The Influence

by GMBlackjack

XIII

Author's Note:

[IMPORTING…] […Ponygood speaking. When I described Corot/Carrot, I didn't mean that he was an actual threat. Your story and the story he is in are seperate universes, and he absolutely does not exist in yours. If that were true, and all of Blackjack's stories mingled together, Pinkie Pie would be simultaneously a chaos god, trapped in a terrible alternate universe, and dead. You do NOT have to worry about Corot. And now, some meanings of names. Some, like Acket, Onyx, Uler, Fosis, and Estur, have no important meaning that I was able to find. Chrysocholla is similar to chrysocolla, which is a crystal known to our magical wackjobs as a communication stone which also calms people. Heildor is similar to heliodor, which our magical wackjobs believe leeches toxins from the body. And, in case you're wondering, magical wackjobs are people in our world who believe, despite no known evidence of magic existing, that crystals can heal you and your chakras, and that Jews came to space on a metaphysical enlightenment spaceship. That is all the explanation I feel sane enough to give. I was not expecting the desert to be so... wierd. I can't think of anything to help you, except for the general advice of watch out for wierd magical things. Finally, upvotes are little things that are created when one of us click a little thumbs-up button on someone else's comment, and that tells everyone that someone "likes" that comment. This statement is directed towards Zen. I was thinking of saying it earlier, but Twilight beat me to it. Basically, thank you for being perhaps the sanest one of all of us and always thinking of the stupidly obvious things that none of us consider. Also, I have a large amount of respect for you for revealing at least a portion of your true identity. That is all… …nickel here. the interface is becoming a mess again, i thought it had calmed down. anyway, upvotes don't matter to you, they are a part of the interface on our end and due to the interface having been repurposed to reach you they have no bearing whatsoever on your situation. as for whats happening to you now, im more lost than you are in regards to what is happening, but it looks like you may have received some of those direct answers i mentioned before, if in a slightly unusual fashion. while ire is almost certainly not blackjack, it might be what in my worlds are known as fragments, a piece of the awareness and mind of your primary and such presences are often used for more direct influence and self inserts. that in no way gaurantees it knows everything or that it will feel like helping you, rather it means that there is little you can do to influence it if it doesnt feel like playing along, while most of my fragments tend to be either willing to help or stressed beyond reason i know nothing of what your primary will do with his, so good luck… …Spike here. Alright, I guess that's a good enough reason, and I got a laugh at 'Twinkle's' reaction to her nickname. And the fact that right now she's on a studying binge trying to find out more of how that 'Impossible' field exists. Speaking of, if you do figure out how it works, DON'T MESS WITH IT! I know how you get when you try to find out how things work. And to prove a point, just two words. Pinkie Sense… …afizha here. The town of Heildor might be a place of learning and knowledge. What the ‘magical whackjobs’ Ponygood11 is talking about is the heliodor crystal which means is this. A crystal of golden light, Heliodor radiates the warmth and power of sunshine, the illumination of higher thought, and a centered, more vibrant physical well-being. Its name literally translates from the Greek as a gift of the sun. Heliodor invokes the celestial Golden Ray of knowledge and learning, to stimulate the higher mind and enable the brain to function more efficiently. It is a stone of true nobility and selfless leadership and allows one to make decisions based on wisdom instead of emotion or reaction. Ahsian, 188 Yang in nature, Heliodor helps one develop aspects of the many virtues - assertiveness, self-confidence, physical and mental strength, benevolence and power. These traits serve both men and women. Simmons, 188 Heliodor is the yellow variety of the Beryl family, generally referring to the greenish-yellow crystal, but includes all yellow, yellow-green, light green and brown Beryl. Golden Beryl is a variety of Heliodor with a bright, pure yellow to golden yellow color. For the purpose of this article, we will refer to both as Heliodor except where the metaphysical properties may vary. While Heliodor and Golden Beryl are the yellow varieties of Beryl, the Beryl family also forms in other colors used as gems, such as Green Emerald, Blue Aquamarine, Pink Morganite, Red Beryl or Bixbite, and the colorless variety, Goshenite. That kind of crystal might be strewn all over heildor to promote knowledge growth or physical growth; I’m not certain… …josh here - sorry for bringing up upvotes like that; i know that wasn't the best moment for that but that is something that was happening for the start so you might understand my impatience. anyway upvotes are just part of a ranking system on our end, so no need to worry about it, but i have to point out that you can't vote on your own comment which means someone has been here from the start, and not only have they went out of their way to positively vote on everything everyone has said, but also have not said anything themselves, and i have to just ask them why? you're obviously invested what's happening so why not do something? also i'm more than a little creeped out... …Giginss here. I would highly recommend staying away from that artificial desert, as magical forcefields that spew lightning have a great risk of injury, or, depending on the power of the field, death. Or, perhaps, examine the magical circuitry. That circuitry sounds way out of place if you really are in the past, so either that is a long lost relic of an ancient civilization (your typical Daring Do book), or