//------------------------------// // Chapter 4: Trinity // Story: Reunion of the Specialists // by BioChemicalWolfGear //------------------------------// Rainbow Dash sat there a moment to process what she asked. “Wait wouldn’t the guards try to keep you from moving around the castle?” Said Rainbow Dash. “Yea but they can’t stop a fifty ton human from walking down the halls.” She grinned. “D-didn’t Luna tell you to stay in your room?” “Where did you hear that?” A reasonable question. “Well Celestia told me that on our way here.” “And you expect me to listen to the leaders of a monarchy? I only stayed in this room hoping I could get a little action with the butler…He’s way to dull and boring really.” She said with obvious disappointment in her voice. “Ew.” Said Twilight. Rainbow just stared in disbelief. “What? Know what never mind. Let’s just go find the Trinity. If it’s still around.” “Wait.” Started Twilight. “If I remember correctly…You destroyed the trinity.” “Wait how do you know that?” Nano questioned. “Well.” Said Rainbow. “I was there when you broke out. And you started pulling metal to you or something. I got out of there as fast as I could.” “Oh I think I saw you. Just a blur but I saw you.” “R-really?” “Yea. Now take me back there. I need to make sure of something.” They start to head out and a guard stops them once Nano Swarm leaves the guest room. “Halt! The princess wants you in the guest room.” His face was serious and for some reason looked angry. Well to Nano anyway. “Oh? You think you can stop me?” “Yes, now return to your room before I use for-“ He was cut off by Nano Swarm holding up her palm three inches from his face. At which point the held a blank expression of carelessness. She continued walking and he didn’t even look in her direction. “W-what did you do?” Said Twilight. “I forced his mind into a trans like state so he wouldn’t bother us. Should last about ten minutes. And I can do it again whenever.” “Whoa.” Said Rainbow. While Twilight on the other hand showed her disapproval with her face. They were never stopped by any guards or servants. Mainly because they were just standing there completely unaware of their surroundings. “Nano how are you doing that?” Asked Twilight. “With the swarm. You know how Cole was able to heal himself with them?” They both nodded. “Well I do more than just heal. I can see with them. I can build with them. I can even control others with them. It’s just what I do.” It took several minutes to get to the crystal caves that were below Canterlot. It was difficult for them to navigate. Twilight started to remove the darkness with the light from her horn. Nano didn’t need to use light to know what they’ve found. It wasn’t even a kilometer into the crystal cave before they found what they came for. A ship. A massive space faring ship that had several pulse and ion cannons mounted on each side. A battleship. But this wasn’t the Trinity they were looking for. On the side the ship read Prometheus and it seemed to be a very fierce ship. “Whoa.” Said Rainbow, Nano, and Twilight. “That’s not the Trinity though.” Said Rainbow. “I-its not?” “No the Trinity was way bigger.” “…Let’s keep moving. Golem knows if the Trinity can take Utopia.” There was a moment of silence as they make their way around the battleship. “Golem?” asked Rainbow. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Golem was done with his assignment. He was given another human realm. Only they believed in many gods. So all he needed to do is play god and they united under one banner. Some resisted so he went there personally. And after walking through spears and swords without a drop of blood the kings of the other realms pledged their allegiance to ‘The god of peace and light’. ‘Golem?’ Said a voice inside his head. ? ‘Who’s golem?’ “I am.” ‘Whoa what was that?!’ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “Rainbow what’s wrong?” Said Twilight. “I-I don’t know I just heard a voice in my head. It said ‘I am.’” Rainbow was just confused and dumbfounded. Nano caught on. “Rainbow I want you to say go to Nano.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ‘Go to Nano.’ …Ok? Why is this voice in my head saying to go to Nano? Maybe I should check up on her after all. Should I bring Utopia with me? Golem God went on his way to the ships star core. When he got there he knelt down and preyed for ‘mother.’ To allow him passage to the realm where Nano Swarm was. “She must be in trouble.” He reasoned with a star…??? “Someone has spoken to me.” ‘Yes my child.’ “M-mother?” Golem said in disbelief. Utopia has never spoken directly to any specialist. It has only given out impulses and commands that were wordless. Like when you know you’re hungry or know what food you would want to eat at that moment. It only sent ideas that you know weren’t yours. But it was never direct with words. “Y-you spoke to me?” ‘The great library calls you. Go and learn.’ “W-what? Yes mother.” He starts to head to the great library of Utopia then stops and asks. “What of Nano?” ‘She can wait. Quickly now child.’ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “Umm Nano?” Said Rainbow. “Why did you have me say that?” “Because my friend Golem might come. We can have a little get together you know?” She grinned. “Also he’s a specialist so he knows how to deal with governments and stuff. Right now I can’t convince ponies to accept humans because me and my dad seemed violent and sinful. Golem is my exact opposite in a way.” She shuddered when she thought about it. “Umm something wrong?” Said Twilight. “Oh I just felt a great disturbance in the force.” Said Nano. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “THE RENISANCE IS FACINATING!” Shouted Golem as he goes through the archives of the Utopian great library. “Aw I like their wardrobe.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “Oh god I think Golem found something to annoy me with.” Said Nano with horror on her face. “Oh? You can hide out with me.” Said Rainbow with a silly grin. “Well you know if Pinkie Pie doesn’t drive you insane first.” “Pinkie is awesome! Just a little hyper…Golem…” Her face began to sour. “That fucking pixie.” She whispered to herself. Rainbow and Twilight let her forge ahead while they shrugged. They continued around the Prometheus and observe the areas around it. To their horror there wasn’t just a battleship in the crystal cave. There was an entire space battalion of Cosmonaut frigates and battleships. Only Nano was able to see all of this before Rainbow and Twilight. She stood there with a look of horror on her face while Rainbow and Twilight looked at it confused. Until Twilight increased the amount of magic in her horn and it light up more of the cave. They were in a very large cavern. Now they understand. They all looked at the massive ship in the center of it all. On its side partially buried in stone and diamond. ‘Trinity’ “Holy shit.” Said Nano Swarm. “…Yea.” Responded Rainbow. “WE NEED TO WARN THE PRINCESS!” Said Twilight. “Well I admit it is…Impressive. But that may be a bit too soon of an assumption this is dangerous. I mean yea someone built the Trinity after I like…Ate it…” She looked at the ‘What the fuck?’ expressions on Rainbow and Twilight. “What? Ok if you want absorbed.” “Well how?” Asked Twilight. “What?” “How did you absorb it? It’s ten times bigger than you!” “Density stuff. You wouldn’t understand because you don’t study the workings of the universe.” “Friendship is the workings of the universe.” Twilight deadpanned. Nano started to giggle. “You call friendship a form of science? That’s funny.” She started to laugh out loud. “I’M SERIOUS!” retorted Twilight. “BAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! Y-YOU’RE SERIOUS?! HAHAHA LET ME LAUGH EVEN HARDER! HAHAHAHA!” “STOP ITS NOT FUNNY!” Her horn started to glow even brighter. “HAHAHAHAHA!” “I SAID STOP!” She fired a VERY powerful beam of magic at Nano Swarm’s face. On impact it seemed to explode and had the force to take down fortress walls. “NANO!” Twilight’s voice was now distressed and worried. When the smoke clears Nano was burning holes in Twilight’s soul with eyes of rage. “N-Nano? A-are you ok?” Said Twilight worried. Rainbow was concentrating on the text that was showing up in here vision. ‘RUN RUN RUN! GET OUT OF THERE YOU STUPID PONY!’ “Twilight…” Said Rainbow very calmly. “RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!” She and Twilight took off running toward the entrance of the cave. They kept running and running. With a ticked off Nano Swarm speeding after them. The ground below her feet seemed to almost disappear as she gathered up more material. When she was at a reasonable distance she started to collapse the ceiling. Twilight and Rainbow dogged each bolder that fell from the cave walls. