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“It’s the smallest nuclear device ever constructed,” Sargon Antonio Engels finished. “Smaller than anything that was imagined a decade ago. Small enough that even the NAU will not suspect it.”Jackie looked over the case on the table in front of her—a briefcase, slightly bulging and metallic, with sturdy hinges and an oversized lock. But it was open, and she could see the mechanism of nuclear death before her.It was cruder than anything that would’ve been constructed in the last cold war, back…-
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Nicole could barely lift her hooves. The snow was so thick that some steps brought it cascading onto her back, or up through her cloak and down her hood. The sliced and re-glued waterproof fabric of her clothes protected her from the worst of the moisture and wind, but even so she felt like every step cost her a few minutes of life.It wasn't as though she was walking through a blizzard, either. The mere cold of winter was enough. The unicorn mare was almost as large and healthy as an earth pony, with…
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They didn't stay together much longer that night. Scootaloo insisted on walking her home, in a constant state of awkward silence. She had plenty of opportunities to test her new ability to smell and feel.Eventually they were back at the Boutique. They just looked at each other, with neither daring to speak. Sweetie reached for the handle, then pulled back. She ought to say something after a night like that."I hope I didn't go too far," her friend finally said. "If you were uncomfortable, you can tell me.…-
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"You must describe it to me exactly, Alicorn," Winding Wheel said, his voice absolutely calm. Calmer than he thought he would've felt at his own execution. Calmer than he had any right to be, really. "Exactly what you want to see. The event in as much detail as you know it, with as much of the background as you can. I must construct a temporal sympathy as you might create a spatial sympathy for a teleport."He rested at the table he had used for the majority of his visions, constructed only a decade ago.…
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Before Sweetie stood an impossible choice.She could save the data stored on this brain—data that was somehow also her, in a way that did not exactly make sense to her. But doing so would require her to change the mind there, without their knowledge or consent."I assume... I can't wake them up and ask?" she prompted Capacitor, looking up hopefully. "If I turned them on, I mean. The brain is intact, so..."Capacitor looked away from her, shaking his head with a mixture of regret and guilt. "With the right…
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Sweetie Belle had a long time to think, about a whole list of different things. Once, her world had been a place where everything was horrible but made painful sense. Now all the pain was gone, the hospital was gone, the doctors constantly prodding her and injecting her and muttering sad things to her family. Not a single one had arrived today to tell her how grim her outlook was for the day, or to ask if it hurt.Yes, it hurt, it always hurt, now could they make it stop?The pain was gone now, yet Sweetie…
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Shining Armor had never seen this part of Canterlot Castle before. It had been so long since his experience in Equestrian leadership that this wasn't a terribly unexpected thing. That didn't make it any easier to pass through vast chambers that had not existed, filled with strange machines of metal and flashing lights with threads of plastic running between them.Shining probably should have followed the changing state of Equestria more over the last few years. But the older he got, the less any of this…-
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“Starlight, can we go today?” It was the same question the filly had been asking Starlight every day. It felt like months, though of course the child hadn’t been in Ponyville that long. And what does study under a princess get me? Foalsitting duty.“No, Anon. We’re not going to the Everfree today. Or tomorrow, or the next day.”The earth filly was adorable, in the same way as a pet with three legs. Anon wasn’t terribly large or very memorable, but she sure had ‘pathetic’ down to a science.…-
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Becoming the Dragon Lord had brought Ember much in the way of responsibilities. Dragons were not like lesser creatures, easy to subdue and eager to submit themselves to anything that looked like qualified leadership. Every new day presented a new challenge, a chance to dominate those beneath her and cement her rule. Her father had been right to be reluctant to take the position, though she would never admit as much to him now.But over all the challenges of her office, Ember had triumphed. No dragon in all…-
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"Why did we have to go so far, Paladin Forge?" Meadow Sweet pressed her head up against the window of the Skimmer, watching the ocean blast by below them. She had seen so many incredible things over the last few months, the least of which had been her initial recovery. Much of those early months had passed in a blur of travel, spent in one of Athena's Skimmers.The craft was barely large enough for four ponies, though this one contained only two. Herself, and Night Forge.Forge sat at the controls in the…
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