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// 35. The Doors Are Opened 
// Story: Exploring Equestria 
// by A_guy_from_Earth 
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“No!” researchers screamed, but their voices got lost in the screams of the crowd.

They had to do something. “This is our fault! It happened because we failed! We missed this!..” these thoughts flashed in their heads.

But there was no time – would the princesses be alive or not was a matter of minutes or even seconds, and there was huge risk. They could save them, but, in this case, all Equestria would learn about who they really are. The mission would be failed. But if they won’t intervene, then… princesses will die. Equestrians would never leave it like this and would never forgive. Eventually they will find the real reason, and then will start to consider all alien beings as their enemies. And since they have incredible potential for rapid technological development… having strong enemy equipped with both technology and magic would be problematic.

They cannot allow to lose this world. They cannot allow to lose the ones whom they got attached to. Whom they liked and loved.

Researchers rushed forward, pushing all other ponies away.

“Affi! Bluve and I would operate her… But we need help! You, Edez and Zet should come with us!” Max made Affi to sense his telepathic signal.
“Got it!” she responded and sent the message to everyone. “Then Kor, Karin, Oma and Sheim, protect us!”
“Will do!” other researchers responded.

In dozen seconds, they got to the wounded alicorns. Right on the way Bluve extracted medical kits and portable shield generator from store block placed in her stomach. Sheim, Oma, Kor and Karin re-activated their nanites. Massive dose on stimulators was injected into their bloodstreams, and they were ready to fight. Bluve threw the shield generator to Edez, and curator activated in less in a second. In a moment, opaque veil hid the five aliens that leaned over the princesses, and the remained four surrounded new-formed dome, ready to fight off any attacks.

All ponies around were shocked.

“What happened?”
“What is this?”
“What are you doing?”
“… who are you?”

The crowd was scared. The crowd was at a loss. Right now, ponies who claimed to be servants and guards of princess Twilight, isolated princesses from others, and the means that they used… they didn’t seem to be magical at all. … and why those four “guards” stand on their hind legs?

“Let us to the princesses!” ponies demanded.
“No, we would not let you approach,” Kor responded.
“You won’t be able to help them,” Karin continued. “But we can.”
“What are you doing to them? Let us see immediately!” the most resolute demanded.
“No.”
“Why you!..” they stepped forward.

A moment later ground exploded right under the hooves of the bravest.

“What the?..”

They looked at researchers and saw that Sheim was pointing at them. There was a hole on his sole.

“What have just done?” the brave ponies asked.
“I shot, so don’t come any closer,” researcher replied. “Or else the next spike will hit your head.”
“What?”

Ponies were resenting, but none of them dared to make a step forward. Now they were afraid.

Meanwhile under the dome other researchers fought for princesses’ lives.

“Are you gonna operate them right on the ground?” Zet’rar surprised when he saw how Max and Bluve prepared instruments and medicine.
“Yes,” senior physiologist responded. “We don’t have time for making the site sterile, so we’ll just inject them some nanites, and they will provide them the immunity. But for now… Zet, come here! You have many limbs, so you’ll be giving us stuff.”
“And why are we for?” Affi wondered.
“The only reliable way to support their lives now is using someone else’s life powers,” Bluve explained. “And you…”
“… and we have more of them than any other member of the team,” Edez continued for her. “I understand. Connect us.”  

Affi looked at him, then looked at Bluve and gave a nod. Bluve immediately began the preparation of life support system. Meanwhile Max was putting alicorns into quasi-stasis.

“Bluve, operate Celestia,” he said when he finished.
“Why?”
“You’ll do it faster.”
“What? It’s… Oh… I see.” She shook herself and separated her forelegs.
“Zet, light!” Max commanded.
“Right!” technician responded.
“I’ll connect you with the princesses in a moment…” Bluve said to Edez and Affi. “Put your hands on their heads.”

Curators did what she said, and a moment later, they felt strange impulse, which was followed by endless falling. They became one with the organisms of alicorns.

Bluve and Max began the operation.

On the other side of the dome, the situation had been getting more heated. As it turned out, princesses came to Ponyvile with some guards as reinforcement. And town’s police arrived there as well. On top of that, Bearesr of the Elements and Spike learned about what happened and ran to the Square too.

