A New World Discovered

“This could be a slight problem.” Henriette said as she rubs the bridge of her nose as Andrew, Kiburi, John, and Aria stand around her as they were meeting up for an important discussion.

“If the natives are sending in what we are assuming are scouting parties, then it’s only a matter of time that they discover that we are here before we are ready to make first actual contact.”

“Especially since we still don’t know how to interpret their own langue, spoken or written.” John said as he stood between his fellow crew members.

“Also we still don’t know how these people will react to us before we’re prepared to make ourselves known.” Aria said as she rubs her head as fidgets next to Henriette.

“So what shall we do miss?” Kiburi asks the leader if the group.

“Are we going to continue with the mission, or are we going to have to bail?” Henriette sat quietly in her chair as she thought about what to do next, and as she sat there the rest of the crew waited for her to give them an answer. A few more seconds later and Henriette seemed to have finished her mental deliberation and looked at the crew as a whole.

“If we stay then these equines will find us sooner than we want. But if we leave then we’ll only announce our presence even more and may have to withdraw before anything brash happens, which could set this whole project back months.”

“So what’s going to be our game plan?” John asked as he scratches the top of his head.

“…we might just need to push up our time table of introducing ourselves to the natives.” The rest of the crew seemed unsure about this line of reasoning, and their faces showed.

“I know this maybe brash, but I think it would be better for us to approach the natives first, rather than them find us and think us as invaders before we can correct them.”

“But Miss. Henriette we don’t even have the means to comminate with them.” Andrew said in a caution tone before his mask hissed.

“Which is why we might have to make a more, drastic step.” Henriette then turned to the consul she was sitting at and started fiddling around with it, until the screen changed to a picture of the native that Lucky and the recon drones saved from the wooden wolves.

“And I think she might be the best way to further expedite our mission.”

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Twilight Sparkle was sitting alone in her room as she sat on her bed, book in hand and was just reading to past the time. Today has been a rather boring one so far. all of the chores were pretty much done, and not a lot of work was laid about for the unicorn to really get any progress underway, and with Spike gone to Rarity’s boutique to ‘help’ the fashionista Twilight was left all by her lonesome. But luckily she has her books that she can read to occupy her time, although even her books can only do so much to alleviate the mare’s own growing boredom.

Closing her book and letting out a small sigh the mare placed the book down on he bed and trotted out of room, heading towards the library’s balcony to get some fresh air and think about what else she could do. And as the mare stood on the balcony thinking about what she could do for fun, and occasionally glancing at a passing pony who greats her and she greats back, the mare then heard a slight buzzing sound. Her ears perked up and when she looks around for the source of the noise, she finds a familiar silver creature buzzing around the tree when she leans over the railing.

“‘It’s one of the strange creatures!’” Twilight said quietly as to not frighten the creature as it buzzes around, before flying in through the balcony door.

Twilight then followed it into the room, quickly closed the door behind her and just started watching the little thing fly about. As she watches the creature the mare then decided to take this opportunity to study it, and quickly grabbed a quill and a paper nearby and starts to write down everything she notices about the creature, and its own behaviors. Whilst the mare shifts focus to the flying creature, and the paper she was writing on, she started to inch closer to the creature as it just flies around the room, occasionally bumping into objects or making a louder whirling sound. Then as Twilight stood a few feet from the creature it spun in place and looked at her, before it started to fly over to the mare who then reached out and petted the little thing on its head, which made it tetter and petter as it buzzed happily.

“I really wish I know what you, and the others are.” Twilight bemuses as she removes her finger from the creature as a thought came to her.

“Especially that silver wolf creature. It looked like it was just a boney skeleton, but its body looked like it was covered in a layer of metal and had armor on it.” as Twilight muttered to herself she felt the creature nudge into her, gently pressing itself into her like it was trying to push her, more than just nuzzling into her.

“What are you doing?” Twilight chortled as she looked down to the creature. The little flying creature then flew over to the balcony door and bumped into it, the unicorn then trotted to the door and opened it but as she dose so, more of the small flying creatures showed up.

“There are more of you!”

The unicorn moved out onto the balcony and just looked at the small cluster of flying creatures, watching them flying about before heading off into the distance. All except one. The little creature then flew over to Twilight, and with a small pincer that appeared from its underside, gently pinched down on the mare’s sleeve and starts tugging. Clearly the creature was trying to make her follow her, and as much as she would like to do so and study these little creatures further, and possibly the larger version of themselves, Twilight did promise that she wouldn’t go to the Everfree and go looking—Twilight’s train of thought stopped as something came to her. she did promise the princess that she wouldn’t go to the Everfree and search for the strange flying black object she saw, but she technically didn’t say she couldn’t go to the forest for any other matters.

