Hello there. This is my first MLP fanfic, so dont expect any mind-blowing stuff. Now I know the human in equestria thing is overdone, but I wanted to give it a try. This is written more in the style of the show, like if it was an episode. That means no swearing, no bloody violence, no clop. I dont think they will ever do an episode featuring humans, but that's what this is for obviously. So I hope you like it. Feel free to whine and complain
An American Family in Equestria
Chapter One: Arrival
Twilight Sparkle could not have been more excited even if she focused hard in attempting to do so. She busied herself in re-organizing everything in the library, as it one of the few ways she was able to really relax. It was her comfort zone, and she took her time more than usual. After all, she thought, it was going to be a special night. Tonight she was going to have a slumber party, and it was also the first time that all five of her friends would be there.
"Spike," she called. "Could you bring me the duster please?"
"Coming right up," the baby dragon called back. After bringing his friend the duster, he looked around at the cleaning. Everything was shining with unatural brightness.
"Wow. This is a lot of...clean! Even for you," said Spike.
"Well Spike, I just want everything to be perfect. My last slumber party had a bit of a rocky start. But tonight, I'm going to make sure nothing crazy happens."
"If you don't want anything crazy happening, then you should do something about Pinkie," Spike joked.
"Dont worry, I should have enough cookies to keep her occupied, at least for five minutes," she joked back. They both shared a laugh.
"So Spike, what are you going to do tonight? Do you want to join us?" she asked.
"Hang out at a girly slumber party with six girls, doing girly things and talking...girly talk? No thanks," he huffed. Although his best friends were all girls, he could only take so much.
"Even though Rarity will be there as well?" teased the purple pony.
"Well uh..." Spike contemplated for a minute, then quickly responded. "Nah, I'd prefer if it were just the two of us. SIGH"
He had his signature dreamy look in his eyes, indicating that he was now in his little 'Rarity World'. Twilight rolled her eyes at this, since she expected it. She also wondered if he would ever one day grow out of it.
"Okay, so what will you do while were having our party?"
Spike snapped out of it. "Oh. I think I'll just go out to eat, maybe take a walk in the park."
"All right, but dont stay out too late," she reminded her young assistant.
Finally the evening arrived, as did Twilight's friends. Pinkie had her punch bowl, Dash had her favorite pillow and board game, and Rarity brought her make up kit, even though only half of the group would probably use it.
"All right girls," Twilight announced . "Are you ready for the best sleepover ever?"
They all responded with an enthusiastic yes, Pinkie Pie perhaps more enthusiastic than all of them.
"OMYGOSH! I'm so ready Twilight, are you ready? I'm ready. Oh boy! I'm excited, are you excited? I'm-"
Applejack's hoof was placed over Pinkie's rambling' mouth.
"East there sugar cube," said AJ. "Y'all aint even had any punch yet."
"All right, let's get started," Twilight said. But just then, the door slammed open, revealing a distraught Spike.
"Twilight! Girls!...We've...got a problem," exclaimed Spike in between breaths.
"AAUUGH! You've got to be kidding me!" Twilight said aggravated. "What is it?"
"It's uh...it's...just come and see!" Spike said.
Soon the elemental heroes were following him to center of town. The sun was now set , but it was still a little light out. Actually it was very light out, which was unusual for 8:00. The girls finally noticed that everypony was looking up to the sky. Looking up too, what they saw made them gasp. It was a bright, blue swirling portal, and it was steadily getting bigger, which was causing a powerful gust of wind everywhere.
"What in tarnation is that?" cried Applejack over the howling wind.
"It's ruing my mane, " whined Rarity.
"It doesn't look good to me," said Rainbow Dash. "Twilight, you're the egghead here. What's going on?"
"I don't know," yelled the librarian. "I've never seen anything like it"
"Look," cried Fluttershy. "There's something coming out of it."
Sure enough, there were three objects falling out of the portal. Two of them fell towards the everfree forest, leaving behind a golden streak of light. The other however, was headed straight towards Ponyville. As it was falling, the portal mysteriously closed up.
"OH NO! Watch out everypony!" yelled Twilight.
"Wait a second," said Applejack. "Look closer, it looks like some sort of...critter!"
"Oh my goodness!" exclaimed Fluttershy. "Someone needs to help it!"
"On it!"Dash said bravely, and quicker than you could blink she was up in the air.
The creature was falling faster and faster as Dash ascended towards it. However, just as she was almost upon it, the squirming animal's legs kicked her in the face, and it fell from her grasp. After recovering from the slight pain, she remembered what she missed.
"Oops!" she said as she started her way back down.
Twilight saw this however, and was already working on a plan to save it. Looking around, she saw a large sheet hanging on a clothesline. Using her magic, she teleported it towards them, and ordered the rest of her friends to grab a side. They held on to the sheet tightly, awiaiting the impact. The creature finally hit and bounced right off. Fortunately, Applejack was there to catch it.
After she and the others got a chance to catch their breath and lay the creature down, they finally got a good look at it. It's appearance was surprising to say the least.
"What the hay?" said AJ.
"Ditto," joined Dash.
"Oh my," Rarity raised an eyebrow.
