> A Boy and a Bunch of Cute Ponies
>  by Rupertthered
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> Lyra
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	Upon opening the door, you see a very light shade of aqua unicorn standing there. She was new to you; none of the six from before mentioned her. She looks up at you her eyes growing wider and wider, as her mouth became a big grin.

“Oh my Celestia, an actual human, I was right all along, wait till Bon Bon hears about this.” She began to ramble off about how her research finally paid off and how no pony will make fun of her now. “Oh my, I’m sorry. My name is Lyra, Lyra Heartstrings. Celestia told me you are named Anon? Kinda a weird name for a human, but I’ve only done research mostly on your hands. How is it like to have hands?”

She creeped you out a bit to be honest. A pony knowing so much about the human race? Not even the six knew what your kind was, not even Celestia (was that her name?) even knew what humans were? You decided to play along, since a week had passed by Celestia had promised something for you ever since she took them away. Those memories still hurt you, but life had been a little better actually. You decided to let this “Lyra” in to see what would happen. She happily entered and began to look around.

“Wow, everything here is so different from my place.” She was amazed by every single thing, even a candle amazed her. “It’s like everything is meant for your hands, back in Equestria the most effective way to do things is by being a unicorn since we can manipulate objects with our magic.” She trots around the living room a bit, and sits down on your couch. “Wow what a comfy place.” This shocked you, she was actually sitting as if she was a person, normally a pony would lie down with their legs under their body, but no Lyra was sitting with her bottom down and back straight. 

You weren’t sure how to react, one minute you’re with an average unicorn, next thing you know she knows how the human body works as if it’s second nature to her. You walk up to her and sit next to her, to try and compare her sitting style to yours. Everything seemed normal, well other than the obvious parts but that’s a given. But for whatever reason, it just seemed cute to you, seeing a pony trying to act like a human, very different. Her light shades of aqua were quite a match also, never expecting so many light shades to help complement each color. 

“Hey Anon, you alright? You seem to be staring.” It was true, her silliness got the best of you, and you simply chuckle and wave it off. “Good then. Umm if it isn’t much of a bother, may I see your hand? I haven’t gotten to touch one in person.” You quite expected that, considering their universe was surrounded by ponies, none of them would have a hand to give one another. But you finally accept her request and stretch out your hand, she begins to grab it and feel with her hooves. Small and delicate hooves went over your hand; she knew what she was doing. “This is so amazing.” She was truly in a trance at having the opportunity to get a feel. 

Her curiosity was probably the best part about her really. She just seemed cuter then she normally should be. “Hey Anon, do you happen to have a lyre? That be sweet if you do.” A lyre? That seemed random to you, until you noticed the mark on her. A unicorn that was talented with a lyre? Guess she would use their magic to pull the strings. Going back to the question she had asked you, you shake your head no, this sadden her for a second. “Aww that sucks, oh well good thing I brought my own.” She magically brought out a lyre, where it came from you had no idea; these ponies seemed to make their own rules with reality at times, especially Pinkie Pie. 

You’ve seen lyres before, many many times, it was an often used instrument back in your school actually. Though it was mostly guys playing it cause they wanted to learn the Zelda songs. You wondered how similar pony music and human music were. If anything you would probably expect the same. As expected she began to play the lyre with her magic. It didn’t really see the same as playing it with your hands, but you were no music expert so you couldn’t tell. Maybe this is what they enjoyed back in her universe, you weren’t the judge of interspecies music. 

After playing for a few minutes she stops and looks at you. “Wanna give it a try? I wanna see what hands can do with this.” You look at her with a worried glance, not sure how to react. But her pleading eyes wouldn’t stop staring at you. Finally you gave in and grabbed the lyre and tried to remember what you saw back in high school. Trying to replicate the same movements, but your memory failed you as you would either pull the string to hard or to softly. “Oh my, you don’t have any experience do you?” You shake your nod, confirming her suspensions. “Well why didn’t you say so? Here let me show you.” 

She gave you a music lesson in about an hour showing you the ups and downs of a lyre, what each string sounds like; how they connect anything you needed to know really. She was truly an expert on lyres. Guess that’s why she is called Lyra Heartstrings, a really fitting name. 

Your thoughts are interrupeted when you feel her nuzzle you. “I’m sorry Anon but I gotta go, Celestia would only let me stay for so long. I wished I could have stayed. Humans are just simply amazing.” With that a portal appeared in front of the door prompting her to return home. She gave you one final hug as she left, but she did leave behind a gift for you. Still in your hands was her lyre, she left it with you on purpose. Maybe you will use it one day. 
> Derpy
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	Next week had started, and you knew what to expect, hopefully. Celestia had promised one pony a week it seems, you wondered who would be next. You were quite hopeful it would be one of the earlier ponies from before. You stood there waiting for the knock that would come. Eventually the knock did come. You rush over to it opening the door to see a gray pegasus standing there. But the one thing that caught you off guard was her eyes. They weren’t normal from what you can tell. One eye looked up while the other look down.

“Hello, I have a letter for you.” From underneath her wing she pulls out a letter, on the front of it you can see a sun symbol. You open up to letter and begin to read.

“Hello Anon, I do hope you are enjoying the time I have given you with my little ponies, they are a wonderful bunch. Each one a different personality from the last, and each with an important lesson in mind. I do hope you are having fun.” Signed Celestia. So the princess had sent you a letter with this one? Why not the last one?

“So your Anon right? Celestia says you are having problems? I also have problems in life too you know.” You turn to the gray colored pony to see her facing your sofa. Seems like her eyes are mostly the problem, it was cute. You begin to walk over to her and sit in front of her. “Oh my bad. I have a hard time seeing as you can tell.” She points to her eyes indicating her visual problem. “Sometimes though I can see normally, but then it reminds me that people want to change me.” Her eyes adjust back to normal.

It didn’t suit her well you thought, the cross eyes were rather unique you thought. And besides it’s a bad idea to change someone just cause of how they look. “I can see perfect now, but it’s only a temporary thing though.” As if on que her eyes go back crossed. “I just don’t know what went wrong.” You couldn’t help but giggle a bit upon seeing and hearing that. “Hey don’t laugh at me cause I’m different, it hurts you know.”

And again she was facing the wrong way. You begin to walk over to her and place a hand on her head playing with her hair. She seems to relax a bit and places her head on your shoulder. Or at least she tried to, seems like she didn’t have a great balance with her eyes. Instead both of you fall down with her landing on your legs. She started to laugh at her clumsiness. You decided to join in. 

“See it’s fun being different Anon, you don’t need to listen to others. Everyone wants everyone to be the same when that isn’t the case. It’s best to choose what you want to be. Not everyone is the same, that’s why we have different cutie marks.” You had to agree with what she said. For someone that seems clumsy she is pretty smart. She decides to crawl up your body reaching your face. “You get what I mean right?” You simply smile and nod you head.

“Yay then.” She wraps her hooves around your neck hugging you. “You know for a species that is different from us you guys kinda seem similar to us.” Now that you thought about it, both ponies and humans acted similar. It quite surprised you, though Applejack did run a farm, like people do here on Earth. “Hey Anon can you make a promise?” You nod your head agreeing to make whatever promise she has. “As long as I don’t change, I don’t want you to change who you are, okay?” That sounded like a great idea. You smile at her and agree to never change, it was always fun being unique among others.

“Thanks Anon, you’re a great guy, I can see why the others loved you, and I just wish others would love me for who I am. But no one likes the way I look, they said I’m weird.” It was quite saddening hearing that, why would someone want another person to change? Though it was like that in human society you figured, if you were different from everyone else and their “social rules” then you were a freak and a nobody. Only those that represented how people are supposed to look are looked up to. 

“It awful knows people are here to just hurt you instead of being friendly. Though luckily many ponies in Ponyville are very kind to me, since I’m the one that delivers their mail every day. Carrot Top is probably my best friends. She has her own carrot garden where she grows carrots. Some people call her Golden Harvest, but she is fine with either name.” She seemed to switch moods rather quickly, quite like her eyes did, always switching their location. It was odd, but you were curious about it anyways. 

