//------------------------------// // Chapter 6: Uninvited Guest // Story: Warframe: Equestria // by Urimas Ebonheart //------------------------------// Warframe: Equestria Chapter 6: Uninvited Guest POV: Karn / Location: Equus - Ponyville I sit down and look around at all the equines staring at me. The pink one is bouncing up and down while chatting a mile a minute. The purple and mint green ones are talking with each other while the towns folk are looking at me. Three tiny equines that reach up to my thigh run over to me and stare wide eyed. I listen to them neigh and whinny at each other before looking back to me. I raise my right brow when they shout something out, crouch down and without warning they pounce on me, making the others gasp. The action surprises me, I raise my hands and my void powers kick in, I grasp the three young equines with a thin layer of dark purple energy and levitate them in front of me. They yelp and struggle a bit before going limp with pouts on their faces. The orange one gives the kids a stern talking to while the others look like they were about to panic, probably due to the use of my void power. I smile down at the three of them as I put them down onto their feet. POV: Applebloom / Location: Equus - Ponyville 'It can use magic?' I think to myself as we float back down to the ground "What were ya'll thinkin'?" my sister asks us. "Well, we thought we could get our cutie-marks in monster catching!" Scootaloo replies. "Yeah! That thing does look a bit like a monster," Sweetie Belle says. "He ain't no monster, although he's as strong as one. He saved us in Canterlot, so we're trying to help him settle in," my sis tells us. The others missed it but I could tell my sis don't exactly trust him. My eyes widen when I feel something rustle my mane, I look up to see him scratching behind my ears. That feels really nice actually. I lean into his hoof or claw and smile. The tall thing's other hoof / claw starts to scratch Sweetie's ears and she smiles as well. Scoots looks like she wants a go but her pride wont let her admit it. POV: Karn / Location: Equus - Ponyville So these equines like getting their ears scratched like a kubrow does? I reach out to give the small orange one a friendly scratch but she swipes my hand away with a frown. I just chuckle and leave her be. I stand back up and I turn to the purple one and try to figure out how to go about asking if I can build a my own Dojo anywhere around here. If I'm stranded here, I'd rather have a base of operations to work from. I tap her on the shoulder and get my holo-disk out, she looks at it as I show a picture of a planet side Dojo. The other kind is a space station style Dojo, but seeing as I can't reach orbit or have that many resources, a planet side one will have to do for now until I can contact Lotus and the Tenno. I show her the image and swing my right hand down like I am holding a hammer, she looks confused as her horn glows showing an image of equines building a house, I nodded to her and pointed to my image then to around me, trying to ask where I could build it. POV: Twilight Sparkle / Location: Equus - Ponyville He waves his arm around us, gesturing to the area I think. Does he want to build that in Ponyville or is he asking where he can build it? I create a map of Equestria with dots showing populated areas, he hums for a second before pointing to a large empty field between Ponyville and Cloudsdale. "Hmmmm, I guess that would be okay," I mumble to myself. I hold up a hoof to tell him to wait for a minute. I conjure a scroll and quill as I write to the Princesses. Dear Princesses. We have arrived at Ponyville with the biped and have introduced him to the ponies here. So far it's going great, only a few started to scream and panic. The biped wishes to build some sort of home or building in the large empty fields between Ponyville and Cloudsdale. I'm writing to you asking if he is allowed to do so. I imprint a picture of the building I saw onto the scroll. Here is an image of the building he wishes to construct. We await your decision. P.S. We have witnessed him perform what I believe is some kind of magic as he levitated three fillies with a dark purple energy. The fillies are fine but his magic felt... Cold and empty to me. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle. I get Spike to send the letter and we wait, the biped just tilts his head at that. I talk to Lyra again to see if she can remember where the other ship was but she can't remember. The Cutie-Mark Crusaders just sit in front of the biped looking at him, I smile seeing the fillies excitedly asking questions he can't answer while he just smiles watching them. After five minutes a scroll from the Princesses appears and I open it. Dear Twilight. I see no problem if he wishes to build his own home. As long as it doesn't pose a threat to Equestria, he has our permission to build it. I ask you keep an eye on its construction and his Magic to learn whatever you can from them, we also ask that you report anything you might see as dangerous. If he requires materials, he has permission to mine them from the abandoned mines in the Everfree Forest. I am sure that whatever is in there wouldn't pose a threat after what we have seen of him. I also know you are fluent in almost every modern language used today, so I ask you to try and learn his language if you can. We look forward to your findings and seeing this home of his when it is done. Their royal highnesses Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. I smile widely. I've been looking for a new project to do and now I have a few it seems. POV: Karn / Location: Equus - Ponyville The purple one looks up from the scroll to me and nodded her head, I smile at her and she then creates an image of equines who swing with what seem to be old fashioned pickaxes, she then points to the dark looking forest just beyond the town. Seems they've also given me permission to mine resources in that forest. "Ordis, send out four titan extractors to mine any resources we can use in that forest," I order him. "Yes, Operator," he replies. The equines watch as the four extractors come out of the top of my Orbiter and fly over to the forest. The purple one looks like she wants to follow them but stays put, she then looks to me and her horn glows, a book appears and floats in front of her. She points to me and mimics writing. She then points back to me then to herself and pretends to read the book. Now I can only guess she either wants to teach me to read again or she wants to try and learn my language. I hum in thought. "Ordis, can you fabricate a data pad with the Orokin language on it?" I ask him. "Of course, Operator. Would you like me to do it now?" he replies. "Yes, how long will it take." "Ten minutes at most." "Then get started," I tell him. I turn back to the purple one and wave at her to follow me. She squeals again as we enter my Orbiter, we head over to the foundry and see the data pad slowly being put together. POV: Twilight Sparkle / Location: Equus - Ponyville - Inside the Orbiter I'm watching as that arm is putting something together. After a few minutes, I can see what looks to be a metal frame similar to a photo frame, now the arm is putting chips and wires into it. The biped is just playing with his dog in the corner as I continue to watch this marvel of technology. Dash and Pinkie come in as well who also play with his dog. After I guess that about ten minutes have passed, the arm stops and goes back to something else. The biped walks over and sits beside me with the new device in his hands. He presses a button on the side of the frame and the glass on it lights up, my eyes widen as small icons are displayed on the glass. He taps one of them and the image changes to strange looking symbols, from what I've learnt of other languages, this one looks like its set up like an alphabet. Just what is this thing? It might be what they consider books! Oh my gosh! Am I the first Pony to ever read an extraterrestrial book!? POV: Karn / Location: Equus - Ponyville - Inside the Orbiter The purple one looks like she's about to explode, Nightshade has the cyan one pinned to the floor and is licking her face as she struggles to get him off her. Suddenly the light starts to dim outside, I look out the cockpit and see the sun suddenly lowering at an increased pace. I tilt my head to the right as I try to figure out what the hell is going on, my thoughts are interrupted as I yawn, noticing I haven't slept in nearly two days. I shoo the equines out of my ship and make a sleeping gesture with my hands, they nodded, except for the purple one who is currently drooling over the data pad I gave her. On there is a program that teaches the Orokin language, just tap on a letter or word and the pad speaks it out for you. Hopefully she can figure it out and we can finally communicate. I close the door to my Orbiter and head over to my chamber. Nightshade curls up in his incubator as I sit on my seat and place my Rhino Warframe into it's pod and lower it into the chambers below me. After that I press a button that rotates my pod into a horizontal position. I lie down in it and the pod closes. I close my eyes and drift of into a meditative sleep. I open my eyes as I'm met by the familiar starry void with strands of energy stretching across the plain. I cross my legs and place the back of my wrists onto my knees. I clear my mind and focus on my void energy into my Warframes to top up their energy and make sure they're all fully functional. After two hours of meditating, something taps me on the shoulder and on reflex I quickly swing around and grab the intruder by the throat and lift it into the air with my power. It's the dark blue equine, her eyes bulge out as she starts to gasp and wheeze. I loosen my grip but not fully, you do not enter a Tenno's mind without consequences. For the first time since I've seen her, she looks afraid. She lightly taps my hand, so I slowly put her down where she backs away and rubs her throat. I glare at her with a neutral expression and she shies away slightly but looks around. Her eyes widen as she looks into the Void around us. POV: Luna / Location: Equus - Karn's Mind By my stars, he has a stronger magical grip than I do! I could do nothing to break his magic's grip from me... I'm coughing hard, trying to clear my throat. I look at him with some hesitation, how can he be having a lucid dream? Apart from a few very gifted unicorns, it is I that bestows lucidity to a dreamer. Yet he has done it easily on his own. But what is this place he is dreaming of? It kind of looks like my night, except... Darker, foreboding, like some evil of old is lurking here. I look back to him and see him pointing to his left, I look to see a round metal door which splits down the middle as each side slides open with a mechanical hiss, he points to me and then back to the door. It seems he wants me out of his dream. I walk over to the door and as I reach it I look over my wither at him, he still looks expressionless but his eyes say he's angry. Without a second thought I leave through the door. I awake with a start, never have I been hurt in a dream before. I reach up to my throat and feel the bruise that has started to form. How is this possible?