Title:           Magic vs Tech (canceled)
Author:          That_Gai
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First Edit:      Monday 12th of October 2015 01:02:46 PM CDT
Last Edit:       Last edit on: Monday 9th of November 2015 08:37:51 AM CDT

Original prompt:
TS: I can't really believe your story Anon, buildings with over a 100 levels? Flying boats bigger than Ponyville? And yet there's no magic in your world? Please.
>Growing tired of Twilight's berating, you go out into the world to prove her wrong.
 
Twilight POV history
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>Day 17, 8th moon cycle of 14th reunited sisters year
>7:00 - Recovered specimen still uncouncious and not identified, it seems to be in a coma since it didnt wake up in the past 24 hours so i will be starting research to fill out the papers for a new race
>9:00 – Been trying to remove some kind of full body mechanism for further research, seems like he used it to walk but doesnt seem to be part of his actual body
>9:15 – The contraption still stands on two legs even withouth the user, its fair to interpret that the specimen not only stands on two legs but also may be very advaned in magic artefacts, more research required on the mechanism later
>15:30 – Concluded Research: It seems like an omnivorous male animal with about 14 hooves in size, the average pony being around 10 hooves at this research date, weird fact was that the creature has no magic readings so i have no idea how he could use the magical machinery, i suppose there may be another kind of his specimen that does magic which also could be the one who replenishes some sort of magic reserve for it to work, more research needed
>15:35 – Finished redressing the creature, considering how worn they looked i suppose these animals may not like to be naked...i bet rarity would love to be here and take his measurements...
>16:00 – Pinkie Pie just showed up, said i was taking too much time with this research and i should get out more, i ve been here only two days planning to implemet the plans i had for the research planning during the first day and on the second i planned the plans for the research itself and checked the list only 3 times
>But i guess Pinkie may be right, she was the one who introduced me to Ponyville afterall, i should still make a forcefield for the specimen in case it wakes up after i leave, even though it digestive system can survive withouth meat its better be safe than sorry
 
>Day 18 of 8th moon cycle of 14th reunited sisters year
>13:00 – Finished creating a pod to put the creature in, i cant keep my concentration on the forcefield and research properly afterall
>13:54 – I was studying the contraption the human was using and a loud bang came from the glass of the pod, when i turned to see if everythingwas alright the human was sleeping peacefully...not sure if it was just my mind playing tricks but i think Pinkie Pie may be right about me spending too much time here
>Even though building the pod only took from when i got back yesterday to the entire morning of today, having a list sure made it much faster to build
>15:00 – Okay i give up on this for today, these silver bars on the machine dont seem to have any magic at all, i probably gonna need direct information from the specimen or help for Celestia
”Does this thing even talk?”
 
>Spike here Twilight, if you found this jounal then you probably calmed down enough to read it again, sorry for stealing it when i heard you scream, but even i was scared by the way you was looking when that creature woke up
>As for the last thing you wrote down, yes, it can talk, i already calmed it down but try to not scare him again, it took some effort to earn his trust after the way he woke up
>Oh i know you love dates so its been two days since your last entry, have fun down there and i ll be up in the castle library if you need anything
 
>Its been almost a full moon cycle since ou last went down to the lab
>Spike said you should try to calm down and you d find the book eventually
>You can guess he probably has something to do with the disapearance of your jornal but you dont want to question it
>You decide to finally go down there, you may have searched for 2 days straight after the creature woke up but maybe you missed a spot
>As soon you enter the cientific chamber the creature waves at you in the pod with his fore-...upper leg-...upper limb
>It s fascinating, you honestly wish it had died so you could make a deeper research, but if its the only one of its specimen that would have to wait
>After a quick look around you see the book you were searching for on top of a table
>You couldnt simply have missed that spot
>You will be sure to re-organise and re-shelve the library many times this week
>Also the creature talks according to spike
”Wait”
”...As for the last thing you wrote down, yes, it can talk...”
>You feel bad for wanting the death of a sentient creature even if it was for science
“Im sorry for trying to study your internals...” – you say to no one in particular
>”No worries, if you were in my land scientists would probably have done the same”
>Being startled by that you try to jump to the table
>But you roll a 3 in the D20 dice so you hit your foreleg in the chair, your head in the table and do a barrel roll before landing graciously with your back on the ground
>You dont have a list ready for this...
 
