After Luna managed to calm down, with no small amount of help from Noctia, she began asking Fourze some questions, "So, I take it that this Earth you spoke of is your home?"
"Well, planet-wise yeah," Fourze replied, "if you want to get specific, I live, well used to live, in Houston Texas, USA."
"So," Luna replied, "how did you come to appear on my moon?"
"Hey, it's not like I asked to come here," Fourze replied indignantly, "I was basically kidnapped!"
'Poor thing,' Noctia said, 'no wonder he needs a friend. Perhaps the Element of laughter could help?'
'Perhaps,' Luna replied before addressing Fourze, "I assume that you would like to go down to the planet, it can be quite lonely up here, I should know." Luna whispered the last part to herself.
"Don't see why not," Fourze replied, standing up, "however, mind if I grab something before we go?"
"I don't see why not," Luna replied, "what do you need?"
"Nothing much," Fourze replied, "just a few tools I'll need if I want to get myself settled."
Before Luna could ask what he meant, Fourze hopped towards the structure that Luna assumed he called home, gesturing for her to follow. When they arrived, Fourzed opened the door to reveal an empty room the size of a lesser noble's walk in closet.
"What is it you're gathering from this room?" Luna asked.
"Nothing," Fourze replied as he shut the door and pressed a button next to it, "this is just the airlock."
Before Luna could ask what he meant, she heard a hiss from semi concealed vents as air entered the room.
'It appears that he prefers to live in air, even though though he can survive without it, like me and my sister huh Noctia?' Luna theorized.
'Maybe,' Noctia replied, 'or maybe he can't live without air without that suit?'
'Oh,' Luna blushed, 'I can't believe I didn't think of that.'
'And I thought you were the smarter one between you and your sister?'
Before Luna could retort, the hissing stopped, and another door that Luna didn't see before opened. On the other side was what appeared to be a common room, although it was a bit spartan. An actual closet held several suits that were similar to the one Fourze wore, while another room which appeared to be a lab of some sort was the source of those small signals she sensed earlier. On the table was a case of some sort and what appeared to be a metal hayburger.
Fourze picked them up, "All right, I'm ready to go."
Luna wondered what he'd need the hayburger for, the case obviously contained something useful, but lit her horn and teleported them to Ponyville, and into a group of ponies who immediately started bowing.
"Well," Fourze said as he looked around, "guess you weren't kidding when you said you were a princess."
Before they could continue, they were interrupted by a growl. It appeared to come from a barrel, which Fourze looked into to reveal a purple unicorn, who was apparently hiding. Before Fourze could wonder what she was hiding from, that particular question answered itself.
"There she is!"
Fourze turned to see every single pony gathered charge at him, causing him to react in the only way appropriate.
"Nope."
Fourze pressed a button on his belt that Luna didn't notice before, causing an artificial sounding voice to speak from it.
Rocket On
With that, a large orange firework shaped object appeared on Fourzes arm, which then ignited causing him to escape the horde of ponies converging on the barrel.
'What have I just witnessed?' Luna wondered.
'You're asking me?' Noctia replied.
'Man,' Fourze thought to himself, 'I don't know what that girl did to make herself so popular, but I'm glad I didn't get caught up in it.' However, he noticed a few things were off. There was a noticeable tug on his leg, and he could swear he could hear a feminine scream over the sound of the rocket. 'Don't tell me,' looking down, he could see the purple unicorn holding his leg in a death grip, eyes shut and screaming her lungs out. Looking around for a place to set down, Fourze noticed a house, that appeared to be made out of a tree. More importantly, there was an observation platform with a telescope that looked like the perfect landing platform.
Upon landing, Fourze deactivated the Rocket Switch, causing it to disappear, and allowing the unicorn's screams to be heard unhindered. After a few seconds, the unicorn realized that she was no longer flying, stopped screaming, and peeked out with one eye. Upon seeing that she was no longer in midair, she released his leg and grinned sheepishly, "Heh, sorry about that."
"No problem," Fourze replied, "can't say I'd do any differently if I were in your shoes... er, hooves. Why were they chasing you anyway?"
