Princess Twilight Sparkle watched through the telescope, “mmhmm, yes this is quite peculiar, Star Gazer.”
“And it was discovered by none other than these two.”
The alicorn Princess of Equestria walked to Star Hunter and Star Tracker, the latter waved at her hoping she would remember him.
“Oh hey Star Tracker, long time no see, how is the family?” Twilight greeted the earth pony by shaking his hoof.
The young stallion had a smile from ear to ear, “T-T-Twilight Sparkle you remember me, I’m so happy,” he then turned to his friend, “see?”
Twilight Sparkle then turned to the other stallion, “Star Hunter! I remember you from Ponyville, long time no see, how have you been?” The alicorn greeted the pegasus giving him small pats on the shoulder while Star Tracked stared with his mouth open, “what you guys found is really a discovery, it is the first time I see something like that.”
“That would be a first for me too Princess, if you see this way we prepared some drawings we just did,” the purple mare stared at the graphics on the wall, “as you can see on this representation, since we can’t still identify the object on the telescope for its surface it’s too reflecting to identify yet, but as you could see on the telescope, there seems to be a considerably smaller object orbiting the first one, which by all means breaks the laws of physics as we know it.”
Twilight was paying attention to the explanation, “please Star Gazer, call me Twilight since this isn’t a official event and wouldn’t a magnetized body in space, be capable of attracting a ferrous body close enough to duplicate this phenomenon?”
Lord Star Gazer nodded, “yes indeed Twilight, but if that would be the case, the orbit would be ovaliptic, but in this case as this photographs taken on the telescope, in many different times indicate that the orbit on the second space body is perfectly circular, Twilight it is improbable with the knowledge that we have to explain this body.”
“Improbably, why not impossible?”
“Well Twilight, as you should know science is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have; it's self-correcting, ever-changing, applicable to everything. With this tool, we vanquish the impossible.”
It was at this moment when Twilight had an epiphany, “what if it’s them...”
“Them?” asked Star Hunter, while Star Tracker still stared at him with jealousy..
Twilight put on a serious face, she magically locked the room and windows, “what I’m about to tell you won’t leave this room, at least for now,” she wrote on and scroll and magically teleported it out and so she spent the next few minutes explaining to the scientists about the big ball that fell on the outskirts of Ponyville so many moons ago, about the make of said ball, how shiny it looked and of the equipment she found inside, including the music box, the trio of ponies paid attention to every single word she said.
After she was done, the trio stared at her with different expressions on their faces, “Princess that’s impossible, even if there were aliens it would be impossible they were so similar as to be able to create technology we can manage.”
Star Gazer looked at his intern, “mister Hunter, it’s the mark of a fool to disregard something as impossible only because is outside of one’s expertise.”
“So do you think it’s aliens Star Gazer?”
“I didn’t say that either, I understand that Twilight has a theory and she made an amazing job explaining it, but in order for a scientist to believe in something he or she needs proof, do you have any proof, Twilight?”
A scroll appeared in front of Twilight in a green flash of fire, “I knew you would ask for that… ok, yeah it seems that the Castle is free right now, if you don’t mind me I’ll teleport us to the Castle of Friendship in Ponyville.”
“I’ll be most delighted, gentlecolts are you coming?” the younger stallions nodded, so Twilight encased all of them in their magic and teleported directly to the studio at the Castle in Ponyville.
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They appeared in front of the machinery connected to the music box, “this is the first time I’ve teleported,” said the pegasus a bit dizzy from the magical movement.
“Sorry about that, you’ll be ok soon, if you look at here this is the music box as I had called it, and this,” she ignited her horn making the space capsule appear in front of them, “is the container it was inside of.”
Star Gazer examined the capsule, “yes, a surface like this would make the light reflect on it, making it look fuzzy on the telescope, but I’m more interested in that machine, music box was it? So you say it has sounds, records and music of these aliens you speak off.”
“Indeed and to be able to understand them I cast a modified translation spell on the console it’s connected to, come on you can give it a try.”
Star Tracker jumped in front of them, “can I press it?”
Star Hunter blocked him with a wing, “age before beauty Tracker,” he then looked at Star Gazer who laughed and approached the music box pressing the button a voice came from the device.
This is Walter J. Shortman, personal log number three.
I can’t believe how excited I am to be accepted to work on this Space X project, all this years studying and preparing finally paid off, and the best thing is that I’ll be working with my long time friend Suzy, can you believe my luck? Anyway I’ll be working as a programer along with her, I understand the purpose of this capsules, they are meant to carry supplies and knowledge of the human history in case of the society collapse in planet Earth, what I don’t understand is why only ten capsules should be sent, there should be more, I’ll talk with mister Musk, maybe he will listen.
