Das Land in einer anderen Welt
"Shut up!"
"No, thee shut up!"
"No, you shut up!"
"No, thee shut up!"
"No, you shut up!"
"STOP!" Celestia exclaims using her royal Canterlot voice, looking at the human and her sister with a frown, and she thought that the nobles liked to fight between them, but this.....
"S-She is accusing me of things I didn't do!" Peter shouts while pointing at the angry alicorn. He steps forward to meet her glare.
"Of course!" Luna says while doing circles with her hoof, "you are a bucking alien! how are we supposed to believe what thee just said!"
"Luna!" Celestia exclaims to her sister for her bad vocabulary. A childish fight initiated in the room at the mention that the princesses are the ones that control the sun and the moon, and Peter here obviously doesn't believe them, he instead began to try to explain the stupidity of that fact and started to fight with Luna principally over the matter of magic. For the past 20 minutes, the two have been yelling at each other like a married couple.
"Listen to me princess," Peter replies while getting close to Luna with his own frown, "you can't lie to me, maybe to those ponies, yes, but to me no!"
"You calling me a liar!"
"Exactly," Peter responds with a sly smirk on his face, "you are a liar moonbutt."
"Commander please," Celestia says as she intercedes in the middle of the fight, trying to calm down the situation, "we are not here to fight you."
"Maybe the idea of the dissection wasn't bad after all...." Luna mumbles, but with the obvious intention of Peter to hear her. His eyes widen, and his fists clench.
"Luna stop at this moment!!"
"What the hell did you just said to me you little!!!" Peter finally lets his rage go off, and runs towards Luna. The eyes of the princess of the night widen, as she activates her magic and uses it to levitate the human with difficulty thanks to the loss of positive magical charges that he has lost through time.
"IM GOING TO KILL YOU, YOU-YOU LET ME!!!!!" Peter tries to send kicks at the alicorn while levitating. She flinches, but after waiting some seconds, she simply puts him with force against the wall, with the obvious care of not injuring the human.
Silence fills the room as no one dares to talk. Celestia looks at the two disapproving glares that the human and the alicorn are sending at each other. She clears her throat and gets close to the human, making him flinch slightly, "look, Commander, I want to establish a peaceful relationship with you."
The human snorts, but Celestia ignores him and keeps talking.
"But I need to be sure you aren't a threat for my subjects," she glances at the door of the cell, and after some moments she turns to look back at the human who has softened his face, "and if you didn't know..... you injured one of them."
Peter tilts his head slightly as he raises an eyebrow, getting close to Celestia, "what... I don't recall."
"With you iron tube," Luna starts in a more moderate voice, but still with that hateful glare, "the one that you brought with you."
"The pistol?" and at that moment, Peter remembers the night scene, the moment where he used it to defend himself. His eyes widen and begins to shiver as a worried and fearful face appears, "wow, ummm, yeah.... I am sorry..... I really didn't want to hurt anyone, is he or she alright?!"
Celestia becomes suddenly impressed, she didn't expect the human to be worried for one of them, "he is alright Commander, but still, why did you use that thing? you have any idea how bad you did."
"I was surrounded okay," Peter says, deflating a bit, "I didn't know what to do at that moment.... so I just.... you understand me," he raises his arms in exasperation, trying to get the princesses to understand his point.
"But that just brings us to another point human," Luna begins defiantly, startling her sister again, "what are your intentions here? hmph, why did you bring a weapon with you, what are your plans!!"
Peter is taken back momentarily, his frown slowly starts to reappear, "what.... I don't understand your question?"
Celestia was going to say something but realizes what her sister is trying to ask, and even she has curiosity and fear, an alien comes into Equus and has a technologically advanced weapon with him, why? that case could be the scenario of an invasion...... just like in comics and science fiction books.
"You heard me human," Luna stands in front of Peter, her eyes are straightened as her horn glows weakly, "what are your intentions here in Equestria, why did your Germ-any send you here?"
He finally understands what the princess is trying to say, his eyes widen as he scoffs, crossing his arms, "it is not what you are thinking, I only came here to explore this planet."
