The Visitor

It was the morning in Canterlot and the city was beginning to wake up, the morning papers were already delivered, shopkeepers were opening up their shops, and workers were on their way to the factories.

In the castle the bearers of the elements were already awake and in the private dining room with the Princesses.

Celestia took a sip of her tea and looked over to the girls. “How did you girls sleep last night?” She asked nicely.

“We slept well Princess.” Twilight answered back and looked around. “ Where’s Professor Safon?”

“The guard said he was going to be down shortly.”

They then heard the door open and Safon walked in though this time he looked different. His hair has gone from its faded dark brown color to a light brown and was neatly parted to his left, he also had new clothes on. Instead of the slightly dirty white shirt and black dress pants he now had on a clean white dress shirt and black plaid pants with suspenders on and his leg brace on over his right pant leg. “Hello everyone.” He said taking a seat.

“Good morning Professor did you sleep well?”

He reached over and poured himself a cup of tea and looked at the Princess wide awake. “No I didn’t sleep at all I was busy working on ways to make vacuum tubes.”

Celestia looked at Safon with concern. “Are you sure that’s healthy we wouldn’t want you to exhaust yourself.”

“Don’t worry about me I can go for awhile without sleep” He calmly told them taking a sip of tea.

Rarity looked across the table at Safon’s hair. “Dear what ever happened to your hair?”

“What? Oh that well I had hair dye in my hair from my last job so I spent an hour and a half washing it out.”

“What kinda job did y’all have that made you put hair dye in your hair?” Applejack asked.

“The kind where you couldn’t be recognized.” Safon answered reaching across the table to grab a piece of bread.

“Why couldn’t you be recognized?”

“Because that job required me the utmost secrecy.” He said quickly.

Princess Celestia knew he was not going to elaborate so she had to think of a way to move the conversation on. “So Professor how did your research go so far?”

“Well so far I don’t have much to go off of I may be able to use vacuum tubes to get the computer working properly but thats all I have. I’ll need to go back to my ship and get somethings to double check though.”

“We can arrange that for you whenever you’re re-------” Princess Celestia tried to say before the doors flew open and a regal looking white unicorn with a blonde mane dressed in a formal looking suit consisting of a flawless tailored black frock coat with matching vest and a royal blue floral cravat.

“Auntie Celestia we must speak immediately about the maids you emp---- WHAT IS THAT THERE?!!?” The new arrival yelled out terrified at the strange creature sitting at the table.

“Ah good morning Blueblood. This creature sitting here is the creature from yesterdays newspaper.” Celestia told him in an effort to calm him down.

“YOU MEAN THAT STORY WAS TRUE!!!” He yelled at a higher volume.

“I have a name you know.” Safon added in putting jelly on his bread.

“Oh sorry, Prince Blueblood this is Professor Henry Safon the second.”

Safon just sat there and took a bite out of his bread. “Hi” He said in a deadpan tone.

“WHAT ARE YOU?!?” Blueblood continued to scream at Safon terrified.

“First I’m human and second will you quit fucking screaming it’s fucking annoying.”

Celestia got up from her chair and walked to the terrified prince putting a hoof on his shoulder. “Blueblood you need to calm down Professor Safon means no harm. He will be staying in the castle for a while until he can find out how to get home to his world. Until then we need to keep him a secret.”

Blueblood stood there for a minute letting the information sink in. “Alright.” He said calmly before he remembered the last statement. “The maids can wait I need to rest for a bit.” He then left the room thinking of what he just saw.

Safon watched Blueblood leave then he looked over to Celestia. “So about getting me back to my ship.” He asked nicly trying to get back on topic.

Celestia replied,“We can have a create ready for you down at the service entrance when you want to go.”

Safon got up from the table and started walking to the door. “Well alright I’ll go and get the keys to the ship.”

Blueblood quickly ran into his room looking for his servant. “Women where are you!” He angrily demanded.

A young mare in a black and white maids outfit quickly ran into the room and stood before him. “I’m right here sir.” She said out of breath.

Blueblood looked a her with anger. “There is a strange creature in the breakfast room!”

She looked at him with confusion. “What oh you mean Professor Safon. Yes Celestia briefed all the staff yesterday about him.”

“And why was I not told!?!?”

“You said something about going to a Wonderbolts derby.” She said meekly.

“Why didn’t you tell me when I returned home!?!?”

“You said that you wanted to go to bed.”

“Just shut up!!” He demanded and started pacing the room. While pacing he started to think of something. “Wait a second Auntie Celestia doesn’t want others to know about him.” He said in a devious tone.

