The First Feather on Earth

June 9, 2015.

Dear Journal.

Welp. Multiple things happened over the past couple days... 10 days to be exact. My camera got busted, a large, midnight blue pony with a horn AND wings showed up in my dreams a couple of times, and I found traces of someone else. I'll have to go find a new one sooner or later. But anyways, let's start with the camera.

I was just in our new garage, built just the way I like it thanks to the Worker Team. Jeez for bugs can they work fast. Sorry, bugs, insects and arachnids. But anyways, I was messing around in the garage, tinkering with the MPH to make it more durable and tougher. I was attaching aluminum plates to the sides, not my first choice of metal, but what are you going to do? I made holes in the sides so our defences could still work and I also made holes for the sticks. Which I had improved by placing a rubber "foot" at the end of them, then made sure they don't fall out by drilling a hole and sticking a small metal pipe through it, like plumbing pipe stuff. Cool thing is that it worked.

So I was just about to weld the last plate on when Chatty burst through the door, yelling something I can't quite remember. I jumped from shock and accidentally hit the camera, which was strapped onto my head at the time, against the bottom of the MPH, smashing the lens, bending the internal battery compartment, and had broken the battery that was inside of it, the battery acid just destroying the inner workings. Long story short, it is scrap and I'll need a new one. But anyways, when I had successfully taken off the camera and gave her a death-glare she simply wasn't exactly there. She was there, but she wasn't.

When she snapped out of her trance, she simply turned to me and asked: "Did you make this... all by yourself?" I looked back at the machine, only now realizing how impressive and intimidating a shopping cart can look when modified correctly. I slowly nodded and started grinning. I slowly asked, "Do you like it?" And when she nodded I grinned ear-to-ear, thinking of all the different ways I could upgra- Oh hey Chatty what's up?

BOING! Hey there! My name is Chatter Bug but you can just call me Chatty, Chatters, Chimichanga. Ooohhhh I love Chimichangas! They are so scrumptialicous I can't help but gobble up every single one I see! Heeheehee! Oohhhh I wonder if we still have any, do you have any? GASP! Do you even KNOW what a Chimichanga is!? Chimichangas are the most scrumptialicous, supertastical, nervousitedly, awesmazing thing on the entire planet! Not the cherry ones noooooooo, those I really don't like. They are fun to say though. Cherry, Chimichanga, Chimicherrychangas OOHHHHH! Chimi-Cherrychangas! Chimi-Cherrychangas! Chimi-Cherrychangas! Chimi-Cherrychangas! Chim-Mmphhffthhtpfft! Chatty, stop. Just go work on your diplomatic stuff, ok? Now go back to the colonies, they are probably worried about you. OhmygoshyourrightgottagobyeseeyaaudienceandpossiblyStarscribeandthanksforbeingsoawesomeyouguys!

....I will never understand that girl... Oh well. We also came up with a new name for the library and city now! The library is going to be The Hive Dome, while the city is now Bugtropolis. Yes, Chatty did come up with it and yes I did it to keep her quiet. Trust me, a whining Chatty is worse than an excited Chatty.

Anyways, about my dreams. Yes, I did see this "Princess Luna" in my dreams as well, but it was small encounters and I just simply listened as she vented towards me. Yeah, for a Princess she has a lot of problems and worries. One of which was the worry that they wouldn't be able to get an embassy person thingy before our worlds drifted apart. The first time I saw her was almost hilarious. I was dreaming about me being the best inventor in the world when someone comes and takes the title for himself! Then Luna comes along and is in the middle of her short monologue and about to blast him with magic when I just shrugged and said "Nah. He beat me fair and square."

The look on her face was absolutely priceless! It actually took her a little bit to register what I had said, but then she was all flustered and confused! She blinked quite the lot and shook her head. We then ran through introductions, her telling me about Cutie-Marks, that ass-tattoo that Chatty has so one mystery solved, and we were hitting it off pretty well. Me saying the sentence that started it all.

"It must be tough, being the princess of the night." At that, her eyes looked like they were far away as she mumbled: "You have no idea..." I could almost feel the sorrow and despair of her voice. I knew of multiple people like this and I enjoy letting them vent their frustrations at me. And I gave her the same treatment as I would give any pony. An opportunity to vent their frustrations without judgement. I lied down on my back, dreamed up some aviator shades and looked at her, saying simply "Wanna talk about it? I don't judge." She had laughed and decided to indulge me, knowing that when she told me about her Nightmare Moon thing I would hate her.

What I said instead was "Wait. She banished you to the MOON? For a thousand YEARS?" I even lower my aviators at that point to show my genuine shock! The look of frustrated miffed on her face was pure comedy gold! Anyways, I won't give the details but think about it like this. Sibling rivalry, one was in the other's shadow, lashed out, banished to the moon for a thousand years. That's all I will say simply due to me wanting to actually keep her privacy and the fact that she didn't want me telling anyone about what she has told me. And let's just say, I've developed a whole new respect for nighttime.

