by Fuzzyfurvert
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Celestia pulled the edge of the curtain back by a miniscule amount and peeked through at the throng of bodies that were rapidly filling the room. “You know, Twilight, I’m not sure which is more strange: all of these people who have come to meet us, or the fact that I am a hairless monkey wearing pants.”
Twilight Sparkle smiled awkwardly and shrugged. “Yeah, that took a while to get used to when I first came here. I bet Rarity is going to have a field day with all of these pictures of human fashion we’ll bring back to her.
“As for the people out there...these so-called Bronies? I’m honestly flattered. After we defeated Sunset Shimmer and I returned to Equestria, word spread about there being a world of magical talking equines. And it seems they’re huge fans of us.”
Celestia sighed and smiled at Twilight. “Well it is certainly unlike any diplomatic interaction I’ve participated in before. That there are humans in this world that are so happy to meet us gives me hope for any future interactions with them.”
“One minute everypony!” Pinkie Pie, the actually human one at least, popped out from around the corner and waved a clipboard at Twilight before she started giggling uncontrollably. “pphhhttblll! ‘Everypony!’ That is soooo silly sounding...sorry, sorry...still getting used to that.”
Pinkie gasped as she took a huge breath to reset herself. “So, yeah… one minute until you head out Principle Princess Pretty Pony Celestia, ma’am!”
“Er...thank you, Miss Pie.”
“No prob Bob!” Pinkie stuck out her hand and made a fist with one finger pointing up before spinning in place and running off shouting at other humans as they finished setting things up.
“Uncanny, isn’t it?” Twilight smirked at Celestia. “Oh! By the way, that thing she did with her hand is a gesture that means ‘ok’, or implies understanding. I know this is a lot to take in quickly, are there any other questions you have before we go out?”
Celestia hmm’d to herself for a moment before she shook her head. “I cannot think of anything at the moment, but if I do, I shall be quick to ask.” Celestia smiled warmly again the leaned down to nuzzle her student and immediately realized how awkward their current forms made the action.
“Um…”
Twilight chuckled and pulled Celestia into a hug. “This is how they do things here.”
“How novel.” Celestia chuckle along with Twilight and slipped her arms around the shorter woman. “Do kisses still work in the human world?”
Twilight nodded and no sooner than she did, Celestia leaned in that extra inch and locked lips with the mare of her dreams. It was only a little odd that she was a human at the moment.
They were startled out of their familiar, if somewhat alien, bliss a moment later by the loud clatter of a clipboard being dropped on concrete in shock. Celestia looked up to see the human Pinkie Pie staring at the two of them, frozen in place. Behind her, every other human was doing much the same and staring in frozen shock.
“Oh yeah,” Twilight swallowed and grinned, “I should have mentioned that our counterparts here aren’t like that…”