Entropy

by PseudoBob Delightus

Lost Chapters - Story Bible (And Other Notes)

[NOTE] P1 means Part 1. I don't recall what E means. I think MSL means Main Story-Line (Entropy was the largest of three stories I intended to write in this universe).

[FUN FACT] Entropy was originally called Unheard Of, and Ethan's powers were originally sound-based. But he was never a Dragonborn.

1. Universe was created, as well as several elements and gods. The elements are pure, sentient embodiments of concepts, and powers. The gods are technically non-living, but they are self-conscious and can manipulate existing, natural forces as they please (they must witness such forces changing in order to learn how to artificially produce or affect them).
2. One of the gods, now known as Discord, inhabits the milky way. As a formless god, he experiences time linearly, but can change his perception of it. This becomes his first power.
3. He was thinking that there must be more of him somewhere, but he could not find anything other than empty solar systems after billions of years. After he created a few planets, he made earth. It was very close to successful, at least to his eyes, but it yielded no life, again.
4. Very distraught, he almost gave up. He simply made a copy of that planet, but something extraordinary happened. It yielded something that he could only think was life, from a source of magic from across the universe (possibly the element of magic). He spent the next billions of years trying to create magic, create life. He eventually succeeded, but to a great personal cost of most of his power, which was in the form of magic, using the planet as a carrier. This became Equus.
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6. Discord had to abandon his life (sort of) in order to create life, finally, but it started growing advanced life, some of which evolved the use of magic. Those were the alicorns, and they could almost rival him in power at that point. Fortunately for him, he gained the Element of Change after he created them.
7. He had no intentions to leave the planet, as there was still life there, but he taught them how to do things. He gave them spoken word, and later written language, based on what he learns from Earth (he can detect things on it, still). He also writes books about humans, and gives them human inventions.
8. They start to resent his obsession with control, and they get into a very one-sided power struggle. In order to preserve his position, in a very short-sighted lapse, he splits most of the alicorns into the three factions of ponies. This enrages them even more, and they go so far as to attempting on his life. He has qualms about killing his ‘children’, but starts to stray into it.
9. He is unkillable, but his horrible actions and reactions lose his element within the year.
10. His loss of power corrupts him into Discord, and he goes insane and kills off most of the remaining alicorns, with his remaining elemental power.
11. The two alicorn sisters, the most powerful in Equestria, stay calm and regain peace among the remaining alicorns though nonviolent means. Discord is still corrupted, but after no longer being able to do much about the alicorns, he tortures the three factions.
12. That was far enough for the sisters, Celestia and Luna, so they found their opportunity and used their elements of harmony against him.
13. Since Discord lost all his power, he could not spend enough to convert magic back to him, and he succumbed to the elements. He was immortal, however, and was not fully imprisoned in stone. He could still watch. And wait.

14. Celestia and Luna, in addition to gaining full use of the Elements of Harmony, took up the responsibility of raising the sun and moon for Equus, keeping it in harmony and making both sequences equal in total time of the year. The two sisters were already extremely powerful, and with Celestia’s Element of Harmony: Magic, they learned to control these things quickly
15. The other sentient beings of Equus were jealous of the power held by only two individuals, especially since they were almost mortals, but Celestia and Luna managed to convince the other species that the sun and moon were in good hooves. The relationships between the species have been mutually strained ever since, resulting in minor hostilities, as well as intrusions. It is also why the other species are considered rare.
16. After several centuries of ruling, Luna was starting to lose patience with her sister, and the seemingly unimportant task of raising the moon at night. She started to lose her grasp on her three elements, Laughter, Generosity and Loyalty, while Celestia stood strong with her three, Honesty, Kindness and Magic.
17. After a thousand years, she used her three elements in her sudden switch from good to evil. She plunged the world into eternal night, and was almost successful until Celestia fought back. She was on equal ground with Celestia, until the second day, when the subjects started to fear the day would never come. Luna did not lose power immediately.
18. Celestia was forced to sacrifice her three remaining elements to imprison Nightmare Moon on the moon.
19. In the brief fluctuations, Discord managed to achieve more than partial freedom and could fully observe them, but could only partially affect their minds. That was enough to make them believe the element of magic was lost.
20. After that event, with the Element of Magic gone, and Luna imprisoned, there was very little technological advancement. After millennia of using magic instead of intellect, and being taught by discord, the two primary sources of development were gone and Celestia was forced to recruit unicorns as personal students in order to advance.
21. With some leaps and bounds in technology for a thousand years, Equestria turned into the state it is in canon. Celestia worked her way into a permanent ruling, after several coups were attempted, and Equestria was very close to achieving harmony again.
22. After her thousand year imprisonment, Luna broke out; the Elements of Harmony are meant to be used for recovery, not punishment. Returning with a vengeance, the Element of Fear attached to her after seeing her plans, and she became Nightmare Moon.
23. Celestia knew this would happen, as she was granted intrinsic knowledge via her element, and made arrangements for Twilight, her current personal student, to meet the other potential elements.
24. Discord actually got out before Nightmare Moon, and used his mind reading abilities to watch what happened when another deity tried to regain power.
25. Right on time, the Element of Magic was brought back, as well as the other five, and Discord learned of their carriers. He watched and waited some more, and Luna was defeated.
26. Discord made it appoint to find a way to gain more power. After regenerating for two millennia, he could potentially overpower two alicorns, but definitely not six elements.

27. Harmony was preserved for a year or two, and Discord was finished planning, finished watching over the elements. He watched their time at the Royal Gala, and finally knew their largest flaws. After years of technically being freed from the elemental prison, he broke out and began his elaborate plan.
28. Discord tested his understanding of the elements’ flaws. Apart from kindness, they all exhibited crippling character weaknesses and were almost defeated.
29. Discord planned for everything to be stacked against him, so he made sure Celestia was in real-time to witness his ruling, knowing that if she was smart enough to stop him, she would be able to. He also had a backup plan.
30. As a backup plan, in the very probable case of Celestia finding a way to stop him, he used his powers to track down the Element of Change.
31. He was almost defeated once, when he wasn’t expecting it, and from that point on he badgered them about it, but was secretly scared that it would happen successfully.
32. One day before his defeat, he found it. It was in his second last planet, Earth. Knowing he still had the connection, he sent a non-magic long distance portal to drag the element back to him. He didn’t fully know if it would work or not, and he continued to lose power.
33. The very next day, as Discord waited for it to arrive, he noticed that the Princess found a way to save the elements. They began to charge up their attack, and he initiated the patience protocol. Before he was turned into stone, he teleported into the Lost Castle, the one he trapped Celestia in time for a day, and put a stone statue of himself in his place. To complete the illusion, he doesn’t re-initiate chaos among the city. Instead, he just watches over everypony, silently waiting for the Element of Change.
34. After two months, he sees an object coming into the atmosphere. He teleports Ethan to the lost castle (Where he ruled in secret from), and takes a month (ten years in the castle) to examine Ethan’s memories, all his weaknesses and strengths, and finds out how to manipulate him.
35. He must slowly affect Ethan with his chaos, in order to imprint the image that changing the world to Discord’s whim, and allowing him to leave the planet, is the right decision.
36. After the long period of examination, all the while Ethan is in stasis, Discord enchants him so he can passively guide Ethan towards the castle if anything goes wrong, and makes him extremely intolerant to magic, so major contact with earth ponies and pegasi hurt him, and magic is unbearable. This is to give him a bad impression about the ponies.
37. Discord drops Ethan into a rotten tree, and sends a manticore out of its boggy homeland towards Fluttershy, in order to set the events in motion.

38. Ethan gets back from the doctor's, and thinks about the news he received, and how he should come back in a day to find out what he has.
39. He goes through his schedule, and pushes himself a little too hard. He ends up getting a headache, going to bed, and going through the dream about getting to Equestria.
40. Ethan wakes up to hear Fluttershy’s scream.
41. He makes his first Elemental decision – to save her or run away.
42. As he yells after her, the Element that he was born with finally awakens, and he has trouble controlling the near – infinite power, being both mortal and non-magical.
43. Since his first action worthy of gaining the element was to call out assurances to Fluttershy, the element uses the medium of sound as its first instrument through his body.
44. After seeing the manticore, his heroic action to charge it head on strengthens his ability, allowing him to send his will through sound. As he does not focus on controlling it, he can only push away at that point.
45. He tries to comfort FS, but is pulled away at the last second, which the element takes notice of and allows Ethan to make his judgement of the other ponies. Since then, his opinion of the ponies decides whether or not the element grants or withholds worth when he acts good or bad towards them.
46. The ponies knock him out and capture him.
47. After he wakes up, the ponies are approaching him. He can't quite talk yet, but when he does he uses Pinkie Pie's voice and she calls him "Pinkie Pie Number Two".
48. Twilight gets impatient and tries to cast a spell on him, and a heat starting in his gut makes him believe that they are attacking him again.
49. He tries to escape, causing Twilight to try harder. He also uses his granted powers to escape from his chains, and run into the forest.
50. He practises his powers, understanding how to use them, but the noise causes him to be found. He evades them, realizing that the mane six are either out to get him, or at least following orders.
51. He stays in a cave for the night, without fire, and early the next morning he goes out to recon the area. He starts to realise that he is essentially an alien, or more realistically, all of the ponies are aliens.
52. Fluttershy notices him, and he manages to convince her that he means no harm and explains his situation.
53. Fluttershy takes pity on him, and he explains further. She also tells him some things, but not much, and Ethan leaves when the sun starts rising.
54. He understands that they perceive him as a threat, so tries to keep his presence hidden.
55. Later in the day, after finding food in the forest, he hears more animal noises so he moves out in order to converse with Fluttershy later. He sees the mane six, and a few guards, talking to her, and as they mention the biped they found yesterday, he realises they're out to get him. He does not want to have information forced out of him, so he hides until they leave. He hears what they say, though.
56. Ethan asks Fluttershy what that was about. She gets scared around him, but when he tries to smile to make her feel better, she shrieks before trying to calm down, realising her mistake. It’s too late.
57. He’s caught by the pegasi guard, and tries to fight them off, but Twilight catches him and he blacks out from the magic levitation; an unforeseen side effect of the magic intolerance, but after all it ends up better than expected.

