Equestria Girls Alter: Warframe

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Sunset was having a bad day and in her mind she doesn’t see it getting any better as she walked through the base she found herself in. The girl remembered when she first landed onto this base and had to fight her way into the base as a welcoming party greeted her. She barely managed to kill them all and decided to take one of their weapons. Though she has no experience with using such a weapon or know what it is at all.

“I knew when I took the crown I would be on the run but never did I think I will be chased by a bunch of morons in tin cans. Suddenly being apprehended by royal guards seems like a better choice than being inside a base filled with guys trying to kill me,” Sunset said to herself as she continued to reflect on her situation. A low grumble in her stomach gave away that she is hungry and haven’t eaten in a while, “Oh quiet you.”

With food for thought she started searching some of the lockers she stumbled upon in a desperate attempt to find some packed lunches that will fill her belly in some way. Thankfully, fortune smiled upon her as she found a small metal box that she quickly opens to find some crudely made sandwiches. It wasn’t any sandwich she as ever seen as the ‘bread’ was much darker brown than normal. The main part of sandwich seemed to be made of greens native to the planet she was previously on along with some strange leaves that doesn’t look like it belong anywhere. Her stomach growl again, reminding her that she needed to eat and considering that sandwiches in front of her didn’t look like it will kill her she decided to take the plunge, but stopped when she smelled something odd in the sandwich.

Opening up the food item she found a layer of meat which made her sick to her stomach. Peeling the offending substance off the sandwich she went along and ate the entire meal greedily before moving on and repeating the process with the second sandwich. After swallowing the meal she tossed the container to the side before taking out a thermos out of the same locker and opening it up. She pour out the contents for a second to check what was inside and seeing that it was water she drank it all without hesitation.

“Thank you Celestia…” She said while aware of the irony of what she said. Sunset threw the thermos to the side as she continued exploring the base while trying to remain out of sight as much as possible.

Sometime later after leaving the area, two Grineer troopers walked into the room while conversing with each other, (“Man I hate these cool downs on our alarms. Just an hour of no contact with the intruder and all of a sudden we turn the alarms off and go back to our daily routine. I mean I heard horror stories of Tenno messing with our alarms just to make us lower our guards.”)

(“I know how you feel…and with this one armor-less Tenno in our base along with the appearance Tyl Regor himself is putting everyone on edge.”)

(“Yeah…he really wants that Tenno for his research, so there isn’t much we can do but keep our guard up and hope we come across that Tenno.”)

(“Roger that…huh?”) The second Grineer noticed the metal container and thermos scattered on the floor and bumped his fellow trooper in the shouder, (“Hey pal…is that your lunch scattered across the floor?”)

The first Grineer was confused at first until he looked to where his ally was looking at and began to freak out, (“AH!!! I was saving that for my break! What kind of dead man steals another mans lunch?!”)

(“Maybe somebody who dislikes meat?”) The second Grineer said as he pointed to the two layers of meat lying on the floor.

(“Whoever it is…they will pay! PAY!!!!”)

…elsewhere…

Sunset felt a shiver follow up her spine as she entered a much colder area of the base. As she continued to explore the frigid area she can’t help but feel that someone just swore revenge on her. Then again she can think of a couple of people who would do such a thing.

/

“There it is…Uranus, home to one infamous Tyl Regor,” Hayden said grimly as he had Ordis stop the ship so the girls can take in the appearance of the planet.

“And current hiding place of Sunset Shimmer,” Rainbow Dash added as she crossed her arms and took in the view of the planet, “Honestly for a place taken over by those metal heads it doesn’t look too bad.”

“Ah’ have to agree with Rainbow Dash on this one as it looks quite pretty,” Applejack said as she scrutinizes the entire planet.

“Well that beauty is skin deep, or rather only on the surface as this entire planet is made up of water with very minimal land masses. Mostly aquatic operations happen here in the many bases that litter the planet though most of them are mining operation as there are rare minerals that can be found here that they use in their weapons and tools,” Hayden explained while mentally worried about Sunset Shimmer as he has been told many times by the head honcho of this planet that he enjoys live dissection. With that in mind he knew they were running on borrowed time and if Tyl Regor got his hands on her then the entire system will be in danger.

