Chapter 5 - the other side of the coin

Chapter 5

“YOUR MAJESTIES! There is an emergency in manehatten! The magical detection system is at a tier 5 detection the bay has been evacuated but there does seem to be…” The white unicorn clad in gold armor had started loud and confident his rulers’ the princesses of both the night and day looked to each other “what is the end detail guard?” Celestia had a motherly voice caring for the guard softly getting the much needed information from him he began “there are confirmed reports that the phenomenon is not pure magic and it looks like a whirlpool but made from the very sky itself!” with the last words the duo looked even more worried “Assemble the troops send them into manehatten remove all of the civilians and bring the new weaponry and aim it at the phenomenon understood?!” the Guards saluted and galloped out of the room, Celestia and Luna simply nodded before teleporting to their destination.

At the foot of the large docks several hundred Ponies of many types appeared in armor, lead by Shining Armor himself, nearly 100 of these soldiers were unicorns the earth ponies and pegasi were coming into position the royal weapons had been placed and aimed by their unicorn user’s, most of the civilians had been evacuated with a flash and a pop the three princesses (Luna, Celestia & Cadence) arrived with the elements of harmony the collective worried faces stared into the unknown horror above the bay of Manehatten.
The collective eyes watched with terror as the ‘sky whirlpool’ opened and elongated out to the water’s surface “Twilight get ready to fire the elements of harmony upon it when you’re ready Fire” Twilight was taken aback by her teacher’s military style tactic, usually anything new was welcomed and studied but even so this thing gave all of the ponies there an unnerving feeling “c’mon girls lets sort this out” “I was born ready”, “eeyup”, “OKIDOKILOKI”, “Of course Twilight” and a small whimper from Fluttershy was all that was auditable, Twilight and the others began to focus, energy of harmony flowed from within them and light began to shine as they amassed energy beyond human comprehension. In a single and amazing display of the spectrum of visible light the beam of power wrapped around the now tornado shaped coming down from the ‘sky whirlpool’ the blast looked like nukes had blown up but only in a straight line firing out far into space and then swallowed by the ‘sky whirlpool’ and in the seconds that passed after that moment quark by quark, electron by electron, molecule by molecule the center of my house grew into existence once more the more as the building grew from the inside out. Lighting struck the water as physics collided with magic clouds amassed and became charged for lighting and thunder, Ponies and goddesses alike watched with awe as different laws of physics and nature fought with fury, the Princesses; even with their combined knowledge had not seen an event like this they remained speechless to the sheer power. Finally the building was rebuilt hovering in midair a clear sphere of matter held in the sky only meters over the waters of the bay, a Roaring voice could be heard – almost a royal Canterlot voice to those ears of this world, too scrambled to understand Luna and Celestia rose to the object watching as the poor creature writhed in agony and then leaped into the center of the building as they tried to reach and help the creature, a bright light dazed them both the resulting burst of energy blowing them back to the docks, the energy faded, the building stopped glowing and for what seemed hours the building began to drop on instinct Celestia and Luna; along with Twilight caught the massive mass of the building, lifting it up and making it glide across to the docks gently placed on a larger dock near to the army of ponies.

“Dear Sister… what in Equestria was that?” Luna looked worried and more so about the building that was now silent on the dock, it didn’t fit in even the grey concrete foundations below looked a different colour and texture to the concrete of the dock itself. “I do not know, this is not something that’s happened before to my knowledge even when Discord was free until further notice take this…building to the deepest base we have, lock it in there and learn from it, and take caution I thought we saw a being within it” Celestia decreed ominously to Shining armor, the Elements and the other princesses. Shining started barking orders, within the hour a huge boat had arrived and the military unicorns began to move the building onboard. “Twilight I would like you and the other Elements to go along with this boat, explore, understand and write to me if anything happens myself and Luna will come to assist you” “Yes Princess” Twilight had a smile that only she could create when given a new task by her teacher Celestia giggled “Thank you my dear student” with that the three princesses left to their duties, Shining still barking orders stopped briefly to wave Twilight and her friends off as they got onto the huge ship.

