Story Conclusion
It had been several weeks since the immeasurably important incident involving Insight, and the past few days had gone extremely well for the trio of a family that included not only the nearly solid blue pony who had recently entered the world of the living a few years ahead of usual, but also had an alien from another world named Inventor as well as a flightless pegasus holding the name of Scootaloo. It was an odd family to be sure but they loved each other nonetheless in the face of each others oddities, or perhaps because of them.
Every since Insight had started going to school with Scootaloo a few weeks after he had joined Inventor and her inside their home she found Diamond Tiara picking on her less and less. Apparently having a pegasus brother who could cast shadow magic put some ponies on edge. Yet, despite the general unease and tenseness of the other ponies around him Scootaloo was always the first to stand up for her brother in his times of need, a blessing beyond measure for the blue colt.
The two had quickly bonded after Inventor had arrived back at home with Insight by his side and now they were almost inseparable from each other. Even when Insight went to the library for his magic training with Twilight (Which was going surprisingly well) Scootaloo was mere steps behind reading one the many adventure fictions that lined the walls of the building. Starting, or course, with the Daring Do series.
It was amazing as for the longest time no progress was being made; then, just when Twilight was about to call it quits, he started making remarkable progress from out of the blue. After this sudden epiphany Twilight began constantly sending notes to Celestia about the astounding growth that the pegasus was showing in his control and usage of shadow magic. She assumed that it was her carefully planned out training schedule that was helping him along and it definitely had an impact. But the real reason for Insight’s sudden adeptness in magic was due to a secondary source that nobody was aware of.
It was only in the middle of one dark night of a new moon that he finally felt the need to divulge the secret that had started to tear at him. Inventor lay still in his bedroom gazing up at the ceiling, after a moment he sat up in bed and looked squarely at the corner of the room. “You going to say something or are you just going to stand there awkwardly Insight?” Inventor asked the empty air.
After a moment the darkness peeled out of the air to reveal the blue pegasus standing in the exact spot where Inventor was currently starring. “How did you know I was here?” Insight asked as he looked to the man.
The man smiled in return, “I would hope I’m not fargone enough to miss noticing an inconsistency in my own house.” The man replied, “Now, I believe you had something you wanted to say Insight?”
“I don’t want to bother you, it’s just...” Insight paused as he looked to Inventor who merely waved him on. “It’s just that I’ve been having some outside help with my shadow magic recently.” The colt explained ominously as he subconsciously shivered to some unfelt chill. After the shiver he stopped and merely looked ashamedly towards the man.
Inventor smiled and stood from his bed, “Let’s have a nice cup of that calming tea I bought last weekend to calm our nerves, eh? I’m sure we could both use a drink to settle ourselves.” The man walked steadily over to the door of his room and opened it silently, with another glance to the blue pegasus the human exited the room and proceeded stealthy down the stairs in hopes of not waking Scootaloo.
Upon arriving at the bottom of the flight of stairs the man immediately set towards the kitchen and started to busy himself with the preparations for the hot drink. A creak from a chair behind him informed the man that Insight had made his way down behind him. With this comforting knowledge the man carefully set the pot of water over the stove and made his way over to the table, seating himself across from the blue pegasus..
The minutes ticked away as the steady beat from the man’s arm flooded the room, usually this sound made Insight feel protected, right now however it sounded like war drums on the horizon. As time passed the man leaned back in the seat and waited, after a few moments he stood from the seat and checked on the water on the stove. With a flick of his wrist the man pulled off one of his gloves and slipped a singular digit into the steaming liquid.
Deciding that the water was of suitable temperature the man took the pot off the stove and filled two mugs with the steaming liquid. With both full he set the pan back upon the still working stove and opened one of the surrounding cupboards. From within he drew out a small packet of herbal tea and threw one across the open air to Insight. The pegasus deftly caught the small package and waited patiently as Inventor made his way over to the table with both cups in his hands and his own herbal tea held between his teeth.
With a carefree smile to the blue colt the man opened the thin paper packet that contained the potent herbal mix and carefully dumped its entire contents into the water. Due to the carefully maintained packaging and composition of the herbal mix the separate powders mixed seamlessly with the water of their own accord. No need for stirring. After a moment or so the pegasus accomplished the same act and received the same result.
