Another boring day at work, and another night with nobody by his side. This was the life of Andrew. He was going on twenty years old, and his life was already in shambles. Unable to keep a steady job, he had settled on stocking shelves at the local warehouse. It paid the bills, but it didn’t get him any closer to his dream of being a computer engineer. He had never had a relationship that lasted longer than a month either. Most of the girls were too stupid for his tastes, and others dumped him.

That never bothered him though. All that mattered was getting the bills paid, and having a place to call home. Without that, he’d be begging for money on the streets. On the flipside, he had nothing to look forward to after a long day of work. His routine was work, eat, sleep, work, eat, sleep, and that was it. In fact, earlier in the day, he had been asked by a co-worker why he was single. Not one to mince words, he replied that every girl he knew was either dumb, or didn’t like him the same way.

---

Twilight Sparkle was currently sitting in the library, reading a book about the evolution of equines in Equestria. But she was having trouble focusing at the moment. Earlier in the day, her good friend Rarity had asked why she was single. She had said a good-looking mare such as herself should have had a significant other by now. But every time Twilight gave a stallion a chance, they were either stupid, or just wanted her for her flank. But she knew better than to let a stallion take advantage of her like that. The last time one had tried, she had used her magic to lift him up, then proceeded to buck him in his stallionhood, sending him flying off the balcony.

But it’s not like she ever needed a relationship anyways. She was content with lying on her bed every night with a good book. That was all she asked for and it was all she got. Every so often, a stallion would drop by and ask her out, but it was only on occasion and either way, the date always ended horribly. Either she would insult his intellect, or he would insult her bookishness. If it came to that, she would simply trot away and forget it ever happened. But alas, tonight she felt lonely, a rare occurrence indeed for the lavender unicorn.

---

Playing DOOM always kept Andrew occupied, and tonight was no different. Killing zombies, demons, and the occasional lost soul was his idea of a good time. The game may not have the graphics of games from this day and age, but he didn’t care. All that mattered was gameplay, and in his opinion, DOOM had the best. His demon-slaughtering adventures were cut short when his cell phone began ringing though, and letting out a sigh, he answered the call and brought the phone up to his ear.

Before he knew it, his ears were assaulted by a very loud “HI!”.

“Uh... hello?”

He had never spoken with this girl before, and he already knew he was going to regret it if he kept talking.

“Whatcha doin’?” was the next thing he heard, and already, he was tired of talking to this woman.

“Look, I don’t know who you are, but I’m hanging up now.”

And hang up he did, cutting off the woman, who had been yelling into the phone once again. Letting out another sigh, he picked his controller back up and resumed his slaughter-fest. After a few minutes, he reached the Cyberdemon, and it was time to get serious. The first time he spotted him, he was immediately blasted to bits by the Cyberdemon’s rocket launcher.

“Fhtagn!”

Making sure to fill up his inventory with rockets the second time, he made his way outside to face the gargantuan, and as soon as he spotted him he let loose a barrage of rockets. Within a few minutes, the beast was dead, and the second episode of DOOM completed along with it.

Setting down his controller, he got up and turned off his console. Walking into his bedroom, he didn’t even bother getting undressed and simply collapsed on the bed, allowing sleep to take its hold over him.

---

Reading a book always made Twilight happy, but for some reason it wasn’t working tonight. No matter what kind of book she tried, nothing seemed to get her in a better mood. All they did was remind her of the fact that she was alone. Not even one of Pinkie Pie’s famous parties would be enough to lift her spirits. The only thing that would make her happy was a nice stallion to lie down with. Not in a sexual way, mind you, just someone she could cuddle up to at night. But it didn’t seem like that was ever going to be within her grasp.

She let out a discontented sigh, and peered out her bedside window. Looking at Luna’s beautiful night gave her an inkling. She was desperate, so maybe Luna would hear her if she made a wish upon a star. it was silly to think wishing for something would magically make it come true, but she had already tried to meet her special somepony the traditional way, and that hadn’t worked out at all. So why not take a shot in the dark?

“Luna, I don’t know if you can hear me or not, but I have a request.”

Twilight took a second to think of exactly how to word her request. She didn’t want to seem too demanding, but she wanted it to sound like she cared at the same time.

“I’m not sure if you’re capable of doing this, but I can’t think of any other options. I need to find my special somepony, and I need to do it now. But...”

She paused for a second, making sure not to sound demanding. “Could you send him to me?”

Twilight remained still on her bed, waiting for something, anything, to happen. But after a few moments of nothing happening, she let out a sigh and lied back down on her bed. That nothing happened was disappointing, to say the least. But instead of pouting, she simply picked up the book she had been reading before, and picked up where she had left off. The book was especially interesting because it dealt with the theory of there being an infinite amount of universes.

She had just reached page forty-two when her fatigue began to overcome her. She passed out in her bed, book on her stomach, drool making its way onto her sheets.

---

Luna was lying on her bed in Canterlot Castle, pondering over the odd request she had just received. It had been several millennia since somepony had made a wish like that. Nevermind that it had to be Twilight Sparkle that made such a wish. Had it been any other pony, and she wouldn’t have even considered it, but she had Twilight to thank for getting everypony in Ponyville to accept her. So Luna decided it would only be fair to return the favor.

Focusing her magic, she began her search. She was determined to find the perfect match for Twilight, no matter how long it took. She began by searching the most obvious spot, Ponyville, but there was only a few stallions, and not one of them were suited for the lavender mare. Moving on, she began to search Canterlot, but yet again, nopony fit the bill. She was about to search the far away city of Las Pegasus, but something caught her attention.

When she brought her attention back to Twilight, she took special notice of the book splayed across her belly. A book about there perhaps being multiple universes was exactly what she needed. Because who’s to say Twilight’s soul mate was even from Equestria? So, Luna began to increase the range of her search, and one by one, planets came across her mind’s eye. Not one of them contained the perfect match though, and she was beginning to grow tired of the search.

That is, until a planet that looked almost identical to Equestria came into view. The lush green forests, the beautiful blue oceans. She wouldn’t be surprised if it was just a mirror image of Equestria. There seemed to be a few minor differences, such as the strange mechanical carriages they drove, the enormous buildings, and the amount of unnatural light. It was nearly overwhelming looking at the cities, because there was so much light emanating from them.

But perhaps the strangest thing about the planet was its inhabitants. They were bipedal, walking on only two legs, and were hairless besides the top of their heads. It also seemed that clothing was a common item on their world, as every one of them had some sort of it on. But none of that mattered to Luna. All that mattered was conducting a search of the world’s population, and seeing if there was a stallion suited for Twilight.

And so, she began her search, flaring her magic, and quickly narrowed down the results to stallions only. Once that was done, she began looking for personalities that resembled Twilight's own. Needless to say, not many of the stallions on the planet exhibited those same personality traits. In fact, as far as she could tell, there was only one on the land mass she was searching that had the same traits.

The next step was to infiltrate said stallion’s dreams, and see if he wanted the same thing as Twilight Sparkle. This would require delicacy though. Surely he would overreact upon seeing her in her true form. So, in order to keep his mind at ease, she began focusing her magic on a very tricky spell. That of transformation. In order for the transformation to look good, she began trying to locate a woman Andrew would not know. This was made easy by going to another city and simply copying the form of a sleeping mare.

Taking a second to look over her new form, she gave a chuckle. It was perfect. Her skin was a pale white color, and she seemed to be wearing a white gown that stretched all the way to the floor. Her hair was even dyed blue. It was too perfect, in fact.

With that done, it was time to infiltrate his dreams. Doing this would require a lot of concentration though, seeing as how he was across the universe, so she began focusing more magic into her horn and it began glowing even more intensely. So intense, in fact, that it made Celestia’s sun pale in comparison. After a few seconds though, the fruits of her labor were made evident, and noticing the change of scenery she deduced that she had succeeded, and was in Andrew’s dream.

From what she could tell, he appeared to be dreaming of himself being in a castle. It’s architecture was fairly old looking, and overall, it made a creepy feeling run down spine. She had never seen a castle so dark and damp, not even back before she had been banished.

Oh, dear Celestia, she thought to herself, I’d better hurry up and find him before I go insane just looking at this place...

And so she flared her magic, and after a few seconds she was able to discern Andrew’s location. He seemed to be hiding in a cabinet of sorts. From what, she had no idea. But she had seen enough of the castle, and flaring her magic once again, she made it melt away into oblivion, leaving just her and Andrew in the middle of an open field.

Not to her surprise, he instantly began to freak out upon noticing her. But she was able to halt his ranting simply by holding up one of her new appendages, known to the kind inhabiting this planet as a hand.

---

Andrew watched as the woman in front of him rose a hand up. Oddly enough, he seemed calmed by the gesture. He couldn’t explain it, but he somehow knew that she had no ill intentions towards him.

“I have traveled a long distance to talk to you, Andrew. Now before you say anything, I have a question for you.”

For a second, he thought about talking anyways, but his better half told him it would be wise to remain quiet. So he did.

“Good. Now here is my question. Would you give up everything just to find true love? Would you be willing to give up this life, and begin anew?”

Andrew began to ponder over the question. But not before she began to talk once more.

“What if I told you I found the perfect match for you? Someone who would never degrade you. Someone who is just as smart as you. What would you say then?”

“I would say yes,” he replied without hesitation.

“That is good to know. Prepare yourself, Andrew.”