“Uh Hayden are you alright?” Spike asked.

“Oh sorry Spike I was processing some things through my brain at the moment, but let’s do what we came here to do. Ordis, let’s run some scans on the planet but let’s do so discreetly…the last thing we want is a bunch of Grineer ships trying to shoot us down,” The cephalon agreed he made the ship flew somewhat closer to the planet before putting the entire ship in orbit.

“We are in orbit operator. I shall scan the planet as requested but I must ask…is there anything specific I’m looking for?”

Hayden began to think back on what Sunset Shimmer was considered among the Grineer. If it’s true then maybe they can find her, “Yes, scan for any Tenno life signs on the planet.”

“I see…I shall add this to my search parameters. I shall inform you of my findings when the scanning is done,” With this said Ordis went silent as he went off scanning the planet.

“Okay Hayden?”

“Yes Twilight?”

“Why did you set the scanner to look for Tenno life signs?” The girl asked with a really confused expression on her face.

“Well it’s just a hunch but if Sunset is able to use her magic then it may be possible that the scanner may pick up on her life signs due to how similar your magic is to Tenno’s control of the void energy. It’s just a hunch but it may work, in addition, after our first mission together I felt traces of your magic going off but it was faint.”

“Wait, are you saying I can still use magic?!”

“Technically yes though it seems a bit altered. So, right now I’m curious because it’s not just you Twilight who is able to use magic, but the rest of your friends are emitting the same strange power. Heck Pinkie over there actually super charged the grenade in the Orgis with magic and in addition to whatever modifications she did to it.”

“Th-That’s amazing! In our world Unicorns are the only one capable of casting spells while Pegasus’s and Earth Ponies have their magic infused into their bodies. But if we’re able to use magic then how are we going to ‘awaken’ it for lack of a better word,” Twilight asked while taking a pondering posture.

“Now for that…that’s where the fun part comes in. You see, I’m going to put all of you through some sparring practice against me so I can get a better feel on your fighting styles and combat ability. Through this I may be able to guess what your magic may have turned into and perhaps I can help you control it from there,” Hayden said with an unseen smirk.

Most of the girls grew excited from this idea except for one as Fluttershy voiced her dislike for violence and of course told Hayden she would pass on that offer, “Right…meek, shy, pacifist I get it but hear me out Fluttershy. If I can help you find out what your power is then you can help support your friends should we get attacked by all sorts of trouble.”

“But do we really have to fight each other? Isn’t there another way?”

“Flutteryshy, Fluttershy, Fluttershy…no there isn’t another way. Only through combat will your body react and respond with your natural defense mechanisms. So in order to find the truth of your power…you must go through a trial…or rather that’s what those Aribiter of Nexus guys keep telling me. In a nutshell you won’t activate your magic by sitting around doing nothing, but of course it won’t matter if I traumatize you in the process, so don’t worry about me overdoing it on you. Besides I’m what you call an expert on this type of thing so you are all in good hands.”

“W-Well…if you say so…”

“Good! Now that everyone agrees to this, who would like to go first?” Hayden asked enthusiastically and unsurprisingly Rainbow Dash volunteered to go first, “Alright go to the simulation room on the ship. It should be down the same path to the storage bay but instead of going straight take a left and go down that hall until you see the last door near the end of the hall. Simply go through that door and wait for me there though it won’t take me long to catch up."

“Okay, but just so you know I can be a bit impatient so you better not make me wait too long,” Rainbow Dash said as she cracked a cocky grin at the Tenno before heading off.

Hayden was about to take his leave as well until he was stopped by Applejack who wanted to warn the Tenno about the former Pegasus, “Ah’ don’t think you need me to tell you this, but watch out for Rainbow Dash’s ego as she can usually back up the things she claims.”

“Well that may be true for her in your world but in my world let’s see how much of that ego she can back up. Also I think I have an equalizer…” Hayden said semi mischievously as he had just the Warframe in mind to spar with Rainbow Dash. The rubbed his hands together in anticipation as it has been a while since he used ‘that’ frame. With nothing else to say he left the group in order to get ready.

