//------------------------------// // Chapter XII // Story: Kaiserreich // by ObiWan //------------------------------// Oh, komm doch, komm zu mir Du nimmst mir den Verstand Oh, komm doch, komm zu mir Komm, gib mir deine Hand "Change it." Hail.....hail What's the matter with your head? Yeah! Hail....hail What's the matter with your mind "The next one," Luna said with a small smirk. Peter nods, tapping the screen again. There's a road I'd like to tell you about, lives in my home town Lake Shore Drive the road is called and it'll take you up or down From rags on up to riches fifteen minutes you can fly Pretty blue lights along the way, help you right on by "Another one!" Celestia sighs while shaking her head. Three hours, three hours have passed since they first began to listen to the alien's music. A wide range of things passed through her mind as well. The voices sound as if a pony would be singing these songs, but they belong to the humans. It is just incredible the change of perspective something like that could do. Rhythms she has never heard, and the characterization of emotions through them is strangely special, as most of them seem to focus in love. It must be something very special, as they even seem to adore it, a culture around an emotion. She is planning to ask Peter about this little inquiry she has, but it's not very wise doing it at that moment. Neunundneunzig Luftballons Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont Hielt man für Ufos aus dem All Darum schickte ein General "Ohhh I like that!" Pikie announces happily. "I must agree, this one seems more jolly." Peter chuckles, turning to look at Celestia. He frowns at the look she is to giving him, which is translated to 'I think it's time to stop for now.' "The variety of ins-truments...." Twilight yawns, "it sounds really ecstatic." "Yeah," Peter says while stretching. When the song ends, he quickly turns off the device, "I think it's pretty late don't you think so?" Luna smiles half-heartedly, "I believe that as well, I need to begin the night court soon," she said, looking an old wooden clock. Twilight's eyes shot open, smiling sheepishly while leaving her seat, slowly walking towards Peter, "commander, I would like to ask if....I could stay with the device." "Ummm.... I didn't catch that." "Emmmm, cou-ld I stay with the device... for scientifical exploration.... butifyousaynodon'tworry ." Peter jerks back a bit, before clearing his throat, "umm sure, you can." Twilight and the others blinked at his answer, "really," she deadpanned, "you aren't trying to prank me right?" "What, no," he said while taking the tablet, leaving his seat and crouching for being in an eye level with her, "look maybe I left a bad impression of me at first glance, but you need to know that was only because, well you know," he scratches his beard, "I was very scared." "But-" "And," he continues softly. The two sisters tense at the exchange, "this was created for you, it's a little gift of peace from my kind towards yours," he finishes with a smile, extending the tablet. She is hesitant but slowly takes the device with her aura. Twilight begins to mumble nonsense under her breathe, making some weird squee sounds. Peter stand up straight and claps, "I think we should call it a night." "Yeah, this night' surely passed fast," Applejack said while yawning. Celestia giggled. Everyone left their seats and slowly begins to walk towards the doors. Celestia stops Peter by putting her hoof on his left shoulder, "tia, please accompany them to their respective rooms, I-I need to have a small chat with the commander here." Luna raises an eyebrow but proceeds to nod nonchalantly. The mares begin to follow the princess of the night, leaving their goodnights to both Peter and Celestia. Suddenly, Twilight stops and gets close to him, smiling tiredly, "you know commander, I think somepony needs to teach you the magic of friendship." He sniffs, but smiles afterwards, "maybe, but maybe not." "I'm the princess of friendship, I know when someone needs help in that area." A small smile appears on his face, "whatever you say 'princess of friendship,' whatever you say." She shakes her head, "I will do it commander, but for now, all I can say is good night." "Yeah... good night princess," he said, making a two-finger salute. Twilight walks forward and bows at the princess of the sun, "good night princess." Celestia gives her farewells. Twilight turns and exits the room, leaving the two of them alone. Peter shifts uncomfortably, he clears his throat and gives a step back, "y-you ehhh." She sighs, "commander, I know that we started with the wrong hoof-" He huffs, "you don't say." "But you should know that we don't hold a grudge or something against you." "I suppose I know that," Peter scratches his beard, "but I don't understand, you actually have a reason to hold a grudge against me, I was- I suppose what happened is normal in any