Through the Looking Glass
Chapter 26: Prince Typhoon
The statue start cracking apart before their eyes with blinding light and with a explosion of energy the statue was destroyed; standing in it place was a navy blue pony with dark silver mane and tail with a cutie mark of the storm with two lightning bolts through it wearing the armour and helmet that the statue had on.
The pegasi removed his helmet with his front hooves placing it on the ground with his eyes scanning around seeing the group before him and as he took a step he almost fell, but got caught by the Alicorn with a silver coat and silver mane and tail, he stared into her eyes for what seem forever then he spoke. “Wh-what happened? Are the ponies safe? Did they escape before the lands sunk?”
The silver Alicorn smiled “It alright Prince Typhoon they did, in fact you been trapped inside that statue for over 6000 years”
He gasped “6-6-6000 years!? I been gone for that long…” he turn to the girls seeing the elements on them. “You’re the new element of harmony?” they all nod and bowed to him “No please don’t bow… I might be a Prince but I hate ponies or humans doing that… all ponies are equal in my view no matter what background they came from, so please don’t bow or call me Prince… just Typhoon”
“I believe that fair enough” he turn to another Alicorn this time she was wearing a crown and a vest crest like object “I am Princess Celestia the co-ruler of Equestria”
“Equestria? Never heard of such a place, well I guess it came around while I was imprisoned…” he turn to the girls “May I know the names of those that gracefully released me”
“I am Twilight Sparkle the Princess’s personal student studying the magic of friendship” Twilight said to him
He turn to the next “I am Fluttershy, I take care of animals”
Then he turn to the orange pony “Ah’m Applejack and this is my brother Big Macintosh”
“Howdy” Big Macintosh spoke with a slight bow.
“We run Sweet Apple Acres” Applejack spoke to Typhoon.
He licked his snout “Apples you say, now that something I would love to eat after being gone so long, I am not sure if your aware of this but apples are one of my most favourite things to eat”
“Well now partner, it seem that we got to treat ya to some” Applejack said to him.
Typhoon turn to Rarity whom been eyeing his jewel “I’m Rarity, sorry for staring but jewels are really amazing and dazzling”
“I see even in this time there others with a keen eye, for my thanks I gracefully give you this” he pulled it off with his hoof and gives it to her “Take care of it, it one of a kind family airloom”
“Oh I will, do not worry” Rarity said staring at the jewel which now belongs to her.
Rainbow Dash flew around and grinned “Name Rainbow Dash, the fastest thing to fly all over Equestria”
He chuckled “You remind me of the young black Alicorn with the same colour mane and tail as you called Rainbow Bolt, she flew so fast that she created a shockwave that was never seen before we never thought of a name since it was stunning”
Rainbow Dash gasped “Wait your telling me that another mare did it before me!? 6000 years ago!?” she was stunned “Oh my gosh this is soooooo awesome the legend of the Sonic Rainboom must of came from her!” the she was right in his face “Is she still around?”
“Well I can’t answer that; she lead the team through the mirror to help protect the humans, she and her twin brother Bounce Bolt and a selection of the most reliable ponies” Typhoon replied to her “Before I destroyed the Mirror with my hind hooves. I had to buck it to protect them from my sister…” he turn and look around “Where is she?”
Gold Dust and Gold Horn came up to him “My prince she still twisted as ever and darker…”
“We had to come to set you free” Gold Dust spoke after his brother.
Twilight saw him hug them back happily with both front legs “Oh my friends, my amazing guard friends it good to see you two again” he twirled around and put them down “Sorry…”
Gold Horn felt a little dizzy but smirked “Nothing to be sorry about Typhoon it good to see you again”
“How about it all time sack?” Gold Dust smirked
“Your on” Typhoon got up and they moved into a triangle and then place their hooves together and stood up on their hind legs and moving around together in sync.
“Together again together as one, we share in our hearts our friendship. Rain or Shine, chaos or order we are friends to the very end” then they cheered with their hooves raised and laughing as they stood back on all fours
“Oh I so love doing that, it makes me feel so young” Typhoon chuckled then saw a Earth Pony trying to sneak off “Princess and whom may this be?”
Discord gasped turning to see Celestia over him “Hi Celestia, I was just going to be on my way and…”
“Not this time Discord” Celestia said with a warm smile “Your going to forfill your sentence”
He smirked “Not a chance” he vanished before them.
Stardust shook her head “Should of knew it wouldn’t be that simple with him”
“Your telling me he could of got away at anytime?” Rainbow Dash said with a frown.
Stardust turn to the portal that opened before them “No the elements of harmony miss the target and hit the gold statue with my magic. So once this game of his was over he could of easily change back and escape” they turn to see Discord back to normal sitting there sticking his tongue at them.
