Celestia's Bad Friends

        “STOP STARING AT MY PLOT ALREADY!” Celestia cried out defensively, more embarrassed than angry as she kept spinning in place to keep Valkyr from constantly ‘examining’ her rear in her new Warframe that Valkyr had instantly dubbed ‘Plot Prime’ because Nyx had NOT been at all considerate for hiding Celestia’s generous plot at all, and because of how pony society treats clothing, she was quite turned on that her lov-FRIEND, was insisting on checking her out in her new suit of ‘armor’.

        It essentially looked like a pony variant of a standard Ember Warframe, only with a sharp smooth horn spike to accommodate her horn, and an intricate wing system that almost felt like she wasn’t wearing anything. In fact, the way Celestia could still actually feel everything even in the frame both bothered her and comforted her. The former since it made getting turned on by the situation even harder for her, and for the latter it meant movement was second-nature, even if the Frame made her even stronger, faster, and more agile.

        “Celestia, I’m telling you, in Tenno society, that ass? Ten outta ten! Let me appreciate it!” Valkyr growled hungrily, not caring for how exasperated Nyx and Ordis were at their antics as they tended to the Navigation console during hyperdrive.

        “Just-NO! You know what this is doing to me! Quit it!” Celestia backed her plot up against the wall. Oh yes, also, the armor hid her mane and tail entirely, because their naturally ethereal state couldn’t phase through the armor as much as into it, powering it or something? Which drew even MORE attention to her form, and she didn’t know how to deal with this situation. Celestia wasn’t a very...open mare when it came to her feelings, ironically enough, and being put so on the spot was incredibly uncomfortable for her.

        “SWIGGITY SWOOTY! IMMA COMMIN’ FOR DAT BOOTY!” Valkyr yelled, and Celestia actually girlishly squealed in pointless terror as she bolted away from the Tenno, and down into the Orbiter compartment, Valkyr giving chase.

        “Can’t Valkitty tell this ISN’T the time for this?!” Nyx grumbled loudly, gripping her knees in the seiza position she was sitting in at the holographic navigation console. “I should’ve just added more armor or something if it was going to cause Valkitty’s brains to drop into her vag.”

        “To be fair on Valkyr’s part Operator, I indeed find the equine Celestia-a fine piece of ass-quite shapely.”

        “... Don’t you start Ordis.”

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        The Mantis was forced to land, for once, because it had a non-humanoid passenger instead of just dropping its Operators through the Vitruvian Man slot like always and flying off. An actual ramp descended from the ship on the chosen landing pad in the ruins of the industrial lost city of Coba, just as overgrown with mutant plantlife as the rest of the corrupted planet.

        “It’s so...beautiful….” Celestia breathlessly commented as she tread her metal hooves down the ramp and onto the derelict tower that had at some point been part of a refinery, but was now just another part of the Earth below it.

        “Yeah, until a damn peanut kills you in minutes.” Valkyr grunted as she followed, working a dent out of her cheek from where Celestia had ‘slapped’ her for being too forward.

        “Can you both cut it out?! We’re here to help the boss, not marvel over this infested ridden city.” Nyx growled, her hate for the lost city of Coba quite palpable. “And also remember what you said that Teshin mentioned Tia, about Corrupted guarding the site where I originally woke up. Those fuckers are way more dangerous than Infested, Grineer, or Corpus separately, since the Corruptors take everything at equal opportunity.”

        “So yeah, Tia, for whatever reason you’re here, please, leave most of the fighting to us. Your Warframe doesn’t even have a single ‘rank’ which is a system we use to judge synchronization between Frame and User, so you may think you’re really strong, but you’re not.” Valkyr added with concern. “Why did we let you come? Fuck, Teshin, what does that old man have in his head?”

        “I came-.” Nyx had some immature snickers, and Celestia huffed. “I came with you, because you’re my...friends. I want to help, however I can. And if this IS, somehow, the seat of Grineer power? Why, I might just hurl the planet into your system’s sun, be done with them.” Celestia informed as she began trotting ahead nimbly, the two humanoids following.

        “Sounds like a plan! Besides, old Sol could use some material in his furnace.” Nyx joked, before a very familiar, at least to her and Valkyr, throaty and wet rasping screech echoed out from everywhere. “Yep, they know we’re here.”

        “Time to fight. Tia just-.” Valkyr was interrupted by Celestia summoning a ridiculously huge warhammer with her magic that made a Fraggor seem pitiful in comparison, and she jumped down into the mosh pit in the area below with a warcry, sending everything flying and burning in an intense fiery shockwave, setting the nearly indestructible wood of the trees around her on fire, and killing at least 30 Infested in one blow. “...Have I mentioned I love that mare?”

        “Every time she shoves her horn in you Valkitty.” Nyx chuckled as she also approved of Celestia’s hung-ho one-hit-kills-everything attack. “While that was impressive Tia! The Infested are practically unending! Sure, Coba’s like, one of the only areas the Infested are even on Earth, but they have a LOT of biomass to work with! Get up here!”

