So it happened... it all happened...
It's been weeks, probably months that have past from the events that I have heard about. Even I am in a bit of a shock to have found out that Princess Twilight now has a new student to teach by the name of Starlight Glimmer. A fascinating name, and I have yet to meet her when I can if I wasn't so busy with what happened in the mirror world after the visit to Camp Everfree.
Guess the study of the final Dragon Queen book with Princess Luna also does count. And hey, Brayden managed to get his own wings. Twilight ended up having to send me a letter to inform me of what happened.
Now where was I... oh yes, the progress on the Dragon Queen and the book!
With the encounter on Earth that Brayden included in the letter of response to my congratulations on him and Twilight's marriage, I fear that things are about to make a turn for the worst now by the power she has with strength by the visions of an Earth faction of certain humans allianced with her to come forth to Mortem and to begin her dark plans to bring an end to the peace of Equestria.
The red clouds of the darklands have begun to ascend straight into the skies above, and it has brought concern from the citizens of Appleloosa a moderately short distance from there like the last visit that sometimes I can still remember piece by piece.
Knowing she would arrive soon, I had to step up on collecting more information and trying to figure out the rest of the map as soon as I could before she arrives which seems to be more imminent by the discovery of a portal that was obtained in the research of the final book. A portal from Earth to her darklands...
Now on high alert from the research I gave, I listened in on those meetings of Celestia and other Equus leaders in raise of this concern, like the Elks, the Zebras, the Saddle Arabians and the Griffons. Security is being pressed harder around Canterlot and there is high consideration to enroll troops and send them to protect the cities, towns and small residing villages of Equestria. Queen Novo while in care for her daughter Princess Skystar, are ready for whatever threat may strike on her own kingdom of sea-ponies.
There is a small bit of the map that seems to be missing once I had completed it. Islands to the north-west, as there was a part of the map ripped out from the pages of the book and left forgotten, like somepony didn't want us knowing about something.
With the last piece to the puzzle still missing, none in Equestria's libraries nor the Canterlot library knows about the ystery behind the tear. The only other assumption that Princess Celestia has told me about is the oldest library in the history of all Equus, hidden in the shadows of the Frozen North... lost in the mountains as the Temple of Knowledge, where the extinct snow-ponies used to hide old figures and textures.
A part of it was known for the one reason where it has and probably still holds the first relic to Equus and Equestria in whole. The Book of the First Alicorn itself, written by the divine blood of the creator.
Bordered beyond past Yakyakistan, the Yaks have protected the path to the temple for a long time as their society has grown used to the Equestria standards after the relationship between the two lands blossomed by the cultural exchanges between Celestia and Rutherford. What lies within the temple could very well finish the map, and lead us. If the Creator's book lies in the temple, it could hold a solution.
A solution to stopping the fiery destruction of the Dragon Queen, and put an end to what could be our extinction...
- Sunset Shimmer, ex-student of Princess Celestia
Washington D.C. - The White House
2:13pm
An advisor is quickly moving away towards the oval office where the President of the United States was located. In his right arm, he carries documents of confidential information which he, and the higher members in the Senate could look over and see.
The news about the battle between a winged angel and the woman with dragon wings in the state of Maine had gone all over the news and most were broadcast about it through the entire world, which has expressed a bit of concern for the people. For the advisors and generals, they did not want to start a panic among people as they investigated into what happened.
A couple of Congress members stood outside of the oval office as the advisor continues on his way down, paying no attention to them but noting of their high concern and the infrastructure damage that was created in those events even at the factory in that state. No matter which side, the Democrats and Republicans needed to know what the attack was even about and if it should be considered as a terrorist attack to the country.
This advisor was named John Grishenhower, and played an important role in delivering news of these kinds of attacks within the borders. The information collected in his hands, no doubt stated that this was unlikely as the studies to the two were shown to be American citizens battling from what eyewitnesses have gathered.
