A weapon for hire.

Kshatriya observed as the equestrian runned around, she had proposed to help heal the wounded among the prisoners using her nanomachines as it was more pressing than repurpose some MS. Thanks to her scanner she could rapidly found the health issues of the equestrians and she would then redirect the non life-threatening to regular doctors, focussing her nanomachines on the peoples who had dangerous illnesses and damaged organs. Sadly she could do nothing for those who had lost limbs and sadly many did, the changling didn't use the prisoner as work force like others country would but instead as love source -changeling fed on the stuff- but it allowed them to use more physical punishment without much loss. Changeling used a system of cocoon to extract love by putting their victim into a dream filled with happiness and pleasure but to keep their livestock healthy and...numerous, they needed to bring them out from time to time, the problem was that most people refused to be treated like livestock, and fought back, so the changling usually hacked away some limbs, not only the loss of a limb was a massive deterrent but the most defiants one had lost all four limbs, understandably they then found the dream realm the changeling put them in a sweet relief from their crippled state.

'blacklist the changling hacks, they are worse than i thought, also see if we can use the dragoon, psychomu and bits systems to create cheap yet 'perfect' prosthesis. There is so many amputees among the equestrian...'

-blacklist update done kshatriya, i will start drafting plan but i can already tell that the main problem will be energy wise, contrary to your secondary body MS-bb we can't put battery inside the chest of the equestrians, not without impairing their capacity to be alive at least.

'...did you make a joke hacks?'

-i tried kshatriya, i am afraid i am new to this, how was it?

'passable, maybe it's a bit early for dark humor yet.'

-understood kshatriya.

Kshatriya refocused on her patient, a young woman named sassy and in her twenties, she couldn't rely on that to judge her mental age thought since equestrian lived around 180 years old, she had two toned orange hair with light blue ear poking out of them. She looked at the hulking mass of kshatriya in worry but not fear, the first to pass had openly asked why she didn't leave her MS but after some explanation it had turned to fear since a living machine from outer space wasn't the best thing to trust with your health but the rapid and efficient way kshatriya had dealt with each patient had turned fear of her to worry about the wounds and illness she would found, a good amount had what kshatriya called...

"Hypothalamitis."kshatriya sighed in frustration as she watched the young woman cry, Hypothalamitis was an over-activity of the Hypothalamus, the part of the brain producing the emotion of love through chemicals or the oposed depending of one's belief, the changling harvest methode side effect made their victims develop this disease by forcing it active for too long, the symptoms were an instinctual reaction of the body going wayward and making the body believe he is in danger forcing near constant production of chemical who led to muscle pain/weakness, fatigue, headaches, swollen glands, poor concentration and memory. The worst was that it didn't have a proper treatment since after being in this state for too long the body goes into 'adrenal burnout' which is perceived by the body as vulnerability and make it feel in danger and of course restart the loop. It didn't have proper treatment and would kill if the disease wasn't controlled through steroid treatment and immunosuppressive therapy.

Kshatriya waited for the woman to stop crying,"like the others the illness need to be checked regularly, i already told the doctor what they need to give in term of medications depending of the patients characteristics like height weight and age but i will keep looking for a remedy, in the meantime, i recommend abstaining any activity related to your time in the prison, it will limit the risk of the illness aggravating."

She nodded and left her head low and ear pressed on her skull, i could understand, the sickness would keep them into this state of never ending tiredness and barely able to think until healed, something i didn't know how, i could repair most wounds and even maybe regrow limbs with a lot of research and time but this illness wasn't physical but mental, short of brainwashing or memory erasure i couldn't think of anything.

"Kshatriya!"

I turned to twilight, she was aboard the same jeep as earlier, she had a checklist in her hands and looked at me with a smile.

"Thank you for your help, it was the last patient for you,"her smile turned sad,"we knew only a few would be left after so long but its still painful to know exactly just how many died."

"How many were brought back?"

"Three hundred and fifty two, a small amount of life for the capital of equestria, among them only seventy three member of the guard, all of them crippled and needing prosthesis and won't be operational anytime soon, combined with the loss we took during the assault we are understaffed for another assault this big."

"So what is our next move?"

