Another Casting of the Cards

"Well this is nice," I said, as I looked around. "We will go to Canterlot tomorrow, so you can have a talk with Princess Celestia." I nodded, not trusting myself to say anything. I felt suddenly tired, even though it was only midday. "Do you mind if we talk for a moment, Twilight? I have a few questions."

The purple unicorn nodded, and I inquired cautiously, "Why am I in secure containment? Moreover, what's been coming out of the sky that scared you into this? I thought you ponies lived in paradise."

She recoiled slightly at my tone, then quietly said, "What I said earlier remains true, this isn't jail. And we only built this to study and contain what came earlier. And what makes you think this is paradise?"

I frowned slightly, not sure why they would build a lockdown facility for whatever it is the jihadis had been sending through. Please, oh please tell me they hadn't sent weapons through? "Was anypony hurt because of what was sent through? Please tell me that you are all safe," I rushed out, looking around the small room, which still contained Twilight, Rainbow, and Fluttershy. "Oh, and to answer your question, I thought this was paradise because, well," at this point I swallowed, not really sure what to do. Lie, or be honest? Knowing them all too well, I understood the consequences of potentially lying. I continued by saying, "I was told that it was a portal to paradise. Thank you, Twilight, for answering my questions, now are there any I can answer for you?"

All the others in the room turned to her, and she answered by saying, "yes, if I can some more information about you and where you came from?"

I nodded, asking as I did so, "Where shall we start? If you want to start at the beginning, well, I will warn you, it's a little odd." The three present all acquired questioning looks at this point, clearly wondering what I had to say. "This is going to sound weird," I began, in my best story telling voice, "but this is my story.

When I was a human- a thing that walks on two legs, hairless, has fingers- I was a loner. Always was. Until the day I signed up for an experiment. It was supposed to convert people into soldiers, to make them better than soldiers. To make us the Hammer Of Gods. Also known as simply SPECIALS. I was a good soldier, but I never really wanted to be a soldier- I wasn't clever, I didn't know what I wanted, I let other people walk over me. I had no proper fierceness. But I did what I always wanted to do- protect from friends from those who would threaten them. From those who would bring harm to them. I suppose, once I joined the army, I finally found my purpose. After all, there's a saying in my culture, that goes something along the lines of: if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. I guess I can say I had finally found something I could stand for- my friends. Anyway, I was investigating a disturbance, and my team found what could effictively amount to a portal here. Unfortunately, I don't know the specifics of it. And there are more details that Princess Celestia and Princess Luna need to know. I'm sure you and your friends need to know, Twilight, but I'm afraid that they'll have to wait until we meet with your rulers. Anything else I can clear up?" They all shook their heads, and I inquired to Twilight, "where am I going to stay after I've been moved out of this secure containment? I'm not too keen on being homeless."

"Oh, you can stay with me; I keep an extra room just in case something like this happens." I nodded and smiled my thanks.

o.O.o

Twilight

"We'll thanks for cooperating with the questioning," Twilight said. He nodded again, still smiling.

"if you don't have anything else, I hope you don't mind if we leave for a few hours? If you need anything, just give a holler and one of the guards will come," she continued, in a business like tone. He nodded for a third time. "Well girls, lets get going. I personally need to inform Princess Celestia, and I think Rainbow has her weather duties-" "indeed I do!" "-and Fluttershy needs to take care of her animals." A timid nod, came from the kindred spirit.

As the little group floated towards the door, Rainbow Dash looked behind her and gave him an approving nod, "it's good to see such loyalty in ponies nowadays!"

Twilight herself turned too, saying as she did so, you're taking it remarkably well- I wouldn't have expected it of someone transported from your dimension."

He grinned and shook his head, saying as he did so, "oh, you're too kind. Personally I think I'm already gonna like it here."

o.O.o

Later…

"Spike, I don't know what's wrong, I'm just getting a sense that there's something we… aren't getting from him. Of course, he did say that there's something he's going to tell us in front of the princesses, but I don't know if that's it," worried Twilight as she paced in the library.

She stopped and sighed. "You sent-" her assistant, a smallish purple and green dragon, spoke up, "the letter? Yeah Twilight. You need to stop worrying." Just as he said that, someone knocked on the door. He quickly opened it up, revealing, to the horror of Twilight, a guard from the containment center.