Initial D: First Equestria Stage

by SixShooterOutlaw

Chapter 2: First Impressions

Twilight stared in disbelief, she rubbed her eyes to make sure she wasn't hallucinating,
but sure enough what she was seeing was real. There were four ponies lying on the floor,
they looked unconscious so Twilight went over to check on them, Twilight slowly
approached the pony that was closest to her, a light azure Unicorn stallion.

"Are you alright?" she asked, poking him gently with her hoof.

The stallion groaned quietly then began to stir as did the others, which Twilight
noticed were also stallions, but unlike him, one was a rusty red Pegasus, a white
Earth pony and a lemon yellow Pegasus.

The yellow Pegasus sat up, shook his head and the started looking around frantically,
the Unicorn lifted his hoof and started analyzing it, the red Pegasus looked
around the room and the white Earth pony looking as if his brain had failed to comprehend
the situation, he had a blank look on his face and was just staring off into the distance.

The Pegasus looked at the other ponies and said "Why are you all horses?!?!" then
looked at his hooves "Why am I a horse?!?! WHAT'S GOING ON?!?" sounding almost on
the verge of tears.

"Umm, Hello?" Twilight said to the four stallions who then turned to look at her.

"Hi?" the red Pegasus replied questioningly.

"My name is Twilight Sparkle, who are you?" Twilight asked politely.

"My name's Iketani" the blue Unicorn answered.

"I'm Kenji" the red Pegasus added.

"I'm Itsuki" the yellow Pegasus told Twilight "and the guy that's probably daydreaming
over there is Takumi" he gestured over to the white Earth pony, who then broke out
of whatever trance he was in.

"My name's Takumi" he said to her.

"I already told her that" Itsuki explained to him.

"Oh sorry" Takumi said quickly.

"It's fine" Twilight said to him.

"Can you tell us what happened?" Iketani asked "I mean, one minute we were on a
mountain then there was a flash of light and we were here".

"Well, the flash of light was my fault" Twilight admitted "I was using a summoning
spell, but it wasn't to summon other ponies to me, just items".

"SPELL?!?" Itsuki shouted "You mean, like magic spell?".

"Yes, as an Alicorn, I can do all sorts of magic" Twilight explained "But as I said
before, it wasn't meant for other ponies, I was trying to summon a book from the
other room. I'm not sure what went wrong" Twilight then looked over to the book of
spells, walked over to it, started flipping the pages to find the spell she had
used. "Here it is!" she then looked closer and noticed something
amiss and sure enough she was right. "It appears the last pony who used the spellbook
ripped the item summoning spell out of the book, but for some reason left the title,
so the spell I used is actually a pony summoning spell".

"But how did it work on us? We're not ponies" Kenji asked her.

"How is this possible?" Twilight wondered out loud "pulling other beings from another
world, that is some spell".

"Is there a spell to send us back?" Takumi asked.

Twilight started flipping through the pages, after she did it once she double checked.

"I can't seem to find one, if there is one it's missing" Twilight told them "SPIIIKEE!"
she called.

"I'm right here Twilight, you don't need to yell" Spike grumbled then the four stallions
turned their attention to him.

"Is that a dragon?" Kenji asked.

"No, I'm a griffon" Spike answered sarcastically.

"A talking dragon?" Itsuki added "I didn't know dragons could talk!".

"That's totally the first time I've heard that one" Spike replied with a slight eye
roll.

"This is my number one assistant, Spike" Twilight told them "hey Spike, can you send
a letter to the Princesses asking for help finding a spell?".

"Sure thing!" Spike said smiling "what do you want it to say?"

Twilight explained what had happened with the spell and about the missing return spell,
Spike then sent the letter.

"Alright, I sent a letter to the Princesses of Equestria if they can't help track down
the missing spell, then nopony can!" Twilight told everyone.

"Wait, you know your Princesses like that? You can ask them questions and they'll
just help you?" Itsuki asked sounding surprised.

"Well, it does help with her being Princess Celestia's personal student and being a
princess herself" Spike explained and Twilight just blushed.

"You're a princess??" they all asked in unison.

"Yeah, I'm the Princess of Friendship, though I don't need to brag about it" Twilight
said to them "it might be awhile before the Princesses respond, do you want to meet
my friends?".

"Sure, it's not like we're going anywhere anytime soon." Iketani replied.

"Then let's go!" Twilight said, ignoring the sarcastic remark, as the six of them left the room.

Once they were at Sugarcube Corner, after the introductions and explanations were
finished, Rainbow Dash couldn't help but laugh her flank off.

"Okay okay, let me get this straight, since coming to Ponyville you've cast a spell
to make everypony want your doll, then another one that changed our Cutie Marks around,
now you've managed to pull four guys from another world into Equestria and turn them
into ponies, What's next Twilight?" Rainbow said while laughing like it was the funniest thing ever.

"Really, Rainbow? That's what you take from this situation?" Applejack said to her.

"Come on, AJ it's pretty funny!" Rainbow argued.

"Ignore her, darlings" Rarity told them "Rainbow Dash doesn't always have the most
appropriate sense of humor".

"Hey!" Rainbow shouted, sounding offended.

"So, have you guys been friends forever?" Takumi asked "Because it seems that way".

"Nah, we've only been friends since Twilight came to Ponyville a couple years ago when
Nightmare Moon returned and we stopped her with the Elements of Harmony" Pinkie
Pie explained "Unless you count the Sonic Rainboom Dashie did back when we were little
fillies that gave us a Cutie Mark connection that was almost taken out when an evil-then-
but-not-evil now unicorn bent on revenge went back in time to prevent the Rainboom
from happening forever splitting us apart and dooming Equestria but like I said that's
only if you count the Rainboom".

The four guys just stood there, blinking in disbelief at what the just heard.

