Chapters Chapter 2: The fall of the mountains
in the distant past.....in the deep space
"The construction of Maethrillian does not present problems, if we use the materials of the Uranus system, we could accelerate the process and finish in a few weeks" - reported Newblood.
Originally, Maethrillian was designed to be a city, but for want of inhabitants, Elián decided that the buildings became research centers, more specifically, to investigate a way to go home, it could be useless, but at least Elián felt that he lose not anything with trying, while he watched the sentinels builders of all kinds working, Elián remembered his first day in that planet, he was one with a lot of surprises.
First, the constructors had not finished making the installation where Elián planned to use as a shelter, great was his surprise to see that it was only the entrance, when he entered the building, the corridor was submerged more and more in the ground, after walking a little more, he arrived at where the builders were.
Only a few hours have passed, and they were already building a mini-city.
Leaving his stupor, Elián left the viewpoint of the small creatures of its constructors and went to continue exploring, fearful that they forgot to include a bedroom and he has to sleep on the floor of a hallway.
As he continued walking, he found what appeared to be an observation room, if the holograms of the planet he was on there were not obvious enough.
There they showed that the planet was almost exactly the same everywhere, meadows, small hills with forests, and lakes, but what seemed surprising to Elián, is that there was no intelligent life on the planet, his sentinels found several animals, an entire ecosystem, no had more specific data thanks to the order he had given of non-interference, Elián decided to wait until his sentinels finished mapping the planet, he still did not have a cartographer, so he could not do a deeper analysis.
Leaving the room, he soon found a bedroom for him, much to his relief, but he found it curious that his style was relatively normal, much like a room you would see in a science fiction movie, except for some large screens that showed the landscape outside, checking better his bedroom, he discovered that it had all the basic needs.
The constructors had already finished their work some days alter, except for the Gateway for some unknown reason, and Elian was preparing to leave the planet in the Keyship, the huge Forerunner ship intimidated enough, but when entering it, it was quite comfortable, very similar to the place where he had been staying, the sentinels had already explored the whole planet and unfortunately there was no intelligent life, although the data indicated that it should, Elián suspected that maybe there was an underground city or something similar, the scanners showed that this was not the case, a mystery more than in the future would have an answer.
The piloting of the ship was relatively easy thanks to the knowledge of the Forerunner technology that he had in his head, while taking off from the hangar, followed by several Sentinel manufacturing facilities and their units, Elián saw that it looked like a mini fleet, but a single occupant, loneliness was beginning to notice enough, the only times he spoke it was for him, or to give orders, at first he seemed nothing, but he becomes very lonely, Elián missed his family and friends, even if he only had one, but even so, it was a more reason to want to return home, and maybe, if he did not find help, or intelligent life, or Equestria and his magic, he would have to fend for himself, although considering his capacity, it would be equal or better to the help that the ponies could give him.
When he spent a few days in space, orbiting the planet, he saw that the other planets orbiting each other were actually moons, but without saying that, they were exactly the same, full of life, but without intelligence, something that, in his memories of his previous life, and added to what the data told him, was very rare.
When Elián was able to build several Retrievers, he wondered what he could build as his home, something big enough to be his headquarters, and he remembered Maethrillian, the capital city of the Forerunners, Elián had perhaps considered the installation 00 or the greater ark, but those were facilities for destruction and preservation, his goal was to return home, nothing more.
With that in mind, Elián decided to do something else as well, which would help him better coordinate the builders and sentinels, and help him fight his growing loneliness like a plus.
Making constructors to take care of what was necessary for their project, Elián remembered everything about the Contender-class Ancilla, a type of Forerunner AI, the most advanced of its time, but for something like that, and like most Forerunner AIs, He needed a base to build it, and he decided to use his mind for that.
The Forerunners, in their infinite wisdom, decided that it is better to use a natural base, better than to build since zero, so they could choose the noblest and loyal to create AI with important roles, there could be mistakes, and Mendicant Bias was an example.
Leaving his memories, Elián reviewed the list of planets that over the months was discovering, the Keyship had been equipped with a halo cartographer at the expense of their weapons and had enough defenses in case something happened.
Two hundred habitable planets, that was the count so far, of which only five should have intelligent life, with that in mind, it was clear that something had happened, something or someone was interfering, when Elián finished with the construction of Newblood, both they came to an agreement that a deep study was needed, it was not a few weeks until Newblood found what could be the problem, and it turned out that magic might have something to do with it.
Elián's magic had an effect in space that could be easily identifiable, but not traceable, and apparently, the magic had something to do with it, Newblood, reminding Elián of the MLP series, explained that maybe all the species The intelligent galaxy had been transported to a single point, although one theory, seemed to be the most feasible.
They had not yet found Equus, that was a secondary task of the Sojourner Dreadnoughts ships that Elián and Newblood had made to be explorers, according to Newblood calculations, they have only covered twenty percent of the visible space, and of all the species that they know each other from Equus, assuming that each race has its own planet, they have not yet found half of the planets capable of harboring intelligent life.
With a sigh, Elián left the cartographer.
"Bored of the monotonous routine?" - asked Newblood, although the in essence was a copy of Elián, his voice was very different, it seemed the voice that you would expect from a nobleman.
"Do not mention it, I'm tempted to accept your suggestion" - said Elián, while his ears were attached to his head.
"Prolonged hibernation, I would only wake you up if something important happens, I understand your need to find someone to talk, but we have not found anything yet, and a society full of clones of you would not be healthy either" - said Newblood, while opening a viewpoint to the space, it was something beautiful.
"We still need to create a list of investigations to return home, and return to normal" - sighed Elián.
"Although I understand your desire to go home, and I really do, it is almost impossible for us to find something, when you fabricated me I also obtained the knowledge of the Forerunners, and not only about their technology, also their research, and let me tell you that Finding your planet of origin is almost impossible, it would take you as much or more years to find it than the age itself of this universe, and even if you send an impossible number of sentinels, you would not know if that is your universe until after several centuries, not to mention if it's your same time "- said Newblood.
"I do not lose anything with trying, if the alicorn's long life, mixed with the technology of the Forerunners, living an eternity would not be impossible, get on my ... hooves, before I only worried about history classes, now, I have the power and capacity of the damned Forerunner, and what is worse, I'm alone! "- Elián shouted.
Calming their nerves a little, he breathed deeply before speaking again.
"I'm sorry Newblood, I did not intend to retaliate with you, I'm just tired" - Elián said sadly.
"Maybe starting to pay attention to your cutie mark is not a bad idea? It's the symbol of the mantle of responsibility, and by definition, when transferred to this place, you have the duty to protect all sensitive life and wait to an heir, technically you are the only one of your species, a hybrid pony-Forerunner, it would be a pity if all this is lost in time "- said Newblood.
"First we have to find them, do not you think?, although I suppose that is already the reason for your insistence to leave defense facilities on habitable planets" - said Elián with a smile.
"I appreciate that at least you are considering it, and yes, you saw that the planets that can sustain sensitive life are very rare, we can build them, but nature is the best teacher, that's why there is a rule of no interference unless the mantle of responsibility so demand it "- said Newblood.
In their search for resources for the construction of Maethrillian, Newblood agreed that if they found any intelligent species, they should proceed with care and only monitor, decided to follow the mantle of responsibility and use the Forerunner system to catalog the species, from tier 7 the lowest level of technology, and 0 surpassing even the Forerunners (fortunately that is a theoretical assumption), from tier 7 to 5, any interference was prohibited unless endangered, and from tier 4 onwards, they could make contact.
"Yes, but I doubt we will find something like this, assuming that this universe of MLP is equal to yours, so they are barely reaching the space age, they do not show much data of their technology in the series" - said Newblood.
"True, but you are not counting the version of Equestria girls" - Elián said with a smile, maybe it was a parallel dimension or something like that, but it showed that this place was on the same technological level as his old home, or At least it seems.
"Irrelevant, they would have the same treatment" - said Newblood.
"Of course yes, now, what do we still have to do?" - Elián said as he walked to his bedroom.
Equestria-seven months after the first attack of the Empire.
Things were not going well for anyone in Equestria, the attempt to stop the war was a fiasco, just one day after sending the message, the next news they received was that the empire attacked and destroyed the coast defense line near Hippogriffia, it was a massacre, Queen Novo barely had time to escape with less than half her subjects, and Seaquestria was no exception to the attack, using gun-like weapons with spikes, filled the sea with underwater explosions, few managed to escape before the first explosions.
Rescuing all those who could, the Equestria alliance, as they called themselves, began the counter-offensive, thanks to the help of Celestia's old student and friend of Twilight, who sent them knowledge of the world on the other side of the mirror, there was a boom in the technology of Equestria, It would have been wonderful if it has been in other circumstances.
After updating their armament, it seemed that they had managed to control the battlefield, the first of the preservation cities, as the project was called, already had several refugees and displaced of war, everything seemed to go pretty well.
But the empire war machines arrived, according to how Sunset had described them, they had the same principle as the machines of her world, but fortunately, they were inventions of the empire, so they did not have to worry about a war between dimensions.
The great number of the empire army had been previously countered with the advanced armament of the world of Sunset, but now with that new technology of the empire, that advantage was no longer enough, little by little, cities were taken, the few survivors seemed traumatized, the few who had managed to escape said they tortured them to get all the information about Equestria, especially about the new technology, fortunately, few knew their origin, thanks to that they strengthened the borders of Abyssinia and the Crystal Empire, Queen Novo, devastated, decided to take a profile more active in the war, his people had no opposition.
"The anti-aircraft defenses have managed to keep the landings at bay in the rest of the coastal defense line, we thought that, if we send more storm clouds to the coast, we could make the enemy be forced to use the Saddle Arabia line, the desert would give us the opportunity on their motorized infantry and tanks, with the help of the Wonderbolts, we could close their escape line and destroy their outpost"- said Chancellor Grove while pointing to the map of Equestria.
"We would have to leave the front line, retreating dangerously close the front to Saddle Arabia, we would have to evacuate the cities, and we can not fight a war of attrition, it is not worth the princess!" - declared Shining Armor, Prince of Crystal Empire.
Each had their point, on the one hoof, if they managed to destroy the outpost of the Griffin Empire, they could strike a very important blow to the empire, forcing them perhaps to take a less aggressive approach, the empire was trying to land elsewhere, but with the loss of their vanguard on land, they would have to choose whether to keep the land gained, or to continue with their landing attempts.
But they did not have a clear capacity of the army of the empire, if they had more soldiers and managed to recover the outpost and reinforce the attempts of disembarkation, they would lose a lot of land and soldiers, forcing them to leave Saddle Arabia, hundreds, if not thousands, would be displaced.
"Prepare the retreat, when we close the outpost of the enemy, the Wonderbolts will bombard the area, so we will clean the area with few casualties and we can recover the coast" - said Luna, responding to Celestia, who clearly was in conflict.
"That's a better plan, but will the new bombers be ready?" - the chancellor asked.
"Reports say that the first will be ready for next month, enough time to execute the plan, but it would be a bet, the schedule would be very tight" - said Shining Armor, with some relief.
"good, some reports on the ships of the empire?" - Celestia asked.
"Yes, your majesty, the scouts found a huge warship outside the blockade area, but quite close, according to the report of the commander of the mission, it is approximately two hundred meters long and fifty wide, its armament is unknown, but it is capable of transporting enough airplanes to destroy a city, we suppose that, if each area of attack comes from one of these aircraft carriers, we estimate that maybe we have to worry about at least three, maybe more "- answered Spitfire, captain of the Wonderbolts.
"More and more varieties of weapons and war machines arrive because they do not attack with everything they have?" - the chancellor murmured.
"I have no idea, maybe they are underestimating us, or they just did not expect to find so much resistance" - answered Shining Armor.
"Possible, but -" - before Spitfire could finish, they were interrupted by a guard.
"Your Majesty, King Aspen has arrived, says he has updated" - informed the guard.
"Excellent, have him pass, please" - said Celestia.
"Conjure a soundproofing spell, Shining, my sister and I will also do it, Captain Spitfire, what you are going to listen to is part of the New Contact plan, together with the communication project, what is heard here, does not leave these walls, Understood? "- Luna said, while her magic covered the room.
"Understood your majesty" - answered Spitfire, curious and somewhat excited to know about the communication project, to be captain of the Wonderbolts, she had heard of the project, thanks to the new technology, they were developing a better way of communicating with the front, since it took a few days to bring the updates, but with this project, things could be almost instantaneous.
King Aspen looked almost the same as his usual self, except for the eyes tired for lack of sleep, now not only had to coordinate the constructions of the shelters, the project of communication and New Contact also demanded enough.
"It's good to see you, King Aspen, how's the project going?" - the chancellor asked.
"It is also good to see you as chancellor, and with regard to your question, things are progressing well, unfortunately, we have a problem with the New Contact plan" - said King Aspen.
"What is happening?" - asked Spitfire.
Noticing the new presence, King Aspen turned to the princesses, who gave him a simple signal that he could continue.
"The New Contact project does not have the necessary technology to finish its last phase, the atmosphere of the planet is very dense, maybe it is environmental magic, but it is impossible to send signals to deep space, we have to send them from out of the atmosphere of the planet, and we have no way of doing it, no Pegasus or Griffin can get so high, and less with the necessary equipment "- ended King Aspen, gaining a rather confused look from Spitfire.
Seeing that it would be necessary to clarify the situation, Celestia gave her the same lecture as she did at the observatory.
"That ... makes it quite clear" - said Spitfire, somewhat pale with the new information.
"What do you need from us, King Aspen?"- Luna asked.
"I had heard that the information that the Celestia student sent us had something about an artifact called a satellite, maybe with that we could not only communicate much better with our forces, it would promote a new era of communication, communication antennas are obsolete, although efficient, they need kilometers of cables, with the satellite, they can save a lot of expenses, and make the New Contact project viable "- replied King Aspen, clearly excited, his kingdom, although tense because of the war, was helping with the progress peace, knowledge, and technology, perhaps, when the war is over, they not will be known only as the guardians of forests, but also of knowledge.
"We will send you what you need, King Aspen" - answered Celestia.
"I would greatly appreciate it" - the king replied happily.
Before Celestia could say anything, a guard opened the door while he was panting.
"This meeting is private, you better have a good reason to interrupt it!" shouted Shining.
"Princesses, Griffonstone has fallen, the empire has attacked with unknown weaponry, decimated the defenses and bombed the city, currently, what remains of the coastal defense receded to Manehattan and Baltimare!!" - informed the guard.
The chancellor was speechless, he arrived from Griffonstone not a few days ago, and the messages only took no more than two days, so Griffonstone fell in less than a week, something neither the demons of yesteryear could do in years of siege!
"This complicates things more, one of the shelters was being built there" - King Aspen said with pain, at least each shelter had a few thousand deer and diamond dogs, they would be the first loss of his kingdom.
"Send a message to King Thorax to send reinforcements to Manhattan and Baltimare, also send a message to the Crystal Empire to send vanguard class ships to defend the city, we can not afford to lose the coast!" - ordered Luna.
"Chancellor, I recommend that you stay in the castle, from here it is safer to reorganize your town" - said Celestia.
"I appreciate the offer, princess, but I can also do that in Manhattan, I hope it does not bother you to take one of their ships" - said the chancellor.
"Of course not, I will send a message to Abyssinia so that I send extra reinforcements, this new weapon must have been some type of experimental plane, if I attack such a high place and difficult to access, so we will give priority to the turbojets"- said Celestia, gaining a grateful look from the chancellor, as he left the room escorted by some guards.
"I will send several of the fortress-class golems prototypes to help, maybe we'll win some time" - said King Aspen, clearly looking worried, one of the refuge cities was a few kilometers from Baltimare, thanks to technological progress, the subjects of his kingdom helped to create a huge wooden golems, fused with technology from the world of Sunset, although prototypes, could help the defense of the city, since they could keep fighting even if they lost their ability to move.
"Any news about the dragons? their help would be appreciated "- asked Shining Armor.
"Nothing yet, with the tension in the front, sending a messenger is impossible, from what we hear, the Empire was also attacking them, but I doubt they can do anything against the dragons" - Luna said.
"Things are getting worse and worse" - Celestia whispered, worried.
"With your permission, your majesty, but I will go with my unit to reinforce the coastline, we can not move units from the front of Saddle Arabia, so we will go as a unit of shock" - said Spitfire.
"I was about to order the same captain, you got used to the new addictions?" - Celestia asked.
The Wonderbolts units received a new combat uniform, the wings were covered with fine blades, capable of cutting a ground pony, added with their speed, they would be able to cut even the steel, they also received new rifles that were small enough to load, but lethal, they had little ammunition, but it served more as a secondary weapon.
"They are perfect for close combat, although we have problems with the antiaircraft of the warships of the empire, I would recommend the development of a magic shield for our units" - answered Spitfire.
"I can help in its development, with the cooperation of the Crystal Empire, we could be able to develop some kind of shield that will resist enough so that its units can get close enough to the enemy" - replied King Aspen.
"And maybe, we could equip not only the air units but also the ground units and possibly buildings, our defenses could withstand the bombardment of the enemy's guns" - Shining Armor replied.
"There is still to know the unknown weapon that destroyed Griffonstone" - said Luna.
"Maybe King Thorax would able send spies to identify the type of weapons, even if they are discovered, his soldiers have already proven themselves capable of escaping on more than one occasion" - said Celestia.
"I will leave immediately and inform King Thorax about the plan, I wish you luck princesses" - said King Aspen while retreating along with Spitfire.
