When Making An Entrance, Be Fabulous
“The Austraeoh must keep flying,” reverberated the voice, causing the nebulae and constellations to quiver. “The circle must be completed at all costs.”
“Wait...!” Rainbow Dash gnashed her teeth
“The further she goes, the easier we suspect this task will get, for all of yesterday will return to her—”
“Just hang on!” Rainbow drifted through the cosmic expanse while the landscape glided below. “Don't freakin' leave me in the dark here!” She gulped. “The Midnight Armory... the Harmonic Prism... I need that to bring the Elements back, right?!”
“The death of everything doesn't have to be imminent,” the voice continued. Comets streaked by and moons appeared beyond the crest of the revolving ring. “Show her. Teach her. As you are also illuminating yourself.”
“Just answer a straight question for once!” Rainbow squinted aside. She stretched a hoof out, and suddenly her limb made physical contact. The cosmos rippled until they met the geometric lines of a rectangular chamber, and then the illusion normalized. “This quest... this journey...” Rainbow looked straight forward. “Will it bring my friends back?!”
“Austraeoh's birth is nothing without Eljunbyro,” said the voice. “And her purpose is null and void without Ynanhluutr.”
“Wait... what?!” Rainbow made a grimacing expression. “Young Hooters?! Huh?! Explain, ya friggin' magic voice!”
“Magic is on your side, Austraeoh. What you need now is inspiration. Use it. Share it.” A bright sun rose beyond the ring, blinding out the rest of the universe. “You will find your purpose, for you are within it.”
“Hey! Stop!” Rainbow Dash waved her forelimbs as she flew straight forward. “Don't just—”
FLASH!
Rainbow collided with a pedestal just as the ruby flames dissipated. Her front half hung over the cylindrical structure as she wheezed, wide-eyed. “—leave me!” She panted, wings drooped.
“Rainbow Dash...” Twilight's voice breathed from across a dull, dark chamber.
Rainbow turned to look—but suddenly lost her balance. A polished golden floor beneath her was shaking. Then, within seconds, beams of ruby light emanated from every groove and fissure built into the subterranean structure.
“What's happening?!” Flare's distant voice shrieked. “It feels like a tsunami is rolling over us!”
“But... we're underground,” Theanim Mane said. “This is something completely different. Blessed Verlaxion...”
“Harpy?!” Sinrar rasped. “I think you triggered something!”
Gulping, Rainbow stared down at the floor. She saw the fine golden lines spreading wider and wider apart. The entire foundation of the place was expanding, and she sensed something brilliant and metal underneath.
“Austraeoh's birth,” Rainbow muttered. Her ears folded back. “Eljunbyro... Blue Shelf!” She spread her wings wide. “Twilight! We gotta get back to the boat! Now!”
But it wasn't Twilight Sparkle who responded. “Huh?! Boat?! Eljun-what?! Rainbow, Twilight, what in Celestia's name is going on here? Where in blazes are we?!”
Rainbow's heart skipped a beat. She spun about and took a deep breath—
“Rainbow!” Nick hollered from a distance. “The platform! I think the bridge is giving way!”
“Arrgh... Right!” Rainbow twirled and flew out the dormant chamber, heading straight back for the Swan Song. “Everypony stay in the boat!”
“But—!”
“Trust me!” Rainbow hollered.
“Aaaaaiiieeee!” A dainty voice yelped from a consistent distance behind her. “I... I-I'm flying! Rainbow...?!”
“Shhhhhh!” Twilight's voice echoed. “It's okay! Look at me! Look at me! Relax! Everything will be fine!”
“But—”
“Everything's going to be alright! Just trust in Rainbow—”
CRACKKK! The bridge connecting the central platform to the pedestal chamber fell into the dark abyss below.
“Aaaugh!” Theanim hollered, backtrotting nervously into the central portion of the trimaran. “This whole place is going to come down on all of us!”
“I beg to differ,” Sinrar said, pointing over the side. The platform beneath the Swan Song was vibrating, shaking—and slowly rising. “It would appear as though some of the mechanisms have come back to life.”
“Why?!” Nick grimaced. “Because Rainbow zapped them?!”
“Whatever the case...” Sinrar and the others were jostled as the platform rose faster and faster, forming a cylindrical pillar beneath them. “...we're going to run out of room fast.”
“Huh?” Nick tilted his head up and glanced at the looming ceiling. “Oh jeez!”
“Eeeeeek!” Flare hugged Nick tight. “We're gonna be crushed like clamshells!”
