Bringer of Harmony: Part 1 The Beginning
My Little Pony Father of Harmony Part 1
Sitting in a field of grass, not far from the beach of a vast lake, Twilight Sparkle was reading through a book. The air had a nice breeze, which caused her ear to twitch. She was vacationing with her five friends in order to escape for some fun. That was the first reason behind this trip. The second reason was to do some research.
Twilight was busy reading a book about mythological creatures. She had a lot to read up on, what with the Crystal Empire returning, and having a near endless supply of books about Equestria's history prior to Discords rule. Becoming the 'Alicorn Princess of Magic and Friendship' allowed her to gain full access to all the Empires archives. The Crystal Empire was said to contain all of ponykinds history within it's libraries. Sadly, most of the historical documents were destroyed, leaving only a little bit of historical document on Equestria's notably obscure history.
The contents eventually lead to her having an icepack on her head.
She was reading a book. Well, more like a mythologized series of events titled 'Prometheus Bound'. The story told of the first three ponies to ever exist. Prometheus the Pegasus, Atlas the Unicorn, and Epimethius the Earth Pony. Together, they created a race of intelligent bipeds with the Fire of Friendship. The three sisters however, had conflicting beliefs on this race, and a three way civil war ensued. This race of bipedal beings were defined by their lack of magic. Disloyal, dishonest, pessimistic, sadistic, greedy and amagical. They were refereed to with derogatory terms such as Everfree, or Forsaken Folk. In the end, Prometheus, who aimed to free her creations from her unicorn sisters dominance, was chained to a rock for all eternity. That rock was named 'Prometheus Comet'. Legend said that ever since, Prometheus Comet has become a beautiful pink comet that orbits the planet, elliptically.
Or so goes the legend.
''Pfft. As if such creatures could have actually existed,'' said Twilight ''I mean, come on! I'm seeing inconsistency after inconsistency. And seven thousand years ago, really?'' She couldn't care less about such legends. Sure, she believed the Mare in the Moon, but that had consistency and sensibility. Unlike this fairy tale, which was full of holes and contradictions.
Simply trying to continue made her feel like somepony was banging a hammer against her head, causing her to wince in pain and place a hoof of her forehead. That's right, the book was so bad, that it gave Twilight a headache.
She decided to take a break from the book, and placed it back in the satchel on her back.
Since yesterday was the last night at the hotel, she needed to run one last test, so she thought it would be a good time to see what her friends where up to, and walked over to the coast.
She could see Pinkie Pie playing in the water with a rubber float. Rarity was busy tanning in the sun under an umbrella with her fashionable sun glasses, and Fluttershy was nursing a poor crab back to health. Applejack was preparing a campfire, and ...where's Rainbow?
Twilight shrugged it off and approached the water. The lake seemed perfectly round. She closed her eyes to concentrate. Her horn lit up with a violet magic aura to cast a detection spell. She could sense something down at the bottom. Something alive! Being specialized in magic, levitating this rock up to the surface would be no problem. With a smirk, she closed her eyes to cast a levitation spell.
*ZAP*
Twilight jumped back in shock as a lightening bolt struck the lake in front of her, causing her to put unintended pressure on the rock.
She held a hoof to her chest, startled with quick breaths. When she calmed down, she looked to the sky with a glare and shouted ''Rainbow Dash?!''
Up on a cloud above her, laid Rainbow Dash, who laughed at her little prank. ''Y-You should of s-seen the look on your face! Ha, Ha!'
Rarity trotted over, her mane a mess ''Rainbow, why must give us such a fright? I was relaxing in the warmth of the sun, until you startled us with your jest!''
Rainbow defended herself ''We came here to have fun, and that's what I'm doing. Twi needs to calm down and have fun.''
They both paused upon noticing Twilights fixed concentration on the lake. Rarity trotted over ''Twilight deary, You need to relax and enjoy yourself.''
''Not until I find it!'' she said with determination
The fashionista sighed ''Twilight, Darling, please. This is the seventh time you've tried searching for that meteor.''
The alicorn corrected ''Comet, according to the legends. And I would be able to find it much better if somepony helped.'' she glared at Dash
Rainbow again defended herself ''Hey, I may be a fan of archaeology, but you warned me that it would be mostly egg-headed stuff like geometry. Besides, I can't miss out on my naps.''
Suddenly, the ground beneath Twilight started to shake. Rainbow, who was on a cloud, could only see her startled expression ''Hey, Twi. You alright?'' They both looked behind them to see the others also shaking a bit.
The stack of wood Applejack gathered was falling apart and rumbling around ''What ta hey. Ta grounds shakin!''
Fluttershy was panicking ''Oh no! An earthquake?!''
Rarity spoke, worriedly ''Goodness! What ever is going on?''
