Twilight stood on the bridge of Voyager as she looked at the main screen showing the Borg Cube. “So I’m going to take a stab in the dark and say they aren’t here to make friends.” She said.

“Something like that.” A human dressed in a yellow uniform said from behind his console to Twilight’s left. “Shields are up.”

“Ready phasers and arm photon torpedoes.” Captain Janeway said not taking her eyes from the screen.

“Phasers ready and torpedoes armed captain.” Tuvok said after a moment. Twilight watched as an area on the Cube started to glow and a moment later it fired a beam of green energy at the Federation Ship. The shields blocked the beam for a moment before they suddenly vanished and the beam stopped.

“Shields offline captain!” The one human who spoke before said as his finger franticly hit buttons on the display. “I’m trying to bring them back….Captain transporter signals all over the ship!” HE said and a moment later three green glows appeared on the bridge and three humanoid creatures who seemed to be mostly made of metal faded in to view.

One was close to the human who seemed to run the shields and before anyone could react it grabs him and two small injectors sprouted from its right hand as the bridge crew moved to draw their weapons as more of the Borg grabbed crewmen.

Before the beige crew had their weapons half way draw the air on the bridge was split by two loud bangs and sparkle sprayed from the Borg that held the shield crewmen and it stumbled back. A moment later two more blasts sounded and the Borg went down.

Everyone on the Bridge, Borg included looked to the source of the unfamiliar sound and saw Twilight standing with two smoking heavy pistols in her hands, they were silver and had ivory grips and were large revolvers. The Mare wasted no time turning the Beauties on the two remaining Borg and the Bridge echoed with more shots as she emptied the cylinders and the two Borg went down.

“Ha! Don’t like .357s do you mental bastards!” Twilight said as she reloaded the Beauties. “Captain I recommend we get the hell away from them.” She said looking back at Janeway who nodded.

“Mr. Parris move us away, full impulse, I want to jump to warp as soon as we can.” She said as she took her seat.

“Captain, whatever the beam was didn’t just take down our shields, Warpcore is offline as well.” Parris said as he maneuvered the Ship away from the Cube that started to pursue.

“Damn, Harry, how many Borg transported aboard?” Janeway asked looking to the human who ran the shields.

“Detecting at least two dozen captain, security is trying to fight them off but they keep adapting to our phasers.” Harry said.

Twilight looked at the three dead Borg on the ship. “Captain if you can keep us out of range of them being able to put more on board I’ll help deal with the boarding parties.” Twilight said and when Janeway looked she saw the Alicorn held a scoped rifle and had a smile plastered on her muzzle. “They seem to have trouble adapting to bullets so I think I am going to go hunting.” She said with a hint of Glee and the Captain nodded.

“Good luck Commander, don’t let them grab you or else they will assimilate you like they tried to do to Harry.” Janeway said and Twilight nodded as she stepped back into the turbolift. “
Where is the nearest boarding party?” She asked Harry from the Turbolift.

“They are heading for Tenforward, two of them.” The human replied and Twilight nodded before ordering the turbolift to take her to the nearest group.

Tenforward was in chaos as most of the crew inside were unarmed as the phaser had been collected. The two members of Security were trying to hold off the Borg drone as best as they could but their shield had already adapted to the phasers frequencies. As one was in the process of changing the frequency one of the drones grabbed him by the front of his uniform and dragged him close causing him to drop his weapon. The other security was trying to keep the other drone away from two unarmed crewman and didn’t see his companion get grabbed.

The Securitas member’s eyes widened as he knew he was done for. “Hey tinman, back the fuck off!” The room echoed with a loud crack and the side of the Borg’s head vanished in a spray of sparks and it dropped the security guard and scrambled for his phaser before jumping to his feet.

He got to his feet in time to see the remaining Borg’s head jerk back as the back of its skull blew out with the sound of another crack. It was then he saw the purple alien security had been informed was on boarded step in from the open doorway on the opposite side of Tenforward racking the bolt on her rifle. “You lot ok?” she asked the crew, the other member of Security had bene thrown across the room by the board and was unconscious but the other members of the crew were ok if shaken by coming close to being assimilated.