“Prepare myself for wh-”

His question was cut off before he could finish however, when everything went dark.

---

Twilight’s eyes fluttered open. It had been a long night, and it had been plagued by nightmares. The previous night was still imprinted in her mind though. The wish she had made hadn’t been granted, and she had given up hope.

Still, she thought, At least I gave it a ch-

A snore caught her off guard. It was much louder than Spike was capable of, and that instantly scared her. Turning over in bed slowly, she saw a sight that made her freeze up.

---

Andrew’s eyes slowly fluttered open after the weird dream he had had ended. But what he saw shocked him to his very core. A large set of violet eyes, staring right at his own. Instantly, he let out a scream, and the owner of the violet eyes followed up. After a few seconds, they both slumped into unconsciousness from the shock of having simply seen one another.

Okay, this was originally going to include Luna entering Twilight’s dream as well, but I found it too difficult to implement. I know the chapter isn’t much longer, but it ends where the prologue originally ended, so that’s a good thing. That means a little over 1,000 words of content was added.

“And then they just... passed out?” asked Rainbow Dash after Spike had finished explaining the events of the morning.

“Did ya see ‘im come in?” inquired Applejack, concern taking control over her tone of voice.

“No!” exclaimed Spike, “It was like he just appeared out of thin air!”

“That is most odd,” said Rarity as she assessed the situation, “but perhaps we could ask him when he wakes up?”

“Again,” stated Spike, “how did Fluttershy know it was a he?”

For the first time, Fluttershy began to speak up. “Oh, well I can just tell. I didn’t have to look or anything, if that’s what you’re thinking,” she finished with a blush.

---

Andrew was currently standing in a meadow, skipping rocks across the nearby pond. But as he went to throw another rock, a blue flash of light appeared in front of him, causing him to shield his eyes. When he finally lowered his hand from his eyes, he saw the woman from his dream. She was back, it seemed. But for what?

“Um, hello?”

“Hello to you, Andrew.”

“I never got your name...”

“Just call me Luna.”

“That’s a funny name,” chuckled Andrew. Looking up, he noticed her face was flushed red.

“I understand that it may not be a normal name where you come from. But where I come from, it is more than normal. It is royal.”

“Ah, so you’re royalty?” asked Andrew.

“Yes,” came the reply, “I am royalty, and I am also the one who brought you to the land you are currently in.”

Normally, Andrew would have freaked out by now, but he was in his own head, and as such, logic took control over fear.

“So you put me next to that lavender thing?” he asked as he skipped yet another rock across the pond.

“Yes. You may not know it Andrew. But that ‘lavender thing’ is your soul mate. She is everything that you have been looking for in the females of your species.”

“But she isn’t a human,” came the oddly calm response.

“No, but she needn’t be human to be your soul mate. That is not how love works.”

“It is where I come from,” he quipped.

Looking over at Luna, Andrew could see that she was puzzled. Perhaps interspecies relationships were normal to her?

“And what is the name of the planet I plucked you off of?”

“Earth. But I was living in a country called the United States of America.”

“Ah, so multiple territories combined to create one large country?”

“Exactly,” he responded as he threw yet another rock. But this time, it sank below the surface before skipping, and he let out a groan of frustration. “You distracted me.”

“I do believe I would have distracted you long ago, would I not have?”

Andrew knew she had him beat there, so he decided to stop beating around the bush and just ask the question that had been lingering in his mind.

“Can I see your real form?”

“What do you mean?” asked Luna, fear in her eyes.

Andrew elt out a chuckle. “I think you misunderstood. It’s just that you took the form of someone called Emma Watson, and I know you aren’t her.”

“But I took the form of someone from another land mass!”

“Yeah, and you picked a celebrity,” Andrew said, laughing the whole time.

“Very well. This,” Luna said as her body began to morph into that of a pony, “is my original form.”

“You’re an alicorn?”

“You know of our kind?”

“Not really,” he responded, “On our world, unicorns, pegasi, and alicorns are nothing but myth. They don’t really exist.”

“But I am here, am I not?”

“Yes, but are you from the planet Earth?”

“Well no, but-”

“But nothing,” Andrew interrupted, “You aren’t from our world, end of discussion.”

“Have it your way,” she moped, making Andrew let out another chuckle.

---

Luna was having trouble understanding Andrew. He hadn’t freaked out from anything, not even seeing her pony form! Either he was very even-keel, or he just didn’t care. Either way, she was going to make him see that Twilight was the one he was meant to be with, not matter what he said.

---

“So Luna,” began Andrew, intent on asking her a question, “the lavender thing I woke up next to, what’s her name?”

“Unicorn, and her name is Twilight Sparkle. She too has been dying to meet somepony and fall in love, but just like you, she has yet to find her soul mate.”

“Interesting...”

“You seem to be taking this very lightly, Andrew.”

“That’s because freaking out won’t solve anything, Luna. That would do nothing but cause me to go insane. So I may as well make do with what I have.”

“That is a very good philosophy to live by, Andrew. I see that I made the right choice in choosing you to be with Twilight.”

“Let me ask you something, Luna. If I fainted when I first saw her, and she fainted as well, what makes you think we’re perfect for each other?”

“It was my suspicion that you were asleep due to fainting out of shock, but that is a very typical reaction to seeing an entirely new species in your bed, or vice versa.”

“Uh-huh, and I’m assuming that where you come from, interspecies relationships are normal?”

“Not entirely. While certain species, such as ponies and griffons have been known to be in relationships, others, such as griffons and dragons have not.”

“And what makes me perfect for this ‘Twilight Sparkle’?”

“Simple. You are both in search of the one thing your life is missing. One to call a significant other.”

“Yeah, and being with a pony is supposed to solve my problem?”

“Yes! Do you not see that she is perfect for you?”

“How can I see her when I’m dreaming, Luna?” Andrew asked in annoyance.

“You needn’t see her to realize your love for her.”

“Well I need to get to know her. All I have to go on is that she is smart, is a girl, and also wants to find love.”

“Is that not enough?”

Luna’s question was enough to make Andrew facepalm, and he began shaking his head.

“No, I need to get to know someone before I even begin to think of them romantically.”

“But why?”

“Because that is how my culture works, Luna. We don’t just find random woman and men and then force them to date each other. Certain countries from my world do, but they are some of the worst to live in.”

“So then...”

“So until I get to know her, stop saying she’s my soul mate.”

“Very well. And I believe it is time for you to wake up, Andrew.”

“What do you me-”

His question was cut off as Luna lowered her horn to his head, and there was a flash of light, making his vision go black.

Andrew woke up with an enormous amount of pain in his head. Rubbing it, he slowly opened his eyes, and took in his surroundings. It looked like he was in a hospital, and he wasn’t alone. Lying in a bed next to his own was the thing Luna had referred to as Twilight Sparkle. A unicorn, if he recalled correctly. Now that he had a better chance to look at her, he noticed that she was actually lavender in color, not purple. She had a dark blue mane, and it had pink and violet streaks running through it.

Her mane seemed to part flawlessly where her horn stuck through, which struck him as odd. Not only was it nearly impossible to part hair completely right, but she did it with something going through it? That alone was an amazing feat. But for her to do it with a mane? That was even more amazing. From what Andrew knew, a horse’s mane was very hard to keep neat, or straight. But it seemed that this ‘Twilight Sparkle’ knew what she was doing.

What the... why do I care about her mane? It’s just a mane! thought Andrew.

Because Twilight wasn’t covered up completely, due to what Andrew could only assume to be rolling around in bed, he could spot something on her flank. It looked like a tattoo, but that was unlikely since it showed through her fur. So what was it? He resolved to ask her that very question when she woke up.

---

“YOU BROUGHT HIM TO OUR PLANET?!”

Luna had just broken the news to her sister, and it was easy to see that she wasn’t very pleased.

“Please calm down,” Luna urged her sister, “anger won’t solve the issue.”

“No, it won’t, but I know what will. I’m sending him back, sister.”

“Would you really destroy your student’s only hope of true love?” Luna accusingly questioned her sister.

Celestia didn’t have an answer for that, so Luna provided one for her.

“I don’t think you will, Tia.”

“And why is that, Luna?”

“Because,” began the indigo alicorn, “if you do, she will reject you as a friend.”

While Celestia began to think over her sister’s words, Andrew was worrying about something else entirely over in Ponyville.

---

“How could I have possibly hurt your friend?!”

“You tell me! We find her passed out and you’re right next to her!”

“Yeah,” began the irate Andrew, “and I was passed out too, idiot! So how could I have hurt her?!”

“I... I didn’t-”

“You didn’t think! You berate me for no reason, and then try to act guilty, like that’ll make me feel bad for you?! Well you’ve got another thing coming!”

“Why are you being such a jerk?!” yelled the blue pegasus in front of him, to which he responded with, “Because, you accused me of something with no proof and think I’ll forgive you just like that!”

Andrew watched as the pegasus in front of him descended to the floor, and began looking towards said floor. “Look, I’m sorry, okay?”

“Whatever,” responded the still angry Andrew.

“So... what’s your name?”

This piqued his interest. It seemed that she was actually interested in something he had to say for once. “Andrew, you?”

“Rainbow Dash, the fastest flyer in Equestria!” bragged the pegasus as she puffed out her chest for extra effect.

“Hehe, pretty boastful,” Andrew began, “but can you back up those words?”

