//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 // Story: Something happening in the land of Equestria // by Ganonslayer98 //------------------------------// Applejack's Cousin lives in Appleloosa, she was going to go there to bring them a cider machine but couldn't find the time to do so, and with cider season coming up, she didn't really have the time to spare. Appleloosa has one if I'm not mistaken but the one that the Apple family had made the best cider in all of Equestria. Twilight had gone to the train station to see us off and hoped we had a fun and safe trip. Before he headed off there, Twilight told me that she had gotten a letter from Celestia saying that she was going to come visit us, she wasn't exactly sure when but it would be rather soon. Meeting Celestia... That should be rather interesting. The train ride would take about two hours to get to Appleloosa, so there was some time to be killed. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash were sitting in one of the carts talking about pony stuff. I just sat there staring out the window, thinking about things. “Hey, Tyler why don't you come play a game with us.” Rainbow says, waving her hoof at me. “What type of game?” I say, getting up and walking over to the two pegasi. When I got closer I could see a checkers board on the table. I knew I haven't been here for that long but Fluttershy seemed to like playing this game and was rather good at it from what I heard. “Checkers.” Fluttershy says in a happy sweet tone. “Do you have games like this back where you come from?” I nodded to the yellow Pegasus. “Oh what fun, I don't mean to brag but I am pretty good at this game, wouldn't you say Dash?” Rainbow waved her hoof at the board. “Indeed she is, but I've been able to beat her.” saying in victorious tone. “Yeah, only after I beat you 10 times.” Fluttershy snickered at her friend, Rainbow got slightly annoyed with it. “That's because I let you win!” Rainbow said, I stood there laughing at the two ponies. Fluttershy giggled. Rainbow scooted over for me to sit down, It was time to put on my game face. About 30 minutes have passed and Fluttershy has beaten me twice now, I have to hand it to that pony, she sure as hell can play a mean game of checkers. I was down 7 pieces and she already had a king. But what Fluttershy just leaned into my trap. I sit there and grin as I move my piece, one, two, three, four, five! “King me!” I said, feeling somewhat victorious. Fluttershy smiled and put a piece for on mine. She giggled at it and Rainbow was somewhat surprised that I was able to take out five of her pieces. But just has fast as that happened... She ended up taking 4 of my pieces. “You should have kept an eye on your pieces.” She said in her soft voice, smiling. I looked down, amazed that although she fell into my trap, I fell right into hers. “Burn!” Rainbow Dash said laughing. I chuckled a bit and looked at the board. I only had one piece left and I knew how this was going to end. I looked up at Fluttershy, which was giving me that “You're so fucked” smiled. I laughed at it. “I gotta say, you played one hell of a game.” Smiling I scoot off the sit and yawn slightly. Rainbow got into my spot and looked at her yellow friend. “I'm glad you enjoyed it, now it's time to beat Dashie.” Fluttershy said as she put her game face on. This continued for about an hour, it was 8-2. Dash was a little annoyed with being beaten, which she never took so lightly but she smiled and didn't let it show. We were getting closer to Appleloosa It seemed time went by fast, I guess a simple board game like checkers makes time fly by. “I wish I would've eaten something before we left.” I placed my hand on my stomach and looked around. Both ponies felt the same way. Lucky for us, the place were going is full of apples and I'm sure we'll be able to have some apple pie. We pulled up to the train station, it came to a stop and after a few mintues, we were able to get off the train. Braeburn was standing there waiting for us, Applejack had told him about me being a human so he wouldn't be as freaked out when we first met. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash walked out of the train car first, I followed behind them. “Well, howdy there.” He said, smiling as he greeted the two ponies. He then looked up at me and put a hoof out. “Howdy do there.” I reached down and shook it. Honestly he took it better than I thought. But then again, everypony in Ponyville was pretty friendly with me so, I shouldn't really have expected much of it. “The cider machine is right inside.” Rainbow said, pointing to the car that was behind the one we were in. “Alrighty, let's get that bad boy out and bring her on down to the factory.” Braeburn said as a cart pulled up. Me and Rainbow went to the train car to get ready to move it out of there. It was a heavy thing, but nothing we couldn't handle. “Man, that thing was heavy, but thanks for the help Ty.” Rainbow smiled at me. I wipe the sweat off my forehead. It was pretty heavy but that mixed with the heat made it worse. How do they stand the heat here. I looked at