The Imagineers

Chapter 4 Revised Reality

Something was wrong, Ortho could feel it, like a displacement in the time-space continuum. Princess Luna appeared from one of the hallways in the castle. Ortho looked back at the ponies who were carrying Twilight inside.

“Thank the stars,” Luna said as she carried Twilight off with her magic.

She came back a half an hour later, “I’m not sure what I would do without her, she and all of you are considered family, it was stupid of me to let you all take this task alone." She looked to me, “So you’re the Imagineer I presume?” Luna asked.

Ortho broke from his trance, “Oh, Yes… Orthodox Monarch, Imagineer and Human from the planet earth.” Ortho said, feeling a slight amount of De-ja-vu.

“Planet? Oh! Are you from another star system? Can you tell me all about it,  I am  an Astronomer.”

“Oh, yes, of coarse, though, you’ve probably not seen my star considering that I’m from another universe as well.” Ortho said liking this princess already. “I’ll explain that later, right now, I need to talk about Twilight.”

“What about her?” Luna asked with a tone of concern in her voice.

Ortho sighed, “When Discord separated the element of magic from her, somehow, a taint got inside her magic supply.”

Luna had spread a large shade of concern.

“It’ll be around fifty years before she will be able to use her magic, at least that’s what Baolaf tells me.” Ortho said.

“Baolaf?” Luna said surprised, “Baolaf is alive? No, I saw him die in front of me, you must be mistaken.”

“Well, he’s not alive per say, absorption of the element included his consciousness inside me.”

“Really, may I speak with him?” Luna asked. Intrigued by the claim that her creator was inside of him.

“He can’t, he says that he used to much energy trying to make Twilight sane again.”

Luna looked a little disappointed, “Very well, you have done us a service Orthodox Monarch, thank you for protecting my ponies, I hope to get to know you better, as a gift, I assign you Tia, my personal assistant, she will arrive next morning to start work with you.” She extended her hoof.

Ortho shook it, “I plan on working for the betterment of ponykind.”

She nodded and turned to leave.

“Yep, best Princess in the world.” Pinkie Pie said.

Something felt off putting about this, but it felt better knowing the princess was on his side, “An assistant she said?” Ortho asked, that surly would be interesting to have, especially for some of the idea’s and project he planned to work on.

“Eyup, that’s what she said.” Apple jack replied.

Rainbow sighed, “When am I going to get my assistant huh? Now you, and Twilight have an assistant.”

“Uh, Rainbow, What exactly do you need an assistant for?”

Rainbow rolled her eyes, “I need someone to root my awesomeness all the time, don’t I” She asked in a narcissist manor.

Applejack then rolled her eyes, then looked to Ortho, “We losing daylight Ortho, don’t suppose you have a place to sleep now?”

Spike came up, “We have a spare room here in the castle if you would like, Princess Luna is staying with Twilight until she wakes to make sure she doesn’t use her magic” Spike said, “Let me lead you to your room.”

Ortho followed spike through the Crystal corridor, It looked bigger on the inside than the outside. Ortho shivered as if he had already thought that before.

Ortho reached in his head. Is everything okay master Baolaf? Ortho thought.

‘Everything’s fine my boy, though I don’t understand why your asking.’

I don’t know, Things feel… Off. Ortho thought to him. He heard Baolaf chuckle

‘It really surprised me what Discord did you know, even he knew of the Importance of the existence of the Imagineers. If I had known, I wouldn’t have need to have created Luna to dispose of him. Enough talk, You need shuteye, and you need to greet your new assistant tomorrow.”

Spike and him were now at the door of the room.

“I hope she recovers.” Spike said, “Its going to be a harsh adjustment to her you know, magic was her life, though…  I assume she can still study it and continue to write down new spells.”

Ortho smirked, “You know, on my world, there was once a great musician named Ludvig Van Beethoven, he was renown far and wide, one day, he became deaf, unable to hear.”

Spike looked at him, “That’s terrible to happen, especially to a Musician.

“But, even though he was deaf, he knew music so well, that he was able to continue to make beautiful pieces of music, only thing was, he was unable to listen to his beautiful work.”

“Like Twilight, she knows magic like the back of her hoof.” Spike said hopeful.

