Endure for an Eternity

Opening my eyes for the first time in such a long time of being asleep, I saw that everything that I once knew was no more.

Everything that I had seen in the past is gone, replaced with the present that shows that nothing is sacred anymore.

Has anyone ever told you something that made you think about what is real and what isn’t?

Ever told you that the world you once knew is different from it once was.

Or told you that everything that you once were, is nothing more than an illusion?

I found out the hard way when I was told by my guide to go to the Moon, to save those there from our ancient enemy, hell bent on destroying us once and for all. We thought that we were invincible against everything. But I was wrong.

We were wrong.

The enemy knew exactly where to find us at our weakest, they knew where to hit us, but they couldn’t reach us in force with the exception of one person.

One man, the one who has been hunting us all down, one by one, for supposed crimes that we have committed against him.

The Stalker.

And he found us, he found the moon, hidden away within the Void, out of reach from the Sentients, but now that he found us though, we were vulnerable.

We were not safe.

But on Lotus’s order, all Tenno went to the moon, dropping everything we were doing to mount a rescue mission. We were told that there is something so precious, so valuable, so important to Tenno everywhere and the continued survival of our order and kind on that moon.

What she didn’t tell us though, is that the thing we were saving…

Was ourselves.

The Moon

On Lotus’s word I dropped from my Orbiter, my body landing on the ground with nothing more than a thud, my hands slapping the once polished metal floor that was once a landing pad for the Tenno, now nothing more than a ruined hunk of twisted metal and rock.

The Moon, once forgotten from the minds of everyone and erased from every single record out there in existence.

Now it returns, broken, cracked, desolate, ruined, defiled and desecrated.

And here I am, one of the first Tenno to have stepped foot on this sacred rock, once an Orokin facility that housed the heart of the Tenno, now it is under attack by our ancient enemy, coming back to permanently wipe us out and make the destruction of the solar system complete and final.

Unhooking my rifle from my back I brought it out, my gaze locking onto the ornate gold and metal weapon, created with pride and skill by weapon smiths of old. The gold spurs and ribs that line the rifle gleam in the diluted sunlight that is reaching the moon at the moment, and with a quick motion a fresh magazine was placed into its rightful spot within the internal compartment with a click before being considered locked and loaded.

“We saved The Moon from a Void Collapse but Hunhow can now attack the Reservoir directly.”

Turning the safety ‘off’ of my rifle I stepped slowly into the long abandoned structure, its once gilded halls now dusty and decrepit from centuries of being left alone. A shadow of its former glory, this place rings hollow and dead but with me and several more others, life is slowly returning to this ancient place.

“He must not reach this sacred place.”

Picking up the pace with my steps I went from a brisk jog to a heated run, my heavy footsteps echoing loudly against the barren walls, a fire being lit underneath all Tenno to increase their pace as we all made our way into the heart of the Moon to retrieve what is deemed important to the Lotus.

“Shadow, bleed the Reservoir until it is desert dry.” Hunhow’s corrupted, gravely voice echoed throughout the Moon, and deep down I knew that with his voice came with him his Shadow, his servant, the Stalker.

Both of them are here, somewhere.

With his voice in my mind I started to sprint towards my objective, following Lotus’s markers that she has laid out before me, my gaze falling onto the once magnificent and glorious golden structures that was once our home, now nothing more than an empty graveyard.

“Lotus, join with me, destroy your shame.”

We are not a shame! We are the sword and shield of humanity and we will not be talked down like meer beasts!

“Become the one I love, become Natah once more.”

Turning around a corner and going up a short flight of stairs, I ran past a low disused power line before going through an opened gate, the light blue lights on it winking off as they slide open, revealing what lies beyond it. A damaged hallway, the right wall was ruined as moon rocks has fallen through the damaged structure and the far wall before the bend has a hole in it, allowing the vacuum of space inside along with allowing the sunlight to pierce through the darkness.

Before I can keep running toward the objective a tall, slim objective moved itself from the corner of the hall and made itself known by disconnecting parts of itself and floated into the air.

A Sentient Fighter.

Taking aim at center mass, a glowing golden energy sphere, I unloaded the entire magazine of sixty rounds, metal bolts flew out from the barrel at a blaring speed as they embedded themselves into the chest region of the Sentient, several rounds hit their mark while the rest was diverted away from its core but the damage was done. Quickly swapping my primary weapon onto my back I pulled free from their holsters my two pistols, the two gold-trimmed revolvers pointed down range and at the bronze-colored machine before bright flashes of light shoot forth from the two barrels.

