My Brave Pony Starfleet Humans STARFLEET EVENTS

by DakariKingMykan

Act 5: Mysteries Unfolding

ACT FIVE

Most of the Canterlot Students who lived in the general area just went home and would return the next morning for the games to continue, while the remaining students along with all the Crystal Prep students would be spending the night in the gym.

Celesto had special cots he had ordered, all complete with pillows sheets, covers, the works. He wanted nothing but comfort for his students.

Despite the many number of students staying, the gym was more than big enough for all, especially seeing as the girls and guys were divided by their own respective sides.

Some of the students even packed their own pyjamas, while others would just sleep in their regular clothes. All their shoes and extra things were kept in the respective locker rooms.

“Gee, it sure feels weird staying in the school like this.” said Dyno.

“Si, and on the weekend too.” added Myte.

“Well, at least we won’t have to worry about being late in the morning.” said Buddy Rose.

Rhymey and Artie looked across at the girls’ side, and spotted their girlfriends getting ready for bed.

Fluttershy was brushing her long hair, and then she spotted a note on her pillow which read.

“Sleep tight
My angel of light.”

She looked over at Rhymey and whispered “Thank you.”

He could read her lips and smiled at her.

Sunset was climbing into her cot. Then her eyes met with Artie’s and she smiled at him.

He blushed softly, and he blew her another kiss, and she returned his.

The lights suddenly flickered, and everyone turned to face Celesto, “Alright everyone. Get a good night now. Wake up call is at seven sharp, breakfast will be served at 7:30. Then wash, dressed, and be ready for the academic decathlon by nine.

All right… lights out. No talking.”

He turned out the lights and left, but left the gym doors unlocked in case the kids had to use the washrooms, and the emergency lights were on but very faint so people could see and find their way around.

All the students were out like candles after a long day. Some of them snored softly, but no one complained, especially those who brought earplugs.

Much later that night,

Cadance was ready to leave and head for the meeting place at the east coast of the island. Her uncle was going with her and so was Lightning.

“You all are in charge while we’re gone.” Celesto said to the others

“You can count on us, dear.” said Celestia.

“We won’t let anything bad happen.” added Luna.

Shining Armor nodded and then hugged his wife and wished her luck. “You really think it’s Fratello?” he asked.

“I don’t know what to think now, but I have to know.” said Cadance.

“Come on, let’s go.” Lightning said. Then he and the others left and climbed into one of Celesto’s limos, and they drove off. As they went, Lightning couldn’t help but gaze at the statue in front of the school.

“Lightning, is something wrong?” asked Cadance.

“Hmm…? Oh, it’s nothing, really.”

Celesto was not convinced “Lightning, I remember you wanted to tell me something important at dinner. Now, what was it?”

Lightning still wasn’t sure if it felt right to tell him, or Cadance, but he calmed himself and let it out and he told them what he had seen.

Celesto felt his insides churn slightly, but Cadance seemed confused and concerned “You saw what?”

“I mean it…” said Lightning “I know what I saw; lights coming from the statue, I saw what those kids were doing, and I saw Sunset change into this… this… thing. I don’t know what it was, but I know what I saw.”

Cadance felt Lightning’s forehead, but he didn’t feel very warm “Are you sure you’re feeling okay?”

Lightning softly back away from her insisting he wasn’t crazy, but Celesto knew this was serious, having been told by his wife what happened with the portal and stuff, and he couldn’t let Cadance and Lightning know the truth… not yet anyway.

“What you saw was them rehearsing.” he quickly lied.

“Rehearsing?” asked Lightning.

“Yes, I asked them to form a special production I plan to feature for the Fall Festival next week.”

“But, I thought there was no Fall Festival this year?” asked Cadance.

“Oh, I… decided to reschedule it. You just didn’t get the paper forums yet.”

Lightning wasn’t so sure he could believe that. “Then how do you explain the lights and Sunset turning into… whatever that was?”

“Super special effects…” Celesto fibbed “My Company is testing out a new form of holographic costumes that actually look like the real things. Wardrobe change will become a thing of the past.”