“Well I hope you enjoyed your time and the letter Anon, but I can feel that it’s already time for me to go. I wish I could stay, since we understand each other pretty well but the princess is busy, and has to use a lot of magic in order to do this.” You see a portal opening up behind her, and soon a bag came out of it, but the portal remained open. “Oh right, I forgot to bring this with me. I was supposed to give you this bag to keep. You can use the bag to store whatever you need, like a normal bag.” She tosses you the bag, with quite some effort. You stumble about trying to get a hold of yourself.

“Oops, my bad. Anyways thank you Anon.” She lifts up into the air and hugs you one last time, before going into the portal. She was a very different pony, different and unique. 
> Octavia
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	Two weeks have passed by, and you still couldn’t believe what fortune has brought you. First there were the six ponies, they were taken away, but then two new ponies appeared, one showed you music, and the other showed you self-respect. Music was a wonderful thing, you forgot how much you loved it. As well as self-respect, you never had much for yourself, always doubting and such. But in the end it only mattered that you did what you wanted and not what others thought. As you waited in your house passing the time waiting for the next pony to appear. When finally there a knock at the door. You opened it to see a gray earth pony and a large cello next to her.

“Good evening, I do believe you are Anon, yes?” You nodded your head in reply. “A pleasure to meet you, Princess Celestia has sent me to teach you wonders of the classical music and such.” She began to walk in, and pointed at her cello. “If you could be so kind to carry that for me, it was rather tiresome carrying that around.” You do what the pony tells you and you grab the cello bringing it inside and rest it on your sofa.

She seemed pretty important with the way she acted and spoke. She began to look about the house taking in everything that she can. Ever since you started your new job, you’ve been able to afford some nice looking decorations for the house, incase guests ever passed by, like the ponies. But you’ve actually had friends come in a few times and compliment how it looks. 

“Hmm I see, such taste in the arts I see.” “The arts” you thought? You didn’t know anything artsy you thought. “You must be the human that was keeping the Elements of Harmony with them yes? If so then I can see that Rarity must have been great help in choosing the decorations. I know whenever I can I get her to help set up my stage for when I perform.” 

Seems like the Elements of Harmony were known among the common people of their planet, the name escaped you, but you were sure you would think of the name soon enough. Especially if Rarity helped such a known musician you figured. Soon enough you hear clopping noise interrupt your train of thought. 

“Now then, it is time to teach you, I shall show you how to play and have poise and grace about yourself.” She began to grab the cello and lower it down till it was in playing position. She brings the bow up and begins to play. It was nothing that you knew. You never cared much for music again, but there was some good stuff out there. “There now you try.” She said quickly finishing the song without you noticing. 

You begin to grab the cello and bow from her and try to mimic her, though it seems like you didn’t know anything of course. “That is wrong, you need to move your arm higher, and your legs wider.” She begins to move her hooves about you, changing your sitting position all about. “There, now you can start playing. It is not simple playing a cello; you need to feel good about it. It isn’t like “Lyra’s” lyre where you just pick it up and play. You need to be one with the instrument. Every instrument is different and played different, so you must be able to change yourself in order to play them.” 

She was quite right about that, everything is different and you had to change yourself in order to accustom to it, or else there is little point in trying. “But change isn’t always good, for example, my dear friend Vinyl Scratch. She loves the whole dubstep, or electronic music, which is not music at all, but she is my dear friend so I support her anyways.” She begins to walk over to you and begin to show you how to play the cello. “Now as you may notice, your hand movement affect how the strings will play, unlike the lyre which relies on how hard you pluck it, this doesn’t.” She begins to move her hand back and forth in different motions. “Change is good here, so that way you don’t always play the same note over and over.”

After a while of practice she leaves your side and watches as you play. To your own surprise, you were quite the quick learner.  Once done with your pretend song, you hear clapping hooves. “Bravo bravo. That was simply amazing for a beginner like you. Are you sure you haven’t practiced before I arrived?” This draws a chuckle from both of you. “If I may ask, can I please of a glass of water; all that glorious music made me thirty.” You agree with her, that with the music playing had made you quite thirsty as well. You head over to the kitchen and fill up two glasses with water. “A toast to your new instrument and lesson in life. May it serve you well.” The two of you clash glasses together and gulp down the water. You couldn’t help but think about what she meant about new instrument. 

“Is something bothering you Anon, you don’t seem happy.” You shake your head and smile, hoping it would make her not worry, which seems to have worked. “Alright Anon, as long as your happy. But I must be taking my leave now if you don’t mind. Important business in Cantorlot for me. It was a wonderful time I had here, do wish I could have stayed your music skills seem quite high to me. The two of you hug as she begins to make her way to your front door. “Ciao Anon, I do hope to meet you again in the future.” As the door opened, a portal is seen for her to take as she begins to step forward towards it. 

That’s when you notice the cello is still on your couch. So that’s what she meant, just like Lyra. Now you have two instruments to play.

> Rainbow Dash
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	A week had passed since Octavia, and you had gotten somewhat better playing the cello, but it wasn’t saying much actually. You were still a novice at playing it and learning was hard when doing solo. But it takes your mind off of everyday life when you played. It was quite fun, very different from the lyre. Every week on this day always brought a smile to your face knowing that Celestia was gonna send someone over, and they were always different very unique. It wasn’t long till a knock came at the door. You quickly got up and opened the door to be tackled to the ground at quite a quick pace. 

“Anon, it’s so awesome seeing you again, I can’t believe Celestia brought me back, today is gonna be so awesome.” Of all the ponies she can send, it was Rainbow Dash the daredevil loyalty. This brought a smile to your face yet again as you set up and played with her hair. What made Celestia bring her back she was already here before the other ponies? “Oh man, Anon what have you been up to? I see everything is different around here; Rarity certainly did help giving you advice huh? I guess she is pretty good at helping decorate, but not awesome like me right?”

You couldn’t help but laugh a bit at how she acted, always the fiery type she was, hoping she was the best, you quite liked it now actually now that you have been out. Gives the girl confidence in herself, though leaves them venerable when they thought they were bad making it easy to cheer them up.  Dash began to fly about the place looking at all the changes that you’ve made to the place. 

At some point she finally noticed the lyre, cello, and bag all together. “Oh hey, others have been here? These look like Lyra’s lyre, Octavia’s cello, and one of Derpy’s bag.” You nod you head indicating that’s who they belonged too. “Hey no one fair, how come they got to spend time with you instead one of us? Aren’t we like way more important than them? Besides I’m way cooler, I even got my own fan club back at Ponyville, that Scootaloo runs, I don’t see them with a club or anything.” She puts on a grumpy face, sorta cute she thought. “Well I guess Octavia has her own band and stuff, so ponies know about her, but none of them know you.” 

You try to explain that they were sent by Celestia to teach you a lesson, and to spend time, since she felt sad having to let the six leave you behind so soon. Upon saying this, her face begins to relax from her angry state from earlier, “Oh I see, that makes sense, you weren’t in a great mood when we first met you, but you’ve gotten better haven’t you?” You nod your head. “But I guess there’s always room for improvement.”

Once again she flies around a bit, “Can we go outside? I got a bunch of new tricks to show, I’ve been practicing for the Wonderbolts, I got invited to join their flight camp and hoping to show off my smooth moves that for sure will get me to join, cause you know, I’m Rainbow Dash, who can say no to me?” You couldn’t help but think of a few people you knew that would with her kind of attitude. But you quickly dismissed those thoughts and opened the door to go outside. 