“Guys?..” seven friends could not believe in what they saw. They were shocked and frightened.
“Release the princesses!” the chief officers demanded.
“No,” Kor responded. “You won’t be able to help them.”
“We are sure that no one here knows spells powerful enough to heal them,” Oma added.
“What?”
“But Twilight…” Spike was about to object, but he was interrupted.
“I understand what you mean,” Karin said. “Her Highness princess Twilight Sparkle is very talented and powerful magician. However… How would she remove those logs from bodies of princesses Celestia and Luna?”
“There are plenty of options!” Spike resented. “Like turning back time!..”
“… or boosting up ordinary healing!” Rarity suggested.
“Oooh… Well… Then ask princess Twilight Sparkle just one question: what is the most important rule of casting magic for alicorns?” Oma said.
“What do you mean?” Twilight’s friends turned to her.
“They are right…” purple alicorn muttered.
“Huh?”
“The rule is… alicorns are not allowed to cast extremely powerful spells on themselves and other alicorns when they are wounded!”
“What? Why? I don’t get it!” Spike, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy surprised.
“There might be numerous negative effects, which are not studied yet.”
“See? Unless you are using powerful artifacts, you may put princesses’ lives into even greater danger by using magic!” Kor said. “And I don’t think that you have strong healing artifact within walking distance. Besides, our colleagues are already operating them.”

The crowd went quiet. They had no arguments against them. These four were right. But… Are they really helping? That’s what some of them thought. There were no proofs that intentions of these… ponies are the same as they describe. They needed confirmation.

“Show us the princesses,” some of the officers demanded again. “We must see them!”
“No,” Kor responded. “We can’t interrupt the surgery.”
“What? Why you…”
“And what if we will fight ya?” Applejack and Rainbow Dash found strength to oppose.
“We do not want to harm you,” Sheim said. “But you better not to challenge us…”

Then right in front of everyone planetologist strained his forelegs and stretched them forward to let everyone see that he is ready to shoot at any moment. Clouds of dust raised near Karin, although there was no wind around. Oma’s mane separated into four tentacles, and her tail into three. Kor right in front of everyone changed his regular “teeth set” to original Verekan one. Ponies shuddered. They were horrified.

“Who are you?..” Twilight uttered in trembling voice.
“That’s… Doesn’t look Europonian…” Pinkie Pie spelled.
“Indeed,” a familiar voice came from behind the crowd.
“Damn…” researchers whispered.

Two tall spotted unicorns came from the crowd and stepped forward.

“I’ve seen many creatures with strange appearance, but… I’ve never seen a pony with such teeth or a pony able to shoot things from his own hooves,” Tryviež said.
“And a mare with tentacles as her hair… That’s something from comic books!” Čarnabor added.
“Who are you?” unicorns demanded.
“I’ll tell you,” another voice came from behind, and then… Someone who no one expected to appear here showed up. Green flames flashed behind the crowd, and tall dark gray insect-like pony stepped forward.
“Chrysalis!” ponyvillers exclaimed.
“What are you doing here?!” Twilight yelled.
“Relax, everypony! She won’t hurt you! I promise!” there was one more voice from a side, and then the being whom it belonged to showed up: the spirit of chaos appeared in the air from a dim flash of white light. “I vouch for her!”
“Discord?” ponies surprised even more.
“I… don’t understand!” Twilight was at a loss. “What’s going on here?”
“Well, something strange has been happening in Equestria for several months, but it affected not only ponies, but changelings as well, so… in order to find out the real cause of all these problems, we – I mean princesses too – kinda teamed up.”
“Teamed… up?” Twilight got even more confused.
“Yes…” Chrysalis confirmed. “But now… You wanted to know who those… creatures really are? Well, they are monsters!”
“Monsters?” other ponies, especially Tryviež and Čarnabor, got alarmed.
“What? Why do you think so?” one of the officers asked.
“This… being,” Chrysalis pointed at Kor, “bit off a piece of my wing!”
“What?”
“Damn, that’s really crazy thing to do!” Dregovians exclaimed.

Kor said nothing.

“Yeah, they are like monsters…” Discord spelled. “And from what I see, I understand that those five ponies were right…”

The spirit snapped his fingers, and five officers of the Second Department of the Secret Service materialized in front of him.

