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Node's: Use the truth. 84%Spike raised a claw to knock, but the door swung open on its own. He retreated a step—but it was only Apple Bloom on the other side. She was wearing one of those strange harness-things, making her stand vertically like he was. She was also entirely biological, just like he was. Just like Node. “I was wonderin’ when you would show up,” she said. “After Pinkie found her way here… she said you’d finally found yer way in to bust us all out of this place.”“I have,”…-
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Try to force her. 52% “Your civilization might be gone,” Spike began. “But that doesn’t mean their impact on the world has to be. You chose to stay behind, and because of you my friends are still alive.”Node just stared at him. Spike had no idea if he was getting through to her, or if she was plotting some transfer that would remove him from the system for good. Assuming she can even get out without my help. It is a honeypot.“Why should that matter to me?” she asked, voice as empty and bleak…
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Investigate the contingency system. 45% Spike wanted to go straight into Node and retrieve her, the way Rainbow seemed to want. In particular, this seemed like the pony he had the best chance of rescuing. There was no telling whether the Contingency would have any system in place for returning ponies to their bodies. For all they knew, they were dead forever. But Node was just a machine, and there was some solidarity there. Some paternal affection as well, for the system Spike had built? If so, he never…
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Go look for the others to help first (except Node)43% Spike was in the cockpit of an Apollyn fighter. It didn’t matter that none of the interceptor craft had ever been built for a dragon, and that his claws should’ve bene clumsy on the controls meant for hooves. It didn’t matter, because Spike was under attack.The metal of Spike’s fighter screamed as he passed into the cone of a Changeling Entropic Accelerator. Armor plates bent and strained as complex alloys decomposed into their constituent…
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Save the Apples first. 27%It was a tough decision—Spike wasn’t entirely sure he was even talking to the real Pinkie, or if the pony he was talking to was even sane. But what choice did he have? It became instantly clear why Pinkie was alone: she had no idea how to navigate the city. “Let’s go this way!” she said, pointing towards a hill. “Looks like there are trees if we go far enough that way, and I know Applejack likes trees.”“Well…” Spike hesitated for a second. “Or we could use…
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Wake the crew 47% Twilight still wasn’t fully sure of what Sunset had told her about the end of Equestria, but one thing she wasn’t about to do was take more risks than she had to. Of course, going ‘inside’ the Contingency would be easy in itself. Anytime she neared the strange object, she could feel the gravity pulling her in. The same gravity that had destroyed an army of hostile machines, as well as either killing her crew or just trapping their minds within it.She didn’t know which it was at…
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Seal the hull breaches 54%Twilight rested on a medical bay cot. She couldn’t have said how long she slept, only that her body was barely working as it was and if she didn’t sleep, she would’ve died instead.Twilight heals all bashing damage and all damage incurred by exhaustion. Waking up surrounded by her unconscious friends and coworkers certainly wasn’t a pleasant experience, but at least she woke up. The air was still flowing. Cozy Glow had failed in her work.She ate emergency rations beside…
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Twilight isn’t going to give up her crew. “Hold one minute, Fluttershy,” Twilight said. “I’m going to make the jump now. If you don’t hear back from me, it means I’m dead or I won’t be able to make the trip in time. Freeze them. If I live through this… then I’ll update you. The ring is full of air, I can extract it without going to the planet. There’s still time.”“We don’t need much,” Sunset’s voice cut in over the line. “I finished repairs to the whole atmospheric system.…
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Catlin woke to agony.Her whole body ached, with a pain that suffused every limb and joint. Despite all the battles she'd fought, and all the frames that had been destroyed under her control, she rarely felt real pain.Like all Tenno, her body was supposed to be safe, sometimes a whole system away from the site of battle. She'd gambled closer proximity to the invasion fleet, trusting to her greater ability to make combat decisions to carry the Origin System to victory.She'd lost.Something splashed her,…-
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Of course, it wasn’t as simple as just pretending that nothing had ever happened. While Jackie took special joy in imagining the displeasure of the ponies back in Mundi, she couldn’t quite act like nothing had happened. Her average citizen would just take her at her word—practically worshiped the ground she walked on—but not all were so compliant.Hat Trick found her near the end of the party, holding a tablet computer and looking agitated. She hadn’t been on the viewing balcony, but she was here…-
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