What You Wish For 2: The Book of Unicorn

Chapter 2 Part 2

Alex whistled through the air like a bullet, the ever warming air blowing through his shirt as he passed across the border to Mexico. Alex had never moved that fast in his life and was lucky he didn’t suffer any internal damage. As he began to approach the location of the solid gold warrior, Alex could clearly see helicopters hovering above the trees as the army below them tried to corner the monster. Alex pulled up into a climb as he began to circle over the target, once he was high enough he jumped off his board and began to fall. Alex quickly grabbed his board in mid-air and placed it on his back before making a thunderous impact in the ground below. The impact was strong enough to throw the soldiers off balance and cause a few to fall over, yet he remained unharmed. Alex remembered to use the shielding spell to protect him from great heights; this was obviously a good example of when to use it. The large warrior stood in front of Alex towering nearly twenty feet above him as it said in a large and powerful voice, “I look for the one known as Alex Muroney. I wish to speak to him at once!” The warrior then stabbed the large sword into the ground to further intimidate the enemies surrounding them.

Alex slowly turned his head to the military behind him to say to them, “El go away.” It took the military a few seconds to understand that this fight was between the masked hero and the towering warrior. After a few seconds of Spanish arguments, the soldiers began to back away in the jeeps and tanks as they returned to the city. Once the coast was clear, and Alex made sure that no one else was around he took off his mask as he said, “You’re speaking to Alex Mulroney, is that the one you were looking for?”

Before the gold warrior could answer, another black armoured warrior began to appear out of nowhere, its black metal oozed heavy black smoke that represented the shadows. Alex then noticed how on the helmets were what looked like unicorn horns. The solid gold one began to kneel down before Alex as the chest opened up, slowly opening to reveal a solid pearl with the image of the sun on it. Alex watched as the pearly ball hovered out of the chest cavity and towards Alex where it slowly spun in front of him. Alex looked at the symbol, he knew he had seen it before and it took him a while to realize he had not seen it in three whole years. Alex looked up at the warrior as it said, “Yes, Alex.”

Alex blinked a couple of times before he said, “Celestia?” Alex couldn’t believe what he was seeing, he was staring at one of the most badass metal suits he had ever seen and it was under the control of Celestia. The chest opened up more and slowly the princess of the sun emerged in a beam of light.

She spread her wings as far as she could as she looked at the older Alex and said to herself, “You humans age fast.”

Alex was too busy looking at the other beast revealing the princess of the night, once the two were facing him Alex said with a shrug, “It’s actually been three years. This universe isn’t directly linked to yours and time travels much faster here.

As Luna exited her suit and began walking towards Alex, the armour continued to mock her movements by using human gestures. As Luna walked beside Alex she said while thinking over her estimations, “If three years have gone by in the three days in Equestria then that means that we have a couple of days before ShadowThunder arrives.”

Alex looked at Luna with a look of confusion as he said, “Why would she want to come here?”

Celestia looked at Luna while her solid gold robot shrugged as she said, “That’s just the thing; we have no idea why she would want to be here. All she said was she was looking for the creator of the universe. She said something about her living in this world.”

Alex didn’t have to think long before he knew exactly what ShadowThunder meant about the creator. The hair on the back of Alex’s neck began to tingle at the idea as he said, “I know who she’s looking for.” Alex threw his board into the air and jumped onto it as it began to hover over the ground; he wobbled a bit before managing to fully regain balance as he said, “Get into your suits or whatever they are. You’re coming home with me.” Alex turned his board north and took off into the air leaving Celestia and Luna to climb back into their suits and follow after him with their wings. As Alex flew with them catching up, he began to slow down so he would be aligned with them as he said, “You might want to put on something to cloak yourselves; humans here don’t take too kindly to giant metal warriors.” Alex then returned his focus to the sky in front of him as he blasted his way through the clouds. The next time Alex turned his head around he could no longer see the giant metal beasts that were once following him which was an indication that either they somehow lost him or they were invisible. Alex continued to fly until he was over top of Ottawa and slowly began to descend towards the ground, before descending he reminded the sisters to remain as quiet as possible. Alex gently touched down in his back yard, the cold air feeling good on him as the months drew closer to winter. Alex turned around to see his fence was being bent out of shape rather quickly, a good indication that the metal beasts were there and somehow landed without making a sound. Alex listened to the sound of the air escaping as the two sisters could once again be seen in front of him, their hair swaying in the wind as they looked around the new world. Alex motioned his hand towards the door as he said, “You can stay as your original selves seeing as you might not want to be here too long.” With that Alex turned his back to the regal sisters and began to walk into the back door. Alex pulled his mask off as he set his board against the wall and said out loud, “Hey girls, we have some visitors!” As soon as he said that the girls gathered around the back door to see the princesses entering, their hair continuously flowing as though there were a breeze in the room. The girls began to huddle around the princesses as they asked millions upon millions of questions.

