That sure was an enjoyable meal! The young ones laughed at last... even though I'm not sure why. Something hilarious for sure... I think the blue one got even more blue...
I waited for them to catch some breath before getting up from the table. I wanted to explore some of the gardens outside, they looked just so comfy right now...
But my wishes were not to be satisfied again. The white one approached me and said something, pointing towards the halls and made some strange gesture. More walking... The blue one didn't have that frown on her face anymore, at least for what I was able to see. She leaved quickly and didn't have the time to even say goodbye to her. Rude!
And so we kept walking and walking, this time the trip even had stairs! At least I could steal glances of the outside when we passed near a window. I had to admit that it was a pretty sight... but I wanted to see the place from being there, not from afar. Oh well... the young ones are always busy, trying to order things the way they like. I can't fault them for that, they just don't see what I see.
It was pretty funny when some of the younger guards just looked surprised at me, and we had to stop frequently so the white one explained to them something. Probably about me. I patted them on their little heads every time. They were just precious, working so hard to look serious. How can they look so cute wearing armor? Ah... I miss the times when my son was just a child, trying to make things with sticks and stones.
The white one continued to guide me around the castle, apparently looking for something. No, that's not right, she probably knew the place... She was looking for someone. I wonder who?
My thoughts were cut short when we were approached by some guards. They talked to the white one and pointed towards the corridor they came from. She nodded and made me to follow her. My they sure liked to order others around. I've been ordered to follow them since I arrived! Still it was pretty amusing, all of them so centered about their little things.
After what could've been hours we arrived at our apparent destination. It was a bedroom of sorts, decorated in the tackiest way I have even seen... and that's saying a lot! There were piles of strange and colorful objects everywhere in the room, thrown away without any care. There was also a strong scent inside the room, but I couldn't put my hoof on what it was. It smelled like those treats the pink one gave me earlier today, so it was probably some kind of food. I turned to look what was making that sweet smell when I found myself face to face with the strangest of creatures.
It was... unique. I could feel it was a he at least, and I already saw a male creature with those funny hairs, just like the ones this creature had on his chin. It was definitely a he... Oh? What's this? His limbs were all different? But evolution doesn't work that way... This didn't make any sense. He kept looking at me with his red eyes, so I just smirked.
"You are the strangest thing I ever seen. Do you know how much that title means coming from me, my dear creature?" I said while laughing. He laughed as well while the white one looked a bit angry... at him? He was just a funny guy, I could tell!
When he managed to control his laugh decided to... float? Ok... This is getting weird pretty fast. Fascinating, but weird. How could he float with those tiny wings? He didn't look that light too. I picked up his tail to check its weight, and sure enough it was all muscle. At least he didn't seem to mind... much. He looked to me with a confused expression, and I just smiled and left his tail free. He looked even more confused and I couldn't help but laugh. They are pretty silly these creatures. How can you explore if you don't touch and see?
I walked around the room inspecting the trinkets he had with curiosity while they talked. Most of them looked like toys and figurines of different things and creatures... What's this? Oh? Figurines of the young ones? Not even outside their package. Why would anyone leave toys inside their package? Aren't they made to play with them? I didn't get it.
The odd creature pulled me away from the figurines with urgency, saying something and looking pretty embarrassed.
"Aw, don't worry. I'll not judge you. All creatures are really big children" I said to him with a laugh. He coughed and said something to the white one. She nodded and then he approached me and grabbed my head. He looked from side to side and everything between, looking for something. He even tapped my skull and put his ear to hear how it sounded! Was he some kind of doctor? He didn't look very sure of himself...
He went to talk with the white one again, talking quickly and making some kind of gestures with his front limbs. He looked pretty enthusiastic about something that saw on me it seems. I chuckled at that, remembering about the first time my son's people had the courage to ask me something. They looked so frightened! They thought that I would smite them just for asking anything! Luckily they managed to work out their fears... and then the tests started. I swear that it was the most boring time of my long life.
