*Kinda dark in here. At least I can still see…*

~At least you can see well in the dark, right?~

*Yeah, but it still takes a minute for my eyes to adjust.*

~Well allow me to help you with that.~ I rush of magic later the whole place looks to be dimly lit.

*Thanks* Some stones fall over, at least, it sounded like that. “Stop trying to spook me, I know you’re fucking here.” I cast a shield around me and my gauntlets materialize.

“My my, such vulgar language.” Starlight walks into view from behind a boulder. She may not showing fear, but anyone can see the fear in her eyes. “Pray tell, how did you know that was me?”

“Where I come from creating ambiance, like how you just did, is an old cliche’.”

“Hmm… Where do you come from?”

“A planet on the other side of the galaxy we live in.”

“How can you prove it.”

“Besides saying that I’m a new species on this planet, and that I got sucked into a wormhole that spit me out in this place. I can’t.” As we talked, I used my magic to levitate a small rock and carefully held it above her head a couple yards.

“So, you’re an alien?”

-She’s trying to mess with your head, wow. Just wow.- Embris says in an unamused tone.

“Yeah, pretty much. Also, I see that you’re trying to get into my mind.” I chuckle and lay the rock back down onto the floor. “And it’s a little amusing. A pony trying to pry into an aliens head.” I step closer to Starlight. “I also find it extremely agitating.” I say with a mean frown. “You’ve absolutely no idea how many times my mind has been broken, put back together, and broken again. It’s both cute and sickening.” She backs up a little. “Mostly sickening, you know why? Of course you don’t, so let me tell why I hate mind games like the one you tried to start.” I kept walking towards her, and backed her up to a wall. “I’ve been manipulated enough as it was back on my planet. It’s made me who I am today, although I don't mind that part, I like who I am. Anyway, it’s how people used me as their scapegoat, it was until after what I’ve done hit me. I’ve done many things I regret to this day. And my first thought when appearing in this world was ‘Maybe I can leave all of that behind’, I guess not.” I take another step towards her, and crouch down to eye level. “At least, not until you’re out of the picture.” I hold my hand out and a giant clawed glove appears, then it goes away. “On second thought,” I stand back up. “Instead of killing you, I’ll just turn you in to whatever authority you have in this country. I’m sure they’ll a nice dungeon or something for you.” At that her eyes widen.

“I’m not going to prison!” She stands back on all fours and blasts me with another beam of magic. Luckily a shield forms before it could touch me, the beam bounces off and slams into the cave wall. A loud rumble sounds out and a stalactite falls to the floor.

“Look what you did, the cave’s caving in.” I grab her by the tail and keep her still. I snap my fingers and an iron ring appears on her horn. *Since when did I know how to do that?* Then it clicks.

-Remember when we got that feeling of knowing everything?-

*No fucking way! I have more control over my magic because of that!?*

~It’s apparently a side effect of that.~

*Amazing…* A large rock falls and breaks apart right over me. *This thing can stand the weight of a few tons of rock right?*

~Yes.~

*Good, cause I want to see her d-* I look over to where Starlight is, or was, standing. A large boulder already crushed her. Her pink legs stick out from under the rock, one of them even twitch. “Fuck I missed it... Eh, at least I don't have to worry about her anymore.” I close my eyes and teleport to the small village.

“Ember Darling! When did you get here?”

“I actually just teleported here.”

“Hey Ember! Since when did ja get here?”

“I teleported here.”

“Emby! You’re back!” Something small hit me from behind, two pink hooves drape over my shoulders and another two wrapped around my waist. I twist my head around and meet nose to muzzle with Pinkie.

“Hey Pinkie.”

“Woah dude, that’s creepy.” I look at Rainbow, a little confused.

“What?”

“That, ‘neck’ thing. Looks like your neck snapped.” I shrug and turn around. Pinkie is still latched onto me.

“Pinkie, you mind?”

“Nope!” She happily jumps off my back and bounces off to somewhere. Twi walks up to me.

“Where’s Starlight?”

“She got crushed by a boulder.” She blanches a little. “Yeah, she shot one of those beams of magic at me and it hit the cave wall, cave collapsed, I managed to get out. Same can’t be said for her.” She looks a little sick. “Changing the subject, you guys threw a party right?” She nods. “Then lets party.” I scratch behind her ears a little and join the partying ponies.

“So you actually saw a giant rock crush her?”

“Yeah, pretty much.”

“Wow.” When I got home Chrysi was happy to see me once again, she asked what happened and I basically recapped the day's event to her. “How can you watch that happen right in front of you, and not vomit?”

“Humans in general have strong stomachs, although I think some might throw up at that particular sight. Anyway, I’ve seen worse, remember.” Her ears fold back.

“Oh… Yeah...”

“Hey,” I reach over and put an arm around her shoulders. “what’s in the past, is in the past. I don’t like to dwell on the past. It just makes you weaker. Besides, I’m still breathing, so don’t worry about that, alright?” I reach up and scratch her behind her ears. It’s a little weird, scratching soft chitin, it’s almost like scratching rough ballistic gelatin. The changeling sighs and a smile forms on her face. “Better?” She nods lazily.

“Yeah, thanks.” I remove my hand. “What are doing down here anyway? I never see you come out unless somepony needs you or something.”

“I’m just trying to build something.”

“Like what?”

“A computer.”

“A what?”

“A computer, a device that can store millions of books worth of knowledge, all into one little hard drive.” At that her jaw drops. “Close your mouth, unless you like the taste of fly-guts.” Her mouth closes with a click.

“Is a, ‘computer’, one of those things that you talked about with Shining and Cadence the other day?”

