What You Wish For 2: The Book of Unicorn

Sleeping was difficult considering Alex was strapped into a suspension seat with his legs dangling in the air; he looked outside the plane using the hologram visors and looked at the night sky. The sky was a black cloth with the twinkling stars scattered everywhere as they flew through the thick puffy clouds. The ship shook a bit before Lyra’s voice came onto the intercoms saying, “Folks this is your captain speaking, we are about to land in Trottingham so please excuse the bumpy ride.”

Alex looked over to Oscar as they all began to wake up, Alex spoke into the intercom, “What do you mean bumpy?”

The plane suddenly shook, making Alex’s legs flail like a ragdoll as Lyra said with a laugh, “That’s what I mean by bumpy, we’ll be landing in a few minutes so get ready… don’t worry you’re not being air dropped again.”

A few minutes had gone by and Alex was carrying the ponies off one by one, mainly because he would suffer from both a heart explosion and diabetes. As he pulled the limp Fluttershy from her module she yawned and snuggled close to Alex. Alex smiled brightly as he sat down on a nearby park bench where another pony was casually sitting and watching. As Alex sat down and began to stroke her mane he looked over to the curious pony as he said with a smile, “Endangering your life and risking the fate of two worlds does have its perks.”

As Oscar carried Pinkie Pie off while hugging her tightly he called out to Alex, “We have to find a place to stay tonight.”

Applejack yawned as she groggily approached the sleepy group while saying, “One of mah customers lives nearby. He’s Filthy Rich’s brother, Stinking Rich.”

Alex gently stacked the sleeping Fluttershy on top of the sleeping Pinkie before kneeling down towards Applejack as he said, “Where does he live and do you think he’ll be nice enough to let us stay for the night?”

Applejack nodded her head as she said, “Just follow the signs… over there.” Applejack pointed a hoof towards the sign that read, “Stinking Enterprise next corner.”

Alex blinked at it as he said, “Well that’s convenient. Let’s go.”

*****

A middle aged pony stood behind a desk as he looked out a large window, he stood high above the rest of Trottingham in his mega corporation building. Suddenly the phone at his desk rang, he approached it and with his hoof he tapped the answer button as he said, “What is it Pencil Pusher?”

The voice of a young mare on the other end spoke calmly, “Mr. Rich, one of your product providers is here with her friends.”

Stinking trotted closer to the phone as he stroked his gray mane and adjusted his glasses before saying, “Which provider is it Pencil, we need to be more specific.”

A western accent began to speak into the telephone, “Now how does this here thingy work? Do Ah just speak into the darn thing or what?”

Stinking jerked upright as he heard the unique voice; there was only one pony in the whole world of Equestria he knew that had that accent. Stinking was quick to respond as he said with excitement, “Applejack, is that you?”

Applejack chuckled as she said, “Is this good ol’ uncle Stinky?”

Stinking laughed as he said with joy and excitement, “Come on up ma’am.” A few minutes later the front door to his office opened to show a group of tired monkeys and ponies. They all dragged their feet and hooves towards the nearby chairs where they immediately laid down and began to relax.

Applejack was the only one to trot up to Stinking as she said with a tired smile, “Ol’ Stinky, it’s great to see you once again.”

Stinking gave Applejack a hug as he said, “It’s great to see you too, my how much you’ve grown, I remember you when you were barely able to fit into that hat of yours. You could have just told Pencil Pusher who you were, you’re no longer a provider to us. You’re a priority of the upmost importance.”

Applejack smiled as she said, “Well in that case Ah would like to introduce you to two very important individuals. Alex and Lauren I’d like to introduce you two.”

Alex and Lauren walked up to Stinking as Alex said, “Pleasure to meet you Mr. Rich.”

As Alex shook Stinking’s hoof he looked at him with curiosity in his eye as he said, “You don’t look like you’re from around here?”

Lauren nodded her head as she said, “Yeah we’re from real far away.”

Applejack decided to intervene before the conversation went all night long and said, “Look Mr. Rich, we need to stay somewhere for the night. Do you mind if we stay here for the night?”

