A Feast of Knowledge
Extended Holiday
Chp 3: Feast of Knowledge
Act 1
“So there I stood wind whistling in my ears the cold biting into my very bones, I was out of potions traps and all I had left was one flash bomb.” Taze explained with flare. “I had my eager cleaver in hand.” He motioned to the huge size of the blade. “And across from me stood the fearsome Tigrex! Imagine an animal with the instincts of a tiger, the head of a tyrannosaurus and wings.” Peter said.
“He charged! Squeezing the flash bomb, I ducked at the last moment and tossed it upward. He went right above me nearly crushing me to death! The bomb flashed blinding him, I took advantage of his blindness, running up his back I slashed the back of his neck, my sword barely grazed him but the shock from the blade caused him to convulse, the motion threw me off. I got to my feet staring at him as he growled preparing to charge again. I knew I was about to die. With a roar I ran towards him and he charged towards me teeth gnashing and claws flailing. with all the strength I had left I pulled my hands back and thrust forward with a stab.”
It was at this moment that the doors slammed open and the clanking of armor filled the room as the Royal Guards entered the room surrounding a blue dragon about the size of coming up to a average human’s armpit. While the Ponies themselves were to a man’s waist. Next to the Dragon was a third hairless Minotaur wearing jungle camo, and a black military beret. He just stared at those staring at him akin to a deer in headlights. The room was dead silent at this very moment.
“Great, just when I get to the dramati…. Matthew?” Taze stopped from his complaint. seeing Luna’s stare he panic’d “You’re alive! Huzzah?” He looked at Shawn for help.
In the background Shawn seemed to have his face in a book with much interest, though if you looked carefully it looked as though he was actually trying to hide his face.
“Honestly, I was told you were the best at keeping me safe.” he looked grumpy. “And now… well I guess my report might show that outside forces interfered in my delivery of important documents to your leaders.” Matthew spoke and remained silent, he was unsure why he had said what he did, but as Taze began to speak, he realized it seemed to have built onto an already crafted backstory.
“Forgive me, I will make sure the guild refunds the money that was paid for your protection, please forgive my failure.” Taze begged in mock fear.
“I shall put that in my report, but it is not my choice what is done between our leaders.” he sighed and shook his head. “They briefed me there would be odd days when I joined as Civilian Contractor… never thought being a courier would be, odd.”
He turned to Shawn. “So, did I win my bet? You said I could not pull off being military.” He smirked. “Seeing as I was taken by this nation's Military, do I win?” He was grinning like one who was happy with the results of a bet. He heard some mutterings from the guards and he hoped that they put that this man was the one he had the bet with over his clothing and military bearing.
Shawn, trying to think as quick as he could, chuckled. “Yes, yes. I would believe so, but due to our… Current location. I can not complete the end of the bargain at this moment.”He looked up towards Matthew, putting the book down. “Glad to know you are alright.”
Mr. Conner nodded his head. “Same here.” He sighed and looked around. “Trapped in another land. Away from home…” he frowned. “Did not expect to spend my holiday time after work in another land… I know I will miss my homeland.”
“HUZZAH” Luna shouted in the royal canterlot voice. “THE FUN HAS BEEN TRIPLED!” Luna shouted “WE DECREE MORE FOOD AND A BIGGER CAKE!”
Mr. Conner looked at the table. “Good, I am starving. I could eat a shark.” He was grinning at the idea of some food. He looked at the dragon. “Uh… when will that?” He trailed off on the question.
“Later today, we shall bring you the first gobblet here.” The Dragon replied and the Guards slowly, at the insistence of the Royals to also join in the edges of the feast. Matthew sat down in a place near his friends but not as close as he wanted. He also noticed that not many Ponies were trying to introduce themselves to him. He shrugged must be the uniform he thought to himself.
“ATTENTION EVERYPONY” another voice spoke it was male and seemed sauve with a defined tone of high society.
“Yes count Fancy Pants?” Celestia asked curiously.
The dragon translator was kind enough to translate for them as the count spoke.
