The Crash
Thrilling, that was the only way to describe it. Soaring through the atmosphere, Ness was riding on an inter-dimensional ball of pure energy. I think it is safe to say that no one has ever done this before in the history of anything, and that fact made it all the more awesome. If Ness had a body, he would surely be riding it like a cowboy.
Ness had managed to grab, figuratively speaking, onto the last ball of light as flew through the crack in, wherever he came from. He was riding is way across the earth’s atmosphere in a blaze of glory, still caught up in the fact that he had learned how to do an incredibly powerful Psychokinetic attack only know by roughly three people, including himself.
Ness’ friend, he couldn’t remember his name, had talked about learning it in some form of training that involved the emptying if the mind. It was called something like “Moo” training, he found that funny. “Why would they name something after the sound a cow makes?” was a question he had forgot to ask, but it was too late to ask now anyways. He remembered his name rhymed with moo; Doo? No, Soo? No again, Hoo? Definitely not, Poo? Don’t be sil- wait, that was his name! Poo, he still found it funny. He had to try so hard to keep from laughing at him the whole time he was being followed by him in his journey.
“Oh right,” Ness thought, snapping out of his train of mental ramblings, “I’m soaring through the air on a meteor I made all by myself.” He started mentally smiling wider than he could possibly imagine, at least when he still had a body, as he was getting closer to the ground. He could start to make out some of the features of the world below, a medium sized town, some hills with some lights, and a beach. It looked like the hills had some sort of gathering of some sort of animals that he couldn’t make out clearly due to how fast he was moving.
All of a sudden, one his falling stars hit the water of the beach with a tsunami-sized splash, followed shortly by another. Some of the animals had started to run away, but most of them stayed in awe of the show. Ness revelled in the awesomeness of his first impression on this population. He saw some of the animals run strait into the houses of the town. He was reminded of the Saturn and Tenda tribes, and realized that these animals probably weren’t simply wild animals, but a new alien tribe. On second thought, Ness realized that he would be the alien in this scenario. “Or this could simply be a faraway land on earth, meaning I could be able to go home... finally.” Ness mused.
Ness, stuck in his thoughts once again, failed to notice that his particular star was on a very obvious crash course to the beach. Ness was often caught up in thought, and therefore didn’t talk much. While he had no problem holding a conversation, he never went around randomly talking to people to get every bit of information he could. No, that would be just plain rude.
The resulting crash caught Ness off guard and snapped him out of reverie, but he was unfortunately plunged into the core of the fallen star. He was thrust into darkness once again.
“Hey, who turned out the lights?”
Twilight Sparkle awoke in the library, mind still hazy from her restful sleep, as a young dragon gently shook her. “Mmm,” she mumbled, “what is it Spike?”
“I made you some breakfast; it’s sitting on the table. I was also w-“ he stopped when he noticed Twilight wrinkle her nose, as if she smelled something rotten.
“What on Equestria is that smell?”
“Oh, that? I don’t know Twi, but it isn’t that bad if you ask me.”
“Spike, you have eaten muffins that had worms baked into them, I don’t think you are a very good judge of anything taste or smell related.”
“But taste and smell are totally unrelated,” Spike whined.
“Yes they are that is final. What else were you going to say before you stopped?”
“Oh, right! I wanted to know if you wanted to go see the crash site of the comet or whatever, seeing as you pretty much ran home after it landed on the beach.”
“Meteor Spike, and we walked home at a brisk pace, and it was because I was tired... I mean you were tired. I wasn’t scared, I was just startled from the impact, and that’s all.” The subject of their trip home was making Twilight nervous. “Anyway, that would be a good idea, but it can wait until after breakfast.” Twilight said before she caught a big whiff of the unknown smell from earlier and almost gagged.
The smell had completely ruined Twilight’s appetite. She took two bites an apple and didn’t even touch the hay fries that Spike had prepared. She put the food away, saving it for later as she and Spike got ready to set out again.
“What do you want me to bring for you Twi?”
“Let’s see; two quills, two scrolls, a couple pots of ink, glass sample jars, and some chemical pH testers, I think that’s everything.”
“Alright, I’ll get everything packed up.” Spike started to gather the supplies in the red wagon that they had used the night before. As Spike worked, he became more and more anxious to look at the object that had caused such a stir in the usually quiet town.
By now, Spike had packed everything up into the wagon and was now waiting impatiently for Twilight to finish whatever she was doing when she left him to get ready.
“Hurry up Twilight! We’re wasting time just standing here.”
Twilight emerged from the basement of the library wearing a white lab coat, thick rimmed glasses, and some sort of metal tool was by her side.
“Uh Twi, What are you wearing?”
“Well, Rarity said that I should try wearing clothes as a part of my everyday life. Plus it makes me feel more, Science-y”
“It looks silly, and you don’t even need glasses, why are you wearing them?”
Twilight sighed. “Do you want me to wear this or not?”
“Twilight, those clothes make you look like a huge nerd.”
“Fine, I’ll take it off.” Twilight retreated to the basement again.
‘Where does she get her sense of fashion?’ Spike wondered to himself before realizing he just accidentally started the waiting game again. Spike sighed deeply.
It was already an hour to noon by the time Twilight Sparkle and Spike finally left the library. As they walked in the cool summer air, they noticed that the smell had caused the entire town to hide in their houses. All of the ponies that normally would be tending the stalls in the market and their customers were all inside, avoiding the smell at all costs. Twilight and Spike walked in eerie silence to the beach.
