After an awkward silence, the 3 beings present in the wake of Twilight Sparkle managed to overcome the stupor of the phrase spoken by the alicorn, seeing her in disbelief.
"Seriously, a mutated monkey?, I've never felt so offended for being human" Rad muttered, crossing his arms and heading for the door, "Elder, Applecobbler, she's all yours, I'll see what else I can do to help to the takeoff" with this, the young man left the room although the three ponies in the room still heared a mutered babbling, something by the lines of "damn crazy unicorn/pegasus lady, does not know what's a human." both normal ponies were uncomfortable about the gaze that the now awake ex-librarian was giving to them.
Both ponies looked suddenly to each other, and then back to the pony that was just out of the stasis chamber, noticing the wings that hung limply at her sides.
"Please, North Star, tell me, what about the war, and also, why we are now tall bipedal... thingies" the former princess said, her eyes showing great pain, trying to put aside the thousand questions she had in mind at that moment, just wanting to know the most important things right now, such what happened to the once glorious kingdom, where Celestia and Luna were, the rightfull princesses and regents of Equestria... and another thousand things went through the head of the former librarian, unaware (apparently) of the change in the mood of the old wizard, and how the young mare avoided her gaze.
"Well, your highness, is not easy to explain this, but to be honest, the kingdom of Equestria fell about 2,000 years ago, after this, the Empire was consolidated as the biggest in the world, but still, there were rebels, the now extinct diamond dogs, they were against all the carnage that griffons made on the surface, after several skirmishes and seeing themselves cornered, the dogs did the only thing they believed that in that time, could stop the butchers who now sit in the summit of power" the old stallion said, barely suppressing the anger in his voice,"those fools detonated a magic bomb in the core of the planet, believing that the subsequent earthquakes would stop the empire, the only thing that the damn fools didn't know whas how wrong they where at the time, and the consequences of their actions." The older pony explained, earning a look of sheer horror on the princess in front of him.
" The planet was separated into several pieces, each of which was stabilized thanks to the latent mana on the earth", Applecobbler says, gaining the attention for the weary alicorn, "we are currently in one of them, what happened to the seas? ,what of the lush green plains of Zebrika? , what happened with the untamed sands of Saddle Arabia?... we do not know" said the young engineer, "more or less by that time, the humans, who are the "mutated monkeys", like Rad, appeared in that early age of chaos, after the disappearance of the sun and moon, or so is written in the old books that still survive in our days."
" wait, wait ... the disappearance of the sun and moon ? " asked the agitated alicorn ,confirming her darkest fears.
"The thing is, your majesty" the white elder continues, "that since the earthquake, the regents of the Sun and the Moon dissapeared, leaving the planet to its own, the griffons ended the war and secluded themselves in what is left of rookhaven, closing the borders again and making sure that us, the ponies were isolated in the floating islands."
" Yes, your Highness, " added a third voice, who belongs to Rad, "Currently we are refugees because after a few years , again the Empire wanted to prove that it is better than all the other survivors of the destruction of the planet's crust , and began a campaign of distrust and segregation against all other races, going as far as to clip off the wings and horns to the pegasi and unicorns, and prohibiting the humans to develop more technology, unless they could found some use for Empire."
At that time, all the presents in the room heard a thud, followed by a pretty unconscious princess who unceremoniously fell on the floor of the room.
"I think we should have explained that we also are wanted people, to put the icing on the cake" Rad sarcastically said, earning a slap on the back of the head by Applecobbler.
"Shut up and take her to the infirmary, mister "wanted person" North Star simply said, eyeing the rest of the tubes before, with a loud sigh, turned around and began to accompany the human and the unconscious alicorn to the nursing wing in the aircraft.
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"Ow, my head" Twilight said, lifting a trembling hand and nursing the huge lump on the left side of his head, and looking at the details of the room where she was now, "silly dream, griffons won the war, made the Diamond Dogs blow the planet's crust, and I'm now in the project ... Aurora ... it wasn´t a dream, was it? "ask the alicorn, having focused on the other people who were with her in the infirmary of the vessel.
"Unfortunately no, your highness"replied North Star in a curt way, "everything we said it is a sad reality for us,but a reality notheless however, we want to know what we do now?," he added, looking up with hope in the direction of the nervous princess.
"Well, North Star" Twilight said, hesitating a moment "the first thing that we do is confirm the situation at hand, and see what we can do to help my friends and others in the stasis chambers" she said slowly, "but after that,me and the elements have a new task, trying to mend all that those damn animals did to the planet, and we need all the help we can get." she added, with a fire in her eyes.
"Damn, it was about time, princess, we want to help" Rad said from the door of the infirmary wing, "What we can do?"