//------------------------------// // *revised* Origins // Story: New Rules // by lightningstorm //------------------------------// They never believed me possible of such distruction. These crumbled homes, these dead corpses, are all my work. Yet they still believe they can ‘fix’ me, save me. But I like this, I won’t be pushed around anymore. As I look out on what once was my home, as I look upon the crumpled body in front of me, I see what I have become. I became what I swore against, I did this. The forest lays as desolate ruins of a once great world. Burnt to a crisp, all the animals long gone. But what strikes me the most, is the pony laying in front of me. Her body twisted in weird ways, blood staining her mane. How could I do something like this. But I do remember, I remember that dreadful day this began, when we found it. When we got those powers, everything. This is their fault, they brought this upon themselves. I never wanted any of this. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I remember the sun shining down on the grass that day, as we lay out in the field, gossiping and giggling as mares do. My best friends Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash. Of course Rainbow Dash wasn't much one to giggle, she moaned at our conversations mostly. Pretending she wasn't a little interested. We would head to this meadow in the woods everyday to picnic and play, it was very peaceful. Twilight would read us a book, or rainbow might show us a new trick, or even I might show them my new animals. Twi came across it during one of her studys, I think it was of the Nocturnus Butterfly, and she found this spot sitting untainted by society. Today Rainbow was performing her new trick (she would do so many back flips in a row that she would become a spinning ball of relentless speed) while me and Twilight cheered for her on the ground. I wasn't much of one for speed, and Twi lacked legs, so we always remained down here. “So Flutter, hows life been treating you?” That was a good question, for my life was barely there at all. At least Twi's intentions were honest. I spent most my days alone at home playing with angel, even after I made my new friends I would do the same routine. Get up, feed the animals then me, go to pick stuff up, take care of the animals, then sleep. Nothing else usually occurred. “Its...nice. Kind of lonely though.” I sighed. I didn’t want to bother them with my problems. “You know you can always come hang out with us, we always have time for you Flutter.” I knew that was a lie. They were always too busy when I came by, or they hardly paid attention to me when they weren’t. Rainbow would always joke at me too, which quite angered me. She was my best friend, but she could be a real jerk sometimes. But I always kept my emotions in. Not wanting to bother others with them. “Y-yeah... I know. Its just ever since Big Mac started dating Rarity, I’ve been all alone. I hardly even see you guys besides on these outings.” I had loved Big Mac with all my heart. Plain and simple. I paid the price for that. We had dated for two months, the best two of my life. I had never been so happy, so completed. But our relationship ended four months ago. I have no clue why he ended it, he just showed up one day and broke it off. I’m not mad at him, I’m sure he had his reasons. But it broke my heart. Now I had lost him to Rarity. They started dating last week, and although they were cute together I was more alone than ever. It hurt thinking he loved her now, especially when I saw them in town. That pain is how me and Rarity's friendship ended. I snapped. “Fluttershy, you’ll get over him. Now just try to enjoy yourself, you’ve put on alot of stress taking in all those new animals.” I was furious, Twilight saying I’d get over him, how did she know!? It was not her place to say such a thing! “Well fine! Maybe I will! I loved him! But you wouldn’t understand that since your alone!” I was surprised with myself, I don’t know where this anger came from. It just came out, and it felt good. Twilight seemed stunned too, hurt even, just looking on in disbelief. Rainbow must have heard me yell, because she looked down stunned trying to pick up what was happening. While she was looking at me, she wasn’t looking where she was flying, and she flew too close to the tree line and the tip of one tree skidded along her gut and she spiraled off down into the woods. “Rainbow!” Twilight cried out. She ran off into the woods after her, and I followed quickly behind. How had I caused something like this? After we had searched for a few minutes we realized we had no clue where to look. The trees were so high, and cast dark shadows we couldn't tell which way was which. All the trees and rocks looked the same, but Twi used some magic to get oriented again and we were soon once more on our way. “Where did she land?” Obviously we had no clue where we were running off to, but the confusion was broken by a mares wails. Rainbows wails. They sounded in pain, not dying, just deeply injured. I heard it close to my left ear, past some shurbs it looked like. “Shes down here.” I pushed away a shrub next to me, revealing a huge crater in the middle of a opening in the trees where Rainbow was laying in the middle. The crater dug deep into the ground, and it seemed to be in a near perfect circle. I wonder what could've made this? Her wings were mangled, and one of her legs twisted the wrong way. “Fluttershy you nincompoot! Look at me! You distracted me and this happened! How stupid can you be!” She looked me in the eyes furiously, like she was going to kill me. She sucked up the pain and walked