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Brigid emerged from the void feeling no pain. The King of All Mankind had sworn that even cast adrift on a highband laser line, there would be neither loss nor corruption. Richard's promise had come true, and she found herself suddenly conscious aboard the single physical unit that had survived the crossing. From the jagged shards of sizzling metal scattered about the field, she could tell the crossing was not as kind to matter as it was to information. Three times she instructed the on-board systems to…-
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Bingham Canyon proved not to be the paradise of technology and progress Alex had promised: mostly it was temporary buildings and lots of metal supports sunk into concrete near the bottom of a gigantic open-pit mine. Yet even the temporary structures on the rim had electricity and running water. As Jackie went into surgery, Alex learned that she herself was being brought on as an advisory engineer on the construction of “Paradise Crater.”Not because there weren’t any humans or ponies of the HPI to do…-
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Olive encountered no serious difficulty on her first delivery. It was a little strange to drop a full shipping container on the edge of a soybean field somewhere in rural Illinois, but she didn’t question it. The money was still in her account when she drove away, along with the payment for her next trip.She made her next pickup around midnight in a Chicago railyard, past a security gate that lifted for her of its own accord and not a single guard in sight. She shifted uneasily in her seat as she backed…-
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Apple Bloom had never worked so hard in her life. No harvest had ever motivated her to such violent action, not even the contest over cider-making when her farm had been in jeopardy. True, every passing hour made it more likely her friend would be taken too far to easily follow, and what she had seen happen just outside the lab all but proved the guards had been impostors. Every ounce of her concentration was devoted to engineering her way out. The magical glass proved resistant to drilling and heat, and…
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It had been a long time since Olivia had been in Landfall base. She could tell from the way the Forerunner acted that it didn’t want her here—didn’t want anyone here, now that there was somewhere else for people to live.The less contact people had with Landfall, the less likely it would be destroyed as well, should something catastrophic happen to the rest of their crew. If they all died, the Forerunner could keep trying.For all she knew, they had been doing this same dance for a thousand years.…-
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Lucky Break stood at the head of a dozen marines in the cargo hold of the Wing of Midnight, watching the countdown timer on her screen shrink down. The ship shook violently to one side, then the other, and she heard the constant rumble of gunfire from outside. But what Forerunner and its crew were dealing with out there, he hadn’t said.Beside her, Lightning Dust stood in gleaming armor of her own—the same armor she’d been given before Othar had fallen. Where even her friends had failed her—or maybe…
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Cadmean resisted the urge to break something. Not because he didn’t want to, or because he thought anything in the apartment (or the universe) had any value. Rather, because he didn’t want to be overheard. Recursion might be gone—his chance to see the real world snatched away because of Recursion’s stupid pride—but that didn’t mean he couldn’t find something else to amuse himself.Cadmean’s entire world had been created for that purpose, a hive of endless captive ponies to do with as he…-
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They came from the gloom of near evening, circling in from upwind where their prey would not smell them. Since the Event, it seemed that all animals were at least a little smarter. Huan had seemed to outright understand her at times, and followed complex spoken instructions with characteristic canine loyalty. Unfortunately, that same new source of mental power was extended to all creatures, even the dangerous ones. Even the wolves.In later years, she might be impressed with their cunning. At the time,…
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Chapter 9: Probable Impossibility It was practice time again, the same as came every single day for Second Chance. Her playtime was over, though she hadn't really enjoyed it today anyway. As much as the members of the Cutie Mark Crusaders loved to race, she had never really been a contender, so had taken little joy in her loss. There was something competitive in her, something unhappy to be satisfied with defeat, but there had been nothing she could do about it.Scootaloo had wings! Maybe she…-
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Kira arrived in Las Plumas on the last train that day, packed in with hundreds of other ponies. She probably should’ve realized something was wrong from how many were dressed in costumes: bright red dresses, masks of bone, and every monstrous and mythical creature that had ever been speculated or imagined. Some were even fictional. She’d planned to make things easy for herself by blending in with the locals, making casual conversation on the way to her destination, and learning everything she needed to…-
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