Revan makes the decision to save himself using Fold Space, a force ability which allows the user to teleport an object from one place to another. This is the story of the end of his life.
This will also be a 3rd person story limited POV, since imo they are the easiest to write. It will focus entirely around Revan and his conversations with ponies, and maybe spike.
Feel free to give criticism, for this is my first story...well ever. Also if you want to make a better story out of this yourself, you have my go ahead to do so! :D But seriously, tell me where I go wrong and I will try my hardest to make it better for you, the reader.
Sounds of machinery filled the air around Revan. The endless amount of droids being made gave him a satisfactory grin that would last only a few moments. “Soon there will be an end to all this conflict.” mumbled Revan as he let out a well overdue sigh. There had been an alarm sounding just after he said that and he immediately shot to attention. “What the hell? How could anyone have found this place?” Not to his surprise he had seen a strike team of four individuals, all very unique to their own aspects.
The sounding alarm started to become unbearably repetitive. Revan had taken another look to see that his comrade, HK-47, had been defeated. The sight of this hit him hard. Seeing one that has been with you through it thick and thin is not something most take easily. Though he couldn’t let this occurrence deter him, for his comrade had fought and died for his master, he would not let his death be in vain.
The strike team had slowly approached the chamber in which Revan resided. The door opening, four of the Empires finest walked in.
“It’s a surprise that the emperor took this long to find me.” Revan scoffed, not letting the fact that he was outnumbered scare him. Besides, he thought, he has been through worse and survived.
One of the strike team spoke up almost directly after Revan had spoken. “We are not here for idle chatter, keep your words to yourself.”
At the sound of that Revan had readied himself for what was to come. He had to think, and plan out every course of action he could take. Being one of the most brilliant strategists in the galaxy, such a thing would be none too hard.
Looking over the group he saw one that was carrying two light sabers and he quickly identified him as one of the larger threats. To his right was a bounty hunter, no doubt going to fight for his life for the amount of credits that the Empire had mostly likely offered him. “He is going to be a tough one.“, thought Revan. The remaining two composed of what he had felt to be a force sensitive of the dark side and an imperial operative of sorts. It was unknown to Revan what sort of power that the force sensitive had so he kept his eye on him. The next was the operative, which at the time didn’t seem to be much of a threat. After figuring out who was the most lethal he had composed himself.
Not a second later, they had launched their attack. The bounty hunter rocketed over right in front of Revan, knocking him back a few inches. Revan had anticipated this however, and pushed the hunter back to only be attacked simultaneously by both the sith warrior and the operative.
Revan called upon his powers and shot electricity strait towards the warrior who attempted to block it with his sabers to no avail. The force sensitive however, had seemed to be healing the others as they fought. This proved to be quite the problem for Revan, seeing as though that as long as that man lived he would be endlessly fighting these people. He had to think of something quickly before he was worn down.
The fight dragged on for a good ten minutes or so, with Revan slowly getting worn out. His attempts to stop their healer from healing them turned out to fail. Had he finally met his match, or even worse his end? This thought passed his mind several times, trying to think of something to do. Revan had not wanted to give up his fight with these people for the simple fact that he had wanted to put a stop to the Emperor for so long. Though as the fighting kept on going his dream was fading, and so was he.
In a last pitched attempt to kill these few, he started bringing down the room around them all. Revan had known that he wouldn’t make it out of here alive by now, and he was intent on taking them with him. Though while he was channeling the force throughout the room and keeping a protective shield around him so he could not be interrupted, a single thought ran through him. He had remembered something he learned quite some time ago, a force ability called Fold Space. This ability allowed the user to teleport one object somewhere else. There was nothing around the station he was in though but space, and he had never used it before.
This was it. Now or never. Revan used all his remaining power to teleport away whilst the room around him crumbled, leaving those he was fighting to either be crushed or run away. There was a sudden flash of bright light as it surrounded him and he vanished.
Many thoughts had been going through Revan’s head at this point. He knew not where he was going and in an instant everything went blank.
The first thing that came to meet Revan's eyes after the initial flash was that of yet another equally bright, and equally as painful to look at so close. The brightness had left him blind to the fact that he was not on ground. No, in in fact he was about ten feet off of it and he soon realized this as he came to hit the ground with a thud.
Disoriented from such travel that he had never experienced before, he wasn't about to get up. That last fight took a lot out of him. Revan slowly lay down and relaxed, as much as he could through the pain. Not knowing where he was made him feel, well.. it didn't seem like much had mattered to him anymore. His plans ruined, and as far as he could see he was stranded on a rock with no form of communication or a way off the planet, at least that is what he assumed it was. Nothing else could hold such vegetation after all.
Seeing as though he was not going anywhere for awhile he just lay there, thinking and contemplating things of which had no significant value. Just the fact that he was still alive through all of this was good enough for him, he finally admitted.
"Ugh." he sighed. Sitting in an upright position, and facing forwards looking at nothing in particular.
Realizing that he was in an open field, left him with the feeling of being completely exposed. Anything could come at him from anywhere and he had no way of defending himself. "Mmmfh," He had said while standing up. "need to find shelter..."
Walking, well not walking more like limping, in the open field towards a forest, Revan had figured that it might contain items that he would need if he were to survive. Even though he realized the danger of going into a forest regardless of how alien the place around him seemed, he was still weak and injured and he took that into consideration. He activated his light saber and it glowed a dark purple.
Upon entering the forest there were many eyes watching him, curious perhaps. Revan limped along, paying head to those that watched him, wondering if they would strike at this easy prey.
Thankfully for him, they hadn't bothered with attacking and disappeared. He chuckled to himself, "Heh, am I really not worth anything to these creatures?..." The thought of him saying this bothered even himself, wondering as to why he would want such creatures to attack him. Did he want to die? He quickly dismissed the thought and carried on though the forest.
- - -
His travels had brought him to an opening on a side of the forest and something he had not expected to see, a small cottage on the outskirts of it. Revan had wondered that if there are people here, than that means there are spaceports even! Getting caught up in the possibility of rescue something came out of the cottage. It was small and... yellow... with pink hair? He had seen many a species in his day, but never did he ever see anything like the specimen before him now.
From its physical traits it did not seem like it was something that he would have to be cautious of, although size doesn't make the beast. For all he knew it was some killing machine, though that was highly improbable due to what he noticed next, it is a wonder he didn't notice before hand. There were quite a few animals in the, what seemed to be, yard type area. Most of which took note to Revan's appearance on the outskirts of the forest.
Not wanting to arouse any more suspicion to his location he turned his saber off. "Probably should have thought of that before." he thought. Maintaining a crouched position, he watched as the little yellow thing tended to the animals, those of which were still agitated by his presence. The yellow thing was, from what it seemed from this view, trying to calm them down and feed them. It seemed very timid, and Revan could almost hear what he thought to be it speaking galactic basic, but in a very hushed tone so it was not very clear.
Revan had wondered that if this "thing" had some sort of communication device that he might be able to use, a holo communicator would be great right about now. From the looks of the cottage it did not seem like this culture was very advanced. In fact Revan started to question as to how such a creature could even live in such a place. It seemed silly that something like that could build a house, let alone operate necessities that every home may need. Regardless of that, there were stranger things he had witnessed so Revan was willing to allow this one to slide.
Sneaking closer to get a better look Revan found himself stepping on a stick. (yay stealth!) Alerting the yellow thing to his presence and it darted inside the cottage letting out a quick "Eeeep!" while doing so. The animals turned their attention to him and the fled as well, save a rabbit that just look at him. Revan stared back, even though the creature couldn't tell due to the fact that he had a mask on at the time, and the bunny just hopped away casually. "Strange creatures." Revan said aloud.
Seeing that he had practically frightened every living thing around this area, he decided it was high time to go back into the forest to look for some shelter since he obviously wasn't going to be staying in that cottage.
- - -
The day passed by quickly, and Revan had found himself looking up at the sun from time to time. He thought to himself that something didn't seem quite right about that sun. Ignoring that fact, he trotted on over hills and logs and even dead carcasses that he thanked was not him. Revan came to a cave, the interior of which was filled with an impenetrable gloom. Before venturing inside he decided to activate his saber as a precautionary measure and for light. Slowly creeping into the cave he soon found that it was quite inhabited, the creatures that inhabited it though were strange in the extreme.
There were creatures, made out of wood mind you, and they did not look pleased to see Revan. Neither was Revan pleased to see them, as they appeared to be both predatory and quite hostile. Still weak and now exhausted from walking for quite some time, he figured using the force in this situation was not the best idea. It could leave him open for an attack that he could not deflect as easily as he could at full strength. "Too risky," he thought to himself. "I’m going to have to stick with my saber for this one." The wooden creatures crept towards him, one lunging out at him. Revan stepped to the side and sliced the thing in half, thinking that it would deter the others from following suit. Quite the opposite in fact, as three more leapt at him, each being slain in succession until the last one fell, smoke seeping from its wounds.
