Chapter VI: Teleportation
A pony would normally think that teleportation is a great ability to have. That pony needs to meet me so I could ram their head through a tree. The reason for that desire is simple; while teleportation is nice to have, learning how to teleport is a horrible experience. What makes it worse was that Twilight was able to pick up on it from observation. Though her special talent is just magic after all, if I understood her properly. Guess it gave her a greater edge in learning magic, maybe. Not like I knew how these cutie marks and special talents should be involved in dictating a pony's life.
It has been a few days since the mob was out for my blood, which were mostly spent on telling Twilight more about the various species out there, and my teleportation practice. Turned out that I can actually teleport myself from one place to another without me getting inside something or missing a few parts. The issue though was the destination; I never actually teleported to where I wanted to. My first try was suppose to be short ranged, but I ended up in the branches of Twilight's tree. The rest afterwards were progressively worse, to the point that Silver Shield was in the air whenever I tried to practice underneath Twilight's supervision.
However, this was nothing compared to teleporting objects. After the first few attempts at teleporting myself, Twilight suggested we try teleporting objects to see how that worked for me. Thankfully, we started with a few oranges in the kitchen, for my tries were... quite messy. If you consider showering the entire kitchen with bits of oranges messy, it was just an absolute disaster in reality. For while I was able to cast the spell on the orange, the orange ended up being teleported all over the place in tiny pieces. Or so Twilight said, I was pinning on it teleporting then exploding like a grenade. After that fiasco, Twilight said that I should just stick to casting the spell on myself until I mastered it first before we go back on practicing on objects.
While it was annoying to have Silver shadowing me every time I went outside, it was beneficial due to some ponies still giving me the stink eye from time to time. It didn't help that I learned that the Crusaders were grounded again for trying to check out the dimension rift. Though, it was a miracle that Pinkie saved all my presents, though she never told me where she stashed them. However, now my toy chest that was only half-full instead was now overflowing with toys, while the rest of the presents that weren't toys were piled up in one corner. Odd though that nopony came over to demand their present back, though now I rather give some of them due to the pile being four times as large as I am.
There was one thing that was bothering me those past few days though. Lyra hadn't showed up to ask me more questions about anymore alien stuff, and I wasn't inclined to tracking that weird mare down. This resulted in me getting a gut feeling that something won't end well when Lyra finally showed herself to me.
"Are you certain this a good idea?"
"You haven't teleported into the air yet, so it stands to reason that this will minimize the spots you may teleport to," Twilight explained as we were standing in an open field at the outskirts of Ponyville. Right beside us Silver stood with his uniform on, with the exception of his helmet that he left at his room in the local inn. After appearing in some pony's living room, Twilight reasoned that it was better to practice my teleportation where there isn't any nearby buildings for me to pop up in.
"That doesn't mean it won't happen," I replied, my voice thick with skepticism.
"Look, just concentrate on teleporting right next to me," Twilight ordered as she pointed a hoof at the desired spot.
"Whatever," I muttered as I poured magic to my horn as I pictured myself appearing in that very spot.
As I was just about to release the spell, my concentration was sadly broken when Twilight said, "What did y—"
I didn't hear the rest of her words as my spell went off, engulfing me a flash of silver light. After the flash, instead of seeing the open field or Twilight herself, I ended up staring right at a white unicorn mare with blue mane streaked with cyan stripes. I blinked in surprised as the mare stared at me with her cerise colored eyes before I realized that most of my body below my head was wet for some strange reason. My eyes looked down for a moment, allowing me to catch sight of that I was in a bathtub.
...I'm in a bathtub... a filled bathtub... with an adult mare... that I don't know... I thought to myself as I looked at the mare, my face turning red from a furious blush that I was probably baring. I tried opening my mouth to say something, but the sheer awkwardness of this moment prevented a single word from coming out.
"You're that alien filly, right?" the unicorn finally said, to which I could only give a stiff nod to. "You're not here to abduct me or anything like that?" After I gave her a quick shake of my head, she shrugged as she resumed her bathing. "There's a spare towel on the rack, you can use that to dry yourself before you leave."