you are in the far future. That doesn't explain the town, though, and that annoys me with the inconsistencies. There must be something larger at play here, and we cannot see it yet. We must know more. Good luck… …AkumaKAMI here! Bwhaha! I'm sorry, I'm sorry! It's just....Twilight, I understand you have a lot of us to keep track of, I'm just wonder how mixed up Kami with Kira. I'm not upset or anything, it just amuses me! As for you, Ire, thank you for your information. I have only one important question at the moment- for future references, do you want your answers during the.....lets say, Inputting, right after you ask or do would wish us to wait until the next next one that happens during a dream with you? Either way, I'll give some answers now. I personally don't know much about Blackjack or his world. He has nine "stories" or universes, including this one. Technically speaking, the "Sweeper" is his by our own rules as its from one his universe. Three of them are "oneshots." Essentially meaning that what we perceive of that universe is very brief, even if it covers a long time. Some are summaries of the lives of entire worlds or universes, from start to finish. Other are just a moment in a day. One of that I have read involves another version of Twilight talking down Starlight Glimmer who had gone full nihilist thinking there was no point to anything anymore. I think Starlight was an alicorn in that one but I'm not sure. As for why Twilight? Its because that she has the most potential. At least, that's a common thought among us primaries. We were making worlds with Alicorn Twilight, Twicorn, long before we perceived the main Twilight Ascend.Okay, Twilight, Ire, both of you listen. There is something we call canon. That's the main branch, the Trunk if you will, the original universe that we first perceived Twilight and her friends from. I'm not to sure how long you've been in Ponyville Twilight, but we first saw that seven years ago.
Why is this import for you, Ire? These Universes, these stories, are made from that original timeline. Of course, you didn't exist there. Wether we create universes or just find and manipulate isn't really the important part to figure out. From that original timeline, That Trunk, we mold and twist the branches to fit one thing: An idea. We don't see everything of your world, Twilight. Not the original one. We humans are curious, imaginative creatures that always wonder How, What If, and What Else? Viewing new canon occasionally fills in some blanks, but we sometimes fill them in on our own and those are sometimes dark and twisted. Like Rainbow Factory. But for a more detailed instance, we never saw most of your friend's parents for the longest time. So many of us pondered that some of you were orphans or had a bad homelife. To this day, most of us are very sure that Applejack's parents are dead, but we recently saw that Rainbow's are not. Due to Discord's lack of backstory, many have imagined him as being Starswirl gone crazy, having been abused and mistreated for his appearance, or even that him and Celestia were lovers gone wrong. Albiet, most of the romantic ideas around Discord have moved over to you and Fluttershy. You yourself, Twilgiht, have had been fiddled with the most. You've been the daughter(biological or adopted) or descendant of Celestia, Luna, Sombra, Discord, and Chrysalis on different occasions. On unrelated times, you've also been a lover to each of those as well. Sometimes more than one at once. You've also turned evil, and in at least one story, you were raised by dragons. You've also turned against Celestia several times, but those were mostly Tyrantlestia and Molestia fics- lets just say bad versions of Celestia. A few of were also Celestia gone a bit crazy, Yet, the What If is the most tantalizing of questions to us. Its, essentlly, making the trunk of the tree split at any given point we desire to see a major off branching. A common one is if Celestia had gone Nightmare instead of Luna, or Luna hadn't been insane and actually rebelled or seceded from Equestria,or if Celestia had a different student. Or changing a single concept in the timeline. Other times, the change is more....foreign. We take something from an entire other canon and drop it into yours. These are Crossovers, or Xovers. Sometimes this is sudden, literally dropping a character or object into Equestria, other times its more subtle, melding the worlds more seamlessly, to some extent. Such as Celestia and Luna(and Discord) having been from another world and either traveled to the pony world and took pony form or simply reincarnated there. Or that one canon's world comes before or after the timeline of Equestria by distant ages. Or they simply exist as planets in the same universe. Due to you not caring about the "insignificants", I doubt this'll be much help to you, Ire. The only thing we humans love to imagine and create gods as much as we enjoy giving heroes and villains rise up and tears them down. I think there's a reason why that one universe called us a subspieces of Draconequus. Well, sorry Twilight, I probably just fried you're brain. Any way.....I'm with you on the Band. What the actual bucking Tartarus? Is that to keep people out or is that to keep something trapped? Akumakami out!… …Damn it, Akuma! I had an entire convoluted plan to get Ire to Pinkie Promise to interact with Twilight in exchange for information! Did your patents ever teach you to not trust rude dream strangers? Shame on your face… …Shrugs. While a bit rude to Twilight, Ire has been relatively polite to us and threw out an olive branch so we'd stop accusing them of being the Sweeper, so I threw out one as well. Albiet, its a big branch.....Why am I using so many tree metaphors today?… …Keyandthelocks is currently offline… …Ponygood again. Our interface, which we use to read about and communicate with you, has underwent a massive change, courtesy of its administrators. This likely won't affect you, but it may affect all of us, including Blackjack. You have been notified…]

