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Offer a power matrix. 61% “Are you sure you wouldn’t rather carry this with your ‘magic’? This body’s abilities are not limitless.”“Neither is my magic,” Twilight glared sidelong at Node, who had been heavily burdened with a harness and the massive square outline of the Power Matrix, wrapped in protective cloth with the cables drawn taught. The object was a delicate stack of crystals and conductive alloys, wrapped in an outer shell of thin plastic. They weren’t meant to be transported…-
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There was only so much Vesper could learn from making a few holes in the mountainside. Ultimately what they really needed to know was how their explosives would work underground. How close was too close? Would they bring down the ceiling?That was why they'd chosen this specific location to test, of all places. It had a perfect test cave, made of roughly the same materials as the place they'd soon be carrying out their rescue.Vesper did have one great advantage: her ignorance. Without any real-world…-
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Firefly followed Lilac through the doorway into the strange cavern. She kept to the cavern’s edge, staying far from that dark water. There was no telling what would happen to any creature who fell through it, but she knew she didn’t want to find out.“A low place,” she said, her voice echoing strangely in the cavern. “I remember you mentioned something like that before. We need it for... spells that looked back at—”Her friend had said the word not long before, to open the secret passage. Try…-
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"You can't exist," Ilene told her, the first day she arrived at her private cabin deep within Mew lands. "When the airship crashed, it took my brother and father with it. There are no others." Hayden nodded her agreement, since this was clearly true. There was something simplistic about the logic of a steel type. No reason to get emotional about the facts—they were true, if limited in their scope. Strange just how little a legendary with powerful Unity could change over such an…-
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"Did we do good, Amie?" Danelle asked, standing in water up to her knees. But this deep underground, every surface was gently warm, kept at a constant temperature by the planet's own heat.Amie nudged the rocky tunnel, shoving as hard as she could. The wall held, and nothing tumbled down to crush them alive. She settled her leg back down a second later, relieved. "Fantastic, Danelle," she said.Little remained of the ancient well, save for a few flat stones used to mark the edge. The cavern behind her was…-
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Hunt the leg. 59%Twilight wasn’t so sure this was a good idea. Even with the knowledge that Apple bloom stopped being contagious once the material of her transformation was gone, even with their full-body biohazard suits, she still had the distinct impression that they were wandering into something she didn’t understand and would do better to avoid.What does a strange machine meant to convert entire people into robotic substitutes of themselves do when the process is interrupted early?Then again, if…
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Blake didn't crash the Bright Hawk on their flight out of Canterlot. Of course he didn't tell anyone that the real challenge would come when he tried to land anywhere. Taking off was really just a matter of giving them enough lift to go up, then not going into any of the flight-lanes reserved for ponies instead of ships. His own personal expertise helped a little when choosing a destination. Just because he'd never done anything with demolitions didn't mean he couldn't give some advice. "We need somewhere…
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Firefly followed Septum into the Royal Canterlot Archives. With every step, she found herself increasingly nervous. Were those guards watching them? Had that one whispered something to the other? Was a telegram already going out?There was something incredible about a dangerous mission like this when they had a changeling. There was no need to wander through the city, searching for somepony who might be willing to help get them in. There was no need to break into the building, risking arrest.Granted, what…
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There were many trains leaving Unova in the days after the great Equinox Ball. Those of the most important houses left first, often whole engines with only a handful of armored cars and many soldiers following close behind. But for each such train there were a dozen others for common servants and staff—laborers who arrived before a single member of the Great Families ever set foot in the gathering place, and who did not return to dismantle it until they were gone again. These rode the same trains as…
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Amie watched from the gift shop as the first groups of hungry campers arrived. It was late afternoon by the time the first procession finally appeared. These were not bugs who had prepared for a long trip or were used to traveling far while hunting. What she saw were the ordinary campers of Stella Lacus, many exhausted after going so far. And these were just the bugs at the front. Even if she couldn’t see them physically, she could imagine many more behind them, scattered up and down the freeway.She was…
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