Researching #1: Well, This Was.........Unexpected
Space.
It's full of things that we humans and pretty much any other creature are fascinated with. From space rocks and asteroids to natural satellites and celestial bodies, these are generally the 'things' astronauts and scientists are researching on and studying their origins. But, even though the smartest people on Earth have retrieved so much information about space, it still wasn't enough. So, they resolved to call upon not the smartest MAN in the world, but rather the most intelligent YOUNG ADULT in the world.
Origin Of "The Traveler".
The said young adult was their most top space-info retriever because he was actually BORN smart. The doctors at the hospital say that they simply can't seem to find anything wrong with him. To prove it, when he was just about 4 years old, he knew how to drive a CAR with cinder blocks and wooden planks taped to his feet. As he aged, he grew smarter and smarter by the month and lead off to learn astronomy. Not only that, but he has been to a few occasions that involves him teaching his favorite subject to other, much younger kids. He was happy as he gained more knowledge, friends and popularity, but when he received a letter from the government of NASA, he couldn't believe his eyes. His mind was blown because of the request similar to a stick of dynamite exploding inside of a jelly donut.
And ever since he has been working for NASA for almost a year, he has so much fame that it skyrocketed to the highest levels of popularity. Eat that, Pewds!! Anyway, he was so happy with his current life, but one day, his life came to a conclusion.
During that day, he was on his way to pick up groceries when suddenly, he fell to the ground with his eyes still open, motionless. The customers around noticed this and immediately called an ambulance. After he woke up on a hospital bed, the doctor said that he and a few other scientists found something inside of his body that was............unbelievably jolting. It seemed like a sort of yellow energy inside of his body was rising and according to their researchers, if that energy is released, then it will be spread all over the globe and disable every human heart and stop them from living or even breathing. It's kinda like that scene from that Godzilla movie where Godzilla fights Destroyah and his body is full of radiation and whatever.
So, in order to save the entire human race on Earth, he was going to have to leave his home planet and travel to somewhere far in space. The boy asked the doctor if he can do something and stop this, but the doctor tried everything and the result was that he had to depart from Earth.
A few hours later.........
It was already 6 o'clock and the boy was ready to leave. The commander of the space program said that they were going to need a space vehicle that can take him to anywhere in the universe. Fortunately, since the boy was smart and all, he made an exact, functioning duplicate of the X-Wing Fighter from one of his favorite sci-fi movie series, Star Wars. The commander stated that the boy always surprises him with his inventions, to which TT smiled but not for long. When he was all ready to go, the space crew of NASA prepared the ship to launch using a giant slingshot. TT questioned them about the plan, to which the commander replied that it could be an opportunity to use the giant slingshot TT built for the 5th time. They pulled back the slingshot's bands and pouch along with the ship and let go after they had enough force to send the ship to a far location.
During the present time..........
Somewhere in the deep darkness of the cosmos, we can witness The Traveler's X-Wing, suddenly appeared from hyperspace. Within the cockpit of the X-Wing fighter, we can see The Traveler, having some trouble breathing through his intensity. He had on an X-Wing pilot suit which was included with a helmet.
He never thought it would come to this. He never knew that this is how his life would end: a sort of energy building up in his body so much, it could annihilate an entire species on one single planet. He wiped away a tear as he remembered what his father always used to say to him.
"No matter what happens, even if I pass away, I'll always be close to you."
"Thanks, dad," He said to his own imagination. Suddenly, a ringing sound came from his left pocket. He inserted his hand into it and pulled out a black, rectangular object. Then, he activated it by sliding the switch downward, therefore creating a radar-like device onto his left forearm.
RA~DAR! ON!
He looked at the 'screen' of the device and saw his girlfriend, Joe Jacobs, smiling at him with a sad face. His girlfriend has always made faces that even he can tell apart. From the screen, she had on a black shirt along with a red coat, blonde hair, and blue eyes.
"Hi!" She waved and greeted him.
"Hey, Joe," TT said. "Why are you calling me? I'm about to die, remember?" He didn't know why his girlfriend would call him during life threatening-situations, including this one. "Wait," He looked behind Joe. "Are you at NASA?"
"Yeah, I just wanted to say goodbye one last time." She wiped several tears that dropped to her cheeks. She can get SO emotional sometimes.
"Sorry."
"It's okay. So, I guess this is it." He said with a half-false frown.
