Darvo hung there in the Tenno's arms as the Excalibur shook him angrily.

"how did you get here Darvo?" He asked with enough venom in his voice it should have caused a poison proc. The arms dealer reached into his pocket and pulled out a slip of paper.

"Hey lay off Tenno I'm legit this time I swear." The sleazy Corpus said nonchalantly. This only made Cal madder,

"Bullshit Darvo." He spat, and Darvo looked to the side.

"Trust me, Tenno, I'm just as shocked as you are." Cal took a breath like he was going to say more but was interrupted.

"Clem"
"Pinkie"

Darvo and Cal looked over to see Pinkie and Clem looking at each other as they went back and forth.

"Clem"
"Pinkie"

They went like this as Darvo and Cal kept looking between the two as they "Talked" to each other. Until Clem switched it up and said,

"Grakata!" excitedly and Pinkie proclaimed one final "Pie!" then they both touched their chins and nodded like they understood everything.

"What just happened?" Cal asked, and Pinkie jumped to face him with her trademark smile.

"Oh, my new friend Clem was explaining that they got a booth permit from mayor mare, As long as they didn't sell anything dangerous or volatile." Darvo chuckled,

"Nice lady if your into that kind of thing." Darvo shrugged chuckling again. "Didn't leave me much in the way of wares to sell though." Cal looked at his booth to see some Orstrons pottery, and inflatable Grineer blunts, Alongside several Grineer containers with price tags. Cal looked back to Pinkie.

"I shouldn't be surprised anymore should I?" He asked,

"But that's part of the fun about being near me!" She exclaimed and threw confetti out of her hooves. Clem said his name excitedly as he watched the shiny pieces fall to the ground.

"How'd you do that?" Darvo asked

"Do what?" Pinkie asked, but when Darvo looked at the ground again, the confetti was gone.

"What...How," Darvo started confused, and Cal set him down to pat his shoulder.

"Darvo meet Pinkie, Pinkie you probably already know Darvo." Cal introduced, and Pinkie nodded

"Now your catching on." She praised, Then reached behind her and grabbed a clipboard. "Your Darvo Bek, the son of prominent Corpus Board member Frohd Bek. A freelance ex-Corpus merchant who regularly sells equipment to the Tenno, either through the Market or through your own shop located on any Relay's second floor. Usually at a big discount from standard market prices." As Pinkie read Darvo's eyes got wider, and his jaw hung lower

"What the, how the hell! Give me that!" He snatched the clipboard and read further only to sputter. "How the hell did you get my Bank number and pin! where did you find all this info!" He shouted confused and scared. Pinkie merely smiled and closed her eyes, and Cal even said it with her.

"I'm Pinkie Pie."
"She's Pinkie Pie."

They said in perfect unison even if Cal sounded a bit tired in his recital. Darvo looked at the pony with fear.

"Also I wanted to make sure you didn't rip off any of my friends while you were in town." Pinkie finished with an innocent giggle. Darvo looked between her and the Tenno nervously.

"Whose your friends?" He asked with sweat on his brow.

"Oh, that's easy." Pinkie waved a hoof at him "Everyone!" She said happily, and Darvo chuckled then realized something

"By profit your not kidding are you."

"Oh, I never kid Mr. Bek. Come on Clemmy let go get you your first ever Pinkie pie Cupcake you'll love them!" She motioned for the Lancer to follow and he did with an overjoyed "CLEM!"

Darvo watched them go then looked back at the clipboard only for it to be gone, he looked all around in case he dropped it, but it had vanished into thin air. "Tenno I'm scared." He admitted, and Cal nodded understanding that feeling.

"And Darvo if you leek the location of this planet to anyone I'll find and burn all of your stuff," Cal added but felt his threat wasn't nearly as good as Pinkies. "Enjoy your stay." He left patting Darvo's shoulder as he walked away. The Corpus man stood there with a petrified face of doom for several seconds before a pony walked up and asked about the pottery.

Elsewhere on Sweet apple acres.

"Ok, so Arch-Duke theory is when you use fate to power your magic and Mage theory is using straight up power right?" Nekros asked, and Twi waved a hoof back and forth.

