(There ya go, chapter two as promised, now where's my cookie? Actually forget the cookie, can anyone tell me how to condense my sleep so I can get more of it in less time? -N64Fan)

Though the rest of the conversation up to the point of Inventor's excited revelation had been quiet enough to avoid the attention of anyone outside the room, the exclamation that Inventor shouted echoed through the silent stone halls of the castle. Due to this, the outburst was heard by none other than the only other princess in the castle. As it turned out this particular alicorn was on her way to try and talk to Luna before she went to sleep for the day. She shrugged the odd noise off as odd, but picked her walking speed up slightly as a slight niggling worry for her sister entered her mind.

She approached the door to Luna’s room and heard her sister's voice, which was muffled by the thick obsidian door. ‘Who is she talking to?’ Celestia thought to herself only to have that question answered as another, male, voice responded, the sun princess was confused even more by the strange voice and opened the door with a cast of a spell to see what stallion was in Luna’s room.

She did not see a stallion, She saw a weird biped talking to her sister, “...So as you can see, I highly doubt that the mere existence of my technology would interfere with your magic in any notable way unless it is specifically designed to do so. Which, as I said before, is due to the operating wavelength differentials between the electricity in my technology and the magic you use. For instance, that device malfunctioned not because it is highly established tech and you used magic on it, rather it malfunctioned due to the fact that it is designed to pick up on energy particles, such as what I was I trying to detect with it, that are in the air. So when you used your magic directly on it, which is composed of manipulative energy particles, it overloaded the system and the device fizzled.”

As he finished Luna’s gaze began to move across the room as she took in what little information she could understand about this weird man’s ‘technology’. It seemed nothing like anything she had ever seen or heard of before, and that’s saying something for an immortal. Her thoughts were briefly stopped when she saw Celestia standing idly in the doorway with a stern look on her face. “Hello, Tia.” Luna said with a kind smile to her sister. "This is Inventor, he was just telling me about his technology. It really is amazing, you should look at it."

Inventor, who was about to continue his rant about how he could theoretically create some kind of tech that amplified or was amplified by magic, paused and turned to see a creature similar to Luna but taller and more regal looking. “Hello there, as Luna said, my name is Inventor, well, for now anyway. It's very nice to meet you.” Inventor took a small bow once again and smiled politely at Celestia.

“Get away from my sister.” Celestia said coldly giving a death glare in the direction of the odd biped. After a few seconds she slowly approached the two, taking the hint Inventor backed away from the approaching alicorn and made his way over to the balcony that overlooked the majority of Canterlot. Putting his right hand over the open air he began to mutter words, Luna tried to listen to what he was saying but could only make out the words ‘Aviationary’ and ‘Wind speed velocity’ before Celestia began talking to her.

“What do you think you're doing? Hanging out with strange things like that?” Celestia hissed quietly to her younger sister. “He could be dangerous and might kill you at any moment and yet you hang around him like he’s some kind of teddy bear.” Luna saw fear in her older sister’s eyes, not fear of the creature most definitely, so then fear of what?

“He’s a good... whatever he is.” Luna said confidently with a nod “He’s just a little... eccentric”

“How would you know? He could easily be hiding something deadly under that excessive amount of clothes.” Celestia said a little louder, Luna remained silent as Celestia looked to her sister, her voice shifted to a soft caring tone. “Look, I just don’t want to -” she coughed lightly and corrected herself “I can’t lose you too Luna. You’re the only thing that will stay with me, I can’t lose that.” There was a pause for a minute as Celestia’s words sunk in. “All I’m suggesting is we put him under surveillance in the dungeon for a few days until we figure out what he is.” The sun princess whispered quietly.

“Yeah, no. That’s not going to happen” Inventor said, interrupting the conversation “This, oh how did you term it?” the man paused, “Ah yes, this ‘strange thing’ isn’t going down to a dungeon, I just came from a world that was far too much of dungeon for me to head back into one so soon.” For the first time since Luna had met Inventor he was frowning, almost disappointingly.

Celestia raised an eyebrow, “You heard everything we said?” Inventor nodded, “Well what exactly is your plan to get out?” Celestia said as she moved between the man and the door to block his escape.

Inventor smiled smugly, “Hey Luna, remember the string?” Luna looked confused but nodded slowly. “I hate starting at point ‘A’” Inventor, who had gathered his bag as well as his less than operational energy detector while the princesses were chatting, then took a running leap off the balcony.

Celestia gasped in surprise and Luna bolted to the edge of the balcony in shock, when the moon princess looked over the balcony however she saw nothing. She looked around desperately for any sign of the eccentric human who had told her so much about everything he had built. Only to see absolutely nothing. The room seemed to radiate an odd silence in the void created by the lack of clockwork ticking that, until that time, Luna hadn’t realized she enjoyed so much.

Inventor, meanwhile, smiled as he soared on the air currents using his leather and clockwork wings that he had attached to a metal plate that ran down the back of his coat. Inventor flew onward as the sound of two additional clockwork mechanisms filled the air. “Invisibility handheld” the man said to himself as he glided on his wings, “Can’t believe I got that thing working before I left, I mean, the four engines of steam, clockwork, electricity and radioactive fallout working symbiotically in such a small contraption that bends light around the user, and any programmed extensions of that user’s body, thus blocking any optic reflection from reaching any onlookers. Definitely one of my better inventions if I do say so myself.” he smiled “Not to mention that it is a working pocket watch at the same time.”

