The Diamond in the Gear

Urbania, same day, a few hours later. Inside The Presidential and governmental administration building, standing like in the middle of nowhere.

The president, Lorelei Kernav is on a meeting with the director of the Securitron, the intelligence services, and the information control services. She's observing them, and finally break the silence.

“So what are the results?”

The director of the Securitron's the first to speak

“An ancient apartment on a unassigned building has been seized, containing illegal materials, one pegasus stallion has been arrested as he attempted to escape the arrestation procedure with a unicorn. Our agents intercepted him at 19:28CIT and have executed him immediately”

“Did the unicorn resist arrest?”

The director's sweating, knowing something similar will happen to him.

“That's the problem., we're currently examining the videos and we could not find her anywhere. She vanished, probably with an important payload, so we have deployed all our troops in the perimeter...”

“You failed again one more time admit it. A juvenile unicorn?” he asked.

She's mocking him.

“Our effectives are all mobilized, and every week now we are dismantling terrorist cells, last week again our agents equipped with the new ceramic ammunition managed to neutralize a unicorn mare and dissident ponies, the operation was a success, we're still in good statistics.”

“These networks are like an hydra. you cut ones' head, two others are growing.”

The pony doesn't get it, asking to the other ministers and officials around

"What's an hydra?"

Lorelei's continuing, ignoring that part.

“I'm saying according to the intelligence and information services, everything you're doing is useless, and insufficient. It is therefore time to reform our strategy for the decades to come.”

“A new control software? Increased patrols or cellular geotracking?”

Lorelei's picking a folder, labelled "classified"

“I wanted to let you know about the Project Niorun, it has been classified for years, about acquiring an actual unicorn from a foreign nation and make sure they serve our interests in order to fight the enemy. Only a natural predator could make it. Also, recently, our research department acquired a very rare specimen of unicorn. ... An alicorn.”

The whole crew is laughing, wholeheartedly believing she's joking

“ahAHAHA! with two wings and magic, and a princess crown … hehehe … SHUT UP!” Lorelei was nervous.

The Intelligence director just jumped after Lorelei's mood swings

“Do you mean one of our services have developed an alicorn? Does it have the same energy as an actual alicorn?”

“Absolutely. We've been working with her for three weeks now. Educated, provided instruction and a proper training. She's a young alicorn, she's very smart and she's on our side. As the scientists kept examining her, we also found out the scale of her power could not only profit our society, but literally dominate the world. Scientifically speaking the origin of her force surpasses everything known from the standard model. some says she's controlling dark energy and a lot of thing we don't know yet, this could be interesting.”

Some very serious looking military mare's explaining.

“Ze information you gave to us about Twilight Sparkle's little protégée were more than interezting for our projekt.”

The three other ponies are disorientated about the pony's obvious accent.

“ Two weekz ago we have organized an intervention in Equeztria, in collaboration with the spezial forces of Kolechia, degenerated pigs kolechians, and got two fillies, one being a juvenile alikorn, a black one, anozer a pink filly, it turns out ze ozer one was completely useless so we focuzed on Niorun !”

Lorelei's smiling,

“This is a bit like the discovery of atomic energy, almost a century ago, but with an intelligence of its own.”

The president's pressing one button on the intercom

“Please come in, Nyx. we're waiting for you.”

Two stallions are getting in the office, accompanying a small black pony trotting in front of them.

She seems happy, serious, determined like nopony else. Nyx salutes her, so does the two thugs behind her

Lorelei's introducing her.

“Dear ponies, you have in front of you a new kind of warrior, defender, justiciary of the free world. Her name is actually confidential, but you may call her...Nyx.”

The director of the Securitron's mildly annoyed.

“You're joking, comrade Kernav. A filly! Anyways, we're trying to get rid of their magic threat, not to get more! This is irrational. We need more resources and ...”

Lorelei's interrupting him

“Nyx, please get rid of this annoying horse. Goodbye Mr. Kurmavro, you are fired.”

“As you wish.”

Nyx's smiling, aiming at him, levitating, and discharge a beam of energy, disintegrating the director almost instantly, leaving just a bunch of smoking bones on a molten metal designer-edition seat.

Lorelei's applauding

“Stunning. Absolutely stunning! Hahaha, have you seen this ! Zap , headshot !”

“Thank you Miss President” the filly said as she's gracefully landing from hovering.

“Oh just call me Lorelei, come on. How's your studies like? Going well?”

