A/N: Alright, from here I'm going to respond to reviews via the Author's Notes. This is my response to the recent two reviewers.
godzillafan1: Thank you, I try to update once in a while. But school and family does get into the way of writing. And yes, it's the typical mistake. Every writer does that in their first two stories. But I do not think Twilight has a crush on him, cause she doesn't know that Brayden has a crush on her. Brayden interacting with the Cake twins? Your wish is granted. I decided to have the ponies appear nice to Brayden since in most 'HIE' fan-fics, they start off scared or mean towards the human character. This is how I picture the ponies if I was to actually go to Equestria if it did exist. Anyways, thank you. :)
jaime: More? Here you go.
I walk up the streets of a cloudy afternoon Ponyville just enjoying my view. It wasn't going to rain today which was a relief because I did not want to get wet in the rain. I was going to visit Pinkie Pie at the Sugarcube Corner today, and I seemed to be arriving a few minutes early than I had expected. She was expecting me to come and see her in the approximate time of 11:35am. But I had come onto the street at 11:29am.
"This will be quite the surprise for Pinkie." I thought to myself when I approached the Sugarcube Corner by a few steps away. My two feet came up the two wooden steps into the Sugarcube Corner and I opened my way into the candy shop.
The shop didn't seem too busy at all, to my surprise it ended up looking deserted. So I walk forward a few steps and start taking a look around. "I must have arrived a bit too early." I thought when looking about for Pinkie Pie, because I can find her here usually. "Hello?" I call out for somepony in the building, but nopony seems to answer me. I shrug and am about to turn and leave until I am surprise hugged from when I turned around.
It was none other than Pinkie Pie herself who had pounced playfully on me. "Brayden! You're here quite early! Nevertheless, I am glad to see that you have arrived." Pinkie said, giving me a tight hug with both of her hooves. She was as usual hugging me a bit too tight though.
"Can't breathe- Pinkie!" I manage to get out which ends the surprising and tight hug. Pinkie finally just giggles and bounces up and down, probably going to go through a LONG list of fun stuff I'm going to do with her today.
"I think I'll introduce you to the two most awesome ponies that I live with. And they have children!" Pinkie said which causes me to remember that specific episode I watched while I was back on Earth. It was the episode Baby Cakes where Pinkie had to babysit the Cake's twins. Twilight wanted to help Pinkie, but Pinkie declined her help. It all eventually led to Pinkie breaking down and the twins had to cheer her up. "Mr. and Mrs. Cake, our guest is here!" She calls out into the kitchen.
I can see two earth ponies walk out of the kitchen and to the front counter, looking at me. I could even remember what they looked like. "Well, how do you do sir? I am Mr. Cake and this here is my wife Mrs. Cake." Mr. Cake said to me, reaching out his hoof for a hoofshake. I take my gentle hand and put it onto his hoof and shake it with the same strength he had.
"You wouldn't mind trying a free sample of one of our delicious cupcakes, would you?" Mrs. Cake says, taking out a plate of the free cupcake samples from under the front counter. I nod with a smile and grab the cupcake with the dark purple frosting on the top. I unwrap the paper at the bottom of the cupcake and take a bite of the frosting first.
My eyes go wide open; it's the most delicious kind of frosting that I've probably ever tasted in my lifetime. Pinkie is just looking at me with an innocent child-like smile on her face, with Mr. and Mrs. Cake looking at me with a look to finish my free sample. I go right ahead and throw the cupcake into the air and it enters my mouth in whole. Pinkie starts giggling and says "That's so me whenever I do that with my own muffins."
"Did somepony say muffins?" A voice said from the front door of the shop. Mr. and Mrs. Cake, Pinkie and I turn around to see a light gray pegasus standing at the door with the signature derped eyes who I knew as 'Derpy Hooves'. After a few awkward seconds, Derpy looks at both of us with a look of confusion and then just turns around, flying off.
I had finished chewing down my cupcake pretty fast. Pinkie then patted me on the shoulder and said "Wasn't that delicious Brayden? Oh, and don't eat it too fast. You'll get a nasty tummy ache if you do." She was right in that case, because when it did come to muffins or cupcakes, I had a tendency to swallow them down pretty fast. But my stomach hurt every time it happened, it happened two times as I can remember, with a banana muffin and two slices of pizza.
"This is a really nice shop that you've got here." I complimented to both Mr. and Mrs. Cake.
"Why thank you dear, you may be new here to Ponyville, but I can see that you are welcoming and will accept anypony by how they are," Mrs. Cake said. "In fact, I don't think I have ever seen your kind here in Equestria."