Twelve rounds found their mark and with each impact the Sentient, the corrosive and explosive ammunition breaking against the metal plating, eating away and blasting apart the protective external covers, revealing the weaker inner layer.

As soon as it was exposed I dropped both pistols before reaching back and jumping into the air, grabbing my warhammer that was hooked to my back and coming back with full force, the momentum of it all allowing the flat faced hammer to crumple and crushed the center chest region of the Sentient, forcing its power core to implode upon itself before it falling to the ground.

Dead.

Once it was killed I placed my Palatine Jat Kittag on my back, and kneeled down to grab my two Vasto Prime’s off the floor where I dropped them and ejected the spent casing before replacing them with fresh bullets. When my twin pistols have been reloaded I slid them back into their holsters before switching back to my primary weapon of choice, the Boltor Prime, and with its glorious black and gold color scheme gleaming partially in the artificial light overhead, pulling back on the lever to swap out the internal cartridge and replace it with a fresh one.

Making sure the cursed machine was dead I stomped on its alien-esque head, crushing its eyes and face until it was nothing more than a pile of scrap metal.

With that over with I continued on with my mission, running down the halls both untouched and destroyed, the twisting, crumbled paths before me, all of them look the same now which is unfortunate. This place could have been our home once again, but now it is now doomed to fall apart and destroy itself.

This will stop the voices from taking hold.

You will have to dream my Angel.

This voice...it sounded like...no, it can’t be...can it?

The Lotus?

Was she here in the past?

Was this a void echo?

Shaking that familiar voice from my head I continued on my path, entering a desolate chasm lying before me. The deep stone depths between me and my objective was vast but I know that I could get across it with ease.

Checking the math in my head and the distance that I will need to cross I ran the numbers and came up with favorable odds, and with that in mind I took a few steps back before getting a running start. Looking at the short distance I have and the long distance I have between the edge and the ledge on the other side before sprinting at the edge and making the jump, forcing the energy within my body into my legs, forcibly launching me over the chasm and onto the other side.

With a soft thud before rolling on the metal floor until coming to a complete stop back on my feet.

“...so shame on you! You Orokin, so perfect on the outside but you’re rotted, through and through!”

What is happening to Lotus? What are the Orokin doing to her!

“Seven hands raised! For your apostasy, your judgement...is death!”

No! This is wrong, this has to be!

“Margulis, why?”

Margulis? Who is that? A friend of Lotus? Lotus before she changed her name?

Who are these people!

This place...it is cursed...something wrong happened here, something very wrong.

The stray and mysterious voices that have entered my head linger, filling me with dread and anger at what is happening. The Orokin they did something to The Lotus, they must have!

Running down through more halls I saw what was once obstacle courses of some sort, was it for the Orokin soldiers during The Old War? I ignored it all, focusing on what lied ahead of me but the more I looked around and saw the training rooms, I started to think of what the moon really was.

“...it’s about the other rejects we consigned to Lua a years ago.”

“They’re calling it...Transference.”

Transference? Rejects? Was the moon a research facility of some kind?

Was I once of these rejects?

Or am I one of the successive test subjects?

What am I? Truly, what am I?

“...I know we are desperate Executor, but these aren’t Dax soldiers. These are golems, possed by devil minds.”

What are these voices talking about? Devil mind and golems? Are they talking about us?

No, that is impossible. I have memories! I have dreams! I can think and feel for myself! I am not some machine that can be controlled! I am not a slave!

In my fit of anger I punched a broken gate, the force of the impact dislodged its already crippled form out from its housing and out onto the floor. The resulting crash let out a resounding echo of metal on metal, the noise no doubt alerted everything nearby to my presence, and quite possibly other Tenno as well.

Before I could lose myself to my anger I failed to realize that my object was straight ahead, just eighty five meters away.

Pushing my rage into the dark corners of my mind I pushed on, my anger will serve me as a focal point on my enemies, they will feel what happens when they make a Tenno angry, and they will not like it feels to have their body battered and broken to the point of being unrecognizable and ruined.