Once outside she began to look for a spot with enough room for her to perform tricks, hoping to not draw attention from anything or anyone as she showed off her awesomeness, as she stated it. She began with a simple looking trick of going in and out of clouds, not that it really mattered you thought, seemed simple. After a while she began to pick up speed turning this way and that way, making movements that were hard to catch, some were amazing, heck some even made you wish you had wings, and you were afraid of heights. Rainbow Dash sure knew how to put on a show, never scared, though she lived for this, for danger. After a while she took off way into the sky and began to dive down below. As she picked up speed, the white shield around her began to turn red and soon bursted in colors as a rainbow circle shot out as she dove from miles above. You never knew such a thing existed till now.

The rainbow explosion cause debris to scatter everywhere, and even moved trees, but they were still rooted in place. Shortly after, Rainbow Dash landed next to you. “Ahh yeah, even in this world I can make a Sonic Rainboom, that was awesome, why didn’t I try that before?” A Sonic Rainboom? You thought in your head, you’ve never heard of such a thing, but it did look amazing to you, unfortunately it seems like it caused a bit of commotion in the forest.   You two quickly ran back into the house before anything found you. Not that it mattered mostly, but just in case you wanted both of you out of harm’s way. 

“Oh man, what an adrenaline rush, but anyways I gotta go Anon, sorry for the short time, I don’t wanna keep the Wonderbolts waiting for their next in line Spitfire. The one and only Rainbow Dash the Element of Loyalty.” She struck a pose making her seem like she knew what she was doing. The two of you hugged and she even kissed you a bit on the cheek. “Heh, my bad, umm I gotta go so yea, see ya Anon.” With that she opened up the door and zipped through the portal waiting for her outside.

You thought a bit, maybe what you need in life is a confidence boost, one that makes you do daring performances, Rainbow Dash had a lot of that, though it is fine to be scared sometimes, cause after you only learn something when you try. 
> Doctor Whooves
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	It has been a rough week for you, nothing has gone right, everything has gone quite downhill. You did everything you could, but everyone decided it wasn't good or anything. The only thing you were able to look forward to was a new pony this week. Though it was already three in the afternoon and nothing has happened. Was Celestia mad at you? Maybe she has been watching you and felt disappointed with how you acted this week, and felt you didn't deserve her ponies. 

The more you thought about it, the more likely it kept becoming in your head. It was until you heard a whooshing noise behind you. You turn around to see a big blue box begin to appear slowly in your living room. Until it eventually became whole, you quite recognized it as a phone booth back in the old days, but nothing beyond that. Where did it come from?

Soon enough your worries about Celestia were washed away as one of the doors opened to reveal a brown pony step out. "Oh my, the Tardis appeared to have teleported me into somepony's home," he spoke with a British accent, "now why would it do that?"

He begins to look around until his eyes land on you, as he begins to look you over. "Hmm interesting, where am I?" He pulls out a small device in his mouth and walks over to you. The device opens slightly and begins to glow green as he points it at you moving it up and down. You try to explain to him that he was on Earth, but it seems like it fell on deaf ears. "Yes, I had a feeling, I'm back on Earth, aren't I? This is certainly new, I never thought I would end up back here."

He begins to trot around your home, the sound of his clopping hooves sounding throughout the room, he sounds to be heavier then your other guests that for sure. He began to use his device across everything he came upon. He even passed the objects the other ponies have left behind, Lyra's lyre, Octavia's cello, and finally Derpy's bag. 

"Did Derpy give you this?" He attempts to hold the bag in his hooves. You nod your head. "I see, so I suppose I'm not the only one from Equestria that has visited you, yes?" Again you nod your head. "Do excuse my manners. I'm the Doctor, you've already met my assistant Derpy. Her and me quite travel a bit, through time and space. Very fascinating might I say." He trots over to you. "Now has anything happened unusual happened recently that I should know about? The tardis must have detected something wrong, but my sonic screwdriver isn't picking up anything." 

You weren't sure whether or no to tell him about what happened to you, but you had non one else to tell, so you decided to. You began to tell him what happened, and how you have felt depressed since. "Hmm I see, now that's a big problem, and I don't like big problems. But you have to understand, time is always changing. Everything you do now will affect the future making its own timeline. Going back to the past to change it will change that timeline and create a new one. There is no such thing as a right future." 

The Doctor keeps talking about time and space. You tried to keep up, but he didn't seem like an average pony to you, especially after seeing his Tardis, and "sonic screwdriver." Most things did make sense to you, and though it seemed sad at how you can't change the past, but you can always change the future with at least and hope for the best. 

The Doctor walks over to his Tardis, "Here let me show you something actually." He opens the door and walks in, as you get up from your spot and walk over. Upon entering the Tardis, you can tell it wasn't an ordinary Tardis, but instead a space ship or something. "Yes, I know, its bigger on the inside, I've been told that a million times before, and possibly a million times in the future. Now then, you said this accident of yours happened earlier this week. So by doing this and that," he begins to press buttons and pull levers all around him. "ahh much better, we can see what would happened if things didn't turn out the way they did." 

The Tardis begins to shake inside until eventually it stops after a short while. "Alright, open up the door, and make sure no one sees you while you're looking, It's very important." You begin to feel nervous hoping to not upset the timeline that was made here. You begin to walk over to the door, and open it, looking out. It looked like your house, but all burnt up, everything was black and crisped. What happened you thought? You step out slightly to see firefighters cleaning up the kitchen, seems like a house fire you overhear. You couldn't take it, seeing what happened to your house as you step back in.

"There there Anon, this is one of the many possible futures that could have happened. I would be glad this isn't the future you chose for yourself, instead you stayed as strong as you could right?" He tries to hug you as you sat down on the floor, wondering how it could have happened, but he was right. you did stay strong and your still alive. "Now then, lets get you home, don't want your friends to worry about you, look here." As he trots over back to where he did his work earlier, in a screen you were able to see a few of your friends knocking on your door, asking you to come back to them. 

This brought a smile on your face as you nodded your head to the Doctor. The rumble in the Tardis started again and stopped as it did before. "Well here we are. Have a good one Anon, and remember, time only changes with you." He shouted as you stepped outside the Tardis back into your living room, hearing the door knock. You turn around to find the Tardis gone. Though you knew him for a short time, the Doctor was right, you can't fix the past, but you can fix the future. You begin to head to your door to greet your friends. 
> Big Macintosh
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	A week had passed since the brown colt called the "Doctor" appeared in your home with a tardis. It was a very different experience from anything you had encountered, but you greatly enjoyed it actually. He had shown you a future that would have been grave and a big disappointment in yourself. Luckily you were able to get through it. A lot of the things that happened in that one bad week fixed itself eventually, which you were grateful for, you couldn't ask for anything better.

But you did have one thing to look forward to as you usually did. It was your first encounter with a colt from their world, you wonder if you would meet more, they seemed a bit different. Then again so did males and females here on Earth. Soon enough a loud single knock is heard at your door. That was rather loud you couldn't help but think. You begin to approach the door and look through the peephole to notice a giant red pony in the front. He seemed rather calm, and patient for a large fellow like it. 

You open the door to greet the new pony. "Howdy, names Big Macintosh." He greets you almost immediately with a simple voice, a very calm one at that. He trots inside, you couldn't help but notice that he will probably be one of your heavier guests, or at least largest, seeing from his size. "Your Anon right?" he calmly says as he sits down on your couch, you do believe it creaked a bit. You simply nod your head. 

You weren't sure, but you feel like his name sounded familiar. You try to remember back to all the conversation you've had with the other ponies, until you remember that Applejack had mentioned her brother, Big Macintosh. Though suddenly his voice breaks your train of thought, "Eeeyup." You look at him with a confused face, not sure what that meant. "I'm Applejack's big brother." 

Hmm you thought, that explained quite a bit, you do believe his name relates to a kind of apple, or at least has a similar name but you weren't sure at the moment. She did have a big family if you recalled correctly. She had a younger sister, her big brother, her grandma, and her dead parents. "Eeeyup." Seems like he read your mind again. But he was an Earth pony from the look of things, how did he know? You decide to walk over and sit next to him. You just stares at you expecting to say something. You weren't really much of a talker, and he didn't either, so this was going to get awkward really quick you thought.