Twilight sighed. “Afizah is trying to freak me out again with incidental information that doesn’t matter.”

Fluttershy blinked. “Oh?”

“Horror universes, I think. I don’t need to know about them, Afizah - Akumakami told me all I needed to know about the way these universes are made and what they are like in his huge speech... Which, by the way, was rather disturbing. I’m sorry I got your name wrong Akumakami - but what the actual heck? I’m not talking about the canon trunk, or the short one-shot snippets, or the prediction of my ascension - I’m talking about what are you all thinking? Romances? Just... why? Does Discord LOOK interested in anyone? Do I look interested?”

Fluttershy tried to stifle a laugh at the image in her head.

Twilight bristled. “You wouldn’t be laughing if you knew that, since they’re mentioning it, a universe exists where I’m falling head over hooves for that snake. I mean... I mean...” She twitched, shaking her head. “Argh, I told myself I could handle it...”

“Strange how this is the part that bothers you and not the fact that the entire world could just be changed around you for whatever reason Blackjack wants.”

“Fluttershy, if I start acting lovey-dovey, hit me. Hard.”

“...Sure...?”

“Thank you.” Twilight shook her head and returned to her thoughts. “Let’s see... Why are all of you calling her Ire? The name was Ine - unless there was a glitch in what you saw. That’d be annoying, hope she isn’t mad about that... Also it’s no problem, Josh, I was just curious about upvotes, it wasn’t a problem. You don’t need to worry about anything.”

“...Ine...” Fluttershy said. “...What do they say about her?”

“They said a lot of things to her - why exactly are we calling her a her anyway? - but not much about her. Nickel suggested she was a self-insert for Blackjack, an essence of their mind or something, but I don’t think so. I think Ine is exactly what she said she was - part of this world just as we are...” She frowned. “I was actually hoping Key would be able to shed some light on that, but he’s apparently offline for some reason... Which worries me... Maybe the new interface they mentioned messed with him?”

“I’m sure he’ll be back. Don’t worry.”

“Yeah... I know you’re right. There was a lot of information about Moissan names and magic superstition - not immediately useful and... Surprisingly judgemental. I tink we won’t need it until we end up in Moissan - If we end up in Moissan...” She looked back at the forcefield that was the band. “...Otherwise, I think we’ve got to deal with this... Learn more about it, but be cautious, like the other Spike suggested. ...Though I could probably enter the magical field itself... Get a closer look at the circuitry down there...”

Fluttershy bit her lip. “Twilight... Do you think you could learn anything useful down there?”