        “Doesn’t help that she just alerted the rest of the horde.” Valkyr grumbled, getting smacked on the back of her head by Nyx in response.

        “They share a hivemind, don’t be cute Valkitty.” Nyx chided as Celestia flew up to them, and they all quickly began moving, Celestia and Valkyr following Nyx since she was the one who remembered where she awoke, so it was up to her to take them to the objective. “It’s...this way? These knots in the trees seem familiar….” Nyx wistfully asked herself as she was trying to recognize everything, but thing about endless mutant forests, they change. “ARG! This fucking tree is blocking the path!”

        “Damn it, nothing we can do about it except call Ordis for a pickup so he can fly us over to another point-.” Valkyr was interrupted by a white stream of lava gushing from Celestia’s horn, promptly cutting through and burning the blocking tree with ease, and the three watched, one bored, the other two gawking as the white flames quickly burned the offending tree and ONLY the single tree to ashes within a minute.

        “There, let’s move on then.” Celestia cheerfully said as she trotted ahead, the two Tenno watching her plot sway with admiration.

        “This mare.” Nyx breathed out.

        “When we get back, we are SO tapping that again.” Valkyr asserted to her girlfriend.

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        “Here it is….” Nyx worriedly said as they approached what seemed to be a cave entrance with a long-destroyed Orokin door laying on the ground, seeming to have been ripped from it’s mounts at the mouth of the man-made cave. “The Coba Offsite-Storage Compound….”

        “Frost Prime isn’t here Nyx. Just some Corruptors and their pets, we’ll grind through them and get your old frame back. Just so you know, I’m going to at least try to convince Boss to give it back once his own Warframe is repaired.” Valkyr softly soothed, and Celestia’s ears on her frame’s head turned back, getting her to turn her attention behind them.

        “Not to be a bearer of bad news, but it seems the Infested have found the pathway I’ve burned through the forest.” Celestia informed. She’d had to burn down three more trees so Nyx wouldn’t get lost in her hazy memories.

        “Then we’d better get inside. If we leave some Corrupted between us and them, the Corruptors will direct them to the Infested over us since the Infestation is a priority over everything else.” Nyx said as they bolted into the storage facility.

        The design of the place was purely Orokin, with shimmering golden and alabaster surfaces everywhere. Instantly they were set upon by the Corrupted, but as Valkyr had planned, they jumped over them just in time for the Infested to come barging into the facility, and the Corrupted turned all attention to the ‘greater’ threat.

“This way! I remember this! The Corrupted were a very unwelcome wake-up call.” A strange inactive device shined in the center of the room that Nyx guided them to. The room was otherwise mostly full of hundreds of cryopods along the walls, ceilings, and scattered among the floor. Otherwise, the device was pointed at a shimmering not-wall on the far side. “H-here’s where it happened. Where I was cut down, and put to sleep. Oh gods...look at all of them! How...how could I have just left them here?” Nyx asked of herself, as clearly most of the pods were occupied, and cryopods were NOT used for inanimate storage.

“There’s no way we can get them all out of here...unless….” Valkyr looked at the device. “We could screw with the settings, get the Torsion Beam device to connect to Teshin’s Conclave on Mercury. There’s that inactive Gate in his Dojo, remember?”

“Perhaps Teshin knew of all this? Why else would he suggest I come? I can easily levitate all of these pods through the portal while you two buy me time.” Celestia stated as the sounds of Infested and weapons fire were getting closer.

“Got it, I’ll program the Torsion Beam Device, Valkitty...go nuts.” Nyx gestured back the way they came.

“WITH PLEASURE!” Valkyr screamed as she ran back towards the entrance, activating her Hysteria ability as she ran.

“Tenno, and Celestia, I shall provide the coordinates. Nyx, simply connect your Warframe to the Torsion Beam Device, we won’t have much time. The device does not seem to have a Key, and it will melt down within minutes, I suggest you move with all due haste.”

“Lotus? Where have you been? And I thought you and Teshin hated each other’s guts.” Nyx asked as she jumped across the room in one powerful leap, Celestia using her wings to a similar effect.

“There is no point to our feud taking precedence over the recovery of hundreds of Tenno. We need as many as we can get, for both our causes.” Lotus stated, getting Celestia to grumble.

“Well, quite honest of her. And here I thought we were doing this out of the goodness of our hearts.” Celestia growled, readying herself to rapidly move all the pods around her. She helped maintain Equus’ orbit and rotation, moving a few hundred several hundred pound canisters was nothing.

“Don’t be so upset Tia, Lotus is just as pragmatic as every other leading force in the Origin System, only difference is she actually cares that we not die, and also that at least some of us can live peacefully if we want to.” Nyx reassured her sexy friend as she put a palm over the slot meant for a Key, and soon it started whirring up. “Just be ready to practically chuck the pods through, cryopods are deceptively durable and autorepair so long as they’re not being constantly damaged.”