“You’re darn right I can!” the blue mare yelled, causing Andrew to wince. “I can do the sonic rainboom!”

“Sonic what-now?”

“You know? The sonic rainboom? Twilight said it means I broke the sound barrier and light spectrum at the same time.”

While Andrew knew this to be impossible, maybe it wasn’t in this world. After all, it was inhabited by multi-colored ponies who could fly and do magic.

---

“Luna, please tell me what possessed you to kidnap this ‘human’ from his home.”

Luna tried to avoid her sister’s gaze, but it was made impossible by the fact that she could literally feel it burning through the side of her head.

“Sister, try to understand this from their point of view. I’m trying to show them that they are meant for one another.”

“And what if the human doesn’t believe that, Luna?” Celestia accusingly questioned her sister. “What if he rejects her, and her heart is broken.”

“He won’t, Tia.”

“But what if-”

“He won’t,” Luna insisted, cutting off her sister.

---

“So, I’m assuming you four are also good friends with Twilight?”

As the girls nodded, a smile formed on Andrew’s lips.

“Mind telling me your names, then?”

He watched as the orange one with the blonde mane trotted over to him and extended a hoof for him to shake. He took it and instantly realized it was a bad idea, as his arm starting flailing uncontrollably.

“Ah’m Applejack!”

“Pleasure,” Andrew began as he let go of her hoof and began rubbing the pain out of his arm, “to meet you.”

“And I am Rarity,” was the next thing Andrew heard. He watched as the alabaster unicorn with the purple hair trotted over to him and extended her hoof as well. Andrew had an idea though. She seemed fancy, so this would most likely get him on her good side.

“A pleasure,” he began, pulling her hoof forward and planting a peck upon it, “Lady Rarity.”

“What a gentlecolt!”

Andrew chuckled at Rarity’s choice of words, but not before he was assaulted by a ball of pink.

“HI! I’M PINKIE PIE!”

“Wait... I’ve heard your voice before,” Andrew stated, trying to remember just where he had heard it. Wait a minute, could she have been...

“You’re the girl from the phone!” he suddenly remembered, causing the pink pony to giggle madly.

“Yep! Want to know how i did it?!”

“I-”, Andrew began, but not before suddenly thinking better of it, “No, I’d rather you didn’t. It’s strange enough already...”

“And I’m Fluttershy,” came the final name. To Andrew’s surprise, the yellow pegasus trotted right over to him and gave him a hug.

“Fluttershy! What are you doing?!”

“Aww, it’s okay,” Andrew said as he gave the yellow pony’s ear a scratch, eliciting a smile from her, “she isn’t doing anything wrong.”

“But she’s never this bold around ponies,” stated a very confused Rarity.

“Yeah,” Andrew started, “but I’m not a pony,” he reasoned.

After a few more seconds, Fluttershy let go of him, and he let out a nervous chuckle as a blush formed on her face.

---

“Tia, would it make you feel better if we went and talked to him?”

“Fine, but you stay here, Luna. I’ll talk to him on my own.

“But, Tia, don’t you think it wou-”

“It’ll be okay,” Celestia said, interrupting Luna, “I won’t hurt him, I promise.”

“Alright. They are in the Ponyville general hospital at the moment, so you can find them there.”

“Thank you, Luna. I promise no harm will come to him. You have my word.”

“Thank you, Tia. And good luck.”

“To you as well.”

With that, Celestia took off into the sky, heading towards Ponyville at egregious speeds.

---

While Celestia was heading for Ponyville, a certain human was conversing with a now awake Twilight.

“I’m telling you, we have a thing called the television, and it’s like a book, but you watch it instead of reading it!”

“No way! That kind of technology is so advanced! How did you guys manage it?!”

“Because people on my planet are always looking to be innovative, and create the next thing that everybody wants. So they work harder in order to achieve that goal.”

“I wish the ponies here were like that...”

“No you don’t,” Andrew interjected. “If they were, there would be war as well.”

“War? What is that?”

Andrew scoffed. “You mean to tell me someone as booksmart as you doesn’t know what a war is?”

“No, is it bad?” asked the curious unicorn.

“Yeah, it’s bad,” Andrew began to explain. “It’s basically a monumental battle between two or more countries, and it always ends with one country admitting defeat. But not before millions are killed.”

“That’s horrible!”

“Yeah, it is...” sighed Andrew dejectedly. He had never been proud of human history, since it seemed they were nothing but barbaric creatures hell-bent on the annihilation of those with different views on life.

But onto the matter at hand. Twilight Sparkle was by far the most interesting pony he had met. Shortly after she had woken up, she took notice of him. But instead of screaming in fright, she simply asked for his name. It had rendered him speechless, and with good reason. When you woke up and someone was in your bed, you didn’t simply ask for their name. You’re supposed to scream in fear, or at least, that’s what he had thought. But that wasn’t all. her friends had left shortly after, due to visiting hours being over.

Since they had left, she had been asking him all manner of questions. Most of which he could answer, but occasionally a touchy subject would come up, such as religion. He had thought it best not to explain it to her, seeing as how it was the cause of most wars on his planet. But overall, their conversations had been... fun! He couldn’t explain it, but he actually enjoyed talking to the lavender mare. He still didn’t believe what Luna had said though. There was no way he would date a pony. It was simply wrong, and went against all of his beliefs.

Then again, what beliefs did he have? He was agnostic, so he wasn’t really religious, but he wasn’t atheist either. He simply lived life to live it, and whatever happened when he died, he would deal with then. But it was still wrong no matter how he looked at it. She was an animal, and he was a human, and that was that.

“Has he been like this all night, Twilight?”

The sudden voice broke his concentration, and turning towards Twilight, he took notice of a much larger pony. She was white, and had a multi-colored mane that seemed to flow though the air, even without wind. He also took notice of the fact that she had both wings and a horn.

Just great, thought Andrew, Another alicorn...

“Greetings, Andrew. My sister has told me a lot about you. it’s a pleasure to finally meet you.”

Andrew decided that being courteous was the best way to go, as he didn’t want to piss off a princess.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you as well, princess...?”

“Just ‘Celestia’ is fine.”

“Very well,” came the response, “it’s a pleasure to meet you, Celestia. I assume you have some questions for me.”

“You would be correct in that assumption,” she responded with a warm smile, “starting with why you’re in a hospital.”

“Well, when we passed out, we apparently fell off of her bed and hit our heads on the floor. So... concussions would be the answer to your question.”

“Okay. Now I will try to make this as quick as possible, Andrew.”

“Go ahead, Celestia. I’m not going anywhere,” he responded jokingly, getting a chuckle out of the princess.

“I think I’ll start by asking if you’ve been getting along with everypony?”

“I have, very well in fact,” he answered with a smile. “Twilight here has been asking me questions nonstop. But I’ve enjoyed her company.”

“That’s good to hear. Now, do you know the roles my sister and I have in Equestria?”

“I know you’re princesses, but that’s all.”

“We are indeed princesses, but we much more than that at the same time,” she began, instantly getting Andrew’s attention. “We are the rulers of this kingdom, and it is our duty to protect it from danger. It is also our duty to maintain balance. I raise and lower the sun, and my sister the the same with the moon.”

“That’s amazing!” shouted Andrew. He quickly realized he been a bit too loud, and lowered his head sheepishly.

“Hmm, yes, it is amazing,” concluded Celestia. “But I have one more question, and then I will go.”

“Ask away, princess.”

“I already said ‘Celestia’ is fine, did I not?” she asked with a chuckle.

“Yes, but with the kind of power you have, I think respect is a given.”

“Thank you for your kind words, Andrew, but hear me out.”

Andrew watched as Celestia seemed to be thinking. He concluded she was just thinking of how to word it when she finally began speaking again.

“Are you going to live in peace, or am I going to have to throw you at the sun?”

Andrew’s eyes went wide and he let out a gulp, to which Celestia chuckled.

“I think that answers that. Twilight, Andrew, have a good night’s rest. I’ll try to see you again soon.”

With that, Celestia left their room. Looking over at twilight, Andrew noticed her stifling a giggle with her hoof, and he started to laugh as well. It had been a good day, but he was looking forward to a good night’s rest, as Celestia had put it.

“Hey, Twilight, I’m gonna go to sleep now.”

“Okay, Andrew. Sleep tight,” came the tired response.

And with that, Andrew fell into a blissful slumber, with Twilight doing the same only seconds later.

Andrew was quietly singing a tune to himself, unaware that a certain blue alicorn was watching him closely.

“What are you singing, Andrew?” was the first thing he heard from her.

“It’s a song called ‘Gimme Three Steps’”, replied Andrew.

“The lyrics you were singing. What were they about?” she questioned further.

“Oh. Well, a man is dancing with a woman, and that woman’s boyfriend sees it and gets mad enough to threaten to kill the man,” he quickly explained.

“Why not just explain himself?” asked the confused alicorn.

“Well, I’m assuming the boyfriend is drunk, so that wouldn’t really get through to him,” he replied, but not before adding, “Besides, what would you do if someone pointed a gun at you?”

“I do not know what this ‘gun’ is,” came the perplexed response.

“Imagine a bow and arrow. Now take the bow away and replace it with a small, portable cannon. Then make the arrow deadly enough to kill someone in one shot. Viola, you now have a gun.”

“That sounds quite violent. Why would the people of your world invent such a device?”

“Because humans are retarded,” he quipped.

