That moment you realize you're awake.

by PrincessLunas Assistant

"Destiny"

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"What.....is that?" Celestia asked as she nursed Spring Song and looked through a telescope lens. "Seethe, get over here." She said looked up at Seethe. He approached "Look at that."

Celestia stepped back and continued to nurse Spring Song. Seethe took a look through the lens and his brain took a second to process what he was seeing.

The miniscule section of the abyss of blackness that surrounded their planet Seethe was looking at  was peppered with many star systems, planets, and gases. He saw something out of the ordinary. There was something coming towards Equestria. It was small and looked to be a mostly grayish color. At this distance and on a pathetic home-telescope it was just some distant blur of moving gray and yellowness.

"What is that?" Seethe asked to anyone in the room. Which was just Celestia, Luna, himself, Twilight, and the babies.

"Here. I'll get the better lens." Luna said. Suddenly all Seethe saw was a blur of black and multicolored space. Then he saw the gray mass as if he were maybe half a mile away. And with a simple click the blur went away he could make out what it was.

"It's some kind of giant, unidentified flying object." He said concentrating and putting on his focus on the thought "WHAT IS THAT?!"

It was of incredible size. From a rough estimate it was about two miles in length. Maybe half a mile in width. It was long and seemed to have windows to which yellowy light came through. It had a decent height of about a quater of a mile from (This was Seethe's assumption) it's bottom to it's top or roof. Although knowing space and how bottom, top and all those basic directions we have in our worlds, don't quite exist in the abyss of space. It is possible the ship was on it's side. Seethe was still having a bit of trouble making out it's exact look. He saw some letters on the side. One of them was U. That was undeniable. The next could have been either an S or a 5 or even a Z or 2. The one after that was either a lower case A, E, or even O or it was a C. The final one Seethe couldn't see at all because of his slight angle of view. Below the the small four letters were even bigger letters that Seethe took to be it's name "Destiny."

"Destiny? He said aloud.

"Let me have a look with through that again, Seethe." Celestia said nudging his rib cage with her fore hoof. He stepped aside and gestured for her to use it.

"Be my guess. Maybe you can figure out what that thing is."

She took a look through the lens. "U.....N.......Ssssssss? Maybe an E after that." She said aloud, trying her hardest to read the four smaller letters on the UFO's starboard side.

"Luna." Seethe began. "How long have you known about this thing?"

"I spotted it last night. Right after I got some weird signals." Luna said.

"Signals? What did it do send smoke signals? I don't see how that thing could send a signal without being noticed before hand." Celestia asked still studying the UFO.

"Wrong signal, sister. Radio signals!" Luna answered.

"Rodeo signals?" Seethe and Celestia asked in perfectly synced unison.

"No. Radio." Luna said slowly. She went over to a corner of the room and opened a drawer on a wooden dresser next to a bed who's sheets were covered in small light crescent moons. She removed a large metal square box. On it's top it curved down and a large orange circle was placed directly in the center. She carried it in her fore hooves and carefully set it down on the center of the carpet in the room. Celestia stopped studying the gray UFO in space and looked at the box.

"What is that thing? Where did you get it, Luna?" Celestia asked staring at it.

"It came crashing down in the Everfree forest when I was Nightmare Moon. I found it and hid it away, assuming it was a weapon. Now I realize after years of study: it's an ultra long range communicator. I estimated it's range at close to Two trillion miles into space. Some times at night I'll turn it on and broadcast questions and then await and answer. This is the only time I got a response, ever. Followed by an appearance as you saw." Luna explained as she she shot a bolt of electricity straight into the orange circle.

The orange circle glowed and let a transparent orange, paper thin, square of digital buttons and displays. Seethe put his rear next to Luna's and looked as Luna taped her fore hoof against the displays and buttons. She pulled "menus" and scanned through "Files." until she found what she was looking for. A file marked "ANSWER!!!"

She tapped it and audio began to play as sound waves were displayed on screen.

"UN...........estiny to........una........coming.......hot, need medical assista.....do you copy?"

"Do we copy? Copy what?" Seethe asked "When did you get this?"

"About five minutes before I came and found you." Luna answered quickly.

"Can I speak to whoever sent this? It's clear they speak our language." Seethe asked scanning the displays and buttons for a "TALK" button.

"Umm...yes. But there might be a slight delay. Whoever that is, is a great distance away still." Luna said.

She leaned in and tapped one of the buttons suddenly. Seethe found himself talking with the UFO. With about a five to ten second delay per response.

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