“Grkkk!” Nick's purple eyes bulged. “Honey. Can't. Br-breathe!”
“Console your filly, ya filly!” Sinrar growled, then glanced aside. “Harpy, you got us into this magic mess. Can you get us out?”
“Way ahead of you!” Rainbow climbed the rising ship's mast until she was within spitting distance of the metal ceiling. She stroked her hoof along her ruby pendant, summoning a crimson light. “Where's the aperture?”
“A little to the left!” Theanim exclaimed, pointing. “But... wait... are you going to do what I think you're going to—”
“Everypony!” Rainbow hollered. “Into the center of the boat! Hold onto something! Most of all your breaths!”
“Bloody hell,” Sinrar said, ducking into the cabin.
“Flare,” Nick wheezed. “Going to need your swimming talents really soon!”
“Mmmhmm! Mmmmhmmm!” The Nealender nodded, trembling.
“This is absolute chaos!” a haunting voice warbled. “What's Discord done to us this time?!”
Rainbow Dash hesitated, her ears twitching.
“Rainbow, I've got her!” Twilight's voice resounded. “Do what you have to do!”
“Right.” Rainbow gnashed her teeth and raised her hoof right before the Swan Song's mast could make contact with the ceiling. “Buck it—”
The aperture lit up like a blazing fire. It opened with the grace of a cat's eye, and a veritable deluge of seawater vomited straight downward.
Rainbow took the brunt of the liquid blast, but she nevertheless held onto the Swan Song with strong limbs. She heard the muffled cries of ponies below, but then all was silenced from the sheer volume of water.
The Lagoon rumbled. A deep gurgling noise emanated skyward as if from the heart of a geyser.
Muttering, the curious natives stood thickly along the Atoll's inner shoreline. Kaji, Silver, and Sora stood up in their canoes and craned their necks.
Within seconds, an enormous spout of water billowed upwards from the heart of the lagoon. The jets shot sky high, frothing with white water and hot steam. Before long, an enormous golden spire rose up, gaining more and more altitude. The air filled with gasps of awe as every Nealender stood with gaping muzzles.
Everypony was too distracted to see the Swan Song bursting up out of the depths a few dozen meters away from the rising structure. As water cascaded off the surfaces of the bobbing vessel, its crew members emerged one at a time, gasping and sputtering for breath. A few meters way, Nick emerged with Flare protectively holding him. The couple waded in the surf, gawking up at the giant cylindrical tower that had become a new landmark in the center of the Nealend Atoll.
Once the furious minute had passed, the waters normalized. The tower came to a rigid stop, standing over thirty stories—a height that loomed majestically above the lengths of the surrounding seas. Its golden surface glinted with sunlight, reflecting off of the treetops and the waters below.
With no other recourse, the Nealenders cheered and applauded, all marveling at the new addition to their home. Verlaxion's name was shared across the Lagoon in communal gasps, and several occupants unabashedly dove into the surf, swimming out to the structure so that they might touch it with their bare hooves.
All the while, Sinrar and Theanim Mane stood up, wringing the seawater out of their manes. Sinrar found Theanim's camera bobbing in the nearby surf, and he picked it up and hoofed it over to the scientist. Theanim took it with a thankful nod, examining its contents and exhaling with relief to see that the waterpoof seams hadn't split apart in the tumult. Once everyone's breaths had collected—and Flare and Nick had swum back to the trimaran—they looked around for Rainbow Dash.
The pegasus was still clinging to the mast. She flung her slick mane back and stared up, up, up at the towering cylinder. A confident breath escaped her nostrils. “Heh... how's that for a dang gift?”
“Twilight, I... I just don't understand,” murmured a delicate voice that shook Rainbow to the core. “Where are we? Who are all these ponies? And... and how come there isn't a drop of moisture on me after all of that? Or on you!”
Rainbow Dash bit her lip. Slowly, she tilted her head and looked down. She saw a lavender shade squatting right in front of a pale shade, both seated on the port side of the Swan Song.
“Twilight?” In the glinting sunlight, Rarity's blue eyes came into focus, as did the purple sheen of her immaculately kempt mane. “Is... is something the matter?”
Rainbow's eyes traced the direction of Rarity's gaze. Twilight's hoof was making contact with Rarity's shoulder. Physical contact.
“It's...” Twilight Sparkle murmured. “It's... wonderful...” She sniffled, and tears filled her eyes. “Everything's so wonderful!” She flew forward, flinging her forelimbs around the unicorn until they were hugging tight. “Oh Rarity! I love you!” Twilight wept. “I'm so glad you're back! So very, very glad! Oh thank Celestia!”
