“Another alphabet and calendar system. Wow.” Twilight said after some time.
I gave myself a once over. I had a periwinkle coat, dark gray mane and tail, and a floppy disk(3 ½ inch, you know like the save icon in MS Word.) for a cutie mark, and, to top it off, I was a unicorn.
“Yea, Honestly, I was not expecting a surprise trip across multiple dimensional planes.” I remarked. “Or I would have brought some books.”
Twilight perked up at the very mention of books, but was sad to learn that they were all back home at my place.
“Anyways,” I spoke up, “Have you ponies fiddled with electricity much?”
RD replied,” Other than lightning, not much.”
“Oh.” I thought
Knowing some stuff about the culture, I asked “do you think someo-pony could help me make a machine?”
“I mean, I can try” replied Twilight.
“Great!” I said happily, “I am probably gonna need RD’s help with this, too”
“Me, Why?” Dash asked.
“Lightning.” I replied.
“Ok.” She said
I looked to Twilight and said,
“I can try to trot, but, I was bipedal in my previous body, kinda like Spike, but taller. Also, I have absolutely no idea on how to use this,” I motioned to my new-found horn. “Could you teach me?”
“A few issues, but nothing that can’t be fixed! And about teaching you magic, I’d love to.” She said.
That last statement by Twilight, warmed me up for a minute.
I got out of bed, and took a few wobbly steps, quickly getting the hang of it.
“I’d hate to impose, but I kinda need a place to stay until I get sorted out.”
“Sure, but you would have to help.” said Twilight.
“Don’t worry, I will”
After I got checked out of the hospital, Twilight and Rainbow trotted with me back to the castle.
We got there in about 10 minutes, along the way I took note of the construction of the buildings, most were thatched with a Tudor-style construction(Beams of the houses showing.).
The sun said it was about mid-day, So about lunch-time.
We got inside and I immediately got to work on the generator, and without realizing it, I was using magic already.
Twilight asked, “I thought you could not use magic.”
I realized that I levitating things and said in reply, “I didn’t know I could already.”
That seemed to satisfy her question, and she went off on her own thing, probably reading a book or something.
A few hours go by lunch and dinner were eaten and taken care of.
After dinner I told Twilight that I got a prototype working.
“Let’s see it!” she said with enthusiasm.
It was a hand-crank DC Electricity Generator, similar to the one that Edison would’ve created, it took him longer due to him having no knowledge of it before, yet it took me just a few hours. Attached to it was a Carbon-rod light bulb(Tungsten was out of the question, it would’ve took too long to obtain.)
“Go on, turn the crank.” I said.
Twilight turned it slowly, nothing
“Does it work?” she asked.
“You have to crank it faster.” I said.
So after that, She cranked it at about 60 RPM for some time and I told her to stop, and flicked a switch, sure that the capacitor was charged, and the light bulb started to flicker on. It shone bright for about a minute, before slowly darkening.
“How about that.” Twilight said in response to bulb
I stood back, impressed with myself, and asked half-jokingly
“Enjoy the show?”
“That was amazing!” she responded, “Where did you learn stuff like that?”
“I’m going to give credit where it’s due, I was not the first one to make this. A human by the name of Thomas Edison was.” I replied
“Why do you have a name so different than his?” she asked.
“It’s not. My real name is Jakob Thompson, I had to come up with something, as ponies have a different naming scheme than humans. You can call me Jakob or Disk Burner, I’ll respond to either.”
“Wow. Humans are really different than us ponies.” Was all that came out of Twilight’s mouth for the rest of the night.
Except for a goodnight that came later in the evening.
We went to bed and I slept immediately, after she showed me the room, of course.
"I hope tomorrow is as eventful as today." I thought and dozed off.