"If things continue like this, we may have to make recruitments mandatory" - said Shining Armor, with a sad look, they were losing more and more soldiers, and with the fall of Griffonstone, the number of assets was considerably reduced, even the plan of Saddle Arabia's pincer would be impossible.
"We have no choice, we will prepare what is necessary to make the military service of the ponies from nineteen to twenty-five, with exceptions in specific cases, but I am afraid that we are running out of choice" - said Luna, while Celestia had a face of pain in his face, it had been centuries since the young people marched to war, but their survival depended on at least, expelled the Empire or signed peace.
"If the young march, sister, so will I, I will not be sitting in the security of the capital while our soldiers die in the front line"- said Celestia, perhaps, she could tip the scales with her powerful magic, it is risky, but the situation not only demanded new weapons but gained a worried look from Luna.
"It's risky, princess, but maybe your presence increases the morale of the soldiers, as Prince of the Crystal Empire, I will also go with you, along with the avant-garde of the Crystal Empire" - said Shining Armor, receiving a slight thanks from Luna, Shining could conjuring powerful shields, with their defensive power, and their sister's attack capability, might be able to defend the coast of Manehattan.
"Then we have a plan, we will meet in Manehattan in two days, I will take my personal guard as extra reinforcement, sister, inform Twilight that she and her team have to help King Aspen with whatever they need, Shining Armor, informs Cadence about the situation and that she act together with Abyssinia "- ordered Celestia.
"Do not worry, sister, and please be careful" - said Luna, hugging her sister.
"We will be fine Luna, the yaks are protecting the mountains, and we are resisting better than we think, when this is over, Equestria may be more united than ever" - said Celestia, hugging her sister a little harder.
"And a new era of peace will reign in Equestria, I wish it were without spilling the blood of innocents" - said Luna, sadly.
"I also think the same, princesses" - Shining said Armor, with ears stuck in the head and a sad look, several friends of his have died, good ponies, all with family, the number of widows who were living in Equestria was increasing very fast, and not only for the ponies, whole families were eliminated in the fall of Seaquestria, and now the young people would be forced to go to arms.
So much has already happened and the war was just beginning.
Author's Note
Armament of the alliance
Fortress-class golems
A prototype of golems, fruit of the joint work of the alliance of equestria, huge wooden monsters capable of repelling great enemy forces, although it is made of wood, it is resistant to fire, but it needs a constant supply of magic.
I regret the horrible quality of the map and others, but I needed to do it to have a point of reference. (a little help will be great, guys)
Chapter 3: true preparation for......
Empire of Gaiea-capital city of the ancient kingdom of Minerva.
The war of reclamation, as the Empire named the war against Equestria, was costing more time than the Griffons had expected, after the union war, where all the Griffon countries of Gaiea finally united under a single flag, radical groups were born from each country to destroy the recent union, since some thought that their respective kingdoms had fallen into depravity.
But the discovery of a new continent, a new world to explore temporarily extinguished the threats, unfortunately or fortunately, this new world was not alone, the people of Gaiea questioned before if there had been other intelligent species in the universe, once they had stories fantasy where they described other species that shared their world, but a disaster caused them to disappear, leaving behind nothing but stories, stories, fuzzy rock paintings, of an indeterminate date and some species without a name, but thanks to the very attitude of the griffons, their study only happened to a few and without much support.
Great was their surprise to discover that these stories were more than real, they also had incredible countries, the explorers reported kingdoms that gratify the fantasy, the "Equestrians" had in their majority the capacity to freely use what they called magic, scientists of Gaiea they named it "soul energy", but they were never able to use it more than what their nature dictated, depending only on the technological advances, something more was missing to use the soul energy, it was then that reports of the so-called unicorns and alicorn, as well as a species similar to them, but smaller and weaker, arrived.
Such discovery overwhelmed the newly crowned royalty and scientific community, the peace they had as a new kingdom, after a bloody history, could be compromised if the griffons of Gaiea discovered that not only were there other of them on the other side of the world, if they discovered that there were species that were apparently a cross of griffons and ponies, they barely dealt with the grudge between their own specie, and now with the bestiality of what apparently their relatives on the other side, it will be a disaster.
Thus, the councilors, the old royalty and the new government came to the conclusion that, to ensure peace between their people and a united future, they had to disguise the Equestrians from extremely dangerous beasts, calling them even demons, thanks to the little historical record, it was not difficult to disguise his people of yesteryear as heroes who managed to banish the demons of his beloved Gaiea, and now it is his holy duty to finish the work of his ancestors and liberate the new world.
It took a few years to prepare the whole scenario for the war, the Empire saw a boom in its economy, poverty and crime decreased considerably, Gaiea was united under a single flag, was the final impulse they needed to guarantee the dream of hundreds of years of sacrifices, but things were not going as planned.
Originally they had planned to close escape routes from all over the continent, leaving only the areas where the navy could not go, like the ice mountains to the north, the Empire thought that its technological superiority would overwhelm the Equestrians, making their magic inefficient, unfortunately, they were discovered, the winged ponies or "pegasus" discovered the boats kilometers away before taking the beaches.
Fearful of what magic might do, they decided to go on the defensive, unfortunately that gave the Equestrians time to build a defense in record time, immense coastal defenses at key points of landing, fortunately they managed to take several "kingdoms", which were those of political importance for their "holy" cause, but out of the blue, the Equestrians advanced war technology that was able to rival their own, causing more casualties on the front than expected.
What should be a quick victory, became a real world war, something that scared and continues to frighten the empire, their want to end the war quickly is thanks of the knowledge about their had suffered in an internal war,but a war of such magnitude, could destroy entire cultures, as happened in the past.
But that was the public issue, the outpost and the navy originally was not going to attack before the arrival of the imperial army, the Equestrians in a new attempt to try for peace, they sent something that they refused to believe at first, an invitation to the peace and cooperation for something more.
That same night they confirmed the information of the Equestrians, although with a worse resolution, the radiation scanners and spectra of light indicated that definitely something that was not natural was there, besides that apparently the equestrians had also discovered it recently, the royalty wanted to refuse to believe it, all in power also refused to believe, their jury "enemy" of yesteryear that justified the union of their people had discovered that they were not alone, and, as if that were not enough, the intention of the Equestrians was to contact them, sending a invitation for cooperation for that purpose.
They were stagnant, they could not sign the peace, it would be the end of the empire, but if in any way the Equestrians managed to contact this space species, which were absolutely superior technologically, and could got their help, they refused to think about the consequences, so They decided to start the war immediately, to the uncertainty of many.
Parallel to the Equestrians, they initiated their communication project, in addition to a space project, starting with the construction of the SCG, or Space Center of Gaiea, as public mission, the development of a better communication system and putting the first Griffon on the moon, the royalty itself put in their money to finance the project, earning points among the people, but their real objective was the first contact with this new species, so maybe, they could secure a future for the peace.
"A few days have passed since we took the capital of Griffins' attempts, because we still can not get past their coastal defenses!"- Asked Queen Aegis, her feathers shone like pink pearls, her well-defined features made her It looked like a sculpture, its wings looked like the tears of stars, although it had traces of scars, Aegis was always considered a beauty even before she was of royalty, and considering her past.
"Reports show that the savages are more difficult to overcome, his majesty, each battle shows new weapons similar to ours" - informed Secretary Wingblood, an old griffon black as night, his wings ended in a blood red color, own for someone with a name like that.
"Even so I want to know how it is possible that they are able to decipher our technology, I do not want to continue listening to excuses!" - shouted King Arax, his size easily exceeded that of most of his species, his mane of golden lion towards game with his wings, in his young days he was called as Arax the golden one, although it was not only because of his colors.
"Your Majesty, from what little we manage to capture in the battle in the capital of the hybrids, your armament is not like ours, our engineers and scientists claim that it is entirely foreign technology, although the basic idea is the same, they use what that our researchers called as exotic engineering, "- explained Wingblood.
"That does not explain where they got their weapons, we took decades to perfect many of our machines, and if the reports were correct, the Equestrians did not take more than a few months" - said the queen, she had been a skilled engineer in her young days along with her family, developed and improved several important systems in all fields, so when she learned about the technological impact of the Equestrians, she personally examined several captured pieces.
Baffled, they tried to discover where they had taken their weapons, reports from the front say that it is something that the soldiers themselves do not know, much less the prisoners, who are ordinary citizens, so they could only guess where they got the information.
The first scenario and the worst, is that somehow managed to make contact with the aliens, receiving technological help, fortunately that would not be the case, since the Equestrians said they had not discovered them long ago, and the time lag from their technological boom and the supposed discovery did not fit.
The second and most probable case is that they somehow managed to make all their advances themselves, something that is hard to think and believe, but considering that all the species in the new continent had united in a single flag and under one enemy in common, could justify his rapid progress.
And the most unlikely, is that something or someone was helping them, discarding the idea of reverse engineering their technology and a traitor, maybe there was something else at stake.
"I agree with you, your majesty, but without more information, it is impossible to know where they got their technology, but if we know where it comes from, thanks to the data collected from the griffon city and the hybrids, two countries are acting as mega-factories, although there are incinuations of a third party, the Equestrians were smart enough to erase the location of such places, so we have no idea where they are "- the secretary explained.
"And about the underground city, what did they find?" - asked the king.
"Apparently its function was to act as a refuge for the displaced people of war, its construction was not yet finished, so, in the bombing of the city and during the incursion, almost all the workers was dead, thanks to that, the few who knew something, they are died, the dogs have no idea of anything, they are very stupid, and the deer do not know anything about their technology, "the secretary said, earning a low growl from the king.
"We have no other option, I wanted to resolve this war without resorting to a massacre, but I will talk to the council to approve the use of avant-garde weapons, reserves are not enough, we must end this war quickly" - said the king with sad
The griffon king, although proud, did not want to see blood spilled, no more, not even of these Equestrians, so they planed to overwhelm them quickly with their numbers, but little by little their generals asked for more advanced weapons to counteract that of the enemy, even requesting an aircraft carrier class contender, the council, which shares the intentions of the king, approved the request, but with the limitation of having propeller aircraft.
"The council will not like it, but it is necessary" - said the queen.
"May the gods forgive us, I hope the story at least knows that we did this for the right reasons" - said the king.
"When all this is over, we can leave the throne to the council and go to live in your sister's villa, nobody is taking care of her, so at least we can have a bit of peace in our last days" - said the queen with affection, while placing a claw on her husband's beak mildly.
"I will make sure you have quiet days, your majesty, and I bet the council will do it too, there is a reason for both of you were elected to be our rulers in these times of crisis, you also need a break" - said Wingblood to his old friends.
"First things first, meet the council, we have little time!" - said the king, as they left the throne room together with his wife and wingblood.
"General, report from the capital!" Said Lieutenant Silverflame.
General Blindsky, a griffon with snow-white plumage, his face had a wound in his left eye, thanks to a battle in his young days in the wars of union, ironically leaving him blind from that eye, thanks to his plumage and eye blind, gave some relaxation when someone meeting him.
Delivering the message, the general's face changed to a look of concern and amazement.
"They approved the use of reactive weapons, Arax and Aegis must be desperate" - the general muttered.
"General?" Asked the lieutenant.
"Communicate to the rest of the conservation fleet, we have work to do, let's end this war" - said the general.
The conservation fleet, is one of the four great fleets, the most powerful of the four, each part of the army, land, sea, air and the most powerful of the three, the army of suppression, had four main armies, with the exception of the suppression army.
"Here General Blindsky to the conservation fleet, our intervention has been approved in the war, I understand that many of you are excited, anxious for glory and honor, but there is nothing honorable in this heavy task that we have been entrusted, although our enemies are aberrations of nature, have shown that they have the same tenacity to fight for their lives, for a future, so in honor and respect to our enemies and comrades fallen in this war, our duty is to end it before thearmy of suppression be called, perhaps like that, we find our longed for peace, good luck to all, and may the gods forgive us "
"-And may the gods forgive us" - then the speaker system went off, leaving several soldiers with conflicting thoughts, rumors of motives behind the war had been heard, as well as rumors among the soldiers about what kind of enemies were fighting , but many knew that also the tensions between the nations of Gaiea, with the danger of a rupture, could initiating another internal war.
Most of the soldiers were war veterans, a combination of all the armies of the old Gaia, General Blindsky had carefully chosen along with his team all his army, all loyal to the good of Gaia.
Besides, they knew about the kind of griffons that were in the suppression army, and their general commander.
Before the war, they had been supporters of the old regime, fed and financed by royalty and nobility who were not satisfied with how the conflict ended, the suppression army was not on good terms, and they could not do anything to dissolve them, since they had been a condition for the union, not even the council and the kings could deny the request and win more enemies.
"Things are getting more and more heavy, do not you think, blue?" - asked a griffin soldier of black color, of small stature, but with a large span, wearing welding glasses on his head.
"And maybe our burden is even more heavy, that the council and the royalty decided to attack with only the navy of the reserve before the arrival of the joint army, something else must have happened" - answered Bluecloud, a marine blue griffin , his wings were silver, making him stand out among several of his companions, which is why he chose to be a war engineer instead of being a "target shooting".
The two griffins were walking in the G.S.S Future, the flagship of the navy
The pride of his fleet with his sister ship, G.S.S Past, the other ships and ships were also incredible as was his ship, although of a smaller size and capacity of fire, counting his ships land-sea
Although that amount of machinery would support even a G pump, since they were heavily armored, their beloved body had the weakness of needing an equal amount of engineers and technicians for its maintenance.
"And you start with your paranoia, let it be, it does not do anything for us as worry about things that do not concern us, the high command is responsible for those movements"
"And it is because of that thought that so many wars have happened in the past, think a little for yourself, something must have happened to start the attack before having the main force gathered, also because they have not tried to sign any peace agreement ?, many questions that may have already been answered, but they have not told us "- answered Blue while using his tools to maintain some generators.
"If so, it's for a good reason, I'm not as stupid as you think, it's obvious that something else is happening, but those who keep the information are trustworthy griffons, the king and the queen are griffons like us, they know what is to go hungry and thirsty, the pain of loss, also the council, it is better to trust them "- said Smokestone, although his small and robust appearance makes believe that a tough guy, his bubbly attitude in the end left many confused, only taking a serious attitude when something important happen.
Without answering Smokestone, Blue continued to work, Smoke was right, there were good reasons to believe in the decisions of the high command, but even the biggest ones are wrong.
Finishing their work, they went to the other stations, after all, they had to leave everything ready for the landing.
Equestria-Canterlot.
After the fall of Griffonstone, things intensified for the Equestrians, although they won most of the battles, they were losing territories, too many displaced were filling the cities, even the shelters were beginning to be insufficient.
When the proclamation of obligatory military service has publicated, the royalty was ready for even rejection, but great was their surprise that they found only support, the friendship between the kingdoms was bigger than previously thought, maybe the cutie map missions influenced more than what was initially believed, all races, even those that did not have a society like donkeys and cows, wanted to enlist.
In a few days, they had already doubled the original number of soldiers in reserve, and it was expected to increase more in the future, thanks to the excess of labor, the construction of shelters and defense sites increased significantly.
An example of that, was in the construction of the defenses of the coasts of Manehattan, without the princess Celestia and Shining, maybe the city would have fallen, the antiaircraft defenses were not able to shoot down the fighters of the empire, leaving them eliminate the air defenses, just to leave the Zeppelin free to atack, when the bombs fell, the prince barely had time to conjure his shield, letting a few bombs go by, if only one bombing could reduce complete blocks (and only a few bombs) in rubble, they did not want think of what ten, vente or hundred of those bombers could do if they managed to pass.
Without the speed of construction of the deer, perhaps they would lose the war for not replacing the fallen structures, besides its low cost, being a magical construction.
In secret, the princess Celestia thanked the heavens that the deer were a peaceful kingdom and benevolent, with a strong connection to life.
After their failed attack, they simply stopped attacking, on all fronts, they even withdrew from Saddle Arabia, although relieved of the enemy's sudden withdrawal, they knew something was happening.
But thanks to that, they managed to finish the buildings and their updates, preparing for the next wave, hoping that the defenses of Equestria will resist, and thus perhaps, make the enemy consider peace.
Then they received reports of a huge fleet on the way to the coast of Manehattan, perhaps causing the first large-scale battle in Equestria.
"Reports say that the smallest are at least three hundred meters long, and the two largest have six hundred or more" - said the soldier to the princesses.
"How many ships do we have general?" Luna asked.
"In the few months we managed to reach the four hundred and twenty dirigibles, although they are somewhat obsolete, we have updated it with the best weapons available, the magic shields could withstand two or three direct shots of a salvo of two hundred kilos of explosives, maybe we will surprise the enemy "- the general said proudly.
Thanks to the intervention and cooperation, the Equestria airships were hardly tested with new magical reaction engines, similar to the combat ships of the world of Sunset, but more efficient, since they use natural magic as fuel, their only weakness, they are quite unstable, a direct shot could blow up the engine, immobilizing the airship.
"Communicate to the other kingdoms, we will take charge of repelling the wave" - ordered Celestia, while the general said goodbye and left the war room.
"We will participate in the battle, right sister?" Luna asked.
"I will also go, Princess, unlike when I happened to Tirek, now if I can fight, for my friends, and for peace" - said Twilight.
"I never thought we would go to battle, not on this scale, but yes, prepare your equipment, we started with the blimps" - said Celestia, although with great pain, she and her fellow princesses teleported to their rooms to prepare.
Knowing that maybe they would have to fight on the front one day, as Celestia and Shining did, Luna ordered to forge new armor for all the representatives of each nation, when Celestia returned from her defense in Manehattan, Luna had finished enchanting the armor , each with the color of each princess, stronger than the dragon skin, could theoretically withstand even a direct attack by an adult dragon.
