A/N: W-wow! One day I open my e-mail account and see my inbox flooded with Fanfiction notices! Thanks, you guys. You all deserve medals and some free Nyan cats!
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Chapter 2: Royce, Meet the Ponies. Ponies, Meet Royce.
The creature fell to the floor in a crumpled heap and started to snore. Twilight Sparkle used her magic to levitate him to the couch they saw earlier. She levitated a blanket on top of it and turned to face the others.
“Okay, now that that’s out of the way, let’s focus on the matter at hand.” She turned her head in a 360, getting a good look at her surroundings. There were three pillars; two on the opposite sides of a door that lead to who knows where and one near some steps. Said steps were what looked to be made of wool and were brown. Next to the steps were a closet and a mirror with a plant in front of it. There were a pile of clothes sitting next to the closet. Rarity scoffed.
“Well, it clearly doesn’t fancy being neat, OR fashionable. I mean look at those clothes! So many brand colors! And they smell! Spike, be a dear and catch me. I think I am about to faint.” Rarity raised a foreleg to her head, and with a dramatic sigh she tilted backwards and fell onto Spike, who could not keep her up, so he fell too. Luna and Celestia giggled at the two, not even trying to contain their delight. Applejack and Rainbow Dash just faced hooved. Pinkie was nowhere to be found, and Fluttershy was standing in the corner with a hoof over her mouth. Twilight turned back towards the creature to examine it some more, but found out it was gone. She gasped.
“Everypony! He’s…she’s…its gone!”
The others stopped what they were doing and looked towards the couch, and sure enough the creature was gone. Twilight was pacing back and forth.
“Oh, no. This is terrible. We just knocked it unconscious in its own home and invaded its personal space! Now that he’s free and in its own environment, who knows what he can do to us!” Celestia put a hoof on Twilight Sparkle, the latter trotting in place and looking frantically about. “Princess, what should we do?”
“Now, Twilight, I am just as worried as you are. But you should not panic. There are eight of us here and only one of it, I think. I am pretty sure you, your friends and us can handle this situation.” Luna came to her side a nodded.
“Indeed, Twilight Sparkle. You have absolutely nothing to worry about.” She turned her head towards Rainbow Dash and Applejack, who both nodded. “We can take it without any problems.”
Twilight smiled up at her teacher and friends. She held her hoofs out open, and everypony, save for Pinkie Pie, who was still missing, Rarity and Spike. Twilight broke the embrace and turned to look at Fluttershy.
“Hey, where’s Pinkie?”
At that exact moment, said pink party pony came galloping down the steps, with a very strange figure on her back, flailing around like a ragdoll. It was the bipedal creature that gone missing. It was still unconscious. Pinkie must have snatched him away when the others weren’t looking. This resulted in a never ending barrage of questions shot at Pinkie, each question sounding like the one asked previously: What in the name of Equestria are you DOING with THAT!? Pinkie Pie just giggled and waved her hoof nonchalantly, as if the questions were the most obvious ones in the history of ponykind.
“Well, duh! Can’t all you girls and Spike see? I’m gonna throw Sleepyhead up there,” She shifted her weight, making the creature slump forward. “A party!”
Spike, who managed to pry the still sleeping Rarity off of him and joined the group. “But why? If you ask me, it acted like a real jerk!” He climbed on top of Twilight’s back. “Plus, he was being mean to Rarity! That automatically makes it bad in my books.” He crossed his arms, casting a deadly glare at the creature, which was still slumped over Pinkie’s back. Everypony else, besides Twilight, Luna and Celestia began to throw in their own reasons as to why the thing shouldn’t get a party.
“He’s a jerk! Did ya even see how he acted around Twi? Ah really don’t like ‘im, Pinkie. He don’t deserve no party!” Applejack.
“Girls.”
“Yeah, what AJ said. If it was being mean to egg-head over there, then he SERIOUSELY needs a clobbering! And I know just the pony who’s willing to do it, too! Rainbow Dash cracked her forehooves.
“Girls!”
“Um…I don’t want to be mean. He did look pretty afraid…but that gives him no right to be rude.” Fluttershy was speaking softly, but at the mention of friends being treated wrongly, she furrowed her brow and spoke in a hard voice.
“GIRLS!”