Mr. Rich nodded his head as he said, “Of course you can, you can all stay in the guest rooms upstairs. I usually give that to our major partners when they come in from outside the country. But since you are more family than business and family comes before business I don’t see why you can’t stay there.”

Applejack nodded her head as she said, “Thank you very much.”

*****

Alex walked into his private room with Fluttershy on his shoulder before laying her down gently in the bed before tucking her in. After making sure she was comfy he silently left the room and began to walk down the hall, heading for the stairs to the roof. As Alex opened the door to the roof he saw Oscar standing at the edge of a building. As Alex walked up to Oscar, he turned around and said with a twinkle in his eye, “Hey man.” Alex sat down on the edge of the building with his legs dangling over the edge, the building stood tall above the rest of the city. Oscar slowly sat down next to him and rested his bag at his side before saying, “Quite a view, isn’t it?”

Alex slowly nodded his head as he said calmly, “Yeah… you don’t get a view like this in Canada.”

Oscar silently laughed as he said, “There are a lots of things that you don’t get in Canada.” Oscar opened his bag and pulled out a bottle of Rum and Coke as he said, “Rum and Coke?”

Alex nodded his head as he took a cup from Oscar and poured himself his drink. Once they both had their drinks Alex said with no expression, “Tomorrow might be the last day…”

Oscar looked over to his friend as he said, “Beg pardon?”

Alex took a sip from his drink before continuing, “Tomorrow is probably the day we find the Book of Unicorn, once Lauren reads it she gains its infinite power and no longer needs our protection.”

Oscar looked down at his dangling feet as he said in a low tone, “Yeah… well you’re going to be staying, you and Fluttershy look like a great couple. I will probably be forgotten by next week.”

Alex turned his head to his new best friend as he said, “Forgotten? Forgotten is when I forget your name, forget what made you special and what made you memorable. You are Oscar, Dark freaking Castle. I was reading your stuff and loving it before this huge adventure happened to me. You have a great heart, an innocent one at times; you have this fire in your heart that makes you look towards the good in everything. You’re a loveable person once we get to know you; you’re funny and really skilled. Of all the people that will remember you it will be Pinkie.”

Oscar was surprized to hear that and said, “Pinkie? What makes you say that?”

Alex wrapped his arm around him in a bro-hug as he said, “Don’t act like you haven’t noticed it yet? Pinkie’s looking at you with goo-goo eyes, you look like you’ll make her smile when she needs it and she will make you laugh when you need it as well. Everyone here loves you, Oscar. I love you, no homo… you’re my best friend and are the only person I would hang out with for the rest of my life.”

Oscar began to smile before it quickly faded as he said, “Thanks man… it’s so cool being friends with someone like you.”

Alex raised his glass as he said, “Let’s make this official, I declare you as my best friend forever.”

Alex and Oscar toasted their drinks before downing them and coughing up the burn in their throats before laughing and joking for the rest of the night. After a while Alex looked over the horizon to see the sun beginning to rise over the horizon before he said, “Well the sun is rising, let’s get those girls and get going. We have a big day ahead of us.”

Oscar picked up the bottle of rum and put it back into his bag as he said, “Right.”

*****

Alex sat down in the bed next to Fluttershy as he said gently, “Fluttershy… wake up. We have to get going now.”

Fluttershy slowly opened her eyes as she said groggily, “Please… just five minutes… please?”

Alex gently lifted her out of her bead as he said, “I promise I will let you sleep as much as you want when we get back to Ponyville.”

Pinkie yawned as she said with big sleepy eyes, “Can you carry me please?”

Alex looked down, ready to say no. As soon as he looked her in the eyes he began to crumble under her adorableness, a smile cracking up on his face as he put her over his shoulders, wrapping his arms around her haunches and letting her wrap her hooves around his neck. Alex slowly got up from the bed and began to walk down the hallway, as he walked he saw Oscar walk up carrying Pinkie in the same way. Alex smiled as he whispered, “Did she give you the eyes?”