Celestia raised her head from the pile of colourful hair; she noticed there was something missing. After a few seconds more she realized another thing, there were two things missing in the room. Celestia looked over at Alex as she said over the crowd of girls, “This is odd, why aren’t Twilight and Lyra here? They would have been the most excited to see me seeing as they were both the honour graduates from my magic school.”

Alex looked around the room and up the stairs, she was right. Alex wondered where the two could have gone, or rather where the two hadn’t left. Alex looked over at Dash and said to her with a tone of frustration in his voice, “Where’s Twilight and Lyra?”

The girl’s eyes widened with shock as she realized what was going on, “They never called to come pick them up. I’ll go get them now.”

As Dash began to go grab the keys to the car, Alex quickly grabbed them from the desk before her as he said while walking away, “No, I’ll do it. You stay here and catch up with the princesses.” With that Alex opened the door and stepped out before closing it behind him with a hint of anger and disappointment in his look he gave the rainbow haired girl. Dash could easily tell Alex was disappointed in all of them for their responsibility or lack of if you prefer. As Alex walked out towards the garage he wondered why she hadn’t called home at all. Alex hopped into his Ranchero and pulled out of his driveway before heading off into the cold night, leaving the rest to socialize.

*****

As Alex pulled into the parking lot, he could already see Twilight and Lyra huddled together, their hair soaked as they slouched over each other with their heads against their knees. Alex got out of the car quickly as he rushed over to see Twilight crying with Lyra rubbing her back and trying to comfort her as best as she could. As Alex approached, Twilight got up violently as she said in a shaky voice, “Finally.”

As Twilight stomped her way past Alex and slammed the door to the car, Alex said to Lyra, “What’s wrong with her? Is Twilight okay?” He seriously worried for these girls and treated them like they were his own and to see them sad hurt him as well.

Lyra gave Twilight a concerning look as she watched her friend cry in the car as she said “It’s not about you being an hour late, it’s about what happened during that hour.”

Alex’s heart began to sink as he imagined what could have happened to them as he said, “What happened? Is she hurt?” Alex looked over to see Twilight looking down at her lap with tears streaming from her eyes; it obviously wasn’t a physical injury. He slowly walked towards the car as the rain poured hard on his umbrella. He entered into the driver’s seat as Lyra climbed in next to Twi as Alex said, “What happened?”

Twilight took a shaky breath as she said, “These girls… they… they humiliated me. They were so horrible.”

Alex’s eyes widened as he rested a hand on her shoulder and said, “What did they do?”

Twilight shook her head as she said between shaky breaths, “They stole, broke. And ripped everything I had, my money my phone, my necklace, they even ripped apart my favourite spell books. They just laughed at me as I watched them; I thought standing your ground was the right thing to do towards bullies.”

Alex looked out the windshield as the drops of water poured upon them as he said, “Who did this.”

After a couple of seconds of waiting for a response from the crying girl, Lyra began to speak for her as she said, “It was the girl from earlier, I know you saw her. You know what she looks like, her name is Ella Redstone.”

Alex looked down at his phone as he tapped away and said, “Don’t need to know where her dorm is, already found it.”

Twilight looked over at Alex as she said, “What are you doing Alex?”

