Discoveries

by strangeday

Rating: everyone
Tags: Main 6, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Alternate Universe, Princess Celestia
Length: 2570

just how did alicorns come into equestria? by mutation? by devine right? or by another dimention?

Twilight has recieved her annual load of books from the royal canterlot library's spring cleaning, but one book in that pile has the potential to tear apart equestria.

Published 2013-08-09 22:30:02 UTC
Last updated 2013-08-09 22:30:02 UTC

Chapter 1

Twilight woke up with a start, looking around trying to comprehend over the dream she had. ‘Pinkie pie did WHAT to rainbow dash?!?’ just the thought of pinkie in that dress, none the less with a hacksaw, creped her out. To clear things up she went to rainbow dash’s cloud-house. When she called for rainbow dash, a blue head and a rainbow mane popped out of the bottom of the house.

“Oh, hey twilight, what’s up?” twilight sighed with relief.

“Nothing just had a dream.”

And with that, Rainbow dash just shrugged, and went back to reading.

“Well, I am here and nothing has happened. So I guess that’s one thing off your large list that spike has to carry around.”

Twilight held back a laugh to that, even though spike wasn't there to hear sympathy to the works he does for the studious unicorn. “Well, I better go get some history books from the post office. The princess is on ton one of her spring cleanings. Plus I have to prepare for the lecture of pony history for everypony; don’t want to give some possible false information.” And with that she was off to plan and study for the lecture of pony history. Even though spike is her direct outlet to the princess and back, if a huge package was to be sent along from the princess to twilight. The results would be...bad.

She stopped by the post office to see if her package from the princess had arrived. When she entered the building she heard a mare over the other side of the counter ask.

“How may I help you?”

Twilight went to the mare’s station and asked if a package with the royal seal has arrived, to no avail. The mare asked if once it came that she should send a deliver pony to get it to her, twilight was thrilled that they had that kind of service.

“We’ll send it ASAP once it arrives. Just write on this piece of paper so we know your address.”

Twilight gave the needed information in print to the mare; she took the paper with her hooves and put it in a folder under her desk. “Have a wonderful day!” she said happily as twilight started to leave.

Back at the library, close to sundown. There was a knock on the wall? It was repeated for about 10-15 minutes while this unrelenting noise kept bombarding her tree with the knock, twilight thought it was just a wood pecker but a wood pecker wouldn't go that slow wouldn't it? Almost drove twilight to her sane-diminished mind state. When she finally decided to go check what was going on she when outside to see a Pegasus with a tan mane and a very light gray skin, knocking on one of the knots in the tree.

“Hello? Please open up, this package seems to be very important!”

Twilight would have been nicer. But due to her being was on the verge of losing all sanity.

“WHAT THE HAY ARE YOU DOING!?! THE DOOR IS TTTTHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSS KNOT, THE BIG OVAL SHAPED KNOT THAT HAS THE CANDLE ON IT!”

Now that she released that anger she thought about what she said and instantly grieved and called for the Pegasus to come back, asking apologies from the mare she scared.

“I’m sorry; I should not have said that. Come inside, I’m sure spike will let you have some of his…”

She took a minute and tried to remember what he called them.

”I can’t even remember what he called it, but what I do know that they were awesome.”

Sure enough there was a huge plate with them. When they started eating twilight seemed to not notice that there was something unusual with this Pegasus. Her eyes did not seem to act like everyponys’ eyes. Her eyes seemed to be looking at two places at once. Confused and bewildered she asked why her eyes were like the way they were. The Pegasus replied.

“My name is originally ditzy doo, but some ponies call me Derpy Hooves. What’s your name?”

Twilight could see why she was called Derpy hooves.

“My name is twilight sparkle, I am deeply sorry for the outburst that I lashed out at you, could you forgive me?”

Ditzy displayed a look of confusion

”what do you mean by apology? Do you mean the one pony with the wacky hair that yelled at me for knocking on your door lives here?”

The lavender pony just put her face in her hooves,

“Um…ditzy, that was me.”

