“The electromagnetic spectrum is a span of all forms of electromagnetic wavelength, spanning from the low frequencies of radio waves and the high frequencies of gamma radiation. Only a minute portion of these electromagnetic wavelengths are visible to the human eye, called the visible electromagnetic spectrum. Plant-life use this spectrum in their chlorophyll to collect energy to carry out photosynthesis to split the bonding of the CO2 or Carbon Dioxide molecule and the H2Oor water molecule into the Element of Oxygen and the C6H12O6 or The Glucose Monomer, which can be used in the respiration reaction to reverse the process, or be used in the plant to create the starch Polymer and be used for its food. The visible electromagnetic spectrum is often referred to as the Light Spectrum, or in layman's terms… “A Rainbow”. A prism or an object with the ability to diffract light can be used to break the combination of all the wavelengths of this spectrum or “White Light” into the separate wavelengths; or “Colours” across. In a sunny day, if it begins to rain… The pure light from the sun is diffracted strongly by the droplets of water, and then quickly is directed into our eyes, where the angle of the sun and the rain angle can determine the arc of this diffraction and the strength of the visible sections. This type of diffraction is often called-

Whatcha doing?”

I was interrupted in my research by an all too familiar voice from my side, I turned my head to see my friend sitting on my sofa next to me. She flicked her beautiful blonde hair at me to get my attention. She could often do that sort of thing; she was way too much of an attention seeker when it came to work.

“Not now Cordie, I’m a little busy right now… I need to learn these for the Easter progress exams,” I said to her, gripping my head slightly and closing my revision notes.

“It’s always your work with you, isn’t it Paddy?” She replied, making me cringe slightly… Ever since I was little I had despised that nickname. It made me sound like a dog. But that didn’t stop her from using it as an obnoxious pet name, and several other names that she had derived from my name; Patch, Rick, Ricky, Trick, and Trixie. But it at least kept me and her close… Slightly… And when I mean slightly; I mean-

“Heya Pat,” an obnoxious male voice was then blurted out of somebody’s pie hole. Me and Cordelia turned to the door to see Joshua Newport, smirking to himself at the obvious ‘Joke’ he had just made to himself… He walked over to Cordelia and briefly kissed her on the cheek. Making her close her eyes and sigh, and me to quietly grunt in anger towards him.

Joshua also used to be a childhood friend, but he was always a bit weird towards me. He’d always talk about COD (or Call Of Duty if you don’t know) whenever I was even near him, and him and his other ‘Friends’ would always take the p*** out of me whenever I was near them. It was just their stupid ways of life that drove them to be like that. ‘Rich Swot parents create the most vile of children’ is what my sister and I used to say about those kinds of people.
When we both went to our secondary schools, communication with Josh ceased, although not completely… We would still have vague conversations about life on Facebook. Then all of a sudden; I hear he has gotten a sub-par job and waltzes in with Cordelia in his arm. Making me properly despise him from that day forward.

But I was still kind to them as well; due to my bloody code that I made for myself. Due to him and her having not much to go on for rent if they needed food, so I let them stay with me in my parents other house down in the centre of Oxford. They said that they would move out when they could both afford a decent flat near the school.

They have yet to move out after a year of this.

Nearly every night they would be up and ‘at it’, keeping me awake for most of the nights due to the noise or the anger towards them. But I still remained friendly to them; I had been friendly for most of my life… That was my ‘code’, to give kindness and friendship to all. And only judge others when it is only necessary, since I knew that judgement would be brought on those others when one with authority can.

That was probably why I wanted to work for the Police. To bring a little more judgement back into the world, without making a mark against my code.

Since we had been living together; I had learnt a good deal of things from those two. I learnt that Josh wanted to work in the armed forces, since he had a fascination with guns… Probably due to the billions of COD games that he had played. I tried playing them once, and I remember looking at Josh and saying; “You really want to do THIS for your life?”
The more reasonable opinion was that of Cordelia; since she was a little girl, she loved to keep and ride horses. She had her own horse, and she would ride him often. I remember taking up horse riding to try to impress her… But she barely noticed. And I was constantly stuck in the ‘Friend Zone’ with her. I think she wanted to do something with horses, like be a jockey or an olympic equestrian.