"Well, it's hard to explain what type of species I am." I said, nervously scratching my head. I was worried that they'll find out where I actually came from and will want to ask me more questions.
Pinkie gasped in the kind that could tell that she was missing something. She finally says "I almost forgot! Brayden still has to say hello to Pound and Pumpkin."
"Well, why didn't you say so Pinkie? You can have Brayden here meet our son and daughter." Mr. Cake said with tone of realizing that had forgotten for a quick moment. When Pinkie Pie bounced up and down on the stairs going upward, Mr. Cake turned back up to me and said "Our son Pound Cake is a pegasus, and our daughter Pumpkin Cake is a unicorn."
At the same time, I get a memory when I was watching the show back on Earth where I used to live. I was watching a video on YouTube that was called "YouTube Poop". They were taking clips from the beginning of 'Baby Cakes' and mixing the dialogue with that of Spaceballs. It was which Mr. Cake got into the entire detail of 'father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate' bit which made me laugh a bit when on Earth. But here, I'm trying my hardest not to laugh my butt off, but am cracking a smile while hearing Mr. Cake go on about his children.
I could soon hear the sound of Pinkie's hooves coming down the stairs and I turned towards it to see Pinkie coming down with both of the Cake children on her back, enjoying the ride on her. "Here they are Brayden. Say hello to Mr. and Mrs. Cake's children." Pinkie Pie said to me, making a squee when she smiled.
Pinkie lowered herself to let Pound and Pumpkin come off to crawl over towards me. Both of them raise their head when crawled over to me and saw how tall I was. I bent down lower so the Cake twins could be able to see my face a little better. "Hello Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake." I said to the twins in a gentle tone in my voice. The twins looked at me curiously which could probably assume to me that I wasn't a pony. "My name is Brayden."
The twins kept looking at me curiously, and finally I began thinking about my time back on Earth when it came to babies there. When I met a baby, I would bring my finger into its small hand to see if it would hold it. I would consider it friendship through my eyes, so I decided to do it in hope that the Cake twins would show the sign of friendship as well.
I brought my hand towards the twins and hold it in the position of waiting for a hoofshake from a pony. The Cake twins looked at my hand and then they finally placed their small hooves onto my hand. The two had smiles on their faces that grew from their curiosity to the look of welcoming. "Awww!" Pinkie Pie says watching me and the twins interacting.
After a couple of seconds of the twins holding onto my hand with their small hooves, they finally let go and kept smiling. I then feel a tap behind me that causes me to turn around to see Mrs. Cake hand me two bottles of milk. "Brayden, could you help feed Pound and Pumpkin while you're here?" Mrs. Cake asks.
"Sure." I said, taking the bottles of milk. I then handed them to Pound and Pumpkin Cake and they seemed delighted. I then turned to Mr. Cake and said "Your children seem wonderful."
"Why thank you Brayden. I don't think Pinkie forgot to tell you this, but she is their babysitter as well." He said to me.
"I was going to say that you know." Pinkie said, with a smile.
"Right. Sorry about that Pinkie." Mr. Cake said, scratching his head.
Pinkie Pie giggled and said "It's alright Mr. Cake. It happens a lot."
Once the Cake twins had finished their food, they put down both of their bottles and began to make funny faces. I then remembered that in the episode, they had to be burped and Pinkie didn't know about it. "Don't worry Mr. and Mrs. Cake, I'll take care of it." Pinkie said, trotting over to the twins. She picked both of them up and began to gently pat them on the back until they did burp.
I then turned back to the Cakes and said "So, does anypony come in often?"
Mr. Cake said "Of course Brayden, our business is doing fantastic as always. There's never a day when nopony seems to come."
"Pinkie Pie always brings the fun into the Sugarcube Corner and throughout the town as well." Mrs. Cake said.
Pinkie trotted back over and handed Pound and Pumpkin Cake to Mrs. Cake, saying "Well, me and my friend Brayden here have to go have lunch."
"Pinkie dear, why don't you and Brayden have lunch here?" Mrs. Cake suggested with the tone of question.
"Oh, that's okay Mrs. Cake. He's already had dinner here when he first arrived in Ponyville. We'll be having lunch at the nearby restaurant." Pinkie said to her.
"Alright, Pinkie Pie. If anytime he wants to eat here, he can visit anytime." Mrs. Cake said, smiling. I wave to the Cakes when I walk beside Pinkie when we're going out the front door. Both me and Pinkie were off to the restaurant.
