The next morning

Bloom woke up and jumped out of bed. She looked at herself remembering where the Grineer had shot her, but only a ghost of a bruise remained. She stretched out and greeted Chroma in her head who returned the greeting, and they both set for the bathroom. Once the water was running Chroma removed himself, and Bloom jumped into the tub. She reached a hoof to the frame, and it looked at her confused.

“Bloom what are, you doing I don’t need a…. a bath.” He said the last words like he didn’t quite know them. She dragged the dragon pelt into the water and squirmed around.

“Ya well I do I’ve been Celestia knows where and I’ve slept for days, and I need your help reaching all these new hard to reach spots you created.” She pointed a sponge at him making him flinch at the spray of water. Bloom turned her back to him and pointed a hoof at her back. He sighed, and she looked back at him.

“Please?’’ he picked up the sponge and started to work diligently Bloom sighed and relaxed at the soothing scrubbing. She reached over and grabbed the shampoo which she lathered in her hooves and began to run it through her hair. She noticed her hair was thicker than before and was having a harder time running through It. She pressed on rubbing more and more until the soapy bubbles were threatening to run down her face and in her eyes. She picked up the bucket filled it with water with a sigh and poured it over her head. She repeated the steps until she was sure all the soap was gone, and Chroma had announced he was done. She smiled and turned to him sponge in a hoof. Chroma looked at her then to the sponge the little lights that made up his eyes grew in size, and he tried to exit the tub. But Bloom already had a hoof on him.

“Now hold still it’s only fair you washed mine I get yours it’s how this works.” Whatever protests Chroma had shattered as Bloom started to work the sponge through the lines and parts that made up her frame. After a while, the only sounds that could be heard besides the soft splash of water was Chroma letting out something between a rumble and a purr. Bloom had to hold back her giggling. She pulled the plug on the tube. Once the water was gone and she had dripped dried a bit, she grabbed the towel with her mouth and started to shake and dry. Chroma looked at her then pulled his arms in tight, and the little bar on her H.U.D drained a point or two, and a wave of heat rolled off him causing all the water on him to steam and evaporate off of him. Bloom gave an impressed look when a knock on the door startled her.

“Give me a minute I’m almost out.” She called out, and a loud gasp could be heard behind the door. Before Bloom could say anything else, the door flung open, and two fillies stormed in with huge eyes and smiles plastered on their faces. But what Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle saw made them stop. However, Bloom instantly took action she slammed into Chroma reconnecting immediately making her yelp opened the window and jumped out. But what Bloom had forgotten was that the bathroom was on the second floor or would have been a problem for her old self. Here and now she made the landing and ran out into the orchard like it was nothing. Applejack came running in seconds later to see the two fillies standing there. She saw the open window and put two and two together and sighed.
“Bloom…. Ah right what happened, and why are you two here..?” She asked, and Scoots answered first.

“We saw pinkie making the welcome home Bloom banner, and we rushed here to greet Bloom but…. But that didn’t look... well it kinda did then she put something on her back and jumped.”
Sweetie looked at Aj “that was Bloom wasn’t it?” she shook her head, yes and Sweetie thought for a second. She bolted past Scootaloo and Applejack “Come on we gotta get our friend.” Scoot’s face lit up with determination they raced back to the Pegasus’s scooter Sweetie held on tight as they sped off in the direction their friend had run.
Further into the orchard Bloom finally stopped to think about what just happened.

“Oh, why the hay did I do that why did I run? And why did I jump from the second floor like that?” she shot a glare at Chroma “is that a Tenno thing to jump from high places likes its nothing? I could have played it off. But now I'm just an armored freak.”

