//------------------------------// // [30] The Great Reveal // Story: The Chronicles of a Lost Angel [Refined Edition] // by Nova Borealis //------------------------------// Nova I turn to this new pony as I get an alert on my HUD, I automatically scan her. My expression turns livid when I find out the readings. This sparks a small sense of fear into those around me. Starlight stops dead in her tracks when she spots me looking right at her with fire in my eyes hotter then the surface of a high mass blue star. Name: Starlight Glimmer Species: Unicorn Power Level: 156,055 Raditz Threat Level: very low Mental Status: Worried, stressed, scared Body Status: Stable <<>> <<{ENGAGING IN DEEP SCAN}>> DNA CAPTURED SPIRITUAL SIGNATURE CAPTURED BPM: 81 Life Expectancy: 62 years, 4 months, 6 says remaining Spirit: basic IQ: 126 Durability: very low Strength: very low Dominent Element: Carbon Density: 76 kg Mass: 89.81kg/m3 Weight: 198lb Cosmic Distortion: very low Chronon Distortion: medium Dimensional Distortion: medium [declining] Show analysis? [yes] <[no]> "What did you do..." I say softly to Starlight and Starlight alone. The light around us all starts to dim leaving only my own lighting unchanged. The wind stops moving as all sound in the area suddenly stops as the are starts to cool slightly. I stare at Starlight with an absolutely livid expression as she looks deeply into my eyes, noticing their piercing glare that could put Fluttershy's stare to utter shame. "W-what?" she says as her fear starts to creep in. "I said...what...did...you...DO!?" I say with pure rage at the mere thought of ANYone abusing magic to such a degree. "I-I've changed..." says Starlight with desperation in her voice as she looks at me with pure fear in her eyes. "Nova...you can kill her later..." says V with a grave tone as the light starts to return to normal. "And just WHY should I do that exactly? I could literally kill her in less then a second!" I ask in a mildly annoyed tone. "Because the Gateway is losing power!" says V with a sense of urgency. The words quickly sink in to my mind as my wings spark red for a moment but with such intensity that they radiate a short pulse of gamma waves, not enough to kill anyone but just enough for it to be noticed. We all hear a soft laugh coming from Epsilon, we all turn to her as she gives me a satisfied smile. Her eyes however are blood red. "Oh how I've waited for this day...you must be completely livid right now~" says Epsilon in not her own voice, but the voice of the still unknown pureblood in charge of Slayer. "What are you planning this time Slayer!?" I say as the cogs start to turn in my head. "Fool you once...it's the story of the cycle...but fool you twice? It's a privilege." She says once more, I can only imagine just how scared Epsilon is if she is still aware of her actions right now. I enter hyperthought once more. Epsilon was stolen by Slayer from my lab on Tarra...the result was the millions of deaths of almost exclusively angel class sentinels and Slayer members...she attacked the Sirius specifically while it didn't have a warp drive and while it was using a jumpgate AND the fact the attack took place NEAR the classified universe that contains Gateway Alpha...they knew the uncontrolled warp would send it through the open Gateway while it was open for one of my observation probes...they had Epsilon under their control and IN their lab...they...knew she would go after Serena even if she was on the other side of the Gateway! So they put a tracker on her to find the Gateway and try and trap me here! With me and VALeRY out of the way AND the schematics to build Epsilon they could take over the Empire with almost no problem at all! Those BASTEREDS! They still can't comprehend the simple fact that I would not last forever outside my domain! The Empire would die off in half a megacycle! "How angry you must be to be finally outsmarted by one of your own kind...how it BURNS you from the inside as you desperately try to maintain your deceptively regal composure. You scramble to regain control as it's already too late for you...This is where your legacy betrays you...and the public will finally realize the truth behind your wrongfully placed lies." the feed cuts but not before countless portals open up in the sky. Large cylinder based objects fall out of them. They are large metallic objects that are almost featureless aside from a red ring shaped light spanning the surface of each object. They all fall to the ground and I start to feel weak as my magic starts to become inaccessible. Serena and Epsilon shut down due to the sudden loss of power, no doubt an EMP must have went off. My HUD flickers off as it struggles to remain active. I fall to my knees as my strength starts to leave me "Basterds..." I say in