Oh and by the way Suzy and I will go to see the new movie. They are rebooting a very old franchise, Fast and Furious. I've read that these movies were very successful, they made over twenty movies including spin-offs until the death of that actor, what was his name again? I saw it in a documentary… Tim Bisel? Something like that. Well I hope at least it’s better than the reboots of the Terminator movies BOY those bombed hard, oh look at the time end recording.
Star Gazer stared at the machine, “that was interesting, and you say this is an alien talking and you used a spell to translate its speech?” Twilight nodded, “and this small device holds more information than one of a minotaur computer?”
“Yeah, I had a Minotaur expert in technology study it, Tube Tester.”
“Ah Professor Tube Tester, I remember her, last time I went to Laburinthos I heard she adopted a son.”
“That’s correct, currently she is teaching at my school and studying this device as well.”
“Amazing, I think I saw all the proof I needed, I’m ready to believe the existence of intelligent aliens.”
“Um… Lord Gazer?”
“Yes mister Tracker?”
“Can… we get a turn to press the button?”
Both Twilight and Star Gazer laughed and the Alicorn nodded saying “I don’t see why not.”
Hunter and Tracker looked at each other and nodded in understanding, Tracker extended his hoof signaling his partner to press the button, Hunter approached the music box and pressed the button, once again the same voice came up from the machine.
This is *yawn* Walter J. Shortman, personal log… I think one hundred and *yawn* twenty.
I finally finished fixing the programing *yawn* on that faulty drive that should contain all human history on time for the launch *yawn* and I finished downloading every song created by humans to this other drive so I can hear a different song every time for the rest of my life… it took me three straight days to finish both things… I can barely stay awake *yawn* I should… I should.
A sound could be heard like something hit a table and then snoring, most likely from the alien that was recording.
“Oh well, I think that’s what we will be able to hear from this record-” Twilight was interrupted by a sound coming from the device like something sliding on a soft surface and then a female voice speaking.
Walter is the last drive ready?
Seriously Walter, Mr. Musk is going to kill us both if the drive is not ready for launch,
Oh good you finished it on time *BZZZZZ*
“Wait, does that mean that?”
“Yes Twilight, it apparently means whoever this female voice was, took the wrong drive as he called it.”
“What a let down, imagine the information of the other drive, we could have learned more about them with the history data,” the Princess shook her head slowly in disappointment.
Star Tracker was softly neading the floor with his hooves, “so…”
“What? Oh sure Star Tracker, you can press the button now.”
The Stallion clapped his hooves and approached the music Box. he pressed the button and an electronic song came up from the equipment.
“Oh this sounds so good, it reminds me of some of the hits of DJ PON3.”
“Oh Tracker, do you like DJ PON3 as well?”
“Like her? I love her, all her music, her looks and everything… wait didn’t she live here in Ponyville?”
Star Hunter nodded, “yeah she lives with her cousin Octavia Melody, I’m friends with Octavia, I could introduce it to her.”
“No way, are you sure?”
“Sure, what are friends for?”
“Bro,” Tracker said.
“Bro?” Hunter asked.
“Bro,” Traker confirmed and both hoofbumped.
Twilight and Star Gazer looked confused, “what just happened?”
“Twilight my friend, I think we just witnessed what the young call a bro moment, wait what is that?” Star Gazer said, making the group stare at the other side of the room where a group of rats were carrying a big slice of cheese while dancing at the rhythm of the song.
“Ok, you don’t see that every day… now Princess, why keep this a secret? Why haven’t you told everypony about these aliens?”
“Well Star Hunter, I simply don’t want to cause chaos on my ponies, news like this tends to do just that.”
The stallion scratched his head, “I still don’t get why the big secret, ponies are smart. They can handle it.”
Star Gazer put a hoof on Hunter’s shoulder, “a pony is smart. The mass is dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. A thousand years ago everypony knew Equum was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everypony knew Equum was flat, and half an hour ago, you knew that the races of Equum were alone in this universe. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow. Twilight, I’m guessing your plan is to reveal this information to as many ponies you thrust to alleviate the impact of the news when you finally reveal them.”
“And you would be right.”
“Good, that seems reasonable, but what are you planning to do with the strange body? We still don’t know if that has to do with the aliens you speak of and besides, if it keeps its trajectory, it will end burning in our sun by the end of the year.”
“I know, but if there is a chance that this is related to these aliens, we can’t let it be destroyed, you said it will pass the closest in a couple of moons right?”