“But-”

“Luna,” Andrew interrupted, “just cut to the chase. You’re here about Twilight, right?”

“To Andrew’s surprise, the alicorn shook her head. “I am actually here to talk about other things. How was my sister yesterday?”

“Well, she was very cordial, very nice. But she did threaten to throw me at the sun if I harmed any of the planet’s inhabitants.”

“Do you intend to do such a thing?” Luna prodded.

“Never. Harming something as intelligent as one of you ponies would be akin to me harming a human. It’s unethical.”

“I’m glad to hear that, Andrew. Now we can talk about Twilight Sparkle.”

“Ugh, fine,” he disgruntledly replied, “just don’t prod if I tell you not to.”

“You have my word, Andrew. Let us begin with a basic question. Has she told you of her involvement with the elements of harmony?”

Andrew scratched his head at that, very confused as to what she was even referring to.

“I will take your gesture as a ‘no’. Put simply the elements of harmony are six powerful gems capable of ending any threat to Equestria. Twilight and her friends are the embodiment of those very elements.”

“So wait. Twilight and her friends are national heroes?”

“Yes,” came the curt response, “but do not spread it around. They like to maintain their status as normal ponies.”

“I can’t blame them,” reasoned Andrew, “I mean, where I come from, athletes and celebrities get mobbed by the paparazzi.”

“And it is much the same here. That is why they would like to remain undercover.”

“Okay, so can you tell me more about these elements?”

Luna smiled and gave a nod. “Very well. The six elements of harmony are honesty, loyalty, kindness, laughter, loyalty, and magic. But magic is interchangeable with friendship in this case.”

“Oh, I see, so the elements of harmony are the basic set of rules for a healthy friendship?”

“Exactly. Now, do I need to explain each element, or do you already have a basic idea?”

“I think I’ve got an idea,” Andrew replied with a smile. “So have they gone up against any bad guys?”

“Yes. Twilight and her friends ended the threats of Nightmare Moon, Discord, and King Sombra.”

“What did these guys do?”

“Well, Nightmare Moon is, or well was, me.”

“No way,” Andrew stated doubtfully, “someone as nice as you was evil?”

Andrew took notice of Luna wincing at the word ‘evil’, and quickly offered an apology, which Luna graciously accepted.

“Anyways, as I was saying. I was jealous that my sister got so much more attention than I did. So my darkness overtook me, and I became Nightmare Moon. Thankfully, I was banished to the moon by Tia, and I didn’t do anything I would regret.”

“Like killing her?” prodded Andrew knowingly.

“Yes, and thank the stars for that. But a thousand years later, which was three years ago, I escaped my prison, and returned to Equestria. Thankfully, I was once again stopped by the elements of harmony.”

“Wait. If they used them on you again, how are you here?”

“I was getting to that,” she replied, making Andrew blush embarrassingly. “This time, they simply banished the evil from my heart, and here I am, good as new!”

Andrew then did something that shocked not only Luna, but even himself. He walked over to Luna and hugged her close. A hug which she returned in full. After a few seconds, Andrew let go and sat down on ground, waiting for her to continue. She did so, and began explaining King Sombra. From his past, to the battle Twilight and her friends had with him, she covered everything within just a few sentences.

“Alright, now that I’ve explained King Sombra, let us talk about Discord.”

“Go ahead, I’m listening,” replied Andrew, a huge smile on his face. He had been enjoying Luna’s story telling up to this point, and if she had saved Discord for last, it was gonna be one hell of a story.

“Okay, long ago, Discord ruled Equestria in a state of eternal chaos. But eventually my sister and I stood up to him, and turned him to stone using the elements of harmony.”

She continued to explain everything about Discord. The way he had broken free struck Andrew as funny. He had been freed by children? That was hilarious. But then she began talking about what he had done upon escaping. From corrupting Twilight and her friends to creating explosive chocolate milk, he had been the most powerful villain they had ever faced. In fact, from what Luna told him, he was essentially a demigod. Capable of doing anything he wanted, whenever he wanted.

But when Luna was done telling the story, he became curious.

“So that’s it? He’s back to stone now?”

“Oh no,” Luna replied, “we allow him to roam free now.”

This floored Andrew. But before he could ask any more questions, Luna’s horn made contact with his forehead, causing him to jolt awake.

As Andrew woke up, he could hear a conversation going on to his left. He could recognize one of the voices as being that of Twilight Sparkle, but he couldn’t remember the other pony’s name. Something with “rainbow”, but that was all he remembered. Actually, he remembered all the other ones’ names easily, but he still didn’t trust that rainbow one. She seemed like an arrogant bitch, to be honest. Not that he cared, though. At least he wasn’t a strange creature to HIS planet. The scientists there would never let him go. He could only imagine what would happen if one of these ponies had shown up on Earth.

Experimentation. That’s what would happen, and he just knew it. But his train of thought was thrown off when Twilight addressed him.

“Andrew, are you okay?”

“Huh?” Andrew looked over at Twilight, and noticing the weird expression on her face, reassured her. “Yeah, I’m okay.”

“Okay, well Rainbow Dash just came by.”

“No doubt accusing me of being bad again?”

---

Twilight opened her mouth to respond, but finding no words, quickly closed it again. How had he known that?

Well, Twilight thought, it IS Rainbow Dash...

She knew that her friend had the tendency to overreact to the littlest of problems, and that had always led to even more problems.

“Twilight, I have a question.”

Twilight cocked her head upon hearing her new friend’s voice, and turning towards him, she gestured for him to go ahead and ask away.

“Um, can you tell me why Discord is free?”

Twilight stiffened at that. How could he possibly know about Discord? The only one that could have told him was...

“Luna told you?”

Andrew simply nodded his head in response, and Twilight let out an enormous sigh of relief. Though, she didn’t know why she had been so worried. What could he have possibly done to her in his condition? And the fact that he didn’t have magic made it even more unlikely that he could harm anypony.

“Well, do you remember Fluttershy?”

Andrew smiled as Twilight mentioned her friend’s name, and she took notice. “Yeah, the one who hugged me? I like her, she’s really nice.”

Twilight blushed at that, and it surprised her. Why had she blushed? He hadn’t complimented her. He had complimented one of her friends. Maybe it was just embarrassing, the way he had said it.

“Well, Fluttershy became friends with him, and he didn’t want to lose that friendship. So he decided to stop being evil, at least most of the time.”

“It was that easy? From what Luna told me, he’s a mastermind. So how did someone as adorable as Fluttershy best him?”

There was that darned blush again. Twilight could feel it heating up her cheeks, and she still wasn’t sure why. “Well, she just did. I can’t really explain it. You’d have to ask her the next time you see her.”

---

Andrew accepted the answer he had been given, and went back to thinking. If Twilight asked him why Luna had brought him to Equestria, what would he say? Would he tell the truth?

No, Andrew decided, that wouldn’t be too smart.

“Maybe I shouldn’t tell her,” he though to himself.

“Tell me what?”

Andrew immediately stiffened up. Had he just said that out loud? If he had, he might be in a world of trouble.

“Tell me what?” he heard Twilight question again, this time with more force in her voice.

“N-nothing. Look, I’d rather not say. If I do, it’ll ruin my chances of staying here. Luna already knows, so let’s just leave it at that.”

---

Twilight was confused. If Luna knew, and she didn’t think it was bad, why couldn’t he tell her too? Maybe it had something to do with her? In fact, it was pretty clear to Twilight that it did indeed have something to do with her. Before she could say anything more though, the doctor trotted into their room.

“Good morning, you two. How are you feeling today?”

“Good” was the response he got from both of them, and he let out a chuckle.

“That’s good. Now, before I release the two of you, I need you to fill out some forms.”

Both Andrew and Twilight let out exasperated sighs, but they nonetheless did as they were told. And after about an hour of filling out what they thought to be too many forms, they left the hospital. Twilight was trotting beside Andrew, and was shocked to see how tall he was when standing up.

“You’re very tall, Andrew.”

Her new friend let out a chuckle, and waved his hand nonchalantly. “Trust me. Five foot eleven isn’t much to brag about where I come from. Some people are seven feet tall.”

Twilight didn’t even know how to respond to that. Seven feet? That was almost three ponies tall! And Andrew had already had to duck slightly just to go through the doors, so she couldn’t imagine how hard life here would be for a human that tall.

“So what was it like? Being brought here, I mean.”

She waited a few moments, and it seemed that she wasn’t going to get a response. That is, until he cleared his throat, thereby grabbing her attention. “Well, I was dreaming and your princess, Luna, came in and asked me a question. I said yes, and wouldn’t you know it, here I am.”

Twilight could tell that he wasn’t as enthusiastic as she was about meeting a new species, but she couldn’t blame him. Being ripped from your own world, and being expected to adjust to a new one so quickly had to be tough. No, not just tough. Indescribable. Unless she experienced it for herself, she got the feeling she would never know what he was going through. But at the same time, he seemed to be doing a good job of hiding his frustration, if there was any.

“How are you dealing with it so far?” was the first question that popped into her mind.

“It’s not too bad, though not being able to interact with humans will be weird.”

“Did you have family back home?”

“Yeah,” came the quick response, “but not worth mentioning.”

Finally, they arrived at Twilight’s home, and she opened the door, letting Andrew inside first.