Pleased with his victory, he spent his celebration clearing the dead, sliced up, bodies of the wooden creatures out of the cave. He now had a place to call home. It was not much to look at, but with a bit of touching up it would look just fine. The thought of living in a cave did not sit well with Revan, though on the bright side there was only one way in, but that being the only way out.
The day had far since passed into night and the noises of many creatures filled it. Revan had found some loose boulders and placed them in front of the entrance, denying any entrance from the outside. "Ugh..." he said, placing the last boulder down "I think I deserve a nice night’s sleep after a day like this..."
Having said that he swiftly headed back into the cave, spreading out his cloak on the floor as a sort of rudimentary bed he quickly dropped off into the sleep of the exhausted.
Dawn broke, the sunlight slowly filtering through the cracks in the barricade that Revan had erected in haste the night before. Revan, still feeling tired despite his long rest, sat up against a wall of the cave. Still wondering where the hell he was and how long he was going to last. Though the recent fight with this caves inhabitants subdued that last thought, they had been easy enough, what else could this world throw at him?
It had seemed to Revan that his thinking process had not quite gotten back to what it used to be, that last thought seemed to be tempting fate somewhat. Of course there is more that the world can throw at him, hell, there could even be a Krayt Dragon although that was highly unlikely. It doesn’t hurt to consider the possibility however, except for the depression that comes from considering endless what-ifs.
Growing tired of just sitting slouched against the wall, Revan rose to his feet and headed towards the entrance. Moving these boulders seemed significantly easier than last night, due to the fact that he was now using the force to move them rather than brute force.
The light outside had been quite brighter than he imagined, briefly blinding him. “The mornings on this world are just so serene”, he thought. It was a sight to see, even though it was just a dense jungle. Being locked up for three hundred years kind of makes you appreciate the little things.
Exiting the cave that was his temporary home, Revan took his mask off, immediately feeling the morning air breeze across his face. He had not felt like this since he was back on the Rakata world, the last planet he ever saw before he took flight on his journey. Taking a step outside, he remembered he left his saber back over where he slept. Easily pulling it to his hand he resumed walking.
The first task at hand was gathering some edible food, he thought, his stomach grumbling due to a lack of food from the previous day. He took a quick glance to his side and noticed the foes he had slain the previous night. It was a disgusting sight, maggots crawling all over them. Having such a thing outside of his cave would indeed deter others from entrance, but was it worth the smell? Pondering this thought, he finally decided to move them somewhere and burn the corpses.
“I really don’t want to start a forest fire,” he said “it would be quite troublesome.” Not wanting to get his hands dirty he once again called upon the force to solve his problem for him, as he lifted the corpses up and took them over to an opening in the forest.
Revan had set the bodies down right in the middle of the clearing. He then proceeded to ignite the bodies by way of force lightning. It seemed the easiest way since any other way would require him to find tools for making a fire.
Disregarding the amount of smoke that had billowed up due to the combustible nature of those creatures, Revan moved on to find food, or even a river for that matter. There had to be something somewhere. To avoid getting lost this the jungle, Revan activated his saber and gripped it with the force. He planted the tip of it into the ground and walked forward, now having a sufficient means of keeping track of where he has been.
- - -
It had been about thirty minutes of walking until he came across that familiar sound of water. Determined to quench his thirst he sprinted towards the sound, forgetting entirely about even making a trail. Coming to an opening he found it, a river that seemed as clear as the most purified water. Without delay he threw himself to the ground and scooped up handfuls of water, hastily drinking until he felt his thirst to be quite slaked.
Sitting there on the bank of the river, he once again looked up at the sky, though this time he had the creeping feeling that something was watching him. Turning around, he saw nothing behind him but the forest and some rocks and the occasional fallen branch.
Shrugging off the feeling he stood up, content that his thirst had been assuaged. He turned back towards the forest, but not before seeing an odd sight. Had it been a sort of bird, or flying creature? This thought passed and left his mind as quickly as it came.
There was no way what he had seen could be real could it? It left a multicolored trail in its wake, and as far as Revan knew there was nothing that could do that, at least no living organisms.
His continued search for food left him somewhat unaware of his surroundings; this was almost his undoing when he wandered into the path of a passing beast of some sort. The beast had that appeared appeared feline and had bat wings and some form of segmented tail. Revan saw this all in an instant as the beast charged straight at him, tail held high almost immediately upon catching sight of him. Revan, quickly taking stock of his surroundings force jumped into the tree behind him and watched as the abomination slammed head first into the base of the tree. The tree shook quite a lot at the initial blow though Revan held his place. He took this opportunity to make the kill. Switching on his saber he jumped down towards the beast. As the dark purple glow of the saber disappeared into the beast’s back with a loud hissing noise immediately killing the beast. It had seemed he had lunch for today, possibly even dinner. The tail of this creature seemed like it would be poisonous due to the scorpion-like nature of it. Revan gripped the tip of the tail with the force and lifted it up in the air, thus granting a clean cut for his saber at the base of the tail. The body fell and Revan flung the tail into some nearby bushes.
- - -
The day seemed to have been half way over by the position of the sun. Making his way back to his cave home, Revan was just really wanting to get this thing cooked and into his stomach.
Reaching the cave, there seemed to be something that was amiss. He had that feeling of being watched again. This time the feeling was a lot stronger and it felt like that whatever it was that was watching him was close. Though from his point of view there was nothing that he could see watching him. Stopping and looking around for a moment Revan muttered to himself “Hmm. Must be imagining things… Yeah, just my imagination.”
Slowly entering his cave, body in front of him, he set the beast down. “Now would be a good time to look for some wood for a fire I suppose.” Perhaps those wooden creatures that he had burned would have been suitable. Though the fact that they may have harboured some nasty diseases made him retract that thought.
- - -
After a trek through the forest provided him with an abundant supply of twigs and logs, he returned to his cave and began preparations to make a fire. The preparation being just throwing most of the sticks and such onto the ground and putting them ablaze with some lightning. The light from inside the cave could draw attention to him since it was nearing night, and he had everything that he needed for the night. Moving towards the entrance of the cave he lifted the boulders that had been placed there the previous night and placed them back in their original spots. Save the gaps in between the boulders, it seemed to be pretty solid. Something would have to purposely be looking for him to notice his place of residence.
The night dragged on, sounds of crickets and other insects filled the air outside. Just like the morning, the night was just as peaceful. Taking out the fact that there were predators out in those woods and going out at night was not the best idea, it was still peaceful.
Lying down beside the dwindling fire that he had made, the thoughts of the previous day came back to him. “Who was that small yellow creature, and how might I go approaching such a thing?” Revan had thought as he looked into the fire. If he were to get anywhere on this world he would have to get to know the locals, seeing as though this planet would be his grave it wouldn’t hurt to have some friends.
Another thought came into his mind regarding the ability he used to get here. Perhaps if he used it again… “No.” He thought. “I am doing just fine as it is, no need to go somewhere that could possibly be even worse.”
Practicing this ability wouldn’t hurt though, who knows if he would need to use it again. Though actually having control of where he went. He would need to practice it on something besides himself, since it seemed the most reasonable thing at the time. He would start with small things such as rocks, and slowly make his way up in the size of things. Perhaps using it even on living things, he decided he would make his way over to the river tomorrow to test.
A new day dawned on Revan and he felt much more optimistic about his prospects. He had a good meal the previous night and even though he ate a foreign creature he knew nothing about, he seemed to be doing just fine health wise.
Today was the day he would train up on this skill of his. Better to master it than have a basic understanding of it right? He got up off the rocky floor wincing a bit at his stiffness from his lack of experience sleeping rough. Probably should find some sort of bed material. Not wanting to lose any daylight thinking of what kind of material would suit such a purpose best he walked over to the entrance.
Removing the rocks once more, yet this time in a fashion that made it so there was now a door sized entrance, Revan made his way outside.
There was something around him again. Not wanting to spook what ever it was that had its eye on him he carried on with his task, subtly trying to catch a glimpse of what was spying on him. What could possibly be so interested in me to stalk me day and night? It dawned on him that either he could be the first of his kind to be in this place, or that it was just a very curious animal.
The walk towards the river was a long and awkward one. The thing following him was hiding in bushes behind him as he walked. What ever it was that was stalking him, it wasn’t very good at doing so.
- - -
Coming to the edge of the river Revan had sat down on a large rock. Firstly, before practicing any sort of force ability he needed to “stretch his force muscles”, essentially using basic force abilities like picking multiple massive objects up and levitating them around himself. Revan started with the boulder he was sitting on, remaining completely unfazed on top of it, thus proceeding to lift others as well, ones as large as he could find.
These boulders orbited around Revan for a good five minutes before he set them all down carefully, mind you, as to not cause a large commotion.
Feeling confident now that he would be able to complete his practice for today, he gave it a shot. Even though he wanted to use himself for practice so that he could master this quicker, he decided that it was best to go slow as to not mess up and end up somewhere completely different.