The Security member nodded and suddenly found some sort of rifle being shoved into his hands by a purple glow. “Take this, bullets seem to be more effective than your weapons, try to fire in short burst and watch the recoil.” The alien Commander said and four extra magazines were placed on the table beside the security member. “I’m leaving you with four reloads, make your shots count, you only have thirty-two per mag and the button to eject the spent mag is right above it, make sure the fresh mag is fully inserted before you try to fire or the rifle will jam.” The Alicorn quickly explained.

The Security member nodded before taping his bade. “Tenforward secured Captain.” He reported.

“Where’s the next nearest boarders headed?” Twilight asked the guard as he would know do to reports.

“Last I heard there were some near Sickbay.” The Guard told her and she nodded before turning and heading for her next objective.

Sickbay wasn’t much better off then Tenforward was, injured crewmen filed in along with the Security, all of them injured by the Borg as security tried to repel them. The Doctor had his hands full as he treated burns and broke bone while three members of Security watched the door.

He had just finished repairing a broken bone when the doors to Sickbay opened and a crewman flew in and crashed to the ground as four Borg entered the room. Security opened fire and managed to bring one down before they adapted and they had to rotate frequencies. They had just finished when the door behind the three Borg opened once more and a loud crack split the air and one of them went down, the top half of its head missing.

The one of the Borg turned to face the new threat while the other advanced on the members of security. The was another crack and another board dropped as a moment later the three members of security opened fire on the remaining Borg and brought it down.

Twilight stepped over the downed Boars as she racked the bold to chamber her last round in the sniper rifle. “Everything ok here?” She asked and got a nod in response before shoving one of her shotguns and another assault rifle into two of the Security’s hands as well as four extra mags for the rifle and two boxes of shells for the shotgun.

“Watch the kick and make your shots count, that Shotgun should take one of them down in a single shot at close range, you have eight shots before you need to reload and that will take time as you need to load each shell individually, don’t forget to pump it when you are done loading to chamber a shell, after that its semiauto so you won’t need to pump it after that.” She explained and the two newly armed security nodded, she only gave them two as having one of their own weapons firing would be a good back up as it didn’t seem to need to reload like her guns did so it had an advantage over them in that. “Where’s the next nearest boarders?”

“Last we heard Engineering was under attack but we haven’t heard anything from the team sent down there.” One of the guards said and Twilight nodded.

“Ok, where is Engineering? I never made it there in my tour.” She asked and the guard gave her direction, after thanking him she left Sickbay to clear engineering.

Engineering was under attack by seven Borg, three normal drones and the freshly assimilated security team sent to stop them. The engineers were making a stand near the offline Warpcore and giving the Borg hell when Twilight arrived on site. She wasted no time in sighting the Borg closest to the mostly unarmed engineers and pulled the trigger. The top half of its head vanished in a spray of sparks and Twilight quickly started to reload as three Borg turned to face her. She barely got her shield up in time to absorb their shots, seems they remembered her.

Once the sniper was loaded Twilight dove behind the center console and dropped her shield as she came up and fired a shot at one of her attackers, the former human fell back, a large hole in his chest from where the .308 rounds tore into his body. She ducked as her two remaining attackers opened fire and she switched out the sniper for the Beauties and came back up a moment alter. Sighting both Borg she put three rounds in their chests and they went down.

She sited another Borg that turned to face her and pulled the trigger, only to have her shot deflected by a green shield. “Shit.” Twilight explained as she ducked the next shot, they had adapted to two of her most powerful weapons and they were closing on the Engineers, she needed to take the remaining Borg down quickly.

Well, she was trying to avoid damaging the ship but that wasn’t an option anymore. Pulling a small round object out she stood up as she pulled the pin. “Get back!” She yelled at the Engineers as she let the small handle go and it flew from the round object in her hand. As soon as the Engineers fell back she threw the object. “Frag out!” She yelled and dove for cover. A moment later Engineering was rocked with an explosion as the grenade detonated right in the middle of the remaining Borg and pieces of them were added to the shrapnel from the frag.

