Anon's POV:
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Your eyes jolt open as you roll -or rather jump- off the couch.
"WHAT THE FU-" is all you can manage to say.
Your body finally makes contact with the floor, with a loud thwomp! Your ears are ringing and your vision is just now focusing in on the area around you.
Twilight's tree, living room and books slowly start to take shape. You rub the sleep crud from your eyes and pick yourself up and off of the ground. The ringing in your ears slowly subsides, only to be replaced by large amounts of laughter. You look around the living room for the source of the laughter and soon your eyes lay on Rainbow Dash on the floor, while on her back in a fit of non-stop laughter.
Glancing over you can see that Dash is holding a can of compressed air with a horn attached at the top. In other words an air horn. How can they lack electricity, but have a can of compressed air? You chalk it up to magic, like the rest of the questions you don't want to answer.
"Alright Dash you got me, nice prank." You say as you get yourself to your feet and make your way over to the cyan colored Pegasus. Dash halts her laughter once you're next to her, but she keeps a devilish grin on her face.
"Oh, you thought that was a prank?" She asks with a little giggle. "That's just how I wake ponies and now humans up around here." She looks at you with the same devilish grin plastered to her face. "Let's just say, you're going to regret pulling that little prank on me."
Breathing much lighter now you look over to the kitchen of the tree library. Inside of the kitchen was spike wearing a adorable pink apron, doing what looks to be the dishes. You really feel sorry for the guy, really, he's like a slave to these ponies.
You turn your attention back to Dash, that has now recomposed herself. "Where's Twilight I need to talk to her about getting back to Earth." Dashes happy and playful expression stops right there. You wonder why she gets this way every time you mention going back to Earth. It seems Rainbow Dash would have a lot of friends being the fastest flyer in Equestria, so one less wouldn't be all that bad.
"She's in the kitchen with spike, eating her breakfast." Dash points her hoof over to the kitchen. She then walks over to the couch and lays down on top of it.
You look over to the kitchen then back to Rainbow Dash on the couch. "You going to eat breakfast Dash?" You ask as you walk into the kitchen. It was much bigger then you would have expected it to be. In the corner was a table for six and in the other corner she had a fridge. Along the sides in between the two, were counters and what looked to be a electric oven.
Again your mind races thinking of how the thing operates, even with magic. Does Twilight cast a heating spell on the top to cook, or does it work with some sort of stored magic inside so she doesn't have to use the spell every time she wants a hot meal. You shrug off the question like all the others.
"I already ate while you were sleeping." Dash replies.
Turning your attention back to the table you notice that it's filled with fruit, hay and other pony edible stuff. You take a seat across from Twilight grabbing an apple as you do so. As you munch on the delicious apple you get a slight feeling of gilt. All this time you have been here you've been mooching off of other ponies. First Celestia with the breakfast and then there's Rainbow Dash with the ticket to the museum and now Twilight with her hospitality, shelter and food. You make it a mental goal to repay all these ponies someway, somehow.
Once your apple is finished and your goal is set, you speak up. "So Ms. Sparkle, if you had to take a gander. How long do you think I'll be stuck here?" You really hate to sound like a broken recorded, but this is important information.
Twilight sighs as she finishes here flower sandwich. "Anon I don't know. It can take days or it can take years." She looks straight into your eyes "Only time will tell Anon. For now, I suggest you take it that you are going to be staying here for a while." Twilight then goes back to eating the other goods on her plate.
Getting up from the table you thank Twilight and help her clean up the kitchen. It wasn't much work, just restocking the food into their assorted cabinets. You noticed that everything in this house was organised, the books where obvious, but she even has the cereal boxes ordered alphabetically.
1 hour later...
The rest of the cleaning was uneventful, there was little to no talk in-between you and Twilight. One all is done you both head out of the kitchen and come upon a sleeping Dash. You look over to Twilight "Does she always sleep this much?" you ask.
"She calls it napping" Twilight rolls her eyes "and yes she does this a lot."
Looking at Dash and spot one of her hoofs hanging over the side of the couch. Following her hoof you spot the same air horn that she used on you lying there on the floor. You know you want to Anon, it's payback time. With a evil grin on your face you tip-toe to the air horn.
Reaching for the air horn Dashes hoof twitches, causing you to back up a bit. Looking over Dash you see that she's still asleep and you resume you quest for revenge. Slowly and steady you stretch your right arm and snatch the air horn. With the air horn now in your possession you take a hasty retreat and position yourself next to Dashes head.
Waiting there for a short moment you contemplate what you're about to do. She might beat the shit out of you Anon. You think about this for a couple of seconds before settling on a solution. Do it for the lulz! With your new found confidence you position the air horn right behind her head.
