Canterlot. It is home to many ponies, most importantly princess Celestia and her sister princess Luna.
Celestia's room is of average size with a painting of a shooting star, a fireplace and, a seat in the middle. The princess sat in the middle reading a letter from her star student Twilight Sparkle.
"Princess. Are you in?"
Out side a Pegasus messenger came knocking on Celestia's door.
"Yes come in" Celestia opened the door with her magic and continued to read Twilight letter.
"Princess news from professor Old Bones."
Professor Old Bones, a paleontologist, is a old unicorn mare with a brown coat and blackish beard, mane and, tail.
The Princess was given the letter before the messenger left. After finishing Twilight letter she took Old Bones letter and started to read it.
Dear Princess Celestia
I would like to inform you that in the north west area near Dodge Junction we have uncovered what has seem to be a bunker of sorts. We have found a way and found the markings and the architecture in nothing I, or any pony has ever seen. The items here are also strange as well. We discovered a "pod" of sorts. This "pod" seems to hold something in it and we have not tried to attempt to open it yet in fear of what ever is in there could be damage if we forced it open. I am planing of having the "pod" taken back to Canterlot along with a hoof full of the items we could take as well as the bones of some sort of the bipedal species we found around the bunker. I included pictures of the sight, bones, and the pod.
Sincerely Professor Old Bones
Celestia has ruled Equestria with her sister for decades and received letters about old battle sights of there ancestors but never heard of a bipedal species or at least one near a bunker that is not of pony origin. She looked at the pictures Old Bones included.
The bones showed a bipedal species with a strange claw, a rib cage a strange skull that looks nothing like a pony but closely like a baby dragon skull, and the skeleton seemed to be putting there claw up in front of there head to protect it from something. Possibly the thing that killed it.
The dig site showed several more skeletons in a similar position. Some looked like they tried to brake into the bunker. The bunker its self is round at the top and most of it was still burred underground there was a doorway on the side of it which was most likely the way Old Bones got in.
The pod is long and gray with little features and also looked vary clean, almost no dirt or dust was on it, or at least that could have been seen in the picture.
Another knock came to Celestia's door.
"Tia?" Celestia recognized the voice instantly and replied.
"Luna. please come in." Luna walked in and sat by her sister's side noticing the pictures and the letter.
"What's this?"
"A letter from Old Bones. She wanted to tell me about a new dig site."
"A dig site of what?" Luna asked curiously.
Celestia picked up the pictures with her magic and gave them the her sister. "See for your self."
Luna was amazed at the pictures and almost speechless. "I never seen anything like this." Luna said plain and simple.
"I know..."
"Is there a problem sister?"
"Just thinking about this new species what ever they were"
"What do you mean?"
"We never seen a bipedal race like this. Why did they die off?"
More questions came to mind with the fact the
-The next day-
The train ride to Canterlot from Dodge Junction was anything but normal. The train's cargo car was full of bones, artifacts and a large pod. The door to the car was blocked by two royal guards. The only one in the cargo car was Professor Old Bones who was studying the artifacts before coming to Canterlot. The train was made a stop at Ponyville to unload some passengers and load new ones. The new passengers were Twilight, Spike, Rainbow dash, and a dozen other ponies. Twilight and Spike are going to meet Celestia after receiving a letter for them to come to Canterlot. Rainbow came along to see the Wonderbolts air show in Canterlot. She decided to tag along with her friends
The train ride was mostly quiet. Rainbow went on being a fan girl a couple of times, but still mostly quiet.
Spike was sitting down and looking out the widow.
"Hay Twilight."
"Yes Rainbow?"
"Why are you and spike go to Canterlot again?"
Twilight rolled her eyes in annoyance. She had just told Rainbow Dash what they where doing before. Seven times to be precise. "Princess Celestia wanted me to come back to Canterlot to help research the discovery of a new species."
Rainbow yawned. "That sound's boring."
"Boring? It's a new species that lived long before us."
"Yep."
The train soon got to Canterlot and ponies started to get off and go about there day but in the back guards where helping unloading the strange cargo.
Old Bones was watching the artifacts being transported and only started to walk to his lab when the pod came out. The pod is in the shape of a cylinder with oval shaped ends being moved at a
Twilight, Spike, and, Rainbow Dash got to Old Bones lab there they found the strange artifacts, Old Bones, and Princess Luna
"Princess Luna" Twilight and her friends gave a bow "It's good to see you again."
"It's good see you again Twilight Sparkle"
Rainbow looked at the artifacts "Sooo... what is all this stuff?"
Old bones started to talk "Well we really don't have any idea but it is from some sort of bipedal race."
Spike walked over and looked at the pod "Whats this?"
"To our best conclusion... It's a coffin."
"And whats in it if it is not a pony?" spike asked with a curious look on his face.
