Twilight stared at the Kaiju brain chunk sitting in the lab. She had just been yelled at, both by her own team-mate in the research field, and by the commander of the entire program. Sure, she was a little odd about Kaiju, but they were fascinating. Sure everyone said it was unsafe to Drift with a Kaiju, but it was just a small part of one’s brain. That couldn’t possibly hurt her too badly, and it didn’t have a Kaiju on the other end either. She used her magic to levitate the helmet Pon onto her head, moving it into place around her horn before pressing the button.
It was cold, over there. And there was something that smelled rather horrible. She felt a pair of eyes staring at her, then another pair, which she realized was on the same face. She started to scream.
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Rarity froze abruptly in the hall when she heard a familiar scream. It was behind her, in the lab she had just vacated, leaving Twilight with the Kaiju brain chunk. She spun around and galloped back down the corridor as fast as she possibly could, ignoring the tearing sound of her new dress. She skidded around the corner and kicked off the wall, bursting through the door. She stopped as she saw what appeared to be Twilight, lying face-down in a pool of blood, wearing a Pon on her head, horn still glowing.
She hit the emergency release on the top of the headset and ripped it off Twilight’s head with her teeth, “Come on you stupid filly! Don’t you dare die on me!” She flipped the mare onto her back on the floor and slapped her with one hoof before grabbing Twilight’s head in her magic and lifting it off the floor, “Come on! I’ll kill you if you die from this!”
Twilight coughed and spat blood into the pool on the floor, “Ah. My head hurts a little bit.”
“You just Drifted with a Kaiju, you realize that you could have died!”
“Yeah. You kinda made me mad, and irrational, and…” Twilight stopped and grabbed a pen off the desk and started scribbling, using her hooves and horn together to draw on paper, and in the puddle of blood, all over the floor, what she had seen. “Come on! Help me out here Rare. Get a pen and help me!” She ripped up a gob of blood off the floor with her magic and splatted it against the wall and floor, “Connect the dots! Counterclockwise for three, the Clockwise two, then skew-ways for one and a half, and drill a hole through the wall between five, six and seven.”
Rarity just stared for a minute. Blood was, in her opinion, a terrible thing to be smearing around like that, and using it as a connect-the-dots puzzle was frustrating, and probably not sanitary, “Twilight! Calm down. I’m going to get Celestia and Spike. Maybe they can help you.” Rarity made sure to take the Pon with her when she left the room, making sure Twilight wouldn’t re-connect as she ran up to find Celestia and Spike.
“Marshall Celestia! Spike! Marshall Celestia! Spike!”
“Yes, dear?” Celestia stopped the galloping Unicorn by lifting her into the air, “What is it?”
“Twilight! Drifted!” Rarity gasped for air. Running was hard work, “With! A! KAIJU!”
Celestia dropped Rarity on the floor and started towards the lab where Twilight was working, leaving Spike, a long, almost Kaiju-like dragon to drag Rarity up onto his back and follow. Had she not known him since he was a baby, Rarity would have panicked at being scooped up like that and carried off.
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Celestia stopped at the entrance to the lab, seeing Twilight, covered in what appeared to be her own blood, with spears and spatters all over the lab, interconnected by bits of purple mane and string, as well as wire and pen lines. None of it made sense though, “TWILIGHT! What is all this?”
“Oh, just a map. I figured I’d better draw it up before…”she seemed to realize what she was doing just then and leapt up on top of a table, “Gah! Bad place! Bad Place! Stay back! Don’t look at it!”
“I can pick up the sun, dear. I think I can stand a little extra-dimensional mapping.” The princess floated into the room, using her magic so as not to disturb the numerous papers making parts of the image. It was only when she got up above the table, right beside Twilight, that she realized what she was looking at, “Twilight, please take this card. Go find Trixie Gee. Get another Kaiju brain. Do Not Drift with it alone!”
Twilight leapt off the table and sprinted out of the room, grabbing Rarity, “I’m covered in blood, right?”
“Yes, Twilight. Very unbecoming.”
“I need new clothes. I brought like, four outfits total, and I’ve gone through three already. The other one is my pajamas. I can’t go out in public in my pajamas.”
“You can’t go out in public in general Twilight. Come to my room,” Rarity redirected her frantic friend into a room filled with fabrics in all sorts of colors, “Now, I don’t know who this Trixie is, but I think you should probably be dressed nicely for the meeting.” Fabrics started floating around the room, held in a blue haze, even as sponges and water sloshed out of the bathroom and started scrubbing Twilight down. Rarity tore up the blood-splattered clothing as she worked, disposing of it in the hazardous waste bin she kept for emergencies.
In minutes, she had thrown together a decent blue skirt and a fresh purple blouse under a dark blue vest, “Alright, now we can go.”
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The two Unicorns didn’t really fit in, despite a fairly large portion of the population here being Unicorns or Earth Ponies, probably because of the thick glasses on Twilight’s face, and the way Rarity held herself, still as ladylike as she could manage. They found the building, down in the Bone-Slums, beneath the ribcage of an earlier Kaiju, one Twilight half-recognized as being Sombra.
The two stepped into the front part of the building, where a pair of teenage stallions stood behind the counter, one with what appeared to be a snail on his orange flank, and the other with what looked like hair clippings on his blue flank. The orange one stepped up to them first, “Welcome ladies. Are you here to purchase some Kaiju bone-powder? Make the Stallion in your life the best he can be.”
Rarity smiled, somewhat wryly, and spoke, “We’re here to see Trixie Gee. And my Stallion, he’s a Dragon.”
Twilight shuddered, not particularly interested in the dynamics of that one, and knowing exactly who Rarity was talking about. Fortunately, the teenager moved quickly and opened up a hidden door, letting the two of them into a massive mansion hidden behind the shop, with bits of Kaiju all over the place, Kaiju that she recognized. “How! It that a Skin louse? How do you keep them alive for so long?”
Behind her, a loud, boisterous voice spoke out, “I am the Great and Powerful Trixie! I can do anything!” The bright blue unicorn in golden horseshoes clopped down to their sides, “Although, really, a little ammonia does the trick. Trixie Gee at your service.”
“Twilight, uh, Twilight Sparkle. This is my partner Rarity.”
“Oh how sweet. So what brings you here, to my shop?”
Rarity gasped at the implication, even as Twilight obliviously continued talking, “We’re here to get a Kaiju brain. Preferably still alive.”
“Do you have any idea how hard it is to get through that cranium plate? A hundred Earth Ponies with chainsaws couldn’t do it in a month, and the brain’ll rot by then.”
“You and I both know that all Kaiju have two brains. The second, less armored one, is the one I’m needing.”
“Well then, I suppose…” Trixie stopped and flicked out a small knife that she pressed into Twilight’s nose, “You drifted with one, didn’t you?”
Rarity nodded, though it was clear she was trying desperately not to.
“Well, horse-apples. I can’t actually help you then. Get out of my shop. Never come back,” she looked at Rarity, and winked, “You can come back whenever you get tired of that nerd, or she gets eaten.”
Rarity shuddered at the idea, “I have a colt-friend.”
“Coulda fooled me,” Trixie ushered the two out the door and closed it.