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// Chapter 64 - Discovering More Secrets and The Ninth Human! 
// Story: My Little Pony: Ren's Adventures In Equestria 
// by MaxTV1234 
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It was the day after the invasion of the Crystal Empire where we defeated the Umbrum Army and successfully locked them back to their own dimension. Sombra and Hope managed to redeemed themselves and left on a journey to search for the missing pieces of Princess Amore, and soon later, I gained these cutie-marks on my cheeks like Jamie did. Only difference is that the marks has Fluttershy’s covered on them instead of Twilight’s.

Soon after we returned back home, we were greeted with something we never expected. And trust us when we say that meeting her wasn’t what we expected, not that I’m being rude about it.

So by the next day, all of us decided to stand by and talk to her by the next day. 
The moment Jack caught her, she managed to break free from his grip and gotten into the elevator in quick pace and made her escape. We’ve tried going after her, but that little helicopter that she seemed to be controlling forced us to stay away from the elevator. Though it took us the willpower to stop Jack from going after her.

“Mm…” I let out a small yawn before getting out of bed and headed towards the bathroom, brushed my teeth, used some mouthwash, washed my face, put on my clothes and met up with the others at the dining room.

“Ah, good morning Ren.” Mason greeted with a soft smile.

“Morning you guys.” I greeted back before sitting back down on the table. Nicole was eating her omelette before commenting “This omelette feels a bit undercooked, but nonetheless, it still tastes good. Thank you.”

Mason bowed to her before saying “Thank you” to her.

“Good morning…” We turned over to the left to see Jamie coming inside of the dining table. “Sorry if I’m late…just woken up from the guest room at Twilight’s room.”

“Lucky…” Jack huffed.

“No problem Jamie.” Mason assured before handing him his breakfast.

“Thank you.” Jamie thanked before taking a bite of his English Muffin.

“So um, guys…aren’t we discuss about her?” Kaede brought up, reminding us of our new human friend. 

“You mean the brat? Tch! That little dirty crap ran us over all because we stopped her!” Jack scoffed, finishing up his ten-stack of pancakes. “She’s already gone and we don’t need her to become a pain in the butt to us, or more to me.”

“I’ll say. Forcing me to sleep on the ground with you on the ground, including that psychologist who took the couch, it was a waste of my time.” Rantaro scoffed.

“What you say?!” Jack snarled at him.

Oh that’s right. Ever since that toy helicopter managed to get inside of the elevator, it’s preventing us from going through it. Jamie had no trouble sleeping over at Twilight’s home for late-night studying. Jack, Nicole, and Rantaro had to sleep on the couch and on sleeping bags at the living room with Nicole winning a game of rock-paper-scissors against the boys because she knew which move they were gonna use.

“But shouldn’t we at least check up on her? She looked pretty angry and pretty scared upon seeing us.” Carrie stated.

“Agreed. Judging by her reaction towards us when we found her, she seems to never go out that much or is even socialize with others.” Nicole agreed.

“Huh, really?” I asked, blinking in surprise before frowning worriedly. If that’s the case, then what kind of past have our new friend has gone through?

“Look, I know you guys want to help her, but trust me, how about we not?” Rantaro shrugged nonchalantly. “With that helicopter in the way, we won’t be able to at least explore the new rooms in this place.” 

“New rooms?” I questioned before realizing what he means. “Oh, since she’s awaken, you think new places will be opened up for us?”

“Exactly.” Rantaro nodded. “I just want to be over with, so I can go back to business.”

“You mean conning ponies?” Mason questioned with a suspicious raised brow.

“I think the correct term is a ‘profitable business’. I provide them info they want to know, and they just have to pay me the sums of cash that’s fair for the both of us.” Rantaro explained with a smug grin.

“But still, I still think it’s wrong.” Jamie pointed out.

“Shut up Jamie.” Rantaro rolled his eyes, earning a frown from him.

“Well still, maybe it isn’t around?” Kaede suggested. “I mean, I haven’t seen it go all ballistic on us with those mini-guns at us.”

“So maybe we can check out the place?” Carrie asked excitedly.

“That depends, what do you think Ren?” Mason asked.

“I guess it’s alright to check it out.” I smiled softly.

“Okay! Let’s go then!” Kodi barked up happily. “The more I want to check up on those rooms, the more excited I am to go through with it!”

“Mm…” Nicole nodded before we all continued on eating.

I am curious to know about the new girl. I mean, maybe she looked a bit whiny and such, but I know she’ll be a great friend to us all. Plus, she seemed pretty much into military warfare very much. I could tell easily by her clothing, or more like pajamas, and that helmet, including having that weird communicator-like helicopter. 

Maybe she’s just a bit shy, but maybe we’ll get along greatly with her. 




My Little Pony: Ren’s Adventures In Equestria


“Huh…” Well it looks like the chopter’s not around guarding the elevator.

“What the hell happened to that thing?” Jack wondered.

“My guess is that the girl controlling it must’ve went to bed. So it’s best if we hurry.” Nicole said.

“Easy enough.” Rantaro shrugged before pressing the button. Five minutes later, the doors opened and once so…

“TARGETS ACQUIRED!”

Oh crap! Hit the deck!

“AHHHHHH!” We all screamed and quickly got out of the way before the thing could fired its mini-guns at us.

“TARGET MISSED! REDIRECTING ITS’ LOCATION!” Okay, is she trying to kill us?! Don’t you think she’s going too far?!

“Hey! What the hell?!” Jack screamed.

“Ahhh! Stop that! Please!” Jamie begged.

“Tch! Typical.” Rantaro groaned, hiding behind the kitchen counter as the toy helicopter approaches us.

“ALRIGHT YOU MAGGOTS! RISE AND SHINE!” The toy helicopter remarked as a small robotic hand with a glove came out of it and pointed to our direction. “YOU DON’T THINK YOU COULD HAVE TRIED TO GO TO MY SECRET BASE AND INFILTRATE IT! GUESS AGAIN MAGGOTS BECAUSE THIS SOLDIER ISN’T BACKING DOWN FROM YA!”

“Jeez, a little warning next time brat.” Jack huffed. 

“L-Look, we don’t want to cause any trouble.” Jamie frowned worriedly.

“Yeah, we just got on the wrong foot.” I said with a soft smile. “Look, we just want to get along. We’ll introduce ourselves. I’m Ren Loodan, and these are my friends, Kaede, Mason, Carrie, Jack, Rantaro, Jamie, and Nicole. We just want to talk to you and-”

“ACCESS DENIED!” The helicopter shouted. “DO YOU MAGGOTS HOLD THE RIGHTS TO MEET THE GENERAL OF THIS BASE?!”

“General?” Kodi asked curiously.

“I think she’s speaking through what a military instructor would speak.” Mason hummed, rubbing his chin. “It would make sense considering her appearance as a military fanatic.”

“YOU THERE!” The helicopter pointed its robotic hand glove directly at Mason, flinching him a bit. “YOU MAKING ME FUN OF ME, PRIVATE MASON?!”

“No sir!” Mason shook his head, standing in attention.

“Big brother, you don’t really have to stand on attention.” Carrie stated.

“Well in the meantime, we’ll just roll with it.” Mason whispered to her, which she nodded.

“WHAT YOU WHISPERING?! YOU BETTER DROP AND GIVE ME THIRTY PUSHUPS!” The helicopter demanded. “NOW! ALL OF YOU MAGGOTS!”

“Should we?” Rantaro groaned. “This toy is seriously annoying me.”

“And who the hell puts toy guns inside of some chopper?” Jack scoffed. “I swear that it nearly made my butt cracked up.”

“How…amusing…” Kaede muttered, sweat-dropping. 

“WHAT ARE YOU MAGGOTS DOING?! YOU BETTER-HUH?” Hm? It’s starting to act funny. Wonder what’s up? As we continued to think what was going on, a new voice appeared out of the communicator of the helicopter that we never expected it to be.

“Hi you guys!”

….What the?

“Huh? Pinkie?” Carrie asked in surprise.

“Huh? Why is Pinkie’s voice coming out of the chopper?” Kodi asked in surprise.

“HEY! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING?! DON’T R-Ruin the VOICE MODULA-Tor!” Okay, what is happening right here? It sounds like it’s malfunctioning. “WHAT are Y-you?! A-Are you…an alien?! W-What the?! H-HEY! DON’T touch T-that!”

Not too soon that it started firing its mini-gun of phony bullets straight towards us, causing us all to quickly out of the way as it started roaming around crazily out of the elevator and into the kitchen.

“What the hell was that?” Rantaro asked in annoyance. 

“Whatever it was…it is better not to find out.” Nicole shrugged before running towards the elevator. “Now let us go off before it sees us!” 

“I agree. Let us go!” Mason grabbed Carrie and carried her over to the elevator with the rest of us entering in with Rantaro entering last, grumbling, “Great…more time of mine to be wasted.”

As soon as we entered the elevator, new buttons were made into it, meaning new places to explored. But our first destination was to find out much about where our new friend went.

So when I pressed a random button, it started moving upwards in its silent path as it finally arrived straight to the top and once it opened, we all soon arrived into a room that looked like we were inside a military themed room. 

“Whoa, talk about being a fan of the military.” I commented as we stared at the big room we were in. The room was decorated with a lot of military cameo color, even the ceiling was painted with their traditional green, brown, and black spots all over it. Her bed seemed to be a special bed. It was like a bunk bed, but there was nothing down there but a curtain blocking the bottom of the bed. The mattress was on top with a ladder leading to the small bedded mattress. And of course, the sheets were covered in the military themed colors as well.

“Damn, that girl sure is intrigued by the military.” Jack blinked in surprise.

“Yeah, she must be a big fan.” Kaede smiled. “I mean, we all special hobbies, likes, and dislikes.”

“She’s right about that.” Jamie nodded in agreement, examining a portrait of different military weapons and vehicles that has description of them each. “Her family might be part of the U.S. Military too.”

“Hm…that could be the case.” Nicole adjusted her glasses while looking through her iPad. 
“She may sound serious, but she seems to the type to have the heart of gold.”

“Yeah right! That brat nearly blasted us into smithereens!” Jack exclaimed. 

“Whatever, where is she? You would think she would be in her room by now.” Rantaro commented.

“Give it back!” Huh? Wait…that voice! 

“Come on! I want to know what it does!” 

“Voices?” Carrie spoken up, blinking several times.

