One week later...
"Thanks for doing this on such short notice, Zipp," Sunny told her white flying friend as they made their way down one of CanterLogic's many corridors along with Phyllis Cloverleaf and her new unicorn employee.
"A week is short notice? That's news to me. I'm just surprised to have gotten a call for a model before Pipp did," The pegasus responded, fluttering her wings momentarily.
"Well, to be fair, this is probably a modeling gig that is a bit too... Shall we say, extreme, for Pipp's likening," Sunny replied.
Zipp raised her eyebrow.
"Color me intrigued. This place is pretty big, what else do they do here?"
"We used to design and mass-produce devices that, um, protected Maretime Bay citizens from hypothetical abductions and attacks from unicorns and pegasi. No, I am no longer proud of it, and we are still going through a massive rebranding as part of the reunification," Phyllis said.
"Aren't we all," Zipp agreed, remembering how Zephyr Heights was going through quite some significant changes as well now that the entire populace could fly. The royal guards were getting a crash course in all possible meanings of the words 'air traffic control.'
"You haven't told me a whole lot about what this is going to entail, Sunny. What gives?" The pegasus asked as they turned a corner.
"I figured I'd try and surprise you. You'll love it, trust me," Sunny told her.
They came to a set of large double doors, obviously built that way to move immense devices in and out. The room was largely empty, save for a workspace in the corner, and several devices mounted to frames on the walls, that didn't look entirely out of place in one of Pipp's performances.
"Alright, Zipp," Phyllis began. "This is our scanning room. We're going to scan your body so we can produce a mannequin for the museum. Then we'll take those same measurements and use them to make uniforms to put on them."
"Uniforms?" Zipp asked, and Sunny nodded.
"Mystic Cinnamon and I have decided that we want to make some replicas to show how some things looked back in the Guardians' era. One of the first things we'd like to try is the old Wonderbolts flight uniforms. Not only that, but I also found some images of dress uniforms as well."
Zipp's eyes widened with excitement.
"Seriously?"
"Yep, and you were the first pony that I thought of," Sunny told her. Zipp, unable to keep the corners of her mouth from curling up, jumped forward and brought her earth pony friend into a hug.
"You. Are. Awesome! Alright, where do we begin? Where do you want me?" She asked, nearly trotting in place.
"We'd like you to hover up there in the middle of the scanners," Phyllis told her pointing up to the laser devices that her unicorn employee was now turning on from the workstation.
Zipp glanced at her curiously.
"Just... Floating there? Hovering in place? Are you sure that's going to capture the Wonderbolts? From that poster in the Zephyr Heights terminal, they were a serious flying team. Extremely high speeds and thrilling stunts," Zipp objected, albeit politely.
"That's true. Everything in that journal about the Wonderbolts confirms that they were an extreme flying stunt team," Sunny told Phyllis.
"We can certainly make adjustments for the experts. What did you have in mind?" Phyllis asked, only getting a sly smile from the pegasus in return.
Just over an hour later, they had finally gotten started, after turning the scanning room into a hastily-put-together wind tunnel, having brought in three of the largest industrial fans they could find on the other side of the factory. Stacking two on top of each other and setting them in the front of the room, and the third one directly under her facing up. Turning all three on raised the ambient volume of the room considerably. The unicorn had to telekinetically catch a stack of papers that had not been weighed down, but that was the only mishap, aside from the noise.
Zipp donned the pair of safety goggles they had supplied her, leapt into the air, and after some mid-air adjustments, got into a comfortable gliding position.
"Alright, crank it! And then scan away!" Zipp shouted down to the corner where the three others were standing and watching. Turning the fans to their max level increased the noise to nearly deafening, but not quite, as they heard the pegasus scream out an excited "Whoo!!!", leaning more into the wind as the laser scanners went live. Suddenly, the pegasus' white body looked like the floor at a night club as lasers danced over her hooves, body, and wings as her dimensions were fed into the computer.
Above all the noise, Sunny noticed the pegasus' phone vibrate on the metallic desktop, it's screen lighting up and showing a picture of Queen Haven along with the words 'INCOMING CALL'.
As it rang, slowly sliding towards the edge of the desk, Sunny grabbed it before it tumbled over to the floor, and trotted out of the double doors into the hallway, where the noise was significantly reduced, before sliding the tip of her hoof over to the green phone icon, and putting it up to her ear.
"Queen Haven, your majesty. It's Sunny, Sunny Starscout. Zipp is a little... Preoccupied, at the moment. Can I give her a message?" Sunny greeted, as she heard another scream of exhilaration over the fans.
"Oh, that's perfectly alright, dear. I actually called to talk to you, and I don't have your number yet," the Zephyr Heights ruler replied.
"Really? What can I do for you?" Sunny asked, intrigued.
"The progress on the road to those castle ruins you found is proceeding well. We even managed to bring in a group of unicorns that have become proficient at levitation magic. Over the last two weeks, they've been carefully clearing away the rock slide near the castle just on the other side of the river. There's not much left of the structure underneath all of the rubble, but they did uncover some sort of underground passageway. Since you discovered the area, I'm calling to see if you'd like to come back over here for the first look."
