Equestria's Vault

When I looked towards the source of the buzzing I was mildly surprised & a bit confused to see what it was. For most people, it would have been shocking but I have seen stranger things before throughout my long life that would been dismissed as ones imagination. Granted, Patricia still doesn't believe that there is a multiverse & I'm just crazy as a Pyscho (she's not entirely wrong). Anyway the creatures or should I say inhabitants looked liked anthro bug horses approximately 100 to 300 of them if I were to guess. Yeah, let's go with that. Their chitin, I believe an insects skin is called, is a greyish black. They have holes in their arms as well on their wings but it can't be an injury seeing how fucking useless they'll be if they're out here in medieval style armor. They're armed with a double edge swords, spears, knives, & flint lock pistols this gives me an idea of how far they are in terms of weaponry. Now some of people will think that they're in a new place but I still think I'm on Pandora. Why, because after I came back with an organic body & not in a cybernetic one, I found out (Lilith & the gang told me) Sanctuary II was destroyed to stop a Flood infected Dahl soldier & his men. Apparently he & his platoon have been surviving in mine shaft all the way back when Dahl decided to cut their losses by abandoning everything & everyone on Pandora & Elpis leaving them to die. So theirs a possibility I'm just in an unmarked part on Pandora. They also have a horn above their large arctic blue eyes which have no pupils, like seriously why the fuck are their eyes that big? They also have fins on where the ear is supposed to be & a large one behind their heads. One of them however is visually different from the rest & towers the others by at least a foot? Hell, she's even taller than my ghost or better yet, looks like she's over 8 feet tall if being I'm honest (not including the horn). How do I know it's a she? Well their are a couple of assets on her chest. She has green eyes that have pupils similar to that of a cat, her horn is more crooked or jagged than the curved ones the others have, & also has green hair? It seems to be the leader or commander of the squad. I'm a go with queen or guard if their society or really if their entire species are built similar to a ant hive. It seems that they saw my flare signal I shot given how nervous they look around to who shot it.

"What?! There's nobody here!" She says with confusion in her tone.

Now this surprises me. I was expecting for some form of language barrier for me to over come but it seems that she can speak English fluently.

"There's blood here," one of them points out, "as well as footprints, a strange flint lock pistol, and some weird handles, something or someone was here but they are gone." This grabs her attention as she looks over to where I crash landed then sees the trail leading towards the boulder where I have my ghost sitting on.

"No they aren't gone they are hiding somewhere nearby. We can sense their emotions."

Uh-oh, that isn't good. She can't be a telepath seeing how I wearing something on me protecting my mind from individuals with telepathic abilities. I doubt she can even sense my heart beat like Daredevil can. I notice some of them looking directly at my Ghost as if they see it. But before they can say anything to their commander,

"Be on your guard & be prepared for an ambush!" As she walks closer to where I'm buried I decide that I'll reveal myself or rather my "Ghost" rather than have those tell her. So "I" jump off the boulder which startles her & the rest of her group as they watch in confusing & fear of whom or whatever is creating new footprints. After having a bit of fun scaring the rest of them I actually reveal it.

"What?!" She, along with the rest, step back in fear as it walks closer to them. Their's a shimmering effect on my Ghost can be fully visible. If you're wondering why it's only visible to me & not to others even though it's right in front of them. Well there are relatively two simple answers that I ain't giving out my secrets yet. However this makes the eyes of the inhabitants widen (except for the ones that have already seen it), as if they can't get any fucking bigger at this point. You know what, fuck it, I'll be gouging out one of their eyes to see how big are they if I can't find a book about their anatomy. Once it's visible to any other individual, the leader shrugged off the initial shock & says the cliched one liner,

"What in Tartarus are you?" Oh apparently Tartarus also exists here then. I don't have much time left, somewhere between 10 to 29 minutes before my ghost dissolves itself into nothing ness before I can even talk to them.

"それ。 。 。できます。 。 。そうではありません。 。 。いう。 。 。" Goddamn it, I should really practice more speaking through my Ghost more often also I'm not letting these guys know that I speak the same language as them. Ah, the cliché surprised speechless look when some strange looking being or thing talks or does something that a normal person can't comprehend. She shakes her head before her horn is surrounded by green aura. I notice in field of vision & look at my arms then body to see a green aura surround "me" momentarily before it fades away & I look back at at her. She looked shocked for the third fucking time. How many times are they/she gonna to repeat this.

"What?! How are you not affected by my magic!" So magic also exists here huh? Not good, so giving "orders" to my Ghost to knock out these guys so I can make a beeline towards the forest. I don't plan on killing these inhabitants, well unless I wanna be hunted down by the whole world. I already have enough people, governments, organizations, & corporations on my ass I don't need the population of these anthro bug horses added to the list or this world for that matter. It rushes towards her, once the distance between them is closed it pulls back a fist preparing to throw a punch. She along with the others see this & rush at my ghost. One of them manages to get front of their leader or commander in time to receive the blow instead of her knocking him out. After that it just stands there, this angers her & she shouts another cliché one liner.