>Be Anon
>22 November 2107
>Just arrived home from your new work. Pretty much everyone had some kind of augmentation
>You re one of the few purists left on Earth, most people being augmented or wanting to be as soon they get the money
>Not that you didnt wanted to mess with nature, you simply didnt wanted to remove a working limb for nothing
>Instead you got an exoskeleton so you were not left behind by the tech
>Being able to do your own repairs when needed was great too, even if you wasnt much of a tech saavy guy
>You wish you were born 100 years ago when tech was much simplier
>Heck even 1000 years ago in the medieval era would be fine, as long you could bring some tech there with you
>As you enter home you decide its a good time to do a checkup on your exoskeleton since its sorta late, you can always make some instant ramen to eat
>As soon you open the door to your room you see a black void open right in middle of it
>It doesn’t wastes any time and starts sucking you inside
>The fucked up thing is that your room was perfectly still, like nothing was happening
>You try to use your thrusters from the exoskeleton to get away, but the void keeps pulling stronger as the time passes
>The exoskeleton shows graphs that the pull growth is too high and you ll be pulled in no matter what unless it closes itself
>Considering how expensive the fuel for exo’s are nowadays you decide to save fuel and use it to fight whatever did that portal void thing
>What you don’t expect is the speed you re coming at the other side
>You do have enough time to notice something purple with something on its head glowing zoom past you as you go towards a tree
>You hit said tree with enough force that it removes it from the ground, it also changes your trajectory to the ground itself
>But hey at least you re alive thanks to the exo’
 
>You are Twilight
>And you didn’t bring the journal today cause you wont be able to make annotations when trying this new spell
>And Spike is helping Rarity by being her pincushion…
>Again
>How can that be more important than researching magic?
>You really wanted to ask somepony to help but there s no way you re putting anyone at risk
>Which is why you re doing it at night when everypony is on their homes
>This spell you ve been working on is supposed to summon a creature from anywhere in the world
>As soon you start the spell a black portal opens up in front of you and a strong wing comes from it
>The portal was supposed to be able to see through the other side, but considering the strong wind it may be trying to stabilize itself
>After a few seconds of nothing happening you decide to close it
“Maybe it failed because it was only me casting it if another unicorn made a link with the magic reading on the other side…”
“That s it! Maybe by doing that we may be able to make a 2-exit teleporter for all races to use, and I guess would be better than just summon someone from thin air too”
>You giggle and start trying to close the portal
>After putting more magic into trying to close it, you feel like its trying to pull something from the other side with the wind and some magic ressonance
>The portal didn’t change since the start and still deep black and blowing hard
>All of sudden something comes flying through the portal and you don’t have any time to react
>All you can make out is something silver on its body before it zooms past you, missing by less than a frog and hits a tree
>Only pegasi and their rubber-like bones would survive a crash like that
>After the creature was expelled the portal closes itself
>You finally check yourself to see if everything alright
*Sigh* “Yap everything in place, just what the hay was that?”
>The thing doesnt move so you decide to get closer
“...Hello? Is everything alright?”
>It doesn’t have a single scratch, maybe its because of that silver thing he s wearing
>Still ya cant simply abandon it, it’s a matter of your research after all
>So you grab him with your magic and take him to your castle
>Lyra and Bon Bon were out for a walk and you think they saw what you did
>Thankfully Bon Bon is holding Lyra with a hoof and waves to you as you pass by
“Guess its better to hurry up before anypony else sees this”
 
Present day
 
>Since you didn’t had a list of things planned if it talked you decided to improvise
>And pony wasn’t that productive, not scientifically mind you but after talking with it you noticed the human wasn’t dangerous at all
>Well maybe a bit weird looking, but still harmless
“…well look, I ll let you out of the pod with two conditions”
>”Shoot”
“What? No! I m not going to shoot you anything…not right away at least”
>”No, its just a expression, go on, tell me, etc.”
>”Wait what was that last…”
“GREAT! First is that you cant eat anypony no matter what, we ll find some kind of meat if you really reeally need, but I hope you like apples meanwhile”
>”That s fine, can I choose the kind of meat at least?”
“Nope, secondly you cant leave the castle until I m done with my research on you”
>The human pouts after that answer, but seems calm enough even after being denied to eat meat freely
>That s a good sign, maybe you can make so he never eats meat ever again, that surely would be good for pony kind since there d be one less predator around
>”Wait did you say castle? Nice, can I walk around inside of it at least?”
“Sure, as long you behave its alright, now that s settled let me open this”
>With a little spell you discharge the lock so the pod door could open
>No sooner that the door opened the human was already in your neck
“KYAAHH!!!”
>”Boop”
“…that s not funny” – you say with a scrunchie
>”Cmon you re all serious and everything, lighten up will ya”
>”After all if I m the one being experimented on, not you….oh, by the way…”
“What?”
>”When can I go back?”
>…. That never crossed your mind
>You don’t think summon spells have a direct way to reverse engineer either
>Well you could find where the summoned creature came from, but teleporting it away with cirurgical precision is another history
“I-I will see what I can do”
 