Cadance actually bought into that, and though still skeptical, Lightning believed it too, but still, he couldn’t help but feel maybe there was something else out there too. Something… dangerous!

Meanwhile, back at school, Rarity had left her cot to supposedly go to the washroom. She managed to slink by and get into the girls’ locker room where all the girls’ uniforms form Crystal Prep lay neatly folded, and all their shoes were underneath the benches in neat little rows.

Donning her fedora from out of nowhere, she slipped into her detective fantasy again.

“This wasn’t going to be easy. I knew exactly what I was looking for-- a shoe with one of the diamond emblems missing from it-- but exactly where I needed to look was the problem.”

She looked each pair of shoes, one pair at a time, and then she finally found what she was looking for; a pair of shoes and one of them had the crystal missing on it. She also noticed in the uniform pockets were a couple of dog biscuits, identical to the one she found in the bushes.

Finally, there was the knapsack hanging from on the hook on the wall.

“This was it, I was finally going to crack the case and reveal who the guilty party that robbed me and my friends of our super powers, although, it wouldn’t be very polite to break into someone else’s private knapsack and go through their personal belongs, would it?”

While she was hesitating, she heard someone opening the door; the only way in and out of the locker room.

It was only Twilight, coming to use the bathroom facilities.

“Oh, sorry, I didn’t know… um, why are you wearing that hat?”

Rarity sheepishly removed it “I was, uh… just trying it on as part of my fashion trend, and uh, I think it’s pretty chic.

Twilight blinked once. “Okay… but then, why are you over here instead of over at the Canterlot side of the room where your locker is?”

“Oh, um… I was just… um… practicing my fashion strutting for the big show I’m hosting after the Friendship Games.”

She demonstrated by strutting along the floor.

“O-kay then…” said Twilight.

“Well, um… I’ll just be… getting back to bed then. Goodnight.” and Rarity ran from the room and stopped outside with her back against the door. “That was far too close, and just when I was about to solve the mystery.”

She went off to get a drink from the fountain.

Inside, Twilight rummaged through her knapsack, and Spike popped his head out from the bag, and almost yipped happily that she was here.

“Shh, keep it down Spike.”

Then she kept looking through her bag and found her detector. “I just couldn’t sleep, not after everything I saw today. I’ve got figure out what all this strange stuff is about.”

She gazed down frightfully at her detector and was a bit nervous about opening it again, but she managed to open it anyway, unleashing a powerful glow of light, which frightened her and Spike, but nothing could have prepared them from what happened next…

A strange rift had appeared, and through it they could see what looked like another world.

Another flash of light zoomed through the rift and crept under the door and out into the hall where it materialized into a large plant-like monster. It growled and snarled fiercely.

Shining Armor marched down the halls “What’s going on out here?” he called, and the second he turned the corner, he screamed!

His scream woke all the students.

Twilight peeked through the door of the locker room and gasped “What is that thing?”

Spike growled and charged at the monster “No, Spike!”

Spike lunged at the monster and bit its stem, but the monster whipped him off, and turned and roared at the little dog, and began to chase him back into the locker room.

Celestia and Luna dashed around the corner just in time to see the monster disappear into the locker room, but the students missed the whole thing as they gathered at the doors to the gym.

Inside the locker room, Twilight was backed against the wall in fear, but was too frightened to even scream. She watched as Spike ran from the hideous creature and then he fell into the rift, into the other world. “Spike!” cried Twilight.

The monster followed Spike through the rift, and Spike came out the other end, right into Twilight’s arms… and the rift sealed and was gone.

Twilight felt she was about to have a heart attack, but was ever so relieved Spike was okay. “Are you alright…?” she said as she held him close.

“Yeah, I feel fine.” Spike answered.

They both gasped, and she dropped him onto a pile of uniforms, and Twilight backed away from her own dog as if he were some sort of monster.

Outside, Shining Armor was shaking nervously and whimpering.