over to me, pushing me down on the ground. “How am I supposed to fly like this exactly?” My eyes started watering, and even though I tried to suck it up, wimpers escaped my mouth. “I-im sorry r-rainbow, I-i didn’t t-think...” I broke out into full out crying, how could she yell at me like that? I didn’t mean anything. She sighed and looked down at me guiltly “I’m sorry Flutter, I shouldn’t have yelled like that...” She looked down at the ground and all though it didn’t sound like much, an apology from Rainbow meant alot. She gave me her hoof, and helped me back up onto my hoofs. “Rainbow did you make this crater” Twilight hadn’t heard a word either of them had said, she’d appearently been studying the crater the whole time as I noticed her walking over from the far corner of it. It was a impressive crater, perfectly round and huge! Just imagining what could have caused this made me want to pee. “Can we please go home?” “No it was here when I landed. Its huge! what do you think caused this? Whatever it is probably is super awesome, like a behemoth or somthing!” She traveled off into a list of possible monsters, and I could see in her eyes we lost her in her fantasy world. No one seemed to hear me. “Maybe your answer is down there.” Twilight nodded to a hole in the ground of to the side of the crater. Not a big hole, about big enough for a pony to fit down. About the shape of a rabit hole too. “Oooh, can we go see what it is?” The look in Rainbows eyes were dangerous. She craved adventure, I knew this look from experiance. “Come on, we need to get you to the hospital Rainbow. You can go monster hunting later.” Twilight plopped Rainbow up on her back and made her way off to the hospital without even taking notice of me still standing there. Of course once again everyone forgot about me. No one cared about me just like usual. I just stood their looking at the hole, wondering what was inside. Whatever it was it could wait, I needed to make sure Rainbow was fine. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I looked around the town, taking everything in as I followed after Twilight. Oh was it a beautiful day, everypony was so happy under the sun. I saw all the pony couples spending time together. Why couldn’t me and Mac be like that? I saw little foals playing, their life being so easy. Lets not forget the ponies hard at work for their job. Everyone seemed to be doing something. But I also spotted Big Mac and Rarity having lunch together at the Hay Barrell. I couldn’t look, it hurt worse than death itself. Seeing them so happy, without me. My eyes started to water again, but this time I kept my tears inside. I didn't want to embarrass Twilight or Rainbow, so I just looked away and tried to forget. But then I saw Rarity lean in and kiss Big Mac right on the lips. This pushed me over the edge. I couldn’t hold it in but I didn’t want anyone to see my cry, so as the tears began to come out, I made a rapid sprint for home. There I could be alone. As soon as I got home I plopped my face into my pillow and let out sobs. I missed him so much, but he seemed so happy without me. How could he kiss another mare while my heart was still trying to mend? He didn’t even know I felt this way though, but why would he care? Later that day somepony knocked on the door, but I simply ignored it. All I wanted right now, was to be alone. Couldn’t they understand that? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I passed out sometime in between my cries, and it must have been awhile for I woke up and found night had already came, and it seemed to be about midnight from my clocks. I needed to clear my head, though so as much as it terrified me I went for a walk around town in the dark. I found only a handful of ponies were out, and they were only there to finish their jobs. It was nice though, having the quiet night to myself. Not saying of course I'd have preferred company, mostly in fear of a monster attack, but it was still nice. I walked through the whole town, and then took a trail to the meadow we were at earlier. It looked like a good night for star gazing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After about an hour of walking I finally found the meadow. It was right between two mountains, with only the stars above.. It looked gorgeous under the moonlight, the damp grass sparkling from starlight.. Everything was still, and I didn’t hear a sound although I felt the tiny eyes of little animals following me as I walked along the meadow.. It was a picture perfect moment. I laid on my back gazing up at the moon, it was beautiful tonight, I only wished Big Mac was here to share this night with me. Maybe cuddle me to sleep, he could tell me some crazy story Granny Smith told him about the moon. But no, he might as well be making love to Rarity, all I knew was he wasn’t here with me. And for once, I was fine with that. I had tried to make conversation with him, but failed miserably everytime. Either from my shyness or... well my shyness. He helped me get out of me shy little shell, we even shared a first kiss. But that was all gone. Crumpled up and in the past, most likely never to be uncrumpled. Me and Rarity weren’t on speaking grounds. After I exploded at her in public for dating him, I bleieve it was at our spa trip I yelled at her, and so we stopped going to the spa together, and stopped being around each other in general. That was one more pony I had lost. I had no one to talk to. Just so called friends. No one who really cared about me. I just had these stars. The constellations I knew by heart and the ones Twi told me about. So many were out tonight, and you