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For the second time that night, Scootaloo was on her back in the dirt, moaning with pain. This time was far worse than rolling down a hill. Now her whole body ached, throbbing along to her own heartbeat along sensations that didn’t make sense.It was a little like the last time she’d wished to be big. She felt elongated, particularly her legs, but in other ways things made even less sense. Her coat felt strangely unprotected against the stone floor, with little bits of rock and debris pressing painfully…-
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Scootaloo glared down at the empty glass in front of her, her wings buzzing occasionally with her displeasure. When she was younger, she’d loved dressing up for Nightmare Night. But now that she was older it felt childish to parade around Ponyville in costume. Of course there were plenty of others at Pinkie’s Solstice celebration who were dressed for the occasion. Scootaloo hadn’t bothered.She took her empty glass, wandering past the dance floor to the bar. Pinkie Pie stared from behind the counter,…
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It all happened in a blink.Star had been keeping watch at first, and with the Alicorn distracted she was the first one to see the group of approaching survivors. Windbrisk was at the lead, though a few more beleaguered ponies limped along beside him.Then someone screamed, their voice fading into the night. Star spun, her words to Windbrisk dying on her lips. She barely even noticed him taking off in a blur of wings, diving down into the swirling gulf of magic and horror. She didn’t even have time to warn…-
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This was her moment.Sunset Shimmer strode past the crushed vault door, magical senses alert. Sunset doubted Twilight would leave further traps waiting in her own lab, where intense thaumic fields from her experiments might trigger them by mistake. But she couldn’t be sure—Twilight had done many things Sunset never could’ve believed. “Keep her eyes on you,” Landon said, practically whispering into her helmet. “If I see a shot, I’ll take it. You might need to protect yourself.”“I can handle…
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How many soldiers were there? Star barely lifted her weapon, but as the marines advanced she felt the same weight they did, slowly crushing her. So far she had shown them two side-entrances into the royal palace, and watched near the back as their dwindling force pressed through. In both cases, they were met with a force of Unification Army soldiers so strong that they were soon clambering over corpses to move further. Eventually the dead became so thick that the enemy used them as a barricade.Star Orchid…
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Star almost couldn’t believe her eyes. While they gathered supplies to reinforce the top floor of the building in case they needed to retreat, Star watched the battle projections play across the inside of her helmet.She couldn’t understand a great deal of it—much of what the helmet wanted her to see was scrolling human words, unreadable to her.While the trained soldiers worked, she remained behind the lines with the volunteers. Each of them had a gun now, and they at least knew how to point it in the…
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Jamie remembered this death. It had been so recent, the memories still fresh. If only there was enough of Flurry left in that well to ask, maybe she could’ve been ready for this. She didn’t know what to do, and had no power to fight. Her horn sparked once or twice, but Twilight’s magical construction was impossible to break. She might as well try to stand on a launch platform and hold down a rocket with her bare hands.“Before I cast this…” Twilight set the wax aside, stepping back from her…
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Jamie drew in gasping, desperate breaths, before finally flopping onto her back. She lay limply in the room of utter blackness. He lied to me. Flurry’s death was in there all along. It was there for the same reason all of Flurry Heart’s memories were in the Well. She was the Well, somehow. Solar Lens appeared in the doorway in a single flash of magic, looking in at her. “Well, Lady Jamie. Did you learn what you were looking for?”She rolled onto her legs, tucking her tail in embarrassment. That…
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But she did wake, in time. To the relief of ponies from all over Equestria, Twilight did rise from her sleep. At least her mother did not suffer in vain.Jamie was there mere minutes after word reached her in the bunker. If only she had woken a little earlier, a few more lives might have been spared. But the princess did not permit her inside at first, nor anyone else. She demanded to read anything and everything that had been written about Equestria in her absence. So Jamie held on for a few more days,…
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Jamie knew what to expect—she’d given to the Arcanum Well enough times to know that every vision came with a sacrifice. What price could possibly be worth what she would receive in exchange?Suddenly she was on two feet again, her body lengthy and stretched. She’d been living in space for long enough to start to feel it, her limbs lengthened such that that she experienced a few moments of disorientation. How was she supposed to walk around with two legs again? Far off in the corner, an air-recycler…
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