The Past

Twilight was so excited! Today, she had gotten permission to visit the oldest sections of the Canterlot Library. While she could normally visit most sections, this one was off limits to everypony, only Princess Celestia was allowed inside. But today was the day! Twilight was in a slight hurry, she quickly walked down the halls of the Canterlot Library. The moon shone in through the windows in the hall, making the blue wallpaper glisten and shine. Twilight admired for a moment, but continued. This library was beautiful, she never could see a visit here as routine.

Twilight arrived at the barred door. The door behind the bars was an old oaken wood. The bars also showed age, but not as badly, they still looked like they could keep anypony out. The toughest guard she had ever seen stood before her. He grunted at her “Name.”

“Twilight Sparkle.” Twilight replied in a very business-like manner.

“Good. Enter.”

The guard opened the iron gate and allowed Twilight the honor of seeing the “crypt” library as it was called by anypony who had never seen it. Twilight pushed the door open with her magic and a gust of wind blew out, almost like an ancient tomb. There were marble stairs leading down to the library. Twilight looked back to the light of the moon for a moment, then tenaciously stepped down. She felt the cold stone of the stairs with every step she took. It was dark down there.The darkness engulfed her once the door to the surface was closed behind her. Twilight made a magic glow from her horn so she could see.

Twilight couldn’t tell if she was at the bottom of the stairs or not. She waved a hoof in front of her, since her magical glow didn’t give off enough light. She felt something small protruding from the wall. She pushed it from a down position to up. The sudden flash of light blinded her momentarily. She gave her eyes a minute to adjust and looked around. She was at the bottom of the stairs. She looked out onto a massive auditorium of books. The library was two floors, an upper smaller floor, and a lower, larger floor. Statues of strange creatures with wings accented the railings of the stairs. A wooden sign hung from the upper landing, it was missing a few letters, but it read “LI ARY OF C RESS.”

Twilight assumed that the first word as Library, but had no clue what the second was. She ignored it for now and decided to take a peek into a small, almost hidden door labeled “SCIENCE” with sturdy, plastic letters.

Inside the science wing, most books were destroyed, but there sat one on the floor in front of Twilight. She picked it up and looked at the cover. The Scientific Catalogue of Innovations of the 23rd Century. Twilight didn’t quite know when somepony had divided up the centuries past into numbers, but she ignored it. She took the book with her out into the main room. She sat at a desk, sweeping aside destroyed books and the plastic, glass, and other components to some machine somepony must have been building. Twilight opened her book. Most of the pages had become unreadable, to Twilight’s disappointment, but there was a good chunk that was still intact. Twilight read intently.

August 26th, 2237.

Today, gene manipulation was perfected. We could now create any kind of creature we should wish. We already repopulated many extinct species, and finally, asked our President what we should do next. Our President was an eccentric fellow however, he wished us to make something absurd. He was a big fan of the longest running cartoon ever My Little Pony; Friendship is Magic. He asked us to make an Alicorn. We tried and failed many times, but finally perfected a model. It was, however, unintelligent. We had to continue work to make it as smart as a human being.

October 11th, 2337

We finally perfected the brain for our Alicorn, however, personality was completely of her own accord. She did have to learn much, as would a baby, but she got a hold of many thing such as speech very quickly. She spoke for the first time the other day, she asked for a glass of water. We were happy to oblige. We were skeptical of this project at first, but after our success with creating intelligent life, we were so excited. We studied the beings in the show, saving dangerous creatures and talking cows for last. We first tried creating a pegasus today. The alicorn gave herself a name whilst we worked. Celestia. The pegasus we created failed. It died very quickly. Celestia was devastated. She thought of all these smaller ponies as her children. Seeing her misery, we tried again, and succeeded.

October 20th, 2337

We’ve created many successful ponies. They’ve actually asked to set up a town nearby. We decided to let them. They’re so adorable, how could we say no? The President was also very happy with our progress. He did say though, that Celestia was missing a sister. The Alicorn was the most difficult [strike]thing[/strike] being we had to make, but we gave it a go, for Celestia’s sake.

October 21st, 2337

After a total of two tries, we succeeded again. Luna, as she began calling herself, immediately gravitated towards the location of Celestia, as if she always knew where she was, and they wanted to be together. They wrapped their hooves around one another in a sisterly embrace. Celestia thanked us and tears graced her eyes. We were so happy we had started this project. Currently, there was a total population of 10 pegasi, 10 unicorns, 10 regular ponies, and 2 Alicorns. We wondered how we would get magic to work for them. We thought about levitation and simple things first. Then a yellow unicorn knocked on our door. As I had said before, their settlement wasn’t far from ours, so we could observe and occasionally help them. She asked for our help, but wouldn’t elaborate. She escorted us outside and told us “The weather is working on its own.”. We weren’t really sure what she meant, but then we remembered that pegasi were supposed to be in charge of weather and rain. Their crops weren’t doing to well, and the weather was kind of freaking them out. We told her to retrieve us a pegasus and we would see what we could do.

October 19th, 2338

After a year of trial and error, and eventually having the ponies come live inside, we successfully engineered the pegasus Rainy Days to walk on clouds. We repeated the process on the other pegasi, then allowed them outside again. They began testing out the clouds and making sure that everything worked properly. Pegasus Lightning Bolt immediately fired off a lightning bolt by kicking into one of the clouds. We hoped this wouldn’t become dangerous. We allowed the ponies back outside. Their structures still stood, we maintained the buildings for their return to the outside.

We observed the ponies for the rest of the day. Earth ponies began cultivating the land. Pegasi began planning a schedule for the weather. Unicorns were building a stone structure in the middle of town. We weren’t sure what it would be yet, but we would soon find out.

October 20th, 2338

Today we looked out our window at the town’s center. The unicorns had apparently worked all night. They had erected a statue in our honor. We couldn’t help but feel undeserving. However, in return, we set to work making their horns functional. We had no idea how we were going to start.

The first foal was born today. To Miss Feeling Fine, the unicorn, whom had established herself as the town’s doctor. This really just meant we had to help deliver the baby, since she was the doctor. The baby was promptly named Silver Moon.

October 29th, 2338

In the days past, we figured out how to get a “cutie mark” to appear. This was mainly triggered by growth to adolescence, but also finding a “special talent” Cutie marks in the future generations would be randomized, but the current population received them based on their current job. We went to give Celestia hers, but found she had done it herself, as had Luna. This remained a mystery for us until she explained that they had indeed trained their horns and developed magic. They hadn’t told us. Other unicorns had been coming to Celestia and Luna for help, and receiving magical powers. They had almost replaced us now, figuring out what would have taken us years in a matter of weeks.

Twilight wasn’t sure if she wanted to read any more. This was either a bad sci-fi/ conspiracy story or...the truth? She wasn’t really sure what to believe. She wondered if she should talk to Celestia. She decided on finding out what else happened first. Why weren’t these “humans” still around today?