> A Dose of Humanity > by batran > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > (Fluttershy, Twilight, and Rainbow) This is not the Crystal Empire...! > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -3 AM- C*n*****a It was a quiet night. Crickets were chirping, the stars were bright. It is not as cloudy as usual. During this time, pollution had risen drastically which created more clouds. But with the help of magic, They removed the pollution and trash lying around about once a week. The Snow had just finished falling on the ground for this place but wind is starting to pick up sending to snow everywhere. But this night is going to be different. 6 stars in the sky were not as they seem. They were moving too fast.... and growing larger by each second that has passed. Suddenly the 6 stars separated, leaving one on it's lonesome path down to earth. But this star is smaller than expected. -7 AM- "AHHHHH!!!" screamed Fluttershy as she waved her arms about in panic as she knew that she was going to crash on the floor of the Earth, despite having wings that she forgot she had, Suddenly she hit the snow with a loud "oof!", and tumbled around for a little bit before settling with her face in it. She looked up before shaking off the snow. She shivered as she did not bring a scarf. She thought it was going to be a simple trip teleporting into the Crystal Empire. She looked around and saw a city in the distance, she quickly hopped up calling out to Twilight. "Twilight! your teleportation spell had worked! We are at the Crystal..." She paused and looked around for her friends. But alas there is no sign of them, "..Empire?" She finished her sentence. She got worried, "Hello?" she called out in a soft voice that nopony could hear, even 20 meters away. Suddenly she saw a pony a young Pegasus stallion, carrying a lantern as he was trying to look around. She cannot see his colors as he was wearing a coat but all she knew he had a pink mane like her. He wore mechanical goggles with a red and white large scarf covering his face. Fluttershy knew that she wasn't safe out in the cold. But then again, she doesn't know the mysterious pony's intentions. She quickly hid behind her mane in the snow as she have no object to hide with. But eventually, her colors betrayed her as the young stallion spotted her. Then he started to rush to her. Fluttershy had forgotten all about the cold as her body started to freeze and shut down. She felt a little too tired and fainted from the cold temperatures as her coat could not sustain the warmth in her body that was generating for her. Her vision fades into a color of darkness. - Fluttershy later woke in a cabin outside of the city she spotted before. She was in bed with hot chocolate on the table with a lamp next to her. She looked around the room. Family portraits and even treasures were displayed on the shelves. She looked down on some device at the table on the otherside of the room. It was rectangular in shape and had like a hundred buttons on it's board. It had the logo 'Bell' on it. She then realized something. She was in some room of the mysterious pony who brought her here! She tried to get up but her aching body hold her down. The door then opened with the mysterious pony, but doesn't have his scarf, and with clothes walked in the room with a tray with a bowl full of soup and some bread next to it. He looked at her and smiled. Fluttershy squeaked and hid behind the covers, with her eyes barely showing. The pony frowned and set the tray on the table next to Fluttershy. He grabbed a chair behind him and sat down in it next to the bed. "How are you feeling?" He spoke in a soft voice, trying to soothe the scared mare he was looking at. "u-um, fine, thank you." She said in a thankful but in a almost quiet voice. The young stallion smiled at her. She uncovered her mouth from the soft covers and made a soft little smile back at him. Fluttershy noticed that her rescuer had a light yellow fur coat color like hers. And also kind of cute. She quickly covered the thought as she blushed, not wanting to go deeper . "Um, what's your name?" he asked, still maintaining his soothing voice. "I-I'm Fluttershy.", Fluttershy said in a quiet-like tone. "Hi Miss Fluttershy." He waved, which made Fluttershy blush and giggle on the inside, "I'm Butterscotch." Her eyes widened, could this be the Butterscotch back in Dimension #63? "Butterscotch? Is that you?" she asked in hopeful wonder. "Uh.. yeah? But do I know you?" he responded nervously. Fluttershy frowned, Does he not remember me? "Don't you remember me? I'm Fluttershy, you know, your counterpart back in Ponyville?" "Counterpart?" He backed up a little, "I don't believe so....was