"You and i are going outside to rejoin the rest of the mission elements, the gate's magic influx stopped 18 minutes ago, just enough time to see the fall of canterlot."

Kshatriya nodded and followed the jeep, along the way she asked,"canterlot was your birthplace i heard?"

Twilight nodded with a sad smile,"yes, i have a lot of good memory there, a lot of sad one too. I lost friends and family when the changelings took the town, my parents lived their...chrysalis crucified my mother body to the highest tower of canterlot."

'what am i supposed to say to that?!'

"My condoleance twilight, sorry for bringing it up..."

Twilight shook her head," mhm i want to thank you, with your help i finally have hope for revenge."

"About revenge, how does this whole portal blowing up will go?"

Twilight perked up having the opportunity to explain something,"first you need to understand the portal functioning, imaging the distance between two gate like a body of water the further the point of arrival is from the point of depart the thicker the body of water, now the gate we deployed act like emitter and the one here like receiver, what does the gate emit you ask?"kshatriya nodded picturing each step in her mind,"well it emit a circular movement on the water surface, when you do so the water start to spin and slowly be pushed aside making a spiral and the gate start to 'pierce' the water, the deeper we reach the more the circular movement speed up and the more space/water is pushed aside, once the gate is formed it actually mean space has been fully pushed aside, and so we can just cross."

Kshatriya nodded in understanding,"that's sound a lot simpler than it actually is i suppose."

"It does, but it's just the basic so i can answer your question, you see the gate consume a lot of energy to keep the spiral in shape and when we close the gate we actually slow the gate down before shutting it, but when the gate run out of juice it stop rotating immediately, the spiral then rapidly collapse. First the a small shockwave form at the receiving gate, nothing major just something like a gust of wind, then the spiral collapse from the furthest point of the emitter gate back to it gaining in speed along the way, before finally reaching the emitting gate and when it does a shockwave is sent from it outward with its range varying depending on the speed it accumulated, then the pendulum effect take well...effect! Since the shockwave is produced by space moving out of the gate and since space will try to stabilise by moving back into its static shape, upon reaching its spreading limits the shockwave will move backward all the way inside the gate creating a suction effect, but once again this will move the water/space aside and even if this time it move it less it will still be enough to create another shockwave going outward from the gate in a smaller area and this step will repeat until the water/space go still, the thing is those step repeat thousand of time at an insane speed and the water/space will stabilize in barely three second, so when the gate collapse the area affected is literally 'vibrating' with such brutality that anything inside its range crumble to dust!"

"T-that's impressive, can't it be weaponized?"

Twilight got a sheepish grin,"not really, portal are easy to detect when they are magic alimented which is the case while the delivery team get away, most people know of the gate effect upon collapse and will stay away from it if they see no defender around them, i'm sad to say it won't be our first time using this trick but since then we succeeded to keep them powered without magic allowing us to lay them like trap. But honestly their ressources cost is still too expensive for mass production."

Kshatriya sighted,"resources are becoming a recurring problem..."

Twilight gigled without mirth,"it is isn't it?"

The two reached the outside of the hangar on the canterlot side and rejoined with the rest of the 'rainbow guides' the princesses and a large group of soldier from the regular army, we all stood and waited with bated breath.

Celestia talked without looking away,"chrysalis isn't inside the city, she stayed aboard the daybreak away from the city but she sent her army in, to gather the troop left their and get her whole army operational for a punitive force."

Luna inhaled deeply,"it won't happen."

As if to prove it, a blinding light exploded into canterlot, and i beheld the fall of canterlot, light exploded and spread erasing everything it touched be it stone or steel, dead or alive it covered the whole town and even half of the mountain. the daybreak and a handful of MS were spared but the rest was erased from existence in the blink of an eye, there was a moment of stillness were i could only stare at the mountain who looked like a god i taken a bit off before a powerful blast of wind racked the plain and moving toward us, i moved at the front and broke the wind using my i-field barrier but still felt the strength behind this shockwave, i could see the daybreak struggling as MS were thrown like ragdoll around, finally it stopped.

(for those who want to see it.)

We stayed silent, none of us really sure of what to say, the changling had suffered beyond imagination but so did the equestrian, i could see the tear on their face as the symbol of their nation had all but disappeared from the planet leaving behind orphans, twilight was shaking and sobbing as her friends hugged her, celestia seemed suddenly so old as luna held her close.