Twilight got to her feet holding another grenade, the pin still in it and found the Borg were well and truly dead, scatted all over Engineering and among the damaged computer panels. Nodding she returned the grenade back where it came from and headed for the Engineers to check on them. “You lot alright?” She asked once she reached them

A humanoid alien with ridged on her forehead spoke up. “Yeah, we’re good, who the hell are you?” She demanded as the other engineers grabbed emergency medkits to tend their companions who were injured in the blast.

“Commander Twilight Sparkle, Equestrian Defense Force, I’m helping to repel boarders on this ship.” Twilight answered automatically before pulling out her heavy assault shotgun and shoving it into the alien’s hands. “You seem like you’ll be able to handle this, it’s a fully automatic shotgun, the drum holds thirty-six shells.” She said as she placed three more drums on the now dead console beside the alien female. “It’s got a hell of a kick but should shred just about anything unlucky enough to be in front of it.” She explained.

“I’ve cleared Tenforward and Sickbay; do you know where the next nearest Borg are?” She asked.

The engineer thought for a moment.” I heard that security was under heavy attack near Halodeck Three.” The female said looking over the strange weapon in her hands.

Twilight nodded and got direction to her next objective. “How do you plan to fight them as they seem to have adapted to your weapons.” The engineers said and looked as a large scoped rifle appeared from thine air in the Alicorns hands.

“This is designed to punch through a foot of armor plating; I think a few lightly armored tinmen will be no trouble.” Twilight said with a smile, she looked much like a child getting to play with her favorite two, which was accurate as she didn’t get to use her anti-tank rifle very often. With her baby held close Twilight made her way towards the last main battle for Voyager.

Halodeck Three was active and running a program of a Federation hospital back on earth, Security was using it as a secondary Sickbay for those who couldn’t make it to the actual Sick bay. The safeties were turned off so there were holographic guards engaging the Borg as well as the actual security but still the Borg were adapting fast to both forms of attack.

The hospital’s hall was rocked by a deafening crack and four Borg simply exploded from the waist up and their legs collapsed as there was nothing telling them to stand anymore.

The Borg turned to face the attacker and twilight had a wide smile on her face as she racked another massive AT-Round into the chamber and took aim. The Borg raised their shields against her primitive projectiles as they had adapted to her sniper and the two heavy pistols. The hall exploded once more and the heavy round ripped through their shields like tissue paper and kept going without being slowed as it passed through the Borg under it and kept going into the Borg behind it before the round sped away into the while blue yonder, it would be some time before it hit something that would actually stop it as it was meant to punch through a main battle tanks armor and hit the crew inside, being used on normal soft infantry meant nothing came close to slowing the round down.

She racked another round but the halo-security opened fire and brought the remaining Borg down as they were all focused on the Alicorn.

Twilight swept the rifle form side to side checking for any more active targets and finding none slung the massive rifle over both her shoulders and steadying it with her arms being over it.

“Top of the morning to you laddies!” She proclaimed with a smile. “Is everything secure here?” She asked and one of the real Security members nodded.

“Those were the last of the Borg on board, thank you; you save a lot of live today.” The human said and Twilight nodded, she made a mental note to go collect her weapons before she would return to the bridge however the entire ship was rocked as an explosion reverberated through the hull.

“That can’t be good.” Twilight said looking back the way she had come. “I’ll leave you to clean up; I’m going to go see what that was.” Twilight told the guards before sadly storing her AT-Rifle and heading for the nearest turbolift.

Arriving on the bridge Twilight was nearly thrown from her feet as the ship lurched from another explosion and had to grab the door frame of the turbolift to stay upright. Holding onto the door just in case she saw what the issue was, the Borg Cube was firing on Voyager and with their shields down they were taking near direct hits, the only thing saving the ship from being destroyed was Parris’ skill as a helmsmen.

Even with the shots only coming close they were still doing damage to the ship and it would be long t the starship was either destroyed or disabled and then the crew would be easy picking even with Twilight’s aide.

Twilight watched as Voyager returned fire only for the second shot to be blocked by a shield as the Borg adapted and then Voyager was on the run again. Twilight watched the screen trying to figure out how she could help but her firearms and training only worked on actual ground forces and boarding parties, she had no idea what to do against an enemy starship…..starship….space….they were in space and space meant stars.