Storming and vaulting through hallways and empty chambers my vision saw a faint waterfall in the distance, a room of serenity and peace, untouched by time and war. Something so alien and mystical, and this is what The Lotus wanted?

But I see nothing here, nothing of value…

Was this all a trick?

When I stepped down the stairs leading to the waterfall my gaze caught something hanging within the falls, several tendrils, and all of them were diving into the watery depths.

Something was hidden here.

But what I wasn’t prepared for was the tendrils to slowly be pulled upwards, and with them rising out from the water I saw something astounding.

Seven pods of unknown origin and meaning.

All seven pods were connected by the tendrils and as they were fully exposed to the open air I saw the tendrils remove themselves from the pods, leaving them suspended in the air, hovering in place. As I watched the seven pods level out I noticed the one in the center of the other six stay more upright than the others, and it started to move towards me.

Was there someone inside the pod, someone of extreme importance? Is it a weapon that we can use against the Sentients? What can it be?

I watched the pod slowly move through the water towards me, the thing itself is massive in shape and size but as it came closer I saw that a small section on top has opened itself up, revealing a much smaller pod within and that too started to move outwards as soon as the large one stopped. My gaze tracked the smaller target, it creeped along the hull of the pod and what I saw made me quiver, something that has never happened to me before in my several century long life.

As it lowered itself to the ground I saw that there was something exposed, it looked like a body, I wasn’t sure what it was until it hit the ground. The body landed in a heap and before I could even move I-

Dream

Not of what you are

But of what you want to be

Pain.

That was all I could feel.

My body was in pain, unimaginable pain.

Why am I in pain? Why does my body hurt so much?

Opening my eyes...it feels strange to do so...but I did it anyways and what I saw alarmed me greatly.

My body, it is...different...it is not covered in protective armor, not shielded from the pain that is wracking my very frame.

And yet...it feels familiar, I do not know why but this is my body, something so alien and strange from what I have known for so long is what I truly am.

I tried to pull myself onto my feet but I was too weak to do so, I needed something to help me stand up. Looking around I saw my other self, it was kneeling on the floor, it's head looking down at the floor, its arm hanging by the side, palms facing the ceiling.

Once my eyes have locked onto my other body I placed my hands on the floor and slowly dragged my weakened body over to it, I had to get out of here, whatever this place is.

Continuing to crawl towards my Warframe I kept moving at a slow pace, I could have crawled faster but my body is still weak and sore, I don’t know for how long I have been in this condition, but I ignored the aches and pains. I had to get to myself to get out of here.

As soon as I reached it I crawled partially onto it, my upper body resting on its right arm before I placed my left hand on its shoulder and as soon as my hand came into contact with it I felt a brief connection between the two of us before I felt myself start to feel drained for the smallest of moments before it started to feel like I was revitalizing myself.

My body was feeling strange but then I started to feel my other self again, I saw its head twitch slightly before moving a bit more, tilting in my direction before slowly standing on its feet, helping me up along the way before lifting me off the ground and into its arms. Its body is practically lifeless.

We barely took a step towards the direction of the exit before we stopped, a lone figure with a greatsword of unknown origin and it was pointed at me.

I raised my right arm up, hoping that it would back off or at the very least deflect the oncoming attack but I know that it would do nothing to stop the blade, but instead the lone figure did not attack. I looked around, looking for a way out of this but in my condition and that my Warframe was acting like a zombie, I knew that there was no way out of this mess in one piece.

Before I could try to direct this other body to run towards the exit, the lone figure turns around and walked towards the remaining six pods.

“You hesitate Shadow, but remember your despair.”

“This is your only chance to make it end.”

This...Shadow looked at the pods and for a moment I thought I saw something within it, like it might have been like me.

I watched this Shadow look at itself, like it was thinking, contemplating, wondering the same thing that I was wondering earlier. What are we both, truly.

“Your hatred is too weak Shadow. Mine is strong, my fragments will finish this.”

This strange voice that was talking, it sounded disappointed with the Shadow’s choice but when it said its fragments will finish this, what does it mean?

Ignoring the Shadow I directed my other self to start moving, to head towards the exit of this place and to get us as far away from here as fast as possible.

“Tenno...Operator, you’re awake now, but you’re more vulnerable than ever.”

The Lotus, she is speaking to me! Her voice is clear, so perfect...why does she sound like her...like mother?