government, including the ones in my planet." She shakes her head, "we shouldn't have treated you like that anyway, we haven't use the techniques we used with you since a long-long time." "As I said," Peter begins with a smile, "I can't blame you, the shouting and the ranting..... it's just that, I never expected all of this, how could I believe that I was talking to real people, y-you are all aliens to me, living creatures from another world, do you know the weight of that." "I understand commander, my position was quite the same as yours." "Yeah," he lowers his head, "the thing is that this changes everything," he rubs his temples, sighing again, "there is this little voice in the back of my head that is still saying to me that my current, position isn't real." Peter stops, thinking that Celestia was going to say something, but she doesn't. He simply shrugs and continues. "Maybe you understand, maybe not, but if you would be in a similar position, being stranded in another planet that might be real, your mind will try to ignore it, even if your body and soul are shouting you the reality where you could be." She sighs, "I will not-" "But in the end, I just want to say I'm sorry princess, even if you are real or not, I didn't want to be the one chosen to talk with extraterrestrial creatures, and I did, no idea why, just..... it was maybe destiny or a plan of God, but I don't have an answer to that." She is taken aback for some seconds. Is he acting normal? Celestia raises an eyebrow as she takes a step back, looking directly into Peter's eyes, "that was unexpected," she taps her chin with her hoof, "but I would like to also ask for forgivance, it wasn't our best decisions, purely taken from a situation we might be inexperienced on." He nods, his eyes beginning to close. A smile appears on Celestia's muzzle, as she pokes Peter on his arm, "tomorrow will be a lousy day for you as well, my sister and I have planned..... a visit to the remains of your metal box and the contraptions that came with it." "Huh," Peter's eyes twitch, "I was thinking about that," he begins to drift towards the door, "I need some instruments from there anyway." A newspaper slams the table. Her eyes are wide, her mane is disorganized, and a creepy smile is slowly making its way on her muzzle, the reporter known as Snowy Blossom, a white unicorn with a blue and yellow mane, is ecstatic from a recent discovery. "You see this!" she exclaims, startling her workmates, Saphire Gem and Steel Stud who were lazily eating their breakfasts. Saphire Gem has bags under her eyes, the last night was rather..... memorable to her...... let's just say that really advanced magic is complicated to report. Steel Stud sighs, rubbing his eyes as his eyes lazily drift towards the newspaper. The Canterlot Post Exciting news has been released from the archaeological expedition in Appleloosa. It seems like some ancient ruins have been found beneath the sand, being recognized as some sort of subterranean temple. The beauty and grandiose of this construction are simply uncomparable and almost impossible. This discovery changes the way we looked at the past, as whatever ancient civilization that could have built something of this scale before the discovery of static magic....... He blinks, raising an eyebrow as he looks Snowy with a bored face, "aaaand...... is that supposed to be something good or bad?" "What!" Snowy startles the two again, her breathing increases rapidly as her heartbeat is going a thousand per hour, "this," she points the newspaper again with her hoof, "this changed history! do you have the idea of the implications behind this, a civilization built this mega construction in the times King Cosmos and Queen Galaxia were still foals!" "Snowy," Saphire speaks tiredly, "why are you showing this to us?" "Because," she raises a hoof, preparing to slam the table. Steel and Saphire cover their ears, waiting for the impact. Snowy's left eye twitches before she finally sighs and deflates as she lazily seats on the chair. The two look the alicorn with suspicion, her attitude changed in a blink of eyes. A soft smile appears on her muzzle before that becomes into an embarrassed face, "I suppose I wanted to share my excitement with somepony else?" "Snowy, you know, we appreciate your excitement," Steel begins, continuing to eat his food, "but you should know that's not a way to ummm react? I mean you know, you are becoming-" Saphire's eyes widen as she puts a hoof on Steel's mouth, winning a glare from him. Snowy tilts her head before sadly nodding, "yes...." she does circles with her hoof, "I suppose I'm still stressed after the whole quarantine in Ponyville." "But there's nothing to worry about," Saphire says as she slowly retracts her hoof from Steel's mouth. Using her magic, she begins to serve a cup of coffee for Snowy, "everypony believes that you will carry that story to the truth" She lazily