After mentally deliberating the implications of her promise to the princess, and her desire to continue to study these strange and fascinating creatures, the mare headed back inside the library and levitated her bag, scrolls, and other such needed items over to her before going back out onto the balcony. As she stood on the balcony the creature tried to tug on her sleeve again, but it was stopped when Twilight pointed to herself, and then out towards the general direction of the forest hoping that the creature got what she was trying to convey. And it seemed to work as the creature buzzed and flew in a circle, before flying off towards where the others flew off.

“Alright. I’m only going to study the creatures, observe them and nothing more.”

Twilight said more to reassure herself on what she was doing. A moment later Twilight’s horn lit up with magic, and then she vanished with a small flash of light and magical pop. Then a second later at the far end of the Ponyville, right on the boarder that leads into the Everfree, Twilight re-appeared.

“Okay. Now I’ll first have to find my new little friends.”

Just as Twilight was about to go looking for the little creatures, she stopped as she slightly turned her head and caught something out of the corner of her eye. Turning to look what it was Twilight flinched when she found the strange metal-skinned boned canine. The creature was standing just a few feet from her, and was looking straight at her with its large orb-like eye, which stared at her with an strange sensation. Like it was looking her all over like it was studying her as well. Twilight cautiously approached the canine creature, but when she took only a few steps the creature itself began walking over to her, and when it was a foot from the mare it then sat down and gave a haggard sounding yip. The unicorn took this as a sign that the canine was peaceful, and reached out to pet between its stiff hears.

“Wow. You feel really cold to the touch.” Twilight said to the creature as she withdraws her hand from the canine, who then stood up and started to rub against the mare.

“Ow! Ow! You also feel really jagged!”

Twilight said in mild discomfort as she feels the creature rub against her, feeling its pointy and rough parts jab and poke into her sides. Just as the canine finished rubbing against her Twilight heard the familiar whirling and buzzing of her little flying friends, and when she looked up she not only found them but their larger parent member as well.

“Hey there!” Twilight said to the large flying creature as it floats down to Twilight, and ever so gently pressed itself against the mare’s chest.

“You guys really are a lot friendlier than I thought you would be.” Twilight said as she pets the creature on the back as its little ones flew around the pair.

The mare was just amazed that she was able to meet these strange creatures again, and seeing that her saviors from the timberwolves were all so friendly. Once the large flying creature had enough of the unicorns petting, it then flew back a few paces and just floated in mid-air, while its little ones orbit around it. the unicorn looked between the creatures, and none of them were moving, in fact they were all just remaining idle that they looked like statues. Since they were staying still Twilight decided to take this opportunity to study them, and since she was able to get up close to the creatures she could easily see their features better.

“You lot truly are an interesting bunch.” Twilight muttered as she examined the canine creature close up, and was really looking up close at its armor and body overall.

Just as the unicorn was studying the canines shoulder plating, the creatures all moved around her started to move again, and was making their way to the forest. Twilight turned to follow after them, but she stopped in tracks, and outright fell on her butt after she stuttered backwards. Standing just outside the tree line, surrounded by the creatures, and looking down at her…were two bipedal creaturess. The likes of which she has never seen before ever, or even thinks is possible.

“Wha—what are—”

Twilight stuttered as she just looks up at the creatures who continued to look down at her, surrounded by the other creatures who all seemed friendly with it. One of the two creatures, the one that had long wavey hair and a similar body type to her friend Rarity, broke away from the others and started to walk over to Twilight. Who in shock and fear of an unknown creature scampered back a few feet. When the creature was a foot from her Twilight ignited her horn with magic, but before she used a spell to either defend herself or teleport away, the creature knelt down and gave the mare a gentle smile. The smile was sincere, and the creature…it gave off a peaceful and gentle aura, which made Twilight start to calm down. The creature then reached out with a small hairless hand, dainty in appearance. The mare looked from the hand to the creature’s face, and still saw its gentle smile as it looked down at her.

Probably against her better judgment, Twilight cautiously reached out with her own hand, and took the creatures own hand in hers. Feeling its smooth skin against her lightly fuzzed palm.