My thoughts were cut off by some prodding from the odd creature. He pointed to his neck and then to his head. Then he made some kind of gesture and pointed to my head and neck... I didn't get it.
"I can't understand a word of what you are trying to say dear. I'm sorry" I said to him. He sighed and stepped away a bit. He then made a gesture with his limbs... His claws? One was a claw I think... I need to probably take a better loo-ouch!
Did... did I get hit on my forehead? Why am I on the floor?
"Discord! Have you lost your mind!?" Celestia yelled, absolutely livid.
"But I thought you wanted her to speak like us, right? I just did that!" Discord replied while pointing to the almost fainted alicorn.
"You just threw her a ball of magic at her! You could have harmed her!" Celestia replied, approaching the green mare "By my sun, I just hope she is okay..."
"She IS okay, Celestia. I am reformed! I would not dare to harm another living being in any way" Discord said while making a halo appear on his head.
"Ugh... Did I got hit by a maglev again?" Celestia heard from the green mare. "By the sun and stars... I think I'm sick..." the green mare said while Celestia and Discord looked at her perplexed.
"It worked!" Celestia exclaimed, excited about finally being able to communicate with the new alicorn.
"It worked?" Discord said "It doesn't make se-Ah... Ha ha... Very funny..." Discord said to his... claw?
"What worked? Oh my... I think my head hurts" the mare said while holding her head
"Do not worry, it was just a necessary procedure. You can understand us right now after all" Celestia said with a calm voice.
"Understand who?" she replied before looking to Celestia "Oh... it's you, young one. Wait..." she opened her eyes fully "Say something"
"Young one?" Celestia replied, confused. The green alicorn gasped.
"What... What did you do? This shouldn't be possible!" she exclaimed, trying to get up. Celestia put a hoof on her shoulder in a calming manner.
"We can explain later. For now I want to welcome you to Equestria. My name is Celestia, and I am princess of this realm. Can you tell us your name, please?" Celestia asked politely while Discord floated near them with curiosity. The green mare looked at her in awe and she closed her eyes for a second, moving them at high speed like reading something with eagerness. She then coughed a bit and opened her eyes, looking at them with a calm smile.
"I am Gaia. Nice to meet you" She simply said. Her voice now sounded more natural but oddly... normal. She sounded like your average mature mare, but something in her voice made them think about a mother that spoke with great wisdom and experience.
"Bah! I expected the booming sound of a powerful being! Not... this! You sound just so... so...!" Discord said, a bit upset "Oh well. At least she isn't talking 'clickity' anymore"
"I still can talk 'in clickity' as you say, but somehow I know now how to speak your language. Strange, but fascinating at the same time" Gaia replied with a small smile.
"I don't want to impose Gaia, but I really need to ask you some questions." Celestia said, with a small tone of concern.
"Of course, young one. Ask away" Gaia replied, sitting on the floor.
"Well..." Celestia said, suddenly at a loss of words. So many questions and now...
"Go on..." Gaia pushed with a serene smile "Dino got your tongue?"
"Why do you call me 'young one'? Do you know how old I am?" Celestia asked. Gaia chuckled.
"Why no, I don't know how old you are, but I'm pretty sure that I'm way older, dear" Gaia replied, still smiling.
"...How old are you, Gaia?" Celestia asked. Gaia laughed loudly.
"Oh goodness... Do you always ask a lady about her age?" Gaia replied with mock surprise. Celestia winced a bit at that. "Ah, don't worry you little head about it. Let me just... count on..." Gaia replied, closing her eyes and murmuring to herself.
"Oh come on! She can't be so old that she need to count!" Discord said.
"Ah! I am 4,281,006,482 years old, give or take a couple of years. My birthday is the tenth day of the rain season" Gaia replied with a wink. Both Discord and Celestia were speechless.
"You... what?" Celestia replied eloquently.
"That's a lie! You can't be that old! That's not even a number!" Discord exclaimed.