I supposed too? I'm sorry!" Fluttershy felt hurt but simply passed the subject, wanting to find out about why he forgot her later. She then noticed his cutie mark. It showed binoculars with some large black wrapped over it. Then she realized that this wasn't HER Butterscotch. Dating the same person but in another universe isn't that bad right?, she quickly shook the thought out of her head. "What is your cutie mark stands for?" She asked him, hoping to get some answers. Butterscotch looked behind him onto the mark on his flank and blushed. He turned back around to answer Fluttershy's question. "My special talent is sight seeing. I love the beautiful sights of the landscape. But most importantly, I love watching the animals from a distance minding their own business and doing their everyday things without interference brings me so much joy!" Fluttershy giggled, she never thought of observing the animals. She just took care of them. But she had one last thing on her mind for now, and this is a good moment to bring it up. "So, is this the Crystal Empire?" "What's the Crystal Empire?" "Um, Nevermind." Fluttershy shrugged it off, If this isn't the Crystal Empire then where was she? "Where are we?" She asked nervously. "We are in Mountreal!" said Butterscotch, then he noticed her confused look, "You are not from around here aren't you?" Fluttershy shook her head. Butterscotch frowned and pondered this for a moment, She must've come from down south... He thought. He regained composure in his thoughts before losing control. As he have a condition that if he thinks to much in his mind, it would lose control and bounce around everywhere, or is that natural? He never knew if it IS a condition or not but he labeled it like that. Kind of like a space ship flying through the thoughts and memories but lost control and spin around everywhere. Anyways, Butterscotch sighed then smiled and got closer to Fluttershy which made her blush. Before saying, "Let me teach you about Caneighdian History!" He said cheerfully. U*i*** Ki******* ** G**** Equ*** a** N******** Lyrel*** Twilight woke up in a small hole in the ground near the entrance inside a park. She looked tiredly around her, as she was about to go back to sleep, Her eyes grew wide and she leaped onto all 4 hooves. Where's the Crystal Empire!? she thought as she searched frantically around the entrance until she noticed something behind her. And why was there clothing next to her? She looked at the clothes for a moment before deciding to put them on. She later looked around again and saw a palace, it was huge and wide. Twilight thought that this building looks familiar. Forgetting about the Crystal Empire, she made her way into a large city similar to Manehattan. She was curious about what the palace's name. So she decided to ask one of the ponies walking nearby. "Excuse me," she poke a shoulder of one of the tourists, "Do you know the name of that building over there?" she pointed to the Palace. "Well that is the Trottingham Palace!" The Tourist answered cheerfully. Trottingham Palace? That sounded familiar... Twilight thought before thanking the Tourist for their help. She needed a library to find the information about this palace. She searched around her trying to find a library while covering ground. Later, she stumbled on what she been looking for. Except this library was more huge than what she had thought. It was about 3 times bigger than the other libraries that she had been, besides the Crystal Library. She shrugged and walked inside. Looking around, she saw a mare at the front desk, a couple of colts working on a history project for school after spring break. She figured history would be an ideal place to start. She walked to the history section and scanned the labels. "H....J....K....O....P....R....T, ah here it is!" Twilight levitated the book off the shelf and walked to a nearby table and put the book on the table in front of her before sitting down, "The History of Trottingham Palace." She opened the book to read the first page aloud, "In the year of 1700 AD, Queen Celestia and Luna decided to build a monument in their capital city of Trottingham." Wait queen? This book have some errors in it. Thought Twilight, but curiosity told her to read on. "As of 1943, it is currently located in the United Kingdoms of Great Equine and Northern Lyreland." What? The facts in these books are completely wrong! She huffed and got up from her seat and went to the front desk. The mare on her device stopped typing and looked up at Twilight. "May I help you?" she asked, in a monotone. "Yeah, the facts in this book is completely wrong!" stated Twilight, "It said that the Princesses were Queens and we are currently