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They had to travel a little ways into the jungle to reach Sunset Shimmer. Jacob wasn't surprised by this—it made sense to get away from the literal thousands of refugees when you were doing time-sensitive work to get them home. It made as much sense as coming here to a hospitable (and apparently empty) island, in case their mission did not go well or they were somehow tracked.Of course the traveling itself was far from easy for him. Standing took help, and he fell almost immediately back onto the sand to…-
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There had been no time for Jacob's talents during the prison raid: however many sickly ponies there might've been, there was no way to find them and help them when there were so many just trying to escape from a small space.Then they escaped. Jacob was one of the last to pass through the doorway, when the sound of shouting and pounding on metal was loudest and they were helping the weakest through. He stood right beside Sunset on the other side as the doors were breached, giving the finger with both hands…
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"You feel like being a hero, uh…""Eric." Eric sat in the corner of the room, a sketchpad in hand and a lump of charcoal in the other. He had lost his old one in Unity, with its thousands of charcoal drawings in various stages of completion, but that didn't mean he would be discouraged. “And no, I don’t.”Jackie landed beside him, ignoring his answer and instead glancing over his shoulder at the drawing. "What's that?"On the first page, Eric was taking his time with a cover page. He had drawn a…
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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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Danielle withdrew from Sunset as she started cutting the air with her hand. She could think of no other word for the way her hand had sliced the air like paper, glowing with Equestrian magic as she went. With each cut another of Harley's bombs would shoot through the air, through the hole she made to somewhere Danielle couldn't see."Breaching team, get ready!" Sunset hovered a few feet above the ground, and the air around her was so hot Danielle could practically see steam rising all around her. "I'm…
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The safehouse wasn't just a safehouse, but an armory. Harley led them to a closed door that looked like all the other bedrooms, and unlocked it with her Unity ID card.The room practically hummed with magic. Harley stopped in the doorway, glaring back at Jackie and the others. "The rest of you stay out. This room is hot.""This is horse shit, Harley.""You should've seen how we got out of Unity," Jacob muttered.She ignored him. "Why the hell can't I come with you? You're taking a known traitor and a unicorn…
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When Jacob emerged from "Avery's" room, he was leading the little pony along. She followed stiffly behind, hooves clopping on cement. Even halfway to melting into one himself, Jacob still marveled at just how little ponies seemed in person. At least Equestria wasn't lying with the name they chose for their "propaganda."Their little meeting had been adjourned for the healing magic, but even without saying anything his return attracted attention. "You're back, Jacob?""Yeah." He stopped near the center of the…
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"Why can't you do it?" Jacob asked, glancing worriedly down at the little pot with its sprig of oregano. He had his wand back too, though he was fairly sure it wouldn't do anything."I told you already." Harley nudged him forward. "Just because I can do some magic doesn't mean I can do all of it. I'm not a pony.""But I've seen you teleport!" Jacob set the plant down at one corner of the diagram they had chalked on the concrete, the last of the raw ingredients he would need. The book was still open—one of…
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Jacob hurried into the open door just behind Harley, carrying the still-unconscious pony in his arms. Despite being much closer to her size than he had been before, he had little enough trouble lifting her weight. How crazy will it be to actually be that small? The drive hadn’t changed him that he knew, though sometimes he woke up in the morning with a horrible impression that the world had grown even bigger during his sleep. At least compared to his friends, that change seemed to be in his…
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They stopped in an empty rest stop surrounded by forest. Jacob felt incredibly fortunate that there was nobody around to see how stupid he looked. Not that it matters. I won’t get better. “Hey!” Harley poked her head in the door, gesturing at the sink. “I saw garbage bags under there. Get one and come with me.” Her eyes wandered to Eric and Danni. “You two, watch the pony. Jacob and I need a word alone.”He followed her out into the rest stop, letting the familiar forest smells surround him.…
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