“Twilight!” Rarity cooed. Her voice had a haunting musical tone that stole the breath out of Rainbow. “What in Equestria is wrong?” She patted the unicorn's back, nuzzling her. Cuddling her. “I'm right here, darling.”
“I know...” Twilight wept, tears coating her lavender muzzle. “I kn-know!” She sobbed and nuzzled Rarity even harder. “We're both here!”
Rainbow hugged the mast, biting her bottom lip.
“Well, harpy?” Sinrar stood up. With a twitching expression, he struggled to follow the direction of the pegasus' teary eyesight. “Did it work? Eh? Was this all worth it?”
Theanim listened in curiously, quivering all over.
Rainbow attempted to rub her cheek dry. She failed. “And a half,” she said with a shudder.
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Woo! Rarity didn't replace Twilight, They can see each other, touch each other, the only way this could've been more hype is if Twilight was fully ressurected by this one.
Ahem.
Squuueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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Eeeeeeee!!! Fashion pone is back from the dead!
We now have Twilight Spookle and Scarity!
wonder if it changed color.
and wonder if they fucked.
That really hit me in the feels. I hadn't really registered how much Twilight must have missed her friends, but now to be able to feel Rarity as if she was physical? It must be amazing for her.
...
And terrible for Rainbow Dash.
6055681 I suggested both Spectrity and Wraithity, but Scarity is fabulous.
Well, my 'the spirits of the rest of the mane six will not be able to hear or see each other' joke is now officially not canon but I guess it is worth giving up driving rainbow completely insane to get best pony back. Rarity has a lot of catching up to do... though I wonder if each of the girls will have to get a similarly rude awakening.
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Jokes aside, for I am experiencing feels.
Thanks, IC.
So what color is Yaerfaerda now?
I'm going with pink, its about time we got some Pink in here.
It would appear that foal yesterday means bringing back the Mane Six.
It's starting to appear that Eljunbryo is really Twilight, and Ynanhluutr is Rarity. Wait, what about Bellesmith? Well, that wasn't confirmed by a cosmic voice.
6055692 Eljunbyro was always meant to be the wind beneath Rainbow's wings. Who's to say the wind can't be the Mane Six, now?
EDIT: Also, Ynanhluutr means inner purpose. I think what the voice is saying here is that the real purpose of Austraeoh is nothing without Rainbow Dash's inner purpose--and her purpose is to bring back her friends and restore harmony to the land. Perhaps what Rainbow Dash has meant to do all along--her inner, her own purpose--is vital to accomplishing what Austraeoh was meant to do all along.
Welcome to the party, Dress Horse. Hang on to yer lace, girl...
No pushups this round, ):( Wouldn't want to get all sweaty for her coming back party.
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Probably. But not to orange. We still have six books of wangst before we can have that little reunion.
I suppose it could've been worse.
Rarity has joined the party! At least in spirit
Such a touching scene, when Twilight realized it is possible for them to hug.
Hmm. One tower goes down, another goes up. Will the next one go sideways?
Another voice joins the choir of Melon Dash.
Normally, having 6 giant metal spikes all in a circle, Id say were for giving a dragon a hot tushie in the centre, but with East Horse not doing repeats, and the Blight tower actually shutting down instead, have no idea how this little planet cracker will set up.
Stand By.
Stand By.
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Now there's just two things I want to see:
1.) What color the beacon is now.
2.) What happens when Theanim develops his film.
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I'm thinking the Ynanhluutr means the 'resurrection' of the rest of the Mane 6, not just Rarity (Scarity?).
Wow.
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6055774 Well, It's not quite time for the kaizo to begin, so I'm ruling out Pinkie for now. I'm fairly certain that he's saving frecklepone for last, so no AJ. Which would mean...All aboard for Flutterghost?
Mmm, this pleases me. Progress progress progress.
For a second there I thought Rarity replaced Twilight, glad that's not the case. Even if it's fragmented it's good to learn a bit more about Rainbows Jouney from one of the things that sent her on it.
Hey, Austraeoh Fact Checker, could you help me out here?
Of all the times the story has visited the Machine Layer, how many times have concerned towers? I remember Darkstine had its obelisk, I think Blue Shelf had its tower after Rainbow activated the Machine, there was the Kihutaja/Grand Choke tower, and now this. Did I miss any? I'm mainly wondering if the towers in particular hold any significance.