[FUN FACT] This part (at once it was chapter 5) originally contained a rape-like scene. Ethan used his sound powers to fake Luna's voice and pretend she was being ravaged by a prisoner. My editor, thank god, prevented me from writing any of it.

58. He wakes up in the royal castle, and sees Celestia and Luna. They try to ask him questions, but after hearing them talk about a prophecy earlier, remembering what the guards said at Fluttershy’s, and getting intense sinus and all around body pain standing there, as well as the grogginess from being attacked with magic and knocked out, he says nothing.
59. He’s thrown in prison, and finds that he can hear them talking outside, and learns about the nature of the princesses – about their powers, and about Luna going missing.
60. He notices that the enchanted door has a weak point, the flap that opens three times every day to give him food.
61. He times it correctly and destroys the door, after three days, and escapes with Celestia on his trail. He manages to survive the drop, and runs into the forest. He briefly considers the consequences of his actions, but decides that he must assess the tactics first.
62. He finds his knife, and his cave, and sees the cryptic note and apple that signify he needs to leave, to get away from the ponies.
63. Ethan goes to the temple of the two sisters, known to him as the castle ruin, but meets Zecora. She manages to convince him to go to her shack.
64. Zecora reveals that she knows his name, and that he can talk. She reassures Ethan that she is only healing his leg, and he agrees on the condition that she stops rhyming. They argue, and settle on Ethan returning with a gift in exchange for the two favours.
65. Zecora has trouble not rhyming, and after getting his leg healed he tells her that he doesn't plan on being alive to meet his end of the bargain, and runs out as she tries to figure out what he meant.
66. After reaching the castle ruin, he ends up realising it's the morning and decides to investigate the glowing cave. He finds a dragon.
67. He decides that taking the gold and jewels would be pointless, but the scales could be useful. He takes them back to make armour, and that takes a few hours. He realises that he's still alive, and knows that the dragon is soundly asleep, so he goes back to steal a single gem for Zecora, finding no flaw after he managed to take the dragons scales without interruption.
68. The dragon wakes up after he picks up the gem, and he fails in making any excuse for having it. He gets flown out of the cave by the dragon, heading to a volcano, but gets dropped into the forest.
69. As it turns out, the dragon was trying to kill two birds with one stone, but missed and ended up nearly paralysing one bird with no stone. The mane six ponies see him, and the dragon lands near them.
70. Fluttershy tries to use the stare on the dragon, but it tricks her and tries to shoot flames at the six when they turn away. It was affected by discord at the time.
71. Ethan, upon seeing this, uses his thought-to-be sound powers to shoot the flames back at the dragon, combined with the force of his shout, and it comes to an unknown fate as Ethan’s heart stops from burns and nerve damage from the dragon’s magic fire.

72. Ethan sees himself falling towards earth, in an abstract fever-dream. He is supported by his memories, and slows down as he floats back to earth.
73. He sees the landing site, describes it as his escape. Escape from what? These are not his thoughts, but they seem very right for some reason.
74. He slows before hitting the roof. He is turned over, and dropped onto a soft surface.
75. Two horns appear on the horizon. They look like they belong to the same creature, but it is revealed that they are the horns of Luna and Celestia. The figures approach him.
76. He feels something happen, as if his heart restarted. Was it the princesses doing?
77. Ethan is healed, and sighs, but it is not a sigh - it is a scream. A scream of agony. Pain instead of healing, they are trying to kill him.
78. Ethan vents power, attempting to do the same to his attackers. Several other figures fall on the floor, their shapes and energies are unknown and insignificant. His goal is to kill the princesses, using their power against them.
79. The princesses start to weaken, but a push with telekinesis, and a rearrangement of his bones, leaves him in too much pain to continue his attack. He lays in the limbo nothingness of his dream, only knowing two feelings: pain and disappointment.
80. Once again, one of his feelings are not his own. The pain is undeniably there, but he is forced to realize that his actions were not fulfilled. The other thoughts are right, however. His goal was to kill the princesses with their own power, but instead he left both parties weakened.
81. He was sure they would heal first, so he closed his ethereal eyes to get some rest…

[FUN FACT] At one point in the earlier drafts, Zecora tried to seduce Ethan.

82. Ethan wakes up in Twilight's house, in residual pain from the previous events, and examines his surroundings.
83. He sees a lizard-like animal, Spike, sleeping against his bed, tries not to wake him as he slithers past, using his powers.
84. He almost reaches the door when Twilight opens the door, ringing a bell and startling Ethan. He barely has enough room to slip by and escape Twilight as she enters the house.
85. Ethan hears some faint yelling, but runs to where he thinks the forest is based on what he's seen. Discord (unrevealed) guides him to his castle ruin, where he finds the equipment he didn't lose. He also goes to the dragon cave to pick up the gem to give to Zecora, making sure the dragon isn’t there.
86. He sees that there is no dragon, but has some extra space in his bag. He takes a few of the gems, keeping them hidden at the bottom, and carries one to give to Zecora, but is guided away and forgets where she lived. He decides to just continue back and see what will happen to him, since he has nothing else to do and they have the closest thing to a city he’s seen.
87. He wanders back to the forest and, nearing the exit, hears Fluttershy scream again. He runs to the commotion, and sees the manticore that attacked him originally. He pushes his body through the sustained injuries in an attempt to keep the manticore from hurting her, as she is the only one that can explain him to the others.
88. After a short fight, Ethan has his rib cage ripped apart.
89. Fluttershy protects him with the stare and brings him back.
90. She attempts to heal him, but he is almost dead, and his heart is exposed to air. Twilight and three others run into the house.
91. Fluttershy commands Twilight to heal Ethan, which she does quickly. Ethan is in immense pain from the attack, and even more from the magic, but he doesn’t make the connection between the pain and magic, since he still doesn’t think magic exists.
92. He is healed now, but gets angry when they start asking questions. RD crashes into him and tries to get answers, and he can’t push her off because of the contact pain.
93. They tell her that he can talk and is innocent, as RD back away.
94. Twilight rethinks her explanation and asks him if he can speak, but he asks his questions first, namely if he's being captured. They tell him they're supposed to keep an eye on him, but he isn't wanted for crimes. He asks what crimes he was wanted for at the beginning, but she can’t tell him.
95. He is relieved, nonetheless, that he isn't a fugitive anymore. Twilight says she'll tell him the conditions of his stay there later, and he agrees. They want to ask him questions, but he regrets saying yes.

96. PP and RD are intrigued by his anatomy, and Fluttershy is concerned of his condition. Ethan tells them to try not to touch him, but FS immediately breaches the request.
97. Rarity leaves for 'business', after hearing he has to wear clothes all the time. Applejack noticed he was looking at their butts (cutie marks) and leaves, citing apple bucking as the reason. RD and FS are now asking him what he did before he left his world.
98. He sees Twilight watching him without questions, and asks why. She says she has to gather information about him, and he decides that it would be better if he talked to her in private. Fluttershy convinces Twilight and Ethan to let her follow, and continually assesses Ethan’s condition as he walks to Twilight's. She begins to ask him why he's so tall, why he walks on two legs, why he has no fur and things like that.
99. Upon reaching Twilight's house, she tells him that she has a lot of things to write down, so the two others can get something to eat while they wait. Ethan tells FS that he isn't hungry, but she gets him to tell her when the last time he ate was and she gets extremely upset when he tells her, before making him a salad.
100. After eating it slowly, yet hungrily, Fluttershy continues with her questions, and he tells her that it irritates him. She remains silent until Twilight comes down, accompanied by Spike, whom Ethan doesn't know.
101. Spike and Ethan greet each other reluctantly, hesitating at the size difference of their hands, and contact with Spike is only a faint tingle instead of pain.
102. Ethan tells more about himself as Twilight writes.
103. After being asked more general things about humans, Ethan tells them he doesn’t know what to do about explaining himself, since he’s never met another sentient species, and asks them how they know what to do; it’s because there are lots of sentient species on the planet. Ethan doesn’t like the concept.
104. Twilight starts asking him all about his species, but he answers vaguely and starts to gain suspicions. He looks out the window to see the sun is setting on the empty town, and asks if his presence is kept secret.
105. He gets an unwanted answer, and returns to the couch. He dwells on the thoughts until he sees Twilight writing with magic. He almost freaks out, but then explains all the pseudomagic on Earth and tries to compare it to the planet he’s on now.
106. On the way back, Fluttershy hovers over him and doesn't say anything, and he asks what it was about. She thinks he's mad at her, but he explains that while he was momentarily, he doesn't hold it against her. They reacted much better to a new species, much less one that overpowered them, than what he would expect humans to.
107. After walking back to Fluttershy's, they see Ethan’s bag, a new shirt, and a note with similar glyphs that he does not understand.
108. Fluttershy sits Ethan down on the couch and starts making him another meal, and he tells her not to go out of her way, he can just find food in the forest. While he makes his case, she makes dinner and shares it with him. He acknowledges that she must know how to handle things like this.
109. He has a bad experience with Angel afterwards.
110. Fluttershy inspects the injuries, but Ethan constantly tells her its fine.
111. Fluttershy sets her bed up on the couch, but Ethan refuses to take her bed upstairs on grounds of imposition and it probably not being big enough for him. He is eventually coaxed into taking the bed, and finds that it is actually the correct size.
112. Ethan thinks about his day and his life so far. He considers the fact that he is a pioneer in both alien relations and superhuman abilities, but thinks about how the ponies have him beat in both regards. He thinks about everything changing, but not for the better, as he is not fond of the ponies except for Fluttershy, even then barely, and knows he will eventually have to meet the being that almost ensured his death three times, Celestia.
113. Ethan drifts off, but not before hearing footsteps up the stairs. He is too tired to think about it.