The first object that had come to mind for practicing was the boulder Revan had been sitting on. Getting up off of it, he walked over to the other side of the river for safety. He then concentrated on that rock and where he wanted it to go. An aura appeared around the rock for a short amount of time and a bright flash occurred. The object disappeared, but only for a second as it reappeared just beside him. Though it was elevated slightly off the ground when it was transported so it made quite an audible thud when it it the ground, birds flying from nearby trees in alarm.
First attempt was a success! For the most part anyway. He managed to get one thing from one spot to another, all he needed to do now was figured out how to make it alter the altitude of the object he was transporting.
- - -
Through trial and error, Revan quickly learned from his mistakes and was quite on his way to mastering said ability. Live specimen trials were next. Though these would prove to be something at a different level of difficulty entirely.
Focusing on one of the fish, the results were not as successful. For one, there now was, instead of a fish, a mutilated blob of organs and meat appearing right in front of Revan. “Oh well, onto more specimens!” he had said aloud.
There were a few more fish that turned out the ways the first did, but Revan had caught on to what he was doing wrong and the next attempt had resulted in a success, apart from the fish dieing from suffocation on land. At least he had dinner now. Making sure he fine polished his skills, he tried it a few more times on some other fish. Every one of which had passed through that fold in space that he had created without grotesque injuries! Perhaps now would be a sufficient time to practice it on himself, but moving the fish that he had “caught” back to his home would be his first priority. Wouldn’t want scavengers coming by and taking his catch now would he?
Standing completely still, Revan had thought of the cave and looking in that direction. He didn’t expect to see a creature sitting there in the forest in some sort of terrible excuse for camouflage. No that was probably the last thing he expected to see, and the fact that it had a notebook and a writing utensil shocked him. Was he being studied like some lab experiment?
The creature noticed Revan’s stare and stood up in shock, exposing it from its cover and revealing a purple colored animal with a horn protruding from its head.
Startled by this, Revan quickly thought of that last creature he had seen that looked similar, just with different colors and no horn. He thought of the cottage and in an instant he was going in a bright flash of light. Leaving that purple animal possibly in a state of shock and fear, maybe even slight temporary blindness seeing as though it had been staring him down the entire time.
Reappearing outside of the door of the cottage, Revan let out a gasp of air. None to sooner after appearing had he noticed the door had been open and standing there was the tiny yellow creature from before. It let out a loud, piercing sound. “Eeeeeeeek!!!” This time instead of fleeing it just stood there, not moving an inch with eyes as wide as saucers.
He had never seen this thing up close before, but it seemed quite harmless. Relaxing a bit Revan finally spoke up, he needed to make contact with the natives eventually if he were to make any progress on this world anyway.
“So..uh..surprise?” Revan said, not sure as to why he said surprise. It came as a surprise to the creature before him as he spoke though. This observation could be made due to the fact that it had just fainted and fell over on to its left side, in a stiff manner with legs protruding outwards. So much for first impressions.
Frantically trying to wake up the small thing, Revan sensed something approaching from behind, quite fast at that. Putting a serious face back on he turned around to see a cyan streak coming at him, though before it got too close he just put out his hand it came to a sudden stop in the air.
He brought it to him, while it was struggling in his grasp. It appeared to be just like the one one the ground behind him. Had it thought I hurt it? Looking at the face of this creature he had he could see the mixed emotions of fear and anger in its eyes. Looking back at the passed out animal on the ground behind him, he put the cyan creature inside the cottage with it and closed the door. Revan had at least hoped it would be more concerned about the safety of it’s fellow species than to take revenge on him.
Turning from the door and proceeding to teleport back to his home hoping to let the heat die down he was stopped by a sudden grasp around his body. There was nothing physically holding him but he did see an aura around him, and from it it seemed there was yet another creature running towards him. This time it was the one from the forest, that horn of its glowing the same color as the aura he had been surrounded in. Though it did feel familiar, was this thing adapt in the force? It was a possibility, and with that he broke free of the grasp with ease. Though not as adapt as me apparently.
The purple creature stood there, dumbfounded possibly as to how he had manged to break free of the grasp. Using this opportune time to flee from these things without causing them anymore harm than he has, he was yet again interrupted. This time by the cyan one catching him off guard and slamming him to the ground. It had seemed as though the yellow one was already back on its feet and just stood there cowering in the door way.
Determined to get out of the area as quickly as possible, Revan let out a burst of energy pushing back both the cyan and purple creatures. Not wasting the short, but interrupt-able, time that it took to teleport away he rather just used the force to amplify his speed making a hasty get away.
- - -
Finally back at his cave, he closed the entrance behind him. “What a day...” He said, letting out an exhausted sigh. Who would have thought? First interactions with the local populace had turned out worse than expected. Well.. at least something productive came out of today. Remembering the practice he had with the whole Fold Space occurrence.
Tired and worn out from that very long sprint all the way back to his cave, Revan lay down on the rock floor. Pondering what possible exciting adventures the next day had for him. This made him let out an annoyed sigh. Fidgeting around on the ground for a short while until he finally came to a position that was not so uncomfortable, he curled up on his right side. “I really need to get some bedding material...”
The night had been a long and cold one. Having no fire to keep himself warm for the night, Revan lay awake for most of it. With what had transpired previously in the day he had wondered if his chances of getting to know the locals were ruined. Hopefully they don’t hold grudges. Those creatures had probably been talking about what had happened and even trying to find the “attacker” as it had seemed from their point of view. “Maybe that yellow one will remember differently and tell them I wasn’t attacking it. That it just got startled and fainted!” As the optimistic words left his mouth he felt something of a sinking feeling as he realized that this was most likely not the case.
Sitting there, alone, staring into the place where there once was a vibrant fire, Revan sighed. There had to be a way to gain their trust. Though, admittedly, gaining said trust would be more easily said than done. Perhaps a direct approach wouldn’t be the best option, since he knew all to well how that turned out even though it was unintentional in the first place.
Scratching noises emitted from entrance of the cave. He could make an educatged guess as to what waited for him out there, Revan was , however, still drawn to the noise. As he drew near the entrance he started to hear what had seemed like muffed talking. Whispering to be more accurate, as what ever it was that was trying to get in most likely wanted it to be a surprise.
As Revan moved closer to the sealed up entrance he could make out the voices, to his surprise he was right about his guess before hand. They had, in fact, been speaking galactic basic! Having a little bit of hope restored as he can now imagine the possibility of being able to talk his way out of any situation.
“Come on now! Put your back into it!” Said one of the voices.
“I’m trying as hard as I can! Why don’t you come over here and help me?!” Another replied in a somewhat snappish tone.
“Well you’re the one who said she could do it all on her own now didn’t you?” So these were females he was dealing with.
The scratching quickly picked up in pace and then died all together. What seemed to be a sliding sound came from the other side of the boulders. “Poor thing got tired.” Revan said in a hushed voice so those outside couldn’t hear him.
A purple aura gathered around the rock in front of him. It had looked as though it was attempting to pick this rock up. To Revan’s astonishment it actually did pick it up and moved it outside. Caught in surprise by this he didn’t move from his current position, hoping that their vision was based on movement. Though from the other viewpoint it must have seemed to be a creature dressed from head to toe in clothing, crouched over in an eavesdropping position with his hand up to his ear and what not.
Not noticing Revan as of yet the cyan colored one spoke. “Show off.. What?” He scrambled to his feet as it turned around to look at what the other had been eyeing down. Out of no where the cyan one jumped at him, being caught in an invisible field. The purple one following behind it. “Put me down!” The cyan one screamed as it squirmed around in his grasp. “Not until you stop trying attack me.” Revan responded.
Both of them looked shocked at the fact he could speak their language, though Revan had just gotten over this moments before. They stayed there, hanging suspended above the ground for a good two minutes before they snapped out of it.
“You can speak Equestrian?” Asked the purple one inquisitively.
“If by Equestrian you mean Galactic Basic, then yes. I can.” Revan had said, though not too sure as to what this “Equestrian” was. “So are you going to stop trying to attack me at every chance you get, or do you just want to remain floating there for the rest of the day?”
Even though they now could communicate with each other, the creatures had still seemed to be very scared. Probably due to the fact that Revan was holding them in the air with ease and there was no visible way to determine how.
Revan sensed a few presences coming out of the forest behind the two he had in his grasp. Multiple growls had been heard coming from that direction and the things in in front of him tried to turn and look as they no doubt were just as fearful of what was behind them as they were of Revan. “Timber-wolves!” They both screamed. Well if there was a time to earn some trust it was now, since the two species didn’t seem to be too friendly with one another. “I’ll handle this, you just stay put.” He said as he sat them down inside the cave and sealed the entrance. No need for anyone to be playing hero around here.
