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Lucky got her reply the very next day. It came the same way it had before, as a loosely encoded message, though it had been sent by telegraph instead of the mail. She already had the Forerunner ready to help her—easy when she had a dictionary of Equestrian words. It was still just a matter of finding the misspellings, after all. But where she had sent only a comparatively short message, Twilight Sparkle had taken no such precaution, but sent pages and pages of what was (on the surface) to be utter…-
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As it turned out, they didn’t have their meeting right away. Though her powerplay had stopped the Major from sending her mother away, it couldn’t make her willing to discuss private security matters with her in the hovercraft. While Lucky went off with the Major and her goons, James was tasked with supervising Othar’s newest resident.James walked even more carefully through the halls of Othar than usual. She was in the company of another native, one without a house-arrest band that might incapacitate…
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Olivia wandered through the cavernous tunnels. She hadn’t been walking for very long, really, just a few minutes. There was still blood on her armor, and one of her legs jerked and twitched whenever she put weight on it. Her disguise was in shambles, and unfortunately the nature of her exoskeleton meant that she couldn’t remove it without help. There were horror stories in the ISMU about soldiers who had died wearing suits like this, unable to get out of them to see to their basic needs once power…
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Lucky had been mistaken—it wasn’t that the door had opened like a hinge. Somehow, it had been ripped completely free of the craft, and was now drifting slowly away as though they were out in space.Lightning Dust began to shake—though she didn’t move, Lucky could smell her fear. See the way that she wanted to run. To jump right out the new opening in the wall, maybe. However much she might want to flee, Dust remained standing, glaring up at the intruder. “W-why are…”“Oh come now.” Discord…
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Over the next week, life in Othar fell into a consistent pattern. Lightning Dust started a flight school on the other side of the island, deep inside the caldera of the extinct volcano. It was a pain getting enough clouds inside so that ponies who fell out of the air wouldn’t have an unpleasant landing, but with some help from Lucky, it only took a few hours.Lucky Break didn’t need basic flying classes, so she only visited when Dust wanted her help. Mostly she spent hours and hours each day recounting…
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Lightning Dust stared down at something she had no words to describe. Such experiences had been a near-daily occurrence during her first days in Othar. Yet over time, she had felt as though she were getting to know its ponies. Their strange customs and constant clumsiness didn’t make them all that unusual, really.Yet this—this was like something out of those stories of the changeling invasion, only in reverse. Hundreds, maybe thousands of drawers full of half-formed ponies, all just a few floors down…
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Lucky Break realized they must be going down again as the Reikon began rocking gently from one side to the other, probably dealing with low-altitude turbulence. She sat up, blinking away the tiredness of sleep. However long she had been resting, it didn’t feel like nearly long enough. Lightning Dust was still curled up on the ground against the seats. Across the plane, Martin rested alone.Nothing at all wrong with that from a human point of view. But Lucky had spent long enough with ponies that it…
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Olivia flexed her limbs one at a time, feeling the slight sluggishness of the exoskeleton. As she planned this mission, Olivia had started out in despair, fearing that she would have to go into danger with no more protection than her skin.But then she’d found this design in the computer, as though the hands of God had put it there. It had taken the Forerunner pointing it out for her to even see it—all this time she’d been waiting for military hardware, and it had been sitting in the system. All she…
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Whenever Lucky needed to relax, she went to the beach. It was easy now that she could fly, and she remembered the way.That was where the message found her—on her back in the sand with her computation surface beside her. She could ignore the steady hum of security drones as they buzzed through the jungle, but she couldn’t ignore the incessant beeping of the ‘new message’ notification on her tablet.Lucky’s mind had been drifting. Right then she wondered what attending Celestia’s school might’ve…
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Act 3Despite the massive proportions of the Cyclops, it had very few big rooms. The observation deck was the largest, and even it would have a hard time fitting twenty people. That was where they went, with Olivia’s brute squad explaining nothing and practically dragging Melody along with the rest of their team.“I don’t understand,” Deadlight was saying, as they made their way into the lounge. “The best parts of the Caravan festival happen at night! We shouldn’t leave now.”They stumbled into…
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