The Tower

"So Kevin what do you make of all this?" Quantx, the bases' artificial intelligence and Kevin's personal friend asked.

"In all honesty, I'm just not damn sure!" Kevin replied stepping out of the elevator, "You must have collected some useful information while I was in stasis."

"I'm sorry Kevin when the bases' power failed my systems crashed as well, and the bases' computer wasn't programmed to gather information."

Kevin sighed, "Yes, I know. It just that... Well this is all so confusing! It's like a nightmare; all my friends and family are dead and the worst part is this is actually happening!"

"So, I don't have to pinch you?" Quantx retorted.

"I'm not in the mood for humor right now!" Kevin exclaimed.

"Sorry, Sir. I do have one question though; what are you going to do now? You are technically the highest ranking official in the army."

Kevin stopped at this and thought. The war ended long ago, therefore his military obligation to the Alliance had ended, but he still had control over this facility because of 'voluntary service.' Kevin entered the control room and sat down in his chair looking at the displays. Eventually he reached a decision, "Quantx, the way I see it I have two options: I can walk away from this base and try to live out my life in a society I know nothing about and can't relate to in anyway whatsoever, or I can make good use of the massive pile of military hardware I'm sitting on and go conquering. Now, which to choose?"

"Sir, there are currently thirty-thousand fully armed and supplied comandroids (commando-androids) at your disposal."

"You just read my mind."

"Wasn't very hard."

Kevin laughed at this, for his friend was fully integrated into his brain and added, "Alright then activate one-thousand comandroids and place them in the yard, standard weapons and supplies, and keep another five-thousand on standby." The lights in the room dimmed momentarily as power was rerouted to recharge the long dead energy crystals in the comandroids.

"What's the plan, Sir?"

"As of now, we play a defensive strategy until I've gathered enough information to be able to successfully plan a campaign. Now, the first thing on the agenda is to find out how our guest got in here. Quantx please access the bases' records concerning anything that has crossed the perimeter fence."

"One moment, Sir... The only thing to cross the perimeter fence in the past five-thousand years is a medium-weapons drone."

"One of ours?"

"No, it came from an offsite underground storage facility; which is odd because the facility's roof collapsed so the drone should have been completely buried."

"So what's it doing here? For that matter, how is it even here; the energy crystal must have been completely drained?"

"Give me a second to download the flight data... Done. The drone became active at coordinates that match those given to us by the prisoner indicating that the drone was in their capitol city. The drone interpreted it's change in location as an attempt at espionage and acted accordingly by treating everything as a threat. It sustained damage and decided to return to base for repairs but the only active Alliance beacon was in the tower."

"So it landed here. This doesn't explain how she got here, or how the crystal was recharged."

"The only logical way she could have entered the facility is through the drones' maintenance hatch. The drone reported the hatch open during it's activation and when the drones power died it was from the energy crystal being manually removed."

"So, she hitched a ride inside the drone?" Kevin concluded, "Well then, show me the footage." Kevin watched the footage of the drones escape intently as it flew through the capital city. When the footage ended Kevin realized, "We'll have company soon."

"What tells you that?" Quantx asked missing what was all to obvious to Kevin.

"Almost everyone in that city saw the drone and our guest chasing after it; so when she is found missing they'll only logically come here." Kevin explained, "Now, since our time is limited let's get to work; bring up a geographical and tactical map of the world as well as the resource management display.

For the next hour Kevin planed his battle strategies and tactics for use in his coming war. Eventually Quantx reminded, "Excuse me, Sir. but I believe you were going to continue interrogating our guest."

"Thank you for reminding me Quantx. I almost forgot." Kevin thanked standing up and walking back to the elevator."

Twilight sat in her cell pondering her predicament for what seemed like hours until a familiar click sounded and the human appeared before her. He took a seat atop the pedestal and informed her, "We are going to continue our little chat, but unfortunately I only tell one story a day so now it's your turn."

"Very well." Twilight acknowledge.

"Question number one, don't worry this is an easy one, what is your name?"

Twilight could see no reason for lying so she simply said, "Twilight Sparkle."

The human paused for a moment before revealing his own name, "My name is Kevin. Now that we are acquainted we can begin, but keep in mind I will occasionally ask you questions I already know the answers to, so if I find out your lying then that will conclude your usefulness to me and to anyone else."

Twilight gulped and thought, I can't just betray my country and give him what he wants, or die in this cell. Oh well, maybe he'll let me go if I answer all his questions.

"Alright let's begin. Question one, what is the current population of Equestria?"

Twilight paused for a moment trying to come up with a lie, but couldn't settle on a number so she told the truth, "Their are around 1,700,000 ponies in Equestria."

"Question number two, what is your current level of technological advancement?"

Now this is something I can lie about. Twilight realized, "Well, we have some weapons such as your's" Twilight lied, "but we mainly rely on magic."

"You have machines that can harness life force energy?" Kevin asked remembering the drained crystal.

"No, unicorns can do it naturally."

"I see. Tell me, are their more that one type of pony? For example you have wings as well a horn, but you said unicorns, not alicorns."

Twilight had slipped, "Yes their are three, well four, different types: earth ponies who are naturally stronger, pegasi who can fly, unicorns who can use magic, and alicorns who are a combination of the three."

"So alicorns, such as you, are less common?"

"Yes."

"Well what are the odds of that?"

"I don't understand."

"Their appears to be a white one on my doorstep." Kevin announced.