Twilight jaw dropped at the sight of the Terran's torso hovering before her, "B-But you- you're- how?!"
"Yeah, I'm starting to think I'm hallucinating all of this." Spike muttered, as dumbfounded as Twilight.
"It's not a dream, kid. Deities are just weird like that. Just talk to my brother and you'll find that out pretty quickly." He laughed at his own joke, causing his sister to roll her eyes.
Celestia turned towards her bewildered student, "We can take the forms of what we need to. However, you're probably wishing for more details then that. The reason why my brother, or brothers actually are leading the Terrans is similar to the reason why my sister and I are leading ponykind. You see, the Discord that my sister and I slew and the one you and your friends slew wasn't really the Spirit of Chaos, it was just a fragment of him."
Twilight's eyes widened at that, "What?! So you mean the real Discord is even more powerful?"
"Yes, but he is no threat to Trinity, not usually. Since the beginning of time the Spirit of Harmony and the Spirit of Chaos have battled on a level of the Astral Planes, the realm where I came from."
Ventus then chimed in with, "Yeah, and every once and a while one manages to score a critical blow against the other. Sometimes it's powerful enough to send a..." He paused a moment, thinking about sometihng before shrugging, "Eh, let's call it a body part of their opponent into the mortal realm." He then paused again, thinking a bit more, "Actually, a body part really isn't the right word it's sort of-"
Celestia sighed before interrupting, "A chunk of the spirit is sent into the mortal realm. Once in a great while that mass intercepts a planet. Anyway, whenever something enters and exits the Astral Planes, those residing in it will know about it. When a fragment of Discord was deemed to be on an intercept path with Trinity, my sister and I were selected to watch it closely and to intervene in the Mortal Planes if things began to look bad. As you know, things did indeed grow bad, so my sister and were forced to intervene on Trinity..."
On the great rolling planes that would one day become the outskirts of Canterlot, two Alicorns confronted the spirit of chaos himself.
"Oh, how nice, visitors from the Astral Plane. Here to see me off?" Discord said smirking. "Well, go ahead then, take me from my beloved chaos. I must say, while it would be fun to mess with a more... hostile species, relativity makes things so much more enjoyable. Taking harmony from these peaceful ponies and turning them on their heads is all the sweeter."
"Spare us the chatter, Discord." Celestia growled. "You are to either leave this world or face oblivion."
Discord grolled his eyes at that. "Oh you're worse then the Spirit of Harmony. I wonder why you never intervene when fragments of him fall to planets."
Luna grinned at that, "Because you haven't wounded him nearly enough for that to happen frequently."
Discord shot her a death glare, "Oh for that you are going to wish you never came to this planet." With a great telekinetic power, Discord literally picked up an entire nearby mountain. "I do hope your stay in the mortal realms has been invigorating," He then grinned wickedly. "...because your trip is about to be cut short."
With a grunt, Discord actually tossed the mountain across the planes and towards Celestia and Luna. He then quickly teleported away. Luna and Celestia raised their eyebrows and mimicked his move by teleporting to safety a mile away, the mountain crashing down upon where they previously stood, shaking the very foundations of the world. Within a moment, Discord had teleported to their new location, throwing them a baffled look, "Wah?! You should be ground horse!"
"Yeah, we can teleport too you know," Luna smirked. The two sisters then looked upon each other and smiled before gazing back at Discord. "Unfortunately for you, Discord, I may have lied about the fact that fragments of Harmony rarely enter the mortal realms. In fact, one of him fell here long ago, though he never saw the need to interfere on this world. Instead, he decided to reside inside six artifacts, allowing him to be summoned when needed. They are called the Elements of Harmony, and we happen to have them on us."
With that, Celestia horn began to glow. Six small rocks with symbols of harmony upon them appeared before her, spinning in the air in a circular formation.
"What is this?" Discord growled, a hint of fear in his voice.
Suddenly, the two Alicorn's eyes began to glow, both of them still smiling. A sudden burst of light then emanated from them before striking the strange looking being that was the Spirit of Chaos.
"Oh that rotten bastard! NO!!" Discord screamed as his body began to turn to stone.
"Unfortunately, this trip was one way for us. We're now stuck on the Mortal Planes for many hundreds of thousands of years. However, it's not so bad. Ponykind needed help getting back on its feet, and my sister and I soon fell in love our precious new subjects. Unfortunately, ours wasn't the only planet a fragment of him has ever fallen to..."