“...Not really...” She looked down at the glowing colors far beneath the earth. “...Probably should ask for more information around town first...” The two mares turned their gaze to the towers of Acket in the distance. They saw a bolt shoot up from the band behind it. “I wonder how the claw-like parts stay together on top of the band...”

“Let’s go ask,” Fluttershy said.

“Yeah. Let’s-” Twilight’s ears perked up - she turned to look at the way they had come. She saw a white unicorn in the distance that looked familiar...

Infinity.

“...Yep, she’s following us.”

“Let’s get in and out of the town quickly.”

“Agreed.”

They trotted off towards the towers...

~~~

Acket... was a place, that was for sure. The structures were dominated by tall, pearly white towers that rose to a single point high in the sky. Streets weaved in and out, between the towers - some streets even being suspended like bridges from tower to tower. There was no obvious center to the city - the place sprawled out along the band’s edge like a semicircle, with a few long bridge-like protrusions sticking out over the sands of the band, angled in such a way that they came to a point like claws ready to clamp down on the shifting sands below. Only one of these ominous black spines was in view of Twilight and Fluttershy - and they barely paid it any mind, instead drawn to the image of life inside the city. The pearly structures - and roads - seemed like ordinary building materials at first, but whenever someone stepped, knocked, or touched it with any sort of significant force a soft, greenish light would appear, like a burst of smoke that dissipated in under a second. Twilight could easily imagine the city being rather bright at night simply due to this effect.

There were many lantern-like globes floating around in the city, tethered to a tower or road by a long, copper cable. Twilight looked around, grin slowly getting bigger and bigger as she saw more and more details - vehicles that didn’t need to be pulled by ponies, pods that shot up tower’s edges automatically, and - some flat glass-thing that displayed images... Extremely fuzzy images, granted - a magic display spell would be better - but the novelty came in that it was working without a spell.

“Fluttershy... Do you know what this means?”

“There’s like one dragon for every twenty ponies here?”

Twilight blinked. “Well, yes, I suppose. I mean - the power! These ponies have a form of energy they can harness - much like the electricity in Manehattan, though here it appears much more... plentiful.” She rubbed her hooves together. “I wonder how many innovations they have here...”

A small void-black dragon - smaller than Twilight - appeared, smiling brightly. He appeared much more like the kind of dragon Twilight was familiar with - four legs, two of which could serve as hands if the dragon decided to walk upright, and a pair of wings. “Ah, I see your attention has been drawn to our unique devices!”

“Uh...” Twilight made sure her cloak was on tight, so he couldn’t see the wings. “Yes, actually. What can you tell us about the devices of Acket?”

He laughed. “You certainly asked the right dragon! Names Verdant, you might call me... a tour guide slash techie. What we have here is a place built on the foundations of what the ancients left behind - the ever-mysterious band itself. Draining the magic bolts that erupt using the Spires, we channel the power into the very ground we stand on, which has been given the ever-inspired name of Pearlstone - or Calcium Carbonate Thau if you want to listen to the big-word scientists. We draw everything we need from the Pearlstone, and there’s so much extra it comes off in these green wafts!” To illustrate his point, he scratched the ground, a soft green mist rising into the air before dissipating. “Pure magic energy, that.”

Twilight’s eyes widened. “...Can you make this stuff?”

“Sadly, no, it’s only found under the band itself - but there’s so much of it down there we won’t be running out for centuries,” he laughed. “We use it to power our trams, our rails, our screens, and even some of our farms! You’ll notice there aren’t many fields on the outskirts - that’s because we grow what we need in the buildings, in controlled environments. Watermelon, year round!”

Fluttershy blinked. “That’s... impressive.”

Twilight squeed. “Oooooh I’d love to get my hooves on this stuff and do some tests!”

Verdant reached into his satchel and tossed her a marble made of Pearlstone. “Bigger stuff will cost you - just because it’s plentiful doesn’t mean it’s cheap - but you seem like the type to appreciate the finer properties. Just charge it with your own magic, it’ll retain it until you mess with it.”

Twilight pushed her own magic into the little marble - easily fitting enough for a short range teleport - and then held it out at leg-length. It was wafting off steamy energy like the other Pearlstone around, except it was purple instead. “That’s... That’s amazing. I could teleport anytime I wanted with this thing... It’s hardly losing any energy at all... This could replace crystals...”

