A New World Discovered

After waking up from her nap, which actually turned out to be an actually full on sleep till it was five in the morning, which was the time that celebration for the Summer Sun Celebration to begin. Rising from her position on the bed Twilight noted that the party downstairs was no longer booming, it was actually really quite, which brought a smile to her muzzle as she wouldn’t have to deal with any pony, yet. Sitting up on the bed the mare stretched out her body, and noted just how late it was, and yet from her bedroom window she could see dozens of ponies already being very lively even in the wee early hours of the morning. And seemed to be making their way to the town hall where the celebration was going to be.

“Oh good you woke up.” Spike said as he made his way to the bed.

“And I see that it’s time to start the celebration.” Twilight said as she gets up from her bed. “We better make our way to the town hall as well.”

“Then let’s go!” Spike said as he hopped down from the ledge of the sleeping quarters, and onto the floor below and waited for Twilight to make her way down.

Leaving the library behind them both Spike and Twilight followed the crowed towards where the celebration would take place, and as they did so Twilight would occasionally look up to the moon, and checking to see if the ‘mare in the moon’ was still there. even if she was told by both Spike, and princess Celestia, to not concern herself with the legend but even so, she still couldn’t help but still feel like something could go wrong. A tug at her sleeve caused the unicorn to look down and see Spike looking up at her, a slight concern look on his pudgy little face. giving her little assistant a heartfelt smile Twilight knelt down slight to give him a hug, one he returned in kind before they continued to make their way towards the town hall.

Reaching the town hall Twilight was absolutely stunned by how everything turned out. The decorations she saw earlier in the day was already good, but now seeing the elaborate banner, streams and other touches, the hall building looked incredible.

“Got to give that mare credit, she does amazing work.” Twilight says as she and Spike merge with the crowed, and entered the building.

“Yeah, I knew she could do it.” Spike said in a very enchanted voice, which just made Twilight shake her head as a small smile graces her muzzle.

After entering the town hall, it showed to be just as lovely, and stunning on the inside as well. And while the mare was looking around the hall Twilight saw the mares that she meet during her inspection. The farmer pony was standing next to a large table that was filled with food, and drinks on the left side of the building, where ponies were already starting to grab plates of food and drinks as they await for ceremony to officially begin. Looking around some more the unicorn then spotted that weird butterscotch colored pegasus, and her assortment of birds for the choir, and she seemed to have more birds than the last time she saw her. although Twilight was still un-sure of a choir of birds would even be enough, or is a wise choice, for this kind of celebration.

“Alright everypony its almost time for the Summer Sun Celebration to begin!” a mild-age mare with a wavy grey mane and glasses said as she stood on stage, getting a resounding around of applause and stomps in response.

“As you all know, the Summer Sun Celebration is a time where we ponies pay honor to beloved princess Celestia, who has brought the warm rays of the sun for the past one-thousand years. And today, the ponies of Ponyville have been given the honor to house the main event of this monumental occasion, where we will bare witness to Princess Celestia raising the sun to start the summer months!”

“Before our illustrious ruler graces us with her presence, let us all give a round of applause to Miss. Rarity, for making our town hall look absolutely marvelous for her visit.” Twilight turned to face the left of the mild-age mare, where she saw the same white unicorn graciously bow as she accepts the resounding applause.

“As well as Miss. Applejack and her family for providing us with a bountiful amount of delicious food and beverages.” The crowd again applaud, and the farmer and a few members of family waved and thanked for the gracious applauses.

The mayor of the town continued on with giving thanks to the ponies that got everything prepped for today’s event, bur as the ponies continued to do so Twilight once again made a quick glance up to moon, which was visible via the glass roof, saw the ‘mare in the moon’ image fade away! And the moment that the unicorn saw that pony face vanish from the moons surface, a great sense of dread washed over her, as she starts to panic and wander what’s going to happen next.

“And now let us welcome our beloved matriarch, give your most heart felt applause for, princess Celestia!”

Everypony, aside from Twilight, clapped, stomped, and cheered their hearts out as the drapes on the balcony above the crowed, and as they move aside, and the choir of birds begin to start their rehearsed melody…princess Celestia was nowhere to be seen. The ponies ceased their fanfare as they all looked at each other with confusion, even the mayor looked baffle as she looked behind the curtains to see if the princess was there, but by the look on her face, the solar matriarch was not going to make an appearance.