could even see a galaxy if you squinted enough. I eventually grew board of even these beautiful stars, so I walked again. I didn’t realize it, but I found myself in the crater we found Rainbow in again. I saw the infamous looking hole, and I tried to pull myself away, not wanting to be stuck in their alone. But something entered my brain though, like I was being pulled in, like I was a magnet. I tried to pull away but I couldn’t resist the feelings, so I peaked my head over the edge looking inside for just a moment. All I saw was darkness, but the same sensation convinced me to lean in closer, I knew there was something in there. I leaned closer and closer but still saw nothing. But then the ground broke from under my back hooves, and I stumbled down the abyss. I tried to grab for a hoof hold, but got nothing. I felt my body become lighter as the speed caught up. The wind whipped harder past me, pushing against my body. I knew this is where I would die, when I hit the bottom, it would be the end. I started to scream, but then realized I had nothing up there.. nothing in this world. Why was I afraid? When I died I would finally be free of all my problems. Then something hard impacted against my skull, the floor of the cave, sending shock all up my body, cracking my bones. I couldn’t move my body, I just lay looking up through the hole of the cave, looking up at the moon at the moon. I started to drift off, my eyes closing more and more, until eventually everything went black. All I wished was I could’ve said goodbye to Twilight and Rainbow. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I woke up sadly, still laying on my back in the cave. It seemed to once again be day time for the sun was shining down. How had I lived through that fall? That should’ve killed even the strongest pony. Then I heard moans next to me, somehow Twilight and Rainbow were next to me. How did they get here? When did they get here? “H-how did you all get here? How am I alive?” I asked. My voice was a little shaky, but stable. They jumped at hearing my voice, apparently they had not yet woken, and jumped even higher when they realized our sorroundings. “What the buck is this place?” Rainbow started spazzing, but Twilight got her to settle down by using a sleepy spell. “It looks like a cave.... but how did we get here? What do you mean how are you alive?" Twilight looked at me expectantly. “This is the hole we found in the crater the other day, I fell down and when I woke up you two were here. I swear I don’t know anything beyond that.” I’m sure it sounded odd but it was true. “Well Rainbow can you fly...” She caught herself as she looked at the still injured Rainbows bent wings. Rainbow looked down sad, for she obviously wanted to help but remained rather useless at the moment. “No, sorry Twi. I would if I could but...” “Its no problem. Well I guess all we can do is look for another way out.” She knew not to ask me to fly, I was terrified of it. She looked down at a tunnel leading out from the cave. It seemed to go deeper down into the ground. Nothing good could be down there. But yet her and Rainbow started galloping down there. How could they be so headstrong? Or maybe I was just too pathetic. “A-are you sure its a g-good idea? W-what if a m-monsters there?” Honestly I didn’t feel comfortable at all with this. “Come on flutter, we’ll make sure your safe. I am a unicorn after all.” I trusted my friends, and so I followed them down the dark cave. Biggest mistake of my life. It spread out for miles, no end in sight, and eventually the beginning was out of sight too. It was pitch dark, I couldn’t see anything. Also it was wet. I mean soaking, the floor was completely flooded. I stepped in something sticky, but kept following after my friends not desiring ot be left behind. I was terrified, why had I let them talk me into this. It seemed as if we’d been walking for days, but it was most likely just and hour or so. At the end of the tunnel was a big open cavern like the ones a miner would use. It seemed completely empty, but yet it wasn’t. “What are those weird things in the middle?” Rainbow nodded her head to the middle of the cavern, where three small stones lay in a perfect triangle., each on its own pedastal. Why would miners have set up a shrine? “I don’t know, they don’t look familiar from any books I read.” She hopped down to the cavern floor and made her way over to the stones. “They look ancient, I wonder who put them down here.” Twilight examined the stones carefully, making sure not to touch them. “Umm, Twilight... can we go back? I’m getting a really really bad feeling!” It was as though a bunch of energy was building up inside me and was about to explode. “Just a little longer, I want to take some samples.” I knew this would end bad. Rainbow ran down next to Twilight complaining about everything that popped into her mind. “ Uhg, I hate walking. I hate all these wet floors. I hate how I can hardly see. So you think these stupid stones are important?” She kicked one over playfully. “Rainbow! Don’t kick them!” She picked it up and placed it back in the right position. “Seriously, sometimes I think you TRY to aggrivate me.” “I’m not sure you should be touching those...” I don’t know why I said that, but I definetly felt that way. “They’re just...” Rainbow didn’t finish her sentence for her eyes rolled back in her head and she collapsed face first into the cave floor. “Rainbow!” The same thing happened to Twilight directly after. “Oh no oh no oh no!” I flew over to them and rolled over twilight to check her pulse, but when I bent over to check Twi's eyes I accidently bumped a stone