---

Upon entering Twilight’s home, Andrew took a look around. It looked nice and cozy. And while he wasn’t looking forward to the barrage of questions Twilight was about to ask him, he was at least glad nobody, er, pony, was staring at him anymore. But looking behind him, he noticed that a certain lavender one still was.

Well, at least it’s her staring and not a stranger.

Letting out a sigh, he took a seat on a nearby sofa, and awaited Twilight’s questions to continue. He watched intently as she levitated over a quill and ink, along with some parchment, and then took a seat next to him.

“Okay, let’s get started.”

Ugh, this is going to be a long day...

Andrew heard the flapping of wings behind him, and acknowledged the night princess’ presence.

“Hello, Luna,” he said as he turned to face the alicorn.

“Greetings, Andrew. It is good to see you once again.”

“Just cut to the chase, Luna. I obviously don’t have all night.”

“Very well,” the alicorn muttered, “how are things with Twilight Sparkle?”

“It was going pretty well, but then she asked me about human mating habits. She’s... eccentric, I’ll say that much.”

Luna let out a giggle, and nodded her head. “Yes, sister has said that Twilight can be very odd at times.”

“Don’t get me wrong though. She’s very fun to talk to. It’s just that she can bring up very odd topics. You know the first thing she asked me when we were in the hospital?”

“What is that, Andrew?”

“‘What’s your name?’”

“I do not understand. Is that not considered polite where you come from?”

“It is, Andrew began, “but to ask that to a creature who caused you to faint? And for that to be the first thing? That struck me as odd.”

“Twilight Sparkle is simply different from most ponies,” came the prompt explanation.

“That’s putting it lightly,” joked Andrew, but not before mustering up a serious voice. “So? Aren’t you gonna ask?”

“I do not understand.”

Andrew let out a groan of frustration. “Aren’t you going to ask why I still won’t date Twilight?”

“Very well. Why will you not date Twilight Sparkle?”

“Oh, what’s the use! You took all the fun out proving you wrong!” he exclaimed with a chuckle.

“But I never claimed to be right, Andrew. I simply claimed that I believe you two are meant for each other. That does not make me correct in my assumptions, though,” she exclaimed, shocking him.

He had thought that she was dead set on he and Twilight hooking up, or whatever. But it seemed that she would be fine if they simply remained friends, which is what he was planning on. At least, if she allowed him to stay in Equestria, and he hoped to whatever god ruled this place that she did. Actually, that brought a question to the forefront of his mind, and he resolved to ask Luna.

“Luna, are you and your sister gods?”

“I am not familiar with this word. What is a ‘god’?”

“A god is something with unlimited power. It’s an omnipotent being that can control anything and everything at will. I’m shocked you haven’t heard that word before, since Discord was basically a god.”

“Then I suppose we are ‘gods’. We do have the ability to control everything about this kingdom. Not just because we are the rulers, either. We are able to control the sun and the moon as well, but you already know that, so why bother asking?”

“Just wanted confirmation from you. At least I don’t have to worry about being agnostic here too.”

“There is another word I am... unfamiliar with.”

“Oh, it means that I don’t see a clear answer as to how my original world came to be. On my world, there are many different religions, but they all believe that one or more gods are the creators of all life. Some even believe that these gods rule over the elements as well. Lightness and darkness, fire, water, etcetera.

“But there are also people who don’t believe in any kind of god. Most of them believe in the theory of evolution. While a lot of religious people also believed in evolution, these people, called atheists, only gave evolution a chance. I’m not an expert on the subject, but I do believe in evolution. I don’t think humans were the first creatures, because they couldn’t have survived amongst some of the older creatures that inhabited my planet.”

“And what are some of these creatures?” asked Luna, very intrigued with Andrew’s explanation.

“Well, the main ancient creature that people talk about is the dinosaur. There were tons of species of dinosaurs, some that ate meat, some that ate vegetation, and some that ate both. The most well-known meat-eating dinosaur is the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Think of... a wolf's fangs, alright?”

Luna nodded, and Andrew took it as incentive to continue. “Alright, now imagine an entire mouth filled with those fangs. Now, make the fangs as big as bananas, and make the Tyrannosaurus as big as Twilight’s library.”

“That creature sounds quite monstrous. Much worse than anything I have dealt with.”

“Exactly, and that’s why I believe in evolution. There is no way humans could have lived with those monsters. So now I can explain what it means to be agnostic. I’ve already explained religion and atheism. Now, imagine an in-between,” he explained, gaining a nod from Luna.

“Go on, I would like to hear what agnostics such as yourself believe.”

“Alright. Basically, it means we don’t believe, but we also don’t disbelieve, if that makes any sense. So we’re the group of people who don’t know if there is a god, and choose not to make assumptions about it. Maybe there is a god, and maybe there isn’t. To us, the whole debate of ‘is there, isn’t there’ is silly.”

“But can you not see and talk to your gods, like you can to my sister and I?” inquired Luna, curious to hear his answer.

“Nope. If there is a god, he controls everything from somewhere we can’t even fathom.”

“I see. I can understand why you would be agnostic if your gods are not readily visible to you. Why believe in something if you can not see it. But at the same time, it is wrong to believe something does not exist because it chooses to hide itself.”

“To be honest, Luna, I didn’t think you would agree with agnostics.”

“I am willing to agree with all three sides. If somepony has a reason to believe something, who am I to judge them for that?”

Andrew smiled at that and walked over to Luna, giving her another hug, which she returned. “Now, I do believe it’s time for you to wake up,” Luna stated as she pulled back from the hug and began lowering her horn to his forehead.

“Wait, before you wake me up, I have a question. If I decide to just be friends with Twilight, will I still be allowed to stay here?”

“You will always be welcome here,” responded Luna with a smile, “I promise.”

And with that, Andrew jolted awake, a smile already on his face.

A/N Okay, so while you may not like him explaining religion, atheism, etc. the way he did, that’s how I would explain them (seeing as how I wrote it anyways). If you have any explanations of your own (since I assume some of you are atheists and some aren’t), feel free to share them, and I’ll add them into the chapter to make everything more accurate. Oh, and if you didn’t like the chapter, explain what part made you dislike it. This is my first time writing for this story in about a month.

“Greetings, Twilight Sparkle.”

“You know you can just call me ‘Twilight’, Princess. But where am I? Am I dreaming?”

“Yes, Twilight, you are indeed asleep. I possess the ability to enter into the dreams of my little ponies, to communicate with them whilst they sleep. I can even speak to multiple ponies at once. Even as I speak with you now, I am conversing with Andrew and hundreds of other ponies.”

“But, how can-”

Luna cut off Twilight’s question with a raise of her hoof and simply chuckled. “You know not the full extent of my dreamscaping abilities. Just know that I can be in as many dreams as I see fit at any given time.”

“But how do you do it? How can you exist in so many ponies’ dreams at once?”

“Oh, that is what you are wondering?” Luna asked, to which Twilight nodded. “This is not my true body, but merely a representation of it that I am projecting into your dream.”

“But how-”

“Twilight, that is quite enough. I have explained all that I need to. Now answer a question for me.”

“What is it, Princess?”

“How are you enjoying your time with Andrew?”

“It’s fun, Princess! He’s really smart. I mean, not as smart as me, but I can’t blame him, since I’m just an egghead.”

“Belay that talk, Twilight. You may be the smartest unicorn I know, but that does not make you a, what did you call it, ‘egghead’?”

Twilight nodded meekly at the indigo alicorn. “It means nerdy or that I’d rather be with my books than my friends...”

Luna responded by using her hoof to turn Twilight to face her. “Listen to me, Twilight Sparkle. You have wonderful friendships and even a new one that seems to be budding. Do not think that you are an egghead for even one second.”

“Thank you, Princess.”

“It is no trouble, Twilight,” she responded with a warm smile. “Now tell me, are there any problems you have with Andrew?”

“Not really. I mean, Rainbow Dash doesn’t like him, but she can be a real hothead. There’s no real reason to dislike him.”

“What have you talked about with him?”

“Oh! We discussed a lot of stuff while we were in the hospital. Like why he’s bipedal, why he wears clothes all the time, just basic stuff like that. After we got to my home, we talked about the governments on his world, his-”

“There is another word I am... unfamiliar with.”

“W-what?”

Luna looked at Twilight, confusion written on her face, until she realized what she had done. “I apologize, Twilight. Those words were meant for Andrew, not yourself. Now please, continue.”

“But I thought you said you had multiple copies of yourself in other ponies’ dreams. How did you mistake me for him?”

“Twilight, I am currently in over four hundred dreams. It is hard for me to keep track of everypony I am talking to. Sometimes I make a mistake. Now, continue please.”

“Er, yes, as I was saying, Princess. Before the conversation about government, I asked him his species’ scientific name and that was pretty much it.”

Twilight received a deadpan stare from Luna after her explanation of the prior day’s events, which was only broken when Luna said something that caused Twilight to blush incredibly hard.

“So you did not ask him about his species’, as you said, ‘mating habits’?”

At Twilight’s reaction, Luna giggled fiercely, making Twilight blush even harder.

“Pray tell, why did you ask him such questions?”

Twilight didn’t give an answer, opting instead to lower her head to the ground and cover it with her hooves. Sensing Twilight’s embarrassment, Luna ventured even further.

“Is it perhaps because you wanted to know what it would be like if he did those things with you?” Luna asked jokingly. As a result, Twilight’s blush grew to such an intensity that it felt like her scalp was burning. It took a few seconds for Luna to come to the realization that her joke was in fact, true.

