~”-and that's basically what we humans have accomplished in the last 10 years alone. Ok, let’s get down to business.” He leaned down and grabbed an old cardboard box full of the items they saw in the cavern. “I have made a little over 500 videos on this device to teach you about just about everything I can think of.” He reached into the box that was tearing at one of the sides. “This, is my Nook, it was pretty old when I first got it, but it was the way I read books as a child after our house burnt down. If anything, I would say that for you watching my image and listening to my voice, that this is the most important thing I am leaving you. It has around 50 essential apps on it, an easy to read screen and a long battery life. And thanks to past innovations to this old SDXC technology, it holds something like 1.03 million books. A library in the size of one small book.” He grabbed another thing and continued. “This is my other tablet, and it was actually my first one”~
The masses around the Device were fixated on what the human was saying. The council themselves were in awe as much as anypony else, even if they covered up that fact from the others. Blazing was thinking both of what the human spoke, and what she had brought with her, the black cylinder. She didn’t know half of what the human talked about, matters that she did not usually concern herself with, politics especially. But she did get quite interested in the field of study called science. |Sure we have always had SOME kind of science, usually only when a problem arose, but from what I hear it wasn’t much different for them. ..He said that human society began changing when other humans studied more and more scientific ideas when nothing in particular was wrong.| She looked again at her treasure, |Well then, let’s just see how this goes.|
She took her box and started hovering over to the Device, that allure of such complexities still intrigued her, but she knew there would be much work tomorrow at the dig site. If she wanted to see what her thing did she would have to do something sooner rather than later. She glanced back the the Device, wheels turning, rods pushing, pulling and flameless, magicless lights illuminating the crowd still watching. Taking care not to drop her box she flew over to her place of residence. Hers was a unique structure, it was predominantly made of discarded metal materials from the Equestrians. She walked past the entrance and looked around, darkness, with a small sigh her antennae began to glow, she focussed on several crystals throughout her house. Slowly they began to glow under their own power due to the new replenishment of magic. With her light crystals lit, she walked into her study area.
It was still a mess of papers and scrolls, her work on the light emitting crystals. *sigh* | I knew I should’ve tidied up before going today| She looked around for a box or something to put her research in, just for short term storage but she couldn’t find anything more than some woven baskets. |I guess this'll do, for now.| She grabbed all four baskets and made her way back to her study. With some hesitations, she systematically organized her papers, scrolls and crystals in each basket, well all but one. |One left, well off to the side it goes, till I find something for it to do| A large grin crept onto her face, now the time had come. She’d finally know what this thing was and why she wanted it.
Brimming with excitement and some anxiety she lifted away the lid from the box, and saw more pictographs on the inside of it.
|Ok, awesome, looks like those go like this...| With the flick of her hooves she aligned the two small cylinders like in the diagram. |Then, I unscrew that and put 'em in| The side where she needed to put these things was already mostly unscrewed, so it was no effort to open it and put the two pieces inside. |Lastly, screw that end back on and push this button| She looked at the illustration, a black and white drawing of the small process, then back to the black cylinder. The last picture had a line on the other end. |Hmmm, maybe something will come out,| She thought for a second before coming to the conclusion that she just needed to put something in front of it to catch it. |The extra basket, perfect. Wonder what'll come out, from what that human was saying they could do anything it seems|
With the basket set she was ready to see what this thing did. “Alrighty then, lets see what this thing can do. She pressed the only button on the metal body before her sight was blinded by a green light. “WAaaaaohh!!” The sudden brightness startled her so much she somersaulted backwards while yelling out in shock. “Ugh, what in the hay happened?” as her sight returned she could smell something, smoke. “Oh no, OH NO! Fire!” With her small heart pounding she flew outside and levitated a big ball of dirt. Racing back in her study she threw the dirt with her magic in every direction. Dust and smoke filled the room, but the fire was out. With a huge sigh of relief, she wearily walked over to the smouldering ashes of what was a basket. After she was sure the embers were out she fell on her back for a few minutes or so. “Wow, that was more excitement than I usually see all year,”
Forcing herself to get back up she looked around her study to see a layer of dirt on Everything, fortunately none of her previous research was damaged. Blazing then looked at what caused all this.The cylinder was still lying just where she left it, it too was covered in a sizable amount of dirt. “What in Equus did this thing do? I can sense no magic emanating from it now, and none came from it before either, yet this thing nearly blinded me and set fire to a basket.” She picked it up with her magic once more. “Not any lighter than it was before.” She set it down and trotted over to her chair. “Alright,it isn’t powered by magic, nothing seemed to come out of it but light and it could set something on fire...with light.” Deep in thought, an idea came to her. “I'll have to try this on something else, something that won't burn... A rock will do I guess” with that she picked up the thing with her magic and headed for the exit.
Now a good distance away from any homes or other flutterponies, she searched for a large rock. It took ten minutes to find, but she had found her large rock. “Ok, just like last time...Except no fire, please.” She had brought several of her light emitting crystals so she could see what she was doing. |'K, got the thingy, found the rock, brought some light crystals, and a blank scroll with a quill. There’s no way I am not documenting this.| “Here goes nothing!” She pressed the button once more, but this time, with nothing immediately in front of the cylinder and being outside, she wasn’t as blinded and she saw what was happening.
An exceedingly bright beam was being emitted from the cylinder, it was just like the magic crystal earlier that day. Except this wasn’t magic at all, this was something completely new! Something unheard of, something nopony would believe unless they saw it themselves. Blazing felt a fire within herself, she wanted to know more. After checking the area the beam hit, she decided to try it again but at a higher angle. She would need her magic for this. The cylinder was covered in the deep cerulean blue of her magic as she raised it up to try again. Poised for another test she pressed the button, the light flashed brighter than before, this time the rock exploded. Having no time to react she was thrown back by the tiny shockwave. As the realization dawned on her of what exactly happened, a small light flashed by her small flank, an image of a large red triangle appeared, in it was a red line coming from an eight pointed star.