The water bubbled with frequent ruptures. They all held their ground, and looked out to the lake, and saw something rising from the watery depths. The water at the center erupted and resulted in another ripple for the lake, which was enough to push Pinkie Pie back to shore, who cheered ''Woooohooooo! Water slide!''
It was a giant boulder covered in moss, sea weed, sponges etc. Twilight needed to get a closer look at it, so she used a levitation spell to grasp the giant ball of grim, and pull it to shore. It was surprisingly light for a giant rock, because she could move it with ease, though it being able to float above water made that obvious.
The rest of her friends gathered around her to awe at the giant boulder. Rarity asked ''Dear me, Twilight! What in Equestria are you doing?''
Twilight replied ''Found it!''
''Found what, darling?'' asked Rarity.
''I'm not really certain, actually.'' admitted Twilight
Fluttershy spoke up ''So that shaking was harmless?''
Twilight confirmed with a nod, bringing relief to Fluttershy ''Oh thank goodness! I was afraid we where in danger.''
When the rock was finally on shore, Twilight used her telekinesis to clear away all the marine organisms, only to find that it was a perfectly spherical rock. Once all the organisms were removed from it, she used her levitation spell to pull it further ashore, so it wouldn't drift back into the sea. It's shape was too perfect to be natural, and her telekinetic tug alone was enough to break it free from it's connection to the ocean floor. It wasn't natural and must have been mare-made, and considering all the moss and sponges, it must have been old. But how old?
Twilight, and the rest of her friends gazed upon it.
Applejack looked to Twilight, who had a hoof to her chin in thought. She knew that look ''Ya'll sure seem interested in this rock, Twilight.''
Twilight confirmed, ''This is no ordinary rock, so I'm going to study it!''
''Well no need to take the whole thing with us,'' said Applejack ''Ya could just take a sample or something.''
Rarity cast a detection spell on the boulder, then stepped back in surprise and gasped ''Twilight!''
Twilight turned to her friend, expectantly, ''Yes?''
''This is no ordinary boulder! This is actually a giant gemstone!''
Twilights stared back at the rock, eyes widened with surprise, fascination and confusion, ''Really!?''
Applejack replied, ''Well shoot! That settles it then. Just take dat there gem to study instead.''
Twilight considered chipping away at the crust, but concluded ''Well, I suppose I could collect my data from fragments.'' She then turned to the farmpony ''Applejack, could you buck this crust open?''
Applejack smirked ''Don't mind if I do!''
Once she slammed her hoof on to the surface of the stone, it cracked with shards falling off. What she didn't think would happen was for a bright pink light emitting from said crack. Buck after buck, the rocky crust slowly gave way to a great pink gemstone. Twilight started collecting fragments that fell from the first buck, and putting them in her satchel. Once finished, she joined her friends in awe at the pink gem.
Applejack asked ''Um, Twilight what exactly was this here gem doin in the bottom of the lake?''
Twilight admitted with determination ''I don't know, but I intend to find out!''
Rarity, with a mix of amazement, disbelief and scorn in her voice, said ''This is a travesty! This,'' She threw her hooves out toward the giant stone ''is a crime against all things fabulous!!''
Pinkie Pie was too busy flattening her face against the gems surface, while waving at something within it.
Fluttershy thought out loud ''I wonder what it is?''
Rainbow deadpanned ''It looks like a giant gemstone.''
The shy pegasus retorted ''Um, what I meant was, 'How did it get down there and why?' But that answers OK, too.''
Rainbow pondered what it could be and speculated ''Maybe it's the lost power crystal of an evil sorceress,'' she flew up into the air ''and now it's our job to kick their sorry flank.'' while performing combat moves against an imaginary enemy. She was clearly reading to many adventure stories.
The poor timid pegasus whimpered at that guess.
Pinkie joined in ''Or maybe, its an egg that contains a dragon that breaths rainbows and eats clouds?''
That made Fluttershy raise an eyebrow.
Twilight deadpanned ''Or maybe, we shouldn't jump to conclusions on what this giant crystal was doing in the lake, and get to studying it.''
Rainbow rolled her eyes ''Do you always have to kill the fun?''
Suddenly, Twilight's eyes shown pink briefly. She blinked, disoriented, then rubbed the side of her head, too busy trying to gather her thoughts, and asked nervously ''What... just happened?''
Before she or any of her friends could answer, the crystal began to glow. Then they heard it, a crack on the surface. The girls stepped back as the giant crystal started to crack open, and burst apart. Twilight cast a barrier around her and her friends for cover, so they wouldn't get hit by any shards. It then emitted a blinding pillar of pink light that pierced the heavens.
Once the action dyed down, the girls looked at what remained of the giant gemstone. It was broken into many pieces, and they heard a splash, as something fell into the water.