“Got it.” Celestia stated as she levitated all the bulky pods into the air, and the moment the portal opened, she sent them flowing into it like a river in the air.

“Well done, Tenno and Little Sol, I can see the pods arriving in my end.” Teshin suddenly informed through comm to them. “I thank you, it is torture to know where the needy are and not be able to reach them.”

“You could’ve been more direct.” Nyx complained.

“But then you would have not made the journey, and you both would not have come to realize important things about yourselves.” Teshin calmly replied.

“Teshin, that is complete bull and you know it.” Valkyr complained as she came back into the room, covered in disintegrating biomass and Corrupted blood.

“That may be, but you do know I still can’t really leave the Relays or my Dojo for long.” Teshin informed. “And you also would not have found what you were after. There should be something in that room, as well as a code of some sort. I am not sure.”

“Nyx...aren’t these yours?” Celestia suddenly asked, levitating a pair of white and golden Warframe legs to her, which disturbingly still had black flesh in them, getting her to squeal.

“MY LEGS! I missed you babies!” Nyx hugged her legs, which twitched and wiggled. “...Aaaaand that’s freaky. I know Tenno can reabsorb split mass but...these are a few decades gone and I’m kinda worried how much bigger I’ll get if I do reabsorb them….” Nyx mused in disgust and interest as Celestia continued to levitate the pods out, almost half done as Valkyr explored the room, the forces fighting outside of said storage chamber clearly more invested in each other than them.

“Oh~ now I WANT you to absorb them!” Celestia cooed, imagining Nyx being even bustier, and the Tenno, knowing what she was envisioning, felt quite embarrassed at the idea.

“I admit I was a really big guy before, I used to be as tall as a Rhino frame, but I was one of the first cases, so as usual, my Prime frame was entirely unique to me.” Nyx hazily remembered always towering over most people, until the Rhino Primes came along.

“FLOOR PANEL! WOO!” Valkyr suddenly cheered before she popped up out of the floor nearby, holding a Cipher. “Got a Cipher! Not sure what for, but a Cipher damn it!”

“... Please tell me you didn’t find a vault.” Nyx stated shakily, turning her head to the door, the sounds of battle suddenly went quiet.

“Ciphers don’t work on those, silly!” Valkyr said cattily, too happy with her find to notice.

“No, I mean DID YOU JUST OPEN A VAULT WHILE WE’RE-?!” Nyx was answered by a tide of Corrupted pouring into the room, laying fire down at them as they all jumped behind the nigh-indestructible Torsion Device. “DAMN IT VALKITTY!”

“I’m sorry! I couldn’t help it! Blame all our excursions out on the Derelicts looking for Ciphers to help us find Mirage!” Valkyr meekly countered, knowing her Loot Radar was really to blame.

“Girls!” Celestia yelled over the weapons fire, trying to get their attention.

“YOU MORON!” Nyx screamed angrily.

“Hey! At least I found SOMETHING!” Valkyr yelled at Nyx. “See?! There’s a pod down here that we missed! Though… It’s not on… and there’s just a frame inside.”

“GIRLS!” They both turned to the exasperated Celestia, who was shoving one last pod next to them, one that wasn’t on, and was holding a clearly empty frame if the braces holding the segments together were any indicator.

“Yeah that’s the one!” Valkyr pointed at it, before the two Tenno noticed that from their spot, the entire storage chamber was completely empty save the Corrupted flanking around at them, futilely trying to shoot through a golden fiery barrier that Celestia had clearly erected.

“If you’re both quite done bickering like a married couple, I’ve emptied the chamber, and judging by the hissing and crackling coming from this device, we’d best leave now.” Celestia informed, before she levitated them onto her back where they easily magnetically adhered to her, and she galloped towards the portal as the Torsion Beam Device started whirring on the final meltdown, and Celestia jumped through the portal with her companions and the inert pod moments before it collapsed behind them.

“Well done Tenno, and Celestia.” Teshin calmly greeted them among all the scattered pods, several Tenno of high veneration for their combat prowess and honor in the Conclave all beginning to carefully awaken individual Tenno. “It will take some time to awaken and acclimate the sleeping ones to the current way of things, but you have saved many from their centuries long slumber. I thank you.” Teshin bowed slightly, the bowl of water on his head pouring onto the floor, making him chuckle. “Sometimes I even forget I have that up there.”

“*wolf whistle* Hey~ who’s the one with the ass?”

“Nice flanks!”

“Ohmigosh, those wings!”

“There’s quad frames?! I want one!”

Celestia quickly laid down on the floor, tossing her friends off of her and trying to hide her body with her large wings. ‘I know I’m attractive but this is...Mother, why did I have to be blessed with your genes so much?’