this is lunch. As I walk into the kitchen, I notice that Twilight is still blushing, the color of which I'd describe as a mix of ruby and maroon.
"That blush will become permanent if you keep that up."
Twilight looked in my direction, then simply blushes even more. I walk over and take a seat at the table, and after several seconds the lavender mare breaks the silence.
"I'm warning you...I'm not very good at cooking...at all."
My response is what will be later known as the first of my 'philosophical quotes', which I would end up being well known for -- mainly for the fluency and wit in them, in my opinion.
"The quality of something means nothing when said something is direly needed."
Twilight puts her cooking on a plate and sets it down before me, taking a seat across from me. I grin manically at what is set before me: a grilled cheese. Twilight laughs as she sees my reaction, visibly pleased with herself.
After eating, I immediately start to get lost in a thought, but fortunately, Twilight speaks up before that could happen.
"Hey...Brendan..."
I look up, surprised at first that she knew my birth name, though it wasn't long before I remembered that they had been told all about me...
"Yeah, Twilight?"
"Um...could you follow me? We need to do something."
Immediately, the whole crush-thing burst into my thoughts, but fortunately for me, I could tell from Twilight's face that this was regarding my being here. I've never really been certain how I can tell these things, I...just guess I'm good at reading body language.
I nod and stand up, thanking her yet again for the food, as I already had several times during the meal. As I do, Twilight stands as well, then walks over to the staircase leading to the upper floor, then turns and gives me an encouraging gesture, then waits for me to get to her before continuing.
Once we got to the upper level, I recognized what room I was in: this was the main area of the library, which also served as....Twilight's bedroom. I saw Twilight walk over to a standing mirror that was along the side of the room, and beckoned me over once again with a wave of her hoof. Once I got to her, I noticed my reflection in the mirror, and when I turned to look, I immediately saw why Twilight had brought me up here.
I was white -- not caucasian white, but a complete-lack-of-color white. The basic majority of my body looked as if I had just escaped from a coloring book....but my eyes, mane, tail, wings, as well as several different lines on my body, all flickered, reminiscent of aha's iconic music video for their song 'Take On Me' -- scratch that, exactly like in that video. With all this thinking, I confused myself, as I do sometimes: did I look more like I was out of a coloring book, or a comic book, which was what the aha video was about.
I manage to snap myself out of my self-inflicted trance to find Twilight highly amused at my intense thinking, barely holding back a laugh. I started to chuckle myself, before finally deciding on a course of action.
I look at my reflection in the mirror with a smirk, as I humorously think my plan:
Time to make myself look 'pretty'.