"It's weird lookin' huh?" chimed in Pinkie Pie.
Laying unconsious in the dirt was a bizarre pink skinned, two-legged animal with no hair(except for the light brown tuff on his head). It wore a red sweater, blue pants, white shoes, and a pair of glasses. It's clothes were slightly singed from the crazy trip, and as far as they could tell, it was a boy.
A few hours later, they were all back in Twilight's home. The 'boy' was gently laid down on the couch Twilight was busy rinsing out a washcloth to place on his head, while the others watched him intently. He moaned when the cool cloth touched his forehead, indicating the great relief it gave him.
"How's he doing Twi?" asked Applejack walking over to her.
"I'm not sure. There dont seem to be any physical injuries. But he's obviously been thru a lot," she replied with a worried expression.
"I'm sure hes fine," piped up Rainbow Dash. "I just wanna know one thing. What the hay is he?"
"Me too," said Fluttershy. "I know about almost every animal in Equestria, but I dont recognize him at all. Although, he does kind of remind me of a monkey."
"He certainly is...odd," joined in Rarity. "I do hope he's not dangerous."
"Oh don't worry Rarity, he's not dangerous," brightly said Pinkie.
"How on earth would you know that Pinke? Pinkie sense?" Rarity asked.
"No. he just has a nice face. I can tell he's good!"
Everyone sighed at this, knowing it was just Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie. At that moment however, the creature started to stir and was even speaking.
"Oooohh...m..mom..is that you?" he said with a groan. "Oahgg! I dont feel so good. For real this time, so can I stay home from school?" Judging by his voice, they thought he must have been around their age, perhaps in his early 20's.
His eyes were still shut as Twilight replaced the wash cloth with a fresh one.
"Shhh. Just try to take it easy, dont move too much," she said soothingly.
"Okay, thanks mom," he said as he turned over on the couch, clutching the cloth.
"Heh heh. Well, at least he sounds normal," said Aj. "Ah reckon you must sound like his mother Twi."
"Oh the poor thing. He must miss her terribly," said Fluttershy, coming closer to the couch.
"Mom," he groaned. "What are all those voices? Is the tv on?"
He turned around and slighty opened his eyes. Then he opened them a little bit more. Slowly, his eyes grew very wide. He then sprang rigtht up.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" he yelled, startling everypony.
"Wha...wha...okay...umm...ahh!," he stuttered. "This is freaky. It's ...it's a dream, yeah it's gotta be. No other expalation. I ate something bad, passed out and am now having a very crazy dream..heh heh"
He laughed nervously, not sure if he should believe his own logic. The ponies looked at each other, equally unsure of what to do next. It was Twilight who stepped forward first.
"Sir, please calm down. We are not going ot hurt you, and you are not dreaming," she said.
"HA HA," he retorted. "Oh really miss...talking horse? I may not get perect grades, but I'm not stupid. I know a dream when I see one."
"Sure got a smart mouth, dont'e?" Applejack said.
Twilight was a little annoyed by this. "First of all, I'm not a horse, I'm a pony. Were all ponies."
"Wow, big difference," the boy said in a very sarcastic tone.
"And second of all," she continued, ignoring him. "I happen to be pretty smart myself, if I do say so. And I do get perfect grades, so I think I'll be the expert on whether or not this is a dream."
"Well," he said idignantly. "Usually my dreams dont talk back to me, mostly theyr'e just songs I heard on the radio during the day."
Pinkie Pie jumped up at this, anxious to find some common ground with the strange being. She sprang onto the couch with him, getting right in his face.
"Oooh! What kind of songs? Were they love songs? Big party songs? Oh, or maybe epic rock ballad songs like this, HAAHH...!"she inhaled, ready to burst forth in her usual singing voice. They all braced themselves, but fortunately Rainbow Dash swooped down and covered her mouth.
They all gave a huge sigh of relief, but the boy was still very confused.
"Aw man, why cant I ever dream about a nice, sunny beach in Florida?" he resigned.
"Oh for Pete's sake!" cried an exasperated Dash as she dropped Pinkie. She flew down to the boy, eye to eye. "For the last time, you are not dreaming!"
This was followed by a quick bop to the head by her hoof. "OW! That...hurt?"
There was a long, akward silence that followed. The boy stared at the floor, and started to tremble. To comfort himself, he grabbed a nearby pillow and clutched it tightly
"So this isn't a dream huh?" he said bluntly. Despite the great shock, he started to calm down a little. "Could I...uh...get a drink of water please?"
Rarity was pleased by his sudden good manners, so she used her magic to levitate a glass and bring it to him.
"Here you are dear," she kindly said. He was indeed surprised by the floating glass, but his thirst overcame him and he gladly accepted it, drinking it in one gulp.
"Ahh, thank you, and i'm ..I'm sorry for uh, freaking out like that. It's just that...talking, magical, flying ponies is a lot to take in."
"Hey, I'm here too ya'know!" Spike spoke up for the first time.
"Uh,...and apparently purple lizards as well," the boy said puzzled.
"I'm a dragon!" huffed Spike.
"Ah, of course you are. Dragons, unicorns, pegases. All that's missing are minotaurs."
