//------------------------------// // The plot thickens // Story: A scientist in equestria // by Specter Atomis //------------------------------// Ponyville, Books and Branches Library, 0841(8:41) It was a nice day in Ponyville, the sun was as bright as ever, only a few clouds blocked the rays of light. Specter had gotten up much earlier than normal, just for two reasons. He had been slaving away, carrying buckets of sand to the library basement, untill he had a small mountain." Hey Spec, what are you gunna do with all this sand anywase? I mean, you've been gathering a bunch in only a few minutes!" Spike said, just thinking of more ways he could prove Specter was a loon. Specter wiped the sweat from his forehed, and then went back upstairs, where Twilight was getting a few things ready for the spell she was going to cast." So, that the stuff your gunna use to make the seed?" Specter asked, since he was waiting for the seed to help with the project. She placed the last thing she needed on the table that the rest of the things were located," Yes, i need these for the atoms I require to make the seed. I've memorised all the elements and such by heart, so i should be good." Twilight said, with a cocky grin. She was realy looking forward to seeing if she could even preform the spell, seeing as how she had never created a new mineral, or element for that matter." I'll need you two to be quiet, i need full consentration if im gunna do this right, and not blow something up." she said, looking at Specter. She closed her eyes, and began to encompass her horn in magic essence, the same thing that was stored in Specters amulet. The items on the table where then surrounded by the same glow, and were levitated above the table, slowly begining to circle Twilight. The glow around Twilights horn intensified, meaning that she kicked it up a nothch with her magic, trying her hardest to get the atoms out of the objects that surrounded her. They sat there for a good few minutes as she was making progress taking the atoms required out, and discarding of the remainder. When all was said and done, Twilight still had the biggest problem left, getting the atoms to bond in the right pattern. She slowly began to peice together the atoms, conecting them together, intertwining the valence electrons in each. When she had fineshed connecting the elemens, she cast one last spell, just to be sure they stuck together, and created a blinding white light in the process. When the three had gotten there sense of sight back, Twilight levitated a small test tube, and jently placed the seed at the bottom, which was near imposible to see with the naked eye. she levitated the tube over to Specter, who took it from the air, and placed it on his belt, which had small pouched for tubes."I've held my side of the bargen, i hope you'll do the same." she said with a cocky grin." Dont worry, when the books finished, you'll get the first copy. Hey, can i borrow spike for a second, if you dont need him, i need some help making a vital part of the computer." Spec said, looking over to Spike, who seemed more than happy to help. "Wellll, i guess he could help, just as long as he dosn't get hurt." Twilight said in a less then reasured voice to leave Spike in the hands of a mad stallion."I promise that he wont get more than a burnt or scratched scale! Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!" Specter said, makeing the corisponding hoof motions, and quicky hurrying down stairs with spike in tow. When he got down, he began to collect the sand into a melting pot that was also in the basement, and pegan to pour it in. When he fineshed that, he pulled out a strange object that was hidden by a tarp, and it was almost big enough to reach the cealing."Alright, i need you to get this sand to melt, when it's melted," he said, pulling off the tarp, revealing a monstrocity of a pully system," i'll need you to help me dip the seed into the molten goop, and hang it over there." he said, pointing at a makeshift metal cylender, which was about three and ahalf feet in diamiter, and had a hanger that matched the one that would hold the seed into the vat of molten sand. Spike was rather confused, dip the thing Twilight made into molten sand, hang it in a metal tube, and let the mad stallion work some magic on it, which sounded like a plan Pinkie would understand, but Spike was clueless. Spike stood on a stool, which was realy a pile of scrap metal, and took the biggest breath he could, and blew out a large, white-hot flame. The sand began to heat, turning into the equivilent of lava, while specter was just rubbing his hooves together in anticipation. When Spike was out of breath, about half of the sand was melted. He took one more deep breath, and repeated. After about five seconds of the fire stream, the rest of the sand was melted. Spike then hurried to the base of the monstocity that was a pully crane, and asked Specter what to do," Ok, im going to hang this seed on the top hook, im going to need you to lower it into the vat with this lever." he said, pointing to the lever, which was colored red. Spike waited at the side of the lever, waiting for the seed to be hooked. When Specter hooked the seed, spike began to lower the lever slowly. The pully crane was finnaly diped into the molten vat of sand," Alright, stop there, that should be good enough for the seed to work its magic." Specter said, as Spike put a wedge under the lever to keep it still." Soooo, now what?" Spike said," We wait for about half an hour for the seed to work its magic, in the meantime, we should work on fixing the main metal components of the computer." Specter said," and i'll need you for bending metal, and welding it together." he said, already collecting cob webs from the iner workings of the computer " Why are you saving the webs?" Spike asked, as Specter began collecting about a bucket full of the silk." Good questian! Im collecting the webs because of how tough they are when you combine them to form a thicker sheet, and they can be strong enough to stand a hydras bite!" Specter said, his voice teeming with enthusiasm. Spike decided not to question the logic of a mad stallion, and began collecting the webs and stuffing them in the bucket. After about four minutes, they were finished, and decided to see who could collect the most webs by the time the silicon was done forming around the seed. They began to run around, Spike with buckets, and Specter with his belt satchels and a bucket. They ran around for about another twenty-five minutes before every web in the basement, including the webs in the old machines, was collected. Spike had by-far beaten Specter, having had to dump his buckets twice to make room for the webs." I guess you win this one, but i'll be the victor next time!" Specter said with a grin, but panting like a dog after running a marithon. " Thats what you think, but i guess i should let an old timer win for once." Spike said with a cocky grin." HEY, im only thirty! That means im still not an old timer!" Specter said to Spike, and felt like snaping the little dragons neck. Specter looked at the clock on the wall near the base of the steps, and saw it was about time to remove the silicon." Hey Spike, we got some silicon to collect, man the lever." Specter commanded, as he began to climb to the end of the pully, and waited for spike to raise it. Spike waddled over to the lever, and began to push it up, which was much harder with the added weight of both specter and the silicon. As the hook began to raise, it revealed the large silicon crystal, which was the color black. When Spike lifted the lever as high as he could, he put a metal wedge into it, and saw Specter come down from the pully." Alright Spike, you can go now if you want, i can handel it from here." He said to Spike, who got out as soon as he could. Specter then began to push a horizantol lever, and made the pulley turn the towards the odd container. When he got it aligned with the capsole, he went over to another lever, and began to push it up, resulting in the pully system moving forward, and placing the crystal next to the hook. He began to make very small changes to get the pully hook latched onto the cylinder's hook. When he was sure it