"Seize it!!!" Okay that cues me to actually reveal myself to these guys by jumping out of my hiding spot.

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Pov Chrysalis:

After one of my soldiers received the blow instead of me I became absolutely furious that this THING hurt one of my subjects. The rest of my soldiers rush to detain it, they just phase right through it. It's obviously isn't made of magic since only changeling magic can be used thanks to my throne but before I can do something myself, I hear something behind the boulder behind the thing as if something was digging out. That's when I realized there was another person with this thing. I thought it was strange when I sensed no bloodlust coming from this anomaly but when they revealed themselves, it was from someONE hiding! The ground erupts & revealing an individual dressed in black & white with 3 noticable features on itself. One its "head" looked to that of an actual insect with no eyes, second it has a large symbol of a spider on the front of it, & third it has a shimmering neon blue tails with red veins scattered on it. It is roughly shorter than my soldiers it's dressed in a greyish black jumpsuit with white lines as well as pockets & strange items on its hips. My soldiers notice the individual & rush to detain it as it runs toward the forest but it shouts something in the same language we heard earlier.

"再び幽霊!" and the thing that once stood still now is after them, ignoring the ones attacking it. It runs through & reaches for the one ahead throwing him towards the rest of the group causing to the rest to crash. As I'm charging my magic to subdue to creature itself & not the anomaly, me & my soldiers hear a slight *ping*. The creature turns around & throws a couple of small objects in front of us. This almost causes us to laugh when suddenly a loud bang & flash of white light blinds all of us which causes us to cry in pain & surprise. Once we regain our senses we discover that the anomaly as well as the creature has escaped into the woods.

"Let us return to our hive to tend our injured & warn the civilians of the upcoming danger that may come." As I say sadly as we head back towards the hive. I look up towards the sky with tears flowing out my eyes, I don't care if my soldiers see me like this, praying to the goddesses & gods that this creature doesn't tell wear we are hiding to the equestrians.

Pov ???:

After that little fiasco, I put a good distance between myself & my pursuers when I entered the woods. I managed to get away thanks my Ghost & the flash bangs I threw. The only problem is I have no idea where to go now. My Echo Device is non functional probably the wires are fucked up & my phone useless. My scanners aren't making a mini map because it has never seen this place, so far it's just making a trail similar to how a slug or snail would leave a trail of slime. One would think that world's technology would be better right? Nope I had to introduce them to that world to VR gaming, boy did they enjoyed it, epecially Zer0. I have few pieces of technology from Earth to help me pass the time when traveling through space. I may be somewhat old but I still enjoy music, games, & anime. I'll just wait for the sun to set so I'll know which way is north until then I'll just keep walking. I remove my helmet & mask to put in my earbuds to listen to a playlist dedicated to Hiroyuki Sawano, JT Music & Samuel Kim to help pass the time.

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The sun still hasn't gone down. It's just being still in exact same spot for the past 5 & 1/2 hours. I listened to all my playlists. The events that happened next would have indused fear in any normal person but dealt/seen with worse & told me that I'm no longer on Pandora. The sun just took a fucking nose dive towards the ground off in the distance then slowly the moon came out in its place like if it did a transformation. Now I'm no physicist but I'm pretty damn sure that this damn fucking planet would have been destroyed by the gravitational pull of the yellow sun if it did that. The moon also looks different the last time I remembered it.

a.) It's either shrunk or got pushed farther away which isn't possible seeing how Tyreen made Elpis nearly fucking crash into Pandora.
b.) There are no visible cracks of lava created by Dahl.
c.) There's no picture of a hawk made by Lilith when she sacrificed herself.

Realizing that using the celestial bodies to help guide me is going to pointless as wandering around until I find somebody out here. After I get on a tree, I summon my ghost again but this time it's arms morph into wings. Why didn't I do this earlier? Simple, it leaves me vulnerable if I see through its perspective & no I can't tell it to tell me what it saw since these things can't talk, follow commands given by the user or their own will, & only repeat what you said earlier. For example, 'Why can't they take a hint.' or 'What did I forget?', just simple phrases.

As it goes higher & higher to the altitude of a Peregrine Falcon I notice a trail of clouds being formed near the ground of in the distance, "I" go towards that direction to investigate. Upon getting closer I see what's creating them & the last time I saw one of these vehicles was in one those old movies or documentaries.

A steam engine by the side of a cliff where my ghost is so I have watch that drop not to fall to my death. But that wasn't my concern right now seeing how the train looked so fucking ridiculous that I lost my concentration from laughing my ass off. Like seriously it looks like something Tiny Tina would've made in her spare time or if she got her hands on a Hyperion train when I first met her years ago, she probably still might do it. Now that I know where the train tracks are, I jump off the branch & head towards the direction where my ghost went. I'm still a bit wary of this forest due to the fact I have not seen any form of wild life as of yet.