Chapter 2: Unexpected Surprises

The next morning, as the sun rose for another day, I woke up, thinking that the events that occured the night before were just some crazy dream I was having. I mean, there was no way the ponies could've been blown out of my TV screen by Starlight Glimmer and now they were all in my house. I got up from my bed and headed up to the kitchen, where I found the room completely empty. But just as I was about to tell myself that it was all a dream, I saw Twilight Sparkle looking outside threw the back porch windows.

"Okay so it wasn't a dream," I thought to myself. I walked up to the back porch, but stood in the doorway, "how long have you been up?"

"For an hour now," she answered, turning to face me. "I was finding it hard to sleep, what with Starlight Glimmer out there and probably hurting the people of this world."

"She didn't seem that bad from the episodes I saw. Granted she has a weird thing aganist cutie marks, but nothing like that."

"You haven't seen her for real, but we have, and know the trouble she is." Twilight looked back to the outdoors, "Your world is so beautiful, I hate to see Starlight destory it."

"It's not that beautiful, in fact your world is ten times more beautiful than mine is." I lowered my head and muttered under my breath, "besides, you haven't seen our towns and cities, nor have you seen the way people act these days."

I don't know if Twilight heard me or not, but personally I hoped she hadn't. She is the Princess of Friendship after all and for her to hear that would make her feel sick to her stomach.

"Anyways, I'm going to make breakfast, you feeling hungry?"

"Yes I am," she nodded.

I searched threw my freezer for food to cook, but all I had were mashed potatos and sasuages, so I cooked them up. Twilight looked at them strangly, and so did the other five ponies when they finally got up. I guess they had never seen anything like Sasuages and mashed potatos before. I know they have Pancakes, as seen in an episode called 'Castle Sweet Castle', but not that. Also, since they don't have fingers, it was going to be interesting on how they would be able to eat the food.

Rarity was a unicorn and Twilight was an alicorn, so they could use magic. The other four though had to pick up the food with their mouths.

"Hmm, it's definetly interesting," commented Rarity, "I've never tasted anything like these before."

"Nor have any of us ponies," said Rainbow Dash. "Do you eat this for breakfast all the time Matthew?"

"No not really. I sometimes have cereral, or pancakes or just a plain old muffin." I quietly chuckled to myself, for at that moment I remembered Derpy Hooves, who likes muffins. "Usually it's just a small breakfast since I'm always on the go."

"What is it you do all day?"

"It depends on how I feel. Sometimes I could go out shopping for my collections, other times to film trains and other times, just work around the house." At least I didn't have to explain about filming as Equestria does have films, but their films are like the vintage ones we had well over fifty years ago. Completely different from what we have nowadays.

"What about hanging out with friends?" Twilight asked, "don't you do that?"

"Well truth be told, I haven't made any friends since moving up here last year, and my best friends live far away from me, so I rarely get the chance to see them. So no I don't do that."

Twilight was stunned to hear that. Suddenly, Pinkie started to shake, "my Pinkie sense is telling me that someone's coming."

I got up from my seat and looked out the kitchen window. A dark green van had just pulled up and stepping out of it were my friends Patrick, Ryan and Emily (Ryan's Girlfriend). I guess they had driven throughout most of the night to get here.

"I think it would be a good idea if you six hide, you can ill-afford to be seen by other humans."

Upon hearing that, the ponies went into hiding and I quickly picked up the now empty plates and brought them over to the sink. I know they are my best friends in the whole world, but I doubt they would be as kind to the ponies as I have been.

Patrick rang the doorbell and I went to answer the door.

"Hey guys, this is quite a surprise, I wasn't expecting to see you till around the afternoon."

"Yeah well we couldn't sleep," said Ryan. "We were all excited to finally get the chance to see you again buddy, so we agreed to leave for New Liskeard at once. It was a long tiring journey, but here we are."

"Yes you are. Did you have any trouble finding the place?"

"Not at all," smiled Emily, "we had our GPS helping us out."

I was half expecting Pinkie Pie to suddenly pop out of nowhere and ask what a GPS is, cause she is that type of pony. Thankfully though, she was nowhere to be seen, so I was off the hook that time.

"So Matt, how about that tour you promised us the last time we met?" asked Patrick.

"Of course, I'll show you around."

As we left the back porch, I noticed Rarity's tail sticking out in between my sliding doors. Somehow my friends hadn't noticed, "Rarity," I whispered, "tuck your tail in this time."

"Sorry," she whispered and pulled it in.

"Whew," I sighed. I then started with my now dirty kitchen. My friends were confused by the large number of chairs in the room, but I said it was because some chairs needed some work and I did most of my work in the kitchen, which was true. Then I showed them the living room and showed off my DVD shortage area where I kept all of my movies, "as you can see guys, my DVD and VHS collection has gotten bigger."

"And by the looks of it, you got some ponies there too," added Emily.

I gulped, did one of them somehow get into that closest? Then I noticed Emily was talking about my small collection of My Little Pony DVDs.

"Uh yeah, I've gotten a few titles since I started watching the show," I said with a nervous chuckle.

Patrick and Ryan certainly were impressed with my place, "it's all so big and so wonderful," they commented. Patrick then opened the sliding closet doors in the hallway, which was where Applejack was hiding. Somehow though, he didn't see her. Another close call came when Ryan opened the dining room closet doors, which was where Fluttershy was hiding. Thankfully, she flew up high and hid in the shadows, not daring to make a sound.

"Okay, that's three of the ponies, where are the other three?" I thought to myself.