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “Ah a new wardrobe.” Said Golem to himself. Golem was standing in the center of the Utopia. He chose not to fully convert to a classical kind of style…However he kept the Utopia dress code (that he made up) and made a tux with golden silk and a…gold top hat…and a golden cane… “Ah perfect!” Exclaimed Golem in satisfaction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nano Swarm was about to just stop chasing Twilight and just explode her by harvesting her bones but stopped with a shudder as she felt an even greater disturbance in the force. Rainbow noticed this and stopped to look back at Nano. “RAINBOW WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! RUN!” Shouted Twilight. Then she noticed Nano Swarm’s pale expression. “W-what?” “Oh god no.” She whispered. “OH GOD NO! NO NO NO NO NO! RAINBOW QUICK SAY GOLEM SHOULDN’T COME!” “Umm why?” “JUST DO IT! HE WILL DOOM US ALL!” “Who are we talking about?” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nano Swarm noticed the odd devices in the cave. They were humanoid. But machines. They were in the thousands and some even moved around while Nano was chasing Twilight and Rainbow. ‘Control course of action required.’ ‘Hold position. They are not threats yet.’ ‘Affirmative.’ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nano Swarm then noticed the moving objects in the background. She was so engrossed with trying to kill Twilight she didn’t notice them. Until now that is. She broke out of her trance and scanned the room. “Nano? What’s going on?” Said Rainbow. “Something is out there…A lot of something.” Nano said with worry in her voice. “We should go.” Said Twilight. “Yea…we should.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ‘The black one is aware of us.’ ‘Let them go. They have no power over us at this moment. Prepare the fleet.’ ‘It will be done.’ ‘I hope I don’t scare Rainbow too badly when I appear.’ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The trio make their way back to their rooms. Twilight headed toward the throne room to meet up with Luna. Being night Luna was in charge of Canterlot. Twilight was let in to the throne room where Luna sits on the throne looking bored. Her attitude lightens up to see Twilight. “Hello Twilight Sparkle. How will the princess of the night help thou?” “Princess!” Said Twilight with a panicked expression. This unsettled Luna. “T-there’s something in the castle underground tunnels! There are ships and…well what Nano said were called frigates.” “What? Ships? I must investigate this. Thank you Twilight Sparkle. I will learn the nature of our-“ *BOOOOOOOOOOOM* A massive exposition shook the mountain city of Canterlot so violently it was able to shake all ponies out of bed. Even Celestia found herself on the floor after the violent explosion and shake of unknown origin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Trinity rises out of the ground with fleets of frigates and battleships on each of its flanks. It rose from the mountainside below Canterlot leaving as if it was a hanger and the large fleet rose out of the ground. That isn’t the only place ships came from. All around the plains and mountains that lined the base of Canterlot also opened up to expose even more space born ships. Nano Swarm and Rainbow Dash were accompanying each other when this happened. Rainbow shot into the air and Nano stood firmly on the ground as if it hasn’t bothered her. “What the fuck?” Said Nano. She couldn’t see the ships but she knew they were the cause. She allowed the swarm to show her images rather than letting her feel around and what she saw was astonishing. An entire space fleet was beginning to leave the atmosphere. Some have already left but some stayed behind. “WHAT THE FUCK!” She repeated herself. “WHAT THE HAY?!” Said Rainbow at the same time as Nano Swarm. ‘Wait’ Thought Nano. ‘These are pony made? No ponies can’t build ships like this so they can’t be.’ She stood there in thought until something popped into her head and she spoke it out loud. “Cole” “W-what?” Rainbow obviously heard her. “John Cole made this. He was at war with the Alliance when he came to your world…This must be his attempt to save his nation…However the link between this world and his is cut because of me.” “W-wait.” Staggered Rainbow. “H-he’s a soldier?” “General. The best too. I’m going to have fun defeating his army.” Nano Swarm jumped up into the air and flew as high as she could. “WAIT!” Called out Rainbow after her. Nano Swarm took no notice to Rainbow Dash’s plea for her to stop her charge. She had an oddity to remove. She collected enough material for one ship…One grand ship that she and Sky Rider both worked on for a long time. Turmoil helped design the turrets that fired beam weapons on each side. Eight batteries of weapons that had the power of a star. Eight on each side of the ship. A shield generator designed by Binary. A engine made by Sky Rider. Material provided by Nano Swarm. And one user needed to wield such power. A battleship named Zenith. Nano Swarm took no delay in creating the ovular ship. It took a few minutes for it to fully form and as it did the ships of Cole’s fleet noticed the great golden entity forming in front of them that light up the night sky. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “General Cole. A ship is forming in the sky. Course of action.” Said and artificial voice. A close up on the ship in question appeared on the screen in the control room of the Trinity. “W-what is that?” Said John Cole who sat in his chair. “General Cole the ship is forming into what we believe is a titan class destroyer vessel.” “What? It’s not big enough.” “The energy readings of the vessel show it can withstand and destroy a Titan vessel. It may as well be a legendary Dreadnaught class.” “…Open fire.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “NANO!” Screamed Rainbow Dash. She was unaware of the princess of the sun beside her staring in amazement, not at the fleet…But at the Zenith. Its magical readings show it has the ability to be a star. And Celestia could feel it. The ships of Cole’s fleet attacked the Zenith and that included the Trinity’s forward cannons. The Zenith may not have been fully formed yet but it still was able to with stand everything thrown at it. In fact it seemed to get more powerful the more it was engaged. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “UTOPIA MAY NOT BE HERE! BUT ITS GOLDEN LIGTH STILL SHINES THROUGH YOUR HULL!” Screamed Nano Swarm as the eight batteries open up on the right side of the ship. Cutting eight of the fleets’ frigates in half like a warm knife on butter. The ships collapse with molten hulls to the ground and metal bends and twists on impact with the ground. Now the left batteries open up and the same fate meets the eight ships over to Zenith’s left. “Easy.” Said Nano to herself, she spots the Trinity and makes the ship move toward it. “Harvest the remains. Leave no trace of foreign involvement.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Cole’s horror not only did this golden ship destroy sixteen of his ships even before it was finished forming entirely, but it was harvesting the hulls of all the ships it destroyed. And somehow it was able to condense those hulls into its limited space. Cole was terrified as the golden ship headed toward the Trinity. “Oh fuck.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “Take out all the other ships and leave the Trinity alone. I have business.” Said Nano Swarm to the Zenith. ‘Yes creator.’ Nano Swarm appears outside of the hull of Zenith and she flies over to the Trinity. Only to have its anti air batteries open up on her. She shrugs off every hit and continues to fly without trouble. Then she finds the bridge and flies right into it at super sonic speeds. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *CRASH* “OH SHIT!” Exclaimed John Cole as he jumps back in his seat. “Hi pops.” Said Nano Swarm. “You’re coming with me.” She looks around the bridge and finds crew members with artificial intelligence. They are all bipedal robots that have very lanky natures. They were very humanoid and all had a repetitive color scheme of black. “Umm…Isn’t AI warfare illegal?” Asked Nano. “Well.” Cole scratched the back of his head. “Yea but it is a necessary step to destroy the Alliance.” *POP* “JOHN COLE!” Shouted Celestia who looked enraged. “NO ONLY HAVE YOU DESTERBED THE PEACE BUT YOU’VE WOKEN ME AND ALL OF CANTERLOT! AND INVADED THE EQUESTRIAN SKIES!” “Calm down Celest-AUGH!” Cole couldn’t complete his sentence as he was thrown up against the wall. “YOU ARE UNDER ARREST!” She said angrily. Then she made a grateful smile toward Nano Swarm. “Thank you Nano. I will take over from here.” “Nope.” Said Nano calmly and doesn’t look at anything because she’s blind…-.-. Confusing Celestia. “W-what?” She said. “You can’t have him as a prisoner because he will get out like last time. Besides he could just clone himself again and the whole issue will begin again. I suggest giving him to me. I have more advanced swarm than he does and I can contain him even when he’s not in a cell. I also don’t sleep so if he tries to escape I can subdue him.” “Wait but I have power armor and you don’t got any.” Said Cole. “How will-“ “I am heavier than the Trinity…Which I should really get to absorbing again. Please Celestia leave for a bit.” *pop* Celestia and Cole disappear. “Time to get to work.