in the United Kingdoms of Great Equine and Northern Lyreland!" "Ma'am all these facts in this book are true." The Purple Mare on the desk raised an eyebrow. "No they are not! We are in the Principality of Equestria currently ruled by Princess Celestia and Luna!" she shouted, turning a few heads, "As the Personal Student of Celestia, I demand to have a discussion to the author!" "Okay Ma'am, do you have any papers?" "P-papers?" Twilight said nervously, she realized that Celestia never thought of giving her papers about her administration, "I... don't have papers." she admitted, "But it doesn't mean I cannot demand to see the author!" The mare paused for a moment before taking off her glasses, "...Ma'am, you need to have the papers in order for us to help find the author for you, otherwise do not bother us!" The Mare at the desk turned back to her device and went back to work. Twilight gave a huff before walking back and put the book back on the shelf. She searched for the History of the UK. She later found it in the 'U' section before sitting down to read again. "United Kingdoms of Great Equine and Northern Lyreland..." she continued reading, she got impatient and started randomly flipping through the pages. Until she finally landed on a chapter called 'The Revolution against the crown'. She got curious, Who in the right mind, wants to rebel against the Princesses? she thought, "The Revolution started somewhere after the 'Prench and Crystal' war in the late 1700s. Great Equine was indebt due to too much supplies being wasted on the Prench. They decided to logical reason to get their tax is by the colonies. Queen Luna was angry that she lost so many great generals due to the war and demanded more land in order to pay to train some more. Celestia decided to remove the independent system on the original colonies and placed them under the leadership of Luna. This made the Colonies furious. As they hated the fact that they are now Crown colonies. To make things worse, Princess Celestia had place higher taxes on the colonies to pay of the debts from the Prench and Crystal War. This made the colonists furious, they made protests that the higher powers ignored. They decided that enough-is-enough and decided to rebel against the crown. Each colony had their own militias and stormed every Equish fort in their land. Finally, in 1776, the colonies decided to combine and claim independence from the crown, naming themselves the United States of Amareica. But with the leadership of Princess Luna, she took almost half of the colonies back. But it is no use as the colonists, or patriots as they called themselves, bend the rules by killing the generals, which appalled Great Equine. Finally Luna was captured and locked up in 1781. This forced Celestia to fight harder for her sister. But in 1783, she made a deal with the colonies to release Luna for their independence. Meanwhile, Luna had embraced the idea of democracy and the constitution. Which lead up to her election in congress for being the first President of the United States. This saddened Celestia as they are now rivals, but she remained happy after the war as she knows her sister was safe. Well, not until the War of 1812." Twilight finished reading. She forgot to breath as she gasped for air. She looked down at the book and decided to press backwards. She flipped through the pages until she got to the Romane Empire Period. Romane? I better find out who they are! she thought, but the book said nothing about them besides them being a Pegasus empire. She searched through the shelves again before finding something that caught her eye. She slipped the dusty book out and set it on the table before sitting down. She then blew the dust away and looked down at the cover. "The History of the 3 pony Empires and the rest." she read out loud. She opened the book and saw that there are three sections, one for each empire. She started reading the brief history of the Romanes, "In the year of 224 BC, The Romanes, ruled by the Pegusi, The Carraginians, ruled by the Earth ponies, and the Greaks or the Speardonians, ruled by the Unicorns. Lived in constant warfare for 2 centuries. Until the Romanes proved that they are intelligent in military and conquered the other tribes. The Romanes then pushed out of western Europe and conquered the Eastern side, and changed the Republic into an Empire, ruling for exactly 300 years before their fall. They basically took over the known world at that point. Anyways, The Romanes fell due to their size and hard times of trying to run their empire. Constant civil wars, and emperors lead the Empire to split into 2. The West soon fell to the barbarian tribes while the east, known today as the