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Hayden wasn’t sure how much time had passed by the time she finally woke. Hours? Days?She wasn’t in the workshop, but somewhere else. It looked like a warehouse, its plain white walls rising high above her. She could hear the whir of wheeled robots as they moved around, each one an odd pillar of stacked crates. She’d seen pictures of this kind of thing in Amazon fulfillment centers. Some of the drones even looked similar.Familiar, yet more somehow. The future really did seem like the most plausible…-
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Star Orchid could hear the echoing gunfire overhead, the pounding of hooves on stone, the distant shouts. Yet those weren’t the shouts of royal guardsponies giving orders, but the screams of anypony getting in their way. At least she hadn’t heard more orders echoing down the halls behind, perhaps warning that soldiers had found another entrance and would be flooding the Undercastle. The rebel ponies had weapons of their own, didn’t they? How long could they last down here?Windbrisk’s sledgehammer…-
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The shift bell came to Moonrise not long after, sounding through every level of the city. Everywhere, ponies lingering after dinner rose to return home. The bright lights illuminating every public space dimmed to a faint glow—or so she heard.“Tomorrow morning,” Arclight promised, touching her shoulder with one hoof. “I’ll take you to the cave. If you still think this plan is… If you’re still crazy enough that you haven’t given it up.”“I won’t,” she said. “It’s obviously…-
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1. Hydroponics 8/8COMPLETE 2. Repair the prospector 4/4COMPLETE 3. Fully Refuel 20/20COMPLETE 4. Backup Cryogenics 4/4 COMPLETE 5. Replace field equipment 2/2 COMPLETE Mining decouple: complete.6. Study of communications blackout 2/?“Alright, everypony…” They were stuck having their meeting on the common room table. There were still three prominent empty chairs, and that was part of the reason they were meeting now. Fluttershy had healed enough that she was up and walking now, though her coat still…-
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The prison was in ruins. Their attack team fled as the earthquake started, retreating into the doorway as thick acrylic shells exploded open of their own accord. Sunset blocked the doorway, intercepting shrapnel in a transparent barrier that seemed to cost her little effort or concentration."What happened?" Harley stared on in shock, wand wrapped tightly in her hand. "How did four earth ponies do that?"Sunset watched not with joy, but satisfaction at least. "We're underground, in their domain. Somepony got…-
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"Exactly like this," Mira explained, gesturing at the diagram again. The runes covering it were a team effort—her, and Pixie. But she couldn't tell these ponies that. Her familiar still disagreed with her openness up to that point.At her order, the pews were all gone from the hall, except for those under the glass ceiling. If she got her way, they would never pack a room full of ponies to stare at somepony asleep ever again. It was time to believe in something real.The extra space meant there was plenty…-
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Tracy settled back into his seat, watching as the lights of another world blurred by. His exhaustion was palpable, and the rhythmic motion of the train threatened to settle him to sleep. Far away down the distant mountain he could see little villages, surrounded by fields and orchards.“Am I losing you?” Rose asked, waving something in front of him. A glass, with steam rising from within. He flushed, realizing she’d been offering it to him. “Tea?”She nodded. “You look like you’re going to…-
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Time got weird when you were an animal. Even to a mage like Lyra, who spent days at a time with paws or hooves or wings, the strange attenuation of conscious focus never failed to confuse her. Her cat self was neither interested nor comfortable during the bumpy drive back to the Sanctum, so she was barely awake for it. Her familiar gave her the occasional protective lick, stretching his larger size around her. That kept her heart calm enough that she could bury the urge to find some way to flee.Simply…-
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Felicity took the skimmer as close as they could go—until patches of ice coalesced on the surface of the ocean made forward progress impossible. If I'd just taken one of the good skimmers instead of a broken piece of junk, we’d glide right up to the tunnel without needing to put ourselves in danger. Would Effervescent Meridian even care that she jumped through all these hoops to do as little harm as possible?"Do we have to stop here?" Delta asked, watching one of the rear windows with most of her body.…-
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Lane and Elisa did not even have the luxury of a slow trip back to the surface to try and make sense of what had just happened. No sooner had the mythical Pokémon vanished from ahead of them than the ground began to shake. More lightning arced from the sphere, reaching closer and closer towards them. Lane lifted up into the air, flying as fast as she could through a set of oversized bulkhead doors and dragging Elisa along behind her. No sooner were they through than the doors slammed shut behind them.…-
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