“Indeed, but what can we do to stop its demise?”
“I have an idea, but I’ll need the help of all the alicorns in Equestria.”
To be continued
How it all started.
If its in telescopes, magically enhanced or not, jsut how big is the incoming item given Sun and Moon affecting alicorns seperately aint expected to be able to handle it enough?
erm the rats with the giant cheese was that a cheese version of the coffin dance ive heard so much about
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Is not that is too big, at least is not just the size, there are a few good reasons for what she would need their help, I'll spoil it so you can choose to read it or not:
1. the object is really really far, right now is farther than the moon or the sun to the Planet Equum.
2. Once the object is on its closest spot to the planet it would still be farther from the planet than the moon itself.
3. in this universe, Celestia technically doesn't move the sun, she uses the sun as an anchor and spins the planet on its axis. This is widely known but for custom is said that she moves the sun the amulet given to Twilight does the same
3. Luna does move the moon, but since the Planet Equum, the Sun and the Moon are is such a perfect balance, it doesn't take as much energy to bring day and night as one might think, think of it like the Giant Telescopes we have on Earth, they weight TONS but since they are pretty balanced one person can spin them with one hand, but even if balanced the moon and "sun" still it takes a lot of power to move and bring day and night that even a group of common unicorns, wouldn't be able to do it.
4. With the previous point made, it would take a considerable higher amount of power to change the trajectory of this object due its size (even if it's just a small fraction of the moon's size) and the speed that is traveling, since it's not balanced like the moon, sun and planet Equum.
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Yeah, sorry I had to squish that in the chapter at some point given the song XD
Am I sensing the first contact coming up?
How about any of the Kingdom Hearts Opening songs?
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Ah, I was referring to fire and flames not being their best song. This one was fantastic and worked perfectly with the story without being too fast and potentially jarring to the ponies. If you need possible ideas to how the magic could influence RNG through harmony, let me know and I can try to give a reasonable enough explanation you can paraphrase to explain or rationalize in story. I'm not great at writing, but I can come up with usable systems.
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+ for Skyrim too! :)
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I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about...
Yeah you have
SHHH!
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I believe someone already suggested those, I'll need to check my list tho.
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I'm glad you think so too, sure send me a message and I'll try to adapt it to the story.
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You know, I have never seen Rick and Morty, I know I have been told by my friends that is good and I'm interested, but I honestly haven't found the right time to watch it. In other news, there was NO way in heck that I wouldn't have Skyrim's theme on my list, just need to find the right time to add it.
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In know right?
Ah yes, Astronomia.
I unironically like that song though.
But Star Hunter learning about this device is going to be very interesting in the future.
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It's a pretty good song, I also enjoy it, didn't know about it before the meme tho. that happens to me, I hear a song due to a meme and I then like the song and start looking for similar songs, it happened when I first heard Banya songs on the pump-it up arcade game.
A few more possible songs I thought of whilst reading this story;
"Flightless Fury" by Reverbrony or "Wolf Totem" by the HU (feat Jacoby Shaddix) for Dragonlord Ember celebrating the strength and power of her race.
"Wind of Change" by the Scorpions for King Thorax, reflecting everything he helped bring about for the Changeling Hive after Crysalis' banishment.
"The Touch" by Stan Bush, for someone who has confidence issues
"Danger Zone" by Kenny Loggins for the Wonderbolts - what else for an awesome flight team?
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Sweet, I hadn't thought about winds of change or danger zone yet, I'll add them to the list and I'll check out the other songs, maybe I can add them as well.
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I do think it is a good movie; although I do think that the film overdid the "fish out of water" aspect of the main character, which led to some rather cringeworthy moments, though this was balanced out by some good humour and several laugh out loud moments and, of course, the music and songs had a definite "bop-about" feel to them.
I was wondering if you started writing a chapter for the Liberty's kid's theme song yet?
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Not yet, but will, eventually.
Thanks for letting me know.
Can you add some Queen Songs? Like Killer Queen, We Are The Champions, Another One Bites The Dusts?
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There is a Queen only chapter, is one of my favorites, and I think I'll squish a few more songs in the future.
you are awesome this is a cool story you have going!
If I may could I request Five Finger death punches Wrong side of heaven and maybe Gone away?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wSwewlSkIXU - gone away
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ay1V9uXI7c - Wrong side of heaven
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Dude, you just made my day, I knew that song "Gone Away" existed but I didn't remember its name or the band, I'll put it on the list and try to find the right time and character to listen it to.
The reactions to Walter and Suzy's mess up were amazing