//------------------------------// // Enlightenment // Story: Roche Limit // by Iamnotarobot //------------------------------// Twilight's POV I was on my throne, just reading a book, then I heard the sound of feet running. I finally saw a source of this, my assistant, Spike, he came in front of me, and inmediately released a body of green fire out of his mouth, and a scroll materialized out of it. "Thanks, Spike." "You're welcome, Twilight. What does it say? "Hmm... Let's see" I opened the scroll with my magic and proceeded to read it. Dear Princess Twilight Yesterday our royal observatory received data sent from the Manehattan observatory that contained alarming information. Due to this observatory being top-secret I ask you to keep this to yourself, I also ask you to come here to Canterlot as soon as possible. Princess Celestia I started wondering what this "alarming informarion" could be, but my thoughts were interrupted by the voice of a certain purple dragon: "So... What does it say?" "Oh! Uh... Princess Celestia wants me to go to Canterlot to... Talk in her school for gifted unicorns for being a famous former student." "Oh! Okay do you want me to come with you?" "N-" I stopped myself. Twilight, remember the last time you tried to keep a secret from your friends. I know! Use inverse Psichology! "Well, I am reading them a couple of books, so if you want to come..." "No! I think i'd rather stay here taking care of Owliscious. He he." "Okay, please tell my friends I went to Canterlot" "Sure thing." I walked away, Oh books, you never fail me, now let's see what's going on in the observatory. --- I was almost there, I could see the castle already. Anypony who has gone to Canterlot or even seen a picture of it recognizes the west tower, probably because it's the tallest, they may also recognize the observatory at the bottom of the tower, well, that's actually not the "royal Canterlot observatory" no, the real observatory, is beneath the castle, hidden from everypony, just because it has technology centuries more modern than the rest of Equestria. When Luna came back from the moon, she was fascinated by Astronomy, and she made the observatory. I've never been to it, but that was about to change. --- I finally reached the castle, I entered, greeting some guards on the way, and met Princess Celestia talking with Princess Luna: "If we don't stop this, Equestria could be doomed." "Yes, and everypony would die in a horrible manner." "Yes, I know, I remember the dream you gave me. Why would you do that anyway? Couldn't you have just told me?" "Yes, but telling you by a dream is cooler, and besides, sometimes your dreams are quite spicy" Luna said with a wink. "Um.. Am I interrumping?" I asked. "Oh, no, come in" Celestia said. "What's going on?" I questioned. Luna looked at Celestia and the Sun princess nodded. "Please follow me." Luna said. We walked through the hallways of Canterlot castle, ocassionally going down a set of stairs. Finally we reached a metal door, Luna placed her hoof on an object next to the gate and it opened. We both entered and I was greeted by an orange stallion with a cutie mark that resembled a portion of the Sun with a column of gas coming out of it. He cleared his throat and said: "Hello, I am Solar Flare, manager of the control room and specialist in Solar activity." "Hello, I'm princess Twilight Sparkle, but I'm pretty sure you already know that." I released a giggle after that. Saturn's POV Twilight sparkle? Princess Twilight Sparkle is in the same room as me?! Oh Celestia! Alright, calm down Saturn, just because you are her biggest fan doesn't mean you can't act casual around her. Oh god! She's here! Oh god I'm having an asthma attack! Or a heart attack I don't know! Okay. Keep it cool, breathe. That's better. She walked up to me, accompanied by Princess Luna. Then the latter said: "And this is the one who received the data" Twilight turned to me and waited for me to say something. Oh god it's my turn to talk, okay, here goes nothing! "Hello, I'm Saturn Eclipse, specialist in planets, moons and..." Oh god! What was the third thing?! Wait planets, moons and... I think it sounds like... "Planetoids!" I yelled, the princess of friendship's eyes turning larger than normal. She then asks: "Oh, so what was the data you received?" I simply nod my blushing face and turn to my computer, my horn started glowing with a dark grey aura, inmediately that same glow covered the computer's mouse and. I started typing, a few moments later, the document sent from the Manehattan observatory appeared on the monitor. After a few seconds of reading Twilight looks up and said: "We... We have to do something." I simply nod. "I think that my friends in Poniville and me can do something. Maybe you can come." "Ye... Yes!" I respond, increasingly feeling more relaxed and excited. "Okay, I think we should hurry, that document says aproximately 4.3 months" "Wait." I said. "If we gonna do something, we gotta do it right." After that statement, I took out a cellphone out of my lab robe and said: "I'm calling the war dogs!" I screamed dramatically, before tyiping a number on my cell phone and putting it next to my ear. Twilight's POV I watched him stare into the vaccum and waiting, after about thirty seconds, he started talking: "Hi? Hey Telescope! So I was wonderin if y..." He listened for a moment and then answered: "O-okay, so... Okay, call me when you finish your Souflé. Bye." He took the cell phone away from his ear and sighed. "I wonder if Milky is done with buying flowers." He asked to himself, before typing on his cell phone again and bringing it to his ear.