//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: The Boundaries // Story: Universe of Mine // by Emperor_Amaria //------------------------------// "We approach the place, Your Highnesses." "Low the speed, will you?" "Very great, sir." The internal until the time for them to reach the far point of Milky Way should arrive dragged itself out interminably. Cosmos stood close to the wall, silent, inscrutable, watching with curious eyes the black hole that appeared on the screen as the thing sucked more and more light and planet mass. How incredibly big! the stars circeled near the glitch, its mass crushed beneath the very high gravitation. Blind with magic, he felt that this, was just a beggining of something terrible. His friends were as scared as him, watching with almost unblinking eyes the world that was so new to them. The far part of Milky Way, no one ever came there, even the owner. "Gosh, this is so dark." Galaxy exclaimed, fluttering his wings as a strange feeling began crawling on his back. Navven looked like he was about to faint at any time. his face pale, almost white, his hoof shivered badly, green eyes didn't blink, focused on the screen. "Navven, are you okay there, bud?" "N-no..." He whimpered, its looked like he was trying so hard not to release a blast of magic in the ship. His feathers was shaking, "Man, this is not good." "Report from Gala one, attention we approach the objects, locate the coordinates. 20000 KM from target, as scheduled." Cosmos staggered into the panel as the pressure began to very intense, more dead than alive as it seemed, and tried to stand up. He reached the control panel, and pressed the yellow button. "We take it from now on, Whiskers." "Ay, ay sir." The spaceship stopped in the space, hovering like dust with thousand other asteroids. The small part of it began to shake as a bolt of lightning shout out from the front part. The mechanical ready for their duties, the team leaders came from the lower part of the ship, they casted some magic. "12000 KM." The control room gave an instruction, they entered the gravity area. There was no light, everything was dark except the areas that surrounded the death hole. Everybody, even the pilots, looked in awe at the big hole that approach their spaceship. Good Lord! What a mess, what was that thing anyway? Nothing....nothing happened. Five minutes passed in silence... "9900,7 KM" The Black Hole drifted into their views, as the ship used its gravitation to come closer. And then... "5600 KM." Something was not right. "2000 KM." "Woahh..." The change of the distance between the ship and that death hole was very big. There was something wrong, they definitely went with the speed of light. The ship began to shake, as if it was just a mere warning, the alarm rang out. "880 KM." " Control! CONTROL! activate the anti-gravity field! Activate the anti-Gravity!" "Alright, sir." "690 KM." Oh, boy. They were so close... "There is no way we can avoid this!" Navven shrieked. "Boys, pull the switch!" Everyone looked at their fellow with horror expression, Cosmos stood there. He sweated almost an entire body, watching with unbelievable expression that their life would come to an end. He didn't want to being stuck in Ultrareality again, it was boring, and painful. He stumbled to the switch, "Whiskers....How?" "320 KM, sir." "Teleport the ship, as soon as we leave." "Alrig-- LEAVE? SIR!!" Galaxy prepared the backpack, as he and Navven readied their wings. If the Spaceship could not approach the object, then it would need something more simple and smaller to fix it without being crushed or dead. For that job, well, only them could manage the pressure. even if it cost their own life. "NOW!" zinnnngggggg The ship teleported with its glorious splendor, as three stallion bursted from the views, leaving the blank space and trails of dust. Navven casted a protection field as they flew with unpredictable speed. Their body was in pain, as the pressure racked the atoms and took the hell out of their eyes. blur and white, dark with light. Their vision started to blur and gone. They couldn't hear each other voice anymore, even if Cosmos sure they were shouting from the beggining. The timelines flashed between the eyes of ponies, as the boundaries were no longer could separated this wondrous worlds. Very hard to breath, inside the protection bulb. Without their immortality, who knows maybe they became a grilled meat of ponies. Or worse, As soon as Cosmos fell unconscious, he just knew one thing. "This is gonna be a damn-long vacation." BOOMM! ----------------------------------------------------------- AREA: UNKNOWN ..................TIP...BEP TRANSLATOR: READY Danger: Scanning in progress NONE/ Clear N43°38'19.39" "Ughh, my..." Red and green, they witnessed for the first time. The world was majestic with a river flowed near them, with hills and trees, covered with green grass. The sky above them was so pale blue, no clouds whatsoever, just sun projected in curious shadow and heat, giving them the strangest appearance conceivable. This new world was so unlike what they had anticipated, that for a moment they was terrified. "Holy Mother of nature!" Cosmos shouted. "Indeed. Its so charming." Navven stood immediately, looking around with curious eyes. His jaw was dropping as he looked behind them. There was an Apple trees wherever the eyes saw, and barn with a pony stood beside it. The afternoon sun penetrated the mass of honeysuckle that covered the trees, and fell on their upturned face. The air was so clear, as if this world had not been touched by dirty hovves. So nature, so majestic, what on earth was this all exist, the future they knew was very different. Ancient, you could say, but not outdated, if you know what I mean. "Its looks like The Earth." He finally said, "Nyeh...hehe.." Galaxy stumbled over, looking at his ruler. "So what do we do now?" "I don't know, its all different." The younger stallion answered, his feathers were sticking out of place. Neither him nor his friends knew why the boundaries were easily broken, for now they had a more serious problem. Their stuff was safe but their body still sour, having thrown at high speed until you feel your body being torn apart. "Can we, by any chances, go back to our Timeline?" "I'm afraid not, my friend. But we can try something at least." Cosmos trotted up with a splendid gallop, his mane was swinging furiously on his back. "After all!" He shouted, his voice almost lost in the wind. "Lets enjoy this vacation!" "He can never be serious, isn't