Chapter 11: (Unedited)
She was back in the Promethean hive, standing at the back of the room, watching the events go on.
Dawn and Goldroot had already discused the detailes about the Arralia, But Midnight was waiting for one question...
"How are we going to reach it?" Goldroot asked, standing over a tacmap.
the tacmap showed a star map, a green arrow showing where they were, and a red one showing Arallia.
"Our ships wont beable to get though and it'll take too long to go around, not enough fuel"
Dawn nodded "Yes, but We have a salution" she waved her hadn over the tabel, which switched from the starmap to an extireor cammra feed.
the feed showed a ship, a Frigte from the looks of it, with a large number of prometheans crawling over its hull.
"We've been getting her ready for sometime now, we found her adrift relitivly undamaged and unman'd"
The ship dispite its boxy apperance and small size compared to the other ship wrecks, looked amazing.
Midnight steped forward "Whats it's name?"
Stonehold levitated a piace of paper and read form it "It says here that it's called the Glassgo"
Dawn said "She will be ready to set sail in a day"
Everypone cheered at the news, first they would head to the Arralia system and call for aid, from there it would be homeword.
The meeting endded as ponys and Prometheans began socilicing, it was an odd sight, considering how simular the Prometheans looked to thier Xenomorph cosians, but the remneates of the 22nd took it in thier stride.
After the events of the past month nothing really surprised them.
Midnigth saw Dawn, Stonehold and Goldroot talking to each other away from the group, Dawn was off her throne and was hunched over listning to what was being said.
"So what do you make of all this Midnight?"
She turned around to see Oats walking up to her.
"Prometheans and Ponys working together I mean" he asked.
Midnight shruged "Duno, I'm still having trouble beliving that I'm related"
He cracked a smile "to be perfectly hounest I dont mind about that" he said "as long as you dont start crawling along walls"
Midnight gave him a miscivos grin "No promises"
"I'm serious, if I wake up to find you looking down on me from the celing I will shove your horn so far up your-"
Midnight shoved hoof over his mouth "Now now Oats, Fillys about" she gestured to her back where Empathy was laying with her head deep in a book"
"She hasent left you since we got here?" Oats said "Dont she have any friends?"
Midnight shook her head "Nope, mum says even though she gos the the school here she dosent have any friends" she smiled sadly "Guess it runs in the family"
"So's reading aparently"
"Yea it is" She shook her head hoplessly "I thought that I got it from Twilight but now I know better"
"So If you had Children, they would probably end up as book worms like their mum?" Oats said grining ear to ear.
Midnight punched him playfully with her clawd leg "I'll show you book worm..."
He held his leg over his head in defence "Ok ok, but have you ever thought about it?"
Midnigth tilted her head "thought about what?"
"Having kids"
Midnights mouth hung open at the question, her mind still processing it "Wha?"
"You know... setteling down, having a family"
"Why do I get the felling that your not asking wether I want to settle down" she leaned in "So... who is she?"
Oats bit his tonge and wisperd to her "Well she dosnt know it yet... but it Lightning"
Midnight rolled her eyes "And you dont know how to tell her how you feel right?"
Oats turned red "Is it that obvious?" she nodded "Bloody hell"
Midnight chuckled "You've been reading the arcive data again havent you?"
Oats ignored the comment "Can you give me some advice on how to tell her?"
"Oats, I havent had a relationship in my life... all I can tell you is that you should go and tell her" she shruged "I she says no then atleast you tried"
Oats nodded "Thanks Midnight... I think I might just do that" he rushed off into the crowed.
Empathy then choise then to look up from her book "What did I miss?"
Midnight shook her head just as Goldroot called "Sargent, get over here!"
She troted over to him and her parents, who were watching her as she came.
"Whats the problem sir?"
"Nothing Sargent, but you parents wanted to ask you somthing"
Midnight turned to face the unicorn and the queen "yes?"
"Midnight, we would like you to take your sister when you leave" Stonehold said, getting straight to the point.
Both Midnight and Empathy blinked wildly in shock.
