> A Love Interest > by Chris-Cross13 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The New Girl > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Aww man! I can't believe school is here already!" "Tristan, you need to chillax about this school thing." "No I don't! We're in the FBI for crying out loud!" Tristan yells quietly to his friend. Ever since school started back up, Tristan has been in a mood because he felt he wasn't required to go anymore. The FBI was pretty much a career, and school was just getting in the way. He didn't want to be stuck in a hot and humid high school, learning about topics he could care less about. Yet here he is, walking down the main hallway of Somewhere High School. "Can you not yell that in the middle of a high school hallway?!" Christian whispers back. "I said it quietly!" Tristan retaliates. Christian rolls his eyes back at him. "Whatever. Anyways, I'm glad to be back in school. It just make my new job so much more exciting!" Christian said with a smile. The FBI told him that he and Tristan would be given permission to leave the school in case of an emergency. He flashes back to what his uncle said. "If you are needed in Equestria, we'll make sure to contact you." John said to his nephew "How are you going to contact me?" Christian asks concerned. John raised his phone in the air. "You're going to call me in the middle of class?!" He shouts. Phones weren't allowed to be answered in class unless you were allowed to take them out, which was very rare. John laughs and shakes his head. "No Christian, your principal will be notified of the emergency and will call your teacher to allow you and Tristan to be pulled out of class." Christian nodded at the system. He was a little annoyed at the fact that now his principal now knows that TWO of his students are part of the FBI. "What about homework? Last I checked, I need to go to Equestria right after school correct?" John gains a huge smile a kneels down to meet his nephew eye to eye. "You going to love this: Your principal has made sure to excuse you and Tristan of any and all homework for the rest of the school semester.. Of course, you'll get whatever the homework is anyway, just to make sure it's not suspicious or anything. But you don't have to do a thing!" Christian couldn't believe what he was hearing! His new job was not only one-of-a-kind, but now he could skip the worst part about school: homework! Christian was more then happy to agree to those terms. Why wouldn't he? "Alright cool. But umm...quick question: When are you going to announce all of this to the public. I mean, don't you think they should be notified? He asks curiously. Suddenly, a whirl is heard behind him. Christian turns to see Celestia hop out of the portal gate. Christian smiles. "Hey PC!" John nods as well. "Hello Celestia, how are you?" "Just fine thank you!" She trots over to Christian. "I see Christian that you're a bit curious on where we stand on releasing this information to the public." Christian nods. "Yea. Your people know what happened. Why can't my people know about it?" Celestia sighs with a smile. "Because there are many more humans then ponies Christian. I don't think it would be smart to release that kind of information...yet." "What do you mean 'yet'?" "Your government will be releasing other classified information to buffer the fact out for now. Maybe in the future, we will tell your planet all about Equestria and what you have done and will do." Christian nods in understanding. It would make sense. If you told your people that aliens existed, I would probably be too much for those people to handle. "Gotcha. By the way, how did you know I was talking about this?" Celestia points to her horn. "Magic can do more things than you think Christian. Now, I must go. I have much work ahead of me. I'll see you this afternoon Christian! Good luck with school!" She nods to John and starts back off toward the portal gate. After a moment of light flashes, Canterlot Castle appears on the other side. John and Christian wave goodbye to the white alicorn as she jumps into the portal. "Thanks Celestia!" Christian stops his daydreaming about this morning and goes back to talking to Tristan. "Besides, we go to you-know-where right after school. You'll see your girlfriend soon enough." Christian said pulling on his sling backpack to lift it up a little higher on his back. As Christian and Tristan were chatting about why they needed an education, Nick comes racing through the crowd of students in front of them. Christian stops to see his friend bound toward them, completely out of breath. "Christian! I have...something...important to...tell you!" "Whoa, Nick! Have long have you been running?" Christian asks. "Since I left my house. Anyway, I..." He looks toward Tristan with an eyebrow up. "Who the heck is this guy?" Tristan frowns at Nick's attitude. "The name is Tristan Nautilus. I'm Christian's friend." "Oh!" Nick was caught off guard at the response. "Sorry 'bout that! I've just never seen you hang around with Christian. I'm Nick Fields. Nice to meet you!" Nick and Tristan exchange a quick friendly handshake before Nick gets back to Christian. "Anyway, didn't you hear? Mike moved!" "What?" Christian asks confused. "Why would he move?" "Something about how he didn't want to be hanging around a bunch of stupid bronies. Blah, blah, blah...And before you know it, he's gone!" Christian takes a minute to think about this. He couldn't believe his friend would move away because of some children's show! Christian shakes his head in disbelief. "Where did he move to?" "Elsewhere." "Figures." "Wait, elsewhere? Where elsewhere?" Tristan asks confused. Nick starts laughing while Christian facepalms. Tristan still didn't understand his little town. "Tristan, Elsewhere is the other town over. In fact, their high school football team: The Elsewhere Reapers, are a direct rival to our team: The Somewhere Stallions." "Seriously?!" Tristan shouts surprised. "Those are your town names?!" "Hey, at least it's not Springfield or something." Nick jokes around. Christian and Tristan laugh. "Yea." They both same in unison. The hallway suddenly fills with a harmonious ring, and in a matter of seconds, the hallway full of students dissipates. Christian quickly looks down at his watch. "Oh shoot! Time for first period!" The three teens look at each other and then quickly rush down the hallway and down the stairs to their first class of the day. --- "Hello class! I hope you enjoyed your summer! I am Ms. Flora. I shall be your Geometry teacher for the rest of the year!" Ms. Flora finished her opening speech by writing her name in red marker across the whiteboard in the front of the class. Christian was sitting high and mighty in the front. He loved Geometry, it was his favorite subject. Nick patted Christian on the back to signal that he was sitting behind him, and Tristan was to his left. Nothing could be more perfect! "Now, before we begin our first lesson, i'll take roll call." She walks back to her wooden podium and looks down at the clipboard in front of her. "Christian Average?" "Yup." Christian raises his hand nonchalantly. "Alright." She checks of his name on the clipboard. "Tristan Nautilus?" "Present, Ms. Flora." He says like a good mannered angel. Christian and Nick roll their eyes at each other. Tristan was such a suck-up. Ms.Flora checks off Tristan's name without saying a word. "Nick Fields?" She asks. Nick raises his hand without saying a world. "Alright good." She looks down at her seating chart and notices the seat to the left of Christian