"Eeeyup." He says outloud again. It quite annoyed you, seeing this was all he ever said. "Well if I'm right, and I usually am when it comes to my sister. I do believe you are the one that she kissed, am I right?" You looked at him nervously thinking what he would possibly do to you. He seemed like a strong pony that could injure you in some way, but he seemed too gentle to do something like that. You slowly nod your head hoping he wouldn't get mad.

"Well did you enjoy it?" You had to admit, it wasn't the first time you kissed a girl, but it sure was the first time you kissed something outside your species like that. You weren't sure how to answer the question, it was weird but it did feel kind of nice. It was a really awkward question to be asked at a time like this. "Well, if you don't wanna tell, should say something. But I take it you're not one to talk such as myself."

Which was true, you never really did talk much, you usually kept your thoughts to yourself, you preferred it that way. Not many people cared for what was on your mind, you rather listen to what others had to say. Both of you simply stare at each other for a long while, wondering what to do next. It seemed like you two didn't share much in common, but you still worried how he felt about Applejack and you. You found it a bit cute that she went out of her way to do something like that, but you weren't sure if you could agree to such a thing since both of you were very different. 

"Eeeyup." He said once again in his emotionless voice, you figured time was running out soon, and this meeting with him still felt very uncomfortable. You both break each others gaze and simply sat there wondering what to do next. "Well just know I ain't mad at you if you like my sis, I'm just afraid a bit for her is all. I just hope she finds someone right for her." You understood what he meant, but you weren't sure if you could be that one. Especially with how things are working, it was freaky thinking about it. 

"Well anyways, I need to get back to the farm, can't do much without me." He begins to get up and trot back to the door. "It's been nice meeting Anon Sir, I'll make sure to let my sis know." He opens the door and steps through where the portal was waiting for him. You wave goodbye to him as he says "Eeeyup." one last time before stepping through. He certainly was a different pony, at least from the ones you've met so far. You wondered what other kinds of ponies lied in your future. But those others would have to wait for the weeks to come. For now you had a new week ahead of you.
> Fleur de Lis
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	The last two weeks were different you admitted to yourself. Being visited by two colts was new, and you never expected such an event to happen honestly. From what you have seen you assumed almost everypony was a mare. Though Applejack did mention her brother, but you didn't pay it much attention. All you knew was you were expecting somepony new today. You were getting too used to say pony instead of one in your words. You mostly blamed the ponies but you didn't mind. 

From what you remember you have been visited by two musically talented ponies, a cross eyed one, a time traveler, and an older brother of a farmer. And Rainbow Dash but you already met her before this all started. The possibilities were endless of who could appear next. Until a light tap came about, it was time you thought.

You walked over to the door and began to open it. Behind the door you see a rather tall white unicorn with light pink hair. "It's very rude to keep a lady waiting you know. Especially with the heat going on outside. I knew I should have brought an umbrella with me."  She spoke with quite a fancy tone in her voice. No doubt Rarity and Octavia knew her in some way. As she steps in she begins to look around the room examining different areas at a time. 

"Hmm not bad for a human I say, you seem to have acquired taste for design here, even though your place is different from ours." She steps over to your couch that isn't properly made at the moment. She looks disgusted by this. "You expect a proper lady such as myself to sit on this? Tsk tsk tsk, dear Anon, however did Rarity and Octavia fall for you I shall never know." That sounded very new to you.

Her horn lights up as she fixes the couch and makes it very neat. She breaths out a sigh of relive, and begins to climb and rest on it. "Much better, if I do say so myself. Wouldn't you agree Anon? Surely you have learned from two of my clients yes?" You weren't sure how to react but you assumed that Rarity and Octavia have worked or are working for this new unicorn. "Do excuse me dear, my name Is Fleur de Lis, but please call me Fleur." 

You still weren't sure how to react to what she said, she seemed very top class with the way she acts. "Are you going to answer my question?" Oh right her question, you figured you give her a quick answer by nodding your head. "Hmm I see. I assume Rarity was the one that taught you?" This was true, Rarity was mostly the one that helped redecorate your house to the way it is. All Octavia did really was compliment the work done. So again you nod your head.

"Typical of her to help others in head. A generous one she is I say. It gives hope for her future career wouldn't you agree?" She gets off the couch and walks over to you. "But enough about that, its time to teach you something. How to treat a lady properly. Now remember this, not every lady deserves or wants to be treated like this. So do bear in mind who should and shouldn't be treated as such. Follow me dear." She begins to walk into your kitchen hoping to start the lesson there. 

You weren't sure if you liked the idea or not, but you figured you would go through with it. She began the lesson with the basics, how to approach, how to act, talk, body movements, everything possible in appearance. You two went over this for about an hour, until she deemed you good in that sense. Next lesson was the time spent together. A rather quick lesson compared to the first one. She told you key locations to go to, and why they are important location, and reasons why she would want to go. She suggested other areas for women that were outside her "class" and fell into another.

As the day passed by, she asked you to practice what you had learned on her, and she would react normally back depending on what you did. To say it was easy, was probably not a good choice of words. She always had a reason to say no, and explained what you did wrong. Almost seemed like you didn't learn anything. You sat in a corner thinking what you could have possibly done wrong. 

Till Fleur came over to you, and looked you in the eyes. She begins to hug you and cries a few tears. "Congratulations, you learned one thing. To never give up on someone you care for. I may have told you a dozen times or so, but you kept coming back anyways. Yes I know that was the purpose. But you have no idea how many people would give up on just a few tries. I've done this for years, and only a few won't give up. Good job Anon." A smile wide across her face, as she begins to nuzzle your neck.

It was starting to get dark. You do believe she has stayed the longest out of everypony that has visited you. "Well if you excuse me. Fancy Pants is waiting for me, my husband. I've been gone the whole day, and he worries ever so much for me, and would try and try to do anything for me. Something I truly love in a man, he won't give up for someone he cares." She gives a quick kiss on your cheek as she steps through the door. "Do not worry Anon, I'll say Hi to Rarity and Octavia for you." She says as she walks back through the portal. 

You never realized that time had flown like that, but you were quite happy with the results. Trying something over and over again sometimes proves that you care, a good lesson to learn.
> Applejack
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	This was the 8th week ever since Lyra has visited you. To think it's been such a long time since this all started. You never expected your life to change so much just from meeting six ponies a few months ago. You still remember those days, some of the best days you had in years. They taught you so much, and these new ponies have also taught you so much, it was wonderful. Total strangers being open to a person outside their species and never met in their life, yet so kind. It was a gift that you sometimes questioned if it was really meant for you.

You waited by the door as you always did waiting for the knock to come. It always seemed to happen around one in the afternoon, you never understood why. Then again there were many things you never understood, but you let those things pass as you didn't pay it much heed. Soon enough the knock came, rather loudly and hasty. You hurried over to the door, opening it, hoping it was nothing bad.

And behind the door stood an orange earth pony wearing a stetson hat. Applejack you thought. "Howdy Anon." She clopped over to you and began to hug you. "It's been so long, I missed you. My brother told me he visited you. Is that true?" You nod your head, remembering the encounter with the much larger stallion. "Did he treat you right? He better have."

You couldn't help but laugh at how she acted knowing Big Macintosh visited you. You never thought she would act this way. "Well good to know my brother didn't do anything, be he is a gentle giant he is. Never hurt a fly big ol' him." She stopped hugging and trotted inside hoping to lay down in the comfort of your home. "I like what you did with the place Anon. I'm sure Rarity helped you a lot. She would be a proud girl let me tell you."

She turned her neck this way and that way trying to take in eveything. Funny thing was you don't remember her being into these kinds of things. She was always a cow girl ready for a rodeo and such. You chuckled a bit hoping she wouldn't hear, unfortunately for you, she did hear it.

She turns around to look at you. "What's that laughter for Anon?" She began to trot to you looking square in your eyes. You weren't sure what to say to her. You being to shift your eyes trying to think of something quick before she.