After a few seconds, they saw something moving in the water that was heading towards them. The girls braised themselves for the worst, but what they saw rise out of the lake was the last thing they could ever imagine. Never before in their lives have they ever seen anything like this. Rainbow instinctively stood between it and her friends, wings flared, and hooves scraping the ground.
Twilight asked ''What are you doing, Rainbow?''
''Just looking out for my friends, besides, when has something breaking out of some rock not lead to trouble?''
Applejack spoke ''She has a point, Sugercube.''
''Girls!'' demanded Fluttershy, who pointed a hoof forward. The rest looked to where she was pointing, and found themselves looking at the second strangest thing they've ever seen.
A bipedal creature crawled out of the water. Twilight didn't know what it was, so she made sure to take in, process, and analyze every feature she could see. It possessed no fur except for a red patch of hair in a similar style to Rainbows, but all red with blue dye at the tips, with the back stylized into a pony-tail. It also had tan skin which was full of bruises and some scars, with a bloody noise being the most obvious. It wore a crimson-red cloak with a popped collar, with electric-blue fire-like designs decorating it. But the most distinguishing features were what looked like pink crystalline shackles and chains that were attached to its wrists, and the burn scar that ran across its grey misty eyes. The creature looked tired and shocked as it sat there hands down on the sand, wet, and panting for breath, with a look of sheer despair and misery. Then the creature fell to the ground, unconscious.
After taking time to process what happened and gather their thoughts, Twilight looked to her friends ''Everypony, stay back! I'm going to check on it," and approached the creature with caution.
Rainbow zipped over to her with a grin ''Hey, Twi! No need to go solo on this. We've got your back!''
Twilight smiled in thanks.
Fluttershy checked the creature and gasped when she saw the section of his robe was stained with what was unmistakably fresh blood ''Oh dear! He's severely injured!'' Or at least she assume it was a 'he'.
Everyponys caution and worry for themselves turned into pity and worry for the creature. They gathered around the poor thing and took him back to Ponyville immediately.
Bringer of Harmony: Part 2 Introductions
My Little Pony Father of Harmony: Part 2
'' ...What are you?'' Twilight asked the newly bandaged and unconscious being for the seventh time that day. He was now in a simple black cloak, while laying down on a bed, in her basement. It had been three weeks, since she and her friends discovered him. Being a princess meant she had the authority to study the creature in the confines of her own home, so long as she had some doctors and nurses to heal him first, while she waited, speculating as to what he was. She was also accompanied by two royal guards to protect her if things went south.
It's been some time after the medical team completed their task and left. She had just finished inspecting the things dental anatomy, and proceeded to take notes. He was an omnivore of some kind. The doctors had stripped him of those cloths so they could do a full body inspection. Besides, those cloths were a mess. At least his wearing cloths tipped her off that he was civilized and could be reasoned with.
Speaking of possessions, his robes contained a book. And a book with a particular appearance. It was red, and the cover. It was a flaming pink heart with a pony silhouette within. She opened it up, and as expected, it was a language she couldn't understand. She closed the book, and placed in her satchel.
There was a few more possessions. Ones that attracted her interest. Both were a pair of sun-glasses with little buttons on the side, near the leans. She wondered 'Should I try activating one?' With a heavy breath she pressed one of the buttons, and the inside of the lens lit up. She knew she shouldn't be looking through other peoples belongings, but she was too curious. Besides, he might be out for days, weeks, or even months, and she didn't want to wait that long. She rationalized 'I'm a princess, thus it's my duty to learn everything I can about you.' Steeling her confidence, she put the glasses on.
Her vision was filled with a photo. Three people smiling together in a countryside background. The middle one was without a doubt, her guest, when he was a child. He didn't have a burn mark across his blue eyes, and his messy hair was too short for any ponytail. He smiled with confidence and determination, as if asking the world to bring it on. He had his arms wrapped around another of his kind to his right and a earth pony filly to his left. The other biped had blue hair which was a bit longer, which hanged down from his forehead, partially concealing his green eyes. He seemed shy in this picture, with a hint of insecurity, but was none the less smiling. Twilight looked to his right, at the pony. She was mostly brown with some white spots, with green eyes, and a big puffy mane. She had a big wide grin on her face as she wrapped her hooves around the red haired one. She didn't have a cutie mark, but she was just a filly.
She noticed something in the background. A house, and a barn. And stables. There were fences behind the three, now that she checked. He lived on a farm! She squinted her eyes to focus on the blurs she could barely make out in the stables, and was shocked 'Sweet Celestia! Are those ponies being kept as labor?' No, No, wait! He's friends with that pony in his arms, he can't be for such horrible mistreatment.
Now done with her observation, she pressed the same button causing it to turn off, and pulled the shades off, and said ''Aside from the disturbing details, this was three kids, cherishing their friendship when they were young.'' Twilight looked to her sleeping guest and smiled.
