Through the Looking Glass (MLP)
Chapter 6: Forgotten History
It had been almost a month since Wayne’s arrival in Equestria and been using his name Electuroo the name that everyone uses now to address him, he usually spends his time helping Rainbow Dash with her duties and recently made home close to where she stays in the cloudy areas around town. He grown to liking it to living at Ponyville since things settled down, no one seem to really mind that he came from a completely different world and in fact many asked about it and he couldn’t really say much since this world was far better to live in the one he was originally in.
Electuroo sat in front of the desk writing out a bit more on his own personally journal and gotten use to using his mouth to write with the quill. He just finished up and put the journal away when he heard a knock “Must be Rainbow Dash” he walks over to the door and opens it “Thought so” he laughed “I mean hi”
“Guess it getting too predictable isn’t?” she laughed a little walking in and took a smell “From the smell of that you finished cooking some of those apple pancakes and wrote a bit more in your journal, right?” Rainbow Dash walked with him to the small dining room and sat down opposite to him.
“Guess I am predictable” he laughed a little. “Tomorrow be my first month being here and the arrival of Wind Note”
“Yeah that right” Rainbow Dash ate some of her pancakes “Now that hits the spot for a breakfast, you know you don’t have to keep doing this for me, I can make my own you know.”
Electuroo swallowed “I know but it doesn’t beat eating with somepony” he smiled
“Yeah I take ya on that” she replied “It sort of thing you own me for allowing you to help me out in my duties for Ponyville” Rainbow Dash said with a smirk
Electuroo rubbed his hoof on his head a little “Yeah point taken, so what on todays to do list?”
“Nothing, it our day off so I thought I’d treat you to somewhere cool and when I say” she put her hoof on the table “I mean somewhere really cool.”
Electuroo tilt his head a little “Oh and where would that be?”
“It a huge cave I found not too far from here unexplored so there no telling what inside” Rainbow Dash said to him “Up for the challenge of exploring somewhere new and mysterious like Daring-Do”
Electuroo turn to her as he moved the plates on top of each other and scooped them up in his front legs flying up a little “You’ve been reading more of his adventure novels? I have to say I picked up a few of the books myself and read them, usually I didn’t read much stories but played video games, write stories of my personally choice and draw when I had hands” he went into the kitchen when talking to her. “But I have found a way to draw again though”
She peeked into the kitchen as he was finishing up washing the stuff and putting it on the drying racks “Oh I got to see”
Electuroo takes her to a book and opens it up for her “Here you go”
Rainbow Dash saw a coloured drawing of her speeding right towards the paper edge “Whoa you did that?” he nods as he finish tiding up “This is amazing you know, how did you find the time?”
“Late at night sometimes or when I get up, always when I am home I guess.” He paused looking around “Wow when did I start calling this place home” he turn to her
Rainbow Dash after looking through more drawings put the book away turning to him “The moment you moved here I guess, it was kind of Princess Celestia to find you a place of your own”
Electuroo looked around once again “Indeed. Even if this is a story I am happy to be here” he sighed.
“What is that suppose to mean?” Rainbow Dash frowned with a little confusion.
Electuroo put his black and brown jacket on “Oh it something I always thought of since I was a kid, that every thought every story or even every choice someone makes creates that world yet it been around forever.” He explained “It might sound silly but explain how a cartoon reality and realistic reality are magically linked by mirrors?”
“Ok you got me on that one, it sure gets confusing when you speak like that but hey your cool either way, you sure always think in the clouds” Rainbow Dash said going to the door “So are we set?”
Electuroo put a bag on over her with her cutie mark sign on the side of it and put his on over his back “Now we set” he said standing beside her “This stuff we got will come in handy for how dark it could be, any real dangers there could be and anything we can collect” Electuroo said to her “Think of it as an advantage novel like the one of Daring-Do”
“Oh yeah this is going to be the… Best… Day… Ever!” Rainbow Dash flies out of the door and Electuroo turn to close the door and leaves following after her letting Rainbow Dash take the lead.
Earth… London…
Night was starting to fall on the city of London in the United Kingdom and things was very tight all over as it was only three days till the next mirror that would appear and now the world was set and posed onto the capital to watch this happen in the final countdown as the area close to the millennium bridge near the square where the art gallery was at all closed off from the public already.
The Army operations truck was parted just close to the area. “Only 2 days and 12 hours to go…” the General turn to the clock then to Mich, Maxine and Luna Flint “This image on the book shows all this tension as if we in some stupid game of role playing” he said looking to the book on the table before them.
