"I just simply can't believe this!" exclaimed Rarity with dramatic flare upon hearing Adam explain what he found and what happened to Twilight. "Are you sure it was Celestia that did such a thing?"
"Yes, I am sure." answered the human as he sat down on the couch trying to take everything in. "And if she wants me gone, than I guess I have overstayed my welcome, staying here any longer will just make things worse for Twilight." he was ready to accept his fate. He got up to go to his house so he can pack his stuff and ready himself for his departure to his home time period.
"Oh come on Adam, ya can't just give up like that, that ain't like ya!" urged Applejack as she, her three other friends and Spike followed Adam out of the library.
"Applejack is right." agreed Rainbow Dash. "You always stood up for what you think was right and you never let anyone take advantage of you!"
"If I don't leave, Twilight would get hurt, or worse, I can't afford to lose another friend." explained Adam.
"But how would Fluttershy react to you giving up this easily if she were alive?!" asked Rarity. That question as enough to stop him dead in his tracks. He felt a pang of shame suddenly hit him. "She would urge you to not get bullied and manipulated like that!"
"I'm just an ordinary moral human!" exclaimed Adam as he looked at Rarity and the rest of the mares. "A human who has been through hell and back this past year just trying to fit in this world!" he ranted. "I'm not a hero, I'm not a warrior, and I'm not a Dragon master, I'm just a scientist with a time machine who wants answers!"
The mares looked on with stunned silence as the human just turned around and walked away.
Chapter XXXVI
The Confrontation (Part One)
Adam slowly began to pack his things into his saddlebag. He decided to keep the items from Equestria to a minimum to prevent possible paradoxes from bringing items from the future to the past. He packed his notebook filled with his writings about Equestria but then came across another book hidden in his nightstand drawer; Fluttershy's diary.
He looked longingly at the diary. Apart from reading the first entry that she wrote when she first arrived in Ponyville and the last entry, he never once read anything else.
"Might as well take a quick glance at what she wrote on the day she first confessed her feelings to me before I leave, it's not like I have nothing to lose." he said as he sat down on his bed and opened the book to the appropriate page.
Dear Diary,
Oh, I don't know what to do, I feel so torn, I really want to tell him how much I love him and want to be with him, but I'm afraid I'll just make a total fool of myself like I always do.
He doesn't seem that interested in me either, so what's the point? But if I don't tell him, it'll just eat me alive and I'll live with regret for the rest of my life. I need to make up my mind and soon, Dash keeps asking me to hurry up before all the cider runs out...
Wait! I got it! I'll just flip a coin, that'll do the trick, heads I will tell him and tails I will pretend my feelings for him never happened.And it landed on heads, so I guess I have to go tell him, EEP, oh, I hope I don't mess this up, wish me luck diary, I truly need it.
The entry ended there abruptly. Adam immediately closed the book. She only confessed to him because of a coin flip, a simple coin flip. He was stunned, his mind started to wonder. "What if..." he thought to himself about what would happen had the coin landed on tails. Scenarios ran through his mind.
He went over to the box of items he got from his visit from Watson, he opened it to see the sword that Celestia's father once wielded. "I wonder what's so special about this?" he said to himself as he picked it up. "I'm sure Ember would love to have this in her arsenal." he mused as he swung the sword around as if he was in battle. He then brought it up to his face to look at the blade. "Well, it feels well balanced and the blade still looks amazing for being so old and..." he suddenly began to see something other than his reflection on the blade; an island.
The world around was enveloped in white as he felt himself get transported somewhere else. He looked on to see he was heading towards an island in the middle of the ocean, not just heading, but flying towards it. "What is this?!" he said to himself as he found himself floating over the island. Down below he saw something quite unexpected; a tribe of actual humans.
The humans below looked like they lived in a village in the middle of the jungle, tanned skin painted, wore little to no clothing, had a stoned aged hunter-gatherer society. "Why am I seeing this? What is this?!"
As soon as a little girl looked up and made eye contact with him, Adam was swiftly pulled back to his room and found himself back in the same spot he stood.
He quickly put the sword back down, frightened at what it just did. "What was that?!" he exclaimed. "What did I just see?!" he yelled at the sword with fright, he wanted to make sense of it all. "Was that in the past? Or was that..." he stopped himself as a realization dawned on him. "...the present, which means, I am not alone after all?"