"Actually," said Fluttershy, "we have those as well."
"Where the flip am I ?" he said increduously.
"Uh listen," interjected Twilight. "Before we get into all those questions, I think we should introduce ourselves first, I'll start. Hello, my name is Twilight Sparkle." She extended a hoof, which he gingerly shook with his hand.
"Oh, hi. My name's David."
"That's an odd name," said Dash rudely.
"As opposed to Twilight Sparkle? No offense," he said.
"It's alright," said Twilight. "I'm sure were just as strange to you. Anyway, these are my friends, Applejack (Howdy), Rarity (Charmed), Pinkie Pie (Hiii!) Fluttershy (oh..hello) and Rainbow Dash (W'sup?)."
David looked at them all as he listened to each of their unique greetings. He was interupted by a small, but noticeable 'ahem!.'
"Oh, and of course my number one assistant, Spike," Twilight quickly presented him.
"The greatest assistant anypony could ask for," he proudly stated, puffing out his chest.
"Uh-huh," said David. "Well...nice to meet you all, and thanks for helping me out." His eyes started wandering around the room, trying to understand all of the new sights.
"Is this some kind of library?" he asked.
"Why yes it is, and I happen to be the librarian," responded Twilight.
"That's cool, I love books," David said without thinking.
"GASP! You do?" Twilight almost shouted as she jumped up on the couch. She could hardly believe that there was someone else who could love books as much as her. But before she could enquire further, she was inteupted by a certain tomcolt.
"Alright, enough of the egghead talk," said Dash. "All I wanna know is what are you? And more importantly, what are you doing in Equestria? Are you a spy?"
Applejack eyerolled. "Consarn'it Rainbow! Why do ya' think everone we meet is a spy?"
"Hey, you never know," Dash stated as if this were a good enough reason.
David spoke up, trying to avoid any trouble. "Hey listen, I really have no idea what's going on. I'm a human, I'm from America, and as for how I got here...well, I was kind of hoping you could help me with that part. See, tha last thing I remember is eating lunch in the rec room with my sisters, then some blinding light and...that's it."
The ponies thought about what he said, each one thinking of a good way to explain. As usual, it was Twilight who first spoke..
"Well David, we all saw a giant portal of some kind open up in the sky that dropped you into our town. You were lucky that we were there to catch you."
"And its a good thing that those two other things that came out of it fell into the everfree forest," stated Rarity.
"What? Two other things?" David suddenly looked very serious, like all his previous worries were replaced by new ones, and he temporarily forgot his current situation. "You said two others fell out with me?"
"Yes," said Rarity, a little confused.
"As in two other humans? Did they look anything like me?"
"I'm not sure, I think so,"she said a little nervously.
David contemplated. "But there were only two people with me when the light appeared...so that means..." David's eyes grew wide at the realization, and a look of utter terror appeared on his young face.
"OH MY GOSH! MY SISTERS! THOSE WERE MY LITTLE SISTERS!"
The others gasped in sock. They all understood how terrible this had to be for him. It was one thing to wake up in a strange place, it's another to find out that some of your family was lost in it.
"You said they fell where? The forest?"
"I'm afraid so," Twilight sadly said.
"OH geez, if there's dragons and minotaurs here, who knows what's in the forest."
"Oh I know," said Pinkie. "There's cockatrices, giant bugs, hydras, eels, manticores, and...uh..oh...nevermind."
"That's it," shouted David. "I'm comig for you girls."
David tried jumping off the couch, but fell flat on his face. He was apparently still fatigued. That didn't stop hom though.
"Weapon! I need a weapon!" he dramatically yelled.
"We dont have any weapons," Twilight explained.
"Okay then,..I'll just take that umbrella,"he said as he grabbed it and tried to make his way out the door. He was stopped by Applejack however.
"Woah ther partner," she said, blocking the doorway. "Ya'll are crazy if yer thinkin' of headin' out there at night."
"Get out of my way! There my sisters, I'm all they've got!"
"Listen David," she said more gently. "Wanting to protect yer kin is somethin' every older siblin' wants to do. If it was mah sister, a'd be doin' the same thing. But ya'll can't just go out there without knowin' what ta do. Yer in unfamiliar parts after all."
This stopped David unexpectedley. No one had spoken to him with such kindness and wisdom in a very, very long time.
"That's why were all comin' with ya, right gals?"
"Right!" they all agreed in unison.
"What?...Really?"This was also very unexpected.
"Of course," said Fluttershy. "We simply couldn't let two little girls stay out ther by themselves. The poor things must be so frightened."
"But you hardly know, we just met. I'm not even from this world, remember?"
"Aw dont worry about it slick," said Dash with a wave of her hoof. "We do this kind of thing all the time."
"Weren't you just calling me a spy a minute ago?"
"Oh let it go, were wasting time," said Twilight. "Spike, stay here till we get back. If were not back by morning, get some help, send a letter if you have to."
"Yes ma'am!" the little dragon saluted.
Within moments, they were all out the door. David was very surprised, but the purple pony was right, now was not the time. Still holding the umbrella, he followed them, running as fast as he could towards the forest.
To be continued...