“Yes that what she told us.” She replied not knowing where he was going.

“So if I can get some reporters in here I can have them ambush him. Unless Celestia gives me what I want.” He said deviously as the plan formed in his head. He turned to his maid. “I want you to go and find out where the creature is.”

“What are you planning sir?” She asked concerned.

“That’s none of your concern. Now go!” As she ran off to go find Safon Blueblood looked out the window and across the castle gardens where the building housing the throne room was with a smile. “Soon I will get what I deserve.”

Inside his room Safon was going through the notes he wrote last night. “OK I think I was able to make a list of things I need to get from my ship.”

“Let me see” Twilight said as she levitated over the papers and looked at the diagrams. “I can understand the pictures and the mathematical formulas but I can’t make out your writing.”

“Well likely because it’s written in english and from what I gathered looking a street signs in the city your written language is different from mine.”

Twilight looked at him questioningly. “But I can understand what you’re saying.”

“Written and spoken language are two different things.”

“That makes no sense.”

“Oh well be thankful we can communicate or otherwise this would be a lot harder.”

Deciding that she couldn’t argue with that she returned her attention back to the papers. “Don’t you have original blueprints or diagrams from when you first built it?”

“Considering the fact that I wrote the original plans on a bar napkin over thirty years ago, no not really.”

“O-k then well so you remember how you built it then right?” She asked hopefully.

“Most of the details but I can’t remember it all so I’m just going to have to wing it like I did the first time.”

Twilight just looked at him for a few seconds before she got angry. “What do you mean you're just going to “wing it”? You need a plan of attack before you build such a complicated piece of machinery!”

He just shrugged. “Yeah no I work better when I make shit up as I go.”

Twilight was now getting angrier. “You can’t do it like that you need planning and testing!”

“Listen my brother and I managed to build the first one just fine. I think I can manage.”

Twilight was now very angry at Safon “The nerve how can you think that you can skip such a critical part!?!?”

Safon grabbed his keys and started to walk out of the room. “Yeah what ever now I’m going down to the service entrance be stuffed in a crate if you need me.”

“Are you alright sugarcube?” Applejack asked Twilight concerned for her friend.

“Yes- yes I’m fine his response just caught me off guard thats it.” she replied calmly.

“That’s good we thought that you might have blown a gasket.”

“No I’m fine now lets go and make sure he gets to his craft alright.”

As they all left the room none of them were aware of the maid eavesdropping on their conversation.

“So they’re going to take him to his craft?” Blueblood asked his maid.

“Yes that’s what I heard.” She said obediently.

He started laughing. “Wonderful this accelerates my plan!”

“How so?”

“When he gets back I’ll have reporters waiting for him and he will be exposed unless Auntie Celestia gives me what I want!" He said as he wrote a letter excitedly. “Now go and deliver this letter to the Canterlot Times!”

She took the letter and watched as Blueblood started leaving the room. “What about you sir?” She asked concerned for her employer.

He looked back to her with a grin, “I’m going to have a chat with Auntie Celestia.”

Inside the offices of the Canterlot Times was a very busy place where columnists were busy typing stories on typewriters getting them ready for the afternoon papers, others were running in with new information, and the editor Clean Slate was going through the stories that were ready.

As Clean Slate looked at each story and started to notice a recurring theme. “Do any of you idiots have a story that does not involve the crash!?!” He yelled angrily across the office as he stood up.

“Sorry boss but that seems to be the only thing anypony is talking about.” Pencil Pusher yelled out from his desk.

“Well somepony find something else I’ll settle for a fucking bake sale at this point!” He yelled back as he flopped back into his chair and lit a cigarette before hearing a knock at the door. “Someone get that.”

Pencil Pusher got up from his desk and opened the door to find a young mare in a maids outfit with a shawl over it, a bonnet on her head and carrying a purse standing there. “Hello miss. Are you here to see somepony?”

She looked up at him nervously. “No I’m here to see the editor.”

He looked at her questioningly before turning towards the room. “Hey boss there’s a bird here who wants to see you!”

“Alright alright give me a second.” Clean Slate yelled back to him as he got up from his chair and walked over to the pair. “Hello dear. You wanted to see me?” He said nicely.

She looked over at the editor before looking in her purse. “Oh hello sir I’m here from the castle to deliver a letter from an anonymous source.” She nervously said giving him the letter.

“O-k. Is that all?”

“Yes now I really need to get out of here.” She said in hurry before running out the door.

