I turn and double take to see who was watching me. Nopony was there so I dismissed the feeling and walked away. I rounded the next corner following the tree in the distance which I could easily see over the roofs of the houses. The feeling came back again and I stopped. I turned around and saw the CMC trailing me. They were acting sneaky and probably just trying to earn a cutie mark in stalking or something so I left them be. I kept walking through Ponyville with everypony stopping what there doing to watch me go by in awe and horror.
I arrived at the library and opened the tiny door and ducked upon entry. I looked t o see if anypony was there but I saw no one. I walked to the desk and rung the bell. "I'll be with you in a minute." said a voice from upstairs which belonged to a certain scaly dragon. I waited silently for a minute and he walked down stairs. He looked at me with pupils the size of peas for a split second but then continued down the stares.
"You must be one of those humans Twilight told me about." he said still a bit fearful.
"She told you about us?" I ask.
"Huh, told me, no. More like yelled. She woke me up in the middle of the night and practically screaming about how shes so excited to meet you guys or something."
"That's seems a bit excessive don't you think?"
"Exactly, she woke me up for something that could have waited until morning."
"Yeah it could of. But speaking of Twilight is she around here?"
"Yeah, shes upstairs pulling out books for the talk you two are going to have."
"Oh... well can I go up?" I ask trying to mask the eagerness in my voice.
"Sure. she is actually expecting you."
"Ok then. See you around."
"You too bro."
I walked upstairs to see the familiar sight of everything scattered and messy with random papers strung out here and there and books lying on the floor. I look to see her mane is a mess and she probably didn't go to sleep either. "Twilight you don't look so good." I say startling her causing her to yelp which I found hilarious so I burst out laughing.
"Don't sneak up on me like that." she said in a dead serious tone that effectively shut me up.
I walked over and sat down on the floor and casually tried to get a better look at her. Despite the fact that her mane was 'all out of whack', she looked... cute. Wait... fuck my life. 'BRAIN DON'T DO THIS TO ME NOW' I mentally yelled at myself. I didn't want to be thinking about that now. In an attempt to get my mind off this concept I decided it would be best to do what I came here for but before that, I needed to know something.
"Twilight, I need to know this now... exactly much do you know?"
"If its about My Little Ponies, well everything you know. All the fan-fiction you've read, every episode you've seen, and even some of not so polite things it had to offer." she said and I knew I fucked up. Twilight knows about Rule 34. Oh Gawd! "I am a bit confused on some of the things but as you can tell I'm a pretty smart mare." she stated tooting her own horn (Ha, its a pun).
"So you didn't get any of my personal thoughts or preferences on the matter right?"
"No, that's not how the memory spell works. But if you don't mind me asking, why are you so worried about that?" she asked with a genuine need to know.
I want to hug that mare so badly. We think so much alike. "Well I don't want Rainbow Dash to feel competitive if she finds out that she's not my favorite. I doubt she will care because she doesn't know me but what if?"
"Well... I can't argue with that. She is rather competitive and might take it offensively."
"Oh, also need to ask, how accurate was the show?"
"It is a perfect match to life in Equestria except for one thing. There are plenty more stallions here than the show led on, but Ponyville still has a rather high population of mares than most places." she said and then started to look a bit nervous like she wanted to say something but didn't know how to say it. "If you don't mind me asking who was your favorite and why?"
"Do you really want to know?" I say not sure whether I wanted to tell her.
"Yes." she said sheepishly.
"Well I guess if I'm going to be here for a while I might as well put this out on the proverbial table. My favorite character from the show is you." I told her and she looked away and blushed profusely. "I related to you the most because I genuinly like learning things, I think about things scientifically, my anxiety does get the better of me sometimes, and in my early years I didn't do much friend making."
"I... I-I don't know what to think."
"Just consider me a HUGE fan of yours." I told her which seemed to put her mind at ease.
"I guess that makes it a bit easier to deal with. I still don't like the fact that you know more about us than we know of you."
"That is exactly what what the princess had told me but just as I told her, this can be fixed."
"Indeed it can be fixed. Now lets get on with the business at hand."
"Actually we need to go back to Sweet Apple Acres to finish everything up. But tell me, why is everypony taking us being here so well?"