He approached the door and opening it up to enter the room, where the President himself sat at his desk, the television turned on and reporting to the people of America of this incident.
Joined with the President was the Vice President, Secretary General and a few members of the Senate to watch over the news as John approached the national leader, placing down the documents of research and possible actions to take as the news was on.
"Thank you Mr. Grishenhower." The President by the name of Harvey Howard responds to him as he takes the folders of documents in his hand.
A shush was heard from the Vice President herself as all of them look to see what was happening in the news and what the report could get for them. The reporter appears on the television, ready to speak out and report the current findings to what this could potentially be as war within their country if possible.
"In this small, quiet town of Rockenhall located in the state of Maine, there was quite a shake-up in the last couple past nights, as fiery explosions and two figures were battling one another in the small bar of Peter's. Police had a good look on the suspects there as they seemed to be using 'mystical' powers. Some of the church organizations believe that sin now has purged within the areas of attack. Footage of the fight from a cell phone can be seen as the one with dragon-like wings unleashed a breath of orange, red and white flames towards the bar when the bartender was calling the authorities. No one was hurt."
All in the room were silent as the cell phone footage began to play before their own eyes. A brown-haired male battling with a red-haired female, both of their wings spread as they battled along with the breath of fire and the bartender screaming into the phone for help as the flames drew out towards the infrastructure. The sounds of magic and blades clashing onto one another were the only things that can be heard besides the screaming and the flames.
The news reporter was there with the bartender who managed to survive the attack, has the microphone near his mouth spoke out. "All I can remember, was that these two came crashing through and were fighting. It seemed out of control and I didn't want to get too close considering that they had weapons. Didn't expect them to have that kind of magic though, especially for that girl who sent flames at me while I was calling the authorities."
Pictures of the two suspects were shown on screen as the news reporter continued. "The two suspects pictured in these two photos are that of two Rockenhall residents, one living by the name of Rebecca Harper and the other that was dead but apparently brought back to life by the name of Brayden Miller. How he came back to life, we don't know."
The picture switches to a cottage at a beachside with a destroyed garage. "The origin of where the fight began was here at this beachside cottage where satellite images captured a shield and the attack happening."
President Howard kept his eyes on the screen as the parents and older sister of Brayden appeared on screen with a microphone talking with the parents. "We honestly do not know what is absolutely going on or how Brayden is still alive. We had a funeral for him, and he was buried deep into the ground. If he hears us from far away, I hope he understands that we're still here no matter what." His mother said, before she and her family began moving away with a few of their lawyers. The press try to ask for more questions or statements, but one of the lawyers insisted that no more be stressed on them.
"The investigation is still continuing and the mystery still remains even from a leaked photo of him driving a van into town with colorful 'ponies' in there. The ponies are assumed to be the main characters from the show "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" along with secondary others from that same one -"
Switching off the television, the Vice President knew that the report didn't want to be heard anymore from the President, his advisors or the Senate members. Action had to be taken if there was something like this happening.
"So... any suggestions?" President Howard asked among them.
The senate immediately erupts into scrambled words of suggestions that they had, and all of them were speaking at the same time so it was hard for the two bodies of power in the United States to hear them through all of their talking.
"Please... one at a time." The President raised the both of his hands to calm down the senate members whether Democrats or Republicans. His blue eyes caught onto the Republican senator and points to him. "What about you Senator Mark? What ideas do you have?"
The senator stood up from the couch, and spoke out his ideas. "Mr. President, if I could make a suggestion to you on dealing with this. I would make careful approach on this subject as most other news outlets are considering to call this a 'terrorist' attack in Maine. We could prove them wrong and try to keep the peace with them, so why are a few of the Democrats in the Senate considering an attack on wherever the ponies came from?"
"That is a false statement Senator Mark," one of the Democrats stood up. "We do not want to engage in a war with species from a world different from ours. What I don't get is that these ponies with Brayden, are from a cartoon. How did they even come here when they are not real? Is there some sort of secret lab that they were made?"