“That sounded like it came from over there!” Kaede pointed over to a pair of stairs that leads upstairs that was on the right side of the room as we raced over and headed upstairs and once we arrived to the room upstairs of the new girls’ room, we found ourselves in what looks like a workout gym room that also seems to act like it’s a mechanic shop. While we were here, we witnessed the young sunflower blonde girl fighting over an advanced looking remote control from Pinkie Pie as they wrestled against each other.

“Come on! Let go!” The young girl exclaimed. “This is mine!”

“But I wanna know what it does! I really want to!” Pinkie begged.

“Well…when you put it like that, how about I show ya?” The girl grinned. “I always love testing it on maggots downstairs!”

“HEY!” Jack shouted, stomping his way before grabbing the two in his hands.

“Hey!” The girl whined. “Not you again, chubby!”

“Oh, you are so asking for a spanking!” Jack snarled.

“What? We were just having fun.” Pinkie insisted.

“Pinkie Pie…” Mason shook his head. “Well anyway, at least we finally found her.”

“Hey, you guys are those weirdos I saw and managed to escape from yesterday.” The girl responded. “Heh, didn’t expect me to see, eh rookies?”

“Rookies?” Jamie asked. 

“Are you treating us like we’re actually soldiers from the military?” Kaede asked.

“Of course I am!” She nodded before Jack lifted her up towards his face.

“Nah, you look like a shrimp to me.” Jack scoffed. “And an annoying to me.”

“Aye, you take that back mate!” She exclaimed. “You’re talking to one and only Skye Jones here!”

“Skye Jones?” I questioned curiously. “I’m sorry but I don’t I never heard of you before.”

“Wh-Wha? S-Seriously?” She asked in surprise. “Well that’s disappointing.”

“Um, so that’s your name.” Jamie smiled softly. “Well, it’s okay to trust us.”

“Mm…don’t underestimate me.” Skye smirked. “You’re speaking to a smarty right here.”

“Mm…” Nicole stared at her before gasping softly. “Ah…I now get it. So you’re THE Skye Jones, a specialist in military mechanics and VR control systems, and graduated high school at the age of 13.”

“Whoa, seriously?!” I exclaimed in shock.

“No way, I’m now remembering that!” Kaede gasped. “That’s…so amazing!”

“That’s right! I may have recently graduated high school, but I guess my fame was already sky-high, eh?” Skye joked. “That’s why I said that you shouldn’t underestimate me.”

“Really? Still, to me, you’re nothing but a brat.” Jack scoffed, dropping her and Pinkie on the ground. “By the way pink brat, what are you doing here? And how the hell did you get here?”

“I used the elevator earlier before you guys, duh.” Pinkie grinned and rolled her eyes, like she was stating the obvious. I’m not sure that’s not obvious to us, though. “Other than that, I found your new friend and I wanted to find out what kind of remote control it can do, but she wouldn’t.”

“Hey hey hey, it’s mine!” Skye pouted. “You can’t just take my things!”

“Well maybe she should have.” Rantaro scoffed, tilting his hat down. “After all, you nearly tried to kill us.”

“Those were fake bullets anyway.” Skye rolled her eyes. “Don’t get upset on me, you guys. Besides, I was just trying to figure you guys out if I should trust you or not. For a moment there, I thought you suckers were my kidnappers, seeking to use me for my knowledge of VR sets.”

“Is that so? Well we’re sorry for making you feel that way.” Mason apologized. 

“Yeah, we didn’t mean to make you scared Skye.” Carrie apologized.

“Nah, don’t fret. No biggie.” Skye shrugged. “Either way…you guys still have orders under me as your commander! Now then! Atten-hut! You! Private Loodan, right?”

“Y-Yes?” I called, flinching a bit. 

“Care to explain my surroundings and were we are? Are we in some sort of our kidnapper’s base or something?” Skye demanded.

“R-Right…you see…” I began to explain to her the events of what’s been transpiring. Just giving her the short version of the story like where we are, what this place is, about the citizens here, and our friends, and her reaction…

“I see….that’s pretty frigging crazy!” Skye exclaimed. “That might explain the talking pink pony over there!”

“You don’t seem to be frightened by her as you should.” Kaede pointed out. 

“Oh trust me, I was when she appeared right out of nowhere and tried to tinker with my controller, but I managed to overcome it.” Skye grinned, gloating a bit. “After all, I’m pretty cool at doing stuff like that.”

“How surprising.” Rantaro said in a sarcastic and dry tone. “So anyway, you saying you’re some teenage girl who’s famous for graduating at the age of 13?”

“Yep, just recently.” Hm? Recently?

“Recently…? But your success was over the news for as like several months as I remembered.” Jamie stated.

“Whaaa? What are you talking about? I graduated for about a month ago and it’s still going on.” Skye retorted, earning surprised looks from her. “What? Why are you staring at me?”

“Damn…so that means that your memories are all messed up too?” Kodi called.

“W-Whoa! The talking dog!” Skye gasped.

“Surprised, huh?” I chuckled nervously, rubbing the back of my head.

“…Okay, maybe this is a dream and I need to go back to sleep.” Skye commented, blinking in surprise.

“Do that and I’ll gladly sit on you.” Jack said with a stern look.

“Never mind.” Skye chuckled with a nervous grin.

“Look, we understand how afraid you are, but you need to trust us.” I said with a soft smile. “So trust us when we say that you can trust us.”

“Well…I don’t know…” Skye frowned suspiciously.

“Well, we tried.” Rantaro rolled his eyes.

“We aren’t giving up that easily.” Kaede argued, frowning at Rantaro’s actions.

“Ooh! Ooh! How about we have some fun along the way?!” Pinkie asked excitedly. “You know, I could take you around Ponyville and the ship?”

“Alright, but just the ship! I was just admiring much of my room and this workout room!” Skye exclaimed in excitement. 

“Well in that case, how about we explore much more of the place together?” Mason questioned.

“…Alright, but if you guys try and hurt me, then I’ll gladly use my chopter on you.” She frowned. 

“R-Right…” I nodded with a frown.

“Ooh! Ooh! How about we have some fun along the way?!” Pinkie asks excitedly. 

“Pinkie, maybe later. Right now, we need to investigate as much as possible around the place.” Mason insisted.

“Well…I don’t know. Maybe she could help.” I reassured.

“And be annoyed by her? Nope.” Rantaro said in a dry and annoyed tone.

“Rantaro!” Kaede called. “You shouldn’t hurt her feelings like that!”

“No, it’s okay.” Pinkie assured with a smile. “I’m sure I’ll be fine! Besides, I already see much by hanging out in the mall, enjoying eating those potato fries! They taste so different from hay fries!”

“You sure…?” Jamie asked in concern.

“Yep! Totally!” Pinkie chuckled. "Bye bye for now, you too General Skye Jones!"

With that, Pinkie quickly dashed out of the room, much to our surprise. I don’t know why…I mean, I always see her happy but she sure was acting weird. Wonder if she’s upset? If so, then I kinda feel bad.

"General Skye Jones...Ha ha ha, 'bout time someone calls me." Skye chuckled.

“But...what about Pinkie Pie?” Kodi frowned, whimpering sadly.

“Hey, don’t worry about it little guy.” Skye petted him on the head. “…Whoa, he feels so real. Are you sure that this dog isn’t a robot?”

“Last we checked, nope.” Rantaro shook his head. 

“Hm…” Nicole stares at her. 

“What are you looking at, soldier? You don’t look when I tell you to look!” Skye exclaimed. 

“…You’re charismatic.” Nicole bluntly answered.

“H-Huh? Oh that? You mean how confidant I am?” Skye asked with a smirk before placing a hand on her hat. “Heh, of course. This smart girl is quite someone you all don’t want to mess with! Got it maggots?!”

“You know, she sounds really cute compared to the voice from that helicopter.” Kaede giggled.

“Yeah, she really is cute and cool.” Carrie agreed.

“Hey! Don’t you go there!” Skye exclaimed before taking out her control and began fiddling around with it, having her helicopter toy come into the room in mere minutes before its starts flying around us. “This bad boy is something of my invention! It was what won the Battlebot competition last year!”

“Battlebot?!” I exclaimed in shock. “Oh hey, I remember now! I’ve seen it on ABC network. So wait, you were one of the competitors?!”

“Heh heh, yep. This baby here was also served as my final project for my High School Robotics classes.” Skye grinned madly. “She’s a beaut, isn’t she?”

“Mm…it does look pretty advanced.” Nicole agreed.

“See? She gets it!” Skye laughed. “Now come on maggots! In formation and let us explore more of this darn place!”

“Um…okay?” Jamie gulped.

“Fine, but she’s your responsible.” Jack snorted, heading out, scratching his butt. “I rather go and take a nap.”

“Jack! We need to investigate the place!” Kaede exclaimed. “We can’t just stand around and do nothing! We have many places to explore!”

“Ugh…fine.” Jack yawned. “But after that, I’m taking my nap.”

“Sure, whatever.” Rantaro rolled his eyes.

“Okay.” Nicole nodded.

“Alright you guys, let’s go.” Ren smiled. “Let’s continue on exploring around the place!”

“Hey! He stole my line!” Skye complained. “Jeez! No fair!”
Heh heh…Um…sorry?

“Though, a workout room? Hmm…curious.” Mason smiled softly. “Perhaps I could train myself in here before I depart.”

“But you’re already strong big brother.” Carrie stated, earning a chuckle from her older brother.

“While that may be true. I still need to train hard in order to be prepared. Extra precaution.” Mason smiled before ruffling his sister’s hair.

“Tee-hee! Okay big brother!” Carrie smiled brightly.

“Hey, what they talking about?” Skye asked.

“Just some offer he was given to about going to some military themed school.” I answered, putting my hands in my pockets.

“Ah…I gotcha. He certainly does looks like he’s ready for combat.” Skye smirked. “I like it.”

“This place does look like you see from a Planet Fitness Gym.” Kaede commented. “And we even got one back down at the mall.”

“Guess maybe for back up training?” Jamie suggested before frowning. “No…that doesn’t make sense.”

“Alright alright! You maggots get it! This is a room for new recruits like you to workout! But remember that I’m in charge, and you need maggots need to be obedient! Then you’ll be ready for battle!” Skye grinned.

“We already have a leader.” Nicole spoken.

“Eh?” Skye asked in confusion.

“Ren is the leader considering that he was the second to unlock this new mysterious power of his, along with being the first human to waken up to our current situation.” I blushed over at the explanation Nicole gave out to her.

“C-Come on, you guys…again with being a leader? I-I mean…we all just on equal to our own ends.” I stated, blushing a bit.