"I don't know what its like on your world but here we don't judge anypony until we know who they are. You don't seem like you want to hurt anypony so we are accepting the fact that your here now and we need to live together in peace. Equestria is a peaceful place and our princess works hard to see that it remains so. I don't think that was unlike her "
"That makes sense."
"You don't have to take the fan-fiction word for word. Celestia isn't that uncaring or cruel like in some of what you have read and you shouldn't be taking it literally because its fiction not fact."
"I know but what am I gonna do?" I asked rhetorically. "I know I'm jumping topics but how are you going to break it to everypony about the show?"
"I don't know how I want to approach this so I may leave them in the dark on this one for a while."
"I can respect that but they do need to know eventually."
"I know but it can wait for some time while I gather my thoughts."
"I could tell them for you if you needed me to."
"No offense but it would probably be better if I do it." she said chuckling slightly.
"Ok then, since we have everything is out of the way for now, we need to worry about this place." I say looking around the room and again at Twilight. "This room and you are a mess. What happened?"
"Oh nothing just a night of research. Look don't worry about the mess. I got this."
"I'm not an expert but I think you need some help."
"Why would I need help when I can just use magic?"
"Oh that's right you can use magic here. Please excuse my stupidity." I say earning a giggle from my favorite pony. She then proceeded to use her magic and picked up every book on the floor putting them in there respective places. Its an amazing thing to see this first hand.
"So I take it you don't have magic where your from."
"You are a perceptive mare. Yes, in fact we don't possess magic or the ability to fly. Humans build machines to do what we normally could not." I say again getting a giggle out of the mare.
"Machines like the one you flew in on?"
"You saw us flying?"
"More like crashing but yes."
"Speaking of, I need to know if there is any way to fix my helicopter with magical assistance from somepony such as yourself."
"Well that depends on what the nature of the damage is and if any parts need replacing."
"Oh, I see. Wait is there a spell that can duplicate items?"
"Yes but you see the problem with that is you have to know what the end product of the duplication is going to be. I have no idea if I would even know what to do. I have no clue about your technology..." she said before I cut her off.
"I can teach you what you need to know as we go along. Don't fret. If you can't do anything, I just have to get over my self. The helicopter I a little more important now than it used to be because of the fact that here it is the only one of its kind. Its one of the few connections I have to my world. But if it can't be done, then it can't be done." I say wisely.
"Ok. I just don't like being put into situations where I am not knowledgeable in the subject." she said as I look in her eyes seeing there is much more to that dislike than she is letting on. I won't pry though but I want to hug her. I told that exact same thing to Fluttershy yesterday night.
"You know, we aren't so different you and I." I say acting like Bond (James Bond) villain and laughing to the confusion of the purple mare standing before me.
"What's so funny?" asked Twilight who is still trying to deduce whether I am laughing at her or at what I said.
"Oh nothing, its a quote from an old movie. Its funny how it fit this situation perfectly but don't feel bad if you don't get it." I say laughing now at Twilight's confusion and the look on her face.
"Ooook then..." she said while I was practically dying on the floor from laughter.
I looked up to see Tyler and Jake standing there with an almost identical look of confusion which made me laugh harder than I already was. After about a minute and a half of straight laughter and another minute of recovery from the fit I calmed down enough to see that Pinkie Pie was there the whole time laughing with me.
"So what are we laughing at?" asked the pink party mare happily.
"What..." I say before facepalming.
"Don't worry about it. That's just Pinkie being Pinkie." Twilight explained
I looked up through my hand still facepalming, "I know, but its new to me."
"I got used to it." Tyler said as a mater of factly.
"News flash Tyler, I don't give a damn."
"Hey whats wrong with me being me? I like Me! OH! This is like that one time where Fluttershy meet this big old meanie Iron Will which m-mmph mmmph mmmph mph mmmmmmph mmphmmph..." Pinke said before being silenced by a hoof in the mouth.
"Ok well I don't mean to rush but the princess would like a list of your weapons and other items just so she knows what shes dealing with. I'd like to go to Sweet Apple Acres to get this done already." Twilight said still covering the party mares mouth.
"I thought you'd never ask." And with that everybody and everypony set out to Sweet Apple Acres.
Its not much of an ending but Tune in next time for The Unlikely Sanctuary chapter 9: Meeting the Stalkers and Granny Smith!