Spike, ever so oblivious to the awful smell, was confused to why there wasn’t anypony outside and promptly asked Twilight; “why isn’t anypony outside today?”
Twilight, struggling to ignore the smell that had only grown in intensity from when she left the library, looked visibly annoyed and replied; “It’s that smell, everypony must be trying to escape it and they must be hiding inside.”
“What smell?”
Twilight paused to explain the foul odour but stopped realizing the futility of it and simply said “...Never mind”
“Okay then...” said Spike, still very confused.
Not wanting to unwittingly get Twilight even more annoyed, Spike decided to keep quiet for the rest of their walk.
Ness was back in the darkness, but this was different. Instead of being an endless void of despair, it was more like being locked in a cupboard. Not that Ness had ever been locked in a cupboard, he was always treated nice at school, and had plenty of smaller kids looking up to him. He felt a pang of worry; would he ever see his friends and family again? Yes, of course he would! He would never let anything stand in the way of getting home, not time, space, or Giygas. Oh wait, forget that last one, he had already won against that, with the help of friends. He felt a longing to be with them again. He never had close friends like that before. Sure, lots of people liked him, some even idolized him, but he never had a best friend, let alone four of them.
Ness tried to gather up energy for an attack against his, this time, very limited void, but to no avail. He had used up all of his power breaking through that other wall. He longed for some magic pudding. He then realized that he couldn’t overexert himself in the psychic department because he would never know when the next time he could relax and restore his energy would ever be. He remembered when he was practicing his PK abilities at the beginning of his journey. He would always be a few steps away from an area where he could recover quickly. This had allowed him to slowly become better and better at his PK... “something” attack. He couldn’t remember what it was called, but he knew that it was more powerful when he focused on what it was that he loved most.
Then, Ness thought he heard voices coming from somewhere, sounding like an argument. He looked everywhere but then chided himself; of course he could only see darkness, like that would change. The voices faded out after a couple minutes. He started to feel a pulling sensation all over. All of a sudden he was yanked in the direction that the voices had come from. He realized that whatever the voice was, it was pulling him out of the dark. He stopped any resistance he had against the force and relaxed. He was yanked again. ‘One more time,’ Ness thought, ‘and I will probably be out of here.’ There was a pause, Ness waited in anticipation.
...5...
...4...
...3...
...2...
...1...
‘Hmm, maybe 5 seconds wasn’t enough time to wai- ‘
YANK!
They had finally made it, they were at the beach. And what a sight it was, a large crater, as wide as five ponies end to end, and as deep as three ponies standing on top of each other. At the center of the cosmic crater was a super bright ball of light. Twilight had to shield her eyes for fear of being blinded. Spike, not being an ordinary pony, had no problem looking directly at the ball of light. He saw that underneath the bright light was an intricately designed, floating gem. That gem had a no
“Twilight, it’s the biggest, most delicious looking gem that I have ever seen.”
“Really? I can’t see anything, it’s too bright.”
The crater was too deep for Spike to just walk down into it; he was just too little. He got the feeling of greed inside him again, the feeling that all he ever wanted was in that crater. He wanted to see, feel, and bask in its glory, and he couldn’t wait any longer for it.
“Twilight, quick; Levitate it up here!”
“I don’t know Spike; it could be hot, or dangerous. Besides, it smells worse than our walk through the town, this might even be the source of the stench. We need to observe it fully before we get close to it.”
“Look at it; we don’t have to wait any longer, you can just levitate it up here, can’t you?”
“Of course I can” Twilight said, not wanting to appear incapable, “I just think that we should put safety above the thrill of discovery,” said Twilight, obviously having a hard time ignoring the thirst for knowledge.
Twilight and Spike were having a silent argument. The argument was fought intensely; for three minutes, Twilight stared between Spike and ball of light. Eventually she caved in to both Spike and her own like minded ideas. She wrapped the object in a field of her magenta coloured magic. She was surprised at how light the whole thing was, except she couldn’t move it from its hovering state. It seemed to be stuck there, rather than actually hovering.
“Hurry up Twi!”
“Shhh! It’s stuck, I can’t quite move it.”
“Just give it a tug.”
“Magic doesn’t work that way, Spike.”
“I don’t see why not.”
“It’s too complicated to explain.”
“Just try it; it can’t hurt to try, can it?”
Twilight gave a frustrated grunt, “Fine, just please be quiet, I need to concentrate.” Twilight began to concentrate. ‘Okay magic, please happen,’ she always thought this when she was trying to do a new type of magic that she hadn’t tried before. Although it probably didn’t help, it was a mental quirk she developed as a filly.
She wrapped the meteor in a magenta glow once again, putting all of her effort into the single spell. She “yanked” on the meteor with as much energy she had mustered. She felt something budge, be she saw no change in the floating ball. Frustrated, she closed her eyes in concentration. With a greater level of concentration, and therefore force, she tried to move it once again. The whole thing budged less than a centimetre. Thoroughly annoyed, Twilight clenched her eyes shut and began to pour every last bit of magical stamina she had into one force spell. It took her a couple seconds before she was ready to unleash the spell that probably was beyond overkill. With all her magical might, she pulled.
[Cliffhanger! I couldn't resist. Either that or it takes a long time to write. I could have either released now, or later with slightly more content. I decided on the former. Enjoy!]