As Alex climbed out of the car, he looked back at the girls staring at him and said, “Solving a problem.” With that, Alex put on his ski mask and slammed the door to the car before beginning to walk into the college. He looked down at his phone as it showed the exact location of Twilight’s phone on a map. Alex knew it was sort of creepy to be tracking their cell phones, but he knew it was for their own good. Alex continued to follow the dot on the digital map as he wandered through the silent hallways, occasionally coming across a dorm partying. Eventually after a couple of minutes of searching, Alex came across the dorm with the cell phone inside. By now Alex was angry for Twilight’s sake; he couldn’t wrap his mind around why a group of girls would steal someone’s cell phone and money. He pounded his fist on the door as he said, “Ella Redstone.” After a couple of seconds Alex slammed his fist on the door again as he said a bit louder, “Ella Redstone!” Alex waited again only to hear nothing before punching the door as hard as he could as he shouted in rage, “Open the fucking door Ella.”

Alex began to hear faint laughter before being hushed by someone, soon a small voice in a fake Indian accent said, “This isn’t Ell”

Before she could finish, Alex slammed both fists on the door as he said in an extremely impatient and angry voice, “Bull fucking shit this isn’t Ella! Open the fucking door now!” Alex didn’t even wait this time, he backed up and launched his soaking wet boot at the door and kicked it down, he watched as the pieces of wood went flying everywhere in the room. Alex looked inside as his wet hair dripped rainwater onto the ground. In the middle of the room were two girls and their boyfriends. They yelped a bit as he smashed the door with his foot. Alex looked around the room and saw all the expensive things like the flat screen television and the lamps. Alex slowly walked into the room as they stared at him, he didn’t care what he looked like because he just wanted to send them the message. He walked up to the television and picked up the game console and movie player and ripped it out of the wall, pulling the wires out and sending sparks flying.

One of the men who obviously looked older than him stood up and said, “Hey what the fuck are you doing?”

Alex smashed the expensive electronics on the ground as he said, “Sending a message.” He then turned his attention to the computer in the corner and sent his fist through the screen and out the other end, destroying the computer in the process. Alex listened to them shout at him as he walked over and picked up the large flat screen television. He ripped it out of the wall as wires were torn from the computer before he walked over to the window and threw the television through it. The glass shattered loudly as rain began to pout into the room, Alex stood there with a look of anger on his face.

The women Alex recognized instantly stood up and said with a look of confusion, anger, and fear as she said, “What the hell was that for?”

Before Alex answered, he turned his attention to the purse that lay on the coffee table next to the open doorway. As Alex picked it up he said, “You broke everything my girl loved, now it’s my turn to do that to you.” Alex grabbed her boyfriend by his long black hair and tugged hard to hear him shout in pain. Ella was getting ready to attack him as he said, “It’s only fair you sit there and watch as I break him. After all, that is what Tara did when you humiliated her.” Alex could see the look in her eyes as she remembered what she had done, her eyes went wide with shock as Alex pulled up her boyfriend’s hand and grabbed his index finger. Alex waited a couple of seconds before pulling the finger back to hear a snap, he cried out in pain as she began to gasp at what she saw. Alex had a look of calmness in his eyes as he continued to break the other fingers. Alex let the man drop to the ground whimpering in pain, he spat on top of him before he got another idea. He pulled the man by his emo hair and lifted his head up.

Ella screamed in emotional trauma as she looked at the masked stranger, “Please don’t kill him.”

Alex slowly turned his head towards her, all that could be heard was the sound of the couple whimpering until he broke the silence and said in an emotionless tone, “I don’t kill.” Alex then grabbed the back of the guy’s head and smashed it against the wooden table in front of the couch. The table collapsed under the force as the wood split into pieces, shards were scattered across the room. Alex watched as the man lay there unconscious, he stepped over him to get into Ella’s face as he said, “If you ever make Tara cry for any reason, your boyfriend’s spine is the next thing I break.” Alex then stepped over the broken emo and walked out the dorm. Before he knew it he was walking in the rain again, he felt like an idiot for forgetting his umbrella and for getting the seats wet in his classic car. Alex got inside the car and removed the mask from his face, there was complete silence as he turned the car on and pulled out.