We would usually go about our days by having me and Cordie going off to the University while Josh would either go to work or go to a shooting range. We would often keep in touch at lunch and I would complete my daily routine of work and studies. But in the evening; I would either cook the three of us dinner, get a takeaway, or my parents would take me out to dinner while the two got a takeaway for themselves.

During the summer, we would go our separate ways again. But, again, I would keep in touch with the two of them.

Going back to the current time; I sat to the side of the sofa, and closed my textbook full of my revision notes and put them to the side, it was obvious THAT was now done today. Josh sat between me and Cordelia and grabbed the remote, he switched on the telly with a decent button press and switched it to the X-Box channel. With a simple head flick, he stood up and chose a good DVD from the side and put it into the console. ‘The Avengers’, despite it being an old film; it was one of my old childhood favourites.

We watched the film together before I got up from the sofa at about 7:00 pm, and started to cook a nice dinner. I cooked a quick Penne All’Arrabbiata whilst often peeking round the corner to see the nostalgic scenes of Iron Man goodness. After adding a bit of seasoning to the finished sauce, I took in the three plates into the sitting room. I was greeted shortly by the two kissing. I cleared my throat, causing them both to turn around to me.

“Dinner is served? I cater for humans; not lovebirds,” Cordie chuckled slightly at my incredibly bad joke. We all wolfed the pasta down before the two went up to bed earlier than usual. I took this as an obvious advantage and once again opened my textbook; before I checked the time…

21:54… I closed my textbook again, I realised that working this late would extremely damage my progress. So I ejected the Avengers disk and looked around for another thing to watch…

After a few minutes of searching, I couldn’t find anything that took my fancy other than the millions of DVDs Josh had brought with his own money or took from his own house and the seemingly endless box sets of Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Top Gear or, my personal favourite, Doctor Who. I turned around to a picture I had installed on one of the walls; it was a little picture of Link from the legend of Zelda fighting the creature Nightmare Moon. I lifted up the picture and found the hidden switch; with a small click, a panel loosened next to the DVD cases. I wondered over and popped it open with a gentle push. And found my secret collection.
I took out one of the DVDs and placed it in the X-Box, when I flicked through the menus the friendly bright colours lit up the screen.

“Now, what have we learnt?” Rainbow Dash said with an almost military tone

“Lots of control,” Fluttershy replied, with that small gentleness she always had.

“Good!”

“Screaming and hollering,”

“Yes… And most importantly?”
Fluttershy looked down and then stood up tall as Rainbow Dash flew around behind her

“Passion!” She announced with her soft voice.

I smirked to myself as Fluttershy repeatedly failed at making a proper cheer. I watched the episode alone to myself, and then watched the others of the first season for hours on end.
Despite me being truthful about it to some people, I had incredible love for that show; My Little Pony… And kept it hidden to Josh and Cordelia for years on end, but there was something that drew me to it from the characters, the stories and the general visuals. At first, I didn’t hate the show… In fact, I was one of the only other Bronies I knew who actually wanted to watch the show before they really got into it.
‘Sonic Rainboom’ was the episode that really got me into the show, and practically any episode with Rainbow Dash or Princess Luna was an immediate favourite.

Despite what some of my other Brony friends said, I found myself best relating to both Princess Luna and Rainbow Dash, especially at a younger age. I always stuck up for my friends, and always backed them up when someone tried to pick on them. And because of some anger management issues I had when I was younger, when I snapped if someone got on nerves enough.

I SNAPPED.

But due to punishments I would get from my parents and some anger management lessons, I calmed down slightly. But It meant I got slightly weaker, and I found myself getting slightly more distant from… Well… Myself… Even my friends said after a while that I was almost a completely different person. Thus I ended up building anger inside, and the only thing I could take it out on was myself. So whenever I watch the show now… When I see Rainbow or Luna, I get happy as I could see myself slightly, and then angry as I could only see what I used to be.