"It is." She tried to hold back her tears as she continued. "And......TT?" That has always been one of The Traveler's nickname for such a long time.
"Hm?" She showed him a bracelet on her wrist made of a variety of scrap metal.
"Thanks for the bracelet. I know it's made out of metal junk and all, but," She sobbed a bit. ", I'll always treasure it."
"I always knew you would." They both laughed shortly before Joe noticed a kind of yellow energy, flowing out of TT's right hand.
"Dude, your hand." She pointed to it with a finger, to which he noticed and smiled weakly.
"I see. I guess my time is up." Before he turned off the radar, he asked one question to Joe. A question which is kind of awkward, but also gratifying. "Joe, before I probably die forever, I have one last question."
"Yeah?" She wiped away more tears from her cheeks. He inhaled, then exhaled and asked her the question.
"Did you ever liked me before our college years? I mean, the only time I noticed you liked me was last year when we went to the cafeteria at college."
Okay, this question made Joe jolt back a bit. She has always liked TT from the first time they went to high school together, but she forgot all about it and didn't have the courage to tell him. So, now was the time to spill the beans.
"Y-yeah, actually. During our years at high school." She felt so good to get that off her chest.
"Okay, so if you had a crush on me since high school, then why didn't you ever show it?"
"Because,......I was actually shy to tell you."
"Yeah, I know how that feels." They laughed more before TT noticed that his other hand had flowing, yellow energy coming out. "Okay, this is
it. I gotta go. Don't wanna keep my body waiting." They both wiped some tears away.
"Alright, I'll miss you." She still had her sad and happy expression.
"Goodbye, Joe." TT was about to turn off the radar.
"Goodbye,......K..." Before she could say the name, TT already powered down the radar switch.
On the spur of the moment, he could sense the energy charging up more and more as yellow air-like mist flowed through his hands.
"Well, I guess this is the end for me. I had a good run........" But then, he looked closer by squinting his eyes and saw that this does NOT imply that he is going to die. It actually means........"Wait, I remember this moment!" He took off his helmet and placed it aside as his neck and body seemed to glow as well. "Yes,...of course. This makes perfect sense. I may be wearing a bit thin....."
Suddenly, a giant black hole appeared out of nowhere above him, but he was too preoccupied with his current state. He looked above him, but he ignored it even when it started to suck him and the X-Wing into it. "......but, I hope that my nose will be more conspicuous next time." And as the black hole continued to draw in the ship, the yellow gas around TT suddenly shot out like an outburst of flames. All he could see when he was within the hole of darkness and nothing was.....well, darkness. But, he could still remember one last line of his.
Here I come.
His old life will end, but his new life will just begin.
Researching #2: The "White Hole" Event
Equestria.
A land of peace and wonder. On the surface of the planet, there are two goddess princesses who rule the land of peace and wonder. The first co-ruler is the goddess of the Sun known as Princess Celestia, who controls the Sun's position every day. The second ruler is the goddess of the Moon, also known as Princess Luna, who was formerly a villain, but since her salvation, she has now retrieved the role as the controller of the Moon. These two royal rulers are more than a thousand years old already and still hold their title as "The Co-rulers Of Equestria". But, this land is not only protected by the princesses alone, but also by six ponies, A.K.A. The Mane 6. This team includes a princess, a farm pony, a rainbow-maned pegasus, a shy and timid animal caretaker, a fashionista and a party planner/4th wall breaker.
Origin Of Equestria.
Before the land received its name, there were three different tribes who cared not for each other. The included individuals of each tribe consisted of unicorns, pegasi and earth ponies.
Unicorn ponies or simply 'unicorns' have long horns always sticking on their foreheads. They use these body parts to cast a variety of unnatural abilities called 'spells' which are fueled by a source of energy within the unicorns horn called 'magic'. Some of these said spells include levitation, duplication, invisibility, producing portals and many more. Although they can cast spells, they also use their horns for other more 'common' uses.
Pegasi are recognized by their wings, which they utilize to fly and soar in the air. They also have the ability to manipulate weather like move clouds and create tornadoes and a 'passive' kind of magic that enables them to walk and stand on clouds.
And finally, earth ponies have the ability to grow plants and food, wherever they desire to. They also possess a special connection to nature and plant life. Although they cannot fly like pegasi or cast spells similar to unicorns, their primary abilities are considered just as necessary and useful.