“What?” almost all the ponies who gathered there surprised.
“What?” Cloudbreaker exclaimed. “We’ve just been in the hospital!”
“What the?..” Hidden Path looked around and saw all creatures gathered, a force field shield and four researchers protecting it. “Oh no…”
“These five officers investigated the strange events and concluded that servants and guards of princess Twilight didn’t come from this world,” Discord continued.
“What?” ponies exclaimed. It was almost impossible to believer in what Discord had just said.
“Does what you see here confirms your assumption?”
“We… cannot tell,” Grace said.
“What? Why?” Discord and Chrysalis surprised.
“Because… the servants of the Castle of Friendship made it impossible to speak about it,” Razor Edge said.
“I don’t understand… how?” Twilight surprised.
“Because we might die if we’ll say it.”
“What?”
“What kind of curse you put on them?” Bearers of the Elements yelled at researchers.
“It’s… not magic!” Dim Silhouette said. “They don’t know any magic!”
“If it’s not magic… then can we remove this… block with our powers?” Discord asked.
“In that case we’ll probably die as well.”
“Well… in that case… I see no other option than to force our friends from another world to remove the block,” Discord said and looked at researchers.

“Damn!” guardian researcher thought. It seems that they won’t avoid a fight. In such case, they also have no other option.

“Karin!” Kor screamed.

In a moment, the smallest among researchers released her claws and clenched them. An invisible force made everyone shudder, but then… the spirit of chaos coughed and wheezed badly. He twitched in the air, like something was trying to suffocate him. He grabbed his neck, but there weren’t any signs of force application. His face turned violet, his eyes rolled up, and in few seconds the mighty spirit fell down unconscious.

Ponies got terrified. Many ran away. Some of them fainted. Some of them, like the officers of the Second Department and many soldiers, froze and were unable to move or say anything. But other… they got infuriated. And attacked. Several dozens on four. Powerful magic users against technologically advanced beings…

Sheim fired his spikes with all his might. Less than in few seconds he knocked down or injured many officers and Chrysalis. Oma strained and exhaled large cloud of green-colored mist that paralyzed all the Bearers of the Elements, Spike and part of policeponies. Karin dealt with the remained officers. Kor counter-attacked Tryviež and Čarnabor. He jerked forward, grabbed unicorns by their horns before they casted powerful spell and applied his power of Lifetaker. Mighty mages, monster hunters screamed in severe pain and in a few seconds passed down.

It was over. Researchers were exhausted, but now there was on one who could do anything to them.

“Wh-why?” Chrysalis forced herself.
“We didn’t want to do it, but you made us,” Kor said.
“As we mentioned, we have no intention of harming your princess,” Oma said. “If you want a confirmation, wait,” and she pointed at the dome.

Ponies and changeling didn’t say anything. Kor, Sheiam, Karin and Oma, although looked tired, were ready to use their powers again if they have to. Equestrians had no other option, so they waited.

A minute passed in silence, then two, three, five, seven… Defeated Equestrians started to came to their senses. Some of them were trying to continue the fight, but their comrades stopped them.

Ten minutes passed, twelve, fifteen… Everyone began to worry, but then…

On the seventeenth minute, the dome broke up. The shield vanished. Both princesses had large bondages on their bodies and small ones on their heads, but, except this, they looked fine. Max, Bluve and Zet’rar were sitting between them, and they were soaked in sweat. They were exhausted. Edez and Affi sat near the heads of princesses and they barely had enough strength to support their own bodies. Seeing this, Max crawled to his colleagues and made them few injections. After this, senior researchers felt a bit better.

“I guess it’s time to wake them up,” Max said.

Bluve gave a nod and gently shook the alicorns. And a miracle happened: princesses opened their eyes. They felt extremely weak, but they were alive. Surprisingly, they found strength to stand up.

Equestrians couldn’t believe their eyes. The princesses were alive! The strangers said truth! They really helped them!

Crying the tears of happiness, Equestrians ran to felicitate the alicorns. Luna and Celestia were confused. Few moments ago, they saw an explosion, and they were severely, practically mortally wounded, but now they felt although weak but relatively safe, and dozens of ponies surrounded and congratulated them.

Researchers stepped to the side in order not to interfere. After all, it’s good that everything ended well.

Suddenly Discord, Chrysalis, Spike, Bearers of the Elements and some other ponies turned to researchers.

