>You finish just as Applejack returns, a large red stallion (who you assume to be the aforementioned Big Macintosh) follows her.
>"Well ah'll be darned!  Nice work!", she says as she surveys the field with a smile on her face.
>"Applejack!  You shoulda see it!  He had a lantern an' he...!"
>Applebloom's ravings are ignored as Applejack turns to you once more.
>"Go on to the farmhouse and relax a bit.  The friend o' mine that I mentioned earlier, Twilight?  She'll be here in a little bit."
>"She's the curious type, always eager to learn, so be prepared to be bombarded with questions.  I betcha she's never had an alien to study before, so you'll probably be a first for her!"
Hey, I'm willing to help her if she can help me.
>"Well, if there's anypony who can help you, it's her."
I appreciate it.
>"Don't mention it, now go on.  Git yourself cleaned up 'afore she gets here.  Ya' smell like burnin' dirt."
>You take a whiff of yourself.
>Applejack has a point.
>"Shower's on the second floor, towel's in the closet."
>You take her advice and proceed to the farmhouse.
>You enter and make your way to the stairs, you hear snoring coming from a nearby room.
>That must be Granny Smith.
>Applebloom talked about her while you worked, mentioned a lot about her and how she was tied to the history of the town.
>Named Ponyville, by the way.
>You make your way upstairs quietly (floating always helps), and entered the bathroom.
>You start the shower, and take off your ring, which causes your uniform to disappear, revealing you and your somewhat scorched clothing.
>Without the rings protection, the stench hits you full force, damn was Applejack right!
>You disrobe and enter the shower, you decide to ruminate on your thoughts while you bathe.
>Many great thinkers have done so, why should you not do the same?
>Applebloom was a nice child...filly...and she explained a lot to you about Equestria, ponies, "cutie marks", the various creatures that inhabited this world (sentient or otherwise) and the ruler of this place, a princess named "Celestia".
>There was some stuff that you weren't clear on but you chalked it up to a child's understanding of the world (seriously, raising the sun each morning?  Impossible...) and you would seek more information from this Twilight individual.
>In turn, Applebloom listen intently to your stories about Rann, Oa, and the Green Lanterns in general.
>She laughed quite a bit about your mis-adventures during basic training under Sergeant Kilowag.
>Yes, Applebloom was a good child, even if she was...
>...yellow...
>You didn't tell her about that.
>She wanted to know if you could make a balloon or something to make her fly, you declined saying it was an irresponsible use of your power.
>You were afraid to tell her of the weakness, the impurity.
>These were nice beings...but you still didn't completely trust them yet.
>You finish your shower and step out, only to realize you forgot to get a towel.
>Damn.
>No big deal, closet was a across the hall.
>You open the bathroom door...
>...and come face to face with a horned purple mare.
 
REWIND, Twilight's Perspective.
 
>You are Twilight Sparkle.
>Magus extraordinaire, Ponyville librarian, and apprentice to the one and only Princess Celestia.
>And right now, you are entering Sweet Apple Acres to verify something that you do not believe.
>Yesterday Applejack came to you and told you that an Alien had crashed into her orchard and that she knocked it out.
>As if that wasn't believable enough, she goes on about some magic device that he posesses that allows him to make objects of light with stunning speed and rapidity.
>You have seen a lot of magic in your day, but no one object could do the things that Applejack claimed it could at the rate she says she witness.
>It was simply impossible.
>But Applejack was also not known to be a liar (in fact, she was the element of honesty), so you at least agreed to come meet with him to see if you should bring this to the attention of the Princess.
>There was nothing else to do today, anyway.  Everyone else was busy with work, and nobody has seen Pinkie since she came running back into town claiming the need to make "preperations".
>Besides...on the off-chance that this was true...
>This could be Equestria's first contact with life beyond our own planet!
>Sure there were those sightings of blue boxes and Lyra's insane stories about monsters with five-digit "hands", but this would be done in an official capacity!
>True, genuine first contact!  Front page news!  Not gossip collum drivel!
>That is, if it was true of course.
>You hear Applejack and her siblings working in the North field.
>She seems busy, you shouldn't bother her.
>You'll just go wait in the farmhouse.
>You enter to two distinct sounds.
>Granny Smith's snoring.
>And a running shower.
>But everyone else was working in the field.
>But that means...
>No...you shouldn't...
>[But what if their bathing habits are different from ponies?!  That's valuable information you're letting slip through your hooves!]
>But that'd be rude, Inquisitively Curious Side, and besides we don't even know if it's an alien, it's probably some creature from some unexplored region of Equestria.
>[All the more reason to investigate!  No matter what it's true origin's may be, all testimony so far indicates that this is something nopony has seen before!  Besides, you have no idea what their social customs are like, who knows if they have a taboo about that kind of stuff.  Knowledge demands risk, Twilight Sparkle...are you prepared to take a leap in the name of Academia?!]
>...your argument is sound.
>You make your way upstairs as quietly as you can, hoping that Granny Smith's snoring and the shower hide the noise your movement makes.
>You approach the bathroom cautiously.
>Slowly.
>Inch by inch.
>You come closer to a greater understanding of the world around you.
>That's when the shower cuts, causing you to stop dead in your tracks as well.
>The door opens.
>And you go over the threshold of knowledge..
>First thing you learned?
>Their kind does have a taboo, as his rather loud scream has just informed you.