Forgotten People

Forgotten People: Episode One: Equestria Olympics

By Thebosh98

Chapter 1 - The Mysterious Architecture

A new day was beginning to dawn in Ponyville. Birds began to chirp as the sun crept its way over the hills into the amber sky. Ponies everywhere started to awaken and get to their businesses for the day. All except one certain cyan Pegasus.

Rainbow Dash still lay snoring on a cloud hovering quietly over Applejack's farm, her mouth starting to drool, as you would when you sleep. Applejack and the rest of her family had just gone outside to start their long day of work.

"It sure is a good day to start some apple-pickin'!" Applejack said merrily sad she trotted along to the apple acres. While she was walking, a drop of clear thick liquid landed on her hoof. She was confused as there wasn't a cloud in the sky, so how could it be rain? Then she noticed the small cloud with a rainbow-coloured tail sticking over the end.

"Rainbow Dash!" she yelled. Dash jolted up into the air, angry to see that she had been awoken. She looked down and saw Applejack standing below her.

"Applejack!" she complained, "Why'd you wake me up? I was having the most awesome dream!"

"Sorry sugarcube, but y'all drooling over my field!" Dash gave her a sour face and flew off into the sky, whilst Applejack and the rest of the Apple Family began their day's work.

As Rainbow Dash had the job as the weather-pegasus in Ponyville, it was her job to keep the weather as it should be planned, so she flew off to Cloudsdale Weather Factory to see the day's forecast. It was supposed to rain today, so the factory started churning out clouds for Dash to put over certain areas of Equestria.

"I know I have a job to do, but I wish I could still be asleep right now." Dash said to herself as she positioned the clouds, then giving them an almighty buck to start the rain. As she lay down on a nearby cloud to see what she had accomplished, she gazed over Equestria. Rain over Ponyville, with a few very angry faces to be seen around, especially one certain purple-haired unicorn.

"Ugh!" she yelled, "This rain will ruin my fabulous hair! This is a fashionista's WORST. NIGHTMARE!" Dash giggled to herself. After a long 8 hour day of clearing the skies over Equestria, she sat on a small cloud to begin her mid-afternoon nap.

"Wow, the view is amazing!" she said, "There's Canterlot, the Everfree Forest, Twilight's House, the Town Hall, that old crumbling ruins..." Dash stopped talking to herself. Old crumbling ruins? No-pony had ever seen or heard of any old ruins before, so why was there one right there? Plus the fact it was in plain sight above all of Ponyville on a hill in the distance. Dash thought the only thing to do was to ask the smartest pony in Ponyville. Twilight Sparkle.

***

"Come on Twilight, you can do it!" Spike was encouraging the purple unicorn. Twilight looked anxious as she looked at the apple in front of her. She turned to the dragon with an anxious expression.

“I don’t know Spike. What if this goes wrong? Like the time when I tried to turn that orange into a  frog, it cross-specied it!”

“Twilight, I know you can do it!” Spike urged her. With a confident expression Twilight turned to the apple. A beam of white light began to circle her horn as she lowered her head towards the apple. And at once, the beam of light engulfed the apple in one gulp. After a few seconds of bright lights and weird sounds, it was over, and Twilight looked at her work. The apple had turned into an orange, like she had wanted to.

“Well done Twilight!” Spike praised. But just as Twilight was about to accept it, Rainbow Dash came hurtling through the window, taking the unicorn with her.

“Dash!” she yelled, pulling herself up. Dash grinned guiltily.

“Twilight, do you have any books in this library relating to old ruins?” she asked. Twilight looked curious, but pursued her friend’s request anyway. She began levitating books with her horn and dropping the ones that weren’t the one she wanted.

“I know it’s here somewhere!” she said, “Let’s see, ‘History of Ponyville, ‘The Great War of Ponyville’, ‘The Equestria Book of Pony Records 2012’, a-ha!” She said triumphantly. “’Early History of Equestria’”. She sat down and began to read it, Dash looking over her shoulder eagerly.

“Here we go, ‘old relics’. ‘These structures, reason unknown were built by early ancestors of Equestria. These species have been extinct for many years now, and not one sighting of one has been claimed. These species were known as ‘Homo-Sapiens’ more commonly known as ‘Humans’.’ Twilight pondered this thought for a second.

“Humans?” said Dash, “What are they?” Twilight looked at the cyan Pegasus.

“Humans weren’t really passive creatures. They were greedy creatures and conquered any plot of land available that they could find. They didn’t look like ponies either, they were tall, and stood up on their hind legs. They had ‘fingers’ which could grasp onto things easily and were a lot smarter. Their downfall came when the early ponies came to Equestria.”

“How about I show you this structure?” Dash asked. “Then you can get a better view of what we’re dealing with.” Twilight smiled.

“Okay Dash,” she said, getting up, “Lead the way!”

***

“Here it is.” Dash presented the ruins. They were old and covered in moss and cobwebs. Its black colour made it almost impossible for anyone to NOT see it! Twilight explored it.

“Well, it certainly is old, but I don’t see any evidence of humans building this…” She said, confused. Dash flew over it to find anything interesting about it. Suddenly, amongst the black bricks and moss, she spotted something shiny covered in moss. She signalled Twilight to come over and find it. She ripped off the moss and brushed away spiders trying to defend their nests.

“How odd, it appears to be some kind of…summoning machine?” she tried to put the terms to it. Dash hadn’t had much happen today that was remotely interesting, so she wanted to try something out; a huge grin came on her face.

“Hey Twilight, why don’t you try re-activating it? You have the skill.” Dash inquired. Twilight anxious expression once again appeared.

“I don’t know Dash, what if something bad happens? This is something no-one knows about! We should tell the princess first!” Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes.

“Oh come on! What are you, chicken?” Dash said, starting to make clucking noises. Twilight suddenly looked agitated.

“We’ll see who’s a CHICKEN!” she screamed, as she began to work her magic once more. This time a red glow appeared above her horn, and she lowered her head towards the device. With one shot she fired the beam at it, and a huge red light appeared from it, emitting a rather attractive glow. The device began to whir into life again, it clicked and buzzed and a blue dot appeared on top of the antennae. Twilight stopped using her magic and watched what was happening with an excited face.

The blue dot became bigger, and bigger, and bigger, it started to make lightning-like sounds as it turned into a blue portal-like hole. A sound started up, much like that to a computer being turned on. It grew louder and more high-pitched until a blinding blue light spewed out of it at high speed, blowing the Pegasus and Unicorn away. After about 10 seconds, the light receded and the two ponies got up. Everything looked the same, except for two figures covered in soot lying on the ground.

“Hey!” Dash yelled, “Are you things alive?” No response. Twilight assumed this must’ve been an output of the reaction. Suddenly one of them began to move slightly. The two ponies backed away in horror as it got up, revealing its face. As it stood up in full form, it could clearly be seen. It had short, blonde hair and blue eyes, it stood up on its hind legs and had appendages on its arms. They both knew exactly what this was.

“Who are you?” Dash asked nervously. It turned to them.

“I’m Alec, and that burnt thing there is my friend Hamish.” They weren’t ponies, or griffons, or zebras or dogs.

They were humans.