“I guess we have to apologize,” Applejack said together with Rainbow Dash and Rarity. “After all, you really were trying to save the princesses!”
“Thank you!” Equestrians bowed.
“We… don’t know exactly what is going on here, but… if you are the ones who saved us… We are immensely grateful to you!” Celestia said.
“We owe you a life!” Luna added and bowed.
“Yeah, I guess I’ll thank you too for saving them…” Chrysalis said. “But the question still stands: who are you?”

Researchers looked at the ponies in front of them and then they noticed officers of the Second Department who were standing near.

“Well, all the conspiracy is useless now, so I guess we’ll allow the ponies who found out our identities first explain everything,” Edez said and then a series of clicks, snarls, cracks and other weird sounds came from his throat.

“What was that?” Equestrians surprised.
“Did you?..” Grace uttered.
“Yeah. I removed the neuroblocking. You can freely speak about everything,” Edez said. “Nothing will affect you now.”
“Major Path, what in the world is all this?” confused princess of the night demanded.
“Your Highnesses… Fellow Equestrians… These nine creatures who are in front of you now are actually aliens,” Hidden Path said.
“Wait, aliens?” ponies were confused.
“Aliens? You mean not from this planet?” Spike exclaimed.
“You mean from hundreds of light years from here?” Discord exclaimed.
“Actually… millions of light years,” Zet’rar specified.
“What???”
“They are one of research teams that came here to explore the planet,” Grace continued. “Actually, they have similar teams sent to each continent!”
“And they are not responsible for those terrible events,” Cloudbreaker added. “Well, aren’t responsible for most of them.”
“That giant crater in the Everfree Forest is our fault,” Affi said. “We tried to escape from a pack of those Constellation beasts, but got surrounded. So we exploded a bomb.”
“… so that’s why their population reduced…” a voice came from behind the crowd.
“Then how did you escaped?” Luna wondered.
“In fact, we didn’t,” Max said.
“What?”
“Your Highness, the thing is…” Hidden Path began the explanation, “what you see right now are not their real bodies. In fact, they can change bodies as they want.”
“What???” Equestrians exclaimed. Discord and Chrysalis were especially loud.
“Than… how really you do look like?” Celestia and Twilight asked.
“Please, don’t ask, Your Highnesses!” Hidden Path said. “It’s a sight not for weak-hearted ones. This guy is, in fact, a walking plant,” he pointed a Sheim, “she is an amphibian,” he pointed at Bluve, “she… her race cannot be classified by our scholars at all,” he pointed at Oma, “he is a huge predator beast,” he pointed at Kor, “and he… his race is so huge I bet in his real body he can carry you under his arm like a cat!”

Shocked Celestia looked at Edez. He was already almost as tall as her. But… his real form is even larger?

“… and as you might already guess, “Berg”, “Didinga”, “Zicht” and so on are not their real names,” Hidden Path continued.
“Well then, re-introduce them to us!” Twilight said.
“This is Edez Ad’Deigoro, geographer and the first curator of this research team,” Hidden Path began the introduction of the real identities of alien guests, “this is Affi Mana-tosu, the second curator. Oh, be the way, she is telepathist…”
“Wait, wait, wait!” Discord interrupted him. “Telepathist? You mean she might use this power of hers on me?”
“Oh no, my dear, I haven’t used my powers for such purpose!” Affi responded. “It’s your fault that you fell for my voice!”

The spirit didn’t say anything, blushed a bit and turned away.