“Whaaaat? Oh come on!” Skye grumbled. “Fine then! For now on, you’ve been promoted to Corporeal Loodan then! But I’m still considering myself General Skye Jones! Remember that!”

“R-Right…” I nodded, gulping a bit. This girl really means business…



Later

After heading back to the elevator, Skye became interested in what the buttons that she tried touching some random, but Jack stopped her and screamed “Don’t even try brat.”

“Jeez, I was just curious about this place! Not my fault, chubby!” Skye pouted.

“What?!” Jack yelled.

“Jack! Calm down!” Mason held him back, much to his anger.

“Dammit!” Jack growled. “Piece of crap…”

“I’m right here!” Skye exclaimed. 

“Can we just move on already?” Rantaro groaned.

“Don’t worry, I got it!” Carrie pressed one of the new buttons appearing in the slots, closing the doors with Skye holding onto her toy helicopter.

“Do you always carry that?” Kodi asked curiously.

“Of course I do, doggy.” Skye grinned.“ Ha ha, I take this baby on a stroll for reconnaissance!”

“Reconnaissance?” I asked.

“You mean that you use it to examine things? Hmm, I guess it would make sense on how you knew us.” Jamie nodded in agreement. “It has some cameras installed in it.”

“Exactly! Good eyes there, Private Watson!” Skye smirked. “I test this baby out whenever back at home!”

“Really? Even back at home?” I asked in surprise. “Wow, what else can a 13-year old genius can do?”

“Heh, jealous?” Skye grinned at me. “I know, I’m awesome!”

“W-Well…not really. I was just awed by it.” I stated.

“Awe on my VR designs later, Corporeal Loodan! Right now, let’s explore this so called ‘Home-Ship’.” Skye stated sternly, but held a confidant smirk on his face. 

“R-Right…” I grinned awkwardly, sweat-dropping a little. She’s pretty cheery, confidant, and such.

Soon, the elevator began moving upwards into one of the next rooms of the place. It soon arrived to another new floor in the area, which appeared to what looks like a wrestling ring. We walked across the narrow pathway and found ourselves a stadium with a wrestling ring in the middle. Apparently, this room seems to be just one floor below the shopping district.

“This looks like something out from seeing the WWE.” I commented. “I always seen that much about and those cool moves John Cena does.”

“You’re a fan of John Cena?” Jack asked in surprise.

“Well yeah. Especially his epic theme song.” I added with a soft smile. 

“Ha ha ha ha!” Jack came over and gave me a noogie. “So you watch it too?! That’s pretty damn awesome!”

“Oh, so you watch that wrestling TV network?” Jamie asked in surprise before muttering “That’s sorta not a surprise…”

“I heard that nerd.” Jack growled before puffing his chest, jiggling his belly a little before commenting “I’ll have you know that my family are actually influential in the art of wrestling! I know a few of my cousins who went to WWE and fought in it.”

“So you know how to wrestle despite it being fake?” Rantaro questioned.

“Hell yeah! I wrestled my dad a ton of times as practice!” Jack smirked. “Even though most of the time I always lose by getting underneath his b-”

“Don’t finish that sentence please!” Kaede exclaimed, covering her ears with a blush on her face. “I seriously don’t want to be scarred for life!”

“Tch, that’s because you aren’t even my age.” Jack grunted before gazing at the wrestling ring with a smirk. “But how about one of you losers come and fight me?”

“F-Fight you?” Jamie asked nervously.

“Heh heh, maybe not now. But even so, I don’t think we wouldn’t get a chance against you.” I smiled nervously. “Well…I guess maybe Mason, but we’ll never know.”

“Oh trust me, I would.” Mason smiled.

“Wanna bet there?” Jack walked over to him and got into his face with a growl. 

“It could well may be, bear.” Mason smirked.

“B-Bear?!” Jack growled.

“Well you do act like a bear like the growling as well wanting to take a nap.” Carrie commented.

“And you’re as fat as one.” Skye grinned. “So suck it up, private Yamaki.”

“You shut your mouth or else!” Jack snarled.

“Hmm…interesting.” Nicole commented, walking inside of the walking ring while Rantaro checked out the rest of the audience’s seat before finding the commentator's room. 

“Huh, it looks like the power here seems to work.” Rantaro said, speaking through the microphone. “Heh, sitting right here is something to be proud of.”

“Um, by sitting in one of the commentator's seat?” I asked in confusion.

“If you don’t get it, then scram kid.” Rantaro scoffed. “I’m already annoyed being around you.”

“Never mind…sorry.” I apologized with a slight frown before walking away from him and looked around the place.

“Hey guys! I think I found the changing room for both genders.” Jamie called, finding two different colored doors. The blue was for the boys, and the pink was for the girls.

“Huh, that’s…somewhat comforting.” Kaede smiled softly.

“And some wrestling singlets…!” Jack shouted, coming out of the boys changing room and showed us different sized singlets. “Ha ha, maybe now that we can wrestle. Don’t worry ladies, I’ll teach ya how to fight.”

“Uh…what?” Kaede glared at Jack, along with Nicole and Skye while Carrie frowned. 

“That’s not very nice.” Carrie stated.

“Yeah, coming out of a tub of lard like ya. Seriously private Yamaki, learn to watch your mouth from your superior.” Skye grumbled.

“What you say?!” Jack exclaimed.

“Let’s just go before things escalate into more arguing.” Mason sighed. “Because this is how I will not spend with the rest of you like this for an entire month.”

“Well we’ve dealt with crazy things like this before, right? So maybe it won’t be bad.” I reassured with a soft smile.

“Fun?” Huh? AH! The moment I turned around, Pinkie was standing right next to me. I didn’t see her coming at all! 

“It’s that pink pony you all referred to as your friend, right?” Skye asked, trying to hold back her surprise with a stern look. “W-What was her name again? Pinky?”

“No, not that Pinky, this is Pinkie.” I corrected her, which she soon understood. Right, she isn’t Mina despite how their look like each other, including skin color.

“Hey Pinkie, what are you doing? I thought you left?” Jamie asked.

“Fun?” Umm…what? “Fun! Fun! Fun!”

“Guys, is it just me or is Pinkie acting funnier than she usually does?” Kaede asked in confusion.

“Hmm…” Nicole stared directly at Pinkie before widening her eyes a bit. “What…?”

“What’s wrong Private Nicole?” Skye asked in confusion. “What’s this pony’s status? Stat!”

“I’m not sure…but this Pinkie doesn’t seem to act like our Pinkie.” Wait what? What does she mean by that? Does she mean…!

“Wait…are you saying that-”

“Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun!” ‘Pinkie’ bounces off to who knows where, disappearing from our sights.

“…The hell has that chick been going on?” Jack wondered.

“It’s probably better if we found out later on…hopefully.” Mason sighed.

“Anyway, let’s continue on…” Nicole muttered, glancing away in thought.

I can’t help but wonder what was that all about…but I can already tell that Pinkie wasn’t our Pinkie…So I wonder what’s going on outside right now.



Later

We explored around the mall district as we explored to find some new shops opened up, revealing a racing track. 

“A racing track? I never would have imagined a mall to have something like this.” Jamie commented. “And judging by this structure, I say it’s sponsored by NASCAR.”

“Isn’t that that racing network that shows many racers racing across the track for who knows how long?” Carrie asked curiously before smiling softly. “I think I remember seeing it once on TV with Elena. It was crazy along with those crashes they sustained…I never knew that racing was so dangerous.”

“Just like with me fighting off some of my rival gangs.” Jack huffed. “Fighting off for territory can lead some to…unintended violence.”

“Not interested.” Rantaro bluntly stated. “Besides, why am I so interested learning so much about you? Unless it involves cash, I rather be interested in that as a broker.”

“Do you always think of stuff like that?” I frowned, not liking Rantaro’s attitude per usual. I know that he helped us a lot throughout against the Umbrum Army and that Void guy, but still…he’s acting like his careless self.

“Well I’ve been stuck here long enough. Do you know how much money you can make in a day, week, or even months?” Rantaro questioned with a bored look.

“Once again, seeing you is sometimes makes us baffle.” I sighed before smiling softly. “Though it is good to see you act like that.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Rantaro questioned.

“He means what he means.” Nicole replied for me before entering the small racing track, seeing some cars. “I guess we have some means to have fun…though I never did stuff like this. Not a fan of motion sickness, but I manage to hold it in when necessary.”

“Heh, not inviting you on a joy ride with me.” Jack snorted before examining the cars. Skye walked over and gently bowed down a little at the car Jack was examining. He noticed her looking down at it and grunted a “What”?

“It’s just weird that all of this was made into this strange ship. Or…is it really a space-ship? I mean, how the heck was all of this made?” Skye questioned. “I mean, I’m new to this all of this, but this is all loco to the coco.”

“Um…is that really an expression?” Jamie meekly asked.

“Of course it is! So don’t interrupt your superior, Private Wattson!” Skye stated sternly. “Now then, where we we? Oh right, we were investigating this place for…Corporeal Loodan! Give me a recap of what so special about this place?”

And of course, she returns back to me…Oh well, might as well explain it all back to her.

“Well it’s just that we all woken up on this ship with no memories of how we got here.” I explained. “Though…we later soon found out that our memories were all jumbled up.”

“Jumbled up? I thought you guys said that you all each don’t remember how you arrived in this base, right maggot?” Skye questioned.

“We did, but unfortunately, what we mean is that we seemed to remember different days of our last days before ending up in Equestria.” Mason clarified. “I’m not sure, but it would seem our kidnapper intended this to mess us up.”

“I see…and those pods are some sort of sleeping pod, right?” Skye guessed. “You know, that weird thing I ended up waking up.”

“That’s the one.” Nicole nodded before looking through her iPad. “Apparently, we each woken up in those things for some reason to end up here in Equestria.”

“Course I still don’t know why I ended up being around here with you dopes.” Rantaro shrugged. “Oh well, guess it would be exciting to try out new things in life as they say.”

“Yeah yeah, shut up.” Jack grunted in annoyance. “But anyway, we all woke up with different days of how we were kidnapped.”

“Or different years, messing us up.” Jamie added. “Skye, do you remember anything from before?”

“Actually, it’s pretty obvious when she told us.” Nicole said, confusing the rest of us.

“Eh? What I say?” Skye asked.

“Earlier before, you said something about getting ‘recently famous’ and how your fame started out in a month ago or so.” Nicole explained. “Meaning that that was the last day you remembered before getting trapped in that sleeping pod. In other words, that was the stopping point of yours.”

