The part where I screw up

                                                       This is like Chapter what now?

                                         “Prepare for unforeseen consequences.”- The G-man

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(And yes. First part is again, badly written. Screw you brain!)

    It was like two weeks later that I decided to get an actual house to live in. I mean I can’t live in a guest house for two years could I? (I mean I could bear with it but since I’m stuck here, I’m just going to enjoy myself.) Good thing today was a Saturday too, as I really; really need to read up on history.

  Their history is quite confusing to an extent, with all their gods and demons and other creatures that only existed in fairy tales back on earth. Like one time, I overheard a few other ponies talking about some demon called Discord turning rain into chocolate milk and causing chaos in Ponyville. (It is possible to make chocolate rain but that was pretty messy.)  And then there’s all the creatures. Like the Cockatrice which was the ugly chicken-dragon thing, the Hydra which I don’t quite know of yet and a Timberwolf, which I assumed was a wolf that stole timber. (Ridiculous but heck! Who cares? Their understanding of logic is weird enough.)

   Back to the task at hand, it took me a while to find a suitable house but I managed to get one from an old mare moving out of town. She was quite grumpy unlike the other cheerful ponies. There was an ever present frown on her face. The transaction was something like her saying “Sixty bits and you get it. No more, no less. No bits, no sell. And take the helmet off. ” And then me handing her the money. After watching her leave, I poked around and found out that the house had an attic, some basic furniture and a working fridge. Sure, some places needed a bit of renovation but for the time being, it is more than what I had expected.

   “Well grumpy mare, I like your house!” I exclaimed happily, looking around again. Placing my saddle bags onto the dining room table, I headed for the library, leaving the helmet on my head.  (And yes. I like the helmet too. Weird right?)

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Evening Bloom was right about the library being a tree. To my surprise, it was alive as there were green leaves growing on the branches. (Unless they were fake leaves.) And there was a balcony built into the tree! “If only the tree houses back on earth was this cool.” I thought to myself as I knocked on the door.

  “Hold on. I’m coming!” a young male’s voice came from inside.

    A few moments, the door creaked open. “Yes, how can I help you?” However, I couldn’t see anyone at the door. “This got to be some kind of joke.” I thought to myself, until I looked down and saw a purple dragon thingy with green spikes. Good thing I had watched a video on other intelligent life forms here or I would have collapsed from the surprise. (Technically though, it wasn’t really detailed. The video only mentioned about dragons so I wasn’t really prepared to see one.)

     “Take a deep breath.” I told myself silently. “B-books. Erm… I need books on the history on Equestria. Yeah. History. I…need that. History...Very nice.*” I replied nervously.

    “Let me guess. First time seeing a dragon huh? I’m Spike, by the way.”

    “Aqua J- sorry. I’m Aquasplash. Let me guess. You’re the librarian here right?”

      “Nah that’s Twilight. I’m just her helper. She went to get some ink and paper but I expect her to be back in about twenty minutes. You can come in if you want.” And with that, he opened the door all the way and I stepped inside.

        The interior was just as amazing as the outside. It looked much bigger on the inside. There was a large, circular space in the center, surrounded by bookshelves. The bookshelves appeared to have been carved into the tree. There was also a small hallway leading to what looked like a kitchen. And to top it off, there was a staircase leading up to some other rooms.

     “Nice place!” I exclaimed after looking around a few more times. “I could call this a tree house. I mean the house is inside the tree! Or a tree library anyway, it is just so cool!”

      “Well, I guess so.” Spike replied. “Anyway, what kind of history do you want? A detailed history or an overview?”

           “I’ll like an overview and maybe an Atlas too.” I replied.

       The dragon nodded and went to get the books one at a time, staggering under the weight of an Atlas. “So, do you want to check these out or read them here?” he asked.

      “Hmm… that’s a pretty hard decision. Tell you what, I’ll read them here and then check out the unfinished books.” I replied. The purple dragon gave me a nod and went off to another room. Settling down, I opened a book titled “A Brief History of Equestria and all other things related to Equestria”.

   The first few pages seemed to contain a map of Equestria, with some other places. The names were quite weird to me. Like “Griffin Kingdom” and “Zebrica”. “And let me guess, next we have Goomba” I muttered to myself sarcastically. The parts on history were even more confusing. It seems that the two gods, Celestia and Luna had an argument a thousand years ago about ponies sleeping in the night. Then Luna went mad and turned into a demon that called herself “Nightmare Moon” and tried to bring eternal night to Equestria. But in the end, she failed and got banished to the moon. By the time I had finished reading the whole thing, I was so confused, I wished that I didn’t even pick up the book in the first place. Shaking my head, I grabbed another book.

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     It took me about three hours to finish half the stack of books but it was worth it. From them, I had managed understand one thing-this place’s history defied logic. I mean, with all the gods and demons, Equestria’s history was like a fairy tale and even that still had an ounce of logic to it. Their astronomy was just as confusing as their history. Apparently, after the demon Discord got turned into stone, the sun and the moon couldn’t orbit around the planet like they should, so all the unicorns had to raise the sun or something. By the time I reached that part, I decided to abandon all hopes on understanding this place’s history. (Come to think of it, I was never good at history back at school.)

      Just as I was stuffing the books back into the shelves, the door opened and a lavender unicorn came through, her horn glowing as she lifted her saddlebags off with telekinesis. I recognized her as Twilight Sparkle, the one which did the teleportation thing on me. “Spiike!” she called out, stopping after realizing that I was in the room. “Oh! Sorry! I didn’t realize you were there! I’m Twilight Spar- you’re Aquasplash right? The new pony I met last week ago right?”

     I nodded my head in response. Silently though, I prayed that she forgot about my “memory loss” problem.

         “Anyway, I got a letter to the princess requesting for help on your…condition.” She continued. ‘This is bad.’ I thought to myself. “And guess what! She agreed to help! We have to get to Canterlot by next week though so I don’t know, pack something along.”

    Well, seems I screwed up big time now. God, Simmons is going to kill me when I get back. “Oh! Another thing! Would you like to see my lab? I wanted to ask you on the first time we met but you weren’t talking that much.” Twilight asked. Lab? That would be interesting. Maybe I could see how advanced they really were rather than wasting two years of my lifespan trying of understand it from books.

    “Sure!” I replied, trying my best to hide the nervousness in my voice. Twilight went to open a red door beside the staircase and gestured for me to get in. Walking down the staircase, I couldn’t help but stare at the massive roots growing all around. There were electric lights on the celling, and a giant machine loomed ahead. It reminded me of something from a science fiction movie. There were quite a lot of wires and pipes running here and there, and a console with a couple of buttons and what looked like pressure gauges on it.

    Twilight turned on a machine that started spilling rolls of paper from it into a bucket. It looked awfully a lot like a seismograph to me. “This machine measures the magic levels of a pony, although if recalibrated properly, it can do some other things, like doing data scans.”

She then proceeded to open a cupboard with a lock on it. “I found this in a field yesterday.” She said, taking out an orange device with three prongs that stuck out at the front, which to my surprise was a Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator. (Or gravity gun) My first thought was ‘what the heck is it doing here?!’ All Transtech equipment had an automated emancipation that should vaporize the thing if bought out of the facility. Another thing was that the device seemed to have changed its trigger design. Where its handle was supposed to be had been replaced by a small opening at the back.

      “I can’t figure out what this thing does yet, but I’m bringing it to the princess when we get to Canterlot.” Twilight explained, putting it back into the cupboard. “Anyway, that’s all!”

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“Aww hell Simmons is going to kill me when he watches all this!” I whined as I buried my head into the pillow. Time to think on how to delay this trip then.