"Sure I am, dear. I am proud to say that I look two hundred million years younger than I am. Hardly anything to brag about, really, but you asked about my age after all" Gaia replied with a wide smile.
"I don't believe you. If I snap my fingers and see your aura surely it will tell me..." Discord said, snapping his fingers and staring at Gaia. His mouth suddenly dropped and his eyes almost grew out of their sockets.
"You are not from this world, aren't you" Celestia asked, her tone careful and worried
"Ah, that question..." Gaia said with a small smile. She raised a hoof and waved "I come in peace! Take me to your leader! Give me all your women!" she said while giggling like a schoolfilly. Celestia looked at Discord for answers but she found that he was also confused about the situation. "Sorry, is that I read that those were famous quotes for first contact that I fo-"
"It's impossible that you are an alien! It doesn't make sense... And that's my job! Are you trying to-" Discord said, cutting off Gaia and floating near her, when a big wing just smacked him out of the air and pulled his head towards the the green mare, muffling his voice.
"Shush, don't interrupt me when I'm talking" Gaia said before looking back at Celestia "So yes. I'm from another planet" she said. Discord tried to free himself snapping his fingers... but after a small glow between Gaia's feathers Discord still was with his head imprisoned under her wing. Gaia giggled.
"That tickles!" Gaia said while Celestia looked at her with newfound respect.
"You... need to tell me how to do that" Celestia said, looking at Gaia in amazement.
Gaia is immune to magic, I suppose? Or does her world-shaping powers of incredible overkill cause other power to become weak and negated?
lol poor discord...cant wait for more
Well finally they can talk to one another, and DAMN Gaia you are o-....well experienced.
Liking the fact that there is someone that can mother and mess with Discord now, bet he gonna feel like a little kid around her too~
5579286 It's more about the second option. She is immutable on a normal scale, so she can't be affected by changes ON her. Now, she still can be harmed and surprised by several things and spells that come from the outside. She doesn't have any kind of mental fortitutide against mind magic for example. That's why Discord managed to pull that trick, He didn't believe that it was going to work for a reason .
But even with that, any significant change on her is reflected on her world and vice versa. You need astronomical power to change a being with astronomical properties.
5579296 Oh man. For the love of all that is holy, please, PLEASE do not stop now. Or ever. Preferably the latter. Would liking and faveing help bring the next chapter faster? And BTW, this felt shorter, just saying
5579293 still can not wait for her reaction for cadence also she may have to put blueblood over her lap now that she understands how he's been acting
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Does that mean that all of her children now understand Equestrian too? Seems like it'd be one of the most interestingly original solutions to hand-waving a "universal translator" effect that I've ever seen. (And funny to boot, given that they actually invented universal translators but forgot to give her one.)
Inb4 a big old storm of chaos
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hmm...I will be honest, I have never heard of the game SimEarth until this crossover and this makes me curious of her full capabilities. I remember how one of the guys here compared her to being the Hulk and considering how you said that the smallest possible thing Gaia could do with her abilities is big enough to be seen from space...(I Might be exaggerating it a bit but you know what I mean)
...I can't get this image out of my head on when the mane six or the princesses ask what her cutie mark means or what can she do, she would borrow right under Canterlot mountain and lift the whole thing up from its base using only her wing tips and merrily walk somewhere for a bit and put it back down again and somehow reconnect it to the ground.
the faces and reactions they would make would be hilarious.
though mind you, this is just me trying to guess how she does the things she do. For example, when she wants to create a mountain, does she bury her hooves to the ground, "grab" it and fly straight up to the sky with the ground following her along the way until she satisfied with the height? I figured this is how she do it instead of the mountain just rising by itself considering how she was amazed by how the ponies where moving things without any limbs.
if you don't mind, can you create a list of her full capabilities and what she can and cannot do? that would be most useful.
Great fic by the way. Keep it up.
So uh...
This story is silly, and I really like it.
Just thought you might like to hear that.
I'll await another chapter now.
This is great! Can I have some more?