For a moment only the man was taking small sips from the hot drink on the table in front of him and was pointedly looking around the house. This allowed for his gaze to run across the familiar setting of the house that he had grown somewhat attached to. His attachment wasn’t due to the upfront appearance of the building, though it was quite cozy. No, the reason for his attachment was because it represented a new part of his life, one of joy.
As the man was steeped in his memories the colt across the table took a sip of the tea that sat in front of him. As it touched his tongue The colt’s face turned purple as the red on his skin mixed with the solid blue of his coat and he fought to swallow the steaming drink. Managing the task he looked pointedly at the man across the table. “You call that a good temperature? I don’t think I’ll ever have taste buds ever again.” Insight proclaimed as he panted.
Inventor laughed silently to himself as a jovial smile crossed his face. “Oh just wait for it to cool Insight. I tend to like my drinks hot enough to melt steel. I thought I toned down my expectations of the heat enough for you but it seems I miscalculated.” The man said as he looked briefly towards the blue pegasus that sat across the table from him.
A few more minutes ticked away to the ethereal ticking noise and Insight tried the tea in front of him once again. It had cooled significantly and the colt closed his eyes as the pull of the relaxing agents in this brand of tea pulled at his strung nerves and untangled them. The colt couldn’t help but lean back as the tea soothed his mind and smile as he took another sip.
Unfortunately the moment wasn’t fated to last long as Inventor spoke once again. “So you were talking about some outside help you’ve had with your shadow magic.” the man took a thoughtful pause as he took another sip of the tea. “Would you explain what exactly you mean by that?”
“Well,” The blue pegasus nervously began, “About a week ago when Twilight told me to search within myself for my magical power I felt something that I hadn’t found before.” The colt could almost feel his nerves starting to tighten once more from stress so he took another sip of the refreshing hot liquid from the mug in front of him. The colt paused once more now that he had stopped and lost his momentum, regardless Inventor waved the colt on and after another sip of the tea the pegasus managed to continue.
“Anyway I attempted to cast a spell but failed just like I had before. That was when I heard a voice in my head that told me how to cast the magic correctly. I was hesitant of it at first so I didn’t follow the advice of it but when I tried it outside the spell worked perfectly and I decided that maybe the voice could help me afterall. I’m sorry I didn’t tell you sooner but I was afraid I would get put in an asylum or something.” Insight said, almost blurting out the words as he finished. His expression turned to one of relief as he took another small sip of herbal tea, quite happy to have the confession of his chest.
A few beats from the metallic clockwork kept the time until Inventor spoke up again. “So what changed?” He asked simply as he took another sip of the tea. All happiness seemed to have fled his face as he adopted a serious, yet reflective, expression.
“W-w-what?” The pegasus stuttered as he looked at the man, sweat once again beading upon his forehead.
“What changed? You just came to tell me this information and I doubt you would snap if it were giving you helpful advice so what changed Insight? Why did you feel the sudden need to have closure?” Inventor asked softly as he raised his eyes to meet those of the blue colt across from him. The pegasus met the gaze for a moment before looking away from the sad eyes across the table from himself.
“The voice started telling me to do things that didn’t have anything to do with my shadow magic.” Insight admitted, still avoiding the gaze of the man.
“Like what?” Came the soft reply.
Insight stopped himself for a moment, a look crossing his face like he was deep in thought but the blue colt shook his head and turned to look once more towards the man. “Like kill Twilight Sparkle.” The colt admitted with a hang of his head.
The human remained passive though his facial pattern changed from sad to unreadable. “I see.” Came the brief reply. Once again a pause in the spoken words appeared and Insight began to feel very uncomfortable across from his adoptive father.
“How is your training with mind to mind connections coming along?” The man asked as he looked towards the foal.
“I’ve learned how to link the first few layers of two people’s minds. Both have to be willing though.” The colt replied.
“I see, would you mind linking minds with me so I can hear this voice that torments your mind?” Inventor asked.
“I-I-I guess, it’s a pretty scary voice though.”
“On a scale of one to my memories?”
“One, maybe two.”
“Thought so.”