“Exactly spike, good night.” He closed his door and went to bed.

. . .

Ortho woke up with a yawn, he was about to get out of bed when he found a little filly sleeping on top of him, out of surprise, he jolted upward, “Gaaahhhh!” he yelled. The Filly, startled, also jumped, “Eepp!” She landed on the ground besides him.

“What the, Who are you? And why were you sleeping in my bed?”

The filly got up groaning, “Ugh, sorry sir.” She was a little white filly with a pink mane and tail, “I got here in the morning, but when I saw you so cozy and warm… I started getting tired.” Ortho could hear Baolaf mentally chuckling in his head.

“Well, okay, lets get this behind us. Whats your name?”

“Tia, Tia Days sir.” She said.

Ortho cleared his throat, “Okay Tia, your first task is to get me books on equestrian history, science, magic and Home modeling.”

She took notes then raised an eyebrow, “Home modeling?”

“I’ll have to live somewhere, I’m not staying in this castle forever.” Ortho said. Ortho looked at the moon through the window.

An Idea popped in his head, “You know, I think I have an Idea.”

. . .

Ortho walked out of the room with Tia Days following, “So Princess Luna raises both the sun and the moon each day?” Ortho asked.

Tia nodded, “Of coarse, everypony knows that.”

“I’m curios on how the laws of Physics work in this world. Its quite different from mine.”

Tia looked at him,

        "Well, on my world, the sun is a million times the mass of my world, and not to mention that the world goes around the sun.” Ortho explained.

“Well, that’s no different than ours.”

Ortho raised an eyebrow, “Oh, do tell.”

Tia cleared her throat, “Well, based on the Luna astronomy class I took, It is said that Equestria lost its rotation about two thousand years ago, luckly unicorn magic developed enough to where the princess can grab th sun and move the planet.”

Ortho scratched his chin, “That’s incredible, I’ll have to look at Equestrian astronomy  while I’m here too.” This world wasn’t so illogical as Ortho completely thought, in fact, it was full of rich sciences.

Four Of the original six were walking towards Imagineer and filly. “Were goin to head off to find Fluttershy and Discord, though... i'm not likin the odds of finding them” Apple Jack said. “Twilight is in the room down the hall, she wants to see you, Bye.”

The four left in search for Fluttershy not seeming to notice the filly besides Ortho.

Ortho looked to the Filly, “Would you like to come and greet Twilight with me?”

Tia’s eyes sparkled, “To meet the element of magic, slayer of nightmare moon, and princess of friendship…Yes!” she said.

Nightmare moon… he thought, something didn’t add up about that, and Ortho realized that it partially had something to do with the memories of Twilight.

“Hey Tia?” Ortho asked the filly walking with him.

She turned her head, “Yeah?”

Ortho thought about the question, “What exactly happened after Nightmare Moon was defeated, and who put her in the moon in the first place?”

“Well, the Elements of harmony turned her to stone, which is now in the royal gardens. And who one who put her in the moon, Princess Luna did of coarse.” She said.

Ortho though abou this.

Tia then explained further, "Well, you could say nightmare Moon was Luna, but as she rejected the darkness, it split from her and became a whole other being."

Ortho thought about this explaination, the memory was fuzzy, but it felt different than that.

When they reached the room, Ortho saw that Twilight was still in her bed with Princess Luna besides her. They appeared to have ben chatting and laughing with each other. Twilight looked over to his direction, “Oh, Ortho, we were just talking about you.” Luna said. “We were curious about your Species, and how you developed without magic.” She said.

“Spike also told me that your world had like a deaf musician or something like that, I was just curious.” Twilight said.

She seemed to be in a good mood at least. And Ortho was happy to tell them his history. He explained to them the big bang theory, and how the first element Hydrogen, created stars which exploded after a long period of time after nuclear fusion to make heavier element like Iron to make planets that clumped together from the particles. He then explained the goldilocks zone on how a planet must be close but not too close to the sun so it doesn’t burn or freeze for their life to exist. The two ponies were submerged in his knowledge as he switched the subject to human inventions from the solenoid to the computer, then to space travel devices, to quantum theory and blackholes, to galaxies.

The two Alicorns and unicorn filly  was enthralled in his stories of the universe his species pieces together. There were things his species didn’t know about, but he told what he knew.

