Chapter 4: MOUNTAINS AND TOKENS! TIME FOR A BEER! *chug*

On that very day I had made sure Starburst was awake and ready to go by 6 o’clock, guiding her to a nearby mountain that could easily be seen by Canterlot, and was also rich in ore. “We’re here, you got that scroll I wrote?” I say to my partner in crime. she murmurs, then makes a holographic middle finger.. a gesture she must've learned from another handed species… which narrowed it down to three possible races in this land, so I ask. “Dragon, Gryphon or Minotaur?”
She mumbled again, “gryphhn..”
“Ah yeah, should’a suspected ‘em of being assholes, now I want you to send that letter off to Princess Celestia.” she sends it… via a telekinetically propelled capsule that had carved on it 'Fuck Mornings’ “Now, now, no need to be antsy, here, have one of my sugar cubes.” I toss her one of the many I had vacuum sealed in my pouch. “These puppies always brighten me up… or is that the dried coffee in the center? Eh, who cares?” she eats it.. and immediately perks up, then hisses as soon as her eyes had opened wide, now she's covering her eyes from the morning light. “I’ll… let you adjust, then you can see me demonstrate my ultimate invention! Only two exist in the entire multiverse! And they’re right here.” I gesture to the gauntlets as two long spikes pop forth from the wrists and two metal discs connected to poles, like that of a dynamite plunger, appear at my elbows. “These are my Pick Gauntlets, and I poured my entire heart and soul, along with my entire knowledge of geomancy, into these babies!” she rolls her eyes. “And today I’ll be demonstrating its power by mining the entirety of this mountain in one. strike.” I find myself hit in the face by a set of dog tags, which I proceed to pick up.

N7 Commander Raven Shepard, Spectre Status.

“I'm Commander Raven Shepard, saviour of the council, and the human race. Call upon me if you require my assistance, or just wanna chat. Seriously, it gets boring out here.” the message stops.

Huh… freaky… “now as I was saying, one strike, and this mountain will be completely gone!”
Clearly her mind didn’t register which mountain I had targeted as she immediately goes “STOP!! YOU'LL MURDER THOUSANDS!!”
“This ain’t Mount Canter!” I say, irritation clear in my voice. “Its disappearance won’t have the city fall to the ground, you know.”
she sighs… “Wait, What?”
“You heard me right, I’m making this entire mountain go pop out of existence and into a thing called my personal hammerspace.” I place the right spike at the side of the mountain, and as I flowed my magic into the gauntlet, the plunger pulls back, farther and farther than should be possible, all the while I feel my aura begin to encompass the mountain.

Meanwhile, atop the mountainous palace of Canterlot, Celestia was in day court when she received my letter, through the window. “Hm? What’s this?” she picks up the capsule and opens it.

Dear Matriarch of the Solar Rear…

Look out of the window this message came from and glance at the nearby mountain.

Yours sincerely, Orgran the Red.

“Orgran the Red?” curious, she gets up and looks out of the broken window to the mountain. “I do not understand what this Orgran would want me to see from-”

Chink!

Pop!

Only two sounds were heard, but the sight behind it caused her to look on in shock at something completely impossible, something I am proud to say had indeed made her need the little filly’s room.

The mountain. Literally. Popped out of existence.

Immediately she ran off for bathroom duties, then went to message Twilight Sparkle.

...okay I'm exaggerating the nearly pissing herself thing but it was indeed frightening for her.

Back with us, I looked smugly at my unicorn friend. “Impressive beyond imagination..” I find she's also examining the dog tags.. “.. aww, it's all gibberish!”
“ya can’t read English?”
“What's English?”
“The native language of many humanoid species, including Dwarves, Humans and… rrrgh… Elves.” she pokes the dog tags, and they glow. “What do you think you’re doing!?”

Meanwhile, at the Canterlot palace… “SISTER! WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS INTRUSION IN THE SKY!?” Luna bellows, but Celestia is too out of it to really focus on the matter, she was actually rocking back and forth from the sheer shock of it all.
“Sister?” Luna asks concerned.
“Y-yes?” Celestia seems to calm down and concentrate.
“I sensed an object half the size of our moon, and we need to determine what it is.”
“I… believe a more appropriate threat is here, Luna…”
“Hm?”
“You remember Mount Ironspear?”
“The mountain we named to honor a great minotaur general? Of course I had admired it only yesterday-”
“It’s gone.” a pregnant silence filled the room as Luna’s face turned to one of confusion and horror.
“It… w-what?”
“It’s gone! Luna! It literally POPPED out of existence! And this couldn’t be Discord’s work, some incredibly powerful force made an entire mountain disappear!”
“Do you know who it is?”
Celestia put on a brave face, unsure of what to tell her dear sister. “All I know is a name, Orgran the Red, it was his message that signalled me to witness its disappearance, yet I do not know if he is friend or foe, and honestly?” Luna looks at her worriedly.
“Yes sister?”
“I’d be terrified if it was the latter…”

Back to me, all I could say as I sensed the summon was “oh, shit… Starburst I blame you for this.”
“Oh, shit…. Perhaps we should warn the Princesses…”

...nah.