With a silent agreement both males looked at each other and Insight flared his wings to trigger his spell. Shortly following the act darkness from the surrounding environment coalesced and formed a solid thread between both of the participants’ heads. Both bodies went limp but remained upright in their seats as the spell was cast and Inventor soon found himself falling within the darkness of his own mind.
You’ve come to talk to me Inventor? Came a voice that echoed through the shroud, its words laced with a mocking tone.
“I’ve come to tell you that I want you out of my son’s head!” Inventor shouted loudly back into the abyss.
And why would I ever do that?
Inventor’s attitude shifted once again, “Because I have a deal that you can’t refuse.”
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Insight found himself deep within his own mind. Unlike Inventor’s however it was much more colorful, to be specific the edges of his sight were composed of a rich purple that seemed to shift steadily between red and blue.
Inside his mind that colt was surprised to find himself alone with no Inventor in sight. More surprising though was how silent it was currently. “What happened to the voice?” The colt asked himself, his voice echoing across his mindscape as he floated guideless through the fog of his own mind.
What seemed like an hour passed before the spell came to an abrupt end and the blue pegasus found himself once more in his own body with the same madman seated opposite him. After a moment the man raised his own head and opened his eyes. For a split second the colt saw he saw something behind the man’s eyes. Darkness and Fire. That’s what it looked like but it was gone in the next second and Insight wasn’t entirely sure he had seen it in the first place.
The man looked at Insight with his usual carefree grin and spoke. “I suspect that it isn’t absolutely vital right now but I would recommend you talk to Twilight about it tomorrow during your training with her.” he said. With the words spoken the man stood from his seat and finished the small remaining amount of tea that was left in his mug before putting it into the sink.
Insight nodded slowly before taking another sip of his tea and looking at the still half-full cup that sat before him on the table. Inventor smiled at him, “Go ahead and take as long as you need, I’ll be right upstairs if you need me anymore tonight.” Both of them bid farewell to the other and Inventor retreated to his room for the remainder of the night. Insight remained up for another hour as he finished his drink and ran over the thoughts as to the events of the night. Just as the blue pegasus had finished his drink and deposited it alongside Inventor’s he realized something was different, the voice was gone.
Overcome with this revelation Insight had to restrain the urge of running upstairs and asking Inventor about it. After all it could just be a trick, the voice could still be there and was just being silent for some reason. With this sobering theory in his mind the colt silently made his way into his shared room with Scootaloo that now sported two beds. The filly dozed heavily on an orange bed at one end of the room while Insight carefully made his way to his own blue bed at the other end. With only his thoughts and the occasional creak as the house settled to keep his attention the colt swiftly found himself asleep and dreaming easily.
In the early morning both foals woke to a house devoid of their father and a note that rested on the table on the first floor. Scootaloo picked it up and read it briefly before shrugging and handing it to Insight. The note detailed how the man would be going to see Rarity about getting a new top hat, something he had neglected to do since the events of Insight’s welcome to the world. Insight saw nothing suspicious of the note and put it back on the table before joining Scootaloo in a bowl of sugary cereal.
The cereal was quickly finished and both foals left the house and set off towards the school. All the distance Scootaloo moved along on her scooter at a slow pace that allowed Insight the ability to walk alongside here. They spoke about some of the new toys that were coming out as children were wont to do but all in all the trip to the school, as well as the day at school, passed without much ado.
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Inventor smiled as he looked at Rarity through one eye, her face displayed puzzlement and shock as she returned the gaze. Swiftly the return gaze turned into an angry leer. “You did what?” She asked in a cold, deadpan tone.
“I blew it up, well okay it kinda was my fault, kinda wasn’t. Hard to explain. Anyway yea, the top hat exploded.” Inventor said as his grin widened.
“Never a dull day with you is it?” Rarity asked as she turned away from the man and made her way to the back room.
“I don’t know, yesterday was pretty normal. Really dull.” Inventor said as he remained standing in front of the counter that had only recently been installed.
“You’re lucky that I’m as thorough as I am generous Inventor, I suspected something like this might happen so I prepared a back-up top hat for you.” Rarity said as she exited the backroom, a box levitating alongside her. She gently lowered the rectangular box on the counter in front of Inventor. The man gingerly lifted the lid off the hat box and examined the contents with his one good eye. Discovering the hat within to be almost identical to the one he had blown up Inventor smiled and replaced the lid.