“Well then.” He said looking confused at what just happened before opening the letter. “Well let’s see what we have here.” He looked at the letter for a minute before getting an excited look on his face. “Well gentlecolts it looks like we got juicy one!!” he looked around the office until he spotted two unicorns in dingy suits at the coffee table. “Newshound! Shutterbug! Get over here!”

“Yeah boss?” Newshound asked as he walked over.

“Listen that young lady who was just here gave me a letter saying that there is the story of a lifetime if a couple reporters hide in the service entrance of the castle and I want you two there to get it.”

“Uh boss how will we know what it is?” Shutterbug asked.

“The letter says you’ll know it when you see it. Now go!” Clean Slate yelled.

“Don’t worry bout it boss we’ll get it for you.” Newshound reassured him as he put his newsboy cap on and ran out with his partner.

Inside the throne room of the castle Princess Celestia was busy going through paper work involving new bill to pass or veto, or other mundane things involving public appearances when Blueblood came walking in looking very confident.

“Hello Aunty Celestia I would like to speak to you now.”

Celestia put down the paperwork and looked at Blueblood. “Ah Blueblood, are you feeling better.”

Blueblood looked at her with a smile. “Why yes! In fact I feel fantastic! But I do really need to speak to you, in private.”

“Why of course.” Celestia said with a smile before looking at all the other ponies in the room. “Court is dismissed for a break, give my nephew and I some privacy.”

“Of course Princess.” The guards said before leaving the room with the assistance.

“Okay now Blueblood is this about Professor Safon?”

“Yes in a way but first I would like to discuss Princess Cadance.”

Celestia raised her eyebrows. “What about Princess Cadance.”

“Exactly why was a peasant like her ascended into an alicorn and NOT ME!?!?” He asked angrily.

Celestia just sighed at Blueblood bringing this up. “Now Blueblood we have discussed this she has sho----.”

“NO!!!” He interrupted. “NO!! I WAS THE ONE WHO WAS BORN WITH NOBLE BLOOD! AND YET YOU DECIDE THAT A PEGASUS IN SOME BACKWATER VILLAGE DESERVES TO BE ASCENDED!!” Blueblood was now starting to lose some of his regalness with is hair coming out of place and cravat getting loose.

“Blueblood enough!!” Celestia yelled at him as she started to get angry. “You may not like my decision but you can at least respect it!”

Blueblood just laughed before straightening his hair and cravat. “Well no I will not respect it and you know what I will get what I want.”

“Oh and why’s that.” Celestia asked now nervous about what he was planning.

“Because I know that our visitor is out right now and I know that he has to get in and out at the service entrance.” He said with a smirk.

Celestia was now getting very nervous. “Where are you going with this?”

“Why it’s very simple. I have reporters waiting in the service entrance ready to ambush and reveal Mr Safon that is unless you ascend me into an alicorn.”

Celestia just sat there in her throne before she started chuckling. “Do you really think that is a good enough threat for me to give you that much power.”

“Laugh at me if you must but we’ll see who’s laughing when he is revealed and you’re made out to be a liar to your kingdom.” He said smugly unaware of the dark blue alicorn watching the conversation outside the door.

Meanwhile at the crash site Safon was inside his ship to get some equipment, he came out after some time holding several pieces of machinery in his hands.

“Let’s see these ones work still, so I’ll take these back and use them to help me rebuild the transporter.” He said putting them down.

Twilight levitated a few pieces to look at them closer fascinated by their complexity. “So these are microprocessors?”

“Yeah those are the ones that aren’t fried.” He sighed.

“So what do they do?”

“Well they they process the information in the computer though electrical currents.”

Twilight’s eyes lit up with wonder as she continued to look at the parts. “Fascinating!”

“Alright that’s all I can work with for now.” Safon turned his head to a couple of the guards. “Make sure that you don’t fuck up this equipment it’s very delicate!”

The two guards jumped to attention and saluted Safon. “Yes Sir.” The unicorn guard said as he levitated the parts into a crate full of hay. “Your crate is ready for you sir.”

“Okay Let’s get the fuck out o----”

Safon was cut off by a bright light caused by Princess Luna teleporting in. “Where’s the Professor?!?” She asked in a panic.

Safon raised his left hand while rubbing his eyes with his right. “I’m right here. Jesus Christ did you have to fucking blind me?”

“Sorry but we have no time!”

Twilight looked at the alicorn with concern “What’s wrong Princess?”

“Prince Blueblood, he’s in the throne room threatening my sister that he’ll reveal the Professor unless she turns him into an alicorn!”

