The first night of being known by the world was a great one. Dinky looks out her window. She could see the fortress of the sun from her window and it was beautiful. It was like her own personal night light that watched over her dreams. It was emitting a soft light aura that light up the night just enough so you could see where you were going but also low enough to be able to fall asleep. The skies around Utopia were instead of night time skies but a mysterious and magical purple. When you looked at it directly you would think you’re looking through the portal to an entirely new dimension.
Dinky fell asleep feeling safer than she usually would. It was impossible to be afraid of the dark with a holy golden watcher above you.
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Watchman does what he does best, watches. He watched as ponies fell asleep and some even stayed up writing. He enjoyed the idea of being able to listen in on people’s dreams. In fact that is what he always wanted to do before he became Utopia’s watcher. Though the technology never existed, it still didn’t stop him from dreaming of it. He wanted to make that technology himself but he never really knew the workings of the mind. He planned on asking Witch Doctor when he had time.
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Peace Keeper was in Canterlot talking to Princess Luna about a possible location on the moon where he could negotiate harvesting operations. The moon was a big object that no one other than Luna owned so it was an obvious first choice for harvesting.
“So you see if I could just have your permission to take an acre worth of material from the moon Utopia will be able to expand and begin turning into an actual city rather than just some floating home of ours.”
“NO! YOU WILL NOT TOUCH OUR MOON! IF IT WERE TO BE SCARRED BY YOUR MACHINES THEN I WILL DESTROY YOUR UTOPIA!” Said Luna in her Royal voice.
“You don’t understand do you? I’m not asking to deface it! I just want a bit of material! If I gave the command to Binary he could make it so we collect material inside of the moon rather on its surface. Which means it won’t look any different than it does now.”
Luna stops to think for a moment. “We are pleased with this information. I can offer you such material in return of one thing.”
“Oh?” Said Peace Keeper skeptically.
“You will give us the secret as to how your ship flies.”
Peace Keeper was almost unnerved by this but saw a way out of it. “Ok Luna I will tell you how to build the Impulse engine…BUT you must give us something of equal value to obtain it.”
“And that would be?”
“The entire moon.”
“SURELY THOU ART MISTAKEN! THE MOON IS NOT OF EQUAL VALUE TO AN ENGINE!”
“Luna our engine toppled entire civilizations! Extinguished many stars! The raw power required to make this engine is the raw power of seven stars! Your moon is hardly and equal trade considering the amount of damage it takes to create said engine!”
Luna looked taken back or shocked. ‘The engine toppled civilizations?’
“What do you mean when you say it toppled civilizations?”
“What you think I’m joking? An entire race of sentient creatures was extinguished because of the supernova that engine created when it was built. We had no idea that it would happen when we first built it. But Utopia’s shields kept it from destroying us and the blast wave went up and down! It vaporized the atmosphere and destroyed the planet while simultaneously sucking away the power of the near by star. The same will happen to Equestria if you chose to build one here. To say your moon is of equal value is laughable.”
“Yet you chose that as equal value?”
“Because this is more than an engine. It is what we are! It is our failings and our regrets! WE CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT IT!”
Luna was silent for a while longer. Peace Keeper treated the impulse engine like she treated the moon. It was their purpose rather than an object. She understood now exactly what Utopia meant to all the specialists. It wasn’t just a home. It was a reason to live.
“Very well…I will allow you to take from my moon. But if any of your damage shows I will destroy Utopia!”
“No worries Luna. We will make sure you have a moon to control when we’re done. Thank you for understanding. You don’t know what Utopia truly means to us.”
He turns to leave.
“It is your reason to live.” Said Luna emotionlessly.
Peace Keeper turns to her again and says. “…I underestimated your ability to understand its meaning. Thank you for seeing the light.”
Luna smiled to him in a way to say ‘You’re welcome’. Peace Keeper walked out of the throne room and went to Watchman’s glass orb. He knocked on it giving Watchman the signal to teleport him back to Utopia.