Before he had the chance to think about what he saw further, four unicorns suddenly appeared around him, it was the same four from Zecora's hut. "He knows..." he chanted to each other. "He knows..."
"Know what?" he asked, intimidated by the sight.
"The sword shows you everything you want to know." answered one. "It showed you your desire to not be alone, you want contact with your kind again." answered the white coated unicorn. "It showed you where to find them in Equestria."
"The sword showed you TOO much." answered the red unicorn. "We've come to take you to our leader, she's waiting for you."
"I will only agree to go if Twilight is released unharmed." he told the four. "That's all I ask."
"Then tell her herself." one of them grinned.
"She sent you here to get me didn't she?" he figured it out.
"No, we just wanted to check to see if you were doing what you were told, wouldn't want Twilight to get hurt you know." the black one chuckled.
"And what did you do to Lyra?" Adam asked the four unicorn stallions.
"Killed her with fire." the white one answered bluntly without a hint of remorse.
Adam was stunned. "You...killed her?"
"She was irreversibly contaminated, she bred with you, that's considered blasphemous." the unicorn continued.
Anger started to grow inside the human, his fists clenched. "This has gone way too far..." he growled.
"Anything to protect the status-quo." he responded. "Now time for you to visit Celestia so you can go home where you belong."
He wanted to fight, he wanted to take out his anger on the four unicorn, but he knew it pointless to do so. He sighed and reluctantly began to follow them out of his room. He was escorted down the stairs and out the front door of his home, and just as the human and four unicorns stepped out into the dark outdoors a tribal yell echoed across property as a cloaked figure jumped out of the sky swinging its staff. Before the four could activate their defensive spells, they were swiftly knocked out by the figure's staff.
Adam looked at the whole scene as the cloaked figure put away its staff, it then pulled down its hood to reveal a much familiar site. "Zecora?"
"We Zebras will always protect humans, now we must leave 'fore trouble is looming." explained Zecora as she tried to lead the human to the safety of her forest cabin.
"No," responded Adam. "I'm done running." he said stubbornly. "This ends now, Celestia must be held accountable for what she is doing." he explained to the zebra. "She's keeping her subjects in the dark so they shall remain under her rule, the must know everything she's keeping hidden, it can't go on anymore." he was determined, he squeezed his fists in anger. "I must save Twilight and end this once and for all."
"If you insist on confronting her now, I will let you go to follow your vow." stated Zecora as she bowed to the human and began to walk away but she suddenly turned around to tell him something he must know. "But you must know that five hundred years ago, humans came to my village with a glow." she explained. "They lived with us for over a hundred, how they came here so sudden we wondered." she recalled the story that was told to her when she was a foal in Zebrafrica. "But now I assume they travelled through time, it was a moment that would be sublime, things went smoothly until Celestia, faced the humans from Philadelphia." she explained.
"Philadelphia?" Adam repeated stunned. "Did they say what year they came from?!" he wanted to know, there were human other than him who can time travel, but he could not figure out how could they since he was the only one who actually figured out the equations for travelling through time, the said equations carefully written down in his notebook, took up half the space.
"That I do not know but it was long ago, but Celestia lost her self-control, that day through a fit of paranoia, she thought they were threats to the royal, so the princess wiped away their knowledge, and exiled them away without solace." she continued.
"Those must be the humans I saw from the sword." Adam responded putting the pieces together. "There are humans somewhere out there, decedents of those Celestia exiled." he continued. "Mentally sent back to the stone age." he just had enough, he quickly walked over to the red unicorn still on the ground from a head wound.
"Ugh...my head..." he groaned as he slowly got up. Before he could do anything else, he swiftly fell a hand wrap around his horn. "Huh?"
"You will teleport me to Canterlot castle as once, but just to be clear, I am not going there to do what she wants, I am going there to confront her about her crimes." Adam told the unicorn with scorn in his voice. "You got that?" he forced the stallion to look into his eyes as he pulled on its horn.
The unicorn saw anger in its eyes, Celestia warned him about how dangerous humans can be when angry. He began to sweat with fear. "Y-yes...sir..." he nervously stuttered. "...whatever you want..." trying to placate him.
"Do it!" the human snarled.
The red unicorn's horn glowed brightly as both he and the human disappeared before Zecora eyes. "I must go tell Adam's friends about this, for if I do not I will be remiss." she galloped off towards town to gather the human's friends and tell them what just occurred.
To be continued...