There were about five of them that he could see, but the moonlight hindered his regular view. Though he had the force so there was no problem in finding out how many there were with it. “So fifteen then huh.. Well I think this will teach you to stay away from my damned cave.” Holding his saber with a tight grip he launched forward into the mass of wood-like creatures. Slicing the first one that had also charged at him in two. The rest of the pack jumped him all at once. Quickly raising his hand upwards he brought down a storm of lightning upon all around him, lighting trees on fire, scorching the earth around him, and creating an almost solid wall of sound in addition to disposing of all but one creature that immediately made as if to flee. He griped it and crushed it into a ball of wood. “Such pitiful things.” He said as he made his way back to the cave.
Moving the boulder from the entrance he saw the two creatures shaking, most likely scared by the sound of the storm. “It’s safe to come out now. I dealt with those timber-wolves.” They stood up and slowly walked outside seeing the scorched area in front of them as well as the ball of wood that used to be living.
“How...” spoke the purple one, the other just being in total awe.
“Oh, it was nothing really. No need to thank me.” Revan was feeling rather odd and delivered this in a semi-mocking tone.
The trees that were on fire were sure to attract attention, but it didn’t really seem to matter now since he had already been discovered. There were sure to be a barrage of questions coming at him, and soon enough there were.
“What happened to the ground!” The cyan one shouted out, somewhat taking Revan off guard with the pitch of the sound. The purple one just stood there taking in all that was around them specifically the wooden ball that lay not too far from where they were standing.
“Do you want to see?” Revan asked quizzically.
“I uh..YES!” The cyan creature said with a slightly lower tone than before.
“Alright, but first I want you to tell me what you are. I have been wondering this for a while now.”
The purple one spoke up, coming out of her trance. “Oh, we are ponies. I am a unicorn and my friend here is a pegasus. Now if you don’t mind me asking what are you supposed to be?” Revan figured it was a fair exchange of information and told her what she wanted to hear. “I’m a human, male to be more specific.”
“So are you going to show us how you took care of those timber-wolves???” Demanded the cyan pegasus in a somewhat abrasive manner.
“Yes, yes, just stay put and watch.” Figuring that doing the same exact thing was not the safest thing to do with an audience he just shot some lightning out at the ground instead.
Seemingly content with what they just saw, Revan had shifted his attention towards the ball of wood. Since he had noticed the unicorn glancing at it the entire time they had been talking. “I suppose you’re wondering about that ball of wood over there too, huh.”
“Yeah, it’s too circular to be natural and it doesn’t fit with the rest of the area so I figured that it might be one of the timber-wolves...” She said, trailing off towards the end.
“Well you are right on cue with that one little miss. That was indeed one of the timber-wolves you are talking about, though not anymore apparently.” Revan responded, wondering briefly if the little miss part may have been a bit too much. The unicorn seemed to blush a bit at that but had no overt negative reaction. “If you are wanting to know exactly how I did it look no farther than that rock over there.” He said pointing to a rock no bigger than the ponies lifting it up and crushing it into a neat little ball half its previous size.
“That’s some powerful magic you have there!” She said as soon as Revan had set the rock down on the ground. The pegasus was just completely awestruck by all of this.
“I suppose it is. There is far more where that came from, I assure you.” Revan confirmed as he walked over to the two ponies. “I suppose you two don’t know where I can get something good to eat do you?” He said as he let out small chuckle.
“Well I am not sure if you would be greeted with open arms. We are a bit more open-minded after you saved us from those timber-wolves so we know you’re not all that bad. If you want one of us can bring you food from time to time if you want.” The unicorn said with a bit a hesitation in her voice.
Revan had thought on this for a moment and decided what seemed best. “No no, I wouldn’t want to be a burden. I think I will just take the risk of heading into...” “Town.” The unicorn finished his sentence for him since he wasn’t sure how large of a settlement it was and it was quite obvious from the way that he trailed off that he was trying to find the correct word. “Ah, yes, town. Would you mind giving me directions then, it is getting pretty late.” The pegasus answered this time with a different, and more energetic, answer than Revan was expecting. “No need! Just shoot one of those awesome bolts of lightning up in the air around twelve, I’ll be over here in no time to guide you to town! Being with the coolest pony in the world should be enough to get you accepted by the town pretty quickly.”
“Alright then I will see you at twelve then.” Gesturing a wave as he entered his cave and closed the entrance. That went better than expected.
Daylight streamed in through the entrance to the cave and Revan awoke with no small feeling of trepidation at the thought of the day’s ventures. This was the day he would make formal contact with the locals. As Revan exited the cave he quickly noticed that the day was far further along than he had planned. He realised that he had slept through almost half the day! Deciding quickly to forgo an extended bathe in favour of a quick dip. He also decided to give his clothes a quick rinse as they had become somewhat whiffy after several days of hard use. The smell did not bother him much, Revan having become accustomed to it, but he supposed that it always paid to make a good first impression.
To make up for lost time, instead of walking over the river, he transported himself there with his newly gained expertise with his Fold Space skill. A ball of shifting white light appearing next to the river bank. Thankfully, this time not above the ground.
Thinking of a way to effectively wash his clothing quickly without any sort of machinery, an idea came to him. Picking up a few large rocks, each large enough extend from the bottom of the river to above the top, he made a makeshift washer. Taking his mask off and setting on a rock to the side of him, he proceeded to strip down and put his items of clothing into his newly made washer. Figuring that he could wash himself up while he washed the clothing, he got into the river.
“Shit that’s cold.” Revan had said, as he practically jumped into it. He began to make a whirlpool in the primitive washer to simulate a real one. Too bad there was no detergent to put in it. “Oh well, we can’t have everything.” Revan had thought as he continued to clean himself.
The sun was nearly completely overhead by the time Revan had finished cleaning both himself and his clothing. Drying the clothing would not be that hard of a task. He would simply just have to draw all of the water out of the materials, easy stuff.
After all that was finished Revan figured he might as well call that pegasus to him since it may take awhile for it to get to him. How wrong he was... As soon as he had shot that bolt into the air a rainbow colored streak appeared right next to it. “Had she been waiting nearby all morning for me to signal her?” He wondered briefly. The cyan pegasus made its way down to Revan in an instant, her speed undeniably fast.
Realizing that he was still not properly dressed he grabbed his lower garments as fast as he could. To no avail the pegasus had pretty much seen the whole package, a bright red blush coming over her face while looking away shyly.
“Sorry about that, hah...hah...eh....” Revan said embarrassed mainly because he didn’t know he was naked until it was too late.
“No no it’s fine, I didn’t see anything! Promise!” The cyan pegasus had replied.
“Oh, well okay then, no worries. Just let me get dressed and I will be right with you.”
- - -
A few minutes later Revan returned to the pegasus in full garments.
“Ready to leave?” Asked Revan inquisitively.
“Yeah yeah, but first tell me about those cool looking scars you have!” She said brashly.
“It’s not really something I want to talk about, I gave up on that past a few days ago...” A short silence followed suit.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to bring up memories.” She consoled.
“Yeah, well no sense dwelling on the past right? Live for the present! Anyways, are we going to get going or what?”
An inspired look lept to the pegasus’ face. “Sure! Follow me!”
Noticing that Revan was limited to the ground alone and obviously in no hurry to get anywhere, the pegasus slowed her pace to match his. The bored look on her face was proof enough that she was one of those type of people. Wanting to get everywhere and get done with everything as fast as possible. That could explain the mark on her rear end, a cloud with a multi-colored bolt of lightning protruding from it. Revan supposed the bolt was to signify the pony beside him, the cloud was probably just there for visual assistance.
- - -
As they made their way out of the forest and onto a road, the pegasus looked bothered. Still moving at the same pace and looking forward, she asked him a question.
“Hey, you know you never told me your name yet right?”
He thought on this and she was right, he hadn’t, how rude of him. “It’s Revan. How about you?”
“Revan huh? Oh! My name is Rainbow Dash, fastest flyer in all of Equestria!” The pony radiated an almost palpable level of smugness. Though in a way it was cute, it did seem to fit her personality from what Revan had seen. “If you were wondering the other pony that was with me last night is Twilight Sparkle.”
“I must admit, your name suits you well. You are quite fast from what I can tell, the fact that you showed definite signs of boredom most likely due to the pace of walking tells me that you are unlikely to take things easy.” Revan concluded.
“Well yeah don’t get me wrong I love going fast, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like taking it easy from time to time. I mean I love to sleep, I take naps all~ the time!” Rainbow replied.
“I stand corrected. Now where is this “Ponyville” that you reside in?” He asked.
“You will probably be able to see it in five minutes if we keep up this pace. It’s right around that hill over there.”
Signs of civilization had already been present as they walked along the road. There were lamp posts and benches along it, though, perhaps because it was on the road to the forest, none of the equipment seemed very commonly used, neither was it in a very good state of repair. The town was now in Revan’s sight. It was... different, but not completely foreign to him. He had seen such housing before, but the atmosphere of this place just seemed... happier, perhaps more upbeat than the majority of the galaxy, especially Nar Shaddaa which was the filthy, crime-infested, moon of Nal Hutta.
