Author's Note

The chapter titles are in Latin, in case anyone was wondering. :3

Abyssus Abyssum Novo Vetus Miles

“Twilight, do you know when the attack is supposed to happen?” Applejack asked.

The young Alicorn simply shook her head as she paced back and forth in meeting room of her castle.

“Well, what’s our plan for when it does? Surely Celestia is having us help? Right?” Applejack responded.

“Actually…no…she isn’t. We’re leaving the second it happens, going someplace Celestia described as a plane of existence that shouldn’t exist. But she did say there was a way to stop it, but that it’s not in our hooves.” Twilight explained.

“If not ours, than who? Somepony has to stop this craziness.” Applejack pressed on.

“Even she isn’t sure, she says this individual might not exist. She called that individual Pariah.” Twilight finished solemnly

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Darkness, infinite black, it was like sleeping, but being completely conscious, fully aware, but I was not. Still, I heard them from time to time
“Impossible, it cannot be done. Even with their magic. The brain will not survive.”
I heard a voice echo.
“Of course it can, if we take the proper precautions and use the magic properly it will work. I know it.”
“But what if you’re wrong?” The first voice responded. There seemed to be a pause that dragged on for a while after that.

“I’m never wrong, but if I am so what? He wasn’t the first we’ve tried it on, plus he’s a pariah anyway. No one will remember him.” I heard. That word, pariah. It seemed to stick into my mind. I remembered not who I was, but perhaps that was my name. Of course that was before I was able to remember that pariah meant outcast, but it mattered not. Pariah became my name, in this strange existence that I seemed to have.

From then on all I remember is pain, drilling sounds, sometimes panicked doctors. But I never was able to see, perhaps I had been blinded in battle, or maybe I was always blind. Those are the questions I continually asked myself when I was capable of thinking. Who was I? Why was I put here?

I suppose it didn’t matter, my life was over; if you can even call what little I remembered a life. Just blackness, voices, echoes, drilling, pain, and the smell of burnt flesh every so often. I’d either die soon or always be subject to these horrific experiments, or whatever else it was they were doing to me.

But then, I dreamed. I felt cool air blowing against me, and for the first time I was able to open my eyes, and see. I was soaring through the air, going at an incredible speed. The clouds were beneath me, and for the first time since the start of my memories I felt free, truly free.

I began to relax after the first few moments, letting the air crash into my face. It all seemed so real, but it couldn’t be, could it? The more I relaxed the more I seemed to dip closer and closer to the clouds; soon I was diving straight down. I plummeted through the clouds like a speeding bullet.

For a dream this seemed a bit too real, and I felt a sense of terror. My body seemed…different. I remember having hands, five fingers on each, and feet with the same number of toes. But I didn’t anymore. I tried to move my fingers but it all seemed stiff, as if locked into place.

On my back I felt what seemed to be a pair of wings, and then I realized, if this is a dream my wings can probably save me. So in the final few moments before I hit the ground I flapped them furiously, even wearing myself out. But I still hit the ground, hard. My chest smacked the hardest, and I could have sworn I felt ribs crack. I tried to stand up again but fell over, and for the first time I saw myself, for what I now was. What were once my arms and hands were now two tan colored legs, and the same with the back.

I looked at them, and finally I remembered something, a faint memory of the past. I was holding a newspaper, and the front caption is what I remember most prominently. “INTELLIGENT EQUINE RACE DISCOVERED ON FRINGES OF GALAXY”

That must have something to do with it, it was likely my own people that performed these monstrous experiments, turned me into one of these creatures. I tried standing up again, my new legs wobbled, not used to the even weight distribution on all four. But after a moment I gained a sense of composure.

Finally, I was able to stop and think. Evaluate my surroundings, asses my new and confusing situation and try to come up with a decision from here. I was in a field; lush, and green. Far off in the distance stood two castles. One on the side of a mountain, with what seemed to be a city attached to it.

The other had a slight purple tone to it, and around it was a settlement of sorts, some scattered buildings, not as vibrant looking as the first castle that caught my eyes. I considering going to the second castle, seeing if anyone there might have some answers. I gathered I was on the Equine world that I heard of in my distant memories, but then I paused as I saw a glimmer in the sky.

It was a bright glimmer, and it only seemed to grow larger and larger until after about two minutes I was able to make out the characteristics of a space-faring vessel. It descended above the mountain kingdom before finally stopping, just hovering over it. I looked at it carefully for a moment, and soon the markings on the sides of the ship struck my memories. It bore the insignia of my people, or at least they were my people.

A sick feeling came over me when I remembered the last time they attempted to make contact with a less developed race, and the time before that, and so on. They gained their technology from conquering other races. Each time they came with the same lie that they were in need of basic resources in exchange for technology, always using that to gain the trust of the leaders of other worlds so they could exploit it.

I shook my head, and turned to head as far away from civilization as I could. If these “ponies” were to survive I certainly would not be welcomed among them, even if I was, I wouldn’t deserve such an honor, not when I once belonged to them.

I turned to the forest, folding up my wings. I trotted towards it to scrape together an existence, one that I didn’t earn, or deserve.

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“So that’s it? We’re just gonna run away? Are you serious Twilight?!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed after hearing Twilight’s briefing.

“Look, there’s more to it than that. Celestia knows more than she let on, but all she said was that the future rests in the fate of Pariah, whoever that may be. But our job is to survive, only to return to find the one who holds our destiny, and help him, or her.” Twilight went on.

“Well I think that’s a stupid plan!” Rainbow continued.

“Sorry I have to interrupt you lovebirds, but we seem to have a bigger problem.” Rarity said from over by the window with a view of Canterlot.

The six ponies crowded near it looking on with anxiety and fear as they saw the ship set in place above the kingdom.

Twilight let out a sigh of mixed emotions, none of which were relief. “Damn, it’s all happening so fast…I thought we had more time…now it’s just a matter of waiting for Princess Celestia’s signal.” The Alicorn said glumly.

“Then what? What happens after you see her signal?” Fluttershy asked.

“We leave. That’s all I can say.” Twilight finished as she sat against the wall clasping her hooves over her face once again.I really like this

You've said exist three times at this point, consider a word change here.

Shouldn't there be a tab here? Also fix up the structure in this section

All in all, pretty good. Enjoyed reading this!