Rainbow Dash won the race by a long shot, so the rest of the ponies just walked into the library. Applejack lowered her head down to a round, wooden table in the centre of the room so I could jump onto it. Everything in the room seemed to me made of wood, it was a tree after all. There were a few odd books on the table, I jumped on top of one and read the title, "Great minds of science," I read aloud. "I take it the librarian is a smart one?" I asked, since this book had obviously been left halfway through due to the way it wasn't as organised as anything else.
"Oh yeah," Rainbow Dash answered, "Twilight's a total egghead, like, seriously, she knows everything when it comes to boring stuff like science. I'm gonna go find her." Rainbow flew into a different room, then came back out and flew up the stairs.
"Oh, hey guys…" Another voice said from behind me. I turned around to see a very sleepy looking purple and green lizard. I didn't see this guy on the show. He stretched his arms out, yawning as he did so. Obviously he had only just got out of bed, "…What the heck is that thing?" He pointed at me.
"Oh, hello Spike," Fluttershy said, fluttering over to us. "This is a human we found in Ponyville today, he says he's from another planet!" Fluttershy explained. "Poor little thing has forgotten his name and a few other things."
"Wow!" The dragon exclaimed, waking up, "A real live space alien? That's awesome!"
"I'm not an alien!" I said in defence. Being called an alien didn't feel right. I mentally added it to the list of things I've been called in my short time here, along with creature and animal.
"You can talk too? This is so awesome!"
"Uh, I'm pretty darn sure yah said you were from a different planet," Applejack said, "That does technically make you an alien." I realised she was right, that was the excuse I used after all.
"Right, yeah. I suppose. I just feels weird being called an alien," I replied, "anyway, where's the librarian?" Rainbow flew back down the stairs right on cue.
"Twilight isn't here, she must have gone out for supplies or something." She reported landing back down next to us.
"Oh, you're looking for Twilight?" The little lizard asked, "You just missed her, she said she was fetching 'some urgent supplies'" He mocked a female voice, presumably an impression of Twilight.
"Pardon me Spike, but is that not one of your jobs?" Rarity asked.
"Yeah, normally. But she said this was urgent so she went by herself." The dragon answered. "Why'd you need to see her anyway?"
"We were curious to know if she had seen anything like this 'human' before." Rarity explained, directing a hoof towards me.
"…human… human, human, human… I think she's mentioned humans before actually." Spike tapped a claw to his head, "Can't remember where though, sorry. But hey, this is a library, check the books." Spike returned to the room he came out of earlier, "I'm just gonna sleep a little bit longer."
"No problem Spike," Applejack said as Spike returned to his bed. "Alright, where should we look?"
"I dunno… H for Humans? P for People, uh… M for Man?" I suggested quickly, the ponies got right on searching. I sat on the loose book which was on the table with me. It was a thick book which meant I was high off the table, so I swung my legs freely while I waited. About five minutes passed before my daydreaming was interrupted by a gasp from the ponies. I looked over, they were all glaring at me distastefully. Fluttershy even had tears in her eyes. She slowly fluttered over holding an open book between her front hooves. She dropped it on the table, right in front of me. The slam of the weighty book shook me a bit like a quick, minor earthquake. It was open on a page already, the page was entitled, 'Humans.'
"Uh… okay," I decided to briefly skim read the book, mumbling parts to myself. "Human beings. Large and powerful, feared by other species, enslaved ponies with mind-control magic, eventually banished by princess Celestia to a separate dimension, never been seen since." My voice rose gradually as I became increasingly shocked by each fact, whether they were actually facts I didn't know, but it still worried me. What if I eventually meet this princess? I thought. I snapped out of my thoughts and looked up at the four pairs of eyes, narrowed at me.
"Oh no… don't tell me you think I'm… c'mon guys, look at me!" I was worried they thought I might try to control their minds with this non-existent magic.
"Oh, we don't think you're trying to mind control us," Rainbow Dash said.
"But you LIED to us," Fluttershy burst out. "Banished to another dimension?! You aren't an alien, you're part of an evil race of creatures, how DARE you trick anypony like that."
That really did hurt me, deep down inside. Especially since it came from one of the shyest things I've ever met. "N-No! I didn't lie, I was just wrong. I really thought I was on a different planet when I woke up."
"Oh, you just happened to wake up here?" Rainbow Dash jumped in to the accusations.
"Oh, you think I'm lying about that too? I promise, I'm being truthful!" I tried my best to make them see reason. Rainbow and Fluttershy didn't look impressed. Rarity didn't get involved in the argument, but I could tell she wasn't pleased either. Applejack stepped in.
"Li'l fella, look here. I am the element of honesty, I can tell a lie from the truth. Now tell me, did you really just wake up here?" She asked, calmer than her friends.
I sighed harshly and looked her in the eyes. "I swear, it is the honest truth, I do not know how I arrived here. I literally just woke up here. I want to go home." I said, as calmly and clearly as I could.
"Alright then… Girls…" She addressed her friends. "I reckon he is really telling the truth."
"W-what about the 'mind control' magic humans have then?" Fluttershy asked, calming down.