Oscar nodded his head as he adjusted her, her pink hair falling in front of his face as he silently laughed before they got into the elevator.

When they got out they approached the rest of the group that was already waking up, they were adjusting their hair and yawning but were otherwise attentive. Alex walked up next to Lauren as he said, “Alright girls, this mission is going to need everyone’s cooperation if we want to find the book before the enemy does. Twilight, do you know where to go?”

Twilight read over the piece of torn paper for a few minutes. After reading through the entire page she looked up and said quickly, “We have to go to the Platinum Castle.”

Lyra trotted up slowly as she said, “You know, sorry to question you, but didn’t that castle get destroyed during the times of Discord’s reign?”

Twilight nodded her head as she said, “We will have to go to where it once stood which, is according to the tourist map, is just down the road at the Magothalan Church.”

Oscar raised an eyebrow as he said, “Magothalan?”

Lyra nodded her head as she said while trotting out the door, “It’s a religion here, much like your Catholicism only slightly different. Magotha was never sent to an early death by punishment here and continued his preaching about the higher spirits. Let’s go now!”

Saying nothing more, the group left the building while waving goodbye to Stinking Rich.

*****

Alex and the rest of the group opened the church and stormed into the room, their eyes wide open and looking hard for the book. The room resembled the Sistine Chapel only having ponies and a stained glass floor, the lights reflected off of it created beautiful lights on the walls. As they looked around, Lauren said as the echo trailed, “Look for clues of any kind, secret doors or switches. Just make sure no inch is left unchecked.”

Alex moved a statue as he said, “Nothing here.”

Pinkie removed a stone block from the wall to reveal diamonds and gold before saying, “Nada.” Pinkie then replaced the stone block before looking elsewhere.

Oscar lifted up a small door in the floor and a very malnourished pony with sharp teeth and a blood covered face looked up at him. As the creature charged for him, Oscar slammed the door to hear a muffled scream as he said, “Uh… nothing here. Nothing at all, so let’s not come back here because there is nothing else.”

Lyra was looking at the glass floor and noticed something odd about the shapes it was making. As she looked closely at it she said, “I think I found something here!”

Dash called loudly to the rest of the group, “Hey look at the wall.”

Lyra looked from her hooves to the wall to notice the reflection the floor made was creating words on the wall. Lyra read them carefully as she said loudly, “The answer you seek is not here, when the light shall fade, your answer will be clear. What the hay is that supposed to mean?”

Alex tapped his chin before thinking, he wondered what the meaning of the glass floor was as he said, “Well we’re going to have to wait until sundown.”

Oscar began to become frustrated as he said, “We just woke up, it’s not even noon yet and you expect us to wait another ten hours before the sun goes down? This is bullshit!” Oscar stomped his floor on the ground out of impulse and heard a large crack tear through the ground causing a long echo in the room.

Alex looked at the crack before saying with the answer clear in his head, “Everyone cover the windows!” Immediately the ponies began to float and carry books in front of the window until only little light was penetrating. After a few minutes of waiting Alex pressed his face against the glass, his eyes widening with shock as he said, “Guys… I don’t think this is the lowest floor.”

As Alex went to stand up, he heard another loud crack and began to panic. The crack began to spread through the glass floor as Alex ran while shouting, “Get to the edge!” The ponies all made it clear out of the way in time with Lauren holding on to Dash and Fluttershy. Alex turned around to see Oscar beginning to sink into the floor as he screamed, before Alex could grab him the glass collapsed in on itself and Oscar went with it. Alex began to panic before acting on an impulse and teleporting away.

Oscar was falling to his death as he smashed through wooden beams and through rotted wood floors when he heard a poof and a flash of orange light. The masked man turned his head to see Alex there trying to grab him, his arms reaching out to the maximum. Oscar grabbed and held on tight as Alex got ready to teleport, but as he neared one of the walls he was suddenly jerked to a halt with Oscar in his arms. Alex and Oscar quickly reoriented themselves as Oscar said, “How the hell are you doing this without magic?”