is empty. She looks back at the chart and then back to the empty seat. "Strange, we seem to have a student who is abse..." "I'm here! I'm here! Sorry I'm late! I'm still getting used to the school's layout!" Christian's ears suddenly pick up the most beautiful sound they had ever heard. It was like a choir of angels and doves coming down from heaven during Christmas. He quickly swivels his head into a quick one eighty degrees to the center of the classroom's doorway. The girl leaning up against the wooden frame was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. Christian couldn't take his eyes off her. His mind starts breaking her down very descriptively. She had glowing blonde hair that curled a bit right at her ears. Her gray eyes glowed in a mysterious and enigmatic way like before a storm, like her silver pendant hanging from her neck. Her legs were tightly bound of black skinny jeans, making Christian cringe as they looked as if they were constricting her legs. Her red drawstring bag was hanging off of her right shoulder as she pivoted her hip against the door frame. But definitely, her most prominent feature was her... "Dude, look at her chest!" Nick whispers into Christian's ear. Christian snaps out of his daydreaming to process what his friend just said. "What?!" He whispers back. Nick looks at him like he was speaking Spanish or something. "Christian, c'mon! Tell me she wouldn't be a ten. I mean she has to be a double E at least!" Christian couldn't believe what he was hearing! His friend only cared about this new girl's breast size! "You're kidding me right?" He said astonished. Tristan nudged him. "Christian, I have a girlfriend. But even I have to say, those are really impressive." Christian's jaw was now dropping at the fact that his two best friends were going all googly-eyed at this girl's chest. Even Tristan! Who was dating a pony for crying out loud! Dash didn't even have a bust! "Guys, you don't just judge a girl on her bust. You need to know her personality. You know, get to know her better." Christian said in a calm and collective manner. But in his mind, even Christian knew she had a set on her, but this girl looked cute even without a big bust. But if he wanted to get her, he needed to play it cool. REAL cool. "Ah yes," Ms. Flora continued from the front of the room. "You are our other new student. Dee-Dee is it?" The girl nods. "That's me! Dee-Dee Evermore! A pleasure to meet you!" "Evermore?! You're the Secretary of State's daughter?!" Dee-Dee nods embarrassed. "Yea. I hate it when people bring up my mother. That's actually one of the reasons why I wanted to be in public school. I can be normal for once." Dee-Dee walks up the podium and hands Ms. Flora a small pink slip of paper "Alright then, have a seat next to Christian there Ms. Evermore. But don't think you can come in late all the time just because you're in the government." She says strictly. Dee-Dee groans as she saunters over to her seat. "Don't remind me." She says sourly. She slumps down into her metal seat next to Christian with a frown as Ms. Flora starts writing down some practice problems on the whiteboard. Christian's eyes dart around the room nervously. This was his chance to make a good first impression! He coughed to disguise clearing his throat and turned to say something. In his mind, he was screaming at himself not to say something stupid or weird. He took a deep breath, and opened his mouth. "Hi! I'm Christian..." "Hey babe." Before he could say anything else, he was cut off. Nick decided to take matters into his own hands, and try to swoon Dee-Dee using his body and muscles. Christian rolled his eyes as Nick started to sound like some sort of love doctor to the obviously annoyed Dee-Dee. "The name's Nick. Sorry if my muscles are getting in the way of your work. I'm only the quarterback of our football team, and well, as you can see, I work out a lot." He gets real close to her right ear. "You know, my muscles aren't the only thing that is big..." In one move, she turned and pushed him back down to his seat. Nick was surprised at the strength she had! Dee-Dee gave him an evil eye. "Get away from me perv!" She said quietly to the football player. Nick quickly raised his hands in surrender. "Alright! Alright! I'm cool! I get it!" Nick quickly goes back to solving the problems on the board. Dee-Dee quickly glares at Christian who had a very nervous smile on his face. Christian quietly and slowly turns and slumps down to his desk. The one chance he had to make a good impression, and he blew it. He sighed in agony. This was going to be tougher than he thought... > The Secret is out...Sort of > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- At lunchtime, Christian, Tristan, and Nick are casually strolling to the cafeteria. Already, they could hear the sounds of high school students talking and yelling over their lunches. The three of them walk into the heavily populated room and glanced around for an empty table. The room was too packed however, they couldn't see anything. Nick squints off to the distance and spots a table over by the windows, he nudges the two of them. "Found a table. Let's go!" Christian and Tristan nod and follow Nick to the table he found. On his stroll their, Christian slows down and spots Dee-Dee, all by herself at a circular table in the center of the room. Christian was a bit confused at why a pretty thing like herself was doing alone, but then realized that most of the guys were probably pestering her, and she just wanted to eat her PB & J in peace. He understood her right to privacy, but this was also another opportunity to make a good impression. He looks at his two friends. "Uhh...You guys go ahead, i'll...catch up later." Nick and Tristan look at each and shrug. "Cool with us dude, peace." Nick says as he and Tristan continue toward the table. Christian looks at Dee-Dee from a far, and takes a deep breath as he starts his approach. He manages to walk right up to her without her even noticing. Dee-Dee glances toward Christian in the middle of chewing. Christian goes to say something before she puts a finger up, signaling him to shut up and wait. Dee-Dee swallows and speaks. "If you're going to comment on how big my chest is, i'll knock you out cold." She says harshly. Christian immediately reacts with disapproval. "No! No! No! I wasn't going to! I mean sure, you're a cute girl and all, but it's not because of the size of your...umm." He was starting to get a bit nervous. He didn't want to offend her in any way. Dee-Dee is taken by surprise and laughs a little bit. "Melons?" She says giggling. Christian nods. "Sure, let's go with that." "So, you think i'm cute?" She asks with a smirk. "Yea, I mean, I judge a girl on personality, not physically appearance and..." Dee-Dee puts her hand up. Christian's words stutter to a stop. "Whoa dude, don't be getting all descriptive and whatnot. I get it, you're not like the rest of the guys at this school." Christian rubs his neck in embarrassment. She eyes him. "I like ya kid, sit down." Christian obeys and takes the seat across from her. She starts eating again, making Christian reach into his backpack behind him and pull out a red apple. He starts eating as Dee-Dee starts talking again. "So, you're Christian Average correct?" Christian nods as he takes another bit of apple. " Cool, i'm in Chemistry class with your sister. She told me about you and your other sis, Lily." She thinks for a moment. The name Average sounded familiar to her. "Hmm...Odd. I could have sworn my mother mentioned something about an