In the blackness of space, a mass of throbbing red energy hovered in the void. However, it was not alone. A planet moved towards it on an intercept path; Earth. Despite the planet's thick atmosphere, the blob of energy seemed to fall through it relatively unscathed before it slammed into the ocean.
Days later, a strange, red, satanic looking figure walked out the sea and onto a beach adjacent to a massive city. He grinned wickedly as his yellow, glowing eyes gazed upon the metropolis before him, eager to wreak chaos upon an unsuspecting populace.
"Yeah, so then it was my brother and I's turn to step up to plate." Ventus said, a cocky grin on his face. Twilight shot him a confused look. Ventus paused for a second before throwing her an embarrassed glance, "Oh, doh,... it's a uh... human term. It has to do with a sport called baseball. Anyway, by the time my brother, Ignis, and I arrived on Earth Discord had already really screwed them over..."
On the streets of New York, chaos was everywhere (more then usual that is). Cars slammed into each other on a secondly basis while fist fights, gun fights, and all manner of other fights erupted on the streets. Across the globe, similar happenings were taking place. Nations had turned on nations, and even brothers had turned on brothers.
Two figures with long, flowing white hair stood upon the Empire State Building with wary expressions, Ventus' eyes glowing blue, and Ignis' a solid black.
"We tried fighting him directly but..." He winced slightly, "Well that didn't work very nicely...."
A glowing, magic sword flew through the air at the satanic figure on the streets of New York, it being held by Ventus, his long white hair flowing in a furious wind. Discord easily dodged the blow before sending a sideways kick at the former god which sent him flying into a nearby building's side. Ignis then took a swing at Discord with his own sword... only for the same thing to happen to him.
"Yeah, like that was going to work," Discord cackled. "Welcome to Earth, by the way. You're just in time for the greatest show in the universe!"
"Then we tried using human weapons against him, their most powerful one being called a fusion bomb, or nuke, it being capable of releasing a tremendous amount of energy. We lured Discord out into the middle of some desert and...."
A massive mushroom cloud of fire and dust erupted from the ground of the Gobi desert, completely enveloping the satanic figure. The two brothers watched from a distance utilizing two pairs of human binoculars, their expressions hopeful. However, as the flames settled, to their horror, the figure of Discord could still be seen. He actually cocked an eyebrow at them.
"Yeah, that didn't work very well either."
Out of the corner of her eye, Twilight could see Celestia facehoofing, causing Twilight to smile slightly. Spike, in the meantime, maintained an incredulous expression on his face.
Twilight then thought of something before raising an eyebrow and turned towards Celestia, "Not to sound imputent, your highness, but why didn't you help them out?"
"A good enough question," Celestia admitted. "Once we entered the Mortal Planes we lost many of our abilities we had in the higher ones such as being able to see anywhere at any time. While we did sense a fragment of Discord entering the Mortal Planes, as well as sense our brothers entering it, we had no idea where they were. On top of that, we were and still are completely reliant on local transportation aside from our teleportation powers, and that has a limited a range."
Twilight nodded at that before turning back towards Ventus. "So how did you manage to defeat Discord without the Elements?"
Ventus sighed, looking slightly away from the young mare, "We didn't...well not until... let's just say he did more damage to himself than we did..."
Nuclear-tipped missiles streaked through the upper-atmosphere of Earth before cascading out of the heavens. Mushroom clouds soon enveloped every city on the globe. As fire rained from the skies around him, Discord laughed manically.
"I'm not going to lie. Some humans can be fairly aggressive, and those aggressive humans sometimes drag other humans into war. Fortunately though, they had managed to hold off using fusion bombs on each other out of fear since their invention nearly a hundred years before." He paused for a second, before saying, "Well for the most part, there was that thing with Japan, but I won't get into that." Twilight raised an eyebrow at that, though she opted to keep her mouth shut to allow Ventus to continue. "Anyway, with Discord's influence it didn't take long for some general to turn the keys. After that, it was all over. Discord pretty much drove the human race, and a hell of a lot of flora and fauna, into near-extinction."
Twilight's jaw nearly dropped, "Discord wiped them out?! How could any weapon be so powerful?!"
