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Dakota couldn’t remember ever even riding a ship before, much less heading out into the ocean to go diving. But there it was on the docks, its sleek metallic shape glittering in the early morning sunlight. She hadn’t been arrested the night before, nor were there any other signs that she was about to spend the rest of her life in prison. None yet, anyway.The boat itself looked new, and for once there wasn’t a single overlay to enhance its appearance. Even with everything on, all that Dakota could see…-
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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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Princess Celestia took her down, way down. Down beneath the castle, through a spiral staircase hidden behind a wall of bricks and metal plates. Dust filled the air around them as they walked, glowing like the solar wind in Celestia's wake. Catlin walked on her own two feet the entire way, even if having the frame to give her strength would have made it much easier on her strained limbs. Some part of her suspected that if she retook the frame, the princess would attack her with another concentrated blast of…-
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Before the Equestria floated three gigantic warships, each one bigger than most Equestrian cities. They loomed closer with every passing second, bristling with unknown destructive power. In her chair weighed life and death—for them, and many strangers.The ship promised freedom for Equestria, relief from an endless future as a prison planet to unknown powers from above. If Lyra fired the first shot in that war, it might escalate into a conflict that nopony at home would even agree to start."We can't tell…-
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Send the original signal 89%Twilight didn’t hesitate. They’d come all this way to investigate the ancient creators of the Signal. She dug through the computer for a few seconds, found the recording of the original signal, and sent it back as loud as their transmitter could handle.The instant she started, the vessel stopped transmitting its own signal, changing the overflow of white on all her screens back to the steady background hum of Proximus, still enormously distant.“I sure hope you know what…-
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Jacob nearly dropped his books as he made his way into the common room that night. "Eric?" His friend had wings, in soft blue but with bright accents down the edges. There was no mistaking biology when he saw it, though it was almost lost in the little changes. His friend was wearing a blue jumpsuit now, which explained the holes."Y-yeah." He nodded shyly. "It's... yeah."Instead of surprised, Harley just looked satisfied. "They only had to shock him twice.""Then push me off a cliff." Eric sounded only…-
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Mira did not have long to wait for Meridian to work. The hard part was keeping herself from running off before he was finished. He had such a great view of Hope from the balcony, and the more of it she could see the more she appreciated his decision to live here.The town was cozy, the sun perpetually just high enough in the sky overhead to keep from shining too brightly into her sensitive eyes. It must set eventually, right? Otherwise, what was the point of having a gigantic telescope in the center of your…-
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Tracy couldn’t help but grin as Bon Bon settled his plate in front of him. In terms of tasting alien food for the first time, this looked like it would be far more alike than it was different. What was I expecting, monkey brains? This isn’t Indiana Jones. Instead it was a velvety-looking pastry, not unlike the breakfast pies he’d seen in the frozen food aisle.“Dang that’s good,” he admitted. “I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that you’d know how to cook for…” He trailed off awkwardly.…-
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Lyra paced nervously back and forth in her bedroom. She'd circled the ground there so many times that a thin layer had worked its way into the wood. Every few seconds she stopped, took out her phone, then stuck it back without sending anything.Her old self would never have hesitated to send a message instantly, but she was wiser now. The Free Council was clear in their rules—magical affairs could never be sent using unprotected methods. There were too many ways to overhear, too many listening ears who…-
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Felicity was not a warrior. She lacked the experience to know when a battle was being won, or when an attack had the desired effect. But she could read people, even if their bodies were so strange that they couldn’t live outside their ships. Their terrible barrage struck against the enemy vessel. She knew it couldn’t be so simple, but some part of her still hoped the war would end before it began. A decisive strike, the ship destroyed, and they could return with the crew avenged.Ordin gestured, and…-
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