Surprises In Coltonville
"Girls, get behind me now!" David demanded as the girls all rushed behind his back.
"See? I told you Patch, there's someone here" The voice in the bush said.
"Wait, Patch?" David said as the girls all decided to back out from behind him.
As David readied himself into a combat stance, the strange beings emerged from the bushes, revealing themselves to be ponies. The ponies were very similar, they had a light coat and their manes were shades of pink.
David and the girls thought that they were fillies due to their fresh looks, bright eyes and overall sense of inexperience. David immediately came out of his combat stance and stood there, perplexed by what he was seeing.
"Oh my goodness! Are they babies?" one of the strange ponies asked.
"Babies!" Rainbow Dash said in irritation.
"Easy Dash, we don't want to make a bad first impression on these new ponies" David said as she nudged her to be quiet.
"No, we're not babies. We're just...ah...short...well...most of us" Twilight said as she realised that David was taller than all of them.
"There are so many of you!" the smaller pony said as she shrunk back.
"See, Sweetheart? I toldja there wasn't nothin' to be scared of" the other pony scoffed.
Twilight flinched at the atrocious grammar, which David noticed.
"Twilight we have more important things at hand then bad grammar right now. Introduce ourselves to them before they get suspicious" David whispered.
"Well, it's certainly...nice to meet you. I'm Twilight Twinkle and this is Apple Bloom, Rainbow Flash and David Reese" Twilight said.
"I'm Peachy Pie!" Pinkie said, who realised the joke.
"...oh these two shocked ponies are Rhinestone and Flutterheart. They're just a little...surprised at the whole situation that we're in right now" David said, realising that Rarity and Fluttershy weren't responding.
"I'm Sweetheart" the smaller pony said, which Twilight thought in relief, thinking that their cover was blown already.
"The name's Patch. Hey, we can't sit here all night. C'mon, Sweetheart, we gotta meet up with the others" the other pony said to Sweetheart.
"You can come with us if you want" Sweetheart offered, which Twilight and David agreed on and started to walk out of the bushes.
"Told you Twilight, this is a park" David confirmed to Twilight.
As they all walked out of the bushes, they came across a large paved road. Several houses were covering the gently sloping hills while streetlights flickered on when it got dark.
David was just perplexed on how these ponies manage to build human technology, like streetlights and paved roads, with just their bare hooves, especially since there were no unicorns or pegasi around...why was that?
"Sorry if this sounds weird but what is this place?" Twilight asked.
"What, you mean you..." Patch stopped flat as she noticed the horn on Twilight's head.
"No. Way!" Patch said with a mixture of joy and disbelief inside her right now.
"Wh-what?" Twilight simply replied.
"Are there more dangerous creatures out her-" David was interrupted when Patch let out a squeal, which really hurt David's ears.
"Ahhhh, Jesus Mary Joseph, I think you nearly burst my eardrums with that noise!" David said who was in pain from the squeal.
"You're a unicorn! I was soright! Come on, I gotta show you to the others!" Patch shouted as she grabbed Twilight's hoof with her own.
The rest of the girls and David just stood there shocked by what they saw.
"Did Patch just bend her hoof like it was a marshmallow?" David asked.
The others were just too shocked to even reply to that question. As Patch rushed down the pavement, signalling the others to come along, the other girls got out of the bushes and began to follow.
"Let's be careful of these ponies. I think there's more to them than meets the eye" Twilight said before rushing off to catch up.
"...did Twilight just do a Transformers reference right there?...well then again I kinda expected this from Hasbro so what am I thinking?" David replied to himself as he and the girls all catched up with Patch and Twilight.
As they all continued to walk down the pavement, they came across a large soda shoppe and, oddly enough, it was connected to a styling salon.
'Are we in some kind of bizarre dream right now?...what's next, Freddy Kruger's gonna come out of a pony and treat us all to a demented hair care product?' David thought to himself as they all continued walking.
The streetlights were coming on but it was still pretty dark outside, making it hard to see where they were all going. Twilight and David noticed that Patch had a darker and dirtier look to her off-white coat and dusty rose mane while Sweetheart was cleaner looking with brighter colours of the same hue.
'I think Patch really needs to have a shower, what has she been doing this whole time before she saw us, rolling in mud?' David thought about Patch's coat and mane.
As it became a little brighter, thanks to the streetlights, David and Twilight noticed their cutie marks. Sweetheart had 3 hearts, one of them was large while the other two were small. Patch's mark looked like it was just sewn on.
"I hope the Cutie Mark Crusa-" David and Twilight said in unison before David realised what he said and shut his mouth, Twilight however noticed.
"How do you know the Cutie Mark Crusaders?" Twilight asked out of suspicion, which made David nervous.