"Then why are you bringing one of your weapons with you?" Celestia asks before Luna can counter.
He raises his hands defensively, "it was only for scientifical purposes, I am not in the military neither anything like that, and being sincere it is the first time that I have used a weapon in my life."
"Then what are you," Luna asks this time while raising an eyebrow.
"I am an astronaut," Peter stops, scratching his scruffy beard, "for being clearer you could say that I am a space explorer."
"So... they send you to explore other planets?" Celestia says calmly, looking with curiosity, "interesting..."
"But that doesn't respond to our question," Luna retorts, trying to keep a frown on her face, because her curiosity is winning over her rage at this moment, "w-what are your real intentions, why did you come to Equus."
"As I previously said princess, I only came here to explore," Peter responds with a more relaxed face.
"But why?"
Peter hesitates, "t-this world was discovered by luck, Naples, is the name that we baptized ummm what is-"
"Equus," Celestia bluntly responds.
"Equus, right, it has some qualities that to the scientists of every nation in my world found interesting, and most of those theories have been confirmed," he finishes, crossing his arms again.
"Like what theories?" Luna says sceptical, her curiosity dissipating her frown.
"First of all, water, we discovered water," Peter pauses for a second to get more comfortable against the wall, "second, vegetation, and third which is the most important of all, life," he finishes, chuckling a bit.
"Life?"
"Life, the rarest quality in the whole universe, and here I am, talking with you that for me, you are both aliens," Peter says while pointing at the two princesses, "I am going to say it, people must be excited back on my planet, we found the impossible, another living thing that also is sapient."
"There are other species in Equus that are sapient," Celestia responds to the human calmly. Peter's eyes widen as he begins to laugh, but of the combination of happiness and sadness at the same time.
"T-that wow," he pauses for a second and begins to get up, "if you can simply describe, for thousands of years we thought that we were alone, looking for other things to talk with, other sapient beings."
Luna raises an eyebrow, "what are you talking about?" she gets close to Peter with a much calmer face, "there are other sapient beings in your planet?"
Peter shakes his head, "no.... humans are the only sapient beings, without magic or anything alike."
"There isn't magic on your planet!" Celestia almost exclaims, causing both Luna and Peter to wince, "but that is impossible, there is magic everywhere..."
That cracks Peter up, "nope, no magic," he takes another cigarette and puts it on his mouth, beginning to smoke again, "would be cool though."
He turns his view and looks at the other wall with a blank face, "you don't have anything to worry, we aren't planning to invade you or anything like that," he pauses to smoke, "the first thing we would try to do is peace princess, my nation supports the liberty of the other nations or at least is what they say."
"So that is what you want then, peace," Celestia gets close to the human, and raises one of her hooves, "then in the name of the United Kingdom of Equestria, we would like to have peaceful relations with you at least, and with your nation."
Peter looks up to meet with her pink eyes, he sighs while standing up again, taking the hoof of Celestia and shaking it in the way of a handshake, we could say, would be made, "in the name of the German Empire and God, I would like to have peaceful relations with your nation."
He then glances at Luna who is silently staring at the scene, "yo, blue!" a smile appears on his face, "sorry for what happened alright."
Luna snorts, shaking her head. The human gets close to Luna while putting his arms on his back, the cigarette still on his mouth, "so tell me.... can I get out of this cell?"
"No," the two princesses say almost in unison, making the human to recoil, changing his face to a frown.
"What-" he walks towards Celestia, "I responded all of your questions, and I assure you again, I am not a threat for your nation!"
"But-" Celestia interrupts him, "you injured one of our subjects, and we have a judicial system here Commander."
He raises an eyebrow, "I wasn't forgiven already," the princesses didn't respond to him, giving him a bored look.
Smoking again, he decides to talk, "come on, what I am supposed to do, you can't keep me here, I-I please it isn't even my fault to be here! a beast attacked us."
"A manticore," Luna says while getting close to the astronaut, "that is the beast that attacked you and who else?"
"Excuse me?" Peter says confused, taking his cigarette and throwing it on the floor, stepping on it with the heel of his boot.
