Well the time I been helping luna overcome the realazation she gained about her actions was going well. Nocturne even helped out by giving her something to cuddle for a bit. Though there was a disturbing thing. She was still in the form of nightmare moon. Even she was worried about that and I used one of the scanners on the lab to check out the problem. What I found wasn't good.
"Great this is not something I expected" I said rubbing my face as I looked at the results of the scan.
"Luna because you are directly connected to the moon you took on the symbolic aspects of it as well. That means that your body has cosmic energy alongside your magic which gives you quite the lifespan. The same kind of life span as the moon itself. And that means there are sides to you that reflect this connection. Nightmare moon is like your dark side just as there is a dark side to the moon. When you went into your mental breakdown you ended up corrupting some of that cosmic energy and until it's purified your trapped into your darker side. In a way your a bit like a zoidarts. A construct of negative cosmic energy. I explained that the astro switches have cosmic energy to them but there also exists a kind of switch much like them. Astro switches are positive while zoidarts switches are negative. Complete opposites. Right now you have equal positive and negative cosmic energy. Like magic cosmic energy is influenced by emotions. This is the reason why your stuck in that form. Your negative emotions while you don't feel them right now have influenced your cosmic energy and need a external source to get back to normal. Like the elements of harmony you told me about" I said.
"That makes a lot of sense and explains why alicorns live for so long. So I am stuck like this until I can get back to my sister to get me free of this dark cosmic energy" said luna a wince on her face at having to be stuck like this for quite some time.
"Yes speaking of which how long have we been in here anyway?" I asked before my eyes caught something on the wall where I found the two clocks where a panel had flipped over under the earth time one to show the current date under my arrival date.
I felt my jaw drop.
"200 years! But how! Humans normally live at most a century and I was 21 when I arrived here! How am I still alive!" I said in shock as luna followed my gaze and considering I told her all about my world's history with the help of the tech in the hutch she was just as baffled as me.
"You said magic and cosmic energy combined allows alicorns to live a long immortal life right?" Asked luna.
"At most that's what I think happens to explain your lifespan" I said as it was just a theory as we both knew.
"Is it possible for cosmic energy in someone to connect to the magic of someone else" asked luna.
"Considering one of the people that I know used cosmic energy in the past Litterally got stronger with friendship it might very well be entirely possible" I said.
"Im starting to think your cosmic energy is connected to my magic giving you my lifespan in a much direct way" said luna nervously as a thought occurred to her.
"But the only cosmic energy I can get is if i use the astro switches and the driver on my body" I said as surprisingly there was footage of every kamen rider I knew of in the database so I told her the history of kamen rider as well.
"What about when your just wearing the driver? It must still use cosmic energy stored in it to run" said luna as I had to admit she was right the drivers power source was cosmic energy. I doubt I actually took it off at all.
"Well it does use cosmic energy so you think that it altered me in some way?" I asked with a worried look to the driver in question. I tugged it and the belt vanished leaving me to hold the device and Phew nothing happened no rapid aging which I feared was a possibility as the driver might have been sustaining my life force. Turning the cosmic energy scanner on me I learned that my body was producing cosmic energy on its own and that the driver was regulating it and keeping it in check. At least until I learned to control it myself.
"Definitely altered great so I have cosmic energy in my own body now. Going to be a pain in the neck to learn how to use it without my driver acting as a kind of control valve. So far it looks like besides making me durable and slowing my aging down nothing much about me has changed at all. Good thing too I don't want to know if it changed my personality at all" I said seriously.
"Jack just be glad you have the chance to figure it all out can you imagine what would happen if I was stuck here after your death?" Asked luna relieved to know she won't snap from being all alone.
"Good point well better get started on learning to control this I don't want to know if cosmic energy build up has a negative effect on me as it looks like the amount of cosmic energy in my body is still going up" I said and thus we spent 500 years helping me to learn to control the cosmic energy in my body and as we did I now noticed nocturne was growing to about now big enough to reach my waist. And I learned that cosmic energy had effected her to allow her to breath out in the void of space. Luna always took the chance to give nocturne exercise on the moon when we found this out and I went as Fourze too as I had to get used to the fact my costume became real and that yes I was in a different world. And turned out there was a pokemon in the pokeball I bought which to my amusement was zorua the trickster fox dark type. Shape shifting was interesting as seemed cosmic energy also effected her to allow her to talk and actually change elements. I figured out nyxne (pronounced nixine) had gotten a power set trait of fourze specifically the states change. So she had a electric form, magnet form, fire form and a full out cosmic form.
As a result I trained the little fox to be my support in battle as I knew it was a matter of time before zoidarts made their appearence.
I couldn't help but be drawn to luna. I was surprised both of us got used to luna in her nightmare form something about her in this state just felt right in the time we been here. I spent some training in using the astro switches I had but like gentaro I couldn't use the ns mag phone for magnet states. I didn't have the requirements met. That was to say I didn't prepare for later threats. I was working on other astro switches using cosmic energy to create a system to act like the elements of harmony only under different names on space terms. Stratos, gravity, flare, mercury, shuttle and nebula.
Stratos was for rainbow dash and I made a turbine themed driver for her to use. Gravity was for applejack and her driver was based off a black hole in design as those things had strong gravity. Flare was for Rarity and her driver had a solar base as flare was short for solar flare. Mercury was for fluttershy as I couldn't think of what trait of space would fit her best but she is easy going and for the most part keeps her kindness at her core like cold metal so her driver resembled that. Shuttle was for pinkie pie as her optimistic personality was a good sheild for fear and can uplift others moods. Her driver resembled a rocket shuttle a bit. Nebula really had to be perfect for Twilight as her name sparkle really made it to good to pass up. Her driver looked like a galaxy in terms of design. Luna was a bit surprised I built a rider version of the elements and I had to point out she wasn't connected to them anymore and neither was her sister so new bearers was to be expected.
"I made these as a back up plan for if the new bearers can't get the actual elements for some reason or had to give up the elements for good. I enabled a dna lock so only the new bearers can use these systems and implimented one for my driver. When I have time I can make one for you just in case. I found the blueprints for the other driver used in the original fourze's time the meteor driver which will help out as meteor was skilled to go even with fourze. Drive said something that I found to be mostly true. Riders help each other" I said as like luna knew from my rider history lessons not all riders were good.
Together we just lived for our remaining time in here and I wondered what exactly were the stars that aided the original nightmare moon the version crazy from being lonely to escape. That never did really make sense to me. Oh and we learned nocturne can shrink back to size she arrived in so she can hide on my person. Looking at equestria we saw four lights heading our way and I blinked finding things to be insane already. The 'Stars' turned out to be moon based astro switches and I could feel Luna's signature in them. I turned to her an eyebrow raised.
"How did you make these luna? I can feel your signature in these and it looks like they existed since you were taken here. did the elements fragment some of your magic and cosmic energy into these" I asked a teasing smile on my face even as I recalled nyxne.
"I think so they must be the keys to what is keeping us here" said luna blushing at my tease as after we knew each other so long it became fairly normal.
"Just be careful Ok for all we know someone made a prophecy out of what history remains about you and anyone taking it seriously would think your about to cause eternal night still... oh I just thought up a good prank to pull on your sister if that's the case" I said as I told her what the prank was and if we pulled it off luna can be returned to normal. I pretty much went with luna acting out the Canon timeline for this as hey better to keep it as much as I can as twilight and the others were important for the kingdom's survival. With that we went to equestria with me using a stealth cloaking device I built to hide me from everyone until luna returned to normal. Though I was prepared for if zoidarts decided to interfere.
(End chapter)