Welcome back Rarity, welcome back.
Twilight...girl, don't tease me with hopes of my otp, please.
Once again IC, close, but no tears yet. Tremendously close this time though.
That description of Rarity's voice though...She does have the perfect voice for a ghost.
-Memories given light, ease a lonely flight. Ynanhluutr
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I'd be okay with that.
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I think you meant Flutterdie?
We're half way to the main six being reunited.
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That is actually what I expected to happen.
They can see and hear each other.... Thank Celestia, I couldn't imagine how horrific that would have been otherwise
6056112 I personally prefer Spectre Shy.
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Okay everybody, seems like we need to consolidate our names for the spectral Mane 6. We've got Spookle and Scarity.
I saw Flutterghost and Flutterdie, but I'm not sold on either.
(EDIT: Spectre Shy too)
Later we'll have
Bone Pie (Pinkie Die?) and Jack [Skelington]someone has to come up with better names, and it ain't me.6056472 I've been thinking some up. I got:
Twilight Spookle
Scarity
Spectre Shy / Frighter Shy
Wraithbow Dash
Phantom Pie
Bansheejack
EDIT: also, what if the sixth tower for RD turned her into a ghost too which allowed them to travel to the dark side where they all become solid because that's how things work there. Then they travel the dark side as the main six.
Alright! Rarihorse is back!
First, why do you take being called "Dude" as an insult? I honestly don't care about which genitals you have, I only used it in a generic sense.
What necessity is there to correct this? It's only a partial description, yes, but it fits the need: As long as she can see the underlying mechanics of how something works, Twilight will be able to remain somewhat calm about it.
Different people tackles problems with different methodologies. Rainbow likes to headbut into things and see as she goes, Twilight likes to plan ahead. It's kinda one of the main themes of the show.
Because complaining about other persons acting differently from you only makes you a dick, or a cunt, or whatever you are, in case you take this as an insult too because I didn't check the sex of some random person on internet to use the correct pronouns.
Just in case you didn't realize it, you are condencending of people who doesn't care so much about the big picture.
I meant that in a universal sense, since even within the same planet down will be my "Left", my "Up", and my "right" at the same time.
When did I say this? I only said that in the day to day we use a shit ton of relative truths that are either incomplete or fake, and that poking at each one of them will only annoy people.
Am I the only one expecting for the camera to burst into flames at any moment?
Woo-hoo! Rarity just joined the party!
Now we've got half of the mane 6, and since Applejack will mostly like be last one retrieved, Fluttershy or Pinkie Pie should be up next.
Can't wait!
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The next one will explode into streamers.
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I'm still partial to Wraitity, but Phantom Pie gets my full support.
Welcome home, Rarity!
Or not home, I guess.
Whatever, it's close enough!
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Fluttergeist?
Poltershy?
Spectershy?
Flutterhaunt?
Fluttershade?
Flutterfright?
Startleshy?
Fluttershut-up?
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If it's Pink Horse's tower, it will go forward-ways: through the computer screen.
Also, with the whole birthing yesterday, I had a thought. What if all that is brought forth are projections of yesterday, albeit with their memories. Then at the end, they vanish? Have we gotten confirmation from these spooky scary cosmic beings that the Six are being resurrected?
How will the Ghostly Six help Rainbow Dash fight her way across the Dark Side?
How will they avoid driving RD bonkers as she is forced to listen to the living while hearing the Noble Specters talk to eachother about what the living are discussing at the same time it is being discussed?
Figured it'd be Rarity. I was wondering, though, if during the next member of the Main Six's appearance that Twilight would either become more visible or be resurrected completely.
Neither seems to have happened, obviously. But...just for Twilight to actually be able to touch one of her friends...to actually hug them physically as far as her perspective is concerned...that's good enough for now.
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Actually, I think I might have found what you were thinking of. The sequencing foals in Nightshade Tower. Innavedr "Wind to Wings"
It's pretty clearly a reference to Nightshade, though.
You mean there are other ways of making entrances?
6056488 That Dark Side inversion thing would be some pretty crazy Pirates of the Caribbean "down is up" bullshit and I am in favor of it.
Guess who's next, everyone!
Ah you learn something everyday. That is how you pronounce ynanhluutr. YOUNG HOOTERS. . . . aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. . .
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No comment on the names though. But I do like Scarity. And Spookle. The others. . . meh, but better than anything I could think up.
I'm now shipping Twilight and Rarity.
Poor Dash though, she's got to explain everything all over again.