the cart that the cider machine sat on and looked at Braeburn. “So how is the factory from here?” I said to him, feeling my stomach growl slightly. He looked off and pointed with his hoof. “Bout' a few blocks that way. It won't take long. After that we can go chow down on some pie.” Fluttershy and Rainbow both smiled at the mention of pie, and I did the same. We begin to walk down the road, there were ponies here and there. “How things been, Braeburn?” Rainbow asked the tan earth pony. “Pretty darn good, The apples are growin' nicely and thanks to the cider machine that Applejack sent, we'll be able to make some of that great tasting cider.” He smiled, nodding his head at the other ponies that walked by. “That's good, Applejack sure makes the best cider in all of Equestria.” Rainbow said, smiling with the memories from last cider season. Fluttershy nodded in agreement with Rainbow. “Indeed. Welp, here it is.” Braeburn stopped and looked at us as we stopped. He opened the doors to the factory and a few ponies came out. “They'll take care of it for us, let's go on and get us some pie!” We all went down the road to one of the shops, before we got there we could smell the sweet apple pie that was being made there. “Those pies sure do smell good Braeburn.” I said walking into the store with him, Fluttershy and Rainbow followed behind. The shop was kinda small but it was big enough to fit 15 or so ponies, there was a few sitting at tables eating pie and chatting away. Some of them turned to look at me, when they did they started to whisper to one another. “I take it they're not used to seeming a human.” I say, looking around at everyone staring at me, he just gave a little chuckle. “Don't take it to heart, there are rumors that some ponies here have seen a human before.” They have? I wonder if anyone here has bringing people from my world to here. “You're not the strangest thing to come here, that's for sure.” he said, going up to the pony behind the counter and ordering some pies for us. The three of us take a seat over at one of the tables while we wait. Rainbow leans back and rubs her stomach. “I can't wait to dig in, I'm starving!” I chuckled at her, Fluttershy did the same and smiled happily. Braeburn came over with the pies and set them down. “Well, dig in everypony” He smiled as he sat down next to me and Dash and begin to eat some of the pie. I pulled some of the pie over and took a bite of it. It was sure one good ass pie. But of course no pie is better than the Apple family's pie, but this was pretty good. We nommed happily on it for a good 30 minutes, enjoying it. “Wow that was good, thank you very much for it.” I said, patting my belly. Fluttershy giggled and thanked Braeburn as well. “It was truly delicious.” Rainbow said, licking her lips after she did. “Welp, I think it's time for us to head back to Ponyville. It was great seeing you again Braeburn.” “You're welcome Dash, and feel free to come by and visit anytime y'all want to. Hopefully AJ can come next time, sure haven't seen her in a while.” Braeburn said as we got up and left the shop. He walked us back to the train and said his goodbyes. As the train started to take off back to Ponyville, I sat down next to one of the windows and started to think. “There are rumors that some ponies here have seen a human before.” I thought on that, and then I started to think about what Lyra said to me yesterday. I think I should talk to Princess Celestia whenever she comes to visit. Maybe she can give me a straight answer. We got back to Ponyville within two hours, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash went to Applejack's farm to talk to her about the trip and all, I went back to Twilight's place to talk to her. When I got there she was just reading a book, on the front was labeled “How to Make the Most Delicious Foods for Ponies.” I chuckled at it. “Learning how to cook there Twi?” She looked up from her book and giggled. “Kinda, I thought I would try my hoof at it.” she giggled. “So how did it go? Hope no pony there gave you any trouble.” The fact that she was cared enough to ask that made me smile, but then again she's caring to everyone. So what made it so special for me? “Nah, just a few looks but Braeburn said that some ponies there have seen humans before so it's not unheard of.” I said, sitting down on the couch, Twi just tilted her head. “Humans have been to Appleloosa before? Interesting... I wonder where else they've been.” I wondered that too. “Meh, who knows... So this morning you said Celestia is coming to visit you?” I said, looking at her. She nodded and levitated the scroll over to her. “Mhmm, let's see.. 'Dear Twilight Spa'.. 'Things seem to be'.. blah blah.. 