Planet Earth, a thriving planet of the most interesting living creatures in the solar system. Oceans far as the eye can see, with green trees and plains covering the land for the creatures to feast off of. Where the most intelligent creatures on planet Earth are none other then the human race.
Humans are a mixed creatures between harsh and misunderstood, too smart and kind, whatever the situation makes them to survive on the planet. They never knew the word 'fight' before the existence of their planet. Instead they were prey to the large predators that easily over powered them, making humans cower and run in trees where they could be moderately safe.
They were all prey before the first human learned to use the simplest of weapons; The rock. But to the late primitive humans, it was the chance for survival. They were no longer food to predators that think they are easy meals to them. Instead, the humans finally understood the one thing that made them the most deadly of the species, they all learned to 'fight' back.
Let us fast forward in time to the present day humans. No longer do they live in caves and struggle to make fire. They now live in advanced homes made of tough material and live in large buildings that touch the skies and even pierce the heavens.
They no longer have the need for sharp rocks and spears to kill their enemies. Now they have advanced, with their weapons being modern day guns, bombs, and nuclear weapons that with a just push of a single button may launch a single missile that holds a miniature sun to the targeted location and can completely wipe away its existence.
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With such massive weapons at hand, soon came fear and paranoia with other countries holding the different races of the humans. They too had weapons that could destroy anything they would consider a threat to their homeland and their allies. In which case, the humans would proceed to take action to their enemies and whoever should pose to attack them. The word for what they seem to always commit and understand was 'war'.
Days became months, months became years, and when one side returns it is either in celebration for their victory or in loss and disgrace.
All seemed lost, for the humans only made allies for material gain and only fought to take the oppositions land while they continually depleted their own. True, while the humans were a self-inflicting race, at the same time they had also remained a kind and intelligent species.
As their knowledge and technology slowly increased over the years, as-well did their ideas of having peace between their former enemies. Years of hate and prejudice made them realize that it was pointless to do such terrible things to their fellow men and the humans decided to set aside their petty differences in order to finally live in perfect peace and harmony.
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Through years of trial and error, the humans managed to direct their science and technology toward medicine; no longer using their minds to think of other ways to kill each other, but instead heal the sick and cure all illnesses. Slow it may have been for them, but it came out to be a planet where they no longer needed to attack other lands for survival, nor did they make any more weapons to take other lives to save their own. Truly they made an era in which peace and harmony is no longer out of reach for them.
Happy years of living in harmony was cut short though when an enemy they never thought could, arose and acted to destroy everything they worked in order to achieve peace. It was none other than their own creations that helped them raise a better life for their generation. Technology was threatening to disrupt their happy lives in order to wipe out the living beings that breathed life into them. Due to years of peace the humans thought that they no longer needed to fight each other, making them inexperienced in combat with the tools that they used to fight one another centuries ago. Cities that were once full of people and opportunities soon became leveled to the ground turning all who lived there to dead corpses from the sheer amount of endless drones gunning down anything that wasn't one of them. Towns that held quiet communities became large craters due to the missiles that were launched by the machines.
This war waged on for years, but the human race, slowly turning to extinction, made their final decision before the machines made the most heinous of acts ever attempted. The machines intended to destroy not only the living things on planet Earth, but to destroy the planet itself- to prevent humans from digging underground and plan a way to overthrow them. Without a doubt the human race will no longer live when the machines final attack against them was made. So, in a last ditch effort for survival, a small group of humans fled from all the horror and blood shed by the robotic warlords and took shelter in an abandoned research facility. There, the small group of survivors made small rockets; these rockets held precious cargo in each one of them and had different coordinates far away from Earth so the machines could never find them. One by one each rocket flew off into the sky and far away into the stars. Each human, leaving and left behind accepted their fate and decided to face the end of their world.
All except a single couple no older than 18 remained, holding each others hands and looking at the only rocket that has yet depart into orbit. Inside the rocket was a young new born child, still asleep when outside their shelter blood curdling screams and loud gun shots rang clear. The young father reached in to his pocket, revealing a small, shiny object no bigger than the young infants hand. He placed it next to his young sons pillow and put back his arm to his side. Looking at his wife, he saw fresh tears streaming down her face as she tried not to break down right then and there knowing that there was no other way but to send away their only child. Taking slow steady breaths to calm herself, she reached into her bag and pulled out a miniature human male with the colors of red and blue and placed it in the babies arms.
"My son," The young man said trying to hold back his own tears, "It may seem our time is short, hopefully the planet that is assigned to you will raise you like their own child." He then looked at his wife and nodded his head for her to say her goodbyes. The wife then looked at her child and kissed his small head and smiled at him.
"My child," She stopped, her breath becoming shallow and fast paste, "it breaks our hearts to know that we will no longer see you grow to become a fine young man, to see you make friends, to see your first love, and it's even worse that we won't be able to say that.....we love you very much because we-..." Her tears finally broke free in her eyes and she slumped down onto the floor, crying her eyes out, never to see her only child again and not having any more time to spend with one another.
"We hope you have a safe landing, my son," The father said pulling the lever down and listening as the rocket hissed and aimed upward toward the sky, closing the cockpit and securing the child inside, it began to lift up never to be seen again. He looked back to his still crying wife. "It is done, my dear, we can only hope that they won't find him."
"I just w-wish t-that w-we can still have more time! To bathe him while he is still young, have him to learn to ride a bike, and to always let him know that we always love him!" She shouted, tears rushing out of her eyes, blurring her vision.