“OOOOHHH, you’re the mean pony?”

“Yes. I am.”

She thought that ditzy was going to storm out of the library but instead she just shrugged.
After the plate was cleansed from the cookies and muffins twilight let the Pegasus go without her package.

“Well, I better get to unpacking.”

The lavender pony sighed. As abruptly as she started unpacking, was the same speed that spike slammed open the door.

“Hey twilight, how’s things going with organizing?”

“Well, I just started unpacking this package from the princess, looks like she has found a lot of old books to clean out. She seems to have had a small spring cleaning this year, or she is just giving me only a fraction of it.”

As she unpacked she noticed that there were only a few books that were new, most were old, some in old equestrian, others were just expired dictionaries. Twilight started to skim through them all just to see what they contain seeing if there was anything that would be of value for her lecture later. But when she opened one of the ancient books, all the pages just fell out as if the cover was a dam and the pages were the water. The floor was covered with pages from many other books and languages that twilight did not recognize. Picking them all up she starts noticing this, wandering what book would have such diverse language. ‘hmm, the text seems so familiar but yet I don’t recognize it...’ twilight thought to herself. 'I think I might have to postpone the lecture I was planning about equestrian history. It seems that I have other things to focus on.’

“SPIKE!!!”

Upon hearing his friend call for his assistance, he rushed down, charging through the door, gained access to where the studious unicorn was.

“Spike, I need you to cancel my lecture, I have some studying to do.” Spike looked at her dumbfounded, “Why would you do that? I mean, you have been planning this for a few months and the deadline is in less than a week.”

“I know that spike, I just found something that needs to be translated and I am determined to do so.” Twilight said confidently

“But that means that you are going to have to reschedule everything. Wouldn't you think that to be too much?”

Twilight darted a look at spike expressing ‘I will not falter from this challenge.’ which spike knew to back off now

“Okay, do what you want to do, but don’t say I didn't warn you.” Spike said under his breath as he ascended the stairs.

Author's Note

alright, this is my first story. I know I have horrible grammar, but I've tried to go over this as many times as possible.

I had this in Google docs for over a year, and I thought I might as well post it here because it's just gathering dust on Google docs and it won't help anyone if it can't be accessed easily by others.

Chapter 2

Two months later

Twilight did not wake up; instead she hasn't woken up for the past few days. Instead of sleeping she kept staying up, not even going out of the cellar much at all. She only came up to eat and drink and that is pretty much all she did before she receded back to the basement. While spike was attempting to re-organize the library there was a cheer from the basement that shook the house and most likely woke up more than half of Ponyville. Unfortunately he happened to be in front of the door with some books when the basement door slammed open and flattened him against the wall, he wished that pinkie was there to help him organize the library, she would have been able to prevent another fresco. Once twilight was released she acted just like she just got her cutie mark, but 10x that.

“YESYESYESYESYEYESYESYESYESYESYEYESYES”

Is all what anypony in the library would have herd, and there would be no way of being able to read. Let alone there wouldn’t be any books on the shelves to read, they’re on the floor.

Once spike dislodged himself from the wall and was able to regain his balance he attempted to calm twilight down only to find that his efforts were in vain, only resulting in more life sized engravings of the baby dragon. By the time twilight calmed down there were some rays of sunshine grasping the mountains pulling the sun up.

“ifinnalyfinnisheditifinnalyfinnisheditifinnalyfinnisheditifinnalyfinnishedit!”

Is the flood of joy that spike could only hear from his friend.

“Finished what? Does it relate to why you were in the basement and rarely came up for food?”

Apparently twilight didn't hear a thing. ‘It’ll be a long time till she is out of her hype’ spike thought to himself.

“Twilight! I’ll be at sugar cube corner if you need me!” And with that he was off to see what the breaker of the fourth wall was up to.

It was about 1:00 in the afternoon when twilight was able to control herself completely.

“Wow, I didn’t know I could translate a language in just 2 months! HAHA! I can’t believe it! I got done with SOOOO much in SSOOOOOO little time!”