*Zap*
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Nano looks out her window into the night sky. She was thinking of the day she went down to the surface and remembered the weird sensation when she saw Applejack. Come to think of it she also felt it when she saw Rainbow. Only with Rainbow it was stronger.
“Why?” She found herself saying out loud.
“Their part of you.” A voice said from behind her.
Nano looks at the door and Impulse was leaning on it. Probably thinks he’s so cool standing like that…Truth is he is.
“What are you doing in-“
“I’m here to answer questions you may have. Specifically those feelings.”
“Ok that’s just weird! How the hell do you know about that?”
“I’m hooked up to Utopia remember? I feel what she feels. And she feels your confusion and feelings…I know that feeling.”
“What is it?”
“Longing.”
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(The Fortress of the Sun’s founding year 2057)
Impulse takes his first steps to the great impulse drive. His name at the time was Mark. Mark was facing the problem of getting clearance to take off after the impulse engine destroyed an entire civilization.
‘I’ve go to get out of here. They will ground The Sun Fortress and I can’t have that!’
Mark goes to the control room and fires up the engine. The impulse drive moves out of the atmosphere with a roar that wakes the sleeping city below. Once in the air he moves into space and begins the dimensional vortex engine.
*Thump*
Mark looks around at the world. He goes to the observatory and looks around the world. ‘No lights?’ He goes to the hanger where the air shell holds the atmosphere in. It’s also empty other than Marks own personal hover craft. He looks out over the horizon and realizes that the sun was burnt out. All the humans in this dimension were gone.
Mark was now alone and without a plan after this.
“I need help.” He declared.
*Thump*
A new universe. This time the world wasn’t scarred with scorch marks and the sun was whole. He sent the impulse engine a mental command to move into deep space and send him all the information it found. There was an anomaly. In deep space someone or something found a way to travel between dimensions. He goes to the wreckage of an old battleground. There were natural battle wounds that tour ships apart…But then there was the obliteration of matter. In the center of what should have been a ship there was a strange aura of energy that connects two dimensions.
This other dimension seemed to have alternate life forms other than humans and the rules were different. However there was an anomaly where there seemed to be a human inside. The fortress of the sun can sense it.
‘Should I save them? Yes The Fortress of the Sun may not be complete but it can still teleport…Actually all things considering I may need their help if they happen to be a war specialist. This ship isn’t even in its tier 1 stage.’
Mark goes back to the control room after the teleportation unit is powered up. Then it reaches out through that dimension so that it can grab the human.
‘Pull’
*THWUMP*
The impulse engine screams…Something is wrong. Not only was that human more than just a human. ‘She’ had so much matter that she weighed several tons. The teleporter broke when she came through. She was over 23 tons and she seemed to have been compressed so it would all fit in her body. Her organs were beginning to fail from the immense stress they were receiving.
Mark ran down into the Teleporter room that was practically no more. He sent a mental message to the impulse drive to turn on the harvester machine. Immediately it started to take the tons of material from the woman that was in the hanger now after falling through the floor. All the material that was inside her body was starting to be absorbed by the harvester and she was becoming lighter and lighter as seconds pass. She was now 2000lbs and safely stops falling through the floor. Mark runs down into the hanger to find the young woman whose clothing seemed to be more rag tag but surprisingly enough very stylish. Maybe a ball gown of some kind. But it was torn in some places making it look more like a mini skirt.
“Umm…Hi?” Mark said nervously. He didn’t exactly know how to approach this particular situation. “My name is…Impulse...” She didn’t respond. “What’s your name?”
“M-my name is Nano…Nano Swarm.”
After a long discussion between them Mark realizes that she doesn’t remember the last human she saw. She backed away from him a bit because she was afraid of him. But after realizing he had the same limbs as her she wanted to know more about him. They talked and talked about what was going on and who they knew. She kept referencing someone named ‘Rainbow Dash’ and ‘Applejack’. Maybe nick names?