And the next moment you find yourself tied up underneath her. Did she always carry her rope around you wondered. "Now I'll say this again Anon, you gonna tell me what you were chuckling at?" Well you figured you couldn't do much, with you being tied up and her on top on you. You finally decided to tell you. You never figured she would be into these things that Rarity liked, unless...

"Oh that, umm well you see Anon." You couldn't see her face, but you figured she was red all over her orange face. "Since I figured I wouldn't be able to see you again, my heart has been feeling heavy, I tried asking Rarity for help, and well after spending some time with her, I found myself getting closer to her. I never expected to be a fillyfooler as my pony folks like to call it. But I'm dam proud to be with her." 

Fillyfooler? Was that their term for the L word? You assumed it was and passed it. "So yea I've been getting interested in the fashion and stuff, but nothing compared to her still. Though I'm mighty surprised she is fine getting dirty, at least when I'm around." That was quite an interesting story. You never figured that those two would get along. Then again, in a world that seemed mostly female dominated it isn't too hard to imagine. 

After a while of sitting in silence, she finally decided to untie you. "Sorry about that Anon, I guess I'm still nervous about letting folks know I'm with Rarity. I never expected to be interested in love, till I started my own farm. But some months ago it started with you, and now its with Rarity. I still care for you honestly, but we're from two different worlds Anon. I'm sorry." She didn't need to apologize to you, you completely understood how she felt. You once liked someone that was different from you, but they were moving away from town and going to live somewhere far away, you can't always hold on to feelings that seem impossible to grasp. 

You finally stood up after the rope came off. But soon enough you found yourself back on the ground as Applejack began to hug you tightly as she gently cried. You couldn't help but cry yourself, seeing such a strong pony such as herself cry for such a thing. It was neither of your faults, you hoped she understood that. But you didn't care at the moment, she was hurt, and you didn't like that. 

She begins to sniff between her cries. "I'm sorry Anon, I probably shouldn't act this way. I'm suppose to be a strong mare, and here I am acting like a filly. It's wrong of me to do that." You sat up, and removed her hat, as you put your hand on her head where her golden hair was. You looked at her eyes, she was a strong one, you can just tell even when she was crying. You couldn't believe you were doing this, but you knew it was the right thing to do. You begin to put your mouth against hers, hoping it would calm her down. And it seemed to have down the trick.

You two eventually broke off after a few seconds, she apologized for being a silly pony back there, and she should have known it was wrong for her to act as such. But it didn't matter to you, you only cared she was happy. And you knew Rarity would take care of her. That was the second time you two had kissed you believe. The second kiss of your life.
> Silver Spoon
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	Seeing Applejack really made your week. Not that you were having a bad week or anything, but it felt good to know she was safe after such events. She was a strong mare, no doubt about it. You never doubted her, but enough of that. It was time for a new pony, so many unique and different like humans. It was funny at times to think that somewhere in a different timeline or something ponies acted just like humans. You waited at the door patiently for the knock. It got tiring at times you had to admit, but it was always worth it in the end. Each one has brought a smile to your face never letting it go down. You knew Pinkie wouldn't like that. Soon enough though the knock came, though it seemed off, like it was forced. You walked up to the door waiting again to hear it, and soon enough it came with a quicker pace. 

You opened the door to see a tiny pony with silver white hair and a dark silver body. She seemed scared the poor thing, even in her voice you can tell. "Umm h-hello mister. You aren't going to hurt me are you?" Now what would make her think that? You opened the door wider an presented her inside. Hoping to show her she was invited in with no problem. At first she hesitated not sure what action to take. But what other choice did she have? She began to trot in slowly taking in her new environment. 

"Are you suppose to be Anon?" She asked as she walked in, still some fear in her voice. You look at her and nod your head, trying to be calm, you didn't want to scare to filly to death. "Really?" Her spirits rose up rather quickly. "People in Ponyville have talked about you. Diamond Tiara thinks your a fake. You aren't fake are you Mister Anon?" You were taken by surprised that you were talked about. Not even in the human world are you talked about, so why would another species talk about you? Did they really care that much? 

"Mister Anon?" Her voice broke you out of your mental thoughts. You shake your head confirming you aren't fake. You tried to explain to her what has happened recently. At least only from Lyra to Applejack visiting you, she didn't need to know what exactly happened in each visit. She was young after all, some things might have been complicated. She seemed fascinated by your visitors, some she even knew since they came from Ponyville just like her. She gave a little history for each one. Funny that the first one to visit you was crazy about humans and now she isn't so crazy it seems. 

"Diamond Tiara was wrong for sure, wait till I tell her about you. Oh...wait." Her demeanor all of a sudden went down. You looked at her confused unsure what the problem was. "I follow Diamond Tiara around like a puppet. I don't really do anything unless she tells me. It's the only way I can remain popular, and everyone wants to be popular right?" You chuckled a little bit at what she said. It was funny, cause you use to believe that yourself for a while, till you figured it was pointless. 

You tried telling her your stories of when you were back in school and how life was. Sure being popular was cool, you had friends but did they really care for you personally? Nope they just talked and talked. Nothing special. She seemed amazed at your story, your life. She never thought it possible at times she would say. She always figured be popular and people would respect you. Turns out in the end it won't matter, and her and Diamond Tiara have been doing the wrong thing the whole time. 

She just hoped it wasn't too late to turn over a new leaf. She quite liked the term, made it sound nice. There was still plenty of time after your story telling. She decided to wanted to explore a bit if that was fine. Of course being cautions since she was still a filly. You decided to let her walk around the house a bit, it was normally safe and nothing ever happens. But you still didn't want to risk her by going into the city or too far into the forest area. Though you did go into the forest from time to time. Visiting that spot you found Fluttershy at. 

It was then you felt the filly nudging at your leg. "Sorry Anon, but I never said my name. I'm Silver Spoon, I was so scared when I came in I forgot my manners. Though it wouldn't be the first time honestly." Poor little filly, so scared and nervous. You decided to do what you thought best. You bent down, picked her up, and hugged her softly. Not knowing what the true purpose was of it, you felt it was necessary. Her tiny body was quite different from a grown mare that you are use too, but nevertheless it felt right at the moment. You were able to tell by her as well, feeling her relax in your arms. 

"Thank you Mister Anon, I really needed that. I just hope everypony back home will accept the new me. I know it'll be hard at first, but I'm sure I can change." She gave you a quick peck at the cheek. Soon enough the portal back to their land opened up. "I suppose that's for me." She jumped off and stopped in front of the portal. You weren't sure but you thought you saw a tear or two fall from her face, but you couldn't tell as her back was facing you. She finally stepped through, leaving you alone like every week. 
> Colgate
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	Last week had seemed a bit dramatic, having a filly visit you. That was certainly different you thought. Especially one so scared like her. And here you thought Fluttershy was the biggest scaredy cat you would ever meet, but Silver Spoon definitely was more scared. Next thing you know an old pony would be visiting you, though you were very hopeful Celestia wouldn't do that. Today was a little busy compared to other days. You finally got into College, and had homework on the first week. Typical. 

But still you waited close to the door for when you hear the knock. As you worked on the problems the professor had given you, you began to think how this all started. It was a random event honestly. Middle of the night you saw Twilight and then the rest started to appear. But a knock came at the door to interrupt your thinking. You stood up and walked over to the door and opened it. To see a blue pony with blue and white hair.

"Hello Anon, my name is Colgate. I do believe Celestia has sent me to be your companion for the day?" She seemed different, and Colgate? Wasn't that a toothpaste brand? Anyways you decided to ignore those for a while and nod your head in agreement, though you weren't sure about the word "companion." She trots inside cleaning her hoofs on the rug, she was the first one of the new ponies to do that. One of the first things you noticed was her cutie mark was the same as the Doctor. 