Ready for battle, they walked to board the flagship of the fleet, meanwhile, Twilight saw the horizon, what were only birds, Pegasus and maybe Derpy, was now full of airships on the way to battle, leaving aside the sad sight, kept walking, ignoring that not only she had exactly the same thoughts.
Meanwhile, none of the kingdoms had noticed a small explosion of light in space, with no one to see it, it was difficult to know how far the explosion happened, but leaving nothing but ruins and perhaps hope.
Author's Note
I do not have time to finish the second part, maybe that's why the chapter feels weird, but maybe tomorrow I'll finish it.
meanwhile, leave in the comments that could be that explosion ?, what is happening with Elián?, hope for whom?
Author's Note
the next chapter, if I have your emotional support, will be ready next weekend, meanwhile, enjoy the second part...
Chapter 3.2: New world
"Elián, wake up, you're going to love this!" - shouted New Blood in the face of Elián, who was fast asleep.
With a grunt, Elian cursed himself for letting Newblood create a body for him, even with his noble voice, after a while he became an enthusiast, that happened just after finishing Maethrillian, Newblood convinced Elián to create a body so that Elián had someone, in his case, to something, to talk face to face and not just to air.
Now Newblood looks like a kind of Prometheus pony, its essence was still spread throughout the facilities and its core in the Keyship.
Things got pretty boring for someone like Elián, the reports of the explorers became increasingly monotonous, with no abnormalities beyond new planets.
Elián was almost convinced by Newblood to visit all the habitable planets, but the last thing that Elián wanted was to become attached and forget his mission, it was something hypnotic to see the builders work, he could easily spend days simply seeing how they worked.
But he opted for a more passive attitude, just enough to return home, and to have Maethrillian protected, since it was his chance to escape, he even left Newblood the administration of new buildings, even with almost a year of waking up in the planet Oasis (as Elián and Newblood named it), have only managed to build few facilities, Newblood insists on converting the system of the planet Oasis into a shield world, managing to have Elián approve it, but its construction would take centuries, maybe two hundred or three hundred years of joint work of all builders in the solar sector, but considering that currently the number of builders would take ten minutes to pronounce, the colossal structure made Elián nervous.
So, for the sake of the sanity of both, they decided to create everything that the Forerunner Empire had built as a society before the flood, cities that could easily be mistaken for something fantasy, heaven, earth and sea, Newblood had already planned any scenario for a city on known planets, habitable or not.
Elián at first protested the fact that it would simply be a waste, without inhabitants for those cities, would waste resources, but then, Newblood reminded him and suggested something to Elián, the Forerunners were able to create life.
Elián refused immediately, but the suggestion persisted in his mind, one year and the opportunity to go home was getting smaller and smaller as Maethrillian investigated his mission to find a way to go home.
But until he exhausted all his chances, he refused.
Finishing with his memories, Newblood simply had an a smile in his face, his body emitted a golden light, which apparently was characteristic of those under his control.
"Better is Equus or a way to go home, or I swear I'll sing again, and you know it's not pretty" - said Elián as he got up from his bed.
"Maethrillian sent a very interesting report on possible alternative dimensions, apparently, something characteristic of this universe, is that it is connected to an identical, but inverse" - answered Newblood.
"What do you mean, are the atoms simply upside down?" Elián asked, as they left his room on the way to the control room.
"Not exactly, according to the tests, all matter of the universe shares a partial homologous with another dimension, my theory is that two universes were born at the same time, causing a kind of synchronization, in synthesis, anything formed naturally here, has its counterpart in that other universe "- explained Newblood.
"Then there is no clone of us in that dimension, right?" - Elián asked, his situation was already quite a problem, and a clone from another universe would be the last straw.
"No, you're the only one, with this, it shows that you came from another universe, which creates a possibility to find your home, the bad thing, is that this is a parallel universe, not another, you still have to check it, and i sent sentinels to explore this new dimension "- said Newblood.
"Wait, are you telling me that you already sent scouts to another universe ?, I understand that almost you complete the exploration of this galaxy, but Equus is still missing" - said Elián.
"True, but I have precisely in reserves a fleet of four hundred billion sojourner dreadnought ready to be used in case of emergency, as well as an equal amount of Keyship distributed on each planet explored, I also have to keep me entertained" - said Newblood with a innocent face, while Elián had an annoying face.
As they arrived at the control room, Newblood had already set the autopilot to go to Maethrillian, Elián enjoyed the view of black holes, so he decided to spend most of the time contemplating a supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy, leaving Maethrillian in the system of the planet Oasis.
Elián hated to admit it, but basically the oasis could be considered his "home", for that reason, Maethrillian was guarding him.
After an hour of talking about the details of the mission to explore the alternative dimension, they left the slipspace, leaving Elián with his mouth open for what was there.
Apparently Newblood transported the entire fleet in that same place, the space seemed to have endless ships, and continued to arrive, if slipspace breaks suggested it.
"We are ready to leave, i leave several directives for the scouts to act in any situation, and Maethrillian will continue to investigate while we are away, a vacation does not sound bad" - said Newblood cheerfully.
Elián found it hard to believe that Newblood was, in essence, a clone of him, his cheerful and carefree attitude they did not agree, but it brings him nostalgia.
"Well, but if nothing new appears in a week, we return immediately, and before you ask me, it's okay if you want to do the same there as here" - Elián said in a tired voice, but deep down, he was excited .
Not bothering to answer, Newblood simply pointed to Maethrillian, who was beginning to shoot a beam of blue light just above, starting to form a huge slipspace door.
"To make things faster, I'm going to divide our ships in small groups and transport them in random places, in the end, we will pass when we know if is not dangerous" - said Newblood.
Before Elián could say anything about the amount of waiting they would have to do while passing so many ships, Maethrillian continued to make the portal bigger and bigger, after a few minutes, the portal had a diameter of 100,000 kilometers, it could easily pass all the ships at the same time.
"Every time I wonder what kind of monsters the flood must have been to beat the Forerunners" - whispered Elián.
"The ignorance of the history of the parasite added to its arrogance was the Forerunner's downfall, we will act immediately without resorting to halos" - said Newblood.
Slowly, the Keyship was moving towards the huge portal, followed by the trillions of dreadnoughts and other support ships, along with more Keyship.
Elián's group would be formed by little more than about twenty Keyship and a hundred dreadnoughts, added with sentinel factories for support, somewhat modest considering the main fleet that Newblood order to protect the outer edges of the galaxy.
"Let's see what this parallel universe brings us, maybe we'll finally find someone to talk to" - said Elián, as they entered the portal.
"Maybe it's ..." - Newblood did not manage to finish before the alarms fired on the ship.
Elián seemed to hear his name, he was tired, he tried to open his eyes, but they felt heavy.
"Not again ..." Elián muttered under his breath.
"ELIÁN !!, wake up!" - he hear Newblood finally talk.
"My head hurts !!, stop screaming!" - Elián answered, while trying to get up, only to discover something very strange, but familiar.
Manageded to open his eyes and he almost fainted again because of what he saw, he had transformed into what was apparently a complete Forerunner, without anything pony, with his armor thrown with the same previous style, but comfortable for his new body.
"It seems that you noticed, Mr. obvious, it seems that your theory is correct, this is the universe of Equestria girls, not only I affect you, also to me!, and for the record, it is not funny" - said Newblood .
Looking at Newblood, he had to stifle a laugh, failing impressively.
For some reason, Newblood had become something that would be considered a Forerunner-style robot dog.
"Of course, funny, I hope you keep laughing when you see this" - said Newblood while lighting a screen of the control room, which still had red lights for the alarm.
"We lost contact with the majority of the fleet when entering, but I managed to re-establish the connection, so it's no problem, most of them have already started their tasks, and some are being repaired, since they crashed on some planets, but we, on the other hand, we get the jackpot "- said Newblood.
Elián immediately stopped laughing at what he had in front of him.
A livable world, but that was not new, what was important was what the smaller screens showed, small rustic settlements, castles, roads, and most importantly, people.
"It seems that we achieved our goal even before your time limit, but this is strange, the sentinels who went to explore took these videos" - said Newblood pointing to another screen.
There, were the famous human ponies, but there was something else, and frankly surprised Elián, they had their magical parts, wings and horns.
But there was something else, others had no parts of the ponies, had parts of donkey, cow, griffons and more species, but something was wrong.
The images did not show nice images, it seemed like they were at war, a whole army of human ponies against an army of human griffins, they were fighting on one stage, on another, some humans with donkey ears looked like they were trying to back up some girls with cow horns, from some with ears and cat's tail, it seems that just as in their universe, several species came together in one world.
"Newblood, analysis, what's going on down there ?, and why are they so ... primitive ?, are they just in tier 7, and why are so many battles happening on the planet?" - Elian said seriously, as he watched as several people were killed by others.
"We do not know, we do not have enough data to understand their language, and without a communication system, we can only wait to decipher their language with direct contact, but, considering their distribution, it seems that they are in a war for territory, the ponies seem be in a war against cats and griffons, and the others are among the crossfire "- said Newblood.
"Is there magic in this place?" - Elián asked.
"Yes, and it is much more abundant than at home, to our great surprise" - said Newblood.
Elián did not know what he could do, on the one hand, he could leave them as the mantle of responsibility says, but the sentries warn that the amount of population of each species, especially cows and donkeys, are dangerously low, the deer are in the list of danger of extinction.
"The mantle approves the intervention, but it must be minimal" - said Newblood.
"... we will go, analyze the area with the smallest population of deer, they need a lot of help, so we will also learn how the hell this ended like this" - said Elián.
Newblood knew that Elián was right, but something else was happening, Elián never showed so much enthusiasm before, at least nothing out of returning home, maybe not only the Forerunner's knowledge was passed on to him, leaving that thought aside, he prepared to teleport.
Surface of the unknown planet-village Tree Night
Kind Tree was scared, after her village was assaulted by cats, the village chief ordered them to run to the forest to protect themselves, while some adults tried to repel the attack with the trees.
Kind Tree was a girl from the deer clan, Her head had white ears and her hair shone with a silver color under the light of the moon, she and her family lived in peace even in these times of war between the ponies and griffin-cats, but while the war progressed, they lost contact with the other messengers of other deer peoples.
Her village, Tree Night, was sufficiently alleged in the battles to go unnoticed, until now.
With her eyes full of tears, she did not manage to run anymore and fell at the foot of a tree, trying to catch her breath, she heard the screams of her people, looking at the stars, she wanted with all her strength, someone to finish this absurd war, if the rumors were correct, the clan griffin and cat just wanted gold and gems, the only sure way to charm something with magic was to have horns, or get gems, but instead of negotiating, those racists decided that everything should belong to them.
There were exceptions, one of her friends who live in the village is a cat, and he stayed to support his friends and neighbors.
Tired, the last thing she saw before fainting were innumerable points of light that shone like the stars, her consolation waswhat she thought is a shower of stars, leaving her, for a moment, hope.
Chapter 4: the stars fall for us
Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter. Caballus, the great kingdom of the ponies was founded centuries ago in the need of union of all the tribes of ponies before the danger of dark days, a generally noble, intelligent and believing species of peace and harmony.
For generations the royal family has dedicated all their existence to spread peace with the other tribes in the continent of Equida and the world, unfortunately, not all wanted peace, while some sought balance, others wanted the conquest.
The tribes of the cats and the griffons allied themselves to conquer the lands in all of Équida, ignoring all attempts to maintain peace.
His reasons, although initially easy to understand, began to cause much concern among the royalty of Caballus, and the public in general.
All the species in Gaia have magic in their interior, from a simple rock to the intimidating cat men, although it is passive magic, their capacities are impelled by the magic.
But others, are able to use it directly, such are the cases of magicians and the tribe of deer, of which the last is a whole race able of manipulating magic.
Reports said that cat and griffons men are collecting prisoners wherever they go, amputated their horns and ears, killing them in the process.
This caused a lot of worry and excitement, it seems that they wanted to discover a way to copy the skills of deer and unicorns, but that caused small towns to disappear little by little.
The saint army could not cover all the places, not at least while fighting a total war on almost all fronts, that is the main cause of the pain of the great king Arax, tall and with silver hair and white eyes, although he is a man with Many years, his skills in strategy are unequaled, but even so, the lack of personnel did nothing but give him a headache and in the soul, since the tribe of the deer has been brutally attacked since the beginning of the war, and it's been almost nine years.
A war that no one can see end, is at a standstill, neither side can extend their front lines any further, and moving forward is impossible, the numerical and technological superiority of the griffin-cat alliance could have overwhelmed any other nation, but Caballus He had magic, a single well-trained unicorn could easily match an enemy platoon.
Neither siege weapons could withstand the magic fire, but even with that advantage, they were simply outnumbered five to one.
Then the disappearances of remote villages began to be a threat, the kingdom had previously distributed officers to train a militia in each village, keeping the front line without much change, and protecting the villages, even the king convened a meeting with the majority of the leaders of each tribe, promising that their army would protect them.
At first, the leaders of each tribe believed that they would be absorbed into a dictatorship, but they were surprised to learn that the only thing the king asked of them was only their cooperation in the maintenance of the supply lines and cultivation.
Everything was fine, but months later the front line was extended by a sudden enemy retreat, demanding more soldiers from the reserve and the rearguard, leaving unprotected most of the villages closest to the war zone.
The king could not command troops from the front, and the enemies that destroyed the villages were not enough to attract attention, so they could easily go unnoticed, it was a poison from which he had no cure.
In an attempt to save the majority, Princess Alexia used her own personal guard, the white roses, to protect and escort the evacuees, but even so, they would have to leave thousands to their fate.
Then, that night happened.
White roses, elite soldiers made up mostly of noble women, contrary to what one would think of Caballus, military service allowed women of any kind to enter and serve in the army, leaving their decision if they wanted to continue in the army or return to their civil life.
Thanks to the support of the royal family in the majority of its population, the loyalty and quality of the holy army were almost unmatched, but if they were the sword, the white roses would be the shield.
Formed by the mother of the princess fifty years ago, white roses have as their main objective to protect the town, having as a second mission to protect the royal family.
Having few numbers, they were only deployed in the capital, making it one of the safest cities in the continent, thanks to their loyalty and commitment.
Poor those who believed that being women could easily pass over them, they quickly gained honor for their name, beautiful in their silver armor, but dangerous with their sharp thorns.
"Your Highness, are you sure it is wise for you to leave the capital?" Asked Atalaya, a beautiful girl with brown hair and brown eyes, her colored wings beautifully protected by her gray armor made her look like a rose in autumn.
"Our people are dying Atalaya, my father finally accept our help, but we need each soldier to help in this task, even if your captain has to go to the battlefield" - she said to Princess Alexia, her silvery hair shone together with her white dress, although smaller than Atalaya, the princess also served in military service, proving to be more than a pretty face, she was one of the most powerful magicians in the kingdom, even rivaling her father in war tactics.
"One of the reasons why no noble, even the king, accepted our help, is that most of his daughters are in our ranks, mere decorations, I understand your enthusiasm to serve for more than just a guard, but if you are killed, the morale of our people could be destroyed "- said Atalaya with a worried tone.
"Do you forget who is stronger in this Watchtower room, remember when you used to hate me and took the opportunity of training to give me a lesson in" humility "?" Asked the princess with a smile on her face.
"I understand your princess point, but still ..." - said Atalaya while blushing.
With a sigh, the princess went out to the balcony of her room, the blue moonlight illuminating the streets of the capital.
The capital, the jewel of Caballus, could easily be the largest city on the continent, the buildings, mostly limestone, rose beautifully between the streets, thanks to the magic and work of many, the houses and the streets They had lunar stones light.
Its light was dim, not as bright and hot as a torch is, but quite practical and efficient, since they used moonlight and a little magic to work, even making the city part of the night sky, making the city an extension of the stars.
But what stood out most in the city, were the enormous towers of the magic institute, bigger than even the royal palace, and perhaps more important.
Thanks to continuous research in magic, and reforms in open education, his society began a time of unprecedented progress.
The lunar stones are one of the many fruits in the investigation of new magic.
They had advanced a lot in a few years, the magic was improving the quality of life of its people, little by little, but even the most remote villages would have enlightenment, maybe open more institutes, the darkness would no longer harass its people.
Then the war ...
Their prosperity did not go unnoticed by the other tribes, even with the attempt of peace, few listened.
"Damn ..." the princess murmured, clenching her fist, and a single tear fell on her hand.
"Princess?" Asked Atalaya.
"Atalaya, is not fair, we finally achieved a union in our country, but this war is ending with those who most needed our help" - Alexia murmured.
"Do not lose hope princess, I'm sure things will improve" - said Atalaya while placing a hand on the shoulder of the princess.
"I hope so" - said the princess.
Then, something strange began, the city began to shine, even more, the lunar stones began to shine more and more.
"What's happening?!" - shouted Atalaya.
"The crystals are reacting to something!" - said the alarmed princess, the stones of the whole city began to blink violently, even causing some to explode.
"Princess, in the sky!" - Atalaya shouted as he pointed to the sky.
A huge dark blue ball in the stars, close to the moon, suddenly appeared in space, while huge golden rays covered the enormous sphere violently.
Then, suddenly, it exploded in a huge rain of something like stars, sparks of blue light lit the night.
"I do not know what happened, but it's something very beautiful" - said Atalaya, while he saw the new blue stars on the night sky, a few falling on the horizon.
"I want the damage reports, and call the alchemist, I want to know what just happened and why the lunar stones reacted" - the princess ordered.
"Yes, princess!" Said Atalaya as he left the room quickly.