Questions for later, right now my priority is to get out of here alive and in one piece.

Walking slowly to the back of the room I heard her voice again.

“Get back to your ship, now.”

‘You don’t have to tell me twice...this place is spooky.’

Moving to the rear of the grand chamber I saw one of those...things blocking my path, and it turned its body right at me before making its move.

“You need to focus your mind to unleash your true power.”

Focus my mind? I can do that?

Closing my eyes I extended my right hand outward, pointing it at the Sentient Battalyst that was floating right at me and what I found shocked me.

Deep within my core I found something...strange...something unique...it felt, wrong yet right. Like it belonged there, and when I made contact with it with my mind I felt a reservoir of energy spike through me and out through my open hand, a beam of gold-blond energy shot forth and slammed into its head, crumpling it inward like a piece of sheet metal before it imploded on itself and exploded violently, dying immediately.

Walking further we went down a short curved stairs, finding another Sentient but this one made the first move and open fired. A short burst of white energy scattered at us but a stray bolt hit my others thigh, scarring it with burns but for the most part not doing any kind of damage.

I returned fire with my mind laser, melting the bottom half of the Sentient and I watched as it floated for a few moments before falling over, the gold core in its chest flickered for a few seconds before sputtering out dead.

‘That looked painful, but I doubt they even feel anything anyways.’

It didn’t take us long to reach the opposite end of the room and down a hallway where yet another of the Sentients was waiting for us and in the same fashion as the other two it too met an unfortunate fate of being melted by my mind laser.

We eventually made it to a slanted landing pad and with it our extraction from the surface of the moon.

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Planet: Equis, Continent/Country: Equestria, Capital: Canterlot, Location: Royal Palace

“Now Twilight I understand that you are absolutely giddy with excitement about your new position as the head of the science department here in Canterlot but you have to understand that your little project of finding the origin of the unknown skull fragment is a waste of time. Countless scientists in numerous fields all tried to discover the same thing but in the end they all failed. I am sorry to say this Twilight but you must stop this before it completely absorbs your life in a vain attempt to succeed where others have failed.” Princess Celestia said before looking back down at the ever growing stack of paperwork that is constantly rolling in from all parts of mainland Equestria as her student sighed sadly and left her room, downtrodden that her request to study the ancient skull fragment was denied.

Yet again.

Closing the door behind herself, the dejected purple unicorn left her mentor’s room and slowly walked back to her room in the palace. Normally she would have been in a far better mood, especially since she helped defeat King Sombra with the help of her friends, but because her own mentor denied her the chance to discover a long lost species because so many others have wasted their lives and failed in such a pursuit before her.

On her slow walk back her mind went to her old project that she had set aside in her attempt to discover the truth about the fragment and as soon as she got shut down her mind immediately went back to the project.

The project of creating a hybrid of magic and machine, something that the illusive Flim Flam brothers have accomplished with that strange contraption of theirs. How those two scam artists can create such a thing is something the poor mare can’t even wrap around her head.

When she first talked to the two con artists they hadn’t exactly said anything on how their machine worked let alone tell her how it was even created. The mere thought of being able to combine magic and industry together and work in perfect harmony so far has been nothing more than a dream as all attempts so far have ended with failure. Even after stripping the machine down and looking at every single part Twilight couldn’t even figure out how it managed to function as it did before.

The possibilities of the creation of magic and technology merging together could help so many ponies out there but so far that is just a dream at the moment.

‘I wonder what Spike is up to?’

Her thought was answered for her when she saw Spike slowly drag himself down the hall, groaning all the while as he walked and moaned the entire time.

“Spike, are you okay?”

“No, just got my butt kicked by your brother yet again.” Spike moaned out as he rubbed his right arm, it was limp from getting whacked hard with a blunt metal sword.

“Still failing to block his sword?”

“Oh yeah.”

“Maybe you should block his attack instead of blocking it with your arm?”

“I know, it is just hard to when she is there…”

“Who?”

“Princess Luna.”

“Ah.” Twilight whispered out, obviously the princess of the moon would watch the mock fighting and have the presence to distract her brother long enough to get whooped hard.

“Yeah, she loves to watch me get beat up and down the training yard. At least Rarity is there to make the pain better.” Spike said the last part with a happy sigh, rubbing the bruise a bit more slowly this time.