“Huh, good explanation there Private Bonnie.” Skye nodded. “So wait, you guys remember further than me when I became famous from graduating high school?”

“Well yeah, more like many months before you.” I chuckled, rubbing the back of my head.

“Huh, that’s pretty cool! Hee hee, guess it makes sense to show the world how much cool of a celebrity are!” Skye grinned. “But you know, this is pretty cool. Wish I knew much about this place.”

“Well we will know once we solve any of the mysteries.” Kaede stated before realizing something. “Oh right! Ren, do you remember about the note and the Prism Crystal?”

“Oh right! I forgot about that!” I quickly took out the smudge note along with the Prism Crystal. “Hmm, if I shine some light onto it, we might find out what’s going on.”

“Whoa, is that a crystal?!” Skye asked in awe. “It’s so gray! Can I see it for a bit?”

“Umm…maybe later?” I offered. “So how does it work?”

“I don’t know. We aren’t experts on magic.” Rantaro rolled his eyes.

“You must use the light. Though, why not use your Hacking Gun? Put it in your power supply.” Nicole instructed.

“Power supply?” I asked in confusion before she walked over and pointed to a small panel at the side of my trigger. I blinked in surprise upon seeing it. Wow…I never noticed that. “Oh…thank you.”

I managed to open it before seeing another small crystal inside of it. 

“There’s another crystal inside, and it’s multi-color.” I stated, staring at the crystal. 

“Really? Could that be the power source?” Jamie questioned.

“Well, I guess but…if its in there, how can we get it inside of the Hacking Gun?” Kaede wondered.

As we all wondered about that, a bright light came from the multi-colored crystal as it slowly began showing a beam of light into the Prism Crystal, sucking it inside of it.

“What the hell?!” Jack exclaimed. “What just happened?!”

“Whoa! Did that seriously just happened?! Awesome!” Skye smiled brightly before realizing what she said and cleared her throat. “I-I mean…that was some excellent work there, Corporeal Loodan!”

“Um…thank you?” I chuckled sheepishly, sweat-dropping a little. She’s kinda like a little kid whenever her demanding general-like personality drops down. 

“So what now?” Carrie asked. “Did it work or…?”

“Only one way to find out.” I shrugged before closing the small panel down as I began switching the dial to something. Hmm…well if I remember what Celeste and Lulu said, it shines its light to uncover the thickness of darkness or something like that. Hmm…maybe…

“Detect!” I began using Detect, shining the purple light over the note, which was rested over at a nearby table I placed as the others walked over and soon watched over the black smudges slowly disappearing in sight.

“Whoa, it really worked.” Jamie commented in awe. 

“How did you know that might’ve work?” Mason asked in confusion. 

“I don’t know.” Ren shrugged. “It just…sorta came to my head.”

“Huh…” Mason muttered.

“So does that mean that we can read it?” Carrie asked.

“Yeah!” Kodi nodded. “Hey Ren, what does it say? What does it say?!”

“Hold on, hold on.” I picked up the note and looked through it. “You guys ready?”
Everyone nodded, but Skye began flailing her arms around and exclaimed “Whoa! What in the world was that?! I never seen anything do that before! What did that crystal do or…or…!”

“Hey, calm down brat.” Jack huffed, grabbing her by the back collar. 

“H-Hey! Put me down Private Yamaki!” Skye demanded.

“Shut it.” Jack huffed before turning to me. “Hey kid, what does the note say?”

“Huh? Oh well…” I looked over to the note and began reading it aloud. Every bit I read it…it only adds on much more on what we previously knew so far.

- From the Executives Office of the Connelly Foudation....
Through it the years, We have been committed to watching and helping the world in order to help the people in search of their lost futures. But we’re regret to inform that the world is facing an epidemic crisis. Ever since the biggest incident that occurred several months ago, the epidemic worse and this creation lead to be a problem for mankind. That is why we decided to work on Project Ark. But make no mistake, this is not the end for the Connelly Foudation nor the future of mankind. We will find a cure for the virus. We sincerely thank everyone for your help and start over the years. For now, we are going under investigation and it would surely that we might've discovered the cause of the Dusk-7 Virus. Though, it should have been obvious the moment we created the monsters to harness its power to help the world. For now, we’re developing the cure but we will surely be ready to find any possible survivors. Once we find any possible survivors, we’ll report back to show about it. For now, we already gained nine people who appeared to show no symptoms about it…If we find them and interview them, then we may sure find a possible way to secure the hope of mankind. Then Project Ark can start.“
- Sincerely, the Executives Office.

It was that moment the atmosphere turned silent and dark. After I was done finishing this up, everyone looked at each other in shock, disturbance, and anger.

“What the hell is this crap?!” Jack exclaimed. “Is this some sort of joke?!”

“The Dusk-7 Virus…?” Nicole questioned, rubbing her chin in thought. “That’s quite strange…”

“I’ll say…” Rantaro nodded, hardly fazed by these news. “So the world is facing an epidemic of some virus. Heh, when crap gone really crazy, this happened…”

“S-So whole world is being threatened by a deadly virus?!” Kaede exclaimed. “That’s insane! I never even heard about it!”

“Me too! And this Darken Heart Virus?! This is relevantly new!” Jamie sputtered. “I-I mean, I’ve reviewed many viruses, illnesses, and many other symptoms of different cases of virus and such, but this is just new! What could it mean?!”

“So none of us remembered this, huh?” Mason asked, which we nodded as I answered “Yeah, it would seem so. That’s another case of our memories. Looks like our missing memories of how we got here isn’t the only case, we don’t know much about that.”

“So deadly virus spreading around the world in a wildfire? Wow, that’s pretty cray-cray.” Skye blinked in shock. “And what in the hay is this Connelly Foundation?”

“I think I have heard about them somewhere…” Nicole hummed. 

“Really? I don’t really know…” I smiled sheepishly.

“Hmm…you know, there’s one thing I’m confused.” Carrie frowned.

“What is it Carrie?” Mason asked in concern.

“It’s about the part how they created something about monsters. Does that mean that these guys were involved onto creating these monsters?” Carrie wondered. 

“Yeah, it would seem so.” Mason couldn’t help but agreed there. “Whoever this Connelly Foundation is, surely we’ll remembered once Princess Luna manages to release one of our locked-up memories.”

“Hey, what you guys’ talking about?” Skye asked. “Who’s this Princess Luna?”

“She’s one of the rulers of Equestria and a good friend to us.” I explained. “Trust me, she’s a really friendly pony with a weird Shakespeare accent.”

“Whatever, you maggots show it to me.” Skye grinned. “You know, as your general in charge of this mission.”

“We just barely met you like five minutes and you already call yourself a general?” Jack snorted.

“Though, about the Connelly Foundation…I know for sure I’ve heard about them somewhere.” Nicole thought aloud.

“Well give it time and maybe you would remember.” Rantaro joked. “Heh, like you could due to your silent nature.”

Nicole doesn’t remark on that and just remains silent from his answer.

Yep, he’s definitely right about that…Not that I’m not arguing or complaining about that. 

“But…a virus affecting the earth?! I don’t believe it!” Kaede exclaimed in shock.

“As much as I want to disbelieve in that, I…think maybe we need to believe it.” Jamie frowned, much to our surprise. “W-Well…this is just a thought, but remember those dreams we had based on our lost memories that Princess Luna manages to break free? Well maybe…they may relate to that. I mean, that’s what I think…”

“Well…I guess.” I couldn’t help but agreed to that.

“But this Dusk-7 Virus….What could that be?” Mason wondered.

“Wish I knew.” Rantaro shrugged.

“Bullcrap! I never even heard of any crap like that!” Jack hissed, clenching his fists before slamming it into the table, creating a bit of a dent while the rest of us flinched back of that impact. 

“H-Hold it Private Yamaki!” Skye exclaimed. “While this is all crazy, even I’m comprehending by everything that’s happening, but all we gotta do is just see what’s in the end and find out much about our missing memories, you got it maggot?”

“Tch…fine.” Jack huffed, putting his feet on the table. “Tch…this all been a waste.”

“I wouldn’t say so Jack.” I smiled, reassuring him. “I mean, at least we found some new clues about our missing memories.”

“Ren’s right. And like he, Jamie, and Skye said, we need to keep calm and accept everything we learned.” Mason nodded in agreement.

“Yeah, and besides, I think it clears some mysteries.” Jamie nodded in agreed. “At least we finally figured out how many of us are left.”

“What do you mean?” Kaede asked.

“Well-”

“He means that the contents of the note stated that this Connelly  Foundation founded nine survivors, which means it could be stating about us, am I right?” Nicole questioned.

“R-Right…” Jamie sweat-dropped, smiling sheepishly at her.

“Nine survivors…So that must mean that we must be the only ones left.” Rantaro smirked. 

“N-Now hold on…I’m sure there’s a logical explanation!” Kaede exclaimed. “I mean, there could be more people, right?”

“I guess…but…I’m sure there were nine people.” I nodded in agreement. “I remembered something Discord said to me…about how us nine were more than immune…I think he meant that us nine must be immune to that virus the note described.”

“Discord? Immune? Okay, slow down Corporeal Loodan!” Skye spoken up, her eyes widening a bit. “You know, you need to slow down for us…and by us, I meant these guys.”

“Discord?” Rantaro questioned.

“He’s a guy who’s combined with any mythical creature and animal into one body. He’s pretty evil, but seems pretty cocky yet chill about most things.” I shrugged, explaining to them who Discord is.

“Heh, that sounds stupid.” Jack huffed. “So you guys met him?”

“Yeah, and big brother, Ren and Kaede defeated him along with the other girls!” Carrie smiled.

“Yeah, he was pretty evil looking but he was turned back into a statue with the magic of friendship.” Kodi smiled brightly, wagging his tail.

“Turned into a statue?” Nicole questioned before realizing what we were talking about. 

“Ah…that explains about that weird statue back over at the gardens last I visited Canterlot.”

“Yeah, that’s the one.” I nodded. 

“Jeez, you guys went all this adventuring and somehow seemed to complete your training? Gotta say, not bad for a pack of maggots.” Skye grinned. “Hee hee, wish I was there for all that kick-butting and show them who’s in charge?”

“Yeah…right.” Jack rolled his eyes, earning a scolding look from her.