Average..." Christian's eyes sudden widen with fear as she started to think. He was praying she didn't know about his secret. Luckily, Dee-Dee shakes off the memory. "Ah well, must've been about something else." Christian sighs quietly, he was in the clear. Quickly he swallows to change the subject real quick. "So, you're the Secretary of State's daughter? That's pretty cool!" Dee-Dee sighs in annoyance. Christian wanted to kick himself. Bad move. "Don't remind me, my mother is always so busy with work. We have to act so well and everything to look good in front of the public. It's soooo annoying! That's way I chose to be in public school, unlike my half-brother and sister. Christian thought about this for a second. "Wait, you're..." "Adopted? Yup! Pretty crazy right!" Christian nodded. What kind of luck do you need to be adopted by the woman who would become secretary of Virginia?! "That's pretty cool!" Christian says happily. Dee-Dee looks at him funny. "Really? Wow, you are different!" Christian laughs at the comment and in his mind, he high-fives himself. Now that was a smart move. "Oh!" Dee-Dee suddenly remembers something her mother did tell her this morning. "Christian, didn't you hear?" Christian stops his thinking about how smooth he was and focuses back onto Dee-Dee. He shakes his head. "My mother kept telling me to tell everyone I know that Area 15 was released. She never said why though." Christian thinks back to what Celestia told him and smiles. Nice distraction, he thinks. "Oh really? Hmm...weird." "Why is it weird? Did you already know?" Dee-Dee gives him a queer look before it hits her. "Oh! I bet you're uncle told you! That's why your name sounds familiar!" She gets close to his ear. "My mom said you're uncle was part of the FBI! He couldn't stop mentioning you when they were chatting!" Christian gulped. Great, she knew about his uncle being in the FBI, that's only a few steps away from finding out that HE was also part of the same thing! "You know, I think that the release of Area 15 is a decoy." Christian's brain clicks right onto what she just said. "W-What?" He murmurs softly. Dee-Dee keeps whispering into his ear. "I overheard my mom say something about a 'Top secret government project' about something that happened recently. Did your uncle tell you anything?" Christian shakes his head rapidly. "What? Please! Do you really think my uncle would release top secret info on aliens?! That's crazy!" Christian needed to act fast, he didn't want her to get suspicious, but he also didn't want to blow his chance with her. Quickly, he got up. "Thanks for the talk Dee-Dee, but i've gotta go! Bye!" He flings his backpack up into the air to get the strap back onto his shoulder. Unfortunately, he forgot it was open. Instantly, the contents of his pack are spilled onto the floor. Christian cringes at the sound hidden against the crowd and loud lunch students. Smooth he thought. Real smooth. Dee-Dee immediately gets up to pick up his things. Christian scrambles right down with her to pick his things as well. "Here! Let me help!" Dee-Dee persists. Christian puts his hand out. "No! I got it! Really!" As he starts cramming items into his backpack, Dee-Dee ignores the response and starts helping as well. In a few seconds, her hands pick up a leather booklet of some kind. She picks it up, and accidentally opens it. "Here! You dropped your wal..." Christian freezes the moment she utters the sentence. Slowly, he looks up to see Dee-Dee frozen as well. She was staring at the insides of the leather case, her mouth hanging wide in disbelief. Christian stops picking up the rest of the items and gets back up onto his feet with Dee-Dee. She looks away from the contents inside and looks back. Christian quickly breaks the silence. "Uh...Dee-Dee?" "You're uncle isn't the only one..." She points to the gleaming golden badge in the middle of his wallet. Christian gulps. He was so screwed. Christian nods in defeat. "Yea...Kind of a..." "Special Agent to the CIA?" "Actually, it's the FBI. CIA are my initials. I'm still too young to use my full name." "Oh..." "Yea..." Things then got pretty awkward. Dee-Dee was staring at Christian in astonishment, as Christian tried to play it off as nothing. The rest of the lunch room went on as nothing was happening, lucky for Christian. He looked around to see the other students having a good time. He sighed and knelt back down to gather the rest of his things. Dee-Dee was still standing, holding the badge out. Christian looked up and quickly nabs it out of her hand. "Can you not wave this thing around?!" He whispered. "I don't need the rest of the school to know!" Dee-Dee snaps out of her shocked trance. "Oops! Sorry!" She keels back down and meets the somewhat distressed Christian eye to eye as Christian continues to pick the rest of his stuff up. "Sooo...Do you know what the 'top secret government project' is?" Christian sighs in annoyance. She already knew he was in the FBI, was there really any harm of her knowing the rest? "Yes." He whispers. "It has to do with aliens. But not the stereotypical 'green head, black eyes, take me to your leader' thing." Dee-Dee gasps in astonishment again. "What kinds of aliens are they then?!" She whispers loudly. Christian quickly scans the room to see if anyone heard her. "SHH! Be quiet and I'll tell you!" Christian whispers back. Dee-Dee nods and Christian proceeds with explaining everything. "Alright, i'm assuming since you've been in this school you know what the huge fad going on?" Dee-Dee nods. "Of course! My Little Pony duh! I happen to be a pegasister myself." She says proudly. Christian smirks, maybe this won't be so hard! she might even enjoy it! Which would give him a few points in her book. "Then you'll flip when I tell you this:" Christian leans in close to Dee-Dee, who would be on the edge of her seat if she was sitting down. "The world of My Little Pony, Equestria, actually exists." Dee-Dee gasps silently at the words he muttered to her. She couldn't believe what he was saying! No seriously, she looked at him like he was out of his mind. "Excuse me?" She asks. "You heard me." Christian says with a serious look on his face. Even though Dee-Dee was a huge fan, the entire thing still sounded ridiculous. " I can prove it too. If you want to come to my house after school, I can take you there." Dee-Dee still had a blank expression on her face. It quickly turned sour as Christian finished his explanation. "This is just a ploy to get into my pants isn't it?" Dee-Dee says annoyed. This sounded way too good to be true. Christian shakes his head rapidly. "Heck no! Just, listen..." He takes a breather for a second. "I know this all sounds...crazy, but you just have to trust me." He lends out a hand to her. "Please. I swear i'm not making any of this up." Dee-Dee looks at his hand and then back to Christian's pleading face. She just met this boy and he wants her to trust him about some story of how Equestria actually exists? She wasn't really buying it, but he did have an honest look...and a badge. "Fine." She said sternly, as she shook his hand. "But I swear, if you try to pull a move on me..." "I won't!" Christian persists. Dee-Dee rolls her eyes. "Whatever. I'll meet you after school."The bell rings just as Dee-Dee finishes her sentence. Christian goes to thank her, but she is already out the door and down the hallway. Christia remains standing there, looking a bit worried as she runs off. He was praying he did the right thing, but he knew that this was going to take a lot of explaining. He suddenly feels a hand on his right