"I have a bad premonition of this." The princess murmured while contemplating the new stars in the sky, besides the comets that fell on the horizon, painting the horizon with bright blue lines.
The Institute of magic, the peak of the invention and magical research, in the few decades it has been in operation, have earned the reputation of being the most advanced in the continent, as well as its incredible variety, not only in magic but also in its members.
Since they opened their doors to the other tribes, dozens of magical and non-magical researchers went in search of support from Caballus and the institute, receiving their help.
It is so respected and important, that it is even one of the reasons for the beginning of the war.
The Alchemist is the equivalent to the king in the institute, not everyone can get to that position, a position that has even more time than the institute itself, so being the alchemist is a great honor and responsibility.
But that title is still below the king.
"I have no idea what caused the lunar stones to explode his majesty" - said the alchemist Sol, an old unicorn man with a thick beard, his tunic, gray, contrasted sharply with his gray hair and wrinkles.
"Do you want to tell me that the best magician in the kingdom has no idea what happened?" Asked the king, an equally old man, his slightly longer horn, his crown, made of Mithril, gave him an imposing aura, that is the only known metal able to absorb magic and store it, a national treasure that passed from generation to generation, without being used once.
Even the alchemist thinks they have enough energy to destroy the whole country with a single spell.
"This is something that had never happened his majesty, not only the stones were affected by the explosion in the sky, also a few members with affinity in space magic were put in the sanitariums, whatever it was, caused a great magical resonance "- said the old man, thoughtful, and excited.
There had appeared in a single night what appeared to be new magic!
"We have traced a trajectory of falling off some of the stars some 466 km from the capital in the direction of the front line, that is in the areas that the white roses were assigned for the evacuation" - Atalaya said while reviewing the documents that the observatory had sent.
"That is more than perfect, we can investigate while we evacuate the villagers, we will use emergency teleportation glasses and we can be there in a few hours" - said the princess, excited.
"The crystals are very difficult to make Alexia, you would exhaust the reserves of the capital" - said the king.
"I think knowing the truth about an event that caused so much chaos in the capital is worth it father, so we even have a better chance to evacuate the villages in that area, help them even if they were affected by the fall of the stars" - said Alexia.
"I can even go with the princess, Your Majesty, if the need arises, I can quickly return it with a spell, besides that, I can be of help for a faster magic recognition" - said the alchemist.
Gaining a sigh from the king, everyone waited anxiously.
"Well, but you will have extra help, are the prototypes ready, alchemist?" - the king asked.
Confused, the princess simply turned to the alchemist.
"Yes, your highness, they are safe and they are in optimal conditions, but we have only been able to manufacture five units" - said the alchemist.
"Father, what are you talking about? What is this prototype?" - asked Alexia.
"Can you show it to the alchemist?" Asked the king.
"Enchanted your Majesty, conveniently, I brought one to show you at the end of your call, we can go to the training camp to prove it" - said the alchemist.
Winning a gesture from the king, they left the war room and walked to the training camp on the outskirts of the palace, while the princess and Watchtower shared their doubts.
"Do you have any idea what Atalaya is talking about?" Asked the princess.
"No, your highness, but it may be the project of new weapons, but apparently they did not tell you about such an important project" - said Atalaya, annoyed, since she had not even been informed, even being responsible for the security of the princess.
"Let's see what Atalaya is about, then I will talk to my father about the importance of sharing information" - said Alexia.
Just when they finished talking, they had arrived at the training camp, used only for the lessons of the royal family, it was empty, free from prying eyes.
In the middle of the place, there was a wooden box, guarded by two members of the armed saint.
"You can go, gentlemen, secure the room, I do not want anyone to interrupt us unless it's on the front" - said the king, winning a salute from the soldiers.
When they left, the alchemist opened the box, inside, there was a sword that looked quite hypnotizing.
"What you are seeing, your majesty, is the final prototype of the spiritual swords, this is especially a commission from your majesty" - said the alchemist, as he handed the sword to Alexia.
At the time of touching, Alexia expected, by the size of the sword, that it was quite heavy but great was his surprise to see that this was not the case.
"What is your intentions, alchemist ?, I doubt my father will order a sword to shine in the night" - said Alexia, while maneuvering the sword.
"As you can see, the sword is much lighter than other swords, but that is not its only function, aim at the test objective and let some of your magic go to the sword" - said the alchemist.
Then, Alexia pointed to the test doll and let her magic go to the sword.
Only to see that a silver ray of light shoted out from the tip and cut the test target in half.
The only thing that had happened afterward was a shrieking sound, similar to that of fireworks.
"And that's not all, bury the sword on the ground and grab the lunar stone while doing the same."
Still dazed, she barely managed to catch the suggestion of the alchemist, only to almost scream in shock when a shield of magical energy surrounded her.
"The lunar stone creates a force field of magical particles that vibrate at a speed sufficient to repel any magical attack, unfortunately, we are still working on its efficiency, since its constant use wears away the lunar stone and simply falls off, having to replace it "- said the alchemist.
"Good work alchemist, with this, our armies can move forward and end this damn war, but for now, Alexia will help you" - said the king, looking quite happy of such magical display.
Atalaya, still stunned, received a similar sword, but a red one from the Alchemist.
"This is for you, dear granddaughter, your duty is to take care of the princess, so this model is also made for you" - said the Alchemist.
"On the way I will explain your abilities, but only the training will help you master these weapons, the models of the white roses and the armed saint do not have as much power as yours, but they are still quite effective, anyone can use it, in essence, they are the first magic weapon in the world "- said the alchemist, looking quite proud.
"In addition, the shield in the capital is not infallible, although we are invisible from the outside, sooner or later you will discover the location of the capital" - said the king.
The capital counted on passive defenses that other cities would envy, one of those, is the shield of invisibility, anyone who looked at the capital outside the shield, would simply see a great mountain, even using magic you could not detect anything.
That is why there were surveillance posts throughout the area to guide visitors, air transport ships would be escorted by Pegasus guards to avoid falling into wind traps, and river vessels would be destroyed if they approached the dangerous rocks carefully. placed.
Everything mixed with the surrounding mountains made it the perfect camouflage, no one enters without permission, and nobody would betray the kingdom, and even if they did, there were countermeasures in case of an attack.
"What I want to know, is because I was not informed about something so important, or Atalaya, I am a princess of the kingdom and Atalaya my right hand, we had the right to know!" - the princess shouted at her father, quite angry.
"It was not necessary, you had your hands occupied with the coordination of the evacuation plan, and the project started at my request, and you could have refused, this weapon could easily defeat the most skilled gentleman if it is not a magician" - said the king calmly.
"And I would have refused, it is very dangerous to progress in these things father, is one of the reasons for this war, if we do not think well our progress, our fall will not be an invasion, it will be our own arrogance" - said the princess, sheathed her new sword and left the room.
Watchtower, sad to see the princess so disappointed, simply said goodbye to her grandmother and bowed to the king before going after her.
"... your majesty, the princess and Atalaya are doing everything possible to be recognized by more than mere decorations of the capital, I understand that most white roses are daughters of nobles, but each and every one of them is more than capable passes ... "- the alchemist did not manage to finish when the king spoke.
"I speak as a father, and not as a king, I admit my selfish decisions to separate her from danger, it's all I have left since her mother died, she is the only worthwhile thing I have to fight, do you feel the same? for your granddaughter, not? Atalaya is strong, but it is the last of your lineage "- said the king.
"But, even so, we can not live with fear, so work hard with your swords, they are the most powerful that our kingdom can develop, nor all the magicians of the kingdom will be able to overcome them, over time they may be even more powerful than you, my king "- said the alchemist.
"I hope so ..." - said the king, with a small smile, while it was beginning to rain.
Author's Note
The next chapter is going to take a lot, but a lot to go out, but they will last longer, and I will also include little by little everything about the new world in which Elián is, the era of Birth and charity is just beginning.
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"Kind !!" - Violet shouted, as she ran faster, she needed to find Kind fast and thus go to the shelter, things could go very wrong if more enemies get to finish the job.
Running for an hour, climbing trees and hillsides without stopping was already taking its toll on its resistance.
Then, just before crossing a small river, something appeared on top, resembling a blue and golden light, but the trees did not allow to see clearly its shape.
Then she began to blink as she moved in a direction to the other side of a small slope, confused, Violet followed the light with the hope that the gods are helping her.
After walking a few minutes, the light stopped in the distance, just above a huge tree.
Hurrying up, Violet saw that something seemed to be at the foot of the tree, immediately, Violet recognized it as Kind's clothes.
"Kind !!, are you okay? !!" Violet shouted, worried, but just when she arrived, a sigh of relief came from her when she noticed that she had just fainted from exhaustion.
Kind was not a sporting person, and the distance that she walked tired even to Violet, so she understood her by her state.
Shaking it a little, Kind began to open his eyes, slowly and tiredly.
"Violet? ... "- Kind asked.
"Yes darling, it's me, you had us all worried" - Violet said while hugging Kind.
"I'm so sorry, when I realized I had separated from the group, I did not recognize this part of the forest" - Kind said between sobs while returning the hug.
Violet was like a second mother, she had taken care of her as a child, and her son was the most wonderful person she had ever met.
"Quiet, I'm here, we have to go back to the others" - Violet said while comforting her.
"How did you find me, Violet ?, the forest is very big and in the chaos, nobody could see where it was going, nor do I know where we are" -said Kind, as he got up with Violet's help.
"A golden light guided me to you, I spent hours looking for you, I feared the worst" - Violet said while helping Kind to stand up.
Then, Violet remembered the light, and that maybe she was still up on the tree.
Looking slowly upwards, she found the same light, except that now the light was dimmer, now she could see better what it was that produced the light.
Kind, worrying about the sudden tense attitude of his friend, also turned to the same direction, only to be surprised and excited.
"They listened to me ..." - Kind said breathlessly, while tears formed in his eyes.
Surprised, Violet turned to see Kind.
"What do you mean by that?" Violet said in a whisper, avoiding to provoke the strange object.
Before even answering, the mysterious object began to make a dull sound, while descending, Violet, worried, prepared to attack, only to be stopped by a hand on his shoulder.
"The stars have fallen for us" - Kind said, with a smile and tears, while pointing to the object, which had a star shape.
While Elián and Newblood walked towards the cave, Newblood received several more detailed reports of the world in which they were.
Apparently, they were not as primitive as Newblood initially thought, or at least not in the strict sense of the word.
They had airships that they used for trade, war, and transport, as well as recreation, magic was a marvel to replace special machines to fly, in addition to reports of a very strange field in mountains not far from their position.
Using just eye contact, there was nothing, but the scanners said something was definitely there, and something very big, the size of a modern city.
By having them keep an eye on that area from orbit, Newblood ordered the fleet to focus on building several fortress ships, in case they had to evacuate the planet at some point, since their current ships did not have the infrastructure for something of that size, better safe than sorry.
In addition, there was something quite worrying, the other ships that were not in the solar system reported normally the state of their surroundings, even mapping a good portion.
But for some reason, the ships in the system they were in had problems leaving the gravitational field, even trying to use the Slipspace, failing in the attempt.
They could not leave the system, maybe that's why their entry was very violent, but something like that is very unusual, and even more so when there was no apparent explanation.
Secretly it was also one of the reasons to build ships to evacuate in the event of a disaster.
Also, Newblood began to consider the creation of a shield world in the planet where they were, being the only intelligent life, at least if they were going to interfere with the survival of a species, they could secure their future by protecting everyone at once.
And entering into the topic of "protection", Newblood did not know exactly how to proceed with the political situation of the planet, the most powerful species were in a very violent war, affecting more species, even causing them to be endangered by the campaign of extermination by cats.
Elian could command a simple Sentinel-class vanguard and decimate the battlefield, although perhaps sending the Sentinel more powerful could even destroy several covenant cruisers and a capital ship before falling would be too much for simple wooden ships, the Sentinel would be a good dissuasive to calm the tension, even if by force.
But they could not do it, some could start to brown them, even ancient humans saw the Sentinels Retrievers as gods, religious fanatics were the last thing they needed, if the covenant is an example.
Maybe they could simply help in isolated cases, evacuating little by little the survivors, taking tactics of guerrilla warfare and systematically saving the most isolated peoples without attracting attention.
But on the other side, Newblood wondered why Elián did not make the quickest decision and use his superiority to bring peace, all in a few hours, maybe less, they have the ability to do so.
But no, that was not the style of Elián, or the mantle for the case, although it would also be more informative to observe the development of the situation for future cases, all information was welcome, especially information about magic.
They still did not have data on the behavior of the magical nature, even with the analysis of Elián's body, the only thing they could find out without dissecting Elián, was monitoring his body.
Elian's armor is easily the most complete and advanced in all Forerunner history, even the Ur-Didact's armor paled in comparison to Elian's armor.
Thanks to Newblood had all the time in the world, without a task other than to investigate a way to return to the human world and explore, Newblood devoted much of his time in the construction of the Quetzal armor, in honor of a beautiful bird.
Able to enter and exit the Slipspace, in addition to supporting the effects of the halo and the composer, nothing more than a UNSC nova bomb could damage the armor, the shields were an experimental technology.
Since in the Slipspace its 11 dimensions make the existence of matter impossible, making anything without a special shield be disintegrated instantly, the Quetzal armor takes advantage of that nature.
When exceeding a certain limit, the armor would activate a second shield under the primary, making whatever happens through the first defense, be disintegrated by the 11 dimensions of the second shield.
In addition to its "impenetrable" defense, the armor had an interesting weapon system.
Similar to the Prophet's Sentinels in halo wars, the Quetzal armor has small guardians integrated, which also served as an additional physical shield, launching an attack powerful enough to melt centimeters of titanium, let alone other metals.
Although they were not powerful enough to damage Forerunner armor, they could maintain a good fight with several Sentinels.
Besides that, the armor is able to keep its user in dream sleep, it can also turn basic needs into something unnecessary, making it so much to eat, sleep or go to the bathroom something more like an option than a need.
Elián would go crazy if he finds out that his armor is so detailed, so he will only be informed in extreme cases, as well as an emergency insurance, Newblood manufactured an AI that will only be activated as tactical support in case Newblood is indisposed.
But thanks to Newblood he created the armor under the pretext of aesthetics (and to help Elián with his problems to adapt with his body) helped to conceal that that armor will turn out to be one of the most advanced things at present.
Parallel to these thoughts, Newblood worked frantically to create a translator, because the civilization of the planet did not have any type of signal or something they could use, Newblood settled for the memories of the corpse that the Sentinels took.
Thanks to a process similar to the composer, Newblood managed to extract as much as he could from the memories, trying not to be very invasive, but thanks to the magical nature of the poor man, the Forerunner technology had not been able to even contain the magical traces, It's like trying to hold air with one hand.
The need to better understand the nature of magic was already a necessity rather than an option, at least Newblood could convince Elian to finally take advantage of its magical nature.
Curious for Newblood, all this was thought of in just under a second.
Something that Elián may or may not understand, is the immense capacity for analysis that the most advanced AIs of the Forerunner is capable of.
When Newblood was created, its processing speed was such that practically the time stopped, leaving it to process all the information and its situation.
In the beginning, it had been very confusing, it was a copy of Elián, thanks to the lack of practice, he accidentally left his memories in Newblood, basically creating a clone.
But also Newblood knew that it was not what he thought, thanks to the immense information available and his capacity beyond what he is sincerely capable, I accept the idea that now, it is something new.
Thanks to that, Newblood spent little less than a second waking up from his analysis.
Something instant for Elián, unaware that, in reality, Newblood was now close to 30 years old.
The speed at which an AI matures is according to the information it obtains, the more it analyzes, the older, mature and experienced it is.
And Newblood, with the memories of Elián and the Forerunner advances, had spent almost two decades analyzing, testing, devising and plotting a future, in a second in real time.
To compensate for his obvious maturity, he had created a personality that suited someone for Elián, who had only been a few days to process his situation.
To be honest, it was quite depressing for Newblood, he had had trouble accepting his new reality, but the time and his research to find some way to return home helped him to overcome his situation and his new role.
But even if Newblood knew the truth, at least he could show Elián his reality, it simply could not be done, there were many things that the Forerunners simply could not do.
Returning to reality, Newblood observed Elián, his humanoid form had been coupled quite well, measuring one meter and sixty.
The armor, thanks to the gods, had been transformed by magic to conform to its new form.
He did not have much muscle mass, so he was physically "normal", thin and of medium height.
Under the helmet, his hair was an opaque silver, or that is Newblood if Elián retained its original color.
When they arrived, Elián did not bother to observe his new body, since at least by the user, the armor could not be removed, and Newblood created it so that it is practically imperceptible to the user who is wearing a suit of armor.
And since the armor marked everything well, he did not worry, but maybe later Elián took off his helmet to observe his face.
"We already have a way of communicating Newblood?" - Elián asked, taking Newblood out of his thoughts.
"I'm still working on that, but at least we can communicate with simple terms, but the more material the translator has, the better" - said Newblood while trotting a little faster.
"One less thing to worry about, but, seriously, it is necessary to build evacuation ships? I understand that it is better to be prepared, but reports say that for some reason we can not leave the solar system, why do more? actually, we have a lot of ships "- said Elián.
"Yes we have to evacuate, we would have ships that could accommodate even an artificial environment for greater comfort, I do not know about you, but I would prefer to spend god knows how long surrounded by nature to endless corridors with nothing to do, I would go crazy" - said Newblood.
Elián, considering that, being honest, Newblood was right, he just shrugged, time is something they had plenty of.
As they walked, they saw in the distance the cave surrounded by Sentinels, all simply floated in a circle, patrolling around.