“Oh yeah? Just for that, I’m demoting you soldier!” Skye exclaimed, earning a snort from Jack. She then rubbed her chin and mumbled “I wonder what kind of worse punishment I could give you for your attitude?”

“Being around you?” Jack joked.

“Wrong! Being around ‘you’!” Um…I don’t get it. Is that some sort of reference to something?

“So…nine survivors? Wow…I’m seriously taking all of this…” Kaede muttered. “I mean…this Project Ark, nine survivors and other stuff stated on that note…is it really true?”

“Apparently so, that might explain our current situation. But that doesn’t explain why in a colorful world filled with talking ponies, dangerous creatures, and evil boring villains.” Rantaro shrugged. “I’m pretty sure that’s what all in our minds right now…”

“Mm…” Nicole hummed in agreement before saying “That is the only mystery we know so far. Why here?”

“Yeah…that is confusing.” Kaede nodded in agreement. “I just hope we all can figure this out…”

“Don’t worry everyone, I know that we can do it.” I reassured with a soft smile. “Maybe the earth is in danger from Darken Heart Virus, but maybe they made that cure for us.”

“True…there’s still a chance that earth is still there.” Mason nodded.

“Yeah, we can’t give up!” Carrie smiled happily.

“Hm…” Nicole nodded.

“Yeah, hopefully! I mean, I have a dream back there and that’s flying a plane!” Skye exclaimed, much to our surprise. “What? I never mentioned it?”

“No, you didn’t brat.” Jack gave her a deadpanned look. 

“Well I’ll have you know chubby that I always wanted to work on a plane, and it would be awesome to do it!” Skye exclaimed with a confidant look. “I always wanted to fly a plane and once so, I can reach high to the skies!”

“That’s a pretty nice dream.” I complimented. “I know that you can do it if you try.”

“Heh heh, thanks.” Skye winked. “Alright, so is that everything so far in this ship?”

“Nah, there’s plenty of stuff like a pool, all these shops and stuff you find here in the mall district, the living room, the kitchen, our rooms, a garage, a library, a changing room just near the pool.” Jamie listed it off his notebook.

“Whoa, this place is like a cruise ship. Whoever developed this place is getting a five star review from me.” Skye chuckled. “This place is pretty awesome and I can definitely work on my VR system…that is if this place has a workshop.”

“Well, I’m sure you’re gonna like it here.” I smiled.

“Thanks Corporeal Loodan.” Skye grinned. “So now, let’s get to work onto finding a new place out of here.”

“That’s the idea.” Rantaro shrugged. “So what now?”

“I'll be going on my own investigation for a little bit.” Nicole suggested.

“What? Why?” I asked curiously.

“Just to check something out that we might've missed.”

“What makes you say that?” Carrie asked, but Nicole doesn’t say anything back to her.

“Hey! Answer back at us! Private Bonnie!” Skye exclaimed. “Don’t let me unleash the beast at you!”

“…I don’t know. I just know.” Nicole replied back before taking her leave. 

“Huh?” We all looked at each other in confusion, wondering what does she mean by that. Nicole may be a good friend, in my opinion, but I still feel wonder if she could help us at all.

“Hang on you guys. I’m gonna go after her.” I insisted, getting up from the table and following after her. “You guys just keep investigating the mall if there’s anything we missed other than new NASCAR track circuit shop!” 

“Hey! Don’t leave me!” Skye exclaimed, running beside me. “You still got a good lump of work to do if you want to succeed as leader, Corporeal Loodan.”

“Heh heh, right.” I nodded with a sheepish grin before catching up to Nicole, who was waiting for the elevator doors to open. “Oh! Nicole!”

“Yes?” Nicole called, glancing at me and Skye. “What are you two doing here?”

“We were worried about you and-”

“Wanted to know what I am going to investigate, am I right?” Nicole questioned, adjusting her glasses. 

“Well…yeah. I mean, you’re always so secretive and quiet that I want to figure you out.” I stated. “So can you please tell me what’s going on?”

“Hmm…I have many things that I wish I could remember, but at the same time, I am not too sure if that is good.” Nicole sighed, cleaning the lenses of her glasses before putting it back on her face. “Although, maybe there’s the small chance we might learn about our arrival to this new world we are living in.”

“Yeah, we know that already!” Skye exclaimed. “And while this Equestria is quite amazing with all this magic and stuff, which I want to go out there and check it out right now, you seemed to hold back a lot of info on us!”

“Mm…” Nicole muttered.

“Yeah, I mean, come on Nicole…you can trust us. I promise that whatever you know or hiding, I promise-”

“That you would tell the others and have them trust whatever I know, right?” Well yeah, you guessed it. She really does read me like a book, probably almost anypony around here can read me like a book. 

“Well while we’re searching, I’ll be able to have my copter be my eyes.” Skye grinned. 

“Now come on, quick being such a bunch of whiners and investigate this place Private Bonnie wants to go to.”

“Hm…Okay then, just please be quiet. I can’t work if you guys act like that.” Nicole stated, which we nodded before entering the elevator as she pressed the top button on the panel before it started going down, straight back to the living room. 

We headed over straight to my room and straight through the secret wall and into the secret white room. The room where we all woken up from those secret pods. 

“Hey, I know this place!” Skye gasped. “This is the same room where I woken up and that’s the pod that I’ve woken up!”

Skye pointed over to one of the pods over by the farthest right of the wall. All nine pods were lined up with five on the right and four by the left. I still can’t believe that nine of us woken up at the same place, and now we’re all together. This is all too crazy…

“So why are we here again?” I asked curiously. 

Nicole didn’t respond before walking over to the white wall between the white room and pressed her hand over it. Huh? Why is she doing that? Is there a reason for that?

As me and Skye kept watching, we heard a clicking sound before seeing a part of the white wall started pushing back and opened up a dark hallway.

“A secret entrance?!” I gasped.

“It would seem so.” Nicole hummed. “But why here?”

“Hey, you don’t think-”

“That would it lead to a dead end?” Nicole guessed, surprising Skye before she nodded. “Hm….I guess.”

“You guess?” Skye asked incredulously. “Not good with answers, are ya Private Bonnie?”

Nicole doesn’t respond back to her before she began heading inside of the secret entrance with the two of us following after her. As we caught up to her and saw how dark and gritty it was walking through here, I walked right next to Nicole and asked “So Nikki, how did you know that there was a secret entrance?”

“Hmm…I don’t know. I just had this feeling…” Nicole muttered.

“Huh…I see.” I nodded in understanding. This feeling…does it relate to her memories? Hmm…well either way, whatever we’re heading into would lead us to any more clues. 

As we reached to the other side of the small dark hallway, we find ourselves in what looks like a tornado swept through here. It was a small brown room with a computer by a desk at the far left corner of the place with a shelf filled with books, but it looked like it was all fallen apart along with a bunch of blank white papers all over the floor.
Seeing this place made us look like someone was destroying this place.

“Jeez…what the frigging Arnold happened here?” Skye blinked in surprise. “Did somebody tried to blew up this place?”

“Maybe…” Nicole muttered before walking over to the computer and attempted to turn it on, but the screen remained blank. “No power…typical.”

“Well I guess…but no offense, but it’s not like we can Google our way through.” I chuckled nervously. 

“You kidding? Course we can Corporeal Loodan. Google’s always the answer!” Skye smirked. “Fudge Yahoo and all those other search-websites, Google is the key to our answers.”

“Well…can’t help but argue with that.” I mean, I practically go on my computer all day and search up anything that I want to find with the help of Google. So…yeah. Maybe that could work.

“Well…I guess I can’t do anything. Though this room seemed to hold something important, but what?” Nicole wondered aloud before examining much of the room’s quarters. Me and Skye looked at each other and nodded before we began to help her in our search around this room.

Skye looked over at a bunch of stack books and tried to take out one of them till she manged to make them all fall on top of her.

“You okay Skye?!” I asked in concern.

“D-Don’t worry about Corporeal Loodan! I’m a-okay!” Skye popped her hand out of there with a thumbs-up, much to my relief. 

“Hey. Come look at this.” We all turned to Nicole as she took out a folder from out of the desk drawers and examined it. I ran over to it while Skye managed to get herself out of the stack of books that was on her before heading out, trying to stand up to get a better look at the folder Nicole had in her hands.

It had the words ‘Classified’ on it. With a name like that, I bet there is something good in here. It might show us much about our missing memories.

“What is this? A file?” I asked warily before reading the type of the name and when I did, I grew shocked. “Project Ark?!”

“Wait, isn’t that the same name described on that letter you guys somehow managed to read by wiping off those black smudges?” Skye questioned.

“Apparently…” Nicole muttered.

“So this file has info about the project?” I wondered.

“Okay, so what does it say?!” Skye demanded, getting excited. “If I really lost my memories like you guys said, so maybe it can fill us in?!”

“I guess…” I shrugged before smiling softly. “Who knows? It could happen.”

“Ha! I’m lucky that I woken up yesterday and after being told of all this crazy stuff, I’m actually pretty early for the big twist.” Skye gave us a peace sign with a smirk on her face before clearing her throat. “So anyway, care to read it Private Bonnie?”

Nicole let out a nod before she opened up the file and saw a bunch of papers inside it with the front page showing something detailed on it.


“Project Ark.”
“The last hope to save humanity from the disaster raining down from space. Burdened with this imperative project are the Adams and Eves of the new world. Those who are selected for it will be the seeds of hope for the future of humanity. That is the purpose of Project Ark.” 


Huh…Adams and Eves of the new world? Could it possibly refer to us as ‘Adams and Eves’ and the new world ‘Equestria’?

“W-Well…what does the rest say?” Skye asked, pointing her finger at me. “Come on! Don’t leave us in suspense! Just say it Private Bonnie!”

“Unfortunately, I can’t.” Nicole shook her head before showing us the rest of the papers, revealing each and every sentence were blacked out with a permanent black marker. 

“The rest of it is blacked out, I can’t ready any further.”

“Huh? Seriously?!” I exclaimed in shock.

“What?! What the heck?!” Skye exclaimed. “What the fudge?!”

Why is that part covered up? Now what are we gonna do?! Wait…that part…

“Hey, about the part that says the Adams and Eves of this new world…you don’t think it’s mentioning us, right?” I questioned with a slight frown. 

“And what the heck is this seeds of hope?” Skye questioned. “What kind of hope is it talking about? Knowing so far with this isn’t giving us any hope at all.”

“Indeed…” Nicole muttered, looking through the rest of the files through the single folder, finding all of the paper all blacked off. 