"We where going to take a look with a x-ray spell. Twilight will you like to do the honors?"
"Okay. Here it goes" Twilight's horn started to glow and a transparent cloud formed on top of the pod show what's inside.
Old bones gasped along with eveypony else. There is something in there but it was not just bones
At this point Twilight has stopped using her spell and started to talk. "Is anypony else thinking the same thing?."
Old Bones used a spell unicorns used to check a ponies heart and what they found was a slow betting heart inside the pod.
"It's not a coffin. It's a... I don't know what this is."
"Professor you studied many creatures and you don't know what this... is?"
"No i'm sorry princess I don't"
Rainbow sat next the the pod "So... should we get it out?"
"I don't know, but we still need to find out how to properly open the pod. We don't want to kill, what ever this thing is."
"Old bones is right." Twilight said. "We should find out how to open this pod some way" Twilight placed her hood on the edge of the pod when suddenly a panel pops up out the front of the pod causing Twilight to back up."
"Well that was convenient." Spike said
"It must be some sort of... control panel." Twilight started to read the text on the small screen. "Unlock? Wait... this is in perfect equestrian. Unlock. Princess should we?"
"I don't know. Professor?"
"It would be a opportunity of a life time. Twilight... unlock it please."
"Ok..." Twilight look at the screen for a minute and found out to open the pod she had to push a orange flashing button.
"Here it goes." Twilight pushed the button and the pod started to rumble and mist started to blow out of the pod. the pod opened in the middle from top to bottom reviling a pale faced creature covered with a thin layer of ice.
Cold. That's all I could feel for the last... well it could have been at least 5,000 years before life could have been stable. 10,000 at the most. I felt it only for a few minutes but it must have been longer then that.
"It's frozen." Luna said
The creature started to feel heat from the room and the cold metal he has been sleeping on.
Old bones saw the ice beginning to thaw "It may take some time for it to regain conciseness."
As his strength returned he could final open his eyes. At first everything was blurry. He could just make out 4 faces looking at him one at his feet two at his left side and on on his right. He blinked three more times and could see clearly. What he saw was... not what he expected.
"Get back it's waking up" Old bones said getting everypony to move away from the creature who started to get out of the pod.
The creature got out and landed on his hand's and knee's dazed and confused. It opened it's mouth to complain but all that came out was water and pieces of ice. He got on two legs and saw the creatures that awoke him. He backed up a bit before turning around and running towards a door. "Be careful it's confused. Luna said to keep her ponies safe.
The biped bust throw the door catching two guards off guard, but while running down that door he lost his footing and fell on he knees. Instinct and training kicking in, the creature looked around saw a weapon. A spear one of the guards dropped in the confusions. The creature grabbed the spear and got back on two feet. He looked ready to strike, but was still too dazed to fight, the biped looked for a quick exit and found a window. What was outside made him drop the weapon in disbelief. From his point, you could see the town, part of the mountain it sat on, and the ponies below. The guards took this opportunity to take there spears and pointed them at the creature ready to attack. For a few minutes ponies just stared at the creature and looked each other. One pony manage to work up the guts to approach the creature. Twilight started to move.
"Twilight wait." Rainbow called out at her friend knowing the creature could kill her...
Twilight looked at the creature. It looked clueless of what was going on around it. It was more focused on what was out side. If anything it was shocked
"Um hello... Mr.ummm biped creature."
"Twilight, that thing probably can't understand you." Rainbow whispered to Twilight from across the room.
"Just so you know I can understand you. And my name is James." A male voice came from the creature who identified himself as "James".
"My name is Twilight Sparkle."
James stopped looking out side and turned to face the door he broke out of not too long ago. "Unicorns, Pegasi" James looked at Luna. "Alicorn... i'm surrounded by mythical creatures." James turned around looked outside once more. "How is this..." James put his hand on his head. "Posib..." Before James could finish, he fell to to knees and collapsed onto the ground.
"Do you think it's kinda wearied that we only know this guy for a minute and we are all ready worried about him?" Spike said to Rainbow Dash.
"Ya short stuff. This is just..."
"We reacted how we should have reacted." Old Bones said
The group of ponies looked at the creature named James. The ponies know nothing about his anatomy but he is still breathing and has a heart beat so that was a start. He laid on a spare bed, Old Bones had for guest, in till they could find out what else to do with him.
"If, you wish to leave you may." Old bones said "I will be fine here."
"Here? Alone? With this thing." Rainbow responded
"If there is any problem i'm sure the guards could handle it." The two guards looked at each other before one responded bravely.
"Ye... Yes of course. We can handled it."
The ponies looked at each other and exchanged faces. "Well, I do have to get my new magic book from Celestia."
"Yes, and I must speak to my sister about this creature."
"Best seats at the Wonderbolt airshow can only last forever."