Looking at the rack for a moment before I returned my attention to the mare, I slowly climbed out of the tub as I asked, "Why aren't you bothered by this?"
"Are you really asking me that question? We live in Ponyville. Weird stuff happening from time to time is the norm," she said with a shrug while I dried myself. "Just be happy that my roommate is out of town for the day."
"Okay... thanks for not getting mad at my... 'interruption' then," I replied before I left the bathroom. After I closed the door I was able to catch sight of the room, which caused my jaw to drop. The room was almost like two ponies designed half a room, stuff it with their stuff, then stuck them together. The only thing common between the two was most of the stuff was musical in nature. Shaking my head from the mild shock, I went to what appeared to be the front door as I wondered what possess two ponies to design their house in such a fashion.
After stepping outside the house, I closed my eyes as I was about to let out a sigh of relief from not having a pony chasing me out of their home. Before I could release my sigh, I heard two hooves slamming onto the door behind me, one right next to each ear. Opening my eyes quickly, I saw Lyra's crazed face as she was literally breathing on my face. There was only an inch between our muzzles to boot.
"...You better not kiss me," I stammered out, causing Lyra to rear her head back in surprise.
"What? Kiss you? I'm here to finally get you to tell me about your species and hands," Lyra relied. "And there's nothing you can do to keep me away from you."
"Keep you away? What are you talking about?"
"That guard that's following you everywhere. I know you got him just to stop me from asking you more questions, but now you're all alone. No way that guard can get to you in time before you spill all your secrets to me!" Lyra shrieked, one of her eyes twitching.
For a moment, I just stared at her as she kept that manic grin of hers before I just sigh at her antics. "Lyra, that guard wasn't there to keep you away from me."
"Oh really? Why was he following you then?"
"To keep me from being harm by anypony or to prevent another case of a mob forming."
Lyra's eyes instantly went wide, backing away from me as she sat on her rump. This enabled me to be able to see the saddlebags she was carrying. "That... makes sense."
"I was honestly wondering when you would show up after Celestia scattered the mob."
"Well, I saw that guard an—wait a moment, why didn't you just go and find me instead?" Lyra asked as she narrowed her eyes at me.
"I'm a busy pony, that and I don't know where you live," I dryly answered. "Look, as long as you don't harm me, my 'protector' won't stop you."
"So... can I ask you my questions now?" Lyra said, to which I just gave her a deadpan look before nodding. She then squealed with joy, causing me to plant my hooves over my ears in an attempt to block out the noise. Her squeal though drew attention, as I spotted both Silver Shield and Twilight flying toward to us.
"Aether! There you are!" Twilight yelled as the two landed near us. "Lyra? What are you doing here?"
"Don't you know?" Lyra asked before she felt me tapping her leg.
"She... wasn't paying attention to you while you were in the library," I answered, causing Twilight to look at us both in confusion.
"Lyra was in the library with you? When?" Twilight asked, which tempted me to facehoof.
"It was after the mob Twilight, while you were trying to send a letter to Princess Celestia. Look, Lyra's just here to ask about my alien species since she thought I was human. So I so—"
"Lyra, why are you on that thing again? There's no such thing as humans, there hasn't been any evidence that they ever existed!"
"How can you deny their existence when we have aliens that exist! Maybe humans are aliens like Aether here! Did you consider that as a possibility?" Lyra countered.
Rubbing her hooves against the sides of her head, Twilight replied, "I'll settle this issue now then. Aether, have you seen or heard of a human?"
Frowning, I replied, "Well... no b—"
"See, so now you can drop this 'human' obsession of yours," Twilight said with a frown as she looked at Lyra.
"Well, I'll drop it in regards to Aether, but I'm still certain that they exist! So Aether, were you always a pony or did you invade a foal's mind when you came to this world?" Lyra asked.
Instead of answering, I just gaped at her for even coming up with that idea. "What... what makes you think I did that? Why did you even think of that in the first place‽"
"Well, I thought aliens did that kind of stuff."
