Project New Genesis

Jacob decided to grab some air in castle gardens. He needed to think about all of this, what happened. In his mind, nothing appeared. Engineer abandoned this topic and started to think about his future here. Even if he said, that he hates this planet, Jacob started to feel like home here.

After some walking he sat on the nearby bench and looked above. Night was warm and quiet. Jacob enjoyed the real sky, instead of generated on glass copulas on Mars. The rain, what he felt here, was also a nice change for him. Jacob never felt the real rain. He never had an opportunity, because on Mars there was no rain or snow. On movies from Earth, he saw a lot of it. It was a shame for him, that he couldn't feel it by himself.

Jacob's wondering was interrupted by some creature, climbing on his leg. Jacob looked at it. It looked, like armadillo, but it's armor looked like scales. It also had long tail and front claws. Jacob never seen a creature like this.

"Hey there, buddy." Jacob said. "Can you talk?" The creature was silent. "Right." When it climbed on Jacob's leg, it lied on his knees. Jacob started petting it. Then, he reminded about his training with Luna. Engineer wanted to take down an animal, but it climbed on his arm and sat on his light shoulder, wrapping its tail around Jacob's neck. "Wanna go with me, pal? Fine." Jacob said and made his way to Luna's chambers.

Main 6 and Raymond were on the mountain, in front of the cave. Colonel took from the ship one jeep, three chests of building drones and personal things. In jeep was laying down unconscious Off. Oscar Stone.

"It will be perfect." Raymond said.

"If ya' say so..." Applejack commented.

Ray took a remote to the drones and activated it. "'Password requested.' I guess, it's Jacob's idea..."

Ray tried to write Jacob's favorite word. 'Fuck'. "Password denied." This time, he tried the last word, what Jacob would think of. 'Order'. "Password denied. One chance remained, before system lock-down."

"Jacob, sometimes I hate you..." Ray whispered. "Looks like, I'm sleeping outside tonight."

"If you want to, you can sleep at my castle." Twilight proposed.

"I appreciate that, princess, but... I don't want to be a bother." Raymond said.

"Well, I thought you're the smart one in your family." Twilight said.

"Don't try to use reversed psychology on me. But, if you insist, I'll accept your offer." Ray gave up, saying those words.

Raymond sat to the jeep and Twilight sat next to him. Ray turned on the vehicle and started driving. After a few minutes, they arrived to Twilight's Castle.

"That was quick..." Twilight said, leaving the car. Raymond also left and took his things.

They both walked inside the castle. Twilight showed her guest way to his bedroom. Raymond thanked and walked inside.

"Of you need anything, call me or Spike." Twilight said and closed the door.

Ray changed his armor into a pyjamas and lied down on the bed. "Very comfortable..." He said and fell asleep, after long and exhausting day.

Jacob and his new animal friend went into Luna's chambers. Princess was sitting on the floor with closed eyes.

"Um, Luna?"

"Good evening, Jacob." Luna responded and opened her eyes. "Oh, I see that you found yourself a friend."

"Yeah, I think, he likes me. What is this, anyway?"

"It's a pangolin. We have some in our gardens. They eat termites and ants. If you want, you can keep him."

Jacob scratched his new friend's head. "I think, I'll call you... Cone. You like it?" Pangolin licked Jacob's cheek with it's long, sticky tongue. Jacob responded with snicker. "I guess, you do." Jacob grabbed Cone and put him on nearby table. "So, what will we begin with? Telepathic, illusion, smoke... oh, I know. Black holes."

Luna giggled. "Let's start from something simple..." Princess pointed a nearby plate. "Try to use levitation spell on it."

"Well, always a start..." Jacob pointed the plate. "Up." He said, moving his hand up. Nothing happened. "Fly..." This time, Jacob used both hands. Again, nothing. "Can I ask for some clues?"

"Stay calm and don't think only about this plate."

"Right." Jacob took a deep breath and locked his right arm on the plate. "Use the Force... Uuuuse the Force... Wait, wrong story. What the..." Jacob's hand was covered in amber aura. Plate in the air, too. Jacob moved his hand right. Plate followed. The same thing happened, when he moved left.

"Very good, Jacob." Luna said. "Now, place it on the table, next to Cone."

Jacob nodded and moved his hand. "You know, I have a better idea..." Jacob moved his hand closer to his face and quickly jerked it forward, throwing the plate through the window. He heard it cracking.

"WHO THREW THAT!?" Somepony screamed.

"Um, do you accept Credits?" Jacob asked joyfully and checked his pockets. "I have... 90 Credits... chewed gum... and... cigarette end."

"Keep it. You're doing quite a progress."

"Really?"

