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    • Chapter 87 Cover
      by Starscribe Wake up Sunset with her magic. 68%Twilight sat back in the medical bay, surrounded by spent spellcasting ingredients and broken crystal. She’d used more than half the stores of magical supplies on this spell—but just now she didn’t care. “I still don’t think… it’s reckless to use experimental spells to treat a living patient,” Fluttershy said. “She would probably wake up in her own time.” “Maybe she would,” Twilight said, shrugging one wing. She was too exhausted to argue, her mane…
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      by Starscribe Use Spike's help to discover what Cozy was up to 55%Twilight watched Cozy burn. One too many times she’d trusted that this pony was dealt with—but each and every time, she’d proven her wrong. She wouldn’t be waiting for her to ruin something else she loved.The furnace eventually went dark, opening to reveal a tiny container of pale ash. Ordinarily their biowaste would go into the greenhouse—but something felt wrong about doing that to the corpse of a pony, even a terrible enemy. She dumped the…
    • Chapter 85 Cover
      by Starscribe Twilight should’ve gone and done something else. She could be out alleviating Fluttershy’s suspicions perhaps, lowering the risk that she would head down to the central computer to investigate what had happened.But Twilight didn’t care about anything else. This was her vigil, and she had to watch, until the first signs of motion emerged from within.Does the process work as intended? Critical no. The cocoon looked as though an invisible wind had stirred it. Its fibers unraveled, spreading in a dust…
    • Chapter 84 Cover
      by Starscribe Use the Robotic Virus on Spike 45% “Are you sure you don’t need my help?” Fluttershy asked. Her voice was gentle and kind, as kind as Twilight ever remembered it. The others would have offered their own condolences, if they were awake to do it. But as it was, only she and her doctor would be witnesses at Spike’s vigil.But not even that. Fluttershy had her work cut out for her just getting everypony Twilight had brought back from the surface hooked into life support proper. Her own job had been poor…
    • Chapter 83 Cover
      by Starscribe Charge. 55%Spike gritted his teeth, staring down the rifle aimed at his chest. There was no longer a mystery in his mind about whether he would survive it—he’d been shot before. This pony was threatening his friends, threatening to stand all of them forever in this desolate star system. She wasn’t going to get away with it.Cozy shoots Spike. 7 vs 6. Cozy Shoots first. He lunged, baring his teeth in a desperate, instinctive snarl. He felt the impact in his chest driving him back before he heard the…
    • Chapter 82 Cover
      by Starscribe Attempt Twilight’s Plan. 94% Spike barely felt any doubt in his mind about what he had to do next. Cozy’s dominion might seem overwhelming, but they weren’t out yet. That pony was so confident they’d been out mastered that she didn’t seem to care to watch them here in medical.Her loss. I’m going to teach that pony to threaten my friends.“Are you sure about this?” Fluttershy asked, as he stomped over to the medical waste disposal and started removing screws. Of course none of the spare parts…
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      by Starscribe Coach Spike and have him retake the Equinox. 47%Spike scratched uselessly at the medical bulkhead, widening the grooves he was making along the lock. Had this been simple steel, he would have been though it hours ago. But they’d built the Equinox to last, and that meant its most important parts could endure anything. Including dragon claws, apparently.“Don’t bother, Spike,” Fluttershy said, voice weak. “You heard what she said. We can leave the Equinox as soon as it’s about to crash. She’ll…
    • Chapter 80 Cover
      by Starscribe https://www.fimfiction.net/story/421779/79/voyage-of-the-equinox/chapter-79#comment/958154481544 Though there were many high rated comments with similar sentiments to this one. Through Twilight’s confusion, one truth surface before all the others. She might be somewhere strange; she might be light-years away from home and ignorant of the state of Equestria. But that didn’t mean all her knowledge and experience was suddenly invalid.She knew dark magic. Anything that could’ve done permanent damage to…
    • Chapter 79 Cover
      by Starscribe Use the Contingency. 63%“I can make it work!” Pinkie declared, her voice confident. “Trust me, captain! Please.”She never would’ve considered it if she were still on the ground. But Twilight was still ten minutes away, no matter what she did.“Okay,” she said. “Rainbow, prep for evac. If this doesn’t work, run for the city in two minutes. She has that long.”“I… believe I can keep up a shield for that long,” Rarity muttered. “Yes. I’m sure of it. Two minutes. You better get…
    • Chapter 78 Cover
      by Starscribe Twilight flies down for a rescue 38% Twilight was powerless to help as she galloped through the Equinox, heading straight back to the docking bay. Every second counted, and even an instant takeoff would still make her about fifteen minutes from arriving. By the time she’d made it into the Prospector, she could hear the panicked shouts coming in over the radio. Rainbow again. “Multiple airborne contacts out of the Memorial. The whole roof just opened! Buck me, there’s so many!”Twilight smacked down…
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