“Oh my sister, that IS why you asked it!”

Twilight could do no more than nod weakly, her enormous blush spreading throughout her entire body, and causing her coat to take on a reddish hue.

“So you are attracted to him, I presume?”

“N-no, it isn’t that, Princess...”

“Then why have you been having such thoughts, Twilight?”

“Because, I’m in...”

Twilight trailed off and turned her head away from Luna’s gaze. Her blush wasn't as furious as before, now only encapsulating her cheeks, but it was still obvious to Luna what Twilight was going through.

“Ah, you are in heat, correct?”

Once again, Twilight nodded her head in embarrassment. She had hoped nopony would find out she was in heat, and she had done a good job of hiding it up until this very moment.

“Listen to me, Twilight Sparkle. You must not let your hormones cloud your judgement. If you make unwanted advances towards Andrew, it could irreparably damage his perception of you. You must not let that happen,” Luna warned Twilight, putting a great deal of emphasis on the word ‘must’.

“I know how to control myself, Princess,” came Twilight’s response. She already knew that trying to force herself on Andrew would ruin his opinion of her, she didn’t need Luna to tell her that. But it would still be nice to have somepony to hold her and take care of her. And he was kind of cute for a member of an entirely different species.

“I am afraid our conversation must end here, Twilight. I am going to wake you up now, and when I do, I want you to talk to Andrew and tell him that you are in heat. Am I understood?”

“Yes, Princess...” Twilight sighed dejectedly. Without warning, Luna lowered her horn to Twilight’s head and a jolt of magic was sent through her. The spell cast by Luna caused Twilight to wake up instantaneously. She quickly got out of bed and trotted down the hallway toward Andrew’s room. As soon as she reached the doorway to his room, she noticed he was awake.

But something was amiss. It seemed her heat had grown in strength, and she knew it. All she could think of was taking his—

Oh no, she thought, I think I’m in the middle of my cycle! My estrus maximus!

---

Meanwhile, Andrew had just woken up, a smile already adorning his features. After a few seconds, he began to get out of bed. The second he rose his head to face the doorway, however, he was greeted by a pair of lips meeting his own.
Anonymous:
Thought it sounded a bit better than "and then Luna said"- up to you though.

Before Andrew could react, Twilight pushed her lips to his and forced her tongue into his mouth, causing him to freak out. Twilight’s magic held him in place though, and he was forced to deal with her kissing. Needless to say, he was horrified. But after a few seconds, she pulled back. Just as he was about to berate her for doing something like that though, she began tearing up, and threw her head onto his shoulder and began crying.

“D-don’t hate me...”

He didn’t know why, but the next thing Andrew knew, he was rubbing the mare’s back to comfort her. “Twilight, I don’t hate you. I’m pissed beyond belief, but I don’t hate you.”

“B-but I—”

“Took advantage of me? Yeah, but you seem more upset about it than I do. Now tell me, what’s up?”

“I’m...” Twilight began, but trailed off, embarrassed beyond belief. She wasn’t sure how Andrew would react to her needing to have... that. Obviously she wasn’t going to force him to, because it was beyond clear that he didn’t want to do something like that with her.

“Twilight, I can’t help you if you won’t help yourself.”

“I’m in heat...”

Andrew was confused. She was in heat? What did that even—

Oh! She means that she—

“Oh...”

This wasn’t good. That meant the she needed sex, and he definitely wasn’t going to do that with her. Not that he thought she expected him to. With this kind of reaction, there was no question that she had no way to get... release.

“Twilight, it’s fine. I understand that it’s hard for you to control yourself, but try to for me, okay?”

“But I've never even... you know...”

Realization struck Andrew like a brick to the head. She wasn’t looking for anything to have sex with, she was just lonely. God knows he knew how that felt, having never held a relationship for more than 6 months. And that hadn’t ended well, either. Then again, not many relationships ended “well”.

“That doesn’t matter, Twilight. I never have either. Just don’t let your friends bother you about it.”

“But Rarity and Rainbow Dash always bring it up...” Twilight moaned into his shoulder, tears still dampening it.

“Twilight, how old are you?”

“W-why does that matter?”

“Trust me,” Andrew said, still rubbing her back, “it matters.”

“I’m s-seventeen,” she muttered out, sounding embarrassed at doing so.

“Twilight, that’s way too young to be doing those kinds of things. How old are Rainbow Dash and Rarity?”

“Well, Rainbow is sixteen and—”

“SIXTEEN?!” Andrew practically screamed, making Twilight cover her ears, “She’s sixteen and already sexually active?!”

“T-that’s bad?” asked Twilight, raising her head to look into his eyes.

“Twilight, she’s not even a full adult yet,” Andrew began before coming to a realization. “Wait, when are you considered an adult in Equestria?”

“Once you turn sixteen, you can start drinking, so I’d say sixteen.”

“So she is an adult. But even then, she started too early. You’re supposed to share your first time with someone you love with all your heart.”

“But what if I never find that love?”

“Come on, Twilight,” Andrew said, finally believing everything Luna had told him about the mare, “you don’t need to think like that.”

“But I’ve never even been in a relationship! I haven’t even had a stallion tell me he thought I was pretty...”

Andrew let out a sigh. This mare certainly was difficult.

Just like the women back on Ear—

His thoughts halted just as quickly as they had begun. From what Andrew knew, the mares here acted just like the girls on Earth. And Twilight was the typical nerdy girl. Very insecure about herself, and unwilling to admit that she was good looking.

“I’ll be the first one, then.”

“W-what do you mean?” Twilight asked through her sniffles.

“Twilight, for a pony you’re very pretty, if that means anything.”

This, of course, got a smile out of the mare. After a few seconds, she finally had the confidence to ask him a question, a huge grin on her face as she did so. “You think I’m pretty?”

“Don’t go telling everyone, but yeah. Actually, I need to tell you why Luna brought me here.”

“W-why’s that?” Twilight asked, suddenly consumed by worry for her newest friend.

“She, uh, she brought me here to be with someone,” he began, unsure of how to tell Twilight Luna had brought him here so they’d fall in love at first sight. Of course, he wasn’t going to just start making out with some girl he had never met. Let alone one of another species. Maybe he could ask her on some sort of mock date. A way to figure out what he was feeling.

“She brought me here to be with you,” he quickly spat out before looking away, a blush coming to his face. Twilight fell victim to the same red hue adorning her cheeks, but she was determined to talk to Andrew.

“She brought you here to... be with me?”

“Y-yes,” Andrew stuttered out, hardly believing that he trusted her enough to tell her already. But after a few seconds, he let out a sigh.

Twilight could tell something was on his mind, and cocked her head in confusion. “What is it, Andrew?”

Andrew’s mind betrayed him, however, and the next word that came out of his mouth was “Nothing.”

“O-okay then,” Twilight stuttered out, confused as to why Andrew had suddenly decided to keep his lips sealed. He was definitely hiding something from her.

As Andrew mentally berated himself, he heard Twilight say his name. Cocking his head towards her, he gestured for her to say what she wanted to.

“T-thank you.”

“For what?” he asked, confusion filling his voice.

“For calling me pretty. Nopony has ever called me that before, so it means a lot coming from somepony as different as you.”

He let out a hearty laugh at that before getting up and beginning to put on clothes over his boxers. “Why don’t we have some breakfast, Twilight? Maybe you can tell me more about your friends.”

“I think I’d like that,” replied Twilight, a smile adorning her features.

And so, when Andrew was done getting dressed, the two walked and trotted downstairs respectively, ready to start the day off.

---

Twilight set down a tray of food in front of Andrew before taking a seat opposite him. He looked down at the food that she had prepared. Just a simple breakfast. Eggs, toast, and some orange juice.

“Thank you, Twilight,” he said with a smile before digging into his eggs hungrily. It felt like he hadn’t eaten in weeks.

“Are eggs okay?” Twilight questioned Andrew, hopeful that he had the same tastes as ponies.

“ These eggs are fantastic. Where’d you learn to make them so well?”

“Back when I lived in Canterlot, Princess Celestia taught me and Spike how to cook for ourselves. Of course, since he’s my number one assistant, he always ended up doing the cooking. Doesn’t mean I forgot how to make them, though.”

By the time Twilight had finished her little story, Andrew had already chowed down on all of his eggs, and was halfway through his toast. The whole display made Twilight giggle a little, and Andrew laughed embarrassedly before downing half of his orange juice in one enormous gulp. Going back to his toast just seconds later, he engulfed it within seconds before going right back to his OJ, gulping down the rest of it in an instant.

As he wiped his face off with a napkin, Twilight stared slack jawed at him, astonished that any one creature could eat a meal that fast. Discord himself would be hard-pressed to match such a feat. But she shook herself to get rid of the shock, and pointed at the front door of the house.

“Since you’re already done, and I don’t know how, maybe you could go to Rarity’s boutique and get fitted for some clothes.”

“Can you tell me where to go? I don’t think these ponies would like a big, scary human wandering around town for hours not knowing where he’s going,” he joked.

“J-just turn left when you leave and take a right when you reach the end of the market. You should see a bridge, just cross that and you should see it.”

Andrew said his thanks and got up, putting his dishes in the sink. After doing so, he opened the door to the library and walked outside, ready for the journey to Rarity’s boutique.

Andrew had arrived at Rarity’s boutique without a hitch. He had been actually been shocked. He had expected something to go wrong, but nothing did. But there was the problem of the situation he was in at the moment.

