The Third Student of Celestia

Princess luna was on the balcony of her bed chambers as she rose the moon to start the evening. As she finished their was a knock on her door

“Yes, who is it?” the door opens and Celestia walks into the room.

“Hello Luna I just came to tell you that the mirror is being placed in the throne room if you’d care to see it.” Without saying anything else she turned and walked out of the room as Luna followed her. After a short walk they ended up in the throne room where they turned their attention to the new mirror that had been put into place on the left side of the room.

“I wonder what star swirl had to go through to establish a link to another world”

“One can only imagine his level of discipline to do this Luna. Though I do wonder what the inhabitants of this other world are like.”

“I do hope they are not hostile to us. I would very much so like to avoid any unnecessary….”

She was cut off as the mirror began to glow with a strange light as the glass seemed to almost morph and alter its shape before it began to push outward. As it did it eventually began to reveal a strange red bulge that pushed out further from the mirror and it slowly began to show shoulders and the back of a neck. It was obvious that it wasn’t something coming through but somepony. Both princesses were in shock and the royal guards were the first to react and point their spears at the intruder. The rest of the intruder fell out of the portal and onto the floor in front of them, they saw it was a teenage male unicorn with a red coat and silvery grey main and tail. he also had a strange set of goggles around his neck, a pair of unorthodox glasses, and what appeared to be a saddle bag strung over his left shoulder and under his right front hoof. They quickly noticed the young unicorn twitching and his muzzle broken as it bled onto the floor. The boy coughed and wheezed with his eyes shut before passing out on the floor. Once the princess’s realized that the young unicorn wasn’t a threat they immediately called for the doctor to take him into the infirmary where they would wait until he awoke before they began to ask him questions. Celestia stood in the throne room with luna as the blood was cleaned up.

“what do you think sister is there really another universe of ponies?”

“I’m not sure but we will definitely need to have a very long discussion with the child once he wakes but for now let us just let things be”

the two sisters said nothing else and stayed in the throne room as they went through their normal duties until the doctor came into the room to give them the news. “pardon me your highnesses. It is about the unicorn you brought in.”

“how is his condition” they both said in unison and gave a light smile to one another at saying the same thing in unison before returning their attention to the doctor. “ oh yes of course, he’ll be fine but I must say that when we examined his x-rays the breaks we saw were rather unusual to say the least.”

“what do mean by unusual” asked Luna

“come I’ll show you” the doctor said as he led them to a room filled with x-rays and brought them over to a row of slides that were filled with the mysterious unicorns x-rays “well the breaks that stood out the most were the ones to his rib cage. You see most of the breaks were towards his sternum and not to the side of his body like you would normally see in a fight. It is almost like he was on his back or possibly back legs as he was beaten. Now moving to his head the breaks are generally focused to the sides of his muzzle which is again strange cause the formation of the breaks indicates somepony was swinging their front hooves to impact him. Plus the way the bones have broken doesn’t suggest the hard surface of a hoof was what broke it but something with a softer exterior like glove or something similar."

Luna, having missed out on centuries of medical advancements raises an eyebrow “and you are certain of this?” she asks.

The doctor simply chuckled “with all do respect your highness I have been observing x-ray films nearly all my life so yes I am certain. Now moving on, the weirdest thing is that his horn is completely untouched by anything.”

Celestia looked at Luna and spoke “so wait all this damage to him is obviously out of rage and yet the assailant leaves a unicorns most vulnerable part of their body untouched?”

“that is correct your highness”

Luna then stepped forward “perhaps his assailant had more plans for him but he managed to get away.”

“yes that is one of our current theory’s. but in any event he should be up in no more than a few hours”

Both sisters thanked the doctor for his services and decided to wait for the new guest to wake up.