Man…and I thought we were so close. Though I guess it’s a relief that we managed to find some info about this Project Ark and such. Though, I wonder what’s this about this Dusk-7 Virus…It sounds like something out of a Shonen Anime. 

As Nicole was looking through the file….a slip of paper fell out of the file, and I turned my attention to it.

“What’s this…?” I asked, picking the piece of paper up. It wasn’t very long but it wasn’t blacked off like the rest in the file as I read a single sentence on it.


“You must not leave.”


“Eh? That’s it?” Skye asked, grabbing the piece of paper out of my hands and looked through it. “Well this is a hunk of junk!”

“Though…why does it say it like that?” Nicole wondered. “Something is wrong with the way it was written.”

“Yeah…I kinda have to agreed.” I nodded in agreement, voicing out my opinion. “I could understand if it said, like, ‘I can’t leave’. But ‘you must not leave’?”

…

What is this? My head feels…funny. This strange sensation. It’s like deja vu…Those words…you must not leave…I don’t know why…but I feel like I’ve seen that…somewhere before…

“But…I can’t quite remember…” I muttered.

What do I know? What don’t I know? I….I….I don’t know…I can’t remember…

“….” Nicole stares at the piece of paper before placing it back in her pockets. “In any case…I’m afraid finding this secret room seems like it was another hope shattered moment.”

“Aww…that sucks!” Skye complained. “I can’t believe it! That is so suckish! Now what?!”

“Well…” Before I could say anything, we heard something beep inside of the room.

“Huh? My remote control?” Skye took out her helicopter’s control and looked at the small  monitor. “What the hay is going-Huh?”

“What? What’s up Skye?”

Nicole and I walked over to her side and saw through her monitor.

“Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun!” What the heck? Pinkie Pie? 

“Hey, Private Pink! What are you doing with my copter?!” Skye demanded, glaring hard through the screen. 

“Fun! Fun fun fun!” Huh? What the? Okay, I know Pinkie is really weird but this is next-level weird. We soon see another pair of familiar eyes that managed to move over Pinkie and introduced themselves as…

“Pinkie?!” I exclaimed in surprise.

“What in the?! Does this pink pony have a twin or something?!” Skye exclaimed in shock.

“No, at least she never told us about that.” I shook my head.

“She doesn’t. She told me that once.” Nicole clarified, pinching the bridge of her nose. “Anyway, what is going on?”

“Dang nabbit! Round them up!” Huh? Was that Applejack? What’s going on here? We better go upstairs and investigate this.

“Okay, who made that cowgirl voice?” Skye wondered, squinting her eyes through the small monitor.

“No time! We need to hurry back with the others! Come on!”

We quickly rushed out of the room, however, before I could leave…

“..El…lo….H….el…lo…”

Huh? W-Who said that? I looked around before noticing the broken down computer over by the desk as‌ I‌ slowly walked over there and saw it fainting glowing before it turned on with a shining light green in the background with many computer programming codes, and what the screen showed was some shadowy figure that was in the shape of a man.

“…If…anyone…who hears me…I want to say….believe…in…hope…I…wish…we could…meet…but…please…take care….of her…don’t forget about…h..ope….”‌ 

With that, the screen turned off while I stood there in bewilderment. Holy cow…what was that? 

“Ren!”‌ H-Huh?! Oh crap!‌ They’re waiting!‌ I-I need to get going now! I decided to hold back what I‌ saw on the computer screen before heading out of the secret room and followed after the others back to the small white room.‌ As we headed out of the room, the entrance that led us to the secret room started closing before we quickly headed out back to the elevator. 

“Okay, this better be good!”‌ Skye huffed, tapping her foot impatiently on the floor as the elevator took us back up to the top of the ship; The Mall District. However, the moment the doors opened…

“No…..way…..”‌ What the heck?!‌ What is this?!

Right in front of us, were a thousands of Pinkie Pie roaming across the mall, acting up in a frenzy. Holy cow, look at them all, just what is going on here anymore?!

“Get back here!”‌ Huh?‌ I saw Jack and Rainbow Dash grabbing ahold many Pinkie Pies as possible. Applejack used her lasso to round all of the Pinkie‌ Pies up. Fluttershy, Rarity, Kaede, and Carrie attempted to sweet-talk them, but they kept annoying them by repeating the same word….

“Fun!‌ Fun!‌‌ Fun! Fun!‌”

Yep, no offense Pinkie, but you’re kinda annoying me for you to repeat.

“Ugh…and this is what ‌I get being around you guys.”‌ Rantaro groaned in annoyance, sitting down on a chair just near a table as he drank some Starbucks Cappuccino. 

“Guys, what’s going on here?!” I‌ exclaimed in shock, seeing all of the Pinkies being rounded up by the gang.

“We don’t know…”‌ Jamie came over alongside with Twilight, each holding books in their hands. “Apparently, they just popped right from the elevator five minutes after you guys left while we continued to investigate through the mall district.”

“Yeah, it’s been a real problem with all…this.” Twilight cleared her throat with a sheepish smile. “Sorry about all this…”

“It’s alright Twilight.”‌I reassured with a soft smile.

“You! Purple horse!”‌ Skye called, gaining Twilight’s attention, including the other girls. 

“Huh?!”‌‌ The Mane Six exclaimed in shock upon seeing Skye. 

“Yeah, I’m talking to you!‌ Who the hay are you girls?!”‌ Skye demanded.

“Oh my, another new human?!”‌ Rarity gasped. 

“Wait, is this the new human you told me about, Jamie?‌”‌ ‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌Twilight questioned, which Jamie nodded. 

“She’s just some kid.”‌ Rainbow Dash commented. 

“Shut it pony!”‌‌ Skye exclaimed. “Names!‌ Now!”

“Um…okay?”‌ Applejack raised a brow at her. 

“My oh my, how rude she is?”‌ Rarity questioned. 

“Hey! No back-talking the general!‌”‌‌ Skye hissed. “Names!‌ Now!”

“Um…Applejack.”‌

“It’s Rarity.”

“Names Rainbow Dash!”

“I-I’m Fluttershy.”

“I’m‌ Twilight Sparkle.”‌ 

“I see…So those are your names?‌‌ I get it now.”‌ Skye nodded in agreement.‌ “So those are your names, huh? Okay then, very well Private Twilight, Private Dash, Private Rarity, Private Fluttershy, and‌ Private Applejack.”

“What is with all that ‘Private’ business?‌” Rainbow Dash asked.

“It’s military term for low ranking.”‌ Jamie explained. “She appears to be a military fanatic, so I’m afraid that you’ll get used to her soon enough.”

“Um, it’s very nice to meet you, um, Skye.” Fluttershy greeted her with a soft smile. 

“U-Um…so that means…you’re new here to Equestria?”

“So I‌ heard.”‌ Skye nodded in agreement. “Now then, give us the run-through with this little external crisis of…Private‌ Pinkie Pie.”

“Well…we don’t know, but I‌ think it has something to do with what Pinkie Pie told me earlier.”‌ Twilight explained. “You see, she’s been going through all out trying to have some fun with the rest of us all day, and when I‌ told her that she can’t be at two places at the same time, she brought up something called ‘The Legend of the Mirror Pool’ and such.”

“Mirror Pool?”‌ Kaede asked in confusion. 

“I feel like I’ve read that somewhere during my late night reading…”‌ Jamie looked through his notebook. “I copied much of the notes there and placed bookmarks on them to give out where it should be…”

Jamie skimmed through his notebook before smiling softly upon finding it out.

“Oh…here we go. I‌ did copied the notes about it once.”‌ Jamie smiled softly.

“What does it say nerd?” Jack asked, walking over before throwing away the ‌Pinkie Pies that he grabbed. 

“Oh….now I’m starting to see what’s happening.” Jamie hummed.

“What do you mean?”‌ Carrie asked curiously.

“Well according to here that I‌ written, the Mirror Pool, or the Mirror Pond, is an mystical lake that has the power to duplicate whoever stands in front of it. It’s located somewhere in the Everfree Forest and it's apparently enchanted."

"What was your first guess?" Jack huffed. "So now what? The pink dork somehow found out about that mirror pond and duplicated herself?"

"Can't say that's something we don't hear everyday." Rantaro rolled his eyes. "So now what? How can we tell which one is the real Pinkie Pie?"

"We've tried figuring that out, but no luck!" Applejack huffed. 

"How...exactly did they get here?" I questioned curiously, which made the girls blushed in embarrassment. 

"Um, please don't get mad..." Fluttershy frowned. "But, um, Ren...we-"

"Decided to bring them here in order to make sure that they don't cause anymore trouble than they already are in Ponyville, am I right?" Nicole guessed, hardly surprising the Mane Six as Fluttershy meekly replied "Y-Yes..."

"Really? What did they do?" I asked in confusion.

"Those varmints ruined my farm when me and Big Mac and some other relatives of ours destroyed our home!" Applejack exclaimed, showing how upset she was. 

"I even just had a Pinkie hurricane raging through my shop!" Rarity exclaimed.

"And they trashed our critter panic." Fluttershy added, frowning.

"They even messed up tomorrow's scheduled drizzle!" Rainbow Dash huffed, much to our shock.

"What? But how? She's an Earth Pony!" Jamie exclaimed.

"You know, I saw the whole thing and I still can't figure it out!" Rainbow Dash gritted her teeth.

"Weirdo." Jack sighed. "Alright, so what do you want us to do?" 

"Well I've already read about much about this Mirror Pool when Pinkie mentioned it to me." Twilight explained. "All I have to do is zap them back to the Mirror Pool..."

"But...?" Rantaro questioned.

"But...If I shoot the real Pinkie Pie, I might end up having her trapped within the Mirror Pool forever." Twilight sheepishly smiled, much to our shock.

So wait...if we hit the real Pinkie Pie....then...how are we to ever figure this out?

"Well this is stupid." Jack sighed, rubbing his butt. "Okay...so what now? How the hell can we be so sure to know which one is the real one?"

"That's why we brought them here because we needed someplace else to make sure that they aren't causing any trouble back at Ponyville!" Applejack exclaimed.

"Well somebody think of something fast!" Rainbow Dash yelled, attempting to get one of the Pinkies off the ceiling light. "I can't keep hold of them forever!"

"Ha! Wimp!" Jack smirked before grabbing two more Pinkies by the hair. "Maybe you can't, and so can I, but at least give it a try."

"Um...I'm not sure that's how the saying goes, Jack." Jamie stated nervously.

"So does anyone else have a plan?" Twilight asked hopefully. 