Ventus shook his head, "Nukes don't kill billions, it's the dust and crap they kick up into a planet's atmosphere that does it. It blocks out the sun's light and... well... think of the coldest winter you have ever experienced, and then think of it lasting for years."
Twilight shook her head incredulously. "I can't believe it. I'm not sure if I even want to believe it."
"Try being there," Ventus sighed, "However, as horrible as it sounds it wasn't all bad. While Discord got a major power surge from all that, it didn't take long for that power to dwindle once there weren't any humans around for him to force to fight each other. Eventually, he weakened enough for my brother and I to feel we could challenge him directly again."
Radioactive snow fell as the two brothers approached Discord once again, this time in a lonely farmer's field, their swords set firmly in their grasps. Discord threw them a curious expression, brandishing a demonic, jagged looking sword of his own. The Spirit of Chaos then smiled at the two brothers before gazing at the snow falling before him.
"Isn't it beautiful?" Discord said, his voice saturated in child-like wonder. "Chaos is such a lovely thing. Even the universe itself heeds to its call. One day, even the atoms that make up the planet we stand upon will fall to the power of entropy, along with everything else in the universe." He then threw a serious gaze at the two brothers, his voice deepening, "Only then will I truly be defeated."
Ventus rolled his eyes, "Yeah, that or I can send a magic sword up your red ass!" He grinned, "And it's about time if I do say so myself."
"Let's just end him already." Ignis growled.
Discord smirked at that. "Well by all means, 'end' me, though shouldn't you be somewhere scraping chunks of plaster out of you from the last time?"
Ventus threw him an annoyed look, "OK, you're going to need to shut up now."
With that, the two brothers charged towards the demonic figure before them, their blades howling in the wind. They struck at two angles, giving Discord barely enough time to react. A sword clang rang out through the empty field as Ventus' sword was blocked, causing Discord to smirk. However, it was soon cut short. A strange, red mist began to flow upwards in front of his face. He looked down for its source, and soon found that Ignis' sword was sticking through his waist. To his horror, his body began to turn to stone, from foot to head, him screaming all the way.
Ventus smiled at the sight before Ignis comically began attempting to yank his sword from the demonic-looking statue before him. Ventus then sheathed his sword and wiped his palms off with each other before putting a hand on his brother's shoulder. "Hey, just let it go. You probably won't need it again anyway."
"I really liked this sword..." Ignis grunted, attempting to yank it out one last time. He then sighed, giving up on the process before standing up and facing Ventus.
"Common, let's go drop the statue in one of Earth's deepest oceans or something." Ventus said. "We can't afford him ever getting loose. Humans can be a bit... aggressive."
Spike turned towards Twilight with a smirk. "Heh, and you beat Discord with the power of friendship," he chuckled. Both Celestia and Twilight threw him glares, causing him to simper. "Er, I mean... go Harmony?"
Ventus chuckled at that, "Yeah, I guess it was pretty cool. I just wish I had time to come up with a more badass one-liner befor-" Celestia shot him a glance as well, "Right, right. Serious meeting. Anyway, following that my brother and I began rallying the remaining humans together. We uh... hid our true eye color for this. My brother's better with political stuff, so he handled most of this."
As construction crews worked tirelessly to restore Kansas City, one of the least hit urban center's in the world, Ignis stood before a crowd of tens of thousands in the middle of a large park atop a platform behind a microphone, his eyes indeed looking like a normal human's.
"Fellow citizens of the world! Though many of you may still hold hatreds in your hearts thanks to all we have lost, this is not the time for vengeance!"
The crowd let out a large cheer at that.
"The sheer will to survive has brought many of us together, some of you whom just months ago were at each other's throats thanks to the spirit of anarchy that suddenly befell the world! We must not shatter once more! Now is the time to rebuild! Now is the time to progress! All of us as one, less the sins of thy fathers follow us into the future!"
And the crowd roared in approval.
"My brother continued along the same lines in many other cities. Surprisingly, he got pretty awesome results. Fear's kind of weird like that. It can create as peace as easily as it can create war."
Twilight glared at Ventus, "You used fear to take control of them, though, didn't you? You are Emperor after all."
Ventus shook his head, throwing Twilight an annoyed look, "We used fear to unite them, not to take power. Our task was to help the Terrans, and that's what we did, and a freaking good job we did too. Within about twenty years the concept of nations disapeared entirely as the humanity began to merge together under one body of rule. However, I guess we helped too much because the world wanted us to be that body. My brother and I figured two immortal beings could do some good for them, so we accepted. Isn't that the same thing that happened here?"
