The Hub

Two ponies move through the black and gray forest. There is no light yet sight is still obtainable and there is no sound except the breathing of one another. The only sign of life is the one Rainbow-colored Unicorn Twilight and the other more butter colored Pegasus Twilight. The coat of the first seems to shift with every moment through every color of the rainbow. Her mane and tail seem to do the same making the more static colored Pegasus more boring against the drab background. Though out of the two, the shifting spectrum would be more of an ease to hunt. They are equipped with rather large brown saddlebags that almost blend into the background.

The pair takes a moment to check out a flower growing beneath the mammoth variety of trees. This particular one seems to be growing underneath a palm tree. The flower in question is pure white and could easily be missed against its background if not careful. The petals all have different designs on them and the stem has a letter on it towards the bottom. There's nothing else remarkable about it other than that, yet the attention of both are grabbed as they carefully use their hooves to dig the plant out and place it within one of the many jars they've brought along with them hidden inside of their bags.

They move on from the spot after recovering the hole to erase their tracks in case of any prying eyes that comes through here. The buttered Pegasus shivers as she looks behind her. Her breathing becomes noticeably heavier as she looks to her rainbow-colored friend, "I... I really don't know about this..."

"I promise you it'll be fine. We'll farm up a bit in the wilderness and head back to the playground to meet up with our other friends." A rainbow-colored Twilight announces happily, "Than we'll get all the snow cones and candy we want!"

The butter colored Twilight nods her head timidly and paws at the soft earth below them. She chooses not to speak in fear that something might hear them if they haven't already Rainbowlight. She wants to be a big girl, but its hard to remind yourself that you need to be strong when you're out in some of the more... lively areas of the void. Which they shouldn't be in in the first place.

"A-Are you sure this is o-okay? I mean... we could get into a lot of trouble if we're caught..." Flutterlight says feeling something watching them from everywhere and yet nowhere at the same time.

The unending pressure of eyes upon the body and soul is starting to break her.

Rainbow snorts and flicks her multicolored tail before trotting off happily, "I'm sure we'll be fine. Nopony ever patrols over here anyway. I've checked enough times to know that. We'll just gather up some flowers and move on. Come on Flutterlight we're wasting time!"

"O-Okay..."

And of the two continue through the forest unknowing of a stalker just a bit behind the group. Said stalkers wears a Great Helm and chainmail down her barrel. She breathes heavily while clutching a cross in one hand while watching the two ponies go off in search of their items.

"Ohhhh yeaaaaaah~ That's some good Heresy right there~"

She lets go of her cross and quickly follows behind the two her mail making no noise at all in the silent voidwoods.

"And so I put these screw closer to the mechanism for releasing the spray in order to help out with faster reloads. The only problem is that sometimes the cartridge comes loose and it pops the bag making the entire thing malfunction." A grease soaked Twilight says to hold a fancy look squirt gun in her magic, "Of course this is only the first model of it that I've brought here. I wanted to get the opinion of the Engineering Guild before I actually go back with a full completed idea."

An Earth pony Twilight wields a giant wrench the size of her body across her back while lounging on a bronze steampunk chair. She leans forward taking the wrench off and placing it on the ground to observe the gun more. She hums and takes apart the contraption in her mind. To her right, A tiny mouse-like Twilight complete with mouse tail and ear circles around it practically drooling at the new invention placed in front of the guild.

"We can certainly make it better. But what' sit worth to us? What do you plan to do with it? I already have an idea, but I wanna know fully. I wanna hear what you plan to do. Remember, I will know if you lie to me." Elderlight says leaning back again her eyes zooming onto the inventer.

"Of course Elder." She says bowing, "I want to use it in order to fully make sure that those trapped in stone in my world know that second offenders will be dealt with accordingly. My Celestia known as Dawnbreaker has set me up with a limited amount of funds to help out with both the criminal problem as well as the war problem. I figured I could take care of two things at once with coming up with Acid Spitter, name in progress, as a way to deter off most creatures that can't withstand Acid. "

"I see." Elder states eye unfocusing, "Tell me. What do they call you here?"

"Setup. Ma'am."

"Setup huh... I can see why. You seem to really cherish what your Dawnbreak say, don't you. You don't seem nervous and your heart rate remains the same. You're not lying for sure, or you've gotten used to it." Elder waves a dismissive hoof, "Listen to this old mare ramble off. We'll see what we can do. No promises. I'll have Mouse start to reverse engineer it. We'll send one of the Runners if we come across any problems or it can't be done. Come back within a weeks time and we should have something for you."

"Thank you Elder." Setup says quickly turning away and heading out the automatic metalwork doors leaving the few members in the sweltering room be with her invention.