shoulder. "Hey man! so how did it go?" Tristan asks excited. "How did what go?" He asks. Nick quickly comes up behind Tristan. "We saw you flirting with Dee-Dee." Nick says, raising his hand up. "Nice job man! Can't believe you got her!" Christian smiles nervously and gives his friend a very awkward high five. Nick then runs off to his next period, with Christian and Tristan trailing behind. "So, what did you two talk about?" Tristan asks curiously. Christian bits his lip. He needed to tell Tristan, if he didn't, it would be really awkward after school. "Umm...well, you see...I kinda told her about...everything." Christian says worried. Tristan's eyes grow bigger than oranges. "YOU DID WHAT?!" > To Equestria! > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I can't believe you told her! We could lose our jobs!" "Tristan, you need to chill out. I don't think we'll get in trouble if her mother is the Secretary of State!" "You never know! You can't just tell strangers about what we do!" "That's just it though, she isn't a stranger! She's with the government too!" "I just don't think it's right! I honestly don't think she can be trusted with this kind of information." "You know I can here both of you, right?" Dee-Dee says from behind both of them. Tristan and Christian were still arguing about Dee-Dee knowing. The rest of the school day went the same for Christian; every class he was in with Tristan, he always got an menacing glare from across the room. Christian couldn't believe he was still freaking out over it. He stated at least a dozen times that Dee-Dee's mother has been notified of the project. Well, at least part of it. Her mother still had no idea the project involved aliens, but with Tristan already flipping out over this, the less he knew the better. "Yea, we know!" Christian shouts from as they keep walking toward his house. "I'm telling you, this won't end well." Tristan says for the millionth time. Christian rolls his eyes. "And i'm telling you to chill the heck out." Christian says as the three of them walk up to the front door. "Listen, she's gonna like Equestria. And if she doesn't, then we should start panicing. But until then, take a chill pill, and just go visit your girlfriend." "Marefriend." Vague corrects. "Whatever." Christian opens the front door and is once again instantly greeted by a noisy husky. Dee-Dee sneaks in behind the two boys as the energetic dog starts jumping on her. "Awwwww! He he! He's so cute!" Dee-Dee exclaims as she kneels to pet Apollo on his head. Apollo licks her hand. "Well, it's a good thing you like dogs!" Christian says, relieved. "Apollo! Off!" He shouts. The husky compiles and runs to the hallway and sits down to scratch his ear. Dee-Dee tilts her head, astounded at the response of the small dog. "Wow! You must've trained him well to have him respond to you like that. He must be real obedient!" Christian and Apollo give each other a look. "Yup, it's almost like i'm talking to him." He winks at Apollo, who barks and runs into the kitchen. He motions the others toward the basement door. "C'mon, this way." He opens the door and leads the way for the two of them. The start descending the carpeted staircase and into the well lit basement. The lower area was completely decorated like the family room up top. As Dee-Dee turns the corner, she eyes the luxurious bar and living room area. It looked really classy; a few leather couches, pure white carpeting, and a giant flat screen TV. Christian's family is subtile. The group walk over to the far side of the room to the plain white closet. Dee-Dee sighs. "I knew it! You just wanted to play "Seven Minutes in Heaven", didn't you?!" Christian doesn't even know what she's talking about. "What?! No! Here, watch this:" He leans up against the wall next to a normal looking light switch. Christian pulls out his watch and presses a few buttons, instantly making the light switch flip around to a keypad. Dee-Dee gawks at the switch-around while Vague stands there with his arms crossed, annoyed that some stranger was about to see top secret government tech. He sighs, making his hair flip over his eye. Christian pushed a few numbers on the keypad and after a few moments of silence, a woosh sound followed by a few dings is heard. Christian pulls open the closet to reveal a metal elevator. Dee-Dee is shocked. "How is that even possible?!" She asks. Christian shrugs. "It's the FBI. They can do pretty much everything except raise the dead. Now, are you two coming?" Christian steps into the elevator with Dee-Dee eagerly following after him. Tristan sighs again and joins them inside. With the push of a silver button, the elevator doors slam shut and the whole thing flies downward. Tristan starts screaming his lungs out while Christian is bracing himself against a silver banister. Dee-Dee meanwhile, is busy checking her nails to see if any of the gray polish came off today. The elevator suddenly comes to a halt, sending both boys to the ground. Dee-Dee remains standing and walks out of the elevator. Christian gets up, rubbing his head in pain. "Wow, can't believe she handled it that well." Christian says astounded. Tristan manages to balance himself onto his feet, as the fall made him completely disoriented. "Hate that thing. How the hell is she still standing?!" Vague complaints. Christian ignores his annoyed friend and dashes toward Dee-Dee who was looking around the spacious white lab area. All around her scientists were taking notes, relaying information, and fixing equipment. The entire underground annex was alive and bright with electronics and devices of scientific importance, but the main centerpiece of it all was a huge circular metal gate in the center of the room. It was already lit up with a red and green lights for flare, and the energy conduits were already powered up and ready to go. "What's this for?" Dee-Dee asks curiously. Christian smiles nonchalantly. "Prepare to be amazed!" He shouts to her as he walks over to the main transformer and hits a big red button. The center of the portal starts to spark brightly and the lights around the edge start to flash wildly. Dee-Dee starts to be awed by what was going on before her. Tristan comes up behind both of them, still a bit wobbly. "You doing the portal thing now?" He asks. Christian rolls his eyes. "Oh, I don't know Tristan. Maybe you should look at the glowing portal in front of you!" He says snarkily. Vague frowns. "I was just asking!" He shouts annoyed. "Isn't it obvious?!" Christian shouts back. "The portal is glo..." A loud whoosh sound is heard followed by the portal opening. Christian points to the lit up portal "Or, you know, that." The trio step up to the portal. Tristan is already leaping into the gateway before Christian can even offer Dee-Dee to go first. He growls. "Hasn't he ever heard of ladies first?" Dee-Dee glares at him. "Seriously?" She asks. Christian shrugs. "What? I'm just saying! I don't care if you're the Secretary of State's daughter, manners go for anyone!" Dee-Dee rolls her eyes and looks onward into the vortex. She goes to put a hand in before retreating a bit out of fright. "Will it hurt?" She asks concerned. Christian shakes his head. "Nah, it might make you dizzy though. You'll just have to get used to it." He steps up and offers to take her hand. "Shall we?" Dee-Dee looks behind Christian toward the gateway and then back at him. She still couldn't believe what was going on, or where she was. It all just seemed way too odd of her. "So, you're telling me that through this portal is a magical land full of ponies from a fictional