“Um…did any of you girls get a bad feeling from him when he said, equalizer?” Applejack said as she adjusted her hat.

“Nah, I’m sure he didn’t mean anything bad by that,” Pinkie said as she made a cheery smile.

“Ah’ sure hope so.”

/

Rainbow Dash gave a small yawn as she stood in the rather vast yet empty room bored as she took the walk time to get to the room as a chance to see how fast she can run in her new human body, and to her own surprise she can still go pretty fast but she was unsure if she can still pull off the sonic rainboom. The halls are long enough, but it is simply too dangerous to attempt since it may damage the ship and Hayden will probably kill her for that.

“Ugh…what taking him so long?” She complained despite it being just a few minutes since she got there.

As in response to her complaints the door leading to the room opened as a bird like figure walked into the room dressed in colors similar to the sky itself. Seeing this grabbed Rainbow Dash’s attention as she knew this is Hayden but considering that each Warframe she witness showed off different powers she wondered what this one can do specifically.

“Sorry to keep you waiting Rainbow Dash, but I took a moment to get a feel for this Warframe again since it has been a long time before I had to use this thing. It’s like putting on an old suit that you bought and never had a chance to wear. Anyway, this Warframe you’re looking at is named Zephyr. This baby is capable to manipulating winds and creates storms with them, usually in the form of multiple tornadoes.”

Rainbow cringed a bit at the name of the Warframe but decided to ignore the name for the sake of the sparring practice, “Hey that sounds like something a Pegasus is capable of doing. In our world Pegasus are able to move clouds and even stand on them. Heck we actually have a division of Pegasus’s who actually make sure when it’s time to send off a rain cloud or a snow storm. In wider picture we basically run all the weather in Equestria, but just Equestria as we don’t really mess the weather anywhere else.”

“Interesting…then I suppose those powers would put you on equal footing with Zephyr. However, since you haven’t unleashed your magic power yet let’s keep things simple with hand to hand combat, oh and don’t worry; I’ll go easy on you.”

Rainbow Dash smiled at this comment as she likes a challenge, “Hey, that’s my line!” she said jokingly as she took a battle ready stance, “Let’s see what your bird suit can do!”

“Hey don’t let me take the wind out of your sails.”

“You did not just make that joke!”

“I just did…what are you going to do about it?” Hayden taunted as he took his own combat stance.

“Well don’t blame me for what happens next,” Rainbow Dash smiled as she quickly ran up to the Tenno to deliver a swiping kick to Hayden’s head but found her attack stopped in its tracks as Hayden blocked it effortlessly with his right arm, “What the?!”

“Why are you surprised? It’s not like you had any actual combat training before you met me. Even if you did I doubt it would carry over into your human body,” After saying this he immediately grabbed her leg with the opposite hand and picking her up by the same leg.

“What the hay?! You’re picking me up by one arm!”

“Funny thing, this isn’t even the physically strongest frame. Drill that into your noggin as we continue this session,” Hayden said as he tossed the girl a foot away from him causing her to land on her back.

Rainbow Dash got up from the throw and went back into her stance, “Alright then…time for a different strategy.”

“Oh please do…I would like to see what the great Rainbow Dash is capable of doing when she actually has to plan for once.”

“Are you insulting me?!”

“Maybe…”

“That’s it, time to put you on your flank!” Rainbow ran in to deliver a quick punch but instead of making contact with Hayden she instead found herself seeing the ceiling as the floor and the floor as the ceiling before landing hard on her back again, “Ow…”

“Alright, I think I know what to do with you…”

“Ugh…what are you talking about?!”

“Basically I already see the problems with you fighting style. You’re quick to rush in and strike your opponent in full force without having a thought for a follow up. Another, is your head strong brashness which leads you believe that you can take any opponent down without thinking of a strategy or plan of attack.”

“Says the guy who forgot to remove his explosive arrows,” Rainbow Dash reminded the Tenno as she got up from the floor.

“That’s beside the point, and finally to top it off your susceptible to taunts and insults. You wouldn’t believe how many times my enemies sling insults and taunts in order to get under my skin, yet I didn’t let it get to me. Mostly…”

“Okay, but what does that have to do with my hidden magic?”