Twilight turned towards Celestia, who nodded, "More or less. My subjects asked me and Luna to lead them, and so we did and still do."
Twilight sighed, "Well, maybe it was for their own good."
Ventus nodded, "I still have my doubts sometimes if it's right, but hey, we've tried for Democracy before and... nope didn't work. They didn't want it. I'd say it's my good looks and charm, but honestly I think the humans had just gotten used to us. Anyway, about fifty years after the United Earth movement ended successfully, the humans picked up on the fact that me and my brother didn't seem that interested in lady friends in order to spawn a few mini-uses. That and dying. Naturally, some people began to think we were some sort of demons or what they called the 'Anti-Christ.'" Twilight threw him a confused glance, "He's a big baddy in one of their religions," he explained.
"Ah," Twilight said.
"Now ironically the big thing that confused these people was that there were two of us. The main theory that went around was that Ignis was the Anti-Christ and I was his assistant or something. I really really really wanted to screw with them all and reveal my big-ole glowing blue eyes, but yeah... Ignis wouldn't let me."
Celestia shook her head again, facehoofing.
"But yeah, about twenty years and hundreds of assassination attempts later, it seemed most humans finally realized that we weren't interested in bringing about the apocalypse, that was Discord's job. So we went on ruling. A few religions and stuff popped up around us, but we tried to explain we weren't gods. Well, I mean we were demigods but... weren't really at the time. Still aren't. Eventually though they got comfortable enough that I could whip out these baby-blue's once again."
Ventus pointed at his glowing eyes. Twilight blinked.
"Well I think they're cool."
Celestia sighed, "Ventus, I need to remind you that the clock is ticking."
Ventus put on an embarrassed expression again, "Oh right, I'll try to spare the details. So on we went into the future. Ignis handled most things while I helped out where I could. I even got to make a few awesome decrees from time to time, or 'suggestions' in some cases."
Ventus' faced appeared on every television on Earth, him holding a press conference.
"Righto. Uhhh, public speaking really isn't my thing so let's just get this over with. Anyway, I know this is going to come out of the blue but... uhh I would like to issue a new... request. From this day forward, I would like every first-born male to be given a Roman name, because Roman names are really freaking cool sounding. It's not an order, cus that'd be a dick move, but if you do it, I will totally... love you forever. Alright, that's pretty much it. Uhh.... how do I turn this thing off?"
Ventus finished up his story, holding a goofy smile on his face, "Good times."
Twilight gazed at Celestia, who didn't seem very amused.
"Brother, I love you..." She said, "...but do I need to tell them the story?"
"Right, right, no more distractions. Anyway, two hundred years later we had spread out into the Terran's solar system... colonizing pretty much every planet, and we were about to expand farther...."
Before a massive colony ship Ignis stood, his black eyes as dark as any night. A crowd had once again assembled before the Terran leader.
"We stand here today, looking at the ticket to the future. No longer shall the human race look up into the stars and wonder what is out there. Soon, we will know just that, and the answer will be our brothers and sisters! From this day forth, the gates to the galaxy are open! May we go forth into the void!"
And the crowd went wild.
"And so we began colonizing the galaxy," Ventus explained. "It wasn't an easy task, mind you. We meant a few hostile races out there, but they were pushovers compared to the Dragan, not that they were initially hostile...."
Celestia chimed in at that, her voice tense, "I've already told them about the Dragan,"
"And what you did to their colony!" Twilight spat, glaring at Ventus. While Ventus seemed like a decent person, she still couldn't get over the tiny little fact that he had a hand in essentially committing genocide.
Ventus grew silent at that, glancing away from Twilight.
"What, no comment on that?!" Twilight growled.
A beat.
Spike glanced her way worriedly, "Twili-"
"NO!" She snapped, a boiling anger rising inside her. "I want to hear his explanation for this! How could any deity not find another solution to the problem besides a massacre?!" She then glared at him suspiciously, "Or are you as stupid as you sound?"
"Enough, Twilight!" Celestia barked.
Twilight snapped towards her beloved teacher, glaring daggers even at her. She opened her mouth, as if wishing to say something, but soon shut it. She then took a deep breath, wishing she were anywhere but here right now. What had gotten into her? "I-I'm sorry princess, for insulting your brother."