was secured, he began to crawl along the arm of the pully to unhook the pully, and leave the still in need of cooling sylicon crystal in the cylinder. When he felt the tension of the pully release, he returned to the levers, and moved everything away from the cylinder, and in its standby position, which ment that he just set it to be pointing up and touching the roof. Specter quickly rushed up to the library kitchen, and got lots of ice, and a fan. Quickly going down to the basement, he placed the ice in the buckets , which were now empty, and moved them near the cylender. He aimed the fan over the buckets and turnes it on, making a sort of imprompto cooler. He decided he would figure out how the fan worke later, he didn't realy want to hurt his head more thanit always hurt. He Went back upatairs, and saw Twilight and Spike giving him a few odd stares." Um, you mind explaining why you needed so much ice, adn my fan?" Twilight asked." Oh, i needed it to cool the silicon. it needs to be cool for me to use it." Specter said, as he began to walk to the little desk that he used to write his book, he got his book and translation out, and began to write the book, And spent a good few minutes writing, before he could feel breathing on his neck. He put his pencil down and looked at Twlight." Would it kill you to not look over my shoulder to see what im writing." He said in a monotone voice Twilight gave a sheepish grin and walked back to the couch she was sitting on earlier. Specter worked another five minutes before he felt the brathing on his neck. He put the pencil down a little harder and faster," If you you dont stop, i'll mind probe you, and nopony likes mind probes." he said, again, in a monotone yet serious voice. he didnt even have to look back to know that the quick scurrying of hooves was Twilight hurrying to the couch. He picked up the pencil, and continued to write, hoping to not be inturupted. He managed to write for another twenty minutes before something else inturupted him. The door to the library was opened by Applejack, and all the others folloed soon after, along with there pets. they all began to say hi , but Specter was trying to avoid the tortise that seemed to be trying to hit him on purpose. "Hey specter, what're you doing?" He heard Rainbow Dash voice ask.by now, he was royaly pissed that he couldn't even write for more then a few minutes before being interupted, but realy didnt want to be angry when there was more than a mare and a baby dragon around," Im translating this book to equestrian. Its about masonry and basic and complicated machines, like gyro copters." Specter said in a slightly peppy tone. "OH,OH, i have a gyro copter!" Pinkie said. Specter was infront of her in a second" You have a gyro copter? How did you get a gyro copter!?" Specter asked, realy just playing the dumb card, he knew all allong that she had a gyro copter, he just never knew how she got it. " I found a copy of that book, in equestian, while i was helping zecora gather some herbs for her potions!" Pinkie said, Hopping over to the desk with the book. Specter began togo threw the book to the pages that told how to build a gyro copter." See, it tells how to built the copter!" She said, pointing to the picture of a gyro copter. The rest of the ponyslooked over the page, mostly the picture aids for puting links and such in certain places." B-b-but how does that make sence? I haven't even finished the book yet!" Specter said, compleatly flabergasted that the book translation already existed. He grasped Pinkies head with his hooves," Where did you find it!?" Specter demanded to know. "Hmm, i was walking down along the forest, when i thought i heard a timber wolf. I was so scared that i heard it, i ran half way to appleloosa! But when i stoped, i decided to look around, seeing as how i never saw this side of the forest from Ponyville." She said, putting her left hoof on her chin, trying to remember some details "When i was in sight of the rambling rock ridge, i saw this thing not to far into the forest, it looked like a realy old building, but when i tried to get close, these weird things popped out of the ground. They were like realy fast shooting cannons, and when i tried to find the pony who was controlling them, i couldnt see anypony!" She said, while the entire group, even SPike, who had joined in half way through, was dead quiet, though Twilight was writing Pinkies tale down on a peice of parchment. "So she found a place defended by automatic turrets? Specter thought, letting Pinkie go finnaly." When i maneged to get past them, i saw a long hallway that went under ground, but the hallway was filled with, like, a million of those weird cannons, so i grabbed the nearest thing to me and ran, that thing just happend to be the book." Pinkie said, but specter was hardly paying attention anymore, he had gone to the shelf that was labled "A", and got an atlas. He quickly guessed where the ruins were, grabbing a spare peice of parchment and begining to copy the map down, and wrote an "X" were he guessed the ruins were." Spec, what are you doing?" Twilight asked him, looking over his shoulder at the map. Specter rolled up the paper and grined,"Planing a trip, what else would a mad stallion like me do?" he said, turning to the group."Now excuse me while i get some stuff done in the basement!"He said, zooming away and down the stairs. The girls put there ears against the door, trying to figure out what he was doing. They could here what sounded like a hammer hiting metal, when they heard it hit something abit more meaty." BAISE" they could hear specter say. "Oh my,i think he hit himself, and knowes some rather colerfull language" Rarity said in a whisper,"What did he say, what did he say!?" Pinkie asked in a loud whisper,"i dont think you should know." Rarity replied, before putting her ear against the door. For the longest time, they heard only the beating of metal, but soon could faintly hear the sound of wood being carved, again, only to hear the sound of a knife cutting something meaty."AHHHHHA, OH BORDEL DE MERDE!" they heard Specter say in pain, they all rushed down to see what happend." Spec is something wrong? What happend?" Twilight quickly asked as they hurried down the stairs They were greeted by the sight of Specter wrapping a bandage around his hoof very quickly, but Twilight didnt recall ever giving him any bandeges."And were did you get that bandage?"she asked, slowing down here pace.When he finished wraping his hoof, he turned to the group,which now included spike since he heard from his bead," What do you think i did with all those cobwebs me and spike collected?" he asked them, getting a look from Rarity showing how sick she felt upon hearing this. "I decided to try and compress it into semi thick sheets, and use it as back-up bandades. There actually really soft and cozy!"He said, rubing his hoof to make sure that the bandage was secure."Wait, so thats, spider webs? Why would anypony in the right mind ever evenget close to a web!?"Rarity asked, looking at how much of a cleaning this room needed, aswell as seeing the pile of web sheets that reached the ceiling. "Well incase you havent noticed,im not in the right mind. By the way, do you know were a good place to go mioning for gems is?" He asked, taking the pick to the rough metal head and began beating the rough edges into the holes in it, showing that it was ment to be rough,that way there was something to put in the holes to grip on, and showing how smoth it realy was. " Um,well, there is a small hilly area that i used to go to to get my gems, but i've stayed away from it as much as possible now that i know that theres a colony of diamand dogs under my very hooves whenever i go there," Rarity said,not to sure she should have told him." Perfict! I guess thats where ill go in the morning than, but i'll need to make some preperations," he said, looking towards the group," and i dont need youall down here for it,you know, to let me focus."He went to the mountain of sheets of cobwebs and began to pick a few out. Rarity was disgusted that he was using webs, but watched for a short time while the otheres went upstairss as Specter got a small needel and some spider silk thread and began