One day, a strange blizzard occurred, disturbing their precious peace. Eventually, the three tribes' leaders agreed to hold a summit and discuss on how to stop this event, but it only lead to more arguing and blaming. Fortunately, the leaders' assistants soon found out that a group of creatures called 'windigos' were the ones responsible for this snowstorm by feeding off the ponies' hate for each other. The three assistants told their leaders that they did not hate each other, which caused one of them to produce a big, floating and flaming pink heart that melted away the snow and drove off the windigos. Soon later, all of them became friends and found a new country to live in together, which they named "Equestria".
During the present..........
It was currently 8 o'clock and Equestria was having a beautiful night time. The sky was now dark blue with twinkling stars and the Moon above everypony's head. They felt safe during The Goddess of Night's favorite purposed time, but they always remain indoors in case anything bad occurs. Unlike that one time when a tall and slender pony-like creature came, wandering in their town and being misinterpreted for a monstrous beast. Unlike any other day, today was a very special one.
Everypony went to the town square which included a town hall and a statue of a pony, standing on what seemed like a sort of ball with one hind leg. All of them were excited because tonight was a special and not-so-secret event called "The White Hole Event". It only occurs once every 3 thousand years and it received its name because during the event, a giant and swirling white hole would appear at a random location in space. It is predicted that tonight, it will appear in the sky above the Ponyville town hall, to which the citizens were frightened at first, but soon calmed down when it was also said that it will not cause anything but appear. All of them were already gathered up in front of the town hall, except for one certain pony princess and juvenile drake who were late because the little one had to use the bathroom. Twice. What? Oh, sorry. Make that three times.
"C'mon, Twilight!" The drake exclaimed, breathing heavily for air while running as fast as his little reptilian feet can. "We're gonna be late!"
"Well," The lavender winged and horned princess said. "maybe if you haven't drunk so much soda, then we would've been early!" She has some problems with this kid.
"Hey, what else was I supposed to do!? Let it go to waste!?" What WAS he supposed to do? Throw it into the trash bin, that's what.
They looked ahead of them and saw the town hall along with a vast crowd of ponies, gathered into a single group. Standing in front of the entrance and facing the crowd of equines was the mayor herself, also known as Mayor Mare. ( That is so uncanny. ) After Twilight and the dragon have arrived at the front of the crowd to get a better view, the mayor decided to set about her announcement.
"Welcome," She greeted every pony. "one and all as we witness the most stunning and awe-striking event to ever occur in our lives: The White Hole Event!!" Everypony cheered and clapped their hooves, not knowing that this 'hole' has more to it than just looks. This event was unearthed by the two co-rulers of Equestria themselves when they found a secret book about ancient universal history. According to the book, there was an event dubbed "The White Hole Event" that......well, you already know the rest. But, the last page was torn off, to the princesses' curiosity. Even the books on ancient Equestrian history do not explain this. So, leaving the missing subject of the last page a mystery, they decided to tell the ponies about this strange and peculiar event.
"Tonight, we will witness the astonishing, white hole above the town hall and take in every second of its beautiful glory!!" Mayor Mare was pretty excited and pumped up about this. She has heard of black holes, but never of white holes. So, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for her and everypony in Ponyville, except for The Princess Of Friendship who will probably witness it again in the next 3,000 years or so. Speaking of the princess, she was just in front of the group when Spike pulled a video camera out of nowhere and planned on recording the white hole's arrival.
"Oh, man!" Spike shouted. "I can't wait to record every second of this moment!!" He was not going to wait for another 3 thousand years to see this. He is not even sure that dragons can live that long. Can they?
"Well," Twilight said. "contain your excitement until it actually happens, Mr. Jumpy." Then, she could pick up a bunch of voices, heading towards her. The owners of those voices belonged to The Elements Of Harmony themselves. They spotted Twilight and decided to say 'Hi'.
"Howdy, Twilight!" The orange, Stetson-wearing mare spoke first. "We thought yer' face was familiar."
"Hey, girls!" Twilight greeted. "You're watching the white hole too?"
"Are you kidding us!?" A rainbow-haired and blue pegasus asked. "Pfft! There's NO WAY we were gonna miss out on this! We heard everything and, to be honest, I was actually intrigued by it." Indeed, she was intrigued, but she also joined because her friends were there and disappointing friends is the first step to lose them. Or was that stealing their lunches?
