A New World Discovered

Things were bad, no not bad, things were absolutely terrible! The return of the fallen alicorn has returned, and after her arrival within the town hall she proclamation that both the sun, and Celestia would never be seen again, and that the night will go on, forever. But there might be a way to stop this before it gets out of hand. During her research, Twilight remembered that there was something in book foretelling Nightmare Moon’s return, something called the Elements of Harmony. Unfortunately, the book that foretold Nightmare Moon’s return didn’t tell where these elements were, however, it would seem that fate has given Twilight a hand, in the form of the ponies she’s met during the day, or more accurately the pink earth pony finding a reference guide in the towns library. which still befuddles Twilight.

But that didn’t matter to the unicorn. The book that Pinkie found told the lavender unicorn where the elements could be found, which just happened to be in the Everfree Forest, or more accurately in the ruins of the of Celestia’s old castle in the forest. so once Twilight found out where these elements were, the unicorn ran as fast as she could to the forest, and was dead set on finding the elements. Although it seems she was not going in alone, as the five ponies that she’s meet today were set on helping her, even if they didn’t know what was going on. Begrudgingly Twilight didn’t have time to argue with them, and allowed the five strangers to accompany her. however the journey through the forest wasn’t a simple one.

When the group entered the forest they were met with one obstacle after another, from having their minds playing tricks on them, to dealing with a bawling river serpent having, facial hair problems, but those were nothing compared to dealing with a manticore in pain and having the ground literally break from under them.

But somehow, and some way, the group was able to handle whatever setbacks tried to stop them. From Pinkie Pie doing a silly song to dispel the mind tricks the forest was placing on the ponies. Rarity helped the group pass by the serpent, by sacrificing her styled tail. Then Fluttershy, the most timidness thing that Twilight has ever met, managed to aid the manticore from what was causing it pain. And finally when the group fell down the large hill that gave out from under them, Applejack was able to ease Twilight’s panicking mind in that she would be fine, although the earth pony could’ve been more clearer as to what she meant. All in all, things could’ve gone better for the group.

“Well this is certainly more than I bargained for when I came with ya’ll.” Applejack said as she stretched her body as she kept walking.

“Agreed.” Rarity bemoaned as she looked at her plush rump, and seeing her now shorten tail. “It’s going to take me weeks to re-grow my tail.”

“Don’t worry Rarity, I’m sure your tail would grow back, and be even more beautiful.” Fluttershy said as she rubbed the unicorns back.

“Well I’m just glad that none of us have gotten to banged up during that landside.” Pinkie proclaimed joyfully as she continued to hop and bounce around.

“So Twilight, how much further do we have to go to reach the old castle?” Rainbow Dash asked as she continued to fly beside the group.

“If we don’t run into any more problems, then we should reach it in about twenty or so minutes.”

Twilight says as she and the group pushes past a thicket of trees, and came upon a clearing…but as the five mare’s came into the clearing they found something…strange. Standing before the six adolescent mare’s, with the light of the moon and stars shining down upon the clearing…and the thing before them. the creature before the ponies was quadrupedal, its body a marvelous shimmering silvery grey color, with a large singular eye in the center of its wolf like head. but when the ponies focused primarily on the strange creatures body, they all noticed that it looked like its skin was made out of metal.

“Fluttershy, do you know what that thing is?” Rarity asked as she leaned in close to the butterscotch mare.

“No!” Fluttershy said as she stared at the creature, wide eye and full of curiosity, and fascination. “But based on its physicality, it must be some kind of wolf, or another type of canine.”

“If you ask me it looks like a pile of grey bones.” Rainbow said as she stood before the group, ready to rumble if this thing decided to attack.

“Whoa, whoa, hold up RD!” Pinkie said as she pulled the pegasus back by tugging on her tail. “No need to try and play hero, besides, it doesn’t look like its going to attack us.”

Before the ponies could really study the metal-skinned canine, it turned on a dime and then bolted off into the direction they were all going. But the ponies didn’t pursue after the beast, even though Fluttershy was greatly tempted to do so, the group pushed on to their destination. Little did they know however, the metal skin wolf didn’t completely vanish, instead, it was hiding out just beyond the ponies vision. Watching them as they walk past, and heading deeper into the forest.

~~Space~~

To say that John was speechless when Lucky found more alien life forms, especially the ones that the mechanical beast had discovered, would be the understatement of the year. If not the century. When John saw the six, clearly female, bipedal anthropomorphic equine creatures, wearing clothes like humans and appear to be talking to one another in hushed tones, John’s mind was running a hundred miles per hour.