"You only reached foal's rank." Luna crushed Jacob's dreams of being a very first human magician. "But, there's a lot to learn. Besides, levitation spell at the first day of training is still a progress. I thought, you will levitate the first thing after... a week." Luna looked at the window. "It seems, that your potential is much bigger. I'm a little surprised..."

"Still, this is awesome..." Jacob said, looking at his hands. "Give me a lightsaber and call me Luck Skywalker."

"Who?"

"A character for old Earth movie. So, what's our next step."

"For now..." Luna didn't finish, because of weird noise outside. "What was that?" Luna opened a balcony and saw a weird, metal creature, what looked like silver bat. "What on Equestria is that?"

Jacob looked at it. "Oh, it's a scout drone. We had some on Athena, to use them for searches in dangerous area." Jacob explained and walked to it. "A.S.D. U1, report."

"Target locked. Eliminate." Drone said.

"Wait, what?" Jacob asked. Drone unlocked the weapon and targeted Jacob. "...oh fuck. DUCK!" He screamed and hid behind the wall. Luna did the same, when machine started it's series of laser blasts.

"YOU SAID, THAT THEY ARE SEARCHING, NOT EXTERMINATING!" Angry Luna screamed.

"Looks like, this one has an flaw..." Jacob saw his pet rolling on the table. "Cone, over here." Pangolin heard and ran to Jacob. It was running, like T-Rex. Cone climbed on Jacob's shoulder.

Drone flew inside and started searching. Jacob hid behind a backdrop. He thought, during the crush, this drone was damaged and it's memory card failed. Cone was shivering on his shoulder. "Sh, everything's fine, pal..." Jacob said, petting him.

Drones were made of special, mirror steel, so his weapon was useless. When Cone calmed down, Jacob saw a chest, where Luna put Ray's weapons. Jacob used telekinesis to move it above the drone. "Go to hell, can." Jacob dropped it on a drone and crushed it. It made a little screech and turned off. Jacob left his velvet hideout, moved the chest and examined the drone. It was turned off, but untouched. Luna looked at it, as well.

"I see, that you took care of it. Thank you." Luna said, little terrified.

Jacob found inside a memory card. "Weird..." Engineer sighed.

"What is it?"

"Memory card is untouched, so... it should have recognize me. Something stinks here... Cone, can you look after it?" Pangolin grabbed the memory card in it's tail. "You're pretty smart." Jacob continued the examination. At the end, he took off the energy core, so it couldn't turn on again and hid it in his backpack. "Everything looks fine." Jacob stood up with drone in hands. "I'll check the memory card later. Maybe there will be something." Engineer put a drone to his backpack. Actually, he pinned it to it, because he had no place for it.

"I guess, that our training should be ended. I'll prepare a guest room for you." Luna said and left.

In the meantime, Jacob sighed and sat on Luna's bed. He looked at his pangolin friend. "Hard night, eh, pal?" Cone didn't answer. "Yeah, for me, too. Nice, I'm talking to animal from other planet. You can call me 'insane'."

Luna returned quickly and escorted Jacob to his room. "Have a good night, Jacob."

"Thanks, Luna." Jacob said.

Luna closed the door and turned around behind her was Celestia, staring at her with investigative look.

"I see, that you're on first name terms with each other." Celestia said.

"I'm just being kind to him, nothing else." Luna replied.

"With Sombra was the same thing. You took him as your student and... it ended, how it ended."

"It was 2000 years ago. Equestria wasn't even existing and we weren't princesses."

"It was your idea to create Inquisition." Celestia poked Luna with her hoof. "Dark Mages against each other was the worst idea, what you have ever had. It almost destroyed our planet."

"At least I tried to do something with Black Plague, when you were sitting and guttling yourself with cakes."

"Don't protect yourself with my eating habits. Besides, teaching, an alien creature, the Dark Magic? Are you insane!?"

"I'm doing this with little steps, sister. First, standard unicorn spells, like levitation, teleportation..."

"And magic beam?"

"Trust me, sister. Everything is under control." Luna said with smile, putting her left hoof to her chest.

From doors looked Jacob with Cone on shoulder. "You know, that I'm trying to sleep? I had a very long and fucked up day. Can I ask for some quiet talking or whispering?" Jacob asked with tired anger.

"Don't worry, Jacob. We are leaving. Right, sister?" Luna said.

Celestia sighed. "Yes, we're leaving. Mr. Dracons..." Celestia walked away a bit.

"I... think, that Celestia doesn't like me..." Jacob said, looking at Celestia and pointing at her.

"She's still afraid, that I will do something wrong. Anyways, what have you heard?"

"Something... something... Sombra... something.... cakes... something... planet. That's all." Jacob answered. "Okay, have a good night, Luna." Jacob said and closed the door.