"Yes, dear." Then 'marshmallow', indigo-haired pony said. "We truly did not desire to crush your spirits. Also, I thought the beauty of this 'white hole' will give me new ideas for my clothing line."
"Typical." The pegasus thought as she rolled her eyes.
"Yeah!" The pink one suddenly appeared in front of the lavender alicorn. "And best of all, wegettoseeoneofEquestria'smostsecretivesecreteverand............!!!!!!!!!!" Before she could continue, a yellow hoof blocked her mouth.
"Um, Pinkie?" A yellow, light pink haired pegasus pony asked with a hushful voice. "Maybe we should wait until it happens if that's okay with you." She removed her hoof from the pony's mouth. Then, the pony saluted like a soldier with her left front hoof. She was supposed to use her right..*sigh*...forget it.
"And now," Mayor Mare spoke once again as a brown stallion wearing a green bow tie pushed a pony-sized hourglass beside her. "mares and gentlecolts, we should be expecting the white hole to appear in 10.....9.....8..." She began to count down, accompanied by the rest of the ponies, including The Mane 6 and Spike. ".....7.....6.......5..."
As they were all counting down to one, a giant tear suddenly appeared in the night sky, slowly taking the form of a swirling, white hole. ( I'm not sure if it's actually that or a vortex. ) "......3.....2......1!!" After the entire crowd finally ended their countdown, the tear has now completely taken the form of a white hole. Its shining white light was even bright enough for the ponies to see and luckily, they have brought sunglasses along the way for eyesight protection. They all "Ooh-ed" at the glamor that the white hole acquired.
"Woah," Spike said with his sunglasses on his face and his camera recording every single millisecond of it. "This is even cooler than I expected!!"
"Same here!!" The pegasus agreed. She thought that it was going to be another one of those lame events where they just look at something for a long amount of time, but she thought wrong.
Meanwhile.......
The Traveler's POV
Darkness.
That was the only thing that surrounded my eyes after my.......'you-know-what'. I never imagined that it would come to this: being knocked out in an X-Wing Fighter while being dragged into a black hole with my helmet bouncing around and hitting me straight in the head for about 4 or 5 times. All I could do was try to lift my arms, but I was too limp to even move a single muscle. The only option that was available to me was to simply wait and hope that what awaits me on the other side will hopefully be somewhere more peaceful than a volcano.
Suddenly, my eyelids could let in a small quantity of white light into my eyes, letting me know that I was about to finally arrive at.....somewhere I probably don't recognize. After a couple of seconds, I felt like my ship was falling and hurtling because of a kind of gravitational pull from what I was assuming was a planet. As the light died down in my eyes, I could see blackness again, but a bit brighter than usual. I couldn't feel the wind because I reinforced the window locks to resist even the strongest of gusts before the launch. I knew that upgrade wasn't worth it!! Ahem, anyway, this feeling continued on until my ship started to rock very violently, indicating that I have finally crashed onto a type of surface.
But, it was mostly some pasture and soil because I already know what those smell like and don't even ask me how poop covered in MORE poop smells and TASTES like. After the feeling ended, it was somewhat hard to make out, but I could've sworn that I could have heard voices from outside. Most of them sounded feminine, but at least I also could've picked up some male ones. I was still knocked out, so there was no way for me to tell them to get me out of my ship. Good thing I didn't fully make my front view window completely sound-proof. Suddenly, I could hear the cockpit's window open with steam dramatically spewing out gently from the sides.
Then, I could hear some more voices just in front of my fighter. One of them sounded like a younger variation of Tara Strong. After that, I felt like I was being lifted up by anti-gravity and my arms and legs fell down, limply waving around as my body was brought out of the cockpit and onto the bare grass. One of them was assumingly poking the left side of my body with what felt like a long branch. Luckily, the tip wasn't sharp nor was it pointy enough to leave a serious tear in my spacesuit. I just had that thing dry cleaned. I could hear more female voices that argued over the figure that poked me earlier. Then, I was lifted off the ground once more and put on what felt like a wooden type of surface.
The source of the surface rocked a little before moving forward. Due to me still remaining to be unconscious, I would just have to wait again and hope that something or 'someone' will help me with my troubled state. Unlike last time where I was nearly about to fall into a Sarlacc's multi-toothed mouth inside of a giant pit one of my friends and I dug up. Before any of you judge me, yes, it IS possible to do that. If you're one of my friends, of course.
*To Be Continued..........*