“Well you better wash up, we are going to go pick up our friends before heading out.”

That got Spike’s attention immediately. Any time he had to clean himself up and that his friends were involved only means that it will be the perfect time to spend it with Rarity while everyone else was busy or distracted.

“Where are we going?” The young dragon asked, perking up immediately as he started to come up with an idea for himself and Rarity.

“Well, it has been two years since I first met with the girls, so we decided to celebrate our friendship by going to where it all began.”

“And that is...where?”

“Why the Everfree Castle of course!”

“That place?! But...it’s cursed!”

“Spike, curses don’t exist. It has already been proven that they don’t exist by several other top spellcasters and scientists.”

The young drake rolled his eyes at that comment, he knows for a fact that curses exist, it just wasn’t in spell form but in a small blue flower found commonly in the Everfree Forest. The bane of all existence for those that accidentally come into contact with said plant, the Poison Joke weed has been known to ‘curse’ those affected by it by making a mockery of the affectee by changing a key aspect. And for his friends it was an overly manly voice, upside down wings, a floppy horn, a thick tongue, shrunk to the size of a bit and lastly extra long and thick mane and coat.

It was funny for the drake, not so funny for his sister and friends.

It didn’t take both drake and pony long for them to return to their rooms to get ready for their little party, both had to look their best, especially Spike since he was expecting to get a kiss from his marefriend while Twilight wanted to look her best just for the occasion.

When both were washed, dressed and ready for their party they left their respective rooms, met back up at the train station and went down to Ponyville to return home and meet up with their friends.

Void Space

“I don’t know how much time you have.”

“Descend into the heart of your Orbiter, there you will find the Somatic Link.”

I don’t know what this link is but whatever it is, it is in this ship of mine...somewhere.

With that in mind I directed my Warframe from the navigator's console and down the hydraulic stairs to the armory section of the Orbiter. The panels that are here for some treason are turned off and are inoperable…

That is not good.

Going to the left and down the ramp passed two locked doors to the room in the back but what I was not expecting to see was the lone figure to appear from a cloud of smoke and blocked my path to the Link.

“Stalker! How?”

The Stalker stood there, blocking me from reaching the machine behind him as he stood up to his full height before floating in the air in a hover with his sword in hand.

“Get past him, get to the Link.”

My mortal enemy, standing between me and my only means of having complete control over my Warframe, I did what I was told and fought back.

My Warframe took the brunt of the energy blades that the Stalker unleashed from his greatsword but when I blasted him with my mind energy it barely even scratched him but it still managed to distract him and gave him pause between his attacks long enough for me to reach the Somatic Link.

“Focus, Tenno. Use your energy to breath life into the Somatic Link.”

Standing underneath the Link I raised my hand to the glowing blue orb at the tip of the machine and shot my energy at it, fueling its power core with my essence for a few moments before being forced back to the entrance of the chamber. The Stalker blocking our path yet again but this time I could sense that his determination to stop me is now stronger than before.

“You will not leave this place!”

‘Oh yes I am! This is my ship and I am gonna kick your ass into an airlock and launch your scary ass into hell!’

“Again. It needs more power.”

Standing back up I glared at the shadowy figure at the other side, his energy blades hitting hard than they previously were and they were forcing me to my knees with each impact but I can tell that they are taking more and more out of him with each increase in damage they were doing to me.

“The sky will be as it was meant, Shadow...The Old War finally ends.”

‘No! The Old War will end but it will end with the destruction of ALL Sentients! Once and for all!’

“I am your end!”

‘Nuh-uh, my end will be by old age and quite possibly a strained relationship!’

Slowly making progress and getting closer to the Link once more I focused my energy into the orb, more and more of my energy being shot into it as the lights around the room started to get brighter and stronger.

“One more time!”

As I started to get back up an energy blade came right for my head, and if I hadn’t ordered my Warframe to lift its arm to get in the way then I would have died right then and there. With my head cut off and on the floor, what a way to go out, so close to victory and yet not close enough.

The blades are even stronger now and they are chipping away at my shields and underlying armor, leaving dents and scratches across my entire Warframe as they slashed into me. Shuffling closer and closer to the link I made it one more time before being once again launched away from the Link but this time it was different.

We were separated from one another and I was defenseless.

