Daxter 2

by Grains on PZs plate

A life well spent

The words were hardly a murmur as Twilight said them. The Artifact Twilight found on Applejack's farm was propped in the middle of her library. The horse head statue that typically sat as a centerpiece to the room had instead been set on a nearby window so as to make room for the artifact. Crumpled notes littered the floor and columns of haphazardly stacked books were flanked all around the room.

Twilight Sparkle observed the object with unobstructable interest. After several tedious hours of study Twilight came to the conclusion that she was dealing with a piece of tech from an ancient, but very advanced civilization. "Predate? No predetermine? No...that cant be right either, horseapples!" Twilight slammed shut The Equis Rosetta and added it to the ever growing pile of literature next to her, no closer to deciphering the lettering engraved onto the artifact.

*yawn* "Good morning Twi-WHOA!" Spike awoke to the ever pleasant site of a mess that would no doubt be left to him to clean up, not that it mattered to Twilight. She was very blatantly unaware or unconcerned- or both, with the mess of a whole night and whole morning of thorough study and analysis. "Spike! I'm glad your awake. I need you to help me find some books. I've been up studying this thing for the past ten and a half hours. About 18 minutes of all that time has been spent searching for books, and Owlicious can only help out so much." An owl that would have otherwise gone unnoticed in the corner of the room gave a hoot in agreement.

"Slow down Twilight, you've been up studying what?" The purple dragon said walking down the stairs, noticeably agitated with the mess that he would be adding to . "This thing! I found it when I went to check on Applejack the other night!" The artifact had sat dormant for ever since Twilight left the farm. "This thing? Looks like a hunk of metal to me." Spike eyes the object with confusion and vague interest. "If only you were there Spike. Last night on the farm-"

"Aw geez. Spike, close up shop the best you can while I answer the door." Spike gave a grunt as he began picking up books and shelving them at an extremely brisk pace. Owlicious left his perch and helped put away scrolls as well. Twilight opened the door to her timid pegasus friend Fluttershy. "Hello Twilight, oh.....is this a bad time?" Fluttershy looked over Twilights shoulder to see the bustle of Spike moving back and forth behind the book frame, Owlicious making flybys as well.

"Hello Fluttershy. Everything's ok, just having Spike straighten up a little mess." Fluttershy saw Spike look at Twilight and roll his eyes before continuing his duties. "So what brings you here Fluttershy? We didn't have anything planned....did we?!" Twilight suddenly became a blur when she rushed to grab her planner, frantically flipping through the pages. "No no Twilight it's nothing like that I just-" Fluttershy began before she was interrupted. "Wow! Your pals almost as jumpy as Vin use to be." Daxter said rather bluntly.

Spike dropped the books and stared at Daxter, mouth agap. Twilight did the same. "What? There something wrong with me? I don't remember falling in another pool of Dark Eco since I've been here." Daxter began examining himself to make sure that there was indeed nothing wrong with him, then Twilight finally asked; "Flutershy...wh..what is that? And why is it talking?" "Twilight, this is uh...this is my new friend, Daxter. He's been looking for you and needs your help with something." Twilight looked at him and her initial confusion and shock was becoming curiosity and excitement. She prepared to bombard the ottsel with questions before he interviened. "You look pretty busy so I'll spare you the details. Basically long story short I came out of a rift on some piece of junk and landed here, wherever here is. And now I'm stuck here and need to get back home." Daxter looked at the purple mare, knowing how ridiculously outlandish his story was and feared that she wouldn't believe it.

To his surprise, she didnt laugh. She instead took a roll of parchment and a quill. "Your saying that you come from another world?" Twilight asked. "So it would seem." Daxter replied. Twilight couldn't believe that she was talking to an alien. Just thinking about all the things she could learn From Daxter excited her to no end. Then Twilight stopped for a moment and realized something. "Daxter can you look at something for me real quick?" She directed him to the bulbous object she discovered. "I found this on the farm among the debris of that machine, do you know what it is?"

Daxter stepped forward and looked at the artifact. "Sure. This is one of those Time Maps. Very important part if I remember correctly, but what's that wording?" Daxter jumped onto the table to get a closer look at the object. He scratched his chin as he read the text.

Daxter read it to himself a few more times. No closer to understanding exactly what it meant. "I'll bite. What's it supposed to mean?" Spike injected. "It sounds frightening." Fluttershy added in a shaking voice. Twilight merely uttered the word "fascinating" as she jot down more notes.

"We'll thats creepy. The other time maps I've seen didnt have this on them. Maybe..." Daxter reached out one of his fuzzy paws for the artifact. His hand got within inches of it before the artifact sprang open and all the gears began turning. Suddenly everything went dark as if someone had shut off the lights, the brightest object being the artifact in the center of the room. Fluttershy, very comically, jumped into Twilights hoofs, Spike jumping into Fluttershy's. Daxter fell backwards off the center table and made a backwards crawl from the artifact.

The Artifact shot a red beam from the top, becoming a holographic display like a monitor.

A very blurry, fuzzy picture soon came into focus. The audio was very choppy and near ineligible but the recording showed enough. Everyone stared horrified watching a very violent battle against dark, hulking beasts and small animals that resembled Daxter. They could make out muffled screams of terror and agony, and the snarling war cries of the dark monsters. "Wha...what is this, what are we seeing?!" Said a very hysterical Twilight Sparkle. Then, out of nowhere, our maybe all around them replied;