After Celestia’s startling discovery they all looked at the foal with worry, fear, and in rainbows case, aggression. They didn’t know what to do or think. Could this foal be an agent of the god of chaos and bring about his return, or was he just an innocent bystander that was brought into the world on a whim of discords? After staring at the foal in thought for about a minute they all turned to each other and huddled around to think of what to do.
Not knowing who or what discord was and what the others were going to do, the foal did the only thing he could think of…lie down on his back and cross his arms…forelegs? In thought.
‘Ok, what the fucks going on now? I’ve already flipped out twice today and can’t be arsed doing it again. I know, once when i first got here and once during that fucking painful operation. Seriously what the hell were they thinking not putting me under like that? First chance I get I’m going to rip their fucking throats out and then I’m going to…. I should really learn to stop my thoughts from jumping all over the place on their own; seriously, that was fucking creepy.
Now that that that’s out of the way I can try and continue my thoughts without them trying to jump all over the place like usual…I seriously should have told my psychiatrist about that before I stopped needing to go to him. Oh well, schizophrenia, thy name is…..god dammit, I’m gunna kill that cunt discord if I ever see it.
Now let’s see what I’ve got to work with here. World full of magic, that’s a huge plus, stuck as a mutant pony, huge negative, I’ve got as much magic as this discord thing……don’t know how much magic that is so file that away till later. May be able to learn magic if I get them to teach me, huge plus, no technology meaning no pc, ps3, Xbox or internet and I’m quite possibly trapped here away from humanity… that last parts kind of ok but no technology. I have a feeling I’m going to become even more unstable being here before too long.
And how the fuck did they know what a human is? I have a bad feeling about this. You know what, fuck it; I’ll work this out later. I’ll just listen to some music in my head till I can calm down and think straight……think as straight as I usually do. Why can I never control my thoughts?’
As his thoughts finally stopped for long enough for him to find and song in his head and listen to it, all the other ponies in the room were continuing to talk to one another but every so often they would look back at the foal that was now lying on his back with his legs crossed, eyes closed and humming something.
Celestia wanted to know what he was thinking so she cast the mind reading spell again, but this time she focused on his thoughts, not his memories. When the spell activated she was hit with what could only be described as a beautiful voice, probably one of a young foal, singing in a language she didn’t understand. It was very beautiful Celestia thought, even if she didn’t understand what they were singing. A small smile escaped her lips for only a fraction of a second till she quickly put back on her neutral face.
The only one who seemed to notice was Luna. Luna wondered what would bring a smile to “Tia’s” face in a situation like this. She did the only thing she could think of, and performed the same spell as Celestia but instead of listening in to whatever the foal was thinking in her own head, she made it appear to come out of nowhere for all in the room to hear.
All the ponies in the room stopped talking and turned to look at the foal lying down with a small smile on his face. They all but couldn’t help but smile, even Spike who had only recently woken up during their bickering couldn’t help but smile. The foal was confused when the music started playing in his ears instead of his head, but when he opened his eyes and looked at Celestia and Luna and saw their horns glowing, he assumed they were performing some sort of spell or whatever and decided to just enjoy it. When he stopped playing the music in his head, the music in his ears didn’t stop so he assumed it was the spell taking the song from his memories or “some bullshit like that”.
After the song had ended Celestia and Luna stopped their spells and continued to stare at the foal. The foal was kind of annoyed as he had planned on thinking of another song to play (if the spell worked like that) that he would have found hilarious to see the reactions on their faces when they heard it. After a few seconds passed Celestia and Luna looked to each other and nodded. Celestia turned to her student and asked her if she and Luna could borrow some scrolls, 2 inkwells and quills. When Twilight agreed but asked why Celestia only answered.
“We need to contact the rulers of each race on Equis to determine what to do with the foal.”
Celestia gathered the materials needed and walked with Luna into the kitchen and shut the door. Twilight could feel the tell-tale signs of a silence spell and barrier spell being placed around the kitchen so nopony could see or hear what was going on in the kitchen. There was more to this than Celestia was letting on but Twilight trusted her mentor and long-time friend more than anyone could begin to describe.
After Celestia and Luna had sent the letters to their destinations Luna went to leave the kitchen to re-join the others but was stopped by Celestia.
“Lulu, we need to talk about Twilight. As I’m sure you can tell from the power emanating from her now she is already a medium level 9. You know what’s going to happen as well as I do.”
“Yes sister, I do. Is the same thing that happened to Starswirl and the others going to happen to her as well?”
“I don’t know Lulu. Her magic is still regenerating and at the rate it’s recovering I have a feeling she’ll stop at being a high level 9 close to 10 before her magic has regenerated completely. We both know what happens when a pony reaches level 9, but with the others, they slowly reached mid-level 9 just before…… but Twilight, she had high level 7 strength while that device was stealing most of her magic, but now though…
Now that it’s not and her magic is growing stronger it’s bound to start happening in the next few years. With her magic as it is now and how long she’ll potentially have till the process starts she may reach level 10. I don’t want Twilight to die like the others. Do you think we should tell her Lulu?” tears were starting to form in the immortal goddesses eyes.
