//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: Questions and Unheard Answers // Story: The Rise of Cooper // by God_RC-626 //------------------------------// Chapter 2: Questions and Unheard Answers Luna immediately began forming the teleportation spell to get to her big sister's room as fast as possible. With a burst of light, she was in Princess Celestia's sleeping chamber. Luna shook her sister vigorously, causing Celestia to push Luna off of her with excessive force in the shock. “WHO DARES TO AWAKEN ME LIKE THIS!!” Celestia shouted with her Royal Canterlot Voice. “Ow... That really hurt Tia...” Luna grumbled as she got up off the floor. “Luna!?! Oh my, I'm sorry. Why did you wake me up at this hour?” “Oh, right! Your not going to believe this, but there is a... Human... on my bedroom floor,” Luna said with a nervous smile. Celestia stared at her sister with disbelief. “That's not possible Luna, no human has been on Equestrian soil in centuries. I hope that this isn't just one of your pranks, you know nopony ever wakes me up without a valid reason,” Celestia said with a serious face. “Oh, trust me, this isn't a prank. You know as well as I do that humans aren't a joking matter. But lets hurry! He might be awake by now, and there is no telling what he will do,” Luna said as she charges up the teleportation spell again. And with another burst of light, both of the regal sisters were back in Luna's demolished room. Luna immediately fixated her eyes where the still unconscious human lies. It only took a few moments for Celestia to find him as well. “What happened here?” asked Celestia. She sat down on a cushion as Luna filled in the details of what occurred. Of course she left out the part about asking for something like this to happen, but the rest of it was just like it had happened. Luna took a quick glance over to the human. He had begun to move. “Oh, my akin' head...” grumbled the human. “Did someone get the number of that nuke that hit me?” He sat up slowly and began to rub his face. He lazily opened his eyes and began to look around. A large room, torn up floor, hole in the outside wall, cracks in the wall behind me, a bed, several dressers... His train of thought was cut short by a large white horse like creature when it spoke. “This can't be real...” Celestia whispered. “Hmm?” the human hummed as he twisted his head towards the source. “Who or what just spoke?” Celestia wiped the look of fear off of her face and looked at the human with another serious look. “It was I who spoke. Who are you and what business do you have here?” “Oooh, this is interesting! A sentient life-form that I haven't encountered yet,” the human said with a chipper tone. “This is going to be fun!” “Do not avoid the question human! Who are you and what business do you have here!” Celestia shouted with obvious annoyance. “Who, me? Oh I have many names. Hellfire, Cooper, and Todd are just a few. But if your going to call me anything, call me Cooper,” said Cooper, with his right hand formed into a finger handgun pointing up. “Now here's a question for you: Who are you and your friend there?” Celestia sighed, “I am Princess Celestia of Equestria, and this is my sister, Princess Luna.” Before she could ask him again about what business he had in Equestria, he put on a bright smile and bowed. “My apologies, I had no idea that I was around royalty. So to answer your question, my business here is simply to learn everything there is to learn.” “I'm afraid that I cannot allow you to be here in Equestria. Your kind hasn't been here in centuries, and for a good reason as well. Goodbye Cooper,” said Celestia as she began to prepare a return spell. Cooper stared at the alicorn's horn as the golden aura surrounded it. He blinked, and he saw a series of spell variables floating around the horn. Time seemed to slow down for Cooper as he read the spell variables, revealing a simple return spell. But there was a problem with the variables; he realized as soon as he would be hit by the spell, it would hurt like a bitch. Time resumed the normal speed as Celestia released the spell on Cooper. He whispered something incoherently as the spell bounced off him and onto a plant on the other side of the room. The plant disappeared to who knows where, and Celestia looked at him in disbelief. She charged up the spell again and released. Again Cooper whispered something, but this time the spell did absolutely nothing when it hit him. Celestia now looks at him with anger and a fraction of fear. Cooper only smiled. “Hey now, you should really take a look at your spell variables before you launch them at someone. Do you realize that if that were to hit me, I would be lying on the ground screaming in pain when I land back on my home world? I'm sorry but I can't leave this planet yet. I haven't even begun to learn the basics of this world. So, if you'll excuse me I will be finding something to learn from,” Cooper said as he spun around on one heel towards the door. Celestia was grinding her teeth from the frustrating creature in front of her. Never had there been anypony that could just deflect her spells like they where nothing at all. She charged the spell one more time and released at the human with his back turned. It struck him and he disappeared instantly. Celestia let out a breath and felt her calm down considerably without the human in her presence. Celestia was just about to speak to her sister when the area where the human was began to fill with a black hurricane and a huge explosion of white light and