Regardless with this new material The Fortress of the Sun had it was now able to create a proper greenhouse and even add a few more rooms. Nano Swarm turned out to know a lot about, you guessed it nano swarms. She became the first specialist.
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“Wait I spoke about Rainbow AND Applejack? How do I not remember this!”
“Your memory started to deteriorate as time went on. It was only when we picked up Witch Doctor we were able to find the problem and we realized that your deteriorating memories were the result of me taking you out of that universe. We then removed those memories and let the ones of the other specialists be your main ones. The reason why you remember coming out of the cloning chamber is because it was a human vessel and seeing the ones in this realm made it so you could reflect and remember it.”
Nano Swarm was speechless. Until she found her voice which was literally a full minute later.
“So why didn’t you tell me this?”
“I didn’t think it was necessary. The memories didn’t return to you so I thought it was all right to wait for things to play out. If your memories returned or you reacted because of something subconscious, I would intervene and tell you everything.”
“Yea…” She looked at the floor rather than Impulse now. She then looked up at him and said “But how did I end up in the cloning chamber?”
“Inside you was this…” He pulls out a strange black object that was small enough to hide inside you if you really wanted to go through surgery. “I looked at the data…I was…disturbed. But regardless this will answer any questions. It holds data and a lot of it. It also holds your memories. If you want to look at it then you can. But be warned Nano. The realm that you see isn’t this one. So don’t act on what you see!”
Impulse sets the black disk like object down on a storage crate near the door. He walks out of the room and returns to his chambers. Nano is now alone with the strange black object. She jumps down and walks toward the crate. She reaches out to grab it but…she changes her mind and she doesn’t pick it up.
‘Not yet…I want to find out more on my own.’
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Sky Rider waits inside the hanger alone.
‘I hate impulse for telling me to wait here. It’s so boring! Why would anyone show--? UP?’
Several pegasi fly into the hanger. Obviously wanting to know more about Utopia and its intentions.
“HELLO!” Yelled Sky Rider. All the pegasi who entered the hanger looked at her with confusion, excitement, and fear. ‘Damn what did I do?’
“Hi! I’m Cloud Kicker and I kinda wanted to see you guys again.”
“Cloud Kicker? OH HEY! You and Smoke Machine could be best friends if you control the weather and stuff!”
“Well yea that’s what I do.”
“Want me to go get him?”
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Smoke Machine was going through the files of the weather. Watchman may see everything but he can’t read everything. Smoke Machine was using his equipment to learn more about the weather and for some reason the clouds wouldn’t move on their own. Unless they were over that one forest in the distance. Something he had to see.
He gets up from his own hammock and goes out of his misty room. Yes misty. He likes morning dew and any form of smoke. He has several mist makers in his room making the floor just as misty and almost like the setting of an old forest temple of some sort.
There was a knock on the bulkhead doors that separated his room from Utopia.
“Yo! Machine its me Sky Rider! I have a visitor for you!”
‘Visitor?’
“One moment sky I’ll open the doors.”
The gears in the bulkhead door start to turn and clank. Then they open up and a pool of mist comes out of the room. In the center is a hammock that stretches from each side of the large room and holographic screens above the hammock that show the weather patterns.
“H-hello?” Said Cloud Kicker. Machine stops and looks at Cloud Kicker. She’s trying to figure out why she can’t step on the mist that hugs the floor.
“My name is Smoke Machine. I am the weather master of Utopia. I can control the skies and the clouds if I ever wish.”
Cloud Kicker looks at him wide eyed. “Y-you mean you can control the weather? How do you do it without wings?”
Smoke Machine didn’t know where this was going but realized that pegasi control the weather because they can fly. “Well that’s a find question. I can control the weather with my machine. Watch.”