to weave the sheets together, cutting off some of the silk to make it the perfict size. Having seen enough, she quickly went upstairs, but couldn't help but feel a little sorry for him." Poor stallion, having to make everthing from scraps, and hardly has a bit in his name,even forced to make things from cobwebs and make-shift tools. I do hope he dosnt do anything brash." She thought, taking one last glance at him before closing the door to the basement. ---------- seven hours later, same location The girls had stayed upstairs for a few minutes whenthey left specter to his weaving, and had left with their pets, saying that they were going for their weekly pet playdate. Inthe meen time, Specter had made two fairly strong, light, and big satchles to hold all of his gems, which he was going to collect. Even though he wanted to go mining right now, Specter knew better than to go out when the dogs were most likely to be out, so he decided to work on his book, and a reason that it already existed. He had thought that the one he was making was the onlyone, so it was quite a shock to findout that this is how Pinkie got her gyro copter. As he begsn to cross refrence the two books for accuracy, and found that they were near perfict copies. He set the book aside, and decided to work on the translation of the book he was making, only to feel breathing on his neck. He had given Twilight fair warning already, and knew she knew what he would do. With the speed of a cobra, he turned and faced her, looking into her eyes. Before she could look away, the blue apeared in Specters eyes, freezing her in place, the mind-probing was on. When Specter had probed her mind, he expected a hole lot of book smarts, but was suprised to see where it stoped being smarts, and began to be personal stuff about her freinds and family. He saw that she had once taken a look at the inside of the guard barracks, which was filled to the brim with armor, shields, crossbows, bows and arrows, and spears and swords. He saw when she had left to Ponyville, and could feel the sadness she felt when she was waving goodbye to her brother, how scared she was when she saw Nightmare Moon, And how she felt when she used the elements. Specter had decided to take a look at her spells to, how she used them, how they worked, and found that she knew the mind-probe spell too, and knew how to control it. He read as much of her mind there as he could and finnaly ended the mind-probe. When he shook the feeling of nausea he always got after the probe, he saw that Twilight was much more wobbly than he was by a mile. After a few minutes of Specter not caring and just working on his book, The quill was pulled from his hoof, and the stool he was on was spun around to face a very pissed off Twilight." Why the hay did you do that for!" she said, again, very clearly pissed off." I told you i would probe you if you kept looking over my shoulder, and thats what i did. He said, turning the stool to face the book, and grabing a new quill. Twilight was about to argue, but had rememberd what he said, giving her no choice but to just think of some way to get revenge. Specter just sat there writing for hours before he felt tired, and he never feels tired. He got up and headed down to the basement, but heard the door get knocked, he stoped at the door to the basement, and watched the scene of Twilight getting her pacage unfold, and stoped the door before it closed on the mail stallion."sorry bout her, she just realy wants to read that book." Specter said, grabbing the nearest quill, and putting his signature. The mail stallion said thanks and left, and Specter hurried down to his ;ab, and jumped right into the mountain of spider silk. He just layed there, staying awake for a little while, and began to think."Ok, so tomorrow is the seasen three ending, now who should i help? Mabey i should help keep Rainbow Dash, but then again, she is the one who Twilight and Spike help with. Mabey i should help Rarity? No, she's to much of a drama queen. Mabey i sho-" His thinking was cut-off when he saw a small amount of light coming from his medalian, and it soon began to spread. He paniced and threw the medalian, only for the light to latch onto him like a manticor's jaws on a fresh peice of meat. Before he could yell out for help, the light clamped his muzzle shut tight. It began to envelope his body in the light," Dam you deja vo!" He coudint help but think, seeing as how this reminded him of how he was turned into an Equine. The light was begining to squeez him, from the area of his mark to his brain. It squeezed him so much, he was begining to go into shock, slowly falling unconscious, untill he was finnaly out like a light. ---------- Same place, 0816(8:16) Specter was lying still as a stone on the ground, aching all over because of the squeezing that happend last night. He slowly began to come to when he could here the singing of a familier unicorn, and birds chirping. He began to inspect himself from mane to tail, and spotted no difference, exept mabey a few broken ribs, and the lack of a cutie mark. When he saw his mark was missing, he jumped to his hoves and gasped, but regreted the standing part when his entire body was filled with pain. He slowly began to test his limbs, moving and slowly shaking his hooves and neck. WHen he was sure he was fine he quickly grabed some spider silk and made a small imprompto shirt that coverd his now blank flank. he hurried outside and went to the bridge that Twilight and Rarity were on, and was nearly hit by a lightning bolt on the way there." I knew i should've learned how to fly![i/] he thought to himself. Twilight passed right by him, running to get Spike mostlikly. He cought up to her and kept pace, trying not to fall behind." Hey Twi, i think we have a rather big problem!" he said to her,"You think!?" She said in a bit of an adjitated voice. He was sure that she was just mad from last night. Specter waited outside when they got to the library, and hurried with them in the direction of Fluttershys cottage. ---------- Fluttershys cottage, 0850(8:50) Spike had finnaly been convinced to get out of bed and help Twilight and Specter, but was dog tired."i still dont know what you guys had to wake me up for. I love sleeping in the rain." Spike said, hopeing that he could go back to bed soon."Its not about the weather spike. Rarity had Rainbow Dash's cutie mark and said this was Rainbow dash's cottage! Something strange is going on." Twilight said in return. She knocked on the door, and listened for the sound of hooves among the loud noise from the inside of the cottage. The door opend rather soon after she knocked, revealing a rather woried looking Rainbow Dash."H-hey guys." Rainbow Dash said," Rainbow Dash, why is Rarity doing your job?" Twilight asked her. A loud-ish crash eminated from the inside of the cottage. Upon hearing it, Rainbow Dash sped back inside, leaving the door wife open." And what in Equestria is going on in..here?" Shesaid, opening the door with magic, only to see a scene of chaos. Animals were Ruining everything in the house, and wern't to happy either." these animals wont listen, no not one little bit!" Dash said, begining the small song that all the other elements would sing, and putting gummy in a cage." They run around, out of control, and throw there hissy fits." She continued, looking towards a cat that was scrapping its claws on a curtain. "its up to me to stop them, cause plainly you can see! Its got to be my destiny," she sang while chasing a bird, but wound up slamming muzzle first into a mouse hole." and its what my cutie mark is telling me." She fineshed, showing her cutie mark to be the same as fluttershys. All three of the group, Spike, Specter, and Twilight, looked towards eachother, clearly thinking the same thing. ---------- SUgercube Corner,0915(9:15) The group had decided to go to Sugercube Corner, hopeing that everything was fine there. When they got inside, they saw Fluttershy rather than Pinkie trying to entertain several ponies, including Vynal Scratch." i try to keep them laughing, put a smile upon there face. Fluttershy started, tossing the deflated balloon and putting on a mask of fake glasses and a fake mustach. The ponies she was trying