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Rainbow Dash re-enacts the exact same reaction you did when she was the one holding the air horn. The only difference was when she screamed "Buck!" instead of "Fuck!" Now you know how she felt being the prankster. You can't contain your laughter anymore and you burst into a fit of giggles.
By the look on Rainbow Dashes face you would say now would be a good time to book it. You stop your little fit and make a beeline straight to the library door. Opening the front door you're greeted by bright blinding sunlight and a swift kick to the back.
You tumble forwards meeting the dirt floor within seconds. Regaining your senses you turn your head to look at Dash, that is now sitting on your back with devilish grin. With lightning fast reflexes you roll over and turn around so that Dash is pinned onto the dirt path. Making sure you have all of her limbs held down, you blow a raspberry at Dash, only to be hit in the side of the head making everything turn black.
45 minutes later...
You're back in the cockpit of your F-22 raptor. You try to move but nothing happens, it's like you're paralyzed. "Seems a bit old school?" You hear a familiar voice call out from your helmet. Is that Lorin? No it can't be we all crashed.
Another voice come "Yeah, but at this range we can take out all four no problem." You recognize that voice anywhere, that's your own. Listening you can hear the wind graze the surface of your F-22 cockpit, as you're cursing at supersonic speeds. The outside of the F-22 is nothing but pure darkness, without your helmet you can see shit all.
Once again a voice comes from seemingly nowhere. "Roger, let's just get this done with." It's like a freight train has just hit you. The sound of Jason's voice sounded so innocent. The memories start to come back. This was the exact same situation you were in several days ago.
You start to get the butterfly feelings in your stomach. You look over to the altimeter to see you are dropping altitude fast. The whole fall was silent, there was no words spoken over coms. The silence is broken by a beeping sound then a large amount of light as the missile leaves its hard point.
The whole thing was played in slow motion as the missile hits the plane in front of you, causing it to explode in a fiery ball and then drop from the night sky. The slowed time continues as your body is forced to go though the same motions again. No matter how hard you tried you couldn't change what was happening.
You knew all too well what's going to happen and you pushed, shoved and screamed to no avail. Your head turns to see Jason's missile miss its respected target due to flairs. Tears start to flow from your eyes freely now as the inevitable happens.
"JASON! FUCKING GET OUT OF THERE! JUST MOVE PLEASE!" You yell as you bang on the cockpit of the F-22. Once again you voice is left unheard.
Red tracers from the surviving SU-35 comes out of the darkness and into view heading straight for Jason's plane. Once again you can do nothing to help your friend, all you can do is watch feeling hopeless and useless. Jason's plane erupts into a fire ball of its own leaving no time for Jason to escape.
The thing that gets you most is you never got to say goodbye or I'm sorry. It was all your fault, your stupid WW2 tactics and your stupid over sized ego. You know that the person that killed him also died that day from you, but that won't bring Jason back.
"Ano-!"
You look around the F-22 cockpit. You swore you just heard someone call your name. You don't remember this happening back during the dogfight.
"Anon wak-!"
Again the voice, you look around the F-22 cockpit, time frozen. That voice... you remember it... its Rainbow Dashes voice. Why would Rainbow Dash be here on Earth? In less...
"ANON WAKE UP!"
You crack your eyelids open a bit, only for your eyes to be hit by a bright light. You close your eyes shut as it hurts to open them. After a couple seconds you open them again and focus in on your vision, where you are and who you're with.
With basic shapes popping in you spot three ponies and one little blob of purple. You assumed for the blob to be spike and two of the three ponies to be Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash. The room you're in seems to be the library living room.
Soon your eyes focus all the way. You were right about the little blob being spike and the two ponies being Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash. However the third pony has an orange coat and blond mane and tail with green eyes. She looked at you with a sheepish smile. Glancing one more time over her you see that she has three apples upon her flank.
"Anon your awake!" You see Rainbow move in to do what looks to be a hug you in your peripherals, but she stops herself before she gets to close. "Cant a mare be happy somepony didn't die." Dash says while Twilight and the orange coated pony turn their attention back to you.
"What happened? Why am I back in here?" You manage to say with a slight pain on the back of your head. You wince and rub the spot, feeling bandages on top of it. Your voice goes to a worried one "please don't tell me I'm going to die."
Twilight smiles softly "You're not going to die Anon." She turns her head towards the orange coat pony. "You just got knocked out by Applejack here." She points a hoof at the orange coated pony.
You change your attention from Twilight to Applejack. "I don't remember much from the fight, but I do remember pinning Rainbow Dash to the floor, then a large pain in the back of my head, then black. What did you hit me with?"