Twilight searched the void around the Cube until she saw what she needed. “Captain, if you can get us near that sun I think I can help destroy that Cube.” Twilight said and Janeway looked at her.

“How sure are you? Without our shields we will be exposed to a lot of radiation.” Janeway asked and explained.

Twilight ran the calculations in her head. “I’d say 50/50 chance I can pull off what I am planning, but I have never tried something like it so I can’t be sure.” Twilight said and Janeway thought a moment as she looked back at the Cube.

Then. “Mr. Parris get us as close to that sun as you can.” She ordered.

“Aye, aye Captain.” Parris said and Voyager headed for the sun at full speed the Cube right behind them.

“That’s right you mental-son-of-bitches, follow the birdy.” She said under her breath as she moved to the center of the bridge so she had a clear view. As they neared the sun alarms started to go off as the hull heated and radiation flooded the ship but still Parris kept going and the Cube followed, if fact it was gaining as the gravity from the sun was slowing Voyagers pace.

“Captain if I get any closer we will be pulled into the sun.” Parris said as he leveled out.

Janeway looked at Twilight. “Is this close enough?”

Twilight ran the calculations again and nodded. “I believe so; keep us steady, this is going to take a few moments.” She said as she closed her eyes and concentrated. Her horn glowed as she ran thought the spell she needed and the Cube filled the view screen more and more as it neared the stationary ship. Twilight ignored the nervous shuffling of the bridge crew and the alarms that blared as the hull heated more and more and more radiation alarms went off. Her horn was wrapped in a second layer of magic and then a third as she squeezed her eyes shut as a headache bloomed in her head, she pushed through it and she ignored the wetness she felt running from her nose as she forced all her magic into this one task. She was an Alicorn as strong as the Moon Princess; this shouldn’t be this hard even if she has never done something like this.

After a minute a purple glow wrapped around the Borg Cube and it stopped moving as is was held in place and Twilight started to sway as her headache greet as she fought the ships momentum. After a few more moment the Cube vanished in a purple flashed and reappeared with another flash, much closer to the star. The Ships engines flared as it tried to escape the stars gravity but slowly the ship was pulled down and after a few seconds began to break up as it was racked with explosions and the hull melted when the shield failed and a second alter the Cube exploded in a blinding while light that was consumed by the sun.

“Get us out of here Mr. Parris!” Janeway ordered and Voyagers own engine came to life as it made to break orbit.

“She actually did it; sensors are showing Borg Cube completely destroyed captain.” Harry said and the Crew looked at the Alicorn who had saved her life just in time for her to collapse to the deck, blood flowing freely from her nose and eyes as she lost consciousness from the straining of teleporting a massive ship.

IT was several hours before Twilight started to come to and found herself in Sickbay on one of the bed with the Doctor running a scanner over her. “Ah welcome back Commander, I was beginning to worry.” He said as he finished his scan. “Well despite not knowing much of anything about your alien physiology much less what you did to yourself I think you have completely recovered.” He said as he tapped on the scanner.

Twilight groaned in response and rubbed her temples as she still had a faint headache. “Did we win?” She croaked.

“I’ll say we did.” Parris said coming into view. “Whatever you did cause the Borg Cube to be pulled into the sun.”

Twilight nodded. “That was kind of the plan though I didn’t know if I could pull it off.” She said. “Moving a moon is different then moving an entire ship that is fighting you the entire way.” She said and closed her eyes.

“You can move a moon?” The Doctor asked and Twilight nodded.

“Princess Luna let me do it a couple of time, to see if I could as I’m the same power level as her, it was hard but the moon didn’t fight and I could get used to it, I don’t think I should try moving ships though as I think that nearly killed me or permanently gave me burn out.” She said.

“Well either way “ Janeway said as she stepped up beside the bed. “This entire ship has you to thank for saving us back there so on behalf of the crew and the Federation I thank you Commander Sparkle.” Janeway said and Twilight nodded.