“Simply really, like your pride, your powers are too proud to manifest themselves as they believe you’re not worthy,” Hayden said while trying to be cryptic.

“What?! My powers believe I’m not worthy? Now I know you’re making stuff up!”

“Alright alright you got me, in actuality all you need to do is tap into your power like I how tap into the void.”

“So how do YOU tap into the void?”

“Discpline and focus.”

The girl stared at Hayden with a ‘are you kidding me?’ look showing the Tenno her impatience. Hayden sighed as he knew that this girl is going to take some time but has potential in the end. His end goal for her today is to at least help her manifest the basic power from her body. With some luck and perhaps a lot of effort he can make her into a warrior yet, but when he think backs to her friends he can only wonder how long it’s going to take him to properly train these girls since he has no prior teaching experience and instead have bet taught by multiple people so far in his life.

“However, since you’re a woman of action we’re going to make this a trial by fire. So this time I’m going to attack you and your job is to survive at least five minutes. Do that and I’ll end this training session early, but fail then we will do it over again until you will be unable to walk, Understand?”

“Oh I see where this is going...you’re going to put me under pressure until I somehow unleash my power right?”

“You said it, not me. But as all training go’s…” Hayden put both of his hands behind him as wind that came out of nowhere began to pick up behind him, “It starts now!” The Tenno released the wind behind him launching him forward and flying through the air at high speeds much to Rainbow Dash’s surprise as she quickly rolled to the side as Hayden zoomed past her.

“Holy hay that was fast!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed as the Tenno suddenly flipped through the air and propelled himself straight at the girl again.

“Focus Rainbow Dash…” Hayden said simply as he took the girl by surprise as he kicked her to the ground while still remaining in the air.

“Argh…dang it!” Shouted the girl as she got on her feet before ducking immediately to avoid another strike from Hayden. “So this is what it’s like to be on the receiving end of my flying. Now I understand why ponies avoid trying to get into a fight with me.”

The training session continued to be one sided as Rainbow continued to avoid Hayden’s vicious assault but only by a small margin as she was nicked or kicked to the ground ever so often. Thankfully the five minutes are almost up but Rainbow didn’t want it to end until she got at least a hit in on the speeding Tenno. It was hard to get a handle on him but Rainbow notice that Hayden this whole time has been creating an artificial wind to propel himself at her. To create artificial wind in her world Pegasus’s would flap their wings to create a breeze or a decent wind to blow away clouds.

“The flapping of wings…” Rainbow Dash slowly repeated to herself as she focused on the image of the wings of a Pegasus. She kept repeating this sentence like some sort of mantra as she felt something release inside of her. After this Rainbow stood up as Hayden made another beeline for her, but unlike all the other times; this time she is ready.

“What’s the matter Rainbow Dash? Have you finally figured out how to hit me?” Hayden semi-taunted as he closed in on her, but as he got closer he noticed something different with Rainbow Dash. The first thing he noticed that she was muttering something to herself that he couldn’t quite catch at the speed he was going, but the second thing is the cyan blue outline of energy that popped out of her back in the shape of feathered wings. As he got closer the wings opened up and created a large gust of wind that propel Rainbow Dash out of his path. This of course took the Tenno by surprise as he landed on the wall and stuck to it in order to find his target.

He made a quick scan of the room but failed to notice the rainbow blur coming his way. He didn’t have enough time to react as he was kicked off the wall by Rainbow Dash and sent tumbling towards the ground as the girl landed on the wall and jumped off of it and onto the ground quietly. Hayden groggily got up from the ground as the proud girl stood over him triumphantly.

“Yes! I actually got a hit on you!” she shouted in victory.

“Yeah, and you took me by surprise too. I had a feeling that you would be able to use Zephyr’s first ability if I push you hard enough, but what I didn’t expect was the speed of your propulsion. That and the outline of energy that came out of your back, but that’s not important right now. What is important is that you managed to invoke your first ability. This is a step in the right direction for you and me since now I have proof that the magic in your body is copying the Warframes abilities. In your case you’re copying Zephyr’s abilities and with further training you can most likely unlock all the moves but that still some time from now. In the meantime you managed to survive the five minutes and hit me, so that means your training is done for today.”