"Aliens don't do that! That's just depraved!"
"They don't?" Lyra asked with wide eyes.
"...How many questions do you have that are messed up like that?"
"Err..." Lyra simply replied as she gave me a wide smile, causing me to facehoof this time.
"Augh, rethink your questions then. Twilight, I think your idea of practicing teleportation at the outskirts of Ponyville didn't work either," I informed Twilight as Lyra pulled out a notepad and a quill from her saddlebags, crossing out what could be some of the depraved questions she came up with.
Looking at the house, Twilight said, "You didn't... appear inside another house?"
"Yes, in a bathtub as well."
"Oh... wait... don't te—"
"Yes, there was a mare taking a bath at the time. Thankfully she didn't chase me out with a broom like the last one."
"...We'll practice in Sweet Apple Acres, on the far side away from the farmhouse."
"Now that sounds like a good idea."
"Can I come along?" Lyra asked before she pouted her lips at us, her eyes taking on a watery look.
"Augh, fine but you better not ask any more disturbing questions!"
"Yes!" Lyra squealed before she put her notepad away as she started trotting towards the farm.
This is going to be one long day.
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I thought lyra and twilight were 'friend like' before pony village or know each other since younger?
Seems as if the "d" is off visiting a different word here.
Aether problem is that she is not good with teleport. She need to think with PORTALS. Or so I think.
So... She teleports and ends up in a bathtub with Vinyl? Well... I know teleportation is pretty sketchy usually... With what us Space Marines have to deal with, we hope not to end up right in front of an Orkwarboss, unless that's what we were aiming for... But I digress, enjoyable chapter as always, I enjoy your story, so, Keep on keeping on.
6215842 Now you're thinking with portals!
You missed the word "me"
And you missed an "a"
So does lyra know about humans because g1 lore about the heroic adventure of Megan and her rainbow light necklace with many adventures with her friends? That would be the best!
"...We'll practice in Sweet Apple Acres,on the far side away from the farmhouse."
Awesome
6215842 I was thinking that myself, a possibility would be that Aether needs to weave his TP's in a different way than Twilight... possibly through another dimension(s), or it's that she is already weaving through another dimension(s) and not accounting for it.
If this is the case, she should be able to dimension hop without needing to open portals.
(Getting back though... 
)
And this is why Vinyl is awesome. Random filly teleports into bathtub with you? Eh, seen weirder.
Why doesn't aether start carrying around metal balls and start teleporting them? Instant grenades that will never go off without you actually trying to make hem go off!
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Season 5 is pretty much a chaotic catastrophe, many people don't watch it at all, and some straight up ignore the canon it adds.
6216232 The problem there is that they wouldn't actually have any velocity to the fragments, there would just be metal dust and other bits everywhere in the vicinity. Twilight's explanation was that the orange just teleported to many different places at once, resulting in a mess of orange guts everywhere.
I thought the orange had teleported to a range solution unit spherearound the start point ebcause Aether had forgotton to take into account the offset displacement from her to the orange to the target.
Then they mentioned about wanting it to explode?
Something you have to worry about if you know energy flows, you dont want to do a 4D quark rotation, giving a charge inversion, and so a mix of matter and antimatter to start.
Who else thinks aether should now start carrying a small survival backpack, with important items inside, such as an Equestrian to Griffon, Zebrican etc translation pamphlet, and most important, Pizza for Vinyl?
Ahhh Vinyl, you're so awesome 8D
Hahahah!
Nice work on this man, this was great!
EXPLOING FRUIT GRENADES!
6216239 meh twilight should of tried to keep in touch 3 years...
6216359 FLYING TOASTERS
6216569 BOUNCING MICROWAVE OVENS
You clever son of a bitch, you updated it while I was reading the last chapter.
6216359
I think you missed about three = 's in that part. Want me to give you some Viagra so you can fix it?
6216611 YOLOING FRIDGE OF DOOM
Sooooo, just so y'all know. If there are any spelling or blatant grammar mistakes, that's my fault.