“What!” Rarity yelled. “Oh that uncharming Prince! Why I don’t know why I ever fell for him!”

Luna gave Rarity a blank stare before turning back to Safon. “Listen you can’t go back into the service entrance there are reporters waiting to ambush you there.”

“Fucking great.” Safon said in a deadpan tone. “Okay let me think for a second.” The others watched him as he paced a bit in thought before he turned and pointed to Luna. “I think I got something.”

Meanwhile in the service entrance the two reporters were hiding behind a wall of crates.

“Whatever it is better fucking hurry up I’m almost out of smokes.” Newshound said as he checked his cigarette pack to see how many are left.

Shutterbug checked his camera to ensure it had a good angle. “What do you think it is Hound.”

“How the fuck should I know? All I know that this could be the story of a lifetime, now make sure that fancy camera of your’s has a good shot.”

“It’s not just a fancy camera it’s one that doesn’t need a stand.” Shutterbug said defensively.

“Whatever just b-- shit I think I heard something.” The two reporters quickly got quiet as the doors opened and a couple guards carrying a wagon with a large crate in it came in followed by Captain Stonewall and the bearers of the elements. “Oh this looks interesting.” He whispered to his photographer.

The two continued to watch as the wagon got closer to the door and the guards unhooked them selves from the wagon to walk to the back.

“Get ready.” Newshound whispered to Shutterbug as he watched on the edge of his seat.

The two guards got to the back and pulled out a crowbar to open the crate. As they were prying open the crate the reporters were getting ready to get the perfect shot of whatever was in there. After much effort the guards opened the crate to reveal to the reporters that inside the crate was……

NOTHING.

“ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!?!?” Newshound yelled out blowing their cover.

Captain Stonewall and the rest of the guards jumped at the sound as the turned to the source and two of the unicorn guards used their magic to pick up the reporters. “Halt who are you two?” Stonewall demanded.

Shutterbug looked at Stonewall with fear in his eyes. “I’m so sorry we’re here with the Canterlot Times. We got a from an anonymous source that there was something coming in here and that we could get a story of a lifetime here. Please don’t throw me in jail!”

“Way to go fink.” Newshound said to his partner in disgust.

“Well you were the one who said ‘Don’t worry bout it boss we’ll get it for you’.... ”

“Shut up!”

Twilight deciding that she was tired of them walked up. “Well whoever sent the letter was wrong because I’m just here to pick up my old books.”

“Why do you need a big crate then” Newshound asked raising his eyebrows.

“I’m Celestia’s student I have a lot.”

“Sure you do.”

“Whatever.” Stonewall interrupted. “Now listen I can throw you in the dungeon right now for trespassing on royal grounds.”

“OH PLEASE DON’T!” Shutterbug pleaded.

“But I have more important things to do today so I’ll make you a deal I let you go and you two get out and leave us alone.” Stonewall offered before signaling the guards to drop them.

Shutterbug looked at Stonewall. “You mean we can go?” Stonewall just shook his head yes. “OH THANK YOU!!” He exclaimed as he hugged the Captains legs.

Newshound just picked himself up and headed towards the door. “OK whatever. Come on Shutter we have to tell the boss we ain’t got shit.”

Shutterbug quickly got up ran to his partner. As they left the castle Newshound looked back. “I got a feeling they’re hiding something.”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean we got off easy. we’ll need to keep an eye out later.”

“Ok but for now let’s just be grateful we got out.”

“Sure whatever you say.” Newshound said as he headed to a nearby store. “But right now I need more smokes.”

“So auntie have you reached a decision?” Blueblood asked staring down Celestia.

Celestia looked at Blueblood with anger in her eyes. “The answer is still NO! It will always be no!”

“We’ll see about that.” He said smugly.

Blueblood paced around the room watching Celestia with her staring back at him with anger in her eyes before a sudden bright flash appeared. After the flash dissipated Luna and Professor Safon were standing in between them.

“WHAT?!?! NO!!!” Blueblood screamed in shock. Luna walked up to her sister as they just stared at Blueblood.

“I heard you talking to my sister. How dare you even try that?!” She said with anger.

Celestia looked between Safon and Luna just as confused as Blueblood. “ What do you mean?”

“I mean that I was coming to the throne room when I heard this worm threatening you.” She replied giving Blueblood a nasty look. “So I teleported to where Professor Safon was and he came up with the idea to just send the empty crate back normally and teleport with me.”

Celestia breathed a sigh of relief at this unexpected turnout. “Wonderful! How did the Professor handle to teleportation? I know some have difficulty with it the first time.”