“They tamed me,” is what I would say to myself. And I still do, but looking at those beautiful Ponies gave me some kind of hope. And seeing the great things like the Sonic Rainboom, or the power of Nightmare Moon gave me a feeling that I could still do something great, and I could still be me if given the chance. But life didn’t work that way; since I was still at school and tied to the rules of laws and life, and I was tired… I mean; really tired. I lay down on the sofa with the DVD still playing as my eyelids started to feel really heavy all of a sudden.
I eventually succumbed to this tired feeling and just crashed down on the sofa. I had an overworked brain from revision and my train of thought, and an overworked body from cooking dinner and jogging earlier, so I just collapsed and fell asleep almost immediately. While the hours beforehand blurred into oblivion.

“Where is he? Where is he?” A booming voice flared, as I burst through a door and down a long hallway. If I were awake, I would think I recognised these halls. But unlike many of my dreams, it actually felt I had BEEN in those halls.
I ran towards the source of the voice, and when I did… I saw a figure that would shock me if I were awake. But somehow, I did not react; except to bow before the figure… The figure before me was Princess Celestia…

But somehow, it wasn’t… When I saw her, I saw her wearing harsh golden armour. Her eyes were like dragons and her mane was burning as fire. It was like some of those designs I had seen for if Celestia had become like Nightmare Moon. I was about to say something like ‘You remind me of a cool design I once saw’ or ‘Don’t kill me’, but as I opened my mouth to speak, foreign words were to flow out of my throat.

“What is it… Queen Solar Flare?” I said in a strange American accent, again odd… But somewhat familiar. The queen looked down upon me and said with anger and sorrow in her eyes;

“I have terrible news from the Doctor and Elisabeth. They say that the walls are breaking down, and the Scar Of Time is beginning to activate.” I stood my ground and felt afraid. But I didn’t know why.

“Why is this?” I asked, followed by a small moment of silence as the ‘Queen’ walked around me.

“We all have reason to believe that a sister reality has become increasingly damaged… It seems that somepony is using this instability to wreck havoc, despite his sealing in the eternal pits of Tartarus.”
I scowled in anger and gritted my teeth, I knew who she was talking about…

At least… I think I did.

“Tirek” I growled with spite, resulting in a gentle nod from the queen. She then proceeded to stand up from her throne and walk down towards me. She then places her hoof on my… Armour? Since when did Twilight Sparkle wear armour? Was I even Twilight? Who was I in this dream?

“It is your duty to stop him, my student. As you and your… Organisation have done for many years now together,” she continued as we began to walk together out of the hallway. “Use whatever resources your powers will allow, have NO MERCY. You may think this is one of many options.”
She then turned to me with fear in her eyes, it seemed odd slightly. But everything about this dream was odd in a certain way.

“But you have no other option… I am even enforcing the help of Discord himself in this matter, you must trust him and use him to your advantage.” She then glared out to a small earth pony with a brown coat and looked at me with pride. “You will lead him to victory and win the love of the mortal subjects.”

The princess then lowered her head. “But I cannot come with you... I will organise a full attack upon him from here, I will even scorch the subjects themselves with the sun if I have to. Do not tempt me to do so. I will not help you.” She flared up her mane with a rampaging blue. “Do not return here upon your leaving of the Castle. If you fail to destroy Tirek, I will personally end you myself.”

My sight started to blacken as me and the figure walked towards the other ponies, before I caught a glimpse of myself in a mirrored window, and I almost jumped out of my skin when I saw it… I was a pony. A midnight black Alicorn, donning shiny black armour and a chitinous back, his black and blue mane parting militarily to show a scar framing his haunting red eyes that pierced my very soul. My reflection took kindly to the attention and winked back at me.

I stopped and realised that this WAS a dream, I started to panic as I saw the images around me distorting, Solar Flare and the other pony disappeared behind me, the walls started to blacken and the sky started to become harsh colours of purple and red. The walls started to bring down the darkness onto me as I started to feel intense pain all over my body. I could barely breath as the darkness started to consume me. It started to drown me in darkness as I felt it coming into my own mind. The figure in my reflection began to distort and darken as its body was destroyed… Leaving a figure of darkness, it opened its eyes, to reveal to me who it was… And with a toothy grin, it simply said one word…

“Remember.”

Author's Note

Thanks to Dusk Writer for helping me edit these chapters.