//------------------------------// // Waking Up // Story: Prophet, Prime, and Ponies // by LTrainTheEpic //------------------------------// Waking Up Discord's Perspective I tried getting into the creatures head to talk to him but it was just so chaotic that I couldn’t get to the guy. All that I could find out about him himself was his name. He was called Lawrence Barnes. He had spent the last twenty-four years battling alien invaders called the Ceph and had lost a lot of really good friends. The black suit that he was wearing was permanently clung to his skin like a part of his body. He was part of a race called humans, but thanks to the suit, he wasn’t considered to be human anymore. Some people didn’t even think that he should be called Lawrence anymore. They called him by a simple call sign. They called him, Prophet. Just then, I heard a crackling noise coming from his feet and hands. The suit was starting to recede into his skin, revealing the man inside. Once it was finished, all that laid in that hospital bed was a dark skinned human with no muzzle or mane at all, dressed in nothing but simple white linens. The only proof of the suit still being a part of him was the blue, glowing hexagon patterns on the sides of his face. Meanwhile, in Prophet’s mind Prophet’s Perspective While lying in my bed, having flashback after flashback of the Ceph vs. human war that I had survived, this strange creature (or mix of creatures) named Discord kept appearing and calling my name for seconds at a time. Suddenly, the nightmares stopped, and the nanosuit voice played in my head. “Loading complete, commencing nanite fusion sequence.” Just then a pressing sensation began moving up my body, starting at my hands and feet. It didn’t hurt that much and only lasted for a few seconds. “Nanite fusion sequence complete, beginning awakening process.” Said the nanosuit. After hours of lying in bed, unconscious and unstable, I woke up only to be greeted by the creature from my previous dreams. He was real, trying to fuck with my head. I wasn’t going to have any of that, and I attacked. I got up out of my bed rather quickly and grabbed his neck, forcing him to the ground. I saw my arm and noticed that it was my arm. That must’ve been what the nanite fusion sequence was. I quickly ignored it and began to interrogate Discord. “Are you the one who was trying to fuck with my head?” I yelled. “What? NO! I was just trying to talk to you.” He said in a British accent. “Yeah, likely story. Listen buddy, I’ve had enough aliens trying to get into my mind, so don’t you EVER pull that shit on me again. GOT IT?” He looked back at me with a mixture of confusion and disgust. After a few seconds with no response, Discord pushed me back through some sort of invisible force. He pinned me to the wall just a few feet off of the ground. Then he retaliated. “I don’t take kindly to ponies who try and attack me when I’m only trying to help them Mr. Barnes.” He said with anger in his eyes. “I have a lot more power than just entering ponies’ minds, and unless you want to see me use it, you best treat me with respect.” He put me down and allowed me to speak. “I’m sorry.” I said, feeling like a little kid being forced to apologize for something I didn’t regret doing. “It’s just that, I’ve been through a lot, and the last thing I wanted to deal with was someone or something trying to get inside my head. By the way, did you call me a pony?” “Oh…shoot, I forgot about that. Let me explain…” Discord opened the window to my hospital bedroom and to my disbelief all I saw were ponies. Sentient, talking, ponies. He then went on to explain that the name of the world I was in was called Equestria, and the entire planet was filled with different creatures. Each of these creatures was a different thing that I had only learned about in myths and stories. There were Griffins, Dragons, Minotaurs, but the dominant species were Earth ponies, Unicorns, and Pegasi. The leaders of this world were winged Unicorns called Alicorns. Discord himself however, was something different. He was a mixture of creatures called a Draconaquus. This was to represent chaos and disharmony since he was the spirit of such. Once he was done, my jaw hit the floor. “But what about you?” he asked, “Most of the information I got from your head was about your adventures against these Ceph creatures. I’d like to know more about your suit.” “Well, it’s called the nanosuit.” I began, “It allows me to become invulnerable, turn invisible, run faster, jump higher, see in the dark… the list goes on.” He listened intently as I continued my little lecture on the nanosuit. “But what about the fact of it receding into your skin?” he asked once I was finished. “That’s because