At the Convocation of Creatures (See issue #61), leaders, high officials and creatures who know the secret about humans around the world come together to hear the news.
"Wow," Twilight wondered as she spun around, "There are more than last time."
"It is," Princess Celestia pointed out, "Because they heard it is about a human, every creatures wanted to hear the outcome. They all wanted to know what the human would bring."
Princess Celestia give some time for Twilight to herself as she help set up the representation for Lyra. Lyra was seen a bit jittery as she downed her 5th cup of coffee. She has been up all night creating the best project she have ever done.
It was nice meeting new creatures and different leaders and representative that she didn't met before. However she was more interested in the temporary museum of human invention. Each item were either in a glass box or behind a velvet rope. She love listening to each creature explaining how each invention would operate if it is in working condition.
"This here is called a *television*," a minotaur explained, "The human have explained it is like your own small movie theatre that you can set up in your living room. Unfortunately without the source of shows coming from, it just make a static noise."
The television was a metal box with a glass side with some panels on them. Minotaur obtained an energy stone and power up the TV. The glass side disappears bunch of black and white pixels and the horrible noise that the minotaur explained. He quickly turn off it. "It's a shame. I always wanted to see what human entertainment is."
Princess walked over to a zebra, "Welcome Princess, my ancestor got an object called a *game console*. It was told you can play like arcade games but in your own home. However, it required the *television* the minotaur have. He won't let me use it."
"Not going to happen miss! You might break my *television*," Minotaur shouted back.
"Your thing is junk if it just make that horrible noise."
Twilight backed out of the argument and walked toward a dragon who look really giddy. "Hi Princess Twilight. Unlike those two you have been talking to, my treasure actually work."
The dragon revealed his treasure to the princess. It was two game arcade machine back-to-back with each other. Princess Twilight already have seen arcade machines at Ponyville. She was slightly unimpressed with the outcome.
"I know what you are thinking," the dragon stopped her train of thought, "What make it special that we kept it for over 3000 years. Even it's graphic are still far superior than the graphics we got today. We kept special care of it including the instruction manuals. Even though we can't read it, the pictures were easily demonstrated step by step. One of them show how to play the game while the other show how to clean and fix the arcade machine. The only problem is obtaining new parts if anything is broken of the inside that is why we kept everything securely about it."
She saw a deer and an Abyssinian playing intensely on it. She watch over their back and found each player were versing each other using the human fighters. The images were indeed better graphics than the ones at home and the music were of higher standard. There were a dragon holding the cords continuously releasing his electric energy to power it up.
"That's my brother. We are talking turns keeping it power. That one of the downside to it. Only a select few dragons have the power to charge it. We don't want anybody else who can use electricity to overload it and destroy the machine. We are very strict who would power the machines. We are not trusting a pegasus to do anything with it. They would obvious destroy it to ash."
Twilight continue her exploration and found a machine that resemble a carriage. A earth pony was seen cleaning the windows with at most care. The earth pony noticed the princess and bow down in front of her.
"Greetings your majesty. I am Tinker Tool and this is my possession. This is called a *car*. This is like an automatic carriage that doesn't need a pony to pull it. I heard humans have created thousands of different designs suitable for each situation. This one in particular is for a small family."
Princess Twilight told him to stand up and continue explaining the contraption, "The humans have discovered a way to travel long distances by using oil. The engines were highly advance and we took some inspiration from them to create a steam engine. Scientist wanted to pull it apart to understand more about it but I am afraid that we could not put it back together again or destroy something important. For now it is a stand piece to look at."
"Yeah," said a passing bull, "Now it is only good for being a honking nuisance."
"Oh shut up bull!"
"Princess!" a royal guard approach her, "The conference is about to start. Please follow me to your assigned seat."
A few minutes later, "Greetings leaders and high ranking officials around the world," Princess Celestia announced from the podium, "In the first time since many generations that we have met a human."