Professor Safon looked up to Celestia clutching his stomach. “Just fine just give me a moment for the rest of my organs to show up.”

“NO!!!!!!!!!” Blueblood screamed now with his mane really out of place. “I WAS SUPPOSED TO WIN!! I WAS SUPPOSED TO BECOME AN ALICORN!!! YOU!!!” He continued to scream while pointing a hoof at Professor Safon. “YOU RUINED MY CHANCE AT THE POWER THAT I RIGHTFULLY DESERVE!!!”

Professor Safon looked at Blueblood then over to Celestia. “Can I just punch this fucker in the face? He is really starting to piss me off.” Celestia just nodded at him. “Thank fucking god!” He said with happiness as he approached Blueblood.

“NO YOU STAY AWAY FROM ME YOU HIDEOUS MONS---!” Was all Blueblood managed to get out before Professor Safon punched him in the face knocking him out.

“Thank you I’ve had enough of that whiney prick.” He said lighting a cigarette he pulled out. “So now that that is taken care of we need to talk.”

“What about?” Celestia asked with concern.

“Simple we need to reveal me.”

Celestia eyes grew wide a she stared at the Professor in shock. “What!! Are you mad?!? We just stopped Blueblood from doing just that!”

“Yes and since I don’t think you will let me kill him and locking him up would look to suspicious it and if we let him free he will keep doing it. So if you do it on your own terms then he will no longer be able to hold me over you.”

“But we might cause a panic!!”

“We might but I need some freedom to build my machine.”

“What do you mean by that?”

“I mean I will need to find investors to invest in me so I have funding to build the machine.”

“We can provide you with all the money you need.”

“Yes out of tax money that would leave records and then somepony will investigate and find that you have been giving it to a strange creature living in the castle. I can just see the scandal now.”

“We can---” Celestia stopped herself realizing that he was right such a scandal would ruin the trust ponies had of her and damage the societal system. “You're right.” She said in defeat.

“What your just going to go along with this?!?” Luna asked in shock.

“Yes I am. He is right Blueblood will keep doing this and the amount of money he needs can’t be taken out of tax money without anyone noticing.” She turned over to the Professor as he finished his cigarette. “So what’s your plan?”

“My plan is simple we don’t tell the whole truth.”

The next morning Celestia held a press conference in front of the castle. “Citizens of Equestria I have a very important announcement involving the rumors of the mysterious creature.” These words caught the reporters attention. “It seems the rumors were based on half truths. Yes a pilot attempted to fly an experimental craft while intoxicated and is still recovering and will be court-martialed, but I’m here to reveal that there indeed was a strange creature.” Those words caused many gasps and reporters to start taking pictures and asked questions. “Now. Now please calm down. The Royal Guards found this creature in the woods on their way to the crash site and they captured it. After a few days we found it to be a civilized creature from another plain of reality.” With this news even more questions arose.

“Princess how are you sure this creature is from another plain of reality and not a lost civilization?” one of the reporters asked.

Celestia looked over to the reporter. “This creature speaks our launguage and as it spoke to me i realized that it’s manner of speech and the clothes it wears are far too modern for it to be from a lost civilization.”

“Are you sure it is not dangerous?” the same reporter asked

“Now please I assure you that it is not dangerous and after much questioning I decided it would be best for me to share this news with my citizens. Now please welcome our visitor Professor Henry A Safon the second.” She gestured a hoof over the the castle gates as they opened and revealed Professor Safon behind them wearing the same clothes from when he arrived in Equestria but this time he put on the sweater and tried to make them appear cleaner than they were.

There were many gasps and photos being taken as he walked over to Celestia and took the megaphone. “Um Hello Equestria.”

“What are you?” One reporter asked.

“Why are you here?” Another asked.

“Where are you from.” A third reporter asked.

“Listen, Listen. As your Princess has said my name is Professor Henry A Safon the second and as for your questions I come from another plain of reality where we have more advanced technology and my species is the sapient ones. I am here because I am a scientists who was experimenting with a device that would allow travel between dimensions but unfortunately it malfunctioned and exploded. My appearance in your realm here was of no deliberate intent.

“How long are you going to be here?”

“Due to the fact that you do not have the technology for me to properly build a new machine I currently do not know.” He looked over to Celestia and she nodded. “Now I regret this conference is over but I am currently writing an article that is to be published in all of the national newspapers and it will be delivered to their offices tomorrow. Thank you and your world for welcoming me.” With that he and Celestia walked back into the castle leaving many of the reporters asking questions and taking pictures with the guards keeping them back.