So now the piolet was sitting at Lucky’s control station, very carefully and closely watching the video footage that the robotic wolf was recording, examining every inch of the six equine women. Studying how they walked on their equine-like legs, how their bodies looked so familiar to that of human women, and studying how their faces look like, what one would say more, furry-like. than an actual horse or other equine face. their muzzles were short, rounded, and their eyes were like those of anime characters, bigger than a normal humans and being very expressive. But what really caught the humans attention, more than anything else, was how colorful they were. they all looked as if their fur coats, manes, and tails were all dyed in neon colors. But as Lucky continued to follow the equines, who were heading in the general direction where the strange energy signature was coming from, John was studying the two equines with wings, and horns more closely than the bouncing pink one, and the orange one that was built and dressed like a toned cowgirl.

Although the ones with wings really caught John’s attention more, especially in how different the two woman’s wings were when compared to each other’s. the cyan blue one had wings that looked to be, the same length as her arms, and were flapping at a steady pace. As for the butterscotch one, her wings were easily as the same length as her whole body, at least when they were folded up.

“…Incredible…” was all the young man could say after studying the equine women for five or so minutes.

“I am actually documenting an alien species!” John said in both wonder, and disbelief, as if he was having a hard time accepting what he was seeing. But he quickly accepted the clear visible fact that he was staring at.

“And given how well they seemed dressed; I’d say they’re a pretty modern day people.” The young man said as Lucky launched the aerial drone from its back, to get a better overview of the group, and now able to see how well the six mares were dressed.

“I doubt that any pre-industrial females would be dressed like normal people, a supermodel, a cowgirl, and what looks like a…schoolgirl?” John commented before another thought came to him, as the group eventually exited the forest, and stood before the rope bridge leading to the ruins.

“But why are these six here? I doubt their here for a late-night stroll.”

But before John could come to any conclusion, the group of six mare’s were enveloped in a sudden fog bank. Which caused the ship to blare out its abnormal phenomenon warning, and when John had Lucky approach the fog bank, its scans indicated that this fog shared the same energy signature that caused the young man a fright earlier. John then instructed to have Lucky leap over back to the other side of the ravine, and take shelter in its own pod, just in case something was about to happen. And when Lucky entered its pod, the craft closed its hatch, and engaged its cloaking protocols becoming perfectly invisible.

While Lucky took shelter in its pod, John took control of the aerial drone, perching it on one of the bridges large rope poles, and watched the mysterious fog bank. Which then disappeared a minute later, revealing the six mare’s, and by the postulation that the blue, pegasus, was doing she seemed to be thrilled about something.

The group then made their way towards the ruins, passing by Lucky’s cloaked pod, then proceeded to head inside. But a moment later and John watched as five of the six mares came back out, the only one missing was the purple, or lavender, coated horned school girl. However John wasn’t able to go search for her, as he got distracted by the ships warning alarms blaring up again, which coincided with a bright flash of light erupting from inside the ruins. After the flash of light subsided, John began having the aerial drone follow the energy signature that flared up, and when the drone located the source he found the lavender school girl in one of the upper towers. And inside the same room as her, was another equine humanoid…but this one was FAR different from six girls.

The new anthropomorphic equine was clearly a grown woman. Body being tall, curvaceous, and having an ample bust and waist line which could be easily seen through the dark dress she was wearing. The dress looked like one from a fantasy RPG game would be wearing. But aside from the dress, this woman was also wearing pieces of armor, from gauntlets, greaves covering her long legs, waist and midriff armor, shoulder pauldrons, and a menacing looking helmet. And aside from her clothing and armor, the mare’s bodily features, aside from its curvaceous form, the piolet also noticed that she also had a horn and a large pair of wings. But none of that compared to what really caught the young man’s attention. Flowing from the back and top of her helmet, and from behind her wide hips, was a mane and tail…except this mare’s mane and tail looked as if they were made out of the actual night sky.

But aside from the mare’s both wonderous, and down right frightful appearance, John saw that the drones own instruments were picking up the energy signature. And it was originating from the new mare.

“Well it looks like I found the source of that strange energy signature.” John said as he looked at the stations monitors, and seeing that energy that the new mare was generating, was enough to power an entire continent.

“This may prove to complicate things.” The piolet said as he scratched the side of his head.

“…and I can’t be sure…but given these read outs, the sheer presence and appearance of that mare…” John then brought up an image of the two winged horned mares holding the sun and moon. “I have a distinct feeling that she could be, in some relation to these ‘deity’ class equines.”