Landing on my chest and lifting my head up I started to crawl towards my Warframe in an attempt to be saved by its strength only to be stopped when the Stalker floated up to it and landed before us.

“No self, no sense, no death. Just a metal puppet, dangling on Tenno strings.”

The Stalker tapped my Warframe with his sword, making it lean backwards a bit as he kept staring at me.

“Only the Tenno’s death will end your despair.”

All the while glaring at me with a silent death stare, he rammed his sword into my Warframe’s chest, the blade piercing through its chest and out the back, leaving the sword behind.

“All your dread long life, you’ve waited for this moment...but you're asking yourself...was I one of these wretched things?”

The Sentient Hunhow talked through the sword all the while the Stalker strutted toward me before kneeling down to wrap his right hand around my throat and lifting me off the floor and into the air.

“You know the answer. You still hate them...you still hate...yourself.”

Losing air and consciousness I tried to pry its much stronger hand from my throat in a vain attempt to save myself from death but I knew that I wasn’t strong enough to dislodge myself from his grip.

With my life slowly being cut short I made one last ditch effort to free myself, but not with my body, but with the one that was impaled with a sword.

Using the weak connection that I still have with my Warframe and once I was in control of the damaged suit I did what anyone would do in a situation where there was an object lodged into your chest. You break it off and yank it out.

“What...is...this?”

As soon as my hands made contact with the weakest part of the sword and started to pull in opposite directions the Stalker immediately turned his head to look at my Warframe for a moment before tossing me aside, now focused on the soulless machine that was trying to dislodge his sword.

Before he could even get close I reconnected with my Warframe as soon as I was dropped on the floor and cracked a part of the spur off from the hand and the rest of the sword, causing something strange to happen.

A jolt of red energy shot out from the sword and into the assassin, forcing him into the air and almost like the link I have with my Warframe, it is feeding it the same pain that I am in.

“Shadow...p-protect…m-m-me.”

But before he could I finished the job, ripping the sword out from my chest my pulling it straight upwards, cutting through the suit with ease while launching the blade away from both of us and onto the floor, but at the cost of my Warframe shutting down due to critical damage.

In that moment I watched the Stalker contort in the air, the pain becoming too much for him and in flash of bright light he exploded, seemingly vanishing or outright dying painlessly as the concussive wave knocked me down and knocking me out cold.

Planet: Equis, Continent/Country: Equestria, Current Location: Ancient Royal Palace/ Everfree Forest

Two hours has passed since Twilight and her friends arrived at the Castle of the Two Sisters, all seven of them were walking down the main foyer of the long since ruined and abandoned castle, enjoying the sights of the ancient history that still clings to the place.

“Can somepony tell me again why we are here? Not that I have anything against this place but are you sure this is even safe to be in? I mean a thousand years unattended and left to fall apart is a sure fire way to get crushed by a falling ceiling or wall.” Spike said as he looked at a fallen pillar that was lying partially through a wall to the outside world.

While Spike was saying that the girls walked over a crumbled column that has long since broken down to small chunks of marble, their footsteps echoing throughout the empty halls, scaring away rodents and birds alike from their mere presence.

“Because Spike, it was here that the six of us became the Elements of Harmony and became the best of friends and at the same time purified Princess Luna from the Nightmare.”

As Twilight said that Applejack opened a door that still remained intact and not broken and revealed yet another part of the castle that looks partially whole.

“I just wish that Celestia would have had this place fixed up or at the very least preserved with some sort of spell to be fixed at a later date and time. I bet there is some treasure still around here...just waiting to be discovered.” Spike said once again but this time Pinkie caught out of the corner of her eye that he was drooling a bit, thinking about all of that gold and artifacts that could be his hoard.

“She can’t be everywhere at once dude, you of all ponies should know this.” Rainbow Dash said as she flew a bit in the air, her wings beating slowly to keep her aloft while her friends walked.

“I know I know, but still though she could have gotten Luna to do this. I know for a fact that she has a lot of freetime as she is always watching me get my flank kicked up and down the yard.” Spike said before muttering to himself, having a body covered in bruises is not fun.

While everyone was busy talking no one notice Pinkie’s tail give a slight twitch before calming down, a sense of impending doom was approaching.

Void Space

I couldn’t believe this.

I had a body all along, and I look awesome!

I couldn’t believe that after four centuries of being stuck in stasis in a pod that I still looked as awesome and amazing as I did back then!