Applejack sheepishly pulls out half of a shovel, specifically the digging end of it. "Ah hit yah with dis here shovel." You look in amazement, the shovel was completely bent the opposite way. "Ah'm sorry, it's just yah looked like yah were trying to kill Dash here and ah didn't know yah where a friendly critter."
At least she honest. You think to yourself. Now thinking about it, it was pretty stupid to fight around with Dash out in public. Thinking about it if you saw an alien attacking a person you would of done the same thing if you were her back on earth, in fact you're pretty sure you would kill the bugger.
The orange coat pony speaks up again "But I do say Mr. Anonymous, yah can take a real good beating." Applejack puts the shovel away. "I reckon most ponies would of died from that there hit ah gave yah." She then puts on a smile as if to be proud of her strength. "But like ah said, ah'm real sorry I jumped to conclusions."
"Don't worry Ms. Applejack, if I were in your place I would of done the same." You give Applejack a warm smile hiding the true feelings of anger beneath the surface. No need to go yelling at her now, you can always save that for later. "In fact I applaud your courage for standing up against an alien two times your size." This gets a surprised reaction from all three mares. "And lastly no need for formalities with me. You can just call me Anon, all my friends do."
Applejack smiles and spits in her hoof, then hands it over to you. "No hard feelin's Anon?"
I'm guessing this mare doesn't know the meaning of "first impressions". You say to yourself as you spit in your own hand and shake hers. "No hard feelings Ms. Applejack."
Applejack rolls her eyes at you, catching you off guard. "If ah don't have tah be formal, you don't either partner." Applejack smiles warmly again. "Yah can call me Applejack or AJ for short if yah want, don't matter to me none."
You smile back at AJ "Thanks that means a lot to me." Not really. In fact, as of right now, I fucking hate you. You retort mentally as you bring your attention back over to Twilight. "Ms. Sparkle, I assume you told her about my story of how I got here?"
Twilight nods "Yes I did Anon with help from Rainbow Dash. However some stuff that Rainbow told me sounded interesting. Would you mind later on sitting down with me and answering some of my questions?"
"Sure thing Ms. Sparkle." You look over to the front of the tree library. "So am I good to go or do I need to stay." You made sure you emphasized the need, because there's a lot you had planned to do before somepony hit you in the back of the head with a shovel.
Twilight gets a annoyed look on her face. "You're just like Rainbow Dash, always wanting to get out and moving." Twilight rolls her eyes "You don't need to stay here, but remember how Applejack reacted to seeing you." You nod knowing you're going to be like a broken record to everypony that you meet. "And lastly please don't call me Ms. Sparkle, Twilight is just fine."
Smiling you get up and off the couch feeling a bit dizzy, but not enough to deter you from your tasks you had setup. You sway back and forth and the three ponies move closer to you.
"I got it, I got it! I'll be fine." You state as you walk to the door opening it slowly.
Rainbow Dash, Twilight and Applejack stay behind as you leave the tree house, feeling much better with the sun rays heating you up and the fresh air clearing your sinuses. You take a large breath feeling the blood in your veins rush around working to re-stabilize your body.
Within seconds of being outside you're no longer dizzy. You close the door behind you and commence stretch time. Satisfying pops and cracks are heard as you twist and turn your body. The feeling of relief sets in, it looks like you really needed that stretch.
First things first, what do you need to live a successful life, money. Well you hope the same concept is relevant here in Equestria. To get this money you need to be successful and in order to be successful you need a job. It can't be that hard right? I can do some manual labor. Maybe stock some shelves or be a bus boy cleaning the dishes. The one place you're sure to find job offerings though is the town hall.
You remember the building from when you arrived. You and Rainbow Dash passed it while you were on your way to Twilight's house. It's kind of hard to miss too, with it being taller than every other building around it and having red roof shingles instead of the normal thatched hay.
The walk to town hall was pretty boring, more boring than usual. Usually you would be in awe of the scenery and the colors, but now you seem to lack that mood. Things that usually would make you think for hours on end were now things that where well.... things. Why you were in this frame of mind right now you have no idea, maybe it was the fact that you got slammed in the head with a cast iron shovel. Yeah that must be it.
Arriving in front of the town hall you notice that no pony is outside. This does little to settle your nerves as the memory's of Applejack comes back to your mind. You don't think you can take another hit like that, you're consider yourself lucky to even be living right now.
Slowly but surly you arrive at the front doors of Ponyville's town hall. The doors matched your height so you didn't have to duck down to avoid hitting your head. You push the doors open all the way and step into the lobby.