Aside from learning he valued friendship, she also learned he was a farmer, and more importantly, that he already knew about and was on good terms with some pony. Twilight smiled. Since his attire was at Rarity's, she placed the sunglasses on the counter, near the light, ''Fascinating! This single object has told me more then enough about this creature!''
She eyed her rock samples ''I'll have to deliver these to the archeologist in Canterlot, so we can determine their exact age. But right now,'' She looked back at her guest and smirked ''I have history to make!''
Since Equestria's history was so obscure thanks to Discords one-thousand-year rule, there were bound to be amazing discoveries. Well, technically their would be rediscoveries. And she was determined to be one of the first to get the answers. She was naturally curious, like that.
While he was being treated by the medical staff, she took a trip to the Crystal Empire and bought some books that could give her some answers. And while she learned a great deal about the world before Discord, she couldn't find anything regarding his kind. She looked back at him 'Could he be from a time even more ancient then the 'Thousand Year Rule of Discord'?'
Though the strand of hair she took from him showed no signs of magic, which was ...disturbing yet fascinating, to say the least. His biology lacked the vital characteristics required to contain and manipulate magic, thus couldn't be considered Magiki. Did this mean he was without magic, as in, Amagiki? Every time she received an answer to one question, it only raised other questions. She couldn't decide if she should feel frustrated or excited.
As a side concern, Twilight dragged one of the pink six-linked chains to her desk, and took out her microscope for it. Her mind took a double take. Each of these chains were composed of trillions of cells, with each one possessing a wall of crystallized carbon, meaning it was Magicite. The bio-material behind their magical world. The colored pigment meant it was Philogem, as opposed to Phobogems, which are distinct in their dark grey appearance.
But more importantly, was it alive?
Twilight closed her eyes and thought of all the things that made her happy. 'Spike! Rainbow! Fluttershy! Applejack! Rarity! Pinkie! ...Mom and Dad, and Shining Armor!'' She smiled ''Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Princess Cadence!'' she could feel her chest fill with many warm feelings, in thanks ''My friends and family!'
She opened her eyes, and watched through the microscope to observe. She could finally observe the process. The crystalline carbon walls of the microbes glowed similarly to unicorn horns. She watched as they absorbed light energy and converted it to Magic. 'There it is!' thought Twilight 'It's performing philosynthesis!'
Philosynthesis was named after photosynthesis, due to the similarities. However, their was one thing unique about philosynthesis. It would telepathically adopt the emotions of local sapient creatures, such as the friendship of ponies, and fuse it with sunlight to produce the active force, magic. The more emotions there were, the more resource at it's will. The stronger those emotions were, the more intense the energy. And different kinds of emotions produced different kinds of magic. Love and friendship would make it calm and cooperative, causing it to spread it's magic throughout it's surroundings, where as hatred or fear would cause it to go into survival mode and absorb all the light that could be absorbed, resulting in the most mightiest and dangerous magic of all, dark magic. But just because it's the mightiest, didn't mean it was greatest. The Crystal Ponies proved that to be the case, when they defeated Sombra.
Not enough observation has been done, but the creature slowly woke up with his eyes drowsy. He leaned up, moaning in exhaustion. Twilight gasped, and trotted over. Nervous about how first contact would work out. This moment. This very moment would be recorded in history books forever. And she was in the historical spot light. Sweat began to form as she spoke ''He, Hello?''
The creatures eyes shot open and he squirmed out of bed with a look of shock and crawled away from her until he bumped into a wall. He then moved his hands to his wounds, and calmed when he found it was bandaged. Twilight cautiously trotted towards him ''Can you understand me?'' He turned to her, with hand stretched out. Fear in his grey eyes. Twilight smiled and placed a hoof on his extended hand. Then he smiled, with tears threatening to run down his cheek.
Twilight was suddenly pulled into a hug. She looked to him, and found he was now ...crying? Did he suffer some tragedy? Wait ever the case, she understood sorrow when she saw it. She embraced him in a hug, and whispered ''Don't worry, you're safe now.'' As expected, the creature started speaking in a different language. He finally let go of her, and continued to speak in his foreign language. Twilight knew he was friends with a pony, but she didn't think it was something worth crying over. 'Maybe he feared he would never see use again?' Regarding the language barrier, she figured he would have a completely different language considering his alien appearance, so she prepared a Communication Spell while studying him, just in case. Though it had a three hour duration before she'd have to recast it. Sure, it wasn't as fun as learning a language from scratch, but this required immediacy.
After casting said spell, the creature started speaking equestrian. ''-be so stupid as to let him trap me in a stupid rock? I promised Epona I'd return! But now, I'm back. I'm finally back!''
Twilight wanted to squee, yet kept herself composed, for this was first contact with a newly discovered and intelligent species. It would become a big step forward for Ponykind. The creature took notice with a worried expression, then said ''...When and where am I?''
