Where and Why
Trees… grass… mountains… rivers… lakes; these were the things that Twilight passed as she made her way across this strange world. This world… she only just now realized it but she was connected to it in some way… She did not know why, but that was not the question that was on her mind. She had already come to terms with her being the last of her kind, there was nothing she could do about it, it was fact.
No, the question was less of why and more of where. More or less. She knew where she was not, but that only helps so much, so now she travels; exploring this strange world that she may or may not have created… how she did so was still a mystery to her, but once again that was not her primary question… or was it?
Twilight stopped abruptly. Maybe if she knew how she got here she would now where she was. “That’s it!” She exclaimed. Her excitement died down when the reality of her situation came crashing down on her. She had no recollection as to how she got here. This lead her to another question, what were these memories that she was missing. Looking down at the elements that hung around her neck, she spoke, “I don’t assume you know do you?”
At the realisation she just asked a bunch of gems slung around her neck a question as if they were actually ponies, the mare sighed, “great I’m already going mad,” she droned. What surprised her the most is how well she had accepted her own situation, which actually raised more questions.
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Eventually she began to roam again, lost once more in her thoughts as she attempted to think of a way to recall her memories… Then it hit her, quite literally. She was so distracted by her own thoughts that she ran muzzle first into a wall of stone, taking a few steps back to regain her bearings and a shake of her head to refocus her thoughts. As she looked up, she was greeted by a steep cliff.
This cliff was far from normal, it was quite tall, at least sixty hooves high if she had to guess, and stretched from north to south beyond the horizon in either direction. This too, like the flora, also felt familiar…
Her magic flowed into the crust of the planet. She felt around, felt every inch of the new world, then with a pulse of magic, the crust fractured into many different plates. She grabbed two different plates and slammed them together. Huge, jagged mountains formed at the point of impact.
She reached out for two more pieces of the planet’s fractured crust. Once more she slammed them together. This time, however, one slid over the other creating a chain of volcanoes.
She did this several times until she was satisfied. Flying over to one of the huge tectonic plates she charged her magic. After a few moments she released her magic into a tight beam of energy that cut right through the crust. Continuing to fly over the proto continent she cut large non-specific shapes out of the crust, she repeated this four other times.
After the seventh irregular shape was carved into the crust she flew high up to see the proto-continent in its entirety. Once more she reached out with her magic this time griping at the cut outs in the crust with her magic. With a great amount of force and a heave of her head the cut outs were wrenched upwards away from the crust of the young continent.
Releasing her magic she looked down to inspect her work, seven large mesas of varying size and and shape. One, many times larger than the others, occupied the center of large tectonic plate.
Smiling she flew back down to the surface to begin her next task.
Twilight fell to her rump as the world came back into focus after reliving the memory. To say she was a bit shocked at the memory would be a massive understatement.
“Wow…. I made this?” She asked rhetorically as she stared at the massive cliff face. She sat there for several moments longer before getting back to her hooves. “I need to know more,” she stated with a small bit of determination. She now knew how to recall her lost memories and she wasn’t going to stop until she remembered everything that she had forgotten.
Twilight spread her wings, with a mighty flap she took to the sky and over the cliff. She continued to fly east, she was going to learn as much of this world as she could, maybe then she’ll have all her questions answered.
As she flew over the beautiful landscape she noticed something was missing, there were no animals, another question that she hoped would be answered in time. As she flew she came to a large blue body of water… an ocean.
Adjusting her wing position she made a slow, shallow dive for the beach. Upon touchdown she trotted a few meters before coming to a complete stop, once she had stopped her senses took in the ocean. The sound of waves crashing against the shore, the salty smell, the wind, she closed her eyes and took it all in.
The world below her was barren. It had some form to it, but there was something missing, turning away from the planet to look deep into space. Reaching out with her magic she searched, then she found it, comets. With a single tug, a wave of icey space rocks came hurtling towards the planet. The comets charged towards the surface of the young world, but before the large icy space rocks could impact the surface they were vaporized by the mare’s magic, for the world possessed no atmosphere yet.