With a new air of energy about him the man placed five bits upon the counter and made to take the box when Rarity coughed pointedly. Inventor glanced toward her and noticed she was looking between him and the money he had recently placed. “What, that’s how much the hat was last time I bought it from you.” Inventor said as he looked once more at the money and double-checked that there were in fact five bits on the counter.
“Insurance cost on the fabric, three additional bits please darling.” Rarity said politely as she looked to the man. The man nodded and took out three more bits that he placed with the other five and nodded to Rarity.
“Thank you, I’ve been meaning to get this replaced and now is a better time than any other.” Rarity returned the nod and thanked him for his patronage. On his way out the man opened both eyes and looked at the one he had kept closed in the reflection of the glass. Almost instantly he closed it again and hastily exited the boutique.
Inventor looked around after he exited the building to make sure nopony was looking, after he confirmed that not a soul was watching him the man fully exited the perimeter of the building and set off towards the Everfree forest at a brisk pace. He was spotted by Twilight as he made his way towards the mysterious wood but he ignored her greeting and continued on his way. The indigo mare passed this off as another oddity that the man seemed to have far too many of and returned to the library, her shopping done for the day.
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After school finished Insight was excitedly making his way toward the library with Scootaloo once more at his side. The entire day at school had gone by and he hadn’t heard that haunting malevolent voice since his talk with Inventor the night prior. With joy in his heart from being free of the corrupting voice the blue pegasus felt like he could fly to the library on the rivers of relief that he was currently riding on.
When he arrived Twilight was surprised to find him in such good spirits, he had originally showed up mopey realizing he had to take additional schooling. The past week had been different in that regard as when he showed up he looked nervous and high strung. This reaction though, this reaction was completely knew. The magic teacher looked to Scootaloo for an explanation but all she got in return was a shrug.
Shaking off the surprise of the new attitude of her student the mare once again began her lesson on control and flow of magic. She had originally wanted to teach him via books but when she found the supply of texts on shadow magic to be completely non-existence it had been decided that experience was his only choice for learning magic.
With this hands-on approach the results had been slow at first but had picked up exponentially. Today however the librarian noticed that the colt seemed to be lagging a bit more on the new spell then he usually did. She was attempting to get him to learn a simple spell that allowed the wielder to cast multiple shadows when only one would normally or even to completely block a light source. Eventually he worked it out by himself and smiled when he saw the three shadows that sat around his body despite the singular light bulb that hung in the middle of the room. The colt felt a joy of achievement go through his body at having succeeded without the help of a voice in his head.
After his success Twilight looked to the nearby clock she kept on hand and clicked her hoofs together. “It seems that we’re done for the day Insight. Have a good night.” The mare said with finality and much to her surprise the blue pegasus looked somewhat downtrodden at the new but his expression quickly brightened.
“Okay I have to ask, what’s going on that has you so excited?” Twilight inquired as she looked curiously to her student.
The colt seemed momentarily confused by the question before understanding covered his features.“Oh, that’s right, Dad told me to tell you but I forgot. Sorry.” After that introduction Insight quickly detailed the events of the previous night and the secret of his sudden success. Twilight grew more and more curious as the tale went on, it certainly wasn’t natural.
Though she really hated to worry the princess Twilight decided it best not to risk anything that regarded both Insight and Inventor and sent a brief summary of the events that the blue pegasus had described. After having Spike send the note Twilight managed to keep both energetic fillies within the library until either a return note was sent or an hour had passed. The time was passed with a board game and a study session, Scootaloo opted out of the latter and went back to reading her book.
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Both princesses were both in a meeting together when the scroll materialized in the air in front of Celestia. The white alicorn caught the rolled paper with practiced easy and immediately opened the scroll, excusing herself from the conversation as she did so. A moment went by as she read the note, After reading it Celestia felt a pain in her gut and reread the parchment, trying to convince herself that she had read it wrong at some point. Luna picked up on the feelings of her sister and turned to see Celestia looking at the paper with blatant worry on her face. Without warning the princess of the sun stood from her seat and hurriedly made her way toward the door.
“Sister wait, what is the matter?” Luna called after the retreating form of the white alicorn as she too stood from her seat and looked to the ponies who were now sharing worried glances.
