She had endured the failure of her invasion, and endures her failure and responsibilities as queen. Her subjects suffer starvation and she has no way to provide food for them. She sees grown males fight the hunger, females struggle to move, and children ask when their next meal was with a look that shattered her heart as she would openly bawl in front of her subjects. 'Please don't cry." One child pleaded, hugging her and Chrysalis just pat the child on the head as she headed to her chambers.

"Your highness." The guards bowed, wince in pain from hunger.

"Rise, subjects. You need not trouble yourselves with me anymore." She hung her head with shame. "Go, and be with your families." The guards bowed in respect and left as the queen enter her chambers. Many see her as evil, her subjects see her as a mom but she thinks she is a monster. "I, Chrysalis, am a failure to my subjects." She looked at the night sky, clasped her hands together and began to pray. "To what ever benevolent and holy deity is listening, I beg of you to spare my people, spare what the world considers outcasts to their way of life for mine. Give my people a chance to live, to love and to grow." She had tears in her eyes again. "Spare them this torment, deliver them from this agony and place it upon me. I can't bare to see the children starve, the males struggle and the mothers fall." She started choking on her words. "Save them, and take me. Please. Let me suffer for my crimes, but spare them your cruelty." She couldn't say anymore as she was sobbing again. Once she was seen as a malicious creature, now she is a defenseless girl.

The guards who reported back heard her and went to the others to start a movement. All of them clasped their hands, looked to the sky and pray. "Give our queen a true and faithful lover." The woman prayed. "Bless our queen with a protective and powerful mate." Pray the males. "Please give our queen a lover, so that she can love and be happy." The children asked. Voices upon voices were heard by something that hummed in melancholy, knowing the pain of solitude.

"You're blessing shall be granted for your heart and love." Spoke the entity.

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Maverick's hibernation pod hissed as warm air vented inside, waking him. [Good morning bro. It is 7:48 A.M. Central Standard Time and we are refueling.]

"Thanks Ada." Maverick yawned as he headed to the kitchen area to cook the day's meals, starting with quick-stop chili for carbs and protein as he moved to something else. Frying some mushrooms and peppers with salt and soy, he put that and some of the chili on eggs with some cheese and broiled. "Any planets Ada."

[24 scans bro. Would you like to see the numbers?] She asked very excitedly.

"Display them please." Requested the fighter. Each planet appeared with the following number.
0.0035
0.861
0.2958
0.7312
0.4555
0.6982
1.00000
0.- "WHOA! Back up to that last one, full scan!" His eyes were wide.

[Planet unknown. Atmosphere mix, Nitrogen 78%, Oxygen 21%, Argon 1% and trace amounts of 12 other elements. Oceanic conditions, stable, life signs detected. Land fauna detected. Avian Fauna detected. Flora growth abundant. Caution, unknown species dominates planet, cautious interaction is advised.]

"Ada, chart a course to that planet." Maverick ordered happily. "We're checking it out."

[Yes sir.] The large craft changed movement as it headed to the marked planet.

"So what kind of wildlife are we looking at?" Asked Maverick in relief and excitement. "Is it the same, identical or different?"

[Aside from a few anomalies, the wildlife is the same.] Said Ada with a little uncertainty.

"Is something the matter?" Asked the now concerned pilot.

[There seem to be floara and fauna that are behaving in an unknown manner and have a biology that is vastly different from anything we've seen.] The veteran fighter smiled. 'This may be fun.' He went to the training room with a smile. [What training series?]

"Series of one on one fights in the form of a tournament, from Alpha to Omega, no variants." The projectors warmed up as Maverick started to fight holograms one on one as an algorithm was working the other matches, including unknowns that Ada worked thanks to her processing abilities being less binary than an average computer and thanks to her brother and father helping her learn and advancing her abilities, but there is a limit to what technology alone can do. After the tournament, Maverick heading to the facilities to wash up and prepare for arrival to the planet. His attire consisted of stronger fabric wrapped, tied and rolled to just beneath his shoulders, loose fitting gi leggings, shin guards and a belt and harness with holsters for the firearms and a sheath on the belt for the kodachi. "What's our ETA?"

[Even with you taking your time, we still have five hours before reaching our destination.] Maverick hated waiting that long and he would need Ada's help at some point, but nothing could withstand any transmutation minus belt and pants. While he was one that, he remove the armor in place of covering that do not obstruct the heel or toes and used elastic bands where the fabric strips were tied. He went through his weapons and got the R601 Ion Magnum, two M73 Thermanite Pistols and the HFR Kodachi. These were his trademark as he rarely used a rifle and instead used weapons that were versatile. [Are you bored?]

"Do you even need to ask?" Asked Maverick rhetorically. "I have an armory of weapons and we are still-" The craft shook violently. "What was that!?"

[We've hit an unknown anomaly! Origin is magnetic!] Ada replied in worry.

"Compress and boot into external emergency drive." Ada got on that. As data got bigger, better compression was needed to take even terrabytes of data and compress them to smaller than Megabytes if needed. This made saving AI cost effective should the need arise and Ada was the first 'sentient' AI to test this. She made a successfully compressed file and loaded it onto an SD, an SSD and HDD for security and posterity. "Ground level coming up." He took the cards, and connected them before putting the into a special case and grabbed an earpiece.

[I'm doing what I can to slow our descent.]

"Forget that Ada! Move to a crash landing, I want as easy a skid as possible!" Using the thrusters , Ada angled and moved the ship to slow and angle the descent. The craft hit the ground, leaving a trench as Maverick held on for dear life. He didn't need to but a dirt nap is not what he wanted. Before he could see where he was stopping, a panel hit him clean in the head, effectively knocking him out. Adas cries went unheard as she was stopping the ship.