to entertain were clearly not amused."but nomatter what i try, it seems a bit of a disgrace,its there for all to see." She continued, trying to use one of the party blowers(not sure what there called). the crowed began laughing, but not at Fluttershy, who turned and saw soike doing a much better job at being funny with hte fake glasses and mustach."its got to be my destiny, and its what my cutie mark is telling me." she said, finishing the song, and showing her mark to be the same as Pinkies. ---------- Front entrance of Sweet Apple Acres, 0940(9:40) The group had decided to go check Sweet Apple Acres next, hopeing that atleast one of there freinds was still normal. They saw Pinkie instead of Applejack shaking a tree, trying to get the apples to come down,"i dont care much for picking fruit," she said, quickly going to a very sturdy plow, that wait a metric ton," and plowing feilds aint such a hoot." she then went to the barn that the group was infront of, and began trying to fix a water chute in all the wrong ways." No matter what i try i can not fix this buster water chute!" The chute eventually brok after about four seconds of her laying on it, She quickly went and began pulling a cart full of chickens in cages."i've got so many chores to do, its no fun being me!" she then gave up on the cart when the chickens learned how to open the cages, and attempted to buck a tree to knock the apples down."It has to be my destiny," Apples did fall, but on here head instead of in the bucket she held." cause its what my cutie mark is telling me." She lied don wn on here back, and aloud the group to see her cutie mark, which was swapped with Applejack's mark.before the group left, Specter used his sonic on Pinkie's head to lower the pain. ---------- Rarity's Boutique,1012(10:12) When they got to the boutique, they had already ruled out rarity, so they knew that it would have to be Applejack, who they haden't seen all day. When they got inside, they saw Applejack trying to make a very poor dress." looky here at what i made, i think that its a dress." she put the "dress" on a manikin, and it looked like she just found an old table cloth that was left in the mud and put it on the manikin."i know it dosn't look like much, im under some distress. yall give me a hand here, and help me fix this mess?" she said, putting a fairly ugly had on another manikin, and looked through a hole in a rag on its back. " my destiny, is not pretty," She put a small headband with two leaves on the head of a third manikin, which looked like it had a ripped bag for clothes. She quickly when to a soweing machine, attempting to put some threads into the mateirial."But its what my cutie mark is telling me." she looked at her mark, which had Rarity's mark. By this point, Specter was about to just head back to the library to work on his project, but Spike begged to check on Rarity, who Twilight had already seen. ---------- Hill on the outskirts of Ponyville,1032(10:32) Rarity had been doing a botched up job of trying to keep the skys in order, but just wound up making teh area full of chaos Discord would be proud of." im in love with weather patterns, but the others have consernes. fo i just gave them frostbite over top of there sunburns!" she said, while in the distance, three unlucky ponies had been standing in the way of the sun and the flash freeze she had focused there. " i have to keep on trying, for everypony can see, its got to be," SPecter could just sense that everpony else was also now singing, and played the memory of this episode in his head over," yes its what my cutie mark, its what my cutie mark is telling meee." she finished, signalling for the group to leave in a sense. ---------- Books and Branches library, 1055(10:55) The group had rushed back to the library in a bit of a state of panic, and it was a very noticable panic. Twilight magiced open the door and let Spec and Spike in, before slamming it shut." this is bad, this is very, very bad!" she said, doing a little dance-ish move, aka, constantly tiphoofing on the floor, before quickly walking to the elements." whats going on, whys this happening?" Spike asked, before spining like a top when Specter rushed by him and looked at the elements next to Twilight. " last night, when you were taking one of your seven hour bubble bathes, i got a special delivery from the princess!" Specter rememberd that he had to sign the package for her, due to her being a chienne, and how he quickly went down the stairs to go to bed. She said what Specter never heard, but saw due to his knowledge of the show. When she said the spell phrase, Specter saw that the elements were still in how the were. " i cast the spell so i could find out whay it was, but nothing seemed to happen. but now i know something did happen, the spell has changed the elements of harmony!" she said, looking at the changed elements." that must be why there cutie marks are all wrong!"," So just cast a counter spell to change switch them back!" Spike said, hopeing that this spell had a counter. Twilight began to flip through the pages, but was fruitless in the search." there is no counter spell!" she stated, feeling more and more that this might be a lost cause." Why dont we use that memory spell you used to fix everpony when Discord was here?" Spike suggested. "Its not there memory Spike, its there true selfes that have been altered!" "Zecoras cure for the cutie pox?" "That wont work either" Twilight said, levitating the book to spike. Specter had no idea what to do. He memorized this event and went over it so many times, and each time healways asked himself, should he change the outcome? He could take the book and cast the spell time and time again, hopeing that it would randomize to the corect order, or he could try and convince Twilight to help the others adjust to their new lives, keeping her from eing an alicorn, or he could ty to find a spell in the book that he could ask her to use in an attempt to help. He decided that the random chance would not really be easy, and he douted that she would help change her freinds without even trying to help them, which left only one option. He finnaly zoned back into reality, and quickly grabbed the book from Spikes claws. Spike was about to say something, but was silenced by specters hoof." trust me on this one, im just trying to see if theres something in here that would help." He said in a whisper. He placed the book on the table he wrote at, and looked back to Spike, who was walking up the stairs, just to be sure he was gone. He grabbed a spare few peices of paper and began to copy soem pages from the book, and looked for hidden details. The pages he copied were pages of intrest that he would look at later. He skimed to the last page, which had the spell that caused this, and began to look at details. He studdied every last inch of the page, and found nothing, nothing but some very out-of-place random dashes and around three or four random lines around a picture of the elements, and wrote them down on a peice of paper. He began to look a bit more closely at the shapes, "Why would these be around the elements? Mabey they make something, orare part of a pattern on another page?" he thought. he could here Twilight upstairs, who just got the idea of how she could help her freinds. he could hear her coming down the stairs, and the sound of her levitating something." I may not be able to remind them of who they are, but i can show them what they meen to eachother!" he turned to see that she had levitated the elements into the chest that they were originaly stored in." they'll finf the part of themselfes thats been lost so they could help the freinds they care about so much!" Twilight said, "comeon spike!" She looked at specter,"You to mad stalion!" she said to him. He was happy that she asked him, seeing as how he was going anywase. they galloped out if the house, and to Fluttershy. ---------- two minutes later, balloon station The group had gotten there just intime, as they saw that Fluttershy was about to get on the balloon and leave."Fluttershy wait!" Twilight said, as she avoided bumping into a rather unhappy Sweetie drops."Oh, hey Twilight." Dluttershy said back, clearly very sad." where are you going?" Twi