//------------------------------// // 5) the missing piece // Story: fear of lightning // by Layam //------------------------------// Twilight diary june 9 1004 afternoon. dear diary. When we woke up in Celestia castle a guard arrived and alerted the princesses that 5 ponies had yesterday took hostage all the students of the starswill elementary school in manhattan. Celestia ordered to sent the most expert guards from Equestria to secure the children’s, but the guard pointed out that it finished because somepony entered the school and knocked out the evil ponies. He also described how the description of the mysterious hero matched the characteristics of him. “so what if him is actually a good person and is actually acting evil so that he can seem more good. Or what if he is actually evil and he is fooling us thinking that he is actually good when in real life he is pretending to be good so that he can manifest his evilness by showing that he is not good even if he was evil before, I HAVE NO CLUE!” said pinkie pie in her humorist tone “pinkie pie there is no tim…” i tried to be serious but i was interrupted by Celestia receiving a letter. “it’s from spike!”she announced. as she seemed to check the page her look became more and more confused. We checked out what there was read and what there was was only a phrase “describe your concept of absolutely beauty” It seemed like a bad prank at first until Celestia turned the page and it was discovered a help message from Spike. It was written really fast and not even finished. It described how he was trapped in this white room with the three little fillies with only something to read and to eat. The three little fillies said to him wasn’t so evil if you done his orders and by the look of it they were brainwashed. We were happy that they weren’t dead but being brainwashed is something really bad. Celestia Called Discord who showed up immediately. “i knew you wouldn’t resist calling me for a day, what do you need?” he spoke “listen Discord what i’ll say you to you could save the sanity of three fillies, track down where this letter was sent” ordered Celestia “ooh let’s see. Spike calling for help interesting, well this will require at least 5 days to track down where is from”. “What!? I DEMAND YOU INFORMATION, NOW!” shouted princess Luna who was quickly hold back by her sister. “woo woo woo, calm down. First of all this is a favor i do to you since reformed Discord isn’t the equivalent of helpful Discord. Second it’s hard to know where this letter could be sent because i can clearly say it’s not from Equestria.”Continued Discord “so what now?” asked Applejack “well if you have the courtesy of waiting just a few days you might end this abomination forever” Responded Discord. “Ok while Discord work on trying to find the location of the letter we will see if we can find why he helped the fillies in the school”finally said Celestia and finished the reunion. We took the train to manhattan but we aren’t still there. So i’ll continue the diary when i’ll arrive. sweetie belle diary june 10 1004 afternoon. this time when we woke up the creature was waiting in front of the door. After he let us done breakfast he showed us four new machinery. He said that they have been installed to be a substitute of paper since he doesn’t trust spike. So he started explaining what it his. “anyway what are you seeing here is named computer, more specifically laptop, and because it needs some explanation i’ll teach you how to use it” “So how are we suppose to write your tests in this thing?”asked Scootaloo “simple you will press this bottom and the display will light up like an arcade machine” So we stood there for 8 seconds until the computer finished loading and it went into the menu. “so what are you going to do now is to go and click this application called word and then”he was interrupted by me “how do you move that arrow thingy?” “that’s even simpler, you take this object called mouse and you move up,down,left,right and in whatever direction you move, the cursor will go there.” “why is it called mouse?” asked Apple Bloom “i don’t know, probably the first prototypes resembled a mouse” “Anyway you then double click this application called word”. When you open it there will be a lot of files to choose from, always choose the new one, that will be your test.” “how are we suppose to type the words? the buttons are too small for our hoofs”asked Apple Bloom. Even if you couldn’t see his expression with his gas mask, he seemed a little embarrassed, he backed off to the door open it go through it and closed it. After five minutes he returned with four new components. “you see this? let’s plug in first them and i will show you how to use them” He told us “now act like this thing is a piece of paper and use this special pen, the computer will identify the calligrapher and write down the words, if you did an mistake just push this large button and it will erase the word, now good luck the test can start now”. The test was about what was our opinions on princess Celestia, Luna, Cadence and Twilight. While i was writing on how i felt they were four beings of the maximum majestic and power i seen him at