“with superpowers” a high pitched squeak called out, and Bloom looked just in time to see, Scootaloo and Sweetie belle careening towards her at top speed on the scooter. Before Bloom could run again, Scootaloo pitched the scooter sideways. Sweetie flew into Bloom soon followed by Scootaloo. Knocking Bloom to the ground, they held her tight not wanting to let go. Scootalloo was the first to break the hug she grabbed Bloom by the face and looked her dead in the void eyes “just to get this out of the way
ARE YOU APPLE BLOOM?” she asked with deathly seriousness

“Ya?” Bloom responded by raising an eyebrow

“Good” then the Pegasus hugged Bloom so hard her shields dropped by a fraction of a point. Sweetie got up and hugged Bloom from behind. She marveled at how warm the red parts were even if they looked leathery.
“We heard you had an accident, and we saw Pinkies banner so we knew you must have been home, and we were worried, but now you’re a super pony and… and what is this made out of it feels alive… Is it a parasite!!” Sweetie suddenly jumped back in fear with a squeak then shrugged and returned to the warmth. Bloom pushed them off of her. Took back the breath they had stolen from her then pulled them back into a back breaking hug.

“Feeling better?” Chroma asked, and Bloom nodded

“Much.” The other crusaders looked at her in confusion.

“Who are you talking to?” Scoots asked. She let them go and let Chroma introduce himself. She felt Chroma detach with a hiss and could feel the other's eyes grow like dinner plates. They gasped and backed away.

“This is Chroma” He then bowed his head and spoke in Bloom's head.
“Scootaloo,” he said correctly Bloom nodded.

"Yep, that's Scootaloo." He pointed at Sweetie

"Marshmellow?" He didn't feel that was correct.

"Her name is not Marshmellow!" Bloom sputtered and blushed Scoots fell to the floor laughing, and Sweetie turned red.

"It's Sweetie Belle" She corrected, and Chroma held his claws out in an Apologetic manner. He bowed, and Sweetie dipped back. Scootaloo who had recovered from her laughing fit was now looking the pelt over from a bunch of different angles.

“You kind of look like a dragon…. Can you breathe fire?” Scootaloo asked, and excitement filled her eyes soon Sweetie joined in just as hard. Bloom could see the pride fill Chroma’s eyes and she rejoined with the dragon. With the sharp pain that came with. Sweetie put a hoof on Bloom's shoulder as she cringed for a bit. Once the pain subsided, Bloom nodded to Sweetie then regained the determined smile and with a flick of her tail told the other to follow her as she leads them to the farmhouse.

But as they neared the farmhouse, Bloom got rushed by a purple blur and Applejack. Twilight grabbed the filly hybrid and examined her all over again. Before Bloom could ask what she was doing, Twi’s magic flowed over her and tossed her the height of the farmhouse into the air only for Bloom’s agility to kick in, and she flipped and spun and landed softly on all fours. Twilight looked her over and scanned her with magic. Bloom yet again was about to ask why when Twi fired a bolt of magic straight into Bloom's side causing the hybrid to flinch and her shields to flare. The flare died down, and she jumped when twilight poked her stomach.

“Twi what are you doing?” Bloom asked.

“Notes” the purple unicorn answered curtly and once Bloom's shields were done recycling she poked her again. Then magic up a wooden cut out of a “Bad pony.”

“Burn it,” she said and pointed to the cutout. This interested the other crusaders, Chroma shrugged, and Bloom focused on her first ability, channeling her energy like she did last night. Everything came back to her the smell of blood the heat the pain everything was just like it was in her dream the smell of the fire the orange flames. She could see the Grineer But she did not panic, she did not cry. She cut off the ability when she saw nothing but ashes and smaller fires that had been set around the target. She stomped them out and looked at her Friends who all cheered for her while the book mare looked traumatized. She was muttering something Bloom got closer a little worried.

“2400 degree’s Bloom your fire is hot enough to melt most rock.” She looked scared. But the mood was quickly shattered by Scootaloo.

“Sweet!”

“So if that’s all the test you want to run… Then I’m gonna go eat breakfast!” Bloom quickly stated then ran off with her friends in tow. Leaving Applejack and twilight alone

“Twi?” the earth pony asked putting a Hoof on the Unicorns shoulder. Twilight looked at her.