"My statement is in fact true, and I believe the senators looked into this and can say that is true that there is a world far from here as the news outlets report to be from a world called 'Equestria'."
John slips past one of the other advisors and began to whisper to the President's ear. "If they are from another world, we should try to engage them in a friendly way possible with no weapons pointing at them or threatening to blow them up or have them killed. It could trigger an interstellar war."
Harvey turned his head slightly, hearing the whisper and responding back to him. "That's what I don't want happening. I don't want any wars, but peace." The senators jumping back and forth at one another kept on in the whispering.
A democrat senator spoke out. "If something like this happens again, we could have the potential to use for the force of using a tactical nuclear weapon to end it."
"That's out of the question," Senator Mark spoke against him. "It would put millions of lives at risk and could damage the relations with the other countries if we were forced to go straight to DEFCON 1 and lower our country's stability."
John whispers into the President's ear again. "Sir, I recommend to continue the investigation outward to see if they know anything more about this."
Harvey turns his head slightly to glance briefly to his advisor, giving him a brief and quick nod. "I will not risk any innocents over some fight between these two like what we just saw on television. What I'm still wondering is why our military officials haven't reported any activity from the Global Prosecution threat in the Jordan desert." He says, turning back to his senators.
"No word or activity noted either, sir." The Democratic senator responded to him. "Even our friends in the Israeli government haven't noticed anything funny being planned out for another attack. They've increased their military spending, and are dispatching their own soldiers to check it out."
"Could be a trap if they are not careful," Senator Mark continued as listening out to hear what was said. "Suggestion to join them as reinforcements to clear out any GP individuals from that area near the border of Israel and Palestine."
The President shuffled briefly in his chair. "As long as they are nowhere close to attacking any of the cities or capital there, we shouldn't worry about individuals from that terrorist organization planning. The Israeli military will overpower them."
"And what of the other two we had been discussing?"
"I doubt that they will impact anything Senator Mark, but until then I would like you and the other agents out there to engage into a deep-down investigation and search from their original homes to find out how this all could have happened and how those two managed to get those kinds of superpowers."
"Yes, Mr. President sir."
Harvey placed the both of his hands together, thinking about the next possible decision to affect the outcome for the powers that be.
"I will engage immediately into phoning the Israel prime minister and giving him some helpful advice to take care of the scattered GP remnants in Jordan, should there be any and with the Jordan government's permission."
The Vice President spoke out with question in the tone of his voice as if there was more the President had to say. "Anything else to order?"
Harvey gets up and walks over to the windows of the Oval Office. He is silent at first... no one in the room knows what he is thinking even by the look of thought on his face. Nevertheless, he turns to his Vice President and Attorney General.
"With the attack in Maine, and the Global Prosecution secretly planning a possible attack on the United States, I am giving us no choice but to engage an emergency order..."
The room becomes silent again, as he looks down, but then up again at the General.
"...Bring us to DEFCON 5."
"My dear sister, you can't honestly be serious. There is absolutely no way that Brayden will be able to handle the news of this well if he finds out."
"Of who his father is? Luna, we can't keep this news hidden forever. My son will eventually find out from his words should he return."
"But to hide the truth from him again? He would get angered at us once again for not telling him."
"Do not fear. He has become calmer since the dark corruption inside of him was purged and purified by you, Nightmare and Starlight."
"He did that himself."
"I am aware of that. But even after his father's own betrayal to us, he is bound to return at any time even after his own defeat. He cannot know from us. If he wants to know who his father is, we need to lie and say that his father was-"
"Don't even go there Celestia, you want to make up a lie to him with the excuse of using a Saddle Arabian as a disguise from the truth? If he questions about it, just say you don't remember what his father looked like and that he was good to you."
"...I hope you are right, my sister... May the First Alicorn guide him if he finds out... it could be a battle that ends tragically followed by a cold shoulder from those he loves and help him, and even I fear that we will be affected along with it..."