Interesting, assuming this is our own universe, she isn't nearly as old as the universe itself. Where is she from?
Well, Gaia is now my favorite Alicorn. Great work, Hywther
Again!?
*googles maglev*
Gaia is one tough cookie!
I still don't understand how this is a crossover. Now have her grow things
5579447 It's a crossover because this is the simearth Gaia, not the Greek Gaia.
.....At least I think it is..
Four-point-eight billion years old? That means Gaia was likely around at the time of her homeworld's coalescence from the primordial molecular cloud! So, she's the living avatar of her world itself!
Well, all that matters is that she is a visiting VIP from a different planet. That makes her above publicly-stated criticism. Blueblood can spin on horn-tip if it makes him feel better and Gaia is about to find herself about shoulder-deep in EUP Royal Guardsmen under strict orders to arrest anypony who so much as looks at her cross-eyed.
I wonder if Celestia, in a moment of inspired sadism, will volunteer Discord to be Gaia's guide during her stay on Equestria?
What a wonderful story. Gaia is a fantastic character and I can't wait for more. Keep it up!
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So does this mean we can arrest Derpy?
power of creation a perfect mix of chaos and harmony so she can do both
Ah, Discord's got Main 6 figurines. :D ....Man they could get so much millage out of teasing him for those. Still, interesting to see that he had the self control to not open them.
That condescending motherly tone, not one Celestia ever expected.
5579354 The only one that can really learn their language that way is her son. I don't think the trichordate guys have a voice box to proper talk like mammalians, so they are going to need the translators. That's why she talked in 'clickity'
5579379 Those... are pretty good questions! I think I'm going to do a blog to explain how the 'gaianizer powers' in the game work for Gaia herself in the story. I can already say though that she is a mix of the game's Gaia and the player.
Gaia in SimEarth it's just another variable that tells you how the planet feels. If there are many disasters and pollution she will be crying or angry at you for letting that happen, and she will be pleased if life is flourishing. She is also sleeping before any kind of life is on the planet, and only awakes when the first cells appear in the oceans.
5579401 She is probably from a planet orbiting a yellow dwarf star, but I can't really say more. SimEarth is a simulation of an 'earth-like' planet... in essence at least, so the 'basic parameters' for her planet are the ones you can expect for our own planet.
5579447 5579458 Exactly. She is a pony version of the Gaia from the game, with the skills of the player at her disposal.
5579477 That's right! She IS the planet. She was 'born' when the planet managed to be a somewhat stable ball of magma after all, but she spent millions of years sleeping since she is 'powered' by life. She just didn't have enough energy to be awake by that time.
Also it would be very difficult to cover her in guards. She is a pretty big pony , and tends to wander wherever the winds carry her.
5579559 ...So, whatever happens to Gaia, happens to the planet and vice versa
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In that case, the trichordates could still understand Equestrian and use some other method to reply like gestures or pointing to pictures on a board. (Whether or not that'd be relevant to a plot or not is another story)
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Okay. But can she cook? An important parenting skill
5579571 In a way, yes. She can get ill, hurt or just sleep and her planet would be unaffected by that (Earth shakes all the time and creates micro-earthquakes and we don't even notice that) but if something is strong enough the planet would be affected in some way.
The language thing, for example, it's just transitory. Yes, some of her children can try to learn that from some instinctual call since she knows it, but it's restricted to sapient beings. The rest of the fauna on her planet it's just going to keep living as they were.
5579592 They could do that, yeah. But their knowledge of the language would be a more instinctual way than Gaia's. They will be able to grasp the meaning of what they want to say and nothing more. They are going to need those translators to get a full understanding of the equestrians during a conversation.
5579595 Why cook when you know the most fresh and delicious plants an herbivore can eat and where to find them? She has seen many other mothers do the same, and their offspring turned out big and healthy
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Even more appropriate for certain types of plots. Instinctual-level input and charades for output when separated from their translators.
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You can't grow pizza.
