Chapter Two: Pinkie is… Pinkie…

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~Spitfire out

When they woke, Archer looked out of the window to see the sun rise and simply stared, he'd never seen it in color, even though this was different than it was back home, it was still amazing to him. He looked at the other colors around the town below him, being on the second floor of the building, it seemed his eyes, and head, had adjusted to the vibrancy by now and he grinned. He rested his chin on the window sill, sighing happily.

Toad trotted up beside Archer and sat beside him, wrapping a wing around his Brit.

In the next room Jay Hawk was waking up and stretching out, he certainly wasn't used to the wings yet and he hadn't slept well at all. It made him wonder if the others had fared any better than he had.

He heard the soft clopping of hooves in the hall way and stood from the bed on stiff legs as there were three soft knocks on the door.

"Come in," Jay Hawk allowed, picking his saddle bag up with his nose and shifting to get it over his back and secured there, "So, where are we going exactly?"

"To talk to Pinkie Pie, if anyone will even guess what's going on, she will," Roach said, poking his head in the room, "Get Archer and Toad up, I'll be downstairs getting a plan together for afterwards."

Jay Hawk nodded in response and left his room, knocking on the door of Archer and Toad's room.

There were a few seconds of silence before Toad called for Jay to come in. Toad was on the opposite side of the room from Archer, who was sitting in front of the window, staring outside while Toad slid his saddle bag on.

"Roach is downstairs getting the game plan together," he said quietly, Archer looked like he was in his 'zone', bad idea to startle him like this, it never ended well, "Get ready," he added, leaving to meet Roach downstairs

Toad walked over to Archer and lightly touched the elder's shoulder, breaking his focus on whatever it was he was looking at and making him look over.

Archer looked back and squinted, grunting he stood, "Thought I saw something…" he said simply, finding his saddle bag and putting it on.

Toad glanced out of the window nervously, "Uh… Arch… Nothing good has ever come of ignoring your eyes and intuition…" he pointed out, stepping away from the glass pane.

Archer shrugged, "Considering 'recent events'," he said, gesturing to his eyes, "not sure I trust 'em much… Let's go."

They met the others downstairs and found Roach looking over the map, tapping a hoof against his chin as he thought.

He looked up at the others as they came in, "If we're going to fit in around here, we'll have to get used to calling each other by the names we used earlier. The names Toad and Roach don't work," he said simply, "Toad, get used to the name Copper and you guys gotta get used to calling me Aries. Jay Hawk, its two words here, not one. Only one that doesn't change is Archer," he explained, rolling his map up and putting it in his bag, "Let's go, we've got to get to Sugar Cube Corner before it opens."

"Why?" Archer asked randomly, "And, is there anything else we need to know?" he added as a second thought.

Roach looked over at Archer, "We have to meet Pinkie Pie before she gets 'busy'. And yes, there are a few other things… Mannerisms, they don't say 'anybody', 'nobody', or 'everybody', instead it's 'anypony', 'nopony', and so on," Roach explained simply, "Ponies are the majority of the species here but there are a lot of others too. Griffins, cockatrices, hydra, manticores, zebras, sea serpents, and a bunch of others too, but yeah, equines are the most common," he added with a shrug.

The others nodded in response, knowing it would take them some time to get used to saying things like that.

Several minutes later found them outside of Sugar Cube Corner in an alley way, so they wouldn't be seen or heard, talking to Pinkie Pie.

None of them had said a word before Pinkie suddenly smiled and started talking, almost too fast for them to understand, "Lemme guess!" She squealed happily, "You're not really ponies but people from another dimension from some secret task force and you really want to go back home but you three," she said gesturing to the three pegasi, "Don't know how to fly and you need to go to Cloudsdale later?!"

Archer, Jay Hawk, and Copper just stared with their jaws dropped, Roach just laughed, "That's the gist of it, yes," he stated, coming down from his fit of laughter at his friends' expense.

"Okie dokie loki!" the pink pony shouted, "Let's go find Rainbow Dash! She's the super duper bestest flyer in all of Equestria!" she claimed, bouncing away, leaving all but one staring with a mix of shocked and scared expressions.

'Copper' trotted alongside Archer, who was trying to keep his eyes on the ground, "Maybe we should just tell them about everything? Make this a lot easier…"

Archer looked up at his companion and shrugged, "Maybe… If we did, we'd have to be careful about what we tell them…" he said simply.

"DASHIE!" Pinkie Pie suddenly yelled as they came to an open field and saw the rainbow mane pegasus from before flying around some kind of house made of clouds.

Rainbow Dash stopped her tricks and maneuvers and looked down at Pinkie before desending and landing in front of her, "Yeah? You need somethin'?" she asked with a smirk.

"Teach them how to fly, Dashie! It's a long story, but I'll explain later!" she requested excitedly before bouncing away and leaving the four friends and Rainbow Dash staring after her.

"Uh… huh… So… You three don't know how to fly, and you're full grown pegasi?" Rainbow questioned.

Archer averted his eyes from the bright colors of Rainbow's mane before speaking, "Like she said, long story…"

"Okay then… I can get you guys airborne in no time!" she boasted, flying up with a hoof to her chest.

"Okay?" Toad said skeptically.

"It's easy, all you gotta do flap your wings, and lean into the movement," Rainbow explained, "Fly up here."

The three pegasi looked between each other and shrugged, extending their wings. Roach just sat and watched, chuckling as they were unsteady on their wings, though Jay seemed to be doing okay, which was rather appropriate considering he was named after two birds…

He laughed when Toad fell back to the ground and glared at nothing in particular. Archer dropped down beside him, managing to land on his hooves, and helped him up.

"You okay?" He asked with a chuckle, almost getting lost in his partner's eyes.

"I'm fine," Toad said, almost grouchily but it was half-hearted as he grinned slightly at his partner.

"Hey, less talking more flying!" Rainbow called from above.

Archer and Toad looked up to see that Jay was easily hovering next to Rainbow Dash. They looked between each other and shrugged, flapping their wings and eventually making it up.

The rest of the day was spent with the three pegasi learning how to fly and Roach laughing at their failed attempts.

Roach stood from where he was sat watching his three Pegasus friends fly, "Hey! It's getting late!" He called up to them, "We should head back to the house and call it a day," he suggested, as they landed in front of him.

The others nodded their agreement and thanked Rainbow for teaching them how to fly before heading back to the house they were staying in.