asked, looking at the balloon that Fluttershy was about to board."Im moveing back to cloudsdale. I dont kmow whats wrong, but i cant seem to make anypony laugh." she said, using a whoopey cushion, which just deflated upon being squeezed. Specter wasn't listening though, he was thinking about why the spell Twilight usedhad also affected him, but only got rid of his mark. By the time he zoned back into reality, the others were already galloping to the cottage. He decided it was something that would get fixed soon, and galloped sfter the others. ---------- you dam well know were,1123(11:23) It had taken abit longer to get to the cottage since many ponies were giving here a hard time. By the time that the group had been able to see the cottage, they slowed to a brisk trot,and were about to open the door, when it was hit hard, and followed by the sound of Rainbow Dash going,"woh!" "Rainbow Dash!" Twilight called into the cottage. She magiced the door open, and was greeted by the sight of most of the animals circleing a cauldren," im in here, help!" Dash yelled from her spot in the cauldren." Im trapped!" The animals had tied her up and left her in the cauldren, and were circleing it, weilding spoons, forks, and knives. Fluttershy turned to Twilight," Hurry Twilight, cant you do some sort of spell to get her out?" She asked, clearly very frantic.Twilight just shook her headn "No, Fluttershy, your the only one who could help! Rainbow Dash needs you!" Twilight stated, which clearly suprised her. Fluttershy looked at Twilight, then the animals, then back to Twilight. She gave a short nod to Twi, and slowly began to walk to hte cauldren."um, hello? Little, woodland, creatures?" She stopped in hte middle of the room, just as a bear ran by, using a table to scratch its back. She leaned in close to a mouse, who was one of the animals parading around the cauldren, and said,"i know that your all very upset, and you like giving Rainbow Dash a hard time, but we'd all realy appreciate if you all calm down and mabey rest for a bit." She said, and was promptly surrounded by most of the creatures in the room Everypony knew it was working, but Fluttershy was not to sure if she should be happy, or scared. She quickly flew to the kitchen and grabbed a bowl of fresh fruits and a few veggies," oh, uh,look, heres some nice, juicy leaves for you to munch on," She said, setting the bowl down for some of the mice and such," and some, crunchy, munchy acorns to!" She said, seting some nuts and acorns she had grabbed down for some other animals. She walked up to the area of the cauldren were some animals were standing, who were still mad at Rainbow Dash."Uh, wouldn't you like to take a break and, have a little snack?" He said, pointing a hoof to the other animals who were eating already. The tallest of the three animals, a ferret, shrugged his shoulders, and had the others follow him to eat. All the animals were rather happy, and were eating to there hearts content." aw look at that, i guess you were all just cranky because you were hungry." She said, walking near the bowl that the bunnys were eating at. One such bunny happend to be Angle, who took notice of Fluttershy, and hopped onto her, getting caught in mid air, and gave her a hug. A few other animals gatherd around her, all seeming to be saying thanks or something simaler to her." Aww, you are very welcome little freinds." she said to them. no sooner had she said that, the nearby bear decided he would hug Fluttershy, and held her like a little filly, and kissed her on the forehead." My goodness, its like i can understand them!" she said, still being cradeld. A pink aura formed around her, and Twilight knew that that was the sign she was ready. She opened the box and levitated out Fluttershy's element. Waisting no time, she ran to her,eager to bring her freind back to normal,"i-i feel strange, like this what im meant to do, like this is who i am, my destiny!" she said, flying into a hover with some birds. Twilight levitated the element around Fluttershy's neck, and it took affect. If youwere to look into her eyes, one would see Fluttershy's life flash before her eyes, in her eyes. After that, a bit of a flash eminated from her, before she promptly fell. Still conscious, she raised herself a bit"w-what happend?" she asked.'Fluttershy look, your cutie mark!" Twilight said with exitment in her voice. When Fluttershy sat up, she looked at her flank, which now had three butterflys instead of balloons. Specter would have heard more, but a certain flying tortise was in the room, and was still blinded from the flash, and hit Specter in the base of his neck, knocking him out cold. The last thing he heard before going under, was the sound of a flash, and some light comeing from his flank. ---------- Books and Branches Library, 1406(2:06) Specter was begining to regain consciousness, but still felt like he had been stabbed in the neck. as his senses began to reactivate, he could hear singing from outside, and saw that he was in the library. After a few seconds, he got up, satisfied that he had gotten all his senses back. He began to walk to the table that had his scetched from Starswirl's book. He put his hoof on his neck, and felt the cold metal of his medalion. Glad it haden't fallen off, he started looking threw the shapes on his paper once more. He was not so sure that they were important, but why else would Starswirl have them in there? He began to hear less and less singing outside, meaning that the elements would be back soon, and began to look threw the book again but quicker, writing the newly found lines and shapes on a fresh peice of parchment. When fineshed writing down the last of the lines, the door burst open, and the elements came threw. Before he could do anything, Twilight took the book via magic, the wind from the bokk moving sent the two papers he was using flying, and the book hit his medalion, taking it on a corner. He was to busy trying to get his papers to pay attention to Twilight and her spell making. He soon heard the sound of her levitating the book back to the desk, and Specter forgot about the papers for a second to get his medalion. When he put it on, he saw it begin to light up, and heard the element of magic begining to hum. When the element released its wave of energy, it set off the other elements, and soon reached Specters medalion, causing it to glow. Specter was rather worried, seeing as how the last time he saw the shade of green that his medalion was glowing, a nuclear reactor exploded. He heard the other elements fire,and his medalion quickly raised over his head.He jumped to grab it,only for it yo fire a beam of energy,like the other elements, which hit himbin the forehead,knocking him out cold. Before he went under,he had one last thought,"I fucking hate my life." ---------- Limbo, time unknown Spec has had his fare share of nightmares and limbos, but was still terrified of each one. He would never admit it, but he was actualy terrified of the dark. As he just floted there, in the vast void, he was searching for some sort of light, hopeing that this was atleast a nightmare with light. The void around him had wind, he could feel it, and his limbos never have air, meaning that he was having a nightmare. When he closed his eye shut tight, he could feel the wind getting stronger, and stronger, until it felt like a hurricane. Soon the wind calmed down a bit, and specter could feel something different, the ground. He opened his eye, and was terrified at what he saw, the ruins of his home, and his home city, stood right before his eye. What made it even worse, was that, impailed threw them all, were giant, dark, humming crystals. By this point, he was ready to just curl up into a ball and start to cry, but he knew it was all a dream, so he pressed on, past his home. His hooves slowly moving one infront of the other, echoing through the city, with nothing but the wind to comfort him. Slowly, as he walked, the crystals were getting more and more frequent, and much larger, until they reached the hight of a sky-scraper. When he stopped, he recognised the ruble around him as the downtown area, or what was left of it. All around him, body were laid, covered in small dark crystals, some holding