He glided on the thermals of the city for a fair distance seeing very few ponies out and about quite yet as it was still early morning, the flight was very relaxing for Inventor to the point where he even closed his eyes for a minute as he breathed deeply. “Fresh air, I haven’t smelt fresh air since, well, ever. Even before The End the air was almost completely smog.” Inventor said with a smile as a large tower that seemed oddly placed with just a park to surround it caught his attention.

Seeing no other place he could stay that wouldn’t grab unwanted attention he landed outside the front door and tapped a metal device just under the valley between his shoulder blades and the wings flipped closed underneath his jacket as he approached the tower, it seemed to be abandoned, though a multitude of facts pointed it to it still being in use. “Must be a summer home,” Inventor said to himself as he entered the tower through the surprisingly unlocked door.

Inside Inventor saw something that took his breath away, shelves upon shelves of books of all different genres were set into every wall and every shelf looked full to bursting. In addition to this the entire tower smelled like dusty tomes. “A library, no, a personal collection. I haven’t seen this many books in ages, not since The Incident.” The techie flinched slightly at this but then closed the door behind him and turned off his invisibility machine, the clockwork ticking of an unknown source continued on.

Slowly picking his way through the collection Inventor ran his fingers over the binding of the books. His hand stopped when it came to a book entitled ‘The brief history of Equestria’ With a smile Inventor took the massive tome off the shelf and laid it down on a nearby table. Upon opening the book he smiled when he understood the archaic language written down upon the pages that Inventor guessed was the traditional language of the area. “Visual translator, definitely a good choice to build that one, made no sense to build it at the time, but on the other side of the coin, I did just jump off a balcony, I’m probably not entirely sane.” And with that comment and a content smile Inventor settled down in the chair to read.

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Meanwhile, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna were in the middle of their discussion about the creature. “You say it jumped across dimensions to get here? but why?” Celestia asked.

“That’s the gist of what I managed to understand sister, he used a lot of large words that I had never heard before and I am pretty sure that I would never understand.” Luna said as she lifted up her tea for a drink when out of the corner of her eye she spotted the string that Inventor had used for his demonstration that morning. With a smile she levitated it over to herself and tied it around her own forehoof. Celestia gave her a weird look that Luna shrugged off and the conversation continued.

“So, where did it go? Did it teleport himself back to its world?” Celestia asked.

“I doubt it.” Luna said as she reflected back on her meeting with the odd man, Celestia gave Luna a confused look so the moon princess continued. “I think the reason he came here, to our world, is because he’s running.”

“Well what could it be running from, it seems to be quite brash and from what you told me and what I observed it doesn’t seem to be the kind of creature that can't take care of itself in a fight.” The white alicorn observed.

Luna reflected once more on her meeting with the man and one phrase came to mind ‘I used to have a name, but I lost my right to that a long time ago'. Luna couldn't decide what to make of that and she wondered what a person would have to do to reject their name.

“I think..” Luna hesitantly spoke, “I think he’s running from himself.” Celestia looked at Luna curiously but Luna shrugged “I can’t explain it much better then that.” Luna took another sip of tea and continued "and call it a he, he's not some mindless monster."

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With a louder than intended slamming noise the book closed, “So Luna has a dark past that she wishes to forget as well.” Inventor said with a sigh as he leaned back in the chair. “The history books are a bit vague on it I hope she can manage it, well at least she has her all-powerful sister of the sun to help her out. That should be good for her, I know I was in desperate need of some company while I was alone, she should be fine though.”

Inventor sighed once again as he reached up to pull his top hat down over his face only to remember he hadn’t had a top hat in over three years after the last wayward wasteland gust had stolen it from him.

“Okay, first things first, when I get my hands on some money, I am buying a top hat, I need the extra room for my tech. Not to mention the added swag.”

Inventor stood from his chair and picked up the massive tome in one hand before walking over to where he had took it from and shelved it back into place with a thunk. It was then that he noticed an odd ray of sunlight that ran across the shelf, turning his head to see the source he saw the door was open, and standing in the doorway was a lavender unicorn looking at him with its mouth agape. “What are you!” It said in with a sense of awe and surprise in its voice.

With a smile to the confused scholar Inventor turned to get a better look at her, "My name’s Inventor, unless you can come up with a better one, and I’m a human.” He said, “And you are?”

“Twilight Sparkle, unicorn.” she said.

“Nice to meet you Twilight, and this is quite a nice collection of books you have here if I do say so myself.” Inventor said as he walked over and settled back into the chair he had been reading in earlier. Leaning back until the chair seemed like it might tip. "I apologize for entering unannounced but I had a desperate need for some knowledge and what a better place then the largest collection of non-fiction book I've ever seen."

“Thanks! Though I’ve never received a compliment on my books from someone like you before, It's always nice to get a compliment.” Twilight said, laying down on a comfortable looking pad that was raised to the table level.

“This is going to be a long day” Inventor mumbled under his breath.

“What was that?” Twilight asked.

“Oh nothing” he said as he smiled jovially at the unicorn.

“Who you talking to Twilight?” Asked a voice, Inventor turned to see a small purple and green lizard creature walk in, who reached about the level of his knee.

“A very long day.” Inventor confirmed to himself.