“Yeah."

“Then why are you building one, do you even know how to build one?”

“I want to build one and give it as a gift, to Twilight, and yes. And I’m technically putting one together, all these parts make up the thing.”

“Cool.” She says in awe. “Where did you get these anyway?” I smirk and snap my fingers, a monitor blinks into existence. “I found out the other day that I have more control over my magic. And now I can create shields, various weapons out of magic, and a very limited version of creation.”

“‘Creation’? And what do you mean by 'more control'?”

“I can make anything out of nothing. But it seems that goes as far as parts for large machines and furniture no bigger than a bed. I can’t actually create a full-blown gun, or a coffee machine. Also I figured that I have loads of magic, and I sometimes use out of reflex. I just gotta learn to control it."

“Oh... Wait, can’t you ask Twilight to help you out with that stuff?”

“I was actually thinking of doing that today.”

“Well why don’t you go then!? I’ve been wanting to get out of this house.”

“Why? What have you been doing these past days?” She looks down and a blush forms on her face.

“Stuff...” She mutters.

“Nevermind, lets go.” She instantly stands back and flies out my room. “Oh yeah, wings.” I get up and follow after her…

“Great! Lets get started!” We arrived at Twi’s Castle, the ‘The Friendship Castle’ as all the ponies say. Chrysi changed her look back to the mare. I told Twi about my wanting to learn more magic, and she lit up like fire fueled by gasoline.

"Alright, what's first?"

“First, do you mind if I ask you a few questions?”

“Sure.”

“Alright. Follow me please.” She walks off, with me and Chrysi in tow, towards some room within the castle, it held all the equipment from the library's basement. All the equipment Twi moved out of the way is back in place, all of it alive, beeping and hums fill the air.

“Wow, you were waiting for this moment, weren’t you?” She gives me a sheepish smile, making me chuckle. “You do know how to set things up fast huh?”

“Actually, I’ve had this all up and running a few days now.”

“Really? For what?”

“You never know when you’re going to need to study something new.”

“I assume that happens often.”

“A little too often if you ask me.”

“I see. Continue with your questions please.”

“Thank you.” She pauses. “Who have you been getting used to Equestrian magic?”

“Well I just discovered the other day that I have more control over my magic.”

“How so?” I snap my fingers and a CPU appears out of thin air and drops to the floor.

“I have some kind of limited creation.” I hold my hand out and a see-through red sword appears. “And besides the gauntlets, I can form various types of melee weapons.” The red swords turns into a ball of magic, and stretches to form a war hammer. “This one being my favorite.” I let the grip the handle and let the head smash to the floor. Making the ground vibrate a little. I let go of the hammer and it disappears, leaving a little divot where the head smacked the ground. I look at Twi and Chrysi, both of them got next to each other, and they’re staring at the hole the hammer left. “What?”

“H… how are you able to lift something that heavy!?”

“Well… It wasn’t that heavy to me.”

“Really? Hmm… Bring it back, please.” I nod and the hammer. She motions with a hoof to give it to her. “Only I can hold this, as soon as I let go it dissipates.”

“Oh. Hold it still please.” I do so and the hammer tints a darker shade of red. It only lasts for a second. “Interesting… Hit the ground again, please.” I quirk an eyebrow, then shrug and let the head the ground again. The hammer is once again a darker shade of red. “Wow...”

“What?”

“It’s weight increased. Lift it up.” I do so. “It got lighter! Amazing!”

“What?”

“It appears that the weight of the hammer responds to what you are doing with it. I’ve only read about weapons like the one you’re wielding in old tombs.”

“Well that’s cool. Does that mean I’m some ancient race or some shit?”

“You could be...”

“It was a joke, Twi.”

“Oh...” Her cheeks tint pink and she looks down. She immediately looks back up, wearing a face that says ‘nothing happened’.

“Next question.”

*Wow she’s good.*

“Do-”

“Twilight!”

“Rainbow?” Twi ask no one as she walks to the table room, me and Chrysi behind her. As Twi opens the door leading to the room, we’re greeted with an almost frantic-looking Rainbow and a smiling Pinkie.

“Hi Emby! Hi Twilight! Hi Chrysi!” She chirps.

“Twilight, my cutie mark is doing that… flashing thing again!” Twi looks to her flank, flank sounds better than ass. And her c-mark is glowing and flashing. Just then Rarity, Fluttershy and Aj walk in. They all look to each other and nod. Apparently in some unsaid agreement, with that they sit in their respective chairs around the table. As soon as Twi takes her seat a three-d image appears on the table. When I take a closer look it looks like a map of this planet. At least, the majority of it. Two lights from and shape into Rainbow’s and Pinkie’s c-marks. They hover over and spin around an old looking tree on atop a thin mountain. Twi looks at the map with wide eyes.

“The map wants you and Pinkie to visit the Gryphon Kingdom?” Her face goes from surprised to excited. And the others just leave. Not even saying a word. Me being confused, I decided to follow the rest out.

“So the thing just calls all of you here, even though you’re not what it wants?” I ask Aj.

“Ah don’t know. We just got the feelin’ that we were needed.”

“So you didn’t need to come?” She nods.

“Yeah.”

“Alright.”

“So what do we do now?” Chrysi asked.

“I don’t know about you, but I’m going back home.”

“Oh. Ok.” With Chrysi in tow, I make my way back to my house. And spend the rest of the day tinkering away.

Author's Notes:

Sorry about this chapter being short, I'm currently very lazy and working with people doing.... stuff. I apologize again, I'm just one lazy fuck.