She introduced herself ''Greetings and Welcome! My name is Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Equestria and Bearer of Magic! What's your name?'' She declared, assuredly ''I promise you, if you have any problems that need addressed, we'll do whatever we can to help you.''
The creature just stared at her, ''Magic?'' before his eyes grew in realization ''Oh, I get it. I'm in some wayside tribe!'' and chuckled, wiping tears from his eyes ''Thank the heavens, I thought for a sec I failed, well I kinda did, but not as bad as I feared.''
Twilight's eyes furrowed ''We're not some 'wayside tribe'. You are in Ponyville, of Equestria.''
His eyes grew eagerly ''Ponyville? As in 'Village of Ponies'?''
The purple alicorn said ''Well, yes. What else would such a name mean?''
''Nevermind, that.'' then asked ''So, all ponies are safe?''
''That is correct. Now who and wh-.'' she didn't have an opportunity to finish her question, as the creature cheered
''YESSSSSS! You're all fine! For a second, I thought we lost!'' He smirked, devilishly ''But in the end, I won!'' then commented ''I can't wait to see Epona, she's probably worried sick.'' he pointed in a random direction ''Quick, to the Evergreen Forest!'' he then ran a few steps before snapping his fingers in realization ''Oh, yeah. I need my optical viziers.'' He looked to Twilight and happily demanded ''Gimme my stuff!''
Twilight winced ''Well, I'm sorry, but you're severely injured and shouldn't be up and about. You're possessions need to be examined for further study.''
He glared ''Do you know who I am?'' then softened ''After everything I did for you?'' then smirked ''You're robbing me?''
She did not know what he was getting at, but she didn't want to ruin first contact ''No, no, no. Please don't assume such. I'll give you back your stuff immediately.''
He chuckled ''I'm kidding. You can borrow most my stuff. Just get me back my glasses.''
''Oh, ...Thanks you.'' Twilight was surprised he would be so accepting of their confiscation of his possessions, with the exception of his sunglasses, which she levitated towards him ''Though, I don't see how these glasses can help with ...you know.''
The creature rested them on the bridge of his nose ''Well, I can't blame you for not knowing, but these glasses allow me to see.''
Twilight was shocked ''Really?!'' She knew they were advanced tech, but to allow the blind to see again?
He boasted ''It's the beauty of science, babe!''
She was now fascinated ''That's amazing!''
''Okay, so I'm seeing you, but your not making any sense.''
She tilted her head ''What do you mean?''
He pointed to her ''Your coat and mane are strange colors. Did you dye it or something? Why? Is it a cultural custom? And how could you have both wings and a horn? Or are half-breeds a thing now?'' He lifted a hand to his chin ''I suppose it's possible, considering the five of you descend from regular ponies, but purple ...really?''
Twilight stated ''This is my natural fur color.''
Ignoring her response, the alien spoke ''So ...How is everyone? Did we actually win?''
The purple princess knew he was referring to people who'm she knew nothing about. ''I'm sorry, but I don't know any of that. All I know is that you appeared from a rock. I've been studying you ever since.''
He sighed ''Tell me how things are going with the pony races, and the Fire of Friendship,''
Twilight blinked in confusion as he continued ''and Epona, and the Evergreen Forest.''
''...''
''Alexander, and Anthropia.''
Twilight ignored his questions with her own ''Don't you mean Everfree Forest?''
''...Just answer the question!'' he demanded with urgency.
Twilight flinched. She did not want to screw this up. ''I'm sorry, but I don't know what your talking about. You know about ponies, right?''
He stated, indignantly ''Of course. I lived my entire life as a stud farmer, From the agricultural, to the scientific, to the mythological, I know everything their is to know about equines.''
Interesting. Twilight continued ''So you already know about Equestria? Celestia and Luna? And Cutie Marks?''
''What's all this silly nonsense you're making up?'' he said, confused.
Twilight was amazed. Was he from a time when Celestia and Luna didn't exist? Wait a minute, he doesn't know what cutie marks are? How? They've been around as long as ponies have! She needed to know, but she also needed to continue introductions ''So ...who and what are you?''
''Who do you think I am?'' he asked, deadpanned.
Twilight thought about it. She remembered the book she read back at the beach. The one that gave her a headache. It wasn't much, but it was a start, ''Prometheus?''
He laughed at her answer ''Silly pony! He's just a myth the greeks made up.''
Twilight blushed in embarrassment ''Oh, right.''
She asked again ''So who and what are you? If you don't mind me asking?''
The being stood there in silence, then burst out in laughter, ''Bwahahahaha!'' then calmed down ''I'm not laughing because that joke was funny, but because you're terrible at jokes.''
Twilight didn't like his disrespect and rude behavior ''I'm not joking.''
