I wanted to stay here. I was happy. I was alive. I was laughing.
Then she spoke and I remembered that my ears weren't mine. "Let me guess, you're Rainbow Dash."
I tossed a cackling dragon whelp off my back and stood tall. "The one and only!" Hovering up, I gazed excitedly into her violet eyes. "Why, you heard of me?"
"I heard you were supposed to be keeping the sky clear!"
With a sigh, the lavender unicorn proceeded to introduce herself, but I was suddenly jarred by an alien voice seeping in over the golden thatched rooftops.
"Belle, your heart is the calmest it's been in days of sequencing. Can you describe where you're at?"
"Yeah, yeah. That'll be a snap! I'll do it in a jiffy! Just as soon as I'm done practicing!"
"Belle, concentrate. You're a sequencer. You can function independently from the subject."
I heard the raspy voice chanting excitedly about some group of expert fliers. However, I had become lucid, and I couldn't fixate on the unicorn or her violet eyes anymore. With a heavy heart, I allowed myeslf to become Bellesmith again and spoke in a ghostly voice outside of the sphere.
"She's home, Dalton. I don't know the name of this place or where it is located, but this is her home. She's... happy here."
"She is just a normal pegasus, then? She isn't some kind of—"
"It's been a long, long time since she's been happy. She laughs and she flies and... and..."
"And what, darling?"
"She lives. She lives, Dalton. There are no fences or electrical fields here. There is just an emerald landscape and a sapphire sky. I wish I knew this kingdom..."
"Let's take it slow, Belle. We're locating another sphere to send you."
"Oh, uhm... uh..."
"Yes?"
"Already? I... I am making a friend, I think. You should see her mane. It's adorable and hilarious all at once."
"If the sequencing works, your collective knowledge of the event shall develop a sphere of memories you can access at any time. We must proceed to the next sphere before there is a disconnect."
"I understand, Dalton. I am ready when you are."
"Alright, Belle. Initializing in t-minus five... four... three... two... one..."
Moving on so soon?
Why is only Rainbow Dash's name ever mentioned?
So Dash is DEFINITELY the subject, and the spheres are DEFINITELY her memories- or something like that. And these unicorns, using their sparks of magic, are exploring her memories? Eerie.
I cry every time.
So they're building up memories for their subjects/patients/whatever Belle is. But why? What purpose does it serve? They're talking about the "beloved," but there has to be more to it than that... right?
IIIIIt's Dashie's evaluation time!
So it appears that Rainbow Dash is now the confirmed subject. (Like we didn't know already.) Also, it seems that Belle likes her, which is good. But I'm still confused as to why these ponies are using these machines...perhaps to search through memories to find the Spark? Or the beloved? These are my thoughts so far.
-MASH
Still looking for the Spark, which supposedly RD has it, and is needed for the Machine. hmm.
what the hell happened to the world, is happening, will hapen?
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I'm still curious about their motive and goal. Like you or someone said before they might be researching about this underground machine.
We also have some tidbit of information of their location, more proof that this takes place to that city that Axan mentioned?
Also you guys said that this might be from a distant future, I still think it might be a direct sequel here.
'Sequencing' with RD by going through her memories from an early-on accessible memory? Sounds familiar. Not that I'm complaining - I loved Assasins Creed's storyline. For the first game, anyway.
Forty weeks since the last comment. This series deserves more recognition!
Yay - Dashies back - sort of.
So maybe the memories are being sequenced with Bellesmith. I wonder what they're trying to find?
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Your current avatar fits your comment almost too well.
Twilight is indeed adorable and hilarious at the same time.
Gosh, this line just cut straight to me heart. This poor mare.
This story reminds me of the Assassin's Creed over-arching plot line; reliving memories of a subject via a machine. The use of the word "sequence" even feels like a direct reference.
Aw, I wanted to see more.
6134088 then just watch season 1, episode 1 again.
Okay, so we're approaching The Host levels of life-spying here, and Belle's clearly showing a bit of RD envy.
Honestly, who can blame her? I'm having RD envy, and I'm not even a horse. Man, imagine what it'd be able to fly at any time, jsut cause you felt like it...
...What!? Sorry, I zoned out. On with the story!
Heck, even Winry could probably take this 'Queen Ledo'...
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I'm getting the vibe that it's a lot more than RD...it's the freedom offered by Equestria. Belle mentioned fences and electric fields. Sounds like quite a dystopian world Belle lives in.
How much you wanna bet her shift of spheres isn't gonna go accordingly?
We've already seen she's been infected by chaos, it's only a matter of time...
"if things work out" is never something you want to hear when doing things like diving into anothers memories
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Or anything mental fiction thing.
I already told you but I'll say it again! You're going to want to get out of Dash's head real quick here. Last pony who dug around in her memories was an alicorn demigoddess and it didn't exactly go over well...
okay revising theories from previous comment. i think they're using memories of all the different rainbow's across the different dimensions/universes/multiverse or whatever.
i still feel like im wrong though, it's either i missed something because of how i read or i simply haven't arrived at what needs to be read for me to be correct or closer to being correct.