>Its been over half a year
>You made little to no progress in the spell to send Anon, the human back
>On other hand you made a lot of progress on his species
>That surely wasnt enough for you though, the guilt of getting him here kept growing on you as days went on
>To be honest you couldn’t ve gotten this far if not for his help and assurance
>He even endured the most painfull tests just for you, your friendship and how hard you were trying to send him home
>That didn’t help the feeling that you, the princess of friendship, wasnt being a good enough friend for him
>You tried to make up for him to letting him eat more meat overtime
>It wasn’t as grotesque as you thought it would be, but the smell was still awfull
>First you let him eat some dead fish once a month
>Now it has been almost once a week
>His face on ‘meat day’s is so happy you even feel fuzzy inside
>You start wondering what kind of meat he miss more from his world and get an idea
“Hey Anon, today I m feeling awfully nice so I gonna let you choose what kind of meat you want to eat”
“Just don’t ask for something too hard alright?”
>”I always wondered how pony meat would taste”
“WHAT? You promised you wouldn…”
>”Calm down im just kidding, I could go for some eggs and bacon to be honest”
“*sigh* Well I know where to get eggs, but what is a bacon?”
>”You get that from pigs, it’s the best food in existence! You should try it sometime”
“I d rather not eat meat, it just………..”
>”Right, you ponies don’t eat meat, sorry”
“Anyway, anything else I could get ya?”
>”Maybe my exosk…”
“NO! I already told ya I m keeping it until you tell me the truth on how that machine uses and recharges magic
>”I already told ya countless times how there s no magic in my world, I m not going to lie to you just so you can feel better!”
“Well too bad, I m not buying that. You will have your exoskeleton…thing when you tell the truth”
>With that you leave the palace, when Anon wanted he sure had a way to ruin your otherwise perfect day…
 
>Almost a entire year went by
>And you ve made no development on the spell supposed to send Anon home
>You even asked Celestia for help but she wasn’t able to
>Not that she didn’t wanted, she really had no idea how to as well
>On top of that Anon just kept stretching his lies more and more about his world
>You two were sitting on the castle entrance stairs, taking in some morning sunlight
>But instead of appreciating the day he s been talking how much he misses the nonexistent tech on his world
>He have done that a fair lot this week, maybe its better to confront him now before he goes too far
>”…and then we have those huge boats that we fly through the air, I always wanted to fly on one of those but they re quite expensive you see heh heh”
“Anon, stop”
>”What?”
“You know I already consider you a big friend of mine I even gave you full liberty to leave whenever you feel like…”
“Just…why do you keep lying to me about your world? There s no need to hide it from me if it brings bad memories, I will always be on your side to help”
”But I can only help if you tell me the truth you know…”
>You try to be as reassuring as you can, but he seems quite offended
>”Twilight we ve been over this many times…I am NOT LYING!”
>You try to keep yourself calm and put a hoof on his lap for reassurance
“Anon, I don't want to be the kind of pony who turns a blind eye towards suffering, but I can't really believe your story. Buildings with over a 100 levels? Flying boats bigger than Ponyville? And yet there's absolutely no magic in your world? Please, don’t lie to me”
>He s visibly pissed now, you never got him to be this annoyed as far as he lived here
>”Urrggh, what do I need to do so you believe me? Heck there s the exoskeleton in the basement that you haven’t found a single trace of magic and you still cant believe me?”
“I know there s some kind of magic on that device somewhere…”
“As for your first question why don’t you show me a city? Maybe I ll believe you then”
>You couldn’t help but put a smug tone on that last sentence since he was probly joking
>”You know what? Maybe I ll do that”
“Anon please, I wasn’t serious, this is no joking matter”
>”Do I look like I m joking?”
>Okay you never seen Anon being this serious before
“Well I for one am sure you cant pull that off, so it can only be a joke”
>He then stands up and go inside the castle saying nothing more
>You decide to let him be and talk to him later
 
>Sweet Celestia, he was serious
>As you go inside the castle he has all his belongings patched and ready for a trip
“Anon what are you doing? – you ask rethorically
>”Why, you want me to build a city to show you? Then I ll fucking build one!”
“Where are you going though there are few places in equestria that aren’t populated”
>”Wherever I find a spot of land I ll start, doesn’t matter”
>Pissed is a understatement on how he s looking right now
“Anon I know you wont go back on your word, so let me at least show you some options where you can go to, I don’t want to lose your friendship”
>”Too bad sparkles, we re done here”
>And with that he goes off to the unknown
>You feel good that he used your nickname at least, so you may have a chance of rekindling your friendship
>You hope you can at least
>At least he didn’t seem to remember to get his exoskeleton…
 