Twilight and her friends finally aboard, still unusually silent the building behind them made them feel uneasy, the sailors showed them to their cabin, “so what just happened?” Dash was the first to break the silence, she slumped quickly onto a top bunk as the others began to lift themselves into each bunk, Using the Elements of Harmony takes a lot out of them all and starting with Fluttershy and Rarity they began to fall asleep, until it was just RD and Twilight still awake, “Rainbow… I’m not sure even the princesses know what happened that’s why we’re still here to keep guard and research it” at that Dash hovered slowly over the bed “well /…. Stretching/… uh we should look after the thing then, I’ll guard and you can do the ya’know egg head bit” Dash chuckled at the tease, Twilight simply rolled her eyes “I’ll get researching, the sailors should be enough for the protection part, besides you look tired still I’m used to being up all night remember?” Dash simply nodded and yawned before getting back into bed.

A few moments later Twilight had the quills and paper the Captain had spare, an old colt that was scarred and tough from his appearance and his cursing, she had gone inside the large metal container which housed the building, thankfully the ship was only gently rocking while carrying the load, most of the earth had fallen into the bay and so the foundations that had survived were holding the building up. Twilight teleported with a quiet pop up to the open door, it was slightly larger than pony-kinds doors – she began to silently scribe her exploration, commentating that if their doors were only slightly bigger they would be around the height of the Princesses or taller. As Twilight looked in she could see many items in a pile at the foot of the stairs, a single plate fell from the pile… Twilight almost screamed silencing herself with a hoof and telepathically calling the princesses. Two soft pops came from the floor below and the regal sisters flew up to her quietly as instructed, a pile of un-Equestrian junk filled the stairs there was something amiss, a mess of blonde hair could be seen in the middle of the pile of things… the princesses looked down to Twilight and enveloped themselves in a bubble of gold “now we can talk it won’t hear anything outside of the spell” Celestia explained, “What is that thing?” Twilight had so many questions so little time “both of the princesses looked uneasy, they had not seen a creature like this before “ Stay back both of you” Celestia was stern and out of the bubble she trotted, her horn glowing she placed it on my head, as soon as she knew there was a pulse she backed away I was alive to her it was something monstrous that even the Elements did presumably nothing to she charged her horn and also removed some of the stuff surrounding me. My clothes were charred and looked like parts had simply disappeared molecules had disappeared from existence itself leaving a very un-worldly cuts and holes in my clothes. The three ponies watched as Celestia finished taking the stuff off me. They were shocked hands but no claws no fur or scales…

I awoke… the pain still throbbing of the sum of my parts exploding – my eyes blind I roared in anger and pain only to feel some force pin me to what I felt was the ceiling as I felt pulled downward too.
Celestia had gone too close and somehow I had awoken in pain still as her horn again came close to me she almost lost her composure before entangling me in magic and pinning me to the ceiling above, she managed to hear pain in my roar’s so she pinned me keeping me away from her sister and her student but also somewhere where she could observe.
For what seemed like hours I was subjugated with the pain, eventually it reduced and my eyes began to take in information again as I stopped resisting and screaming so did Celestia let me down until I was left weeping on the floor, I rolled over still in pain but nothing compared to what I experienced I touched my hands my fingertips unsure of how I regained them tears streamed as I finally got confirmation I was alive – I hadn’t an idea of how but I was the pain simply told me I was alive or some version of it but now I could see and feel each part of me. I shouted in demonstration of my happiness to be damned with the pain. I managed to leap to my feet “Thank fuck I’m alive pain I hated you but I am STILL HERE!” my growling roar had apparently taken a bad impression of me all the present Ponies had suddenly come to my attention, not because I had noticed them but more I noticed glowing horns pointing at me a single command was uttered from Celestia “SILENCE!” I stopped my mind again akin to mush as I was approached by the sun goddess “what are you?” I still had a dumbfounded look on my face as menacingly increased her horn’s power gauging by the light it produced. “ I put my hands up as if to surrender “I am a Human.”