Smoke lifts his hand and the mist hugging the floor starts to move toward the center of the room and climbs into his hand and then when that space is taken up, it goes around his hand. Perfectly forming a cloud. Sky Rider was happy Machine had someone to talk to now and she left to go back to the hanger.
“WHOA! That’s so cool!” She flies up to the cloud and tries to stand on it. She successfully lands on it too.
“WHAT!? How are you standing on that?”
“All pegasi can do this.”
“Really? There is no creature from where I’m from that can walk on clouds.”
“Not even pegasi?”
“I’m afraid pegasi are mythical creatures where I’m from.”
“That’s funny. Humans are mythical creatures here.”
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“Come on Fluttershy! Beast Master has a dragon! A DRAGON! There is no way you two can’t be friends knowing he can tame something you’re afraid of!”
“I admit it’s pretty interesting he can tame one but IT’S STILL A DRAGON!”
Rainbow Dash was spending the past fifteen minutes trying to get her friend Fluttershy to go to Utopia. Her mistake in getting Fluttershy to go was she mentioned a dragon.
“Oh come on Fluttershy! It’s a TAME dragon!”
“I SAID NO!”
“FINE I’LL GO ON WITHOUT YOU!”
Rainbow Dash flies off to Utopia to get Beast Master to come down.
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Beast Master was with Binary and they were heading down to the hanger to greet the newcomers.
“So you think you can give me the ability to fly?” Said Beast Master.
“You have a dragon! Why do you need flight?”
“Yea dragons are cool and all but-“
“NO DRAGONS ARE COOLEST!”
“Now you can’t just mean that.”
“If it lays an egg I’m taking it, no exceptions.”
“HAHA all right you can have its egg if it ever finds a mate.”
“FUCK YEA!”
“Calm yourself Binary, we are almost there.” Binary got the most malicious smile.
When they got into the hanger and got half way toward the edge and they were almost mowed down by pegasi.
“HAIYAGUYSGOTTAGOJUMPOFFTHEEDGENOWCUZMYNAMESBINARY!” Yelled Binary. He then ran at an impressive speed to the edge and leaped off. There were gasps from the pegasi. Binary had no wings.
“SOMEONE SAVE HIM!” said a pegasi.
They all went over the edge in attempt to catch him. But then…Binary flew by with a boom. Breaking through the sound barrier and continuing off into the sky far away from Ponyville. Beast Master runs off the edge too only he turns in flight and does a wolf whistle.
*ROAR*
A dragon appears from behind the pegasi and it leaps off the edge catching Beast Master on its back. Then Sky Rider ran into the hanger with Golem God and Witch Doctor.
Sky Rider jumps off the edge and yells “HARMLESS SHINANIGANS!!!!!!” Then a small horse shoe shaped plane shoots over the edge and catches Sky in an aura in its center. It pulls up and shoots after Beast Master and Binary.
Golem God grabs the Dragonfly that was designed for someone to ride and he goes off into the distance following behind.
The pegasi looks at Witch Doctor expectantly.
“What? I can’t fly.”
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Nano Swarm heads toward the hanger after hearing the commotion. Turmoil must have heard it too since he started heading toward the hanger at break neck pace. He must have thought Utopia was in danger of some sort. When Turmoil got there he calmed down seeing it was only the pegasi and the lack of specialists. ‘Beast Master’s doing I guess’. The pegasi had horrified looks due to the dragon. Though Witch Doctor was still in the hanger and explaining how sometimes the specialists do a round the world travel. Sometimes they just do that when someone new comes to Utopia.
“Witch Doctor!” Yelled Turmoil as he approached the group. The pegasi got nervous looks.
“Ah Turmoil I thought you would be here after hearing all that racket. Don’t worry none here wish any harm.”
“I can see that. Frankly I’m more worried about them. This one looks like she’s about to pass out.” He points to a random pony and on cue she faints. “I believe smelling salts will do the trick.”
“Umm yes…we don’t have those after I lost the whole batch.”