“Your species are very incredible Ortho, the lack of magic must have increased your inventive and discovery skills.”

Ortho’s smile disappeared, “We used to be, anyway.”

All ponies cocked their heads, Tia looked up at him, “What do you mean, you’ve reached the heavens, discovered the beginning of the universe and created marvelous Inventions.”

“Well…” Ortho began, “As our technologies grew without restriction, we relied more and more on our technologies to the point where they did everything for us. Advance learning wasn’t required anymore, my people grew even more stupid with each generation.”

“But your not like that Ortho.” Twilight said.

Ortho sighed, “I’m in a minority of humans Twilight, my parents raised me to be better than the rest of the world of humanity so I could eventually try to raise human awareness again one day. But that’s changed now that I’m here to bring forth harmony to this land.”

All of the ponies frowned. Suddenly Twilights tattoo acted up.

“Whats going on with that?” Ortho asked.

Twilight looked it over, “My cutie mark? I don’t know?” Twilight said

Ortho would have to ask about that later. Twilights friends, minus Fluttershy came in, “We couldn’t find Fluttershy, but I’m sure she will turn up.” Said Rarity.

“But our here cutie marks are acting up.” Apple Jack said. "Its why e came back."

“Mine too” Twilight said. “ we should get to the throne room to discus this.

. . .

‘I nearly forgotten the plans me and the others had for them.’ Baolaf said.

What do you mean, Ortho thought as he followed Twilight and the others.

‘Me and the others didn’t think this would happen, your coming here I mean, so we devised a plan to have the six to fix the problems over Equestria. The others must have activated the map without me.’

Ortho walked into the throne room, with six chairs in a circle.

Wheres the map? Ortho asked.

‘You will see.’ Baolaf said.

The six sat in their chairs. Ortho looked to Twilight an saw hers was broken.

‘Hope it  still works.’ Baolaf said.

The marks on the chairs glowed while Twilights glitched, but it did the trick. crystals started jutting out from the chairs to the center into a table with a holographic map on it.

Spike stood by me while it happened, “Wow, that’s new.” Spike said, “Looks like I better cancel watching the Hoofball game with Big Mac.”

“Fascinating.” Luna said.

A glitchy star that resembled Twilights Cutie mark came over to Ortho, at the touch of his right hand, it transformed itself into a gauntlet with the star symbol.

‘Still looking out for you Ortho.” Baolaf said.

Orthodox observed it, it had a scale like plating that looked similar to spikes scales. He then turned back to the map to see another Star, only surrounded by other… cutie marks, he remembered them being called. They moved over to a location on the map away from Ponyville.”

“What does it mean?” Rarity asked, “If were supposed to go there, we can’t go without Fluttershy, her cutie mark shows that she’s supposed to go there too if that’s the case.”

Suddenly Discord appeared, “Is Twilight done being loco?” He asked, gasping at the sight of her.

“Well, you’re the reason she wen’t crazy in the first place Discord.” Apple Jack said.

“Yes, yes, that is true, alright, I guess I’ll bring her back.” He snapped his fingers and Fluttershy appeared.

“Twilight!” The yellow pegasus flew to her friend and hugged her. “I thought that you would never be you again.” She sobbed. Twilight started crying as well, apologizing to the pegasus.

The Pegasus wiped her eyes, “I'm Sorry, is Celestia still here?”

Everypony looked confused. “Who in the hay is Celestia?” Apple Jack asked.

It was Fluttershy's turn to look confused, “What do you mean?”

Ortho felt a chill, the name felt familiar.

Ortho’s assistant perked up, “My name is Celestia, but you can call me Tia, and… How do you know my name, only one who calls me by that is my aunt.” Tia said

Fluttershy looked at the filly, surprise on her face, but didn’t say another word. Was it now...fear on her face?

Discord stroked his beard, “The name sounds familiar, but it doesn’t ring a bell.” He said darkly. Discord never forgets name, even though he pretends to for the occasional pun. But something about the name… disturbed him. “Well, I better be off, there’s chaos to wreak.” He snapped his fingers and left.

Everyone shook back to reality. Fluttershy looked rather concerned, but turned her focus toward her friends.