“I need a Warframe.” She said, and the intensity in those eyes scared Aj quite a bit.
The CMC’s inside the quaint farmhouse was munching on a tower of fresh pancakes. Though something became apparent to Sweetie Belle as she looked at the other two. Bloom was now a right hoof or so taller than all of them, and she had a set of sharp teeth almost like canines now. Sweetie’s thoughts turned to AppleBloom finishing her pancakes and then going to eat Sweetie Belle. But then her mind rolled Bloom into one of those vampires her sister read about that Sweetie technically wasn’t supposed to look at but did anyway.

“What” Sweetie squeaked when Bloom called her out on her staring. Scootaloo had stopped mid-cake to look at the other two. Sweetie’s brain worked frantically to come up with the right reason. “Blooms taller than us now!” she blurted out causing Scootaloo to look at the hybrid.

“your right Pony feathers… and you’re a fire-breathing pony slash alien hybrid… you might come close to rainbow dash for most awesome.”

Somewhere over Ponyville.

Rainbow had a sudden pain causing her to cramp in her Awesome organ. “I sense a disturbance in the awesome…” she then rocketed towards Ponyville. Sweetie sat at the Apple's table trying her best to push away whatever weird thoughts were coming up. When Rainbow’s top half burst through the nearest window with a determined look.

“Alright Everypony who said something is more awesome than me?” she scanned Everypony in the room one by one till her eyes found AppleBloom. “Hey, Bloom? You look different,” she barked out, and Bloom looked at her eyes full with a pancake hanging out of her mouth. Dash looked into Bloom's eyes and found herself dumbstruck. She removed herself from the window and floated closer to Bloom she got almost uncomfortably close to Bloom’s face. Dash help up a hoof

“Bloom when did you get A, taller B, those kick flank contacts, and C, this awesome fake dragon hide hoodie.” She poked the dragon frame with a hoof and Bloom huffed to explain everything again.
When Sweetie popped up.

“That’s her new eye color, his real his name is Chroma, and he’s an alien that saved Bloom's life, and he’s pretty awesome.” She said, and then Scootaloo piped up

“Ya and now she’s like a superhero, she can jump really high and Breath fire!” she beamed to her idol making Rainbow cock an eyebrow in skepticism.

“Prove...” before she could finish the challenge Bloom spat a quick puff of fire just inches from the prismatic mare’s snout causing her to recoil.

“And she had these, cu... Neat fangs see” Sweetie pulled Bloom's cheek back to expose the small canines to Bloom’s none amusement. The pony hybrid swatted away Belle’s hooves and told Chroma to say hi. Though he didn’t entirely detach merely unwrapped one arm and waved with a head dip. Dash froze, and her eyes didn’t leave the hide for a good couple of minutes. Long enough for Aj to get a plate and dump some pancakes onto it and walk back to the kitchen.

“Holy crap… that pretty awesome.” She bopped her head with an impressed look on her face. AJ, however, smacked her with her tail as she passed scolding her on language.

“Well, you’ve met one of the newest members of the apple clan….I’m pretty sure the other new additions will be around soon. He said something about going for a fly around town.” She said nonchalantly before sitting down and beginning to dig into her own cakes.

“So he’s a Pegasus?” dash asked and right before Aj could smile and shake her head no the sounds of silent engines passed over the farmhouse and the linset set down, and dashes jaw hit the floor at the alien spacecraft. Then Ordis popped into the farmhouse all gleaming and giddy.

“Oh Good solar cycle Operator and family, this town is so wonderfully *Primitive* Quant!” he spoke with glee. He blinked out then reappeared in front of dash sudden enough to make her jump.

“OH my, what a most unusual *Mutation!* Color combination Ordis’s sensors are *Bleeding* Pleased. Ordis then scanned Rainbow who covered herself like it was gonna stop something. Then he moved again, this time, in front of the CMC’s he studied Sweetie first.

“This one makes me wish I had arms it's so cute…Maybe to…cute hmm marked potentially lethal to cardiovascular organs….” Sweetie laughed at his weird voice. Then the A.i moved to Scootaloo who looked defensive. Ordis looked at her then to Dash then back to Scoots.

