Saturday started as just another normal day in Ponyville. Twilight Sparkle was reading a book while Pinky Pie rambled on about something irrelevant to her, Rarity was teaching Apple Jack about good color combinations for clothes, Rainbow Dash was taking one of her naps and Fluttershy was tenderly caring for her pets at her cottage outside of town. But then, for no apparent reason, Pinky suddenly shot up and bolted off.

"About time," Twilight murmured, not paying attention to exactly where Pinky was running.

She galloped as fast as she could through Mane street and over the horizon, her eyes widening a disproportionate amount. Finally she stopped - in front of a grey-azure Pegasus stallion with a wolf companion. He had a glorious blue mane that streaked gracefully down his neck, and an expression that was both confident yet sincere. But Pinky didn't give a hoof about what he looked like; she just wanted to greet him to Ponyville.

She sat there for a moment, grinning ear to ear.

Lightbolt, somewhat confused, decided to introduce himself. "Oh, hello, my name-"

"New pony!" She chanted and then sped off so fast that the stallion couldn't even respond.

"Hmm... Strange... Come on Scout!" the stallion called, and then carried on his way to Ponyville.

"New pony! New pony! New pony!" The yelling was distant at first, but it grew louder and soon everypony could hear it.

"Come on everyone! Get the balloons ready! Make some cake! QUICK!" Pinky Pie shouted with glee as she bounced around.

"Simmer down, partner!" Said a voice. Said voice belonged to Apple Jack, of course. "Now, I understand yer excited and all, but you need to stop jumpin' around like that!"

"Okay... But he's going to be here soon!"

Apple Jack looked at Pinky intentively. "Wait, it's a boy pony? Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit! You don't see many of those feller's 'round these parts."

"Oh, well I sure hope he's classy," said Rarity.

Twilight Sparkle chimed in. "Wow, your right AJ, this book says male pony's are only 1 in -"

"WHO CARES!?" shouted Pinkie Pie as Twilight rolled her eyes. "Now we need to give a warm welcome to whoeverpony he may be."

Then, the stallion finally walked into town. He observed the place was very nice looking, with colorful, quaint houses surrounding a central plaza. Lightbolt was expecting a quiet little place; what he got was the complete opposite when he entered the central square. Pinkie Pie, of course, ran right up to him.

"Hey! Hey! Hey! What's your name. I'm Pinky Pie. Welcome to Ponyville. And what a cute little pet you have. Weeeeeeee!" Scout smirked at the thought of him being called cute.

"Oh! Hello, nice to meet you all." He was thankful for the extremely warm welcome, but it sure came unexpected. "My name's Lightbolt."

Rarity came up to him with wide eyes. "May I say you are dashing!"

"Why, thank you," he said, blushing slightly.

Then, there was a soft voice that came from the back of the loosely packed crowd of other ponies. "Excuse me please, oh, I'm so sorry, I just really need to get through... if that's okay..."

A mare with a yellow face and pink mane timidly popped out in front of the crowd. "Girls? There you are... Oh, I'm so sorry for disturbing, umm..."

Then, she noticed the newcomer. She froze when she first saw him, but then nervously tried to introduce herself. But she couldn't muster out any words.

"Well hello, I'm Lightbolt," the stallion said, bridging the silence.

She ended up just standing there blushing, barely able a form a shy smile. She then proceeded dash off.

Lightbolt then sat there momentarily thinking about the shy mare, but was brought back quickly.

"So that was Fluttershy," said Twilight. "As you can see, she's a little, well, shy. Oh, and I'm Twilight Sparkle."

"Nice to meet you."

The other ponies came up to fully introduce themselves. Pinkie Pie sat there and watched with her wide grin.

"Howdy partner" said AJ. "Name's Apple Jack. Nice meeting you."

"Nice to meet you too."

"Hello darling, my name's Rarity, fashionista. It is a pleasure to meet you."

"Well met."

"Hey, wait a minute," Twilight Sparkle said. "Where's Rainbow Dash? Hmm, I've got to go find her. How disrespectful of her to ignore a new pony."

The ponies conversed for a few minutes while waiting, and then Rainbow Dash finally came over with persuasion from Twilight.

"So um. .? What was it you brought me over for Twilight?," she said, eyes half closed. "What can be SO important that you have to wake me up from my nap?"

"Well if you would just look right there, you would see," Twilight said impatiently.

"Ohhhhh," the cyan pony said, noticing Lightbolt straight in front of her. "Well, nice to meet you, um..."

"Lightbolt."

Rainbow Dash gave him a funny look. "You must think your hot stuff, huh?"

"Uhh... What?" Asked confused Lightbolt.

"Hehe, just giving you a hard time. It's just your name. Lightbolt? You must be some racer, right?

He in fact was, or at least used to be when he was young. "Yes, I've had my share of races," He said, level-voiced as possible. He tried to change the subject; he didn't want to think about back then.

"Hey, do any of you know a place around here somepony could get a good lunch?"

"Hey, how about you come on down to my old families orchard?" Applejack exclaimed. "You can have some delicious apples, on me. As a welcoming present."

"Oh, that's awfully generous of you, I'd love to," said Lightbolt, genuinely surprised by how friendly everypony was.

"Well great, come on then."

Sorry if that chapter was a bit underwhelming and short. I feel the next chapter is turning out much better. I don't want give anything away, but expect to see some significant events happen soon. Oh, and if you are enjoying the story so far, please leave a comment or follow it.

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