Poor Dissy lol.
5579296 THE DESU IS RISING! IT IS DOUBLED BY THE FACT THAT DISCORD CAN'T GET AWAY! I AM SO HAPPY!
I feel sorry for discord.
4.281.006.482 Years? So the young-earth creationists have got the last four digits about right; they've just missed the 4,281,000,000 years that came before them. A well-buried joke there (unless it's just a coincidence and I pay too much attention to numbers).
5579721 I know, but I doubt that those trichordate guys even invented their own version of pizza
5579888 It's just a coincidence. I picked up the year form the game I played and based Gaia upon. It's just a couple of years after The Exodus of the trichordates was completed. You still can take it as that joke of you want, you are free to do so after all
silly DIscord, one can not escape a Mother grasp that easily....
I wonder If they'll ever remake simearth.
She is the Princess of Creation
Able past the ken of Legend, Lore, and Song.
And yet she is just a mare on vacation,
So tell me, what could possibly go wrong?
She takes her sauna in hot lava with the Dragons,
And digs through the dirt with Diamond Dogs!
While she'll take it easy with the Breezies,
She'll rough and tumble with the Hydras in their bogs!
She is the Princess of Creation
Able past the ken of Legend, Lore, and Song.
And yet she is just a mare on vacation,
So tell me, what could possibly go wrong?
(Jet Set & Upper Crust) Her manners are atrocious, the Social Elite are quite aghast,
She cuddles Celestia, Luna, and even Discord!
(Prince Blueblood) She licked the table clean and had the silver wear as a repast!
(castle staff) How much more of this can we afford?
She is the Princess of Creation
Able past the ken of Legend, Lore, and Song.
And yet she is just a mare on vacation,
So tell me, what could possibly go wrong?
Edited to suggest who might sing each bit, if performed showtune style...
If I was being hugged by the earth itself I would start laying off the pot
Gaia is so adorable.
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yeah what could possibly go wrong
Congrats on 1k views, keep it up!
I'm pretty sure, that those 8 ponies were Blueblood's alt accounts!
We. Need. MOAR!
Good story by the by, sounds like something I would write but much Shittier
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It's "abandonware" to the full extent that is a real thing (the term has no legal reality, but it does the job). The game is old and has no way of purchasing it new despite the rights holder still existing.
I wasn't aware there was a SNES port. I've got the DOS version and that allows for VGA colour although I don't recall what the music is/was like since I haven't played it in so long that I've never had better than PC speaker or a bad Sound Blaster copycat to try to play it through.
5580774 "Good story by the by, sounds like something I would write but much Shittier"
People like you are why many don't write. You have to encourage not insult.
5580628 I had to google that image to get the joke. You can't see the dog on the treadmill right next to the sushi bar. The chef in the back (one of the dog owners favorites) had noticed the dog, backed up, and made sure the guy from the sushi place had that table. Full story here.
5580423 This made my day. You just won one internet. And a 'stache
5580714 Thank you! And darn, that view count sure it's growing fast
5580808 The music in the PC version is bland at the best, and pain-inducing at the worst (PC-Speaker music). The SNES version has many nice tunes and while they sound a bit odd they are pleasant to the ear at least. Still, there is ANOTHER port of SimEarth around, made for some obscure console... maybe PC Engine? I can't remeber...
The thing is, that version had even voice acting for some parts like the tips the game gave you and stuff. Never played that one though, so I can't really say if it's better or not than the others, but for casual playing I recommend the SNES version. The DOS version is just too much hassle to anyone who isn't into retro gaming.
5580834 Nah, don't worry about him. It's either trying to be funny (I mean, look at the trollestia icon on the comment) or trying to get a ruse out of anyone who falls for it. I want to think that is the first one though.
5580774 I think that came across as you saying that the story was something you would write, but that this story was worse while actually trying to say that it is a good story
This story is like a breath of fresh air amongst a bunch of similar stories. It really stands out, I like it! I can't wait for another chapter!