“We asked the wrong question, Luna. We asked the wrong question.” Celestia said darkly as she flung the stone door wide open and took off down the hall.
Without a pause Luna quickly excused herself from the meeting as well and took off after her sister. After a few turns through the hall Luna figured out where the white alicorn was going and her worry only grew. Taking the first chance she could the lunar princess cast a short range teleport to take her around a corner just as Celestia turned down the same hall. Now running side by side Luna saw a very real fear on the face of the alicorn.
“What do you mean we asked the wrong question sister? What are you referring to?” Luna said, almost breathless.
“We asked him how Insight could use shadow magic, that’s not what we should have asked. We should have asked WHY he could use shadow magic.” Celestia said, her own voice quite strong despite the running.
Luna paused and let Celestia run on without her. Slowly the pieces began to link together in her head. Given where her sister was going and what she had just said to her there was only one possible circumstance that could even be plausible. Taking a deep breath to calm herself the blue alicorn began to channel her magic for a long range teleport. With the spell prepared all it took was a cast and the lunar princess moved instantaneously between the castle at Canterlot and into the library.
Twilight was surprised when Luna appeared out of nowhere but she didn’t have time to question it as the alicorn turned to the studious unicorn and gave a simple, yet powerful, command. “Gather the elements.”
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After Celestia had retrieved the elements from the vault in which they were stored she immediately began her teleportation spell to Ponyville. Due to the extra baggage she was taking with her the white alicorn took a moment longer to prepare her spell then her lunar sister had. Nonetheless the spell was prepared quite quickly and Celestia soon found herself inside the library alongside Twilight Sparkle.
The white alicorn was about to command that the other elements be gathered when she noticed that they already had. Each of the elements wore a sad, determined expression as they stood next to each other. Behind the elements Luna stood a tear was falling down her face, nevertheless she smiled at the white alicorn and put on a bold face. “I guess you could say great minds think alike.” Luna said, “I already received the summary from Twilight and provided my own knowledge. We are ready to do what needs to be done.”
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Inventor stood at the edge of the Everfree forest with his top hat resting lightly on his head. He had been there for the past few hours, alone. "Man to stone and dust to ashes. How appropriate." The time had passed slowly as he looked toward the leafy foliage of the forest with both his eyes wide open. He had watched the shadows drift lightly across the floor of the woods as the evening had approached and left.
As he stood looking into the forest he heard the crunching of leaves behind him and smiled to himself. “You’re late you know?” he asked the pony behind him. The indigo pony shook her head sadly at the remark, her tiara jingling as she did so.
“We would have been here sooner if you hadn’t felt the need to play a game of riddles with us.” Twilight replied
Ignoring her comment Inventor continued, “Eternal night is a really stupid goal, don’t you think? Everything would die. I think it's about time the creature behind it be sealed away permanently without hope for escape.”
“Indeed it is Inventor, indeed it is.” This time the reply came from Luna who was looking at the back of the man’s head. “Would you mind turning around, I don’t like talking to someone’s back.” She said as she stood idly trying desperately to keep her emotions calm.
Inventor slowly, shakily turned around to look at the ponies who had gathered to see him off. Among them the man noticed the shocked faces of his son and daughter. All of those gathered looked on in awe as they saw the man’s eyes. It was like the color had been reversed. What was supposed to be white was black and vice versa. Inventor sadly sighed to himself, “Of course my kids are here, dying guy can’t get a break can he?”
“D-dad? What’s going on? Why are your eyes weird?” Scootaloo asked as she recovered from the initial shock of what she was seeing. She knew exactly what was going on in all reality, she just really didn't want to believe it.
“I took in a bit too much darkness it seems, turns out that the magic carries the soul of Nightmare moon under normal circumstances. I volunteered to take that burden from somepony and it seems I finally bit off more than I can chew.” Inventor said as he once again turned away from the gathered ponies.
“I’m sorry it has to end this way Inventor, if there were any other option-” Celestia began.
“Don’t say another word, believe me when I say there is no other option, this is none of your faults. That includes you Insight. Balance in all things right? So in order to take down a great evil something of equal value has to be lost.” Inventor paused as he broke into a short barking laugh that suddenly turned manic.
