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Catlin flew through the air, blasted back by the force of the strange infested's attack. Time seemed to slow around her, every sensation sharpening to a sword-point. The shimmering cavern walls, illuminated by the magic of her defenseless group. The low growling of the infested, mind lost to a virus meant to kill a different enemy.If I don't do something, every one of them will die. These ponies had no respirators, no armor, nothing to protect them from the infestation. It would cut through them without…-
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“Excuse us?”The voice was so timid that Catlin almost missed it. One of the ponies, approaching her from the little camp. They’d barely made it a hundred steps from the side of the derelict before they reached it, a clustered supply depot of a half dozen tents and crude wooden sheds. The camp strengthened her comparison between these aliens and the Ostrons of Cetus, with their reliance on ancient techniques for survival. They had once burned an actual fire here, with cookpots and everything.Catlin…
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In Catlin’s years fighting for the Origin System, she had seen hundreds of Orokin towers, crawled through hundreds of derelicts, and fought the infestation time after time and invasion after invasion. But never in all her years had she seen a derelict quite like this. The architecture was familiar, buried under many layers of infestation. But that was where the similarities ended. Many corridors and hallways twisted back on themselves, a maze of collapses and cave-ins. Yet for all the damage, she could…
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Catlin was adrift. She had felt such strange disconnection before when the Grineer queen interrupted her transference, poisoning her with her essence in an attempt to steal her body. Catlin had felt like this—severed from her own body, as though left to float away through the fiery tendrils of the Void. But back then, Teshin had been there to guide her mind, feeding her memories of an ancient Orokin palace and freeing her powers from Margulus’s bonds.There was no guiding influence now, no thread of…
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Ruby glanced nervously over her shoulder, preparing whatever string of excuses she would need. Deep Silver didn’t appear in the hallway with the rest of the excavation team, though—it was only her imagination. It must be dawn by now. Do they think I went up to the city for coffee? Maybe Deep Silver thought she’d abandoned the project completely. It wouldn’t be beyond him to give up on something.The wall shuddered with each tap of her pick. She moved it delicately, conscious every minute of the…
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Ruby River shouldn’t be here. She didn’t need the archeological team’s procedure to tell her she didn’t belong down here; she didn’t need orders from the princess’s official commission. Ruby knew she was doing something stupid, yet here she was.Her saddlebags were heavy with tools, tools the earth pony team upstairs hadn’t even bothered to bring with them during the last few days of excavation. Why should they bother, when their strength alone could open any barrier they found? But breaking…
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Event Horizon woke up for the first time on the Starship Enchiridion. She knew where she must be before she opened her eyes—knew from how many legs were tucked under her, from the gentle whirring of the air-recyclers, the magical hum of the gravity plates, and the distant rumble of the ship's Friendship Drive. It worked. I'm actually here! She felt a surge of such incredible excitement that she couldn't remain in bed, no matter how comfortable and relaxing her environment. Years looking at the…-
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The Patient Safety and Monitoring system was running well that day. Everything about the grounds was in perfect shape—power was stable, there were no signs of water leaks, and the facility had been undisturbed for months. If the PSM were capable of satisfaction, it would certainly have been pleased with all those conditions.There was only one nagging problem, one that kept it looping forever, without ever remaining in a sleep cycle for long.Alpine General Hospital's PSM had no patients to look after. Nor…
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Everyone was playing Equestria Online these days.Nick still remembered when he felt slightly self-conscious picking up his own Ponypad for the first time, and found only the Pinkie Pie model in stock. His group of “brony” friends consisted of a dozen or so people who had met at the local community college during the height of the show. They had already been gaming together, so moving over to a new game was only natural. But just because the rest of the world had finally discovered how amazing the game…
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Getting back from the dangerous anti-magic crater proved a far easier task than getting themselves lost in it in the first place. Granted, it was much easier to climb out of the place when every part of it wasn't trying to kill them. They could've flown out, assuming Ocellus was willing to change into something big to carry the two members of their group who couldn't get airborne.But even while she wasn't wielding the scepter herself, she had a feeling that trying to carry it while looking like another…-
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