As they drove home in complete silence, Twilight looked over at Alex and said, “What did you do?”

Alex took a long deep breath as he continued to stare at the road and said, “I did what people should do when their loved one is bullied.”

Twilight had calmed down by now as she said, “What did that involve?”

Alex shook his head as he said, “It involved striking fear into her heart. Parents will always say just ignore them but ignorance is not a proper consequence because they still know that deep down you’re getting hurt little by little. The best solution is to give them a consequence that they are terrified of, when a person is afraid of you, you can get them to do anything.” Twilight didn’t know what to say or how to feel, he had avenged her in what could be a terribly violently way. He had good intentions but it didn’t change the fact that he was the one she watched throw a television out the window into the courtyard. As Alex drove them home they remained silent, not a word was whispered as the street lights filled the car with light in a rhythmic pattern. As Alex pulled into the driveway he took a deep breath and said as he turned off the car, “I’m sorry… I… I just… I see you as my own kids and when I see you in tears I become someone else, I become an animal trying to defend her own offspring.”

Twilight didn’t make eye contact as she said, “You weren’t defending me. You killed someone in there.” Twilight simply sat there with her arms crossed, she couldn’t look him in the eyes and see the same man ever again.

Alex shook his head as he said, “I didn’t kill anyone. I just scared them into giving the purse back.”

Alex watched as Twilight looked like she had a huge weight lifted of her shoulders as she sighed with relief and said, “Oh thank goodness, in that case thanks Alex.” Twilight then proceeded to hug Alex as they sat in their seats.

Alex wrapped his arms around her as he gently pated her on the back and said, “Twilight, I swore an oath not to kill anyone under any circumstances. I would never break that rule.” After a few more seconds Twilight gently pulled away from the hug with a face red as a rose. She brushed the hair out of her eyes as she smiled and climbed out the car and into the garage. Alex climbed out of the car last and walked them to the door as he said, “By the way, you have company.” As he said that, he opened the door to the room to reveal Celestia and Luna sitting in front of the couch with their eyes glued to the television, their full attention was on the mysterious light and sound box.

As Twilight saw the white alicorn with her mane continuing to flow in the air, she jumped for her and said as she hugged her, “Princess Celestia, I can’t believe you’re here! It’s been so long and you haven’t changed at all.” Alex watched as the four ponies got reunited with each other, Lyra didn’t seem to be as excited as Twilight was as they all got into a big group hug.

After a few minutes Celestia calmed the two down and said, “Now girls, we aren’t here for a visit and a tea party, although that could be arranged that isn’t the case. We are here to talk about something urgent and we need a plan fast.”

Alex sat down on the couch as he began to think about a plan and said, “We need everyone here for the planning.”

*****

Alex finally managed to get the girls settled down around the dinner table and said, “Girls, by now Celestia and Luna have made it quite clear they are here for a very urgent reason. I think it would be best if our princesses brief us on the situation.”

Alex motioned towards the two alicorns as they both stood up before Celestia began, “You all know why you have been living here for the past few years, you have all been training as best as possible for the day ShadowThunder strikes back. Well as much as I fear to say this, she has returned to Equestria. She didn’t stay for long though because after a few minutes of searching she uncovered something within this reality she calls ‘The creator.’”

Luna decided to take it from there as she said, “She believes there is a human in this reality that holds the power to dominate our universe. ShadowThunder mentioned she had the power to create and destroy our universe at will. Luckily we have a few extra days before she arrives, according to Alex she will arrive tomorrow since we narrowly escaped only seconds before she followed. We have no idea where or how she found out about the creator but that doesn’t change the fact that both universes are in grave danger. ShadowThunder has been known for not stopping at any costs until she has accomplished her mission.”

Alex began to wrap his hands around his head in deep fear of the end of the world as he said, “I barely escaped her power, we all know I stand no chance against her unless someone is willing to sacrifice themselves to just delay it again for another few days.”

Celestia began to comfort Alex as she said, “Actually, there is a way you can defeat her.” As Alex looked up with a look of hope in his eyes she said, “Only an alicorn can stand a chance against her and she obviously wants to get rid of the creator because of her amounts of potential power.”