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Celestia teleports them to the courtyard where guards, Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, and Luna all await them. “COLE WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!” Shouted Rainbow Dash in Cole’s face before Celestia could say anything. She sat back and watched as Rainbow unleashed her wrath. “Calm down sweetness.” He said with a trollerific smile. “Shut up! You could have collapsed Canterlot!” “I love you to?” “J-JUST SHUT UP! You’ve been hurting ponies since day one! Namely me!” “And you have an awesome new friend to show from it. I mean look how the Trinity is just being eaten up!” They look up in the sky and see the Trinity folding inside out and growing smaller. Once its gone Nano Swarm flies down to meet them. “Damn girl!” Said Cole. “I thought you’d at least show some extra weight after absorbing my ship but…Damn!” She notices the scowl that isn’t really directed at anyone. “I’ve come to fix whatever was wrong with this universe. Turns out its not collapsing…Just something that doesn’t belong. Namely you Cole.” She said to no one in particular but still looked in Cole’s direction. “A-are you blind?” “Yea.” “Then how did you find your way here?” “You know how the swarm can send you data about your surroundings?” “Oh I get it. Nice. Wait you’re my clone aren’t you?” “Yea but I’m nothing like you…Save the sadistic sense of humor.” She said with mischievous glee all wrapped up in a smile. “Nice. I always loved that from myself.” “Ok but I have Rainbow’s DNA so technically I’m not you…I’m actually your daughter.” Cole puts his hand on his chin. “Hmm. Foreseeable foreseeable.” He nodded his head. “So what now?” “I take you back to your world…Or I make you a Utopian.” “A what?” “When you where indisposed I absorbed the Trinity and it almost took my life. A guy by the name of Impulse took me in and took the material away from me and put it in his inter-dimensional ship called Utopia. I became the Nano Swarm specialist. He eventually named me Nano Swarm. I had no idea who I was back then so I accepted his commands for most of my life.” “Did he ask for sex?” Asked Cole. Everyone gasped or had a look of disgust or horror because of how rude he sounded. “No actually. Anyway we call ourselves specialists because we are masters of our trade. We are known as Utopian’s as well since we live in Utopia the ship that gets us places. There are three courses of action I can take. I can kill you now.” Everyone looks at her in horror. “I can make you a specialist. Or I can return you to your home.” “What about saying in Equestria and living as a family?” Asked Cole. “Now that I know I have a daughter I don’t really feel like leaving.” “I have duties to attend to and so do you. Also ponies aren’t ready to meet humans. You were proof of that. If you stay you will create unrest. If you leave we can put you where you belong. And with me here I can undo your damage.” “Damage?” Said Cole Skeptically. “You tore holes in the cliff side…Canterlot is lucky it still hangs onto the mountain as if nothing was wrong. I’ve got to fix that.” “Oh…Shit.” “Also I need to remove Rainbow’s Swarm.” “Oh-WHAT!?!” Shouted Cole which made the guards flinch ready to attack. “T-that would be painful!” “Not when I do it. My swarm is updated pops. Mine doesn’t cause pain when its in someone’s else’s body.” “Damn. Ok then fix up Rainbow.” “Already have. You notice you can’t connect to her again?” “W-what are you-“ a look of horror appeared on his face before being cut off. “Don’t lie. The text in her vision is all you. After a failure of cloning yourself you tried again after fixing the Trinity. Rainbow’s need to see me again before emerging was a way for you to transfer your knowledge back into the new body. I almost became you.” “WHAT!” Shouted Rainbow in rage. “YOU WERE IN MY HEAD THIS WHOLE TIME!” “And that’s why I knew you wouldn’t be harmed. Because I would protect you.” He said with an innocent smile. This made Rainbow do a double take. “W-what?” “Seriously get intimate later. We have your life to talk about.” “Oh yea sorry.” “So yea now that that’s done. I’m going to surround you with my swarm. If you try to form or absorb something you will fail. I have already harvested the nanobots you had and will harvest more if you try to make them.” “Umm sure…” he whispered ‘Dammit’ under his breath. Only Nano caught it. “All right Celestia now he’s safe for you to hold him if you so chose.” “Thank you Nano Swarm. I’ll take it from here.” (I feel I may have rushed this. But what ever. It’s out now and Cole is back! Let’s see what happens! :D)