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// Chapter 5: Meet the Mane 6 
// Story: Celestial Disposition 
// by Kitsulestia 
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Chapter 5: Meet the Mane 6

The guard told me to wait just outside the door until I was called. He then walked in and told Celestia that I was there. I heard Tia say thank you, and then start talking to who I could only assume were the Mane 6.
“I’d like to thank you all once again for stopping Discord, girls. However, it couldn’t have been done without a little help. You see, while Discord was free, I was petrified.” Tia said, earning shocked gasps from her audience. 
“But… if you were petrified… then who sent me those old friendship reports?” Twilight asked.
“You might be surprised by this, so prepare yourselves for this.” She warned them. I took that as my que. 
“Oh, dis gonna be gud…” I heard Pinkie say as I got myself ready. I then proceeded to do a few cartwheels into the room, followed by some flips and a loop-de-loop. I finished with a flourish, landing with my hooves at my sides  in a tadaa position. With a grin at their looks, I gave a bow.
“Hello, mares of Ponyville! My name is James Solaris, but you can call me Celly! Or Trollestia. Whichever you prefer.”
“Oh, shes good.” I heard Pinkie mutter under her breath.
“Eep!” Fluttershy jumped behind the nearest pony, startled by how over excited I was acting.
“What.” Applejack was trying to comprehend what just happened.
Rarity was making some kind of strangled noise, not sure if she should tell someone who looked almost identical to the princess that they were acting like a foal.
Dash slowly floated to the floor, slack jawed.
And Twilight? She had froze. It was too much for her, so she BSOD’d.
“Okay, who are you, really?” Applejack asked, having recovered from her ‘crazy fake Celestia’ induced mindscrew.
“Eh. Just a nobody stuck in a princess’s body. I used to be a common human guy in my world, but then I turned into Princess Sunbutt the Awesome in a great, big, fiery explosion.”
Rainbow Dash raised an eyebrow in suspicion. “You aren’t gonna blow up Canterlot, are you? Did your human government send you to destroy us all and take over Equestria? Are you a spy?!” Dash asked, getting up in my face about her interrogation.
“Hell no. I suck at spy. I play Scout or Sniper!” I joked. Celestia rolled her eyes at that, knowing I was referencing TF2, since I’d played it with her sister. The Mane 6 minus Twilight and Pinkie all stared in confusion. “Alright, lemme answer those questions for real. I would never bring intentional harm to you or this world, Discord is the one who sent me here, and no, I am not a spy.”
"Oh dear…” I heard Celestia mutter. I looked at her to find out what was wrong and followed her worried gaze to Twilight. She was going Lesson Zero. Hair going all wacky, her eye twitching, pupils shrinking to pinpricks, the whole shebang. I walked up to her and poked her to see if she was alright. 
“I think I broke her. Pinkie, you have a bucket of water on you?” Before Pinkie could answer, Twilight rushed me, and started poking me all over like a mad scientist that just found a new test subject. “Stop poking me.” I gently nudged her back with magic, grinning as I saw Pinkie sneaking up on her with a bucket of water. She kept poking me places, but when she poked me at the base of my wings and I felt like I’d just been poked in a particularly private spot, I recoiled. “No! Bad touch! BAD TOUCH!!” I saw Flutters and Dash pop wingboners with me as I tried avoiding Twilight. “Pinkie! Bucket! Now!” I accidentally singed Twilight’s hair from the sudden spike of emotion.
“Bad Twilight!” Pinkie shouted as she dumped the bucket on her. Twilight froze up, before shrieking at how cold it was.
“Pinkie!? what was that for!?”
“You were going mad scientist again.” Twilight froze from hearing that. She turned to me again before she caught sight of her singed hair.
“Why is my hair burnt?” She asked blankly. I chuckled nervously at that as I felt my temp drop after calming myself down.
“I uh… tend to have a fiery reaction to being startled.” I told them. I turned to Tia who was looking at me in amusement. “By the way, how do you avoid setting everything on fire when you get mad?” I asked her.
“Not get mad in the first place.” She answered like it was second grade math. I deadpanned. 
“Right. Immortal goddess of the sun, plus over a thousand years of experience… shoulda seen that coming. You at least got a trick for turning off the fire thing?” I asked.
“Well, I use my normal regalia, enchanted with heat insulators. I suppose we could add some enchanted jewelry to your dress…” I groaned internally, I was not going to live that down, was I? Rarity perked up at the mention of the dress, while the rest of the Elements looked at me curiously.
“Don’t ask, girls.” I requested. I turned to a guard who was waiting over by the door. “Would you mind bringing that dress? Brush Styles should still have it.” The guard nodded and went to retrieve it.
“So uh… How’d you not freak out when Pinkie got that bucket of water out of nowhere?” Dash asked.