As John was studying the energy ready out, and making a rather rushed conclusion on the mare’s identity, a flash of light from the main monitor caught the young mans attention. And when he turned to look what was going on he saw that the lavender mare was re-joined with her friends, and now all six of them were floating in the air, and each one was bathed in a bright glowing light. Then, against all odds, John watched in stun silence as the six girls were coated in prismatic light, and literal rainbow shot up into the air. Where it arched at its apex, and then dive bombed at the dark mare, who just stood there before being enveloped in a rainbow cyclone. Not even a second after the mare was surrounded by the light, the rainbow then exploded in burst of energy that caused the instruments at the station to spike, and nearly fry the systems. All of this caused John to jump back in shocked surprise, and a little fear as he stared at the monitors, most now showing static, while another showed the aerial drone falling to the ground.

“…this is definitely not your normal planet.” John muttered as he slowly made his way to the ships cockpit, sat down, and pressed the call button.

~~Ruins~~

Twilight and her friends slowly rose recovered from, whatever it was that they just did, and as they all got up they all noticed that they were now sporting new jewelry. With Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie wearing golden necklaces, while Twilight was wearing some kind of tiara on her head.

“Strange, these look just like our cutie marks.” Twilight commented as she held the tiara, and looked at the starburst image on the back of her hands. The others did the same, and saw that shards of the broken elements matched each ponies cutie mark.

“Gee. And here I thought Twilight was just spouting a bunch of howee.” Applejack said as she placed her necklace back on. “But I guess we really do represent the elements of friendship.”

“Ah yeah we do.” Rainbow said as she puffed out her flat chest.

“I knew we could do it!” Pinkie said as she tackled the cyan pegasus, giggling all the while.

“I just can’t believe we just did.” Rarity said as she rubbed the gem of her necklace. “We all just defeated Nightmare Moon, and prevented eternal night.”

“But what about princess Celestia.” Fluttershy questioned and getting the groups attention. “If we defeated Nightmare Moon, shouldn’t princess Celestia be back?”

Before the ponies could even ponder on this new fact, and their victory over Nightmare Moon, the ponies watched as the sun rapidly rose from the far off horizon. Then a ball of light slowly formed in the room, and then make a slow descent to the floor, where the glorious image of princess Celestia appeared. All the ponies, aside from Twilight, quickly bend the knee and bowed to the princess, while Twilight was about to make her way to her mentor. Although the mare stopped when the princes started to slowly walk over to where Nightmare Moon was.

Except Nightmare Moon was no longer there, instead, laying on the floor was a naked smaller mare, her coat being a clear blue color while her mane and tail were a shorter and darker blue. Twilight and her new friends then watched as Celestia dropped to her knees, and carefully brought the smaller alicorn into her arms, and started to quietly sob as she stroke the mares head.

“My sister…your back.” was all that the ponies could hear from the princess.

“I think we should give the princess some—”

Whatever Twilight was about to saw, was cut off when she, and the other six ponies heard what sounded like sharp hissing. The ponies looked around the ruins, searching for the source of the noise, that’s when they all looked towards one of the windows. Where they saw a black, thing, slowly rise into the air…and then flew off with great speed! Speed that looked like it could match even Rainbow Dash’s speed. And as they continued to watch, the ponies saw as the black thing turned into a speck into the distance, before going straight up into the sky where it disappeared completely.

“…What…was that?” Rarity asked as she turned to look at her friends.

“I…I have no idea!” Twilight said as she was completely baffled at what she just saw. And now her mind was percolating with dozens of questions on what it was, and where it was going.

~~Space~~

Lucky’s pod had just left the planets atmosphere, and made its way back to the ship, docking into the port of where it was initially launched. And while the pod rejoined the sip, the mechanical canine exited and made its way to spot of the far wall, where mechanical limbs began to examine the robot. And the aerial drone that was recovered before it took off from the planet. Meanwhile in the cockpit, John was talking to Henrietta, while also showing her the images and video footage of the natives of the planet. As well as the being that generated so much energy, as well as the video footage of the six equine humanoids floating into the air, and then launching some kind of rainbow at the ‘deity’ classified equine before the explosion of colored light.

“And that is everything that just, literally happened a few minutes ago.” John said as he looked outside.

“And the sun and moon had just changed their positions rather quickly.” The woman was sitting down, one hand cupping her chin, while the other held the first hand and was tapping it with a finger. A few moments went by before the woman looked up to the young man.

“Transfer all the data you have collected to my personal database, and quickly return to Earth to give a live report to the bureau. Afterwards, we’ll hold a council on whether or not to establish contact with this planet’s inhabitants.”

“Rodger that.”

After John finished giving his report, the young man shut-down communications, and prepped the ship to make the long journey home. the ship slowly turned in place to face out into deep space, then in an instant, the ship zoomed off into the distance, entering hyper space. Leaving the strange new world behind, where it would wait for a decision to be passed down from the Deep Space Exploration Bureau council, on whether humanity will return to this world, or not.