The Conversion Bureau: The Palladium Wings

The Conversion Bureau: The Palladium Wings

Chapter 25

Excavated Truth

Far into the Frozen North

Several Equestrian warships followed by zeppelins were patrolling the excavation site, to ensure no one would enter or leave with the secrets that are being pulled out from the earth below.  A Presence Ship floated, observing the events unfold.

Princess Celestia levitated a glass of wine, looking with a watchful  eye. The live feed zoomed into the site, a stallion worker died of hypothermia. The rest of the workers looked at their fallen comrade before resuming. A pair of guards took the frozen corpse to a pile where they all shared the same fate as him.

Two Saddle Arabian stallions were curious of what was going on here. Why the digging of this area? What news of here got Celestia so excited about?

She continued to sip her wine.

“Princess... if I may ask what is so important about this place?” The blonde Arabian stallion blinked at her.  “What has gotten you so excited about this frozen wasteland.”

Celestia smiled. “You will see…”

A large beam crimson of light shot towards the sky.

The two stallions covered their eyes.

Celestia couldn’t help but giving a sinister smile. “I believe you have the privilege to know of what is going on here.” She took another sip of her wine.  “What you see here is a ancient starship, a vessel that could cross the endless void of space and of course…the solution to the rebellious humans and their so called allies.”

“A starship?” The brown Arabian raised an eyebrow.

Celestia nodded. “What you see down below is the vessel in which our ancestors came into this world, escaping a great cataclysm that affected the original homeworld.  The immigrants travelled for so long in a state of hibernation, hoping to find a suitable world to inhabit and colonize. After millennia off travel, the ship found a world to inhabit, what we call Equis or as the humans call it the Counter-Earth.  When all the colonists disembarked, the vessel went into hibernation by burying itself in the snow and ice, to rest from its trip.”

The two stallions could not process the information given to them.

“Now arise Palladium Wings…” Celestia called. “Arise for the time has come to bring judgment to the descendants of the original nations, who fled the Original Homeworld to escape the Cataclysm.”

The ice began to melt, revealing a large winged construct.

The excavation crews were washed away the waters.

The two Arabians were very afraid of they saw. Lives were washed away like that, they felt a twinge of guilt and fear, what has the Princess awakened?

The construct began to float.

Day of Verdict

Day of Verdict, the Day has come

As predicted by Solaris and Galaxia

The Nations escaping the Cataclysm

When the world was burning

The flames of disaster spreading out

The Earth dying and the Cosmos rogue

The world covered in ashes of death and ruin

And the Wings were built

Built to escape

Day of Verdict, Day of Verdict

The ancient vessel saw several vessels that it did not recognize, it categorized them as threats. Tentacles came out from every corner of the ship, destroying the threats the airships posed. A zeppelin was cracked open like a nut, explosions destroying its remains.  Two battleships were breached easily, the halves plunging to the world below. Blasts of magic exited from the remaining ships but were all destroyed by the tendrils.

The Arabians closed their eyes in fear of dying. There was a strange silence for a while. They opened their eyes and saw the tentacle frozen in midair. The appendage retracted back into the ship. A tube-like tentacle approached the Presence Ship and opened, revealing a green eye.

Celestia approached the glass that separated them. “Palladium Wings… it has been so long since you were awakened from your eternal slumber. Now the time has come to restore order and peace to the Earths.  Rather than all of us mindlessly consuming and drying out the world’s resources and overpopulating it, I shall bring the Fires of Cataclysm for the cleansing.  I will deliver one final warning to the humans and this time, I mean it.”