You couldn't help but point at it, you hoped it wasn't rude of you. "Oh that thing? Yea I don't understand it myself. I'm a dentist yet I got this cutie mark, people think I'm related to the Doctor that Derpy hangs out with. I know you've met both, just thought you needed a reminder." Did she know because you were talked about in Ponyville or cause she actually was related? You weren't sure if you wanted to think hard right now.

"Anyways what can I do for you today?" You looked at her unsure what to think. "Well normally ponies come here and do something right? I assume you ask them? Oh I know you want a check up right?" You weren't sure what to think, she seemed too smart about this, but you've never asked a pony to do anything, they just did the things themselves. "Hmm no you wouldn't want that would you? People your age never go to the dentist. I should know, I use to be your age. More then once." 

She was mostly right, you had gone about a month or two ago, but you weren't sure when your next check up was. "Hmm, I honestly don't know what to do, any suggestions?" You looked at her. You didn't really have anything in mind, but maybe a check up wouldn't hurt. You lead her to the bathroom hoping she would be able to reach. "Ooo so you do want a check up huh? Awesome, first human I get to check." 

After a few adjustments in the bathroom she was finally able to check up on you. She seemed to have all her equipment on her. You sometimes wonder how ponies do this, well except Pinkie, you didn't want to question anything. Colgate did a normal check up on you, at least from what you can tell, checking cavities, gums, etc. You didn't know too much about the dental process and such, you never bothered to really.

"Well all seems good, if I had candy I would give you, but since candy makes teeth rot and such that would be a bad choice for me, now wouldn't it?" She smiles, and you had to say, they were bright. "Well I still plenty of time here still. Oh I know I should tell you a story. But you can't tell anypony else alright?" You nodded your head hoping to not get on her bad side. 

She begins to look around making sure it was safe. You assumed it was, since almost no one passes by, only your friends on rare occasions really. "Well you see, I really am part Time Lord like the Doctor, but the thing is, I don't want to be. I enjoy being a dentist more then I do traveling through space and time. Sure it's fun, but making other ponies smile bright is even better I think. Like what can be better then making someone's smile amazing? Everyone loves a smile, I say it's one of the most beautiful things to see on a ponies face. I don't know if you would agree, but I'm sure humans enjoy seeing a person smile, don't you?" She had a point, you did love seeing a smile, especially one on a girl, you couldn't help but blush. "See I knew it. Anyways, don't tell anyone, I've been trying out different ways to change my cutie mark but nothing so far."

You felt quite sad for her, seeing she wanted to change her cutie mark for it to represent what she loved. Sometimes you're just stuck with what your given, its how life is, but you weren't sure to tell her. "Heh, sorry Anon, but that's not always true. But anyways I gotta get going. Make sure to clean your teeth well, here's a toothbrush." Did she read your mind? She gently places the toothbrush in your hands as you stared at her leave your front door through the portal. She was a weird pony you thought, but she did make you smile. :)
> Braeburn
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	Another week passed by, these weeks recently have felt fast all of a sudden, probably all the waiting you've been doing is starting to pay off sorta. Each week was unique like each new pony you met. You never knew what to expect really, it was different. Before you lived a life of nothing and now you lived a life of surprises. You were starting to warm up to it, and embraced it for what was happening. Soon enough a knock came at the door, sounded a little rough. 

You approached the door to open it and saw a yellow wearing a cowboy hat and had a vest on. "Howdy Anon. Celestia told me a great deal about you, and now I'm here cause she wanted me to visit you, said my cousins Applejack and Big Macintosh visited you." Judging from his voice it was another colt, surprising you. His voice was also very energetic, could easily be one of the happiest voices you've heard. "You did meet my cousins right? I'm hoping the princess didn't lie to me." A bit of worry in his voice, not wanting to make him worry more you nod your head. 

"That's good to hear, how are they? I know Big Mac likes to send me mail from time to time, he sure knows literature. Probably the smartest one in the Apple family right now. Wouldn't you agree?" You remembered back to when Big Mac visited and he did seem like a smart pony, you do believe even Applejack said he was. You nod your head again in agreement, its been a while now that you think about seeing them. "Good to hear someone agrees, Applejack think its not healthy for an Apple family member to know their fancy mathematics." 

You couldn't help but chuckle at hearing what Applejack thought about that. Sure for her kind of people they didn't really need to know, but it helps in the future for anything. Braeburn then started to think, you were able to tell as he put his hoof on his chin. "Actually my cous did mention meeting a sweet fella. That wouldn't happen to be you Anon would it?" You weren't sure how to answer, cause it was true, till you heard him laughing. "I'm just pulling your leg, Anon. There's no way you would have a chance with my cous, she is a real cowgirl let me say. Fighting those buffalo that one day she helped." 

You decided to laugh with him a bit, hoping he wouldn't catch your bluff. "But if I did find out she liked you and you broke her heart, I'll be coming after yah. But it's a good thing that isn't the case, I'm just a guest right now." He trotted over to your couch. A lot of the ponies seemed to love the couch for whatever reason. It kinda bothered you since you had to clean it up, but if they liked it, then you couldn't argue. 

"Pretty comfy place you got here. Could make a living here. But I'm sure you knew that. Big Mac and Applejack have told me this place is different from ours. And I do agree with my cousins." He made just about any sentence sound exciting with the way he talked. It wasn't like he had caffeine or anything you thought, it was just the way he was. "So I take it you ain't a farmer huh? My cousins never mentioned anything, but a big forest surrounding the place." 

Seems like the Apple family really did keep in touch. How big was there family you wondered. Though it probably wasn't the first time you wondered really. You decided to show him outside so he can see, though he was outside when he first came here. Guess he was too excited to meet a new person. It sometimes feels nice meeting a new person. The two of you step outside to the front to see the clear path that leads out into the city. It was a nice quiet town nothing ever happens though. You decided to ignore it and go around the house to the other path one you took often. 

Braeburn was amazed at the greens he saw all around. "Woah, this place is great for growing. What's your secret?" He looked at you waiting for an answer. But you simply didn't have one, this was how the area was when you were born here. "So you're telling me, that this place was like this?" You simply nod your head. "Wow, that's amazing, I wish the area my family found was like that. But hard work always pays off in the end, wouldn't you agree? We found a barren land with nothing and started growing our own apple trees. Quite an amazing view. Especially now that we're friends with the buffaloes in the area." 

That sounded like a lot of work to you, but hard work always did pay off in the end. Gave you something to be proud of, and being proud of yourself was always a good thing. "Well hate to say this Anon, but its getting close to the time for me to leave, hate to leave you like this, but that's how life is. People come and go you know? But the time you spend with them at the time is what matters, gives you hope for a better future with others maybe." With that he patted you on the back as the portal opened up behind. He step through the portal leaving you by yourself, but he was right, the time you spent with someone is the best part about people. You just sometimes wish it lasted longer. 
> Fluttershy
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	One more week has passed. It was a calm week thankfully, nothing crazy happened, you did quite enjoy the calmness of such things. As always though, today was the day a pony would visit you. You wondered if there was some kind of pattern to the visits, it seemed like every fourth pony was one of the original six that you started with. It was nice if that was the case. 

You waited by the door excited to see who it would be. There should only bee four of hem left you thought to yourself, any of them would make you happy honestly. As time passed you didn't hear anything, its already been thirty minutes and nothing. It worried you, did Celestia decide not to send anyone this week or did she just stop sending any? In a panic you open the door, to see a yellow pegasus which you recognized as Fluttershy.

Hearing the door rip open Fluttershy jumped up into the air scared. "Oh my, I'm sorry Anon, I tried knocking but I was afraid it would be too loud, and you didn't hear me knock so I guessed you were sleeping or out of the house. And so I didn't want to bother, I just sat out here watching life happen." Fluttershy began to gently float back down. 

Now that you see it was Fluttershy now you realized why you never heard a knock, she couldn't harm a fly or anything in her life. You walked over to her, she was sitting on her bottom, sorta like how a dog would. You gently put your hand on her head and pet her. Her hair was always so soft, you liked it a lot. 

