Nothing is New Under the Sun.
By: Chase The Brony
My Little Pony is a product of Hasbro. I just enjoy writing and reading stories about it.
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Nothing is New Under the Sun.
As Celestia gazed over her domain from her castle in Canterlot, she came to a realizaton. An epiphany that could forever change the face of Equestria and the world.
She was bored.
When you are an immortal goddess who controls the heavens, you have pretty much seen everything. Some immortals try to seek new experiences in drugs, drink or sex. Some, like her newly regained sister Luna, go insane and try to become a catalyst for change in order to force something new to happen around them.
Celestia found her release through living amongst the commoners. The lives of the mortals are constantly changing. The daily life of an Equestrian citizen was constantly in flux. It was rarely dangerous or fatal, thankfully the Sun Goddess helped reduce that part of her subjects lives. However, it had a freshness to it that Celestia could only envy.
Unlike the lives of her subjects, daily life as a princess was pretty much the same everyday. She would eat breakfast, raise the sun, listen to the commoners and nobles' petitions to the throne, eat lunch, deal with any foreign visitors or ambassadors, eat supper, lower the sun and pass the night off to Luna. Very occasionally (occasionally being measured in decades) she would take a couple weeks off to go live incognito amongst the commoners.
It goes without saying that with the exception of several events, her time between vacations was dull.
She helped pass time by personally tutoring some of the most powerful and talented ponies she could find. However, though powerful they may be, they were but mortals and as all mortals do, they eventually die.
Every time she lost a student her heart would break. she would swear to not take another student, but as passed, she would discover another potential student who would take her heart and she would tutor them.
However even this cycle repeats over and over for time immaterial.
Enter the Change
The universe is a vast place. It is both further and longer than can be measured but is also so close and dense that cross-universal interaction is more than possible, though not probable. Some connections are fickle, wormholes lasting mere femtoseconds streak across incomprehensible distances. Others are slightly more permanent; black holes collect and compress the reality around them and transport it across vast distances to begin the creation of a new system.
For such a inconceivably large area, there are surprisingly few species so blessed to be able to comprehend the universe around them, and even fewer who are willing to study it and eventually travel it.
In a series of odds that are beyond infinitesimal, one of the cross galactic transports that is a wormhole just happened to connect two worlds for an instant, but this single instant is all it would take to transform Equestria forever.
The Second Race
I never thought that one day I would hold the fate of worlds in my hands. I always knew that I could succeed in a given task if I put my mind to a job and worked for it, but I never thought it would end like this.
Despite my job as an IT Technician, I spend a disproportionate amount of time in the outdoors. Back when I was in college, I used to volunteer with my state parks and would give lectures about nature and the wilderness to tourists and other students. An avid sportsman, I considered the opening weekends of the Deer and Dove seasons to be veritable holidays. In order to relax and keep my skills honed, I embark upon a multi-day backpacking trip into whats left of the untamed wilderness every year. When I backpack its just me, my gear (food, water, clothes etc), my pistol (in case of bears, or other unfriendly critters) and the peace of nature.
After I had been out a couple days I loaded my bag when I suddenly felt a slight tingle which suddenly turned into a pull, then my vision blacked out and I felt as if I were being ripped apart, cell by cell. Needless to say, it was rather excruciating. Thankfully, I lost all sense of pain and then nothing.
I couldn't feel anything. I couldn't see.
This was unnerving to say the least. To put it succinctly, I was mentally flipping a shit.
Before I could even begin to question my sanity or try to reason where I was, I felt the pain returning. The last thing I remember was a flash of light, and seeing a glimpse of trees. Then I passed out cold.
Resisting Change
Celestia was in the middle of her lunch. Suddenly she felt what could only be described as a disturbance in the force. Being the deity of the planet, she was able to "feel" her earth, and right now she felt like something wrong was just ripped into her world. It lasted barely seconds, and the feeling started to fade.
Before the feeling completely faded away, she used her magic to try and find where the feeling came from. As she searched, her magic pulled her towards the Everfree Forest. One of the fewl untamed wilderness in Equestria left, it had constantly resisted any and all attempts to civilize the woods.
Drawing her magic and consciousness back in, she summoned her captain of the Royal Guard, Shining Armour.
"Sir Armour, I need you to send a company of Guards to the Everfree forest. Something just appeared there and I fear for what may appear. Gather your men and supplies and leave before nightfall. You have my authority to
draw weapons from the royal armory, but you are not authorized to begin hostilities. Act only in self defense, and capture rather than kill. I trust in your judgement in this regard. Do not fail me in this, Shining Armour, I fear what this may bode" ordered the diarch.
"Yes ma'am!" Replied the captain. "Should I mobilize the army as well, your Highness?"
"Go ahead and tell General Coldheart to mobilize a short division of troops and to stay on standby in Ponyville. Organize your operations from there. I will send my student Twilight a message on what to expect and to aid you however she can. Also, please inform your wife Cadence that I would be pleased to entertain her in the castle with me while you are out. Anything else?"
"No your highness, with your permission I will go and get the guard ready to deploy."
"Permission granted Shining; Good luck."
"Thank you Princess"
As Shining left the chamber, Celestia just looked out her window and hoped that history wouldn't repeat itself once more.