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It took some time to convince the population of Legacy to gather for another council meeting.Without the fear of extinction, without the advancing army, the bats did not much want to think of danger. Explaining the esoteric risk to themselves if they remained in this world of dream was a losing battle. Most were too practically-minded to care. The island was far larger than their small population could possibly require, with the oceans for many miles rendered peaceful by Mira's reality anchor. Sometimes…-
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Mira woke in a strange land, surrounded by the lights of an impossible place. Stars swirled in the sky above, melting between discordant forms, then joining together. Constellations morphed and changed as she watched, familiar shapes from all over the sky. Kallisto had taught her all of them once—enough to read the seasons by them, or navigate a ship.Or just to appreciate the glory of Princess Luna's night. No one who did not know the night could love the night. No one who didn't love the night could…
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Mira stumbled to her hooves, shaking herself back to wakefulness as energetically as she could.Maybe a little too energetically, because Pixie's claws dug into her back, before she went spiraling off her shoulders to the floor, yowling in protest."They can't be here already... I had... scouts. There were bats watching. We should have known a day before they got here."Her memory returned sluggishly at first, but clearer as she spent more time in the waking world. She gave the bats one night to prepare to…
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Inevitable. The prison's designer thought its borders were fixed from the moment it came into existence. Did that mean she only had to wait, and Nightmare Moon would be free to help the bats of Equestria anew?Unless the ponies were right, and Princess Luna represented a horrifying danger to all other life. Of all the ponies to ever tell her that, she'd never considered there might be any reality to it until this moment.Equestria's ruler would twist the truth to justify her own act of betrayal. Her loyal…
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It was not some vague magical impression that warned Mira she had nearly reached her destination. It was, rather, a distant pony, muttering quietly to himself. The speaker was a stallion, and quite old by the timbre of his voice. Not a bat either, as their voices had a distinct quality she could identify easily. Given the situation, she imagined an old unicorn with a sharply groomed beard, perhaps wearing a fancy robe. His words were meaningless at first but became clearer as she crept closer.Strangely,…
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"We're here."Those words settled on Mira like a great weight, momentarily threatening to crush her beneath their influence. All they had sacrificed to come here—the lives of marines, of the captain of this ancient vessel. The ship itself had decayed in the interim, its alien hull now cankered with rust and lower levels flooded.Now at last she knew why Captain Yi had been so reticent to agree to this mission—he had known as she did not what it would cost his men. He had done it anyway, even sacrificing…
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Hours later, little of that energy had subsided. Mira stood beside the tunnel where her commissioned stone was now buried, inspecting the quality of the concealing rock. The bats had done good work with this creation, covering the entire section with thickly-packed dirt blending together some of the larger rock sections.Passing along the temple corridor, she almost wouldn't guess that something had been there before.The ponies who had donated to help her craft that stone would be disappointed not to see it…
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Mira woke to a world of shifting voices and frightened whispers. She groaned, rubbing one hoof against her forehead. Part of that just came from a long dreaming—muscles aching from lack of movement, and a body deprived of the necessary nutrition. Even with loyal ponies all around her, there was only so much they could do for her.But this time felt different. Fighting the princess of Equestria exacted a strain beyond simple tiredness—it left her wrung dry, like a fruit left too long in the sun.Yi is…
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"Step within, or the others die!" Celestia's voice boomed out from the glowing sphere, so loud that several crewmen dropped to their knees. A few kept firing their strange weapons into its surface, without effect. They might be more than a match for the royal guard, but this was the Alicorn herself. Her power was so great that it could not be easily confined."Wake up," whispered a voice in her ear, literally. It was Pixie, perched on her shoulder and overcome with fear. Rarely had she heard the little…
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Mira stared out through the fake windows of the Diaspora, taking in the terrifying scale of what awaited them.An Equestrian fleet floated here, though how long they'd been there was somewhat less clear. Maybe they knew what she'd been planning this entire time, and so knew where to wait. Either that, or just knowing what city she had made into her headquarters was enough to plot an ambush.It wasn't just one Equestrian ship, though that would be bad enough. These were the vessels that brought fear to the…
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