GAOA Delay Update · 1:39am Oct 5th, 2020
Hi all, unfortunately it's gonna be another week before we can get GAOA's next chapter up, everybody on the BV team is busy with real life stuff so something had to give and since GAOA was already on pause it just makes it easier to push that back another week. Thank you all for your understanding and if you don't want or like understanding, I'm sure Sunset has something to say about what she'll do to you that involves referencing Saddleback Ridge.
Buuuuuuuuuuut since you've all been patient, here's a preview of Chapter 26 since you've all been behaving well.
They met, for the final time, in what was Blueblood's soon to be former office. “And you’re sure about this?” Smokechaser asked him.
“You look more natural in the chair than I ever did,” Blueblood told him. “You’ll probably do a better job in it, too.” He went and picked up a folder off the corner of the desk, rifling through the documents and photos within. “Not even a full day on the job yet and you’ve already gone on the offensive, I see.”
“Yes. Princess Sunset made it clear to the Inariese ambassador that after last night, no more Night Adventures would be tolerated against our people, whether the kitsune like it or not. In fact, we just received word that our province in Neighpon has suffered a large number of disappearances, and given that area of Equestria’s the closest to Inari, we’ve dispatched some agents to look into it. If things need to get nasty, I’ll send in the Special Activity Squadrons—that’s why we have them now.”
“And that’s more at the start than I would have done. I probably would have done a meticulous investigation with the local authorities and then afterwards sent a couple of agents to do some investigating in Inari before anything else,” Blueblood admitted. “It shows that you’re the right stallion for the job and you’ll do well here.”
“Yes, but I wouldn’t have done it if you hadn’t called me back to duty.”
“You would’ve come back anyway,” Blueblood said with a grin. He then set down the folder. “Well, it’s my time to go and time for you to prove why you’re the new Director.” A thought crossed his mind. “Have you chosen what unsavory cover personality you’ll display? I would think after both myself and my predecessor have been considered both public wastes of space, you’ll want to try a new avenue.”
He shook his head. “No—I spoke to Princess Luna about that and we agreed that if the Agency is going to be effective as it should be, then it needs to have a recognizable and publicly available leader, not just some shadowy presence that speaks through spokesponies. So, from now on, I’ll be the public director and I only have to be me.”
Blueblood smiled. “And that change can’t come soon enough.” He offered his hoof. “Best of luck, Director.”
Smokechaser bumped in kind. “Best of luck on your new position, Your Highness.”
Blueblood grinned and headed towards the door. This era of his life was over. He was free, he was finally going to be the person he always wanted to be, and he had a gorgeous beauty to share that future with. Sure, it wasn’t exactly what he’d had in mind, but compared to the hell he’d been living ever since he’d joined the Agency, whatever his next step in life was, it would be paradise in comparison.
The storage room of Shoddythread’s tailor shop was filled with a few dozen ponies. Although a few of them wore military uniforms, the rest of them looked like civilians from all walks of life: weather center workers, carters, coopers, and so many other occupations. But all of them, in their own way, had military-fit looks to them and all of them had gathered for a singular purpose.
Broadfall, now standing straight and with a brutal stare on his face, said, “Thank you for coming. As you know, we all agreed that when the time ever came, we would end Chrysalis for what she did to us all. That we would be ridding the world of a monster beyond monsters. And now we have our chance.”
Standing at his side, Inert Caliber commented, “But we must move quickly. We have reason to believe that she is using her magic to take control of Prince Shining once more, and even more so, the humans may be under her thrall as well. I know many of you don’t know much about their world, but from the briefing we have, they have no defense against magic. And if she escapes with them, it’s all over.”
“Then good riddance!” one of the ponies in the crowd shouted. “Granted, I want to dust the bitch, but if we can get her off Equus for good, that works for me.”
Pipemine glared at the stallion. “Are you a fool? Have you seen the weapons the humans carry? They make our most advanced cannons look like spitwads! Now imagine Chrysalis coming back with millions of those things, because the human world has nearly one hundred times the population of our whole world! If she was in charge of those weapons, it’ll make the Tirek War look like a minor squabble. Is that what you really want?”
Murmurs broke out amongst the crowd, and Broadfall knew he had to get control of the situation again. “Now, listen up: those loyal to us know it’s only a matter of time before Princess Sunset heads back to the human world, and she may be affected enough that even she can’t stop it. So we have to end that monster Chrysalis tonight. Even if we’re captured, even if we have to hurt our own, Chrysalis has to be stopped, once and for all. It happens tonight. Who’s with us?”
A roar of cheers broke out amongst the conspirators, and Broadfall smiled. All his losses, everything that he’d been left bereft of, would finally pay off. He would have his revenge, and the monster that was Chrysalis would lay dead at the alicorns’ feet, just as it should be.
