"The mind of the subject will desperately struggle to create memories where none exist…"
- Star Swirl the bearded, Barriers to Trans-Dimensional Travel
“We must be nearly there by now?” Shining thought as he stared at the cold dark clouds above him, the heavy rain running down his face and into the row boat as the ponies in front of him argued they appeared almost to be twins, both had the same coat of Carolina blue. The colt had a long gray beard and mane, the mare sharing the same gray mane color.
“Coming here was your idea, I made it very clear I don’t believe in the exercise” the unknown mare said with a judgmental tone the unknown colt replayed “the rowing?”
“No. I imagine that’s wonderful exercise” the mare past a box back to shining as the continued there abnormal conversation “Then what?” said the colt “The entire thought experiment” The mare, leaving a short silence then shining had to ask “Excuse me! How much longer!?” They never answered him and continued arguing about some weird magic as he looked though the box the mysterious mare past to him. It contained a picture of a young purple mare named Twilight, she was a Alicorn but a small section of her horn was missing.
Shining pulled out the gun in the box and checked it before counselling it in his suit. When he closed the box and looked up he saw they were heading towards a toll white lighthouse alone in the middle of the ocean being battered by the strong waves. The boat moved up to the dock where shining got off but to his surprise the two unknown ponies began to leave without him
“hay! you cant just leave me her!?” shining yelled to the boat as it left, with a worried look upon his face.
“I don't see why not?" "Your chances seem a cut above!?” they mysteriously uttered as they turned the boat around and started to row away into the mist.
“… Ah well maybe there’s somepony inside?” Shining Mumbled to himself as he trotted slowly up a wet set of stairs to the lighthouse doorway then knocked on the door. “It’s Shining Armor I guess you’re expecting me” he said as he slowly opened the lighthouse’s wooden door. He looked around there was nothing but silence in the dark room; he made his way up the metal stair case “is anypony here? Hello!?” Shinning reached the top of the stairs and stopped in shock. “Mother of Celestia…” a dead colt was tied to a chair with a bag on his head and a bullet through his head. The words “Shining It’s your last chance, bring us the girl and wipe away the debt” were written on the white wall in blood. He continued walking up the stairs to the top of the light house but instead of a light at the top, there was a copper capsule with the door open.
“… Well it’s not like I have anywhere else to go” Shining said to himself as he slowly trotted in and sat down in the capsule’s chair. Then the door slammed shut and his hoofs held in a harness so he couldn’t move. “No! no no… let me out!” to Shining’s surprise the capsule started to shake and him an the capsule were launched into the air. He fly through the dark storm clouds that were once above him, then he saw the unbelievable, through the soft clouds above the storm was a city in the sky unlike any he had ever seen in Equestria before. Building’s made of stone floating on the air, lighter than a feather and higher than Cloudsdale. Then the capsule began to descend into a building and as the capsule moved down like an elevator text started to move slowly past the window as some sort of welcome.
“WHY WOULD HE REACH OUT HIS HOOF TO US ALL?… IF WE WILL NOT REAISE OURS FOR ARE OWN SALVATION?... AND THOUGH WE DESERVE NOT HIS MERCY… HE HAS LED US TO THIS NEW EDEN SO WE MAY SEEK REDEMPTION.”
Then the capsule stopped in a room and the door opened revealing the sound of choir singing a soft hymn. He trotted out the capsule the floor was submerged in water and rose petals with a large stained glass window depicting a bearded stallion leading his herd of followers to a city in the sky.