114. Ethan wakes up and noticing Fluttershy is hugging him in her sleep. He gets out of bed and sorts through his bag, wondering about FS's hypocrisy.

115. Angel gives him the implication that he smells bad, and when FS awakes she tells him it's "nice". Unrevealed if she is telling the truth or not.

116. Ethan asks her why she was sleeping on him, and she blushes again before clumsily explaining that he must feel lonely in a new world. He is bristled by her not considering this sooner, but thinks about how she probably did.

117. He tells her he's actually fine, he got over it in the first few days. He also explains how he needs a goal.

118. After that discussion is over, Fluttershy goes downstairs, but doesn’t say what she’s doing. He suspects she’s trying to make him breakfast, but gets petty revenge by making her bed.

119. He goes downstairs to see FS putting pancakes on the table, and while he is confused as to how quickly she made them, he just rolls with it and goes with a different topic.

120. Ethan asks why she’s so nice to him, and notices the first ingredient.

121. They talk like this for a while, but Twilight knocks on the door and tells him that she has to finish her report.

122. When they arrive, Twilight tells him he has to stay at her house from then on for secrecy. He is in wonder at the magic, but is confused when Twilight asks how to spell his name. He writes it, and Twilight notices that he writes in equestrian. He says that he thought they were speaking English, and asks what the glyphic note said. She tells him it's a different version of equestrian, essentially a pictogram. It was assumed he could not fully read equestrian/english.

NOTE: It is not fully revealed, but with Ethan, Ryan, Human, Woman and Man being the most common human words Ethan uses, the equestrians assume that humans put 'an' as a prefix, similar to 'pony' but more prevalent.

123. After getting Twilight's first note pile sorted out, she sends it to Celestia through spike. He asks her why she's sending it to her, and she says its because Celestia wants to know all about him before meeting him in three days. He tells her he doesn't think it'll go well.

124. Twilight convinces Ethan to show her his powers, and he uses the sound based ones as well as the voice push.

125. Twilight uses an analysis spell on him, but it hurts a lot. She starts to make a connection, but is going crazy after not knowing how.

126. Ethan asks if he is allowed to go to the forest, to figure some stuff out and think for a while. She pouts for a while, but says FS's house is right next to the forest and they can use her house as an in-between point

127. After asking how he’s getting there, since he's to remain secret. Twilight starts teleporting them both. It’s too late for Ethan to stop her before they go, and when they land in front of Fluttershy’s house, Ethan’s heart is stopped and his muscles spasm, which causes him to fall and break FS's door.

128. After an emergency heart restart, Ethan enters FS’s house, making it very clear that he doesn't agree with magic. Twilight realises the connection between touching ponies and the magic reaction.

129. He is intruding on FS and R, and upon seeing the broken door he offers to fix it, saying he might as well to something for them. They tell him not to worry about it, they can have someone hired to fix it. He asks when they'll get there, and leaves to the forest. He is secretly followed by TS and FS, but he knows since he can hear them.

130. Ethan experiments with his powers throughout the forest, with varying strengths. He manages to float a few inches above the ground, but afterwards he gets back to the dragon site. He sees the destruction, and starts to wonder a lot about his powers, and his pain.

131. He calls the two followers over, and asks them for directions to Zecora's, since he forgot when he was guided away from it. They show him, grumbling about how he noticed them.

132. Zecora isn’t there, she's collecting a plant from the base of a tree nearby. This causes the tree to fall, but she already cleared the area and thinks nopony will get hurt.

133. Ethan is surprised when a tree starts falling, directly on top of TS and FS. He pushes the ball-form FS out of the way as TS dodges, but is almost crushed under the trunk. His powers save him from being crushed, but they cause more injuries.

134. Ethan survives, and ends up being healed by Zecora again. He gives her the gem he found for her, and goes back with TS and FS, who start asking him why he went out there.

135. He explains to them that he just needed time to think, and he got some exercise as well.

136. When they get back to Fluttershy's, Spike has a letter for Twilight; it says Celestia wants Ethan to be revealed to the public in two days. She goes off, reluctantly, to start planning with the mayor and Pinkie Pie, who will be advised to not throw a party, and Ethan asks what to do then.

137. He decides to just go back to Twilight's with Spike, giving some time back to FS, and reads a bit before talking with Spike and experimenting with levitation.

138. After a while, TS gets back and Ethan is tired, it's pretty late, so Spike makes them all dinner. Ethan asks Spike about gems, and he shows his to Spike. Spike tells him he can age them, and Ethan takes up the offer, as well as giving Spike one to eat.

139. Ethan goes to sleep in the bed he was in before.

140. Ethan wakes up, makes his bed really well, and is fed breakfast, again. He tells them he wants to find a way to pay off his debt, but Spike tells him he's headed in the right direction; Ethan doesn't understand, but Spike was referring to the gems.
141. Twilight tells him he is on schedule that day, he has to meet the mayor, he has to do something with Rarity, and after that should practice for his announcement to the public.
142. He talks to the mayor, explains what makes him important, but doesn’t say anything about saving any lives (half humility, half because he doesn’t want to explain everything once again.)
143. Next, he goes over to Rarity's house and she reveals that she had been making him a suit, and he ends up giving her a gem as payment. From that point on he tries to repay the ponies for anything they give him, in varying ways. (Spike sees him give the gem to Rarity and gets angry at him, implied but not revealed)
144. He gets the suit fitted and Rarity says she will have it before his announcement, and he goes back (reluctantly) to figure out how it will go down.
NOTE: He notices Lyra notice him, but is used to being stared at. She thinks for a while before shaking her head and trotting off.
145. Afterwards, they go back to Twilight's, and Ethan practices levitation and stuff again, getting better at it. Twilight starts teaching him techniques, which is hard because he can not use magic right away, or produce it at all - later on he can grab it from an unknown source (the planet, hint hint.)
146. It starts raining, and he asks what PP, FS, RD and AJ have been doing. He learns that PP is a baker, FS is a caretaker for animals (confirming his suspicions), RD is in weather and rain was scheduled for that day (he does not like the concept of controlling weather) and AJ is apple bucking (haha, bucking.)

[FUN FACT] Contrary to popular belief, I'm pretty sure Rarity doesn't make clothes for stallions, let alone male humans.

147. Ethan wakes up to Twilight standing over him, smiling and staring and staring at him. She was hyper-prepared for his public announcement, and they start getting ready for it. He makes his bed yet again.
148. He gets into the suit (no shoes, they don't know how to make them yet) and stands for the announcement.
149. The announcement goes fine, but no-one asks many questions. Lyra gasps and leaves when she hears he's a human. He says it went well, since he doesnt really want to be well known if he plans on leaving when he can. The discussion leads to Ethan being in RD's custody for the afternoon.
150. She shows him some tricks in the air, and after making a comment on how high she can go, he beats her to the height with his levitation. She tries to teach him a trick after learning that he can fly, but she ends up breaking several of his bones and almost killing him as he crashes into the ground at hyper sonic speeds. He unknowingly forms barriers around his body, but gets mangled nonetheless.
151. Ethan pushes his bones back, but they go to the hospital to get him checked out. They give him splints, saying that he did a good job on his own, its just to correct for any movement. Ethan figures out how to levitate for longer and just uses that instead of walking for the day.
152. He goes back to Twilight's later on, but is sidetracked by FS and ends up staying in her house again. He decides to go, and tells Twilight that he'll draw some human stuff when he gets back, picking up on her obsession with knowledge.
153. FS's "freaky knowledge of sewing" leads to him making socks out of his older clothes, but he still doesn't have any shoes, so he only uses the socks inside.
154. He goes to sleep on the couch, telling FS to stay in her own bed that time. It is unknown if she really does.