Everypony turned to look at the lavender unicorn. She was standing in the middle of the bunch, eyes closed and muzzle pointed to the air as she shouted. The others all stood to the side as she walked towards the front. She turned back and gave a long look at the creature. It was bipedal, so it looked like it was riding Pinkie. “Only thing missing is a little pink saddle.” She mused to herself. Shaking her head, Twilight regained her focus and spoke to the group.
“Actually, I think throwing a party for him would be a great idea.” There was a heavy silence that followed that statement. The first one to break it was, surprisingly, a fully awake Rarity.
“WHAT?! Twilight, darling, you can’t be serious! Why would you ever want to throw that brute a party! He clearly doesn’t know the meaning of hygiene, he’s rude and disrespectful, and he insulted you! And how do you even know it’s male?” Rarity was firing reason after reason for not throwing a celebration for the mysterious being. When she spoke about the gender, the others turned their heads to the element of friendship and magic. Said element cleared her throat and trotted to Pinkie’s side.
“Well, it sounds like a guy, doesn’t he?” She didn’t wait for an answer. “And besides, don’t you all see? Throwing a party for him when he wakes up will show him that we clearly mean no harm! Maybe he can open up to us and accept us, as well.” Twilight beamed at the others, letting her suggestion sink in the minds of her friends and mentor. Celestia and Luna nuzzled Twilight, silently agreeing with Twilights plan while the other ponies and one dragon pondered for a bit before Applejack let out a sigh of defeat.
“To tell y’all the truth, I think Twilight’s right.” She lifted a hoof to the creature’s leg, giving it a hard tap. It muttered something about aliens and probing sessions. “Even though he seemed like a hard-flank, there jus’ might be a little good in ‘em. We jus’ gotta expose it.” Fluttershy slowly nodded her head and turned towards Rarity and Rainbow Dash.
“Applejack is right. Maybe if we show him some kindness, he might turn out to be…nice?” she finished the sentence with what sounded like a question to her two of her best friends. Rarity scrunched up her face and flipped her mane.
“Fine. If you see him as a nice…whatever he is, then I will support you girls all the way.” Her face lit up as she smiled. “And maybe I can teach him a lesson or two on fashion!” She clapped (Clopped?) her hoofs together as she dreamed of what may happen when the thing woke up. Rainbow Dash facehooved.
“And I guess with me being the element of loyalty, I’m supposed to go along with whatever you guys say, right? But I’m gonna say this right here, right now,” she flew up so she was face-to-face with whatever the thing was. “If he ever hurts anyone of us, he’s gonna go down. Hard.” Pinkie Pie, now seeing that everypony agreed with her party idea, galloped upstairs, the creature still flailing around. As Pinkie rounded the corner to go up another set of stairs, she slammed him against the wall, making a loud BANG. Spike and Luna winched. That looked like it hurt. The others followed their pink companion up the stairs to help set up the party for their soon to be new friend.
“Oh, God! My HEAD! It hurts like HELL! Ah, man. No blood. That’s a good thing. What the hell happened? All I remember was blacking out in the dining room with pastel colored ponies and a dragon. Must have been a headache from…whatever the hell I had. Did I throw a party last night? God I hope so.”
Royce awakened from his deep slumber hours after he was knocked out by an unseen enemy, but kept his eyes closed. They hurt way too much to open. He had no idea how anything could have gotten him from behind, since he was in a corner. Royce noticed that the purple pony with the pink highlight in its violet hair had a horn that started to glow. Normally, the internet would decide that this was magic, but that was the internet; a place where everything could make sense, but at the same time make no sense at all. Magic was physically implausible. Cartoons may do it, but it can never happen in reality. Sure, there were so called magicians, but Royce knew they were just illusions of the mind that brains like to show to their hosts. “What was that aliens name, again? Highlight Charkle? Skyline Parkle? Oh, why do I care? They weren’t even real! I gotta get up and do some cleaning.”
Royce opened his eyes and suddenly closed them again. Groaning, he rubbed his face with both hands, he spoke, his voice muffled.
“Okay, brain. I’m gonna count to 10. When I open my eyes, I want that pink menace out of my face and those child decorations out of my room. Ready? Countdown starts now. 1…2…3—.”
“SURPRISE!!” Royce yelped as the pink “menace” forced his hands away from his face and quickly tackled him. He yelled and screamed and cried, trying to pry the alien off of his waist. She was extremely strong, and she would not move. He could feel the life being sucked out of him. In the background, Royce could have sworn he heard laughing. Great, he thought to himself. Not only am I gonna die, but I’m gonna die with aliens laughing at me. Is this some kinda sick joke? His breath was leaving fast, and his vision started to become blurry. His breaths became shorter after every second, and if he didn’t manage to get out of this death hold the alien was giving him, he was going to pass out. Royce’s eyes danced around the room frantically, hoping he would find something, ANYTHING that could separate him front this demon. Nothing came into view. Surrendering to his fate, he closed his eyes and said a prayer.