"How is the search for the missing member?" - Elián asked.
"At this moment they are meeting, the girl had fainted and just now woke up, in less than half an hour they should be here, or better we teleport them?" - asked Newblood.
"Talk to them, inform them about their situation, so we can gain a little bit of their confidence if we show that we help gather the few survivors" - Elián said as he stopped a few meters from the entrance of the cave.
"Okay, are you ready? It's the first contact with others since you came here" - asked Newblood.
Considering the words of Newblood, Elián simply observed what was ahead, then I speak.
"True, but it is also exciting, you are right in that it is very difficult to find a way home, we do not know how much time does not cost, or if we ever achieve it, but thanks to that, I can help these people" - said Elián with calm.
Before Newblood considered it appropriate to speak, Elián continued.
"It is better to take what I have and do something with that, to regret and waste my attention on a task that may be useless, I can help these people, since on the other side we did not find anything, for a few moments I thought we were just we"
"But now, seeing was I not only wrong, I understand that this kind of thought is useless when someone else needs help, if it's not me, who is going to do it?" - Elián asked, although Newblood was not sure what to answer.
"Also, if I'm going to be here, at least I'm going to have fun, do not worry, I'll go alone, when necessary I'll call you to introduce you" - Elián said with a smile, although Newblood could not see her for the armor, something said I was smiling
"Father, we are totally surrounded and overcome, they could attack now, but why do not they?" - asked Hornhope.
"I'm not sure son, but do not let your guard down, those strange creatures I've never seen them, they have nothing to say who they serve, they do not have the colors of any nation's flag either" - said Tree Heart, still holding his sword.
"I do not catch their scent, it's as if they were not there" - said Nightstar, nervously looking at the entrance of the cave.
Before anyone could respond, heavy steps were heard from the entrance.
No one among those who were present in the cave managed to recognize what had entered.
It was a biped, so it must be some kind of soldier, but what covered it looked like armor, but even the best blacksmith could never match such a work, it looked more like a golem made entirely of metal.
He was not very tall, maybe the same height as Night and Hornhope, but clearly he was very heavy, his feet left a slight mark on the rock.
"The danger happened, now you are safe, I would like to talk to your leader" - said the strange being, his voice seemed a melody, even unnatural.
Tree Heart, recovering from the shock, analyzed the situation better.
Surrounded and injured, these people could easily kill them, and they also seemed to be quite dangerous.
But they are offering their help, they are even trying to talk to a representative before continuing something else.
They were in a desperate situation, but, although hope is very small, Tree Heart decided to take it.
Before his son or Nightstar could stop him, Tree Heart put down his weapon and walked into the presence, stopping only a few meters away.
As he suspected, that man was not very tall, he was the same height as his son, but now Tree Heart had a better view of his armor.
Smooth and without signs of a blacksmith's hammer, he had blue lights that covered him almost as if they were veins, but the strangest thing was the floating metal plates on his back, they looked like arrowheads, but nothing held them, and he did not detect magic either that came from man.
"I am Tree Heart, the head of the village, and on behalf of all those who remain, I thank you with all my heart for your help, but if you allow me to ask, who are you?"
While the others watched the exchange, everyone nervously waited for the next step of the intruder, even Nightstar was very nervous.
"your town is on the verge of destruction, his town is one of the few that are left and if they are destroyed, they will disappear with time, that is something that I can not allow" - said the man, leaving everyone in shock.
"Wow, subtle" - said Newblood with sarcasm in the communicator.
"I'm sorry, I panicked, how the hell do you tell people that their species is dying?!" - Elián said in a low voice, forgetting that their conversation could only be heard by them.
"I understand, do not be alarmed, leave me from here" - said Newblood, as he walked to the entrance of the cave.
Before Tree Heart was able to answer, something strange was approaching the cave, it looked like a dog, but a much larger one, almost the size of a small bear.
Before they all got ready, they saw that the strange animal was very similar to the man they had in front, but only in the strange lights that marked his body, besides that strange armor that made part of the skin for both of them.
"What my teacher is trying to say, is that we simply want to help you end this conflict that has claimed so many lives, and as a sign of our sincere will ..." - said the creature, to everyone's surprise, but before that Tree can reply to them, circles of golden light started to form right in the middle of them.
"The stars? What are you talking about Kind?" Violet said as she took a defensive position because of that thing she was attacking.
Now that that thing did not shine that much, Violet could not deny that it had a form that made it look like a star.
"A shower of stars, before fainting, I'm not sure why I know, but they are not here to hurt us, we can trust them" - Kind said, as she slowly approached the strange thing.
"Wait! You do not know if that thing is some magical artifact sent to finish the job" - Violet said with fear, as she pulled Kind by the arm.
Before any of them could do anything else, something caught their attention.
"Safe targets, permission to teleport to the site called the clear" - said a metallic, monotonous voice.
Slowly, Violet understood that that voice came from the artifact, but Violet did not know how that thing knew the name and location of her refuge, it was a well-kept secret, but something else caught her attention, he asked for permission, in addition, she and Kind were targets, but targets for protection.
"Teleportation ... that's very advanced magic, even my mother can only do it after preparing a matrix for two days" - Kind said with a surprised whisper.
As Kind said, if they had an advanced magical power, besides knowing their position, if they wanted, they could kill everyone, it would not be difficult, but they had helped to find Kind, at least, Violet could give the benefit of doubt, for now.
"Very well, we accept" - Violet said, muttering.
"Granted permission, initiating teleportation, please do not be alarmed" - said the object, before rare rings of light surrounded their bodies.
Preparing for an attack, Tree and the others pointed their spears at the light, but instead of offensive magic, two people appeared.
"KIND / MOM / SISTER !!!" - shouted Tree, Night and Horn, running to where they suddenly appeared.
None of them managed to say much before they were embraced by their loved ones.
After a few questions to confirm his well-being, Tree turned to face the two entities in his cave.
"I thank you for your help, thanks to you, our family is complete, although I did not doubt you, Violet, I am glad you are well" - said Tree, as he bowed slightly to the entities, while Night and Horn did the same equally grateful.
"Please, do not bow, we just did what anybody would do in our situation" - said the man with the silver armor.
"I apologized for the discourtesy, but I thought it was a noble sent to help, maybe the white roses?"- Tree asked.
Leaving Elián and Newblood confused, they simply ignored the latter, cataloging it as the name of the country's national guard.
"We do not belong to any government, we are, so to speak, others like you"- said the strange metallic animal cryptically.
"I am Elián, and my partner is Newblood, and we are the Forerunner" - said Elián.
Author's Note
Thanks to the gods, at least for now, history is not dead, for now ...
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Tree Heart did not know what to say, things had gone very crazy in a very short time, the war was already causing famines in different parts of the kingdom were already beginning to affect the village, although they were a few days from the front line, Tree Heart thought that perhaps the mountains would be natural walls, since only a few men could pass.
But they were enough to attack the village, they barely managed to evacuate the villagers without many casualties, but painful.
Now, these strange beings bring them proposals for peace and help, if it weren't because they brought Kind and Violet safe, Tree wouldn't have believed them a word.
"I had never heard of your people, to which kingdom they belong? Are they from beyond the great sea?" - asked Tree Heart, while making signs for his men to lower their weapons, some even collapsed from tiredness and wounds.
"No, just us, but that can wait, your people are hurt and tired, they may not say it, but some of your men have very serious wounds, some may not spend the night if we do not hurry" - said the strange man, pointing behind Tree.
During the exchange of words, some of the relatives of his men were attending to their loved ones, some were crying with concern, Tree was amazed that he had not realized that some were so badly hurt, but a little proud to know that even after a few hours of continuous movement they continued without protest.
Even Violet and Kind were checking Night, who was collapsed, being as stubborn as his father, hiding a horrible wound in his stomach that finally took its toll.
The village chief turned his head, Elián had already confirmed the preparation of the medical facilities in the Keyship, Newblood was coordinating the teleportation line for the ship, being so many and in a delicate state, Newblood quickly began building a portal.
"If only we had Huragok doctors, we could save the brains of the bodies and rebuild their bodies" - said Newblood, surprising Elián.
"Can they do that?" - Elián asked as he watched the village chief exchanging words with the cat woman who teleported and another woman, maybe his wife?
"Did you forget that they appear in halo wars? They were not only units invented by developers, life engineers employed them for centuries," said Newblood.
Elián did not doubt that possibility, but unfortunately they never managed to create life, or at least the engineers, Newblood says that the magic in the universe makes the creation of engineers impossible, perhaps when they know more about the magical nature.
"It seems they are ready to move" - said Newblood, causing Elián to focus on the village chief.
“We accept your generous offer, my people are ready to move” - said Tree Heart.
"Very well, follow me" - Elián said as he left the cave, with the villagers a few steps behind.
Although Elián was turning his back on them, he could see them thanks to his visor, and he couldn't hide his laugh, although the armor hid him.
The Sentinels were floating overhead, patrolling the area, to the villagers, they looked like silver carriages, huge and quite fast.
But what was most striking was what they were doing, at the tip of the mountain where the cave was located, they were building a huge structure, it looked like a tower made of silver, materializing through the blue light threw some of those strange beings.
They did it with such precision and speed, that all the villagers were hypnotized by their movements.
“It is a shield generator and an access point, when it is finished they can use it as entrance” - said Elián.
"Entrance?, entrance to where?" - asked Tree Heart, while he still looked astonished.
“A refuge, for all who seek to live in peace” - said Elián.
Before Tree Heart asked what he meant by a refuge, a huge blue vortex appeared a few steps away from Elian, causing everyone to focus on him.
Elián, seeing that he had everyone's attention, simply signaled to be followed, just before crossing the portal.
All the villagers hesitated, seeing the companion of the strange man waiting for them to move.
Tree Heart was the first to move, walking just a few steps from the portal, and entered, followed almost immediately by everyone else.
“You know, we could well send the directives of the mantle to hell and adopt a more active position with other more primitive civilizations, but wait, we are already doing it!” - Newblood said on the comm, while he saw the village chief looking thoughtfully at the portal.
“I understand that you are upset, but I think we can be flexible with them, and their magic makes it impossible to determine what technological level they are in” - said Elián, while waiting for the other one in the portal in the Keyship hangars.
"Well, the analysis of the bodies is ready, they have already been treated so that those of the people can bury them, you will be surprised to know that there is not much difference between human physiognomy, besides that it seems that magic does have the means to move" - Newblood said, while showing images in the viewfinder to Elian.
"It seems that magic is a type of energy they use as if it were sugar, they are simply like plants, they absorb the magic of the environment and process it to use it, although I am still not sure of the process for that, it seems that you need a catalyst to manipulate it as you wish ”- concluded Newblood, showing a small diagram of the circulatory system, comparing magic as if it was part of the blood.
"So it's something we could use as a type of energy?" - said Elian.
“No, the only reason I know is for the process, distribution and manipulation are done in the body itself, and by extension the horns, is the same radiation that you emit, when analyzing their blood, they showed nothing unusual, they have almost same components as yours, I would like to analyze more tribes to see if there are more differences, but it seems that simply the only differences are merely physical ”- said Newblood with emotion, but thanks to the fact that they accelerate the processing level thanks to the armor of Elián and being an AI, his emotion did not last more than a fraction of a second in real time.
“And about the magic?” - said Elián
"True, in a nutshell, it is a mystery, it seems that our technology is not compatible with magic, no matter what I do, they cannot be mixed, although if they can physically interact, that you are able to invoke Forerunner technology is impossible, but you do it, maybe later we can clarify things about magic ”- said Newblood, achieving a sigh from Elian, although perhaps with hope, if magic escaped any law of physics, perhaps it could be his ticket to home, although it seemed to be far away.
Returning to normal time, no more than a second passed when Tree Heart appeared, followed by everyone else in town.
"Welcome to my Keyship, follow me to take care of the wounded, everything is ready" - said Elian, as he walked towards a door in the huge hangar.
Unlike the other ships, Elián's Keyship was huge, almost the same size as the didact's ship, although moving was quite simple thanks to the portals.
Newblood strongly insisted on making it that big, although the ship has no weapons and its systems are entirely defensive, most systems are entirely for investigation.
So the hangar was naturally huge, it was like a giant version of the halls of the halo.
"Please, those who need medical treatment lie in one of the beds, the most serious will take a little longer, but do not worry, the procedure is quite fast" - said Elián, lying in a bed like an example.
The first to do so was Tree Heart.
When Tree Heart crossed the portal, he did not know what to expect, perhaps a hospital as in the capital, his surprise was great when they entered what he could compare with the stories of the mausoleum of the alicorns, silver walls and blue lights that seemed rivers, high pillars with suspended balls of light, in addition, the size was so immense that he thought that the entire village could easily fit, and leave plenty of space.
Just a few steps away, there were hundreds of silver beds, suspended in the air like the levitation devices that they had in the empire for the zeppelins, but Tree Heart had already seen them in their youth and they were huge, occupying an entire room, but these Beds were no bigger than a normal bed.
Just behind the beds, there was an immense wall, it could easily be hundreds of meters high, frankly, the place was intimidating, and that ignoring the silver horses they had seen in the village flying high.
There were hundreds of them, all carrying silver boxes for the gods know where.
Returning to the present, Tree Heart lay in bed, beckoning his subordinates to wait, his wife and daughter looked worried, but he just gave them a smile, reassuring them.
Then the bed emitted a light that covered his body, he closed his eyes, waiting, praying that his decision was the right one, his body went numb a little, but he began to feel comfortable.
Then the pain disappeared, opening his eyes little by little, to avoid being blinded by the light, he got out of bed, his wife looked at him with teary eyes, but with a huge smile.
Checking his body, he discovered that his wounds were completely healed, he was also clean, full of energy, even felt powerful, it had been years since he had so much energy.
"His wounds were treated, cell reconstruction went well and apparently the old wounds have also healed, the treatment is a success" - said Elian, even with his mask, Tree Heart detected joy in the tone of voice.
Nodding their heads toward their people, everyone began to lie down, although the bed of the most wounded was encapsulated, starting with Night's.
Before Tree Heart said anything, Elian spoke.
“His treatment is more delicate, a more sterile space is needed to avoid complications” - Elián said in a calm voice.
According to the explanation, since medical treatments even required a magic spell or device for sterilization to prevent infections, they were not unknow to Tree Heart.
"I am grateful to you, Forerunners master, but if you allow me to ask, where are we? A place so large and majestic could not go unnoticed on the continent" - asked Tree Heart.
But what Elián answered would never forget him in his entire life and what he showed him.
“I think this would answer your question better” - said Elián, with a touch of fun in his voice.
Pointing to the great wall behind him, it began to open like huge doors, and what had left him completely amazed, even gasps of others were heard.
Ignoring the lack of sound of such huge doors opening, on the other side, there was nothing but the stars, a beautiful night, and at the bottom, a huge blue and green planet.
But paying attention, Tree Heart realized that the stars were moving very fast, then a massive object moved right in front of them, it seemed to have the shape of an arrow, but the color of that strange thing was the same silver-gray.
Approaching slowly, Tree Heart put a hand on what he thought would be the largest window in the world, watching his home from above.
Not his little town, or his country, his world was right in front of him, filling him with a feeling he couldn't discover.
"Let me introduce oursself again" - said Elian, taking Tree Heart out of his stupor, who felt that the huge metallic dog was passing right next to him, stopping next to his teacher.
"We arrived and saw the suffering of your people" - said the metal golem.
“And that of many more, we are not from his universe, but we know the pain of cruelty” - said Elian.
“Only we remain”
"But we will protect as ours if they were our people"
“With our help, you can live your life, share your knows with your children”
"to flourish"
"in harmony"
"We are Forerunner"
“Was it necessary to make another presentation?” - asked Newblood, although the surprised faces were all the necessary responses.
"No, but their expressions are worth it, how are the preparations for the underground city?" - Elian asked, turning around the huge window, observing the world under his gaze.
“Constructors are having trouble clearing certain materials from the ground, apparently it is something called magic metal, but everything is within expectations, the Retrievers have already begun to process the materials for construction, also the door is almost finished, the shield and the invisibility field are already online ”
"That's good, I don't think they like it very much to be in such an alien place more than necessary"
"According to my calculations, they should be perfectly in a couple of ... .."
"What happens?"-
“Life forms were detected outside the shield, it seems to be a contingent of soldiers, no more than forty, the Sentinels are watching them right now” - said Newblood seriously, even somewhat annoying.
"What? How is it possible that the sensors did not detect them before?"
"They appeared suddenly, no energy fluctuations of any kind were detected, most likely it is magical teleportation, something you have not done or we have seen, although the way they behave, it seems that the shield at least diverted them of his target ”- said Newblood while invoking a screen, showing a group of soldiers if her armor said something.
Some had wings and other horns, others had no extra limb, Elian identified them as soldiers of the royal guard, for the little that Newblood has discovered from the memories of the deceased cat men, all pony men are united in one nation , Caballus.
Elián marveled at how committed the king is in protecting the small tribes within his domains, going so far as to act actively in a war action since even with the warnings of the cessation of hostilities and barbarism, the Cat and griffon continued to slaughter other tribes for their magic.
Although something else also influenced that decision.
That they are here to help the villagers, complicates things, Elián had prepared the camouflage as a prevention for the airships of the kingdom, who and apparently they pass through the area to supply the front line.
Holograms, invisibility, even passive teleportation were in contingency plans to keep the site hidden until it had an operational base.
But that they appeared with undetectable magic teleportation was a surprise, that the shield served to divert teleportation is an achievement.
“A Pegasus woman is touching the shield, Elian, they may try to prove something with their magic, I guess the Pegasus soldier has already reported that the shield covers the entire area” - said Newblood.