When we arrived at the restaurant, Pinkie decided that we should both have our seats outdoors. The restaurant was huge in Ponyville, and there were a load of the town ponies inside of there, so it was a good idea for me and Pinkie to take our seats outdoors. We both came up to the waiter, and he looked at the both of us.
"May I help you two?" The waiter asked in a calm tone of voice.
"Table for two please. Outdoors." Pinkie Pie said, smiling.
"Sure. Please follow me." The waiter said, turning to the outdoor area. Me and my friend followed the waiter to our table. Our table looked quite grand out in the day, and we both took our seats on the strong wooden chairs.
Ponies began to look at me and Pinkie with suggestive looks on their faces. I began to look at them back. That's when I had realized that they were trying to tease me that I had a crush on Pinkie Pie. She wasn't even my type.
"What are all of you looking at?" Pinkie Pie said to the ponies at the nearby tables. The ponies just began to snicker to themselves that Pinkie realizes what is going on. "Hey! Me and him are just friends! Why would all of you assume that I like him?!"
The ponies were taken back by this and they just turned back going back to their normal conversation with Pinkie just huffing a bit. "Seriously, why do ponies assume that I like you in 'that' way?" Pinkie turned to me and said.
"Pinkie, they're just teasing us. It's not unusual to be friends with a girl and hang out with them." I said, in my best way to calm her down.
Pinkie Pie just sighed and said "A similar event happened to me just like this. I had a special stallion in my heart and both of us were going steady. He enjoyed my parties and I still remember when he asked me to be his special mare."
"But what happened?" I asked, hoping that I'm not hurting Pinkie emotionally.
"Me and him were at a restaurant in Canterlot. While we sat together at an outdoor table together, most of the unicorns there just began to look at us and were laughing. We never noticed it though, that is… until it happened," Pinkie Pie said, trying not to release tears from her eyes. But from what I could hear in the tone of her voice, she sounded sad. "My stallion turned around and revealed his true image to the unicorns, shouting at them to leave me and him alone and to let us have our dinner in peace. But silly me thought that it was a joke they were telling. He then turned and yelled at me for laughing along with them. I tried to explain to him, but he just cut me off and said that it was all over."
I gasped and in a worried tone, I said "Pinkie, I'm so sorry."
Pinkie sniffed and said "The next day after he ran off from the restaurant, I came back to his home to see if he wasn't too mad. But I was a distance away, fearing he was still mad at me. So when I saw him come out of his home with a smile, I figured he must have forgiven me quicker than I thought. And then… a mare came out and both of them shared a kiss. It broke my heart." Tears began to come down her eyes slowly as she explained.
I got out of my chair and gently pulled Pinkie into a soft, comforting hug. Pinkie's eyes were closed, but still tears came out from her eyes. I carefully place my hand on her gentle poofy mane and give it a stroke. Both of Pinkie's hooves were around my back and I could hear her quiet sobs.
"I'm sorry that you had to go through all that, Pinkie." I said to her in a gentle, calm voice. Me and her had held the hug for some time, and I turned around to see the waiter standing there with the menus and a tissue box. I let go of the hug and take the tissue box, handing it to Pinkie Pie.
The waiter placed the two menus onto the table and said "Can I start the both of you off with drinks?"
"I would like apple juice please." I said, looking at the calm waiter. The waiter nodded and wrote it down on his notepad with his mouth.
Pinkie looked at the waiter, drying her tears with a tissue and said "I'll just have some fruit punch." The waiter nodded and wrote it down before going back inside the restaurant to get the drinks.
Pinkie looked a bit down when I turned back to her, as she still was troubled from the memory. I gently put my hoof on her shoulder and she looked at me.
"Pinkie, it's all in the past. There's nothing you could do to win him back, you just made a mistake. Everypony makes mistakes, and the best way to do now is to move onto somepony better you'll fit with. As a friend, I'm worried about you when you are this sad. If you are ever like this, you just come and see me and I'll talk to you and understand." I said, sounding gentle to her. Sure, she's not my number one favorite pony, but she is my third favorite pony.
Pinkie slowly cracked a smile and said "Thanks Brayden. You seem surprisingly nice since you are different. Are most of your race this friendly?"
I thought back on Earth and could remember every crisis that was happening there. World Wars, weapons, death, fascism, the list goes on. My world did not need to be mentioned at this point, she'd consider every other human from that world 'meanies'. "Not exactly." I just said to try not to mention the others.
Our drinks soon arrived and the waiter looked at us and said "Alright, may I help with getting your entrees?"
I sat back on my chair and said "Me? Well, I'd like to have a salad." I didn't have a choice, I couldn't eat any meat here in Equestria and if I did, most ponies would possibly be freaked out and think I was going to eat them.