“I'm practicing. Miss Vonkhr and her experts taught me more than I could ever learn from Twilight. And certainly anything else.”

Vonkhr, The Military commander mare knew it would happen, nodding and smiling, hiding behind her, the Intelligence Director's shitting his pants.

“That was pretty quick. whew. Say um. Nyx, what do you plan to do when you grow up?”

Nyx's looking at him.

“To drown this world.. Into the eternal night.”

Lorelei's smiling.

“Eternal.. Night.. perfect! She *is* perfect , don't you think? Ambitious, intelligent, learns faster than anypony, and in fact, we learned a whole lot of things from here. It would be a crime to let her remain prisoner in Equestria. Say Nyx, come, sit here, we've got a first mission for you... Carl?”

The intelligence minister-director-officer is bringing documents and prints of CCTV captures picturing different ponies with documentation about them.

“and this one is also missing as Kurmavro mentioned, I've printed them as soon I got the info.”

Military mare's asking Nyx

“So, who would you pick as your first mission?”

Nyx's asking the intel pony

“Carl, tell me where these last one were taken, there's no info”

“ That last one has been shot from a traffic camera on a street behind the mall sector 202F in Metropolis. We could not identify the other filly with her due to the camera's placement. Probably a young unicorn. Both should be interrogated, or eliminated”

Nyx stares at a photo, and stops at Diamond Tiara and Alice

“I thought you've got rid of the filly you brought there with me...”

Lorelei seems lost

“What? You know this unicorn ?”

“Don't worry, I'm taking care of her.”

Vonkhr is picking her phone

“Get my jet ready we're heading to Metropoliz ein!”

Lorelei's smiling as Nyx, as the military mare and intelligence services are rushing out of the office. She's sitting on her desk, reading some docs from the R&D dept. of defense about Nyx, documents filed “highly confidential”

She's reading the documents and notes from scientists who have examined Nyx in all details.

“Blood test spectrometer analysis reveals most of her elements are not present on Earth ...potentially of extraterrestrial origin"

"Skin and fur analysis reveals an exposure to high energy particles... Cosmic rays... As demonstrated by satellite prototypes who have failed. Most of the results comes out so far to unknown conclusions. Deeper research will be necessary"

“Specimen is undoubtedly intelligent. Psych evaluations revealed she could have been once linked with Princess Luna as a single entity.”

“Perfect night vision, but needs slight correction for daylight activity, contact lenses ? Laser surgery ?“

“unexplained phenomenons appeared to be generated by the subject probably paranormal activity”

Lorelei's grinning as she keeps on reading the reports

“Paranormal activity? Nah this is ridiculous.”

Lorelei's thinking alone, reading the documents, walks to the window, looking at the cityscape panorama from her presidential office at the top of the building. She's having a shrug, and picks a voice recorder...

“Note to self, question the federal employee who redacted such a report mentioning a paranormal activity from Nyx and re-check their level of studies.”

She's throwing the documents away, and goes back on her seat.

It's the night, and flying through the clouds, a jet with the insignia of the Minister of defense of the Social Federation of Industria is being escorted by two jet fighters, approaching an airport.

Nyx is looking at the moon by the window, relaxed as usual.

“This is a fine night.” she said, looking by the window.

Other officials seems a bit anxious or concerned about having an alicorn, seen as dangerous being on their team, but they remain silent, looking at eachother, scribbling documents.

A squadron of military ponies are standing, a commissar is saluting her.

“Welcome to Metropolis 01, Lieutenant!”

Most ponies here aren't confident, dubious or uncomfortable seeing an alicorn filly, right in front of them there too.

“Alright, Here's the list of our suspected locations of unicorn groups, the closest..”

Nyx is ignoring that she's in a troop with military ponies armed, determined to debunk unicorns. She no longer feel like one anymore and takes initiatives, like an expert. A leader...

“No time to get the plans... They're not dumb, they move all the time. I exactly know where they are. I can sense their aura. Back me up, here we go.”

She's taking off, hovering, observing, as the mare with the weird accent in black uniform is yelling at her troops, seeing her like her ally.

“What are you horzes waiting for? Follow her! Go Go Go!”

Nyx's standing over the rooftop of a building, watching over the whole city, murmuring to herself as she's looking at Diamond Tiara's printed photo from a CCTV camera

“Diamond Tiara... So you're still here. I see you've made new friends. They were right about your kind, but guess what, I made new friends too...”