Celestia sighed, before saying, "We can discuss it later."
Ventus then turned towards his sister before slowing saying, "I think this conversation is over for now."
"What about the mission?" Celestia asked.
Ventus sighed, "Well my ship's still shot to hell, so we're going to have to wait for the gunboat to arrive.That battle with the Drag- er, I mean Wraith cruiser really did a number on us."
Twilight eyes widened slightly, turning back towards Ventus, her curiosity overtaking her continuing anger, "Wait, you mean you're the one who shot down the ship that landed here?"
Ventus then gazed at Twilight warily, as if he was afraid of her lashing out at him again, "Yep, that was me."
On the bridge of the Terran Dreadnaught Infinity, Emperor Ventus sat in a rather ordained-looking captain's chair, gazing out of his viewscreen. Before him was the familiar star of his sister's solar system, though he could barely see through the swirling blue, semi-transparent vortex that was hyperspace. He turned to one of his many helmsman, this one who sat in a chair to his right while operating an advanced computer terminal. "Status on the Dragan cruiser?"
"They've just entered Trinity's system. They've still not responded to our hails."
Ventus sighed, "Great, well they wouldn't have taken a cruiser for a friendly visit. Let's see what they're up to."
"Aye sir, dropping us out of hyperspace."
With that, the Terran Dreadnaught dropped into normal space on the edge of the system, Trinity just a small dot in the distance. It was a massive vessel, somewhat rectangular in shape, bristling with missile-tubes and cannons, its hull glinting off the light of the massive star in the distance, the star of its Captain's sister. Its impulse drives flared to life and it began accelerating towards the Dragan ship, now uncomfortably close to Trinity.
The helmsman turned towards Ventus once again, his face with an expression riddled with confusion, "Sir, they've powered up weapons. They seem to be targeting the capital of Equestria. Canterlot, is it?"
"What?!" Ventus practically spat, "Hail those jackasses again!"
The helmsman complied, but again, there was no response, "Sir..."
Ventus glared out the viewscreen. "Power plasma weapons. Target their main cannons and any missile tubes they have. After they're gone target their engines. Fire up point-defenses to take out any missiles that are launched. Make no mistake, protecting Equestria is now our primary objective. Hopefully they'll turn-tail once they see what they're up against."
"Sir, enemy vessel is turning towards us." A helmsman said, practically chuckling, "Looks like they want a fight."
"They're either suicidal or led by the biggest idiot in the Dragan fleet. Fire at will! Plasma first then MAC cannons, you guys know the drill!"
With that, two twin plasma cannons on the bow of the Infinity whirred to life. Particles of light began to gather around their heads before they released their deadly ordinance into the void. Across millions of miles of space the burning projectiles of superheated blue matter flew before they struck the invisible wall that was the Dragan cruiser's shields.
"Minimal damage!" A helmsman shouted.
Ventus' eyes flew open wide, "That shot can take out a battlecruiser's shields! How in the- what the- this is just-" He sighed, composing himself as his bridge crews began to give him looks. "Er, right. Keep shooting then."
The ship complied. Wave after wave of plasma bombarded the Dragan cruiser's shields, them refusing to buckle as they did. In the mean time, the Dragan cruiser began to return fire with its own weapons, ion cannons, blue beams of light that crossed the void to the Terran Flagship in mere minutes. With a ferocious intensity, the ion beams struck the Terran's shields with brilliant flashes of light, rocking the entire ship, and forcing Ventus to catch himself from flying out of his chair. "I thought we fixed the problems with the freaking internal freaking dampeners!" He growled.
"Woah!" A helmsman yelled, gazing at his console in disbelief, "They just took our shields down 10%" The bridge shook again, and the helmsman gazed at the readings with as equal shock as before, "20%!"
"Oh that's just great," Ventus growled, exasperated. "A freaking cruiser on steroids! Alright, begin accelerating towards them at 60% the speed of light. We can't afford to be picky, we're going to have to sink that boat. As soon as their shields are down fire both MAC cannons."
"Aye, sir!"
Ventus smiled at this. Magnetic Accelerator Rounds were worthless against shields, them being designed to repel fast moving matter, which made them practically needed on all ships to prevent the eventual erosion of the hull via small particles when travelling in normal space. Of course, without them the hull was also susceptible to super-heated fast-moving slugs of metal shot out of a coil gun, even more so then they were to plasma. And the faster a ship was moving, the faster the rounds accelerated would be. The only risk to this was that an enemy's MAC round could screw them as easily as theirs could screw them.
