The Equinulous

Canterlot Castle Suite, interior, morning

Out of shock and a slight fear of The Dragon’s knowledge of magic, Twilight requested to stay at the castle that night, Celestia gladly accepted

Twilight “But HOW?, you were there Spike, How did he turn himself into a pony?”

Spike “I keep telling you Twilight, under his floor was a secret staircase that led to a large machine, he entered the new data he got from you and then he turned it on.”

Twilight “uhh this is pointless, well I suppose we can all least wait for morning”

Spike “um, Twilight, it is morning”

Twilight “WHAT? but I just got here and I was thinking about how he might of been able to do this and..”

At that moment Twilight saw that she had dug a literal ditch in the floor of the room from walking in circles all night thinking about The Dragon”

Twilight “well then there no time to waste, who knows where he might go or what he’ll try and do next”

Spike “don’t you think you should get some rest and I could go see him, y’know dragon to dragon”

Twilight “rest is for chumps Spike, are YOU A CHUMP? besides, he’s no longer a dragon, remember?”

Spike “oh, right”

Twilight then uses her magic to grab Spike and place him on her back, Twilight then runs out of the room towards The Dragon’s house

The Dragon’s house, exterior, morning

Twilight “okay Spike, prepare yourself, now that he has control of unicorn magic, theres no guessing what he’ll do with it”

Twilight hears hoof steps behind the door growing louder as they approach the door, The Dragon then bursts the door open

The Dragon “Aaaauagh, t, wow, who knew you could have such a great nights rest on a pony bed designed for ponies”

The Dragon then looks up and sees Twilight and Spike

The Dragon “oh, morning Twilight, isn’t it a lovely day?”

Twilight and Spike look at each other in confusion expecting a more dramatic entrance from The Dragon”

Twilight “soooo, D..”

Twilight then realized that she had never gotten The Dragon’s name

Twilight “uhh, what is your name exactly?”

The Dragon smiles

The Dragon “I have no idea!”

Spike “nice to meet you I have no idea”

Twilight “what do you mean you have no idea?”

Spike “Twilight thats not his name”

Twilight “Spike, he doesn’t have a name, as far as we know”

Spike “what?….. Oh”

Twilight “you don’t have a name?”

The Dragon continues to smile

The Dragon “Nope!”

Spike “well then, what should we call you?”

The Dragon “nothing for now, I have work to do”

Twilight “work, more?”

Spike “but you already know everything about the magic of ponies in Equestria”

The Dragon “exactly, about the magic of ponies, NOW I’m going to figure out what kind of magic made our planet die!”

Spike “come again?”

The Dragon “gotta run”

The Dragon then uses his magic to teleport away

Twilight “what? b-but how”

Spike “I agree, our planet isn’t dead”

Twilight “No Spike! well actually yes that as well, But how was a dragon that just gained unicorn magic able to successfully perform a teleportation spell?”

At that moment, Celestia teleported behind Twilight with The Dragon captured in her magic, Celestia had a very disappointed look on her face

Celestia “Twilight could you explain to me why this stallion was trying to steal from the Canterlot archives?”

Twilight “the Canterlot archives? how do you know where those are?”

The Dragon “where else would they be but right next to the royal throne room”

Celestia “Twilight?”

Twilight “sorry princess, but this dragon was trying to figure out how the planet died”

Celestia “dragon?”

Twilight “yes, dragon, remember, the one I was telling you about yesterday”

Celestia looks at Twilight, then looks at the pony in her capture, then back at Twilight

Celestia “Twilight you’ve been surrounded by Spike too long in your castle, you’ve forgotten what ponies look like. I’m giving you a new assignment, don’t just leave your castle whenever the map gives you a place to go, go and actually talk to other ponies between missions”

The Dragon “oh no, I’m definitely a dragon”

The Dragon then smiles at Celestia

Celestia looks at The Dragon then using her magic does an x-ray spell to see for her self

Celestia “okay, I stand corrected, you both need to get outside and socialize with other ponies, Twilight I’m giving you a new, new assignment, become friends with this pony”

Twilight “wait, no, princess”

Celestia “good day Twilight”

Celestia then teleports away

The Dragon teleports a scroll to himself then unravels it

Twilight “did you steal that?”

The Dragon “you were here, Celestia doesn’t care”

Twilight sighs deeply

Twilight “if were going to become friends, I’m going to need something to call you”

The Dragon “I don’t care about that right now”

Twilight looks at the scroll that The Dragon stole, it wasn’t a scroll at all, it was a map of equestia

Twilight “out of all the things in the Canterlot archives, you stole a MAP?”

The Dragon “well yeah what would you take?”

Twilight “oh I dunno, a piece of text that would actually aid me in my research, I thought you were an analyst?”

The Dragon “I am, I just like to figure out things on my own”

Twilight “and whats this about the world being dead?”

The Dragon gains interest in twilights question

The Dragon “now you see, that I do care about, tell me Twilight, don’t you wonder why we have to manually control all aspects of our worlds climate?”

Twilight “what?”

The Dragon “ponies have to manually control everything, the weather, the wind, The rising of the SUN AND MOON! don’t you wonder why?”

Twilight “no, thats the way its always been?”

The Dragon “has it, then how come other worlds don’t require beings like us to complete those tasks, every single other world has no need for beings to control its climate, the sun and the moon ‘rise’ each day and night based off the revolution of the planet itself, in all other systems, the sun and moon don’t revolve around the planet, the planet spins and moves around the sun”

Twilight “how do you know all this?”

