//------------------------------// // 8 - The Black Door // Story: Enter the Dragon // by alfonso_rd_33 //------------------------------// LAST TIME This startled AJ, looking how Twilight's curious mind seemed to reproach the holo mare as she asked those questions… “Well... not really... it doesn't really matter or not if you do the believing or not, considering that would be almost impossible to prove extra universal truths to you, considering my Boss here seems not at 100%... as for his employer, I don't' think there's an easy way to present him to you, yet the closer would be that he's my Boss' version of Princess Celestia, but waay more powerful…” The Answer pleased AJ to no end, it was honest, brutally so that Twilight seemed to freeze up for a second as MOS-Tan Carried on… “Anyways… how come he could do the internal job you ask…? Well, considering that your Employer is for all intents and purposes God, or at least the representation of everything positive or harmonious, well… there is a number of ways… implanting ideas via dreams, casually guiding ponies to caches of limited “rare materials”, even snapping everything needed for his plan to work out of nothingness… those are some of his “Mysterious Ways” to do stuff for the betterment of not only pony kind, but creation as a whole… but hey! It’s just a theory… a Creational Drive theory! Oh and sorry for the quickest Heroic BSOD there Twilyken…” To this, the Alicorn looked at the holo-mare curiously as he said… “Did you just went all Trope savvy in front of Twilight *yay* Sparkle…? WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU…!!! So now we have you blabbering like some gossipiest, using your bardassery in a totally inappropriate way and you’ve risked greatly making a nice first contact impression…! God they will laugh so hard if Starfleet gets wind of this…“ “Oh, calm down boss… this here is a couple of fine, strong Equestrian mares… didn’t you see how Fast Twilight Sparkle recovered from her Heroic Blue Screen of Death after being told there are beings that outclass the Princess…? She took it like a boss there…! And at least Applejack doesn’t want to kill us it seems. So chillax and let’s start with proper introductions, yes? You OK with it Ponies?” Finished MOS-Tan, looking hopefully to Spike, Twilight and Applejack as Spike did a Brave Vesperia thing and took a Step forward and said... “Hey there…! I’m Spike the Dragon, but you knew that already…” “Poncho Rodríguez… Poncho for the cuates… nice to meet a fellow Dragon, even if you’re young, Spike… now, can you tell me where the *yay* I am…?” Said back the Alicorn, whom now we know is called Poncho, to which this time Twilight Sparkle did the brave thing and broke the ice saying… “Rodríguez… that’s a weird name…” “Oh Rodríguez is my Last name… it… indicates I belong to a family, in this case, I’d be Poncho, of the Rodríguez Family, it on itself means “Son of Rodrigo” so basically my very first ancestor was named Rodrigo, but now which Rodrigo it was is lost to Time and space… of course Poncho is not my name either, it’s a nickname, but I’m more comfortable being addressed by it than by my actual I won’t say what name…” Finished Poncho as Applejack finished the bonding by saying “Well Poncho Rodríguez, Welcome to Equestria… right now we are on Sweet Apple Acres’ barn…” “So what now...? Do we call Princess Celestia...?” Asked Spike as both the girls and Poncho looked at him. Twilight herself considering what to do, while Applejack looked from her friend to Poncho, knowing well Twilight was planning to take as much knowledge as possible of the new Alicorn as she could, so it wasn't a surprise when Twilight said... “Of course not Spike...! The Princess has too many things to do without us adding another one for her to deal with, at least for the time being...” On this Applejack could see Twilight's lie, yet AJ felt no need to point it out, as it was obvious that it was going to get back to Twilight later, yet AJ just said... “Hold it right there Sugarcube…! Ah think we should make sure he’s not dangerous for ponykind before anything else, don’t ya think so...?" To this Twilight found herself stumped,  AJ was onto her, yet before anyone else could say anything else Poncho said… “Well ladies, it was a pleasure to meet you both but I think I should head home now... ” And he raised his right fore hoof, only to notice his lack of fingers, so he said awkwardly … “Uh...  Any Idea on how to manipulate energy on this body…? ” To this all of the ponies just stared at the Alicorn confused. Clueless about whatever he was talking about... so Twilight asked... “W... what are you talking about...? How come energy manipulation is needed for you to leave…? ” This caused the Alicorn to look at Twilight, then at Applejack and finally at Spike before answering to the future Princess of Friendship... “Well, as you could have noticed Twilight Slowrkle, I’m not from around here …! Now, usually, when I want to go out from a Universe I open my hand and create a portal to get out, but now I can't... I can feel the power, so I know it is there, but can't seem to be able to get it out... Why can't I get it out...?” Yet he didn't lower his hoof, which made Twilight Sparkle look at it, and oddly, she noticed how a strange aura went from the base of his horn to the raised hoof, only to crash against the invisible low level magic field ponies used to grab things. The strangeness of said aura being both the color and power behind it, unlike Unicorn or Alicorn Magic, his magic had three aura colors: Green, White and Red...  All three colors floating outwards from the center of the base of the horn, expanding along its path to the hoof in three thin "channels" as the magic wavered as per usual behavior,  all the while the colors themselves moved outwards,  replacing each other constantly in a myriad of power...  of a power more potent that Anything Twilight had felt so far...  “A...  are you trying to grab something...?” Asked Twilight timidly as the Alicorn stopped trying to do whatever he was attempting to pull off, on this moment Twilight noticed all the power he was using vanished,  as he lost the focus in his task as he looked at Twilight before asking... “I... I'm not sure... I mean anyone could think so... after all, the barriers protecting the universes could be considered as doors,  right..?” This answer was, of course, expected by Twilight,  after all, even in Equestria  few knew the reason behind one of the most common pony skill ever,  so she said… “There is your problem then,  few know it,  but we ponies use a low level magical field when we want to grab something. In this case when you try to create the portal outside you try to grab too,  which makes your portal creation magic clash against the grabbing magic, ergo stopping you from casting the spell…” This of course caused that Poncho looked at Twilight with a face that more than said that the Alicorn was pissed,  in fact, there was a trail of smoke coming from his ears. Still,  he decided to take Twilight's word on the subject,  so he closed his eyes and,  after extending back his right hoof, started pressing outward the familiar over he used to create his exits from the universe… “W...  What in Tarnation is that,  Twilight …? ” Asked AJ as a golden rectangle appeared a couple ponies away from the Alicorn,  surprising all in that barn,  as Spike moved in closer to Twilight, yet before she could answer to her friend Poncho said… “OK,  I think That will work, well,  I'll be going out now…“ And he walked into the portal, only to scream as it expanded to include all of his pony body,  as the others witnessed how the magic forced him to change back painfully... “Why is the portal hurting him,  Twilight…?” Asked Spike as Poncho kept thrashing inside the light portal, his body placed in a state between Pony and whatever he was before, until he was violently expelled from it,  bouncing back as he crashed with the Barn's wall,  causing the ponies and the dragon to rush to help him… “I... I don't know Spike... But I will know, as soon as he wakes up …” Said Twilight as she looked at Applejack and Spike, a look of determination on her face...