“Tell me again. Why can’t I move?”

“Because, darling,” the alabaster fashionista began, “I need to measure you, and measuring a new species is a challenge in its own right.”

“But did you have to paralyze me?” he retorted, obviously annoyed at Rarity’s methods. As soon as he had arrived at the boutique, he had nearly been assaulted by the white mare. She had been so excited about designing clothes for a new species that she had almost pulled her mane right out of her head.

“Oh, please, Andrew, you tried running as soon as you saw me!” Rarity exclaimed, putting a hoof to her head, feigning hurt.

“Yeah, well trust me, any sane being would have run when they saw you pull out those scissors with that creepy smile you had.”

There was no denying that he was right about that. She had pulled out a pair of scissors from seemingly nowhere, and had giggled like a little school filly, all while closing in on the new human in town.

“And I told you already that I’m sorry for that, dearie! Now just relax, and this will be done a lot faster than if you keep trying to squirm around.”

Giving a defeated sigh, Andrew finally relented and relaxed the muscles in his body, his arms falling limp to his side. Almost immediately, Rarity went to work measuring him as quickly as she possibly could. Within just a few moments, it was finally over, and he was released from her magical grip.

“Th-that’s it? You’re done?”

“For now, but I still need to create some clothing for you. If you want, you can take a nap on my sofa until I’m done.”

After thinking on it for a few moments, Andrew decided to take her up on her offer and walked over to her sofa, swiftly lying down on it and closing his eyes while the fashionista did what she did best.

---

“Andrew.”

Upon hearing his name, Andrew turned around and saw that Luna had once again invaded his dreams.

“I know it’s a lot to ask, Luna, but seriously. Five minutes. Please, one of these days, give me five minutes to myself when I am dreaming, okay?”

Nodding slowly, Luna blushed in embarrassment. “I apologize, Andrew. I merely wanted to question you on what happened this morning.”

“Oh please, Andrew, even my sister knows. So bear with me, and answer my questions, alright?”

Pinching the bridge of his nose in frustration, he let out a sigh, sat on the ground, and nodded, signaling for Luna to begin her interrogation. Following his actions, she sat on the ground adjacent to him, and prepared to ask her questions.

“Thank you. Now, what happened after she lunged at you?”

“You mean when she assaulted my lips with her own?” replied Andrew, to which Luna gave a nod in affirmation. “I thought you said you saw everything, Luna.”

“To be honest, we immediately stopped looking in on you once that happened.”

“And why were you looking in on us in the first place?”

“My sister informed me that Twilight was entering her heat cycle, and that we needed to be sure nothing happened,” Luna quickly explained.

But that wasn’t good enough for Andrew. If they saw that something happen, why didn’t they intervene? Why did they let Twilight take advantage of him like she had?

“So why didn’t you stop her?”

Luna looked taken aback at Andrew’s question, and he couldn’t blame her. “Pardon?”

“You said you wanted to be sure nothing happened,” he recited, “so when she pounced me, why did you simply turn off your crystal ball or whatever the hell you two were using to watch us?”

“We were using our minds, Andrew, and it was because we thought you could handle it. Clearly, we were correct.”

Giving a sigh, Andrew chuckled. “Fair enough, I guess. But anyways, after that she started crying about, well, you know...”

“Attempting to molest you?”

Andrew gave another chuckle, but this one turned into a full blown laugh. “What is so funny, Andrew?”

Wiping a tear from his eye, he gave a response. “Nothing, Princess. I just... I’ve never met someone who could be so blunt before.”

At that, Luna giggled as well, a noise Andrew found strangely comforting. It reassured him that she was just like any other girl, not just some emotionless freak goddess.

“Well, how about you finish telling me about what happened. I can sense that Rarity is nearly done and will wake you shortly.”

“Alright, let me just give you a basic rundown. She cried, I comforted her, we ate breakfast, and then I came over to Rarity’s,” he explained swiftly, making the indigo alicorn giggle again.

“One last question before I go, Andrew.”

“Shoot.”

“Do you like Twilight?” came the question, and Andrew couldn’t help but give a smug grin. Before she had even asked the question, he had known it was coming. But hell, he may as well just answer honestly.

“Truthfully, I think I might, Luna,” was the genuine answer, which seemed to shock Luna, her eyes widening in response. But that phase ended quickly, and soon, she was hugging him.

“That’s great, Andrew! But it’s time for you to wake up. And I’ll honor your wishes. Don’t expect to see me again tonight.”

“Thanks, Luna,” was the last thing Andrew said before being jolted awake.

At last, he had finally gotten that off of his chest, and admitted that he had a crush on that darned mare. Things were looking up. That is, until he heard the frightened yelling of a certain fashionista.

God. Damn it. What now?!

Well that was anticlimactic. Turned out Rarity had screamed like a maniac because a butterfly had flown into the boutique and landed on her snout.

A BUTTERFLY.

Seriously, she’s toppled villains like Discord and Nightmare Moon, but a butterfly is where she draws the line? And she had tried to kill it, too! Andrew had had to put the poor thing back outside himself before that evil mare could do any harm to it. Oh, but that wasn’t the only strange thing that happened to him that morning.

After that, she had given him his clothes and he had left the boutique, only to be assaulted by some aqua colored mare with a lyre on her ass, conveniently named Lyra, who wanted to know what he was. Then, after he was done being interrogated, an anvil fell on his head. Now, obviously, he should have died, but the physics in this new world saved him. All that happened was that he got a huge bump on his head, and some pony named Derpy apologized to him.

Just thinking back on the first one made him cringe. He had been walking home, and he had noticed Lyra from afar, talking to some friends, but he had paid her no mind. She, on the other hand, saw him out of the corner of her eyes and instantly ran over to him and assaulted him with very strange questions. Questions that no sane person OR pony would’ve asked.

Then he had had that anvil fall on his head. The mare who apologized, Derpy, seemed to be cross-eyed, and slightly childish. So basically, he couldn’t blame her for what had happened, since a moving company shouldn’t have hired her anyways. But her apology had been very sincere, and she had even offered to buy him lunch at some point. Graciously accepting her offer, he had asked if she could do so today, and she had accepted.

With that out of the way, Andrew had finally been able to continue on his journey with no further interruption.

But now he was back at the library, in the midst of a conversation with Twilight about the music on her world.

“So do you guys have any famous bands or musicians here or anything like that?”

“Well, a couple, but not too many. The biggest one though is Guns N’ Roseluck.”

As Twilight said the name of that band, Andrew’s jaw dropped. It couldn’t be possible. A pony version of his favorite band? There was just no way in hell. He had to be sure before he had a freakout.

“Guns N’ Roseluck? What, uh, what songs are they known for?”

“Well, I was reading an article about them the other day, and it listed their top seven songs...”

As Twilight trailed off, her horn began glow, and a magazine was levitated over to her. Flipping through the pages, she seemed to have found what she was looking for, and began speaking once again.

“Okay, their top song as voted by the fans is... ‘Sweet Foal o’ Mine’.”

Instantly, Andrew’s mind shut down, unable to comprehend the fact that a band exactly like his favorite existed on this planet.

“Andrew, are you okay?” asked Twilight, breaking him out of his stupor.

“Y-yeah, I’m fine. So, uh, do you have any vinyls of the band’s music?” he asked in response, eager to hear this world’s version of Guns N’ Roses. Sadly, though, she shook her head.

“I’m not into the kind of music that they play. But if you want, we can go get a few of their albums,” she added in quickly, hoping to raise his spirits.

“Let’s go then, filly!” he exclaimed, getting out of the chair he’d been sitting in for the last hour and making his way to the door. Twilight let out a giggle at his behavior and quickly followed him, opening the door and trotting out, taking the lead, with Andrew following close behind.

“So, Andrew, tell me, why are you so interested in a band that you’ve never even heard of before?” Twilight inquired.

“Well, a band called ‘Guns N’ Roses’ exists on my planet, and the name instantly caught my attention,” he swiftly explained, causing Twilight to go off on another one of her monologues. Something about parallel worlds with certain things in common and whatnot, but over just a few days, he had learned how to tune out her outlandishly long monologues.

“...and with that said, I think it’s safe to say that our world may share more similarities than just this band!”

“That’s interesting Twilight,” responded Andrew, having gotten the basic gist of what she had said just from the last sentence. “I guess we’ll find out as I get more and more adjusted to Equestria.”

After a few more minutes of walking and talking, the two arrived at the record store, and went inside.

---

Meanwhile, in Canterlot, Princess Luna was sitting on her bed, having a chat with her big sister.

“For the last time, ‘Tia, I do not know what he and Twilight are doing right now.”

“But, Luna,” began Celestia, “what if they’re off causing trouble, and doing things that they shouldn’t be?”

“Sister, we both know that Twilight would never willingly do something wrong,” Luna retorted, more than prepared for her sister to ask yet another question, since she knew that she would.

“But what if he’s getting into trouble, and she gets involved, Luna?” Celestia asked, confirming her younger sister’s prediction that, yes, she would ask yet another question.

“Sister, that is enough! If Andrew gets into trouble, then we shall deal with it accordingly.”

“But—”

“No buts!” Luna exclaimed, cutting of her sister. “Until he actually does something wrong, I don’t want to hear any more out of you!”