The Dragon “the same reason why I don’t know my own name, I’M NOT SURE! all I know is that its true, and ill be damned if I don’t figure out why”

Twilight “the clouds on other worlds move on their own.. like in the ever free forest?”

The Dragon “the what now?”

Twilight “ the ever free forest, the weather is uncontrolled there and the clouds move on their own”

The Dragon “thats not possible, climate isn’t limited to a single area, its a global network, it can’t work in one place and not work everywhere else”

Spike “well it does there”

The Dragon “fascinating, if that were to be true, then an incredibly potent source of natural magic must have made it possible? I must go there at once!”

The Dragon then teleports away

Twilight “wha? where did he go?”

Spike “the ever free forest?”

Twilight “I don’t think so Spike, not even alicorn magic is powerful enough to teleport a pony halfway across Equestria”

Spike “the train station”

Twilight “we can’t go home yet Spike we have figure out where he went”

Spike “no he went to the train station”

Spike points up high to the Canterlot train station, Twilight uses a spell to summon a magic telescope and sure enough there he was boarding the train

Twilight “how could you see that far?”

Spike “with my dragon eyes, don’t you know Twilight, dragons have an extended field of vision”

Twilight is shocked at first then shakes it off to focus on the problem at hand

Twilight “then theres no time to waste, LETS GO!”

Celestia teleports behind Twilight again

Celestia “Twilight, where did your new assignment go?”

Twilight “sorry princess, but were in a hurry, that dragon is leaving towards Ponyville with an unknown amount of knowledge about magic, theres no knowing what he’ll do!”

Celestia stops Twilight and Spike in their tracks with her magic

Celestia “Twilight I know you know the difference between a dragon and a pony, but this is ridiculous, your not going anywhere until you explain yourself”

Spike “she’s telling the truth princess, that pony is, or was, a dragon, he turned himself into a unicorn”

Celestia hears this and is stunned and confused, but then gives in

Celestia “if what you say is true, prove it”

Celestia releases Twilight and Spike, Spike then points to The Dragon’s house

Spike “in there”

The Dragon’s house, interior, midday

Spike opens the door and the 3 enter the room full of computers, they lay off and the house is dark, Twilight uses her magic and produces an illumination spell, Twilight then looks at Spike and nods, Spike walked over to the table holding up The Dragon’s computers and reaches underneath, he then presses a button and sure enough a chunk of the floorboards separate from the rest of the floor to reveal a secret staircase. they walk downstairs into a large room, Spike flicks on a light on the wall and the room begins to light up. there in the center of the room lay a large machine with rings of crystal surrounding a platform, a platform big enough to fit one teenage sized dragon

Spike “this is what he used”

Celestia “but in order for it to work, he would need pure, untouched magic”

Spike walked over to a cloak covering a small container, he removed the cloak and underneath lay an ancient looking cylinder, about 2 feet tall, it was rusted and covered in dirt. Twilight walked over to it and wiped the dirt off the front of the cylinder. underneath was a very strange symbol made up of 3 triangles and a dot in the center connecting them, and the words “Danger, Radiation”

Spike “rad-I-ation? whats that?”

Twilight “I’m not sure, do you know princess?”

Celestia “as surprising as it may be I’m not sure either, but this cylinder is ancient, even more so than myself”

Twilight “what ever it is, he used it to transform himself into that dragon - pony body”

Celestia “equinulous”

Twilight “what?”

Celestia “he’s and equinulois, an artificially made equine”

Spike “why is that even a term?”

Celestia “because he’s not the only being to try and turn himself into a pony, there are multiple beings that would love to get their hooves on unicorn magic, some of which you have met Twilight, Tirek, Chrysalis, the Sirens, they are all artificially made, but failed attempts to turn into ponies, this dragon was able to do it perfectly, if this knowledge got into the wrong hooves, it could mean untold chaos across Equestria. Twilight, find this dragon equinulous and bring him to Luna and myself, we will figure out his true intentions”

Twilight “right away princess”

Twilight and Spike exit The Dragon’s house and Twilight stretches out her wings to fly back to Ponyville

Ponyville Train Station, exterior, afternoon

The Dragon “now lets see, according to this map, the ever free forest is in, this direction”

The Dragon begins trotting in the direction of the ever free forest, on route he catches a glimpse of a brown stallion earth pony with a very peculiar cutie mark

The Dragon “excuse me you there, stallion, Sorry to intrude but I couldn’t help but notice your cute mark”

Doctor Hooves “oh this old thing, well yes it is the odd one isn’t it, but may I ask, who are you?”

The Dragon “my apologies, I am dragon”

The Dragon reaches out his hoof for a shake

Doctor Hooves “dragon huh? well I’ve certainly heard worse, nice to meet you dragon, I’m Time Turner”

Doctor Hooves reaches out his hoof as well and the 2 connect for a shake, but before any shaking of hooves could take place, The Dragon experiences a massive vision of the vortex of time itself and hears a grinding, an odd grinding he’s never quite heard before. and he hears Doctor Hooves heartbeat, a heartbeat of 4

The Dragon removes his hoof from Doctor Hooves and steps back to comprehend what he just experienced

The Dragon “oh ohohoho, you are the odd one, Doctor”

Doctor Hooves is stunned by The Dragon’s realization of his true identity

The Dragon “Forget some weird climate magic from one corner of Equestria, you, your going to show me how you came in contact with the magic essence of time itself, and your going to give it to me”

END PART 2