"And I shall have the tomato soup with the garlic bread sticks that come with it." Pinkie Pie said, who was now cheerful once again. The waiter wrote down our orders and went back into the restaurant to make the food.
Our food was delicious and the taste of it was left in my mouth, leaving me satisfied with my lunch. "That was delicious!" Pinkie Pie said, letting out a short burp. I could see that she ended up drinking the whole tomato soup and I figured that because there were no crumbs of garlic bread sticks on the plate that held the bowl, she must have took one and swallowed it whole. And then did the same to the others.
I reached into my pockets and realized that I didn't have any bits on me, since I wasn't living on Earth anymore. "It's alright Brayden, I'll pay for the meal." Pinkie said, taking out the seven bits to pay for the meal in total. She also left a small bag of bits as a tip for the waiter.
I got up and began to walk with Pinkie back to the Sugarcube Corner. I was just looking at my friend Pinkie, and when I turn around. I bump into somepony which surprises both me and this pony. "Careful there, partner!" The voice said who I could realize was Applejack's.
"Good afternoon Applejack." I said, nodding in greeting.
Applejack looks at me and says "How do you do, Brayden? Are you starting to love the town?"
"Oh yes! It's a beautiful town and everypony here is really nice to me. I think they're settling down with me as one of them." I said with a smile on my face.
Applejack chuckled and said "Now that's some spirit right there! Say… now that you're a resident here. You could try searching for a job around here, there is a lot of them that you can find."
"Well, yes. I do need to get the bits in order to have food," I said. "I have the possibly of maybe helping your family on the farm, or working at the Sugarcube Corner."
Pinkie Pie bounced up and down, saying "Alright! Then you and I could work on making cupcakes, muffins and cakes together. We've got the best sweets."
Applejack smiled and said "I appreciate the offer to help me and my family, and it's completely your choice if you want to help out. I think Zecora also needs a helping hoof as well."
I chuckled and said "Zecora? She sounds interesting. Do you know where I can find her?"
Pinkie Pie bounced up and down saying "She's in the Everfree Forest. But watch out for poison joke along the way."
I said "Well, I'll see if I can help Zecora. She doesn't seem that bad." I knew Zecora from the show a lot when I saw the episode 'Magic Duel' when she helped Twilight defeat Trixie in a rematch. But mostly I remember her from the episode 'Bridal Gossip'.
I walked straight into the Everfree Forest and took the safe path all the way to Zecora's hut. It looked just like the show had described it. I put my hand into a fist and knocked on the door. The zebra who I recognized as Zecora.
She looked at me for a few moments and said "Ah, welcome. You must be the human that I have heard. You almost remind me of the rare kinds of bird."
I scratch my head and I say "Well, yes. But Applejack told me that I could probably find a job here to help you out."
"I think I have the job just for you. I have been trying to search for somepony to help me since my plants grew." Zecora said. I'm trying not to laugh as I know that everything she says has a rhyme.
I look to the plants and I said "I'm guessing that you want me to help pick out the plants for your alchemy?"
Zecora nodded and continued "Yes, for all these plants can put me under stress. It's hard to pull out those plants, since they are food for the ants."
I nod in understanding and say "Well, the ants in the forest do have to eat something."
"Well these ants are much different from the rest, they breathe fire which make them a bunch of pests." Zecora explained, seeming a bit worried about her plants getting eaten by the fire ants. They did remind me of the giant ants when I played Fallout back on Earth.
"Well, I think I am up for this job Zecora." I shake her zebra hoof. "Just how big are these ants?"
Zecora said "The ants are as big as a dog, but no different from the size of a normal tree log."
I turned and saw one of the fire ants coming towards the both of us, but I kick it's face away and it retreats. I looked back at Zecora and said "When should I start?"
Zecora looked a bit worried by the look of it and her iris in her eyes shrinking. "Well I do hope it is soon, because these fire ants would have taken my plants away before the next full moon." She said.
"Well don't worry Zecora, I can help you out." I said.
Zecora said "You need to convince them not to steal by their Fire Ant lord, if you manage to succeed I shall give you my reward."
I turn to a Fire Ant trying to bite at my leg and then turned back saying "Don't you worry Zecora! I'll be here to help as soon as I'm free! And I'll be aware of the timing."
I then ran off out of the Everfree Forest, writing down the list of things I had to do in the next two weeks. Visiting Twilight at the library was the first thing he'll do, helping Zecora would be the second and the gig would definitely be the third and final on the list of things he'll do in those two weeks.