'I am coming to visit you and 'Tyler' to see how things are going for him.' Huh, doesn't say when she is. Maybe she'll let us know.” “I see, well at least we know she's coming.” I said, yawning slightly. “Well, I am planning to go to Canterlot next week to see her and go to the Library there. But looks like I'll be able to see her some more now.” She smiled, floating her book over and getting up. Twilight was about to say something else but Pinkie popped in before she could. “Who's ready to PARTY!?!” She said, bouncing all over the place. I laughed at the pink pony, remembering the list that I gave Pinkie yesterday. “I am! I've been waiting for a Pinkie Party.” I said smiling. Twilight walked over to Pinkie and smiled. “I sent Spike out so he won't be here for a while if you want to start setting up.” She said, looking over at me. “You can help Pinkie while I grab something for the party later.” I smiled and nodded. “Of course, shall we Pink-” I saw cut off by Pinkie yelling 'Yay!' I just laughed and begin to start moving things around for the party. Pinkie brought in some things to start setting up. About 20 minutes into setting everything up, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Applejack came in. “Howdy everypony.” Applejack said, looking around at the room seeing me and Pinkie set things up. “Hey AJ, Dash and Flutters!” Pinkie said to her friends. 'Flutters'? Ha, that's an interesting nickname for her. “Hello.” Fluttershy said, walking over to pick something up to help set up. Rainbow did the same. While they were doing it, Rainbow and Fluttershy told Pinkie about their trip, Applejack said that she was glad to give them one of their cider machines. Before we knew it, the whole place was set up and ready. I noticed Twilight hadn't came back and I wondered what she was doing. I went outside and looked around, I looked to the left, didn't see anypony and then to my right. There she was, holding a bag in her mouth. “Oh, there you are.” I said to the purple unicorn. “Sorry I took so long, I didn't think it would take this much time to get this.” She walked into her house and set the bag down on the table. I went inside and asked what it was. Inside was a little plaque that said 'Best Assistant Ever!' Under that was Spike's name. It was sure nice that Twilight was doing this for him. He sure does deserve it. Over the past hour, ponies came for the party, knowing that Spike would be back any minute now, they all turned off the lights and hid. Before we knew it, we could hear Spike outside the door. “Huh, the lights are off, I guess Twilight isn't home.” He opened up the door and walked in. “Hehehe, looks like I got some time to think ab-” Before Spike could finish, the lights flipped on and everypony yelled out 'Surprise!!!!' Spike jumped slightly from it, but then began to laugh. “Oh good one you guys.” He smiled slightly embarrassed. Above everyone was a banner that said “Keep up the good work Spike!” He smiled at seeing this and flushed slightly. Twilight walked up to him, smiling as music started to play. “Hey Spike, I got this for you.” She smiled as she gave him a wrapped up box, Spike looked excited about it and took it. “Thanks Twilight, Really.” He smiled big as she begin to unwrap it, Inside was the plaque. His eyes went big when he read the words 'Best Assistant Ever!' “Oh dear Celestia! Thank you soooo much Twilight!!!” He hugged her tightly and happily. “You're very welcome Spike!” Twilight smiled at him. Pinkie and the others came up to congratulate him. Spike was getting all blushy from the attention he was getting, then he noticed Rarity walking over to him. Spike stared at her, dumbstruck by the love he has for her. “Hello, Spike. Congratulations.” She smiled at him all cute, Spike just stood there and mumbled. The others giggled at it. They thought it was cute how Spike had such a big crush on Rarity. “Oh Spike, I have something for you.” She said. “Close your eyes and no peeking.” He did as he was asked, closing his eyes. He then felt something pretty against his lips. Rarity gave Spike a kiss. “Awwww..” Fluttershy said, the others said the same thing. Spike opened his eyes and saw Rarity, When he did he nearly fainted. Rarity pulled back and smiled at him, giggling slightly into her hoof. Spike shook his head and snapped out of the trance he was in. He looked up at Rarity and hugged her. She hugged him back and smiled. “Thank you R-Rarity!” He said, embarrassed like there was no tomorrow. After that cute little moment, we all begin to party, everypony dancing and having a good time. Spike was enjoying it the most, of course. I went over to grab a cupcake when I saw Lyra walking over. “Hi, Tyler.” She said smiling as she grabbed a cupcake. “Hello there. How are you?” I said grabbing one as well. “I'm doing pretty well, how are things holding up for you?” She nommed on her cupcake. I guess she thought I would be dwelling on what she told me yesterday. I just smiled at her. “Great, Pinkie sure does throw the best parties.” I said, nomming on my cupcake as well. Lyra nodded in agreement with me and we continued to talk. We had a few laughs and started to dance a little bit after words. I was able to stop thinking about everything that's been bothering me and enjoy the party. The party went on for a few hours, it really was great, everyone had left, Spike went to sleep as soon as it was done and I passed out on the couch. Hope nopony drew on my face. Rainbow Dash would probably do something like that wouldn't she?