'even with gundam...war...doesn't feel right...'

-kshatriya...

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Gilda kneeled in front of the screen on the wall.

She wore a purple military jacket similar to the one worn by OZ officer, she was a tall woman with well defined muscle and short hair with a lock in front of her eyes , her most marking feature were the small purple and white feathers surrounding her eyes, and the complete whiteness of the left one."you called for me your highness."

A tall and broad shouldered men with a dark beard cropped neatly into a forward spike with a well groomed mustache appeared on the screen, he wore a crown of black steel with a blue gem on the center biggest pike, its eyes were of an icy blue, while the feathers around its eyes were black with blue tip."ahhh i did call you here gilda, i received news that you had the opportunity to end one of the princess and failed miserably, i won't ask how and why, i have passed the cap of trying to understand your incompetence."

Gilda gritted her teeth,'of course you don't need to ask, your the one giving me the bare minimum to fend off the changeling assault on my base in baltimare!'

"Honestly i was about to recall you in griffonstone to marry you to some yack and be ride of you while strengthening our recent partnership like my children advised me too but your decent pawn of a brother sent me a message that he wanted to try making front against ponyville with you," he leaned in its sit and took a glass of wine in hand.

Gilda eyes widened as warmth filled her chest,'brother, once again you-! For me!'

"While i dislike the idea of him reducing the pressure on the crystal empire, he assured me only him and it's personal guard would assist your own forces."thorn blackbeak loomed over her,"do.not.fail, your brother is competent for a bastard, don't infect him with your uselessness while he assist you or it's to the changling i'll marry you, i heard chrysalis as been grooming a prince recently. Anyway, you will receive a shipment of the last knight frames we produced, ten units followed by a mobile armor from the saddle arabian front, it was sent for repair and as been waiting to be redeployed since then. I will say it again do.not.fail!"

The connection was cut and gilda stood up, she clenched her fist, and stormed out to rush into her carter where she slammed her door shut and locked it before going to the com-screen.

She called for the first contact and waited, as soon as the screen showed its face she screamed in tears,"why?! Why do you keep helping me?!"

The man had long blond hair with kind blue eyes, he had small golden feather around them, he was smiling the fingers of both hand crossed on its desk."you are my little sister, it's my job to protect you gilda."

Gilda sobbed,"miliardo, i-i can't do this anymore, it's been so long i am tired of this war! of living here!"

He looked down and nodded,"i know gilda, but you have to be strong, one day this war will end and then-"

Gilda slammed her hand on the wall,"and then what?! He'll never let us leave! He'll keep us close so that mother's may never-"

"Gilda!"the voice was strong but warm. She looked at miliardo,"trust in me, everything will be alright if you trust me."

"I-i...i trust you big bro...but please, be quick."

Miliardo nodded as gilda cut the communication.

'mom, we miss you!'

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Kshatriya looked critically at the MS in front of her, said MS was fidgeting a bit perturbed by kshatriya staring,

Finally kshatriya put her hand together and pointed them at the MS,"i don't know how i should react to you..."

"-i cannot offer input this time kshatriya, i am at loss too, meeting a magically created equivalent to me was not on my expectation list."

celestia coughed,"kshatriya, i present you the self named freelock, she was developed a few hundred years back as a prototype for the nobles silhouette kight. form what she told me she was left activated by mistake and...well developed her own will along the years, she took it upon herself to pursue the MS development work of her creators."

"that explain the more developed frame."kshatriya said looking the RAG-79 Aqua GM from unicorn gundam in front of her,

said GM while it looked like the aqua version was actually equipped for land with harpoons and heavy duties claw bothe cabled and that could be launched and used to bring enemy in close combat, the shoulder missile were replaced with container for metal spike, said metal spike could be launched like non-explosives rocket thought.

"Can she speak?"asked kshatriya perturbed by the GM silence.

celestia scratched the back of her neck,"it's why we called you, she can speak but her creator had decided on her being a him so."

the GM spoke in a deep cold voice,"i could really use some help with my speaker..."

kshatriya sighted,'can't i have one break? just one break?'

-i like it...