"You said us," Luna retorts with a frown.
He is first hesitant, but then begins to chuckle, sitting again while cleaning his nose, "I landed with another person here, we were only going to do tests with the air, water, and take some small rocks for they could analyze them back on Earth, but then," he stops, looking at the door of the cell again with a tired face, sighing as he talks again, "this beast, umm a manticore, huh, well then, a manticore attacked us, we didn't saw him coming, and I ordered my mate to leave this shithole...." he raises his hands, like if he is showing the place to the princesses, "then, you know, I was left here alone."
"So there aren't more humans on the planet?" Luna asks.
He huffs, a frown appearing on his face, "nope, I am the only one, the only one cursed to being here..... hmph and talking about that, how am I breathing?"
"What?" Celestia questions, and after a moment of thinking she realizes what was the human referring to, but he continues talking before she could reply.
"I am supposed to be dead right now, the atmosphere of this place is more toxic than the one of Venus," he finishes, putting a hand on the back of his neck.
Luna decides to answer the question of the human with a slightly amused face, "we used a spell on you, you were...... dying-"
"Why?" the humans interrupts her, looking at Luna with a defeated face, "why didn't you just let me die in this hole, I would probably be remembered as a hero back home, and now, considering the state of my nation, I am trapped here."
"What are you saying, letting you die! that would be a waste of everything," Luna returns, walking towards the human.
"I am not a fucking object okay," he raises his view to meet Luna's eyes, that incredibly softened, "I would have preferred dying! I am now trapped in this fucking DUNGEON!" he takes a rock and throws it towards the other wall, breathing heavily.
Silence is what is left resounding the walls of the place. The human is looking down at his hand, as he plays with the cross between his fingers, a tear threatening to come out, "listen..... I just want to go home," Peter says while raising his gaze to meet the eyes of the two princesses, who are now looking him with, sympathy.
A moment of silence elapses again, the princesses struggling what to respond to the human.
"I-I am going to see what can I do, knowing that we reached at least peaceful relations between ourselves," Celestia declares, deflating a bit. A spark of hope emerges in Peter, "but for now Commander, I can bring you the food of your choice, and then I recommend for you to rest, tomorrow will probably be a busier day for you."
"I already slept," Peter says bluntly, something that causes Luna to step forward.
"That is not true," Luna says to the human as her horn glows, tilting her head slightly, "and you haven't eaten anything."
"W-what, and what the hell do you know princess?" he says defiantly, raising an eyebrow and crossing his arms.
"I am the princess of the night," she begins, her magic irradiating, something that leaves the human stunned for some seconds before he shrugs off his impression, "I know those things."
"Huh," he scratches his beard again, stretching his back a bit, "I guess that makes sense......"
Celestia clears her throat, making her the centre of attention, "excuse me commander, but I believe my sister and I have matters to attend, I implore you to take some rest, you had a long day I believe," that cracks a small smile on his tired face, "your food is coming soon, and I'm also hoping that you will eat, but for now, I will just ask you those things."
Celestia and Luna turn back towards the door. The human remains silent as the princesses begin to exit the cell. He begins to sing something that Luna catches before exiting the room.
"When you wish upon a star..... makes no difference who you are.....anything your heart desires will come to you....."
Her ears perk up, she tilts her head slightly while watching the human sing the song, it makes her feel much more sympathy for him, like if he is trying to say something, it may be a mental confrontation or something inside of him is simply bugging him, well, excluding the part of being stranded in another planet.
But even worse than that, he said that he preferred to be death, Luna hasn't heard those words coming from another pony in a long long time, but this human, he just said it so casual, so normal. Luna sighs, and completely exists the cell, the door is immediately closed afterwards, leaving Peter alone again.
Celestia and Luna silently walk through the corridors of the castle. The place is quiet, some nobles simply bow at the presence of the princesses when they pass through some sectors of the castle.
Luna is simply confused, she has this happiness and emotion for a millennial discovery, but at the same time is terrifying, the human, as it calls himself, was afraid of something, she could feel it.