What I can’t believe is that I used to be a normal child until I was placed on board a military ship that got ‘lost’ in the Void and when it came back everyone but the children were dead and those that were left had the power of the void placed within them. To make it even better we were pretty much taken into custody by our ‘saviors’ and turned into weapons of war.

Thank god we killed those bastards, manipulating us and turning us into tools, they got what they deserved on that fateful day. We ended a war and an empire, not bad for a bunch of children with biomechanical proxies.

For the first time since being released from my stasis pod and being almost killed by the Stalker I was walking, although with some difficulty that my legs were still not up to par on leg meat strength, I was going around the room where the Somatic Link is in.

The room is nice but empty with the exception of one overly complex and powerful chair with glowing white roots lining the walls and ceiling.

‘So this is what it’s like to breath...if I don’t breath I die and if I breath too much I could die...why is everything trying to kill me now? First I can’t drink too much water or too little, I can’t eat too much or I’ll become fat then die and I can’t eat too little or it will make me weak then death. Is the universe built like this or is it just me?’

Before I could ponder further on that random train of thought my ship cephalon, Ordis, spoke up through the ship’s PA system.

“Operator it is so good to see you again! Even more so now that you got your *FLABBY SACK OF MEAT* body back!” And of course now I remember that Ordis is broken.

I wonder if I should fix that?

Nah, I am sure he is fine.

But naturally when someone says something is fine it always tends to come back and bite you in the ass. Just like it did for me.

“Ordis, get us out of here as fast as possible!”

“Operator, are you sure?”

“Yes! I wanna see if I can handle the shifts between the line-”

“Operator! Void Collapse Imminent!”

Wait what? Void Collapse? But we aren’t...even...in the...oh fucking balls...The Lotus told me to go into the void to hide from the Sentients so I hide underneath a tower...did the Stalker put a fucking tracking device on my ship and then waited for me to stop moving just to kill me?

Damn dude, talk about being dedicated to the job.

“Ordis get us out of here!” I shouted while turning around to get myself back into the Somatic Link to be secured in place.

“Too late!” Oh shit...

Before I could think of how this can get anyways worse the Void Collapse happens and with it so did me being thrown to the ceiling of the room in the resulting explosion.

This is going to suck…

And it did.

Planet: Equis, Continent/Country: Equestria, Current Location: Ancient Royal Palace/ Everfree Forest

It wasn’t long before the seven of them were in what was once the dining hall for the palace, a picnic spread was on the ruined stone table, seemingly still whole even though a thousand years has passed and ruined pretty much everything else. Spike and Pinkie were setting up the food baskets and plates, Rarity was talking to Fluttershy about their plans for tomorrow, Rainbow Dash was asleep on a cloud she pulled from the sky, Applejack was arguing with Twilight about using a machine to help with the harvest and Pinkie was being Pinkie.

“So you see Applejack this new invention could potentially revolutionize everything about farming and for farming ponies everywhere!” Twilight said all the way talking in a slightly louder than normal tone, slightly off putting Applejack.

“Ah know that but this could also hurta lot of farmers ba takin’ ther’ jobs!” The apple farmer said, countering her friend with an eventuality that will happen if such a thing were to happen.

“But this could also help those that are falling behind on their harvests and get out of any debt they may be in!”

“Or perhaps push ‘em even further in ta debt!”

While the two were going Pinkie’s tail twitched again but this time it was twitching and shaking even more, wildly flailing just enough to get the attention of Spike and quickly soon after the rest of her friends.

“Pinkie...is that-”

“Oh ponyfeathers! Something is gonna fall!” Rainbow Dash said and immediately went under the table to hide which was immediately followed by the rest of her friends.

They waited for whatever it is that is falling, wondering what it is and how big it is, but when nothing came they looked around and for the first time they thought that the Pinkie Sense was finally wrong.

Looking around for a moment longer they tried to see if anything was indeed falling but when nothing hit the ground with a thud or crashed through the wall they all breathed a sigh of relief. That is until they saw that Pinkie’s tail was still shaking like crazy.

“Uh...Pinks, are you okay or is your sense broken?”

“Nope! It works just fine! It is just taking forever for it to fall!”

“And what exactly is falling?”

“The sky!”

“...” Everyone was silent after that.