“Your majesty, I would just like to lift a glass in honor of your guests, they may be strange but it is my hope that Equestria well be warm and welcoming to them as we try to be to all within our borders. And so I would hereby lift this glass to their health and in honor of their valor! Here here!” He shouted before drinking from his glass. The atmosphere seemed to change quite suddenly as nobles stopped whispering about them as if they weren't even there much to the disdain of one strange blond and white unicorn that seemed to have been enjoying the gossip.
Mr. Conner blinked and looked left and right slightly. He looked towards the dragon. “What do I do?” he hissed in a whisper after he got the full translation.
“Well, you take your glass, raise it in a toast to the one wishing you health, and be the first to sip, after the Princesses of course.” He paused. “Do you not attend such parties?”
Mr. Conner blinked but shook his head slowly and gently. The only one he had seen toasts to were pre scripted and to honor the leaders of our nation, the leaders of the military, and the MIA soldiers.
Taze mirrored the actions of the ponies and Shawn. “You’ll forgive my awkwardness hunters toast differently,” he explained.
Mr. Conner raised his glass last. They could see that he was relaying on translating speech, so for the moment he was forgiven on the slowness. Well at least from those that were not wanting to pick bones or imagined insults from guests of so far mythical appearances.
After the celebration, the three ‘hairless minotaur’s to their rooms, which happened to be the same room.
“Well…” Shawn started. “Didn’t expect that.”
“This dream gets weirder and weirder, I actually feel tired.” He noted.
Shawn only looked over to Taze. “Uh… Dream?” He questioned.
“Well it’s gotta be, I mean considering everything, that was Celestia, Luna, Shining Armor unicorns, pegasi, colourful talking ponies.” Taze said noting.
At the moment they were left alone in their room for the night.
“Uh…. what are we going to wear for PJs?” Matthew asked as he looked at the bed. He looked back as Shawn. “Why is it that this feels like those stories we brainstormed with humans sharing one room?” He shook his head. “Well I do have one good thing to report.” He placed his attache cases on the table and opened it up to show the gems from the bowl they tried to have him eat for breakfast. “We have some money and funds.” he looked at the group. “Based on calculations… you think we have a small fortune here?”
Taze examined them carefully. “This is a star sapphire.” He said. “And this is a black diamond, a black diamond! those are inexplicably rare.”
“They gave them for me to eat.” Matthew muttered in shock. “I mean EAT!” he paused and shook his head. “I guess they thought… I was a gem eating dragon or something.”
“Emeralds are the rarest of the non special gemstones you have twelve here, and at least two are flawless.” Taze noted. “My family knew a polish guy who’s family was jewelers from two generations back, he taught me a few things, but not a lot. This is a small fortune”
“So…. based on what we have seen, do we have a fortune? Or a bowl of worthless trinkets?” he asked the room before shaking his head. “No matter, if those of less noble intentions found out how to do what we did…. the fuel to the fire that my homeland fights for wealth and not Freedom would be added to and…” he closed his eyes as his fists tightened.
“Thats if they could exploit it, lets remember something here, all humanities major current weapons rely on two aspects, heat and impact.” Taze noted. “They have dragons here! Large fire proof, diamond hard armor.” Taze noted. “They wouldn’t stand a chance.”
Matthew in his military jungle camo just looked at the Monster Hunter. “Humanity, we once thought that man would fall if we flew too high.” He looked to the ceiling of the room. “We landed over eight men on a rocky airless object that controls the tides of Earth. Given time, given the ambition of one as Alexander the Great, how long will you think Humanity will take to find a weakness? How many years ago did we discover powered flight? Just over one hundred years? How long did it go from steam boilers to bullet trains? Sailing ships to monster luxury floating resorts?” He smirked sadly. “Either humanity will become a great ally, or,” he trailed off. “Or we shall become a byword in this land.” he stood up from the chair he was sitting in. “I would go for Ally in my mind, we have too much to share, I’ve seen too much in history to know we can go one way, or the other, or have humanity split down into thousands of pathways.”
“First things first.” Shawn started at the window. “We need to figure out how we got here, I think I can’t remember correctly for myself. Because what I saw doesn’t happen.” He turned towards the others. “Can you both remember how you got here?”