“Indeed my people concluded what Mich was saying about this being the only last time someone crosses over” Maxine took her glasses off “Your parents are quite annoyed by this but it seems they have little choice in the matter”
“I already made the choice myself so they couldn’t really tell me not to, they giving me their full support though” Luna Flint look out the shaded windows seeing that the crowds keep going and coming but mostly the Bronie fan base camping out as well some furry fan bases. “Guess when Electuroo said there is endless possibilities that our lives could be very well be a story guess that what he meant by this”
General turn to him “The theory of endless Earths? The one that says that every action has a reaction or the imagination of creating a world of fiction is real as you and I” General sat down taking his cap off and putting it to the side “If I haven’t been with you lot for all this time I wouldn’t believe it myself and only now the makers of Magic of Friendship agreed to help us out… guess they don’t think magic crazy anymore”
Mich looks on the computer “I thought I never use one of these things but since this all begun with my son it came something of a need… I haven’t worked at the store for over 8 months… it strange being out of work yet having a comfortable living with the family at that creepy house”
“If it wasn’t for you and your family this wouldn’t had progress as far as we needed it to” Maxine said to her “At least you been able to keep in contact with him”
Mich smiled “Yes I have but soon he will have a good friend to join him there” she turn to Luna Flint when speaking. “So I gather you got some dreams?”
“Yeah and I hope it works out when I get there” he smiled
Mich stared out of the window wondering about her son and how he seem to be close to Rainbow Dash every time they talked via video link and wondered if her son would ever think about returning to their world or make the choice to join him. This made her wonder even more now then ever thinking about how things be effected in the next 22 months to come then it made her eyes widen. “22 months…”
They turn to her “What?”
“After today it be another 22 months before all the mirrors appear then most likely 22 hours later they all become active, don’t you think it a bit strange how everything fits to 22?” Mich turns to them.
General thought about it for a moment “Your right, but what does it all mean though?”
“That the thing we do not know” Maxine said looking at the book. “The only way is to look at all or anything about magic from the old times, even legends in fact”
“Who would have thought that people would be starting to believe in that stuff once more…” they look to Luna Flint when he said it then each other knowing that was a point to be taken.
Equestria…
Electuroo and Rainbow Dash arrives at the mountain side and entering through a hole in the ceiling they land inside the cave “We finally made it” Rainbow Dash said looking around “Pretty dark though”
Electuroo smiled and turn his head and pulled out a head lamp and turned it on putting it on Rainbow Dash’s head “That should keep things lit up”
“Sure would, did you put that mark on the helmet?” seeing her cutie mark on the side of it before Electuroo put it on her.
Electuroo put his on and nods “yeah I think it give theses helmets a personal touch don’t you think?”
Rainbow Dash laughed “Sure would” then turn to see Twilight right in her face “AH!” she leap back “What the heck are you doing sneaking up on me like that!”
“Sorry Rainbow Dash didn’t mean to, Pinkie Pie told us what you told her and we came here to explore it too” Rainbow Dash tilt her head to the side and saw them all standing there. Waving a hoof at her and Electuroo “Like the helmet though”
Electuroo rubbing his side of his face “Thanks but if I knew you guys was coming I could of got the others”
Rarity came up to him “Wait you got a matching set for each one of us? What have you been doing in your free time?”
“Oh just trying to make gifts for all my friends that might come in handy too” he said sheepishly to them.
“Well now isn’t that sweet always thinking about his friends, you sure always put your own time aside for others don’t ya?” Applejack said to him. “Well since ya have the lights you two will lead the way”
“Yay follow the leader!” Pinkie Pie yelled and the place rumbled a little
A rock fell in front of Electuroo and broke to show a sum of rainbow coloured crystals and the sun light through the hole reflecting off it to create a rainbow on the cave walls “A geode and a big one at that” he said looking at the multi-coloured crystals shimming.
Rarity eyes was sparkling at the sight of it “it reminds me of when I got my cutie mark all those years back”
Electuroo picked up both pieces and put them in his bag which weighted him down one side a little “Here let me take one for you” Rainbow Dash took one half out and put it away in her bag.
“A shame we didn’t have a cart” Rarity sighed
“What about this?” Fluttershy said turning to what looked like a carriage but had strange pieces all over it with a handle on the front with a cargo carriage attached to it “It strange but I think it could hold a lot of those geodes”
Electuroo blinked as he studied it. “What is it?” Twilight said with wonder
“A 1903 horseless carriage” Electuroo said to them they looked over to the yellow pony. “I read about it in the history books and some TV programs that around 1890s the first non-horse powered carriage was made which soon after became vehicles like cars, buses and lorries that run on a fuel called petrol from crude oil”
“This is from your world isn’t it!” Pinkie Pie moving fast around him “isn’t it?” she was left of him then right of him then in front of him “Tell us! Come on!”