with my butt. “Oh no...” That was when I passed out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “Do it, I’m gonna knock it outa the park!” The bowling ball fell from eighty feet above heading right at rainbows head. She wasn't the least bit frightened. It suddenly stopped in mid air five feet abover her head, began to spin to the point where it caught on fire, and rocketed off into the sky when Rainbow mentally let it go.. “Cue applause!” “Nice, your getting better Rainbow, looks farther than last time.” Twilight jotted some notes down on her clipboard. We have had these powers ever since we left that cave. When we woke up we got out of there fast, and found Rainbow was somehow healed. Also somehow we were able to simply "walk" out of the cave, although surely it was at least 80 feet deep when we went down. These powers.... they were as if we could bend reality to our liking just using our minds. Twilight was doing pretty good with it, but Rainbow seemed to be having issues at first. She was more random and had hard time making sure she was going to do what she intended. But shes learning. After time we have all grown with our abilities. We would come out to our meadow and practice levitating and stuff everyday, it was like a second home to me now. We grew much closer as friends, spending nearly everyday practicing with our powers and learning more about each other.. I was finally happy again, spending time with them. But how did we get these powers, and what are we supposed to do with them? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We have had our powers for about a month now. We all have grown tremendously with them, even Rainbow is now caught up. I finally feel like they’re my friends too. We spend everyday, and often night, hanging out with each other. Twilight has studied relentlessly to find out what those stones were, but me and Rainbow have simply enjoyed them. Rainbow has became a especially close friend. I returned out of my shy shell around them, just being myself with these powers. Rainbow has supported me all the way, shes like the sister I always wanted. Always cheering me on and telling me to do my best. Today we decided to push our powers further. We have used them to do mere parlor ticks (like levitating, combusting, or shifting things) , but today would be different. “Okay so Rainbow, you can go up first. For you I thought maybe along the lines of teleportation. Then we could try...” Twilight busy in thought was cut off by the Rainbow pony. “I want to control fire! That would be so wicked sweet!” She literally bounced up and down with excitement. “Sure... um fire.. we can try that.” Next Twilight turned to me. “For you we could try shape shifting, maybe mind control too.” “I’m not sure its very nice to control peoples minds twilight...” The thought of it scared her, what if I accidently made someone do something bad? Rainbow made her way to the top of a small hill just to the right of the meadow. From there she bolted downwards, using the full power of her wings, swerving out of the way of trees. She gained speed, going unimaginably fast and a wind cone started to appear in front of her body. She was nearing the bottom, where she pushed up with her wings then closed them, sending her body flying up and.....she flew right into a tree. “Gosh dang it Twilight! I thought you said I could teleport!!!” She wailed as her body fell to the ground. Her face was bruised, and she lay on her back stunned, but her ego seemed to be hurt the most. “Oh Rainbow, I can go get some band aids from my house...” I turned to leave but Twilight held me back. “No pain no gain right? Anyways its practice which means we keep trying." Twilight jotted down more notes. “I... have to do that again?” Rainbow looked back up at the hill, wincing as she imagained her crash again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rainbow tried at least five more times before she finally got it. She soared up at least twenty feet from the pushoff and suddenly diappeared in a flash of light. “I-is she okay Twilight?’” I looked around but didn’t see her anywhere. “Geronimo!” It was too late for when I heard that I felt Rainbow land on top of me, squishing me into the ground. “G-get of Rainbow!’ I tried to push her off but she was too strong, she had me pinned. “Fine, your no fun Flutter.” She hopped off with a huff and helped me up. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After about an hour of Rainbow practicing her trick, twilight went up next. For herself she wanted to try moving things without her horn. She found a quiet spot in the woods, and laid herself down. In front of her sat her doll Mr. Smartypants. She squinted, wrinkling her forehead, as she put all her concentration into the toy. She tensed harder and harder until she was sweating. I couldn’t take anymore. “Twilight, be careful, you don’t want to push yourself too hard. Maybe take a break and get some water...” Twilight once more cut me off. “No, I can do this!” She pushed harder and harder, until the doll burst into flames. Rainbow jumped up and danced around happily with twilight. They looked insane parading around the toy laughing their heads off. What if we are insane, if this is just our minds trying to appease us. Next was me, this dreadful moment. What if I got stuck in another form? Even with all my begging to twilight to not let me do this, i’m still doing it. We rounded up Angel and sat him in front of me. I didn’t get it for a minute, but then realized I was supposed to change into him. I waited for instructions, but my friends just watched. I concentrated on Angel, not really