Luna laments, looking at the paintings on the walls of the castle when one of them calls her attention, and that is the one of the old family portrait, where her father and mother, King Cosmos and Queen Galaxia, the ones that ruled over the Kingdom of the Unicorns appear smiling, and below of them, little Luna and Celestia appear to be smiling as well.
"What would have mother done," Celestia starts, also looking at the old painting with a frown on her face, "if she would have been in this situation, I-I don't know....."
"This isn't your fault," Luna begins while nuzzling her sister, "it isn't the fault of anypony if we are being sincere."
"It isn't only that," Celestia responds bluntly, deflating a bit as her ears press against her head, looking at the other paintings in the hall, "everything seems to be crumbling....."
Luna stares at her sister with an apologetic face, almost deflating a bit, "what? about the human or the griffons."
"It seems like everything," Celestia starts, looking at her sister with a serene face, "an alien has landed in our nation, this is something..... something that I don't have the answer, how do we know that he could call the army of his nation to our planet?"
"But we know how to handle it right?" Luna replies while backing off a bit, glancing around the room, "nothing that we can't resolve, this alien is not the worst threat Equestria has confronted on its time" Luna stops, tapping her chin with her hoof, "we don't even know if he is a threat at all."
"And then there are the nobles and the parliament," Celestia continues, a frown reappearing on her face, "they are constantly fighting and trying to pass corrupt laws without my supervision," Celestia stops, looking at the floor, "then we have the griffon problem, and thanks to their problems they have brought our colony in Griffonia into a state of chaos."
Luna decides to remain silent this time, her sister has given valid points, this problem with the alien just sums another problem to the current situation that the nation is passing in general, but, they can't leave the alien in a prison cell until someone else comes. They need to compromise with the alien, though it is totally different to what both princesses imagined how aliens could be, because this one has real feelings, emotions, he was sad and depressed, with good reasons by the way, but that means that his species has these abilities, but still has something very different to any creature in Equestria she has seen.
They begin to get close to a large wooden door with golden engraves on it, and an image on the top with the Royal Coat of Arms. Luna sighs, looking at her sister again, "before we say anything to them," Luna begins, causing Celestia to turn her attention back to her sister, "what are we going to do with him?"
"I don't know," Celestia begins deflated, "I don't really know what to do with him, he could be a threat, just like you said-"
Luna interrupts her in a soft voice, "but- I don't think that his intentions are bad, I tried to enter to a part of his conscious...."
"And.." Celestia replies while raising an eyebrow.
"He is scared, afraid of something, he is acting just like a pony would do if it would be in that same situation," she finishes, stopping near the door.
"So what you are saying is what?" Celestia continues, also stopping, tilting her head slightly, "that we just let him go?"
"No, we should talk with him a little bit more," she starts, "maybe we could use Twilight and her friends to ask him questions and then.... we could let him stay at least in the castle."
Celestia wordlessly stares at her sister, before sighing, "we have been previously fooled lulu, and you know it, how do we know that this alien is different."
"But we haven't given him a chance," Luna says softly, "let's see how will he act, and we can even learn about his species, he comes from another planet, a completely new species, new culture, new everything," Luna finishes clapping her hooves, animating the dark scene as Celestia chuckles a bit.
"We are going to find that out," Celestia says as she opens the door to the room the throne room, where the main 6 are currently located. Rainbow Dash is fighting with Applejack, Twilight and Fluttershy are analyzing the weapon, but none of them has dared to touch it. Rarity is reading a magazine on one of the chairs that are usually used for the Royal Courts, and Pinkie is mysteriously not in the room, but what can you expect from that pony.
"Twilight, have you found something interesting," Celestia begins, getting close to the distracted alicorn. Twilight's eyes widen as she squeals, startled for the sudden interruption of the two princesses.
"Oh-princess I didn't see you," she gives a sheepish smile, turning back again to look at the weapon, "ummm of what I can tell you, it is very complex engineering, I guess that we cannot decipher its secrets if we don't open it."
"I see," Celestia says secularly, "but I don't think Commander Bismarck would like that."
