Ursa Majoris Gigantus? Don't the first two mean space bear or something like that? Yeah. Space bear...Space...bear. First magic, then magical horses, ponies, whatever. And now... a damned space bear. Great.

"Where is it?" Luna had an amount of fear in her voice that actually made me think about just how bad this thing could be. Space bear, is it going to eat the planet?

"Several thousand kilometers away from here, north. Our scout's estimates say that it will be here in less than a week if it continues its current course." Less than a week. Okay. That's enough time to high tail it out of hear.

+So when do we leave?+ I showed my newest question to all of them except the very tired looking courier.

"What do you mean "we"?" Celestia had an eyebrow arched. "You're volunteering to go stop it? For ponies you barely even know?" Luna suddenly had a very large smile on her face. WHAT? Help? No no no no no. I plan on getting out of here.

Luna leaned towards Celestia, however that was done, and began to whisper something. Celestia occasionally nodded, "ahummed" and general made sounds of agreement. What are they talking about? "Would you mind coming over here for a moment?" Celestia had gestured to me with a fore-hoof. I slowly walked over towards her and Luna, a little weary of what it was that it seemed they were volunteering me for.

"Delta, we would like for you to go and deal with the Ursa Major. You may decline if you wish, but know this" She leaned in very closely and whispered quite harshly. "Starswirl has been running fairly low on new things to experiment on, and you are chalk full of things we have never seen before."... For some reason, the Ursa Major seems like the better bet now.

+I'll go deal with the Ursa, but just how big is this thing.+

"You don't have them where you're from? Your world sounds like a strange place, no Ursa Majors, what an oddity." It seemed as though Luna started to think of a world without Ursa Majors.

"Well, your typical Ursa Major is a little under a kilometer in height. An Ursa Majoris Gigantus can be several many times that in size. Their life span is surprisingly small, they have strangely weak spines that eventually give out under the immense amount of pressure from their weight, this constant pain combined with the lack of oxygen from their heads being so high makes them especially aggressive and overly destructive. In short, short life, big impact." It sounded as though Starswirl read that from a book, sheesh. So this thing could be several kilometers in size...how big is a kilometer again? Isn't that like three feet or something?

*Meanwhile in the future.*

THAT IS NOT THREE FEET!

*Meanwhile in the present.*,

So this thing it like, nine feet tall, maybe a little bigger? Yeah, I can see how that is intimidating to these little things but to me this'll be a breeze.

*Meanwhile in the future.*

"RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! EVERYPONY FOR THEMSELVES!"

*Meanwhile in the present.*

Nice and easy.

"Will you be departing today or tomorrow to intercept it?" Well, I guess that would depend on what time it is.

+Depends, what time is it?+

"...Tomorrow it is." What's up with her? Do they not have clocks yet? Celestia then ushered Luna to a corner away from Starswirl and I to talk in very hushed whispers. I caught a few words. Like, "Dream state." and "Time Fluctuations."...I'm not even going to bother.

I turned towards Starswirl, who seemed to be writing feverishly into his little book. I wonder what he's writing? I'll have to ask sometime...but now, food. At the very thought of it, my stomach growled and all eyes were on me.

"Did he just roar?" Luna had her head cocked to the side, they same way a puppy would when it encounters something it hasn't seen before...how'd I know that?

"Hmm, if I had to guess, that was his stomach having a severe case of the rumblies." Starswirl used a chair to put his ear up to where my stomach is. "Yep, an old fashioned case of the rumblies."

These things speak rather funnily. A case of the rumblies, hah. Eleanor would have liked that...

"Lets go get something to eat!" This sudden outburst came from Princess Celestia of all peo-ponies. Luna was shaking her head in agreement quite VIGORously. Starswirl did what I believe to be the pony equivalent of shrugging his shoulders. So with no further problems (For once.) we headed towards what I assumed to be the royal dining room. It had a large amount of what I think is gold leaf, and several sun symbols on one side, and several moon symbols on the other. Oh, I do wonder what side Luna is going to sit on...would you look at that, the side with the moons, who could have seen that coming?

Foods of all kinds were seen...except for meat. Where's the meat? I even saw eggs, which I would have to do, but no meat. I decided to go with some pastries of unknown flavor, eggs, a large mug of something that smelled faintly of liquor, more eggs, and to top it off, a muffin. At first they were disgusted, probably by my face, then they were amazed, it seems that my eating half of the food in the room was kind of unheard of...I need a lot of food...

"Delta...are you feeling alright? I have never seen anything eat that much food...do you need to go to the bathroom?" Starswirl and I were walking in the halls, presumably towards the bathrooms, he really seemed to think that I shouldn't be able to hold all that food in my body. Little did he know that all plasmids, and gene tonics optimize several of the human bodies systems, including the digestive, cardiovascular and nerve-systems. Plasmids give more than their intended effect...splicers certainly know that.

He stopped in front of a room and gestured me in. Turns out I was wrong about him, he was not leading me to a bathroom, but rather to the room that I had stayed in last night... I don't think I was out for that long, surely they would have moved me had I been. Oh well, maybe this place just has shorter day and night cycles than were I'm from. I went straight to the desk where I had left the bag design ideas. Maybe while we were out moving towards the Ursa Majoris Gigantus I could gather supplies for it.

Starswirl came in after me and took a look at the drawings. "What is that supposed to be?"...right to the pride...

+I am designing a bag to hold things for me, like a capped inkwell and paper.+

"Hmm, that does seem like a rather good idea, doesn't it?" He began to draw his own ideas while I worked on mine. I will admit that while his all looked a lot better...and were graphically scaled down...and had generally better ideas and concepts, mine were still good...ish.

After about three hours of being brutally humiliated he told me that he was going to go to bed, and that I should probably do the same in preparation for leaving tomorrow. I wonder if he will be joining me?

I took off the suit and did my business in the bathroom, then crawled into the bed. Sleep came slowly to me, and when it arrived I was in Rapture, the last few moments of seeing Eleanor constantly playing in my head. She deserved better than Rapture, she deserved...whatever was outside of Rapture. Why can't I remember what was outside of Rapture? I remember certain parts of being a big daddy, most of it is a haze. I remember...building some of Rapture, before it all went to hell

*Meanwhile, in the real world.*

"How long can you keep it like this sister?"

"I do not know. It is starting to notice the minor flaws that I miss or can not account for. We are trying our hardest, but I might be able to hold it like this for another few days at best." Luna was standing over the unconscious body of Subject Delta, who had been knocked out by Celestia in her fit of rage due to being interrupted during the signing of peace treaties and the setting up of trade routes. Little did Delta know that most of his time in Equestria had actually been a dream reality created by Luna and aided by Starswirl The Bearded.

"I need for you to find out as much as you can about it sister, we need to know if it is going to continue being...friendly to us in reality. Otherwise we are going to have to put it down." Celestia walked off, probably to nap Luna thought.

Author's Note

'Luna was shaking her head in agreement quite VIGORously.'

........It had to be done.......