They approached the town slowly, and to Revan’s complete lack of surprise the few ponies that they had seen on the way in quickly fled upon catching sight of him. Apparently having the coolest pony in Equestria at your side still doesn’t take away the fact that he is very different from anything they had most likely seen. Though this assumption is made by the fact that their jaws dropped upon seeing him and shortly afterwards they beat a hasty retreat. It’s funny to say the least, but he can’t help but feel sorry for them that they are getting worked up over nothing.
“It seems that your presence isn’t helping with my appearance Rainbow.” Revan said, in a somewhat concerned tone.
“Eh, don’t worry about them. Once you’re around for a bit they’ll warm up to you.” She said in an attempt to reassure him.
Making their way through town Revan was taking careful not of the local scenery. It all looked so peaceful, someplace someone could really settle down in. As they traveled along, he didn’t notice any other species, save the ponies that didn’t have a horn nor wings. There were no spaceports in sight, though not uncommon in towns, which meant that he would probably have to find a city.
- - -
Arriving at their destination, a large tree that had looked like it was made into a home of sorts, Rainbow flew up to the door, finally getting a chance to fly fast even if it was for just a second, and knocked impatiently. Twilight opened the door and was greeted by Rainbow with Revan walking up behind her.
“Oh hey guys, come in!” Twilight had said with a cheerful grin on her face.
The two entered the hollowed out tree and Revan had noticed that it was more of a library than a home. Except that instead of holofiles there were tomes of knowledge, it had seemed that this civilization was indeed quite primitive. The door shut behind him with a purple glow, he had guessed that this was Twilight’s doing. She motioned for him to follow her into what turned out to be her kitchen. Both Rainbow and Revan took a seat at her dining table. Revan with his knees up at around chest level given the height of the chair that he sat upon.
“Hey Twilight, I wanted to ask about that purple glow of yours.” Revan had stated prompting a quick reply from her.
“Oh that? That’s my magic at work, telekinesis to be exact. Wait, how do you know my name?!”
“Rainbow here told me, since we hadn’t properly introduced ourselves to each other last night I suppose she decided to introduce me to you in advance.”
“Okay, thanks Rainbow! Though I still don’t know your name.” Twilight had said as she set down two plates with a sandwich on each.
“Revan. Pleasure to meet you Twilight.”
“Likewise.” She responded while taking a seat and giving him a careful examination.
They sat at the table each one examining the other, though Twilight couldn’t see where his eyes were looking through the mask anyways so she probably just assumed he was looking back into her eyes. Rainbow had finished her sandwich when she looked at Revan’s plate to see that he hadn’t touched it.
“You gunna eat that?” She asked.
“No, I don’t eat grass and flowers.” He responded, pushing the plate over to Rainbow.
“I’ve got some apples if those are more suited to your taste.” Twilight said, motioning to a basket of what looked to be freshly picked apples. “I got them this morning from my friend Applejack at her stand.”
“Applejack. What’s next, a pink pony named Pinkie?” Revan had thought as she soon as she said it.
“Sure an apple will be just fine.”
Twilight had levitated an apple over to Revan who proceeded to take off his mask. Though only lifting it slightly upwards as to take a bite out of his apple. Twilight had seemed unamused as she most likely wanted to see Revan’s face, but instead being teased by only a chin and mouth.
“I see that you live in a library, you must be very knowledgeable...How much do you think you know?” Revan asked.
“Well I’d like to think I know just about everything about Equestria, but now that you’re here I’m not so sure.” She said, with a doubtful tone.
“I’ll tell you what. After I get settled in here, maybe find someplace to stay, I’ll open your mind to a wide array of new knowledge.” Revan had said, waving his hands in an arch above his head.
It was around 12:40 PM when Revan finally glanced up at the clock sitting just above Twilight’s head in his field of view. The two ponies in the room with him were doing the same thing they had been doing just minutes before. Rainbow was chowing down on that... grass sandwich thing, and Twilight was just staring, probably eager to to learn what Revan had promised to teach. He did intend to share his knowledge of course, just not yet.
Rainbow had finished eating and said that she had some clouds to place for tonight. Both Revan and Twilight acknowledged this with a simple nod and she set off, not through the door like any normal person... err... pony... but through the open window.
There was a brief paucity of conversation as Revan slowly munched on the apple that Twilight had given him. Twilight was the one to break the silence with a question.
“So how did you get here?”
“I told you I would tell you everything once I got settled in. No need to go rushing into knowledge you may not be ready for.”
Twilight looked at Revan with a hint of understanding in her eyes. She had begun to get up and walk towards the entrance to the library section of the tree. Revan followed and disposed of his apple core. The amount of knowledge stored in these books was but a fraction of what Revan was used to having on hand in the data archives he was used to, yet to live in a library must have meant she has...
“I read all of these books,a few times over, so I am quite knowledgeable! Are you sure you can’t give me a teensy weensy idea of where you are from, I’m sure that I’ll understand. I mean, it can’t be that outrageous right?” Twilight just kept babbling about her extensive knowledge on all things Equestrian.
“Twilight..”
“Have you ever heard of a dragon? Scary things, they could gobble you up in one bite!”
“Actually I...”
“And don’t get me started on the creatures in the Everfree Forest!”
“Twilight, I think I under...”
Before she could get in some other random sentence about wildlife and such, Revan put his hand up to her mouth. A clear sign that she was indeed talking way too much.
“Shh.” Revan said as he held his hand to her muzzle. Blushing, she nodded, most likely embarrassed that she had been rambling. Having given her time to contain the flood of questions that evidently filled her, Revan released his hand and got up.
“Alright, if you are that interested in where I am from I will tell you. Though only a “teensy weensy idea”.” He had said as Twilight looked at him with an excited gleam in her eyes and a smile across her face.
“Space.” Revan said blandly.
“Space? Like where the stars are space?” She asked in astonishment.
“Yes, speaking of space. I have been wanting to know if there are any spaceports around here.”
“Space... ports?”
“Never mind. Let’s get going, I want to meet this Applejack you were talking about earlier.”
If this pony did indeed have extensive knowledge on Equestria then that means there were most likely no spaceports anywhere inside the borders of this land, possibly even none on the entire planet. Perhaps this would be his permanent residence. As Revan reflected on this he mused that it would probably not be too bad to live here. The world he was currently on seemed devoid of outside interactions from the looks of it. A true utopia, someplace someone could start a new life. One where nobody would come looking to take his head.
- - -
The two walked down the roads of Ponyville with eyes watching them at every step. It had seemed the local populace had an intense curiosity about Revan’s presence. Word must spread fast around here. There were literally ponies gathering from, apparently nowhere, and following whilst staring quite openly.
Ignoring those behind him Revan traveled onwards. Twilight had noticed those following them and she tugged on Revan’s lower garments to get his attention.
“Can you teleport into the sky to get a look for where a farm with apple trees on it is?” Twilight asked, Revan having no idea what she was getting at.
“I suppose I could, but why do you want me to do that? You should know where it is already.”
“Of course I know where it is, but if my teleportation spell is anything like yours then you need to know where you are teleporting to first.”
She had a good point, teleporting out of town would be much easier and they wouldn’t have ponies following them around everywhere. Revan knew what she said was the truth, but was also wondering how she could teleport as well. He would have to ask her later.
“No need for me to teleport Twilight, I can just jump. Tell me what direction this apple farm is though, I’m sure that would be helpful.”
“It’s to the left of us at the moment, and what do you mean you can jump? Nopony can jump higher than a building, how will you be able to see it?” Twilight asked in a confused sounding voice.
“I’m not a pony remember.” Revan stated in a flat tone reserved for stating the blindingly obvious. “Nopony huh? Must be their way of saying no one, I’ll keep that in mind for future interactions.”
“Well, if you’re sure... anyway I’ll meet you there!” She said as she disappeared in a flash of purple light, similar to how Revan had teleported.
He took that as his cue to get moving. After building up some Force, he leapt into the air and faced to his left. There was indeed a farm in that direction and he could see a barn. That seemed to be the best place to transport to. While he was up in the sky he could see all of Ponyville as well, it was beautiful to say the least. The locals down under him all were all standing in awe, their mouths hanging open in astonishment.
A quick flash of bright light materialized and Revan was at the barn. It looked in tip top shape, even though it was made out of wood. Something like this must take a lot of work to maintain, unlike farms in most other places of the galaxy. The order of the planted trees was something as well, even the number of them was surprising. There had to be at least 400 trees in view.
Revan was leaning on the side of the barn, appreciating the view when he heard footsteps coming from his side. Twilight came around the corner of the barn followed by an orange pony, with a stetson, and it had a mark on its rear end that resembled three apples. Revan had assumed the orange pony was this Applejack that Twilight had been talking about. Turning towards the two ponies approaching him he gave a smile, even though his face was hidden behind a mask.
“Hey there, you must be Applejack.” Revan greeted.
The orange pony seemed hesitant to speak, and it was apparent that she was quite nervous. Twilight had been trying to calm her down, though it was looking like a lost cause. She even tried to back away, but Twilight caught her with her magic and set her down in front of Revan.
