“TELL ME EVERYTHING!” Rarity was on top of Garrus with a manic smile within seconds, looking between him and Tali as the turian reared back while the unicorn regained her composure. “Uhm, I mean, I'm sure you have some very juicy stories to tell us.”
“H-hey, It's not been that long!” Rainbow blushed as she shuffled closer to Tali and rubbed up against her, the quarian brushing a hand through Dash's hair.
“Never thought ya would find a special someone before mahself,” Applejack smirked, poking Rainbow in the side. From the other end of the room they could hear gagging sounds and Scootaloo pretending to be sick.
“You'll understand when it happens, squirt,” Dash chuckled.
“You know you can take off the helmet here, right? We're all friendly here,” Spike mentioned as he passed drinks to all the ponies, both Garrus and Tali declining the offer.
“It is not that simple. The immune system of my people has been compromised by living on starships almost all our lives.” Tali told the little dragon. “If I take my helmet off I'll have infections and allergic reactions to the environment within the hour and would be dead by the end of the day.”
“Oh...” Was the only thing Spike was able to say after that, the other ponies that weren’t in the know looking shocked.
“Don't worry about it, we make do,” Tali chuckled, Rarity turning her attention to Garrus.
“Soo, Darling, how did you catch the eye of Fluttershy here?” she said with a melodic voice, but before Garrus could answer the door was knocked on.
“Royal Guard, open up!”
“It's a public library, the door is open!” Spike shouted back, his mood immediately souring as the guards entered. They in turn tensed up as they saw Garrus and Tali.
“We're under orders to take those… things, into custody,” the sergeant of the small group of guards announced, as the others in his squad held the two aliens at spearpoint.
“And if we refuse ta let ya take 'em?” Applejack asked bluntly, straightening her Stetson while glaring down the guard. Rarity nodded in agreement and got up next to AJ.
“You'd be taken in along with them for obstructing our duties. We are to bring them in dead or alive. Unless you want to finally admit to be on the side of that traitor friend, stand… where did that yellow pega-”
The sergeant was hit by something blunt on the side of his helmet which knocked him clean across the floor. Rainbow simultaneously didn't waste any time on biotically charging one of the two guards pointing their spear at Tali and sending him flying into a bookshelf. The second one tried to turn his spear only to be helplessly floated into the air in an aura before being smashed into the ground and held there.
The guards that had focussed on Garrus simultaneously found their spears severed by glowing orange blades from a ghostly form of a pegasus before being floored as well. Appearing in sight again Fluttershy picked up the sergeant and pinned him to the wall. Tali and Garrus calmly watched on as their respective girlfriends disarmed and knocked down the guards.
“I don't know what you did but you clearly have history with my friends here, sergeant, and I would like you to not threaten my boyfriend. Leave.” Fluttershy glared the pony down, dropping him in a heap before her. The guards looked at Fluttershy in fear before scrambling out the door, taking the few intact spears with them.
“That. was. Awesome!” Scootaloo exclaimed, jumping around in awe. “Shows the bastards who really rule!”
“Scootaloo, language!” Rarity gasped.
“She ain't wrong.” Applejack growled, “Ah’m very interested in how ya can do magic but y'all should go, they sure as hay are gonna come back with more of them.”
“We weren't going to be able to stay long anyway, we have some serious business to take care of on this world,” Garrus mentioned, standing up to get ready to leave.
“You have to leave?” Pinkie asked saddened, her hair deflating more from the state what it had already been in.
“There's a race of machines that landed on the planet a couple of days ago, we need to stop them before they infect another part of their species with a virus,” Rainbow told them flatly before wrapping a wing around the earthpony, “We’ll be around, Pinkie, we have work to do and monsters to stop. And after we’re done we’ll make sure the mess with Twilight gets dealt with, maybe you can throw a party after.”
Pinkie brightened up again after hearing that, her hair inflating up to a point where it was almost fully inflated. “Yepperoonies! It’ll be the biggest party ever! And Twilight and the Princess will both be happy again!”
Applejack meanwhile was thinking over what Rainbow had said. “Hey Dash, do them things look like metal minotaurs with a glowy lamp thing in their head? Couse Ah’ve seen those peak out of the Everfree on several occasions.”
“That’s exactly right...” Tali said slowly said, Garrus opening his omni-tool to contact Shepard while Fluttershy pulled up a hologram of a geth. “We only thought they’d be at a place called the Badlands according to Luna.”
“Ah know what Ah saw, and that-” Applejack pointed at the hologram on Shy’s omni-tool, “-is exactly what Ah saw in the forest.”
“Shy, if they’re really in the forest we can’t leave them there,” Rainbow said sounding really worried. “If they’re spreading across the planet no-one would be ready if the Heretics attacked everyone at once... it’d be a bloodbath.”
“Well… Then we just have to do something about that, won’t we?” Rarity said, Pinkie and Applejack agreeing. “It wouldn’t be our first time in the forest.”
“Girls, Shepard wants to assault the Badlands as soon as possible,” Garrus interrupted. “He wants to know what we’re going to do. Investigate the sightings here or head over to the Normandy to join in on the Badlands raid.”
“We won’t know if we really find something here, Legion’s geth do really need the help,” Tali argued, Rainbow nervously tapping the ground and looking at her other friends.
“Tali’s right girls, there’s a bigger picture here...” Rainbow said, agreeing with her girlfriend to the surprise of the ponies in the room.
Fluttershy bit her lower lip, she saw Dash’s point but she didn’t want to leave Ponyville essentially defenseless…
Does Shepard really need me with him for this one? The rest of the team is real solid and Samara can take over as heavy Biotic support...
1. The Badlands needs to be taken care of first.
2. AJ, Rarity, Pinkie, and me can take care of this.
3. I’ll check the forest out solo.