Lost in his thoughts, Elián did not realize that a Pegasus soldier had flown high enough to observe the shield, almost discovering the sentries.
Before Elian had time to speak, the unicorn woman drew her sword and struck the shield without suffering any damage to both the sword and the shield.
"I expected him to try something with his magic," said Newblood, disappointed.
"We keep watching, maybe they will let's wait a little longer to make contact" - said Elian, quite intrigued and somewhat excited.
That shield, although not the strongest, can withstand a couple of Mac rounds, it is the same shield used for flood containment.
"Just a few more jumps and we'll be in the town, princess" -said Atalaya, while resting on the ground.
"I'm glad, although it fast tends to cause teleportation dizziness" -said Alexia while trying to keep her food in her stomach.
The other white roses were no better, a few were vomiting away in the forest, while others were lying on the ground breathing heavily.
This reminded him of a saying his father told him a long time ago.
‘It doesn't matter how expert you are, how many victories you have, if you get sick to your stomach, you are dead meat’
"Princess, if we combine the magic of the other unicorns we can amplify the effects of the crystal and arrive with just one more jump" - said a soldier who was lying a few feet from Alexia.
Midsea, a bright unicorn of the house of the sun, Alexia welcomed her into the castle after hearing that her family wanted to exclude her from everything that was not related to marriage, was one of the most valuable addictions to white roses, her Sharp mind made up for his weak body.
"Thanks to the sun you are with us Midsea" - said Atalaya, causing Midsea to blush a little, although his white fur did not help the others nearby to laugh at Midsea.
"Call all the magicians, the next jump we will do in 10 minutes, prepare the carriages and hold the golems as well!" - Atalaya shouted, receiving a greeting from all the soldiers.
"Madam, an explorer has just returned from town" - said one of the white roses.
"Well, what are the damages?" - Alexia asked.
"No lady, that's the problem, did not find the town, checked several times without getting too close and did not find traces of settlements" - reported the soldier, causing several confused looks of those who were close, especially Alexia and Atalaya.
“The coordinates are fine, I already visited the town on a reconnaissance mission a few months ago, they must be there” - said Midsea.
"Sorry captain, but that's the whole report"
"I have a bad feeling about this princess, a town does not disappear into the air, even if they had been attacked for several days, the remains should be there" - said Watchtower.
Alexia was meditating what to do, the only magic capable to do that is the illusion of the capital, but unless in a month they built what took a city year, it was impossible.
That town, although near the front lines, was surrounded by thick forests and quite dangerous animals, an army could not use this route without first breaking the vanguard, they would lose much more if they kept the town.
Something weird was happening.
"Is the teleportation ready?" - Alexia asked.
"Yes princess, everything is ready and waiting" - said Midsea.
"Well, everyone ready for the teleport!" - Alexia shouted.
Teleportation was a very complicated and difficult art to master, only the most powerful users could use it, and a few of them created teleportation crystals, but these crystals surpassed simple teleportation since they could be used more frequently by simply pouring magic into them.
The bad thing is that they could only do it in places previously marked with glass, and its prolonged and consecutive use could cause damage to health, but nothing serious.
One of the jobs of white roses was to mark so many places around the kingdom to facilitate teleportation.
Great was the surprise of Alexia and her entire guard when she suddenly appeared with a headache and around a huge dome of blue light.
“REPORT ATALAYA !!, what the hell was that?!” - Alexia asked while trying to get up in the brain pain.
Atalaya, meanwhile, struggled to stand still, but been not a wizard, she recovered faster, sent a pegasus to fly over the area, just moments later, she landed, shaking her head.
"I do not know princess, this is not the place marked, it seems that this wall of light bounced us outward, apparently around the town" - said Atalaya, while touching the blue wall with fascination
"That is impossible, you can only cancel the teleportation if the area is blocked, not simply appear outside the shield" - said Midsea.
"That I also understood, that explains why they did not find it before, but this is a good opportunity" - said Alexia, with a slight smile.
Atalaya, understanding what she was about to do, stepped back and ordered others to be alert.
Unwrapping her sword, she prepared for her attack, channeling her magic into the blade and a lunge, pierced the shield.
Probably another sword would not have pierced the shield, but without waiting any longer, she activated her gem's ability and a shield the size of her body appeared, circularly cutting the shield and making it disappear.
Technically it could only do it on the ground, but by digging it into a non-magical surface towards the trick, so the blue wall was enough.
Repeating the process a few more times, enough for the carriages to pass through, Alexia felt tired, those crystals needed a considerable amount of magic.
Then, they crossed the shield, not noticing the slight blue lights at the top that followed.
"... ..ok, that's unexpected" - said Elian.
"What part? The sword that pierced a shield as if it were wood or the huge hole they made with that bubble?" - said Newblood.
"All that in general, we may need to rethink the power that this magic has, although it is not the most powerful shield, a simple sword could not pass through it, not even the lightsabers of the Prometheans could cross it so easily" - said Elian.
“What do we do, do we put them to the test or let them pass?” - said Newblood
"We could use the portal to bring them here, that unicorn seems to be their leader, with the help of the townspeople we could convince them that we are allies, or at least that we are not their enemies," -said Elian, to Newblood's disappointment.
"Then we could propose a type of competition against our armiger?" - said Elian, causing a slight smile from Newblood.
"What do you propose to avoid a confrontation? It will not be long until they find the town, and I doubt they will come peacefully" - Newblood said.
"And they will confuse ours as the cause of the attack, perhaps if we speak together with the boss we could reach an agreement?"
"Then we will not land the ships yet? If you want to unify the nations why you don't just do it and that's it, we have the capacity for that and more"
"I will not impose an order, that was the fall of the Forerunners in their universe, they have to do it at will, the best thing we can do is provide shelter and humanitarian aid"
"That is why you want to build an underground megacity? Are you aware that this city is more than enough to house 4 times the population of the planet? Why do you need so much space?" - asked Newblood, quite exasperated.
"To be my copy and a very powerful artificial intelligence, you lack intuition" - Elián said with humor, gaining a flat look from Newblood.
"It is for the same reason that we cannot leave, something strange happens in this solar system, even if they reach the stars, they will never be able to go beyond, if we cannot, what hope do they have?" -Elián said as he observed the space, after their news friends.
All the villagers who were not helping something were absorbed in seeing their planet.
Hundreds of Forerunner ships were coming and going at first glance random directions, but Newblood was coordinating them for the extraction of resources for the city.
After so long, they had not only found life, they had found so much variety and although Newblood did not want to admit it, he was also excited.
But something truly happened that worried Newblood, something ancladed them to the solar system, a few ships that had appeared outside the solar limit and had entered to give aid, now they could not leave.
Elian and Newblood came to the same conclusion.
It seemed as if this solar system was a prison, they had not yet detected anything that caused the strange anomaly, Newblood only speculates that magic has something to do with that.
Only this solar system exhibits this strange behavior.
"By the way, any news from the other side?" - Elián asked as he turned to see the villagers be healded, even greeting a few who saw him.
"Nothing yet, we lost many ships, more than half of the original fleet, maybe at home the explosion even damaged Maethrillian" -said Newblood while showing a simulation of what had happened.
"My best guess is that the anomaly of the solar system caused the disaster, I still have no idea how magic affects technology"
"You say I'm to blame too?"
"No, maybe ?, I don't know, this body was made with matter and not with magic, the only magical thing that crossed the portal was you, but then only you should have changed, but I did it too" - Newblood said while comparing in a hologram its current shape and its original shape.
"Sir, what's going to happen to us now?" - asked Tree Heart, turning to see him, he looked much better, but he seemed quite upset.
"Well, I can offer you two things, the first is to be under my protection, or I can leave you wherever you want, but you will always be welcome"
Tree Heart was getting fed up of not knowing what to say or do, his town was attacked and many friends were killed, they found very powerful beings who mysteriously offered them help, not to mention the fact that they were now by the stars, watching their planet and strange structures that were as big as a mountain.
His father told him that there would be times as head of the village, what some decisions would be very difficult, or confusing to the heart, but this was ridiculous.
"Why are you helping us?"- he finally asked the only thing that occurred to him, but one that would at least help him clarify his doubts.
Seeing the strange man, anyone could easily mistake him for an angel or a god, given his abilities.
But Tree Heart saw a person, did not have the grace of royalty, and less than a divine being.
"You have no idea how rare you are, your world, life, the mission of my people is to protect it, the mantle of responsibility protects everyone, you were the first to be help because of your situation" - said Elián.
"If your people had been assassinated, your tribe would be doomed to extinction, there are not many of you left and they are very scattered throughout the continent" - said the strange metallic dog
"Sigh..., I did not know that things were so bad, we have been isolated from other towns for quite some time"
"Those were not your concerns in a while, but now they are fine, worry about healing your people" - said the metallic dog.
"For now they can stay in this place until you choose what you want to do, you can be sure that all their needs will be covered, if they need something, they can ask one of the sentinels around, they will attend to what you ask for, including your response" - said Elián, as he began to move away towards a circular platform attached to the floor.
"I have to coordinate a few things first, maybe we can achieve peace between the two kingdoms" - Elián said teleporting just before Tree Heart could say anything else.
Now in such a large room and accompanied by his people and those strange birds, or Sentinels as Elián called them, Tree Heart could only look into space once more, contemplating his options.
On the outskirts of town
"We did not find the bodies, furthermore, the magicians cannot identify the origin of the strange force field that surrounds the area" - reported the soldier.
"Shit, continue exploring the area, at least we must make sure that the enemies are gone" - Atalaya said, as she headed for a house intact enough to be used.
Entering, the first thing Atalaya saw was her princess looking at what appeared to be an old book.
"It seems that this house belonged to someone close to the head of the town, it has quite detailed records of exploration patrols that the town sent to the mountains in case the empire managed to cross the walls, so they can escape" - said the princess as she kept the book - "perhaps they managed to escape just before they attacked the town"
"We did not find bodies, enemies, or allies, but the blood marks everywhere tell another story, someone or something took the bodies" - said Atalaya.
"Did they find the source of that shield? A town like this shouldn't have that magical technology, even if it's a town of deer."
"The magicians do not detect any flow of magical energy, whatever it is, something else feeds that shield, although it reflects almost all kinds of magic, from what we saw seems particularly sensitive to elemental magic"
"Perhaps it is some artifact of the ancients? although in this region there should be no ruins" -said the princess as she sat down on a chair, setting aside her sword.
"Maybe, although why would the deer people have such a thing in their power?"- said Atalaya
"They may be powerful in magic, but still they have the right to protect themselves, I would not have reported it or handed it over if I could use it to save my people"
Atalaya could not find words to contradict her.
Then blue lights began to illuminate the surroundings, alarming them.
"Everyone in position! protect the princess!" - Atalaya shouted, to which the nearby soldiers rushed to them to form a circle of shields, some sorcerers already had shields ready around the princess.
Meanwhile, the princess was also preparing, charging the stone of her sword with magic.
Then they saw that the lights were coming from certain directions in the sky, beginning to dim a little, revealing metallic beings the size of a small horse or adult man, almost looking like huge birds.
Then, some blue light began to form a few feet in front of them, two beings appearing, both metallic, but one looked like a wolf and the other a guardian knight of the tower in the eyes of the soldiers.
"We come to dialogue, princess, if you have time for us" - said the knight as she bowed slightly, to which the wolf also leaned on its front legs.
The princess managed to compose herself after a few awkward seconds, but simply pointed inside the house, inviting the beings to pass.
"We need progress, professor, this war has already lasted too long and there is a risk that the cat men prefer a peace treaty with the enemy, we have no more time!"- shouted a winged man with the characteristics of a bird and a lion.
"I understand your point, admiral, but this could change everything, magic serves every living being, it is part of us, but some were better blessed to use them than others, the forbidden records of the kingdom of Cordelia, Caballus, and Amaris have the same references to the ancient ruin records even though they were never shared, if what my research suggests is true, we might be able to obtain the origin of magic ”- said a land pony, quite old and in a green robe, the only thing that could be seen from his face was his blue eyes.
"We listened to you because you presented information that could help us to our cause, even if the questionable raw material that you need to channel the magic required to find these places, we need more than simple promises and data from old books"
Lighting up the catacomb in which they found themselves, soldiers and scientists of many races, brought together by promises of an easier life, entered one of the oldest ruins ever explored, being at least 25,000 years old if the magic analysis is right.
The simple fact that it is still standing is a mystery, even though it was found days ago thanks to arcane magic sensors made with the parts of the most sensitive magical beings on the planet, although they can only be limited to a few uses before they break from stress.
"And this place may contain the answer, history will remind us of what we accomplished, even with so many sacrifices!" - shouted the strange earth pony.
The admiral was silent.
Along the way, they found structures that were less and less worn by time, including machinery of magical metal alloys, the admiral only marked the artifacts with a beacon to be collected later.
The journey lasted several hours more, confusing many of those who went, outside, the ruins did not seem bigger than an old abandoned mine, but the road was getting bigger.
An enormous structure received them, similar to a huge dome, then they realized that they were in another larger dome, from their perspective they were on the edges of the outer dome.
The walls were filled with very old stone structures in a style that no culture had, they seemed like rivers covering the superstructure.
The bottom seemed like an infinite black void, only sporadically illuminated by small magical pulse lights that seemed to come from the bottom, only to dissipate just before reaching them.
"We arrived ..., this must be the place, no one else could be able to build this place" - said the professor, with a trembling voice.
The admiral was the only one who did not say anything, although everyone else was very excited, he only observed the structure, intrigued, in his years of service he had never seen anything like it, but he could not help comparing the structure to a uterus and a placenta.
"I will send a message to his majesty asking for equipment and personnel" - said the admiral.
"I promise, my almirant, this is what we are looking for, I do not think it is necessary to collect more raw material to manufacture compasses" -said the land pony with almost indifference.
"I hope so" - said the admiral coldly, while admiring the structure.
Author's Note
It may not be seen much, but it took me forever to edit the entire original chapter, omitting a lot of filler, although I did it just to show that the story is very much alive, currently, the story is over, everything is already written in my native language, but translating and editing it kills my desire to publish
I am currently continuing with the sequel, what do you prefer ?, dedicate myself to finishing the whole series and publishing it all in one day (yes, everything, sequels, parallel stories, extra material, etc.), or everything gradually?
If you did the first, it would take at least a year or two to do it, I will announce it a few days or weeks before, of course, or I could even share the chapters in the original language if you are anxious.
If it's the second, I couldn't promise how often I would publish them, maybe every month or every two weeks, so I would stop writing and just edit, without cutting anything.
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Cordelia Kingdom
"... and that is the report of the attack lines, I suggest that we do not extend the line further, the surrounding mountains have helped us a lot, if we build more summoning towers we could achieve a avoid attrition" - said the commander of the captains.
"Do it, we still have to buy more time, if we can ..." - said the king, before being interrupted by the noise of the gold and silver doors opening.
"My king! I have urgent news from Admiral Maxic" - said the young soldier.
In a normal situation, the imposing figures in the room would leave anyone who dared to interrupt them very nervous, even more so when the king of Cordelia, Etqat'z, was interrupted.
But the admiral's name alone was enough to leave that detail.
Kneeling down, the soldier delivered the message and left without adding more.
"...., my king?" - asked one of the sky knights, seeing that the king, famous for his mettle, sighed when he finished reading the letter.
"Everyone, we have found it, send a message to the seneschals of the Amaris kingdom informing of the situation"-said the king, while several knights ran out to deliver it-"and we will start the construction of the summoning towers immediately, we have to prepare our defenses, at least that way we will have an advantage when negotiating peace "
With a small fire in the log house fireplace to provide some warmth in the cold morning, Atalaya and the princess couldn't help but feel chills at the towering figures across the table.
The strange gentleman, seated in what was possibly the strongest wooden chair in the world, was just curiously looking around the modest room.
His armor was nothing that either of the two had seen before, although they resembled the armor in the palace, such perfection seemed unnatural, although he was not taller or sturdier than an average young man, his aura did not leave any doubt that he was very powerful.
His partner was not lagging behind either, he looked like one of the prototypes of the golems in development at the academy, but it seemed that a blue light served as veins.
What was perhaps its snout, a blue vapor came out, simulating breathing, if that thing breathed, but the marks in the stone and wood in its path left no doubt about the lethality of its armor.
"First of all, I want to know if the villagers are safe" - said the princess, with the hardest look she could give.
That caught the attention of the gentleman, who simply waved his hand and a blue screen appeared in the middle of the table.
"They are fine, they had some casualties and some were injured, but they are being treated, if you want I can bring the village chief, but he is injured and it may take a while" - said the knight while the princess observed the images.
They seemed to be fine, some were in a type of metal bed resting, but they looked calm, even fascinated.
So she paid more attention to the place where they were, it seemed that the whole place was made of metal, where was that place to treat the injured?
"As you can see, they are fine, they are under the protection of my people" - said the knight, moving his arm again to disappear the screen.
"And what is your name? I don't recognize your armor, you don't belong to any known nation"
"My name is Elián, my partner is called Newblood, we are both the last of my town, we are the Forerunners"
"The Forerunners? I don't know that kingdom, I never heard its name, are you from the other side of the sea?" - asked the princess.
"No, we are from the other side very far, very very far, in a few words we are not from this planet, we arrived recently" - said Elián.
Neither said anything, either from surprise or shock, before the princess could speak, Atalaya spoke first.
"You hope we believe that .."
"Silence, let it him finish talking" -said the princess, ordering Atalaya for the first time.
Which Atalaya obeyed, although surprised at having been silenced by the princess.