"Magic doesn't exist, at least, where I come from it doesn't. I don't think. Many humans are friends with horses and ponies back where I'm from." I explained. "They're like companions with humans. Some farmers use their companions for help with farm work, such as rounding up cattle." I told them, Applejack seemed to smile a little bit when she heard this. "And, uh, Some people like to race with their horses on tracks to designed to test speed and agility. It's a very competitive scene." I looked towards Rainbow Dash, she also seemed to relax a little, she even had a small smile. "Grooming and caring is also very popular. Some people will clean and groom their ponies every day, afternoon and night. Always making sure they look as immaculate as possible. There are even competitions based around the looks of a pony." This was directed towards Rarity, she kept listening intently while a smile spread across her face. "But not all people and ponies want anything to do with any of that. They just want to live together. Looking after one another, caring for each other until the end of time." Fluttershy, who was already calm and happy with my explanation, smiled more than she already was. "No mind control, no evil… just… harmony." I finished.
"That sounds so… wonderful!" Fluttershy said, breaking the silence that followed my little speech. She picked me up with her hooves and hugged me tightly. I returned the hug, feeling a bit more comfortable now I had that off my chest. Before I knew it, Applejack also joined in, followed by Rarity and, though reluctant at first, eventually Rainbow Dash.
"Really…!" I gasped for air, "You guys… are… too kind…!" The hug broke and I gasped again, re-filling my lungs with air. "No more group hugs."
During all of this, Spike had woken up. He stood in the doorway of the other room. Confused by what he just witnessed. "What's going on?" He asked, entering the room.
"The little gentlecolt was just telling us about the ponies back in his own world." Rarity told the confused lizard.
"So, there are ponies back on your planet?" Spike asked me.
"Well, about that… it turns out I'm not from a different planet. This is apparently a different dimension!" I explained, still surprised by it myself.
"A different dimension?!" Spike seemed even more excited now. "Do they have dragons there?"
"No, we have them in stories and stuff, but they aren't real. Why'd you ask?"
"Well, I'm a baby dragon, just wondering if you had seen anything like me before."
"You're a dragon?" I was surprised. Our conversation was cut short when the door to the library squeaked open, instinctively I jumped into the mane of the closest pony, Fluttershy, to hide. "Uh, hello everypony. What are you all doing in the library?" The pony who just entered the library asked. I peeked through a gap in Fluttershy's mane, from what I could make out the pony was a purple-ey, lavender-ey colour. Her mane and tail were both a deeper shade of purple with a pink streak running through each. She was a unicorn, like Rarity, and her cutie mark was a pink star or something.
"Twilight! You're not gonna believe what we found in Ponyville today," Rainbow flew over to the unicorn. "Where is he?"
"Uh… in h-here." I called nervously, feeling shy in the presence of this new pony. I poked my head out of Fluttershy's mane and eventually clambered out on top of her head, revealing my entire body. Twilight narrowed her eyes at me for a second.
"Wait a minute girls… That's a human!" She looked like she was preparing for an offensive attack.
"Wait just a minute Twilight! Y'see, this li'l fella ain't bad at all." Applejack came to my defence.
"Look at him Twilight, he's tiny. Pretty much completely harmless even if he was bad." Rainbow also said, I wasn't sure if the insult was intended, but it was true.
"I-I don't know girls, I've read all about them. Princess Celestia has also mentioned what they have done to pony kind." Twilight seemed worried.
"Come on Twilight, look at him! What's he gonna do?" Rainbow retorted, ticking me off a bit. "He isn't a big, scary human like the ones in the book."
"He just wants some help returning home…" Fluttershy added in softly.
"I-it's true, Mrs. Twilight, I don't have the slightest idea what's going on. I am, as Rainbow put it, completely harmless." I finally spoke for myself. She seemed to relax a bit.
"Uh… oh, alright. A friend of my friends is a friend of mine." She accepted that I would do her no harm. "My name is Twilight Sparkle, I'm the librarian here in Ponyville, as well as Princess Celestia's very own student. I study magic often and have learnt a great deal about it."
"Magic, huh?" An idea popped into my head when she mentioned magic. "So, like, spells which bend the laws of physics, time space… everything?" I asked.
"Well, sure, I suppose."
"Do you, maybe, if it's not too much trouble… do you think you might be able to make me bigger?" I asked, trying not to impose.
"Hmmm… re-sizing spells…" She said to herself, putting a hoof to her chin. "It's been tried on inanimate objects, but never a living subject."
"What's the worst case scenario?"
"Nothing terrible, all effects are temporary anyway."
"In that case, please, do what you can." I asked again.
"If you're really sure, stand over there please." She asked, ready to attempt the spell. Fluttershy flew over to the empty part of the room Twilight was gesturing to. She lowered me down to the floor and then flew out of the way. "Are you ready?" Twilight asked for finally conformation.
"Ready!" I shouted, putting a thumbs up. A violet aura surrounded Twilight's horn, I closed my eyes, nervous about the spell. I heard a sound that signalled the launching of the spell and everything went black. However, I wasn't unconscious, I was still thinking and I felt myself moving. I was drifting through some kind of endless black limbo.
This might not connect up properly with the beginning of chapter 5 until I have rewritten it.