“I’ll say, doing that to a Borg ship is not something seen every millennia.” A voice Twilight recognized said and she groaned.

“Discord I am in no mood to deal with you.” Twilight said with a groan.

There was a flash of light and a human dressed exactly like Janeway stood in the room. “Discord? Well, can’t say I have ever been called that.” The human said.

Twilight sighed and looked at the God of Chaos and Disharmony. “Discord if you are going to try and disguise yourself you really should change your voice; it’s kind of a dead giveaway.” She said flatly and the Human looked at Janeway.

“Captain would you mind telling me what she is talking about?” Discord said.

In response Janeway clicked her badge. “Janeway to the bridge, go to yellow alert, Q is on board.” She said.

Discord/Q looked hut as he gasped and held his chest. “Now Captain is that anyway to treat an old friend?”

“You are no friend of this ship Q.” Janeway said as she glared at “Q”.

“Um…..excuse me.” Twilight said as she raised her hand. “Who is Q and how do you know Discord?” She asked the humans and hologram.

Everyone in the room, Q included, looked between each other in confusion.

“Commander who is Discord?” Janeway asked.

“Discord is the god of Chaos and Disharmony, him.” Twilight said as she pointed at Discord.

Discord blinked several time. “I think you have me confused with someone else.” He said and looked at Janeway. “Tell her.”

Janeway looked between Twilight and Discord. “What makes you think this is one of your gods Commander?” Janeway asked gesturing towards Discord.

Twilight blinked in confusion and then waved a hand. “Oh no he isn’t one of my gods, he is a god and I know it’s him because he has the exact same voice and that flash of light.” She said.

“You mean this?” Discords asked and snapped his finger and he disappeared in a flash of light and reappeared on the other side of the bed beside Twilight who calmly looked at him.

“And the snapping to do everything.” She said simply and nodded. “No denying it, you are Discord, so I’m assuming you are the reason for me ending up here rather than going home.” She said.

Discord looked confused once more. “I honestly have no idea what you are talking about.”

“Discord I am in no mood for your games, besides you are suppose to be overseeing that group of recruits that’s failed your course’s training.” She said. “And on top of that you can take me home since you are able to move between dimensions it seems.”

Discord blinked. “What do you mean recruits? What course?”

“Discord enough of your games.” Twilight said running her hand down her face is exasperation. “Or are you going back on our partnership?” She asked staring at him flatly.

Discord looked at Janeway. “Well I came by to see what was able to move an entire Borg Cube into a sun and I find her. “He gestured at Twilight. “Something the Continuum has no knowledge of and she seems to have me confused with another Q.” He looked back at her. “Though I don’t know of any Q who has ever gone by Discord or would form a partnership with mortals.”

“Ok I am getting annoyed with you so either make some semblance of sense or when I get back I’m sealing you in stone for a year.” Twilight said firmly.

“You have trapped a Q?” Janeway said.

Twilight nodded. “Yeah Discord was trapped in stone for over one-thousand years till he escaped for a couple of days and we had to put him back. Twilight explained. “After that we let him go and me and my friends were charged with reforming him which we succeeded at and I gave him a job helping to train EDF recruits at how to be able to stay calm no matter what happens, anyone that fails Discord course gets two more chances to try and if they fail all three times they are out of the EDF. Granted success doesn’t not mean actually completing the course as Discord has a field day with his chaos, there is only one person who has ever completed it besides myself and that is the Lieutenant in charge of the Flame Troopers.” Twilight explained. “Me and him have been partners for about fifty years now though he is in danger of losing that partnership.” Twilight said with a glare for the God of Chaos.

“Well then I must say I have not been surprised for a very long time but I can say without a doubt I am surprise and I have no idea what she is talking about.” Discord said and looked at Janeway. “I’ll be in touch Captain.” He said before snapping his fingers and vanishing in a flash of light.

“Did she just scare away Q?” Parris asked as he looked where Discord had been standing.

“I think she did.” The Doctor said staring at the same spot before both humans and hologram in the room turned and looked at the mare in the bed.

“What?” Twilight asked.