“It been fun ponies but I’ve got my place right here” he then vanished.
“Can we just go home…” Rainbow Dash grumbled as they turn to the portal
“That was strange, the maze was rather simple to get through and Discord getting caught out like that? It doesn’t make sense even if this is the Realm of Dreams…” Twilight thought to herself thinking about how the maze was simple even if they forced into the game and it seem to be strange how Stardust caught him totally off guard.
“Alright lets go” Twilight choose to just ignore it for now and every pony turn to the portal and walk through it including Big Macintosh as they crossed they found themselves at the ruins of Isle Kingdom and the portal closing behind.
Typhoon gasped at the sight before him “Is this all that left of this kingdom… just ruins”
“Sorry partner but this been under water for a long time” Applejack said to him
He sighed “I can tell, at least the ponies and humans got away before the spell came. But my concern is that my sister had not enough magic to pull a whole kingdom below the seas, something must of helped her” he said looking around as the sun came out more with the breeze felt.
Twilight pulled out the legend book of the kingdom and read a piece “Well there was a bit here about something called ‘upon the Isle Kingdom that sunk shall raise the black flames of destruction and all shall reset for a new to begin’ and that part is creepiest part” she said and put the book back in her bag.
Gold Dust thought about it and look at them “It sounds like something from that…”
Pinkie Pie points “Oh lookie a new portal”
“What?” Twilight turn and saw a rift opening up before them and what they saw was a ship and no other then General Ricks and Maxine before them on the boat front.
Stardust couldn’t believe her eyes “General Ricks?” he spoke but no sound came and she shook her head showing she couldn’t hear him either from the reaction she got from him.
Earth/Isle Island…
General Ricks had spoke but then got a shake “We got contact but it seem that the rift is like a barrier… only piecing the vaul as it where”
Maxine was checking on the data “This is amazing we getting readings though”
“Increase energy output to maximum” Ricks ordered and the beam increased in power, the rift glowed for a second then he spoke “Can you here me?”
Stardust smirked “Oh I can now, how are you doing this?”
“It this device we was able to pin point the location of an 6000 year old give it a take a few years rift and we punched a hole through it” Ricks explained.
Twilight staring at the rift “This is amazing, I can feel the magic coming from this”
Unaware of it two gold birds was flying in from the ocean using the cliffs as cover on their approach.
“It good to speak to you in person to Twilight” Maxine spoke with a hand waving out to her.
Rainbow Dash flew through it and lands on the ship “Whoa this place is amazing, the touch and everything”
“jeez your crazy” Ricks felt rather shocked “How about you go back just in case this rift is unstable…”
Rainbow Dash smirked “Yeah ok, glad to step on another world though… hehe I am the first pony to do so since 6000 years ago, how cool is that. One small step for…”
“It already taken” Sargent spoke cutting her off.
Rainbow Dash sighed “Fine whatever solider boy” she flew back through the rift before he could say anything.
“Damn she fast” Sargent said then turn to Ricks “Sir I believe we should tell them…”
“Tell us what?” Typhoon asked.
Flashback
In the ship hold the book was placed in a large open area with the doors open above as oil was put all over the book. General Ricks watched as the book was drenched in oil. “Once this book is destroyed we will inform the ponies of their book and get them to destroy theirs…”
Maxine felt a little uneasy on destroying such an old book “Sir is this the only option?”
He turn to her “Sometimes destroying something is better then storing it away…”
“Usually I would tend to disagree but that storm is not normal and if this save lives by destroying it then so be it” Maxine replied taking the match box from Ricks “I will do it if you may”
Ricks step back a little to give her the space “by all means”
“Men step back” they did so quickly seeing Maxine lit the match “Time to change history” she toss it on the oil and in a flash the book was engulfed in flames “There goes the oldest book in the world”
General Ricks turn to leave “Good riddance”
Maxine gasped “Sir!” he turn around and saw the flames turning black before their own eyes and we a explosion that knocked over creates and sent both flying into the wall and land on their fronts.
General Ricks got up to see the book was untouched and the fire and oil all gone. “What the hell was that!?”
“I don’t know but it some sort of magic spell if my guess is to be good enough” Maxine replied looking to him with concern.
He picked up the book and turn to her “Now we do have a problem…”
End of Flashback
General Ricks begins to speak and as he does so Rainbow Dash notice something in the distance in their world coming closer and moving fast “it about the book it…”
“We got incoming!” Rainbow Dash yelled out pointing a hoof out to the two gold eagles flying right for their location.
“General you got to close your rift we got two magical eagle things coming our way!” Twilight yelled to Ricks.