“Come on Applejack give him a chance!” Twilight had said in attempt break through her fright.
“Ah...Ah s’pose it wouldn’t hurt..” She reluctantly said.
Revan took this as a cue to start up the introductory process again.
“The names Revan.”
“A..Applejack. P..Pleased to m... meet yeh.”
“You don’t need to be afraid of me Applejack. I’m not here to hurt you or anything. Promise.” Revan had reached out to Applejack for a handshake.. or hoofshake. She accepted the offer and they shook hand and hoof.
“So Twilight tells me that yah are new round these parts, Ah’d be happy to show yah the farm once yer all settled in.”
“That would be nice, I’ll be sure to put some time aside to come by.”
Twilight chimed in as they were greeting each other. “Well now that we have all met each other I think we should get going to Rarity’s.”
“Good idea Twilight, oh and Applejack I see that you have a lot of apples that still need to be harvested. If you need any help with that it would be my pleasure assist as well as I can!”
“Ah’ll keep that in mind, it wouldn’t hurt to have an extra hoof around the place!” Applejack had replied giving an approving nod.
- - -
Revan and Twilight were once again walking together. This time they absolutely had to make a trek through town so Revan would just have to deal with the unwanted attention that this would bring. A thought came to Revan’s mind as they walked and he brought it up to Twilight.
“Hey Twilight, I have an idea as to not be noticed by those in town. Just bear with me for awhile, I promise I will be right behind you the entire time just keep going to this Rarity’s place.”
Twilight didn’t get a chance to respond before Revan appeared to just vanish into thin air. The unicorn looked confused, but she did as he had said and continued on.
Revan followed behind her cloaked, as to not draw eyes to him. For the most part Twilight was trusting of his plan, though she did look back a few times to see if he was there. From Revan’s point of view the only thing that might give his position away would be the sound of walking and foot imprints on the ground.
As they traveled through the town nopony noticed the fact that Revan was walking behind Twilight. Twilight herself still looked unsure as to whether or not he was following behind her.
“If you’re still back there, we’re almost at Rarity’s.” Twilight had said to what seemed to be nopony in particular.
Before Revan was about to say okay, a pink pony popped up right in front of him. He fell back to the ground with the pink pony looking down at him. He was wondering how the hell it found out where he was. Though it didn’t seem to matter much anymore since his cover was probably blown. Revan undid his cloaking and faced the interloper.
“Hi there! You’re new here aren’t you?! I know that because I know everypony around here, but you don’t look like a pony! In fact I don’t think I have ever seen anypony like you before!” Gasping, she zipped away in a flash. There was no real explanation as to what just transpired, and if there were many brains would die.
“What... just happened?”
“Oh that was Pinkie being Pinkie is all.” Twilight responded, seemingly unfazed by what happened.
“Ooooookay?... Well then, shall we keep moving?”
“Of course, Carousel Boutique is right down the road!”
“Sounds... spiffy.”
The two arrived at Rarity’s and Twilight knocked on the door. “Just a minute!” Called a voice from inside, seeming somewhat panicky. Revan looked up at a window above the door to see a silhouette pacing back and forth. He was leaning on the side of the building waiting, and it wasn’t until around five minutes later that Rarity came down and opened the door. Twilight greeted Rarity who seemed to be an upper class type, judging by the style of her hair and her diamond marks. She hadn’t noticed Revan until Twilight mentioned him leaning on the building to her left. Rarity let out a brief scream and then darted inside. This seemed to be the usual treatment for him, aside from that one pink pony Twilight called Pinkie.
“Well shit, I scared another one away. You know this does wonders for my self-esteem.” Revan said blandly.
Twilight rushed into the Boutique after Rarity and Revan followed her to the entrance but no further, it would not be polite to enter uninvited. The inside was just as he would have expected from the exterior. It was rather fancy to say the least. Not the kind of place that he would want to stick around for an extended amount of time.
The purple unicorn came down the stairs and motioned for Revan to follow her upstairs. He understood, but realised that intruding on one’s property without even know them and at the same time having just scared them out of sight was not a good mix.
“I think I’ll just stay down here. See if you can calm her down and get her back here to talk.”
Twilight nodded and proceeded back upstairs. A muffled argument breaking out from the room above. It sounded like someone was throwing pots and pans around, yet to as who would keep pots and pans in their bedroom is quite the question. The noise died down as Revan maintained a calm facade, internally mildly worried due to the amount of fuss this one pony seemed to be causing.
Eventually Rarity came down the stairs managing to look like Revan was someone she was used to seeing..
“Hello, sir. I take it you have found a liking to my door frame?” Rarity asked, seeing that Revan had been leaning on it in an uncomfortable way.
“Why yes, it is quite the comfortable door frame.” He replied sarcastically. “I kid though, as door frames are not in the least comfortable as I’m sure you know.”
This conversation was already off to a disastrous start, and Revan was painfully aware of that fact. Now was not the best time to be messing around with ponies, first impressions and all that. He had to think of some way to salvage this first meeting. The only thing he could think of was apologising sincerely to Rarity.
“I apologise Mrs. Rarity, it was unjust of me to say such a thing.” Revan had said with a bow.
“Oh my, a gentlecolt. It’s not everyday you get to meet somepony like that.” Rarity proclaimed as she walked closer to Revan and patted him on the shoulder. “It’s okay dear, I forgive you.”
“Of course she is the one to have to forgive, but I am going to have to go along with this.” He thought as she patted him on the shoulder. “Thank you Rarity.”
“Not a problem, though...about what you are wearing...it seems awfully ragged.”
“This is how I have always worn it...it’s supposed to look like this...”
Rarity did circles around Revan probably trying to get a measurement. “Hmmmm.” She had said as she sat down in front of him with a some sort of thinking face going on. “I suppose you’re right, though it only looks good if you look at it as something other than something that..mostly anyone...would wear..” At this Rarity twitched a little. It had seemed this pony was quite fashion centered, and the fact that she owned a boutique only added to that assumption ten fold.
Twilight was standing by the staircase for the entire time that Revan was being checked out by Rarity. Having her hoof on her face for the most part. This sort of thing most likely happened a lot with Rarity. She trotted over to the door way and waited for Revan.
“Uhh..Rarity. Revan and I have one last stop to make so we are going to have to cut this visit short.” Twilight had said to the white unicorn.
“Oh, that’s fine darling!” She looked to Revan. “We’re not done here. You’re coming back soon and we are going to find something to spiff you up.”
Revan gladly followed Twilight out the front door and into the afternoon day. The two continued their journey through town yet again to reach Fluttershy’s house. Revan thought back to the previous day. “Hopefully this time she won’t turn stiff on me again.”
- - -
The cottage had come into view as Twilight and Revan approached Fluttershy’s residence. The last time he was here things went to hell in a handbasket. Revan was hoping to patch things up with Fluttershy, and possibly gain another friend in the process. It would be no easy task though, seeing as though both encounter with the pony left her shocked and scared. Rain clouds began to form overhead as they neared the cottage. This would have to wrap up fast, staying out in the rain was not on Revan’s to-do list for the evening.
Crossing the small bridge Revan couldn’t help but admire his surroundings. It was more beautiful than the first time he was here, he didn’t really take the time to take in the scenery the second. There were many places for animals to be housed along the winding path that lead up to her front door. This was the last stop for the day, then he had to either find somewhere to sleep for the night or go back into the woods to the cave he had.
Knocking on the door was not necessary as Fluttershy had already met up on her way out of the door. Not in the normal way, but forcefully thrown out. Revan ran to her aid unsheathing one of his sabers. When he got to her she seemed more scared of him than whatever it was that threw her out of her house. Revan stared into the cottage wondering what monster was in there. Rain began to fall shortly after Twilight saw Fluttershy on the ground.
“Fluttershy are you okay?!” Twilight had yelled as she galloped up to the yellow pegasus’ side.
“I’m...alright...Angel is just being fussy about his dinner again.” She said, making quick glances at Revan who was still looking into the cottage. It appeared that she noticed his saber was dangerous due to the fact that the rain was sizzling off of its radiant glow. “Don’t hurt Angel, he didn’t mean anything by it!” Fluttershy said trying to convince Revan to sheath his weapon.
Revan turned to Fluttershy who squeaked in response. He switched off his saber and returned it to its resting place. A small bunny then came walking out of the front door of the cottage with an annoyed look on its face. There is no way that this could have been the culprit responsible for throwing a fully grown pony out of a door.
“Angel! You’d better go back inside it’s raining!” From anyone else it would have sounded like a command, but from this shy of a pony it was more like a soft suggestion.
The bunny flipped her off and turned back into the cottage. Fluttershy seemed content that he was back inside, but still nervous about Revan standing in front of her. The rain was relentless and Revan hadn’t wanted to stay out any longer than he need.
“Fluttershy.” Revan said as he reached a hand out to her. “We need to get you inside, this rain is becoming bothersome.”
“I agree, let’s get you inside before it gets worse.” Twilight chimed in.