“Great! So who’s next on your list for training?”

“The next will be your friend Twilight, after her is Pinkie then the rest I will go down a from strongest to weakest in my eyes.”

“Really now? Strongest to weakest you say? Heh, good luck pal,” Rainbow said as she finally left the room leaving Hayden to think of the next training session for Twilight.

/

“Things are not going my way,” Sunset whispered to herself as she continued to hide behind a large machine. The rouge girl was trying to find a nice place to relax and take a breather but had to hide behind some machine when she heard Tyl Regor’s voice coming down one of the halls. There are many things on Sunset’s to do list but to be caught is not one of them so she quickly looked around for a way to get out of the area she is in unnoticed. It wasn’t that hard for her as many machines littered the area so she can hide behind those when they’re not looking but she had to be careful of the puddles since if she accidentally steps in one too loudly it would no doubt catch Tyl Regor’s attention and his associates. With this in mind, she sprang into action hiding behind various Grineer machinery while the group hunting for her patrolled the area. The tech weird her out as she never saw any of it in Equestria before but tried not to let it bother her as she continue onward.

However, her luck ran out when she stumbled upon a large tank of what she presumed to be water. Curiosity took her as she glanced at the glass, seeing some sort of machinery moving inside doing who knows what. She took a closer look and was shocked to see only the head of a Grineer that’s part of the machinery. She made a yelp and fell backwards landing on the metallic floor with a small thud. Unfortunately, the nearest Grineer in the area heard her yelp and already immediately alerted the others. This forced her to run like crazy as multiple Grineer chased her down with Tyl Regor in the back shouting at her.

“Dang it, dang it, dang it! Things are really not going my way!” she shouted as multiple Grineer started firing on her.

“Aim for the legs! I need her alive for my research to be fruitful!” Hearing this made Sunset panic even further as bullets came flying after her. Knowing that she needed to fight back she charged a fireball in her hand and threw it behind her in hopes that it will slow them down. Thankfully it hit one of the Grineer chasing her and exploded; taking out the Grineer next to him. However, this left Tyl Regor who seem entirely unfazed by the explosion, “Not this time!” he shouted at her as he threw his ax at her which eerily mirrored their first encounter and missed her barely again ,but this time it hit the control panel ahead of her and set all the alarms a blazing with no way to shut it off. “Heh heh ha ha ha!!!” The Grineer researcher laugh an insidious laugh that unnerved Sunset and giving her the motivation to run faster.

They both eventually passed the control panel with Tyl Regor reclaiming his ax while running. Sunset knew she had to find a way to escape him and fast since she herself is running out of breath while the metal man behind her is shorting the gap steadily. What really didn’t help matters was a group of Grineer gunners and troopers showed up and started firing on her. This forced her to take another path to the right to avoid being filled with holes. With things escalating the way they are Sunset would have rather deal with Twilight Sparkle, any of her friends, heck even Celestia and Luna combined than these guys.

“Take her down!” Tyl Regor shouted to someone that she couldn’t see but didn’t care as she ran through another door and found herself in a larger room with a large body of water in the middle of it all. However, she didn’t get time to take in the room as the door behind her suddenly closed and locked along with the other doors in the room.

“No no no no no!” Out of the frying pan and into the fire Sunset now found herself locked in the room with no way to escape. Desperately, she looked around for a way out but found nothing as the sealed nature of the base prevented her from finding any openings big enough to crawl into. Suddenly a loud noise assaulted her ears as the voice of the man she was avoiding started speaking.

*Caught you now Tenno. As you can plainly see there is no escape for you as we have sealed off all exits. Now just sit there as my men ahem ‘escorts’ you to my office for experimentation.*

Being proud of course Sunset would not go quietly, “No way! I’ve gone through too much and too far to be turn into some walking trash can’s science project!”

*Oh ho! Again you think you have a choice, but alas I must repeat myself…you do not have a choice in the matter…* Regor said lowly.

As if on cue Sunset felt something ran past her but when she turned around nothing was there. This put her on edge as another pair of footsteps ran past her or was it the same footsteps as she couldn’t tell. This continued to happen until suddenly something hit the poor girl on her head hard; knocking her out instantly and causing her to fall to floor motionless. The being that knocked her out looked over her with erratic movements that seem animal-like.

