On the video that was playing, was a cleaner version of the figure that saved Dawn with an even cleaner version of the room she woke up in. Outside the window was the city, brimming with life. Metal flying boxes were hovering in a line outside the window. The video was so clear that if you squinted you could see beings that resembled the figure driving the flying machines. On the buildings, such buildings that would completely shadow Ponyville, had these bright moving pictures with words saying: “Breaking News: Aedan Cousland voted for new Imperial Vice-Emperor”. A woman with brown hair that trailed off with blue was also standing in the corner watching the figure as he faced Dawn, so it seemed. “Recording Log 1. Science Officer John Cooper:- The date is the 23rd of December, 41,2012. Let me first say, off the record, that I hate these things and the only reason you’re seeing my face on this is because it’s part of the job.“ His voice seemed more clam and more friendly than it did when Dawn met him. He chuckled till the female spoke up. Her voice had the same familiar tone “Come on John, you do remember the Imperial Science Council hate infalmorities.”
“I know, I know. But the only time I’m going to be replaced is when I hit retirement and that’s only when I hit 20 thousand. I’m only 134 years old.” The bare mention of the age made Dawn’s eyes widen, hardy the impact of the age mentioned about retirement. “Well, the sooner you get these done, the quicker you get back to work or would you prefer to sit there in front of a camera?” The female asked rather sarcastically.
With a sad sigh, John continued in a more professional pose. “Now. If you’ve managed to suffer through this video enough, the main reason you have this is because this is the new way of teaching pupils without wasting the resources on them, unless completely required. Now I’m going to assume that you’ve been taught on how things were when this video was recorded; Such as current projects, or more importantly the project you’re going to be assigned to, Project Eden.-“ The video fuzzes out into a white noise and Dawn instantly looked down, just now noticing that the discus had dents and scratches. The all too familiar hooves of Dawn’s father was heard with the creaking of wood, followed by another set of hooves. Dawn hit the middle of the discus presuming that’ll turn it off. With luck that it did and hid it under a pillow as she pretended to sleep, in case they ever entered the room.
Quiet whispering between Twilight and Duskshine was heard through the door, everyone would have gone to bed by now but Duskshine and Twilight had some free time to catch up. “I was actually wondering where you was, to be honest” Twilight said with curiosity.
“I wish I could have come, but setting Dawn into the new school had to come first. I’ll have to give my regards to Shining Armor when I’m back in Canterlot.” Duskshine said firmly, he knew Twilight would understand how important children are to their parents after all Spike was like an adopted son to Twilight.
Twilight smiled, it was nice to see one of her brothers all grown up and worrying over their children, something that made her laugh inside when she thought that Shining Armor would have to do that soon. She looked past Duskshine and to the door that lead to Dawn’s room. “I hope she’s okay, who knows what she might have seen down in those caves.” Duskshine just smiled to Twilight. “You needn’t worry. She’s been fine no matter how things got.” He noticed that Twilight still had her concerned look. “I’ll ask her in the morning, for now let her rest.” Twilights face eased, letting the fact that Duskshine would know his daughter better than her calm her. “Talking about morning, we should head to bed ourselves.” Twilight softly laughing.
Duskshine laughed with his sister. “Yeah. I’m just going to check on Dawn before heading to bed, but you go. There’s no point of two tired ponies tomorrow.” Twilight smiled and nodded. “Goodnight Duskshine.”
“Goodnight Twilight.” Twilight walked off to bed as Duskshine opened the door to Dawn’s room. On the bed was a passed out filly that got too comfortable that she actually fell asleep. Duskshine smiled and closed the door shut as quietly as possible as to not disturb her.
The following day, the light through Dawn’s window woke the sleeping filly. “No matter how far the sun is, it always manages to catch you in the eyes” She hazily said as she rose her head, rubbing the left side of her head as she spent the night upside down. It took a moment till her brain woke up enough to flash a memory before her eyes, a memory which caused her to grab hold of the pillow and flinging it aside to be relieved by the silver-glimmer of the discus still laying there. A sigh swayed into the air as she laid back, she had so many questions going through her head from what she saw. There had to be so much more on that discus and she had to find out what it was, a knock at the door caught her attention as she flipped the pillow back onto the device. “Yes?”