It was quite a nice lobby to. Paintings decorated the walls as well as awards and ribbons from past competitions. The floor was polished wood and was smooth to the touch. The lobby looked like a standard lobby you would find at any shop or company back on earth. There was a main desk and a little seating area with books and that wired kids toy they seem to have everywhere.
looking back up to the main desk you notice that no pony is attending it. Where the hell is everypony you think to yourself. In hindsight it was probably you that's scaring them away. Nonetheless you walk up to the front desk and tap the bell that they had conveniently sitting there.
With a satisfying ding that echoed throughout the seemingly abandon town hall, a pony came out of a room and into the hallway. She headed to the front desk in a light trot. This pony had a beige colored coat and a grey mane and tail, on her flank she had a picture of a scroll.
The mare stops halfway to the desk and looks straight at you with fear and worry in her eyes. Oh shit Anon, think of something fast, quick! "Don't worry I'm harmless." You yell out "I just wanted to see if there are any job openings available."
With time passing very slowly the mare continues her walk towards the desk very cautiously. She finally gets to the desk and sits down behind it. Silence fills the room as she just stares at you with the same worry and fear in her eyes.
"Before you ask, yes I'm an alien and yes I am harmless." You say trying to reassure the mare that she has nothing to be afraid of. "My name is Anonymous, and I have come from a different planet and I'm now stuck here." You sigh as you continue. "I don't know how long I'll be hear, so I was wondering if there was any job offerings. I need the cash if I'm going to be living here a while."
The mare you assume to be the mayor finally speaks up. "Well M-Mr. Anonymous there are tons of jobs here in P-Ponyville if you're truly harmless and a hard worker." She looks you over shaking in fear. "I-I am Mayor M-Mare by the way."
"So what jobs are out here that are short term?" You ask calmly.
"Right now in Ponyville the only jobs t-that I can think of that are 'short term' is sofas and quills storage manager, the gilded g-griffin waiter or dishwasher and lastly here as document organizer." You look over to the mare as she might of just offered you a job. She is also shaking way less then she was a couple seconds ago. Is this a good sign for interplanetary/interdimensional interviews?
As much as you would want the money, being a document organizer doesn't really suit you. "Do you know the locations of these places?" You ask and she brings out a map of Ponyville.
"Here is where we are." She gets out a red marker and puts a X on the town hall. "Here's sofa's and quills and here's the gilded griffin" She puts two circles on the map at the supposed areas of each place. "I can't guarantee you'll get the jobs. If you're willing to work and you explain yourself to them like you did to me then I'm sure you won't have a problem." The mayor folds the map and passes it to you.
"One last thing before I go apply to these jobs. Do you have any houses here in Ponyville that are available for low prices? Prices I could pay with these jobs?" You ask as you put the map into your coverall pocket.
"There's only one house I can think off of the top of my head, but it's pretty rundown" You look at the mayor with a grin. "With the jobs you're looking into I'm sure that you could pay for it no problem and have a some bits still left over every month."
"Great I'll come back here if I get the job. Do you know how long it takes before I can move into the new house if I do get it?" You ask as you get ready to leave town hall.
"Usually it would take a month or two with a down payment, but seeing as no pony has lived in that house for quite some time and due to your current predicament I can pull some strings. If your lucky I can work around the rules a bit and have it for today, no promises though. Just be warned the place is quite rundown and when I mean rundown I mean like broken windows and graffiti." Mayor mare states as she holds out her hoof.
You shake her hoof "Don't worry mayor I lived in worse." The mayor gets a confused look on her face that you pick up on as you head to the door. "Having a roof over my head is good enough." You state as you open the door "Lastly mayor, thanks for not running away on me at the beginning and for offering me all of these positions."
The mayor smiles warmly "It's no problem Anonymous."
"Oh, you can call me Anon by the way all my friends do." You say as you leave town hall and into the midday sun. From the looks of it, you would say it was 12:00 o'clock noon. You take out the map in your pocket and head for the closest job. Sofa's and quills, looks like your my first stop.
Following the directions on the map you're taken away when on your way you come across a giant gingerbread house. It looked delicious and you were starting to get hungry again, but you imagine that taking a bite out of someponies house would be disrespectful.
With lots of time on your hands you take the little detour and wonder up close to the gingerbread house. Hanging on the side of the house was a sign that had a picture of a cupcake on it. You assume that, that meant it was a bakery or a candy shop.
Once you're in front of the front door you notice that the icing is the only thing holding this place together. More questions go through your head only to be thrown out once you realized you where thinking about them subconsciously.
You're about to knock on the door but before your fist hits the door it swings open. Inside is a pink pony smiling widely and looking straight at you. She doesn't seem to care that you're an alien instead she proceeds to speak really, really fast.