Byzmanetine Empire, prospered for over 1000 years later until their fall to the Ponyman Empire (Also known as the Ottopony Empire by some), which is modern day 'Pony'." Twilight then continued reading about the spread of a faith, and the Crusades. The End of the Medieval era and the discovery of the New World. The Native Amareican Crystal Ponies and their demise in the colonial powers. The Revolutionary war, Caneighda, and even the Civil war in the Amareicas. But what appalled her was that there were 5 major wars in the same century, and she is living in one. ****** *t**** *f A******* Rainbow was flying about in the skies, there is no land, just endless ocean and clouds! It was paradise for Rainbow as she zipped through the clouds and the skies. She also practiced swimming in the water. Or perhaps flying in it. She stopped for a moment as she had an idea. What if I could pull off another Sonic Rainboom? she thought to herself then smirked a cocky grin. She then readied herself on the cloud before counting to herself, 3....2...1...0! she then blasted off at looked like the speed of light. She was enjoying herself pretty well, just as a dome began to form around her, a voice called out. "Yo man, are you alright?" called out the voice, when Rainbow woke up, she was hanging on a tree. She looked up and saw a cyan stallion with slicked-back dark brown hair in a jacket, "Are you deaf? I said are you alright?" he repeated again. Rainbow grunted and ignored the possible insult and leaped off the branch and hit the ground on all fours. "Yeah I guess I am alright..." she replied. "Good," The stallion stated, "Would you mind telling me why are you naked?" "Naked?" Rainbow looked down on herself and blushed, "Why was I supposed to wear clothes?" "Duh, yeah." said the stallion in a tone that she did not like. She flew straight to his face before shouting, "Hey what's the big idea?" she said slightly irritated. "Big idea? The big idea is that you are naked right now in my backyard!" the stallion shouted back before pushing her away. Rainbow then blushed again. Why was clothing so important to him? But then again, she doesn't know where she is. So it is a good idea to wear clothes for now. She stopped flying and landed on the ground before she took a gander at the place she is at. "Where am I?" she asked. "Jeez, are you retarded?" Said the Stallion in an irritated tone, "You're in the butt-bucking place called Manehattan." "Hey why are you so mean!?" "Why are you so retarded?" "Alright, you want to get it on!?" Rainbow cried and put her hooves up, "Cmon put them up!" The stallion raised an eyebrow before lowering it. "You know there is a law that we can't hit girls right?" he stated. "Oh..." Rainbow said disappointedly, but then again, she liked having an opponent that can't fight. But that wouldn't be too fun. "Well I better go get some of these 'clothes' if you want" she said. "You bucking better." The stallion mumbled, before walking into his house. Rainbow stopped him. "Hey, don't leave me out here! I don't know where I should go!" Rainbow stated before lifting into the air with her hooves crossed over her chest. The stallion grumbled, he was about to tell her off until he stopped himself. If he let her in, then he could possibly get laid! Oh my gawd I'm a freaking genius! he thought, grinning to himself before opening the door wider for Rainbow to walk in. But then again, that COULD be stupid of him as he thought about it twice. "Make yourself at home." he said and closed the door. Rainbow walked to the living room and found a couch before leaping onto it. She noticed a flag on the side of the wall. "Hey what's that?" "That is a flag." he said, "It is the flag of the country we are living in! AMAREICA! BUCK YEAH!" he sang and laughed about it, then sighed as he sat on the other couch next to rainbow dash and took our a device that Is unfamiliar to her. "Hey what is that?" she asked curiously. "This? You never heard of an Ipod? or an Mp3 player?" he said, Rainbow shook her head. Man she is really dumb is she? he thought before explaining what an Ipod is to her. "Oh so it is like a miniature radio! right?" she said. "Uh, yeah." "Cool," Rainbow is about to doze off until she heard some music coming from his headphones "so what song are you listening to?" The Stallion looked at her, "You wanna hear?", Rainbow nodded her head before the stallion got up and sat down next to hear as she sit up. He then put one of the headphones around her ears and her eyes widened as her head bobbed to the beat. "AMAREICA! BUCK YEAH!" he shouted, as the song repeated his words. Rainbow then smiled and joined in. "AMAREICA! BUCK YEAH! Saving the world from you-know-who now~!" -