>Its been 2 days since anon decided to leave your castle
>As much you re worried for his well being you still have research to do
>You re developing something that has a potential to change the current magical lock used in events
>The one that is used right now is very intrusive and unpleasant since you can still feel the magic in you, but you cant use none
>Almost feels like you may explode at any time while under it
>The new spell would simply get rid of all that magic instead of locking it, not only usefull for unicorns but also all the other races
>You decided to name it ‘MDP’, aka ‘Magic Dampening Pulse’
>It needed a lot of magic to use so probably only alicorns and machines that rely on ambient magic would be able to perform it
>It definetively will be the ultimate security device
>Of course you cant lie that you also have hopes to use it to analise anon’s exo’ once and for all
>That thing has given you headache since day one for not being able to get through it
 
>On the two days that went by you were pretty much only in your lab
>Heh, just like the days you were researching Anon
>You gotta find something to get him out of your head, somehow your thoughts always find a way to drift to him after a while
>As you re trying to focus on the research at hand there s a knock on the door
>You didn’t really wanted to stop and go answer, but Spike was helping Rarity on the boutique
>Again
“Im coming!” – you shout
>It better be something goo-
>”This is your singing telegram, I hope it finds you well…”
>Not this again
“Pinkie…”
>”…You're invited to a party, ‘cause we think you're really swell…”
“PINKIE…”
>”…Anon’s leaving the city, so help us say good bye…”
“Wait what? Anon’s only leaving the city now?’
>You need to dig for info, so better wait her to finish before asking the questions
>On another thought maybe its better to not ask her anything about the subject and use the opportunity to ask him directly
 
One song later
 
>”…And come, and be our guest!”
“Soo when will it be?”
>”This afternoon, and there will be cakes and singing and dancing and ice cream and lots of fun with our bestest friends!”
“Uhh you mean this afternoon this afternoon?”
>”Yup indeedy, weird, Anon said the same thing”
>”You aren’t planning on leaving me alone like on the last time I gave you all this invitation are you?”
>Pinkie is giving you a glare like you haven’t seen in a long time
>Well since the last time she last gave you an invitation like this that is…
“Uhh of course not pinkie, count me in”
>”Great, I still need to invite the other girls so I will be going now, see you there!”
>And with that she disappeared in a puff of a pink smoke
>You should make a test run on her with the MDP someday, maybe that would help explain Pinkie better as well
>Anyway you better get ready, you got a party to attend soon
 
>You arrived early at the party and as Pinkie opened the door for you you already could see Anon face frown behind her
>”Pinkie didn’t I ask you to invite anyone you wanted BUT Twilight?”
>He didn’t even try to hide from you, wow…
>”Well Nonny it is your goodbye party, so I couldn’t just let you leave ponyville withouth saying goodbye to all your friends silly”
>Pinkie’s logic still confuses you to the core, but Anon doesn’t say anything and just keep staring at you with a face you cant quite read
>”You re going to stand on the door or you re coming in Twi?”
“Oh, right, I just didn’t knew if I should come in since Anon didn’t wanted…”
>”Don’t worry, all you two need is a simple little talk and everything will be just fine, you ll see!”
>With that Pinkie pushes you to Anon’s side and goes away inside the kitchen
>No other pony arrived yet so you two are alone
>So much for preparing everything before the party started or Anon arrived…
>Well at least you got a list ready for if you had to improvise
>You just need to be the first to talk no matter what or else-
>”What are you doing here?”
>Welp, there goes that list again…
>Do all humans hate lists? Cause you swear out of all the list you made no list could ever prepare you for Anon’s behavior
>Focus Twilight, you need to answer Anon before he thinks you don’t care
“Umm, I wanted to say sorry..for making you mad that day”
>”Really? So you finally decided to believe me? Bet you made a bunch of math and stuff before finally admitting…”
“Anon…lets not talk about this, not right now…”
>”Why so?”
“I still don’t believe you okay, and I don’t want to crash the party before it even starts”
>”Well then, I guess I still gotta to make everything I said ‘real’ before you accept what I said to be true don’t i?”
“That would help, yes, but…”
>”HEY don’t you want to play some games? Here come with me!”
 