155. Ethan wakes up as Fluttershy walks on top of him, trying to wake him up. She accidentally touches his skin, and he accidentally sends her flying across the room. He uses levitation to cushion her fall at the last second. He apologizes for the scare, makes the bed, and ends up making breakfast for FS as a further apology, and an attempt to balance things out.
156. He is to meet Princess Celestia at noon, and ends up being flown in a carriage along with the main six. The ones that didnt know about it ask about his splints, and he tells them he needs some more flying practice.
157. He talks with Celestia, and when Pinkie brings up his explanations, she says she already has all the information. He tells her of the new developments, specifically magic reactions and new powers.
158. She asks for some privacy with Ethan and the mane six leave to wander around the castle grounds.
159. Celestia asks him about his goal, he says it's to get back to his planet, and she says they dont know how that would happen. He says there must be some way, since he was brought there, but she tells him again that his presence was only known to them until after he arrived.
160. He asks what his crimes were, and she says that it isn't important anymore. He asks if they were important when he was punished for them, and she asks him what he means. He describes the pain he went through, and the pain he endures at the moment, and says that its the main reason he wants to leave. She says that long-range teleportation is relatively new and there are only a few researchers in the world that are on it, but will get on it as soon as possible.
161. He thinks that's his cue to leave, but she tells him that his escape from prison resulted in severe burns and internal injuries to a Royal Guard, so he will have to do something for punishment. She settles on the Trollestia solution - 8 hours worth of community service, in ponyville. He complies despite thinking it's a useless punishment, as she is the ruling body.
162. He asks what ever happened to Luna, and she tells him she does not know. He cracks a joke about 'your princess is in another castle' before leaving, managing to hold in his laughter until he makes it outside to the others to call them back in.
163. They go back in, and Celestia says that he will begin his service tomorrow and complete it when he is able. The mane six have typical reactions to this, but Celestia has a strange smile that Ethan sees before he leaves, not knowing what it means. She remembers one last thing, and give Ethan the remnants of his clothes, basically the frames of his shoes, scraps of clothing, and
164. He ends up going back to Twilight's for the day, and Spike avoids him. He also doesn't understand that, but it's made unimportant when Twilight gives him a bunch of parchment and quills, taking him up on his offer to draw some human stuff. He turns out to be a good mechanical artist, and Twilight tells him that they should have thought he was more intelligent since he had hands.
165. He asks what that means, and she says that ponies cant usually draw or write very well because of their obvious lack of hands or claws. Spike is a scribe because of his claws, and he is almost as literate as Twilight, despite being a baby. She also explains how the language and text works, while he continues to draw.
166. Ethan accidentally affected one of Twilight's levitation spells, and they try to figure out how it happened before Ethan ends up falling asleep on a couch.

167. Ethan wakes up with a minor headache, but pushes through it and makes breakfast for Spike and Twilight. Twilight gets up, but does not know what caused the headache (it was Discord trying to use direct punishment for improving relations), but it’s getting better anyway. Spike is sleeping in later than usual, and Owloysius is helping her out for the morning.
168. Ethan is reminded that he has to help out around the town as part of his community service, but Celestia specifically mentioned ‘janitorial duty’. He says that even though she is obviously a ruler, if she hadn’t almost killed him on several occasions he wouldn’t have enough respect for her to go through with it. He makes the beds (foreshadowing) and heads off to the square.
169. He is thankful that there aren’t many ponies there. He ends up finding some trash around the area, and picks each portion up to put in a nearby dumpster.
170. Pinkie Pie pops up from behind the dumpster, and he asks what she was doing. She says it’s a secret tunnel, but he can’t look inside because he might go crazy if he does. She says that Twilight would, at least.
171. PP convinces Ethan that he should come with her, and says that Princess Celestia said ‘8 hours worth’ not just 8 hours. He wonders how she knew that, but in the end is convinced and just uses levitation to clean the whole area up.
172. He goes into PP’s house, and she asks him a whole bunch of cliché HiE questions before shoving a cupcake into his mouth as he talks. He says he likes it, and she goes into the kitchen to make some more, saying she’ll be back in an extremely specific amount of seconds.
173. Ethan finds the obscure dirty joke book, and sees some of the main lines she uses in the show, but gets distracted by Pinkie Pie calling him into the kitchen.
174. She asks him to reach into the oven to get it out, saying she lost her favourite giant spatula. He does her one better and levitates it out to avoid getting burned.
175. After eating some of them, he asks if she wants a gem, but PP doesn’t have a use for them. She says that as long as she can make him smile, she’s happy. Ethan realises he’d been smiling almost the whole time, and makes a mental note of what she said before leaving back to Twilight’s.
176. He sees a few ponies around, and doesn’t want to make a scene, so he floats up to a few clouds, narrowly avoiding Lyra again. He spots RD and gets a push back to Twilight’s, and when he gets there, she stays and says she wants to know what he can do.
177. Ethan ends up showing RD how he can levitate things, and she ends up showing him how to fly, and after thanking her he flies over to Fluttershy’s.
178. He talks to Fluttershy about getting his shoes remade, and they fly (Ethan levitates FS, she doesn’t like flying) over to Rarity’s to plan things out.
179. He gets the basic drawings of the pair of shoes, but says that he wants to make them. He goes back to Fluttershy’s and stays for the night, but he can’t sleep, and gets an even worse headache.
180. He washes his suit, and makes the base parts for his shoes, during the night, and eventually falls asleep on the couch again.

[FUN FACT] Even though it certainly seems that way, Fluttershy wasn't meant to have a 'thing' for Ethan. I can't believe I deluded myself about that for so long.

181. Ethan wakes up when Fluttershy nudges him again, and he has enough sense to not almost kill her that time. He doesn't eat breakfast and heads to Twilight's house with Fluttershy to figure out what is causing his migraine.
182. He is levitating FS again, but his migraine causes him to lose his focus and he almost crashes, and FS lands on his face, which causes temporary nerve damage and Fluttershy has to lead him to Twilight's because he can barely see, or talk. He hits his head on the doorway as he is led in.
183. He eventually gets better, but Twilight is fretting over both finding a solution, and the letter she received, from the Princess, requesting that the seven of them to go over first thing the next day. Ethan goes back to FS's to retrieve the parts of his suit and boots, then to Rarity's to finish the shoes.
184. He manages to use his levitation and an as-of-yet undiscovered heating ability to complete his shoes, which he immediately uses to walk back to Twilight's and, in a better mood and mostly free from the migraine, goes back to Twilight's to ask about the letter.
185. There's no one at Twilight's, so he asks around, running into Dunkel and Sparks (story plug) on the way, as well as Lyra. She asks him if he's Ethan the Human, he says yes, and she all but drags him to her house for an unknown reason. Ethan gets away after she could only describe what she had at her house as "a fun surprise", and after a previous warning about Lyra being obsessed with humans.
186. Ethan runs into Pinkie Pie, who comments on common themeing, and tells Ethan that Twilight went into the Everfree, to Zecora. He tries to fly above the trees, but gets another pang of migraine and has to walk.
187. He spots Twilight across a patch of blue flowers, the ones he doesn’t want to go near, and can’t find any way to get past it, aside from going out of his way around a thicket. He decides to just float the little way across it.
188. He is almost past it when he loses height and hits a branch, causing Twilight to turn around and scream, but not for the reason he suspected. He almost falls into the flowers before regaining height and landing the rest of the way.
189. They walk to Zecora’s together, and Ethan learns the nature of the letter, how the Princess thinks she knows where Luna is, but they don’t know why Ethan was asked to go. He tells her about his recent migraines, but it shouldn’t be much of an issue.
190. He talks to Zecora as well, and she offers a remedy for it. It works, and he offers to help her back, as he doesn’t have his gems with him. He contemplates selling them for the ‘bits’ that everyone uses, but Zecora accepts.
191. She says the Poison Joke flower has some special parts to it that she needs, but nopony she knows wants to get it for obvious reasons. He uses his powers to get it for her, and then leaves quickly after she thanks him, not wanting to be around the flower after what she said it did.
192. He still has a bit of the migraine treatment, so he doesn’t worry about flying over the forest, and starts to have a bit of fun with it, doing a flip and a few barrel rolls, but starts getting motion sickness after a while. RD sees him, and makes fun of him for having a weak stomache before challenging him to a race.
193. Ethan loses, obviously, but he learned how to slow down more effectively after a close call with a building. FS’s house, to be exact. He knocks on the door, and FS answers, begging to know how he’s feeling, again.
194. He goes back to the whole thing about feeling fine, shows her his shoes, tries them on, makes plans for a mask and gloves (hinted at needing them earlier on) through the night, again forced to stay awake by some unexplained force (hah unexplained).

195. Ethan finds himself drifting off before being woken up by Fluttershy again, and saying he only just closed his eyes. He meets up with the mane six, getting a strange look from Applejack (whom he hasn’t seen much at all) before they’re loaded onto the carriage. He offers to fly them himself, but RD just laughs and FS says he should just rest in the carriage.

196. When they are briefed on the situation, they are told that the area they are going to is a castle beyond the Everfree forest.

197. Celestia tells them that the main thing is to just search the castle and surrounding area, as it has several magical anomalies, but is generally a barren and stable landscape. Twilight is excited, but the rest are only doing their duty. Ethan asks why they get chosen to do all this stuff, and they just say that Twilight is Celestia’s student, and she trusts them to get the job done.