"I know it's difficult to accept, but did they really believe that they were the only ones in this vast universe? Although I don't blame you for believing that..." - Elián said, although his tone of voice was normal, there was melancholy.
Then a blue light dazzled Atalaya and the princess, but instantly the light dimmed forming a light show, Atalaya could only see what looked like an immense black sea with white dots, in the center a large sphere of fire.
The princess managed to recognize what they were seeing, she had already seen a vague image in the research centers, although compared to what she was seeing, it was a poor imitation of what years of research had found about the space around them.
"our solar system ..." - said the princess in a whisper, amazed.
"Exactly, this is her planet"
"Gaia .." - Atalaya said as she saw a beautiful blue and green planet.
The princess and Watchtower could hardly contain the tears of emotion of such a spectacle, legends reached their memories that they heard in their childhood, when the gods filled the planet with life and water, giving the task of maintaining harmony with nature to all races, helping each other.
"I'm sorry, we failed you" -said the princess, with tears in her eyes, she knelt before the hologram, while Atalaya did the same.
As if something compelled them ...
"Are you okay princess?" - Alexia listened, barely regaining consciousness and the weight of her current situation.
Both, getting up as gracefully as possible, the princess and Atalaya dried their tears.
"I'm sorry to bother you, the feeling was too much" - said the princess.
"I understand, don't worry" - Elián said.
"What are the intentions of a being of the stars with us?" - asked Alexia.
"to help, we are the only left of our kind, we know loneliness, although we have found another planet, his was the first, and the most coarse and diverse" - Elián said, surprising the princess more.
"We also need help," Elián finished.
"... help you? What can we offer you, who have failed our planet?" - asked Alexia.
"Magic"
Author's Note
I do not promise anything, but the translation is very slow: v
Unless I find someone to help translate it, I don't promise that the "Harmony Installation" saga will end before the end of the g5 season.
I will upload other stories of the same genre, but with fewer chapters, short stories, accessories for this saga or just new science fiction proposals with mlp.
Until the next chapter brothers and sisters
Magic, many have tried to explain it, countless beings have written and theorized about its nature.
Thousands of lives have been spent just to understand its immense power and capabilities, and with each step taken, a thousand more are discovered the need to be taken.
That of all the things that beings with the ability to cross the stars could have asked for is knowledge of the magic, perhaps magic is something more special than they thought.
Magic, many have tried to explain it, countless beings have written and theorized about its nature.
Thousands of lives have been spent just to understand its immense power and capabilities, and with every step taken, the need for a thousand more is discovered.
That of all the things that these beings with the ability to cross the stars could have asked for is the knowledge of magic, perhaps magic is something more special than they thought.
"Magic?" - said Atalaya
"Yes, magic, to be honest, our knowledge of this magic is null or scarce in the best of cases" -said Elian-"our situation is precarious, but we can help, we hope that they will also help us" -answered Newblood-"the magic is something new for us".
Something new?, magic was the very essence of existence, from the humblest drop of water to the imposing mountains were imbued with magic, but beyond the stars it was different?, the countless lives that would be needed to learn or understand the new knowledge and perspectives that the Forerunners offered would make even the legendary founder of the tower dizzy.
In this deal, they offered more than they received.
"this planet is strange, we are not supposed to be in this place, magic folded the very fabric of existence on different levels, of all the places we could appear, it had to be a planet full of magic"-said Newblood.
"this planet is strange, we are not supposed to be in this place, magic folded the very fabric of existence on different levels, of all the places we could appear, it had to be a planet full of magic"-said Newblood.
That is true, since we arrived this planet has been a magical surprise box, even this solar system is a rare thing.
"So if we help them, will they help us win this war?" Watchtower said.
An important inflection point, I cannot send my army against these inhabitants, although magic has proven to be quite effective against Forerunner technology, my numbers are too many, as well as very unfair, if this war was for fear against the ignorance of magic, although with barbaric methods, its enemy and we seek the same.
'I think we should stop the war cold, bloodless and seek peace with us as mediators,'-Newblood said over the comm.
'Do you want to send our ships into the middle of the enemy lines and demand a ceasefire with battlecruisers as a deterrent?'- Elian asked.
´It seems excessive to send battlecruisers, they will destroyed the surroundings just by landing, I recommend sending only the sentinel factories and their escorts´
"We will send our soldiers to stop the battle and force a ceasefire on both sides, with this town and its inhabitants are any witness of the cruelty of this war, then has gone on long enough."- Said Newblood.
Just when the strange creature finished speaking, the screens changed to different areas of the battlefield, forests, deserts, towns and fortresses were seen in flames or in the midst of bloody battles, only to appear in the sky from an sphere fo light blue a huge floating constructions, some the size of small cities and others the size of castle towers in the capital.
Innumerable points of light emerged from these like a swarm, even from the perspective that the screen gave, it could be seen that in all places had stopped their battle to contemplate such a spectacle, neither side knew what was happening, then in a show of power like a father stopping his children's fight, the lights captured all the soldiers in balls of light, stopping the fight, even some of the wounded were teleported to what the princess was waiting for somewhere to receive medical attention.
All that spectacle did not last more than a few minutes, a war just stopped.
Deep down, everyone present in that room thought at the same time if these beings were gods with their heavenly army, or the vanguard of their destruction.
Author's Note
I know the chapter is short, but better something than nothing :3
In the distant past.....In a distant place
"You can not be serious Elián, we already bought the tickets!" David exclaimed angrily at his friend.
"David is right brother, you can not say no now ! Besides, you're just going to buy new technological items from your game, it was a joke about the disguise." Pleaded Ari to Elián in an attempt for the boy to disguise himself for Comic-con.
The boys had planned the trip to the Comic-con for months, but Elián had simply refused to go in disguise, his sister had put on a simple white paper horn, with a colored wig, to simulate one of the princesses of his favorite show, while his best friend David had disguised himself as a bandit from a Fable game.
The three were not more than 17, but their parents had given them permission to go alone only if they went together, which could be ruined if Elián refused, but a small joke before the event gave Elián satisfaction.
"That you should have thought things through before playing that joke with the horn Ari, I admit that I also like MLP, but not enough to disguise myself as one of them, besides, we did not spend anything on the tickets, mom and dad did." Elián said vainly, but trying with all his strength not to laugh at the faces of horror of his companions.
"Do not do this to us, Elián, I'll buy you whatever you want!" Said David desperately in an attempt to get Elián to not screw them over in a vain attempt at payback.
"Whatever I want huh?" Elián whispered as he smiled deviously. Ari started to worry, being his sister, she knew him when he was plotting something, so she realized that they fell right into his trap, so now maybe he could get something beneficial besides personal satisfaction that is.
"You only wanted to take money from me, right?" David said tiredly, it would not be the first time that Elián did that to him of course, he is a very nice boy and a great friend, but from the beginning Elián did not want to go, but they needed for him to go along with them to get their permission.
With a change of attitude and mood that could be considered almost abnormal, Elián decided to accept the deal. A deal that might be a key point in the future of many, while he, his sister and his friend left the house, Ari was happy for at least not having to pay.
Their parents had not bought the tickets, so they were going to pick them up when they finished buying their things. Another of Elián's conditions was that of only going to buy things that he agreed on, something they reluctantly accepted, but in the end they had not choice if they wanted to get their tickets.
"What did you want to buy, brother? You only mentioned something about halo" Ari asked Elián as they made their way towards the first of many shops.
"I want to see if they sell a replica of the Spirit of Fire, or at least something that has its technical specifications, I had heard that the original designs had come to light!" Exclaimed Elián excitedly as they walked forward toward the first shop.
At the end of the trip, as expected, there were enough people, but with luck they managed to get in quickly. Ari was very excited as expected, and begged Elián to let her go to a shop about MLP. David did not like the idea because to him MLP is a little too 'girly for a guy like him', but accepted to accompany them in the end. But while they were on the way to the place, something strange Elian noticed, a specific point separating a section from the rest of the store, and it was empty.
"Wait here, I want to see what's in the end, maybe it's a hallway that leads to another section." Said Elián curiously as he walked towards that specific section.
"Are you sure? It does not seem like a place for the public," David answered worriedly not wanting to get in trouble with the authorities. Ari also did not like the idea, if her pleading expression meant anything.
"It will only be quick, I promise," Elián said with a smile, as he walked quickly down the hall. What he saw was something he had not expected, sincerely he had thought it was the way to an emergency exit, but was surprised to find a lone booth, with a man dressed as a merchant of the famous game of zombies attending to it. But what was most surprising was what came with the booth, all kinds of items quite amazing all on their own, from swords, bows, jewelry, books, etc.
"Welcome boy, do you see something that catches your attention?" Asked the masked salesman with a deep and hoarse voice, which brought Elián out of his stupor.
"No, yes, maybe! Excuse me, sir, but it has quite a lot of amazing things, much better than the rest of the shop." Said Elián timidly unsure in how to proceed with this, admittedly strange and intimidating character.
"Good eye boy good eye, be free to look at my merchandise," said the merchant.
Elián looked at the articles with astonishment. Honestly, he wanted several things, but he could only buy one, and that without counting the possibly high price of these quality items.
So he gathered his courage, and asked the merchant about his initial goal and why he came to his booth. "Excuse me, do you have something about the halo saga, specifically about the UNSC ships?" Elián asked hopefully.
"Halo hmm?, Let me think ..." Answered the merchant while looking into space.
After a long and uncomfortable amount of time, Elián was about to give up, but was surprised when the merchant simply pointed to a box of his merchandise, It looked like a polished metal box with silver edges, but surprisingly Elián scolded himself for not recognizing it when he laid his eye on it. "Sorry boy, but the only thing Ihave in my possession from the Halo franchise is this." Said the merchant while opening the box, leaving Elián breathless.
"It cannot be ..." Elian whispered in total awe.
"These are the things that pretty much made everything in the forerunner empire, ranging from buildings to spaceships, and even the everyday tools they use. It is a fairly new article, only one of it's kind really. It is difficult to replicate this thing," said the merchant, mumbling towards the end. Elián was marveling at the beauty that was laid out before him, he did not want to know its cost, but if he had the possibility of buy it, he will take it, even if he had to spend all his money it.
"What is the price for it?" Elián asked hesitantly, seemingly afraid of the price.
"It's a thousand dollars, but seeing that you're the first to ask, I'll give it to you for five hundred." Said the merchant, Elián was scared, even with half the price, he only had 250, and probably David too. But his friend was a man of his word, something he took very seriously, so if he explained maybe he would give him the money.
"Wait a moment, I'll be right back!" Elián exclaimed as he ran to the end of the corridor, receiving a nod from the merchant, which he didn't see. When he arrived to where he left David and Ari, he looked quite tired, but with a silly if unsure smile on his face.
"What happened Elián? Why do you look so tired but happy at the same time?" Ari asked.
"I swear I'm going to pay you back somehow, I'll even do your homework, but I need you to give me two hundred and fifty.'' Elián rapid-fired at Davis completely ignoring his sister's question. ''They have an article that is unique and I really want it please." Elián pleaded, surprising David and Ari. After all Elián rarely pleaded, but when he did, it was for a good reason. So reluctantly David gave him the money, only for Elián to go off, snatching David's money right out of his hand.
As he ran back to the merchant his friend followed him and saw him disappear as he, somehow passed through the wall as if it wasn't there, but when they tried to go through it they were met with only a wall.
''What the hell,'' David exclaimed as he tried to use his hand to somehow find a secret entrance for the wall, even though Elián didn't do anything for him to be able to pass through it.
''Do you think we should call the cops,'' Ari asked David on what to do. Already she was panicking at seeing her brother disappear like that, as if by magic.
"Here are the five hundred dollars good sir," said Elián happy at the idea of having is very own for runner construct.
Taking the money the merchant replied. "I hope you enjoy your trip young man, though you will need a lot of help on your journey." Replied the merchant cryptically, intriguing Elián in the process, only for him to be swallowed by the darkness.
Equestria - Canterlot - Present time
Things were not going well for the ponies of Equestria, a few months ago from the other side of the ocean, came reports of huge aerial warships from an unknown nation. When the explorers approached to confirm their intentions, big was their surprise to see that they were griffons, but not Equestrian griffons. Those were much larger and much more different then the griffons they knew, almost twice the size of a normal one, rivaling the size of Princess Celestia, and even surpassing her size with some of them.
When trying to send both ponies and griffons, both returned mutilated, the pegasi and griffons were without wings, and the unicorns without their horns, while the earth ponies were never seen again and when asked those that returned would end up breaking down crying, screaming, or sometimes both. The message was clear, they are not here to make friends, nor with their Equestrian allies, their wanted their lands, their riches, and everything else they possessed.
From that moment, the princesses organized for the first time a joint army operation with the griffons, changelings and deerfolk, and all other races that were at least closer to the coast. King Thorax agreed to help his friends the ponies, Princess Cadence promised help and refuge for the displaced of the future conflict, but since they were still rearranging their own society from Sombra they couldn't do much in the upcoming conflict.
"Twilight you have to rest, we do not know anything about this new breed of griffons, even though you read all the books in the library. If my sister and I did not know them, I doubt you will find any mention of them here, " said Celestia with a soft voice. She, like her sister, had not slept much, even in the years of her rule they had never faced a threat of this magnitude. Her student and companion, Princess Twilight tried to find something about this new species, and she is still trying, but even with the little information of the chancellor and his personal library, and the books of the royal library, he did not find any information about them. After all they had never seen one of them in Equestria before, perhaps in the golden days of the Griffin empire, but that was thousands of years ago, before the funding of Equestria.
"I know princess, but there must be something, maybe the reason why they want to invade is in here somewhere." Twilight replied wearily from her non-stop, and non-lucrative search.
Celestia saw that her student was dead tired on her hooves, she was about to fall asleep at any moment. "What do you think of this Twilight? I'm sure you remember that today my sister will manage the stars, to help raise the morale of citizens. What if you were to go watch my sister do her work, maybe it could help in some way?" She said hoping that her ex-student would follow her recommendation, and that watching her sister manage the star put Twilight to sleep, hopefully.
"I guess I could watch a little, but only a little I've got work to do," said Twilight followed with a tired sigh.
"Wonderful ! She is in the observatory of the castle, I think it is about to start too." Said Celestia happy her student was following her advice, all the while carrying a teleportation spell. "Here let me help you," and before even answering, Twilight was teleported to the door of the observatory, leaving her quite confused of the princess's insistence on the matter.
Leaving those thoughts aside she walked into the observatory, while walking, Twilight remembered the moment when Celestia called her to Canterlot for an emergency meeting. Terror and the fear of war swiftly followed after the meeting. It scared her for the whole night, and the nights afterwards were no better, and even more when Celestia asked the elements to help in the organization of their respective areas.
She didn't want her friends involved in this mess! But following Celestia's reasoning she understood that it would help greatly in organizing, and that them being national heroes would also increase the moral of the citizen and the military knowing that their heroes is there helping them through this mess.
Just as she was about to open the door, she met Luna, walking slowly across the white corridor, and just as she did, Luna seemed not to have slept much in the past few days.
"Good to see you Luna" Twilight called to the lunar princess with a smile, although tired it was a sincere one.
"Twilight! It's good to see you too, although we do not want to sound rude, what brings thou here ? Did my sister sent you to help me plan the show?" Luna asked.
"Not really, since I couldn't find anything about them in the library, Celestia suggested I watch you manage the stars for tonight." Answered Twilight while yawning, she had troubles keeping her eyes opened at that point, no wonder Celestia sent to do something else.
As they entered the room, Twilight and Luna sat on a chair in the center of the room that overlooks the night sky. The room, for the most part, had white marble walls, but the ceiling was glass, letting the light from the moon and the stars bathing the place in the night's calming light.
"Excellent decision my friend, seeing art at it's finest might give you some ideas or insight on where to search next." Luna exclaimed, happy that one of her dearest friend was there to watch her work, and maybe even help her. As she started working on her night, Luna cast a to the side towards Twilight silently wondering if making her work with her on the night sky would be a good idea.
With a shake of her head she decided that yes it would be a good idea. ''Twilight would thou come for a moment, maybe we could use your expertise in organisation for tonight.''
Twilight looked up surprised by such a generous offer, after all it wasn't every night that one of the high princess asked for help in their regular duties. ''Of course Luna what do you need my help with precisely,'' and so they spent the next hour working on the night sky uninterrupted.
It wasn't until Luna rechecked her work to take care of any anomalies that she spotted something different in her night sky, something that wasn't there before.
"Indeed, although in principle they are few, leaving aside the stars that are vital for navigators, I want to change these two," said Luna pointing to the constellation of the dragon and the wolf.
"Won't the dragons get angry?" Twilight asked nervously unsure if it was a wise idea.
"Not when they notice that we did it in their honor!" Luna exclaimed proudly, lighting up her horn with magic, while also calming Twilight's worry in the process.
The science behind this according to Twilight, Luna is moving the stars with the same principle and power that she uses with the moon, but to see it directly, it was always a wonderful sight. The white light of the spell mixed with the light of the moon and the stars, it seemed like something from another world, and at the end of the spell work Twilight marveled at what it turned out to be.
There were no words, but something worried the princess of the night since her expression cha,ged from a satisfied one, while she saw her work, to a frown.
"What's wrong Luna? Your job is wonderful as always, oh no did I do something wrong didn't I?" Questioned Twilight fearfully, she did not know what she did wrong, but she just knew that it must have been something terrible.
"Can you move the telescope to the dim star that is below the dragon's head Twilight? I want to confirm something" Luna said curiously completely ignoring .