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After having Discord or Q as he seemed to be, it took Twilight sometime to be convinced they were two separate being but after Q’s abilities being pointed out and found lacking compared to Discord, such as no seeming to be aware of alternate dimension as Discord was and the fact there were more of these Qs where there was only one Discord, thank the gods, she had been allowed to rest as the Voyager downgraded from yellow alert and the crew went about repairing the ship.

After a few hours they had shields back and about an hour after that the Warpdrive was back online and the ship wasted no time jumping to warp to put as much distance as it could from where the Borg Cube had been destroyed.

In that Time Twilight remained in Sickbay to make sure she was fully recovered from what she did to the Borg Cube, in that time she got a visit from a human women who apparently used to be part of the Borg named Seven, she was curious about Twilight after what she had done and Twilight suspected many members of the crew were.

After visiting with the former-Borg for a while and learning more about the hive minded race of cyborgs as well as how Seven came to escape and live on Voyager and ran astrometric, something Twilight needed to look into, Twilight found herself quietly chatting with the Doctor about his history as well as how he came from being seen an a simple tool to a full fledge member of the crew and his non-stop quest for a name and some of the adventures Voyager had been on, the ones where they ended up going back in time were very interesting to her.

She also shared some of her own history and the history of her planet, what wasn’t classified anyways, as it was only fair. She also enjoyed talking shop with the Doctor as the Federations advancements in medicine far outpaced that of Equus but yet she was still able to follow it all with ease do to years of work as a medic. When she told the Doctor of just how extensive her knowledge of medicine was he asked why she was just a medic and not a doctor, to which she explained she never applied for a license as she didn’t want to be seen as anything other than a soldier and a medic even if she was vastly over qualified for that title.

He also demonstrated how the tryquarter worked and explained its functions and at her request taught her about it. It was a very useful device. She also learned aby the replicators on board the ship and how they could make anything from food to ship parts. Twilight made a mental note to examine this marvel of technology first chance she had.

Close to dinner time Twilight was released from Sickbay as she had no negative side effects from her little adventure and she began to explore the ship on a quest to recover her weapons that seemed to have been scattered around the ship. She found her heavy assault shotgun was still in engineer, in the care the Chief Engineer still who has actually used it to take out a stray Borg that had entered the compartment.

As Twilight had been concerned with she hadn’t been ready for the kick and while the heavy assault shotgun had shredded the Borg it also traveled up and shredded the engineering station behind it as well, even still the Chief Engineer, one Bella Torres found the weapon very effective and impressive and Twilight spent some time chatting with the half-human-half-Klingon for a bit before she left to find her other weapons. Two had ended up locked in a security station and it had taken Tuvok intervening for them to be realized back to her, Twilight had thanked the officer and continues on.

The last one had remained in Tenforward in the care of Neelix who had stored it in the kitchen, she had stayed and chatted with the cat-like alien for a bit before deciding to have some dinner and chat about what happened after she had cleared the room to go and hunt more Borg.

Turned out nothing to exciting had happened beside tending to the wounded Security team member while the other one remained on watch with Twilight rifle at the ready, the Security team member had actually improved on their defenses by having them barricade the doors with the chairs and tables after Twilight had left while keeping a single table for cover for the armed guard. They had remained like that till they received an all clear from the bridge.

After Dinner Neelix had helped Twilight get a place to sleep and she was escorted by Tuvok to her guest quarters and the Vulcan had stayed long enough to explain how everything work, Twilight was glad to see the room contained one of the replicators she had heard about from the Doctor.

Once the explanation was done Tuvok made his leave and Twilight got the impression the bridge officer was very no-nonsense and by the book. She like that in at last one member of any command staff as it always ensured things got done when it was needed.

Once Tuvok was gone Twilight began to experiment with the replicator, first asking for simply things like drinks, they tasted perfectly right, and then a small meal, also exactly right. However it failed to produce something from Equus as it had no idea what she was asking for. It was at that pint Twilight pulled out a small engineering kit she carried with her and began to take it apart, making sure she knew where each part came from. Once she found what she as looking for she plugged in her Datapad using the universal cord it came with, once more marveling at how literal that was as even on technology far beyond the year it had been made and in another reality all to get it still connect her Datapad to the replicator’s system.