puts her head on the table, "I think that's what is making me so nervous," Snowy mumbles. "Don't worry Snowy!" the three immediately shout and fall on the ground at the same time. The pink earth pony is happily glancing at the pieces of bread on the table. She takes one and turns to look back at Twilight, who's pupils have shrunk to the size of pinpricks as her body is shaking thanks to the shock, "everything is going to go right! perfect as always." "Sk-Sky," Steel finally chokes out, "how did you enter the castle without any of us knowing." "Well, how else," she happily jumps towards the stove, "by the door Sunny times!" "For Celestia," Saphire mumbles, slowly beginning to stand up, "how, just how," she deflates and snorts, "this city is crazy." "Soooo," Sky Bronco, a green pegasus with a brown mane, begins after drinking a glass of water, "are you excited Snowy! we are going on a train trip again!" "It is not a train trip," Snowy says shakily as she stands up, "we are going to visit a historical discovery." "We'll surely do," a yellow mare says as it walks to the meeting room. Steel facepalms as he groans. "Why do we not have security on this floor, I thought this room had a lock!" Snowy smiles awkwardly as she begins to sit on her chair again, sighing and looking her coffee with a frown, "I suppose so." The morning came by. As expected, the guards escorted Peter again to the dining room, where breakfast was served. After that, they were all escorted to a secret train that runs underground Canterlot, even if it defies the laws of physics for its location. Twilight spent all the journey answering the questions that Peter had about the city and the few landmarks that he barely saw. Celestia was worried almost the whole journey, as she knows that one day, the truth will be revealed to everyone on the planet. Something is beginning to bother her, and that is that tingling feeling that you are about to do something very wrong, the future is distorted, and the reality just seems to have duplicated itself into an eternal abyss of doom. Things have really changed, an alien, that is the greatest discovery in the history of Equestria. It's confusing, how did he knew what unicorns or pegasus are? there must be a connection. Even though they haven't seen images of his world except for Twilight, who mysteriously described some huge similarities between the two worlds. They arrive at the old station. After walking through some dark tunnels, they reach the main entrance of the complex. It looks abandoned, but it's one of the most secured areas of the entire planet. Several royal guards are the floors of the abandoned training ground. The expressions are varied, some have fear, anger, and happiness towards Peter, who is shifting uncomfortably. He accelerates his pace, and tries to whisper something to Celestia, "a welcoming ground, I didn't know you had your own B8 Bergkristall." "Excuse me?" Celestia raises an eyebrow, "what exactly is this "B8 Bergkri-s-t-a-ll." "Ummm... it's supposedly a secret military base of my nation where experimental technology is created and tested, " he chuckles, "and also, there is this conspiracy that says that it is also a prison for aliens where they open the aliens and do experiments with them." "W-what!" Celestia almost exclaims, "that is barbaric, you wouldn't do that, do you?" "If you ask me, I think that my government would not even hesitate to experiment on an alien." "Those actions are barbaric, we would never-" "Your royal highnesses," Amber Night begins as she bows at her presence, "it is a pleasure to have you here." "Ehhhh.... the pleasure is our doctor," Celestia says with a small smile on her muzzle. She nods with a smile. Her confidence falls a bit when she sees the alien. She clear her throat, "Commander Bismarck I-I pre-s-sume, my name is Amber Night, one of the leading scientists in your case." He simply nods, motioning for her to continue. Amber yelps before speaking again, "it is incredible the amount of stuff you brought here, our scientists are baffled," she smiles sheepishly, "next thing that we'd love to do is.... making.some.inoffensive.experiments.with.you." Peter's eyes widen, as he turns to look at Celestia, who is whistling innocently. He frowns, "you are part of this right?" "What me," she responds dramatically, "how could I've known..... that somepony was planning that..." "It's not a rhetorical question Princess, I don't want to die even if I think that I'm dead!" She chuckles innocently. Peter turns his head to look at the other mares who are whistling as well. He sighs, "ya' better not open me." Celestia stomps a hoof, "we shall never do something like that, the experiments they want to do are merely physical and psychological." He huffs, "I suppose that was expected," Peter begins to walk forward, ignoring the calls Amber was giving to him. He suddenly stops, his mouth immediately falls wide open. There