“No, no I don’t. I think we should wait until the signs start appearing before we let her know. It’s best not to let her worry years before it begins. You know what she’s like, she’ll panic and panic and try and find a way around it and work herself to death trying to stop it. You know she would think she was betraying you should she become like us.”
“You’re right Lulu, you’re right. I just hope she survives, I really do.”
“Don’t worry Tia; we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. But for now, I think we should address the situation of having an upset human that’s been pulled out of his own world, changed into something that in their eyes is an animal, given magic as strong as Discords and had to suffer being operated on whilst conscious. What do you think he’s going to do?”
“I don’t know Lulu, I just don’t know. His mind works differently to other ponies so when I was in there I couldn’t make out much about him. I don’t know how he’ll react to the meeting with the other races. I can’t imagine what it’s like having to be put through all he’s been through. Then have all this happen to him to then be told that he’s a threat to our planet and that his fate will be decided by a bunch of strangers. I don’t think he will take too kindly to it though, that much I do know.
We will just have to see how he’ll react to the news. I pray that he doesn’t become violent though, it would be hard trying to stop him with such a large amount of magic. And you know as well as I do that with his magic being so powerful….”
Luna paused as she looked at her sister more resolutely. “I do not like the way any fight with him could end.”
“Well Luna, let’s go and face the music, so to speak. I don’t think we should keep them waiting for long lest they start to question us for taking so long.” Luna smiled at her sister’s rather crude joke and turned towards the door to leave with her sister. “Oh and before I forget, well done for not slipping into old equestrian.”
And with that being said and Luna blushing they removed their spells from the room and promptly re-joined the others who were questioning the foal on what humans were like and what his world was like.
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A few minutes earlier….
“So what was that song called? It was rather beautiful.” Asked Rarity with a smile on her face along with smiles from the other 6.
“Yeh, what was it? I don’t usually like songs like that but it was rather cool.” Stated Rainbow Dash after Rarity asked. All the others looked at her increduously for what she just said.
“The song is called Ave Maria, I can’t remember who it’s by as I downloaded it from the internet ages ago.” Said the foal while he was still lying on his back with his legs crossed.
The 6 ponies plus Dragon looked at the foal confused for a while before Twilight asked the questions they were all thinking.
“What does downloaded mean? And what’s the internet?” The foal stared at her for a few seconds before sighing. This was going to be annoying trying to explain technology to these ponies.
“Downloaded means taking a copy of something from somewhere which in most cases is the internet. The internet is like…like a giant library where anyone with a computer or device with networking capabilities is able to connect to and upload, which means to add something, whatever they want and whenever they want. The internet is only limited by a person’s imagination”
‘And nearly every fucking government’ he thought bitterly.
“The internet is basically limitless and has all sorts of things on it such as games, music, videos, dating sites, information on nearly anything and lots of other things. Anyone anywhere in the world can put things on there and can download nearly anything.”
Twilight was foaming at the mouth, a limitless library with information from all over the world which can only keep increasing in size. It was almost too much for her to bear, if only she could visit the human world to see it but there were a few things stopping her from attempting to go there; Murder was one of them.
The other 6 could definitely make good Venus fly traps with the way they were staring open mouthed looking at the foal. It wasn’t until a good minute later when spike decided to ask 2 questions which only he for some reason thought of.
“What’s a computer and what’s a video?” this brought everyone out of their stupor and look towards the foal with a look that he couldn’t quite figure out except for the one on Twilight which was an unrestrained look of pure joy.
“A computer is an electronic device which is designed to perform actions and calculations and while it is able to think it is not in any way shape or form alive and cannot think for itself. They are designed to perform tasks and allow access to things like games, music, videos, document making, database creations and lots and lots of other uses. A computer is only limited by the user and the technology available at the time. We have computers running nearly everything so you can kind of imagine how useful they are.
As for what a video is….. Do you have movies….Motion pictures here?” asked the foal. He looked around at the others and just barely noticed the glow coming from where the princesses went to had just disappeared. When Spike nodded at the foal’s question, he continued.
“Well, a video is a motion picture, only they can come with sound or not at all depending on who created it.”
After maybe 2 minutes of silent staring the foal got tired and decided to take the initiative so he asked them if there was anything else they would like to know about humans and their technology. Surprisingly it was Fluttershy that stuck her hoof up and asked him a question.
“What are humans like… that is….if you don’t mind me asking?” She said whilst trying to make herself look small. With a sigh and some silent resignation the foal decided that this long question should be answered even if none of them were going to like what he had to say.
“Well that’s a very difficult question to answer. There are roughly 7 billion humans and each one is different to the other” the thought of 7 billion on one planet was unbelievable to them but none of them got the chance to ask since he didn’t stop talking. None of them even noticed the princesses come back in either.
“Well I suppose I could talk about the different countries, cultures and sub cultures that exist and such. Now then, where to start?” and like that the foal started to talk about humanity in general and answering any questions the ponies and dragon had as best as he could.
AN: as always thanks platinum2094 for proof reading, editing and giving your ideas. as to you few loyal readers of this story and those random passer bye's let us know if anything needs changing. thank you to all my readers for reading my first peice of fiction ever. thanks all my viewers and thanks again platinum2094, i look forward to even more of your input and help on this story. see you in the next chapter guys.