Anyways, where was I? Oh yes, the new pony... This section is not for the faint of heart guys, so kids, look away from the screen.

Well, when I said I found traces of another survivor... I meant it literally. I found a body... her guts had been cut open and it looked like someone had performed an old entrails reading ritual. It was fresh too... the blood was still slowly pouring out of the body... I haven't told Chatty about it yet, poor girl's already got a lot on her plate, what with governing all of the insect and bug colonies in Bugtropolis... It's one of the reasons why I've been so patient with her and her... antics. I usually let her vent towards me as well, though usually she just ends up hugging me and crying into my shoulder for an hour, apologizing for everything she has done.

But anyways, back to the body. I noticed something strange. Thing is... on her sides, right where wings would be, it almost seemed like something had cut them off, but I couldn't tell for certain because the blood had stained through the coat. Her tail had been cut off and simply thrown to the side of the body.

There was one other thing that intrigued me about it. Around the pony, and yes, written in blood, were a bunch of archaic runes of which I had never seen before, but I could tell that whoever was doing this wasn't just doodling. As I tried to read it, I could feel the power seeping from it in my wings. As soon as I felt that power, a chill went up my spine, and years of being a loner who stayed on his laptop all day caught up to me.

I was being watched.

I bolted from the site, went around a couple corners, and ducked inside a random house. Good thing too because as I hid inside the house I could hear the soft clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop of something trotting leisurely down the sidewalk, while I heard a male voice singing the Freddy Kreugar song. In case you guys were wondering it goes like this. Ahem.

One, Two, Freddy's coming for you.

Three, Four, better lock your door.

Five, six, grab a crucifix.

Seven, eight, Gonna stay up late.

Nine, ten, Never sleep again....

I'm going to be a man... err... stallion, and say this. I nearly fucking shit my pants there. I nearly had a heart attack as the clopping stopped not too far from the house, and then the most unbelievable thing happened. He stopped singing, and a knife crashed through the window just to the left of me. I stood frozen in shock, as the knife was then wrapped in a strange, almost ethereal, pale white glow, and then FLOATED UP AND BACK OUT THE WINDOW!

I had only started breathing again when I heard him continue singing and trotting back down the sidewalk. I had quickly peeked my head out the door-frame just to see who my attacker was. First thing I noticed. He had a horn as well. Also, it looked like he had wings too but... they didn't look right. It was almost as if he had cut off that other pony's wings and taped them onto his own back.

It was... unsettling to say the least. I didn't get a good look at him but from what I could tell, his main looked like it had been bleached, while his coat was a blood red. I could hear that he had ended the song, replaced by a burst of maniacal laughter as he trotted out of sight. After that ordeal, I had decided then that it would be best to contact Chatty and tell her to bring the bug-cover. Doing so is surprisingly easy. All I have to do is look for one of her sentry flies and tell it my location and to bring the MPH.

Sure enough, I had waited a bit and Chatty comes rolling along in her own vehicle, a literal hamster ball made of webbing, honeycomb, and leaves while tugging along my precious MPH. Do not ask me how that ball gets uphill, even I don't know the answer to that one.

But anyways, that was my close encounter with... the third kind! Crrik. Crrik. Crrik. OH SHUT UP WADE! I THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY! Yes, the resident asshole cricket is named Wade. Irony? I think not. Oh right! One thing I forgot to mention is that I made a small change to my name! It's now Lovely Tune-Up and you have no idea how hard it is to prevent this voice-to-text program to stop auto-correcting it to Turnip.

Anyways, as you can plainly see it's been quite the... eventful 10 days here... Geez. I might even try to make an ice-capp at this point... OH! I just remembered! We finally got a garden set up and the solar generators are doing great! Of course, we'll need to replace them in about 2 years but, meh. Thanks to Chatty's bugs, who are apparently more than glad to help in exchange for colony space, any construction or like things go by at least 10 times faster! I think we should get wind turbines set up soon, that way we can have at least some power at night, cause this is getting ridiculous! I'm partially nocturnal thanks to all the RP chat-groups I used to go to at night...

But anyways, I think I should do a recap or something... Alright. So... My camera broke, I spent some time with Luna, who by the way is a really cool pony when you just get to know her, Uhhh... then I found a dead pony, along with the killer, and we progressed with upgrading our base... maybe I should try to make some turrets so that the little guys can operate defensive machinery and protect The Hive Dome better... That's actually a good idea. I think I should probably get right on that. YOU GOT THAT WADE!?

Anyways, I guess I should wrap this up, cya everyone!

Your favourite mechanic,

--AJ--