*Good work...now bring her to my lab I want to make sure she’s awake before I can get started.*

The strange being covered in his fellow Grineer masks gave a quick nod of approval as several more of his kind appeared and picked up her body; carrying her to what might be her final destination.

Meanwhile, on the other side with Tyl Regor, the Grineer were celebrating their victory over the assumed Tenno that invaded their base. Regor himself was extremely ecstatic as now he is now one step closer to achieving his goal once again. Though he also aware that no doubt that The Lotus will notice that one of her ‘children’ will be missing so he’ll have to be prepared for any other Tenno that’ll come his way, so he’ll have to do his research fast while putting up the heaviest defense possible to ward off all kinds of attackers.

“Yes yes I know we won against this Tenno but everyone I want you to be on guard. That accursed Lotus is going to figure eventually that we have one of her own. So I want the best defense set up as soon as possible. In addition call up The Gustrag Three I need the best to protect this base and my research because when I find out how to add that Tenno’s D.N.A. to our own we will become an unstoppable force that will propel the Grineer Empire to its true glory!”

All the Grineer in the area shouted with thunderous applause as the thought of becoming stronger and perhaps less ugly motivated them greatly as they all ran off to do what Tyl Regor said and more.

/

Meanwhile back at the orbiter. Hayden’s training took longer for the other girls as part of it was answering the question why he was in an obviously female form much to their confusion. The Tenno had to explain to Twilight, Pinkie, and Rarity that his transference allows him to use these frames regardless of gender as he put it in words that Pinkie can understand ‘it makes me like a ghost that possess certain things’.

He trained Twilight with the Nyx warframe as he felt the two are similar in some way; it took some time but he managed to help her unlock her first two abilities which are the same as the warframe much to his surprise. Pinkie took a lot of his time as he couldn’t tell if she already unlocked some abilities already as she managed to confound him more times than he liked even when he was using the Mirage warframe which was meant to confuse his opponents. Applejack, he felt that girl is pack fill with raw physical power so he used the Rhino warframe to train her. She struggle the most in invoking her magic since the first ability of Rhino is the charge which in a normal situation required energy to propel the user forward before stopping them with surprisingly excellent brakes. She eventually got it down and actually got into a pushing contest with Hayden which was fun in his eyes. Rarity he wasn’t expecting much due to her fashion minded nature and knack for identifying precious gems as she explained to him. For her it was tricky to find an appropriate frame to train her with but decided to use the Mag Warframe to train her and surprisingly it worked as she discovered the ability to pull object toward her with great force and stop them before they can hit her as she practiced on the Tenno.

With them done that only left the pacifist of the group Fluttershy left to be trained. She reluctantly decided to join him. Having since agreed to not do anything too violent in their training Hayden figured that her magic may have been altered to be more supportive. With this in mind he used the Trinity Warframe for this training exercise, “Alright Fluttershy you’re the last one for today. Also before you ask yes I’m aware I’m talking from a female body, so if you want an answer its best to get it from your friends as I do not have the patience to explain again for the fourth time, anyway…onto training. So far I was able to correctly guess what each of your friends’ magic has copied into in my universe. I’m going to assume I did the same with you so let me lay down the basics. Trinity here is a supportive Warframe that support her allies through the toughest of fights. Her first ability is ‘Well of Life’ which turns an enemy target into a healing punching bag.”

“I-I’m not sure I like the sound of that,” She said nervously while still being mentally confused by Hayden’s ability to be gender fluid.

“Oh don’t worry about it, you’re not hurting anyone. You’re just painting a bull’s eye on their back that’s all.”

“Okay then…but how do you do it?”

“Simple really or rather for me it is. I usually point my arm at the enemy target of my choosing and expend some energy to turn them into a piñata of healing. Here let me show you,” Hayden pointed his arm straight at Fluttershy which caused her to close her eyes in panic as she did not know how it’s going to work on her but too her surprise no pain came to her. Slowly the nervous girl opened her eyes and found herself glowing in a rather pleasant green light, “See? No pain.”