of these things in my suit called nanites. Somehow, somewhere in my adventures, they had become free, and according to an old friend of mine, that allows me to take on any form imaginable.” “So what? You can shape shift now or something?” he asked. “I guess so.” I responded. I honestly didn’t know myself. “Well, why not try and change back into your suit.” Discord suggested. I did what he said and tried numerous methods until I tried thinking the words Change form to nanosuit. As soon as I said that a voice played in my head. “New pigmentation code accepted. Switching to new form.” Said the nanosuit. Before I new it, I was wearing the suit again. “Alright then, I guess it works.” I said. “I am going to have so much fun with you.” Discord said with a devilish grin. Oh crap. I thought, what does that mean? Back at The Crystal Empire… Optimus’ Perspective. I awoke from my slumber and immediately unsheathed my weapons, a gun in one hand and a sword in the other. I stabbed the open air in front of me in the belief that a Decepticon might be in front of me ready to fire at my head. Springing up from the ground, I heard the dozens of terrified screams from multiple people. Startled by this, I stumbled back and accidentally stepped on someone’s house. “I’m sorry!” I yelled out in vain. By the time my cry of apology had left my mouth, everyone had gone into hiding. Suddenly, out came a little blue Pegasus with a mane that had all six colors of the rainbow. “What? Did the aliens send a bumbling grunt by mistake?” she asked. The little flying horse then proceeded to do the fisticuffs stance in midair. “You’re nothing. C’mon, I’ll take you on myself.” “You can talk?” I asked, ignoring her fruitless intimidation. “Of course I can talk!” she responded, insult and aggravation in her voice. “Rainbow, let me handle this” said another, stern sounding voice. Slowly, six other horses came out from their hiding spots. They were all two dimensional and multicolored. I looked at my body for the first time and saw the same features about myself. Something else was wrong. I was only able to spot two normal looking horses. The rest of them all had wings, horns, or even both. Not to mention they were dressed in very elegant clothing. Finally, the purple one with both wings and a horn spoke to me first. “Um… Hello, my name is princess Twilight Sparkle. These are my friends…” She introduced me to all of her friends one by one. Applejack, the orange one with a Stetson hat similar to a human farmer’s. Rainbow Dash, the cyan Pegasus with a rainbow mane and cyan coat. Pinkie Pie, the… well pink, happy, and kind of creepy earth pony with a curly mane of the same color. Rarity, the white unicorn with purple mane and slight accent. Fluttershy, the yellow Pegasus with light pink mane and fear in her eyes. Princess Cadence, pink pony with a horn and wings as well as the sister in law of Twilight. Shining Armor, the only male of the group, sporting a white coat and a turquoise mane, brother of Twilight and husband of Cadence. “What’s your name?” she asked when she was done. I answered, and my voice must’ve scared them. “My name is Optimus Prime.” I said. “I come from the planet of Cybertron. I am leader of the Autobots and defender of planet Earth.” I stood up and was immediately met with horrified faces and a look of intimidation from Rainbow Dash. “So why are you here?” she asked angrily, flying up to my face and going into a midair boxing stance. “Are you some kind of invasion force?” “Rainbow Dash, don’t be so rude.” Twilight said sternly. “I’m not even sure how I got here.” I told them. “The last thing I remember, I was hit by a rocket and shot by a portal, generating laser. However, the portal should’ve only brought my home planet of Cybertron to Earth. Apparently, I have been sent to a different dimension.” “I hate to interrupt, but you said you were from a place called Cybertron right?” asked Twilight. “That is correct.” I responded. “But you said you defend a planet called Earth. How does that work?” “Well, it’s a pretty long story-“ “Ohhh! I LOVE stories! Can you tell us please?” Asked the overexcited Pinkie Pie. “It all began on my home world of Cybertron…” I proceeded to tell them the story of how Cybertron fell to the tragedy of war. Everything from the Allspark, to The Fallen, to the Great War between the Autobots and Decepticons was covered. Then came the part about finding planet Earth and its inhabitants called humans. I talked about Sam Witwickey, and of course, my comrades, the other Autobots. I ended my story with how I was able to get here through the Decepticon spacebridge. Once I was finished, their jaws hit the floor, as humans would say. “Oh my, you come from a very hard life.” Said