Luckily for David they were dragging behind and the others called for them to hurry up. Twilight decided to ask that question later.
Patch and Sweetheart introduced their friends to these new ponies and ape-like creature. They named them Starlight, Melody, Clover, Bright Eyes and Bonbon.
'Bonbon? Well at least I know where they got that name from now' David thought about how these names survived into Friendship Is Magic.
"I told you unicorns existed!" Patch said in excitement.
The other fillies, however, bowed their heads to the human, which got very strange looks from Patch, the girls and David.
"Umm...why are you bowing, I don't feel like royalty" David asked in confusion.
"Aren't you the one who defeated the tyrant of Paradise Estates known as Megan the barbarian?" Clover also asked in confusion, thinking that their hero would have known this.
David stood in absolute shock. His actions in the battle of Paradise Estates have made him a hero to these ponies that stand before him. It made him wonder what would have happened if he wasn't there when it occurred?
"Ummm...Ummm?" David said in a mixture of shock and confusion.
"And this one has wings!" Patch said, trying to gain the attention of her friends.
Patch's friends all looked towards Rainbow Dash, who gave them a glare like an angry lion in a zoo, and backed away from her.
"Dash, what did I say to you earlier?" David whispered to Dash so the others didn't hear her real name.
"It's nice to meet you all and I'm sure that we have a lot of explaining to do about ourselves and why we're here. However, it has been quite a long day, so if you could point us in the direction of the nearest hotel, preferably with a Jacuzzi and room service, we would be glad to tell you everything in the morning" Rarity interjected.
"Sorry, I have no idea where a hotel is in this town" the pink blonde one said.
"We're pretty far away from the city" the cyan pony explained to the group.
'Far away? It still looks like a city out here' David thought in confusion.
"There's a bed-and-breakfast, but I heard it charges about two hundred jangles a night" the cyan pony continued to explain.
"Oh, that's no prob-" Rarity said before David interrupted the converasation.
"What the hel-...heck is a Jangle?" David asked, trying to cover up his cussing to the fillies, not wanting them to know those words yet.
"I have money on me; almost a thousand bits. But I've never heard of a jangle before" Rarity continued.
"Were Doomed!" David said in a C-3PO voice (Sorry couldn't resist that :D)
"Nonsense!" Patch bursted.
"What do you mean?" David asked in confusion.
"You guys can stay in our clubhouse! There's a lotta room, and we'll all chip in to get ya somethin' to eat!" Patch explained.
"Oh well that's a relief" David sighed, relieved that he can get something to eat, he hadn't eaten for a day now.
"Starlight?" Patch said to the pink pony.
"On it!" Starlight replied before rushing off behind the counter.
"Starlight works here and Starlight's mom works on the other side in the salon" Patch explained again.
"Oh that's good, now...what have you got to eat?" David asked as his stomach growled.
Twilight and David's group ate dinner, which turned out to be Macaroni and Cheese.
'It's juvenile...but hot damn is it a greatly appreciated meal" David thought as he munched his way through all the pasta.
After dinner they were led to the fillies' clubhouse. They were all absolutely surprised at the size of the clubhouse they were in.
'I don't know why but I feel like I want to do a Doctor Who reference now' David thought, surprised at the whole size of the clubhouse.
"Who builds a clubhouse on somepony else's land?" Twilight asked.
"Hey at least the neighbours don't mind...heh neighbours" David muttered the last part to himself.
"I don't think I can take any more surprises today. If the ponies in that house come here for any reason, they'd better be prepared to get turned into cacti. I'm not in the mood" Twilight said in irritation.
"It's not that bad, at least their pillows are comfy! And I have lotsa room 'cause I move a lot when I sleep" Pinkie said while getting all her pillows together.
"Why does that not surprise me?" Twilight said while smirking.
"You what I'm surprised about...how do they know that I was at the battle of Paradise Estates, I thought we entered a different universe not the future" David asked in absolute confusion, still wondering why these fillies know him so much and why they'd bowed to him earlier.
"But you must admit, they are polite for such young fillies. They try, at least, to be more adult than they appear. Although I don't think they're convinced that we're not children" Rarity said, still not getting that feeling out of her head.
"I guess. What do you guys think?" Twilight asked to the group before realising that they were all asleep.
"Heh, guess our boring questions made them go to sleep" David chuckled.
Twilight and Rarity giggled at that and then went into their beds.
"I guess they're not so bad" Twilight said before drifting off into sleep.
David however was far from sleepy, he kept thinking why these ponies know him so much.
"I'll get to the bottom of this, even if it's the last thing I do" David quietly said to himself before heading off into his bed.
That night David had a strange dream of all the pony universes knowing him.
Sorry if it's been a while again. College and all that crap...again!
Anyway feel free to comment below and see what I could have changed.
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