Prologue: Geronimo!

Prologue: Geronimo!

Spinning. Lot's and lots of spinning. And bright colors. But mostly spinning. Time and space bending and rippling around him. He began to wonder if this was all that there was. Would it send him somewhere? Or was this it? Maybe it would kill him. That would be a feat worth boasting of. That is, if eldricht puzzle boxes could boast. And then his thoughts turned to said box. It had been the strangest one he had seen yet. Mostly because instead of ancient runes and symbols adorning it's sides, it had the image of two mythical creatures circling each other, forming an ouroboros-like pattern. They had been alicorns, winged unicorns. He had found depictions of them on things before, but never eldricht work. Before he could continue pondering the box, one light grew brighter than the rest and he felt the distinct sensation of falling. So, he did the one thing that came to mind:

“Geronimo!”

Twilight Sparkle was walking beside her mentor, Princess Celestia, in the Canterlot Statue Gardens. Just the day before an attempted take over of Equestria had occurred and then been stopped by her brother and old foalsitter, who later that day had been married. Neither the princess nor her friends had believed her when she had accused Cadence – who was actually the Changeling Queen disguised as her old foalsitter – of being evil. And now the princess was apologizing.

“I truly am sorry Twilight. We all should have listened to you.” said the alicorn, the look of regret and guilt still etched onto her face even after so many assurances that it was all right.

“Princess, like I said, it's fine. You all had no reason to believe me. Besides, everything turned out all right in the end, right?” said the purple mare. The princess nodded.

“Well yes, but the fact that you are my Most Faithful Student should have been reason enough to at least hear you out.” said the Royal. Before Twilight could reply, the sound of several ponies approaching caught their attention. They looked to see the other five Elements of Harmony, Twilight's friends, approaching.

“Howdy sugarcube.” said Applejack.

“Hello darling.” came Rarity's greeting.

“Hiya Twilight!” Pinkie's over energetic hello.

“What's up?” That was Rainbow Dash.

“Hello Twilight.” came the almost inaudible greeting of Fluttershy.

“Hi girls.” said Twilight, smiling at them.

“Hello My Little Ponies.” said the princess, also smiling her usual soft smile.

“We came ta' apologize 'bout not believing ya.” said Applejack. The others nodded.

“Girls it's fine, I've already told you-” Twilight began. Pinkie, however cut her off, placing her hoof on Twilight's head, somehow balancing in the air on it, and pointing towards the sky with her other one.

“Hey what's that!?” she said. Or rather, yelled as is the Pinkie way. They all turned their faces to the sky, and saw what looked like a star, only it was steadily growing brighter. And it was the middle of the day. Suddenly, something shot out of the star, which quickly disappeared, leaving only the falling object. Just before impact they heard a voice, and it said one word, a word with many meanings.

“Geronimo!”