"So umm, should we go back to our spot if that's okay with you. I know you're probably busy and don't want me to take up your time and-" You put your finger against her mouth to silence her, and begin to hug her, making her feel comfortable. "Oh okay, I'm glad Anon." Both of you have a smile on your face.

The two of you began to walk over to the back of your house that had the path to where you two would hangout. You let her take the lead, she probably remembered better then you, though you were confident you knew too. It was a short walk anyways, about five minutes probably, but it didn't matter how long it was, Fluttershy was here. She still reminded you of a mom with the way she acted, always so caring. It brought a smile to your face everytime. 

"It's just like before Anon, have you been keeping it this way?" Honestly, you didn't. From time to time you would pass by just to remember the time you spent with her, but you never kept it clean or anything. You supposed Mother Nature liked the keep things the way they are at times. You look at her to shake your head, but her attention is else where as she examines the flora around the area. Seems like a few flowers have bloomed in the past weeks, you never noticed till now. "These are beautiful Anon, what are these? They smell nice." 

You weren't too familiar with flowers, so you didn't know what it was, but an idea did raise in your head. You began to walk over to her and the flower. You gently pick up one of the flowers, Fluttershy backed up watching you to see what you were doing. With the flower in hand you began to place it in her hair. The flower looked nice on her. 

"Oh really Anon? I couldn't these flowers are too beautiful maybe if it was for Rarity or someone else, but not me." Again you silence her, as you place a gentle kiss on her cheek, hoping to calm her. Instantly she did calm down, and slowly fell into your body. You and her stayed in each other's arms, forelegs for a while sharing a bit of a bonding moment. You never expected yourself to do something like that. But it felt right for Fluttershy.

"Thank you Anon, I feel better now, really. At first I thought I felt awful when I first came back, thinking it wasn't a good time, or very impolite of me to come back, or even selfish. Twilight was suppose to come before me, but I really wanted to see you again Anon. I really like this spot, it reminds me of my cottage." Her cottage was her home you remembered, fill with all kinds of animals. How she did it made you wondered. 

You were glad she was happy again and calm. She always made you the most worried with her shyness. Pinkie was probably second, since she seems to have a different side to her when she isn't happy. You never thought you would have felt such feelings for colorful ponies still. It surprised you at what they have done to your life. It was truly a blessing again. Fluttershy and you stayed in each others arms for a while longer letting time pass by without a care.

"Thank you again Anon, I'll make sure to take care of the flower, its simply amazing. I hope Rarity likes it, she has a taste for fashion." The two of you began to walk back down the path back to your house. But unfortunaly time had ran out, as you saw the portal waiting for Fluttershy. "Oh my, I suppose I have to go, sorry Anon for leaving so early. I truly enjoyed our time together." She returned the favor from earlier and gave you a kiss on the cheek, leaving a blush on both your faces as she sprinted for the portal.
> Applebloom
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Another week has passed by. The week has been terrible. Work always demanding so much from you. You are just one person, why can't they get other people to help. It was always stressful trying to manage work and school at the same time. You would always request your school days off since you have school those days, but they make you work anyways. It made you mad at times. But you learned to dealt with it. 

One thing you were glad for though was they always gave you the one day of the week off when a pony would visit you. It was amazing how it was timed perfectly. Sometimes you wondered if it was cosmic powers that gave you today off or was a really big coincidence that it’s the same day. 

Ever since the rest were taken away from you, you’ve meant so many new ponies each with a lesson. And you took them all to the heart, knowing they meant well. Everyone from their world seemed to know a lot about friendship. It was amazing; almost no one here knew anything. It’s very saddening to try to make new friends and no one wants to. 

Finally the door knocked as it usually does. Filled with joy you rush over and peep out. But, you don’t see any pony, nothing is there. Strange; did you imagine the door knock in hopes of a pony? Sometimes you were a little too excited to meet someone new. And again the knock came. You look out and see no one.

You decide to swing the door open, and see no one still, weird…

“Hay mister, you look like you having some trouble trying to find me.” A young southern voice is says. You look down and see a yellow filly with a bow tie. You wave your hand at her. “I’m Applebloom, pleased to meet you sir.” You smile at her, you remember Applejack mentioning her a few times. 

You move to the side and let her in. She trots in quite quickly excited to see what there is. “Woah so you live by yourself? That’s so cool. I sometimes wish I could live by myself, but my family won’t let me. I would probably live with my friends anyways, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. I always have so much fun with them. They are the bestest friends a filly can ask for mister.” 

She jumped on the couch and walked back and forth on it. Why did every pony love that couch? You never felt comfortable in it. Well at least recently, only your bed seemed amazing. Your train of thought broke as she spoke up again. “Do you have any best friends mister? I would sure love to meet them.” You smiled, before meeting them you didn’t have any friends, but now you have quite a bit of friends. At least enough for now, maybe later you can make more. You nod your head at her.

“I suppose I wouldn’t be able to meet them would I? Celestia told me not to talk to others. But do you like spending time with them? I love spending time with Sweetie Belle and Scootalo. We even have a treehouse together for our secret club, well except it isn’t really a secret since everyone knows we are the Cutie Mark Crusaders. You know what a Cutie Mark is?”

She was so energetic it. Then again she was a filly. But you recalled a few things about a Cutie Mark but don’t remember everything. You shake your head and wait for her reply. 

“Oh darn, I thought my sister would have told you. Anyways a Cutie Mark is a pony’s special talent. It basically tells them what they are good at. Everyone in my class has one but me and my friends. So we teamed up to work together to find out what our special talent is.” She looks sad for a moment, “Sometimes I just wish me and my friends can find our talents already, but it’s always fun to spend time with my friends.” She smiles brightly. 

She jumps off and gallops towards you jumping up into your arms. She is so tiny you thought, able to fit completely in your arms. It was funny you thought. The others were always so big they couldn’t fit so you had to crouch down and hug them. It felt nice being able to hold a filly. But she did have a point. She is going through a lot trying to find her special talent, and she is having fun with her friends. Maybe you need to do the same. Even if you are having a hard time, at least have fun spending time with the people you are with. Not everyone is a bad person you thought.

“Only bad thing is that there are these two girls who pick on us. Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara. Diamond is the leader of the two, and Silver Spoon just follows.” Silver Spoon? She visited you not too long ago, she didn’t seem too bad from what you remember. “Sometimes I feel like Silver Spoon doesn’t want to be with Diamond Tiara, but we aren’t sure. She always breaks away from us. I just want to see her happy for once is all mister.”

You understood what she meant. Sometimes there are just people that won’t change, or leave stuff behind. You knew a few people. But there are times you still feel like they can change. It just takes a long time to do it is all.

She jumped from your arms. “Well it was a lot of fun mister. I hope to be able to visit you again soon. I hope you and your friends have a lot of fun together. You always need friends, they help out a lot, that’s what I learn. You could do so much together, never forget mister.” With that she begins to walk out the door, which was still open. A mistake you made.

And as usual the portal outside waiting for the filly to go back home. But she was right, friends do make stuff better. With that you close the door and grab your phone. 
> Sweetie Belle
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Time passed by quickly this week you were glad, but sad too. It was a fun week with friends, but you were getting paid soon, so that made you happy. You got paid decently, nothing crazy high but nothing crazy low. It was enough for your life style. That’s about it really. 

Same day as usual though, a day a pony or filly would visit you and teach you something and spend time with you. It felt wonderful. You always enjoyed the visit, each one unique in its own way.  Last week Applebloom visited you. An energetic filly, the sister of Applejack. You were glad she reminded you of your friends. It’s always nice being able to spend time with them.  

To clear your train of thought you decided to clean the couch up a bit, since everypony used it apparently. As you just started to clean up a knock came and a squeaky voice can be heard. “Hello? Is anyone there?” it sounded scared. You quickly go over and open the door. Again seeing no one. 