Well, I love where this is going! I'm sure the ending will be good
I'm wondering what you're going to do with the map table.
Well as far as endings go it's hard to beat "and they lived happily ever after", it's a classic.
Hmm...underground passageway near the friendship castle? Near a RIVER? That sure sounds like the school of friendship. Is it?
That image at the end makes me think of the "your mom lets you have two [REDACTED]" meme.
Gasp! Did they find the school?
Sunny definitely made Zipp’s day.
This is good stuff my dude. I'm super impressed and a little envious of how much you're able to pump into this fic so quickly.
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Because I've put my other hobbies on hold for the week, lol. Still no idea what I'm going to do next with G5.
I wonder how they'll react to figuring out that Equestria is a lot bigger than they think it is. As near as I can tell, their idea of it is the space between Fillydelphia and Baltimare.
oh, the school with like the books could still be there with good page or damage page, maybe the teen's study and journeys as well.
but my biggest hope is they find a cookbook there in the school eating area and maybe canning jars still good to eat the food of that time as well, while seeing that this school was a mix race school of every race out there at one point.
but also what they did for fun in the past like find a gym and rules of Buckball and how it could be the 1st team sport game that is taller made to everyone.
Despite how short the chapters are this is a very nice read and i'm looking forward to what comes next.
Splendid work on this latest chapter. Greatly appreciated the work that went into the exchanges, characterizations and future chapter set-up in all the right places. Definitely loved Zipp's reaction to what Phyllis and Sunny wanted her to model for (as well as Zipp commenting on helping other Pegasi getting used to flying again). Also really liked Queen Haven calling Sunny concerning the tunnel that was uncovered with the help of some unicorns (and admitting she was only using Zipp's phone because she didn't have Sunny's number yet).
Definitely looking forward to more of this.
I kind of figured they were going to get Zipp to do this which was pretty excited anyway she loved the excitement of flying and everything and Queen Haven said something she got some of the rock slide away but still I wonder if they're going to discover Ponyville or at least what's left of it I guess we'll find out next time
Stuff and nonsense. Never worry about satisfying your reading audience. They’ve gone this far, they’ve enjoyed your work as it has been, whatever finale you have in mind will be enjoyed. So long as you tell the story you want, that’s what matters.
I am liking this story.
Zipp is far, far more restrained than Rainbow ever was; but that could be since she was raised to be royalty, and next in line for ruling.
Sunny is (almost) to archeology as Twilight was to books.
I do wonder if it's all 'Fallout: Equestria Girls' over on the other side of the mirror.
Last we saw, Sunset and her crew was set to start dealing with all sorts of magical incursions and problems into the technicolor human world.
If that included Windigos, which would have devastating consequences in the human world, then their ultimate defeat could cause the three tribes to start mistrusting each other without the same frozen consequences that Pansy, Clover, and Smart Cookie had to deal with.
Almost feels like 2011-2012 doesn't it?
"I am the very model of a modern Pegasus"
Wait what was the rock doing there?
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That would fit my banishment, barrier, containment theory
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The School was built up against a sizable hill.
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Dude the only food that would still be edible after that amount of time is honey.
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Depends how long it has been and how god the seals are, also just cause the food inside is no good the Jar would still be there. Another factor is how far the roots of The tree of Harmony grew, thier might be a whole passage from the school to the castle of the two sisters. How weird would that bee mapping a massive tunnel filled with crystal roots that goes for miles!
We'll be happy as long as you don't end it with an abrupt cut to bla--
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even if the food has gone bad and am hoping they find zippp apple jar there (magic is the wild card in this world) but moreover what am really REALLY hoping for is a cookbook that is still there in the dark and dry as well.
see most history books are made about battles, the army, government, tools, and things like that. but most over look of something that is so everyday to them that to us its wild to us, eating habits can give us a window of their life back in the past of how they see their role in life and how their health is impacted back then.
just like how in the civil war and wild west time when people was lacking coffee they use acorns, sweet potatoes and other stuff like that to make up for the lack of coffee, or how the potatoes when 1st come to the EU side of the world it was seen as a house plant at 1st but was the 1st true stable food supple that help build empires.
IDEA!! Zipp reforms The Wonderbolts!!
Hmmm, underground passage, there's the one with crystal roots to the library or the one that went from the school to a bog ...
That is pretty freaking awesome that zipp can be a model for being a wonderbolt and I wonder what queen Haven found
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I'm glad that the fic went this far and I'm sure that the ending you made will be plenty satisfying. Not expecting some sort of massive plot twist or dramatic ending, just a nice story about the Gen-5 rediscovering old Equestrian history.
Though I'm reading this in the future with a sequel and a sequel-sequel so I assume it went well enough
I’m thinking, either ‘from’ is missing between ‘mouth’ and ‘curling,’ or Zipp was so happy, that she was about to cry happy tears, and thus couldn’t keep smiling.
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