“I stepped outside...and…. nothing I remember fighting the lock a little actually but that was about it. Nothing after until I woke up talking to the darkness and then… finding out I had been holding a conversation with that blue Dragon.” Matthew just sat down on one of the beds. “To quote the British. Blimey, a real life talking Dragon.” he slipped into a poor impersonation of a British citizen.
“Merlins beard.” Taze added with a chuckle. “I don’t remember I turned the chat off checked my mail and it blanks out after that, I must have fallen asleep reading again.”
Shawn raised a brow in question. “You know you’re not dreaming, right Taze?”
“Shawn I assure you colourful talking ponies are not genetically possible.” Taze patted Shawn on the back. “Many bronies wish for the same thing but it can’t happen.”
“You can’t feel pain in dreams right?” Shawn asked with a small smile.
“Uh, no...What’s with that face?” Taze asked stepping back.
“Come here, if it’s a dream you wouldn’t feel a thing anyways.” Shawn said, walking towards Taze.
Shawn grabbed onto Taze’s shoulders. “As said, if this were a dream. But…” He trailed off giving Taze a squeeze, enough for him to at least feel something. “...This isn’t” He let go, turning around and trailing off slightly. “I mean, we could give it a further test.” He said, cracking his knuckles.
“How is this possible?” Taze asked, wincing as he backed off. “This shouldn’t be possible!”
“I do not know. All I know is, I can hear my ticking artificial valves, And I felt hungry, I never felt either one before in a dream. Frankly we fell between worlds is my best guess, or we are all shared in some experiment and the FBI will come rescue us any day now.” He smiled a little in a twitchy manner. “I am going more towards the first.” He wrinkled his nose. “I was in a Guard holding cell, I could smell the ponies rather well.”
“As said, I don’t trust what I remember, because, quite frankly, it’s myth, a very unknown one at that!” Shawn said, planting his hands onto one of the desks in the room with a sigh. “Just… What I saw just can’t be, and until you two are able to remember, we got nothing.”
“Well I suppose at least I got something out of this, my swords will be battle ready by tomorrow.” Taze said trying to find the silver lining.
Shawn sighed. “I don’t even know where my sword went.” He said while tapping the empty sword sheath at his left.
“Oh I know it’s getting cleaned, polished, and sharpened in the forges.” Taze spoke up. “Which is good because that’s probably pretty expensive.”
“That’s, good to know.” Shawn said with a happy sigh. “You two should get some rest. I still don’t feel tired.” He said, looking out the window.
Matthew only nodded his head. “That is good, I would hope I can get my weapons back. Seems that they are being kept and studied by the Royal guards, seems they have not encounter a forged K-Bar before.” he sighed and shook his head. “As for my little cardboard gun, ashes.” He moved to a bed to sleep on top of. “I feel better if I had something ranged and easy to use… maybe I should start taking bowmanship lessons.” He muttered as he tried to lay down and sleep. He felt tired but it seemed only when he was standing up or sitting upright…. still he tried to sleep on his back.
Celestia and Luna were currently in one of the many rooms sealed off from most nobility. Celestia and Luna both seemed puzzled about something.
“I just don’t see how that is possible.” Celestia said, pacing. The discussion going on at the moment concerned the three humans.
“My sister has anything like this happened in my absence even remotely?” Luna questioned.
“No, there has never been a case of magic, wrapping itself around something.” She sighed. “Magic is internal, so I have no idea, how that is possible.”
“What about Discord? They appeared next to his statue, didn’t they?” Luna asked.
“Yes, but the guards have checked, Discords magic is trapped inside the stone just as he was, and even then, there was no magical residue from where they appeared. They just, suddenly popped up.” She hummed in thought. “They never seemed to even use it.”
“Perhaps they are not aware of it sister.” Luna suggested. “Maybe magic is uncommon in their land.”
Celestia thought about it. “Possibly, but on one of them, Shawn, while I was talking with him, he seemed to have it fluctuate around him. Controlling it even.”
“Maybe we need to discuss this with one of the older dragons in the kingdom, surely one may know something?” She asked.
“Perhaps. We might have to bring this up with them as well. In the morning of course. They might already be asleep.”
“Agreed my sister.” Luna nodded. “Now you should rest, you are already past your own limit”
“Guys…” Shawn proceeded to shake the two others lightly. “Come on, gotta get going soon.”