“Dear Lord, I come to you in my final moments of life to tell you that I am terribly sorry for all the trouble I caused for you. I apologize for all the lies I’ve told my parents, all the things I stole as a kid and when I pick-pocketed those twenty dollar bills from Arcanel a couple days ago. I’m sort of sorry for making fun of those bronies, too. They may watch that crappy show My Little Pony, but I still am sorry. Sorry for—.” Halfway through his prayer, Royce noticed that his lungs were slowly filling up with air. He opened his eyes and looked down. The pink alien was now levitating in front of him, a purple hue surrounding its body. While Royce was grateful to whoever freed him, he was still wary. He looked around the room and noticed that there were way too many party decorations for this one…wait a second, party? “Why the hell are they throwing me a party? What is this; some kinda peace treaty? Oh, ho. I ain’t too smart, but I ain’t too dumb, either. They won’t trick me into this.” Royce got up from the floor and dusted himself off. As soon as he was standing he was swarmed by the other aliens. Once again he got into his defensive position. The purple alien came up to him, and Royce noticed that its horn was glowing. “Great, he thought to himself, “So they really can use magic. Dear God I’m gonna get my ass killed.” While Royce was too busy thinking on ways that the horned alien could murder him, said alien tapped him on the knee. He blinked, shook his head and glared at it. It smiled at him and raised its arm for Royce to look around his room.
“Do you like it? Pinkie Pie suggested we throw you a party.” The lavender horse thing levitated the pink one to the floor. Once she was free, the pink horse ran over to a nearby table and grabbed a blue polka dotted party hat. With lighting speed the horse/alien ran back to Royce, and strapped the hat onto his head. He flinched, reaching for the hat to throw it back at the alien and run away, when the alien with the flowing mane and tail with a different assortment of colors came over to him and put her hoof (?) on his shoulder. Fear filled his heart as the alien started to speak to him, this one sounding more regal than the other aliens. She must have been some sort of royal figure back on their home planet.
“Please give my students and her friends a chance, Mister…?”
“Royce. My name is Royce Torres…”
“Ah. Royce. What a strange, but lovely name.” Royce squinted at the alien princess, thinking about what was going on in her mind. “Not sure if wanting to make friends,” he thought to himself. “Or trying to lure me into a trap…” The princess pony continued. “Like I said, my faithful student and her friends are trying to demonstrate to you that we mean you no harm.” Slowly, Royce turned his head to look at each of the alien horse things. Each one gave him a smile that supported the princess’s statement. (Well, besides the rainbow haired one. She just glared at him.) The pink alien suddenly popped up from behind and stood on top of his head. Though the weight was nearly breaking his neck, he was amazed at how it managed to get on him so fast without him even noticing.
“Oh my gosh, Royce! You and me are gonna have so much FUN! We’ll play games and eat cupcakes and have tickle fights and give each other presents and--.”
“What the bitch!? How did you get on my head? And get offa me!” Royce asked while picking up the alien off his head. It was surprisingly light. The other alien horse things chuckled as the pink alien bounced off the floor and back to her hooves. The orange cowgirl alien walked up and patted the pink one on the back. She was still laughing.
“That there’s Pinkie Pie for ya. She’ll make yer head swing backwards wonderin’ how the hay she can defy the laws a’ physics.
“Pinkie…Pie? What kinda gay name is that? And that thing said ‘How the hay’? Is that some sorta substitute on their world for ‘How the hell’? What in God’s name is goin’ on here?” Royce thought to himself. He went over to his neat bed and plopped down on it. He didn’t see the small dragon laying on the edge, so the force of his body making contact with the bed at that force made the dragon fly into the air.
“GAH!” He yelled. He came back down on the bed, unharmed. Royce noticed this and tried to contain his laughter by bringing his hands into his face and sighing. When the giggles left him, he looked over at the group of alien horses. “Well, I think you guys are pretty confused like me right now. I’ve never met aliens before, and though it seems that I’m not showing it, I’m pretty frikken’ scared right now.” The rainbow haired alien started to laugh, and Royce frowned.