198. They fly up there, with all of them talking about what they’ve been doing. Ethan is asked, and tells the rest of them the gist of what’s happened where not all of them were involved. They say he’s been pretty busy, and soon they arrive in front of the castle.

199. They wander around, and they encounter several obstacles, which they use teamwork to get around. Pinkie Pie, who is the only one besides Ethan that didn’t use their talents to get by, asks him what he thinks she’s going to do. He says whatever she’s good at, apparently, and she tells him that it’s making ponies laugh, then asks if he’s ticklish.

200. Ethan, seeing the trap of the question, immediately tells her not to touch him. She approaches him, and he backs away, hitting a wall, before Ethan realises that he got the same feeling that he got while around Celestia (general pain and pressure) and he breaks through the wall.

201. Luna is in a half-sleep state, is woken up by Twilight, and she doesn’t even remember being there. She starts to leave, and Pinkie Pie says they should have a party to celebrate it, but not before finding out if Ethan is ticklish.

202. She approaches him with a feather, and he backs into the room, but trips on a rock.

203. He thinks he’s going to hit the floor, but instead he just hinges on his feet and stands back up, apparently not upside down. He opens his eyes, and realises he’s in a very, very large room.

204. A voice starts talking to him, and Ethan assumes it’s a, if not the, god. It tells him that it might as well be one, and that it has very important things to tell Ethan.

205. It tells him that his powers are not sound based, and he says he already knew that. It tells him that he has far, far more power than he could even comprehend, and he need only a tiny fraction to become a great being. It says that all the answers will be revealed with time, and that he will be able to go back to earth.

206. Ethan begs to go, saying it’ll leave open ends but he can justify them, but is told he has unfinished business. He isn’t told what the business is, but the god tells him that Ethan can’t say it’s there.

207. Ethan asks why, and the god tells him that it used to rule the land, but the princesses overpowered it and it has to reside in the lost castle. It tells Ethan that he is a very important person, and he will achieve and create great thing, but will not delve into what those things are. He just needs to complete his goal in this world.

208. Then, the god tells Ethan that he may leave the room whenever he pleases. Ethan tries to leave for hours, but finds no exit in the endless void room. He asks for a little help, and the god says he’s on the right track. He tries even harder, moving the stone blocks, flying extremely fast, and starts to get a migraine. He looks for the medicine, but can not find it.

209. He asks the god what he’s supposed to do, and the god says he is supposed to find his own route, and it makes him remember a story from his time in the military. He doesn’t find it of any use, so he keeps looking for a way out, and gets to the point where he lifts the blocks out of the ground and searches down – to no avail.

210. He finally tells the god that he’ll do whatever the god wants in order to get out, and his wish is granted. He trips over a raised stone block, and is sent through another portal.

211. He reappears in the bottom room of the castle, and desperately takes the last of his medicine. He feels weak and stupid from the hours of running, and days of no sleep from before compound the effect.

212. He can barely stand up, and his powers seem distant. He tries to open a door, but it opens before he can reach the doorknob.

213. Twilight talks about magic anomalies, Pinkie Pie says she doesn't want to know if he's ticklish anymore, and they all say assorted, typical things as Ethan is drawn back to the carriages. He wonders why he can't fall asleep, even though he's so tired, on the ride back.

214. The ride back ends shortly, it passes much too quickly, and Ethan is almost carried back to Twilight's. They all go inside, and start wondering what's wrong with him.

215. He regains enough composure to move under his own power, and sit on a couch. He tells them that he has to tell them all something important.

216. Ethan recounts the story of how, in military training, 16 years ago, 1998, he had difficulty following commands. It was all about making your bed and cleaning the floor and assembling your weapons. Once, he took apart the commander's electric toothbrush, electric razor, and automatic pistol, to make a automaton that could wash the floor. It was simple, because making the bed was too easy to make a robot worth it, and disassembling a weapon was difficult. He eventually got so bored with that, he set his gun up so that he could assemble and disassemble it in seconds, but without a robot. He got platoon-wide recognition from it.

217. They ask him what happened next, and he tells them he was kicked out. Then he asks them how long he was gone. They tell him it was a few minutes, but he explains that he went somewhere strange.

218. They say that he went through a non-magic portal, and as far as they know they shouldn't exist, so something strange was bound to happen. He tries to explain the room he was in, without mentioning a god, but his crippled mental state makes it extremely difficult.

219. He also says that he had to find a way out on his own. He searched for hours. They asked him how he found his way out, and he says it was the same way he found his way in. By tripping and falling backwards. By now, they start to understand his condition.

220. He tells them he had an epiphany regarding how to fix all the problems he's been having. They asks him what it is, and he says it’s to make...

221. He collapses on the ground, unconscious.

222. Ethan wakes up in a hospital, after approximately 24 hours of sleep. He feels much better now, and as such uses his powers more aptly (and responsibly) by getting up, putting his clothes on, and leaving, after a brief and awkward conversation with the staff there.

223. He is directed to Twilight’s, where she fills him in on what happened since he passed out (from exhaustion and stress) and then asks him for some help with magic. She says she's trying out non-magic portals, and he's the only one to pass through one and survive.

224. After the initial worry, he gives her some help, and only dies once. He's built up a resistance after a while, so he's almost fine. They stop after that, and he starts asking questions.

225. He asks if RD has a home, and she does. He asks if AJ doesn't like him, and she says she may have gotten a bad first impression, and the two never crossed paths. She has experience with construction, and while it may not be superior to his, she'll know where to purchase or acquire the materials.

226. In order to get money for it, Ethan is about to sell some of his gems, but they aren't worth very much, so he needs to sell most of them, leaving a deep crimson plumbob and a curious black one. The sale leaves him with around a thousand bits, but he really doesn't know how much that is.

227. He goes to Sugar Cube Corner and buys breakfast, which turns out to be mostly pie-based. He'll take whatever he can get, and starts to believe that bits are worth a bit more than dollars.

228. After that, and not seeing Pinkie around (hint hint) he goes over to Rarity to make some gloves, and after Rarity offers to make them for him he reminds her that they are for his fingers, and she quickly reconsiders. He buys more than enough fabric for his hands, as he plans to make a mask as well.

229. He heads over to Sweet Apple Acres to find Applejack, and after getting lost, remembers that he can fly, and quickly finds the acre. He decides that he should approach it as casually as possible, and so lands before anyone sees him.

230. He meets Applejack pulling a cart, and tries to talk to her, but she doesn’t immediately open up. She reaches the farm and dumps the cart, then looks expectantly at Ethan.

231. He looks at the apples, then at AJ, then at her flank mark, and gets chewed out by AJ because he keeps giving her ‘the look’. She also asks him what he thinks he’s doing with FS, as he explained that he kept making her bed earlier.

232. He tells her that he was just looking at her tattoo (cutie mark) and wonders why everyone has them. This boils down to them laughing at the misjudgements they had about it, and Applejack apologizes for jumping to conclusions.

233. She says that she wasn’t avoiding him; actually, she was just busy with her apple bucking. She didn’t lie. He says he can help, and that he’d like to ask her something afterwards.

234. He levitates a bunch of apples into the farm, way more than what she would be able to bring back in a day. He tells her he wants to build a house somewhere, and he thinks she might be able to help him.

235. She tells him that Princess Celestia actually mentioned something about permanent housing, and she recommends that he figure out what it was before doing much, but she would be glad to help. They go over the logistics, as far as materials go, and he has much more than enough to pay for it, should he be able to do it.

236. Ethan thanks her, she tosses him a few apples, and he flies/walks over to Twilight’s. His migraine starts coming back, but it is easily ignored. He asks Twilight about the house, and she tells him that the mayor is actually the one to talk to. He notices Spike avoiding him again, and wonders if he did something to get a bad first impression. Twilight tells him, before he goes, that he’s invited to a picnic to watch a meteor shower, if he’s up for it. He agrees, and asks for some parchment and a quill. He gets it.

237. He wanders over to the mayor’s office, and gets permission to have a house built, just like that. It was actually Celestia’s idea. He asks why, and the mayor tells him that the Princess felt he was ready for it, and he had finally figured out what to do here. He agrees, but thinks about how he actually wants to leave. He, of course, thought this would complete his goal ‘on this planet’, thus giving the god a reason to bring him back.

238. He chats with the mayor some more, learning that there are actually several small events planned for the week, such as an arm wrestle competition three days from then, and it will rain in two days. He thanks her for the information, then flies back to Fluttershy’s.

239. He meets RD along the way, who asks him how he’s feeling after dropping off two days ago. He converses with some other ponies like this, and eventually gets to Fluttershy’s.

240. He uses her sewing machine to start making the gloves, and the starting print for the mask. He gets pretty far, but is called to dinner by FS. She made salad again, and it’s pretty good. For the next couple of hours, he makes designs for his house with the parchment and quill from Twilight’s.

241. They go to the picnic, and Ethan is accused of being FS’s ‘coltfriend’. Pinkie Pie says they shouldn’t keep using clichés, and Ethan quickly and non-painfully sets them straight, very different from the stereotyped similar sequences of most fics.

242. They watch the meteor shower, and Ethan slips away unnoticed for a few minutes. He is actually flying towards one of them so he can bring it down without it burning up.