it is, the gem of space exploration, the descent stage of the Ausdauer. "Now, please, follow me," Amber said while passing next to him. Twilight suddenly pokes Peter's leg, gaining his attention. "If I may ask.... why does it look like the upper part is missing," she taps her chin, "and what is the name of the contraption anyway." Several scientists stop working to listen to the answer from the astronaut. He sighs, "that is the descent stage of the landing module, the name of it as a whole is the Ausdauer, and you are correct, the upper part is missing, purposefully." "Why?" "It's- just," he shakes his head, "the whole lander cannot return to the command module, plus, the gravity of your planet is way too strong for it could take off as a whole." "So you created a system in which the upper body takes off by using the lower part as a base by combining fuel and gas through the vents of it, creating an explosion that can lift the upper part to the atmosphere by escaping gravity in mid-flight, leaving apart the need to use a rocket to take off in gravity that is similar to the one of your home planet." The whole place fell dead silent. Twilight shifts uncomfortably at the stares everyone is giving her, especially the one from her former mentor. Peter clears his throat while raising an eyebrow, "that- is.... actually very close to how it works." "The egghead left the alien silent," Rainbow Dash mumbles to Applejack, "that's one point for us, zero for the alien." A camera snap is heard, scientists and guards passing right next to them with confused faces. Celestia clears her throat, "doctor, we- we, would like to continue please." Amber begins to walk, "yeah-yeah, let's keep moving," she said awkwardly. Several tables surround the damaged lander, each one with a different instrument, for either analyzing or gathering information. Peter sighs, as he puts a hand on the ascent stage. Celestia tilts her head apologetically, a sense of sorrow gathers in her as well. "Long time, no see my faithful brother," Peter mumbles under his breath. He quickly begins to search for the lower hatch, "let's see if I can get your GPS." "What's that?!" "AHHHHHH!!" hitting the ground is not epic, "my goodness- gracious......" "Pinkie!" every single voice exclaims at the element of laughter. "Please, don't ever do that again," Peter says while standing up with the help of Rarity and Applejack. "Buuuuuuttttt what's a GPS, and how does it work???? could it be a localization device maybe, or maybe it is-" "Pinkie Pie, that's no way to surprise others!" She smiles sheepishly, "sorry mister alien!" His eyes dart between her and the lander, "yeah... don't worry," he turns to look the lander again, smiling afterwards. "Bingo!" "What's that-" Celetis asks, walking close to the human, "a kind of door?" "Exactly," he opens the hatch, startling almost everyone, "do you have tools?" "Tools?" Amber raises an eyebrow, "for what..." "I just need them okay," Peter replies sharply, "it's very important." She turns to see Celestia with a nervous face. The princess of the sun simply nods, "what class of tools." "What class of tools?" Peter's expression falls into a bored face, "I dunno, a screwdiver.....a wrench...a-a bradawl, you know, tools..." suddenly, his eyes turn into pinpricks, "please don't tell me you don't have those." She responds with hesitation, "we have them, we just didn't know what class of tools you aliens use, of course." He waits silently for his request to arrive. He looks at twilight amused at her excited face, "yo' princess of friendship." She tilts her head, "y-you are calling me?" He sniffs, "yeah, who else," one of the scientists arrives with the requested tools, who gives them to Peter with hesitation, "wanna come here and help me with this old thing." Her eyes turn into pinpricks, as a smile begins to crawl on her muzzle. "Uhhh Twilight?" "YES!!!" she quickly runs to the side of the astronaut, who begins to explain to her some little things about the lander. Silence elapses, everyone, confused. "Uhhh commander," Celestia begins, "Doctor Amber wanted you to explain some of the.... contraptions here." Peter stops, glancing tiredly, "I'm pretty occupied at this moment, why don't you try to figure it out." "What-" "Hey, a shiny button." "PINKIE NO!" too late, she pressed it. One of the machines suddenly starts its internal system. Green letters suddenly appear on the black screen. "What did she pressed?" Peter asks nonchalantly, still focused on Twilight who didn't even notice the scream, "pray to God for it not to explode!" "WHAT!" everyone shouts in unison, as Fluttershy and Rarity immediately hide with some scientists behind some shiny bags. Peter begins to laugh, "gotcha ya'" "AGAIN COMMANDER!" Celestia suddenly exclaims, an attitude strange on her. When she sees the stares, she backs off from the ship, clearing her throat, "I-I, can't believe that I was just manipulated