Letting out a frustrated sigh, Celestia finally relented and trotted out of the room, leaving Luna alone. Luna knew her sister had been under stress the entire week due to her talks with the Gryphon leaders going less than swimmingly. Soon, she would see that Andrew was not a trouble maker. She would see him just as Luna saw him.

A very good friend.

“That’ll be twenty bits,” a white unicorn with a radical blue mane and violet shades said.

Twilight Sparkle quickly handed the mare the respective amount without hesitation as Andrew stood by his lavender friend, analyzing this new form of currency quietly. It intrigued him how these simple coins of gold didn’t cause any type of commotion with ponies, considering that gold was highly valued from where he was from.

Of course though, he still kept in mind that this wasn’t his world.

“Thanks,” the white unicorn said as she handed Twilight a brand spanking new record of Gun’s N’ Roseluck with a smile, “You’re really going to enjoy that one. I bounced my mane to that quite a few times.”

“Not surprising to hear that from you Vinyl, but it's not really for me,” Twilight chuckled.

So her name is Vinyl? Fitting name to have for owning a record store, Andrew thought to himself.

He could only deduce that this pony had some talent within music or having an affinity for the sort.

Vinyl laughed along Twilight as she took off her shades and revealed her moderate cerise eyes as they glanced over to Andrew.

“So then it must be you then? You must be the human everypony has been chatting about earlier then,” Vinyl said.

“Yeah, that would be me. My name is Andrew,” he answered politely.

He was actually quite pleased that Vinyl wasn’t making a big deal about him being a human and treating him as if he was just another person. . . or pony.

“Yeah I’ve heard,” Vinyl said with a friendly smile, “Lyra stopped here after meeting you and was telling me all about how you two met.”

“How she ‘met’ me huh? I wouldn’t exactly describe it that way,” he chuckled.

“Oh no,” Twilight said as she shook her head and looked over to Andrew, “So you met Lyra already?”

“Yeah. . .” Andrew said, not really wanting to get into the details of his earlier encounter and interrogation with the aqua unicorn, “On my way back from Rarity’s.”

“I guess I should’ve warned you about her. She kind of has an obsession with humans.”

“Yeah,” Vinyl added, “She’s a bit crazy when it comes to you guys.”

“I gathered as much,” Andrew replied with another laugh of his own.

“So where are you staying in Ponyville Andrew?” Vinyl asked as she put her shades back on.

“I’m staying with Twilight at the library.”

Vinyl grinned slyly at the two.

“Staying with Twilight huh?”

Both Twilight and Andrew immediately caught what Vinyl was implying with her grin and Andrew was the first to speak and dispel any crude thought that the mare had in her head.

“It’s not like that at all. We’re just friends,” Andrew informed.

But was that the truth?

Despite the kiss fueled from Twilight’s hormones and telling the mare that she was actually quite pretty, which was really no lie, Andrew didn’t view the both of him as nothing more than just progressing friends.

So what about Luna and her belief?

She told him that Twilight may be his soul-mate and though he still wasn’t convinced of such a bold statement, he couldn’t deny that there was now that very small part of his mind that was beginning to tell him that Luna may have been onto something.

Regardless, he was not one to just assume things. He didn’t leave things to chance. Time would only tell and for now they were just friends.

“Yeah,” Twilight agreed innocently, “I’m just helping him get more acclimated with our social norms and such.”

Vinyl kept her sly grin, but nodded and acknowledged the two’s answers.

“Heh, alright then. Well I’ll stop holding you two up. I’m sure you want to get that record spinning sometime today.”

“I’ second that,” Andrew added, more than eager to hear what this record sounded like and to see if it was anything like the Guns N’ Roses he loved back from his world, “You ready to go Twilight?”

She happily nodded as she took the record and diligently placed it in her saddlebag.

“You two have fun,” Vinyl said with a certain tone as the two made their way to leave the record store.

Andrew simply rolled his eyes hearing the unicorn’s suggestive tone as he exited through the glass double doors along with the lavender mare beside him. It was just easier to let Vinyl have her own assumptions about the two than trying to reinforce the fact that him and Twilight were only friends.

Besides, trying to argue on something relatively small would only make him look like an ass and he didn’t want to do that, especially in front of Twilight. They were just now developing a good friendship, trying to find each other’s similarities and differences, and last thing he wanted to do was screw that up over trivial issues.

Everybody has an opinion, even ponies.

Andrew and Twilight began walking on the dirt path, making their way back to Twilight’s tree house as ponies around them went about their lives with a few that haven’t seen him giving him quick glances, but he paid no mind.

He was more excited to get back to the tree house and listen to what this record had to offer and if it was anything like his favorite group back in his world, he was going to enjoy it with his new friend.

“Hey, you think I can see that record real quick?” Andrew asked as the two walked.

“Sure,” Twilight happily answered as she levitated the record out of her saddlebag and put it into his hands.

The record was no different from the ones he knew. It had the same shape, texture, and even the same label, with the exception of the name.

“I have to admit, I’m still quite surprised that your world would have something so similar to Guns N' Roses.”

Twilight simply chuckled.

“What’s so funny?” Andrew inquired.

“Nothing,” Twilight answered with her signature friendly smile, “I was just wondering what other things could be similar to your world. It's simply amazing that though our worlds are so different, but yet can share some similarities at the same time."

“Yeah, I think you gave a whole lecture about that earlier. The whole parallel universe thing you know?” Andrew pointed out as he gave back the lavender unicorn the record back after admiring it’s glory.

“I know, but it just makes me wonder is all.”

The two continued walking, taking a turn here and there, even passing by a very eerie stallion that seemed to have a passion for rubbing jelly on himself. Andrew simply took in his surroundings, making mental marks in his mind of what was what. If this new world of equines was going to be his new home, he wanted to know how to get to places and such by himself.

Twilight on the other hand seemed to be lost in distant thought, pondering something that seemed to now consume her mind.

It wasn’t until they took a turn on the path that led directly to Twilight’s home that Andrew took notice of how silent it was between the two. He took a glance over to the unicorn and noticed she seemed to be staring off into space as they got closer to her home.

“Hey,” he began, “ You been quiet for a bit. Is something wrong?”

Twilight snapped out of her inner thoughts and looked at him and smiled coyly.

“Oh! No, nothing is wrong. I was letting my mind wander off, thinking about what you told me about your world.”

Andrew couldn't help but laugh, seeing that this unicorn was still stuck on such a concept.

“Look, I think about things a lot, but you take the cake when it comes to thinking too much.”

Twilight simply smirked at his jest as the two made it to her oak wood door.

“Well I rather think too much than none at all,” Twilight said.

“Well of course, I was just saying was all.”

It was kind of ironic.

The girls that Andrew had met in his past weren't exactly the brightest. Well, not really bright at all. They were more concerned with popularity and their glorified ignorance showed no bounds. Anytime he tried to have some type of intellectual conversation with one, they would simply give him some dumbfounded face or some answer to the degree of if he liked their new shirt.

But now as he looked upon this equine scholar, he was starting to realize that though Twilight was a pony, her intellect was astounding. She was a critical and abstract thinker as he was, though, certainly not on her level.

A characteristic he was now enjoying.

Of course, he wasn't going to admit that she was smarter than him by any chance, but he certainly didn't think that he was smarter than her either.

“I understand,” Twilight said, “But can I ask you something real quick?”

Andrew nodded his head.

“Yeah. Shoot.”

“Considering that we both are trying to get to know each other better, I wanted to ask if maybe you would like to join me in some star watching tonight.”

Andrew cocked his brow in curiosity.

“You study stars? Astronomy?”

Twilight smiled warmly once more.

“Yes. I kind of have an affinity for stars and planets. I usually come out to look at them and watch what they do along with constellations if I have the chance.”

Andrew couldn’t say that he really ever studied stars, but it wasn’t to say that the topic itself wasn’t interesting. Besides, though not knowing much of the topic, he didn’t see any reason not to do so.

“Alright, I’m up for it. I admit I don’t know much about Astronomy, but I’m happy to learn.”

Twilight’s eyes lit up and an inexplicable wide smile spread across her face.

“Really?!” she blurted, “So you would be willing to study stars with me?!”

“Yeah, why not?” Andrew said, not getting why the mare seemed more than excited that he agreed to her simple offer.

“Heh, I’m sorry,” Twilight apologized with embarrassed blushing cheeks, “It’s just not many would want to do such a thing. They see it as boring.”

“Well I don’t. If it’s a chance to learn something new, then why not? Even if it is boring, wouldn’t it be better to try it first and find out if it is than just assuming that it will be?”

“Great!” Twilight exclaimed, “I’ll start right now getting everything set up for tonight! Oh this is going to be so exciting! I have to get my log, my telescopes, protractor. . .”

“Twilight?” Andrew tried to say as she continued on, but the mare was lost in her own excitement and her overactive, intellectual mind.

“And then maybe we can map out the Andromeda galaxy! Oh there’s so much to be done! I have to get started and prepare!”

Twilight was a bundle of excitement and joy and lost within her own thoughts and goals for tonight, she quickly entered the door and left Andrew by himself outside the door, dumbfounded.

He blinked a few times as he comprehended what had just happened. He didn’t know if saying yes was the best idea now, but he could appreciate her passion for such a subject.

Even if it did seem a bit over the top.

But there’s still one thing that was on his mind as he entered the door and closed it behind him.

“Hey! Wait! Whatever happened to listening to that record?!”