243. They are amazed at him doing this, but the meteor is still much too hot to go near. He gets RD to blow wind towards it, and soon he is able to replicate the action, and they cool it down. The actual stone is around a foot across, and Twilight takes it back to study, thanking Ethan profusely.

244. He returns to FS’s, and sleeps on the couch again, and he still has a good reason for it – his contact intolerance. This will change, but his choice will not.

245. Ethan wakes up to FS’s blanket over him. It is very early, possibly six, in the morning, so he just eats an apple and goes back to making his gloves. It takes him a few hours to get everything perfect, but after lots of adjustments he finally has thin, resilient gloves, and is very close to finishing his mask.

246. FS wakes up, and apparently Ethan was shivering in his sleep. He says it must have gotten cold during the night, even though he later finds out that it only went down a few degrees. It was Discord trying to get FS to touch him, causing pain, but it didn’t work.

247. He had made breakfast for her when she was waking up (good hearing, bordering on semi-omniscience) and leaves shortly after talking to her for a while.

248. He walks (doesn’t fly) to SAA to meet Applejack, who already started to get the materials for Ethan’s house ready. He gladly pays her for it, and starts to scout out a spot to start his house. He finds a small hill, in the same area as FS’s house, but not very close to it, and lays out some rope for the base.

249. He goes back to AJ’s to sort out the materials, and finds that, after he helped her the day before, she has a lot of spare time for the next few days. She continues helping him, and is surprised at the dimensions of his house, but since he has to crouch under every door it’s kind of predicted. He finishes what he wanted for the supports of the first floor, and thanks her before storing it in a corner of the barn.

250. He meets Big Mac, and after another awkward coltfriend discussion, he offers his hoof to shake. Ethan thinks that his gloves solved that problem, but he hesitates before forming a fist bumping it, realising that, because of the hoof-grab, it functions exactly like a handshake. He goes off to town, looking for SCC for lunch, and hopefully to ask Pinkie Pie what she meant when she was talking about clichés.

251. He ends up just getting something to eat from the cakes again, and it turns out to be pumpkin pie. Apparently it’s not very common, so it doesn’t cost much. He just chalks it up to demand, and starts eating it.

252. Halfway through finishing he overhears a school bell and a bunch of fillies and colts run out of the school. He briefly reminisces about being in school, and looks down to see the CMC staring at him.

253. He gets confused for a moment, but after figuring out who they were, he talked to them. Apparently they never heard of humans, or that humans never got a cutie mark, and after hearing the crusaders go on about how important it was, he decided to give them advice on how to get one.

254. Suddenly, Pinkie Pie bursts out of her secret tunnel again, and talks to the CMC. She’s whispering, so Ethan does his best to ignore it. Unfortunately, this proves difficult after hearing the off-hand mention of his name. He turns around to see all four of them looking at him, and the yell “Cutie Mark Crusader Monster Hunters Yay!” before inexplicably producing a rope and jumping on him.

255. He tries to pull them off, but the same grabbing force in BM’s shake lets them climb up his clothes. They wrap rope around his limbs, and he starts to play along after realising how much fun they were having. Until, that is, Scootaloo jumps on his face.

256. He reels back in pain and falls to the ground, disappearing again into the endless room. Ethan curses the god that he was here again, and learns that he was doing something wrong. When he asked what it was, the god just tells him that he was doing the right things, but they didn’t happen fast enough. He is told that all the pain is their fault, but it is unknown who it was referring to.

257. Ethan is suddenly out of breath as a vacuum is formed around his head. A line, “What is the difference between creation and destruction” is sent through his mind. Then he falls over again, and is forced back into the town square where he left. There is now a crowd where he once stood, and his pain is all but gone, nothing but a memory.

258. Lyra stands among them, trying to figure out why Ethan disappeared at random, but when he shambles by she keeps up with him, trying to ask what happened. He is unable to fly away, so he has no choice but to answer her. Eventually he feels fine, and Lyra pesters him continually, even after he reaches Twilight’s. She mentions someone named Ryan, but he doesn’t pay very much attention.

259. He tells her about the portal again, and she stops examining the asteroid to perform non-magic tests on him since it’s very probably because of him. He feels pretty bad afterwards, so he just goes back to FS’s to finish his mask and start wearing it. He also buys a hat to go with it.

260. Much later, he’s finished it and drifts off after telling FS what happened. She feels pretty bad about it, so in his sleep she huddles next to him.

261. Ethan wakes up early again, and he feels strange being near a pony, even with his mask. He effortlessly lifts FS off of him and continues working on his house, excavating the ground in a perfect cube before laying out the framework.

262. After a bit, it starts raining (he forgot about it), and he can not continue the work, so he just leaves it there. He figures out how to passively keep rain off of him, but this does not prevent Derpy from flying into him. He is prepared enough that he prevents himself and Derpy from falling in the mud, but when he lets her go she immediately flies into another few buildings, and more ponies.

263. He gets pretty bored now, after having nothing to do, and wanders the skies, practicing the deflector. He accidentally creates a vacuum of air, and water flows into it, then he heats it up to boiling, and cools it down again. He wonders why he is able to do this, so he goes over to Twilight’s to get some answers.

264. More pain, he gets sinus pressure (thought to be from the rain) and Twilight is even more obsessed with learning how he was able to do all of that. She tells him to try it out, and he heats a thermometer up enough that it explodes. He cleans up the mess, and thinks about what he could possibly do with that power.

265. He accidentally burns himself, and concludes that a wreath of flames is not going to be easy to make, especially one that floats around him. He also states that it’s incredibly impractical.

266. He is finally out of ideas, so he just goes over to FS’s again, as it is basically where he’s staying at that point. Before reaching the door, he’s struck by lightning and brought back to an endless room, but not the one from before. This one is black, and he’s lying on the ground instead of standing.

267. The god is storming at him, replicating the electrical storm that was around him moments prior. It tells him that he is not going in the right direction. He asks him, desperate for any kind of advice and apprehensive that he won’t be killed then and there, what he is supposed to do.

268. The god tells him, simply, that he is supposed to prepare. Next thing he knows is he is on the ground, in the rain, with Fluttershy desperately calling for help and pushing on his chest to restart his heart.

269. He gasps for air and grabs onto her, filled with more fear than he ever had before. Here was an immortal, all-powerful being that could bring him through portals to neutral hell, contact him through any means, tangible or intangible, and do anything to him, including influence ponies to push him over and send him anywhere again. All it asked was for him to prepare. Prepare for what?

270. He thinks some more, after getting brought into Fluttershy’s house, and concludes that he can possibly resist the god’s outlandish demands, while also fulfilling them. He will not do anything that could cause him pain of any kind, and he will be even more vigilant of the things around him. He must get creative with his powers and do a lot of preparation if he is to avoid being struck down by God, or brought into

271. After realising this, he finally snaps out of his stupor and hears most of the Mane Six talking around him. Rainbow Dash is strangely missing from the group. They tell him that there was a terrible accident with the flight team, though nopony was hurt, they accidentally turned the rain into a thunderstorm, and they think this is the main reason why he was struck.

272. He tells them he’s fine now, but is still observing them to no end. He settles on asking them where Rainbow Dash was. They say she was in the flight team, and couldn’t stand to see him after what she might have caused. He passes it off, saying it wasn’t her fault, but makes a list, starting with her. He thinks of PP and the CMC as well, as they were the cause of the previous teleports. The behaviour before them wasn’t out of character, but it was unwarranted, since RD is a good flyer, PP never had an interest in his ticklishness before, and the CMC didn’t even know him, so why did they think calling him a monster was a good idea?

273. After telling them all that he’s fine, they reluctantly leave. He washes his suit, leaves it out to dry, and starts the official list. It is kept at the bottom of his pack.

274. That night, FS offers to make tea for him, and he helps her by heating up the water for her. He drinks it, but FS waits because it’s too hot. He manages to cool it down, enough for her to start drinking it right away, and he feels a subtle movement in the back of his head.

275. He writes FS’s name down on the list, which is now described as a watch list. She never did anything to cause him physical harm, but her constant proximity is a determining factor. He sleeps again, but tries to keep himself aware of any disturbances. Fluttershy comes down right away and keeps him company while he pretends to sleep.

276. He wakes up swift and aware, true to his thoughts as he had forced himself to be vigilant. He quietly repeats his now-common sequence of getting up, checking the time, putting his full suit on, and making breakfast for both of them.

277. Ethan starts to monitor his surroundings, and finds startling clarity within his mind. He is able to fully manipulate smaller things as well. He makes note of this, and hears, or, more accurately, senses, things around town. He hears a mention of someone named ‘Ryan’ again, but he didn’t think it was out of place in the other names.

278. He moves out to start making his house again, and completes the framework for his foundation, as well as some preliminary first floor work. He gets pretty far, and goes to the town square for lunch, ordering his new favourite, pumpkin pie. He looks around, and sees Twilight, before writing her name in the list. Twilight is actually looking for him; she received a letter requesting that he meet the princesses at Canterlot.

279. Before flying off to meet them, he writes their names in the list as well, and underlines Celestia several times. He briefly overlooks the town, and senses the location and action of FS, TS, PP, the CMC, and as he approaches the castle, the princesses – their magic auras make them hard to miss.