The Infinity continued to pound the Dragan shield's, with the cruiser returning the favor with equal ferocity. As the Infinity closed the gap, the expressions of the bridge crew became more and more tense as the Infinity's shields gradually became depleted.
"Sir, the next hit is going to take down our shields!" A helmsman shouted.
Another smirked towards his Emperor, "And our next one will take down there's."
Ventus nodded, "Righto, fire the MAC cannons. Their shields should be down by the time they hit. After that, kindly perform evasive maneuvers so we don't crash into Trinity. Be advised, we're probably going to be hit, but that won't kill us."
"Aye sir, new course plotted."
"MAC rounds away!"
Ventus watched as two streams of molten metal flew across space from the bow of his ship. However, at the same time his eyes widened as two streaks of yellow light flew towards him.
"Looks like they had the same plan, sir! Enemy MAC rounds incoming!"
"Vector?" Ventus asked.
"They're going to hit the bottom of the bow, twenty meters from bottomside."
Ventus nodded, "Right, activate bottomside emergency thrusters, we'll try to dodge the shot."
The helmsman complied, and Ventus felt himself being pushed downwards as the ship accelerated 'upwards.' It wasn't uncomfortable physically... (well it was a little), but it was slightly nauseating. Nonetheless, Ventus quickly shrugged it off before a final ion round struck their shields, sending them into a flickering spasm.
"Shields offline!" A crewman yelled.
"Yeah, we can see that!" Another snarktastic crewman yelled back.
Ventus rolled his eyes, humans and their snark. However, his eye-rolling was cut short as a massive explosion rang out through the ship, sending the bridge shaking again and almost sending him flying out of his chair... again. When he was done with this fight, he was sooo going to chew out the crewman responsible for fixing the dampeners.
"Sir, their MAC rounds just took out our primary weapons! We've also lost the tractor beam and hyperdrive!"
Ventus growled in frustration at this, the thrusters didn't move them quickly enough. However, he was soon distracted by a flash of light in the viewscreen. Their own MAC round had just struck the Dragan ship.
Another crewman turned towards him with, his voice saturated in an ecstatic glee, "Same thing for them, sir! Both their engines and their weapons are offline! They're also leaking atmosphere."
"Awesome!" Ventus shouted, before simpering as his bridge crew once again gave him looks, "Er, I mean, well done everyone."
Ventus turned his gaze back to the viewscreen and watched as the alien vessel, who's orbit was incredibly low, began to be pulled into the planet's atmosphere by the tremendous gravitational pull below. His eyes widened at this, "Uh-oh. Celestia's going to be pissed about this."
"And that's how I saved Trinity from the Wraith!" Ventus said, grinning like an idiot.
Twilight rolled her eyes at that, "Yeah, it was definitely only you. And if you were up there the whole time, why didn't you come down and help?"
"That was my doing." Celestia said. "Him sending Terran troops or coming down in Alicorn form would have complicated an already complicated situation. They might not have even made it in time."
Twilight shot her a disappointed glance at this. If her mentor wasn't so obsessed with preserving her secret, the Terran troops could have saved the militia who had fallen. Celestia seemed to notice this glance and added in, "I'm sorry, my faithful student."
Twilight sighed at this, "It's fine, princess... and again I'm sorry for earlier."
Celestia threw her a warm smile, "I could never be mad at you for long, my faithful student."
"I just wish our weapons had been online at the time. Three words. Pinpoint. Orbital. Freaking. EMP-strike."
Spike lifted a finger, "That was uh... five words."
"Hey, the last one was a conjunction, and it just sounds better with freaking."
Twilight turned towards Ventus. She was still slightly angry at him, but perhaps there was more then there seemed to the planetary bombardment of the Dragan colony. She shrugged off the though before saying, "So, you mentioned a mission. What exactly do you want me to do?"
Ventus smiled at this, "Well, word at the interstellar water cooler seems to be that the Wraith have some sort of evil plan for the galaxy, and their hosts may be able to tap into their minds to learn what this plan is. It just so happens that us Terrans have a captured Wraith in one of our research stations. We'd like you to use those Elements of yours to free him."