Many creatures knew about that fact and signalled her to keep going, "My human expert, Lyra Heartstring have compiled all the facts she know that is useful for this particular human."
Lyra walked up on stage with her palm cards and her projection behind her. She talked to the audience with the information she could provide.
"I have the worst sleep ever," I was sipping on my coffee as I kept watching my hologram to see anything suspicious, "At least I have you friends."
"Happy to keep you sane," Phil laughed, "We are doing the best we can to get you out of this mess. We would have contacted the government if they have any plans on kidnapped people in another dimension but that would be useless."
"Thank god I've all of you friends. Without you, I would likely take some drastic action," I went back staring at soldiers doing some kind of drill by the border, "They won't leave until I have contact them. The question is who do we pick if it come to this."
"That's easy," Samantha, a law student, gave an explanation, "Each representative of each nation would dress in their official uniform and you must pick all of them so we do not show any bias toward any race. However, you can choose not pick a particular representative if they have shown continuous aggression or signs of threat. Your well-being is the highest priority."
"Okay," I played along with the idea, "If I do this, what should I do? My home is not a proper place for a meeting. Should I get dress? What should I serve them? etc, etc. Most importantly they can overwhelm me as there are more of them than me. They could be trained spies."
Samantha remained calm and list off all the answers, "They would understand as this is your home. Firstly, just use your largest and the most open room. Put a bunch of tables together and set out chairs for each representative. Secondly, ideally you should wear a suit for a sign of respect. Even if it is your own home. Thirdly, just give them light vegetarian snacks unless they requested some meat and glasses of nice cool water. Lastly, it is foolish for them to attack us as they do not know what our capability is. They are not going to risk an all out war to an unknown nation. Just keep a knife and camera hidden with you just in case. People should see if they are not savages. Better safe than sorry."
"Great than I am a guinea pig," I groaned, "If I survive, hooray. If I don't, others won't fall into the same fate and I end up dead."
"I know this is a shitty situation," Samantha blatantly stated, "But this is best we can do now. You cannot hole up in your house for the rest of your life."
"I bet I can. I've got the internet," I countered her, "Anyway it is useless. We don't speak each other language. The first step of contact is understanding each other. Might as well be speaking gibberish to each other."
"With all the facts I gathered, we know this human is well-verse with other culture. If we use commonly-used symbols that the human use often, we may have a chance to get contact with them," Lyra concluded after showing slideshows of human symbols related to the symbols on the sign to the audience.
"Thank you Lyra Heartstring for the informative presentation. Please raise your hoof/hand up for further information," Princess Celestia commented.
Multiple hands/hooves rose up.
"Yes, the minotaur in front," Lyra pointed out from the crowd.
"Rastri Brightroar, noble from the Minotaur Kingdom. Are you saying this human is more likely to know other culture and society compare to past humans we have encounter?"
"It is believe so as this human uses symbols from multiple races of humans. This strongly lead that human must have communication devices that connect around the world instantly. Any other question?"
Lyra pointed out another creature, "Rufus Hunt, scientist from the alpha Diamond Dog Nation. How influential this human is compare to all the humans we have before."
"The most influential person we have to date. All the humans we have before only brought at least a bag of tools and their skill set. However, this human brought with him a whole house full of books, tools and the latest technology. All the stories the past human told us can be proven in his house. All the stories the human told that was thought impossible can be proven in that house of his."
There was a loud commotion within the crowd as the creatures was excited to hear this revelation, "This is all I can provide for now. The last step is to have contact with this human. We know that humans are wary of the unknown aka us. I believe that one creature at a time is the best to interact with the human."
More outroar on who should meet this human first. Preferable the one who can speak *English*.
Princess Celestia took the stand, "Thank you for attending. There would be no more further questions. A meeting with all the leaders will be held tomorrow to discuss about the first contact with that human."
Princess Celestia lead Lyra away from the stage and the creatures yelling with more questions.