>Pinkie had jumped out of nowhere and started pushing you two to another room
>She was sweating…a lot
“What s wrong with her? What did you ask her to do for you?” – You whisper to Anon
>”What? I thought you two were the ones planning this”
>With that pinkie pushes you two to another room which had lots of party games and stuff
>And then she locked it from the outside
>Great…
>You can still teleport out but you decide its better to stay with anon and use the chance to try and convince him to stay
>After all you may not be trapped, but Anon sure is
“Welp earth pony strength never stops to amaze me…”
>”You tell me…” – Anon said, clearly hurt after falling to the floor
“Look Anon, I m truly sorry about my behavior the other day, but its not really easy to understand all the stuff you talk about”
“Well I can ‘understand’…but just…not…”
>”Believe?”
>After a slight nod Anon looks direct on your eye with a understanding smile
>”I will be honest, after I left your castle I just wanted to get back to my world already”
>”But since I couldn’t I found my way to Ponyville’s park and sat on a bench to watch other ponies, you never allowed me to leave the castle before afterall so I though It d be good to sit down in a open space that wasn’t the castle stairs for once…”
>”…”
“…and?” – you say after his long pause
>“Well, I can safely say it was one of the worst decisions of my life”
>”Some ponies wanted to torch me down, others passed out like I was the scariest thing they ever saw and there was even a mint unicorn who kept trying to lure me into her home for some reason”
“You mean Lyra?”
>”I never got her name, but I had to hide for a while because she started trying to knock me down with a Iron bar”
“Welcome to ponyville, hehe”
>”Har har, anyway that s when I found Pinkie, I recognized her from one of your encounters with those 5 other ponies and though she was trustworthy enough to accept shelter from…”
>”…but looks like I m wrong”
“Don’t worry Anonymous, I bet she only means well, I also bet she came with this party just to get us to talk down what happened too…wouldn’t surprise me if she s on the door listening right now”
>”No I m not!” – came from the door
“See?” – you say with a giggle
>”Well anyway I m still going away from Ponyville today, just so you know”
>That took you by surprise, the way he was saying everything seemed that he only wanted to go back to his world
>Leaving Ponyville would mean not letting you search for his way back
“Why Anon? You can go back and live with me if you want…there s also an…unfinished research, if you don’t mind that is”
>You were talking about his species research but hoped he d understand as the interdimensional teleport spell
>”Sorry sparkles but I already decided, after all I want to be usefull somehow and not just mop around while being a research subject”
“If that s how its going to be, then at least go talk to Celestia in Canterlot before you go away”
>”Celestia? You mean THE Celestia? Everyone was talking about her like she was a god?”
“What do you mean?”
>”You know, when I was on the park ponies kept saying ‘sweet Celestia”’, ‘oh my Celestia!’ etc etc”
“Oh that, well she does raise the sun everyday and is over a thousand years old, so its fair to ponies think she s some sort of a god”
>”Now you re the one lying to me”
“Am I now? Ask anypony if that s not the truth or…”
>”Or?”
“Come to my castle and lets talk this out”
>”Pff nice try but I m not going back there, I will take your offer on meeting her for whatever reason thou”
>”How can you even ask her to meet me btw?”
“Well I never told you but I m her student you see”
>”That answers why I never found any other pony with a wing and a horn in here…since I m going to meet the ruler of the world can I ask for some resources for the trip too?”
“As a good friend, consider it done…with one condition”
>”Shoot”
“As soon you make any new discovery, you re sending the first one of these tech stuff you produce to me”
>”W-what? No way, after the way you treated me and how you never cared about the tech from my world there s no way I m agreeing with that, why do you care all of a sudden?”
>The rest of the night went better than you could ever expect from any of the lists you ve made
>After a lot of arguing he agreed to share the end product, but not the blueprints, you would need to reverse engineer them yourself
>And you finally talked a bit about this world to him, something you probably should have done a long time ago
>Just like you, he didn’t believe 90% of the histories
>It was a start at least
>Pinkie Pie even joined you two after a while with a tray full of cupcakes to celebrate the bounding
>You two also convinced him to stay and sleep here for at least this last night and take the train to canterlot instead of going by hooves
>Err foot...
>As it started to get dark you decided it d better to leave, you had to send a letter to Celestia before going to sleep just to be sure
>But then each of the other mane six mares started arriving, one by one
“Uhh…Pinkie?” – you say hoping for a explanation
>”What? I told you it was going to be a farewell party! You didn’t think it was just you and Anon did you?”
“Well actually…nevermind, thanks for everything Pinkie”
>”No worries, here have a cupcake” – she said, picking a cupcake from thin air and shoving in your month – “ITS PARTY TIME!”
>…only Pinkie Pie…