The ground around Springvale shook from the massive power surges generated and released deep underground beneath the gas-station. Raiders were fleeing from the schoolhouse afraid it would collapse or chased by the fire ants, Silver looked outside of her window if it could be a horde of some death claws or mutants. In the center of these surges on a raised metallic platform an metal equine shape was standing in the middle of a warm and vibrant lavender glowing runic circle. Coils and transformers where surrounding the platform and thrumming and radiating with raw power and potential. Slowly but steadily pipes that were connected to the platform started to fill with glowing red, green and blue liquids and started to seep into the platform, slowly filling additional rings and runes spread around the primary circle.
“Eva, status report” the equine shaped being said.
“fifty-nine percent and rising, please prepare localized destination focus” an electronic voice coming from countless speakers around the room answered.
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It was another sunny day in Equestria and day-court was in normal session, stuffy nobles where filling the sides of the throne room while petitioners where in-front of the dais where Princess Celestia resided together with her sister Princess Luna. Currently ‘Prince’ Blueblood was once again petitioning that the search for Twilight Sparkle should be treated more seriously.
“Aunty, I press the matter of the disappearance of your student Twilight Sparkle once again, over the last two years search parties have been send to every corner Equestria and beyond but they have come back with no news of her. But as of late the search has been halted, this is inacceptable and I demand that the search is continued” the prince loudly and boldly demanded in-front of the rest in the room.
“My dearest nephew” Princess Celestia started, “I know that the search parties have stopped, and with great pain in my heart I have to admit that further search will not find her. Together with Luna all of Equastria and beyond has been magically scanned, my faithful student the unicorn Twilight Sparkle has not been found in Equestria or beyond, nor was there any trace of her in the dream rea…”
Suddenly the Princess’s answer was interrupted by a loud but crystal clear chime ringing through the throne room and the appearance of a small purple sphere in-front of Blueblood at eye level. The ball gave off the illusion and feeling that it was burning in some form of eldritch fire but no heat come from it.
Before the ringing stopped in every-ponies ears could stop ringing the small sphere dropped to the floor in the throne room and with a soft sizzling sounds the sphere sunk partially in the solid floor. Once the sphere was half sunken into the floor it started to move slowly and lazily, sometimes submerging completely into the floor only to come back up a couple of hoofs away from where it submerged from.
After a couple of minutes a couple of ponies started to panic and rushed to the doors and soon almost every-pony was trying to leave to room, the few that remained behind where the princesses, Blueblood and a few guards. In a matter of minutes the small sphere carved a massive intricate and highly complex runic circle in the throne room floor and with a little leap landed in the dead center of the circle and sizzled out.
It was also that exact moment that a large number of guards rushed into the throne room to protect their princesses for anything that could be a threat to their rulers.
“Sister” the lunar princess softly prodded her older sister, “did you feel that magical signature?”
“Yes Lulu I did” the elder sister responded but she wore a mask of disbelieve. “The throne room should be protected from any external magic, yet this magic is obviously hers.”
It was after the elder princess replied to her sister that the freshly carved rune circle started to glow in a soft lavender and soft thrumming of raw magical energy started to emit from it. So much raw magic was leaking from the circle that the some of the weaker unicorns present in the room where starting to get a headache and a small nosebleed from magical intoxication.
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“Eva, status” a gentle female voice said.
“Charging is complete my lady, authorizations have been granted to the list of specified individuals and data is set to wipe once you are gone” the electronic voice answered.
“Super, now there is just one last thing to do” the female voice quipped. “Copy everything except the data for Project Home-coming to a data card.”
“Copying of requested data is done, card is ready” the electronic voice replied and a small mechanical arm stretched out and handed the card to the equine shape.
With a small flash of magic a slot on the foreleg of the metal equine shape opened up and the data card slid in. A soft clicking and beeping came from the equine.
“Eva, ehmm.. suit, status?”
“All systems operational and active my lady” came from a small earpiece instead of the countless speakers set up in the room.