He got off the table and stood on the floor. In terms of height, she was about a foot shorter then he was. Finally, he said ''As if to say you've never heard of me. I mean, yeah. You were little foals at the time,'' he placed a hand on his chest in a pose ''but you act as if Epona never told you of my awesomeness.''
''Equestria holds no historical records or documents of anything like you,'' Twilight tilted her head with a raised eyebrow ''Am I supposed to have heard of you?''
He scowled ''Of course, I mean, I must be the most famous anthrop in all pony history books.''
Twilight noted ''Ah, so you call yourself 'Anthrop'. Fascinating!'' she then clarified ''While we're on the topic. Not only am I a pony, but I'm an Alicorn! I take it you don't know what an Alicorn is?''
''That doesn't make any sense.'' he deadpanned
''Hmm?''
''How can you be a unicorns horn?''
''It means I'm a winged unicorn!'' she scowled.
'' ...Oh.''
She sighed ''Now that I know what you are, mind telling me who you are?''
He looked hurt and confusion ''You really don't know who I am?''
''I just found out what you are!''
Their was a long pause before he started laughing weakly, as if this news was unbelievable. Twilight observed how he ran his hands through his hair. ''Of course.'' After his laughing seized, his expression calmed down with a look of enlightenment. ''Of course!'' he looked at her determined ''Don't worry, I'll tell you everything you need to know.''
Twilight smiled ''Ah, good.'' and pulled out a notebook to take notes ''I want to know everything about you.''
He smirked ''Since you're unaware of my awesomeness, I'll tell you my story, my little pony.''
The alicorn looked insulted ''My little pony? Who do you think you are?''
The room filled with the sound of music. And with a smile, he started singing
''Oh, you silly pony. You don't know anything, because you were just a filly then, but don't worry. I'll put you back on track.''
''Oh, you silly pony. I'll tell you the truth. You see, I'm a man who loves equines. It's been quite some time, but I'm finally back.''
''I'm the farmer who made you more! Then the beasts you were before!''
''I'm the child who fed you apples of gold! And was banished for being so bold!''
''I'm the outcast who raised the first pony! She protects the Evergreen Forest for me!''
''I'm Phillip, the Bringer of Harmony!!! Your Farmer! Your Savior! Your Bestest Friend!''
''I'm Phillip, the Lover of All Ponies!!! Your Teacher! Your Hero! So Don't Pretend!''
''Oh, my little pony. We're scientist so I can tell fact from myth. But my life hasn't given me time for a masters degree.''
''Oh, my little pony. I'm a prince of Anthropia. Me and my bro ruled and no one else. But don't worry, that's all history.''
''I'm the dreamer who was inspired by myths and fantasy! To give the five races natural mastery!''
''I'm the maker who's children were misused to control! So freedom became my revolutionary goal!''
''I'm the thief who stole fire for ponykind! It left me blind but I really don't mind!''
''I'm Phillip, the Bringer of Harmony!!! Your Farmer! Your Savior! Your Bestest Friend!''
''I'm Phillip, the Lover of All Ponies!!! Your Teacher! Your Hero! So Don't Pretend!''
''All it takes is compassion, to give in to a smile.''
''I'll give all I can give, but I'll never give up.''
''What I speak is the truth, not illusions or magic.''
''I'm the rebel who brought all ponies liberty! I put an end to my brothers tyranny!''
''I'm the fighter who lost in a climactic duel! Now that I think about it, I was a fool!''
''I'm the man who's been imprisoned for so long! So pardon me for breaking out in song!''
''I'm Phillip, the Bringer of Harmony!!! Your Farmer! Your Savior! Your Bestest Friend!''
''I'm Phillip, the Lover of All Ponies!!! Your Teacher! Your Hero! So don't Pretend!''
''So now you know from beginning to end. I'm every ponies long lost friend.''
''The prince who gave you fire of friendship. No need to be formal, call me Phillip.''
And with that, the music stopped. Well, Twilight wanted an introduction, and she got one. On more pressing matters, she managed to write down every lyric to his little song. And ...well. A lot of questions were in order.
''So, um ...Phillip. Let's start with the first line. Are you saying you think it's only been twenty so years?''
''What do you mean?''
''Nopony in today's world, has ever heard of you before. So you must have been in their for a long time.'' She immediately regretted saying that since his expression changed from a smile to a frown, causing Twilight to wince.
The creature, named Phillip, considered her words ''A long time? ...My friends and family!'' before stepping back, hand to his mouth ''My home!'' and bumping into the wall and sliding down.
Twilight witnessed with alarm as the chains around his wrists turn from pink to grey, like when her friends where brainwashed by Discord, or when the Crystal Empire was being corrupted by Sombras magic. 'Why didn't I consider how sensitive such a subject would be to him?' she thought 'Twilight, you stupid pony!' She held her hooves up ''OK, OK. Calm down. I'm sure we can get to the bottom of this if we just calm down and cooperate.''