"Actually, that might be quite easy!" Skye grinned. "Why not round them up at the Movie Theaters? I think I got something that we can use to identify the real Pinkie."

"Hmm..." I noticed Nicole humming and gazing at one of the Pinkies, but however, I soon took notice that the Pinkie she was staring at was all droopy and looked miserable and depressed. Wonder what's up with her? Wait...could it be...?

"Well...I guess that could work." Twilight nodded. "But what do you got, Skye, was it?"

"You'll all see and witness what this genius girl got in her hands!" Skye smirked.
With that smile, I think she does got an idea.



Later

"Okay, so glad you all could join in!" 

Well you did invite us over to the Cinema Lobby. Anyway, Jack, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Twilight, Mason, and I managed to get every single Pinkie Pies who entered the Mall straight into one of the theaters section where the audience sits. 

I never really explored much of this place when this movie theater was first opened up. Though, it looks really cool from the inside. It's gotten everything what a Movie Theater should have. Plus, the movie lobbies looks really legit.

Anyway, we all managed to get everyone over by one of the Theaters' lobbies as Skye took at the end of where the projection screen was while all of the Pinkies sat down on the movie seats.

"Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun!" All of the Pinkies kept cheering endlessly till Skye took out a whistle and let out a loud sound, forcing all of them, even us, to wince at the sound of it.

"Oh my Celestia!" Rarity hissed. "That is one loud whistle!"

"I'll say..." I nodded in agreement.

"Ah...I think my eardrums explode..." Rantaro picked his ear, feeling annoyed. "Remind me again why can't I leave?"

"Because if you do, then I'll likely drag you back inside here." Mason said sternly. "We can't let one of us leave, otherwise all of the Pinkie clones would try and escape."

"He's right you know." I nodded in agreement, much to Rantaro's annoyance.

"And you're basically wasting my time with me being around you all." Rantaro scoffed. Jeez, we're just saying.

"Alright! Listen up you all!" Skye yelled. "I want you Pinkies to please shut your mouth unless I address one of you all to speak!"

"Fun! Fun! Fun!" Well, that surely didn't work. 

When Skye noticed how none of them were listening to what she was saying, she blew into her whistle again, gaining the Pinkies' attention. 

"Good! Now listen to me!" Skye shouted. "Now I suppose you're all wondering why me and my comrades gathered you all here today."

"For fun?" A confused Pinkie offered.

"If you be quiet, then yes." Skye nodded before taking out a pair of weird looking goggles. 

"Those are...Night vision goggles." Mason blinked, recognizing the items.

"Huh? Night Vision goggles?" Rarity questioned.

"What the hay is that?" Applejack asked, raising a brow at him.

"Oh yeah, I've heard about them." I spoken up, gaining the girls' attention. "You see, Night vision goggles are items that are used for people to see through the dark."

"It's well use in wars and blackouts." Mason added. "Though, what is she planning to do with them?"

"Now then, shall we begin?" Skye questioned.

"Hey wait! We got one more!" Huh? We all turned around to see Jack and Rainbow Dash bringing in one last Pinkie Pie into the group, but this one was depressing looking, literally.

"Found this one poking on the floor with her hoof and looked like she went through hell." Jack pushed the Pinkie onto one of the available seats of the theaters' lobby. "Okay, now we're ready!'

"OK, now then, I'm going to give you some Q&A Quiz." Skye stated, much to all of the Pinkie's disappointment as they all let out groans. "Shut it maggots! Now I'm gonna give you all questions that you all are gonna answer."

"Also..." Twilight walked onto stage, standing next to Skye as she pointed over to the projector screen. "You all are gonna stare at the screen for a long time. If you answer the question wrong or if you start goofing off, I'm sending you all back into the Mirror Pool."

All of the Pinkies all widened their eyes in horror and paled at the thought of that.

"Ha ha...good." Skye smirked. "Now then...first question, what did Pinkie did to me when we just met earlier when I was busy teaching my comrades a lesson of respect?"

Most of the Pinkies didn't raise their hooves in the air, but some did as Skye picked one of them randomly.

"Yes?" Skye asked.

"Uhh...we had fun?" The Pinkie offered with a soft smile, hoping for it to be the answer.

"Wrong answer." Skye said bluntly before turning to Twilight and nodded, which she fired a spell from her horn, causing the Pinkie to puff up like a balloon before poofing into a swirl of pink sparkly stuff that zoomed right out of the doors.

"What the heck?" I muttered in surprise. 

"They just puffed up like a ball and blew up!" Kodi barked in shock. "Is that what the spell does?!"

"To be honest, even we didn't see that coming." Rainbow Dash shrugged.

"Next question!" Skye yelled before noticing another Pinkie bouncing up and down to reach the ceiling as she exclaimed "Watch me bounce and catch the ceiling! Whee!"

"Definitely fake, shoot it." Skye called, which Twilight obliged by shooting that Pinkie with her spell, including some who stared at her. "Ha, easy as pie. Besides, they were fakes."

"So wait, you knew that?" Carrie asked. "Is it because of those goggles?"

"Yep! These Night Vision goggles are known to see through the dark, including by body temperature. Every single one of these Pinkies don't seem to contribute to body heat, so we know that these aren't the real deal. Although, since there's too many of these bad ponies that it's hard to find the right one."

"What?" Jack asked. "Speak a little bit in English, brat."

"She means all of these Pinkies are crowding up the source." Nicole clarified. "Of course, I know which one of them are the real Pinkie Pie."

"Huh? You do?" Kaede asked in surprise. "Well, which one is it?"

Nicole didn't respond and looks through her iPad, ignoring Kaede's question.

"Never mind...you can be silent..." Kaede sighed.

"Now then, who's next?" Twilight smirked.

Well...I can already tell this might take a while. For the past fifteen minutes or so did Skye pointed out the many Pinkies who were not staring at the projector screen or even answered the right questions that Twilight didn't seem to think was right.

It was pretty easy considering all of these Pinkies didn't answer right and didn't want to bother with the challenge.

As time passes, only two Pinkies remained. One was biting her hoof nervously while the other was still staring at the projector screen with a sad state. Hmm...well...I guess I'm starting to think that the sad looking Pinkie is the real one since she hadn't muttered 'Fun' or anything that ends with 'Fun' at it.

"Hmm..." Skye muttered. "Okay then, I think I know and see the real Pinkie Pie right now, but...Aww, I can't seem to find the right one...I guess we'll just leave it to lady luck then."

"Really? How so?" I asked curiously. 

"Okay then...let me ask you guys some questions." Skye said with a smirk on her face. "What's my name, Private Pinkie? The one name you gave to me before you left us from my new room?" 

"Um...fun?" One of the Pinkie asked curiously, earning silence from Skye. "Super duper fun? Ultra fun?"

"Wrong answer." Skye said bluntly. "Do it now Twilight!"

"With pleasure!" Twilight grinned before managing to shoot the one Pinkie who answered, blowing her up before exploding into pink sparkles and glitters.

"Well?" Skye questioned.

"Well...General Skye Jones." Pinkie answered. "R-Right?"

"Right answer! Smart choice, Private Pinkie!" Skye chuckled. "Just for that, I'll be expecting a promotion young mare!"

"Pinkie Pie!" Carrie cheered, running through the seats and hugging Pinkie Pie. "You did it! You're really here!"

"Ha ha, thanks Carrie." Pinkie smiled softly, hugging her back.

"Thank goodness that we didn't send you back to the Mirror Pool forever." Rarity sighed in relief.

"Yeah, good to have you back." I chuckled happily as Pinkie and Carrie walked out from the seats and met us at the doors of the theaters. 

"Thanks you guys, though I'm sorry for causing you so much trouble back there." Pinkie frowned. "I didn't mean for any of this to happen..."

"Oh yeah, why did you use the Mirror Pool in the first place? And how did you even find out about it?" Kaede questioned. 

"Oh! I once heard about it from my Nana Pinkie who told me so much about the Legend of the Mirror Pool and told me if you stare at its reflection and repeat these words 'And into her own reflection she stared, uh, yearning for one whose reflection she shared, and solemnly sweared not to be scared at the prospect of being doubly mared' , then you'll get a clone!" Pinkie explained.

"So you knew about it this whole time and where it was?" Nicole questioned, which Pinkie nodded.

"But still, why would you go all this way to make duplicate clones of yourself?" I asked with a confused look. 

"Because...I was trying to go all my way to spend time with all of you." Pinkie frowned sadly. "Applejack and her family with the barn raising, spending some time with Rainbow Dash, go to Fluttershy's critter picnic, and even spend time with you guys and your new human friend."

"Oh, so you wanted to spend time with us?" Kodi frowned before asking "But we could have helped you."

"He's right Pinkie Pie. I mean, you didn't have to go through all this way just so to be at two places at once." I smiled.

"True...but I really wanted to hang out with you guys so much." Pinkie stated. 

"Well either way, you did great." Skye complimented, walking over to her. "I know we just barely met, but I gotta say, I like the enthusiasm you carry Private Pinkie."

"Does she always talk like that?" Rainbow Dash whispered to Jack, who nodded in agreement and whispered "Yeah...it's get annoying from time to time."

"Aww, thanks General Skye!" Pinkie hugged her tightly. "Just for that, I'll be sure to include you in your very own 'Welcome to Ponyville' party! You're new here to Ponyville and we should include you in the group!"

"That sounds really great." Skye smirked before jumping for joy. "Will there be Cherry Pie, Strawberry short cake with some coconut frosting on it, including some nachos?"

"Any food you can possible imagine!" Pinkie grinned.

"I'm in! You definitely deserved to rank up to being Sergeant Pinkie Pie!" Skye chuckled.

"But wait, isn't that one rank higher than my current rank you gave to me?" I questioned with a raised brow. 

"Shut up! Don't question what I got to say!" Skye huffed before using her remote controlled helicopter to get in front of me with its mini-guns coming out from the sides. "Or else you'll suffer the wrath of me! General Skye Jones!"

"R-Right...sorry..." I apologized, sweat-dropping in the process. Wow, this girl is...pretty cool, dynamic, and yet dangerous. I better be careful not to get into her bad side.

"Welp, we'll definitely show you around Ponyville as much as we can!" Kaede smiled.

"Indeed. Of course this is my last month to be spending with you all, so I'll be sure to make it spectular with you all." Mason chuckled.

"Yeah! Come on! Let's party!" Carrie cheered, which made everypony in the theaters, excluding Rantaro and Nicole, to yell out. Although, those two had soft smiles on their faces. 