Alex looked at Oscar with a confused look as he said, “The teleporting is able to be done without Zen but the walls I am clueless about.” Alex looked over Oscar’s shoulder to see his submachine gun was leaning towards the wall as though that were suddenly down. Alex pulled a coin out of his pocket and let it go to see it get sucked towards the wall. Alex smiled when he remembered that he was still wearing his metallic boots for his hover board and was magnetically attracted to the wall. Alex looked at his best friend as he said, “Freaking magnets, how do they work?”

Meanwhile the girls were panicking as they called down loudly, “Oscar!! Alex! Are you okay?”

A voice called from the hole with a laugh as it said, “Never better, we were saved by the power of science. These walls are naturally occurring magnetic rock.”

Applejack shook her head as she said, “It’s a what now?”

Twilight slowly walked up to the edge as she said with an amazed look, “It’s untouched magnetic rock, the unicorns probably thought it possessed magical powers and harvested it and dug this hole deep into the ground. Probably out of that belief of magical rocks, they put their most prized possessions at the bottom of this hole.”

Suddenly the heads of Alex and Oscar popped up with smiles on their faces; they were both standing straight on the vertical walls thanks to the strong magnetism. Oscar opened his arms as he said, “We’ll be taking passengers now.”

One by one the girls who couldn’t fly grabbed on to Alex and Oscar, Twilight and Lauren held onto Alex’s neck and arms while Rarity and Pinkie Pie were carried by Oscar. Applejack was helped down by the two pegasi and altogether traveled down to the bottom of the hole.

*****

As they reached the bottom of the hole Alex looked for a light in his pockets and quickly turned one on to see they were going to enter a deep and dark stone hallway. As Alex walked in he stepped on a stone. The stone quickly sank in to the ground and a very ancient looking blacklight that suddenly lit up the hallway with bright neon colors that nearly made Rarity faint. As she walked through she constantly reminded herself that these were ancient and holy artifacts and must not be touched.

Alex’s heart was beginning to race; he was beginning to fear what was going to happen while Fluttershy held on to him for dear life. Slowly they walked through the stone hallway along the bright neon colored stones that made orgasmic patterns. After five minutes of walking they entered a room with nothing in it but a burning torch. Alex let Fluttershy to the ground as he said, “Well, nothing here, dead end.”

Lyra trotted by as she said, “Not quite, you see the unicorns wanted to trick intruders who had made this far and probably set up a secret door.” Lyra approached the torch and pulled it out of the hole to reveal a socket big enough for a horn. Twilight walked up and inserted her horn (yay new shipping opportunity for you guys) and began to work her magic. Soon lines began to etch themselves around the hole in Twilight’s colors before spreading out and growing ever so complex in shape and colors. Eventually the colors reached the top of the room where a loud rumbling began to occur. Alex and the rest began to back towards the entranceway as they watched the room collapse away; soon the walls had fallen over like a blooming flower to reveal a bigger room.

In the center of the room was a unicorn whose beard had grown long and had been white for centuries, his eyes cracked open slowly as he finally began to move once again in a very long time. The unicorn looked at the group as he said, “You have come this far… only to fail. The treasures of endless gold and infinite riches are but nothing anymore. Your fate is now death, you thieves.”

The unicorn removed his cloak and long pointy hat to reveal a long and sharp horn that glowed white with fire. Alex leaned over to Oscar as he said, “He sounds like Leonard Nemoy , doesn’t he?”

Oscar slowly nodded his head with an unsure look on his face, he looked like he was about to say something he will regret, like threat this wizard or something. But before he could speak, Twilight trotted up as she said while bowing, “Starswirl… The Bearded.”

Author's Notes: OOOH goodie look what i did there, see we are soo close to the good part. But not there yet. And also to answer one question i got, yes Oscar is inspired by Deadpool, he carries two swords and a bunch of guns and also has an immature sense of humor.

This is it boys, hold on to your butts cause shit's gonna get real dawg!