“I’ve seen crazier stuff.” I replied casually.
“Dare I ask how crazy?” Applejack asked hesitantly. 
“I’ve seen an italian japanese omnidisciplinary plumber fight a giant fire breathing ox-turtle to the death, and then go go karting with said turtle the next day.”
“Say what?” Twilight blurted out.
“That poor turtle…” Fluttershy squeaked out.
“Flutters, that turtle was an evil jerk that always tried to kill the fat plumber and take over the world. Or all of reality on one or two occasions.” I countered. That seemed to take her sympathy right away.
“Moving on…” Twilight said after a moment, but then the guard came back with my dress, along with some golden jewelry. Rarity’s eyes lit up like the fourth of july at the sight of the dress, and I knew she just couldn’t wait to see me in it. I sighed. 
“And this is the part of being a girl I never liked…” I muttered. 
“What was that?” Rarity asked. I quickly turned around and faked a smile, but winced when I noticed it was a bit too fast. 
“N-nothing. Nothing at all.” I denied. I saw Applejack raise an eyebrow at my denial. Rather than face further questioning and a potential Rarifreak, I turned around and grabbed my dress. I put it on quickly and let Celestia apply the enhancements to the jewelry before putting them on me. I heard Rainbow start snickering behind me, so I put on The Grin.
“Heeeerre’s CELLY!” I exclaimed as I turned around. After the jewelry was all put on.
“AHHHH!” Rainbow screamed like a filly and hid behind Fluttershy of all ponies. I laughed hard due to how silly that image looked. Fluttershy, the poor girl stood just stiff as a board, frozen with her face half hiding behind her long mane. The others? Rarity fainted, Twilight had flopped onto her back with how massive her shocked recoil was, AJ didn’t move, but she looked rather spooked, and Pinkie seemed unimpressed.
“It’s just not the same without the door.” Said pink pony commented. I tilted my head in confusion.
“There’s a door? Huh… Sorry, I haven’t even seen the original. I just heard it in sound clips others used.” I excused myself. Of course confusion of even greater caliber than my own riddled everyone else’s face. “Don’t worry, it’s a reference from beyond the Fourth Wall. Pinkie only knows because she broke it.”
“Fourth wall? Oh, that. But we aren’t fiction.” Twilight said with confusion.
“You are in my world.” I informed them. “Basically, Multiverse Theory, but every world is connected to another by a work of fiction, or something along those lines.”  Judging by the way Twilight’s jaw dropped, I think I broke her. Again. Hopefully she doesn’t go all touchy feely mad scientist again. I poked her to check her sanity, but this time, I backed up in case she did go crazy. “Uhhh Twilight, your crazies showing.”
And suddenly she snapped back to normal. Wow, she dances on the precarious edge between sanity and instability a lot, doesn’t she? “What? Oh, sorry. I… was trying to comprehend that.”
“Don’t think about it too hard.” I advised. “Time and space are too confusing to understand all at once. I’m pretty sure a guy’s head would literally explode if you shoved all the info in there at once.” Tia slightly giggled at that. 
“Only if they aren’t immortal and insane.” She added. I assume she meant Discord, so I reacted as such.
“Just give him time. He’ll get bored with insanity eventually.” I told her. After all, he wouldn't want to become predictably insane, would he? “Or I might cause him to have an existential crisis.” Everypony looked a bit worried at my ominous statement. “But enough about that!” I cheerfully derailed everyone's train of thought, again. 
An idea occurred to me, just as Pinkie open her mouth to more than likely unleash a barrage of questions, that I just had to try, so I cut her off. “no, no, yes, only on tuesdays, vanilla, heck yes, and I think you’d need more paint for what you have in mind.” The look on her face was priceless, as she started doing a rather accurate impression of a fish out of water.
“Buh…” Any further words where drowned out by the sound of Rainbow flopping to the floor, laughing uncontrollably. When she finally managed to stop, she gave me an approving grin and nodded.
“Celly, you are so random!” 
I don’t think anyone else heard it, but I swore I heard Celestia mutter ‘I’ve made a terrible mistake.’
“Rainbow, you haven't seen what I can do when I have a chance to prepare… and judging from the look on your face, you want in on it.” 
“Yes, yesyesyes, yes!” I had to stifle a gigglee at the bobblehead impression she was doing.
Turning to the rest of the crowd, I smirked. “If you’ll excuse me, I think me, Pinkie, and Rainbow here have a little planning to do.” I was met by groans from nearly everyone but the two ponies I mentioned. Fluttershy was simply blankly staring at the wall in front of her, most likely not even wanting to think about what was going to happen, Rarity was doing her whole ‘fainting on the couch’ routine, Twilight had frozen up again, and Applejack looked like she was trying to fight off a migraine. The only question now was, who would be our first target...