Verdant blinked. “I’m... Sorry?”

“Oh,” Twilight smiled sheepishly. “I’m sorry, I assumed those were a thing here. We’re from... Really, really far away. We don’t have this there - but we can find gemstones buried in the earth infused with certain magics. We can’t control what we find in them, but we sure can use it.”

“Interesting... Would you happen to have any on you...?”

Twilight shook her head. “Sorry. This stone is better anyway - it stores what you want it to store. That’s amazing...”

Verdant smirked. “You seem to be an intellectual. Surprised to see one of your kind so far from home. Where you from? Because there’s like six places that spawn intellectuals in the known world, and you don’t fit the bill for any of them.”

Twilight smiled nervously. “Up north... Waaaaay north. I’m really not sure on specifics, we’re pretty lost.”

Verdant raised an eyebrow. “Ah... Trying to get home through the Desert then?”

“...Well, I suppose that’s an option...” Twilight said.

“We’re mostly curious about the Ancient ruins,” Fluttershy said. “We were seeing if there was a way to cross the band here or not.”

“Well...” Verdant furrowed his brow. “There’s a crackpot by the name of Sand Blaster who’s got a Pearlstone sandship... Claims it can get you across in a day. Otherwise, you gotta go around - the bolts are attracted to anything that flies over them. Including you. I guarantee your magic shielding isn’t going to be enough. Then again, you might want to brave it instead of xenophobic dogs or an ocean of Kraken.”

“Hrrm...” Fluttershy said. “Can you take us to Sand Blaster?”

“Wait, Fluttershy, what if we stay a bit, see the sights? This place... We’re not in a rush, are we?” Twilight asked.

“I don’t know...” Fluttershy said. “I think it’d be best to be faster...”

Verdant smirked. “I can show you to a hotel if you-”

Any sort of regular domestic conversation that would have occurred was silenced instantly by an explosion - one of the taller towers exploded in a powerful purple fire, shattering into a fine powder. Twilight braced for shrapnel - encasing the three of them in a shield - but no shrapnel came, just dust. The entire thing had been vaporized.

Verdant looked up. “...Damn...” Fluttershy and Twilight followed his gaze - there was an object floating far above them, made of a similar metal to the ancient relic Twilight had seen in the forest, glowing with the same energies as well. It appeared almost like a butterfly - a sequence of four rings with a vaguely square shape in the center. It seemed to be watching them from far, far above - Twilight paled when she realized how high up it was. Multiple miles - and they could still see it and make out details. How big was it!?

And then Twilight felt a warmness in her chest. “Fluttershy, it’s happening-” She stopped short - she saw Infinity looking at them accusingly in the middle of a panicking crowd of ponies and dragons...

Comments

[nickle241]

nickel here. im with you there on the shipping, i avoid most of those stories unless there is a VERY strong extra detail to make it worth the weirdness, your probably not interested, but the only baseline shipping you have was minor flirtation with a human that almost but not quite carried over to his equestrian counterpart, so i pretty much assume that you have no interest in others in that fashion yet. anyway, if my theory has any validity then us creators have very little real influence over our works, true we guide the branch as it grows, but it also grows on its own and all we can do when it chooses to go on its own is cause it to split and create another where our choice of event did occur. as for the fragments i mentioned, the thing about them is that they normally are just more aware of the situation or have information they shouldn't have been able to get so easily with some having special abilities, i dont know if this is common to the them, but for mine most are unaware of their nature and have no direct awareness of anything unusual about themselves so it really is impossible to identify them as such unless they become aware of their link to the others which i have only had occur maybe a dozen times across thousands of worlds and identification is made only harder since they often are a natural part of the world they inhabit and are simply connected to a larger entity that is peripherally aware of them and if im to be honest i often suspect that due to your central nature to equestria you yourself may be one, well you or pinkie, but there are so many people that have handled your story even in its original forms that it is impossible to guess who you would be a fragment of, so it was just an idea of mine at work again. but yes the interface mangled ine’s name during several of its occurrences and since i couldnt figure out which spelling was correct i chose to use the one that sounded more like a name to me.