"OhmygoshyourthatalienthatTwilightwastalkingabout.Ididn'tbelieveherwhenshesaidthatitwasarealalien,butlookhereyouarenowinfrontofme.Ifyou'reaalienthatmeansyou'renewaroundherewhichmeansIhavetothrowyouawelcometoPonyvillepartyandawelcometoEquestriaparty!"
Being stunned at the sheer speed she spoke at, you manage to get out a word. "Pardon?" The pink pony jumps in her place. You speak up again "Hi, I'm Anonymous who are you?" The pink pony jumps out of the door and jumps circles around you. This mare seems to be dripping with energy.
"I'm Pinkie Pie! Nice to meet you Nony." You're surprised at how hast she came up with the new nickname for you. You also notice that she's no longer speaking faster than the speed of light. "So what brings you to sugarcube corner?"
"Oh, I was just passing by on my way to sofa's and quills when I saw this huge gingerbread house and well my curiosity got the best of me." You say looking into the gingerbread house. From what you could see there was a place you can order meals, they had that viewing area for the cakes and pastry's to. "You mind if I take a look inside? I have never been inside a gingerbread house before."
"Sure thing Nony." The pink pony jumps in front of you and into the bakery. When she passes in front of you, you notice that she has three balloons on her flank as a cutie mark. You think about it for a while before stepping into the bakery and smelling the sweet smell of fresh pastry's and candy.
"Oh wow it smells nice in here, what you making?" You ask Pinkie Pie.
"Why don't you guess Nony." Pinkie Pie hops on over to the back room behind the counter.
You take a smell of the area once more. "Is it cake?" You ask when you hear Pinkie Pie shuffle around in the back room.
"Close Nony, but not quite there." Pinkie Pie hopes out of the back room with a tray of cupcakes balanced up top her head. Each cupcake had a different icing pattern on it. "Here Nony try one and tell me if my cupcakes are better than the ones where you came from."
Taking one cupcake in hand you quickly devour it. You now know why this ponies is filled with energy, these things were like ninety percent sugar. However the cupcakes tasted like nothing you have tasted before, it has a heavenly texture to it with all the flavors that made your taste buds go crazy.
"These cupcakes are by far the best cupcakes I have ever tasted Pinkie Pie! You must be a master chef or something." You say as you finish swallowing the cupcake whole leaving no crumbs behind.
Pinkie Pie hops around you with a ear to ear smile. "Thanks Nony I try my best, It's just makes me happy to hear it from the pony."
"Well I wish I could stay longer Pinkie Pie, but I have to get going." Pinkie adorns a sad expression but not for long as she passes you two more cupcakes.
"Here take these Nony, for the road." You smile and graciously take the cupcakes in both hands. With that Pinkie Pie trots into the backroom. You just remember that she didn't tell you how much these where, you wanted to pay for them when you have the money. Oh well, looks like these will just have to be freebies. you say to yourself smiling.
You walk into the backroom to see that she has vanished. You're taken back at this act, you could of sworn she went back here. There are no other doors other than this one. You scratch the back of your head and head out of the gingerbread house.
That was a wired experience. You say to yourself as you reach sofa's and quills. The building was quite easy to locate as it had a picture of a sofa and a quill on their sign. Walking up to the front door you realize that it looks quite empty. You attempted to open the door but it is locked, when you knock on the door you are rewarded with no answer.
Getting the message that the store is closed you pull out your map and start walking to the next job, the gilded griffin. Sounds like a lovely place and you wouldn't mind working as a bus boy or a waiter.
The walk to the gilded griffin was uneventful and by the time you reached there the sun was three quarters of the way down. You would assume it is 16:00 (4:00 PM) hopefully the gilded griffin was not a breakfast restaurant and was still open.
Arriving at the front door of the rather rustic gilded griffin you hear light crying. The crying didn't seem to be coming from the griffin but from the side of the building. You follow the crying until you come around the corner of the building.
There in the shadow laid a orange coated filly with purple hair. She looks like she has been there for a while, her purple eyes had bags under them and her mane and tail were a mess. She turns to see you when you come around the corner.
She gets up like she's going to run but you speak up before she does. "I won't hurt you." You say and she then lays back down looking you in the eyes as you approach. "I'm Anon who might you be may I ask?" You ask as you sit down against the wall next to her, all the while noting she has no cutie mark.
"I'm Scootaloo." Scootaloo replies with a raspy voice.
"Well Scootaloo why are you out here all by yourself crying." You ask as you put your map back into your pocket.
Scootaloo looks at you with a sadden expression. "Its these stupid wings!" she raise her voice while flapping her tiny wings. "No matter how hard I try, I can never fly." She slumps her head back down and lays it on the grass.