small children, others wearing uniforms and holding guns." Hello old freind, like what i did to your home?" he heard a dark, somewhat hoarse voice say. He recognised the voice, and it seny chills down his entire body. He slowly turned around, and saw the very thing he didnt want to see, King Sombra, the very king who was able to do all of this. he was in his solid equine state, and was wearing armor that was made of the very crystals he had made. To make matters worse, he was surrounded by a hoard of shambiling, dark creatures, that only barley looked like they were human, and had a large crystal embeded in there skin, all of them at different locations for each body, meaning no two were in the same spot as for another creature. He just stood there, terrified about what he saw, and the body around him were even begining to move, growing dark crystal armor around there decaying flesh, and they began to raise, walking towards Specter, some were even whispering, but the whispers of those passed were to quiet to hear. He tried to run, trying to lift his hooves, but found he was stuck to the ground, and was now far beyond scared, he was absolutly terrified. He tried to pull himself free, but was compleatly stuck, no matter how hard he tried to move. "Your world is mine little welp, and soon, Equestrtia, and all of Equis, will, be, mine." Sombra said, walking ahead of his hoard, Specter was trying to think of what to do,how he could escape this, and got the answer he was hopeing for. He looked straight at sombra, right into his eyes, and began his mind-probe spell. He closed his eye for a second to let it change, and looked at sombras right eye. Sombra stood still for a moment, and was soon as open as a book, and the probing began. He was, by far, the most intresting one that Spec had probed.Specter looked into the past, when sombra was a small, normal, foal. He could see his parents, both pegasie, his freinds, and his first visit to the crystal empire. He skipped all of the stuff he knewm and looked to Sombra's later years, as an adult. He slowly began to grow a facination for the empire, and a book he had found, a book on dark magic, which corrupted his soul the more he used it. From there, things got interesting. When a guild of powerfull unicorns had discoverd his use of dark magic, they set out to find him and put a stop to it, but Sombra was already at his crowning moment, the control of the crystal empire. In the begining of that chapter, he simply used his dark magic to corrupt the crystals, but when the guild members arived, he did something more drastic. He began to currupt the ponies in the empire, turning them into abominations, the same type of abomination that surrounded him. The guild members were torn limb from limb by both the abominations, and Sombra. When the crystal ponies saw what was happening, they paniced. Sombra disposed of the abominations when he was done, using his power to grow more and more corrupted crystals. But like all villans, he was soon taken down. When Celestia and Luna came to the empire, they came prepared. Along side them was three legions of her best warriors, all of them willing to lose there lives to defend there leader. When the finnal battle between Celestia, Luna, and sombra drew to a close, they used the elements to finnaly end him, but not before he cast the curse on the empire, which Specter now knew. Sombra spent the thousand years the elements affected him in a dark limbo, alone and cold. Eventually, they spell wore off, and so did his curse. He tried so hard during his escape tobreak the sheild around the empire, but figured out that it would soon be lowerd. Then there was the memory of when he was chaseing the elements and Shining Armor, and how he corrupted Shining's horn. Then Specter skipped to the part when the crystal heart was used, and could feel the pain Sombra felt during the blast, so much infact, thathe was forced to remove himself from Sombra's mind, just to avoid more pain. The entire time, Sombra diden't even seem fazed, or even seem to notice that he was mind probed. Specter was exausted from such a long probing, and just stood there, waiting for sombra to finish him. When Sombra was only a few feet away from him, Specter closed his eye, and just stood there, waiting for the deadly blow, but it never came. He opened his abit, and saw that he was alone, there wasnt even a corpse. From the silence, came darkness, as the moon began to rise, the darkness was all there was. He tried once more to walk, and found that the stuff that bound him to the ground was gone. He looked behind him, thinking that there would be an abomination waiting for him, only to see a pair of pure green eyes. Soon enough, another pair apeared, then another, and another, and another, and many more, untill one last pair apeared, this one higher than the last, and had pupals." You dont have to worry now, you're safe with us. The hive wont let you get hurt." A voice said, coming from the eyes. He Squinted his eye to try and see who it was, but the voice was familier enough, the queen of the changlings, Queen Chysalis. She cast a spell on the area around Specter, lighting it up so that the other members of the swarm could see him, and be seen. Specter saw them all, and noticed that they all looked very thin, to the point that there bones could be seen. He wasn't sure whether to be afraid, or sad." As you can see, the swarm is in very rough shape, but we still live off what we can get. Not that many ponies come to the Badlands, and fewer help changelings on there way." Her voice seemed to echo throughout the entire bubble of light Specter was now more confused than anything, and was trying to comprehend the fact that the changeling queen managed to get into his mind. Right when he thought that it was like she read his mind," I only maneged to establish a link to your mind because Mirage told me about you, and a scout i sent to Ponyville confermed what she said, that there was a hybrid in existence." All but two changelings disapeared, the two left being the scout and Mirage he presumed. He strode up to the queen, but still kept abit of distence between her and him." Why do you call me a hybrid? I honestly dont know why." He said, hopeing that she would tell him." you dont know, i thout you would have know you were half changeling atleast by now?" She said, raising an eyebrow." How could i be half changeling, i've never-" He never got to finish, because the whole of his dream seemed to be shaking. Several of the buildings began to fall, and the ruble was kept from Specter by a bubble that formed around him. The ground began to crumbe, forming cracks that dropped chunks of the world down, revealing the same void that Specter had floated in at the begining of the dream. Chysalis was just standing there, not fazed in the slightest, whispering two words over and over again." Wake up." He watched as the cracks reached chysalis and the changelings, only to see them faze away when the floor fell from under them. When the cracks reached him, black tendrals grasped it, tearing it apart causing him to fall into the abis, and wake up. ---------- Books and Branches library, same day, mid-night The elements had all been waiting for specter to wake up, exept Twilight, who was still in some sort of heaven with Celestia. When the elements activated, the beam that hit Specter had left a burn right in the center of his forehead, right where his gash had been when he first was sent to Equestria. Soon enough though, he began to come-to, but was in lots of pain from the burn. His eye began to slowly open," Wha- what happend?" he asked quietly. " Thank Celestia that your awake, we thought you were in a coma or something." Rainbow Dash said, wipeing a bead of sweat from her head. What got everyponys attention next, was a droneing sound, comeing from outside. Everypony, and Spike, rushed outside, though Specter felt a little light-headed. They were soon blinded by a bright flash of light, which had erupted in the sky above the library, and was as bright as the sun." Look up there everypony!" Applejack said,pointing to the now dimer light"Thanks for the warning captain obvious." Specter thought. The light soon began to dim