The unicorn frowned and lit her horn, grabbing two golden tickets from, somewhere, "Well, Princess Celestia sent me two tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala, and all my friends want to come with me. They've been driving me crazy trying to get on my good side so I would pick them, and suddenly the whole town found out about the ticket and wants to come. And on top of that, I haven't had a bite to eat all day." That last statement was accompanied by a loud growl, followed by a sheepish grin. "Speaking of, are you gonna eat that?" she asked, pointing a hoof at the burger in Fourze's hand.
Fourze chuckled as he set it and his case on the ground, "Nothing personal, but I don't think you'd want to eat this miss..."
"Oh, my name's Twilight Sparkle," Twilight said, blushing slightly "so why wouldn't I want to eat that?"
"Because," Fourze replied as he opened the case and removed a small black device, "this only looks like a burger." Before Twilight could ask what he meant, he opened up a flap on the burger, causing Twilight to facehoof. Fourze chuckled as he inserted the device and pressed the button on it, causing it to unfold into a mechanical critter. "See if you can find a good place for a gate," Fourze said to it, causing it to salute and roll off.
Twilight's eyes sparkled, "What is that?"
"Depends," Fourze replied, "if you're talking about the burger that just wandered off, it's called a Burgermeal. The thing I put into it is an Astroswitch."
"Ooh," Twilight said, "is that the thing you used to fly."
"Yep," Fourze replied, "the Rocket Switch to be exact. Oh, where are my manners, call me Fourze."
"Well Mr Fourze," Twilight said as she picked him up in her magic, "we are going to see exactly what makes those things tick."
"Put me down!!!"
"You obviously are a stallion of impressive scientific know-how to create those," Twilight continued, deaf to Fourze's protests, "and, since you happened to land on the roof of my house, we can go straight to my lab without having to worry about running into anypony."
"What about lunch?" Fourze asked hopefully.
"Lunch can wait," Twilight replied, "there is discovery to be done."
Rocket On
"None of that," Twilight said, using her magic to turn the switch off, "I know you're eager, but you simply must wait until we get to the lab."
"What we doing in the lab?"
"Well Pinkie, we are going to... Pinkie!?!"
Fourze looked to see that they had arrived in some sort of library, and were not alone.
"Don't let me keep you Twilight," said a pink pony that Fourze assumed was Pinkie, "the faster you finish, the faster you can take me to the Gala!"
"You?" said a white, rather prim looking unicorn, "if Twilight's going to take anypony to the Gala, it will shall be me."
"Fat chance Rares," said a blue pegasus with a rainbow mane, "if anypony's going to the Gala, it's gonna be the coolest pony in Equestria, me."
"If it's not too much trouble," Fourze said, "could the coolest pony in Equestria GET ME DOWN!!!!!!"
Everypony exept Twilight turned to see her... passenger.
"Hold on there pal," said an orange pony in a stetson, "I'll get ya down." Before anyone could wonder how, she pulled a lariat from under her hat, and lassoed Fourze, pulling him out.
"Thank you," Fourze said as he lay upside-down in a pile of books, his tone causing everypony to picture his eyes spinning.
"So," said the blue peagsus, "who's this guy."
"Oh, this is Fourze," said Twilight, before pointing to each of her friends in turn, "Fourze meet Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Fluttershy."
"Good to meet ya," Fourze said as he righted himself, "so you're the ones driving Twilight battier than a broken belfry."
"Whatever do you mean darling," Rarity asked.
"This whole 'I wanna go to the Grand Galloping Gala' thing is getting out of control," Fourze said, "or do I have to remind you that you didn't notice that Twilight was kidnapping me until after I said something."
"I noticed," Fluttershy said quietly, while the others' expressions ranged from indignant to embarrassed.
"Twilight," Fourze asked, "you said you got you tickets from Celestia right." Twilight nodded. "Can't you just ask if she can send you a few more?"
Twilight facehooved.
Fourze sighed, "Good, as for studying my Astroswitches, give me a second." Fourze flipped up the four switches on his belt, causing his suit to disappear. In it's place was a relatively young man blonde hair, wearing jeans and a checked shirt. Removing the belt from his waist, he opened his case, which he had managed to keep a hold of, and removed a gold switch, "would you like to know more."
Twilight salavated, then rolled her eyes and fainted.