"Well you see Scootaloo I can't fly either but that doesn't mean I'm going to give up on it." Scootaloo looks at you with the same sad expression with a little bit of confusion now mixed in.
"But you're not a Pegasus, you're not meant to fly. You're probably awesome at your special talent, while I can't even do mine." Scootaloo looks frustrated but all at the same time tired.
"That is where you're wrong Scootaloo. Back where I come from I was a pilot, I flew up in the sky faster than the fastest flyer here." You say proudly. "But just recently I lost my machine that gave me the ability to fly. I got my wings torn off but you still have yours."
Scootaloo's expressions turns to one of awe "You flew faster than Rainbow Dash!"
You smile and give a little chuckle "Yes I used to fly faster than her, but we don't need to tell her that." You say with a wink.
Scootaloo smiles and eyes the two cupcakes you have in your hand "Who are those for?" She asks as she returns her gaze to you.
Looking at the cupcakes then to Scootaloo "There for you." You say as you give her the two cupcakes Pinkie Pie had made for you.
Scootaloo's eyes go wide "Thanks Anon!" She then puts on a smile that pulls at your heart strings. Scootaloo devours the two cupcakes within seconds and hugs you. The amount of cuteness is going to kill you if she keeps it up.
"So Scoot's how about I walk you back to your parents." Scootaloo expression once again saddens. "Do you have parents Scoot's?" Scootaloo sits there in silence.
"No, I don't have any parents." You're shocked to hear this from such a beautiful place. You guess that not everything can be perfect.
"So where were you living all this time?" You ask with a worried tone.
"I have been living on the streets." She says with her raspy voice coming back. "It has been a tough few years." The tears start to come back into Scootaloo's eyes.
You take Scootaloo into another hug. "Hay Scoot's I got a deal, you want to hear it." You ask with smile upon your face.
Scootaloo looks up at you with her sad expression, the tears still falling from her eyes. "What is it Anon?" Scootaloo asks.
"You come with me, while I apply for this job at the gilded griffin and if I get it, that means I have money for a potential house." You look down at Scootaloo with a warm smile. "and if I have a house I would be able to solve your living on the street problem. As for your wing problem practice makes perfect, as well as some patience."
Scootaloo's wings starts to buzz and her face adorns a smile that pulls at your heart strings once again. "But what if you don't get the job Anon?" Scoots expression turns to a worried one.
"Well then it look like I'll be living with you if you don't mind." You say as Scootaloo surprises you with a hug. You hate to break the moment but you get up and place Scootaloo down beside you. "Ready when you are Scoots."
Scootaloo walks behind you as you turn the corner and enter the gilded griffin. The Inside was much nicer then it looked from the outside. They had a bar, diner, and a stage for small performances. The walls were decorated with paintings and other cool knickknacks.
However the restaurant looked quite empty, in fact there was no ponies eating here. You're taken from your thoughts as you hear some rustling coming from the kitchen. With curiosity harassing your mind you walk further in. "Hello anypony here?"
The rustling continues and until a minty green unicorn comes out from the kitchen. "Sorry the gilded griffin is closed right no-." She looks up at you with here golden colored eyes "You're a..... a... huma-" The minty green unicorn then proceeds faints on the spot. You rush over to her to make sure she's alright.
How did she know your race is called human. Your thoughts are once again taken away when another pony trots out of the kitchen. This one had the same colored coat as the mayor but her mane and tail where dark purple almost black and pink.
The mare does not look to happy and with that in mind your mouth runs a fast version of what you have told all the other ponies automatically. Her expression softens as she to walks up to the minty green unicorn. The mare then slaps the minty green unicorn in the face and she wakes up.
You would say it was a bit overkill but it seemed to have done the job. The unicorn bounces up knocking you and the other mare back. You regain your thoughts and balance, getting yourself to your feet.
Looking back you can see Scootaloo on the small stage exploring every inch of it, as well as watching the whole thing between you and the mares pan out. You then turn your head back to the two mares "Hello, I'm Anonymous."
The minty green unicorn is the first to speak up "Hi! I'm Lyra, Lyra heartstrings." She then gets on her hind hoofs and holds up one of her front hoofs. You shake her hoof and she returns to all four smiling widely. "I told you BonBon, Human's do exist!"
"Wait you know about human's, do they live on this planet?" You say in hopes for a positive answer.
"Sadly no, Humans where an idea that I came up with while I was sleeping." Lyra says with her new found pride. Lyra then proceeds to look at your hands with the same smile never leaving her face. "You mind if I take a look at your hands?" Lyra asks.