cartoon show on TV?" Christian blinks. "Yea, why?" "Just making sure. Let's go." In one movement, Dee-Dee grabs hold of Christian and both of them fall into the vortex. Light starts to surround her as she gets sucked into the spinning colors. She quickly realizes that Christian wasn't kidding about getting dizzy, and in a matter of seconds she slides right out of Christian's grip. Christian doesn't take notice as he gets propelled further ahead toward the sunlight on the other side. "Wait for it...Wait for it...Wait for it..." Pinkie repeats in front of the glowing portal. She couldn't wait to see her human friend again! Twilight taps her on the shoulder. "Uhh Pinkie, you can stop now. I'm sure Christian will be here in a matter of seconds." She says reassuringly. Pinkie takes no notice to her unicorn friend and continues her obnoxious jabber. "Wait for it...Wait for it...Wait for it..." Twilight sighs hopelessly and trots back to the rest of her friends. Applejack and Rarity were waiting nearby, the two of them started watching Pinkie after the twenty third minute of her sitting there and waiting for their human companion. "I honestly didn't think she had this good of an attention span!" Rarity exclaimed surprised. Twilight looks back at her with a smile. "Christian and Pinkie just have really good chemistry. Unlike me and him." She says annoyed. "Oh, cheer up Twi! I betcha Christian will warm up to ya eventually!" Applejack says happily. Twilight denies her friend. "Doubt it highly. This week alone he has already shot me with five darts!" Applejack shrugs. "So you two have a connection issue, that's not stopping Vague and Dash." She points a hoof up high into the sky to see the two of them cuddling on a nearby cloud. Vague was pointing out clouds to Dash, who was laughing every few seconds at his assumption of what each one looked like. Twilight laughed loudly. "C'mon Applejack! Me and Christian aren't in love or anything! I'm just saying he should..." She gets cut off by a scream in the distance. "HI CHRISTIAN!" Twilight turns to see Pinkie tackling something on the ground. The four ponies quickly rush over to see the pink pony suffocating the human teenager in a hug. Twilight started to laugh at him. Christian glared at Twilight before Pinkie released her grip. Before he could say a word, Pinkie started bombarding him with questions. "How was school Christian? What did you learn about? Do you have a cooking class? Oh! If you do, did you make those cupcakes that you made for the changelings? You know, I still have..." Christian grabbed her muzzle. "Hi Pink! Please shut up!" He let go of her mouth and Pinkie put a hoof on her head. "Okie dokie lokie!" She lower her hoof to her mouth and a zipper appeared. She zipped up her mouth and then continued to ask questions. Christian smiled. "Never get tired of that." He looked around the four ponies. "Hey, did you girls see anyone else come out of the portal?" Twilight points up. "Vague did a minute or so ago. He's up there with Dash." Christian shook his head as he looked behind the portal. "No, I meant did you see another..." "Whoa!" Something flies out of the portal and into a nearby oak tree. Christian gasps in horror. "Shoot! Dee-Dee!" He races over to the trunk of the tree. Twilight and the others look at each other. "Who's Dee-Dee?" They all ask out loud except for Pinkie which was more of a muffle of a bunch of words. The join him over at the truck as Christian scopes out the top branches. He tries looking for anything gray, but to no avail. He looks toward Fluttershy, who Christian just noticed was also here. "Hey Flutters, can you fly into that tree and see if you can find someone for me?" Fluttershy quietly nods and slowly flies up the tree. Applejack gives him a quizzical look. "You could have climbed up it ya know." Christian glances at her. "Oh yea. Hmm, oh well. Fluttershy is quicker anyway." Dash and Vague drop him from there little snuggle session. The moment they saw all of the commotion below, they decided to check it out. "The buck was that?! I saw something fly outta that portal into the tree! Did you guys see it?!" Vague exclaims. Christian rolls his eyes. Did he seriously just ask that? Christian thinks to himself. "No Vague, we didn't see it. We all just decided: 'Hey! Let's all become panicked and rush over to this tree for no reason! It'll be fun!' You're an idiot Vague!" Dash growls at him. "Hey! Don't you call my stallionfriend an idiot!" "Look i'm just saying..." "Found something!" Fluttershy shouts from some high branches. Christian and the look up at the yellow pegasus who was struggling to carry a gray blob in her hooves. She tried as hard as she could to gain more altitude, but she ended up crashing to the ground right in the middle of the group. She quickly sat up. "Oops, I hope I didn't hurt her." she said with a squeak. The group surrounded the crash victim. It's a pure gray earth pony, her mane, tail, and hooves offsetting to an even darker shade of gray. She's about the same size as Pinkie. Her long mane was catching the soft breeze, making it flow a bit. He cutie mark really caught Christian's eye though, as it's a negative theatre mask. Christian started scratching his head in confusion before realizing what just happened. "Shoot! I forgot that you become your OC here! Dee-Dee is gonna flip when she wakes up!" Sure enough, just as he said that, moaning is heard from the gray pony. Her eye flit open to the shade underneath the tree and the seven ponies surrounding her, plus a human. "Christian? What's going on? Why do I feel...funny?" Christian quickly tries to think of an excuse but unfortunately, Dee-Dee answers her own question after looking down at her body. She quickly looks up toward Twilight and her friends, speechless at the moment. The group blink at her before Twilight speaks up. "Umm...Hi." Dee-Dee starts yelling at the top of her lungs, making everyone cringe at the high pitch sound. Christian looks at Twilight. "Yea...Probably should have planned this better." > Yea, You're A Pony > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" "Dee-Dee...Can you just calm down for a sec..." Christian says quietly. Dee-Dee was still screaming after she woke up, and everyone was starting to get worried that she might attract unwanted attention. Twilight and Christian were just thanking Celestia that they were on the outskirts of town, but Dee-Dee still had quite a set of lungs and they weren't about to take any chances. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" "SHUT UP!" Dash yells. Dee-Dee shuts up immediately, her eyes now fixed onto the rainbow pegasus. Dash's head backs away from her doe-eyes and backs away to the group surrounding the gray pony. Dee-Dee marches up to Dash and glares directly into her eyes. Dash's neck starts getting wet with sweat as she was uncomfortably stared at. "Don't ever tell me to shut up again." She presses her muzzle into Dash's, who glanced back at her friends in awkwardness. Who was this mare anyway? "Got it?!" Dash nods slowly and confused. She then angrily glances at Christian, who backs up a bit in retaliation. "Why am I a pony?! What did you do to me?!" She marches up angrily and gives Christian the same evil look into his eyes. Christian gives her a very unenthusiastic look and motions her to step off. "Relax Dee-Dee, You're just your OC here is all! Happens to everyone who has an OC and comes here!" "And by everyone, he means just me." Vague says flatly. Dee-Dee gasps in surprise and looks at her gray pony body. Sure enough, Christian was right. She looked just like her OC: The dark gray tail and mane, her lighter fur and her cutie mark all matched the description of the pony she designed a few years back. She looks back up to Christian. "Is this permanent?" She murmurs. Christian shakes his head. "Nope. Just happens when you're here. We still don't know why or how, it just...happens." "I think it's just the way the author can fit in OC's" Pinkie says, unzipping her mouth. Everyone stops and looks at the pink earth pony, dumbfounded at whatever she just said. "Huh?!" They exclaim simultaneously. Pinkie giggles at her friends' reactions. "Nevermind!" Pinkie smiles as if she said nothing. Everyone else blinks a few times at her weird exclamation and after a few seconds, return to the matter at hand. "Ok then...Anywho Dee-Dee, I told you I would take you to Equestria, and well, here it is!" Christian hands motion Dee-Dee to look behind him toward Ponyville. She gives of a small smile of satisfaction to know that he wasn't lying about anything. She stares for a minute, taking in what was around her, the atmosphere of being on another planet tends to make someone just look around and enjoy themselves. Dee-Dee shows a wide smile and takes a breath. Christian grinned at the fact that she was amazed at what she was seeing, and she wasn't even in town yet! He walks up behind her. "So Dee-Dee, would you like to look around town?" Dee-Dee turns toward him with big pleading gray eyes. "I would love to! On one condition..." "That is?" "Call me by my OC name: Double Entendre or Double E for short!" Christian and Vague facepalm at the exact same moment. Christian starts yelling. "Seriously?! That's your name? Says the girl who hates it when guys bring up her bust size!" "What's a bust? Like a statue?" Dash asks to Vague. Vague whispers the definition into her ear and Dash gasps before looking down at her chest and frowning. Vague laughs out loud at Dash's concern. "Don't worry Dash, I'm not into that anyway." Christian leans over to Vague with a teasing smile on his face. "Oh really? I thought you said Dee-Dee's chest was, and I quote: 'really impressive.' " Vague glares at him. "Shut up!" Vague mutters back. Christian snickers and returns to the gray mare's side. "Anyway 'Double'," Christian says using air quotes as it was rather annoying to switch names like that. "I'm assuming you know Twilight and friends here?" Double looks at him with the most bewildered look he had ever seen. "No Christian, I don't know any of these ponies. I have no idea who any of them are even though I watch the show daily." Christian rolls his eyes at the sarcastic remark. "I was just asking, Jeez." Double laughs and walks past Christian toward Twilight's group of friends. "I know every single one of them by heart, especially Rarity." She looks at the white unicorn with heartfelt eyes. "She's my favorite!" Rarity blushes at the remark. "Oh! Well I don't know what to say darling! I'm quite flattered!" "Aww, you shouldn't be! You're the best!" Double continues to compliment her. Rarity face becomes even redder as she tries to deny her, but she could help keeping a big smile on her face. "Oh stop!" "No I mean it!" "Alright, that's enough." Christian decides to butt in before the rest of the day was Rarity getting complimented and her not accepting it. "I think it's high time I show you around." Double and Rarity stop their bantering and nod. "Alright then. Lead the way!" Double points toward town and Christian starts off with the gray pony nonchalantly walking behind him. Without missing a beat, Rarity trots up behind Double to join her. The rest of the group linger back in a quiet discussion. "I like how Christian takes every new pony on a tour of the town. Really shows that he admires the place." Twilight says happily. "Yea, but he does it to every random stranger we come across." Vague points out. "That's the point." Twilight says plainly. Vague shrugs. "Whatever." "So Christian," Double says suddenly. "If you become your OC here, why are you still human?" The question makes everyone freeze in their tracks. Sweat starts pouring down Christian's forehead, dripping down onto the ground in front of him. Double tilts her head in curiousity as Christian remains motionless in front of her. "Uhh, Christian?" Christian didn't want to tell her about what happened. If she overreacted at her transformation, there was no telling would she would do about this. At most she might run away screaming or something or just be freaked out. He exhales loudly before turning to face her. He turns to see the everyone else looking like deer in headlights. What the heck? He thought to himself; They know about this, why are they worried? "Uh, yea about that. I haven't designed an OC yet. So...yea." Double E became confused at his answer. He started out looking real nervous, and then he plays it off as nonchalantly as possible! Double E takes the answer with a nod. Poor kid is probably bipolar she thought. Double E picks up the pace and starts leading unexpectedly, the town wasn't far anyway. AJ comes up to Christian, who was more than less satisfied with his response. "You know you'll have to tell her." She whispers. Christian sighs. "Don't worry about it. I have a plan." AJ rolls her eyes happily. There he goes again with thinking ahead. "What are you up to?" She says with a laugh. "If all goes planned, I got it covered. You girls just be yourselves." Vague enters his peripheral vision with a poker face on. "And Vague." He adds. Vague gives a small smile of satisfaction before walking backwards toward Dash. Christian looks off at the happy-go-lucky mare who was running all around seeing every building and structure up close with awe in her eyes. Christian was going to make this perfect for her if it killed him. "You're going to set up a date aren't you?" Twilight said abruptly. Christian turns to see her looking a bit impressed. She had to admit it was a bold move to put his job in jeopardy for a girl. Christian doesn't nod but gives her a smirk. "Set up a date? Who says i'm not on it right now?" > A Date to Never Forget > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christian and Double E are the first to enter Sugarcube Corner. Pinkie quickly bounces in behind both of them in her typical hyper happy-go-lucky attitude. Double starts taking in the interior of the bakery by first taking a long whiff of the succulent air around her. Which was quickly followed by her stomach growling like twenty tigers. She groans out loud. Thanks to Christian's little surprise, she barely got to eat her lunch back on Earth. "Hungry?" Christian points out. Double glares at him while holding her stomach with a hoof. "Yea, no thanks to you!" She snarls back. "Alright, chill. I can fix that." He looks over to Pinkie, who was still jumping around all over the place. "Pink, shall we?" Pinkie stops to look at him as he points toward the kitchen. Pinkie quickly starts nodding her head. "Okie dokie lokie! Let's go!" She rushes into the kitchen at breakneck speed, with Christian following her soon after. Double was about to ask 'What the heck is going on?', but she got interrupted by Twilight and the rest of her friends as they walk through the door. Twilight looks around the room only to find Double E standing there looking at them dumbfoundedly. Realizing the awkward moment, Twilight takes no time to ask something. "Uhh, where's Christian and Pinkie?" Double takes a moment before pointing toward the kitchen, where humming and baking appliances of all sorts could be heard with the occasional bang from a pan