Engineer walked at the balcony. Cone was sleeping in bed. Jacob took from his little storage, in his bionic arm, box of cigarettes, took one and lighted it, taking a deep breath. From his mouth, flew out a cloud of smoke.

"Um... Jacob..." Jacob looked right. Fluttershy was next to him. Jacob jumped, surprised.

"Wow. Who are you, an assassin for rent?" Jacob joked.

"I... I want to give you back your armor." Fluttershy said, placing a bag on the balcony.

"Thank you." Jacob said. "Why are you not with your friends?"

"Oh... I wanted to help Rarity with her boutique. Her assistant, Sassy Saddles, was... um... a victim of your... friend."

"I saw it. I still can't snap out of it." Jacob said, taking another breath of cigarette. "It was horrible view..."

"Sombra is a monster." Fluttershy said with anger. "I wouldn't wish anypony to die, like this. I would get this demon and turn him into big pale of bull's crap." Fluttershy gasped. "Forgive my language..."

"If you call it a language, you haven't heard a real curses. But, I know, you're angry. Me too..." Jacob looked at his cigarette. "Want to take a breath?" Jacob said, offering a cigarette.

"O-okay." Fluttershy said and took a deep breath. After that, she coughed loudly. "How can you do such a thing?"

"Smoke from this calms me down. I don't have real lungs, so I can do this without any worries. I just wanted to be nice." Jacob said, taking another breath. "You can get used to it."

"Um... I'll leave you... Goodnight." Fluttershy left. Jacob wanted to stop her, but he was tired and needed to be alone, being reminded about today's incident. Fluttershy probably needed rest, as well.

Jacob finished his cigarette, lied down on the bed and fell asleep. He had enough of this day.

Raymond woke up in his room in Twilight's castle, laying on the right side. In front of him were two ponies. One had light purple coat, dark purple mane with mint strand. Second one had blue coat and light blue/silver mane. They both were unicorns.

"Do you think, he understands us?" Blue unicorn asked.

"Twilight said, that he knows our language." Purple one answered. "Um, are you awake, sir?"

"Y-yes." Ray answered with tired voice. "Who are you?"

"I am THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE!!! And this is my best friend, Starlight."

"Colonel Raymond Dracons." Ray said, standing up. "Are you Princess Twilight's servants?"

"I like you. You're quite a joker." Trixie said.

"If you want to hear jokes, talk to my brother."

"I'm sorry for her." Starlight said. "I'm Twilight's student. Trixie is just paying me a visit. Besides, Twilight is waiting for you in the map room. I'll lead you."

"...Princess Twilight." Twilight finished the letter, when Raymond went inside the room. "Good morning, colonel."

"Good morning, princess." Ray replied. "Why did you call me?"

"I wanted to tell you, I sent a letter to Princess Celestia with request for Jacob's arrival in Ponyville."

"Good to know." Raymond looked around. On thrones, around the table, were symbols, like on Twilight's and her friends flanks. "Is this some kind of the meeting room?"

"Well, you see, colonel, between me and my friends is mysterious and magical bond, caused by the Elements of Harmony, artifacts created by Pillars of Equestria, first protectors of our land.

"So, you and your friends are their... reincarnations?" Ray asked.

"I don't think so, because they were locked in Limbo for a 1000 years and now they are around us."

"This planet is weird..." Ray said to himself. "What exactly are those Elements of Harmony?"

"We don't know very much about them, but we know, what they represent. Honesty, kindness, laughter, generosity, loyalty and magic. The original meaning was: strength, healing, hope, beauty, bravery and sorcery. For now, we locked them in magic vault in Canterlot, to keep them safe."

"I'm guessing, that... You're the magic, Pinkie is laughter, Rarity is generosity and Fluttershy is kindness. I'm not sure about Rainbow Dash and Applejack."

"Rainbow is loyalty and Applejack is honesty."

"What is your use for them."

"Usually, we use them as our last hope, when we are fighting with villains."

"Have they failed anytime?"

"Never."

Ray sighed. "If my brother will be out of control and you will use Elements on him... what would happen?"

"There are three options. One, the Elements will tame his magic. Two, he will be sealed in stone. Three, he will be banished and locked somewhere."

"I understand..." From Ray's gauntlet something ringed. Ray opened it. "It's message from Jacob. 'Ray, password to the remote is Suckmydick2.' Yeah, it's Jacob's style. 'I'm staying in Canterlot. I'll pay you a visit, when you finish building. XOXO J.D.'" Ray turned off his gauntlet. "Looks like, I have some work to do."

"Can you stay for breakfast?" Twilight asked.

"Of course."

Ray was little angry at Jacob, but he thought, that Jacob's trainings are very complicated and long, so he had to stay.

Well, reality was different...