Fluttershy nodded and took Revan’s hand, assisting her in getting off the ground. They proceeded into the cottage, closing the door behind them and making their way to what seemed to be the living room. Revan was the first to sit down on the couch that lay in front of him, he sighed in relief at the rest he had now received from being up and about all day. Though he wasn’t as tired as he let on to be, actually he was fine, but he wanted this day to be over already and this apology out of the way. Twilight followed and sat next to him, with Fluttershy sitting on a lounge chair. Revan sat up a bit and got more serious, though not too much as to scare the poor Fluttershy.
“So Fluttershy, I have been stopping by your friends places today and I wanted to come by to see you before this day is over.”
“You wanted to...see me?” She asked in a curious tone. Twilight sat quietly as Revan continued with his apology.
“Alright, so, I wanted to apologise for scaring you yesterday. I have an explanation if you would like to hear it. Not a long one, but enough to sort this whole mess out.”
“Oh...no that’s fine...I don’t need an explanation or anything like that, I mean...if you don’t mind.”
“Fine, with me.” Revan said, being relieved of having to explain things to her.
“Revan!” Twilight said irritably. “Aren’t you at least going to say sorry?!”
“But she said I didn’t have to!” he said pointing at Fluttershy.
“It’s fine Twilight, I know he is sorry, he doesn’t have to apologise.”
Twilight sat back into the couch in defeat, Revan letting out a small laugh. The laugh subsided as he got up from his seat. The sun had already almost completely gone down and the only visible sight of it was its crest.
“Let’s get going, it’s getting late. Been nice meeting you Fluttershy.”
“Oh, uh, you too Mr. Revan.”
Revan teleported out of the cottage and back to Twilight’s library. Spotting a small creature as he materialized. It donned purple scales and green spines. The small thing had the widest set of eyes when it saw Revan, dropping the books it carried. Twilight soon followed after Revan with her own teleport noticeable by its purple flash. She saw the creature and ran over to it waving her hoof in front of its face. Finally snapping out of it, it looked at Twilight and asked who it was that was standing in front of it. Twilight quickly explained and the creature gave a nod and went back to what ever it was that it was doing.
“If you were wondering, that’s my assistant, Spike.” Twilight said to Revan.
“What exactly is Spike?”
“A dragon. Well, baby dragon.”
“Dragon huh, only ever seen a few in my time. Never seen one like that, even a baby one.”
“What do the dragons you know of look like?”
“Oh uhm, really, really big and could probably eat one of the houses outside in one bite. Scary stuff.”
“Thats...nice to know...I’m surprised such things exist.”
“Yes, well, there are a lot of dangerous things out there. I really am wanting to get some sleep soon, so I’ll be leaving for the night.”
“You’re going back to that cave? No no no, that won’t do. You are going to stay here for the night, though I don’t have an extra bed around...”
“That’s kind of you to offer, if you wouldn’t mind me being here I suppose I could stay. As for sleeping, I have been in a cave for a few days, I think I can put up with a floor for one more night.”
“Perfect! I’ll let you find a place down here. You know where the kitchen is, feel free to get something if you need it.”
Twilight made her way up the stairs into what was probably her bedroom. Revan now had a place to sleep for the night, that was not terribly cold and had rocks everywhere. It felt nice to him, though a hotel room would be nice. Perhaps there was one around here that he could get a room at.
He put his sabers down the table in the middle of the room. Alongside them he set down his mask, and went outside. The night air was chilling, yet comforting at the same time. Taking a seat on one of the roots that stretched out from the tree he looked to the stars. Revan didn't want to go back to those stars, not anymore. He wanted a new life, something that didn't involve galactic disputes. Something simpler, more relaxing, a sort of retirement. Yes, this is where he had decided that he would live out the rest of his life.
Revan awoke to the sight of a pony staring him in the face. It was the most awkward thing that has happened to him since he got to this planet. Those eyes...they look like they can stare into a man’s soul. Revan’s soul to be more specific. After a small period of time of the two just staring at each other, Revan uncomfortable as all hell and Twilight completely absorbed in studying his face. It must have been like nothing she has ever seen by the sheer length of time that she kept staring. Revan finally had enough of her and broke the increasingly awkward silence.
“Do you mind?”
She snapped back into reality and fell back onto her rear. A wince shot across her face as she fell onto something that must have rolled off the table and under her. This something turned out to be one of Revan’s lightsabers which was activated by the shock. The resulting activation also burned off some of her tail hair as she shot up into the air, yelping quite loudly.
Revan, having just now figured out what happened, snatched his lightsaber from under her so she couldn’t hurt herself more by falling on it again and walked over to the worried Twilight who was trying to get a good look at her tail. Come to think of it, none of these ponies had seen what his sabers could do. It must have been quite the shock.
“Wha...what just happened?!” She said turning towards Revan, still in shock.
“Uh...sorry...you sort of sat on one of my weapons. They tend to burn through things. Heh...”
“My tail...it’s...singed...” Twilight had said looking back at it.
“Hey...it uh, doesn’t look tha-”
Suddenly she ran upstairs in a rush. Had she really been that freaked out by what happened? It was only a little burnt, barely noticeable. Revan took his other saber from the table in front of him and holstered both of them. He was about to put his mask back on, no need to go changing his appear to the locals so soon, when Twilight rushed back down the stairs with quill and paper in her grasp.
“Wait!” She screamed, as he was about to place the mask on his face.
“What?”
“I want to draw a picture of what a human really looks like so that I can catalogue it!”
“Uhm...”
“Don’t worry it won’t take that long, just take a seat.”
Revan did as she asked, it seemed as she didn’t even care about her tail anymore. The main focus was to document his appearance now apparently. This pony really did thirst for knowledge, regardless of its form. Twilight scribbled across her paper vigorously attempting to copy exactly what she saw in front of her. The drawing took more time than she implied, Revan now stiff from sitting on the hardwood floor.
“Done!”
“Ugh...Finally. So, how do I look?”
“Well, uh...” Her eyes shifted back and forth from the paper to Revan. “Oh my.”
“Well?”
“I think I’ll just leave the drawing to somepony who knows how, hah hah hah.” Crumpling up the paper with her magic, she tossed it into a nearby trash bin.
“Okay, but about your tail. Are you alright?”
“Perfect! I’m just a little bit curious as to how such a thing works. I mean it doesn’t have a blade, yet you call it a saber!”
“Want to know how this works huh? Well I suppose I could show you, it’s the least I can do for you getting singed by it. First, breakfast.”
Revan turned towards the kitchen and plopped down on one of the seats next to the kitchen table. He levitated over some apples and water to where he sit. Twilight joined him, but instead took the time to make pancakes for herself. The way she made them was something to see at first. She was so organised with the ingredients, and she multi-tasked like it was nothing.
Still eating breakfast, Revan wondered where that Spike character was. It had already been well past nine in the morning. It didn’t really matter that much to him though, he never really did get along with kids.
Twilight had just finished up with her pancakes when Revan realised something pretty important. He wasn’t sure why it hadn’t crossed his mind before since as long as he is planning on staying here it wouldn’t hurt to find out about this planet’s history.
“Hey Twilight, do you happen to have any books on the history of Equestria?”
“Of course I do! What sort of a librarian would I be without a book on Equestria’s history?”
“Great! You wouldn’t mind if I borrowed that for a little bit would you? It’d help me understand this place more than I currently do.”
“Not a problem! I’ll go get it for you. Be right back!”
Not a second later she returned, book levitated in front of her. She sat it down in front of Revan and told him that she would be back again. Apparently Twilight was a little annoyed that her assistant hadn’t gotten up yet and went upstairs.
The book that lay before him read “History of Equestria”. He opened the front cover, and not to his amazement the text had been in some foreign language. No language that he recalls even resembles this writing, so reading would be out of the question for the time being. The only things he could do to learn about this planet is either have Twilight read the book to him or go to a class and learn the language. Learning a new language would take time, and being without proper knowledge of this place for that time wouldn’t be impossible, but it would be difficult. Given how long learning the language was likely to take the former option seemed to be the logical choice.
Having put the book back down on the table, Revan sighed. “History lesson it is.”
Re-entering the kitchen where Revan resides, Twilight was accompanied by her assistant. Spike didn’t really even seem to pay attention to him as he went to get some breakfast. Twilight, though, came right up to him as she had seen that he had the book open on the table, but wasn’t reading it.
“Something wrong with the book?” She asked inquisitively.
“Well, actually, I can’t read a word of this.”
“What?! You can speak my language so well though!”
“Speaking a language is much different than reading it, Twilight, and the fact I can speak your language is just by chance.” He said pointing to the book that lay on the table beside him.
“Oh...Well I guess that kind of makes sense.”
- - -
As Revan was talking with Twilight about random trivia, there was a pounding at the door. It was still an hour till the library opened. Twilight got up and walked over to the door to see who it could be. As she approached, the banging grew louder and more frequent, almost as if someone had the intention of barging in at any moment.