Once in Twilight as able to upload a few Equus favorites to the network, she then also found out that that network also gave her access to the computer core. With a smile and an urge she simply couldn’t resist Twilight began to work.

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Twilight woke up the next morning in better mood then she had been since all this started. Last night had been eventful as she used the replicator network to gain access to the Computer and from there she was able to access all the ships systems, it had been a delicate dance of hacking the Voyager’s systems and avoiding detection but even though this computer was years ahead of the systems she had been trained on there were a few fundamental aspects of computers that remain constant no matter how advanced the system and from there she had been able to adapt her skills to the new system.

She hadn’t done anything as the crew of the ship had been decent to her so she made sure not to damage anything but she rarely got to practice her computer skills as Equestria was still new to Computers, heck they had just recently brought the internet to the civilians as for about ten years it had remained strictly military for safety as the system was still to new, too weak to safely allow anyone else on, it wouldn’t be to hard for anyone to simply get on and access military files. They needed to improve security before the civvies gained access and once that the CNet, or Civilian Network was released and anyone could by a home computer and connect, for a price as the EDF was using it to supplement their budget as it was still a fight for funding even after all these years.

Equestria had two networks, the Civilian Network, know and CNet, and the Military Network, known as Mnet. CNet had basic security protocols in it in order to allow anyone with a computer who has paid the fee and been given access can get on and surf the net at their leisure, as long as they paid the bill. Whereas Mnet was heavily encrypted and only certain computers had access to it and it was on a rotating encryptions that had to be hoof delivered to bases or else the computers would be locked out of the network. It was to prevent someone from simply getting a military computer and having full access to the military’s files. Evens till there were files that were encrypted even from standard MNet computers and could only be accessed with codes the Command Staff had, without them the flies were locked.

It was a good system and Twilight was helping to improve it when she had the time but with her being the leader of the EDF there wasn’t much call for her to hack a network she had access too already. Granted she did it from time to time just for fun and to test for vulnerabilities. It helped keep her skills sharp and it had paid off for gaining access to Voyagers systems.

From the computer core she had downloaded a map of the ship as well as info on their nearby planets, she basely took whatever interested her and made sure not to leave a trail as it wouldn’t do good if her friends found out she hacked their system while she was there.

Twilight rolled out of the bed and stretched, it was her usual time to wake up though there was technically no sun to rise but still she had her routine and after so many years there was no way she was physically able to brake it even if she wanted to. She would have liked to have used a Halodeck for her routine but with the ship having limited supplies that wasn’t an option so she ran the halls of the ship around the outer edge of the widest part. It was strange to see crewmen awake at this hour as usually she was the only one awake unless she was on a base.

The Alicorn greeted everyone she ran by but didn’t slow as she was on a schedule and after her laps were done she went into her exercise regiment and when that was done it was breast of replicated eggs, bacon, toast and Sweet Apple Acers Apple juice, ok so she may have tweaked a few things in the ship’s systems.

Once that was done she began to explore the ship a bit till she found Astrometric, as her time in the systems had told her the room was empty. Alone she spent an hour working on the system before she did what she needed to and then she headed for a storage room. Using the backdoor she had left in the doors locking system she easily gained entry and collected what she needed before erasing the back door and heading for an armory and doing the same. With her objectives contained she made her way back to her room where she dismantled the replicator and took the key parts that allowed it to replicate objects and stored it with the rest of her new gear.

She may have felt bad under normal circumstances taking the objects from the crew but they would be of use to her and the EDF plus she made sure she paid for them. She then began to wonder the ship as she waited. She visited the Doctor for a bit and after that she met with Seven in Astrometric and visited with her, both because she liked the former-Borg and to keep her distracted just enough to not notice certain things just yet.

It was several hours before an alarm started to blare and the Computer said one word. “Tenforward” Twilight smiled as Seven looked slight confused, well as much as she can for her extremely calm demeanor and impassive facial expression.

Twilight bid her fair well and made her way to Tenforward where security had arrived as well as several other crewmembers. Twilight faced hoofed as she forgot to make it so the computer only spoke in the compartment she was in and not ship wide.