Fluttershy as I finished. “You truly are a brave soul darling.” Added Rarity. “Thank you.” I responded, ”What keeps me going is the hope that one day, my race can go home and live in the harmony that it once knew.” Then Twilight told me something that I thought I’d never hear from any other race. “Well, here in Equestria, we’ve lived in harmony for thousands of years. Sure, we’ve had a few attacks here and there, and people still argue and get angry with each other but there’s never been anything that’s been able to completely destroy us.” “But how?” I asked, interested beyond belief, “How have you been able to maintain such unprecedented harmony?” “With the Elements of Harmony silly.” Said Pinkie Pie, “Me, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy and Applejack are all bearers of different ones.” “Fascinating, what kinds of elements would these be?” I asked, getting more intrigued by the minute. “They’re basically the same things that form a healthy relationship.” Answered Applejack. “I’m the element of honesty, Rainbow dash is loyalty, Pinkie Pie is laughter, Fluttershy is kindness, Rarity is generosity, and Twilight is magic.” “Magic?” My mind had officially been blown at this point. “Yeah, you know, Magic.” Twilight said, “Unicorns and Alicorns have the ability to control it through their horns and when you combine the first five elements you get magic which is the sixth.” “Where I come from, magic is a thing of legend, instead we have science which is like magic but instead of spells and potions, we have machines and chemicals.” “WHAT?!” They all asked in unison, eyes wide with shock. “Is something wrong?” “It’s just that…we find it a little strange that two entire species could’ve survived so many eons without the use of magic.” Twilight answered. Then she whispered something that I still managed to hear. “I wonder if the other alien we found comes from a world without magic.” “Other alien?” I asked in a bit confusion. “Drat, did I just say that out loud?” She said, “Oh well, no sense in hiding it now. Last night, an alien with similar anatomy to your description of a human landed in the middle of an Equestrian education meeting and ironically enough, we were debating weather or not to teach children about the possibility of alien life on other planets. Suddenly, he just crashed through the ceiling. To my knowledge, it’s still recovering in the hospital. It was wearing some sort of black suit.” Pinkie Pie started laughing uncontrollably as soon as Twilight finished her story. “HAHAHA, while you were wheeze he just crashed through.” Suddenly, she gasped as if having some sort of epiphany, then started talking in a very, very fast manor “oh my gosh, we should totally have two meet each other. We could throw a welcome party, you two could be friends, that would so super, duper, uper, extra spectabulous.” “Calm down Pinkie, Optimus has only been here for a few minutes. A welcome party is the last thing we should be dealing with right now.” Cadence broke in. “What do you suggest we do?” Rainbow Dash asked, “Just show him around town in hopes that nopony will run away in terror?” “To be honest, I think meeting this other specimen of yours would be nice.” I responded “Well I guess it is your decision.” Said Twilight, “But I don’t think you’ll be able to fit inside of a train car.” “No need, I can just turn into a vehicle and follow you there.” I said “Wait, What?” she asked with surprise and confusion. “Here, let me show you.” I responded. I then shifted my body into my signature form of a semi truck. Needless to say, I got a few astonished stares. “That’s AWESOME!” yelled Rainbow Dash while performing an acrobatic loop through the air. “The only question is, how fast are you?” she asked, a slight tone of competition in her voice. “Not to brag but I can go up one hundred and thirty-five miles per hour in this form.” I said with a bit of friendly pride. “That’s it?” she asked both disappointed and proud at the same time, “I was once able to reach MACH 10 with my two wings and I can do it again if I wanted to.” She bragged. “Rainbow, you can boast once you and Optimus have gotten to know each other better.” Said Twilight, “For now, we need to get back to Canterlot to we can figure out if Optimus and this other alien know each other.” Rainbow Dash responded with a slump of her shoulders and a frown. Once we said our goodbyes to Cadence and Shining Armor the six ponies got onto the train while I followed in truck mode. I was more than eager to meet this other alien who was most likely another human. It could’ve even been Sam or Captain Lennox. However, I also wondered how he and I were going to get home and of course, if all of my comrades were still all right.