6216636 I'm going ta need bout five if I'm going to meet up with Vinly later
6216664 SPINNING COFFEE MAKER OF DEATH
6216718 BREAKDANCEING TEABAG FROM MOSCOW
6216898 DESTRUCTIVE SALT SHAKER FROM HELL
6216700 Just to let everyone know, it's mine too.
6215842 That would be funny instead of teleportation she makes portals, doesn't actually sound like a bad idea Silvak should consider this.
And then a human appear and scream:"It's raining man! Hallelujah, it's raining man!"
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That would be awesome also I laughed a lot when I read your comment!
6218018 *bow* My pleasure.
6216976 SOMETHING KITCHEN RELATED
I think that she is missing a part of the spell.
6218249 INTOXICATING MIXER
I WIN!
6218150
Not a problem!
6219424 clap clap clapedyclapclap
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HOUSE OF LEAVES
6219754
BACON CHEESE
6219804 WhiskymcVodkansin...pie
6220061 I... conceed fair gent.
You win this battle...
For now...
6220106 until we meet again, dustchu-san
6220141 Fare thee well, ProjectRabbid-san.
Expert at dimensions, but can't teleport? That sounds odd, though even if your talent lays in a certain area doesn't mean that it doesn't take practice to learn skill. A smith can't forge a god slaying blade while they are an apprentice. Still Vinyl is really chill so this makes sense.
6220858
It's not that hard to write characters going at each other's throats without narratively judging any of them. Readers are smart enough to do that for themselves.
I thought it was pretty clear where Luna and the Manes stood: Aether's criticism was correct in essence but excessively cruel in delivery, and they were put in a really awkward place because of it. Aether got away with it partly because the can of worms got cracked open so far they really needed her to help fix it, and partly because Celestia goes into Mopey Penance Mode and openly refuses anyone trying to defend her the moment she has to talk about the Reflections Arc. I suspect if she keeps it up, ponies will start telling her to knock it off because it's not helping.
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I thoroughly disagree. It was not nearly as harsh as that kind of idiocy deserves. When someone nearly accidentally destroys their world, murdering every living thing on it in the process out of sheer thoughtlessness, no kind of delivery could possibly be too cruel.
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6221959
See? Exhibit A. Someone else read the same thing you did and took the other pony's side. But as long as the author doesn't take sides while writing, this discussion happening at all means the story came alive in a way that couldn't have happened if they went around cherrypicking character flaws to point out and designating someone as "right".
I don't personally agree -- depression screws with you hard, and being that big an asshole to someone who did something dumb in a state of emotional trauma tends to make it worse and cause more dumb stuff. IMO, there's been a running theme throughout the series that powerful people cause powerful disasters through mundane insecurities, but if anything that only makes forgiveness and healing even more crucial to ensure it doesn't happen again. It's a perspective Aether has had no exposure to; he's so used to leaders causing planet-scale suffering through malice and conscious disregard that he can't really internalize how it might happen for any other reason.
Also, remember the ponies are pretty spoiled with general prosperity on the whole. To them, Celestia's sense of loss was cosmically visceral, untouchable, and even if it doesn't make things right makes for a very understandable excuse -- but now we have orphan from a dying race enslaved by a corrupt empire to be an expendable lab rat, and his grief is putting Celestia's grief into a perspective they may never have had before.
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Mind you, I wouldn't have called righteous outrage a productive reaction in that situation either, but on principle, that doesn't make it any less morally deserved when it is given.
I think in Distorted Fate, it's been balanced: Aegis' ego was kept in check by adults who thought Aegis was a filly, and even if not, it's funny because of contrast of age and behaviour, and confusion of adults. Now, though, it's unbalanced: Aegis is pretty much gets away with anything, nobody is goona soap her tongue or ground her, and contrast confusion is now gone. Aegis need a new attitude, because old is obsolete.
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I guess she could even just teleport the notes in...
"They just send the undesirable species into other dimensions as basically expendable cannon fodder and let them slowly go extinct!"
...
"Ok, retracting my denial, some aliens would totally do that."