Realizing the change in his laugh the man stopped and paused before he continued. “That sounds like I’m calling myself a great good, ha. I’m just so humble aren’t I?” He paused once more as he ran thoughts through his head. “Hey Scoots, if anyone tells you off about not having a dad just tell them that he saved Equestria okay?”
Another unnatural, tense pause filled the air before another pony spoke up from the group, one that Inventor hadn’t expected to see there and had somehow managed to miss when he had looked back. “And what of me Inventor? What is the only living pony inventor going to do alone?” Crimson Turn asked.
“If you feel like you owe me you could adopt Insight and Scootaloo to keep an eye on them when I’m gone.” Inventor said, resisting the urge to turn around and look once more into the eyes of the pony he had the closest tie with. “Of course that’s not what you're asking is it? Alright, you seem to have forgotten something Crimson. You aren’t alone. Not after what's happened since you met me. You have Trixie who will come by Canterlot sometime I’m sure, not to mention you will always be friends with the elements.”
Though Inventor couldn't see it he could easily imagine that each of the other gathered ponies was smiling at Crimson Turn. He smiled to himself at the thought, when humans were in a bad place they would turn away from others. Ponies were quite the opposite, socializing and friendship was the core of their society after all. In times of trouble they would always go see there friends.
There was another pause as Inventor waited for the final of the gathered ponies to speak, Eventually his wait was rewarded as the blue unicorn spoke up. “Curse you and your noble demeanor Inventor. Trixie was hoping to get through this without crying.” He detected the choked up tone that came with the voice but opted not to mention it. “You came out of nowhere and blessed Trixie’s life and now you just decide to leave? What gives you the right to do that to Trixie, to all of us?” The blue mare said as anger flooded her voice.
“AND WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO STOP ME?!” Inventor shouted into the air, a stillness settled into the air and Inventor placed his head into his hand as he started to rub his temples. “Sorry about that, I didn’t mean it. It’s just ...this voice is really getting to me. We need to wrap this up as quick as we can.” Inventor said in a much calmer tone as he straightened his back and looked calmly forward into the forest.
"You'll have to forgive me Luna, it seems I'll be taking my leave sooner then anticipated." The man said with a grin.
“I take it you are ready then?” Celestia said as she approached the forefront of the assembled ponies. Inventor crossed his arms in front of him and gave a barely perceptible nod. With a delayed nod in return Celestia turned to gathered ponies and gave them each a tap on the shoulder.
With the magic prepared in each of the elements the six ponies reflected back onto the happy moments that they each had with Inventor. By the time that the magic had started to wrap itself around the separate artifacts that were being wielded there wasn’t a single dry eye in the vicinity bar Celestia who remained composed with use of her royal mask.
The magic coalesced into the six separate streams of magic that composed the normal rainbow of energy that the elements caused. The technicolored beam shot high into the air and hesitated briefly at the height of it's curve. After a moment it dropped back down at a much faster speed and crashed into the ground around the man's feet. After a pause once more it began to wrap themselves around the man. As the colors danced over his skin Inventor smiled and said his last words.
“Oh that’s right, almost forgot. Make sure to take care of your brother, Scootaloo. As long as you two have each other you can't possibly be lonely.” With those words the man smiled his carefree grin and returned to his previous pose. The magic went on unabated as it curved about him and encased him in its multichromatic shell. The magic wound tighter and tighter until it disappated as it rubbed against his skin.
When the magic had entirely vanished from sight the spell left a statue of a man standing and looking into the woods. Pinkie immediately began to tear up and for what seemed like the longest time the only thing that occurred was grieving and comforting. After each of the ponies had recovered themselves Celestia looked at the statue.
“I think that he would like to be placed at the center of our labyrinth don’t you think?” Celestia said as she glanced around. “A potent tombstone indeed, we only need an official funeral and an epitaph to sort it out now.
“I-I think that I can help you with half of that.” Came the soft reply of Insight as he pulled a paper from the grasp of the stone man. Celestia looked at the paper and levitated it to her normal eye level.
After reading the paper she smiled, “That will indeed do nicely.”
A week later there was a new addition to the canterlot gardens, few would make it to the center of the maze to view it but those who did would find its engraved saying to be quite confusing. It read as follows.