The Crew all looked around as most thought they had been called here when the computer spoke. “Afternoon Captain, how are you?” Twilight said as she approached Janeway who was speaking to the security team who thought he alarm and word meant a security issue.

“Hello Commander, I’m sorry I can’t talk now as we seem to be having some computer issues right now.” The Captain said.

“Oh don’t worry about it; it’s nothing to concerning for you, just me.” Twilight said with a friendly smile and the gathered crew looked at her.

“What do you mean?” Parris asked from where he stood with the Doctor who was on his mobile emitter as they had been together in Sickbay when the alarm has sounded and arrived for a medical emergency.

“Oh nothing really.” Twilight said as a wind started to blow and the crew looked around in confusion as win did not happen on a starship. “Relax nothing dangerous though I would move away from the center of the room as I have no idea what this will do if you are in the way.” Twilight said and the crew moved from the center of the room as the wind grew stronger.

“Commander what is happening on my ship?” Janeway asked sternly.

Twilight smiled. “Nothing, just my ride home.” She said and on que the air in the center of the room split into a tear of light. “Captain, it’s been fun but that Rift should be my way home and I’d rather not miss it.” She said and saluted. “Safe journey to you.” She said and headed for the Rift stopping just before it. “Oh and I may have borrowed a few things from the ship store but don’t worry I paid for them as well as rent.” Twilight said over her shoulder before she leapt through the Rift.

Before anyone could do anything the Rift snapped shut and a moment alter the computer sounded the “Now hear this” signal across the ship and Twilight voice spoke from the Speakers.

“Hello crew of the Voyager, if you are hearing this then that means a Rift has opened and I closed and I am no longer detected aboard the ship. First things first, this sub file will delete itself after the recording is done so you don’t have to worry. Secondly I’d like to thank you for having me as a guest and treating me well, your Federation founds amazing and it was an honor to meet you all and maybe someday we shall meet again, but who knows.”

“Now for something I need to mention, I may have “Barrowed” some gear from your ship with no intention of returning it, both to aide me just in case the rift doesn’t take me home and because it could be of use to the EDF, while I know you are probably angry about this know I made sure to pay for them as well as pay a bit of rent.” There was a pause. “Ok what I took was one Triquater, one phaser and part of the replicator unit in my room as being able to replicate food and parts will be useful.”

“Now then onto my rent, price of the gear as well as pay for anything grief my little shopping spree may have caused, first off it was no one fault, I am a skilled hacker and gained entries to the computer core from my room, I didn’t break anything and I made sure I didn’t leave anything permanent. However I did learn how astrometric works and earlier this morning, as I’m sure Seven should be discovering just about now, I managed to improve its efficiency by about 4.3% and range by 6.8%, with the improvement was able to locate a nearby planet that had a large deposit of that martial you need to run your equipment, I wasn’t able to pronounce it but I’m sure you know what it is. That should serve as more than enough payment for rent, the gear I borrowed, as well as grief caused and then some, it should be enough to last you about a month and a half after replacing the item I now have.”

“Anyways I’ve said my piece so I will say good bye and good luck, I’m sure you will make it home Captain and that the friendships you have made out here in this part of space will mean a lot in the future. This is Commander Twilight Sparkle of the Equestrian Defense Force, former Student to Princess Celestia, the Element of Magic and the Princess of Motherfucking Friendship! Signing off.”

With that the file deleted itself and all systems added removed themselves. Sure enough Seven remoted astrometric had indeed been improved and the plant mentioned in the message was close and had enough of what they needed to make it another month and a half. The Captain looked at her crew not really sure what to say, she was both furious at the Commander and thankful. Finally she sighed. “Well, it seems we have made a very strange friend on our journey home.” She said and the rest of the crew nodded not really sure what to make of the alien that had been among them and who called herself the “Princess of Motherfucking Friendship”

Author's Note

I know parts of this chapter will seem a bit rushed but i didn't want this to end up as a four parter and also didn't have any idea what to write for the convos between the other characters so if you didn't get to see CTS interact with your favorite character i apologize, i did my best.