"Commander Bismarck?" Fluttershy asks before Twilight could even respond, "that is his name?"
"Correct," Luna responds with a smile on her muzzle, walking forward towards Twilight, "Peter B-ism..arck I belive, Commander is used just by them the way we use it for the Royal Guard."
"And from where does he come from?" Applejack asks while raising an eyebrow, Rainbow Dash following her in mid-air.
"What are his evil plans," Rainbow Dash says darkly, getting close to Twilight, a frown on her face, "I bet we will kick his arse whatever thing this alien is-"
"Human," Celestia says a little bit irritated for the sometimes annoying pegasus, "and yes, he is an alien coming from a planet called Earth."
"Earth?" Twilight starts, looking at her former mentor with curiosity, "that is a curious name, what is the significance behind it?"
"Well," Luna says with a small smile on her muzzle, "of what he told us, there is no magic in his planet-"
"WHAT!" the sudden exclamation of Twilight startles everybody, "that is impossible, magic exists in every corner of the universe."
"Well, it looks like from where he comes from it doesn't," Celestia says with an amused face, "is funny that their planet is called like that."
"B-but he isn't planning something evil?" Rainbow talks, landing on the floor, "it is very suspicious, why would this alien just come here?"
Luna decides to speak with excitement, a smirk on her muzzle, "he told us that he is an astronaut."
"A what?" Applejack asks while tilting her head a bit.
"An astronaut... umm it looks like their mission is to explore space, that must be the reason for that bulky suit," Luna finishes.
Rarity grumbles, oh yes, forgot to mention that she is also in the current meeting? what a dumbass I am.
"So he only wants to explore," the latter asks with curiosity on her face, "what nation on Equus would make him wear that horrible thing."
"Talking about that.... he referred a nation," Celestia taps her chin with her hoof, looking at Rarity again, "the German Empire I believe so."
"Empire?" Twilight says excited, "that means that they must have a complex political structure, did you ask him how it works?"
Celestia and Luna look at each other, before looking back at Twilight as Celestia starts to speak again, "we were hoping you and your friends could do those extra questions."
Twilight's eyes widen, a grin appearing on her muzzle, "so... we are going to meet him!!!" she bounces in happiness Pinkie-style, "how much we will learn, knowledge from another world!!!!"
"And he ain't a threat of any kind," now is the turn for Applejack to question the intentions of this alien.
"We aren't sure," Luna says, frowning a little bit, "we are inclined to believe that it was only coincidental, but for that reason, we are going to send you for questioning him."
"I don't know," Rainbow Dash says, scratching her chin, "trusting an alien is the worst thing you could ever do, comics say it, everypony says it."
"But everypony deserves a chance, " Fluttershy finally decides to say something, "we gave a chance to Discord, and he changed."
"But we don't even know if he is evil in the first place, I mean, he attacked a pony!"
"Maybe scared," Fluttershy continues, looking at Rainbow Dash nervously, "wouldn't you be scared if one day you arrive at other lands with weird creatures chasing you?!"
"I-I umm," Rainbow Dash was going to say something else but is interrupted by Celestia.
"He knows what ponies are," she simply says, causing everyone to look with curiosity at the princess, "he told us that there are ponies in his home planet, but he said we were different."
"Different?" Twilight says while tilting her head, "in what sense."
"He didn't say much about it," Celestia continues accentuating her tone, "but he was impressed that we could talk....even scared."
"But why?"
Celestia looks at Twilight with a smile, "that's where you enter, hopefully, tomorrow morning somepony could go to ask questions to the human."
"I'll go first!" Rainbow Dash says, a sour smile on her muzzle while flying around Twilight.
"Rainbow Dash, I think that is better if Twilight or Fluttershy go first, " Celestia says, trying to maintain that smile.
"Really!.." Twilight squeals silently, causing Celestia to chuckle a bit.
"I believe that Twilight should go first," Fluttershy silently says, making even Luna raise an eyebrow because she was worried about the human more than anyone of them.
"But-"
"It is decided then," Luna says, interrupting Rainbow in the process, "tomorrow in the morning, you will begin to interrogate him."