“HA! He’s scared of us! What a shrimp!” Royce raised an eyebrow at her. “Cocky bitch.” He put his arms up in a defensive manner and started to look at the wall behind the aliens.
“Watch out guys. We’re dealing’ with a badass here.” He couldn’t help but snicker after the comment. This seemed to rile the cyan horse up, and the sight made Royce’s smile grow. The alien suddenly did the unexpected: she flew into his face and shoved him. Royce’s smile transformed into a scowl as he pushed her back. “Step off.” He said. The alien smirked and pushed him again, and he pushed back again. “I said, BACK OFF!” The horse thing must have been deaf or something, because she just pushed him again. Royce growled as he raised a fist, ready to knock her lights out, which in all honesty really wasn’t a good idea considering who was around him at the moment. He was about to throw the first punch when the alien was pulled back by the orange one.
“Now Rainbow Dash, y’all know it ain’t right to start pickin’ fights outta nowhere, especially in a host’s own home.” Royce could make out her sentence easily with the alien named Rainbow Dash’s tail in her mouth. Rainbow Dash was beating her wings, trying to break free, but to no avail. Seeing that she was beaten, she stopped flapping her wings and sunk to the floor, adding a pretty audible ‘He started it’. Royce let this slide, though. The lavender horse trotted over to where he stood and cleared her throat.
“Uh, excuse me Mister Torres, but I think that introductions should be in order. You told us your names, so I think it’s only that we tell you ours. I’ll start us off: Greetings, my name is Twilight Sparkle.”
The others all seemed to brighten up when it came to telling Royce their names. The orange one tipped her hat to Royce.
“Names Applejack. I’s a pleasure ta meet ya, Royce Torres.” The pink one was about to introduce herself, but Royce held up his hand. “I already know your name, Pinkie Pie. No need to waste your breath.” He turned his gaze to Rainbow Dash. “Same thing goes to you, dyke. Don’t open your mouth to tell me your name.”
“What the buck is a dyke?”
“None of your business. Next alien, please.”
The butter yellow alien with the long pink hair stepped forward, but still pretty far away from Royce.
“Uh…excuse me, Mister Torres, but--.”
“Just Royce, love.”
“Eep!”
She flew behind the big blue alien. She looked a lot like the white alien princess, but only with a few differences. She was a dark blue and a long, black and blue flowing mane and tail. She had a small black crown on her head. She moved out of the way so the yellow horse was visible. She was quaking, her hooves covering her eyes. Realizing that she wasn’t going to be speaking, the smaller princess spoke for her. She moved her hoof to point at the cowering horse thing.
“This,” she started. “Is Fluttershy. She is a very, very shy mare, so please be gentle when speaking to her. I, on the other hoof, am Princess Luna; princess of the night, bringer of the moon and younger sister of Princess Celestia.” She then directed her hoof to the white horse princess, who bowed her head. “She is the older princess out of us two, and the bringer of the sun.” Royce raised his hand like a kid still in school. Luna was puzzled, but she complied. “Yes, Royce?”
“Wait wait wait…what you’re saying…is that you two aliens can control the sun and the frikken’ moon?” He asked. Twilight Sparkle nodded at the confirmation.
“That’s right, Royce. Princess Celestia and Princess Luna are alicorns that were given the power to raise both sun and moon. They also have the privileges of having both wings and a horn. And we’re not aliens, Royce. We’re ponies.”
“But wait. You and that one…pony over there have horns, and the dyke pony and shy one have wings…does that make you guys…?”
“If you’re asking if we’re unicorns and pegasi, then yes, we are. Why? Do you have any of those on your world?”
“Um, no. No, we don’t. They’re actually just a myth. Supposed to be extinct for like, billions n’ billions of years. But we do have regular ponies like those two.” He pointed at Applejack and Pinkie Pie.
Twilight nodded.
“Well, now you know our names and we know yours. We told you our species, so shouldn’t you be telling us yours?” Royce winced when she asked the question.
“Um, I guess yeah. I don’t really feel comfortable, though, so if I sound kinda…off, it’s because I’m nervous. Okay? And please, take a seat. This is gonna be a long story.”
A/N: And that’s it for today, guys! Hope you liked reading it as much as I liked writing it! Next chapter is when Royce explains how his world works and will be giving the ponies the grand tour of his house! See you guys!
Oh, and by the way. I’ve been vacationing on a site called My Little Brony. Funny shit, man. Funny shit.
-Ghost2291