IT was only a second later did it all click in their heads.

“Oh...buck.” Was all that was said before they looked outside to see if she was telling the truth, and it turns out she was.

Flying right at them!

My Orbiter immediately got shot out of the Void, all electrical systems are on the fritz and are unresponsive, but the worst part wasn’t that my ship was not listening to me or Ordis.

The worst part was that it was spinning out of control and that I was stuck to the ceiling.

And that I was THIS close to puking all over the place.

“Ordis! Stop this thing!” I shouted while the ship was spinning out of control and from what I could tell there was gravity sifting into the ship, our artificial gravity was deactivated.

“I can’t Operator! It’s too dangerous! We got to slow down first!” Ordis said, apparently this spinning was affecting him as well, my guess is that it was throwing his telemetry all to hell.

“Bullshit! Just stop this thing! I order you! STOP!” I screamed as loud as I could, I felt the contents of my stomach making its way upward, knowing full well that whatever defenses I had set up to stop it were gone, and was now using this chance to make an escape.

Against all hope, Ordis managed to pull us out of the death spiral we were going through, but when I asked him to stop something else did it for us.

And by something I mean a building.

Ground Zero

Six ponies and one dragon were scattered on the floor, a massive section of the wall has been destroyed, a result of an unknown object ramming into it at a high rate of speed. And although it could have rammed right through it, keep on going, and crash into the ravine before exploding in a fiery hellstorm, it decided that it like where it was currently at and stayed there.

Everyone was groaning and moaning, no one was injured but all of them were confused and had no idea what just happened.

The first one to stand up was Pinkie Pie and she looked like nothing even touched her with the exception of a cobweb and some dust. Everypony else looked like they were thrown into a passing hurricane and their manes were completely ruined with the exception of Rainbow Dash since her mane is already a complete mess.

[ME]

But me on the other hand, I fell down from the ceiling, face first, and with my head off the floor my stomach decided now was the time to attack and I let loose the first barrage of bile that hasn’t seen food or the light of day in a few centuries.

“Operator, are you alright?”

“Do I look alright Ordis?”

“Well, you look like *YOU WERE THROWN THROUGH A BLENDER!* you fell from the ceiling and landed face first.”

“Thanks for your concern…” I said with a groan before wiping my mouth and flicking the residue aside before crawling towards my super chair and crawled into it.

I let the machine do its job as I closed my eyes and allowed my Warframe to activate move around.

My Palatine Rhino Prime rose from the Arsenal, fully repaired and back in working order with the exception of the scar that was left behind by Hunhow’s fragment. The black and gold armor color was a nice touch on my part but what made it better was the glowing insignia that was on its chest.

Looking through the sensors on the helmet of my Warframe it felt right to be back in the saddle but now in an even more comfortable chair and in a ship that is for the most part (hopefully) still intact and in one piece.

‘I wonder where the hell are we? I hope we landed on Earth, and if not it better not be on Ceres and lord forbid Europa.’

[THEM]

“Oh sweet Celestia...what happened?” Twilight said as she stood up, her clothes were slightly ruined from the impact but in all it was still whole, with just rips and tears.

“The end of ta world happened, thats what.” Applejack said as she grabbed her stetson hat from off the floor and placed it back on her head.

“Yeah...sure felt like it...you alright Rarity? Fluttershy?” Rainbow Dash said as she whipped her head around, flicking dirt and rocks out from her mane.

“Well whatever hit us, I am sure it is just...a...huh…” Spike started but when he saw what was the cause of their temporary confusion and possible concussion they all looked up and saw what looked like a strange object.

OR more accurately, a UFO.

“Well I’ll be damned, looks like I owe Spike ten bits.”

“Buck, I think we all do.”

“Yes! I was right! I was right! Take that Twilight!” Spike shouted happily as he raised his fists in the air in victory while Twilight was busy staring at the UFO with her mouth hanging open in shock.

Twilight once thought that UFO’s and aliens are nothing more than an old mares tale, an urban legend to keep little fillies and colts in line, but now that she is seeing an actual UFO right before her very eyes no less… This is the first time she was proven wrong let alone proven wrong about something that everyone, including Celestia and Luna, thought to be non-existent.

But there is one thought that is holding strong in her mind that just won’t go away.

How is she going to tell Celestia and Luna that their old castle just got hit by a UFO?