“… this is Oma Kiegekko and Karin Axelsson, sociologists,” Hidden Path continued the introduction. “Sheim Tat-Doil, a geographer, Zet’rar Dou, responsible for technology, Kor Ndtal-Emai, the security officer, and… Max Sudarmono and Bluve K’oishea. They are biologists and medics of the team. And… from what I’ve seen… these two operated you and took out pieces of wood from your bodies.”
“So… it is you who we must thank for our salvation?” Celestia looked at biologists.
“You should thank others as well, Your Highness,” Max responded. “Thank Edez and Affi for sacrificing their life powers in order to sustain yours, Zet’rar for helping us to work faster, and Karin, Kor, Oma and Sheim for making the surgery possible.”
“Thank you!” alicorns bowed to researchers again.
“Excuse me, but… you have mentioned that you were not responsible for all the strange events that happened recently,” Rarity said. “Then… what was the cause?”
“Well, they were not the only aliens that came to this planet,” Grace said. “It happened so that some other groups learned about the existence of our planet as well. So they sent their… forces too.”
“Those dreadful events were caused by one alien from… how do you call them?” Razor Edge said and looked at researchers.
“Ga’Ke,” Kor responded.
“Yes! Ga’Ke. And those guys are not friendly. They came here to study us too, but their ultimate goal was to use us as raw material.”
“Wait! Use living beings… as raw material?” Twilight exclaimed.
“They are unable to reproduce as our species, so… Ah! It’s too long to explain, we’ll tell you later,” Zet’rar said.
“And what about that strange meteor shower… Actually, it was a fight between us and another alien group,” Kor said.
“You mean… those “meteors”…” Luna uttered, “were actually a volley fire?
“In general, yes.”
“Well, that explains numerous radiants…”
“Wait! They came here with a research mission, but armed?” Chrysalis surprised. “Then they might occupy us too!”
“They won’t do it,” Hidden Path said to her.
“Why are you so sure about this?”
“Because if they wanted, they would already do it.”
“Huh?”
“Your Majesty, they have weapons that can destroy stars and kill all sapient being on entire planet in mere seconds!” Razor Edge exclaimed.
“What???”
“Then how powerful are you?” it was the only thing that Celestia and Luna was able to say.
“They are the interstellar Union that exists for millions of years and spreads across multiple galaxies,” Grace said.

Equestrians couldn’t say a word. Everyone understood that they are dealing with something really big and serious now.

“Um… There is one more thing we have to apologize for,” Edez said. “The abductions.”
“Abductions?”
“In order to study your physiology we… teleported some of you to our base while you were sleeping,” Max explained.
“What???”
“And how often did you do that?” Celestia asked.
“For several times. We would like to ask you for forgiveness, mister Big Macintosh, miss Rainbow Dash, miss Rarity, Your Highness, princess Celestia, Your Highness, princess Luna and Your Majesty, queen Chrysalis,” Max continued and all researchers bowed.
“So it was your doing?!” Chrysalis got angry.
“Yes, but…”
“It was intentional harm!”
“What are you talking about?” Spike and Twilight surprised.
“After they abducted me, they left a trace on my chitin! And… wait… wait! Now I understand!” she glared at Edez and Kor and yelled. “You were the ones who intruded my Hive back then!”
“What?”
“Yes, it was us, but that time we intruded not to cause harm,” Edez said.
“And back then we… well, I had to use radical methods since you woke up, and it was an emergency for us,” Kor added.
“What?” Chrysalis exclaimed.
“If you have any complaints, please, state them in any record form, and we’ll compensate you the harm according your local and international law of the Union,” Oma interfered.
“Wait, compensate?” changeling queen surprised.
“We don’t have any magical artifacts, and we won’t share our technologies, but all other options are available,” Karin added.
“Oh…”
“… and I was the one who infiltrated the Canterlot Castle,” Affi confessed.
“It was you? Alone?” diarchs surprised.
“Yes. I am very sorry for all the inconveniences, Your Highnesses.”
“But!..” Max interfered. “We can redeem ourselves!”
“How?” both pony and changeling royals asked.
“By trying to cure the state that limits you when you have to cast powerful spell on yourselves.”
“What?”
“How did you find it?” Luna surprised.
“We had total examination of your bodies and minds while we abducted you, so we found that you were overflowing with magic powers, which practically turned you into living bombs. Thus, we worked on cure for this state. We found it, and… those infiltrations were the only way available to inject them to you. I injected the cure to princess Twilight. Sorry, Your Highness, for hiding it,” Max bowed to surprised purple alicorn, “Affi did it to princesses Celestia. Luna and Cadance… and she did it to Discord too.”
“Me too?” the spirit surprised.
“Yes,” Affi said. “I’m sorry, it was the only time when I applied telepathy on you. I stunned you and made the injection.”
“Oh…”
“… and Edez and Kor infiltrated the Hive in order to give queen Chrysalis the injection.”
“So… the second time… you actually tried to help me?” changeling queen was surprised.
“Yes.”

