I sat up, hyperventilating.
It was cool. It was night. Stars stretched majestically overhead. I looked straight up and saw the splinter edges of a crumbling house. The ceiling had caved in years ago. I smelled mist and pondwater. There was a dirty, plain mattress beneath me.
I tried to stand up and walk around, but my limbs disobeyed me. I strained and struggled. In spite of the tranquility of the moment, my heart was still exploding through my chest like a ball of firecrackers.
"Dalton?" I murmured, and yet I didn't. I realized that my jaw was tightly shut. My face was wet with tears. It was a glorious, warm, and yet hauntingly lonely sensation. "Dalton, where am I now?"
"Just relax, Bellesmith. It's a far more centralized sphere. It took me a while to localize it, but it's the calmest one I could find in such little time."
"I feel..." I stammered, then winced. "I mean she feels..."
"It's okay to be confused. If it helps you, darling, just describe your feelings to me. Don't be afraid or ashamed."
"How do I feel?"
"Yes. Do go ahead."
I gulped as I felt myself curling into a fetal position on the bed. The stars above blurred from my tears as I whimpered, "I feel lonely. So very lonely. It's a blessing and a curse." I bit my lip and managed to say, "I miss the singing. I miss the music and the colors and the warmth..."
"Very good. Very good. Just let it out..."
I sniffled and clenched my eyes shut. "I love myself and I hate myself. I'm so alive, and yet I'm so worthless. I can't stop moving. I can't cease for a single moment."
"Where are you heading to, Bellesmith?"
"I... I don't know..." I shudder and shake. "I don't care to know. I just don't care. All I want is just one chance to nuzzle her and tell her how I feel..."
"Who, Bellesmith? Who do you care so much for?"
I gasped. My eyes were brimming with tears as I sought a sparkling truth amidst the stars. "I don't know. If I found her, if I saw her eyes, I might die." A whimper escaped my lips. "Oh beloved, forgive me. By the Spark..."
The house began to shake and buckle. Beams of black obsidian pierced through the cosmos to envelope me.
"D-Dalton?!"
"We're losing contact! Another sphere is taking over!"
"Dalton, I'm scared—"
"We're pulling you out. Just stay calm, darling!"
"Dalton... nnngh..." My eyes were darting left and right. The world spun. I felt twin needles poking into—out of?—my forehead. "Dalton, you must go back where you began."
"What was that?"
"Twists and turns are my master plan..." I hissed as the world spun. My tongue cut itself on a jutting fang. "Th-then find the elements b-back where you began."
"Blessed Spark... Bellesmith! Listen to my voice! You must stay focused! You must stay—"
I plunged.
Errr...
Oh, Discord, what are you up to? Again.
Umm. Still got Austraeoh on my mind and something is telling me tthe pony she's looking for is rainbow dash.
Just a Guess
This feels somewhat reminiscent of Quantum Leap but from a less active standpoint.
maybe the spheres are showing Rainbow Dash's feelings?
What ? What ? WHAAAAT ?
Hello to you too, Discord.
Oh this sphere thing is kind of personalities or Ponies
The One she Had was RD wasn't it?
And now there are MOAR unanswered questions!
Curse you, SS&E!!!
1472822 She was lonely on her travels , she slept on that old matress in the old house with not much of a roof, so yes, i am too guessing these spheres are showing fractions of dash's travels
Daaaaammmnnn. Rainbow dash sphere
DAMN SON
Dirty mattress, crumbly house, open sky, lonely sphere, obsidian, chaos.
Discord already, eh?
IIIIIt's Dashie's evaluation time!
So in this chapter, it's basically confirmed that Bellesmith is seeing through the eyes of Dash. The twin horns tearing through her skull as well as Discord's forked tongue proved this. That and the reference to AppleDash shipping (WWWWHHHHHYYYYYYY??!????????) and a bunch of other stuff I don't think I need to mention. Also, I might have some idea as to what these spheres are - I believe they are snippets of Dash's journey. Bellesmith and Dalton must have some kind of advanced technology I'd they can enter other ponies' minds like this...These are my thoughts so far.
-MASH
P.S. 1749342Festive!
Someone's trying to figure out what happened to Dash. I wonder if more characters (in "Real Time" not memory time) will come out.
Back to the hallowed halls of IC's/SS&E's magical fingers.
So, as mention above (or below if you go with newest comment first), these spheres have a huge connection to Rainbow Dash. Mostly memories of her travels. Now comes the question, how and what are those spheres made from. Also who exactly is Bellesmith and Dalton.
Okay, they're trying to find out about Rainbow Dash's journey. But to what purpose? So they can save the world after RD failed?
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Did she fail? Or has she merely not yet tried?
hey it's dashie's sphere. which I picked up before the transformation into discord.
I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that these spheres are livable records of somepony's life at a specific time.
Bellesmith is Rainbow Dash is Bellesmith.
Twists and turns...
Find the elements back where you began.
Dis gun b gud.
Bellesmith don't know about Discord hitching a ride in RD's sphere.
Bad timing to nose around Dash's memories/sphere thing, when her chaos seizure starts up.
Maybe they aren't so random, if Bellesmith has been constantly looking through Dash's "sphere", maybe they happened in the past because she has been looking at those moments in the present?
Naah too confusing.
"Twists and turns are my master plan..." I hissed as the world spun. My tongue cut itself on a jutting fang. "Th-then find the elements b-back where you began."
.....the ultimate sinister 'mother of god' face...
...Discord....
le wat
Okay, you have my attention.
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Oh, come on! Don't be hatin on good old Discord!
I ani't going to war over this, but for god's sake, Dissy is a downright pleasent fellow in some of my favorite stories, and semi-benevolent in many more. He does what he does because he is chaos, and probably has little choice in the matter. I am more inclined to hate the mane 6 and Celestia for being facist then Discord for being himself.
Not hating on you, just tired of everyone hating Discord.
Okay maybe she's not possesing her body, but just seeing through her eyes...
This has to be one of my favorite lines in the whole MLP series. Though how does it connect here beyond the Meta sense, I have no idea. There is so much I don't know, I have so many questionnnnnnnns. and This is after my fourth or fifth readthrough
5755731 "Celestia for being fascist." Celestia is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a fascist. She isn't even authoritarian. Heck, from some of the episodes I wonder if she has any actual authority at all or is just a figurehead.
Discord! And at his best too! He always was my favorite villain.
Okay, so Bellesmith's in that one house RD slept in just after passing through the mountains. The Discord horns that RD sprouts when she starts to go Chaos Mode made a cameo, and then Discord's poem. Looks like 'blending' into RD's mind isn't going so smoothly...
Just finished Austraeoh. I have no idea what's going on right now, but I'm sure I will soon enough.
I'm going to just take this as (a possible ) proof that I was right about the AppleDash being a one sided thing from Dash. To Applejack they where just friends.
Why do I get the feeling this is some Assassin's Creed Animus-like stuff going on right now?
Oh dear. Sounds like Rainbow doesn't just have one symbiotic relationship with Diascord
Fuckity fuck fuck fuck- TOTALLY CALLED IT!!
Also, Dash76, i suppose your theorum is correct. These two are totally sharing experiences, and Discord's sphere is trying for control.
Still Rainbow? Temporal mind melding? Memories? /What's going on/
This makes me just as curious as the beginning of Austraeoh!
Oy, get if Rainbow's head, ya fucks! Whitemane pulled that same crap and she was not happy!