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// Chapter Twenty-Five 
// Story: A Journey Unthought Of 
// by Hustlin Tom 
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She continued to point to the spot, and I knew what I needed to do even if I had no idea why I was doing it.  I rushed at the mound to the spot the spirit pointed to.  I began to tear away clods of grass and dirt like a mad man.  “Rainbow, help me dig!”  

“What about it?” she pointed to the spirit.  The spirit continued to point at the spot.  

“I don’t know how, but she won’t harm us; it’s not like her.  Just come on!  This is dire!  I can feel it in my bones.”  

Hesitantly, Rainbow Dash began to draw near to me, and as she did she began shifting the dirt I had already tossed aside. 

My hands, not exactly being manicuring masterpieces, could take quite a bit of the obstinance of the soil beneath them.  But as I began to feel they would start to bleed, I hit what I was looking for.  It was hard and cold, it went a long way in any direction I reached.  I finished uncovering the discovery with Rainbow’s hooves for help.  When we were finished, Rainbow Dash asked, “Adam, what is this?”  

“So I was right, wasn’t I?”  I whispered to myself.  

“Huh?”  

I turned to the spirit.  She still looked as serene as ever.  “I don’t know what you are, whether you’re a spirit with good intentions, or a demon hell-bent on chaos, but this is something I don’t think anyone in this world should ever find.  Why did you guide us here?  For what purpose?  I need to know why!”  The spirit continued to look at me with a smile.  The lack of response was making me angry.  

“You are human, or were, and so am I.  From one to another, why have you done this?  Why have you brought me here?”  

She began to float into the mound, her form slowly passing into it.  

“WHY AM I HERE?  TELL ME!”  

Her face was all that was still outside of the mound, but as the last of her passed into the grave long forgotten, she uttered three words, “For a purpose," and then she was gone.  I quickly pondered over her words, looking for anything that that phrase might mean to me: for a purpose.  I was walking in circles thinking about anything that it could be; was it a riddle?  An overt truth?  What?  

Rainbow Dash looked at me worriedly.  “Adam, are you ok?” 

“No, no I’m not.  I can’t think of anything.  Oh, this is pointless!”  

“What did you mean when you said this is something that nopony should know about?  What shouldn’t we know about?”  

“That spirit guided me, and only me for some reason.  You said everyone else was scared of this place; probably because of her.  She was protecting you from this.”  I sighed as I tried to find a way to explain myself to her.  “Beyond a doubt, humans lived here: in Equestria.”  

“Well that’s pretty awesome, right?”

“No it’s not.  We did more than that.  What we just uncovered is a solid wall of steel, a refined form of iron that’s really strong.  It’s used in a lot of buildings, but generally is only used in such quantities for underground buildings for one purpose.”  

“You’re not making a lot of sense Adam.”  

“It’s a bunker, Rainbow Dash.  An underground fort.  You know how you can make snow forts in the winter that can protect you from snowballs?”  

“Yeah, so?”  

“This protects you from bigger stuff: explosives, missiles, nuclear weapons.”  

“I don’t understand you Adam!  What are you trying to say?  You found a big metal fort?  Big deal!”  

“It is a big deal, because this means humans not only lived here, we made war here.  We died here.  And these are their long undisturbed graves.”