The sisters ordered the students to go back to bed, and that Shining Armor was just having a nightmare; trying to keep the truth under wraps.

Shining Armor was too shaken up to speak properly. “N-N-Not Nightmare… wasn’t… s-s-s-sleeping… M-M-Ma… Monster…!”

“There, there, my dear… you’ve had a long day.” said Luna “You need your sleep.”

She led him to the man office where extra cots were set up for the staff staying overnight.

Celestia noticed the students were still at the doors “All of you, go back to bed. There is nothing to worry about.”

The students weren’t convinced, but obeyed and all went back to bed, but Sunset was not so sure, and swore something had happened.

As she climbed back into her cot, she also noticed Twilight’s cot was empty; the only one that was too.

Rarity noted this as well, and both of them were starting to happen upon the same connection that Twilight was involved in all this.

Back in the locker room, Twilight was gazing fearfully at Spike, still unable to grasp what just happened.

“Spike… you… can talk…?”

“Sure looks that way.” said Spike “But I don’t know why I couldn’t before, until I fell through that strange hole to get away from that overgrown weed.”

Twilight approached him with extremely eager eyes “Tell me, when you fell through that… hole… what happened? Where did you go?”

“Can’t say for sure…” answered Spike “It all happened so fast, but for a second it was like I was in some kind of alternate dimension. The next thing I knew I was here again and I could talk.”

Twilight was finally starting to make many connections. “That explains a lot.” she said as she gazed at her detector. “Spike, I think on something really big here, but for now we’ll just keep it to ourselves.”

Meanwhile, it was nearly midnight, and Cadance, Celesto and Lightning were at the east coast on the far side of the island.

“See anything?” asked Celesto.

“Nothing but clear skies, the ocean and California on the horizon…” said Cadance “I don’t get it. It said to meet him here.”

Suddenly, Krysta flew by and landed right near Lightning. She began to flap and tweet excitedly. “What is it, girl?” Lightning asked.

Krysta continued to flap and tweet.

“Someone else is here?”

At that moment, someone called out to them from under the tall deck.

“Psst…”

Everyone looked on, Cadance felt a bit nervous, and Lightning and Celesto stood bravely. “We know you’re there. Come out!” said Celesto.

The man stepped out from the shadows, and Cadance’s heart began to race with joy and shock. “Fratello…?”

Her brother looked up at her and nervously said “Um… hi, sis.”

Tears formed in her eyes, and she ran over right into his arms, hugging him tightly and wept. “It’s you! I thought you were gone forever!”

Her brother hugged her deeply. No tears formed in his eyes.

Lightning and Celesto felt touched to see such a reunion, and they approached the siblings.

“Uncle Celesto.”

His uncle smiled warmly and shook his nephew’s hand “I never thought I’d see you again. Welcome back.”

Fratello smiled at him and then shook hands with Lightning “I’ve heard about you, but I never thought I’d ever meet you.” Lightning said “I didn’t think you were still out there.”

“I know it must’ve been really hard for all of you. I only just floated ashore in California two nights ago, and I really wanted to see my family again. So I took a boat and rowed all the way here.”

“You rowed?” Cadance asked in shocked “No wonder you look so tired.”

Fratello felt he had to tell them all everything and he sat everyone down to tell his story.

*Fratello’s POV*

Our boat sank in that huge hurricane.

I managed to survive by holding onto a life raft, but I lost the emergency locater transmitter and my cell-phone. So I couldn’t contact anyone for help.

There were no other survivors.

The ocean was really getting rough and tossed me all over, and I eventually passed out.

When I awoke, I was surprised that I was not only still alive, but my raft had washed on the shores of this unknown island with a tropical jungle, but no animals. There was even a hollow dead volcano in its center.

I tried to escape in my life raft, but the surfs were too much for me, and my raft was damaged beyond repair.

I soon discovered that the island was uninhabited, but the trees did provide me with edible berries and coconuts, and being an expert fisherman I speared some fish from the nearby shallow waters. I caught rainwater in coconut husks, and I even built myself a mini tent from the remains of my raft and branches.

