Flying through the air, Celestia headed towards the Ponyville hospital. She didn’t want to alert the ponies with unnecessary fear, but she still needed to see just what had happened. If she read the letter correctly, this ‘Antinomy’ creature was completely unknown to equestria, and he had powers that were, from how Twilight described it, similar to the ancient dark magic of king Sombra. The mere memory of him sent shivers down her spine.
Landing in front of the white and red building. While her outside appearance didn’t show it, she was nervous as Tartarus on the inside. A never before seen creature appearing in equestria? In all her many years of life she had only seen this once before and that was when the first hippogriff was born. When she walked through the front door, all the ponies stood bewildered as Celestia continued to the front desk.
“Are the visitation hours still open?” Celestia inquired,
“Y-yes of course, your majesty.” The mare at the front desk said, “Who are you looking for?”
“I believe Twilight said his name was ‘Antinomy’.”
The mare pulled out a clipboard that had a name sorting enchant. She didn’t have to look for his name for very long as it was conveniently placed at the top.
“He should be in room 3 of the misc. wing of the hospital.”
“Thank you.” Celestia said as she trotted off to the miscellaneous wing
Despite this hospital wing being needed for the rarer cases of other creatures that got injured in Ponyville, she honestly hated how they named it. She feared the newcomer would think that it was meant as a derogatory term. Celestia was so lost in thought that she almost walked past the small misc. wing.
She stopped by the door and opened it, inside the room were the bearers of harmony all sitting around a bed with a blue haired creature on it. The six pony turned to Celestia when she arrived, they all bowed to her not wanting to offend her. Celestia was in fact stunned by the odd looking creature. Most ponies would have assumed that he was a scaleless, pre-molted dragon, but she knew better.
The creature that stood before her was a human, a creature that was extinct for so long that they were believed to only be a legend. The only reason why they were believed to be a legend was that around the 100 year anniversary of Celestia and Luna’s rule over equestria, they all disappeared without a trace. There was no violence, no bloodshed, just gone. It was a mystery she had given up on solving many years ago.
“Princess! Thank goodness you're here” Twilight said, “we found him in the everfree forest, I’ve checked all the books in the library for anything close to his species. The closest thing I could find was a-“
“He’s a human.” Celestia cut her student off, “It has been several thousand years since the last time I saw one, but I know one when I see one.”
“A human?” Twilight was in shock, “you mean those creatures from ancient legends? But that would also explain why the doctor’s healing magic had little effect.”
“Yes it would, but would you mind also filling me in on his condition?”
“Oh, right, that’s why you’re here.” Twilight stuttered trying to regain her thoughts, “the doctors said he more than likely has a few broken bones, but it was rather hard for them to get a good X-ray because of some metal implants he has.”
“Implants?”
“They’re cybernetics, they're designed to enhance reaction time and my physical functions.”
Celestia looked towards the human who gave her his answer. She was surprised how fast he awoke, it was only but a moment ago that he seemed completely unconscious but not he was sitting up staring at her with his grey eyes. They were focused, completely unwavering. He wasn’t just looking at her, but rather he seemed to be trying to see if he knew her from somewhere.
Lowering his head, the human brought his hand to his mouth as he began to think. Celestia noticed his odd blue hair, normally it wasn’t a rare color for a pony’s mane, but if she recalled correctly, it was exceptionally rare for humans. Celestia was perplexed at how he even got here, unless there was an uncounted factor that she was forgetting, but there wasn’t one. At least not for her.
“...Could this be what he was talking about?” Celestia heard him say, “but then… and how can these equines even talk. No, that is a different question… I need… No, that can’t be right…”
“Hey egghead!” Rainbow shouted at him, “Stop mumbling, you’re in the presence of royalty!”
The human was startled after hearing that, it was an over the top comedic startled, but more of a swift head turn to see what he had heard. He looked at the blue pegasus with an incredulous gaze, he wasn’t at her with curiosity at her statement but rather he was intrigued at her physiology. He nodded his head, affirming a question he had, before he went right back to his thoughts.
“Rainbow,” Celestia said, “I believe it would be best if you’d all let me handle this, it would be in all of our best interests if just the human and I would be left alone to talk.”
“Are you sure of this princess?” Twilight asked, “This human could be different from the ones you’ve met.”
“I’m quite sure, my little ponies.” Celestia said, “But if I need your assistance I’ll come and ask for it.”
The six bearers of harmony left the room as Celestia’s magic closed the door behind them. She returned to the side of the bed where he was still left in his thoughts. He was either completely oblivious or entirely aware that they were left in the room alone with her, but either way she must know the truth.
“My name is Princess Celestia, I am one of the two co-rulers of this land. What is your name?”
“My name is Antinomy,” He said, “And I was a mechanic.”
“Well it is a pleasure to meet you, Antinomy.” Celestia said, “I am hoping you wouldn’t mind me asking you a few questions.”
“Go ahead,” Antinomy replied, “Hopefully I can get some answers too.”
“I see. So first off, do you know where you are?” Celestia asked, Antinomy shook his head, “You are in equestria. A land of Friendship and magic.”
“Magic? I do not believe in such things as magic.” Antinomy said,
“Then perhaps maybe you’d like to reconsider what you believe in.” Celestia illuminated her horn and levitated a clipboard towards him.
Eyeing it incredulously, Antinomy grabbed the clipboard and flipped through its contents. He was so surprised that he could only utter one word. “How?”
“Unless you have studied the inner workings of pony anatomy and magic, then it would be hard to explain how on a simpler level.” Celestia said, “But there is something I must ask as well. How did you summon a werewolf?”
“A werewolf? Oh, you must mean warwolf.” Antinomy said, “But as of how, I am unsure. I usually need the assistance of a duel disk or D-wheeler.”
“Do you think you could recreate it?” Celestia asked,
“All I can promise is that I can try.” Antinomy said, as he took his deck out of his concealed pocket. Drawing the top card, he took a look at it and saw that it was safe to summon. “Go, Tech Genus Cyber Magician.”
The card in his hand began to glow bright yellow before it shot out beams of light from its picture. As quick as the light arrived, it faded back down to visible levels, breaking out of a white veil Cyber Magician was successfully summoned. Celestia looked down at the little monster, it was not much shorter than Twilight. She found it rather cute to look at rather than menacing. It seemed perplexed her as much as it did Antinomy.
“This is really interesting.” he said, “Come back Cyber Magician.”
And just like that, Cyber magician turned into bright yellow specs and went back into the card.
“I haven’t seen anything like this before in my life.” Celestia said, “It is really surprising that you can summon and unsummon such creatures at will. Even the strongest dark magic users had trouble sending their monsters back to the pits of tartarus.”
“I don’t have dark magic. Where I come from magic is nothing more than a myth, or even a fable.” Antinomy said, “This is going to be researched further.”
Eventually they continued into friendly conversation, talking about family and close friends. Celestia felt Antinomy start warming up to her, where there was once a calm and stoic face, it was replaced with a much more friendly one. While Bruno was trying to be as friendly and cooperative as possible, he was careful of what he said. As what kind of future he was needing to prevent was unknown to him, he could only assume that knowledge of it getting out could damage the future.
“Antinomy, I have a request.”
“What is it, princess?”
“When you are well, could you come to Canterlot?” Celestia said, “Your talents could be quite useful to equestria as a whole, and I have a feeling both you and Luna will get along just fine.”