"We feel that it would be best that you spend some time together and for Empathy to see the universe" Dawn continued "But we thought it best to ask you what you thought about it"
Midnight quickly glanced a look at Goldroot "You havent got a problem with this sir?"
"Not one kid, She'd be your responsability"
Midnight crained her head back to look at Empathy Flame "What about you sis?" she asked "Would you like to come with me?"
The filly didnt need asking twice "Yes! I want to see where you grew up and what other worlds are like!" she said exitedly.
Midnight nodded and quickly lost herself in thought.
sure she would love to spend tiem with her sister and for her to see her world, but then again it would be hard to explain why she had a alicorn filly when they made contact with the E.M.C, plus the fact that Midnight had a feeling that Arallia would be dangorus.
in the end she came to her decision.
"I'll take her"she said fianly "but she'll have to learn how to use my Changling spell" "No problem" Empathy said, jumping off her back with her book wraped in her magic''s grip "Everyone says that I'm realy good with magic"
Midnight looked at the filly, then at her mum "when she says she's good with magic..."
"She's already as strong as Princess Twilight, back when she was a unicorn"
Midnigth kept stareing at Empathy, then a thought came to her.
"I think Empathy has both her own magic and mine aswell" she said "Might explain why I'm such a weak magic user"
Stonehold looked at her doubtfully "When you say that, do you mean that you act-"
"I got a E- when I took my magic potential exam" she said dryly.
"Oh"
"Not that I mind, I never used my magic other then levitating stuff and using my Changling spell when I was out and about" she told them.
"so thats why you didnt use your alicron powers on the Salura... you never had any to begin with" Goldroot relised "Which means that you could have gotten yourself killed with at stunt you pulled"
"Um... sir, I ended up in a coma for 3 days" she reminded him.
"True..."
"And I was wraped up in bandages for 3 more day after that" she added "But I was fully recoverd by the time we got here"
Stonehold nodded in agreement "You do seem to have a high healing rate" he said "Do all alicorns heal that fast?"
Midnight rolded her eyes "No, When Twilight broke her wing a few years back, it took a month for her to get better"
"And how bad was the wing"
"She broke her primary wing bone" she said "Doc says that I broke every bone in my wing, but even after that I still fly as good as I always have"
she flaped her wings and luanched herself into the air and did a few tricks to prove her point.
"So you heal faster then anyother pony, just like the Prometheans" Stonehold thought out loud "Maby when you were born, you inherited some promethean DnA aswell, only thing that makes sense"
"Well as long as I'm still alive, I don't care"
They head hoof steps and turned to see Pyro, Trevor, Dusty, Buttercup, Oats and Lightning troting up to them.
"Hey sir, the Prometheans and ponys here want to throw us a going away party" Oats said exitedly "They even got a club stocked full of Booze"
"Ahh, Club Equestria" Dawn said "The safest place on the ship, unless you like your licoer that is" she glanced at at Stonehold who gave her his best Who me? expresion.
"You got a club here?" Midnight exclaimed.
"Well of corse we do" Stonehold said with a little laugh "How do you think we pass the time here?"
Midnight scractched her chin thoughtfully.
"And I hear you guys got so human acahol" Lightning added "And the DJ is ment to have studyd under Vinal Scratch.
"Hmmm, Student of famous D.J, Alien booze, tones of battle weary Marines... Sounds like fun"
"I'll go tell the others" Lighting turned around and gave Oats a quick peck on the cheek "Come on you..." she said as she rushed off into the crowd.
Midnight raised her eyebrow at the stalion who just shruged and rushed off after Lightning.
"Called it!" Trevor shouted triumphantly "I totaly called it, you owe me 20 bits" he held he hoof out at Pyro whohandded a bag of gold coins to him.
"Come on!" Dusty shouted as she began to walk off "I'll lead you there"
"Go on then, I think everyone needs a drink or two... or a hundrad after the last few weeks" Goldroot said "I have some bussniess to descuse with your Parents"
Midnight left them and joined her friends as they made thier way to the Bar.