General Ricks turn to Sargent “Shut the…”
The eagles was coming for Gold Horn and Gold Dust but instead hits the rift and instantly disappear.
Suddenly the rift starts to warp pulsing in and out and twisting. “General those things caused a overload in the systems I can’t shut it down! It overloading and we got 5 minutes max before it blows.”
Sargent move to the rift “Sargent are you nuts!? That rift is all over the place” Ricks grab him by the arm
“Sir we got to warn them and I am willing to try. Even it means living for seconds to give them the intel on that book, it too important” he looked serious and not going to budge.
General Ricks let go of his arm “Very well Sargent but there is a chance you might be turn into a pony and also may forget everything about what you really are… that thing is going crazy and the overloading energy build up made that rift very dicey…” he also knew there was a risk that Sargent would just vanish into thin air.
“I understand sir. Now get out of here” Ricks nod to him and both he and Maxine make a run for the chopper as the alarms goes off for the ship to be abandon. “Life is too short to waste, I will make this count” he runs at the rift and jumps through it.
Sargent’s Point of View…
As I leap through the rift it felt like I was crossing through it felt like my body was being twisted and pulled from all angles, the general wasn’t kidding when he said it would be dicey before I leaped into the rift. Suddenly I found myself free falling and landing hard on the ground, rolling around with the motion of the fall soften it.
“Twi look” I heard the orange pony speak and saw them all look at me.
Twilight gasped “What are you doing!? You can’t exist here!”
I struggled to get to my feet moving towards her feeling my body fading or rather lightness feeling as I got to her “Twi-Twilight… I cr-crossed over to give you a message… more important then me…”
She seem surprised what I said “Girls quiet, please tell me quickly…”
I fell and they held me up as I looked at each using their bodies to keep me on knees “The book… bl-black magic…. It crea-create events… it d-destroyed Atlantis… Black Phoenix…”
They gasped as Twilight through the book from my view on the ground “Then we must destroy it”
“I-it protected by… ma… power… magic… it two places at the…” I collapsed as they gathered around. “Ch-ang-e… change history…” I am not sure what I meant by that but I knew it came out of me as they stood over me.
Twilight smiled “Thank you sir… thank you” I could see tears but something felt wrong I felt huge amount of pain
“ARRR” I screamed feeling my body stopping to fade and glowed instead I could feel my mind surging with energy and it was seemingly wiping my memoirs as General Ricks told me I could feel the very human essence being ripped out of me. “I… SARGENT…” then everything went black in a blinding light and my own thoughts was... I got the word out
Normal POV…
Celestia watched what happened as now before them was a brown pony with a mark showing four stars with stripes of red and blue through them, with a tan green mane and tail with a horn on his head “He transformed… but how” Twilight was startled then stared at the rift still going crazy as it was pulsing in and out with bolts of lightning flying from it
Applejack and the others was backing around from the rift “Erm Twi how about we think of this later and get the heck out of here, that rift thin' whatiz is going crazy”
Stardust spoke up quickly “Princess, Twilight and Rarity this is going to sound crazy but we going to focus our magic into Twilight so she can teleport every pony here out of this place before that rift goes”
Twilight gulped “I never handled that much magic before… I don’t know if I can” Twilight felt rather nervous now but seeing the others looking to her, she knew then it was up to her.
“We know you can do it Twilight” Rarity spoke moving close to Twilight
Fluttershy smiled “You always got us out of tight spots even with those scary dragons you told me once”
“Yeah Twi you’re the best magic unicorn that I know of, you can do it” Rainbow Dash smirked putting her hoof on her shoulder.
Pinkie Pie giggled “Yeah you really know your stuff Twilight, like that one time you did with the minor and…”
“As she said” Applejack putting a hoof on her snout and laughing.
Stardust smiled “I believe your friends have the right spirit we got no time to waste”
“If only I had my magic I could help” Typhoon look up remembering what his sister did to him by stealing his magic, ripping the very alicorn magic from his body.
Gold Horn came up “If you like I will give my magic to help too” his glowing “We going to need a big teleport”
Gold Dust turn to the rift as it was twisting and warping faster with it growing then getting smaller then growing again “I know we all talking to give Twilight some encourgment but can we hurry this up that rift is really going weird”
Celestia could see it really going crazy now “The Isle Kingdom is going to be destroyed… that rift is extremely unstable…”
Big Macintosh jumped back as a bolt almost hit him “Yepee…”
Twilight stood in the middle of the four with their horns touching hers “Ready Twilight?” Celestia asked one more time.