Alex began to understand where she was going with this as he said, “So what you’re saying is that if we get to the creator before ShadoThunder does then we might be able to save both our worlds?”

Celestia nodded her head as she said, “That is half correct, Alex. Having her under your protection won’t be able to stop her unless the creator can learn to wield the three powers.”

Alex shrugged as he said, “So what, you’re suggesting we teach her how to use her magic as we run away from ShadowThunder?”

Luna began to smile as she gently said, “No, you don’t have to teach her. Legend has it that there are three books that hold the secret to gaining infinite power. The book of Unicorn is said to have the spell to infinite magic, to be able to use the light magic as though it were dark magic without having to recite spells or find your state of peace if you rather. The book of Earth Pony unlocks the secret to invincibility on one’s birth soil; she will become indestructible on the land she was born upon. The last book, the book of Pegasus, will unlock the secret to flight, self manipulation, and control of the objects that surrounds the user whether it’d be the weather or animals or even other intelligent creatures.”

Alex began to perk up as he said, “So that’s great! We just grab our target come to your library and Bing Bong Boom we have ourselves one of the most powerful creatures that ever existed.”

Unfortunately Celestia was there to crush all hope that was still inside Alex as she said, “It won’t be that easy, these three books are hidden in the farthest corners of our universe. Only the ones who wrote the books will know where they reside, the secret lies with them.”

Even with all the complications Alex still managed to remain confident as he said, “So here’s the plan, we begin searching for the creator whom I will brief upon later, once we find her we have to begin running from the law and ShadowThunder on earth and we will have to run from her as well in Equestria. We go on a wild goose chase for these three books and once we find them she ahs to read all the way through each of them. She will then gain control of her powers and we use her to defeat ShadowThunder before she kills the creator and ultimately dooms us.”

The princesses simply nodded their heads in agreement as they both said, “That is correct.”

Alex sighed with frustration as he said, “Well it is getting late; we have to be going to bed soon. We have a big day of adventures tomorrow; I’ll be staying up a bit though to find out where she is. By the way you two might need to stay here on earth seeing as you are the only ones who could slow her down and buy us time.”

Celstia looked over at her sister as she stared back as though they were conversing telepathically. After a few seconds Luna turned to Alex and said, “We have decided that staying here would be best. But we have also noticed that our faithful subjects have been turned to humans for what is probably a good reason. We assume that we might have to turn into humans as well.”

Alex looked back at Twilight as he said, “I don’t know, your highnesses. As a human your magic can be quite limited at first, finger tips aren’t as powerful at magic as the horn is. Also Dash hasn’t even broken into her wings yet.”

Celestia tilted her head as she repeated the man’s last line with a confused look on her face, “Broken into her wings?”

Alex nodded as he said, “Yeah it’s an expression I use, she hasn’t been able to use her wings because of the physical limitations but seeing as Applejack is still quite strong and Twilight and Lyra can use their magic I assume that human pegasi can fly eventually. Also to make matters worse their age is immediately translated into human years. They were about eighteen when they arrived, the same age as they were when they left Ponyville. If you are right with your age of twenty thousand years or so then you might disintegrate as a human.”

Celestia looked at Luna and began to think about it as she said, “What if we use an age spell on ourselves, we will be infants though but as humans we will be our proper ages.”

Alex watched as Luna and Celestia began to quickly get younger and younger until they looked to be newborns. Alex picked them up as he said to Twilight, “Okay, we need to turn them human before they soil themselves.” Twilight looked at them for a couple of seconds, she felt sick to her stomach due to their cuteness. After a few seconds she began to wave her hands over the foals and they began to turn into humans. The two were enveloped in a bright purple light as their silhouettes began to change shape, after what felt like a few minutes the light disappeared to reveal a girl and an adult woman.

They stood there completely naked as the older one said, “What just happened?” The two looked at each other, they were on their hands and knees crawling around on the floor which mad Alex look away in awkwardness.