“I…don’t feel any different…” Fluttershy said as she looked over herself.

“That’s because I targeted you as an enemy and because of that you are surrounded in a green light which tells allies that the enemy is a pool of healing ready for them to use, so if anyone were to hit you or hurt you right now then they will be healed part of the damage done to your body. The ability can wear off after some time has passed so make sure to inform allies you did that. Anyway, it’s time for you to try, just remember what I told you and if you managed to make me into a Spring of Life then we can move on to a more basic lesson. You’ll know it worked if you managed to coat me in a green light so keep that in mind,” Hayden took some steps forward before taking a meditating stance and floated in place.

“Okay…just point your hand at you target and release your power right?” Fluttershy mimicked the presentation Hayden showed her earlier and tried to release a flow of magic into Hayden but nothing happened to the Tenno as no green lights surrounded him or his body. This disappointed the girl but she remains determined to try again, “Alright…again!” she repeated her action again with the same results happening from the first attempt. She continued to repeat this process of failure until suddenly she felt some force of magic shoot out a bit from her hands in her latest attempt. While it didn’t make Hayden glow like she wanted it‘s still is progress and she was happy to know that she is improving with each attempt.

Four more shots of magic later and finally on the last shot a light green magic ball shot out of her hand and into Hayden. She saw how the ball of magic harmlessly went into the Tenno’s body which in turn suddenly broke him from his meditation as he fell onto the floor with a thud and covered in green light, “Whoa what happened?! I was meditating for so long I actually fell asleep.”

“I did it! I managed to turn you into a Well of Life!” Fluttershy celebrated as she ran up to the Tenno to help pick him up off the ground.

“Hey you did it! And I didn’t actually have to do anything that time!”

Hayden decided to wrap the lesson up for today as he saw it has been a long training day and no doubt the girls needed time to get used to their powers. Fortunately he ended the training session with good timing as Ordis called Hayden and informed him that they have scanned the entire planet and is waiting for him to come to the cockpit to share his results. Hayden did so with Fluttershy running off ahead giving the somewhat tired Tenno time to switch frames and go back to Excalibur as the girls was waiting for him.

“Finally!-Good to see you again operator I can assume the training went well?”

“Pretty much as basics go but let’s cut to the chase. What have you found Ordis?”

“Right, I’ll bring it up on the screen,” Ordis brought up a large flat digital screen which showed a the planet before zooming in on the planet enough to see multiple bases with one large one in the center being the main point of focus, “It was a long scan time operator but during one of my orbits I picked up on an energy signature coming from this base in the center of the screen. Though the energy dispersed is faint I picked up enough to tell you while similar the energy is not Tenno in origin. I would assume the person you’re looking for is emitting such energy?”

“Indeed she is Ordis and I’m going to take wild guess and say that Sunset Shimmer is inside Tyl Regor’s base?”

“You would be guessing correctly operator,” Collective gasps came from the girls which annoyed Hayden to some degree.

“Shit” Hayden cursed mentally as he knew Tyl Regor is smart man and as such is already cornering the poor thief in his base, “Alrighty then…Prepare the landing craft. I’m going in…”

/

*Splash*

“What?! Huh?! Where am I?!” Shouted Sunset Shimmer as she forcibly awoken by a large body of water splashing into her face along with the noise of a bucket hitting the floor.

“Well Well finally awake are we? Good…it’s more fun when they’re awake,” Spoke Tyl Regor’s voice which caused the girl to panic and try to move but quickly found out that she is unable to move due to being restrained to a table. However, this didn’t stop the desperate girl from struggling against her bonds, “Struggle all you want but you won’t be getting out of those bonds anytime soon.”

“What are you planning to do to me!?!” She screamed at her captor which earned a small fit of laughter from the Grineer.

“Oh don’t worry…I’m not going to kill you…I’m just going to borrow some D.N.A. and for me to do that I must keep you alive as long as possible. However…that doesn’t mean my methods are painless…” The Grineer said as he brought up a large cleaver to scare the poor girl. “You know…I always learn a lot from live dissection…heh heh heh,” Sunset couldn’t help but scream for help as the maniacal Grineer started laughing at her fear and despair.