Rainbow Dash lives an exciting life and is swiftly becoming the most daring, awesome pegasus in all of Equestria. She would gladly give it all up, though, just to confess her love to Applejack.
Rainbow Dash trotted past a marquis marked "Futureport" and "Departures." Tonguing the inside of her mouth, she hung a left, following what turned out to be an elaborate, zig-zagging line framed by silver metal rails. The interior of the structure was cool, dark, and dim. Directly above, an angled slitted ceiling glowed with soft neon blues and purples from within. The far walls were lined with glowing lights, giving the entire place an ethereal look and texture. Somewhere—as if from deep within the ceiling itself—Rainbow Dash heard soft lobby music playing with violins and a mellow horn section.
"So... uh..." Rainbow Dash murmured as she softly padded along, her coat and mane drying with each step. Her head tilted up, catching the glowing streak of the geodesic sphere flying overhead. "Did Alicorns really build this place?"
"YES." The floating object formed sharp yellow angles and collapsed once more into a ghostly golf ball.
Chewing her lip, Rainbow pressed on. "But... like... is this building something they made too?"
"YES."
"Is it..." Rainbow blinked, pausing to rub her head. "Is it my dream?"
"YES."
Rainbow frowned. "Okay... either you're full of crap or you're contradicting yourself."
The sphere flickered red. "NO."
"Okay, for realsies, how can this be both the alicorns' dream and my own?" Rainbow rolled her eyes at her own words. "Guess that's not a 'yes' or 'no' question..."
"NO."
Rainbow took a sharp right, following the line. To her left, an enormous glass pane lit up. Rainbow squinted into it, only to see a kaleidoscopic array of streaked colors and glowing imagery. Upon closer examination, she realized that it was actually a single mural being reflected at dozens of angles from the side, creating the illusion of a continuous sphere of drawn panels. It depicted what looked to be an elaborate underwater city with submarines, scuba diving ponies, and aquatic life.
"Is that something the Alicorns built as well?" Rainbow asked.
"NO."
Rainbow paused in her step, fidgeting. "...could it be something the Alicorns might build?"
"YES." The sphere flashed overhead.
"Hmmmm..." Rainbow Dash thought back to the words she had read at the front of the building. "'If we can dream it, then we can do it.'"
"YES. YES. YES."
"I think I'm starting to get it..."
Rainbow Dash trotted in a descending circle, following the queue line. To her left, she passed another glowing mural, reflected a hundred times. This time it depicted a massive urban sprawl in the center of an enormous agriculutural farmland. Ponies trotted about peacefully while a large monorail rolled through an elaborate metal station.
"...what the alicorns think in this place, they get."
"YES."
"And what they've gotten... they more or less became."
"YES."
Rainbow passed another lit mural, this time depicting what looked to be an elaborate set of metal structures floating amongst the stars. She squinted intently at pony-piloted vessels floating in and out of their docks, while equines in space suits orbited about.
"Could I... speak to one of the alicorns?"
"NO."
"I c-can't wake any of them up?"
"NO."
Rainbow's ears flattened as she glared up at the sphere. "Are they all gone?"
"YES."
The mare fidgeted, glancing left and right. At last, with a deep shudder, she muttered, "Do you know where my friend Applejack is?"
The sphere flitted about before ultimately morphing into yet another crimson star. "NO."
With a heavy sigh, Rainbow Dash trotted into the next corridor, approaching a low humming noise. "Not the answer I wanted to hear..." The geodesic sphere happily flitted after her.
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Makes me wonder about these alicorns just a little bit.
Also, those names from earlier:
I wonder if these will be of some significance at some point in the future...
Damn... So the dreams are separated and there's a way to connect them? Or do they have to enter a secret password to go to the meeting or... Meh, I give up. I'll just keep reading to know the 'logical' explanation to all of this. (Assuming there can be one)
Is Doofus a part of Dash's dream, or is it an independent entity? If the latter, then what the heck is it?
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It's both. There's your answer.
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This place seems to be modeled after the old Horizons ride at Epcot (appropriate, considering this is Orlandoats). "Futureport", "Meda Verde", and "Brava Centauri" were all part of the ride. Even the trapezoidal shape of this place matches up.
5541935 well, it has the appearance of an automated assistant with limited verbal capacity and intelligence. If it exists here, then it was created by one of the visitors or more likely the alicorns. As to why they would create it, I have no clue, as its sole ability so far is relaying information in a yes/no format. Perhaps the alicorns left it in case someone followed them into that plane of existence.
I'm not blowing through this as fast as I went through the Austraeoh series, but this was how far I'd gotten by yesterday. IRL is interfering with my reading schedule.