If twilight was standing up on all fours she would still fall to the ground due to her legs acting like jelly. But she just rolled on the floor laughing to herself. She was finally able to understand the language found in the book that she found while browsing the package sent from the princess.

“I must record what I have done and create a copy for princess celestial.”

It was just too important to go unnoticed, the importance of this book could overthrow the government they had in Equestria, but she had to take note of this, SHE MUST, SHE MUST, SHE MUST.

“Wait...if this has the power to over throw the two princesses, why are you going to present this to the two princesses? Do you want to be put into a dungeon or be banished or put you in a dungeon were she is going to banish you. Really, I recommend stopping and thinking, you could destroy this okay and go on with normal life in Equestria.”

“I am fully aware of that, but celestial must know of the danger this has for equestrian, it could start a war that would go on forever! She MUST know of the danger of this book.”

After the letter has been writing and sent it really wasn't long till a response came.

After reading the response twilight just tossed it aside and said: “spike. Pack your things; we need to head to Canterlot.”

“Why did you do that, you could have destroyed that book and just lived on.”

“I know what you mean, but I HAD to notify this to her, it’s just too important to just throw away but yet it can completely throw equestrian upside-down and start a civil war. But she MUST be notified of the danger.”

“Well, I don’t think I’ll come with you, I don’t want to take any part of this.”

“Ok, I’ll be back in about a day, if not...come to Canterlot.”

“Ok, you better pack your things and get headed there. It’s already noon now.”

After twilight got done packing and started her journey to Canterlot spike wanted to try out what Fluttershy mentioned about hibernation.

“Hmm...Pro: it’s a long sleep, con: eat less food, pro: once twilight gets back all she has to do is wake me, con: if anypony came to check out a book a book they'll wake me up...yeah, I’ll sleep.”

Once twilight got to the castle she went to the throne room, expecting it to be empty her conclusion was that of the opposite, it was full of ponies most dressed in fine clothing, others were clothed in rags. At the end of the room, instead of Celestia, there wasn’t anyone in the throne. After she saw this she sought out to find Celestia’s quarters, after a few knocks and a moment a maid appeared.

“What are you he-...oh you must be the pony she asked for, well you are a bit late. You should have used a teleportation spell instead of walking here. By now I bet she is in pony vile going to see if you are at the library there.”

Spike expected twilight to wake him up instead of a knock on the door followed by an official voice saying

“Open up! This is the royal guard!”

‘oh no, twilight got me involved too...’ once he come down and once he unlocked it he had no need to do anything further, because the door slammed open when he was about to reach the door. If only pinkie was there to warn him about opening doors... faster than he could recover, he was surrounded by 6 royal guards and behind them was princess Celestia.

“Where is twilight sparkle, spike?”

“Um...she got your letter and must be at the castle by now.” spike answered with a scared and surprised tone

“Then I will head back, and two guards will stay to watch the library.”

Spike just gulped and gave a weak smile.

“Okay, um...is there anything else I should do?”

“no spike, there is nothing else that you can do now, twilight as already made her discovery known to me and I must make sure that she does not spread what she has found from the book that records all history of this world.”

“Oh, so that is what she found. I thought she found something else in one of those books that you sent to her.”

“Well, she found the book that contains all the history of this world and if she manages to let this out to the world there will be a never ending war that will tear Equestria into pieces. Spike, as much as I would like you to stay, you must come with me to Canterlot.”

Before spike could protest he was off to go back to the castle with Celestia to see if twilight has stuck around to see if she was there or not.

Author's Note

Alright, I'm sorry for anyone who cares about the story right now, but I think you will be waiting for a LONG time for the next chapter. Because I've lost motivation for writing this. I'll try to continue this, but it might take a while. Sorry for the inconvenience.

alright, I'm working on proofing this chapters as well as the first one. Anyone who is reading this could expect a chapter soon. I don't know if it'll come out in a few days or a few weeks, all I know is that I feel like continue writing this.