[AkumaKami64]

Akumakami coming for a short comment: Really, Twilight? The romance thing confuses you? You’re mothers a writer and you’re a book nut. You should know that creatures have a tendency to make romantic stories out of anything. And since you none of you are dating, well.....it leaves us to guess who you all ight have a thing for.

Also, there was once something called Omnishipping, which was you and your friends in a mutual six-way relationship. Not to mention that you are the character most likely to be written with a harem- be it colts, mares, or both.

As for Discord looking interested, depends on interpretation, which with him is infinite. But yes, it does legitimately look like he’s most(likely to be) interested in Fluttershy, you, or Celestia.

Last but not least, AU trumps all.

Good Day!

Akumakami going off for now! I’ll comment on your situation in a bit.

[Ponygood11]

Ponygood speaking.

WHY ARE WE CONCERNED WITH SHIPPING!? There's a giant air/spacecraft that likely is hostile, and it's right over the city!

Twilight, Fluttershy, GET OUT! If it's after you, it'll hopefully ignore the rest of the townsfolk. Hopefully. I don't think you'll be able to fight it if it's such a large and far away object. Unless maybe you have super lungs and can handle breathing high in the air? But in that case, I don't think you'd be able to bring Fluttershy with you.

Alternatively, you could escape through the Band. Its freak lightning might be able to hit the craft. Then again, the craft is metal, so it would likely be resistant to lightning. Don't completely trust me on that, though.

Also, this might not actually exist, but whenever I imagined a large object like that, it had some sort of giant disintegration beam it can attack with. Really hope that isn't the case.

And now, off of the topic of deadly flying machines. When you manage to get out of that situation, maybe you should call out to Alderan, see if he's willing to allow you to apologize for assuming he kidnapped Fluttershy. You can also tell him I'm apologizing, too, for thinking him to be absolutely evil. Fluttershy would probably be real effective at communicating with him. Then, once you've done that, you might be able to get some information out of him. Don't go to fast, though; he mitt get suspicious if you immediately begin questioning.

Oh, and good luck. I think you'll need it.

EDIT: This story appears to have a Teen rating. I'm not sure if this was always like that, but having a Teen rating means things such as death, blood, and sexual innuendos are possible. Be wary, and be glad it isn't rated "Adult."

[Sonic Rainboom Dash]

Twilight, Afizha here. I have to agree with ponygood11 on getting out of there, but do so in a way that doesn't make you look like the cause of what's going on.

That ship that was described sounded like one that nearly decimated our planet in another universe. And to give you a scale of how much destruction that means, our world has a population in the billions and almost all of that day was surviving.

[wizard0209]

josh here - i agree with ponygood on the matter of taking the opportunity to run; better safe than sorry you know? but into the Band? there’s no way of guaranteeing your safety out there without Sand Blaster and that’s a maybe, i suggest using that stone you just got to good use and teleport as far as you can, run, find somewhere to hide, and think of a plan!

[Giginss]

Giginss here. Looks like things got really interesting.
And by interesting, I mean completely horrifying. I suggest you run, fly, etc, anything to get out of there. Typically, aliens aren’t there for friendship, cuddling, and hugs. That’s Cadance’s job.
Anyway, bits and pieces of knowledge are adding up. That strange lightning was the result of a massive band of mana that runs underground, and anything that crosses over that band will get struck by a massive amount of it. Crossing that band without protection is a last resort, although you might have enough power to shield from it, alicorn strength and all. I wish there was a measuring tool to figure out the strength of your shield and the power of the lightning.
There also are things capable of shielding from those discharges. Would it be a metal, like iron or gold? Will it be entirely crystal? Will it be that pearlstone? I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
Best of luck, Sparkle.

[Starlight Nova]

When does Bill Cipher appear?

[wizard0209]

8217929 why are you concerned with Bill Cipher? this world already has someone like him, you know? discord

[Keywii_Cookies55]

-Keyandthelocks- is currently offline.

[Ponygood11]

8217900
You do know that "decimate" means "to destroy one tenth of," right? I'd suggest "eradicate."

Also, you might want to correct your final sentence, as it doesn't make sense. I'm not trying to be rude, but I don't know how to sugarcoat this.

[Sonic Rainboom Dash]