Alex came back with towels and wrapped them around the girls as he said, “You’ve been turned human, apparently it is a bit awkward at first but you get used to your limitations.” Alex began to lift the princesses onto their feet to see them wobble and nearly fall down before he said, “You’re going to notice your hair isn’t the same, we think we should keep it that way because magic flowing hair definitely will arouse suspicion. As for your magic so far you can’t cast any spells yet because of how weak your finger tips are, but thanks to a year of research from Lyra we discovered that poking holes in each finger allowed the magic to pass through better.” Alex then proceeded to grab a needle and a candle as he said, “Would you want to et the holes? I don’t want to hurt you two.”

It took a few minutes before Celestia put her hand on the table as she said, “Just get it over with quick. Don’t make it hurt too much.”

As Alex brought the pin over the candle he said to her in a calming voice, “Don’t worry, it doesn’t hurt, just ask Twilight.” Twilight nodded her head in agreement as she raised her hands, there were small dots at the tip of each finger as she wiggled her hands. Celestia took a gulp before closing her eyes as Alex gently grabbed her hand; it was already shaking with fear after she watched Alex put it over the candle. Celestia began to feel quick pokes in her finger tips and before she knew it Alex was done and putting band-aids on them as he said, “See? That wasn’t so bad. Now that we have the pain killers done we can get to the exposing.” Alex then levitated an electric drill to his hand as it sprung to life and began to make a loud whine. Celestia began to panic as she jerked her hand away only to see Alex laugh a bit as he said, “I’m only kidding your highness, how about you test out the magic in your hand now that I have poked holes in them.” Celestia looked over at the vase on the table next to her and waved her hand across it, slowly it began to hover towards her and she smiled brightly with the genius of Lyra and Alex.

The rest of the operation went swimmingly as he poked holes into Luna’s hands, she seemed to be more confident than Tia was but that was probably because she watched what happened first. In what felt like an instant Alex was getting the two princesses into his bed as he said, “Okay you two are going to be sleeping in my bed for now. I’m sorry that I don’t have beds for you but we kinda ran out of money after I purchased the indoor waterfall and giant flat screen television. Anyways good night your highnesses see you in the morning.” With that, Alex slowly closed the door on them and went down stairs to watch some television. As Alex flipped through the channels he heard the sound of footsteps coming from upstairs, the footsteps began to head for the stairs as they tried to remain as silent as possible.

As she walked down the stairs Alex looked at her as she said, “Oh Alex, I can’t sleep.”

Alex looked to be a bit tired with all these times as he said, “Fluttershy, really? Oh never mind come here we’ll watch some television for a bit.” Alex moved over on the couch to allow Fluttershy to gently sit down next to him, she seemed to be a lot more relaxed when they were alone. Fluttershy began to move closer to Alex as to keep her warm as he said, “I’m just going to be watching some news for now.”

Fluttershy sighed as she rested her head on Alex’s arm and said, “That’s okay.” Alex began to flip through the channels until he found the one he wanted, there was a news reporter on the screen saying, “This just in celebrity show creator, Lauren Faust has passed away peacefully in her sleep as cancer overtook her. It was a sad ending to what could be a story about history’s most successful animator.” As the news reporter spoke, Alex began to sit up and move closer to the television. His face began to show despair as he slouched back in the couch with his hands covering his face. Fluttershy noticed that Alex wasn’t crying because of some anonymous person, she looked up at Alex as she said in her soft voice, “Was she the one?”

Alex turned off the television as he said with heavy sadness in his voice, “Yeah she was.” Alex had never felt this hopeless, his only hope at saving Equestria was lost forever, now ShadowThunder could do whatever she wanted. Alex wished she could have lived forever but that never happens. Alex took a long deep breath as he said, “We simply ran out of time…” Alex’s eyes began to widen as probably one of the greatest ideas came to him. Alex jerked upwards in his seat as he said with hope in his voice, “Time! All we need is time! I got it!” Alex looked down at Fluttershy as she lay on the couch sound asleep, peacefully dreaming as she silently breathed. Alex decided to just let her sleep as he said quietly, “Tomorrow we’re going on a huge adventure.”