"Uhh sure." You say feeling a bit uncomfortable with this type of question.
"So what brings you here." BonBon finally speaks up. "You must of had a reason to visit this place. You come to eat?"
You shake your head "No, the mayor said I could find a job here. She says that you mares are looking for a waiter or a bus boy."
BonBon looks you over "Yes we are, with more ponies coming to eat here we're often rushing and rushing is never good for business. As for you I could see how you could be useful around here." BonBon circles you "You have yourself a job Mr. Anonymous."
"Wow that fast!" You say look back at Scootaloo with smile and she returns the smile. "When do I start?" You ask turning your attention back to BonBon and Lyra.
"Tomorrow morning at 07:00." BonBon is quick to say. "I will teach you the ropes once you get here in the morning. As for your pay you get it at the end of each day."
You're actually surprised on how easy it was to get a job here in Equestria, even when you are a alien. "Thank you so much BonBon. If you don't mind could you write a short letter to the mayor that you accepted me."
BonBon looks at you with a confused look on her face. "Why does she need to know you work here?"
"I'm buying a house and she needs to make sure I'll be making enough to pay for it." You reply looking around the gilded griffin again. You noticed that the place here looks a bit rundown but you're sure you can help them with that later down the road.
"Oh, OK just hold on one second then." BonBon trots into the kitchen to write the letter for mayor mare. You're then bombarded with questions from Lyra. She must of been waiting for this moment.
"Where did you come from? How did you get here to Equestria?" Lyra asks in quick succession.
Sighing you answer the question's "I'm from Earth, a planet filled to the brim with humans. As for how I got here I don't know, one minute I was flying a jet at supersonic speeds next thing I know I'm here."
Lyra opens her mouth to ask another question, but is interrupted when BonBon exits the kitchen with a scroll in her mouth. BonBon hands the scroll to you "Here you go Anon, I congratulate you on your new home."
You take this time to thank both of the two mares and walk outside with Scootaloo. Scootaloo is beaming with happiness as she now has a place to live or at least you think that's why shes happy. You pick up Scootaloo and place he on your shoulders. You remember when you were a kid you loved to be held like this.
"So Scoots what do you think this place is going to look like?" You say as you walk towards town hall. "Mayor mare says it going to look like garbage, but I think we can fix it up."
Scootaloo looks down at you "I don't know Anon, but anyplace is better than the streets. Plus now I'm not alone!" You place Scootaloo down onto the ground. "Awhh I liked being up there you're so tall and it makes me feel like I'm flying."
You tassel Scoots hair and enter town hall. Inside, mayor mare was at the front desk doing some paper work. "Hey mayor I got the job at the gilded griffin." You say as you pass her the scroll. The mayor looks over the scroll then to you then to Scoots beside you.
"That's amazing Anon I just finished up the paper work, I just need your signature." You walk up to the front desk and sign your name on the spots provided. "May I ask why you have Scootaloo with you, Anon?"
Finishing the signatures you look up at the mayor. "Scootaloo was living on the streets so she's coming to live with me." The mayor gets a surprised expression on her face, like she never knew Scootaloo was homeless.
The mayor then looks back to you. "Well I'm glad you're taking her in. I hope you'll take good care of her." She states looking down to Scootaloo. "You OK with living with a alien?"
Scootaloo looks up to the Mayor. "He's not a alien he's Anon!" Scootaloo raises her voice defending you. Scootaloo has just gained all of your respect, you don't know how it was possible but she just did in that short amount of time.
With everything now cleared up Mayor Mare gives you the keys to your new house along with directions on your map on how to get there. The walk to the new house was uneventful as you carried Scoots all the way to the house upon your shoulders.
You and Scoots arrive at the house at about 19:00 (7:00 PM). The sun in the sky was starting to set and the moon was starting to peak up from the horizon. The house on the other hand didn't look so bad, It had a hay roof like all the other houses, it's walls made out of stone and all but one of the windows seemed to be in place.
Pushing the key into the lock you turn it to hear a satisfying click. The door swings open and you are greeted by a dark house filled with cobwebs everywhere. "Sorry Scoots but it looks like we are going to have to deal with this till tomorrow, when I can get some proper cleaning materials."
"It's better then what I expected." Scoots replies.
"Yeah, but I promise by the end of tomorrow this house will be somewhat livable." You enter the house making sure not to hit your head on the way in. You swat the cobwebs away and look around the house. The main floor had four rooms the kitchen, living room, bathroom, and the main front room.
All cabinets in the kitchen where empty and the rooms where completely striped of furniture. You make your way upstairs with scoots to find two bedrooms both with beds. At least they left the beds. You think to yourself.