Phillip took a deep breath and with uneasiness in his voice, said ''...Alright. I'm sorry for that. A prince of my caliber needs to think positive. I just need to remember what Epona would always say: 'Always look on the bright side'! Plus, she has the Golden Apples, so she should be immortal.'' He picked himself back up, giving a weak smile.
Twilight noticed his chains slowly revert back to their pink appearance. She wondered 'Could they be connected to his emotions?'
She kept that in mind, and beamed ''Ah, much better. Now then.'' She held her hoof to her chin in thought ''Are you comfortable? Do you need any food, or water? Or do you just want to take some time to rest?''
The creature pinched the bridge of his nose ''I ...need time to gather my bearings.''
She walked upstairs and called ''Spike?''
It wasn't long before a purple and green baby dragon known as Spike came running to her side. He stood up strait, puffed out his chest and saluted like a solder ''Yes Twilight. Is the mysterious and dangerous creature loose? No need to worry, because your loyal assistant is here and ready for action!''
Twilight giggled at her number one assistants antics ''No. I just need you to write a letter to the Princess for me.''
''On it!'' Spike immediately pulled out a scroll and a quill and prepared for his older sister/guardian.
Twilight choose her words carefully. ''Dear, Princess Celestia. The strange creature I mentioned earlier awakened just recently. The Communication Spell was a success despite being used on a language that we have no knowledge of. I don't know about you, but he seems to be harmless ...if a bit odd. Then again, first contact, right?''
''Anyways, when I asked him to introduce himself, he started making some unbelievable claims regarding ponykind. I don't know if he knows something we don't, but his claims have been amazingly silly. Still, he could be a valuable source of information. Since I lack the proper equipment, I am sending you the items he possessed, as well as the samples I collected from the rock we found him in to see what our research team can conclude.''
''I would also like to keep him here, so I can get to know and hopefully become friends with him. The gems on his wrists where full of love and compassion, so he should be a nice guy at heart.''
''There's also the matter of what he was doing in a rock at the bottom of the lake. Considering the shape and size of the lake in relation to the position of the rock, as well as the discovery that the rocks age is greater then that of the craters, we can conclude that this rock is actually a meteorite. But if this creature was inside, then how in Equestria did he manage to get up in orbit? Maybe he was teleported inside? I don't know!''
''And also ...he doesn't seem to posses any magic in him, which means he's Amagiki. This means his nature is just like the Everfree Forest! His diamond chains, however, serve as strong evidence against the assumed implications of his lack of magic. Besides, no magic is greater then the magic of friendship. For these reasons, I ask permission to keep him in Ponyville, so as to study his behavioral patterns. He's just too fascinating to pass up!''
PS; Are the guards really necessary? I can assure you that I have everything under control.
''I look forward to your response. Your former yet still faithful student, Twilight Sparkle!''
Twilight rolled up the scroll with her magic and gave it, along with a package containing Phillips possessions, to Spike, who blew green fire on them. His cloths however, were at Rarity's, where they were being fixed up. She knew Spikes fire breath was meant exclusively for scrolls, but it would save time and resources. She watched as they dematerialized into a stream of green smoke and slithered its way out the window and to the castle.
With everything said and done, Spike reminded her ''You know. Now that your a Princess, you don't have to rely on Celestia's approval.''
Twilight explained ''I know, Spike. But it's force of habit. Besides, Princess Celestia has far more experience under her wing when it comes to leadership skills, so I'm always going to look to her for guidance,'' she then spread her wings out ''I just got these wings, and I'm-''
''Twilight?'' said Phillip, as he opened her basement door and limped into her living quarters. ''Aren't we going to go to the Evergreen Forest?''
She shook her head ''Sorry, but the closest Equestria has to that is the Everfree Forest, and it's dangerous.''
His eyes widened ''Dangerous. How?''
''It's a place that lacks any form of magic, thus all the inhabitants take care of themselves, plus there are terrible creatures that lurk in it.''
''Oh, no. That's sounds like literally everywhere else!'' mocked Phillip, who looked to Spike and froze ''Oh, my gods!''
Twilight asked ''What's wrong?'' then realized Phillip was now seeing Spike ''Oh, let me introduce you two. Phillip, this is Spike. He's my assistant. Spike, this is Phillip. He's our guest.''
Phillip eyed Spike with wonder ''Are you a dragon, like from Norse Myths?''
Spike puffed out his chest ''Ha, so you know just how ferocious we can be?''
''Spike, I don't think he's intimidated by you.'' said Twilight who eyed him.