“Not really but let do this” Twilight closed her eyes and they all did to letting loose their magic into her horn focusing it all in one point. “Whoa… this is… I need to focus on a place…”
Pinkie Pie spoke up “Fort Hooves!”
“Yes Pinkie Pie thank you!” Twilight beamed as the magic field appears around all the ponies gathered as she focused on that location. “Ok here goes nothing!”
Earth…
HMS Reckon was being evacuated as the pulse grow faster and bolts flying every where as General Ricks and Maxine got on the chopper as it takes off. They could see the other groups on the life boats racing away from the ship as they did seeing the rift going wild. “Implosion in 32 seconds” Maxine spoke out
General Ricks turn to the pilot “We got to move solider! Put everything you got into it”
“I’m trying sir we getting a lot of temperance” the pilot called out as he try to fly the chopper away from the ship right towards to storm wall. “Sir if we hit that storm wall we…”
Ricks narrow his eyes “I know… but we got no choice… go in”
Maxine saw the timer “Sir!!!”
Ricks turn to see it went to zero and he looked at the Reckon as a huge explosion of energy came out ripping the ship to nothing but atoms as the orb of orange energy came right for them “Everyone hold on tight!!!!” shockwave hit the chopper and set it out of control
“I can’t control her!!!” Pilot cried out as it span around, sparks flying as the chopper was sent on a freefall. “Grah! Come on baby you can do it!!!” the last thing they all saw was a beach as the chopper crashes and everything went black
Fort Hooves…
Just at the moment of teleport the rift explodes and in seconds the whole Isle Kingdom ruins, islands and part of the cliff where the castle was on was destroyed, Marshal Hurricane saw the blast and watched a massive orange orb of light as it disappears seconds later but to be knocked off his four hooves by a shockwave. He got up in horror “Oh no the Princess!” he then saw a bright light in the corner of his left eye to turn to see Twilight and all ponies at the ruins appear before him. “Oh my Celestia… I am glad you all alright, I just saw the explosion!”
Twilight feeling really dizzy fell on her rump “Whoa… that was some right…” she laughed a little then fainted.
Applejack caught her and smiled “Yeah we are sugar, it thanks to Twilight and the others with their magic that saved our hinds back there, that Goldenmare did a number on the ruins though”
Hurricane turn to the coast “I think it did more than that partner, I think it been totalled…”
Typhoon saw him and smiled “A Isle Pegesi” Hurricane turn to him with a widen eyes “I am Typhoon the prince of that kingdom now destroyed”
“Your highness” he bowed
“Please don’t I rather keep equal to other ponies” Typhoon smiled “So this is the present day?” he looking around “A nice town I must say from first looks”
“Oh you haven’t seen anything yet, Ponyville is just as amazing and just as cool and when we get there we going to have a big party!” Pinkie Pie said with glee bouncing around.
Stardust saw him looking at her again with a frown she spoke “Is something the matter?”
He glanced away “Sorry for staring, it just that I never seen a pony quite like you, you seem different to any I ever met”
She laughed a little “Would it surprise you that I was once human?”
He look at her in the eyes “No, surprisingly it isn’t, I seem to be able to see that right from looking at you… it rather strange…”
Fluttershy checked on Twilight “Maybe we should talk after, Twilight needs to rest”
Hurricane turn to his home just behind him “Get to my home and she may rest in my bed”
“Thank you for offering your home for Twilight” Celestia said calmly “It would a honourable thing to do”
“Nothing at all ma’am, she did just save every pony life from the sound of it.” Hurricane said then look to Twilight “Alright Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Gold Dust help me get her back to my home” they nod and with some help Twilight placed on Gold Dust back and with Pinkie Pie and Applejack supporting him they carried her to Marshal Hurricane’s home.
Celestia felt a bit uneasy looking at the other unicorn that was once human “Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy can you help carry this young stallion back to the hotel, I will get a room for him to rest in”
“We will Princess” Rainbow Dash replied as she and Fluttershy took some sheets and used them to put under the brown stallion unicorn and fly him back to the hotel with Celestia in front going to let the hotel owner know of the room they need.
Gold Horn turn to Stardust “why don’t we take a look around Fort Hooves, I bet Typhoon would love to see this place as you would”
“Yes it different to any where I been before, so I will join you boys” Stardust turn to Big Macintosh “Why don’t you go with your sister”
“Thank you ah’m will” he trots of to go with his big sister and help out.
Fluttershy came up to them “Can I join you?”
Typhoon smiled “Of course Fluttershy”
“Oh thank you” she replied with a shy smile and they went off on their way to take a look around the sights even after what just happened movements ago, Typhoon turn to the mountains feeling really bad about his home now completely wiped out even not a ruin left part from the tunnel he did not know about was still in one piece.