“Same species, No relation But your flight systems seem to be impaired… are your internal systems damaged?” Ordis asked seeming to be genuinely concerned for the filly. But the look on Scoots face wasn’t a happy one. Bloom gave the Cephalon a harsh look and Ordis Recoiled.

“Did Ordis say something wrong, But according to what the knowledge Twilight sparkle gave Ordis this is abnormal.”

“Ordis stoooop, she’s sensitive about her wings!” Bloom tried to get him to stop.

“Ordis see’s…. But according to the age, your size suggest your flight should be accessible by now. Possibly something in the hardware…maybe software. Ordis suggest a full diagnostic and then contact the manufacturer.” He said so matter of fact like he had done a great deed in pointing out the little Pegasus’s flaws. Scoots for her part chuckled though not without considerable effort.

“Thanks, Ordis…. I’ll get right on that.” She chuckled again, turned away from Everypony, muffling a sniffle she started out the door. “I’ll meet you girls at the clubhouse….” Once she passed the threshold, she bolted towards the clubhouse.

“It was excellent to meet you Scoot-a-loo.” Ordis beamed, and Everypony stared at him in shock. “What?”

“That was awful Ordis…” Bloom started, but Dash butted in

“What the hay you overcharged light bulb no one talks to my fan like that.” Dash hovered right in his hologram and Ordis shifted and flowed

“Ordis is confused, I merely offered a suggestion to help fix the glitch in her flight systems.”
Bloom moved Dash out of the way with an angry grunt from the Pegasus. “it was bad enough with her wings, but her “Manufacturers” Her parents she doesn’t have them!” Bloom said and turned to where Scoots had bolted.

“I don’t understand,” Ordis said again trying to wrap his systems around what they meant. When Chroma of all folks spoke up “Ordis Scootaloo’s operator’s abandoned her… Forever.” Ordis Froze dead at this. Bloom waved a hoof in his hologram, but he didn’t respond. She huffed ran out the door. She didn’t get far before Ordis blinked out and the engines of the ship roared to life. Chroma appeared on her screen in a panic.

“Bloom drop to the floor spread your arms and legs!” he nearly shouted before The ship knocked Bloom over. She managed to get into position before the Linset dropped on her scooping her up. But with enough force to bounce her off the interior of the linset before ordis took off with enough speed to throw Bloom down a ramp.

“Oh, Ordis is so *Stupid* insensitive!” Ordis fretted as he flew through the orchard. The stopped so fast Bloom hit the window with a thwap! Bloom's head was spinning from the blows.
Ordis had parked the Linset expertly right in front of a shocked Scootaloo. Whose face turned to a tired one when Ordis Blinked in front of her, His hologram got closer hung there almost fazing through the filly before backing up looking left then to the right real quick before repeating the motions. “UUM?” Scootaloo started before Ordis finally explained himself.

“Oh forgive Ordis, I did not know you were abandoned Ordis is sorry, Ordis was once abandoned to for a very long time. I am broken because of this as well.” Ordis fazed on the filly a little more, than apparently got frustrated and turned red and Glitchy. “Operator get down here and be the arms Ordis is lacking for this Pony gesture!!” he shouted. Bloom made her way down the ramp and hugged the now slightly crying filly alongside Ordis for what it was worth.

Ordis suddenly flashed red, and Bloom had to do her best not to panic. Her heart sunk as Ordis began to blare an alarm. It was all too close to what had happened with the ancient. “Operator a ship had landed, and the void shows several ships are entering the planet’s atmosphere.”

“Chroma what does this mean?” she asked, and Chroma shook his head.

“Depends on a couple of things,” He asked sounding a little grim.

“Like what?”

“Well for starters if they know were Tenno, and two if they’re not dicks…” Bloom wanted to scold him for cursing. But more pressing matters were popping up.

Author's Note

(So i moved some of what use to be that last chapter here because i felt it worked better. Also reedited)
Ok Question time
my list of frames in this fic are
Oberon, Valkry, Frost, Excalibur, Volt, Nekros, Ember, Zephr, Vauban, Nxy,
Which pony is going with which Frame Leave your guess in the Comment section.