a weak but dark tone that would strike fear into the hearts of my enemies...if they were here right now. My wings lose their glow as I become powerless. I look up to the sky to see a drop ship descend only for it to suddenly lose power and crash into a house. "What's going on!?" asks Necra as she runs over to help me up. She seems to be the only one in the group of natives that still has a level head. "Our magic is being jammed, an EMP went off, and the rouge pureblood in charge of the same faction that exiled Serena here is stealing the power from the only possible means of me ever getting home...I need to get to my ship before the gateway closes..." I step away from Necra and face the 6 ponies from before with a still scared Starlight. "These jammers...only a circle member has the knowledge on how to build such technology..." I whisper to myself. "And why should we help you?" asks Dash with needless skepticism. "The reasoning is too complex to tell you as of now. And we do NOT have time to argue about this! If anything you should be thanking me for stopping Epsilon." I say to prove my point. To our surprise however we all feel a rumbling under us, as if something big is about to burst out from under us. Behind us we see a huge metallic spike blast out of the ground yet no structural damage is seen to Ponyville then two more spikes appear next to it...this is the bow of the Innovation. At that moment gravity itself flips as the world around us changes into a vast emptiness of a large hexagonal room. The walls of this room are black with countless garages built into them as to hold many compact fighter class starships. In the center of this room is a long hard light bridge that stretches to both ends of this room. On one side of the room is a large circular door that leads into another room with a large array of glowing circuitry leading into it. On the other side of the room is another large door but their is a what appears to be a siting area near it built onto the bridge. We all fall towards the bridge but we all slow down gradually. Our magic starts to return. I land gracefully but the others fall on their faces. "Thanks for the save back there V." I say with a grateful tone as my strength returns. The ponies stand up slowly in shock as they notice that this one room could fit the entire Sirus inside it and then some. "What would you ever do with out me?" she playfully asks as her voice comes from all directions, putting the ponies and even Discord off as he some how managed to fall in with us. The two angel sentinels begin to start up their boot up sequence. ====== Outside view The Innovation blasts through the small town of Ponyville as it deactivates the phase generator in select locations as to not destroy anything but once any part of the ship gets 1 inch away from any solid or liquid matter it phases back into existence. The result is everypony with in hundreds of miles around is scared shitless at the sight of incomprehensibly complex technologies and vast rooms wisps by right over the heads with out being killed. ====== Nova "Probably die." I say. "Not a matter of if, but when." she says with confidence as she teases me. "Where are we..." asks Twilight to no one in particular as the rest of her friends look around with caution. "This is the Pure Fire of Innovation. The most advanced and dangerous exploration vessel in the Empire." says V. "Oh great, another one..." says Pinkie a but annoyed by the amount of OCs and crazy shit happening around her. I run past them towards the large door a few hundred feet away. Seeing this, the ponies and the draconequus fallow me close behind "We need to make it to the Gateway before it collapses! V! How long will it last until the portal closes!?" I ask with a major sense of urgency. "The Gateway will completely lose functionality in 28 minutes but at this point when we get there it may not take mere moments to travel the great distance between Gateways." says V as the door to the bridge opens before us. The ponies chase me but I stop on the hard light bridge to the gyroscopic cockpit to see the ultradrive's beam firing out of the bow once more. A portal opens in front of the ship, as this happens we all hear a charging sound from behind as a signal that the hyperdrive is ready to activate at any moment. The huge portal before us expands to the appropriate size in a matter of seconds. On the other side of this wormhole we see the Gateway, the portal generated by it is still open but red lights are blinking everywhere around it as a sign of power loss. The portal generated by this technological marvel is starting to shrink. I scowl at the sight as I point towards the portal in front of the ship that leads to the failing Gateway. "Full speed ahead! And wait for NOTHING!" I