enough for the center to be visable, revealing a large mimic of Twilight's cutie mark. The mimic quickly began to decend, and seemed to be like a blob of water, which was in space. When the mark reached the ground, the light was brightend once more, making the group cover their eyes, or eye in Specters case. Again, the light began to subside," Twilight, is that you?" Applejack said, trying hard to strain her eyes to see into the light, which seemed to clear up when she finished talking. Twilight was in a bowing position when the light cleared, and stood up. With her eyes closed, she stood still for a second, before revealing something new on her, her wings. For some reason, raising her wings created a flash of light, and caused them to sparkle. Everypony gasped at the sight, suprised that there freind had changed so much."Mère de Dieu!" Specter said, making Rarity glad he didnt use more of his "colerfull' vocabulary. Twilight seemed suprised that she had wing to, and inspected them for abit, before Applejack interupted." Wa, i-iv- i've never seen anything like it!" Applejack said, at a loss for any other words" Ha, Twilights got wings! Awsome, a new flying buddy!" Rainbow Dash said, giving Twilight a hug." Why you've become an alicorn! I didnt even know thaat was posible!" Rarity said, examining Twilights new wings." Alicorn party!" Pinkie said, swinging on a rope with a fake horn and fake wings. When she blew through her little party-hat horn, confetti and ballons apeared out of thin air." Wow, you look just like a princess!" Fluttershy said, in her normal quiet voice. " thats because she, is, a princess." The group heard a familier voice say. Everypony turned, and saw Princess Celestia floating down from nowhere." Huh?" Everypony said in unisen. " Hold on a second!" Pinkie said. She grabbed a glass of water from thin air, and did a spit take."Mère de Dieu, again!" Specter said."A- A princess?" Twilight asked. Celestia put a reasuring hoof on Twilight's shoulder." since you've come to Ponyville, You've displayed the charity, compassion, devotian, integrity, optimism, and of course, the leadership, of a true princess." she said, and when she was going through the traits, each of the ponies that they represented seemed happy to be acknoledged. Twilight was happy, yes, but another thought took place of that happines." But, does this mean i wont be your student anymore?" She asked,not sure what to expect." Not in the same way as before. I'll still be here to help and guide you, but were all your students now to. You are an insperation to us all, Twilight." Celestia said, bowing down. The others got the idea, and bowed aswell, but it took abit for Specters brain to relize that he should bow aswell." But, w-what do i do now?I-is there a book about being a princess i should read?" Twilight asked, sounding genualy worried." Hehe, there will be time for all of that later." Celestia said with a small chuckle" Now, i think we shouldl get you to Canterlot, we have a cornation to plan." Celestia than disapeard into a flash of light, leaving behind a scroll, and taking Twilight. Specter read the letter aloud for everypony, though it was rather short." When you are all ready, please send a letter and i will teleport you to Canterlot, yours truly, Celestia.", He tossed the letter to spike," So, who isnt ready?" He asked, looking at all of the elements." Well, we all need something to wear, and you need to get that burn bandaged, so we needa bit of time to get ready." Rarity said, " so is there anything specific you want on a suit dear?" she asked specter, " um, make it green, and made with this material," he said, dashing to the library basement, and bringing up a large quantity of spider-silk. " You want it green of all colors, and made of old cobwebs? Well, i guess i could pull it off, meet me in an hour, all of you, and ill have our clothes ready." She said, taking the silk and trotting to her boutique. They all just waited untill Rarity was out of ear-shot, before talking." So, what do you all want to do?" Rainbow Dash asked them, hopeing for something to do while waiting." Well, i still dont know how to fly." Specter said, getting a few giggles in response." well than, looks like I have some work to do, come on!" She said, grabing Specter by the tail, and draging him to an open field, with the others following"I hate today, so much. Specter thought. ---------- Canterlot Castle, 1116(11:16) The elements had been at the castle for a little while now, and didnt look bad either. Rarity had made the perfict suit for Specter, and made beutifull dresses for the others, and was acctually proud with the bright shade of green she used in Specters suit. The crowd was rather large, and loud, and Specter was trying to locate any duplicates in the crowd, but wouldn't reveal them, he just wanted to see how many he could find. Princess Celestia cleared her throught, getting everypony to quiet down. She waited for a second to make sure they were all quiet, and began." We are gathered here today in celebration of a momentis occasion. My most faithfull student, Twilight Sparkle, has done many extrordinary things since she's lived in ponyville, she even helped reunite me with my sister, Princess Luna." She said, looking towards her sister." But today, Twilight Sparkle did something extrordinary, she created,new magic, proveing without a doubt, that she is ready to be crowned, Equestrias newest princess!" Specter could see Twilights parents in the front of the croud, with her mother begining to tear up. " Fillies and jental colts, may i present, for the very first time, Princess, Twilight Sparkle!" When Celestia said that, the doors on the other side of the room opened, revealing Twilight, and two pairs of blonde haired, white coated ponies, who looked abit like Fluttershy, who were carying Twilights standerd, followed by two pairs of royal guards."thou princess comeith, behooold, behoooold. our princess here before us, behold, behoooooold, behoooooold" through the singing, near the end verse, Princess Celestia lifted the crown, and placed it upon Twilight's head. The Fluttershy look-alikes just contiued to say the same thing over and over again, and the princesses walked to the balcony that faced the castle courtyard, and looked upon the giant crowd that stood below, cheering for Twilight. She didnt realy know what to do, so she just waived abit to the crowd." Say something princess" Celestia whispered into her ear." Oh um, ahem." Twilight was rather nervous, and quickly thought of something to say. " A littel while ago, my teacher and mentor Princess Celestia sent me to live in ponyville. She sent me to study freindship, which is something i didnt really care much about," she looked towards her freinds, and Specter who were all standing in the door frame, with Specter hovering above Rarity." but know, on a day like today, i could honestly say, i woldn't be standing here if it wern't for the freindships i made with all of you." The group walked up to near the part of the balcony that twilight was at, and all of them were tearing up, all save Specter who was still at the arch, not really thinking he should be part of this. "Each one of you taught me something about freindship, and for that, i will always be gratefull." She turned back to face the crowd." Today, i consider myself the luckiest pony in Equestria.Thank you freinds, thank you everypony!" She said to both the crowd, and her freinds next to her, and sounding like she was about to tear up. The croud cheared like crazy, exited to know that they had a once normal unicorn as a princess, and if she could do it, who sayes that others cant try and prove worthey? The princesses and elements walked back into the main room, were Shining Armor was coming in, after being retreaved by Cadence" Twilight, im so proud of you!" he said, giving his sister a hug. Specter was now leaning against a window, adn when he saw Shining hug Twilight, he couldnt help but think about his sister, who was still on earth, faceing lord-knows- what that Sombra was sending at humanity. He zoned-out abit, compleatly blocking out all sound, and thought back to his dream, to the abominations Sombra created, the corpses, and how the city