280. They actually wanted to properly thank him for his services to the kingdom, and update him on how he might get back to Earth. She knows the non-magic portals are much more precise than any kind of magic teleportation, so he should probably help Twilight with that research. He thanks her for her time, then hurries out of there, disturbed by how their magic flows out of them. He does not see any purpose in it, as he is the only one who reacts to it. He begins to think that their actually doing something to him on purpose.

281. He tracks their movements after he leaves, and overhears them talking about him acting strangely. They also talk about an event to come in six days, and he does not know what it means. He only knows that he has to be prepared for it.

282. Ethan goes to Twilight’s, and tells her what he was invited to the princess for, then starts helping her with her research on non-magic portals. She tells him she needs more magic power than she has to work on portals, so she has to get another unicorn to help. This turns out to be Lyra, and he refuses before flying off and writing Lyra’s name in his list.

283. He decides to just spend the time watching over them from a cloud, after figuring out how to make a semi-solid platform to rest on, and he uses a cloud as visual cover. After a few hours, he gets extremely involved with the discussions, and begins to lose track of time, as well as develop a headache again.

284. RD jars his brain when she notices what looks like him sitting on a cloud, and he is just about to start searching for her before he is startled and falls a few meters, straight through the cloud. He is more than able to recover from the fall, and starts to suspect more of RD. She wants to know how he’s feeling, which is purely out of character for her.

285. After a borderline rude conversation with RD, he goes back to FS’s to have dinner, though he does not tell her about the day’s events in detail. Instead, he just sits on the couch, watching her. Watching all of them, all through the night. Night becomes day, and he does not have any reason to stop watching them.

286. Ethan is racking up more pain than average, and wonders why. He thinks it has something to do with the ponies, and looks at FS, who somehow got past his sensing and is now sleeping against him, again. He decides that he must pay even greater attention to everything if he is to find out the true culprit of the pain.

287. He briefly considers God as the source. He doesn’t know if gods can lie, or if it can do anything directly to him. He finds that if it was trying to do something to him, the god would have no problem doing it immediately. Also, it promised him freedom. All Ethan had to do was find out what his goal was, and avoid being dragged to one of it’s realms.

288. Fluttershy actually wakes up before he gets up, and she blushes again. He makes breakfast really quickly, this time it’s pancakes. She thanks him, then, before he leaves, hears FS whisper extremely quietly. She asked him for a favour, and he is told that she needs help carrying frogs to a place called ‘rocky bottom bog’.

289. Ethan easily helps her, though almost goes too fast and loses her. As they go back, he tries to be more careful, but the same hydra that attacked them before is chasing them. Ethan smashes it into the side of a mountain and it runs away, defeated. FS shudders, and they go back quickly.

290. He remembers his goal, to watch over them, not as their guards but his, and attempts to stretch his consciousness while creating the frame for his house. It doesn’t go very fast, but he adds Applejack to the list after she approaches him and asks him what he plans to do for the week. He tells her he can make spare time at any time, and with that she leaves, but he tracks her back. She says another thing, to a different pony, about five days, which corresponds to what the princesses said.

291. He notices some interference coming from Lyra’s house, but he makes out another connected mention of his name and five days. Things are starting to fall together.

292. Ethan can’t sleep right away, so he continues to monitor the townsfolk as they sleep. No movement apart from Twilight, who is busy reading books. He doesn’t know what the titles are, but he knows it must have something to do with what she was talking with Lyra about, and that means it has something to do with him. He underlines AJ, TS and Lyra’s names.

293. He wakes up a few hours later when he hears grass crunching, and is starting to get the hang of watching the town. He sits up to see FS a few feet away from him, and she shrinks away when he sees her. He asks her what she was coming over for, and she says she was worried that something had happened to him.

294. She asks what was wrong, after he told her he just couldn’t sleep, and uses a hyper cute smile in order to get him to answer. He asks if he can trust her, and she says yes without any pressure. Then he tells her.

295. Ethan tells her that something is happening, that he believes it has something to do with Twilight, Lyra, the rest of her friends, and the portals he went through. She tells him that she doesn’t know much about that, but Twilight was wondering why he ran away when he saw Lyra. He tells her that he needs some time to think, and she leaves reluctantly.

296. Finally getting some privacy, Ethan looks back at the house. He didn’t see any way to get concrete, so his design would have to wait until he got a hold of some. Not that he plans on staying much longer. Not that he can trust them to let him stay for four more days.

297. Later in the day, he notices Fluttershy talking to her friends, and after hearing what happened, Twilight went over to him to ask him questions about what he thinks is happening. He says that he understands his goal, but nothing more. Not if he plans to achieve it. This causes Twilight to return to her friends.

298. Pinkie Pie asks if he found out about the event in four days. Exactly as he had predicted. They decide that giving him some space would be the best option, though they would need to be discreet about it since they think he’s onto them. He thinks he is, too.

299. Ethan watches over the town, absorbed in the conversations. He adds more names to the list, like Rarity, Cherilee, Big Mac, Granny Smith, and Ryan, who always resides in a realm of interference, along with Lyra. Sometimes he fades out of existence, then comes right back. Ethan never senses what he looks like. Many more names fill the list, and it eventually gets crowded, so he just writes ‘all of them’.

300. After hearing a whole lot of them talking about him, he starts to think that they are all out to get him. The meaning of his list changes to accommodate the development. He burns it as a gesture to the god that is no doubt watching him, making sure that it knows he is coming prepared. He will be prepared for anything, and gets a surge of inspiration.

301. He finally notices the pain that has been rising since he got out of the second portal. It was almost unbearable once he noticed it, but it might have been poisoning his conscience since it began. He curses the god again, before getting up and walking into the forest to prepare.

302. He catches, guts, and cooks some fish in meagre seconds, with no tools, and finally eats some meat, which is very refreshing. He eats a huge meal, feeling energized from the protein, and flash burns what was left. Next he heads off to the manticore, which he tracks through the forest.

303. When he reaches it, he hesitates when deciding what to do to it. It begins to act scared, which he believes is sincere. Unfortunately, when he turned around, the manticore tried to pounce on him. Its bones were crushed and it was thrown off a cliff.

304. Ethan felt a pang of sorrow, but it was overwhelmed with realisation. This was like his situation, but he was God and the manticore was Ethan. He needed to do something.

305. Ethan prepared himself for God. He made sure that he would somehow defeat the god, but in a way that would not result in any more deaths. He remembers what Twilight said about more magic, and how he actually manipulated some of her spells using ambient magic. He channels some of that to him, but it causes the same pain that is building inside of him.

306. He finds no purpose in doing that, so instead he watches them more. Twilight is working on non-magic portals. Lyra is in her house, talking, but PP is there as well. There is a canon outside. AJ, RD and RR are setting something up inside the barn, though he can not tell definitively what it is.

307. Spike wonders what everyone is doing, but Twilight tells him not to talk. She says that they can explain everything at Lyra's, and that Pinkie said so. Ethan finally understands.

308. He makes the connection between all that they've said, their attitudes, them trying to figure out about the portals, and what he's doing, always wanting to be with him and ask him what happened the day and how he felt. They were gathering intelligence. They were working with the god. He knew what he was to do.
309. A new clarity passed through him when he thought of it. This allowed him to continue monitoring all of them, as well as PC and PL. He narrates his memories of all that happened, connecting it to what they said, and finally, reaches one line.
310. They are preparing for something. Like the God said, the day before they started. His transportation to the ethereal landscape was not like the others, it was like it was inside his mind. And as soon as the order fell upon his ears he was pushed out. That was an accident, and RD was probably being punished for letting it happen.
311. He slept in low atmosphere, warming himself slightly, still sensing their basic locations. He would be able to keep an eye on them despite sleeping for over a day. All the food he ate earlier, as well as the days of sleeplessness, contributed to this lag, and his pain was lessened as he concreted his plan.

312. He sets himself down on the ground and stretches, it was his first physical contact with anything in days. The pain from everything before is null, and he approaches town. There is nopony in sight, and he likes the motivation he gets from not knowing. He walks to his house, and looks at the pit.
313. He frowns that he was unable to finish it in time. Perhaps he would if he survived the encounter. The wait is killing him almost as much as the pain was, days ago. He nears sweet apple acres, and nonchalantly eating an apple. He would take his sweet time.
314. He walks to the door, and refines his senses to directly in front of him. He does not hear motion, but he throws the apple core on the ground and watches it fall and spin in slow motion, despite not looking at it. Then he flash-burns it before it reaches the ground. He's ready.
315. He opens the door, revealing darkness. Then the lights flick on, even though he could plainly see all the figures in pitch black. They let out a battle cry. It takes him a few seconds to realise that they were yelling 'surprise'.
316. They look at him expectantly, their spirits dying down slightly, as he takes his mask off in confusion. He looks around at all of them, spreading his senses across the room, and then drawing them back. He blinks several times, trying to understand.
317. Pinkie Pie goes up to him, and he senses something that almost sets off a red-flag: she is displaying pure intent, and is getting close to whatever success she wants. He backs up, and she tells him.
318. It's his birthday. He continues to blink, but then comes to a realisation. They might not be bad. He could grant them this last chance, as he really had no idea what they were to do. He cracks a smile, and walks into the party.