falling. Twilight sighs at the obvious answer. "I should have figured." "I don't get it. All I said was that I was hungry, and then he goes to the trouble of baking something for me." Applejack nudges her. "Sounds like Christian has takin' quite the liking to ya!" Double gives her a shocked look. "What? No way! I mean...he doesn't even show it!" "Oh doesn't he?" Vague butts in. "Think about this for a second Dee-Dee: Where are you right now huh?" Double doesn't even get to answer before Vague answers for her. "Equestria. Land of talking ponies; unicorns, pegasi, heck, most mythological creatures. You are in the government's most heavily guarded secret since Roswell and you haven't even noticed that the guy who brought you here is in love with you? Seriously?!" "Well it's just different! Most of the guys who love me only do because of my chest! Do you know what that's like?! I can never have a decent relationship with a guy because they all just want to cop a feel!" Vague goes to something, but can't find the words to make out an answer. He looks down to the floor. "You're right, I don't know what that's like. Fact is, I could never get a human girlfriend because I didn't know how to act in front of them or what to ask them in fear of getting rejected. It wasn't until I met Dashie that I could finally muscle up and try for once." "Probably because i'm your dream mare." Dash adds. Vague glares at her. "Not the time Dash. Anyway, I want you to look at the situation you're in right now. This guy is risking his new job as ambassador just to be with you! You would have to be blind to see that he wants to be with you!" "Then why hasn't he told me?!" Double yells. Vague approaches her through her outburst with a grim look on his face. He hesitates again before answering with a sigh. "You asked before about becoming your OC and if it was permanent correct?" Double nods curiously at the fiery pegasi. Twilight, quickly realizing what Vague was about to do, jumps in between both of them to make the conversation halt. "Oh I wonder when Christian and Pinkie will be done?" She gives her friends a look screaming: 'Help me out here I have no idea what to do!' Double frowns and throws the purple unicorn aside in a swift movement. "Don't change the subject Twilight!" She looks back to Vague's serious face. "Yea I did. Why is this relevant to anything? Christian said he didn't make an OC yet!" Vague glares at her. "Yea, he didn't. But you don't have to have an OC to be a pony."Double gives him a quizzical look . "That makes no sense! How can you not have an OC but be a pony?" "Because Christian is..." Dash quickly and forcefully shuts Vague's muzzle with her hooves before he could finish. "Excuse us!" She starts dragging the orange pegasus to the door. Vague stops himself with the little leverage that he had on his hind legs. AJ quickly starts helping Dash by trying to thrust Vague out the door. Rarity takes Vague's place in front of the confused gray pony. "Darling, please ignore Vague. He hasn't the slightest clue of what he is talking about." Double looks past Rarity to see Vague struggling to get out of the ponies' grip. "Then where are they taking him?" Suddenly, Twilight overtakes her field of vision. "Yea, he probably crashed and hit his head again. Dash and Applejack are taking him to the hospital to get checked out." As the three of them talk, AJ and Dash continue trying to force Vague outside before he did anything stupid. Vague struggled against the two strong ponies. He needed to tell her about Christian. If he didn't and Christian told her, he knew it wouldn't end well. With all of his might, he braces himself against the door frame to prevent any more advancement toward outside. AJ continues to try push his abdomen outside while Dash holds his mouth tight. Vague knew that he would eventually collapse in the next few seconds, he had only one more option. Vague starts to take a deep breath through his nose and holds it for a few seconds. He starts feeling his forehooves slip from the doorway and just as Applejack pushes him through, Vague exhales to make his mane expand and light up a vibrant orange. Dash twitches as a sharp burning sensation overtakes her forehooves. She violently lets go of Vague's mouth and zips outside, screaming in pain as her hooves catch fire. AJ gets blown back from the small eruption and lands upside-down on the other side of the bakery. Vague exhales again, showing steam billowing from his nostrils. "Move." He says sternly. Twilight and Rarity comply and quickly sidestep out of the way. Double E couldn't believe what just happened. "What the hay?!" She exclaims. Vague takes no notice and continues his explanation. "Christian is a pony!" Double E's jaw drops at Vague's conclusion. Vague himself starts taking a few deep breaths after his little stunt. As he does, he glances to the only other two ponies standing, as Fluttershy hid under a table when Vague exploded. Twilight and Rarity were fixed onto the entrance of the kitchen. Confused, Vague looks up to see Christian standing in the doorway with Pinkie behind him, holding a chocolate peanut butter cake. Double E turns around to notice Christian and immediately dashes over to him. Christian wasn't mad or taken by shock or anything, he knew that she had to know eventually. The only thing on his face was a semi-depressed frown. "Is...is it true?" Double asks with a squeak. Christian slowly puts both hands behind his neck and undoes his necklace. A bright light envelops his body as the necklace falls to the wooden floor. Double's mouth overtakes her face as she sees the human turn into a tan pony before her. "Yea, it's true." He sighs. "I was going to tell you Dee-Dee, I mean Double." The gray pony remains motionless to his transformation. "Listen, I don't care what your opinion is. If you don't want to hang out anymore, then that's fi-" "I don't mind." Christian's words freeze in his mouth. Twilight, Rarity, and Pinkie gasp at her sudden answer. "Come again?" Christian asks. The gray pony laughs at his cluelessness. She approaches him and starts caressing his muzzle. Christian starts becoming very distraught by her mixed feelings. "I mean, how did this even happen? Magic backfire? Potion accident?" "Chrysalis's curse and a DNA-camouflage charm on my necklace thing. It's complicated." Christian says while rolling his eyes. Double laughs again as she started to stroke his mane gently. "And it can't be reversed?" Christian shakes his head. "Unless by reversed you mean camouflaged, then no." Double frowns at this. When she came here, she fussed about being stuck like a pony permanently, but she didn't see this coming from a mile away. She now felt like...well, she felt like a dick honestly. "Wow, so if I acted badly when I first saw myself as a pony, I can't imagine your reaction." Christian shrugged. "Mine was like yours but with a lot more anger and changelings." Double giggled. Christian may look different, but he was still his human still inside. Double E didn't really know what to say at this point, she just found out that the first guy she meets who doesn't like her for her headlights, was actually part pony! She started showing a very uneasy look, making Christian frown. "I know you said you wanted to be normal, guess that's kinda hard now huh?" Double nods. "If you want Double, I could have the FBI erase your mind so you could live a nor-" He was cut off by Double E, who took his mouth into her's for a very passionate kiss. Christian slightly jumped at the move from her, but quickly closed his eyes to embrace her warm