Taze had an automatic reaction to being shaken awake, his fist punched Shawn on it’s own accord.
Matthew fluttered his eyes open from the sleep as he felt something falling onto his leg. “GAH!!!” Matthew looked around and saw Shawn laying across the bed and on top of his leg. “I… That hurts Shawn, can you get up?” He grunted in worry. “I just hope that doesn’t bruise too badly.” He Looked at the group and was wondering just what happened. “Also… why did you body slam my legs?”
Shawn pulled himself up. “Sorry ‘bout that.” He grabbed his jaw, moving it around a little. “A punch in the morning would certainly wake anyone up fully.” He looked to Taze. “Good right hook by the way.” He said as he cracked his neck.
“Sorry, my little brothers a morning person.”Taze said getting out of bed. He stretched to the sound of some pleasing cracks.
“Well then, come on you two. Guard outside is going to escort us to where we shall be having breakfast.” Shawn said, already waiting at the door.
“I’ll be there, I’ll be there… besides I think I am going to ask for a change of clothing… only got one shirt,pants, etc.” He moved his head and got out of bed already dressed. They could see he dressed under the covers. “ROTC training there… anyway… ready to go and let’s move.” he slowly limped as he got his legs to work after having a heavy weight fall on them.
“You guys have coffee right?” Taze asked the guard who nodded. “Good.”
“Wonder if they have herbal tea to drink, no caffeine for me… might not be good for my heart…. adrenaline now hurts.” Matthew muttered as he leaned his body against the wall.
“You okay man?” Taze turned to Matthew.
“I think so, I am not really sure. Never had someone slam into my legs before.” he winces. “But it feels like both a Charlie Horse and growth pains… I think Milk will be on the menu for breakfast for me.” He coughed a little. “anyway… I am use to pains, ever since the surgery my lower ribs have always hurt like they are forever bruised.”
“Sorry about that., was still getting myself up and couldn’t hold my balance to a punch.” Shawn said, rubbing his neck. “Shouldn’t happen again.”
“Not a problem, but next time let Taze wake up, or poke him with a pole. Also… don’t poke me just talk to me until I wake up.”
After a minute Shawn opened the door, making a slight gesture towards it. “Let’s get going, shall we?”
“Allonsy?” Taze asked getting to his feet.
“Geronimo.” Matthew replied with a grin.
“Fantastic.” Shawn said, a small smirk on his face.
The group all exited the room, following the guard that was sent to gather them for breakfast. Through countless hallways they followed for what seemed like an eternity, at least for Taze it was, though it was only two or so minutes.
Finally arriving at the dining hall, the group entered to find Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and several others they couldn’t name already sitting down.
“Peter, let me ask this, why did you get into a food eating contest with Princess Luna?”
“What? You’ve never randomly challenged a monarch to an eating contest before?” Taze chuckled a bit. “Anyway she had fun, it ended well.”
Shawn rolled his eyes slightly. At the moment they were following Princess Celestia somewhere, she just mentioned the need to talk to them, and some other things.
Matthew was following silently, he was smiling and had enjoyed his meal, while he did not eat as much as Luna or Taze. He still had eaten a nice meal, and he figured it might last till at least past noon before he needed to eat again. He did keep his eyes open and it was very common to see him turn his head to look at a suit of armor or a tapestry or artwork on the wall.
“So any clues on where we are headed?” Taze asked.
“We are headed to the Royal Library. There are some things I would like to talk about, and a nice quiet environment will be a perfect location.” Celestia said, slightly turned towards them to speak.
Matthew in his jungle outfit smirked. “Ask, and you shall receive.” he chuckled a little. “What I find sad is… going off basics of worlds and culture, I won’t get to read any of the books there.”
“The library might have a book you can understand. I am sure we have some books in the Draconic language.” Celestia hummed in thought. “Unless you write differently, though you speak Draconic we don’t really know much of your kind, which this trip should give us plenty of time to ask these questions.”
“Questions are good, it well get us somewhere.” Taze nodded.
After a minute or so of walking the group finally came across a set of big double doors, on the side of it was a small icon of a book, showing that it was indeed, a library.