thunder. When both of the sisters regained their sight, the human was standing there with his arms crossed and tapping his foot on the ground. “What did I just tell you? I can't leave here, and that if I were to get hit by that spell I would be in great pain. And what did you just do? You used that spell on me! If I wasn't so resistant to pain I would still be on the ground back home screaming,” exclaimed Cooper. “What's the big deal with me being here? Why is it so important for me to be gone, huh?” Celestia sighed in defeat. “Humans had once existed in Equestria, they advanced so quickly in technology. They shared their knowledge and technology with us for the longest time. But the humans had a very short temper, and thus began to fight each other and all that was around them. Their weapons started out with simple swords and spears, but they quickly began to create weapons like guns that could kill at long distances. They began to wipe each other off the face of Equestria. My sister and I had to stop the humans from taking the lives of ponies, gryphons, otters, and zebras alike just because they felt like it. Both of us and many of the Royal Guard began to erase the very existence of humans from Equestria. Not a single human had survived our attacks, and we thought that we could live in peace again now that we don't have to worry about the humans killing anypony. You have to understand that we don't want a repeat of the past now that we have a time of great peace. I just got my sister back just a few months ago and I don't want her or I to worry about a threat as great as a human to be here again...” Cooper raised his hand, as he had heard enough. He took a deep breath. “I can see why you would be worried with my arrival, but you don't know me. I'm not the kind of guy that just goes out looking for a fight. I am a defensive fighter at the most. But that's besides the point, I can't leave this planet just yet. I have specific instructions that if I where to find a planet with life, I must stay there until I have learned everything that I can before I leave.” Luna stepped forward and said, “Can you teleport again?” “Huh? Sure, I guess...” Cooper said with a questioning gaze. He then whispered something as he vanished and a black hurricane formed a few feet away and with a flash of light he was there. “That's what I saw when that box crashed through my wall!” Luna exclaimed. “Really? The only two people that can do this kind of teleportation is me and... never mind. That's not important right now.” “You and who?” “Again, not important. He shouldn't be able to find me here. And you said something about a box?” “Yes, a small metal box fell out of the sky, crashed through my wall, and wrecked my room. There was a flashing yellow orange light that I hit moments before it exploding into you.” Cooper thought to himself for a moment. Hmm... Could he have changed me into my compact form to try and get rid of me? That doesn't sound like him though. He would have torn my body apart and thrown them all across the multiverse... Maybe I changed myself? ...No, I would have a memory record of that. So what the hell happened? Luna stared at the human. There was something about him that seems... different from the other humans she knew. It wasn't the hair style, nor was it the kind of clothing he's wearing, it was something about how he acts. That's whats different. There was also something else that she feels that is different about the human. He has somewhat of an aura of power about him. But humans can't use magic..... can they? She shook her head, and looked back at her sister. Celestia is too busy glaring at the human to even notice that Luna was thinking about him. Cooper looked directly at Celestia. “I want no quarrel with you. As I have stated earlier, I am here only to learn. Will you allow me to do this?” Celestia was a little shocked that he would actually ask permission. Before he proved that he can't be sent back, so does this mean that he has respect for royalty? “Yes, but we will have to go over terms for an agreement.” “That's fine with me. As long as I learn, I'll be happy.” ----------------------------------------A few hours of Bargaining later------------------------------------------------------- “Do you agree to these terms Cooper?” asked Celestia. “I do, and I will be leaving for this 'Ponyville' in one week's time. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to find myself a bed. From what I can tell, it's about 2 in the morning and I could use some rest. Good night princesses.” “Shadow Wing will show you to your room,” added Luna. “Thanks.” Cooper opened Luna's bedroom door to see a Night Guard standing there waiting. “I assume you are Shadow Wing?” “I am, now follow me creature.” Cooper raised an eyebrow. Creature huh? Look who's talkin'. A fucking pony with bat wings, now THAT'S a creature. They walked down 37 corridors, down 3 flights of stairs, through 6 doors, and they finally reached their final destination: His temporary room. Shadow Wing took guard of his door so that he doesn't try something stupid during the night. The room was fairly large, but very bland. Not really enough to talk about. Just a bed, a dresser, and a mirror. There was a single window that was on the right side of the bed. Cooper took a deep breath and his chest opened up and released a small metallic orb. The orb flew out of the window and up into the air. “I'll check the connection tomorrow. For now, I'm goin' to bed.” murmured Cooper. In ten seconds flat, he was out like a lamp.