?????, ?????, Equus
"Milord," a dark elf says as he gets close to the red figure, a mad titan. It is holding a golden staff with inscriptions on its side, "it looks like that turmoil in the eastern seas is settling down, we can now begin our first moves against their positions."
The figure remains silent for some seconds. He clears his throat, "the seven gems are finally lining up, we can now make our entrance to Tartarus again."
"We are conscious of the lining, and we know that a figure from another dimension has entered our world," the elf responds to the titan, lowering his head.
The titan scratches his chin, getting up from the seat and slowly walking towards the elf with a frown on his face, "Tirek, he is the key of all of this and you know it."
"We-we" the elf clears his throat, sweat falling from his forehead, "are planning to liberate the seven sins, we never talked-"
The titan drops his staff, making the elf to recoil as it leaves a powerful echo around the room. He bends in one knee, looking directly at the eyes of the nervous figure, "I want Tirek out, the Storm King won't give me his support if Tirek doesn't come out first."
The elf looks up, his dark eyes meeting with the violet eyes of the figure, "we need to control the power of the alicorns, not even I have the power to defeat them all, at least for now," he finishes sourly, his frown intensifying as he puts his giant finger on the chin of the elf, "you will do what I tell you to do, or I promise that I will destroy every single member of your species, and leave you the only one remaining in this cursed world."
The blue eyes of the elf widen, as he gulps with fear, his body is shaking, "I-I a..m going to try to convince the-"
"IT WAS A QUESTION OR AN ORDER!!!" the titan shouts, his eyes are filled with fire as he takes the elf by his throat, "this prison will crumble, and everyone is going to be there to see it, no one will fail to me, and if I need to destroy every single being with power in this world," he throws the elf against a wall, "I will not even hesitate, even if I need to massacre every species that is against my path."
The elf coughs as he stands up with difficulty, looking at the titan with some tired eyes, "I will..... do what you tell me, milord Straton."
Straton looks at the elf with a smile. He takes his staff and goes to his throne, "your compensation will be good, and never think that I don't compromise with my promises."
Taking out a blank piece of paper from the magical staff, he throws the paper over the floor. At the moment when the paper touched the floor, it immediately expanded, a map appearing on its surface, or better saying it, a map in a third dimension, the clouds, seas, and animals are moving, giving a giant view of these lands.
Using his staff, he begins to search through a desert, which quickly changes to a jungle. There he quickly begins to zoom in on a stone structure on the centre of it, surrounded by a cobblestone wall with skeletons scrambled all over the ground.
"The wall is opening," Straton begins with a smile, "finally the two worlds will collide between themselves, I will finally be able to go back home."
His eyes are filled with hope, almost sparkling from his internal happiness. Using the staff, three rocks begin to glow, as some scripture appears to be engraved on several of them in a cryptic language, unknown to any species that live on that planet. A cross begins to form, the letters begin to reorganize themselves, and the glow becomes stronger. He motions the elf to come near the map, which he does without even thinking about it.
"When the gems align the mirror portal will open once again," he looks at the elf with a frown, "and that is the moment where no one will be protecting the entrance of Tartarus, neither Hades or any of the beasts in the underworld."
"And the element of mag-" the elf begins but is interrupted by Straton.
"That, my friend, I already have someone working on that, it will be a distraction, in which hopefully she will not be able to return," he finishes while signalling one of his soldiers to bring something to the room.
"The greed has been liberated," he says while bending in one knee, "the student will try to retrieve the crown out of this world, and that is the moment where this is going to be your great hope."
The elf looks at him confused, but then he glances at the soldier that is bringing in his hands a small emerald blade.
The soldier bows and leaves the blade on the hands of Straton, the design of it is medieval and classic, with letters in red and a blue colour covering most of them, "this is the blade of Antares."
The elf stares at it with his eyes wide open and his mouth hanging loose. The power it irradiates is in the form of blue energy, and its appearance cuts more than a two-edged sword.
"If there is a problem with... you know what," he gives the blade to the elf, which he takes with caution and admiration, "this will cut literally the soul."