Matthew only smirked a little. “I like how icons help with navigating with the castle inside. Hopefully it helps keep folks from getting lost.”
Celestia chuckled lightly. “You would think so, but due to the amount of corridors ponies can still take awhile to find where they were headed. But, every little bit helps, thankfully we have the guards know where most of the main rooms are from their current location.”
The group wandered into the library, following Celestia to one of the sections that seemed to be empty of other ponies. In this section there was a table with chairs around it, and some bookshelves surrounding them. Celestia took a seat, motioning for the others to do the same, in which they did.
Matthew only nodded his head in thanks and took a seat that for him denoted some sense of self preservation he put his back to one of the book cases and also sat in a way that made it hard for someone to sneak up behind him. He remained silent and polite with the royal in the room and guards around him. He did look a few times at the books around him a little with sadness in his eyes as well.
Taze sat down at his seat eye’s tracing around the room curiously. so many books and yet they couldn’t understand a word of them. “water water everywhere but not a drop to drink” he mumbled to himself.
Shawn sat down, not saying a word as his eyes drifted from book to book. He looked as though he was trying to figure out something, his eyes portraying that he was deep in thought.
“Alright, so. I have brought you here away from any unwanted attention to talk to you three about some information I would like to know, and for questions, both from you and myself.” Celestia said to the group.
“My first question, does your kind have any form of magic?”
Matthew blinked and smirked a little. “Well we have magic, but all it is really is slight of hands and smoke and mirrors, other things, but compared to what you can do. What I saw, opening doors with horns and etc. You have the real stuff.” he shook his head. “One Unicorn would become the richest sentient being in the entire nation if they just did mundane things I have seen here.”
“Well,” Taze said. “That’s paraphrasing, some people would say we had it once, ages ago in a time of ignorance, people claimed to control the elements, contact spirits or other such things, our mythology’s are stuffed full of magical beings and magical things but to see any of it in our time is unheard of”
“In our modern era, no. Magic is, as he said.” Shawn said, giving a slight nod to Matthew. “Fake, trick of the hand, and what not.” He leaned back slightly. “But then again, as Peter has said, our history and mythology is a bit…” He paused for a second. “Interesting to say the least.”
Matthew shook his head. “Mythology of creatures that we have not found any evidence for. Dinosaur bones were thought to be dragon bones. As for controlling the weather, enough time studying our weather and you can get an idea of a cycle. Heck the Mayans could predict by mathematics when eclipses and the like would happen centuries before they would.” Matthew was smirking in a way to show he was poking holes for fun with some friends. “As for communicating with spirits? That is a trick that is so old it is considered false by many folks.” He was smiling a little bit bigger. “Then again, faith itself, religion and belief in other beings and a higher God like figure, we still have that, and you know I believe in Religion.” He shook his head. “What you were referring to was pagan and items that give me the chills but I will not deny that miracles will happen, I am a walking Miracle.”
“And thats what we have for ‘magic’ Princess.” Taze spoke up cutting off any more.
Shawn rolled his eyes lightly in a joking manner, with a small smirk on his face. “In short Princess, no we do not have any form of magic besides illusions, tricks.” He said reaching for his hand. After a moment he grabbed his thumb, and pulled it off. After a second he opened his hands and showed how it was done.
Celestia seemed lost in thought. After a moment she hummed lightly. “Alright then, What about how you got here in the first place? Do you know how you got here?”
Shawn looked towards the other two. “I don’t remember for sure myself. What I think I saw is, quite frankly, something that just can not happen.” He paused. “What about you two? Can you remember any details that stood out?”
Matthew shook his head. “Not really no. I remember opening the door just to check if they had forgotten the text and were already outside. I… I think I remember something like surprise but, but then nothing.” he moved a hand to his heart as if the action could steady the feeling his body was going through. “Chill, cold like cutting to the bone. Snow, fire, ice… all at once.” He seemed trapped in a memory. “Images, flashes like a flash from a camera…. and then…. then…. then…” he looked at the guards slowly. “Darkness.”
