The Beast of Friendship 2.0
Discovery
Previous ChapterAs Nathan left the room, Celestia lost her smile and turned to look seriously at Twilight.
"My student, I dared not ask while he was here but is this...'Nathan' a threat to Equestria?" She asked. She was unprepared for the response she got.
"WHAT?!?" The mane 7 all exclaimed in unison. They stared at Celestia as if they had never seen her before.
"Princess, why would you even ask something like that?! Nathan is very kind, even Fluttershy is already warming up to him!" Twilight said in shock.
Celestia looked into each of their eyes, one by one, before sighing and seemingly slumping.
"Well that answers my question. All of you already consider him a friend don't you?" She said with a small smile before it once again turned into a frown. "I'm sorry my friends, but I had to know. I feel the magic coming off of this place in waves. And the last time I felt magic this strong was when we last faced off against Tirek. Please, what can you tell me about his world?"
The girls all sighed in relief before beginning to tell her what Nate had told them. When they reached the point about there being no magic on Earth, however, she stopped them briefly.
"You're absolutely certain he said that there was no magic on his homeworld?" She asked seriously.
"Yepperoni! That's what he told us, Princess!" Pinkie said.
At this, Celestia looked over to Luna.
"Are you thinking what I am Lulu?" She asked.
"I believe I am, Tia. AMBUR?" Luna said in reply, causing Celestia to nod.
While this was going on, the others in the room were looking between the two confusedly.
"Ummm...Excuse me...Princess Celestia?" Fluttershy began timidly, "Ummm...What does AMBUR mean? If you don't mind me asking that is."
Celestia nodded and opened her mouth to speak, but was interrupted by a loud explosion!
Startled by this, everyone looked at one another before rushing down the hall Nate had ventured through.
Now, I got to my garage, and everything seemed to be fine. I looked through the whole dang place and just could not find those old computer chairs that I know I had stored. That's when I realized that I had them stored in my bunker/safe-house.
Yes, I have a bunker. Yes, it's underground. Yes, I was just that paranoid back on earth. But can you blame me? With things so tense between America and the rest of the world we were bound to get nuked at some point unless we got lucky.
Let's not get into that though, I had a few months worth of supplies down there along with anything I would well and truly miss. I put the chairs down there so I wouldn't have to simply sit on the floor.
Going over to a switchboard I used to control my electric kiln, I reached underneath it and pressed a button. A keypad flipped open, and I put in my code. The floor about a yard and a half next to the kiln started to slowly lower into a ramp, which I walked down.
After a little while, I reached a door with a microphone and button. It was a voice recognition and key system. I sighed, as this part of the process used...Her name.
Pushing the button, I braced myself and spoke that normally forbidden word.
"Annabelle"
A few seconds later, the door opened and I walked through. I was taking some deep breaths to try and maintain my composure. Just thinking about her still brings me pain, even now.
Anyway, the door was actually to a flight of stairs.
What? How did I afford all this? Ha! You think I paid for it all? Yeah right. Most of this was already in place when I bought this house. All I really paid for was the changing of the original stairs and trapdoor into an automatic ramp.
Anyway. The stairs bottomed out in front of another door, this one with an old-fashioned combination lock. I turned the dial appropriately and was granted access to my small to my mid-sized bunker.
Except the bunker wasn't so small anymore! Now it was a MASSIVE room the size of two US Supercarriers!
The walls, floor, and ceiling were all made of metal. There were full-size statues of the Gundams, mobile armors, and ships I had made personal figurines of!
This is the bookmark folder that has all the Gundam wiki pages for the entire list. In other words, Here's the list:
Boom!
All of the mobile suits were in the walls, and the Gadelaza was suspended from the ceiling along with the GN Armor and Assault Carriers.
What really had my attention, however, was the glowing blue crystal floating in the center of the room. It was unsupported, and about twice as big as I was. Curious about it, I stepped through the door. However, I only got about three feet into the room before I was frozen, unable to move except for breathing and blinking.
I watched as the crystal glowed brighter, before shooting out bolts of what looked like lightning which struck all of the statues. They all glowed as the lightning crackled across the surface of their metallic bodies. Then every one of them shot a bolt in the same general direction.
'No..' I thought to myself as my eyes widened, 'Not a single direction, a single target! And I'm that target!'
That was my last thought before the bolts all struck me, because from that point on my world consisted of nothing but pain. It lasted a couple of seconds before an explosion happened and blew me back into the wall next to the door. The last thing I saw before I blacked out was her kneeling in front of me.
The image of a brown-haired, green-eyed girl in a white dress sat on her knees, a hand on Nathan's face. Her white sundress seemingly sparkled in the dim light of the bunker.
"I'm so sorry Nate." She said, "This world needs a savior, and I could think of no one more worthy to be that savior than you."
Her hand began to fade from view, making her draw it back in front of her face. "I'm still not stable enough to stay around for very long. I need more time." She muttered before turning back to Nate. "Rest well, when you wake up, your entire life will change..." She leaned in and planted a kiss on his cheek, "...My love."
She stood up and sighed as she turned into a glowing sphere, which went into Nathan's forehead. And just like that,
she was gone. As if she was never there.
A few moments later the mane 7 and the princesses rushed through the door, they stopped and stared in awe at the room before Fluttershy looked to her right and noticed Nate laying leaned up against the wall.
"Nate!" She cried, catching the others' attention. They quickly ran over and immediately noticed a difference in their friend.
Where he was once of average height and rather chubby, now his frame was lithe and thin, almost like that of a runner or swimmer they thought, and he was a solid 6 ft tall even. His tanned skin had a slight goldish tint to it, and his formerly black hair was now a shade of red reminiscent of the color of blood.
Twilight looked him over before saying with clear relief, "He's alright. It looks like he took a hard blow to the head, most likely when he hit the wall. I wonder what happened?"
Twilight turned to the others as she said this, and noticed that both Celestia and Luna were staring at the floating crystal with grim looks on their faces.
"It seems we were right Tia." Luna said. "It was indeed a case of AMBUR."
"Yes, though judging by the explosion it was much more severe than I thought." Celestia replied. "Just how long has this been building up to still have some left after all that it has already done?"
"Ummm, Celestia?" Cadence began, making everyone jump slightly. They had almost forgotten she was there. "What are you two talking about?"
"Patience, please." Luna responded. "We will explain once Nathan is awake. For now, let us move upstairs once more.
I do believe it is time to raise the moon and lower the sun, so we should leave him on the couch with a note and we can come back tomorrow."
So saying, she slung one of Nathan's arms over her shoulder, while her sister took the other as they began to ascend the stairs once more.
Author's Note
Okay. So let me know, If it seems rushed. I am still looking for a beta, so if it does and you think you can help then please PM me.