Chrysalis couldn’t say anything. Those aliens were not making any differences between whom they must help. Strange ones…

“I don’t get it!” Cloudbreaker interfered. “You sent two strongest guys to make a single injection to queen Chrysalis, but one lady to make four injections in Canterlot? Why?”
“Well, it’s because the Hive has complex security system, which is pretty hard to pass even using advanced technologies,” Kor said.
“And I kinda have some experience in such things,” Affi explained.
“What?” agents surprised.
“You aren’t the only spies here, you know?”
“Oh…”
“You are a spy?” alicorns surprised.
“I was one.”
“We see…”
“And this incident… it’s also might be considered as our fault,” Edez said.
“What? Why?” Equestrians surprised.
“Because the thing that caused this explosion… was actually a symbiont robot of Ga’Ke.”
“What?” this time Secret Service officers exclaimed.
“We haven’t predicted that this one released it before taking any actions in Canterlot,” Kor said. “We only learned it when miss Rose said that she saw a huge cockroach that seemed to be made of knives.”
“So, please, forgive us!” researchers bowed to all Equestrians.
“You should not apologize!” Celestia said. “It seems that this event was practically impossible to predict, so you should not blame yourselves for something impossible.”
“And you saved us,” Luna added.
“Saving you was the least we could do to you in exchange for our inattentiveness,” Max said.
“No, it wasn’t inattentiveness, but absolutely unpredicted accident. No one should blame themselves for such things.”
“Thank you.”

Then there was a short pause.

“So… what will happen next?” Luna asked.
“Yeah! And with all other those… research teams?!” Tryviež and Čarnabor added.

Researchers looked at each other, then Edez activated his hidden communicator.

“Kaite Edez Ad’Deigoro,” he said. “Seu-kii retsneklaad agayi-gev. Seda nakuuzhesh tomaraim. Seu llatragehi nmento. Beeh-saumittapana metuu az sedi pilik. Faskiim hentu-gev uonnameum. Bih slaanddat ei.”
“Um… what did he just say?” Twilight wondered.
“He messaged their headquarters that they have to reveal themselves,” Hidden Path said.
“Wait, you know their language?” ponies surprised.
“Yes. You see… When we decided to face them and tell about our suspicions, it turned out so that they might know the actual reason behind all this, so they took us with them to their base. And to make sure that we’ll understand what they say, they implanted us the knowledge of their language.”
“Implanted the knowledge?”
“Miss Mana-tosu is very power telepathist. It took her only few seconds to implant us this knowledge.”
“So… she can do this to us as well?” Čarnabor suggested.
“Yes, but I would not advise you to do so.”
“Why?”
“Their language is artificial and so complex… It combines the difficulty of writing of Eastern Kingdoms and complicated grammar of ancient languages of Europonia.”
“Oh…”
“Well, our native language is pretty difficult by itself, so…” Tryviež spelled.
“If you are willing to, then you are welcomed. But don’t complain later on a headache.”
“So… You will reveal your presence… around the entire globe?” Luna said.
“Yes,” Edez gave a nod. “In few days everyone on this planet will know about our mission and will be aware of the fact that the universe is actually way bigger that they imagined, you will gain great prospects…”
“… and we’ll get reprimanded very severely for causing this mess…” Max sighed.

Equestrians laughed.

“And what are these great prospects you talked about?” Celestia wondered.
“Well, for now we’ll remain here in order to protect you and continue the exploration,” Edez said. “And we will be watching you. We would be very glad to see you in the Union, but… you have to earn the right to join us.”
“What we have to do to earn this right?” Luna asked.
“You have to make a series of inventions that would be useful for people of the Union and you have to develop your own technology of interstellar travels.”
“Wow!”
“That’s… way too drastic!” Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie said.
“You know, it’s not that difficult,” Zet’rar said. “If you work hard, less than in ten years you will be able to send a pony into space with your own technologies. And, to be honest, the way of how you magic transportation spells work and how our devices work are not that different. You may have functioning vessel for interstellar travels in seventy years!”
“Seventy years!” officers of the Secret Service exclaimed.
“It’s too long!” Grace exclaimed. “We can’t live for centuries like you!”
“Still, make a way to other stars in seventy years… That sounds like an amazing prospect!” Luna smiled.
“It is,” Edez said. “The doors to the Universe are opened for you now.”
“And it’s amazing! Thank you!” royals of Equestria said.

They all looked at the clear skies above the town, where elongated dark shade of a starship began to form.

Their world has changed. It would never be the same, as they knew it. And it’s great!



THE END