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Their jet had no parachutes, nor any way of landing in the Arctic wasteland below them.“This is really stupid.” Michelle was dressed in cold-weather clothes, along with everyone else. How she had changed while monitoring the plane, Jacob was too afraid to ask. “There’s a research station a hundred miles from here we could land safely and not trash a 65 million dollar plane.”“Yes, let’s add creating an international incident to our list of crimes,” Jackie muttered, flexing her wings. They…-
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Play it safe, take her time to learn the ropes and follow legal channels to get her friends released. (45%)Of course, Wayfinder wasn't going to reject any option given to her. She wanted to know what Hazel might be thinking, even if she was a half-starved adolescent who had spent most of the pandemic hiding in a trap house.She closed the laptop, then tucked it under the covers of her bed for good measure. "What plan do you have in mind?"The result was impressive—impressive enough that she swore,…-
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Lyra shuddered as she stepped through the ghostly portal, the chill of the Underworld seeping through her. They walked through fog for a long time, with only the occasional flash of dark stone or the glow of a candle flame to suggest light in this place. After a few minutes spent hiking nearly blind, she worked a little magic. Being a cat in a place like this would make her too weak, and unable to wield most useful weapons. But if she changed her ears, made them able to move independently and follow any…-
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A week passed for Hayden, a blur of pain and joy and heartache. She lived wild in the windswept mountains, eating berries beside the pokémon without humans. They were utterly fearless around her, often outright protective or helpful. She slept beside Cody and Sierra in the shelter they had apparently built together—or would build, one day. Hayden did not know how to camp, or how to live off the land. That was the recreation of the rich, who could afford to leave their shop behind for vacation and put…-
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Tracy stared back at Rose. He might’ve been the one to scream at her an hour ago, but the anger and betrayal had cooled during his visit to the library. He was too tired for any righteous indignation, no matter how entitled to it he might be. “You could’ve just asked what I was doing here,” he said, flipping the binder closed with one hoof. “I would’ve told you. I wasn’t keeping any secrets.”She rolled her eyes, stalking towards the table. Rose began scooping up her belongings, thankfully…-
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Many miles away, the Forerunner Probe was hard at work. The standard living quarters it had fabricated would not suffice for the needs of this next team, given every previous failure. But information it had gained from its last attempt, along with significant increases in the availability of resources as its infrastructure grew meant it had the power to be more ambitious.In the central hall, five biofabricators still hummed. Their occupants were far from completely formed, though much of the skeletal…-
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Dear Diary,Today was the official founding of our colony! It’s gonna be a bumpy next few years, but there’s no reason at all we shouldn’t be able to make it. We’ve got lots of talented ponies, and no reason we couldn’t start attracting more.Today was inventmediaory day. If we were going to live here for the rest of forever and transform this place into a city, we would need to know exactly what we have to work with. Separated our little group into parties of two, and we each went out in a…-
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Amie could not fly back to the city, even ignoring the boat she had to return. When she was sure nopony was watching—besides the little group of “pegasi” gathering by her campfire—Amie changed again. This time it was the bat self that seemed the more natural. In some ways, she'd used this body more in one night than any other since the Transit. Maybe she should try to talk Pachu'a into letting her bring a pony with her to the Elders?But that wouldn't be safe for him, a juicy steak surrounded by…-
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There were seven queens of any consequence in the former United States. Not that most who lived there now had ever heard that name, and certainly none of them would be willing to admit it. Those queens knew each other by many names over the years, Evoli included. Over time, their suicide pact had ensured stability in many of their domains, such that the primacy of names no longer mattered.They had come to use titles instead, and to recognize each other’s territories by those names. To Evoli, or Ajna, as…-
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Quinn didn't stay in Absentia for very long, even by the standards of the immortal Mythical Pokémon. Within a few hours of his arrival, he started sensing discontent from the Pokémon passing outside the little capital building where he, Stella, and Cedrin gave their account of what they'd done. Soon he sensed enough anger through those doors that he paused the conference to retrieve his daughter and keep her with him through the rest of their conversation. Vitari hadn't harmed Rose while…-
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