The sense of dread that was washing over Twilight has only grown more intense, as she started to feel ever more worried about what was coming. And her fears have only reached higher heights as the town hall starts filling up with mist, and a sense of deep cold started to enrapture everypony, while the mayor screamed in shock as she nearly fell off the balcony. That’s when Twilight, Spike, and everypony else in the hall saw what could only be described as a curtain of the midnight sky start swirling around the balcony, and as the vail starts to disappear they all beheld the visage of an alicorn. But unlike the icon of tranquil beauty that is princess Celestia, they instead bore witness to an alicorn of blacken fur, midnight armor and glare as cold as ice as they peered down upon the town’s populace.

And as the alicorn looks down upon the crowed Twilight could only stand there, shuttering in fear while Spike huddles close to her, while the dark alicorn develops a sinister grin on her muzzle.

~~Elsewhere~~

A few hours have gone by, and was already starting to grow dark but even so, John was still hard at work in studying the ruins of this alien world. and from studying the very stone work, to the tapestries, there are even busted down statues and rustic pieces of armor and weapons. The armor and the tapestries being topics of great interest, especially the tapestries that were still intact and scattered around the ruins, as the imagery they adorned could have significant meanings as to the worlds history, and the race that made them.

“So far everything that I’ve discovered and analyzed seem to have some kind of equine iconography, or have some kind of humanoid equine.”

John said as he looks up to the latest tapestry that he has discovered, which depicted the same large horse woman cradling the sun. As a matter of fact there seemed to be plenty of tapestries with this same design, large horse woman holding or being depicted with celestial bodies. So there had to be some kind of meaning behind them, but to what John hasn’t the foggiest.

“I wonder what all this could mean, but I’m also curious about how this world could have creatures that look exactly like horses from Earth. Or horse-like creatures that closely resembles them.” a yawn escaped his mouth as the pilot stretches out his body.

“I better get some rest tonight. I can pick this up in the morning, come on Lucky time to call it a day.”

The robotic wolf gave a light barking sound, before following John through the ruins until they exited it, and made it his way to the ship. While Lucky made its way to its housing pod. But just before the young man entered the ship, he glanced upward to look at the night sky, seeing the stars and moon as they shine in the dark, however something seemed to have peeked his interest.

“Strange, I thought the moon had a face image on it.”

John said as he scratched the side of his head before shrugging it off before entering the ship. Entering the ship the young man decided to make a quick easy meal to fill his stomach, which he has neglected all day due to his research findings. Making his way over to the very, VERY, small ship kitchen area John began to make a quick grill cheese with pepper jack, mozzarella and swiss, with a little bit of sautéed sliced mushroom and bacon, with a bottle of cola to help wash it down. Once the little meal was made, John sauntered his way towards where the resting quarter was, and pulled out the bed from the wall and unceremoniously plopped himself down upon the rather soft mattress. But just as he was about to eat his grilled sandwich, and watch a little bit of a movie via the ships media player…

“WARNING! WARNING! Abnormal Phenomenon Detected!”

John stopped right as he was about to press play on the movie he was going to watch, when the ships alarm system started blaring. Unsure what was happening, the pilot made his way to the ships cockpit and started to fiddle around with the console, all the while the ship continued to repeat its warning.

“What the hell is going on?” the young man said as he pulled up the ships systems, and checking what is causing it to react in such a way. But upon seeing the ships connect to the Christ satellites read-outs…and they were focused on the planet’s moon, which was giving off a strange energy field.

“What in the world is that?!” John said as he continues to watch the video feed of the satellites monitor, and seeing the strange energy field collect onto a single point of the moon’s surface, and then race through space making a b-line towards the planet.

“This doesn’t seem to be a good thing. Better get the ship back into the air, and leave Lucky down here to do recon on the energy signature.”

Closing the satellite feed John switched over to the controls of the ship, and began prepping for takeoff. Once the system was in place, the young man then quickly headed towards the ships haul, and started to mess around with monitors for Lucky’s control system, switching from stand-by mode to recon mode and directing the metallic canine to investigate the energy signature from the moon. As the ship begins to slowly get itself off the ground, Lucky quickly emerged from its own pod, and its eye turned skyward to look for any signs of the strange energy signature. And once it locked in on the source of the energy, it ran from the ruins, leapt, and launched over the ravine, and began running through the woods to search for the energies source.

While Lucky rushes forward into the woods, the ship manages to reach above the tree line and took off with great speed, flying through the air for a minute before angling upward before heading up into the planet’s upper atmosphere. Once the ship had return to the expansive void of space, John placed the ship in stand-by mode, and made his way back to Lucky’s control station and brought up the video feeds on the main monitor.

“Alright let’s see what this abnormal phenomena is, and then see how the director wants to procced once I find out what the source is.”

John says to himself as he plops himself down in the station chair, and patiently waited for the mechanical wolf to discover what ever the source of the strange energy signature was. Taking a bite of his sandwich as he watches the live feed from Lucky’s camera.