by an alien." "Haven't you ever- AHHH!" "That was not funny" She sighs, as her attention changes to the screen. Orion Betriebssystem® Urheberrecht 2002-2033 Union Raumfahrtindustrie Berlin, Deutsches Kaiserreich Server 6 MES------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Forschungszentrum XCOM 95 TP-51 Kohlendioxid TP-52 Kohlendioxid TP-53 Kohlendioxid TP-54 Stickstoff TP-55 Stickstoff TP-56 Schwefel TP-57 Schwefel Bitte warten..... -Protokoll beenden- Nothing, anyone these manuscripts are just random and make no sense or logic whatsoever as there is no spell over the machines, and because Luna couldn't come this time, it was harder to employ in every single device. "What's all this stuff?" Rainbow Dash asks with suspicion, beginning to walk around the tables. It looks like a library, only that its contents are different contraptions made of metal or shiny material. She takes one of them, trying to find a use to it. "If I were ya' I wouldn't be touching those," Applejacks said harshly. Rainbow snorts, "I'm not a foal okay, and thanks to Celestia that you aren't me." They all glance back at Celestia, who is discussing something with the leading scientists of the place. After some moments of hesitation, she quickly puts the book in her saddlebag, sighing afterwards, "not doing anything here." Fluttershy separates from the group to another section, where the 'recognizable' things were located, like... "Books?" she tilts her head, "Twilight would like to see this." They all have letters and symbols on them. Fluttershy stops at the golden cover of one of them, its art and presentation are beautiful, it almost seems like if it was washed in pure gold. Osmanlı Kültür ve Din İdaresi------Ottoman Culture and Religion Administration She gives one more step forwards, tilting her head at the other book. It seems very simplistic, its design doesn't highlight anything, only a jet black cover. But it is the symbol that catches Flutershy's attention, being a weird cross, the lower part longer than the upper one. Preußische Union der Kirchen------Prussian Union of Churches "Maybe a medical book," she mumbles, cleaning the dust off the book with a single blow. It seems roguish and stiff. Twilight quickly explores many pages of it, landing on the last one which has, "a map......" "Fluttershy are you there?" the voice of Rarity comes from behind. She quickly drops the two books in her saddlebag, resuming to walk while whistling. "Yes, I'm here," she deflates a bit. It is wrong what she is doing, but considering that it could be a medical one, she could learn human biology and even maybe the ones of the animals from his world. "Did you find something of our interest," Rarity said with hesitation. Fluttershy immediately halts herself, turning to look at her former mentor with a sheepish smile. "There seem to be books of their race," she begins, straightening herself, "why would the commander bring them?" Rarity's ears press against her head, "well if he wasn't so.... ummm roguish, he could perhaps give us more information." RRK-FREIHEIT "WHOA!" The two ran back to the area where the rest of them are. Twilight seems to be helping the human with something in his ship. Another screen is displaying what they call "videos." "Commander, could you at least give us the purpose of this one," Amber asks exasperated, "you have... two welcoming devices?" He stops, turning to look at what they were exactly doing. His eyes narrow before he simply shrugs again, "entertainment, and no, that is supposed to be for us." "I GOT IT!" Twilight shouts, exiting the engine room with a small card on her aura. Peter's smile widens, as he quickly takes it and presses it against his chest. "My ticket home...." "What?" Celestia questioned, she could swear that... "Nothing," Peter quickly stands up again, clapping his hands, gaining the attention of everyone in the process, "all right, now that I'm free," he puts the card in one of his pockets, "what needs explanation." Several hoofs were raised, by every single scientist in the room. He sighs, "have you at least resolved one of them?" "Well," a new voice begins, belonging to a grey earth pony, "your alien engineering is certainly interesting, but difficult to unlock." "And who may you be?" "Oh," the pony tilts his head, "let me present myself, I'm Stride Noon, the minister of the science and technology department of Equestria." He nods, "I suppose that-" "Commander Bismarck of course," the pony steps forwards, "what I would like to know about the 'lander' as you call it." Peter frowns, "I-I don't think I can do that, in the first place, the engines are pretty damaged, and I'm not exactly the guy you should as these things," he taps his chin, "I know the technical and structural part of the system engineering inside of it, aaand that is classified information under the German imperial government." "But-" "So let's start with another thing."