ExtraEquestrial

ExtraEquestrial

     Torcannas awoke, yet again, in the hospital room. He waited until he was fully awake and looked around the room. He saw what he guessed was medical equipment, strange and clearly primitive by his standards. But he soon stopped his search when he realized how weak he felt. How long had he been in here? It had been dark when he had lost consciousness but he now saw sunlight streaming through his window. Sunlight. He must have been out of the sun for too long. He forced himself to stand and began his slow trek to the window, where he ripped off the curtains and sat down in the light that was now far more present, strength slowly ebbing back into him.

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     Doctor Stethoscope looked at the room where his newest patient was in. The guards that stood at the front door certainly made an impression. They said they had been sent to guard the room for Princess Celectia's arrival. At least they had gotten rid of the paparazzi that had been coming here. Lucky that none of them got into the room, otherwise some very bad news would be running through Ponyvile right now.

    The creature was so strange and so intriguing. It was so different from any other creature he had ever seen of, that he couldn't comprehend how they had even been able to help him in the first place. He wondered if it was awake. He turned to enter the room when he heard he heard something behind the door. The guards turned their heads towards the door and the one on the right said:

"Do you need us to check inside?"

"No that's all right I'll check for myself something probably just fell." The doctor responded as he went through the door.

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   After he had regained some strength, Torcannas decided he'd see what these creatures were that had helped him. But before he got up the door opened and in came An equine? he asked himself. It was strange, unlike the other kinds of equines he had seen on other planets, this one was small, four or five feet maybe, it was white furred and was wearing what appeared to be white lab coat and some kind of mask covering his mouth. Even stranger was a strange symbol on his flank. It appeared to be a strange device that was 'y' shaped.

The equine stared back at him just as intensely.

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How strange. Are it's eyes are glowing? The doctor said to himself. what if it understands my speech? Lets try it then, shall we? He cleared his throat and said:

"Hello strange creature. Can you understand me? My name is Doctor Stethoscope." He waited, tried again, then watched as the creature tilted it's head in confusion. "Maybe this will be harder than I thought."

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  Torcannas simply stared as the equine as it tried to speak with him in it's strange language. He thought for a moment, then stood up. The equine was apparently scared and he took a few steps back. Torcannas put up his hands in a gesture of peace, and the creature walked forward a bit. He extended a hoof. Torcannas stretched out his arm to meet the hoof but he stopped and moved his hand straight up into the equine's face, scanning his mind for how to speak this creatures language. He found what he had been looking for and started to learn how to communicate. The equine meanwhile started, it's eyes as wide as it's open mouth. But Torcannas was finished before he could say anything and removed his hand, and mind, from the equine.

  The Equine stared at him, mouth still agape and silent.

"Hello." Torcannas said to the creature.

   The equine just stared back. "Did it just greet me?" The doctor thought.

"H-hello.." The equine responded in a timid voice

I am sorry that I dug through your mind like that... I hope you can forgive me. It was the only way I could think of to try and learn your language. My name is Torcannas. What is your's?" Torcannas asked.

"M-my name is Stethoscope, Doctor Stethoscope."

"Well then, Doctor, I must thank you for possibly saving my life."

"Oh it was nothing", the doctor replied "but may I ask, how do you speak without a mouth?"

"I "speak" through my mind, Doctor."

"Well I must say that you are one of the most fascinating creatures I have ever seen."

"Thank you Doctor, and I must say that you are different from other equines I have seen" Torcannas said.

The doctor glanced about nervously, possibly searching for an excuse to leave. "Well I suppose I must be off now. Please don't try to exit the room, and if there is anything you need we will check up on you from time to time." The doctor said as he unsteadily exited the room. Once the doctor left, Torcannas proceeded to return to the window and sit in the sunlight.

  Twilight and her friends stood at the dirt road that served as the landing strip for Princess Celestia's carriage.

They had been waiting for about 20 minutes now and thought she might never show up, until a golden flicker in the distance showed that Celestia was close to Ponyvile. When the Princess finally landed and exited the carriage she greeted them.

"Ah, Princess Twilight, I'm glad that you and your friends could join me." the Princess said."Well lets be off, then, show me that strange machine that I've heard the alien crashed into Ponyvile in."

  The group left and walked back to Ponyvile. All the way ponies were stopping and bowing to both the princess that were walking through the town. Then they finally reached their destination. When Celestia saw the strange golden craft, her eyes grew wide and she began to walk around the strange machine, inspecting it, then said to Twilight:

"Have you looked at this strange thing?" she asked.

"Yes" Twilight responded "it appears to be some kind of vehicle, though I am not completely certain."

"Hm, a vehicle you say, I guess we'll have to ask our visitor, speaking of which, you said it was in the hospital?" the princess asked.

"Yes"

"Very well then, let us go meet the strange creature." They promptly set out for the hospital.

      When they finally arrived, the group was bowed to by every pony in the hospital. Twilight led the way to the room and saw that guards had been posted by the door. They stepped to the side as the group walked closer to the door. Suddenly, the pony Twilight remembered was the doctor came running down the hall towards them. He bowed before the two princesses then said:

"Hello Princess Celestia, I suppose you are here to see the alien."

"Yes", responded the princess "Have you spoken to it? Can it speak Equestrian?

