Alternate to Magic

by smirker


Day 7

The next day comes and Cheerilee was teaching her class, Walker was present today,

"Okay, everypony, who can tell me why it took us so long to open our borders to the other creatures?" Cheerilee asked,

"Because a unicorn named Genghis was planning to conquer all of the countries, he was going to destroy their cultures and force them to adapt pony culture on friendship and forgiveness, he was raising a military that was going to have earth ponies as his army, Pegasi as his air force, and unicorns as his magic branch, he was planning to conquer Mount Aris, Seaquestria, and Kirin Grove first, so he can add hippogriffs to his air force, have the seaponies serve as his navy, and kirins serve as his fire branch, he was going to invade all of the other countries and destroy their cultures so he could force them to adapt to our culture and have friendship spread throughout the land." Walker replied, everypony and Cheerilee look at Walker with dropped jaws,

"What?" Walker asked,

"Walker." Cheerilee said,

"Yes?" Walker asked,

"How do you know about Genghis and his plans?" Cheerilee asked,

"WHAT?!" the foals asked,

"You mean... that's not a made-up story?!" Scootaloo asked,

"I hate to say this, but no, Genghis was a real pony." Cheerilee replied,

"Um, my guardians and I are history buffs." Walker said while sweating,

"Even if you are, you shouldn't know that, our historical records on him were destroyed." Cheerilee replied,

"What? How come?" Sweetie Belle asked,

"Because Princess Celestia saw him as a black mark on Equestrian history, she ordered all records of him to be destroyed." Cheerilee replied,

"Then how do you know about him?" Walker asked,

"It's my job, Walker, I'm required to know all of Equestrian history." Cheerilee replied,

"Oh, well... I just studied him in a book back at home." Walker said,

"I see, I'm sure some ancient diaries written about him by those who served under him still exist, well, moving on." Cheerilee said, and class continues,

"Walker, what happened to Genghis?" Sweetie Belle asked,

"Princess Celestia found out what he was doing and put him in jail for the rest of his life while he was raising his army, he already conquered several areas in Equestria when she found out what he was planning." Walker replied, Sweetie Belle was in disbelief at what Walker said,

"Walker, Sweetie Belle, work time." Cheerilee said, and the two work until it was recess time.


Recess starts and everypony plays dodge ball and have fun, Walker plays competitively and they all have fun until Walker looks at the sky with a look of discomfort on his face,

"Get back!" Walker said, and the others look at him, the ground bursts open and skeleton ponies come out, the foals scream,

"Everypony, back in the schoolhouse!" Cheerilee said, and they run to her while Walker runs to the skeleton ponies. Walker goes to the skeleton ponies and begins swinging his front right hoof around like he was holding a weapon,

"Walker, come back here." Cheerilee said, but Walker continues swinging his front right hoof around and the skeletons get destroyed, surprising Cheerilee and his classmates. Walker swings his front right hoof around and destroys more skeleton ponies, one of them begins flying and Walker holds his front right hoof out, the flying skeleton Pegasus is pulled towards him by an invisible force, he holds his front left hoof out as if he was aiming something, his front left hoof moves up like it was reacting from a recoil of a gun and the skeleton Pegasus gets destroyed. Walker continues fighting the skeleton ponies but begins grunting as he was hit by an invisible force, making Cheerilee and her students uncomfortable, Walker then begins to hold his front hoofs out like he was aiming something, his front hoofs move up and down and the skeleton ponies were destroyed, he then holds his front right hoof out and stands on all fours. Walker pants and turns around to see his class looking at him with disbelief, he hears running behind him and turns around, he saw Runner and Sprinter coming,

"We got attacked by the Possessed just now, how about you, Walker?" Runner asked,

"Yeah, they attacked me here, too." Walker replied,

"Come on, let's send their souls to the Void." Sprinter said, and the three begin to walk away, but vanish into thin air, causing Cheerilee and her students to gasp,

"Come on, class, let's go into the schoolhouse." Cheerilee said, and they do.


Cheerilee and her students work in class but could not focus well, they were still in disbelief over what happened, and Walker did not return,

"What was that?" Diamond Tiara asked,

"It was scary." Silver Spoon said,

"Is everypony alright?" Cheerilee asked, the foals shake their heads with looks of fear on their faces,

"I understand you all are scared, and to be honest, I'm scared, too, I don't know what that was." Cheerilee said, and they all get on with their days while uncomfortable and head home when the school day ended.


Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle walk through Ponyville together and see Walker walking around town,

"Walker." Apple Bloom said, he looks to his left and sees them, he begins to run away from them and the three tackle him down,

"Calm down, Walker, we just want an explanation on what's going on." Scootaloo said, but the three see Walker disappear and he appears on the roof of the closest house to them, the three and the townponies gasp,

"What?! Walker can teleport?!" Scootaloo asked, and he disappears again. The ponies stare on with disbelief while Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Applejack run to the Cutie Mark Crusaders,

"How did he do that?!" Rainbow Dash asked,

"Yeah, that don't make any sense." Applejack replied,

"That shouldn't be possible, Walker is an earth pony." Rarity said,

"Everyone." Twilight Sparkle said, they all look at her,

"We all saw it, and I know it shouldn't be possible, but Walker can somehow teleport, I assume Runner and Sprinter can teleport, too." Twilight Sparkle said,

"That reminds me, skeletons came out of the ground when we were at the school." Sweetie Belle said,

"We heard, them skeletons attacked Runner and Sprinter, too." Applejack replied,

"There's more, it looked like Walker was also attacked by something invisible." Scootaloo said,

"We noticed that, too, it looked like Runner and Sprinter were also fighting an invisible creature." Twilight Sparkle replied,

"Did ya detect anythin' with yer magic?" Apple Bloom asked,

"Actually, no, I didn't." Twilight Sparkle replied,

"So, what do we do?" Sweetie Belle asked,

"I'm making a new spell to cast that will allow us to see and hear the world as how another pony sees it, if I cast it on one of those three, we should be able to see and hear those things that we can't see or hear." Twilight Sparkle replied,

"How long will that take?" Sweetie Belle asked,

"I'm almost done, but until then, I asked for Sunset Shimmer to come here, maybe her powers can give us some answers, she should be here tomorrow." Twilight Sparkle replied, the others were speechless,

"Well, there's nothing we can do but wait for them to return, let's just get on with our days for now." Twilight Sparkle said, and they do, nothing out of the ordinary happens and they all head to bed for the night.