lips against hers. Twilight and Rarity gawked at what they were witnessing. Vague, who cooled down a bit, watched with complete astonishment. "Well, that escalated quickly." He said simply. Double broke the sudden kiss and put her gray muzzle against Christian's, who was still in a bit of shock from what just happened. She seems completely fine with the fact that he was part animal! "That's Dee-Dee to you." Christian gives a small smile. Cheeky little mare. "I thought you said no making moves." He says in a cocky manner. Dee-Dee flashes a smile. "I said you couldn't make a move." Christian smiles right back. He glances over to Vague to see him nod. He knew he had to thank him later. He figured this entire fiasco would end in disaster, but yet, in ended better than anypony ever thought! He couldn't wait to tell John... "Aw buck!" Christian says full of worry. Dee-Dee grows concerned. Did I do something wrong? She thinks to herself. "We haven't told my uncle or your mother that you're here! What are they going to think?!" He looks over to the other five, AJ just getting up from Vague's fiery blast and punching him in the side. Twilight bits her lip in worry, Christian might lose his job because of this! "Well Christian, I think..." "We're just fine about it! Thrilled even!" Christian and Dee-Dee both look at each other like they heard a ghost. Christian glares at Twilight, who shakes her head and mouths 'I didn't do anything!' Christian suddenly glances over to his crossbow to see his wrist tablet lit up. On the screen, he sees his uncle and a middle-aged blonde haired woman wearing a formal light blue suit dress. Christian and Dee-Dee look at each other and quickly back down to the tablet. "JOHN?!" "MOM?!" "Hey kids! How's Equestria?" Christian and Dee-Dee continue to stare at the two adults on the other side of the screen. They were more confused then they have ever been in their lives! "How did you? But I...Wha?!" Christian stutters to his uncle. John goes to say something, but a voice in the background cut him off. "Did I miss it?!" The voice booms louder as Celestia steps into view next to the two adults. She was out of breath and painting. "Yes, you just missed it." Mrs. Evermore says. "You're recording right?" "Of course! We always monitor our agents!" "Whew! Good!" The appearance of Celestia just made everything even more confusing. Then Christian remembers what she said this morning. "You used magic to know that I would bring Dee-Dee here didn't you?" Christian asks a little bit annoyed. Celestia shakes her head happily. "No Christian, I did nothing of the sort." "Then how did you find out that we were here?" John raises a hand. "Christian, we're the FBI. Do you really think that we wouldn't have eyes all over the place?" John presses a button on his wrist pad to make a bunch of videos pop up. One of the black and white surveillance video showed three teenagers entering Christian's house and petting a dog. Another showed them opening the closet to find the elevator that lead under the house. The last video showed the three of them jumping through the portal in the labs below. Christian's eye twitches at the amount of video cameras in his house. "Ok. First off, that's just creepy. Second, you guys don't care?" Mrs. Evermore laughs at his question. "Of course not dear! I would love to have my daughter accompany you here!" Her face turns grim. "But if you don't report on what your doing again, serious restrictions shall apply to you." "No problem Mrs. Evermore!" "I was talking to my daughter, Christian. We all know you can't get fired unless you do something REALLY bad!" "Wait, WHAT?!" Dee-Dee screams astonished. "You heard me young lady! I'll see you at dinner." She turns to Christian. "It was nice to meet you Agent CIA. You be good to my daughter now!" "MOM!" Dee-Dee aggravatedly moans. "Don't worry about that Mrs. Evermore! I think we have a bit of a connection going." "We know, we saw the whole thing." Christian and Dee-Dee give annoyed poker faces to the three of them before the screen flashes back to black. "Well, that happened." Christian says blatantly. "Does the FBI always do that?" Dee-Dee asks. "Heck if I know. I just joined a month ago." "Good point." The bakery quickly becomes full of an awkward silence. Everypony looks at each other quietly, waiting for somepony to break the silence. Christian suddenly coughs, making the others jump for a second. "Well if that's all that's going to happen Dee-Dee, we might as well get going." He looks down at his necklace, realizing that he once again, doesn't have fingers. "Uhh, Twilight. A little help here?" Twilight gasps and quickly makes Christian's pick float back up and around his neck. Christian quickly reverts back to his human shape and sighs. "Thanks." He looks toward his new mare/girlfriend who was smiling happily. "I better get used to that! I'll have to start wearing shades or something." "Like mine?" Dee-Dee stares at the shades on top of his head. "Nah, mine would have way more gray." Christian rolls his eyes. "Of course." Dee-Dee laughs again, making Christian's smile return. The gray pony walks over to the exit, with Christian following her side by side. The others quickly scramble outside just in time to see them head toward town. Pinkie quickly runs in front of the group. "Does this mean no cake then?!" She screams to the two love birds. The scream simply falls on deaf ears as it echos around the area. Just then, Rainbow Dash returns floating down softly from some clouds overhead. She eyes the group looking outward toward the setting sun. "So, what did I miss?" She asks curiously. Twilight points off into the distance. Dash lifts a slightly darkened hoof squints to see a human and a gray pony jumping into the portal gate. She smiles and elbows Vague harshly into his side. "Guess we're not the only couple here anymore!" Vague ignores her remark and rubs the painful jab mark. Dash smirks. "Also, that's for SETTING ME ON FIRE! I had to fly to the North just to cool off my hooves!" Vague's cheeks turn bright red. "Sorry about that Dashie. But she had to know." Dash's face becomes disgruntled. "You're lucky you're cute and that it worked, otherwise I'd throw you into the ocean." Vague immediately hugs the rainbow pegasus. She smiles and starts petting his fiery mane. Twilight approaches both of them during this moment of love. "I'm still trying to comprehend what just happened." AJ snickers a little bit. "It looks like Christian's got himself a marefriend of his own! Or whatever you humans call it." She says happily. Christian's plan may have completely turned upside-down, but the end result was still just as he predicted! She was surprised Double didn't care one bit about all of this! "Do you think it will work? I mean, not to be rude, but Christian is like us." Fluttershy squeaks from behind everypony. Vague looks at Dash and they both nod, confident in their answer. "If we work out Flutters, I'm sure they'll be fine!" Dash says happily. The others nod at her response as they continued to stare where their two friends left only moments ago. The sun was now halfway below the horizon, showing a dazzling orange glow throughout the town. Vague's head met with Dash's neck for a nice place to relax. Dash cuddled his head with a small nudge with her light blue muzzle. The two of them snuggled in the warm light as the day came to an end. The others still watching the town behind them. But Pinkie was still really confused. "You're telling me! This is one hay of a love story, and I still don't know what to do with this cake!"