Discovery
Everyone thinks we're safe. They think that they'll never find us again. We're not safe, are we?
-A quote from Chloe Armstrong as recorded by Eli Wallace.
Luna smirked, she could feel their presence in her night sky, how long had it been since a descendant of the Alteran line had been here? Thousands, no, it had been so many millions of years. Luna's heart panged in sympathy, she would've helped them, she wanted oh so desperately to. but sadly she could not help them, nor their descendants.
Sighing she gave a knowing glance to her sister. Celestia, not one to look on the bad side, returned the glance with one that read "You know I have the solution. Just ask.". Shaking her head Luna tried her best to look good for the visit, ponies made such a big deal of their visits. On one hoof, they looked up to her and her sister, after all they were living goddesses. But in the end, how powerful really is a goddess? Does her ability to bend space and time prove her right, even the earth pony Pinkie Pie could do that. But no one realised. They looked only as far as their hoof could stretch.
Trumpets blared to signal their arrival as if being on a flying chariot was not enough. With a landing smoothed after many years of rehearsal their chariot became land bound once more. With a nudge from celestia Luna picked herself up and faced the crowd of cheering ponies.
The day played out like normal, interviews and unrestrained glee brightened her mood, if Celestia couldn't cheer her up, her beloved subjects would.
-&-
As the sun kissed the horizon, Luna's horn glowed for a second of concentration as the moon began to show itself, darkening the sky to reveal the stars.
"You know I can never stop enjoying the beauty of your night sky, even if I hold no domain over it."
"Says the one who banished me for a thousand years" Luna jested.
"As much as I love the night sky, you know as well as I do that life needs this balance we maintain. The sun warms the air and gives light for ponies to see, the moon gives cool respite and helps ponies sleep." Celestia as level headed as ever replied.
"Anyways, I think your little plan had to do with your student, and the Elements of Harmony."
"It's hard to keep a secret from you Luna, and yes, it does. Although we cannot interfere with the humans directly, we can help them indirectly."
"Thanks sis." Luna's eyes swelled with relief.
-&-
Twilight Sparkle had eagerly waited for the crowd to thin before she could get a chance to talk to her mentor about more important things like magic.
Now that they were alone she could talk about the complexities of magic in peace. "Princess Celestia!"
"My faithful Student Twilight Sparkle, I'm guessing you wanted to talk?" Celestia smiled at Twilight, she was one of the few ponies Celestia could rely upon.
"I wanted to talk about the Barovachi calculations, is it true that there could be space beyond our own? That would definitely explain teleportation's ability to exceed the speed of magic."
"Now that would be telling, however I do believe you have already experienced a clue." Twilight's brow furrowed in thought about that point.
"Could it be my nightmare?"
"I wouldn't know unless you told me."
"Oh, right."
Twilight started explaining last night in as much detail as possible, even depicting part of her morning electing a giggle from Celestia.
"Princess Luna, you've been very quiet, are you okay?" Luna was acting strange.
"Everything's fine, Twilight, anyways since we have all night let's explore this Ring of darkness you found."
With a surprising determination Princess Luna started off in what appeared to be a random direction.
"Uhh, no offence Princess Luna, but why are you going ahead, we haven't even calculated the position."
"Oh, " Luna mumbled sheepishly. Derp.
"Luna, dear sister, no one knows the stars better than you, why don't you lead the way." Silently thanking Celestia Luna set off again. Why must she be constrained by these boundaries? Why must she pretend?
-&-
The stargate had stood inactive for millennia patiently absorbing data and energy for a routine mission, and then it would be forgotten like the rest of it's model. If the stargate had an intelligence it would've been sad. However it did not, it reminded itself. No if it didn't have intelligence how could it remind itself, it thought. Hastily attempting to escape a logic collapse the stargate once again pretended not to be somewhat alive.
Confound these ponies. It thought. They drive me to conception.
-&-
Not 1000 hoofs away Rainbow Dash attempted to follow Twilight, whatever they were doing it would be so awesome.
Giving the signal Rainbow Motioned for Fluttershy to tell the others something was up. The element of Loyalty was not about to let her friend get herself into a mess.
Fluttershy squeaking at the sudden call to action quietly attempted to fly away not realising their antics were very humorous to the living deities.
"Pst. uhh. The cat... has left... the bag? Oh poor thing I hope it's alright."
"Oh, silly, it's an expression, Twilight's not a cat."
"Oh, um ok."
"Ah don't know 'bout y'all but I'm mighty interested in what Twilight's got up to."
"You wouldn't suppose we need to get any formal attire, besides, does my mane look good?"
"Sugar cube, it looks fine, now quit your dallying and get to it, we got a Twilight to spy on."
-&-
After meeting up with Rainbow Dash the group continued to follow Twilight and the Princesses.
Fluttershy gave a whimper "What... what is that."
"Ooh, pretty I wonder if It likes parties!"
"Pinkie, does that look like a pony?" Dash nearly facehoofed.
"No but..."
"*Sigh* anyways if we can be quiet, we might hear them talking."
On that note the group continued quitely observing the other smaller party.
An audible gasp from Twilight could be heard when the thing appeared in her line of sight. "What. Is it?"
"That I cannot tell you, Twilight Sparkle however, maybe the magic of friendship might." Twilight dwelt on that before coming up with nothing.
"Hmm..."Running her horn around the object twilight felt almost no magic.
