The Space Pony

by Edenme

The Copper Capsule

KA-BOOM was the only sound that the confused Twilight Sparkle had in her head.

"Wha- What was THAT?" She said to nothing. She doubt that answer would ever come because she was in the middle of the ice mountains of Slentick. It was a small village many miles in her past. She had come her to find, and engage in conversation with, the yaks if YakYaknsine. She, of course, had come alone because of the many dangers involved with these mountains. Currently she was half way there but, half way was 3 days of traveling.

Twilight estamated that the sound came about one half league from were she was standing. She was wary at first to go near it. The reason for this was because of a massive storm brewing to the south. In the end though, curiosity triumphed and she began preporations for the small detour. Luckily, the area of the sound was flat and of little danger to Twilight. Even still, the snowy drifts made the small trek very taxing. By the time she had reached the general area of the boom, the storm had twisted its way into the place were she stood.

"I must wait till the storm subsides," she said quietly to herself,"The the wheather ponies from that village may be few, but they now how to kick up a storm."

The storm raged on for another fort night thrice over. It was noon of the next day.

Twilight awoke to a snowed in entrance. This was, of corse, undoubtingly a small problme because of her abilities as a unicorn. When she had finally unsnowed her entrance, she looked out and gasped. The night befor had made any surondings unclear and fogged. Now though, anything within her and the next mountain over was as clear as black on white. The true thing that made her gasp though, was the crater not but 30 paces in front of her. It was not very deep but it's sheer width made up for any size issues. In the center of this snow covered hole, was a cone shaped capsule. It seemed to be made of copper. She new this because of the in depth conversations about metallurgy that she had with Mayd Pie.

"What is it?", Twilight wispered to herself.

She then contomplated if it wise to investigate this occurance. Again, her couriosity won out in the end.

As the purple unicorn got closer to the object, she started to notice symbols on the surface of it that mystified her. What appeared to be a emergency guide, a strange flag, and many other things that where written in a language she had not ever seen before. The emergency guide was only given away because of the pictures on it. These pictures though, had creatures unseen by her in any book or guide of her knowledge.

There was also one other thing that stood out to her more than any thing. A window was what it was on closer inspection and also a hatch in which it was placed apon. Both of these things were blacked out with an unremovable soot that covered nearly every part of this cone shaped object. Save the cap of the vessel of corse.

As Twilight continued to inspect the copper cone, she noticed something fairly strange next to a bundle of the mysterious symbols she had found. It was the outline of a lever. This lever was pointed up from the inside of a fourth circle. As her small investigation continued, she started to wipe away some of the lesser stuck soot. When she completed wiping it away, she saw there was an arrow curved and pointed down from the top of the lever. Twilight saw this symbol as a instruction of what to do. When her magic enveloped the stick of black sooted metal, many sounds of clicking could be heard. When the lever was fully pulled, a part of the cone started to extend outward. This left the inside of the capsule free to see by the purple mare.

When she looked in, she saw a scene of a pony. This pony, it seemed, had had some sort of helmet on. This helmet had a mesterious hole in it. Right in the front. On a closer look, it seemed that the cap had once had glass were there was now a hole. There was what seemed to be blood on the panel in front of this pony.

The it occurred to Twilight. This pony could be hurt or worse, dead...