shout as we suddenly lurch backward only slightly as a sign that the amount of acceleration that just happened was so powerful that the enchant almost failed. What lies outside the now fades to white and violate at we enter the Gateway's portal. "What's our ETA?" I ask, still determined as ever, so much so that the ponies around me can't help but to look at me as I can still keep a level head in a chaotic situation like this. Discord however looks at me cautiously, as if out of something much deeper then fear. "We won't make it in time if we can't increase our speed by 10 times that of what it is now!" says V in a worried tone. "Divert all power away from the lights, lifts, teleporters, hell I don't care divert EVERYTHING to the engines! Leave that extra 3% to the shielding and this room only! We can NOT lose like this!" I say with a hint of desperation in my voice as I hold one hand up to my chest and clench my fist out of determination. At that moment the lights flicker for a second as power starts to get redirected. "We might just make it...So long as nothing stops us from slowing down then we might have a chance to beat the odds." says V as she calms down a bit. "So this was all a part of Slayer's plan all along..." say Serena as she approaches me. "I'm afraid so...it is not often I fall into a trap...but even so it seems to be happening less and less as the eons pass." I say in a condescending tone. "OK! J-just stop...what...the FUCK is going on!?" asks Twilight with anger and confusion in her voice as she hovers in mid air and looks at me with daggers in her eyes. Her sudden outburst of rage makes everyone in the room slowly turn their heads to her at this new behavior. "First some crazy ship falls out of the sky with a robot on it with technology that I'M NOT ALLOWED TO STUDY, then she almost blows up the moon and tells me that our night sky isn't even real. Then YOU show up!" says the pissed puny pony princess as she points to a now scared Epsilon who just looks at her with tearful eyes. "You wreak the place and almost killed everyone TWICE MIND YOU. Y-you even ripped out Serena's core!" She turns to face me as her hair starts to catch fire and her fur fades to white with rage. "Then YOU show up out of the blue and then I don't know WHAT you did to her but I don't even kn-!" Twilight tries to continue but she stops instantly when I give off a pulse of calming magic directed at her. A faint white light flows into her as she starts to calm down. Twilight fades back to her normal colors as steam shoots off of her, as this happens she falls to the ground and slowly smiles and half closes her eyes. "I take it your new here right?" I say as I calmly approach her. "Y-yeah..." says Twilight weakly in a such a way that it's almost as if I made her high with a simple calming spell. It must have been too strong...her liver is weaker then I anticipated. I put my hand on her shoulder and give her a sarcastic smile out of sheer annoyance only to spite her. "That's great...now I'm glad you and your friends managed to show Serena some much deserved hospitality but right now, you all slipped into a massive inter dimensional war on terror. And I'm not sure your tiny immature minds can comprehend just how many lives are at risk of being erased from existence only for their remans to be consumed by the entities you didn't even know existed that are far more horrifying then what you perceive as hell. Just to enlighten you a little further...imagine the darkest thing you can think of and make it into a giant sentient cloudy shadow barbed tentacle abomination that consumes existence in an area in which nothing should exist that will haunt your fucking dreams forever and could kill everyone you know and love before your brain could even process that your very soul is being devoured. And it's my job to kill the rebels so they don't unintentionally unleash those terrifyingly powerful forces on my multi universal Empire far outside the boundaries of what is reasonably acceptable called Harmonia. Also referred to as, the Harmonic Empire." I say in a motherly tone but anyone can tell I'm intensionally treating her like a toddler. As I explain this to her, she becomes increasingly less calm as the spell wears off and the cold reality of our situation starts to hit her like the dwarf planet Theia when it hit the Earth to create the Moon. The ponies around me take in this information slowly as the god of chaos realizes that this war on terror is far greater then even he could have imagined. I stand up to face the the 7 ponies, the draconequus, and changeling before me. "SO! With that in mind!" I clap my hands together and make a happy expression. "Who wants to save the multiverse?" I simply ask as I smirk to my utterly shocked and horrified guests.