"We can only hope that the parents that take care of him will do that for us." He then placed a hand on her shoulder, the other firmly in her hand, gently put his lips to his loves mouth and kissed her. Each of them closing their eyes seeing and their lives flash before them, to how they got married, and when they had received their first son. Opening their eyes and looking out in to the distance they saw that a large, bright light engulfing everything in its path was heading straight at them. Before the blast could reach them they tightened their hands and looked back up to the stars and moon to say one final sentence.
"We love you so very much Clark." Before the blast stood a happy newlywed couple with a future to look forward to. Now they are no more, as well as the entire planet Earth, no longer holding a race of advanced species, instead showing nothing but the endless bits of rock that was once called Earth.
PLANET UNKNOWN LOCATION: GOODSPRINGS
Good Springs is a rural town that holds only 1,000 happy civilians that are living in this peaceful town. Miles away from Good springs is a small farm where a young couple lived in happiness. Flash Lighting, who is a Pegasus Stallion was plowing the field on a sunny day, sweat pouring down his face he wiped his forehead with his arm, and went back to work on the fields.
"Honey, come inside," Said his wife; Spring Shimmer, a Unicorn who was holding a cold glass of pink lemonade. "I made fresh lemonade and I hate to let it all waste." Spring Shimmer then went back inside to wait for her husband to finish.
"Coming dear!" Walking back to his house he looked back to the sky just in time to see a falling star. Since when does a falling star happen in the day time? Squinting his eyes to focus on the falling mass Flash noticed the star was heading closer and closer to his farm!
"Honey get out of the house quick!" Flash shouted looking back to see the falling star crash inside his fields.
"What happened Flash?!" Spring asked, running out beside her husband.
"Something huge fell out of the sky and into our fields!" He took his wife to the crash site and saw the full extent of the damage. After what seemed like forever, they finally found what he thought was the falling star, but instead found a large, oval shaped metal object in his half-damaged fields. Slowly, stepping close he lifted his right hand to gently tapped the object of mystery.
"What are you doing?" Asked the distraught unicorn, scared of what might happen to her beloved. "Get over here! You don't know what it is!"
"That's exactly why, I want to know what it is dear. No need to worry." Said the husband, inching his way steadily closer to the crashed object that was still unmoving. Out in the corner of his eye he found a circle shape protruding out of the metal star. Pressing it he heard a loud 'hiss', making him stumble backwards and looked at what is happening to the star.
The couple was baffled as the large structure slowly lifted its front side to reveal that on their farm, inside of a large, metal star that fell from the sky, a tiny hairless foal was still sleeping inside of it, and had no idea of where or what the foal came from. Spring Shimmer and Flash Lighting both walked to the still sleeping foal and looked at each other to see if one of them has an answer.
"What do we do dear?" Asked Spring, still eying the little one carefully. Looking back to her husband she said, "We can't just leave the poor thing here."
"Your right honey," Flash then gently grabbed the child and cradled the foal into his arms securely. "We need to get this little one inside before others ponies arrive to see what happened."
"What about the thing the foal was sleeping in?" She asked him.
"One step at a time. First, we need to get him into the house and then get this thing into our barn before the others arrive here," Flash said to Spring. After moving the child into the house and out of sight, they both focused on putting the metal star in to their barn. Spring levitated the Star with her magic, while at the same time Flash pushed it in to the barn and covered it in a dirty blanket, Closing the barn door just in time before the authorities had arrived to question them on what happened.
For hours they were asked about what happened and if they saw anything out of the ordinary. The couple knew they couldn't tell them the truth because then the guards would send in the military and take away the young foal so they could experiment it on the poor thing. So instead they made up a story, saying it was a stray fire ball from Spring's magic going haywire and was told by the local guards to always be careful with magic and finally left their house.
"Well thank you for your time with the questions, sir, and also tell your wife to be more careful, ok?" Asked the town guard writing in her note pad as a ‘accidental magic mishap’.
"Yes ma'am, I will." Flash assured, then closed the door.
"What do we do now?" Asked Spring making a face at Flash, obviously still worried about the sleeping alien.
"The only thing we can do sweetie." He looked upstairs and climbed to the 2nd floor, to their bedroom that had a young foal sleeping blissfully under the cover of their bed.
"You mean we adopt him?" She questioned Flash.
"Yes, Spring we have to." He then slowly scooped up the young alien foal and looked back to his wife and smiled.
"Just look at him Spring! He almost looks like us! It’s incredible!" He said.
"Won't any pony notice his......differences?" Spring said.
"We will say he was in a serious accident that caused him to look this way, it'll be fine," Flash reassured her. He looked back at the still sleeping foal in his arms, a smile slowly forming on his muzzle.
"I know he will bring a huge change here Spring, I can feel it!" Flash exclaimed, giving the child to her so she could see what he was feeling.
"He is pretty cute...you know, for an alien." She stated.
"He is perfect the way he is." Flash then looked out his bedroom to see that night as already arrived to tell the ponies to go to sleep. "What do you think we should name him?" He asked.
"I still wonder if he is a male." Said Spring, still holding the young foal in her arms and starting to rock him.
"Stallion intuition." Flash deadpanned.
"Then I like him to be called Lighting shimmer," Spring looked at her husband and smiled at the name. "Sounds perfect, don't you think?"
"Yeah, that could work." Flash looked at their new son Lightning Shimmer.
"Welcome to planet Equis, Lighting Shimmer... to your new home." Flash hugged his wife and son in a warm embrace for this miracle that landed in to their lives. Unknowing that in the years to come for the couple, they will experience changes they were not ready to discover about their son.
End of Chapter 1