"Closer but still not wholly accurate. Let me try this a different way. Say your Warframe is your spell matrix and you cast your abilities through it. That's Arch-Duke Theory. But if you could cast your abilities without the frame that's Mage Theory because you create the matrix instead of using a template." Twilight explained, and Nekros stopped and looked at her.

"So every Warframe works off Arch-Duke theory, huh" He touched his chin.

"Well, I was merely making an example not declaring a hypothesis." Twilight backtracked, but Nekros stopped her with a shake of his head.

"But you're right Light Bright!" He held his hands out "The Warframe is a Spell Matrix, Every Nekros can cast the exact same abilities. But we can't cast say Snow Globe each Frame is limited to the same power set and base stats of that Frame."

Twilight understood now. "You can't cast outside your Matrix, and only the powers each Frame's Matrix allows. So by Arch-Duke Theory the Tenno are just walking enchanted suits of armor.... Wait are there other Nekros?" Twi asked catching another detail.

"Hundreds probably hell every member of my squad might have a Nekros in their inventory."

"Exactly like you?" She asked, and Nekros shook his head

"No there probably different colors and attachments but same powers and same base stats. We all have our favorite Frames, so that's the one we use the most."

"Fascinating!" Twilight said as the gears in her head turned to a different thought.

"Does that mean I could be a Nekros?" She asked with a serious face, and the Frame didn't like the look in her eyes.

"You're not a Tenno Twilight." He used her real name for the first time. "Plus you'd have to farm Lephantus, and I don't see a pony ever doing that." The casual tone came back, but Twilight wasn't done.

"What about Bloom?" She asked, and Nekros looked away.

"We don't even know how or what Chroma did to fuse himself to the pony so she could operate a Warframe." Twi opened her mouth again, but Nekros cut her off. "Were here drop it."

Twilight closed her mouth with a glare and looked at the apple trees. She knew the Apple family used the trees as monuments to the dead, but she didn't think they actually buried them in the orchid. The thought coupled with how many trees there were made a chill go down her spine.

"Now it's time to prove I'm a real Necromancer!" He shouted dramatically getting in character. Twi looked at him sideways.

"Didn't we just establish you run off Arch-Duke theory?" She argued, but Nekros was already in character again.

"Silence puny horse mortal! And witness the power of a Nekros!" He started moving his hands like he was drawing energy from the ground as sickly green mist slowly filled his hands with each pull. The green mist oozed from him as green wisps of it floated and circled him as he cast. He raised his hands ceremoniously to the sky and dropped them all the energy faded. Twi looked around but saw nothing.

"That looked impressive, but I don't see any-"

"What kind of Voodo are you trying to pull in my orchard!" Granny shouted angrily as she walked up. Nekros took one look at her and stood a bit straighter and crossed his arms smugly.

"Told you I was a real Necromancy."

"WHAT?"
"WHAT!" Twi and Granny shouted at the smug Frame.

"I raised an undead minion therefor I am a Necromancer." He declared, and Granny mouthed "Undead" with a cross look.

"Nekros that's just Granny Smith!" Twi pointed out, and Granny glared at her. "I mean she looks nothing like a corpse." Twi tried to save herself.

"Well I raised someone's Grandmother I mean look at her!" He crouched to Grannies level, and Twi could sense danger. "The Sickly green coat and flesh, The wispy grey hair, and look her skin is old and hanging off her bones clearly this is a Zombie." He finished right as Granny rose on her back legs and Clanked him in the face with a frying pan.

"I'M AS BEAUTIFUL AS FRESH FLOWER!" She shouted as Nekros landed on his back. Twi watched in horror and more amusement then she should as she continued to hit him. Till all that was left was a bend and dented pan and a half dead Nekros. "Next time you do any of that Voodo around my families trees your gonna have to raise your own bony butt from the dead ya heathen!" She warned as she stormed away in a huff repeating the word "undead" in disbelief to herself.

"Nekros are you ok?" She asked concerned, and He pried the pan from his helmet and rubbed the spot.

"I think..." he groaned and Twi took a relieved breath before falling on her back laughing. While Nekros glared at her.

Author's Note

Sorry this is a bit shorter then i wanted but it seemed like a good place to leave this one.
We have one more Tale of Ponyville chapter.