Making fires was the hardest part, but eventually I got it going.

Still, as the months passed I began to grow miserable and agitated, longing for companionship, and to be home and with my family again.

That was the one thing that kept me going all that time, knowing I had to be brave, and believe that I would one day be rescued.

Two years later, fate shined on me, and provided me with what I needed to escape.

A large sheet washed up on the shore. It was dirty and damp and splotched with dead creatures and kelp, but when dried, it flowed in the wind just like a sail.

This was it; my ticket to freedom and back to civilization!

Working hard and using sharp rocks, I chopped several trees down, and I made some strong ropes by weaving threads of long strings of bark and leaves.

I constructed a raft and mounted the sheet on it as a sail, and with my expert sailing knowledge and expert in wind motion, I passed those powerful surfs and escaped to sea.

For days and days I battled the strong waters, and even braved a typhoon or two. Finally, I made it! California.

I was spotted at the docks just coming in, and the friendly sailors helped me ashore and helped me clean up, but as I desperately wanted to come home to Mystic Island, I crept out, took one of the boats, and rowed here.

That very well covers it.

*POV ends*

Cadance wiped the tears from her eyes “You poor dear…”

Celesto and Lightning felt equally as bad for Fratello, which made them feel all the more glad he was alright.

Still, something struck them as odd as they checked the map and the area of the ocean that was circled in red.

“I didn’t think there were any islands in that part of the ocean.” said Lightning.

“Exactly my point as well.” said Fratello “If the island is truly uncharted, perhaps I’ve made a discovery, and now that I’m make… will you all help me chart it down?”

Celesto jumped right at the offer “Strangely enough, this is exactly where I wanted to send you, Lightning.”

“Sir…?”

Celesto explained that weather tracking stations worldwide had been receiving signals of very abnormal weather patterns emitting from the exact area marked on the map, but ultimately no one had the answer of what was going on.

“To make matters worse, many planes and ships passing through that area have been reported missing, believed to have gone down.”

“And you want me to investigate into this.”

Celesto nodded, “And right before you ask, I’ve already made arrangements for you. You will travel by submarine. This way you can avoid many dangerous weather conditions that may happen.

…What do you wish to do?”

Lightning gave it some good thought, and realizing the kind of discovery that could be made, as well as answering mysteries that had been baffling people, he couldn’t refuse.

“I better go with you.” said Fratello “I can help you navigate there easier and I know the island well.”

“I’m going too.” said Cadance.

The others all gazed at her in shock of her request.

“I just got my brother back, and I want to see just what it is that took him from me.”

“That is out of the question, Cadance. This is a dangerous venture.” said Celesto.

“I realize that, but…”

“No buts.” snapped her uncle.

“I agree.” said Lightning “Besides, you’re needed more at school for the decathlon.”

Cadance couldn’t argue with that. She felt rather disappointed though, but didn’t let it show.

“Come on, we better get back.” said Lightning “I want to shove off at the earliest possible time.”

They all went back to the limo to head back to town and prepare, but as Fratello passed by Celesto, his cell-phone made a soft static sound, and the screen faded softly, but he merely dismissed it as a glitch. “I’ve been meaning to get this phone replaced.”

On their way back, even Fratello tried to give Cadance her chance “I wouldn’t mind if you come. After all, I may have made such a huge discovery that I’d want you to be among the first to unveil it with me.”

Cadance was flattered, but once again Celesto and Lightning both put their feet down.

“No, and that’s final.” Lightning said “And supervisor or not, Cadance, this time you can control me with this decision.”

“That will do, Lightning.” said Celesto, and then he looked over at his niece “Cadance, I’m sorry, but this is for your own good. I just don’t want to risk your safety. Not because I have no faith in you, it’s just… I don’t want to lose you, and neither would your aunts, the students, and what about Shining Armor. Do you understand?”

Cadance nodded sadly.

Fratello felt sorry for his sister and wished he could help her come, but for now he was still glad just to see her again after a long time, as was she.