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The Badlands were covered in night, a blanket of stars show through the night as Luna's moon was nowhere to be seen. Chrysalis had already gone to sleep, tears still fresh from all the crying she did earlier. A call from her guards disturbed her sleep. "What now?" Whined the queen. She needed her sleep to face her subjects.

"My queen, a falling star approaches the Badlands. It will pass the castle and from the trajectory, it will land just beyond the border. Your orders?" His detailed report was followed with a request.

"Leave it for the ponies. I'm just... so tired." The queen was giving up, wanting nothing more to do with anything. Not a princess and her stagnating rule, not a pony with blind loyalty or any pony for that matter, much less her own subjects. She just wanted to spare her people, curl up and rot away. She cried at the thought. She didn't want to die, much less alone. She just wants to feel love, from herself and for her. She wants to exchange genuine feelings for the first and possibly last time. Just as tears were flowing, the object passed overhead. Her eyes snapped open as an image came to view, the image of a hairless ape on a strange panel of glass, but she noticed her hand was different, just before the image faded and her perception of time resumed. "Captain, where in Equestria is that object landing?"

"Just beyond the border of Ponyville withing the Everfree forest." The guard replied. "If the topography checks out, we may get lucky with it landing closer to the Castle of the Pony Sisters." Continued he.

"I want you and the others to remain. I'll take a small escort to investigate the object." Order Chrysalis, unknown that she made her guard smile.

"Yes ma'am." The guard left as she lay back on her bed.

Chrysalis thought back to the image she saw. The creature, for whatever reason, looked familiar, and cute. 'Cute?!' She blushed as her heart beat stronger from the thought. "Was he on the- No! Of coarse not!" She pondered briefly. "But then what does that mean?" She shook her head in frustration. "I'll find out tomorrow."

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Luna was engaged in a night court with her more modest attire. She tried to convince her sister to dress more modestly after returning and did her best to stop Twilight, among other mares, from getting a nasty habit. Luna liked showing off her curves but not her bits. To her, a mare's nude form or exposed bits are for romantic/love making intimacy and senseless/lustful sex if she was in the mood but never, at any point to her mind, should it ever be for display for the world to see. She wants to tease her stallion with a show, not a bar.

While she was keeping herself busy as a boring, whiny noble was being boring and whiny, she felt the air shake. Something had pierced the atmosphere. "-and so that is why-"

"I'm going to ask you to stop." She gestured for the record to quickly read over it and saw that the noble wanted to allow for all spas to include a sex service. She looked at the aghast audience, who were staring at the noble, then at the noble who had a smug look. "No, no, no, no, absolutely not!"

"But princess-"

"SILENCE!" She boomed with her royal voice. "I will not stand by as you try to turn mares into a service item." She fumed strongly. "If you wish to satisfy your droll fantasies, the door and border are behind you." The noble felt insulted and tried to fight the refusal only to be thrown out of the room. "This court will take a recess for an hours time if not more. Something has turned up that requires an overview for investigation." The nobles left as she two five of her guard to investigate what entered the planet's air. She found when the new object was thanks to some reflections of what appeared to be metal. She and her guards headed closer and found it was within the Everfree, closer to her and her sister's old castle. She turned back to her guard. "We shall investigate this tomorrow. Go and inform my sister as a precaution." They saluted and left as two ponies and an annoyance came into view.

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"Thank you for coming over Twilight." Fluttershy had invited her friends Twilight and Discord for tea time and had to hold it late with Discord wanting to make a grand, acceptable entrance.

"It's no problem Fluttershy." Answered the bookworm. "I am not missing out on my friends if I have time to spare."

"You always have time to spare." Chortled the chaos joker, Discord. "You just choose to use it on books and paper. Letters I don't mind, but books are so boring." He said with a smirk.

"Now Discord, be nice." Spoke Fluttershy friendly.

"I am, I'm just trying to be sassy." He joked before his expression went serious. Before Fluttershy or Twilight could say anything, he screamed "Get down!" and shoved them to the floor with him over their bodies as he made barriers to protect the, the cottage and the property right before the shaking started before quickly getting violent and settling down. The barriers lifted and Twilight teleported herself and Fluttershy outside before the two started flying. They took notice of six figures in the sky and flew to them, with Discord just behind.

"Princess Luna!" The addressed alicorn turn to her caller. "What happened? The whole land shook!"

"Not an accurate statement young Twilight but yes. An Earthquake occurred from the object that landed." She turned to it.

"What is that?" Wondered Twilight aloud.

"Whatever it is," Discord began, "something dangerous lay within."

"I shall collect my sister and investigate the site on the morrow." Luna stated.

"Can my friends and I come with you?" Twilight asked.

"My sister would say yes, but I must firmly say no." Answered Luna.

Twilight's face showed disbelief. "But why?" She whined.

"Discord himself stated something dangerous lay within. I know to restrict you ventures when even he says something out of the ordinary." Stated Luna with firm authority. Twilight started whinning before she had enough. "ENOUGH!" Fluttershy flinched before Discord took hold of her to comfort the timid pegasus. "If you wish to go, gather your friends tomorrow and take the earliest train for Canterlot. We shall let Celestia have the final say." Twilight smile to Luna's and Discord's bemusement, questioning when this girl would stop putting herself at risk for knowledge.

The two stronger entities looked to the crashed object. Whatever was inside needed to be dealt with, either diplomatically or forcefully. Luna hoped for the former, as did Discord. All that was left to do, was make a decision.

Author's Note

Which race will make it to the sight first and which will meet their visitor? Will they encounter one another, resulting in a fight? And what of Maverick, who lay unconscious with the crashed ship? Check back for the latest chapter of Terra Equestria.