Afraid that if she didn't do as Luna said she would get in even more trouble, Twilight quickly moved the immense telescope of the observatory with her magic, and focused it in the direction that Luna requested.
While Twilight waited for Luna to finish her examination of the night sky, her worry grew as she saw that Luna's face looked more and more pale as time went by, if not also scared of much she blundered Luna's work, and before she could do anything else the night princess fainted without any notice.
"Luna ?!" Twilight shouted in worry of her friend. After verifying that she was fine, she turned to the telescope to verify the reason for Luna's fainting, only to find something that would terrify even the dragon in the night sky.
"Oh well... that ... explains it," said Twilight before fainting too.
What they saw could easily be mistaken for a star, but the observatory telescope was able to look at a distance of 9 million light years, with a fairly good resolution, and even as far as 90 light years if they pushed it with the help of certain spells.
Author's Note
Edited by a hero without a cape :'3
in the distant past.....in a distant place
"... Hell, what happened?" - Elián asked as he struggled to open his eyes, when he regained consciousness, he felt numb, a feeling he had never experienced, but that could be compared to something, like when he had his first swimming lesson, general fatigue of his body made it hard difficult to move.
A forest, right on the edge, fortunately his body and head was right on the edge of a meadow and the beginning of a forest.
And like a bucket of cold water, his memories returned, the comic-con, the merchant, and the box, he mentally scolded himself for not remembering the legends of the merchant and the displaced, although, on the other hand, he would be lying if he did not I was excited a little.
"Very well, calm down, Elian, you are in a place far from home, perhaps not even in your own universe, you underwent a complete metamorphosis from human to pony, and ..., my God, are these perhaps wings and a horn?" - said Elian, whispering the last thing, his skin was almost metallic gray, his mane and tail, which was long enough for veils without a mirror, were white as snow, his wings, it seemed that they had feathers the same color as his skin , but the tip of their feathers seemed to have snow from the middle to the tip, something that helped to see his new wings, taking a hoof to the head for the recent headache, he felt his horn, without being able to to see it, he feel it, it seemed that at least it was quite large, calming its breath, it was examined better, its legs were quite long and thin, maybe it was the same size as Celestia, managing to stretch its wings somehow, discovered that they were easily double their t They were huge, they looked like the wings as a condor because of the size, when he turned around to see his cutie mark, if he had one, and he see it, and if he had a good memory, he looked exactly like the symbol of the mantle of responsibility.
Getting to digest this new information for now, or at least trying, Elián observed his surroundings, as he suspected, was on the border of a forest and a meadow, the sun on top lit the landscape, and the cold wind blew with tranquility, where he was had an incredible view, the forest seemed to be on a hill, so he had a clear line of sight around him, and it was clear that he was not at home.
Making an effort that would be considered inhuman to not faint, Elián walked a little longer to look for something, signs of intelligent life, or at least traces of animals, but the more he walked and passed the time, he found nothing, checking the floor for signs or traces, also found nothing, it seemed that there were only plants as a dominant species, but something had to control the grass, leaving those thoughts behind, look at the sky.
"How beautiful ..." - whispered Elián, the view was incredible, it seemed that the planet in which he was, was orbiting two other planets with life in them, or maybe the largest planet is the one that keeps the other two, and they are actually moons, but with no possibility of corroborating it, only god would know, stopping a moment, and with few results of his walk, Elián thought about practicing with his horn, it was getting late and he started to feel hungry, so he had to look for something fast, and at least with some magic, maybe he would be able to turn something into an apple, or an orange.
"Let's see, you have a horn, Elián, so you should be able to make some food" - Elián said as he closed his eyes and concentrated, having no reference, he just tried to imagine something to eat, concentrating on his horn , he began to hear noise, something very similar to the sound of load, to feel that he began to tire, he release the pressure, only to hear that a large metal object crashed right in front of him.
"But what the hell ?!" - scared by the surprise, fell on his hind legs, to calm down a little, he discovered that the box was very similar to the box that he bought the merchant, only now it was much bigger, the size of a trunk.
"I was already beginning to ask where you had gone, part of the devil" - Elián said angrily, approaching slowly, touched the metal box, so he did so, the lines that were marked with bright light were illuminated, opening, it was clear that it had to be technology and not magic, the top part was opened as if the box were small robots, getting out of their stupor, look inside, only to find a small metal disc with a blinking circle and some apples, grabbing the disk with some distrust, and surprised that a hoof managed to grab the disk, he watch it carefully, seeing that the blinking circle looked like a button, he press it.
"Hi, is this recording?" - a voice was heard, Elián quickly recognized it as the merchant voice.
"Well boy, I'm sure you have many questions, yes, you been displaced ("I had not noticed" Elian said sarcastically), and if you asked what happened with what you bought ?, They have been divided into two parts, the information that each letter had will be in your head at the end of this recording, so it will be easier for you to know what the facilities you are going to create are for, the other half is what you can invoke, you can only invoke sentinels, all their types , the rest you have to build their respective facilities, do not worry, the amount of sentinels you can invoke only limited by your magic, wait for you to recover and you can keep invoking, I wish you luck "- and with that, the disk exploded in a speck of light, which shot directly at Elián's horn, scared, he was waiting for pain, only to be met with a blow of information, all the facilities and how to build them were in his head, he felt It was weird for Elián, it was like having an encyclopedia in his head, it did not overwhelm him, he just had to concentrate on what he wanted, and he acceded to the information, maybe it could be considered his own version of the domain.
"It is useless to alter me now, after, I can find a way to go home with the help of the precursors, or their technology, now maybe it is better to start with a small group of sentries to help me in my situation" - Elián concentrated on his horn and imagined the sentinels he wanted to invoke, he decided to start with normal sentinels.
Upon hearing a strange sound, Elián opened his eyes, and indeed, there is the sentinel, in all his grace
"It's ... bigger than I thought, and it's just the standard model" -Elián whispered nervously.
The sentinel simply stayed floating, not moving, just looking in Elian's direction.
"That was easy" - said Elián, seeing that they obeyed orders easily, he repeated the process until he got a good amount of sentinels to explore the planet, seeing that he was not tired yet, decided to invoke constructors, since he needed a shelter to pass the night.
"Let's see, I think a Retriever sentinel would be too much for now, considering that the normal sentries seemed almost my size, one of that caliber would be too much, plus I do not think I have that much energy for something of that kind, a simple swarm of constructors should do the work "- said Elián while lighting his horn.
At the end, and thanks to the experience he had with the previous sentinels, he managed to invoke a thousand constructors at the same time, leaving him exhausted, as if he had run a marathon, a sign that his reserves had been exhausted, but when he opened his eyes, He found a large cloud just above him, seeing that they were the constructors.
Remembering that he could build for the moment, he remembered an installation that could serve him, so he ordered the constructors to look for a lake to build it, so he would not have to worry about looking for water far away.
Following the swarm, he saw that there was a lake on the other side of the hill, quite large, and surprisingly, they began to materialize the installation, they seemed to use some kind of blue energy light, with wonder, he saw that some builders absorbed the matter that there was just below, so they did not get anything for nothing, after a few minutes, it were finish
Walking a bit, and considering that it would be better for the builders to do something while exploring, he leave a row of buildings where they could work while he rested, several Sentinel manufacturing facility, a Gateway, since he would need more practical access for his new ones knowledge, and mastery, in addition to a keyship, since Elián wanted to leave the planet before altering it too much, although strange, it overwhelmed him a feeling of guilt when altering an ecosystem, but it was necessary for now.
Equestria- Canterlot-actuality
"Are they okay doctor?" - Princess Celestia asked, it would be a euphemism to say that she had been scared when they told her they found her sister and Twilight passed out in the observatory, fearing it was an attack by the mysterious Griffin empire.
"Yes princess, it's just a case of fatigue, they should have fainted because of fatigue, if last night's show is a suggestion, they may have overstepped their limits" - replied the white coat, a cream-colored unicorn and mane golden, her cutie had the image of a stethoscope.
Releasing a sigh that she did not know she had, the princess simply gave a smile.
"Thank you very much for your help doctor, can I go check them?" - asked Princess Celestia.
"Assuming they fainted at midnight, it's been a good few hours for them to wake up soon, I think it would be nice for the princesses to see her, your majesty, let me escort you Princess" - said the stallion, while walking to a hallway door, followed by the princess.
The corridors of the medical room of the palace were indistinguishable from a normal hospital, although the lack of patients made the place seem abandoned, the ponies who worked there enjoyed comfort, unfortunately, with recent events, most of the doctors were transferred to training centers to prepare future doctors and volunteer nurses, so the place seemed more lonely than usual.
Arriving at a door with golden finishes, which would be the room for royalty, Celestia entered first with the permission of the doctor, there, she saw her sister and Twilight, sleeping comfortably, although their faces were serious, the rest helped them recover, they no longer had those black bags under their eyes, smiling a little when she saw the scene, the princess sat in an armchair in the room, it looked like a suite, only that it had medical devices, the doctor, seeing that he had more work, he respectfully said goodbye to Celestia, since he also had to plan the training of the new recruits.
Celestia could not afford to rest for a second, so she invoked the new reports from the explorers of the coastal defense zones, most of them reporting the same thing, a line of air and maritime defense ships patrolling, the new Griffons had not moved much, and that worried her a lot, although the griffons had already declared war, they have not invaded yet, the only confrontation that there was was a small battle between the griffons of Equestria and those of the new empire, After his ambassadors returned mutilated, Chancellor Grover, descendant of the old king, decided on his own to send a contingent to the ship as revenge, when Celestia found out, she sent the Wonderbolts to stop the meeting, but it was too late, they found more than a massacre, the sea was dyed red, they found nothing but broken corpses of Griffons, all from Equestria, none of the empire, if the griffons of Equestria, being the most versed species to combat, suffer such a defeat, it would be a lie to say that she was not scared.
After that, Celestia summoned a meeting with all species, the griffons agreed to help almost instantly, the breezies they would support with supplies, although few, their little help was welcome, Saddle Arabia would send two thousand soldiers and tactical help, but nothing else, at least for now, Yakyakistan promised help too, the Changeling Kingdom with King Thorax would also help, the Hippogriff Kingdom it was a different story, being located in the sea, they decided that they would only help in case of extreme need, Abyssinia declared that she did not want anything to do with the war, but seeing that the new empire threatened everyone equally, they decided to participate, but they would only help to build new war vehicles, which was well received, the Crystal Empire would help, Cadence even said that her kingdom along with Ab yssinia would provide the necessary infrastructure, the King Aspen would not help directly, provide supplies and a free pass through the forests, but nothing else, his kingdom did not want to participate in a butcher shop, but thanks to the level of threat, he proposed a shelter plan in the forests, with the help of the Diamond Dogs, to everyone's surprise, would be immense underground cities, according to their calculations, the first city would be ready in a few months, since they had started for a long time ago, but even so, with all that cooperation never seen before, not including the Dragon Lord Ember, who could not attend due to tensions within his own kingdom.
The amount of assets they had did not exceed two hundred thousand soldiers, previously, that number would be impressive for any army, but the new empire It proved to have many more active, the ships that were stalking in the sea, which were huge by themselves, could have at least three hundred soldiers aboard these vessels, but they formed a line around the Equestria, something that when the explorers discovered, the princesses believed that it was some illusion, but it was true, they had counted three thousand five hundred ships, and if each of those ships had the same amount of crew, there could easily be about a million soldiers, something absurd, the population of Equestria barely touches that amount, when debating how that could be possible.
Princess Twilight said that only the lands of Equestria had been explored, it would leave little more than two thirds of the planet unexplored, many thought that Equestria was the only continent, not counting the surrounding islands, but they were very wild, the most surrounding Equestria and the mountains was immense, and nobody bothered to investigate, or at least, there is no record.
If so, then that number would not be unreasonable, and perhaps, Equestria was the only thing that was missing from conquering this new empire.
It did not take long for Celestia to hear the moans of Twilight and Luna, leaving aside the reports of the explorers in the coastal defense zones and their thoughts, she saw that they were rising little by little, clearly confused from where they were.
"Good morning sister, good morning Twilight, did you sleep well?" - Celestia asked softly.
"Good morning, sister, can you explain why we are in the medical wing of the castle?" Luna asked, getting up.
"The last thing I remember was going to the observatory with Luna, I also want to know what happened to us" - Twilight asked.
"Well, not more than a few hours ago, the castle guards went to check as they were, since they did not go to their bedrooms, and found them passed out in the observatory, the doctor thinks it is due to fatigue, so they can leave right now, if you do not want to go back to sleep "- said Celestia.
"The observatory ?, but that's not ..." - and as like she had been hit with a fish, Luna's face turned into a look of fear, turning to Twilight, she saw that she had the same expression, that did not go unnoticed by Celestia , that began to worry about the change of environment.
Before even asking, Luna and Twilight teleported to the observatory once more, bringing with them a very confused Celestia.
"It should be in the same place, if it has not moved since last night, but the rotation of the planet must have blurred it, Luna, could you tell me what section it was in?" - Twilight asked.
"Fifteen degrees north of the constellation of the snake, it's quite bright, it should not cost you much" - said Luna, as she finished turning on the screen.
Celestia could not do anything but watch the actions of her fellow princesses, so she simply decided to wait until they finished, it was not long for Twilight to speak.
"... gods, there it is" - whispered Twilight.
When asked what he was referring to, he simply looked at the screen, only to lose his breath for what he was looking at.
"This would be the most important news in the history of Equestria, perhaps of Equus, if we were not at war" - whispered Luna.
"We are not alone in the infinite space, a question that many have asked, only to be answered in times of greatest need" - said Twilight, while looking at the super structure, it looked like an immense petal, the quality of the image was not very clear, and could not focus it well, but it was enough to know that it was not natural, recovering, Celestia spoke with a voice that could rival that of Fluttershy.
"We must inform other nations, that scientists and astronomers investigate this, we want to know everything we can" - declared Celestia.
They did not waste more time after that, they invoked some guards to bring the investigators, and Celestia sent several pegasus to bring the leaders of each nation, claiming that they have just discovered something that could change the course of the war, perhaps avoiding it, Twilight was in a frenzy, making notes of everything she could of the structure.
When the guards returned with a group of unicorns, pegasus and earth ponies dressed in a lab coat, Celestia forced them to take an oath of silence about what they would hear, it would be a euphemism to say that they were excited and shocked at the new revelations, Celestia also ordered to bring all the necessary equipment for the investigations in the observatory of the castle, the news was taken as top secret, they had to have all the information available before revealing it to the public.
Although they could not do anything but conjecture and guesswork, the researchers advanced a lot, they could not improve the telescope's performance, more spells and structure would be shattered, and they could not build a larger one without interfering with war supply plans, so they had to settle for the poor resolution.
The leaders of the other nations arrived a few days later, but this time, there was something different when they arrived at the castle, there was more security, Pegasus patrols came and went, and, above all, instead of the usual meeting place, they would now be in the observatory of the castle.
"What is going on?" - asked Thorax, clearly confused, while walking with the other leaders of the other species.
"His letter did not say much either, but for this level of security, it must be something important, and more if he is diverting something from his defenses in the castle and not in the coastal defense line" - said Chancellor Grover.
"The important thing is that she mention that this discovery could even stop the war, that's enough for me to give it a chance" - said King Aspen.
"We also think the same, nothing good comes out of the war" - said Queen Novo.
"I hope it is worth it, Saddle Arabia asked me to represent them at the meeting, it is tiring to represent more than one nation. "- grumbled the King of Abyssinia.
"Do not worry your majesty, at least wait until you know what they called us" - said Seabreeze
"Welcomes, please sit down, we have enough to talk about" - said Celestia, but she, along with the other princesses had black bags under their eyes, they looked quite tired, it seemed that they had not slept in days.
"What is it about, princess? Why have you called us?" Asked Chancellor Grover.
"... a few days ago, Princess Luna made the dragon show in the night sky, but when she finished, she discovered an anomaly, if she had not done that last night, we probably would never have found it" - said Celestia while lighting her horn.
"They are seeing what we weigh are the structures of an alien race" - Celestia said calmly, while levitating documents to the kings and representatives.
Even with the mouths opened by the revelation, they were composed enough to examine the documents.
"Our researchers assume that the structure is no more than about ten meters long and wide, the low resolution of the telescope makes it difficult to measure their lengths, we also have no idea that this fact, but it seems that emits artificial light, we assume which is some kind of station or base, since it has not moved from its place, the two spheres around it could be some kind of power generator "- said Princess Twilight.
Processing the new information, Queen Novo spoke first.
"Do we know something else? Is it possible to make contact?"
"At the moment we do not know anything about their species, we only have these images, there are no records in Equestria about them, and we are already devising a form of communication, our researchers are trying to develop an antenna that can transmit the signal to space, amplified with magic so that the signal is able to travel between the dimensions, similar to the dragon fire that Spike uses, only more complex, since we would be calculating the approximate distance, besides we do not know if they are able to understand it, so we will send a simple greeting, or that's the plan "- answered Celestia.
"And how could this stop the war? From my perspective, this would be irrelevant to the enemy" - said Chancellor Grover.
"We will try to send an offering of peace, with this information included, so, maybe they desist, but it is more a bet" - said Luna.
"For now we can only observe, we can not do much, but I propose a collaboration to investigate what we can about them" - said Cadence for the first time.
Winning a nod from others, the King Aspen committed to create a research center in the forest, researchers from the nations could work from there, in addition to being well protected, the nations that did not attend were informed later, accepting the agreed upon at the meeting, to the relief of the princesses, perhaps, this information could stop the war, and unite all Equus in a flag, to reach their intergalactic neighbors.
If only that had happened ...
