Forced Reboot

by Duct Tape Master

Epilogue

Previous Chapter

3:00 am... Throne room

The throne room was completely devoid of anyone... Just as it usually was past midnight or so. I sat on the armrest of the throne just next to Luna... She was finishing some paperwork for the night and I was staring blankly at a somewhat foreboding black envelope that I was handed... On its surface was a single starburst pattern... Perfectly symmetrical and stamped onto the envelope in silver ink. Just below the logo a small white sticker was placed neatly on the surface... On the sticker was a bright red stamp... It proclaimed in bold red stenciled letters

[TOP SECRET]

... I was somewhat wary of what it meant... I would be running the equestrian equivalent of Area 51...and this envelope probably contained a contract. Luna looked to me expectantly....so I undid the piece of string from the 2 little buttons and flipped open the top flap... And immediately I felt magic trigger itself, a small rune in the flap had just done a scan, It didn't explode.... So that was good the envelope suddenly flipped open like a paper flip phone, inside the envelope there was a single flat gemstone set into a, credit card sized piece of metal, it sat on a stack of blank papers, on the metal card It had only a few words embossed into the surface... "touch to horn"I read quietly, I did as it said and brought the metal card near my foremost horn, as soon as the object touched the surface I felt a spell fire... I immediately felt something on my neck and a flat black sphere enclosed me... On the inside of the bubble a projection appeared. And immediately began to talk, it was a somewhat scraggly old stallion with a set of thick glasses and a short greyish beard.

"Hello Princess Nova... It is a pleasure to meet you...this recording is top secret, anything said in this recording is Not to be discussed with any sapient creature other than Princess Luna or Princess Celestia, Twilight sparkle is especially forbidden to hear this information... And due to her nature and persistence the information present will appear encrypted from anypony attempting to read your memories, the bubble you now see around you completely isolates you from the outside world. Now... Let us begin....

As you may have heard, the organization I work for Is called Dark Star... The public doesn't know of our existence... All they have is a set of false leads and dead ends, and any change to that would warrant termination or memory wipe... But as both actions are nearly impossible on a creature such as yourself... We will instead detain you as pertaining to the protocols stated by your creator... As of this moment you are hereby enstated the head manager of this facility... Project reports and permissions for experiments will be routed through me, and any orders you have will be fufilled to the best of our ability, the object around your neck that resembles the jewelry that celestia and Luna wear is essentially just a large necklace with some magical power backup crystals... The same as any of the princesses... But within the central gemstone is another function... The master key to the entirety of Dark Star, it also allows you to see magically cloaked documents, although... Because of the strange nature of your eyes.. Reading these documents without the master key may be possible. But now onto the real meat of this message, enclosed in the magically sealed documents are all pf the necessary codes, maps, and locations to all of the facilities we possess, any other information can be obtained frome one of our facilities, and one of our many duties also encompasses special operations and your safety and defense.

Please destroy this recorded crystal as soon as is convinient by means of consuming and digesting it for the best possible assurance of security due to the lack of traceable magic residue, which would remain if it were simply vaporized by, raw magic or high energy plasma beam. ... The process will be perfectly safe to perform due to your hybrid nature... As well as the consumption of most materials according to stomach acidity and magical absorbtion tests conducted by the team of scientists within the canterlot medical research subdevision in canterlot. "

I let that sink in... Now It was official. I popped the gemstone from its little card and looked at it.... I apparently had to eat it... I hesitated a bit before putting the small round disk of gemstone in my mouth... Suprisingly, it didn't really taste at all bad... It was bland but not unpleasant, I swallowed it and moved on to the metal card, I used magic to superheat the iron card and then squished it into a small ball and popped it into my mouth... It again was bland... But the temperature I was sustaining it at kept it at a consistency something like chewing gum, I swallowed it as well and waited, within about a minute the bubble faded and I closed the envelope.

"so?" luna asked staring at me with a questioning gaze.

"it is official ..." i said simply and teleported the envelope to our room... Teleporting inanimate objects or myself was reasonably safe for short distances, but for long range or with other ponies it was probably too unstable... In either case it would probably collapse and crush everything in transit, out of existence or it would collapse harmlessly and leave the occupants or myself stranded in omega kind of void.

I got up and began to walk off to think about my new position but before I got all the way up I felt Luna grab me by the arm and pull me into the throne on top of herself, she hugged me slightly before speaking.

"May we ask thee a question?"

"sure"

"doth thou wisheth to have a foal?"

"If it were actually possible I would say No... I'm not very good with children and I already have enough to worry about right now, why do you even bother asking? I can't impregnate you, and you cant impregnate me..."

"There exist spells to solve infertility..."

"I have no Idea if it would even work... And if it did... What kind of crazy genetics would come of it? I cant imagine that my genome is even compatible... Or if i'm even remotely capable of becoming pregnant....whose to say that anything could survive within me... The temperature is stupidly hot, and I have no clue if your sperm would get anywhere before being burnt to a crisp... You should know... You've been in there... "

" we still remember the exact sensation... The heat was certainly a suprise when thee were near thy peak... It only served to drive us on more in the end but it certainly wasn't the correct temperature to facilitate the survival or creation of life....please do think about it....we will do research into the subject...please do not say no immediately...this means a lot to us"

"I'll see...I'm not promising anything...but I won't write it off so soon."

"we urge thee to understand...when and if we find a solution we will ask...possibly beg thee to procreate....but when this is done will remain up to thee, it may be as soon as possible or centuries from now.'

"okay...good to know..."


I walked down the halls to our room...the new thing around my neck was kinda heavy...but not unbearable. I stopped to readjust the new hefty piece of jewelery, even though mine was comparatively small It weighed a lot, I could only imagine how much that behemoth of a neclace weighed down celestia. Celestia found me several minutes later and struck up a conversation.

"it seems our sister wants to have a foal eh?"

"aparently....and how the fuck do you know all of the stuff we talk about?"

" Observation spells around the castle...I look over them each morning to stay up to date on gossip"

" .....Sneaky littl..."

"and to tell the truth...I watched you and Luna..Uhum 'Do it'...But I must say...When I watched you two going at it...It was the best 'fun' I've had in centuries."

"back to the whole wanting a foal thing?"

"Oh...Um yes... I will assist her in her search... and just between us..." she leaned in and whispered in my ear, "legends say..I am 'Potent' enough to get even a sterile mare pregnant..."

"Okay then...Kinda too much info...but thanks for the sentiment I guess?"

"oh and by the way I have a letter for you..."

"thanksbye..." I grabbed the letter and did a very small teleport to the janitors closet... Conversation had gotten weird fast and I just wanted to read the letter and go to bed, I flipped open the letter and saw a few short lines of softly glowing blue text.

Princess Nova Is requested to travel to the main facility of Dark Star for official buisiness no later than 10 days after the arrival of this letter, imformation on location is included in the introduction packet...


Author's Note

This chapter is just going to be left as is for now and it might end up changing depemding on how I write the sequel and what editing ends up changing.

For anyone who wants it Ill toss in an extra chapter at the end with clop I originally wrote in but decided to remove because of space and somewhat odd and abrupt placement. When and if I post it Ill add the "sex" tag onto the story... It may take some time to compile and edit though.