And with that the alicorn, unicorn, pegasus, and dragon left the building leaving, Old Bones and James alone. Old Bones looked at James strange armor. It covered from neck to hoof... paw. But one thing that caught her eye was a symbol on his chest piece. If she was getting old and crazy, then the symbol matched the one of... "No... how could they... it's probably just a coincidence... I hope" Old bones walked out of the room to continue her work.
When James woke up he found him self in a room laying on a bed. No memory of how he got here, but he dose slightly remember going into cryo sleep. James got out of the bed and found a door. With any luck, the people that found him are in there and friendly.
Old Bones looked up from her work to see James has woken up and also used the door.
"Hmm... well grate."
"Are... are you... ok?"
James faced the unicorn. "Ya i'm fine i just have advance cryo sickness."
"Advance cryo sickness?"
"Yes, it happens but it's not life threatening. It just causes people to look different. It will wear off."
"Oh..." Old Bones knew that he was not sick. What he saw was true. "James you should know that..."
"How did you know my name?"
"You told me before you passed out."
"Oh... you mind telling me what happened before I fainted?" Old Bones told James everything, from when he woke up to the time he fainted. She explained that Rainbow dash left to see the Wonderbolt's airshow, Luna left to talk to her sister, and Twilight and Spike left to get some new magic books.
"Hold on... magic?"
"Yes magic."
"Never heard of it."
Old Bones decided to create a example. Her horn started to glow gray. Shortly after that, a book was covered in the same color and it hovered off the ground. "This is a simple manipulation. We can also cast spells that can do almost anything."
"I see, well then should i tell you about my species?"
Old Bones smiled as her horn lit up again making a quill and scroll hover in front of her.
"I will take that as a yes." James cleared his throat and talked about the human race. Well to the best of his ability. He explained that his race where omnivores, they where the only race, at the time, with a brain smart enough to study it's self and the body it controlled, and there achievements from learning how to walk on two legs to colonizing the planet mars.
"Amazing. Your species was simply amazing. That only leaves one question. What happened to your..."
The doors opened reviling three guards, and two alicorns. The tallest one approached James as Old bones bowed down.
"Rise my little pony. Hello James."
"Princess Celestia I amuse."
"Yes. Please, we must talk."
Sure here or..." Before James could finish, him and Celestia disappeared in a flash of light. Luna approached the old mare.
"No worries Old bones. My sister needs to talk to the human in private."
Old bones wanted to protest. A human. A 35,000 year old human. Humans have only been mentioned in old books but no proof of them ever existed till now. And now the princess has him. But she new Celestia.
"else... were..."James looked around to see he was now in a tower, high above the city. The room was nice, had a fire place and a strange bird. "What happened?"
"I'm sorry if you are disoriented. Sudden teleportation will cause that."
"I'm not sick i'm just... confused. Why did you take here?"
"We need to talk. Your species was only heard of in old stories. Your a myth."
"So what? You just going to keep me here? One big secret."
"No." James raised a eyebrow. "Why would make you think I would keep you and your species a secret?"
James shut it for a moment. That outburst was unnecessary. He needed to explain himself. "I lived in a world full of conspiracy, greed, chaos, and war."
"You will not find that here."
"I was never told where "here" was."
Celestia looked outside on the balcony at the landscape bellow before facing the human.
"Canterlot. The capital city of Equestria."
"A fitting name for a country filled with ponies, and a strange place to put the capital." James walked on the same balcony with Celestia and chuckled a bit. "And that's coming from a man who lead soldiers into battle inside a gas giant." Celestia put out her hoof at James who simply looked at before putting his hand on her hoof. They both looked at each other and shook.
"According to the regulations, I find and follow a leader if i believe they can be trusted." James' smiled told Celestia that he trusted her. "I was a Spar super soldier and Spar teaches us parkour, skydiving, and several fighting styles to help us in the field."
"Humanity was a violent race was it."
"We knew peace. We just never expressed it well."
"I hope you express it better then your race."
"I will take that as a order. Be nice. So what now?"
"I will release the news of the new discovery of the human race."
"Your not like the leader i thought you were." Celestia turned to face the human. "Oh?"
"When ever there was a major discovery, that could affect history, a leader would try vary hard to keep it hidden. You are showing me you people."
"This is your home just as it is ours. And my little ponies deserve to know."
"Good point." James looked outside the window saw a few flies playing below them. It brought a small smile to his face.
"The question is. How will your people react."
"I all ready planed for that. You will be taken on a train to Ponyville. That is where my student and her friends live. You may want to remove that armor."
"This armor dose just come off... but...umm." James only had a black under armor shirt and shorts to match. "Do you know about taboo."
"Waring armor is a taboo to your people?"
"It's just natural for humans to ware clothes. And armor is the only thing i got."
Author's Note
Sorry it took so long. I'm getting back into writing now.