8217989 yea, that works better seeing that they were trying to do just that. As for the last sentence that was meant to indicate that before we could stop our destruction was that all we were doing was just surviving with the threat of destruction over our heads. Also, I don’t know if the mirror world had them or not, but the reason most of what I say doesn’t make sense is I have to write them on my phone.

[AkumaKami64]

Akumakami is back! Yeah, the interface changed. It was mostly green before, now there is a lot of blue. A bit too much, actually, but they’re working n that, along with the little other bugs. Word of advice Twilight, the idea of plans not surviving contact with reality is doubly true with technology.

Hmm, you seemed to have stumbled across a society that is slightly more techno than magic. Likely they ran out of this pearlstone sometime between now and your future. That might have caused some sort of societal break down, possibly even a war or two.

As for your current situation, I’m actually not sure entirely. Verdant’s (coincidentally, the name of Celestia’s son in one of my universes) reaction was left a little ambiguous and I couldn’t tell if his “damn” was in shock and awe or in recognition. In other words, I can’t tell if he knows what this is or if this knew.

What I find curious is how little damage that thing caus. Yes, it whipped out a tower into oblivion, but most things of that size are known to be city destoryers in terms of fire power. Which probably means the are looking for someone. Possibly you.

You said/thought it looked similar to the thing that brought Fluttershy here. It....might be possible that they were listening in as I feared someone might, and tacked you to here. There is a small chance that this is a misunderstanding- that they thought you were sending out some kind of distress signal, which kind of were.

Unless of course this happens around here sometimes.

Still, the size of this thing and what it can do. I’m actually a bit alarmed, but for other reasons. This is the past and if you’ve never heard of anything like it. That either means that this place got entirely annihilated or that the timeline is about to get royally bucked so hard that the crazy side sleeping in Starlight Glimmer’s head will be clapping in amazement.

The darkest scenario I can come up with is that these are entity that are intentionally whipping out advanced forms of technology and techno-magic for their own dogmatic/bias reason.

Still, I’m betting money at the moment that when you come to, the attack is probably going to be over or mostly over and there is a fair chance you have been abducted. If not ,you might get blamed for what just happen, so tread lightly. If you’re not abducted, consider feigning a head injury if it seems plausible to pull off. Either way, figure out if Vardant knows what the hay that was.

And if you are abducted, or eventually are, well.....there’s a fair chance they’ll be trying t remove us from you. Ironically, they might even be able to send you home, but unless this is a big misunderstanding, I doubt they’re that nice. Though, if that happens, I’m also betting we’ll end up on FLuttershy for a while, or one of the aliens.

Good luck, Twilight Sparkle, and possibly goodbye.

Akuma out!

PS Twilight there is an old timetravel trick that might be of use to you. In various universes unrelated to you, timetravelers that get trapped in the past will facilitate a rescue by sending a letter or engraving a message to a friend they know will be able to help, instructing them on when and where they are and how to help them. Sometimes its people who stayed in the past and are sending their goodbyes to their friends. Not sure how you might apply this, but always good to have the idea incase something comes up. After all, this ship could probably take you all the way to Equestria, and might have a cloaking field.

PPS I would say I’m sorry about freaking you out, but I’m not. lol, XP. Don’t worry, I’ll stick to the shocking and weird stuff and avoid the really freaky and scary stuff, mostly. Hopefully I won’t have to indirectly tell you too much if I have to inform Ine about any of them. Don’t know why I would, but entities like that can be odd sometimes in what they are focused on.

PPPS You do NOT have to answer this now, you have more important stuff to deal with. But how big is equestrian, geographically I mean? We know the lay out, but the deminsions differ across the multiverse as it being a small or large country.

PPPPS Again, not important for now. Ask Fluttershy a question for me: What is the scariest looking but friendliest and/or fearful kind of creature she’s ever met? I am legitimately curious about that. And I’m sorry about all the Postscripts- but at least I adds Ps instead of Ss. XP

[OmnipresentMicroorganism]

What's up, new voice here. The name's Omnipresent Microorganism. A lot of the stuff there looks like some of the things we have here. Those screen things sound a lot like televisions. I have a theory, but it's probably wrong, so I'll keep it to myself.