Electuroo laughed a little “Ok ok I think it is but this is an old vehicle so it must run on stream power from the look of that giant wheel and that pipe which means we need coal” Electuroo said looking up and down and around it. “but this thing look like it been sitting here for at least 100 years or so…” then he paused seeing what look like remains of clothing. “Oh…”
They all gathered and saw what look like a large pair of jeans with boots and a farmer hat and white button shirt “What happened did the fellow just got his clothes off and leave?” Applejack said lifting up a boot and star dust floats out and fades away then she looks to see nothing in there.
Twilight recalled what Mich said “I think I know what happened, humans can’t live in our world that what the mirrors for, they allow them to become our kinds like Electuroo here, so if this got here without a mirror the poor soul must of turn to star dust”
“Oh mine what a horrible way to go” Rarity felt a little sick “I think we should leave this dreadful place in respect for those that no longer around”
“I completely agree” Twilight replied but then they heard music turning to the dark end of the caves. “Is that music?”
“Sounds like an old western folk music to me” Applejack perked her ears up to listen to it.
Electuroo then recalled an event from the history books “There was an old story a mystery in my world in the USA there was an old western town that refused to let go of it’s ways suddenly vanishing off the face off the Earth” Electuroo replied it “I can’t recall the name but if that is the case then it must of ended up here some how…”
“How can something not going through a mirror arrive here?” Rainbow Dash said with wonder.
Twilight sighs “Look like we have to go in after all and figure this out. Careful girls this might get dangerous” then she heard them laughing at all pointing their hooves at Electuroo “And boy” she shyly said and they all trotted into the cave with Electuroo and Rainbow Dash leading the way with their head lamps on shining down the tunnel they walking down to.
Soon after about ten minutes of walking something seem odd from Electuroo eyes as he scanned the walls they seem to be shifting in detail and colour then he put his hoof out in front of Rainbow Dash stopping her and the others “What is it Electuroo?”
“Rainbow Dash, have you notice something odd about the walls and floor just around you and in front?” Electuroo stated and she looked around.
“Yeah it looks a lot different but still the same wall… how can that be?” Rainbow Dash about to take a step but Electuroo pulled her away quickly “Whoa what the matter with you?”
“Electuroo what is it?” Twilight saw what look like a line painted on the floor faded by still there but it looked half like their style of colour and the other looked a bit bland but still the same colour. “Is that what I think it is?”
“It is” Electuroo said turning to her
Rainbow Dash look to her right then to her left “Well tell us then!”
“That is the reality of the humans, it looks like a pocket of it existing in our world” Electuroo walked over to the line lowering his head looking carefully at the white line. “I wonder” he turn to the girls “If you used that amazing group magic of yours could we create a bubble that would keep us in sync with our reality?”
Twilight thought about it “Like when we used it to restore some of the land from that crazy beast. I think I get what you mean” Twilight turn to Rainbow Dash “Could you go get the Elements of Harmony and bring them back here?”
“Sure” Rainbow Dash about to leave when they heard a noise to turn and see a human standing before them an man who looks like he was well over 100 years old.
“So I did hear talking” he chuckled holding a pickaxe over one shoulder “Name’s Jock Apples” he said in an American accent “It nice to meet you nice younglings, come on over and I will take you all to our beloved town”
Twilight spoke up “Mr Apples sir we can’t, if we cross over we won’t be able to exist”
“Oh pish posh, that only from our world to your world, it doesn’t effect those from your world at all.” He said and toss a stone through and it changes colour before them to match their world taking 22 seconds to reform completely. “Now toss a stone to me”
Pinkie Pie does as he asked “Cool a game of changing rocks” she toss one over and he catches it and holds it up and as he said it didn’t change “Whoa…” her eyes grow big and then she jumped over the line and saw nothing happen then jump back then over laughing as she did it.
“See what I mean kiddos, it a one way road for us but for you it as simple as 1, 2, 3” he laughed a little “Poor Jack, he tried to get out of this town so long again and we watched him start to fade then nothing.”
Applejack thought about that name “Did he have a surname by the name of Applecrust?”