You know, to think we finally reached to the final human to arrive here on Equestria. All nine of us are here together. Me, Mason, Carrie, Kaede, Jamie, Rantaro, Jack, Nicole, and now Skye. The nine of us are the nine humans here in Equestria.

Though, there are some mysteries like this Dusk-7 Virus, Project Ark, and that weird computer message before we left to get here to the Mall District. While there are still some mysteries left to solve, but I'm sure we'll be able to figure this all out. I know whatever's happening on Earth...it'll be fixed soon. I just know that...




Later
"Come on...push harder...!" 

Right after we dealt with the Pinkies, we headed over to the Everfree Forest. Jack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Mason, and Applejack were pushing down a large boulder, blocking the path to the Mirror Pool. 

"Nice job, you guys! This time for sure that nopony will ever cause trouble with the Mirror Pool!" Twilight smiled.

"Ha...tell me about it..." Jack laughed before feeling his stomach growled. "Great...I forgot to eat something for lunch today..."

"In that case, how about we celebrate?!" Pinkie exclaimed with an excited smile. "This calls for a celebration! 'Welcome To Ponyville' party at the Mall District!"

"In that case, how about I cook?" Mason offered.

"No way! This is your last month before you leave, big brother! Enjoy the party with us!" Carrie exclaimed with a serious look. 

"She's right! Have some fun for once, Mason!" Kaede agreed.

"Right Private Mason! It's time for Operation: W.T.P.P is on the go!" Skye grinned excitedly.

"'W.T.T.P'?" I asked in confusion.

"'Welcome To Ponyville Party'. Now let's go and have fun!" Skye exclaimed happily. "And Sergeant Pinkie Pie, give out every last food you got!"

"With pleasure!" Pinkie saluted before hugging Skye. "Now come on! Let's go and enjoy the party!"

"Yeah! I'm with ya Sergeant Pinkie! I can already tell we're gonna be the greatest of allies!" Skye smiled.

"More like the greatest of best friends!" Pinkie smiled.

"Friends?" Skye asked, blinking in surprise.

"Duh! 'Cause we're friends, Skye!" Pinkie chuckled, Skye stared at her for a while before smiling happily. 

"Yeah! Friends it is, Sergeant Pinkie!" Skye laughed. 

"Hey, where did Nicole and Rantaro go?" Rarity wondered.

"Probably left." I answered, looking around for them. "I get Nicole since she said that she isn't a fan of being with large crowds and Rantaro just doesn't want to be around us."

"It's best if we left them around for a while." Twilight shrugged with a soft smile. "Maybe while we're partying, they'll likely to join."

"Yeah, same here." I chuckled in agreement. 

"Well shall we?" Rarity offered.

"Yeah!" Jack shouted. "Now come on, you bastards! Let's go!"

With that, the gang all headed out of the forest and headed back to the home-ship while me and Kodiak stayed behind.

"Huh...so nine humans." Kodi muttered. "Wow...the gang's getting all big."

"Mm-hmm." I nodded in agreement before looking back at the blocked entrance of the Mirror Pool. "Hmm...I wished I could at least remember as much as possible about how we got here."

"Don't worry, you'll remember soon." Kodi reassured. "Now come on! Let's go meet up with the others!"

"Mm." I nodded as Kodi ran off ahead to catch up with the gang. 

You know, while we're still here in this world, I wonder if we somehow traveled from Earth to Equestria. Equestria is likely the new world described much on Project Ark...so maybe...it's possible that we were send here. Yeah, that must be it...

Although...that Mirror Pool...I am curious about it. Maybe...Well I guess it wouldn't be some trouble if I just see the Mirror Pool as long as I don't chant that enchanted chant Pinkie told us. I turned over to the large boulder and let out a heavy sigh, realizing how this would be tough to climb it, but it's worth a shot. I quickly ran and began attempting to climb over it. 

Man, did those guys really find a good boulder to climb over. After several tries, I finally managed to climb up to the top of the boulder before leaping over it and walked across the jagged narrow path straight down to find a shiny circular pool.

"Whoa..." So this is the Mirror Pool that Pinkie talked about that gave her that special power to duplicate herself. Gotta say that it looks pretty....

I walked over to the Mirror Pool and stared at my reflection. 

This reflection of mine...it looks exactly like me. I can hardly believe that something like this can make anyone's reflection jump out and become a clone. 

I stared into my reflection, seeing my own cheeks. My own cheeks had cutie-marks on them with Fluttershy's cutie-marks embedded on them. I'm not sure...but I feel like I'm connected to this. 

Thinking about everything that I've been through...learning much more what's been happening on Earth. Dusk-7 Virus...nine survivors....Project Ark...even what's been happening on earth due to these meteorites...this is all too crazy to comprehend. 

I want to go back home to check up on my family....My sister Lillie, my brother Dan, my mom and my dad. I really wish that I could check it up...

"It's such a shame, really." Huh? Ah! I quickly gotten up and looked around before noticing something off about my shadow. I looked over it and saw that it was getting bigger before something popped right out it, revealing to be...

"Void..." I muttered, widening my eyes a bit. 

"Good time to meet again, Ren Loodan." Void chuckled, crossing his arms. "So...we finally meet again. Guess it wasn't too soon since the battle of the Crystal Empire."

"Void...what are you doing here?" I asked with a slightly brave look, but inside I was feeling really scared. 

"No need to hide your fears. I can easily see through you. Common for humans." Void sighed. "You foolish humans think that hope is always at the horizon, thinking that it can lead you to happiness....Well get this, it wouldn't. It would only lead you to your ends."

"What?" I asked in confusion.

"I only came here to see you." Void snickered darkly. "You peeked my interest along with your friends. You managed to retrieve your power of using healing magic."

"Healing magic?" I asked in confusion. "So wait...like Jamie by using levitating spells and such, you're saying that I have healing magic?"

"Indeed." Void nodded. "You finally managed to gain it back after losing it all this time."

"What? What do you mean?" I questioned before realizing what he means. "Are you saying...that I had this before? But how?! I mean, that's slightly possible for a regular human like me!"

"Hmph....Of course you wouldn't understand. That's the point of why humanity and ponies are so alike...They refused to acknowledge to even understand or believe in others. That's why you peeked my interest...Because you see hope as a good thing, and so do I."

"Huh? What do you mean?" I asked in confusion. 

"I mean that you have a firm believe in hope. You believe in hope and keep going...I sensed a powerful shining hope in you...and I believe in hope too...But how we see hope is different. You see it that people can work together...I believe in the opposite...but having nothing in life exist." Void explained.

"What?" I asked in confusion. "H-Hold on...are you saying that...that people shouldn't exist?"

"It's the way of life...and that's what I'm planning to do." Void smirked. "If nothing exists, then that way, hope can finally be achieved. Humankind, ponies, and other living things must not exist in order to keep the world safe. Thanks to them, the world is already in ruins thanks to them."

"Huh?!" I asked in shock before exclaiming "But you're crazy! Not everyone is evil if you're claiming that! We all believe in each other and work together in order to achieve things!"

"Indeed...but why can't everyone?" Void asked. "It's simple...why everyone needs to die. Once so, the Great Fall can reappear and we can end the world..."

"If that's what you're planning, then you're crazy!" I exclaimed. "You're going to kill innocent lives!"

"Hm?" Void stared at me in confusion as I continued to ramble on.

"Look, I'm not too sure about this Great Fall or anything you're going on, but you can't end the world because everyone around the world can't see hope that good! Not everyone is evil and while there are difficult people to get along, I know that they're just having trouble. I may not know what you are, but I know that you believe in hope in your way, but what you're doing to achieve hope is wrong. Just please stop and just let me help you...Don't do this Void."

At that moment, I stopped to myself and realized what I just said. Whoa...did I said all that? Gosh...that's a little embarrassing. I don't know why, but I think that Void is just...misunderstanding what hope really means. 

"Tch, shut up, shut up, shut up!" Void yelled, his mask turning darker with his pupils shrinking in sheer anger and frustration as I see through his mask's visor. "You're sounding like her! Don't speak like you're gonna believe in humanity or any kind! You're nothing more than a human who stole my powers! The Elements of Harmony are mine to control, not you, not hers, not anyone! You're talking that little brat who can't do anything!"

"What? Who are you...talking about?" I asked in confusion.

"...Tch, I owe you no explanation. Talking like you seemed to know so better than me!" Void scoffed. "You're just a stupid little human who is practically useless with that stupid gun."

I glanced down at the Hacking Gun hanging on my side pockets, causing me to frown. He's right about that...if I ever lost this gun, I would practically be useless...but even so, I wouldn't give up that easily. I know that we can talk this out.

"But...you certainly have a lot of faith in the magic of Friendship and Hope. Just like that nuisance..." Void muttered. "But no matter, once I reclaimed the Elements and find more shards, then the Great Fall will begin again."

"You keep mentioning the Great Fall, but what is that?" I asked.

"You'll learn soon enough...or if your memories ever come back. Heh heh, once so...you'll be wishing to die." What? What does he mean? Why would we ever think like that? "Oh yeah...one more thing, heh heh, I hope you enjoy soon learning much about that damn foundation...I hope you learn who's at fault here..."

"What?" I asked in confusion.

"Oh well...I will bring no harm to you...but soon..." Void walked over to the Mirror Pool and looked down at his reflection. "All of life shall end...then...I can finally achieve true hope...this time, for sure nothing can live. Not you or your friends, not the princesses, not even her. For now...I wish you goodbye...farewell Ren Loodan...I hope that we have the chance to meet again soon..."

With that, Void disappeared in an instant through some dark energy swirling around him. I simply stood there, trying to comprehend everything that I just witnessed before me. What the heck was that all about? The Great Fall...Void...ending all of life...this is all too crazy...

Although...who is this 'her' he keeps mentioning? Plus...that 'damn foundation'...Is he talking about this Connelly Foundation? Hmm...Connelly....why does that ring a bell?

"...Oh well, it's better not to think too much about it. I should probably head back and party with the others." I sighed before looking back at my reflection. "After all...I know that we can find our way back home, and hopefully that everyone that we know is alright...I know that."

I have to keep believing...I know I can. 

"I guess I should head back..." I quickly took my leave and managed to reclimb over the boulder and made it out of there before running back to the home-ship. I'm not too sure what Void is up to...but I know one thing...

I have to make sure that this Great Fall must never happen! We will find our way back home in no time!

To Be Continued