Taze leaned back in his chair closing his eye’s and bowing his head. “Lets see, it was a bit after our last conversation, I did some reading before leaving home and traveling into town. it was cold, I was walking down the street, i heard a sound, yeah the sound of broken glass, I went to see what it was and then, cold, a burning but not like fire.” Tazes hands instantly went together, rubbing the back of his hands intermittently. “It was a cold burnin and then I was waking up with that night guard at my throat.”
Shawn was mumbling to himself, his eyes constantly shooting across the table. He was lost in thought, something bothering him. He didn’t seem to notice the eyes on him, he was lost in his own thoughts.
“That help?” Taze asked not quite opening his eye’s just yet.
“Shawn?” Celestia questioned.
He didn’t respond, his mumblings were slightly louder but they were jumbled, he would stop now and then and continue, his eyes were still, out of focus and entirely lost in his own thoughts.
It was one of the guards who poked Shawn while speaking to the Princess who repeated the question. “Can you speak so we can all understand? or Rather translators can help? You seem to be disturbed by something and it might help but being more vocal.”
Shawn shook his head and his focus returned. “Wha-Sorry sorry, I, I was just a bit lost in thought. Just… It’s all the same. But, it just can’t be the same, what it was was entirely impossible!” His hand hit the table with a light thud. “Princess, you are skilled with magic, aren’t you?” He received a nod. “Do you know any sort of spell that would, I don’t know, view memories, something like that? I want and need to see these events.” He looked to the group. “If it is possible, I would still like to know you two are fine with it…”
“I guess I can be okay with that.” Matthew replied with a shrug of his shoulders.
“If it needs to be done.” Taze said.
Shawn focused back onto Celestia, who in term nodded. “Yes it is possible, you just have to remember the beginning of the event and I will make sure we all can see it.”
The group looked to each other and gave a slight nod, closing their eyes. After a second they all felt a slight tingling around each of their heads. Upon opening their eyes they were all in a vast empty place, the three humans and Celestia.
“Woah.” Matthew replied at the space. “Reminds me a hanger with all lights off. Or a Cave with lights turned off.” He paused. “Only we seem to see each other rather well.”
“We will be starting with yours Matthew.” Celestia stated.
Slowly things began to light up, showing the room around them. It was really a front hall with a nice rug over a wooden floor. There is an open doorway to a darkened room which was not really important to the memory. There was a wood and woven bench to sit on. next to the bench were snow boots and sunday shoes shined. What it appeared to others were that he was rooming with many others who were of the same mindset as him. The front door which had a lantern on a three tier wooden shoe rack in a corner. The sound of something unknown to Celetia but to the others of a car crunching snow under the tires came from outside. They saw a copy of Matthew open the metal front door and the memory seemed to shatter into a kaleidoscope of colors, odd images and emotions as driven as a snow storm.
Shawn looked at the scene around him. “Could you rewind the memory, slowly.” Celestia nodded and proceeded to do as asked.
Everything seemed to pull itself together, and slowly they watched the memory pull itself together again. “Quick, pause it!” The memory stopped.
Matthew had his hand on the door in which he was walking out of, there was a figure on what the group could guess was the path up to the house, but the figure was too dark to see, all they could notice was it was short, and had something big on its back. Which was a strange occurance as a street lamp was already on off to the right of street, and a few homes with lights, showing that the homes were rather large with two stories.
Shawn shook his head after looking at the figure, seemingly bothered. “Can we try Peters memory?” After a moment things began to darken and pull together a new scene.
A darkly lit neighbourhood came into view suddenly, the street was lined with large tree’s giving it and almost foreboding appearance, fortunately it seemed details were hard to make out, the houses being hard to make out details on and the road appearing flat but one couldn’t notice it was paved unless they concentrated. a few feet ahead of them Peter walked down the side of the road casualty seemingly enjoying the night air.
A loud crash of broken glass was heard suddenly taze looked in the direction of the sound.
A short figure with what from their current distance appeared to have a bulge on it’s back ran out of a nearby building carrying something. “Hey! Thief” Pete yelled barreling after it.
As Peter chased it the figure seemed to blur and vanish in front of him, driven forward by his own momentum Taze vanished moments later.
“Alright.” Shawn said rubbing his chin. “I think you could see a bit more of the figure, but…” He stopped and watched as the memory pulled itself back to a point in which the figure was mostly visible.