“He sure did” Jock said to her “Jack John Applecrust or…”
“JJ” both said together
“For short” he finished then blinked “Well how did you know that missy?”
Applejack then asked him “Did he by any chance have dreams to fly?”
“Yes but how did…”
Pinkie Pie still bouncing over the line listened as well having fun to what Rarity said “Applejack isn’t that the name that every called your grandpa and wasn’t he the only pegasus pony that was part of the Apple family?”
They heard the pickaxe fall and turn to Jock “My cousin lived as a Pegasus pony and not only was that he part of your family?”
“Ok seriously… my grandpa was human!?” Applejack looks to him.
“Well he was the one that always believed in magic and wishful thinking that why he took the horseless carriage through. So his crazy whacky idea worked after all” Jock laughing a little. “Well even if we couldn’t survive the crossing like he did we still got our home Dust Town”
Applejack turns to Electuroo “So it looks like my grandpa was the first”
“Guess so and what Jock said matched him to a T, he was always a whacky pony from what Granny Smith tells the family” Applejack recalled. “So he gave up everything human to be a pony. Wow wee now that a story to tell”
Jock chuckled “As happy it is to hear it time for you to all go”
“What about Dust Town?” Electuroo asked him.
Jock sighed “Dust Town still around but no one is, I am the last son. This world closes in as we speak and look behind me” they all looked to see what looked like their reality closing in on his. “You see I am not really here, I am more of an echo of the past. What you see is what was.”
“What do you mean by that Jock?” Rarity asked him.
Jock smiled kneeing down to them. “I am the past and you’re the present so figure it out” he tapped her noise.
Fluttershy knew what he meant “He a spirit” they gasped and looked at her then back at him “But what will have to you?”
“Oh don’t worry my shy friend. It just time for me to say goodbye and good to hear that one of us lived on a happy life” he laughed as he got up and walked towards the fast moving colour and picking up a guitar and starts playing as he walks on through showing his ghostly image as he played “Remember that life is amazing and always take the day as it comes cause you never know when it will come to an end and my pony friends one more thing”
“Yes Jock?” Twilight spoke with tears falling as everypony else started to shed tears.
“Tell your good old princess Celestia that Jock got his wish and keep all your friends close ok.” He turned with a warm smile as his spirit fades from them. “Time for me to join my family in the heavens above” he closed his eyes with the happiest look that anyone could have as he burst into light and fades off into the ceiling as they watched.
Then Pinkie pie looked ahead and saw town with water falling with ponies running what look like an crafting business with the geodes making crystal statues out of them and the sign they saw at the entrance and Twilight read it “Dust Town the town that crafts for a living” she read then looked at a pony with light golden fur with a dark black mane and tail wearing a cowboy hat like Applejack’s coming over to them with what look like a set of rainbow crystals on his rear leg.
“Howdy strangers to Dust Town, I am Geo Crafter the head man of crafting the famed crystal pony statues” he took off his hat and bowed to them. “We don’t offer get travellers to these parts” he put his hat back on.
“Erm this might sound strange but was there humans that lived here?” Twilight asked
Geo Crafter chuckled “I see you saw the ghost of the past, he sure loves to talk up a storm about this dear old town, in fact it was but our magic was never really believed and they just vanished part from two, the dear old ghost that never rest and his good old cousin as the legend goes”
Applejack smiled happily “Don’t worry about it sugar the dear old ghost Jock has finally found piece within himself and now join the rest of his family and towns folk in the heavens”
Geo Crafter smiled with delight “Well well missy it seems your part of that good Apple family that grow those amazing zap apples right?”
“Yep we sure are sir” Applejack said with a smile
“Then it was true, well I got a lot to show ya then and one of these fine rainbow statues will be given to your family free of charge” He turns and leads them into Dust Town. “Hey folks we got special guests and you wouldn’t believe it we have…” then he paused and whispers “Sorry girl what was your name again?”
Applejack laughed “I didn’t say sugar, the name is Applejack and it nice to meet ya” she put her hoof out to him and he return did the same and shook it with a equally cheerful smile as they all worked on into town.
Electuroo turn to the entrance of the caves and gasped nudging Rainbow Dash she turned as well with also shocked face seeing a ghostly image of a pegasus pony with the old man waving to them and them before turning to the cave and walking in together with the pegasus pony up on his hind legs with front leg around the old man back and same with the man’s arm as they disappeared completely
Electuroo turn to Rainbow Dash and they smirked at each other and then followed the others in without saying a word since nothing was needed to be said as they went in to visit Dust Town and given a tour by Geo Crafter.