The Prince gushed ''Oh, my gods. Oh, my gods. Oh, my gods.'' he scooped the dragon up from the ground and hugged him tight ''I've always wanted a dragon when I was little, but they were just myths then. But now dragons actually exist! That's so cool! You're so cool! I want one.'' he looked to Twilight ''Hey Twi, can you get me one of these?''
Twilight objected ''Spike is not some item, Phillip. He is my assistant and one of my closest friends, he's even like a little brother to me!''
Phillip blushed and let Spike down, and apologized ''Sorry, the myth-buff in me got a little carried away there.''
Spike was left grumbling disappointed that he wasn't scaring him.
Turning his attention away from the dragon, Phillip asked ''So remind me again who your leader is?''
''Princess Celestia.''
''Take me to this 'Princess Celestia'!'' he demanded.
''I can't. She's really busy at the moment.''
''Nothing says busy like leading a revolution to free all ponykind!''
''Okay, Phillip. I'm sorry to say, but theirs no revolution going on, and Lu-'' she was interrupted by Spike burping out a letter. Twilight said in relief ''Finally!''
''Did he just burp out green fire? And did it just turn into a piece of paper?'' asked Phillip, dumbfounded.
Twilight hushed him as she read what the Princess said. Then she folded up the scroll with a smirk on her face.
Spike asked ''Well?''
She announced ''The princess suggests we give Phillip a tour of Ponyville to socialize with our community and learn our way of life. Hopefully, we'll find answers and debu-see if they meet up with his claims.''
''So who is this Celestia?'' asked Phillip.
Twilight explained ''Princess Celestia is the ruler of Equestria and just a few years ago started to share her rule with Princess Luna. She and her sister Luna control the sun and the moon, respectfully.
''Like I said before, I'm stuck in some wayside tribe of ponies.'' he said, earning him a frown from Twilight.
The anthrop asked ''So you believe she's a sun goddess?''
''I don't know what you mean by 'goddess'. But does control the orbit of the sun. Enough about that, we need to get going with our tour.''
''Yeah, not happening.'' he argued
The princess sighed, and muttered ''Why not?''
''I don't trust this 'Celestia' character. I spent my whole life trying to free you from oppression, imprisoned as a result and once I'm freed, the first pony I meet tells me she serves some ruler, I've never even heard of? I don't even know who she is. I will not stand by while my little ponies are subjugated by some lord.''
Twilight took issue with his insult ''I'll have you know Princess Celestia is a kind and just ruler.''
''That's what they always say.'' said Phillip, who rolled his eyes ''What makes you so sure she wont see me as some enemy, and stuff? She'll ask me to bow down before her, I'll insult her to her face, and she'll throw me in prison.''
Twilight gasped in horror ''Princess Celestia would never do such a thing,'' She scolded ''The only pony who's being insulting here is you!,'' then criticized ''You don't know anything about where you are, and you're already jumping to conclusions? I thought you were a scientist?''
''I... '' He couldn't find anyway to counter her argument, and groaned.
''Wait makes you even think Celestia is a bad pony?''
He looked down pensively ''Well,'' then rubbed the back of his head ''You're right! I don't know who this Celestia is, ...and I guess I should try giving her a chance.''
Twilight raised an eyebrow. She dropped that and sighed ''Look. How about we just go meet the others, if not for Celestia then for you.'' Before walking out the door, she remembered he shouldn't be walking around with injuries, and turned back to him ''On second thought, how about you get on my back and I'll carry you across town?''
He waved his hands, defiantly ''No can do! I don't ride on ponies, as that's degrading.''
She groaned ''OK, then let me rephrase the question. Wont you let me show you an act of good will by carrying you, a handicapped ...'' she thought of a scientific term for what he was.
''Anthrop,'' reminded Phillip. ''My species is Anthrop.''
Twilight decided to swing with it ''anthrop, around so you can get an idea on where you are and maybe we can help you with your situation?''
''...Are you taking pity on me?''
Twilight was getting irritated. This guy was arguing about every thing she did. Then again, he is from a different cultural background, so for all she knew, his behavior could be considered normal wherever he's from.
She reassured him ''Look at this from my perspective, if you found somepony that was injured, alone, and confused, wouldn't you want to help them as best you can?''
Phillip mumbled ''You're the one that's confused.'' and thought for a second before submitting ''...But I suppose you have a point.''
''Good! Now that that's out of the way, why don't we get going?''
Phillip climbed on to her back, but before she could walk out the door, Spike hopped on in front of Phillip. Twilight looked to her assistant ''Spike, what are you doing? You have to stay and manage the library.''
Spike laughed ''Are you kidding me? I had to stay behind and manage the library while you were gone. I'm not missing out on this!''
Twilight rolled her eyes ''OK, you can come along. But I want you to be on your best behavior, alright?''
''Don't worry, I will!''
She, Spike, and Phillip started to walk out of the library, and to the great outdoors. It was time for their adventure to start.
