Our story begins in a chamber deep within the earth.
The chamber looks like a cube, but if you watch more closely you can see, that every part of the chamber has runes on it. These runes are there to make sure, that the chamber fulfills its duty.

The duty of this chamber is an interesting one.
It has to guard a statue, which depicts a alicorn, that wears regila and has the mark of the sun on its flank.
But as you likely already guessed, this is no ordinary statue.

It is a prison to the most powerfull pony in existence, Princess Celestia.
The alicorn, which raised the sun thousands of years ago.
And this is, where our story starts.

...and if I use Starswirl's principle of equivalent exchange this spell should be able to turn anything to gold, which is a significant improvement from the original spell, which could only turn lead into gold.

Now I need to think of another problem, that can be solved by a spell, since that is the only thing, that I can do down here.
How should I have known, that the ponies saw me as a threat to them.

Flashback

"I am sorry, that it had to come to this Princess Celestia" says Twilight.

"I knew, that it would come to this sooner or later. And I am not angry at you or anypony else for that matter. On the contrary, I could not be prouder of you all. After all a mother should always support her children, no matter what they do." I say to all the ponies, that have come to my imprisonment.

"I will miss you Celestia."says Twilight and stepps into formation.

Moments later she and the other element bearers rise from the earth and the magic energy of the elements starts to swirl around them. And now it envelops me und I can see how it is turning me to stone.
So I smile and rear up on my back legs.

Little did I know that while I was turned to stone a tear worked its way down my muzzle and also got petrified.

Maybe I should invent a spell, that can reflect projectiles, like spells and arrows back to the pony, that fired them at me. I should probably also make the spell able to reflect projectiles, that are far faster, then arrows and spells.

Since those projectiles could hit me from anywhere I should make it a spericle field around my body.
Now the question is, should I make it a corporal shield or-

BOOM

What was that!?

BOOM

There it is again. The only ones, that would dig so deep into the earth are either changelings, diamond dogs,miners or archeologists. Which means, that I could be out of here soon.

BOOOM

That explosion was louder then the last one! After all this time I will finaly be FREEEE!
Muhahaha!
Ahem I should probably not do something like that once I am free...

Booom Crack

Are that voices? There! I can see a crack!
"Stop the Drill! I think we have hit a cave!" What is a drill? Is it a mining machine?

ClangClangClang

"Come on! Open that crack more!"

Clang ClangClang

Crack

There! I can see them! One of them is comming through the hole!
He is a diamond dog, His coat is rust-red and he is wearing a helmet to protect his head, which has a light in it.

"Guys! This is not a Cave! This is probably a grave! Call the Archeological Institute for History in Manehatten!"

This dog thinks, that this room is a grave? Well I suppose one could think that.
Is he already gone? Yes he is. Well now I just have to wait till they get me out of here...

"There it is professor Williams. Here is the chamber with the statue" are the first words I hear after the dog went back outside.
And soon after I see him enter together with a griffin, that is wearing a brown suit.
As soon as he is in the chamber he beginns to laugh in joy.

"THIS IS AMAZING!! Mister Ruby, do you know what you just uncovered?" he suddenly cried out.

"No, I don't, but it must be pretty old to have you that happy."

"This discovery is astounding. This chamber is not only full with runes, but it also has a undamaged statue of the Sun goddess of the ancient race of ponies."

What! Sun goddess? Ancient race? What are they talking about.

"What do you mean with runes professor?"asked Ruby.

"Well you see the ancient race of ponies believed in magic and edged runes in their graves or other places they wanted to protect, because the believed, that runes were magical."answered the griffin.

"Ok. I understand and what about the statue?"

"This statue is the only statue we have come across that is completely undamaged, as far as I can see.
This statue must also have been pretty valuable, because it is so deep underground. And this statue has a tear running down its face, which is unique to it.

Now to the story behind the statue.
The ponies believed, that there was a Sun goddess that raised the sun, which we know is not possible, since we rotate around the sun."said the professor.

After that statement the professor took out a tiny device and walked towards me.
Then he pressed a button and a tiny red beam shot out of the device.

"This is astounding. If my readings are correct this statue is 4900 years old!"

What?! I knew thousands of years must have passed, but so many? How will the world out there look?

"Get a team here Mister Ruby! This will be the discovery of the century!"

"Right away sir!"

Author's Note

If you have criticism comment below.
The statue of Celestia in the chamber is the same one from the cover art.
Hope you liked the story.