//------------------------------// // Dribbling in Dark Magic- // Story: Language barrier // by A_Pony_Name //------------------------------// Jack "Uhhg!" I practically screamed for the millionth time, "how will I do this!" I thought while thinking of the language I was currently learning. I had been put in this room over one week ago, and I have barely made any progress. Their language, 'Equestrian' makes absolutely no sence. I've met numerous ponies by now, and from what little I can make out from their Equestrian, they are saying how I am the hope to their 'family' ...family... I miss them so much, my brother Chad, my best friend, Renn. My parents, even my step-mom, I miss them all so much. I know it has only been a week and a half, but unknowing if I will be able to return home ever, makes it feel like an eternity. And my roommate, Matt, what happened to him? Did he die? Head hung with sobering thoughts, I began to pace about. What had God meant? Surely I needed to do something, but what was it? As all these questions float about in my head, I began to pray. "Father up in heaven, please help me get through these times, help me understand this language, this place, and most importantly my purpose in this world...." I continued for about an hour, then with grief still in my heart, I opened my eyes and saw that Firth was there, giving me an odd look. Firth The tartus is this thing doing? I asked myself, I have seen Jack do this a lot and I know not what it is. I must remember to ask Jack this when we have the vocabulary for it. For the time being let's focus on today's lesson, casual talk. I gestured to our small table and sat down. Jack I sat down at our table and began to take out some notes that I had. Firth looked at me, the plucked out two of his feathers. I took one and said, "Thank you" in equestrian. Firth Jack smiled at me and said "sthank thū", I smiled. He had been studying since yesterday. Jack I am horrible at this. Firth I looked at the creature and smiled, and said, "learn 'HELLO'" then spelled it out, "H-E-L-L-O" Jack then wrote something down and said "hestto" then looked at me with a hopeful expression. Firth Today was going to be a long day. Trixie "What have we here?" I practically drooled out of my mouth. "An element of harmony?" "You know very well what I am, Trixie." Replied the chained ball of pink. I slapped her, then said in a calm voice, "I wouldn't want any back talk, especially from a prisoner. You never know what I might do." Pinkamena I listened to what Trixie had to say then looked around the room. I was in a plain wooden room, no windows. I was shackled to the back wall and was only allowed a meter of space. I went up against the wall and touched it. The wall glowed a light hue of blue, then faded back to the wood like color. I wasted my time away thinking about how I would get out when, abruptly, the door opened. "Pinkamena, I relieve you of duty." I barely saw what looked to be a crystal, then everything turned black. Trixie I got a crystal and started reading up on the forbidden spells, spells that tamper with your soul and memory. I searched and found many spells that I might need in the future, like transformation, animation and spell giving. I got to the one I was looking for, SOUL DIPPING. it allows one to look into, and take or give something from the soul. When I saw this, I got to studying and learning. When I understood the subject, I preformed this on a nearby plant. I saw a green aurora floating in darkness. I looked in and felt the plant. When it spouted as a bud, when it grew its first tomato, when finally got to where it was today. I tried to remove a small piece of it and saw what happened. I removed its memory of all tomatos and put in one of strawberries. It almost immediately changed. The tomatos were practically thrown off the vine, and a row of strawberry flowers emerged. Perfect. I got a crystal and charged it with a spell capable to hold an entire soul. I walked over to the cell and open the door fast. Before Pinkamena could react, I told her, "Pinkamena, I relieve you of duty." Then in a flash of light, I entered her head. When I got there, what I saw amazed me. There was two different souls. One of the rock farmer, Pinkamena, and one of a special operation pony, Rodger The Fith. Celestia had been implanting the souls of military ponies into average ponies. I picked out the one of Rodger and put it into the crystal. I then took out every memory of Pinkamena from Pinkies soul. Then, I knocked her out. I took her to her house and let her rest. Celestia "Your majesty, I would like to inform you that Pinkamena is back online and in her house." Said one of my more trusted servants. "Thank you," I spoke kindly, "prepare a chariot for me, please?" "Yes your majesty." He replied back to me. Pinkie I woke up and smelt the cent of ginger bread walls. "DELICIOUS!" I exclaimed. I did some of my morning routine, but heard someone down stairs. I ran into my drawer and found ninja clothes. I put them on in a half of a second, then bolted down stairs. But I stopped when I saw Celestia laying on Mr. Cakes couch. She looked at me and said, "Rodger, status report of infiltration mission." WHAT "Gee princess, I don't know what your talking about, but I don't know any 'Rodger' in this room," I said while jumping out of my clothes. I was then hit with a beam of majic and passed out. Celestia: 2 hours later "WHERE IS IT!!?!" I screeched in the mindscape. I was looking at Pinkies soul, but Rodgers was missing. Then it hit me, I might have a worse problem than I thought, the rebels have Rodger. This is not going well.