We then went downstairs where I showed off my entertainment room and one of my collections. They gasped at the sheer size of it, but I gasped cause Rainbow Dash was hiding underneath the table for my HO-Scale layout, and she was in plain sight. My friends however were looking up at my collection, so that gave Rainbow Dash the chance to hide herself better. I sighed in relief once again, I don't know how much more I could take from these near-encounters.

I soon showed them the rest of the downstairs area and wouldn't you know it, we didn't spot Pinkie Pie or Twilight Sparkle. Twilight I could understand, but Pinkie was a complete shock to me.

"Well Matthew," said Patrick, "you've certainly done a great job making this house a home."

"Thanks buddy, but I'm not done yet, there's still so much more left to do before I can even say I'm done."

"Well so far, we're impressed," smiled Ryan. "I mean come on, Emily and I are living in an apartment, and Patrick's living in a small section of a house with some buddies, but out here, you have a big house and you have it all to yourself."

"Not completely," I muttered.

"Oh by the way, did you hear there was an attack at Markham last night?"

"What? But how? Why?"

Markham was my old hometown, and it had been where I lived for twenty four and a half years of my life before moving to New Liskeard. But still, Markham was my favourite town and to hear it was attacked, that surprised me.

"We don't know why, but as you will see in this video, someone had it in for the people there."

Patrick showed me a video on his IPhone, it was of something attacking homes in Markham, setting them on fire and making people run for their lives. For a brief second though, I saw a weird object firing a blast before the camera was shot out of the person's hand.

"The police are looking into who would do this, but so far nobody's been able to find anything. Still, it makes you wonder how this could happen, or how they did it."

"It sure is a mystery," said Ryan, "but I'm sure the Markham Police department will catch whoever did this."

"And you can bet they'll get a beating for such a stupid stunt," added Patrick.

I wasn't sure about that, for if the object was who I thought it was, the police department wouldn't be able to stop her. Not when she has magic on her side.

"Anyways, we better go find a hotel and get some rest, hope you don't mind if we take off for a bit do you Matt?"

"No I don't mind, I understand you guys are tired. Maybe we can meet up again later, maybe at the mall in New Liskeard. There's not much there mind you."

"Hey, not much is better than nothing," smiled Ryan. "So we'll meet you at around five okay buddy?"

"Sure, sounds good," I said nervously. I was more concerned about the ponies being here alone, what if one tried to escape and go after Starlight Glimmer? Heck, that could Twilight Sparkle and then gosh knows what would happen to them.

"See you then buddy," said Patrick.

They put their shoes back on, headed back to their van and headed off for the town of New Liskeard to find a hotel. I sighed and leaned aganist the door before sliding down to the floor, "what am I suppose to do now?"

"IS IT SAFE TO COME OUT NOW?!" cried Pinkie Pie's voice, this was followed by about every single pony shouting out her name.

"Yeah it's safe for you six to come out," I called out to them.

Moments later, the ponies came out of hiding. Rarity was glad to come out, "do you ever wash your clothes? They smelled terrible in there."

"That's where I put my winter gear," I answered. "Sorry Rarity, I guess I forgot to put air fresheners in there, and clean them all."

"Well if I'm to hide again, I'm hiding under your tables downstairs."

"Sorry Rarity, but that's my hiding spot!" snapped Rainbow Dash. "I'm not going to risk being found out by you!"

"It's not your spot Rainbow! In emergencies like this, it is anypony's spot."

"ENOUGH!" snapped Twilight Sparkle. "Now is not the time to be arguing with each other, especially since we have no idea on how to get home. And Pinkie, you should let Matthew tell us that the coast is clear, what if his friends were still here?"

"You're right, I'm sorry everypony."

"It's alright Sugarcube," smiled Applejack and patted her friend gently on the back. Then Applejack turned her attention back to me, "while I was hiding, I overheard your friends say there was an attack by somepony who was terrorizing the people, and I think that would be Starlight Glimmer."

"I was thinking the same thing Applejack," said Rarity. "And she's at this place called Markham."

"Right, then I'll get her!" cried Rainbow Dash.

"Markham is over six hours away from here, and that's if you're driving," I said, thus making Rainbow Dash stop in her tracks, or should say in her dash. "It'll be nightfall by the time you get there."

"Besides, going after her without a plan isn't going to help, she would just overpower us and possibly remove our cutie marks in the process."

In case you're not familar with cutie marks, they are images on the ponies' flanks which represents their talents. Starlight Glimmer though believes they are worthless, so that's why she tries to steal them. Nasty isn't she?

"We're staying here and that's final."

"But I'm so bored being cooped up in this house! I want to go out there and teach that fiend a lesson."

Fluttershy this time stared angerily at Rainbow Dash, which made her quiver. "Don't you say you're bored, you're lucky Matthew's even allowing us to stay in his home, and you know it. As for Starlight, Twilight will come up with a way to stop her and get us home. So you will do as she says, or else you'll have to deal with me, do I make myself clear?"

That stare of Fluttershy's can make any animal or person coware in fear before her, it's quite impressive actually.

"Yes Fluttershy, of course Fluttershy."

"Good," she said, smiling once more.

Still, I could see how bored Rainbow Dash was, so I came up with an idea that would help them all. "Tell you what, between six and seven, there's very little traffic along my route, you six will actually be able to get out and enjoy the outdoors if you want to."

Well they instantly agreed to the idea and cheered that they would be able to go outside.

"But first, I have to meet up with my friends at around five, but I'll make it back before six. Don't go outside until I get here, just to be on the safe side."

"Will do Sugarcube," smiled Applejack.

Well it seemed like a good plan, but things don't always go accordingly.