Turning around once more to the vastness of space she reached out again, another swarm of comets came hurtling towards the developing world, and were vaporized before impact.
The young world was now covered in a thick cloud layer. The mare made her way down to the surface to see her work. Once on the surface she looked up at the clouds that now hung above her.
Her magic began to charge, then with a flick upward, a beam of energy shot up and into the cloud layer. A purple shockwaves ripples through the thick clouds across the world, after a few tense moments, it began to rain, soon it was a heavy downpour.
The mare smiled and watched as her world filled with water. She watched it until it had seized. Taking to the sky once more she would begin her next task.
The world came back into focus as the memory faded, she was back on the beach sitting down while looking out across the water.
“Wow... how much time has passed since I did that?” she pondered while looking at the sand under her. “It must have been thousands of years… or did I do something else?” she asked, she sat in silence for several moments longer.
“I need to learn more,” she said abruptly before standing up. She spread her wings before giving them a mighty flap and taking to the air once again. She flew over the water in hopes of uncovering more of her memory and revealing more about this strange world.
As Twilight flew over one of the world’s large oceans, she began to put all the pieces together. The world she was born and grew up on was gone, destroyed. She did not know how or why but she vaguely remembered it happening. Now she wakes up on a new world much older than she last remembered. In the short time after waking up she discovered that she was missing a large number of her memories from the time her world was destroyed to the moment she had awoken. Soon she began to recall these lost memories by observing specific aspects of this world.
It was clear at this point that this world was created by her, the same could be said about the sun and the moon that she now controlled. The question of why she decided to create a new world instead of travel the stars and look for a new one… it was clear now that she thought about it. To carry on the legacy of her teacher and the other ponies that were destroyed along with her old world.
How she survived and they didn’t, she did not know, she was not sure if she would ever know. A tear ran down the side of her cheek… What would she do once she had recovered most of her memories?
Soon the lavender alicorn came across a new land mass, flying past its beaches, she flew inland, there she saw new land structures, ravens. Large, deep chasms scarred the surface of this continent. A large number of swamps littered the surface along with many wetlands.
Angling her wings she made her way towards the largest ravine in her field of vision. It was massive, if she had to guess, it probably stretched for at least a good eighty meters deep. It was also wide, at least ten meters so. Making her way down she could see the many layers of rocks along the walls of the ravine….
Flying across the surface she found one of the many proto continents she had just created. Stopping high above it she plunged towards the surface while encasing herself in her magical aura. She impacted the surface so violently that a large fissure formed.
Grabbing it with her magic she pulled the fissure open violently, magma began to rise, but she did not let it, casting a spell she forced it to cool instantly. With a flap of her wings she returned back to where she was moments ago before plunging again towards the surface to repeat the process.
After an undesirable amount of time she flew high to inspect her work. Dozens of ravines of differing shape and size littered the young continent. Soon she returned to the surface and into one of the large cracks in the ground. The walls were barren, she frowned.
Lighting up her horn she reached out to the planet as a whole. Her horn flared and the planet was morphed and reformed. Once she opened her eyes the walls of the crevice were now lined with layers of different colored rock. With a smile and a sigh of exhaustion she flew up to do her second to last task.
Twilight returned to reality with her mouth agape. Her mind was trying to process what her memories told her was true. ‘Am I really that powerful now? Am I so powerful that I can change the chemical composition of an entire planet?’ The question was kind of redundant, she had just seen it from her own memories.
“Am I… a god now?” She asked as she fell to her haunches while staring at her hooves. The reality of what she has done up to this point had now fully impacted her, she was not just powerful, she could manipulate the universe to her will. She could rearrange the atomic structure of atoms! She could literally turn lead to gold and back again…
“Who am I?”