"Well, when it spoke to me it could understand what I was saying so yes."

"Very well, we are going to go see it now." The princess turned and the group followed her through the door. As then they entered. Twilight looked at the alien, seeing that it was in a different position since they last saw it. "Did it wake up?" Twilight asked herself. She looked at the others, then said: "I think its sleeping."

"Well lets find out, Dash said as she prodded the creature with her hoof, before Twilight could object, the creature was jolted awake, its eyes....glowing and scooted back in surprise. It simply stared

"Hello", Princess Celestia said to the creature "I am Princess Celestia, ruler of this country. I have heard that you crashed into this place two days ago and would like to know how and why you came to this place."

The creature responded, its voice coming from everywhere at once: "Greetings, equines. My name is Torcannas. I am a pilot in one of Protoss's grand fleets. You must be wondering how I came to be here? I crashed here because of a malfunction in an unstable new technology. But what I would like to know is where I currently am and when can I be released."

"We will allow you to go now but I must ask you to come with me to make sure you are not a threat to us."

Torcannas stared back, then said: "Very well, what is it you wish me to do?

"All I need you to do is answer some questions. But not here."

"I will comply. But I must ask: what have you done with my armor? It could not have been removed by you, not with the technology I have seen you present."

"I do not know, you would have to ask those who were here. But I suppose you want it back?" When the affirmative was given, Princess Celestia turned and walked out the door. For many minutes nothing was said by anyone in the room, and then Celestia came back, with Stethoscope and a large box in tow.

"Her Highness says that you require your armor? It is inside of this box," he paused to lift the top off the large, metal container, revealing large, golden pieces of armor. "When you came here, we tried to remove it with our hooves and horns, but we were not successful; it wouldn't budge. We had to teleport it off of you, and I assume we can do the same to put it back on you..." The Doctor gave an uncertain look at Celestia, who nodded in return.

Her horn began to glow, and the pieces of armor began to glow with her magic. The armor disappeared, vanishing in front of their eyes, and reappeared a few moments later on Torcannas, who in return thanked them, his eyes narrowed, but no questions asked.

They said their farewells, the employees bowing to the Princesses, and shrinking away from Torcannas as they made their way through the hospital,

   And so they left. It was still bright outside and they made a swift pace to Ponyvile. While on the way, Torcannas turned to the ponies and said: "I must ask, I remember not being in a hospital before I lost consciousnesses, who was it that brought me here?

"Oh well I believe that it was these six ponies here." The Princess said, and gestured at the group of friends, staring back at Torcannas.

"Well, then I am in your debt. I can not thank you enough for what you did."

"Oh, please it was nothing." Twilight said to him.

"Even so, I can not forget what you did for me if there is anything I can do, do not hesitate to ask." And so they continued their walk to Ponyvile.

    When they finally reached Ponyvile, it had become quite late and the question finally came to Twilight.

"Princess where is he going to stay while he is here."

"Well I was hoping he could stay in your home until the questioning tomorrow."

"Really?" Twilight said, shocked. "You want me?"

"But of course,who else would I pick?" The Princess replied. "I was hoping you could learn something about him before he leaves."

    As they walked through Ponyvile to Twilight's house, ponies stopped and gawked at the strange, glowing creature passing through their town. When they finally reached Twilight's home, Princess Celestia turned to them and said:

"Very well my little ponies this is were I must leave you. I will return tomorrow to ask questions to our guest. Sir Torcannas, I hope yo don't mind staying with Twilight, a minor princess, here until tomorrow?"

"It is no problem for me, I am only glad that I can stay somewhere tonight. I Thank you deeply." Torcannas replied.

"Very well. Then, I must be off, Farewell my friends." The Princess said as she walked away.

"Hm, looks like you get stuck with the weird alien." Rainbow Dash said. "I'll be back to check on you tomorrow, goodnight Twi'." The rest of her friends followed suit and soon it was only Torcannas and Twilight standing outside by the large tree-house.

"I suppose we can head inside now?" Twilight asked to Torcannas. He nodded in reply.

   As they stepped inside, Twilight noticed him looking at all the books in the library.

"Do you like to read?" Twilight asked. He was about to reply when Spike entered the room:

"Hey Twi- AHHH!" He shouted "What is that thing?" He asked.

"Spike!" Twilight scolded "This is our guest for the night, Torcannas, he is the one who crashed into Ponyvile the other day."

"Ohhhhh" Spike replied. "So hes staying with us for tonight?"

"Yes he is." She turned to Torcannas, "Is there anything you need?"

"No, thank you." He replied, surprising Spike with his "voice". "All I need is a place to rest, if there is one."

"Why, of course." Twilight said. "Follow me its right this way."

  It was late at night when everypony was asleep in their beds, and while Twilight reading a book on the creatures of Equestria, that  nopony noticed a strange, brown thing falling from the sky. Even though it looked like some kind of meteor, it wasn't. It was, if fact, a living creature. It crashed into the ground, and it left a brown-purple substance over the ground where it landed. In the center of it was a strange, insect-like creature that hovered off the ground.  It dug itself into the ground and a strange blue membrane began to stretch itself across the ground. After a few minutes, the membrane burst, and in that moment, a great threat had come to Equestria.

  The Zerg had come to Equestria.