“You lost the smelling salts?”
“Yea…” Doctor looks at his feet nervously.
“Hmm.” Rainbow Dash enters the hanger. She almost jumps out of her skin when she sees Turmoil but remembered he wasn’t a threat. “You Pegasus!” Turmoil points to Rainbow Dash. She’s now tense considering he’s in a suit of armor and possibly the scariest thing on Utopia. “Are there smelling salts in Ponyville?”
“Umm. Yea but you need to go to the hospital. They usually have all of the smelling salts.”
“Ok I wish for your guidance on the hospitals location.”
“Umm sure but can I go see Beast Master and tell him-“
“Beast Master has gone on the social migration with other specialists. I can send you to Watchman to give him a message with a glass orb but it won’t summon him instantly. After which I hope you have time to lead me to the place of healing.”
“Umm…Sure.”
Rainbow follows Turmoil to the observatory where Watchman is looking through a telescope.
“Watchman. This full spectrum pony wants you to summon Beast Master.”
“What?” He looks to the entrance and sees Rainbow Dash with Turmoil. “Why Turmoil I never knew you would be so helpful to outsiders.”
“After the last time I was out in the real world I realized that outsiders weren’t so bad. The last ones were kind…Even if my actions to defend them were greeted with this form I still don’t regret getting to know them.”
“All right. Oh and I need to warn you the sudden migration was initiated by Binary so that means if they follow him he’s probably going to lead them somewhere dangerous.”
Rainbow spoke up. “What’s this migration?”
Turmoil Responds “After our seventh jump Sky Rider just flew off the platform without saying anything. Then Golem did the same going after her. Then I did the same. And so on. Ever since then we had a tradition to just fly out of the hanger every new world we went to.”
“I called it a migration one day and it kinda stuck.” Said Watchman.
“Oh ok. But why do you guys do it? It doesn’t really make sense too me.”
“I’m not sure myself.” Answered Turmoil. “But we all have fun trying to get ahead of each other.”
“OH so it’s a race? Well why didn’t you say so! Makes so much more sense now.”
“Haha.*caught* *wheeze* oh I shouldn’t laugh.” Said Turmoil. Watchman looked worried for a moment then just ignored it. But Rainbow felt terrible.
“Sorry dude, are you ok?”
“Yes fine. Now please bring me to the hospital so I can pick up smelling salts for Witch Doctor. Oh wait I need currency don’t I?”
“Yea you kinda do.”
“What can be of value here? Any metals or material?”
“Well there’s aluminum. But that’s really hard to come by here.”
“Aluminum it is then. How much would I need to buy a barrel of salts?”
“Just a few grams.”
Watchman’s jaw dropped. So did Turmoil’s but you couldn’t see it.
“Wait just a few grams? HOLY SHIT TURMOIL WE’RE RICH!”
“Huh?” Said Rainbow.
“Well there are entire planes here made out of aluminum. If we disassembled one then we could possibly have tons of aluminum. Well not really tons but enough to make ourselves rich or something.”
“Wait ALL the ships in Utopia are made of aluminum?!” Said Rainbow surprised, shocked, almost terrified.
“Not all but just the old ones that Sky doesn’t fly anymore. Aluminum is great but there is a new need for stronger metals like Trifillium that is way lighter and so much stronger. It also doesn’t rust so it’s the most valuable ore we have. Has to be build by hand though so that sucks.”
“W-wait you’re telling me…Aluminum means almost nothing to you? How valuable is Trifillium to you then?”
“If you took our Trifillium you will not live long enough to leave Utopia.” Said Turmoil in a hostile tone.
“Whoa…Well anyway Aluminum will do you good here.”
“All right then.” Said Turmoil “I know a plane that Sky doesn’t want anymore and doesn’t want to give to anyone because its tech is too high.”
“It’s settled then. Let’s go get you guys some salts.”
(Ok I'm using this as an excuse to not study...FUCK FINALS!)