‘The elements of harmony work upon a scewed wavelength that sits both perpendicular and parallel to the normal wavelength of magic, This allows the artifacts to both negate and amplify the various aspects that compose a spell. Hence the reason Nightmare Moon couldn’t escape them when she found herself at their mercy both the first and second time. Yet despite the seemingly simple aspects of the elements we can’t simply ignore the more complex.
I refer of course to the fact that the elements only work when used by the selected six. This took me a few weeks to work out but I theorize that when a magic spell is cast that the force that brings it into existence is, in fact the emotions of the caster. Now if the spell were so selective as to require a pure emotion of some kind only those in possession of such an emotion could wield that particular spell. Meaning that the pure honesty of the element wielder is attuned to that of the element itself. This also explains several other magical inconsistencies I seem to have noticed as well.
Regardless of these facts however there is one thing about the elements that is the most important. The wielders of those elements in this day and age are perhaps the happiest most deeply caring mares ever to grace Equestria and I wish them prosperity from wherever I am right now.’
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.... Nuggets. Another sad ending.
I'll just go jump off a bridge now...
-Jorofrarie
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Don't do it man, It's not even that sad.
Besides, I have a sequel I'll be posting soon enough.
*MWAHAHAHA*
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707321 Sequel? And now I think of Monsters ending, nice job.
took me an eternity to actually read this story but......
Inventor petrified counts as him being dead? I'm not so sure about that.... think about Discord, he managed to escape....
but then.... he WAS a Magical God of Chaos who was helped by his own element being triggered in the vicinity... which Inventor isn't.....
May The Inventor Rest In Peace.Or Maybe Be Frozen In Peace.Liked The Stor,Reading The Sequel Tomorrow :3.I Am Still Wondering What His Real name Was Though.
I'm Not Gonna lie,I Thought His Last Words Were His Real Name...It Just Seemed Sadder To Me,But Thats Just My Opinion
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The sequel has been cancelled and wasn't really written all that well. I wouldn't recommend it. If you like Inventor though, I did do a restart of this story arc called Pistons and Ponies. It starts from the same point but splits down an entirely separate road. The two main protagonists are a lot alike though.
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they are built for gliding, not upward flight.
Wow...This is one of the only ending to a HiE that I actually enjoyed! Bravo! That is quite an achievement you have accomplished due to me reading a very large amount of HiEs.
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;p
I have just finished reading the story, and I must say it was very enjoyable
Is Pistons and Ponies and sequel?
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It's closer to a remake.
I think I like this story better though, out of the two of them. I might have to write a similar character to this version of Inventor into a story I'm working on called 'Wanderings' well, it'll be called that or 'All Roads Lead to Somewhere'. One of the two.
3144551 I don't think I want to read it then. I would probably end up begging you to continue it, if I liked it... And tare out hairs till it happened.
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Aren't you doing that already with Biomancy?
3144676 Yes and To Swoon the Stars, Author of Reality and Detour While Delivering Binks' Sake
I only have so much hair, and you only have so little writing time.
There, I read it. Might I say it was a joy to see where you started, though. Also,
, because ending vas good.
Damn, I forgot how heart-wrenching this ending was. Thanks for the reminder, I needed those feels.
Wasn't expecting these feels. Well done, but damn did you get me good with it. I salute you with a tear in my eye, good sir.
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Nope, I'm totally not reading these.
Just finished my reread of this!
So he finally gets the rest he deserves, a fitting end, and mayhap the means to his forgiveness as well.
4660138 Hmm...I sort of get what you're saying, but I'm still confused on why they don't remember/know him.
Sorry if you already answered it, but I'm still...baffled, so-to-say.
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No need to apologize, it's a huge leap to begin with. It's not your fault for not understanding, it's my fault for writing it so poorly.
Hmm....... I seem to recall naming a character in Starbound 'Techno Babble'........ How odd.......
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..... CONSPIRACY!!! 
EAT THE CHILDREN!!
Great story I really liked it!
Keep up the good work!
5643488 ... Guess the cat's out of the bag
I demand a sequel if yah don't mind
4661723 Sequel please.
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That sounds so much smarter when you say it than when I said it.
Why do people love to write sad stories?
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Because it's funny :>
Aaaaand with that tired cliché you've lost me :D
I rather liked the original ending.