You close the door and turn around to see a white unicorn filly sitting on your couch. Really they need to stop using it as soon as they come in you thought. Maybe they were just use to it. “Oh sorry mister. I was just sent here, and I didn’t know what was going on. I saw you open the door and I came in.” She was shivering a bit. It wasn’t cold, maybe she just felt lonely at the moment is all. 
You begin to walk over to her and sit down next to her and she hesitates a bit, unsure of how to react. She continues to look at you and then away, repeating this pattern for some time and finally asks. “Do you know anything about my sister Rarity? Is she here by any chance?” This is Rarity’s sister? She didn’t look similar much to her really. 

You shake your head indicating she isn’t here, but you do mention you know of her. Sweetie Belle has a mix of emotions going through her. It seems like she has no idea why she is here, but she is glad her sister is safe. Or at least she hopes she is.

“I’m worried mister, this place is new, I don’t know anything about this place. Rarity always protected me, since I would visit her house very often in Ponyville, since I usually live with our parents. You’ll protect me for now won’t you?” How did Celestia send this filly without telling her anything?

You nod your head, you had to protect her till her time was up. You were sure your time was short with her as was with every pony. But you wanted to make sure she was safe. Sure you just met her, but she was Rarity’s sister and you were good friends with Rarity, she was like a sister to you, and now her sister is here.

“Oh right my name is Sweetie Belle, I forgot to mention. But thank you mister. Rarity must be worried about me, she probably has Twilight trying to look for me. Twilight can do it. I believe in her, she is a really powerful unicorn. If she can’t do it, then Celestia can, she is an alicorn and a princess.” Sweetie Belle seems to be happy all of a sudden now that you are protecting her.

It felt good, watching over a friend like her as if she was family. You were never really close with your family, but friends felt just as close, and you didn’t want anything happening to them. Friends were probably the brothers and sisters your parents didn’t have you thought. That’s a lot of kids your parents would have had you thought, smiling to yourself. 

Sweetie Belle moved close to you without you noticing. “My sister isn’t really powerful in magic, she is a fashionetta, she loves making dresses, but I am always her first priority. There are times when she feels like I’m in the way, but after spending some time together she realizes just how wonderful family really is. And I love her for that.” She smiles boldly at you; her eyes brighten up a bit. 
She was right. There are times when you are too busy to deal with other stuff that you ignore others at times. But once you realize how important the person you are ignoring is, you stop everything you are doing and help them out. Cause that’s what family does, even if you aren’t blood related. It’s always important to be there for the other when you need them the most. Friends and family is what matters, protecting each other and spending time with the other. Nothing should stop that.

She speaks up again. “Sometimes my sister feels like I’m a bother, because sometimes I ruin her designs but I always make up to her. I’m still learning magic and both Rarity and Twilight are teaching me how to cast spells and it has been a lot of fun so far. She is a great sister.” She backs up a bit and looks at you. “Do you have any siblings?” she quietly asks you.

It usually bothered you when people asked you think. But you told her that you had quite a few. She looked at you with wide eyes saying you were lucky to have so many. She loved being with family, they meant so much to her. 

A little time had passed by, nothing happen just some talking of some past events that she’s had with Rarity. You would understand why Rarity would get mad at times, but it was always nice for the sisters to reunite together when everything was fixed. It was touching. You were glad she got to share such stories.

But finally the time came, as a portal opened up with Rarity’s face on it with a look of concern on it. “That’s my sister. I’m sorry mister, I have to go my sister is looking for me.” With that she leapt through the portal closing behind her. What a sweet filly. She is lucky for having a real sister look after her, but you were lucky having friends who cared for you, as you received a text asking if everything was fine. 

> Scootaloo
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

 The last two weeks have been interesting. Meeting two fillies and both of them were sisters to one of the original pony you had met back then. You wonder if there was another sister, but you don’t recall any being mentioned before. You think Rainbow Dash mentioned someone that was like a sister. But that was long ago. Oh well you thought didn’t matter at the moment. 

You were glad the week had finally passed. You worked at a retail story recently, and they needed you for Black Friday. What a horrible day to work you thought. Swarms of people came in trying to buy the best deal they could get their hands on. But you were able to sell a lot, so that’s some extra income you are getting when you get paid, you were happy for that. 

It could have been far worse you thought, but customers were relatively calm you thought. But that weekend has passed. You had the day off once again to yourself and the pony of choice you thought. It always made you happy on the inside knowing you had a visitor every week. No one ever visits your house, but you didn’t mind, it was surrounded by forest anyways. 

The day went on a bit for an hour or so. Finally the knock was knocked on repeatedly. Someone was in a hurry it seemed. You quickly walk over and open the door to see a flash of orange appear and go by you. You turn around and see another filly, but a pegasus this time. Her wings seemed tiny though, was she able to fly?

“Hey dude, I heard I get to spend some time with you. I think that’s pretty awesome. You are seeing the second coolest pony in Ponyville. Right after Rainbow Dash of course.” She was a lot more energetic than Applebloom was. And Rainbow Dash huh? Maybe this is the filly Rainbow mentioned. 

You look at her a bit surprised honestly at how fast she was able to move. She didn’t seem like much of a flyer, just like Fluttershy. She preferred staying on the ground. But this one seemed to zip everywhere she went. The filly would be here and then there, and everywhere. She couldn’t stay in one spot; it was like seeing a kid on coffee. Which isn’t a pretty sight. 

“So do you wanna see any tricks? I know a lot. Always gotta impress people with that you got, or else no one is gonna notice you.” She said standing in front of you doing nothing. “Umm actually, I don’t know if that’s really true.” 

You look at her worried at what she meant. She seemed similar to Rainbow Dash before, but nothing of the colors matched the same. She was probably a big fan of hers that wanted to be the same. That didn’t worry you too much, she is young and is learning. 
“Umm I really don’t know anything great, Rainbow Dash was the one who taught me how to be fast on my feet, since my wings don’t support me. I normally ride around a scooter to pretend I can fly.” She looked sad, that wasn’t a good thing. She was so happy when she first came in. 

You look at her with a concerned look. You thought for a moment. Close by there are a few trees she could probably do a few tricks on. You gesture her to follow you. You two begin to walk out into the forest to find the spot you had in mind. 

Finally arriving at the spot, you see a few trees bent and twisted. You weren’t sure what happened exactly here, you always assumed it was like this. But never paid any attention to it. Scootaloo looked at you with glee in her face. You nod your head at her giving her to okay to go ahead.

She began to glide around the trunks, doing tricks like this and like that. Some of which aren’t possible for humans, or for horses for that matter. Maybe it’s because she isn’t from this world. Their universe is different from here, so they have different rules and such. It is amazing how two different worlds can connect in a few ways, but be completely different in another way. 

Finally after some time of playing around she gets off and comes towards you. Back to being happy again “Woo that was a lot of fun, I’m so glad I got to do that. Thank you so much. Now I have a bunch of new stuff to show off.” But then a questioning face came on her. “But I really don’t need to know these to be cool do I?” 

You shake your head, showing off isn’t something that is great, usually gets people into trouble. You never enjoyed it. 

“Yea you’re right, Rainbow Dash only does it cause she loves it. But she always knows when it’s time to be serious and when to goof off,” more goofing off then being serious you thought, “I need to learn from her how to keep my cool, she is like my older sister. I’m glad I have her to teach me.” She looks determined again. “I’m sorry for the way I came in to your house, I just wanted to make myself look cool, like Rainbow Dash always does. She is my idol, but she is also my mentor, I have a lot to learn from her.”

With that you two head on back to your house. You didn’t realize how long you’ve been out. It wasn’t dark, but it was turning a dark shade, seems like you two were out for about an hour or two. She arrived pretty late compared to the others. Once entering the house you noticed that the portal was already ready for her. Which was fine with you, she actually learned a bit of a lesson instead of you learning a lesson. You don’t need to show off to people to get attention, just be yourself and someone is bound to notice. 
With that you two hug and say your good byes. As she steps on through, you can’t help but feel a little tired and decide to take a nap.