"Well Scoots I have to go back to the library to get my stuff you want to come or stay here?" Scootaloo looks around her empty room then turns to you.
"I think I'll come with you." She says as she trots out of the room.
You and Scootaloo make your way down the stairs and outside. The fresh air is welcoming as the smell of your house is not to appealing. You and Scoots make it halfway to the library before a cyan blur crashes into you. Scootaloo jumps back and away from the impact until she realizes who has crashed into you.
"RAINBOW DASH!" Scootaloo screams in a high pitch voice.
"Hey, Scoots!" Rainbow Dash jumps of your stomach and walks over to Scootaloo "Thanks for cushioning my fall Anon." Dash states as she blows you a raspberry. "What are you doing out here with Anon?" Rainbow asks Scootaloo.
"Anon offered me to stay at his place." Scootaloo answers.
Rainbow Dash puts on a confused look. "But don't you live in the orphanage?" She then turns her attention to you as you get up and dust yourself off from the recent well coordinated 'fall'.
"Rainbow she's homeless, she's been living on the streets for years." Rainbow Dash jaw hangs open. "I told Scoots here if she wanted a place to stay she can stay in my shity house."
Rainbow look over to Scootaloo "Why didn't you tell me you where homeless Scootaloo?" She then is answered not by Scootaloo but by you.
"She shouldn't have to tell you." You say "Plus, by the way this filly acts around you, I take it that you're her idol. I don't think she would want to tell her idol that she's homeless. Well at least I wouldn't." You say as you look over at Scootaloo that is nodding along to what you are saying.
Rainbow Dash looks to you then Scootaloo. "I'm so sorry Scootaloo that I never noticed you were living on the streets. I guess I always assumed you lived in the orphanage." Dash adorns a saddened expression.
"So what brings you here anyways Dash." You ask changing the subject to a non depressing one.
"Oh, I was just heading back from Twilight's house. I brought your stuff with me." She points at your two backpacks a couple of feet away. At least now you don't have to walk all the way back to Twilight's. "And what's this talk of you having your own house now Anon?"
"Yeah once I left the library I went to town hall. Mayor mare told me that I could get a house if I get a job to pay the bills. After that I went job hunting, bumped into Pinkie Pie then into Scootaloo then I got the job at the gilded griffin. Lastly I went back to town hall got the keys to my new house and now we're here."
Rainbow Dash hovers there for a second "Wow Anon you really were busy today." You take note of her flying.
"Hay Rainbow Dash you got to keep off that wing or you're going to break it." You say pointing at her injured wing. Dash slowly descends to all four hoofs. Being sure she's not going to take off again you walk over to your backpacks and pick them up.
Scootaloo just looks at you dumbfounded at your ability to "grounded" Dash without so much as a lifted arm. That's right scoots come to the dark side and idolize me!
"So where am I going to sleep today, I already told Twilight I was going to sleep in my bed." Dash replies as you start the walk back to your home. "and without flying how can I get up there?"
You look over to Dash that is now following you with Scoots. "You can always stay the night at my place." You state as you continue the walk. "We may not have three beds but at least its better then the couch."
Rainbow Dashes expression lights up as she trots next to you. "So what does your house look like?"
"Well i'm not going to lie to you, it's pretty shity. Plus it kind of smells like some pony died in there." You say as you continue to walk up the path. "But it's a house nevertheless and as soon as I get my pay tomorrow I'll clean it up. Hope you don't mind sleeping in a old run down house."
Dash looks at you with a confused look "I'm Rainbow Dash I can handle anything." She then puts on a sly smirk and continues to trot just a bit faster than you can walk.
All three of you arrive at the house at 23:00 (11:00 PM). The only way you can navigate though your house is the small flashlight you have in your pocket. Rainbow Dash and Scoots both where amazed when you first pulled it out, they have never seen a non magical being create light with a flick of a switch.
The three of you reach the up stares rooms "So who's sleeping where?" You say as you open the door to the room you're going to sleep in.
Rainbow Dash looks at Scoots then to you. "I'll sleep with Scoots in this room" Dash replies opening the other bedroom door.
"OK so it's settled, I'll sleep in my own room." You say with a smile "and you two mares sleep in your own room." With that in mind you enter your room and close the door. The bedroom was pretty dirty and the covers that were on the bed where very thin. It would be hell living here in the winter You think to yourself as you place your bags down and jump onto the bed.
Your feet hung off the edge of the bed, but it didn't matter you were beat tired and with a bed all to yourself sleep would not be hard to find. You moved around the bed a bit to get into a comfortable position as soon as you found the right spot it was like someone flicked the off switch in your brain.
“Never confuse movement with action.”
― Ernest Hemingway