sure what to do. I tried imagining turning into him, in hopes that would trigger something in my mind. I imagined more and more vividly each time, until my vision went cross eye, and I felt my body shake. I wanted to scream, but when I tried no sound left my mouth. I felt smaller. If at anytime I wanted help, this would be it. I needed help. Through my blurred vision I could just barely see my friends rush over to me, but it was too late, I blacked out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When I woke, everything was huge. I knew it had worked. When I looked at my hands, I saw rabbit paws. I craved carrots too, insanely so. I tried to take a step but stumbled onto my face. I got myself back up, and this time tried a hop. It worked very effectively, taking me a great distance. I hopped all the way to my kitchen, where my friends sat, helping themselves to a snack. I hoped up on the table, but they had not seen me beeforehand walk into the kitchen. They jumped back, knocking chips all over the floor which some birds preceded to pick up. “Angel!? What was the point of that!?” Rainbow looked at me angrily, for she had not yet known it was me. “Wait....... angels over there.” Twilight nodded outside where angel was with the other animals. “Fluttershy?” I nodded, making both them gasp in amazement. “Yes! It worked! We did it!” This time they picked me up to celebrate, which since I was small, mostly consisted of me flailing through the air. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After I turned back (which was a rather painful process) we moved onto twilight’s last test for today. “Twi, I still don’t feel very comfortable with this.” How could I openly take over someone mind? “Aw, come on Flutter. At least try.” That was just one more thing I sucked up. No, I didn’t want to. I wouldn't do something I felt this uncomfortable with. “No, I don’t feel comfortable with this, I’m not going to and that’s final!” I’m not sure why, but I felt power in these words. I put my head up in support of my statement. “Okay, we don’t have to...” She shook her head “Flutter... you just changed my mind!” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Everyday we spent together made my life so much better. They listened and cared about me. This was all I would ever need. This was how I wanted to spend the rest of my days. One day Twilight was home sick, so it was just me and Rainbow. We headed up to the lake instead of our usual meadow. We positioned ourselves on boulders lakeside, and threw whatever we found into the lake using "telepathy". “Hey Rainbow, do you like me?” She stopped throwing stuff and looked me in the eyes confused at my question. “Whatcha mean Flutter?” “I mean, you never seemed to care for me too much before these powers. Are you my friend? Even if I didn’t have these?” I had wondered alot recently of what life would be like without these "powers". “Listen Flutter, we have been and always will be friends. Its just.. your so quiet, its hard to actually talk to you. But you’ve opened up more, thats why, these powers have no effect on who YOU are.” She was honest, yet I’d never heard her talk like that before, not that deep. “Wow Rainbow, I don’t think I’ve ever heard you say something that deep before.” She chuckled and looked down to blush. “Yeah, just been thinking alot. Y’know, about life. I’ve decided to learn some stuff. I decided I’m not entirely happy how I am, I want to change it, to be better. I found someone I want to be better with.” “Whos that?” “A pony named Caramel, hes one of AJ’s cousins. Hes really nice, and we just kinda..... click, y’know?” She smiled at me, she definetly would change, and it seemed she had a little. I was proud for her. “Good for you Dash.” We hugged, but then she headed back home to sleep some. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The next day Twilight contacted both of us. All she said was we were needed at the library and it was urgent. I galloped as fast as I could, but remembered Rainbow could teleport. So I tried to do it, and successfully found myself on Twilight’s now broken coffee table. Rainbow apparently had the same idea, since she was laying under a pile of books that somehow fell from the bookshelf. “Um, next time you two can just use the door y’know.” Twilight seemed annoyed at our destruction. “Hehe, sorry Twi. So whats so urgent?” Me and Rainbow gathered around her tabel, where spike had laid out documents and books. “Yesterday while I was sick I had spike research anything he could find about those stones. This is what he found.” Twilight handed them one book named “The Gods Restraints.” I flipped open to a page with a picture of the stones on it. It said: “Nearly 12 milenia’s ago, the world was barren of life. But then a great light brought forth three gods. Celestia, god of harmony. Luna, god of darkness. Discord, god of disharmony. Each god possessed unlimited magical powers. They ruled the world, and the ponies they created along with other animals, for three more millenia. But then discord grew envious of his lack of effect on the world. He turned against his fellow gods, and tried to conquer all. To stop him the gods imprisoned him within a stone, and hid it away. They worried the same thoughts would corrupt them, so they gave two ponies their powers, and locked themselves away along with Discord.” “You don’t think....” Rainbow didn’t move but she looked Twilight in the eyes. I was too stunned to even think. Did we posses the powers of gods? “We have their powers, thats all I can think.” We all knew it was true, but we still were too stunned for further discussion.