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Second Chance was more nervous now than she had been approaching a Griffon dreadnaught in an unfinished airship. She felt none of the sun on her back this bright morning, and dragged her hooves a little as she made her way through Ponyville towards the place ponies were calling the "human wall." Most of her traveling supplies had already been loaded onto the Fury, so all she brought was her tablet computer in a sling over her shoulder. Just one awful meeting to sit through, and she would be off. Her…-
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Jackie’s world faded back in slowly, like someone turning up a dial. She queried her internal chronometer in a panic, and discovered to her horror that 21 hours had passed since she had last been conscious.She opened her eyes. Jackie was strapped down on a heavy metal workbench—the one from the barn, though they weren’t in the barn now. The ceiling above her was stone, and the steady glow of electricity illuminated the world around her.System diagnostic, she ordered.Diagnostic complete. Right arm,…-
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Outside the weather factory, Olivia could hear her world being dismantled. From the sound of it, the enemy was going up and down the dormitory, gathering every pony in the building and emptying their possessions off the clouds. She could hear the clanking of chains as they were put in irons, and barked instructions in Eoch that she could understand even without speaking the language very well.The greatest fear of every citizen of the Solar System and beyond—a slave crew had arrived.She was somewhere…-
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Lightning Dust wandered through the strange halls of the place her daughter had called “Transit.” She had been here twice before, though both times she had seen the place only tangentially. Once from outside, in the great shaft that had almost burned them to death. Then, when she had learned of the princess’s kidnapping, she had discovered Lucky’s note and waited for her basically right inside the doorway.She would have explored it further, if Lucky hadn’t come back, or so she told herself. In…
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Sarah did not enjoy her second trip through the liquid bowels of Sanctuary. At least the first time had been something new and different, with the company of another human who wanted nothing more than to return to Othar.Now their expedition had just under a dozen members in all, counting the four from each court and the few of them acting as extra hangers-on. They had acquired a few guards and technicians as well, who professed no particular allegiance and had no experience on the surface.“But we will…
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Ponyville was not a very large town—Lucky knew that, and she knew not to expect much as they finally angled down for their descent. Flying with her mom had been a return to something familiar, back when she had been pretending that there would never be anything more to her life.It was fun to pretend again, though she knew she couldn’t stay. Last time I forgot what I was doing here, Olivia got captured and I ended up in charge. I can’t forget again. Some little part of her felt the temptation to slip…
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As it turned out, James had been lying. Badly. Sarah felt like she was being suffocated and dissolved at once, but without the control of her own body to stop breathing and let herself die. Each “breath” of the awful liquid only made her change faster and more deeply. She wavered on the edge of consciousness, almost but not quite in pain.Eventually it stopped hurting, and she could think again. Sarah already knew what to expect, but it was still more than a little jarring. Her trousers now hung in…
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Olivia wandered through the cavernous tunnels. She hadn’t been walking for very long, really, just a few minutes. There was still blood on her armor, and one of her legs jerked and twitched whenever she put weight on it. Her disguise was in shambles, and unfortunately the nature of her exoskeleton meant that she couldn’t remove it without help. There were horror stories in the ISMU about soldiers who had died wearing suits like this, unable to get out of them to see to their basic needs once power…
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The radio aboard the Wing of Midnight didn’t alert them very often. Olivia knew that Equestria had little access to radio technology, being mostly limited to universities. With no significant force deployed, she had no reason to be waiting for messages to arrive. They just weren’t coming.Motherlode hadn’t fallen apart in the last few days, despite the tenuous relationship with Grubber and the other soldiers. So far as she knew, the soldiers were perfectly happy to be ordered to leave the town alone -…
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Whenever Alex was stressed, she went to her garden.She hadn't had a talent for it before the Event. She had killed everything she touched back then; in the days when she had fingers and toes on the end of her limbs instead of hooves.Magic had changed that, much as it had changed everything. Alex's little home was located in downtown Alexandria, and was one of the few homes with enough of the expensive real estate to have a garden out back. Oliver had done most of the planting, though he rarely had the time…-
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