319. Everyone cheers as he finally accepts this. He walks into the party, all the ones that knew him welcoming him back, asking him if he's feeling better, basically keeping him company.
320. They do some standard party stuff, he converses with them (awkwardly) and then Pinkie Pie rolls out the cake.
321. She cuts a piece, and Ethan turns around to see her grabbing onto his shoulder with one hoof, and supporting herself with her hind legs. She is reeling back with a slice of cake in her hoof. Ethan tries to know that she means no harm, but he senses another thought in her mind. She is achieving another intent. The cake smashes into his open mouth, but most of it gets on his face.
322. He doesn't react very much to the cake, but Pinkie Pie touches his face with her hoof. That sends him falling backwards, over a smaller pony, and into a confections table.
323. As his back reaches the floor, another portal starts on the ground. But, he is ready. Despite almost being pulled in, he pulls himself back out in a spectacular display.
324. This almost sends him over the edge. He looks around, through the cake (which is a non-issue against the portal) at their horrified faces, and the CMC ask Applejack what happened.
325. She says that he was just pushed into a portal, but it didn’t work. That tore Ethan apart, and he resolved, again, that they were trying to kill him. They couldn’t do it themselves, so they tried to get their god to do it. He force pushes everyone except the mane six out, and wills the cake to reform into the slice, with a bite taken out of it. He takes another, lamenting in its flavour, before dropping it. Pinkie Pie screams in terror, but can not move. None of them can. Ethan says that when the cake hits the ground, they will all die.
326. Ethan goes around, telling them about how their plot to kill him failed, and how they were going to suffer for it. He forces their mouths closed when they try to talk over him.
327. Ethan explains how FS is using her kindness against him, Applejack was lying the entire time, RD could not kill him when she had the chance, RR tried to buy his trust, PP was forcing his comfort, and Twilight’s magic was worthless against him.
328. FS tries to use the stare on him, but he resists. He tells them he was sent to hell several times, and they will like it there. The difference is that they will stay. Fluttershy goes first, and upon hearing that, she cries. Ethan leaves, after thinking of the supreme leader. Princess Celestia (and Luna).
329. He gets to the castle, sensing a small disturbance as he flew quickly, but nothing out of the ordinary. He arrives at the Princesses doorstep, and issues his ultimatum. He will take over the kingdom if they step down without resistance. They refuse, and start to say the elements of harmony will stop him, but not before they are knocked out and thrown into the ocean. They fall extremely slowly.
330. He forms their chair into one, and sits, thinking. He starts to believe that they may not be out to get him, but he is far too lost in the events to consider that for very long.
331. Out of nowhere, Discord appears, clapping, congratulating Ethan on doing, in a matter of minutes, what Discord could not do in several aeons.
332. Ethan recognizes him as a powerful being, but does not think of him as the god. Discord tells him that he can not be killed, but Ethan tries several times directly after. He was right. Discord explains everything, or most things, in slowed-down time.
333. Discord tells him that Ethan should follow him back to town square, and they do so quickly, with minimal arguments. The mane six are out now, but the cake still falls.
334. They try to use the elements of harmony against Ethan and Discord, but Ethan easily dissipates the force and it evaporates. Discord laughs, and tells them that they are in the presence of the most powerful element: Change. Suddenly, a gold mantle appears around Ethan’s shoulders, and an ethereal cape flows out of it. It is crimson, matching the plumbob in that he found earlier, which is also in the front of the mantle.
335. He is sceptical that Discord can bring him back, and starts to have second thoughts about the whole thing, so he is led to Lyra’s, the center of the disturbance he continually sensed. Ryan, talking through Lyra’s portal, tells Ethan that Earth is on the verge of destruction. Devastated, Ethan is easily convinced that Discord is doing the right thing. Lyra mutes Ryan in terror, and starts to cast a memory spell on Ryan. She knows not to do it to Ethan.
336. Discord tells Ethan that he must have the magic back from the planet. Ethan tells the mane six to prepare for their final time on the earth. The fifteen minutes it takes for the cake to fall are almost up. They go their separate ways.
337. Pinkie Pie rushes back to the barn with Applejack. Fluttershy runs to her cottage. Twilight runs towards Canterlot. Rarity dashes to the carousel. Rainbow Dash flys to Cloudsdale.
338. The cake falls. Pinkie Pie runs to the empty floor, trying to catch the slice. Fluttershy tries to save the animals, especially Angel, from the fire that engulfs her house and the forest. Applejack runs to the barn as it is peeled off of the earth and thrown into space, taking her family with it. Rarity runs through the corrosive gas, trying to save Sweetie Belle. Rainbow Dash flys to the Cloudsdale Coliseum in order to save Scootaloo. Twilight dashes to Canterlot to save the Princesses from the falling palace.
339. Ethan starts taking the magical energy from the planet, and giving it to Discord. This causes everypony to fail in saving their non-material lives. RD stops flying and crashes into a hill. Rarity suffocates in the pulverized gems as she tries to save Sweetie Belle. Twilight is crushed under the rubble as she tries to save the Princesses, and Spike. Applejack is suffocated in space as she tries to save her family. Pinkie Pie dies as she tries to keep the Cakes from touching the falling cake slice. Fluttershy is unable to fly and is burned as she tries to save all her animals from the flames.
340. Discord begins to absorb the power, but Ethan, who is now trying to find definite answers, sees a memory in Discord`s mind. He wills it to him, but Discord throws up barriers in horror that Ethan would find it. Ethan feels enough that he diverts the power stream from Discord to himself. He knows that Discord caused all of it.
341. Discord, after trying to reverse time to make sure it didn’t happen, is stripped of his barriers and all of his power. Ethan watches as everything happens. He tears into Discord's subconscious and learns everything about discord. He learns of Discord's history, or at least what Discord did not tell him. Ethan absorbs the billions of years of Discord's existence, but does not feel the same emotions as Discord. He only learns of the suffering that Discord caused. And the lives he has taken. Ethan adds all of them to the list. (Basically this is a backstory for Discord)
342. With these billions of years of experience taken in, Ethan does not spare Discord. He tears away all his powers, save the immortality, and plunges Discord into the center of the planet. Then he seals him inside by converting his extra power into magic and putting it back into the state it was before it was taken out. Then, with that conflict solved, he looks around.
343. Bodies fill the streets. Blood pours from countless destroyed buildings, and debris covers the streets. But they are not dead. Not all of them, at least. The mane six sacrificed themselves to save those they loved, but instead they died along with them. And Ethan saw it all happen. It was all his fault.
344. Looking down at the bodies, he sees they still breath. They are vegetables, but he does not know why. Again, he caused all of this. He sets it right. He brings everything back.
345. Ethan reverses time. He watches everything happen in reverse time, criticizing himself for it. Unfortunately, he thinks he reverses too far, so he stops. There is darkness, but he can sense Discord in the depths of the planet, living eternity in the confines of his white, neutral hell.

346. He phases through the walls of his confines, and sees himself back in the Everfree forest, though it is not nearly as creepy as the last time. It's still early morning though. He brings his senses back to the first person for the sake of nostalgia, but still uses his powers to navigate.
347. He extracts the special parts of the Poison Joke and gives it to Zecora, without her knowing. He takes the book of prophecies, the only copy, from the Canterlot Libraries and destroys it. He takes the manticore from the western forest and puts it in its marshy home, away from the ponies. He walks out to his hill, where he was building the house that is no longer there. It gives him a great view of ponyville, SAA, Canterlot, and even FS's cottage. He stands there, watching.
348. The ponies, revived and sent back in time, groggily exit their houses in the early morning, before even the sun comes up. They think that something happened, but do not know what. They slowly begin to think that nothing out of the ordinary is happening. Fluttershy is making sure all the animals are safe, and spots Ethan at the hill. She stares, and he realizes that it's time to finish. FS is too timid to come closer, and she can't see him from that distance.
349. Ethan erects a small obsidian pedestal and carves a likeness of himself, praying to the heavens. He then writes his message on the epitaph, and removes the plumbob from his mantle and places it in the stone. It lights the text subtly, and Ethan stands up.
350. His life there is complete, and he wonders if he could go back to it. He feels them remembering certain aspects of his short reign, and wants to know what happened to his own planet. He has ties to it, albeit not very strong, but even so he can not exist on the planet any longer. He looks towards Fluttershy, who is now in a park with the mane six, discussing what happened. Fluttershy motions towards the hill. It is time.
351. For not much longer than a themptosecond, Ethan understands the nature of the elements. During this brief period, he knew he had completed his handed goal on the planet, and that in doing so he witnessed them dying, completing theirs. He knew what he had to do. The six looked. Ethan smiled in his funeral pyre.

There are three tiers of the Equestrian language - There is the alphabetized version, for highly literate ponies. There is the phonetic version, which resembles a combination of Russian and Equestrian/English, made for semi-literate ponies who need help connecting letters (which is why the letters are literally connected). There is the iconography version, which uses pony-related symbols as a way for illiterate ponies to narrate texts.

Lyra, while creating her message in a joint effort with Celestia, Luna, and Twilight, labeled the message with Lyra's humanized name (Lyran) and an urgency message, "Fast". When it arrived on Earth, passing through the time portal that Ethan left in his wake, it turns out that Lyra was not fully literate and accidentally wrote "Lauren Faust", which was spelled correctly at first, but the connected letters were non-transferrable. It was covered up by the soon-to-be-world leader and Studio B edited it into a TV show.