The Human

I sit up and sigh. The wound on my head had starting aching again, and I muster my strength to induce a pain relieving spell on myself. I moan when the relief finally pours in. Using some of my magic, I was able to heal any damage Rainbow Dash and I experienced, but I still have headaches from it, while she hasn't woken up. I wipe some of the failed mixture off myself. It is a strong scent, and I have only smelt it before when near an open grave. I walk over to Rainbow Dash and wipe any of the remains of the potion off with a swipe of my magic. She starts to stir, and I stand over her expectantly. She opens her eyes and looks at me.

"You better have an explanation of why the hay I am lying on the ground here Blacky," She growls.

Damn. I was hoping she had forgotten that.

"A minor explosion occurred and you kind of got knocked out, along with a rift opening and a creepy looking primate let loose," I look at her sarcastically. "We are doing perfectly fine."

She sighs and sits up uneasily.

"I wish you had never decided to bring me up here."

I shrug. For a chance I thought I had something here, but nothing good ever happens with necromancy. It is now a confirmed fact. I pull her up off the ground and she flaps her wings slowly.

"Man, I ache. Some blast, eh?" She laughs and slaps me in the face with her wing.

I flinch slightly when her feathers hit my nose, and sneeze.

She laughs again, and flies into the air.

"C'mon, let's fly into town and forget this whole thing."

"Fine by me," I snort.

I try to loosen up a bit and forget about what happened back there. That... thing has a haunting aspect to it, like a demon. I need to at least let it slip my mind for now, before I can find a good way to get rid of it, otherwise the pressure will drive me insane. I can think of nothing but the feeling of my right eye twitching awkwardly. Buck.

The book in my hooves sits there awkwardly, trying to cover up the account of me staring there blankly, thinking. I set it down slightly and look around. It's Twilight's library, but she's out of town. I set the book down and look around. Nopony is here to witness me at all. I decide to just lean back and close my eyes, letting it all wash away.

"Exciting book?"

I sit up with a cry and look around. Still nopony is here, before a tap on the top of my head denies that notion.

"Did it ever hurt ya to look up?" Rainbow Dash laughs and lands on the ground. "I saw you weren't reading it at all and decided to see what you were doing when I flew by."

I rub my face with my hoof. It had only been a couple hours since this morning when the portal opened, and she was already like her old self. Either she had a short memory, or she was stupid. Well, maybe that was a little harsh, as she was too busy being knocked out to notice the primate walking away. Still, the fact that a portal was drifting in the open to a padded cell room didn't concern her in the slightest.

"Well, I was just thinking about what happened," I speak a half-truth. It wasn't really what happened, it was what came out after that happened. "Seems odd, don't it?"

"Well what part would that be? The explosion, the portal, or what happened before those two?"

I just stare at her.

"You know what I'm talking about, dumb ass," She snorts. "So was that your final death wish above everything else?"

"To be consumed in a ball of flame? Yeah, that's top on everypony's bucket list," I roll my eyes sarcastically. "Maybe somepony would find me and serve me with a side of fries."

"I honestly am surprised that you would risk your life over a potion to raise the dead. It would be funny if it weren't so sad."

I laugh and lean my back onto the bench. She sits over on another one. I levitate her a Daring Do and leave myself to my own thoughts. Wincing, I pull myself back out. At least I kept myself sane for a full five minutes before thinking of that lurching figure again. I don't know what intrigues me so much about it. I have seen, and captured, manticores before easily, and they are definitely much more deadlier when provoked than that thing. It could barely stand for Pete's sake! I sigh and rub my face again. I feel like I grow heavier when  I finally figure it out. It was in a broken strait jacket. Whatever it was/is, it is intelligent, and insane. I groan and roll off the bench.

"Are you dying or something?" Rainbow Dash peeks over the top of her book. "If you need some mouth-to-mouth I'm not budging."

"No, I'm fine. Just had a weird thought," I sit back up on the bench. "If only you knew..."

"How large the porn stash at your house is?"

I look up at her, and she grins smugly.

"Shut up."

I pull out a blank piece of parchment, and start sketching by using my horn on the quill. It moves expertly across the page, and after a while an image starts to take form of the thing's back. I finish it up and look at it. Not pretty, but it is an exact black and white copy of what I saw. I write a note on the back.

I need your best ponies working on this. What is this thing? -Black Thunder

I send it to Celestia and sit back. I just have to wait for a response, nothing else I can do. As if on cue, a piece of parchment drops down onto my lap. I unroll it, and a more detailed drawing of the same creature, if not a different one, sits there, along with a dictionary entry.

Human- noun. Homo Sapiens

Discovered in a freak magic accident, these mammalian creatures are as smart as ponies, if not smarter in some cases. They have higher technology then we have reached so far, but can be more prone to wickedness. To prevent further issues, any portals to Earth, their home planet, have been sealed forever. See Earth for further answers.

I raise both my eyebrows. A note accompanies it and I read it.

Black Thunder, only a few ponies have ever seen or heard of humans. How did you hear of them? - Princess Celestia

Best not to tell her what happened, and figure out the problem myself. It could mean hell for me if she found out. Besides, upon flipping to a diagram of a human, they don't look so tough. I look at the parchment, and it bursts into flames. Oops. It was "lost" in transmission. It will turn out much better for me if I never have to answer how that thing got here. I drop the crisped sheet to the ground and stamp out the ashes, kicking them into the fireplace. My filly companion is too ensnared in her book to notice. I walk over to the bench and adjust my goggles, before flying over to the door. I step out and look around. Everything seems fine, nopony seems to be panicking in any manor what so ever.

I fly back inside the library and look around. Something lands on my shoulders. Fearing that it is the human, I teleport away on an instinct, only to see Dash drop to the ground where I was. She stands up and looks around.

"Black? Where are you?" She looks around the room for me.

Well, time for me to make it look like it was intentional, and with ninja precision, I sneak up behind her and grab her under the arm pits, turning visible again.

"If this was a real attack, you'd be dead."

I laugh and set her down. She snorts and walks back over to her book, lying on the bench.

"I wasn't even trying to get you," She says.

I roll my eyes and decide not to argue with her.

The light outside has dimmed to pitch black, and I stand up, stretching. Rainbow already went home a while back, and I am alone. I walk over to the door and start to open it, where a small, plump orange pony with a brown mustache has his hoof raised in a knocking position. I raise my eyebrow.

"If you want Twilight she's not home right now-"

"I know, Black. I need you, not that book worm."

I cough.

"If you must know, you happen to be insulting the pony who took down Nightm-"

"Yeah, yeah, I know," He wheezes. "Just listen. There's been a murder."