The group could see the object on its back was indeed a bag of sorts, though it appeared to be around twice its size. it had dark grey skin, but they couldn’t make out much of any other details besides a golden object in its hands.
“What is that thing?” Peter asked.
Shawn stared at the figure, his eyes trailing over it, trying to put together any other details. He mumbled lightly to himself before shaking his head again. “It just can't be…” He mumbled to himself.
Matthew was looking at the large sack on his back before looking at the golden object. “Wait, the object, looks like a rulers ball of power. Only it’s missing the cross.” he muttered a little as he looked around the area before moving closer. “Still… what is this? A child playing tricks?” He couldn’t shake a feeling in his gut. “As for the skin, to my eyes looks sickly.” He looked to the others. “What say you?”
Shawn looked at the figure one last time. “It… It…” He stopped, then looked to Celestia. “We…” He exhaled. “Can we take a look at mine?”
The area around them darkened and not much was made visible to them except the memory of Shawn sitting at a desk with a monitor in front of him. What was on it appeared to be showing what was going on outside. Soon afterwards the memory started up.
“Must.” His memory yawned. “Must have dozed off…” He looked at the screen and seemed to scan them for a moment before looking across the room at a clock. His eyebrow raised slightly and he looked back at the screen, noting a figure just barely in view.
He stood up and walked through the darkness towards a slight light, coming from one of the doors nearby. Upon opening it, light began to fill the room, it was coming from a porch light off to the right of the outside of the door. He pat the top part of his coat, nodded and stepped outside, locking the door from the inside.
A brief expression came onto the present Shawn’s face. He opened his jacket and reached inside near the same spot he patted, only to pull out a set of keys. “Huh… Well then, kinda… Useless now…” He mumbled to himself.
Taze picked his out of his pocket staring at them strangely “I’d totally forgotten about these”
“I am still waiting for my stuff to be returned fully from the Guard.” he seemed grumpy as he turned his empty pockets inside out.” Matthew turned to first glare at his friends before moving his glare to where the guards use to be.
The memory continued as Shawn seemed to follow the figure, trying to catch up. “Hey!”
The figure ran into a dark alleyway, earning a slight grunt of annoyance from Shawn. “Who are you? Isn’t it a little late to be going around to peoples houses?” His expression turned to confusion before looking up to the sky. The clouds overhead seemed ready to start a storm at any point. A light flashed throughout the sky, a second later the sound caught up.
He seemed to pat his left side, where the sword was at the time and continued onwards. He could see the figure seemingly reaching out in front of it before turning back towards Shawn, possibly hearing his footsteps. There was a flash and seemingly Shawn and Celestia both thought the same thing, as Celestia stopped the memory.
The figure was facing Shawn and the group could see what it was, only, the present Shawn dropped to his knees, his eyes wide.
The figure was a sickly grey, it appeared around three foot tall, and wore what appeared just scraps of cloth pieced together. Its eyes were black, and it seemed startled while looking at memory Shawn.
“It just can’t be!” Shawn yelled from where he was.
Soon the memory continued and suddenly distorted itself, before finally ending.
The group all opened their eyes and turned toward Shawn, who had his hands to his face, leaning on the table.
“I know… How we got here…”
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Awesome! New chapter and cliffhanger!
P.s. the link is not working.
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Trust me, there is plenty more to come, in technicality we already have over one hundred thousand words down and are working on Chapter 16 as of this moment.
This is going to be a fun trip.
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Just to let you know, the link has been fixed, Thank you very much for the tip and letting me know of a broken link.
4277147 Awesome^^
He knows? How?
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You three are awesome!
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Thank you.
Although I will say this, another quote.
You ain't seen nothing yet. So keep reading and by all means let us know what you think of each chapter, I think I Can say that we get better as the chapters go on.
You......
YOU......
Are my new favorite author. You get bonus points for not 1.....
Not 2.....
But 3.
THATS RIGHT 3!
Doctor who references.
19/10. 3 bonus points apiece. Good job. XD
6468732 three references in one spot in the same chapter. Love it, espescially Doctor Who.