"In other words, yes we have know each other for awhile but not forever" Twilight
told them.

"Isn't that what I said?" Pinkie asked innocently.

"Not quite" Applejack answered.

"Does she always talk that fast?" Takumi asked.

"Prety much" Spike replied.

"What's a 'Sonic Rainboom'?" Iketani asked.

"It's when a Pegasus can go fast enough to break the sound barrier to cause a sonic boom
and make a rainbow appear at the same time" Twilight answered.

"Wow, that sounds so awesome!" Itsuki said smiling.

"And I'm the only pony to ever pull it off" Rainbow added smugly "Not once, not twice, but three times".

"Wow, you must be the coolest pony ever to do something like that" Itsuki told her.

"Don't inflate her ego anymore than it already is" Rarity warned "You'll only
encourage her to brag about it more".

"If that's even possible" Applejack muttered sarcastically.

"You said something about 'Cutie Marks', what's that?" Kenji asked.

"A Cutie Mark shows what a pony's special talent is" Fluttershy answered "Mine represents
my ability to communicate with animals".

"Mine represents my ability to find the most stunning gems" Rarity added.

"Mine represents running the family farm, Sweet Apple Acres" Applejack told them proudly.

"Mine shows my amazingly awesome fast flying!" Rainbow explained.

"Mine shows my love of party-planning!" Pinkie said giggling gleefully.

"And mine represents my talents with magic" Twilight said smiling.

"That's cool" Takumi told them.

"So, now that you know a little bit about our world, why don't you tell us about yours?"
Twilight suggested.

"Okay. Well, where we're from, we don't look like this. We actually, well it's hard
to explain." Iketani said. We don't have hooves, we have things called hands and
feet and walk on two legs instead of four."

"So you're humans" Twilight supplied.

"Exactly. Wait how do you know what humans are? Do you have people in this world?
Takumi asked.

"No, but this isn't the first time we've dealt with interdimensional travel." Twilight explained.

"Um, ok. Well, since you know the basics of human living, we'll tell you about ourselves."
Kenji offered

The Mane six nodded.

"Well, Iketani and I work at a gas station" Itsuki said.

"What's a gas station?" asked Fluttershy

"Do you guys now what cars are?" asked Iketani.

"I saw them when I was in the other dimension, but I don't know much about them" Twilight replied

"Well you guys have carts, right?" asked Kenji

"Yeah, we have a bunch of those down at the farm." replied Applejack

"Well, cars are kinda like carts with engines that make them move without pulling them." Kenji explained
"And the engines need gas to make them work."

"So you guys work at the place that sells it?" Pinkie asked.

"Exactly." replied Iketani "But that's not all we do there, we also repair cars and wash them."

"And I'm a delivery truck driver by day and I deliver tofu at night/early morning for my family's tofu shop"
Takumi added.

"But when we're not working, we spend time working on our own cars" Kenji said

"So you each have your own cars?" asked Rainbow. "Are they fast?"

"Very and Takumi here's the fastest drifter ever" Itsuki replied

"What's 'drifting'?" Rainbow asked "I've read about our version, but what's your's like?"

"Well, it's a type of car racing, where you corner at higher speeds by sliding the car around the corner."
Iketani explained.

"That. Sounds. Awesome!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed

"It's alot of fun" replied Kenji.

"And Takumi is the best drifter ever" Itsuki reiterated

"Dude, I'm nothing special." Takumi replied

"Takumi's just being modest. He's really good." Kenji said

"Sounds like he's really fast" added Applejack

"He is, but it takes a lot of practice." Iketani said "That's what we were doing just
before we popped up here. We were at the top of mount Akina, that's a local mountain
where we practice, taking a break and the next thing we know, we were here."

After a short pause, Itsuki asked the question he'd been dying to ask.
"So, Pegasus ponies all fly and Unicorns can do magic?"

"Duh, why do you think we have wings?" Rainbow pointed out "You're a Pegasus if you
hadn't noticed and you've got 'em too!" she added pointing at Kenji.

"What?" Itsuki said curiously looking at his sides and sure enough he had a pair of
wings "So, I can fly?".

"Yes, if you want to" Rainbow told him, then she got a huge grin on her face "Do
you want to learn how to, I can teach you both how to, that is if you want the most
awesome teacher in the universe".

"Heck yeah!" Itsuki shouted excitedly.

"That sounds cool" Kenji added.

"Alright, I'll be your coach, we'll start tomorrow, unless you get home before then".

"Okay" Itsuki said nodding.

"I'll go with you too, just to make sure Rainbow doesn't get too tough" Fluttershy told
them.

"Since you're a Unicorn, Iketani" Twilight said looking at him " Rarity and I could teach
you magic if you want us to".

"Sounds good to me" Iketani replied.

"And, since you're an Earth pony, me and Pinkie Pie could teach ya about our
strength and connection to the earth" Applejack explained to Takumi.

"Sure" Takumi said to her.

Just then Spike came into the room from the kitchen, he had a scroll in his claw.

"Celestia just sent back this message" he said then Twilight used her magic to levitate
the scroll.

"It says that she is looking for the spell or any one that might work and will message
me as soon as she finds something, but warns that it may take a long time to find it"
Twilight announced to everyone "Well I guess it's good that we have plans to occupy
ourselves with until Celestia finds something".

"Yeah, that's good, but just one problem" Kenji said to the group.

"What's that?" Twilight asked.

"Where will we stay?" he asked.

"You can stay with me and Spike, the castle has plenty of room" Twilight told him.

"Alright" Kenji responded.

"So, how about we all group up at the castle and decide where we'll do the training
in the morning?" Twilight suggested and everyone agreed "Let's all head back to our
homes, it's been a looong day, if you ask me" she added.

Everyone agreed, said good night and headed back home.

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