“Super” the equine said, “now let’s set power on coils to maximum, mask filtration at fifty-five percent and lock-up, it is finally time to go home.”
The metal equine started to charge it’s horn and arcs of power and electricity started to lazily hop between the circle and runes. With a loud but crystal clear chime paired with the metal equine was gone, all power that was charged up in the machines gone and left behind.
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Power started to surge even more in the throne room and started to lazily arc between the circle and runes. Lavender bolts of electricity and power leaped between the runes and with a softer chime and a blinding flash a slightly smoking metal equine shaped thing appeared in the middle of the throne room.
Nobody in the room dared to move, to stunned or freighted by what suddenly appeared before them. It looked like a pony, around the size of a reasonably large stallion. But that was not the thing that shocked every-pony in the room, it where the eyes, those bright blood red eyes instead of normal eyes. Those eyes coupled with some sort of mask that could come straight out of the depths of Tartarus scared even the most hardened guards present.
It where these features that caused every-pony present to miss the soft lavender glow coming from a small horn shaped protrusion coming from the top of its forehead. The throne room was silent enough that a needs could be heard falling, that was until a small spark of power arced from the metal equines shoulder to the runic circle that the guard came out of their stupor and charged to attack.
Unicorn guards charging and casting stun spells, pegasi and earth ponies attacking the metal creature with spears and swords but nothing happened. The spells just flowed over the creatures body into the coils present on its shoulders and the spears and swords bounced off it harmlessly, only resulting in numb hoofs of those that struck it.
It was after this initial attack that the captain of the guard Shining Armor stepped forward and encased the creature in a raspberry pink shield and quickly decrease it in size. To every-ponies great shock the shield shattered with a small pulse of the creatures horn and the creature lifted the captain up in a soft lavender hue. Before the captain could even respond or recover from his shock he was flung forward to the creature and caught in a gentle hug.
“I missed you B.B.B.F.F” he heard a soft mechanical voice say in his ear.
With his face in confusion and realization at the same time he asked “Twiley?”
Both taking a step back and with a soft click the metal and a small pusle of magic the metal helmet dissapeared and revealed the face of a recognizable lavender mare, a dark mane with a streak of lavender and hot pink running through it.
Her features where sharp and alluring, even a little seductive smirk was on her face. Where before her features where the often seen soft and a bit rounded and gave a feeling of kindness and warmth now she gave the feeling of a wild temptress with a feral streak that could devour any grown stallion or mare and turn them into putty with only the simple bat of an eye.
It took every-pony by surprise, some of the guards there where present the room where now staring at her with open muzzles or bright red cheeks. It wasn’t until Twilight started to speak that the guard snapped out of their shock, most of the guards in that room knew Twilight already from all the years that she spend living in the castle and the soft tone in her voice that she always carried. Now, the voice was different, it was still kind and soft but commanding and had an extremely seductive undertone. It was a voice that could swoon any-pony unlucky enough to be caught in it to do her bidding, it gave them the same feeling both their princesses emitted when they gave their commands, one of pure and complete obedience but Twilights voice gave more. It gave the feeling of ‘a chance’ if you did what she wanted you to do.
It wasn’t until Twilight turned around and did a slight bow towards the dais that every-pony in the room remembered that they were in the presence of the princesses. It was also then that Twilight noticed that Blueblood was starting at her and with a seductive little wink and a seductive little smirk she riled him up even further, his cherry red cheeks clearly lighting up on his white coat before he turned his head away to look at the princesses.
“Princesses, I have returned” was all Twilight could say before a soft beeping from her left foreleg put every-pony back on their guard, “would it be possible for us to retreat to one of the dining rooms?”
“Yes we can my faithful..” Celestia stopped there not really sure how appropriate it would be to still call her just a student “Twilight, let’s do that, it is lunchtime anyways.”
Both princesses got down from the dais and walked towards the door followed by Blueblood, before they exited the door Celestia gave one final command to one of the guards “Bring the other Elements of Harmony, Spike, Princess Cadence and her parents as quickly as possible” and she walked off following her sister and Twilight to one of the dining rooms.