It sounds like the damn loot goblin from Diablo 3.
The link in that sentence is dead.
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Thank you for letting us know, It is edited and fixed now to something that should work.
Quite a lot of redundancies in this chapter.
Also, I know a guy with the username TaZe... I wonder if they're the same person... I know an _oTTo_ too...
7014123 It broke again. Ha. Maybe try a one of the pics here from the Wiki site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globus_cruciger Those pictures shouldn't ever change much over long periods of time.
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Thank you very much for your suggestion, and it is implemented. I hope this time the image will not be broken, or become corrupted.
I am grateful for your help.
The story seems kinda interesting so far, but I'm slightly put off by the multitude of grammar and spelling errors in each chapter so far - I guess that's what the notice at the first chapter was about.
I'm not quite hooked yet, but I'll give it another few chapters and see how I like it.
Umm, pretty sure that humanity would win in a war.
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It's difficult to say for certain. Humanity would have the advantage of extremely advanced sciences, and if a battle were fought on Earth, then yes, I agree with you, seeing as magic doesn't seem to be a thing here anymore. However, Equestria is a land rich with magic, or mana, if you prefer, which means that the Ponies would likely stand on a more even playing field, though there is still the matter of a bullet moving much faster than a magic spell could be invoked, so again, it does lean in favor of humanity.
That being said, dragons, especially an elder dragon, might be able to overcome most of what Earth's forces might try to throw against it. So it's tough to say for sure.
HUZZAH!!! A NEW MEME HAS BEEN BORN!
This time around I notice something
He is denying something far less significant than sapient talking ponies with magic and gravity-defying wings. Barely even considering it as a possibility. Just flat disappointed in that, honestly.
Psst. Thermo nuclear warheads... pretty sure even a dragon couldn't survive a direct hit... or the radioactive fallout.
Thank you a fic that gives humanity the gravitas it deserves, I mean yah ponies got magic and that's badass but think about the economic and sociopolitical climate equestria is in compared to ALL of humanity, equestria has magic but celestia restricts it so heavily that almost all civilians don't even know offensive spells hell most don't even know how to cast a fireball last I checked, on top of that ponies have cutie marks that, sure make them really good at like one thing or in rare cases vague categories (ie twilight sparkle) but the cutie mark also inhibits that ponies ability to do basically anything else unrelated too far to be useful much less proficient. That coupled with the fact that much of equestria is extremely poor, this is shown in towns like ponyville, which is very close and has a direct tram to the capital of the country. Given that we can extrapolate much of equestria is not only poor but most likely in economic turmoil only held together because as I'm sure anyone familiar with the show knows celestia and luna literally control the day night cycle, we can also assume if they die so dose ⁰the planet and if anyone starts a rebellion they will probably be killed by two actual gods. That coupled with the fact equestria hasn't been in an actual war for probably one thousand years give or take, Equestrian citizens and there feeble 'guard' regiments would probably crack after the first few years of real war, If it even lasts that long. All of this plus the fact that humanity as a WHOLE has been refining and mastering the art of war for THOUSANDS OF YEARS alone means that we would probably kick equestrias ass almost unanimously, plus and I'm sad I even have to mention this, equestria is ONE country I don't even think they are geography bigger than America if they are than at least 67% of their total landmass is uncolonized a lot of it is mountainous and non habitable probably unfit for long term mineing efforts, there are only 12 mentioned 'cities' in the official web page and 5 of them are just towns. Over all equestria is failing in pretty much every category except magic so if it was a battle of attrition we would definitely win, a battle of overwhelming firepower we would certainly win, a battle of overall economic superiority we would win just in sheer geography. All down the board we keep winning and I'm glad somebody thought it out long enough to realize that. Yay :>
ps. I do like mlp and equestria I'd just like everyone to realize equestria would have no chance in an open conflict with humanity or even one country, tye only conceivable reality in which equestria would win is If there was some kind of Mary sue mcguffin pony or artifact that ether magicly turned every human on the planet into a pony keeping and striping any individuality from them keeping with fimfiction.net's obsession with that tired act or just killing all of them because the plot demands it. There are more but it just kinda goes like that all the way down. Anyway love the story yayyyy :>
Interesting fic