Celestia laughed "I guess it does like parties!" to no one in particular.
"Told'ya!"
"Shh" Rainbow unwilling to admit defeat.
"Celestia, I don't get it, it's nothing but a big, stone ring."
"Why don't you try to talk to it, connect with it."
"Uhh. Hello?" grunting Twilight tried a different approach, using a telekinetic wave of energy she hoped that something might respond.
It did.
With a screech the device activated, chevrons lighting up, before spinning on it's ramp. With the 7th glyph glowing the stargate settled, but before Twilight was de-materialised by the outburst of energy a mighty. "Twilight, I'ma coming!" shook her out of the stupor. Violently rolling down the ramp from the force of a full grown farm pony flying at you, Twilight was safely illuminated by the pool of light.
"How, how did you know?"
"When sumthin nasty is about to happen, there's got ta be a pause before."
"Wait, roll back, Why are you here? Have you been following me?"
Twilight complained in mock anger
"We couldn't leave you behind, why else?"
"Thanks guys."
"Hey. No problem. You just owe me one."
Rainbow dash declared proudly despite having done nothing the whole time.
"Anyways, I have a mission for you Twilight sparkle, and the Elements of Harmony. Find out what this is, and find out what it leads to."
This time it was Luna's turn to glare at her sister
"Lead to..? It's just a puddle."
"Just a guess"
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Writer's note,
Writing the pony parts are far more enjoyable, I hope I kept the humour and light-heartedness of MLP:FiM while writing this. Also once again I beg for constructive criticism.
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I like it. Maybe a bit longer chapters?
Thanks for the Support :D I'll try to fix as many erros as I can but It's not easy, and good catch on the Astronomical Units!
Wow, I the one thing this website lacks is the ability to edit comments, I feel
for spelling error wrong.
Also on the longer chapters, I try to pace myself with roughly 1,000 words per paragraph, not too daunting, but still enough for a decent read. Maybe when I'm better at this I'll bump the game to 2 or even 3 thousand words.
Well, school's back on so progress is going to be slower, however this atleast gives me time to figure out the direction of this story
Dues to sheer imaginative failure on my part, does anyone have a good idea for the plot? Pm me if you have suggestions, If not I'll just start a new, better thought out story.
Thank'ya kindly
good so far, and as for suggestions try warpping it around a thing like a happy story (which I think with all the grimdark would be nice) and go from there, let it be Destiny's first truly peaceful mission XD
my god 4 months and no new chapters
Sorry for the lack of chapters, It's just that the story lacks direction which is essential if I am to write more. Please do give me any suggestions, Mines5 gave an ok one but sadly it isn't a lot to work on...
However, if people like my writing style/ability, I might be able to write an entirely new story; I do enjoy writing and you guys are rather supportive.
Also if popular request has it, I will release my failure of a chapter. "Fear".
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!!!
So Luna knows who the Ancients were, created and is aware of everything in the night sky, but doesn't know what a Stargate is? Seems a little suspect to me.
Although the quips about a sapient Stargate were enjoyable
Dreagar,
I like the concept behind this one. If you're searching for directions in which to take the story, I could imagine a number of the crew of Destiny wanting to settle permanently in Equestria. It's the first near-perfectly peaceful and perfectly habitable place they've come across, and already has a lot of infrastructure in place for a moderately comfortable lifestyle. On the other hand, would the Equestrians really want this group of humans taking up residence? How would Rush & co react to those who want to leave Destiny and settle down? I could see this going in a number of directions, as you're clashing two fairly different groups together, one of which is fairly desperate by now and neither of which is prepared for meeting such aliens as these.
tl;dr Some of Destiny's crew will want to settle in Equestria. That'll cause problems enough for both parties.
@emanwe This man! This man right here! Why u so awesome?
Thanks to his capacity for remembering a certain episode in the series, I now can finish this story! Not even the GCSEs will stop me now... prepare for more chapters.
Also in celebration, new chapters shall be at least 2k words long!
"With a nudge from celestia Luna picked herself up" -
hooves
"Not 1000 hoofs away" -
"Giving the signal Rainbow Motioned for Fluttershy" -
"Ooh, pretty I wonder if It likes parties!" -
"Running her horn around the object twilight felt almost no magic. " -
"Rainbow dash declared proudly" -
"I have a mission for you Twilight sparkle" -
Please stop missing so many commas
@iloveportalz0r, wow. I've never been told that thoroughly! I'll have to to another check through my work..., thanks for the heads up tho!
I was a bit lazy and just copy pasted information from Wikipedia XD, as I've never heard from a professional what the correct numbers are. That and I had to make it dramatic!
If you have more correct data please share as I'm eager to hear some figures, instead of qualifiers! Lastly, if I come off as abrasive, I apologise; It's late here and I can't think straight! :P
I would greatly enjoy the opportunity to work as an editor and revivor of this book, as this is one of my favorite TV series.
just because Pinkie is registered as an Earh Pony should not give you a reason to under-estimate her.
Pinkie has abilities not even Alicorns can brag about..
is this intended as a single para-graph, or multiple?
separate the paragraphs and add the correct tags?
Tis a dead one, sire.
That's too bad, as this is almost a good story. I hate the way that SGU ended. This story's opening works nicely as the next season's opener. I like how Eli used a plotline from Star Trek: TNG to survive, storing himself in the gate's pattern buffer. The story could use some editing, but it's worth reading.