burned, and the ground colapsing. He hit his head abit, and zoned back into reality, and saw the elements embracing Twilight, before heading for the door, and Specter folowed suit soon after, and cought up with Shining Armor." Liquid pride, really?" he said to him, startiling Shining for a second. " Oh, um yea, sorry, i dont think we've met." Specter chuckled to himself," Specter Atomis, I was what was in the epicenter of that explosion a few days ago." Specter said. " Wait, so you're the one who Twilight mentiond in her last letter?" Shining asked." I guess, did it describe a mad- stallion who is messing with her machines in her basement?" Specter asked, stoping infront of a very newstaind-glass window. the window that was just put in showed the crowning of Princess Twilight Sparkle, and the elements close to her. " Well, yea, thats her her description of you in a nutshell, so what are you doing to her machines?" Shining asked, stopping at the same stained-glass. " Well, im making them better! I happen to be abit of a scientist, and I know a few ways to improve them to make them more usefull, like by adding better silicon." Specter said, looking at the other ataind- glass windows. " Whats silicon?" Shining asked. Specter reached into a pocket woven into his suit, and pulled out a shard of silicon." This, is silicon. Its a durible substence that is good for making the data-banks that store the programming in machines that need to be automated. The only thing i need now is a really hot furnace, and alot of sand thats filled with silicon." Specter said, putting back the shard, and pulling out his sonic. " Whats that?" Shining asked." Oh, its just the most usefull tool that i ever invented. I call it the sonic screw-driver, and its usefull for more than use as a screw-driver. The gem on the top is where all the use is, and these little arms that surround it spin to focus air around the gem, which is used in several ways, from shooting air at high speed and pressure, to use as a hoof-held toolbox, or even a small labratory." Spec said, scanning the entire window. " How did you manage to build it? I honestly dont know how you could have that much power stored in such a small space." Shining said, starting to trot down the hall back to the elements. Specter followed suit, and caught-up to him quickly" Its useing a very compact and complicated storage system for containing the energy, but to be honest, its not very stable if i over-work it." Specter said. Shining was a little faster than specter in his pace, and was gaining a very small amount of distence." Well, you science types do tend to relly on your fancy gizmoes, i dout you could even win a foot race without useing it to cheat." Shining said, clearly trying to bait spec into a race" Oh, it, is, on." Specter said,"threetwoonego!" he said, dashing off down the hall, with Shining close behind. They spent the better part of ten minutes trying to stay ahead of one another, and trying to findout where the elements went. When Specter found out, Shining did aswell, and they had taken seprate routes to the location, the front door to the castle. They were sprinting for about three minutes, before spotting the stairs that they each had to go down on seprate sides of the door, and pushed themselves to go faster. As it so happened, the stairs had recently been washed and waxed near the bottom, and was slicker that polished and wet concrete. Specter and Shining saw eachother, and the elements, just as they were about to reach the bottem, only for them both to slip, and tumble down the stairs, and the elements had been un-lucky enough to be in there path, with Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie, getting sandwiched by the two stallions. Shining and Specter were just lying there, with Shinings eyes rolling, and Specters eyes developing the blue aura, and were spinning that. Twilight and Celestia levitated the four back onto there hooves." So, any reason why you chose to run over Rainbow Dash and Pinkie pie?" Celestia said. Specter put on his best poker face, which as no better that Applejacks."U-u-um,, w-w-we got lost, and we didnt know which way you went, s-s-so we went looking for you." Specter said, with his poker-face begining to falter. Celestia looked towards Shining Armor, who had his poker-face on aswell, similar to how all guards look when there just standing somewhere. She simply smiled." Well, i guess you did fall behind, so try not to next time, ok?" She said. Specter nodded his head, and Shining gave a salute. the elements and princesses past them, walking out the door, where a carriage was waiting for Twilight. Shining and Specter waited a little longer, and finnaly un-tensed when they heard singing."phew, that was close." Specter said, knowing how dangerous Celestia is." Ok, lets not, do that again." Shining said. they both moved out the door, and watched the carriage as it traveled down the path, with the elements close behind. "so....what do you want to do know?" Specter asked, hopeing that there was something he could do while the whole," new alicorn princess" party was going on. " Well, im sure that some of our scientists would love to see that little, um, " screw-driver", so I guess i could take you to the castles reaserch wing." Shining said, not sure whether bringing a compleat stranger into the labs, but he showed potential."Lead the way my good sir!" Specter said, despretly wanting to see the labs." Then follow me, i promise that those labs wont disipoint." Shining said, begining to walk to the labs, with Specter close behind. ---------- Cantelot Castle, main lab, mid-day Most ponies knew little about what went on inside the labs. Some said that the scientists all went mad, and that the guards just made it look like the lab was occupied, others say that they were hideing extra-equestrial beings, but neither of those rumors were true, infact, the labritorys were just rather under-staffed. When Shining knocked on the door to the lab, which was made of metal, a hidden slot opened on the door, revealing a pair of eyes," Oh, shining armor, what are you doing here?" Asked the pony on the other side of the door." Bill Neigh, good to see you to. I just so happened to meet somepony who you might be interested in, he is quite the scientist." Shining said, folowed by a distincted hum of the sonic screwdriver." How in the name of tartarus did you get the materiels to make quantimillion alloy!?" Specter said, just out of Bills line of sight. The slot closed in a second, and the door flung wide open." How did you know this was quantimillion alloy?" Bill said, suprising Specter, causing him to drop his sonic and take a step back." um,ewll, theres the way it sounds when hit, its look, and how hard it feels." Specter said, picking up his sonic. " B-b-but how do you know about it? The research team is the only group of ponies that know about it!" Bill said, fully steping out of the door. " Well, i know how to make it, an memoriset its atomic structure by heart. Then theres this thing," Specter said, showing Bill his sonic." which i use to analyze things, and read the code that tells me what it's atomic structure is." He put his sonic in the pocket that held his shard. "Well, if you know what quantimillion alloy is, than i guess you are up-to-snuff with technology?" " Id say that im far beyond snuff." " Oh really?" " Yea really!" " How far?" Specter grinned," I can make a rocket that could travel to the moon and back, given the right materials." " I wont beleave you untill it happens." Bill said, not convinced in the slightest," i cant prove it without materials." Specter rebutled." Look, we havent even compleated finding out how to compress and store air, much less get to space." bill turned back to the room "Well than, i guess you dont want a new member to join your undder staffed team!" Bill stoped in his trackes. He stood there for a second, before letting out a long sigh." Well, you have that scanner, so thats usefull, so i guess i could let you try to help." Bill said, "but your not in the team untill you can prove your going to be usefull!" He said, moveing to let Specter into the lab."lookes like things are finnaly going my way!" Specter thought, walking into the lab.