it?" Navven whispered, looking directly at Galaxy as he started to flap his sour wings. "Mhmm, better than Alpha's madness anyway." After that statement, they decided to move on, packing their stuff on their side so that their wings were completely hidden under the bag. The two alicorns began galloping at the same speed, tried to catch up with their fellows. As the apple trees flashed in their memories. Birds were singing, their hooves lingered almost unconsciously on the foreign leaves and blossoms which had just come forth to greet the sweet southern spring. Far away in the South, was a bulding that looked like a school, for some fillies played next to it. They entered the edge of the barn, as the younger member of the trio spotted something. "Who is that?" In front of them, a grey pegasus was eating some cookies, she looked rather calm and fun pony, her eyes were wonderful orange shade. She looked like an odd pony, with bright blonde mane and tail. What a... "...perfect combination of colors." Navven murmured. They hid behind the bushes, with the tree shadows hide their bodies completely from the witnesses. He started to feel uncomfortably as he sat on the sharp branches. "Nothing different." Cosmos stated, then he looked at his friends, examining them. ".....except for her eyes." Galaxy pointed a hoof with a horror expression plastered upon his face. "She is talking with that things! What is th--mphhh!" "Galaxy, lower your voice." Cosmos leaned closer to the edge of the bushes, curiosity definitely had overpowered his fear. From what his vision saw, it was a mare, but not mare ponies. She had a black and white stripes all of her big body, and a goofy grin. Her flanks was big, and she have a lion-like tail, but in black and white strips. Kinda attractive for her kind, they thought. "That is a zebra." Answered Navven with a monotone voice, "Earth have many of 'em. Well, except they can't talk." The pegasus one was a delivery pony, Cosmos pointed at the letters she held with her hoof. Nothing too different from their origin, but of course, the Mother Nature must have another way. He had a very uncomfortable feeling about this sight. This ponies were talking at each other with a low voices, as if they were afraid being noticed by the others. But that was not the point, from how they were walking, their bodies from heads to tails. They could see it all because it was so, open. He realized something, ".......They don't wear clothes." ...... "......AHHHHHH!!!!!" There was a thud, followed by high-pitched girly screams, and broken branches. And a sound of broken bone? "NEED HOLY WATER!! BWAHH!" The pegasus, turned her head, gasped as she saw a group of young stallions blurted out from nowhere, screaming bad words and 'unknown' languages. Birds immediately flew from the trees branches, as the zebra took a good look from the strange sight. She walked closely, inspected them carefully. "Oh my, are you three okay?" "Bwa huh...?" Galaxy's head was spinning like crazy. Navven's hooves kicked his head hardly, as he tried to turn around from that awful scenes. Bad scenes, bad thoughts. Looks like he lost some of his witty from that hard collision, or brain cells, which he did not have. He apparently was an awful ruler, in Cosmos's opinion, didn't show any sign of care toward his lovely galaxy. Heh, he even named after that. No pun whatsoever. "What are young colts like you doing at this time? its too late." "uhh, Excuse us, M-madame." Cosmos stated, "We just get lost in this place." The Zebra stared at them with a confused look, as if they were growing a second head or something. "You, lost at Sweet Apple Acres? How is that even possible?" "Are you new?" the grey pegasus said for the first time, walked toward them. "M-maybe." Oh noo....Cosmos said to himself, don't you dare think something bad. You have freaking wife, Cosmos. Well, she definitely had a nice butt up there. The Zebra shoot them a glare, with stony face. She looked right through their souls, as if she was going to read their minds. Round and round, she inspected them like a rare diamonds. TAK.....TAK, her hooves that hit the hard ground sounded quite musical. "You call me Madame." She started, still staring at them. She leaned closely until her nose touched Galaxy's. For Galaxy, well, he suffered from the sight, cowered under her death glare. If looks could kill, they had been dead on the place. "What a nice gentlecolts you are." The mare smiled when she saw their terrified face, "My name is Zecora." Navven stood up carefully, avoiding eyes contact, their young Emperor was next, leaving Galaxy on the dirt path. His head was hurt, thanks to Navven's hyperactivity. "Thank you, Madame Zecora. My name is Cosmos, this....is my partners. Navven, the youngest. And that is Galaxy, he has a serious injuries I think." "I'm okay!" Galaxy muffled, still faceplanted at the ground. "Ditzy Doo." The pegasus waved her hoof, "Or you can call me Derpy." "My, MY.... What a mess, look at those feathers, out of place." She sounded very worried, wait. How did she know they had feathers? Cosmos immediately looked at his back, indeed, his suspicion comfirmed, their bags was still in the bushes. Fortunately their armors covered half of it, so it was just like a bumps from the distance. Zecora jaw-dropped, she spotted that they had pair of wings, not jut one pony. All of them! All of them, Good Heavens, they had horns and wings. This was too much to handle, what plans did the nature actually planned. Their princess should know about this, whether they were royalty, or just born in that way. She decided to keep her questions for later, after all, she didn't like to hear a same story again. So, why didn't she let the princess find out first? "Kids, come with me. Derpy, can you delivered this to Berry Punch? I really glad if you want." "Okie dokie, Zecouuraa. Don't forget the tip!" She dashed through the blue sky. Wingking at them, she disappeared from their sights. "Don't forget to come to Ponyville!" As Derpy gone, she turned her head toward the newcomers direction, smiling as she did so. "Now, You three. Three... Alicorns? Lor-a mussy-me! I must be dreaming a lot. Looks like the world has been messed up with us, don't you think?" She chuckled, "Y-yes, Madame." They packed their stuff, She trotted up between them with a proud face, signaling the boys to follow her. Looking at them in the deep twilight among the trees shadows, her mane flowed with ease under the strong wind. "Come, my children. Come and you shall see my sweet dark house."