“Coming!”
Just as she got to the door it flew off its hinges and made contact with her face. *Headshot* Revan rushed over to mare and checked if she was alright. It wasn’t anything major, just a few bruises. The assaulters stood there in front of the doorway, with weapons levitated above themselves. Their armor was ornate as were the weapons. These must have been royal guardsmen of sort.
They were not there to make small talk as one galloped towards Revan. Revan didn’t want to leave Twilight there all by herself, but it seemed that they were not after her. He jumped away from her, unsheathed his lightsabers, and moved them into position. The very same purple and red that slew countless enemies. Though this time they aimed to disarm not kill, there was no need to make a mess in Twilight’s house as well as hurt his reputation.
As the one that previously charged at Revan came after him again, the other two got into position behind him. More hoofsteps could be heard coming from outside as a few more royal guards entered Twilight’s house. The space was getting more and more cramped inside and Revan was going to have to get them out of here.
They had made a circle around Revan, carefully watching his movements. Revan took this opportunity to slam a controlled amount of force into the ground with his fist to suspend the guards surrounding him in the air. Their bodies flew up in slow-motion and they wiggled their legs as if trying to find ground. Revan threw each of them out of the house two at a time. This left six guards lying outside on the ground in a dazed condition, and bystanders watched huddled near other buildings.
Revan walked outside, lightsabers in hand, looking at the pile of guards he had just created. At the moment they were still out of commission so Revan levitated their weapons over to him and sliced each consecutively. Now that these ponies were unarmed Revan sheathed his sabers, and just stood there arms crossed, waiting for at least one to regain consciousness.
Twilight gasped when she had come through the door into the street and saw the guards in a pile on the ground. Revan turned to Twilight and saw a look a shock on her face, as well as a stream of blood coming from the crest her mane.
“Revan...what did you do!?” Twilight exclaimed.
“Well, defending myself for one. Second, containing the situation, this could have gotten much worse. Also you should probably get your head looked at, it’s bleeding a bit.”
Twilight put a hoof up to her head to be met with a warm and red substance on her hoof.
“Oh my...” And then she fainted.
Revan exchanged glances between Twilight and the guards. “Huh...Well I suppose these guys can wait until later.” He walked over to Twilight and proceeded to mend her wounds with the force.
As Revan was healing the mare, one of the guards finally got up from being unconscious. He wobbled over towards Revan, still a little dazed from the encounter. Revan noticed him coming and and put up a shield around him and Twilight until he was done healing her. That healing of which wouldn’t take long as it seemed to be only a slight fracture, easily mendible.
When he was done healing her, he stood up and faced the unbalanced guard who was banging on the shield with what little power he had left in him. “These guards must not do this too often.” He thought as he lowered the shield to only protect Twilight’s body that was lying on the ground, still out cold.
This time Revan just stared down at the guard through his mask. The guard nearly soiled himself as he fell back on his hind, eyes widened with fear of meeting his end.
Revan now clearly the one in charge of the situation has all eyes on him. The guard is still shivering below him in fear however. Looking around, even the bystanders seemed to be in fear of the current happenings. Regardless, this whole thing wasn’t helping Revan’s chances with the populace at all. Revan turned to the guard who was now in the fetal position and tapped on his shoulder being met with a loud “Aaaaaahhhhhhh!!!” as a consequence. Must be a recruit.
Giving one last look over the area Revan came up with an idea. “These guys worked for royalty. Maybe the ruler is better understanding than these ponies...though if they were here then that means the ruler sent them after me.” It wasn’t the best plan at the moment, but if all the guards are as pitiful as these then there wasn’t much to really fear.
“Hey, calm down. It’s not my intention to harm you or your comrades.” Though his previous action would have suggested otherwise. “Look, I’ll do you a favor and turn myself in. Can you show me to where I can do that?”
“C..c...Canterlot....over there!” He quickly pointed at a large city mounted on the side of a mountain.
“Thanks.”
Revan walked back over to Twilight, picking her up and taking her inside. He set her down on her bed that was upstairs. Seeing a purple tail protruding from under the bed he gave Spike a message.
“Spike, tell Twilight I turned myself in and went to “Canterlot”. I’ll be back soon, hopefully.”
With that Revan retreated down the stairs back and back outside. The scared guard was now over by his comrades trying to get them up. The crowd had dispersed a little, but there were still some onlookers. Turning towards the city Revan teleported there in an instant, leaving behind that flash of light.
He had teleported himself what seemed to be the direct center of the city, yet up in the air as there was no clear point that he could see to transport to from down on the ground. Reven slowed his descent as he got closer to the ground landing in a group of high-class looking ponies. Every one of them panicked as they set eyes of him, and he was now pretty much used to it. Revan supposed that the large castle type building was his destination. There was a clear view of the entrance which he could teleport to, which would avoid a mass panic from the ponies that filled the streets. Mass panic was not on the to-do list for today.
Emerging from the transfer of mass, Revan was met with two guardsponies who immediately drew their weapons at the sight of him. Revan extended his hands outwards in front of him as if to have them clamp the chains on him.
- Sometime later in a rather lavish cell -
It was good for Revan that news of the guards he dealt with hadn’t reached Canterlot as of yet. The cell he was assigned to looked almost like a guest room to a house, still as small as a cell, but it felt that way. There was a platter of food near the sink on the wall, filled with hay-based products and an apple. Well, at least there was something he could actually eat, an apple.
Revan ate the apple and took the plate with the hay over to the cell door, sliding it under to the other side. Being in a cell really doesn’t leave much to do, and Revan wasn’t sure when anyone would bother to come get him. So he did the only thing there was to do and meditated, levitating.
Hoofsteps could be heard coming down the well-lit hall. Ignoring them Revan proceeded with meditating since they could be down here for anyone. Though that turned out to be wrong as they approached his cell.
“Is it levitating?”
“Pay no heed to it, we are just here to escort it to the Princess.”
“The Princess requests your presence.” One guard had said, not even bothering to wait for a reply opened the door.
“Well okay, I guess. I’ve been waiting.” Revan had replied as they pulled him out of the cell.
The hallways were lined with paintings of sceneries and what Revan had suspected to be famous ponies of sorts. It sort of looked like a palace from Alderaan with the ceiling height and pillars in the walls. The doors were also fairly large. Royalty and having to make everything bigger, pssh.
The three came to a rather elegant (eloquent is well spoken...) looking door, at least compared to the other ones that they had passed through on their way. The guard that was to the left of Revan moved up ahead to open the door, revealing a large chamber much taller than the hallways. There were massive pillars and a set of stairs leading up to a throne. Atop these stairs was a somewhat taller unicorn...no, pegasus? It was a mix between the two, and it’s hair flowed as if there were a wind blowing through it. A good amount of guards were also gathered, roughly around fifty.
The regal looking creature approached Revan with grace. "So. You are the creature who's been staying with my student?" She had said in a soothing, yet somewhat serious voice.
“Student? I’ve been staying with a unicorn, but she never mentioned a mentor in my time with her. On another note, you are the royalty around here, yes?”
"Yes. I'm princess Celestia. Me and my sister rule Equestria. Twilight didn't mention any of this to you? That's not like her."
“Yeah...Well, I suppose she was too into what I was and where I was from to even bother telling me about herself much. Though that’s not why I turned myself in. I actually just wanted to talk to you about my public appearance seeing as I will be here for a while.”
"My, my. You certainly like to get straight to the point. I respect that. Now, about your public appearance, I'm not so sure I can help you with that. You must earn their trust on your own or else they will never fully accept you."
Revan shifted a bit in his current position after being told what he had already tried. “Yeah, uh...look...I kind of already tried that and let’s just say it didn’t end well. I’m sure you know what I’m talking about...”
"Oh yes. You must mean your tussle with some of my guards. I have already informed them that what they did was out-of-line. Though I'm afraid the citizens of Ponyville may feel differently about this.”
“No doubt. Though I suppose you weren’t aware of what I really was so it’s understandable. Now, is there anything you can do to get the public not to view me as not a threat to themselves and their livelihoods?”
Celestia brought her right hoof to her chin as she thought. “I suppose I could make an announcement about you, but I'd need to know a little more about who you are personally. Other than that I'm not sure if there is much I can do. My sister and I are usually very busy ruling Equestria and don't have much time to deal with personal matters, I'm afraid."
“Fine with me, so interview now or later?”
"I'm sorry, but it will have to be later. I have a meeting with one of our scientists who's been investigating a strange occurance. We recently found several Timberwolves who had been killed in strange ways. We believe that we are close to determining the cause of this."
“Ah...yes...Timberwolves killed in “strange ways”. Well I hope your people...err ponies find out the cause soon.” Revan shifted his eyes back and forth, though not noticeable through the darkness of his mask. “I guess I’ll be in my cell if you need me.”
Celestia couldn't help but feel Revan was hiding something, but she shrugged it off. "Well ok then. I'll send for you when I'm ready to talk." Celestia gave a slight wave with her right hoof.