the corner of my eye giving signs of disappointment. When we finished he told us to save and was about to leave if it wasn’t for Spike “I maybe can justify that you want to test us to see how our comportment is different from yours but why are you acting like this? Why are you terrorizing my friends and the princesses? Why you stealthily stealing our books and then give them back? Just why?” he asked “you wanna really know why?” he finally replied. “i have fear. Fear of not been understand by your people, fear of being used to take my technology by being nice to me but as quickly as a lightning in my most helpless state being betrayed and left out, i have fear of being laugh at, to being humiliated, to be categorize as an idiot. In my lifetime i’ve took too many risks trying to socialize and in most of them i failed miserably. This time there i won’t risk loosing the honor of me and my world, no the only way to be sure to combat fear is fear and if they won’t fear me they will even if that means showing them plan z.” When he finished he left the door and close it before Spike could ask what was plan z. I am thinking more and more that him isn’t doing this for evil and he just needs some time to socialize with the ponies, i hope this doesn’t turn for the worst. Princess Luna diary 9-10 june 1004 night-morning. my beloved friend diary. I was guarding the train while we were waiting, i didn’t sleep at night anyway. When i saw out of the window a meteor that crashed a mile near the train. That was odd because i controlled the sky in any given moment so i wasn’t expecting a meteor. I alerted my sister which told me to go investigate while she guarded the train. I teleported there. It wasn’t a meteor. It wasn’t also a normal landscape at all, there was plain cement in the ground with white lines drawn in it and lights at the end of the cement which largeness was short compared to the length which was really really long. There was what i believed was some kind of iron bird over this cement. The iron bird was black and really low, it didn’t resemble a bird at all but that was the closest thing that i can think of. I decided to return at the train to report what i found but… all trains cabins where filled with a dense gas which had a really stingy smell. Thankfully i being able to close my mouth and not breath the gas and then open all the windows and let it out. I proceeded by checking if the conductor was ok. He wasn’t. He was lying in the ground also affected by the gas while him was messing with the train commands. “YOU WON’T GET AWAY WITH THIS!” i said even if it would have been smarter to use a surprise bonus to attack him. I charged him and he just made a step to the left to evade my attack and i broke the window flying off it. I would probably went under the rails if it wasn’t for him, who grabbed my majestic mane (ouch) and throw me over the train in movement. In other circumstances i would have thanked him but he was an enemy and i had to fight him. I started by throwing him hundreds of small magic pellets who were suppose to stung him but he just run towards me and evaded the pellets simply by going under them. When he approached me he hit me with his fists and knock me a little over. Then i tried to do close combat by hitting first by hitting him with my hooves first from high to low and then viceversa. I missed both times. I tried then to stab him with my horn. But he moved out of the way grabbed my belly and overturned me. When i get up (him gave me the time to do it) i opened my wings and started flying and trying to hit him with magic. He always was able to evade the projectiles every time, until it seemed i hit him in the shoulder (maybe he faked) that’s when i decided to do the final strike by flying against him and knock him out, but he pulled up the stick. I tried to stop but he hit me in the neck with the small dart. I was suddenly feeling very tired and sleepy so i landed on the train but i continued fighting. He then hit me again and i lost my balance, and as i close my eyes i heard him saying “Buonanotte principessa della luna” Which translates from ancient alicornian to “goodnight princess of the moon” I was woken up by my sister. I had an headache like everyone else in the train. They said that they saw small objects coming from the windows that started emitting the gas. I told them what i saw and did the night before. Unfortunately even in the most remote cabins we couldn’t find Twilight anywhere. But this time none cried, we were getting more and more experienced with the methods of him. We find the normal piece of paper under my bed that said. “let’s assume that to defeat me you need to finish a puzzle, now that a piece is missing how are you going to complete it?” he was right! without Twilight we wouldn’t be able to use the friendship magic again. Thankfully Celestia tranquillize everyone by saying that we would find twilight and in the meantime we would have to prepare as much as possible. Also the train as been stopped and all of the coal disappeared so we have to wait to an escort chariot to carry to manehattan. I hope that twilight hasn’t been killed or else Equestria could fall.