It was Twilight, she had woken up earlier and couldn’t wait for Duskshine to wake up to see if Dawn was alright. “How are you doing?” She worryingly smiled. “Much better actually” Dawn had to admit, and it was true. Her leg no longer hurt at all, which was odd, she had a damaged leg before and it took a lot longer than a night’s rest to heal up. She just brushed aside. Twilight’s smile widened a little more as she mentally sighed. “Well that’s good to hear, I heard from Rainbow Dash that it’s going to be a sunny day today, so if you’re feeling up to it, you might want to meet up with the girls, I’m sure they’ll be more than happy to see you.” Dawn thought it over and agreed that did sound like a good idea, she looked to Twilight and smiled. “Yeah, that sounds awesome. Thanks Twilight…Sorry about making you and Dad and everypony worried last night…”
“You don’t have to apologies, just promise you’ll be more careful from now on.” Twilight lightly laughed. “Promise.” Dawn responded in a similarly joking manner. Twilight turned around and started to walk out the room but stopped in her tracks and turned her head to face Dawn. “Oh! Yeah, The girls will most likely be in their tree house, just wake Spike up and he’ll take you there” Then she continued her walk out of the room, closing the door behind her. Dawn lifted her pillow and pulled out the discus and laid it on her bed. “Should I show it to them? I did just meet them so that would be a major leap of faith, but it was due to them that I’m here with this thing. And they did seem trusting enough to let me in their group so quickly. Yeah it’s only fair to show them. I think.” Dawn thought to herself. Hiding it inside her mane, she got up from her bed and walked out into the library. The murmurs of Spike’s dreams directed Dawn to where he was, slightly giggling at what he mentioned most of the time, with a nudge, Spike woke up. First confused to the sudden awakening but quickly calmed when he saw Dawn trying to hide away her giggling.
“Good Morning Spike, sorry to disturb you but Twilight said that you might know where the Cutie Mark Crusaders tree house were? I was wondering if you might be able to take me there.” Dawn tried to ask as politely as possible, trying not to get her tongue tied on how long saying Cutie Mark Crusaders tree house was without pause. “She did, did she?” Spike answered, not surprised that Twilight had him already working before he even woke up. He yawned, stretching out his arms and then proceeded to scratch his back. “Well, sure I’ll take you there.” He climbed out his basket and stretched some more. It wasn’t long till Dawn and Spike arrived at Sweet Apple Acres, Applejack was bucking trees as usual while the rest of the Apple family did their chores. Applejack waved to Dawn and Spike as they passed to the tree house.
It was a bit out of the way but Dawn could see how the girl weren’t bothered by people seeming how far in Apple Acres they were. “Hey girls, someone is here to see you!” Spike called up to them as each head popped out to his voice. “Dawn!” All three shouted and was down on the ground quicker than Rainbow Dash can clear the sky over Ponyville. “We’re so sorry about what happened!” Sweetie belle apologized first. “And kind of leaving you…” Scootaloo nervously said. “But we were only going to get help!” Applebloom explained. Dawn smiled at the three as they apologized in their own ways. “Girls it’s okay. I’m fine anyway so it wasn’t that bad” Dawn joked. “Will you be able to make it back on your own?” Spike asked Dawn, which she just simply nodded as he walked back to the tree house. Waiting till Spike disappeared over the horizon Dawn turned back to the girls quickly. “You would not believe what I found down there.” Dawn whispered to them. “You found something down there?” Scootaloo said curiously. Dawn pulled the silver discus out to show them all, as the glimmer of the sunlight bouncing off the discus into their eyes the girls instantly awed. “What is it?” Sweetie Belle asked. “I don’t actually know but when you press the centre a video plays.” Dawn explained roughly. “Well what you waitin’ for? Press it!” Applebloom excitingly exclaimed. Dawn put it on the ground and was about to press it till she stopped. “er..thinking about it, it might be better to play it inside the tree house. Also I got a lot of explaining to do…”