Flight of the Avali: Season 2

It was several hours before the two came to a halt in the lab. Twilight herself had found materials she never could have dreamed of, and honestly they hadn’t gotten much work done. He had to explain to her the composition of various metals and alloys she’d never even thought could exist, as well as a small look at some of the planets that they’d been to.

“Wow… so, to even survive on certain planets we’d need these… EPP’s? And some survival packs can help too…” Twilight said slowly.

“Certain nanites that armors produce, or certain features that the armors have can also help. Now… before you ask… yes, we have tried to make armors produce the nanites of other armors… it just doesn’t work. The technology that was given to the space faring species is just… too old. Like the Matter Manipulator. It’s impossible to reproduce now that the Protectorate is gone.” Einuli explained. “Just… we have to deal with what we have, and what we can discover, or re-discover.”

“Alright. It… makes a bit of sense.” Twilight sighed. They were both immediately snapped to attention as a massive fist shaped dent was put in the ten inch thick Durasteel doors between the lab and the rest of the ship.

“The fuck?” Einuli muttered rushing to a console as another dent was put in it. “Who the hell is trying t-... Who is this?” He glanced to Twilight who didn’t even need to look.

“Maud.” Was all she said as the door finally caved in.

Einuli was left speechless, the earth pony mare standing there. “Your door was in my way.” She said plainly.

“I…. D-durasteel… c-can survive… a-astroids b… bu…” Einuli muttered. “T… the fuck?”

“Maud… you can’t just…” Twilight began.

“Pinkie told me I should go find you two in here. The door wouldn’t open.” Maud said.

“Thank god we aren’t working with genetic material… the extractors can work with contaminants in the air.” Einuli sighed, walking over to one of the machines that had just finished.

“Oh. You two were busy.” Maud said.

“Just… working on extracting geological substances.” Twilight sighed. “Nothing too impo-”

“What were you trying to get?” Maud asked.

“Fucking carbon.” Einuli sighed.

“I knew everything required carbon but… Gods damn it. You were right to complain about how much we needed.” Twilight groaned.

“Thankfu- Twilight what did you put in Extractor A-2?”

“The red diamonds, why?” Twilight asked, both her and Maud walking over to investigate. When Twilight reached him Einuli’s hand shot up and she stiffened up completely as he kissed her.

“Your accident has given us something else we needed desperately. Quietus.” Einuli said happily.

“W… wh… O-okay.” Twilight mumbled, blushing slightly.

“What is Quietus?” Maud asked, taking some of the ore and examining it closely.

“It’s a strange, strange ore. It has both biological and mineral components to it.” Einuli explained, handing a chunk of the ore to Twilight.

“It’s… pulsating?” Twilight asked.

“Where on Equestria can this be found?” Maud asked.

“It can’t be found on Equestria. It’s only found on planets orbiting what we call ‘Black Stars’. They give off a specific type of radiation to the planets orbiting them, causing… things to occur.” Einuli explained. “Uh, we’ll need to go visit one to get Penumbrite. So Twilight you’ll be able to experience the mutations and thing the radiation causes firs-”

“I’m coming.” Maud stated firmly, grabbing both Einuli and Twilight. “Let’s go.” She began to drag them both out of the lab.

“Maud, we aren’t leaving anytime soon!” Twilight stated, teleporting both herself and Einuli out of her grasp.

“Oh.” Maud replied, turning back around.

“You know what… since… uuh, Maud is here and… since she punched down a FUCKING DURASTEEL door… with four hits… Now’s a wonderful time to get some body scans of you both.” Einuli said. “Why… don’t we go to the med-bay?”

“I… need a bit of a break after seeing a ten-inch thick hard metal door get punched completely in… so yeah, that’d be great!” Twilight nodded.

“Hm…”

“It’ll guarantee you can come along.” Einuli said.

“Fine.” Maud responded. “Let's go.”

Meanwhile back in Ponyville:

“You… sent Maud… up to the ship.” Starlight began.

“Yeah! I think it’d be great for her to go meet some new ponies!” Pinkie nodded.

“Yah sent… Maud though. Alone. Ta find Twilight and Einuli, when… they went ta the science lab. Which, might Ah add, is set up to security turrets.” Applejack scoffed. “Why girl? Are yah insa… Don’t answer that.”

“Psssh, they won’t shoot her!” Pinkie retorted, crossing her arms. “And I asked her to be nice to them.”

“Oooh gods, this is gonna be gooood.” Dash started to laugh. “How long do you think until she breaks something?”

“An hour at the most.” Starlight sighed.

“She won’t br-” Pinkie was cut off as Twilight teleported down.

“You. Never do that again. Maud busted open a TEN INCH THICK durasteel door! It’s completely ruined and now they’re adding Durasteel to the list of things we need to collect!” Twilight stated. “My MAGIC couldn’t even force those things to open, but somehow… some way… Maud broke them straight down.”

“Oh.” Pinkie paused. “Well I’m sure she’ll help get the thi-”

“I came down to alert you all, she threatened Dandy into making us go in the next hour.” Twilight grumbled. “So.” She grabbed both Applejack and Dash, Starlight grabbing ahold of her. “We’re all going to need to suit up. Nightbloom wants to see you Starlight, so we’ll go there first.” She teleported the group up.

“Yes…” Pinkie cheered, “Now Maud can get out and make even more friends!”