//------------------------------// // Season one: Chapter four: The secret of the sealed room Fall of Twilight arc // Story: Project Harmony one: The ones in the background // by Megaskullmon //------------------------------// It’s been almost close to a month when Sugar Sparkle came out of the coma. We allied with a group of many aliens. Shadow and I sat in a meeting of the workers union. I had to stay silent since I was already in hot water for sleeping well with the daughter of a commander again.  “Alright what Rainbow Cloud wants is a new meeting room built and place the quarters of each ambassador of this new alliance around this meeting room. There is an old part of the station that no one has ever gone to since the station has been found. It was sealed by the princess for some reason. They’re allowing us to open up this area.” I sat there thinking of the wonderful night I had. Of course, this dragon is the leader of the union. It's not wise to get on her bad side. I’m sure I am going to get the hard part of this job. Shadow wrote down notes with her wings.  “Question though.” The dragon turns her eyes to Shadow. “How are we going to connect the air system and life support for each of these rooms? Since I am sure not all their air-breathing the same type of air that we do or the others do. I doubt we even have the tech or the magic to do this.” The dragon sighs, stroking her head. “I was waiting for someone to bring that up. The leaders of the union will be handling that. Now a lot of the union is going to be stuck with fixing the docking doors and the docking system. So only two will be able to work on the meeting room and the rooms. Because you and Chaser are normally always working together. You two will be cleaning the room.” My mind finally returns after hearing my name. “Uh, the question is, when and how long will it take to get this done?" The dragon growls deeply. I have no idea why I am being growled at. “You think you have a right to ask me that Chaser after what you pulled the last few days? Well for now I will be kind. We have old construction mechs being brought here. You two will be trained to use them. But Chaser Shadow is your boss for the time being. I can’t trust you after what you pulled.” I shrug my shoulders. “She came onto me, I didn’t come on to her. I just wanted to go home but she forced herself into my home.” The dragon rolls her eyes. “Yeah, what she told us. I am doing this to you to protect you from her father. He always thought she was his innocent little family. Then she did this and he refuses to accept that she did it.” Finally, I am innocent of all this. Of course, no pony should blame me for having my fun. But I still wanted to enjoy a nice peaceful night. I took a deep breath, closing my eyes trying to relax. I am under a lot of stress right now. I have been hearing stories. From my home. A story about zebra worlds fighting each other again. “Now I don’t know what you will find in this room. Twilight refuses to tell us what they found there. But the fact they’re allowing us to use it now does concern me. But you let the leadership handle that.” Shadow shifts in the chair. She and I both have been very stressed out. We have been hearing stories about both our homes. She had some family members vanish and she doesn’t know why. She has been asking the guards to find them.  “Maybe this will keep our minds off our homes. I don’t know why the zebra worlds are fighting. I don’t even know why family members in Equestria are vanishing. Sadly, I have been hearing a lot of family members vanishing lately.” The dragon is known as Ruby blossom. From what I remember learning she was raised by a mixed pony dragon family. It’s funny I have been seeing this much more lately. The species are mixing now. Of course, with mine, it’s mostly zebras and ponies. I do have some zebras in me. It’s why my hooves are harder. “Alright, that is enough talk. We have just a week to get this all done. I know that is not enough time but that is the window” The other workers along with me and Shadow gasp. A week there is no way we can get everything working in a week. I wish I could argue but it’s better to get started than to get upset. I get off the chair looking at Shadow. “Come let’s get to this place. I want to learn why this little area of the station was blocked off. I am hoping it’s something exciting since this station went back in time in the other universe for some silly war I guess.” It took a while but the princess finally told us where this station came from. After they were told, some aliens can shift the universe from time to time. I wonder what the other universe was like. I wonder how bad this war got. to use this very station to fight the war. Maybe someday we will learn. After the meeting, Shadow and I followed Claw of security since Sun Sparkle is making sure that everything is moving smoothly. It’s strange though ever since we learned about this war. Things on Equestria have been getting strange. Ponies vanishing stories of Star Swirl the bearded being still alive after 2000 years.  “Claw, how is Sun Sparkle doing?” Claw turns his head to look at me.  “I am thinking of asking her to marry me.” Shadow and I look at each other with a smile forming on our faces. We both have known them for years now. Since we have been part of the crew just as long as them. We all get to the blocked-off area. A wall sealed off this small area. From what I remember looking at the old blueprints. This room is a former storage room and there are rooms around it that were also storage rooms but they’re big enough to live inside them.  “Do we know why this place was blocked off?” Claw shrugs his shoulders. Now we had to wait for those construction mechs to finally get here. Shadow and I worked on figuring out the best and safe way to get the wall off before then. I put my hoof on the middle of the wall. “Hmm, Shadow put your hoof in the middle you might feel what I feel.” Shadow puts pressure on the middle of the wall and we notice that it dents. Metal normally doesn’t do this but it could be that the metal was never placed correctly. It could also mean it was a rush job.  “Hmm, we might not need the mechs to do this. I think we brought the right tools for this. Just I doubt it would be safe. Claw, do you think you could get us some masks and suits? We don’t know what could be in here. It could be something that could burn our fur or destroy our lungs.” Claw nods talking in his com on his claw. “We need some suits and heavy-duty masks. They need to be for two pegasi. They also need two torch cutters. They have all the other tools they need. But we need to give them the torch cutters that we use. Also, make sure Muffin and Savannah are standing by. We have no idea what could be in this room.” It took an hour for everything to get set in place. Since the construction mechs are going to take some time to get here. I help Shadow get the suit on. It wasn’t easy to get into this suit for me. Since I have a lot of zebra blood in me. My legs are stockier than normal pony legs so it’s very hard for me to get in this suit. When I try to get my hooves in the suit rips below and I just sigh and Claw makes it so I have to use it that way. “You and your mix breeding.” I laugh “Don’t talk, Claw you’re about to ask a princess to marry you. Even though she refuses to call herself a princess.” Claw shrugs his shoulders. “Yeah I know she is a pony so? Anyway, you two better get to work.”  I put the mask over my snout. Shadow and I lift our foreleg hooves, turning them on and cutting through the old metal. Each cut we do through the metal. Everything for the moment is fine. Muffin and Savannah blocked off the area  “We are close to getting this metal off.”  “Chaser watch you move out of the way. We are going to let it fall. There is no way we can keep it from falling.” Shadow and I quickly move out of the way. The metal drops down hard onto the ground with a heavy thunk. Everyone else with us had a heavy mask on. The air system never went through here either for some reason. Turning a light on my mask. I nod to Shadow going inside first. Since I am stronger than she is.  Looking around I see now why it was blocked off. There are tons of old weapons here. We have no idea if any of these weapons are safe. Looking closer at them I can’t make out the words on them.  “We are going to need someone that knows how to disarm weapons.” Shadow comes in. “Why do...Oh my.” We see that every room in this storage room is full of old weapons. Ammo from the looks of its guns. Even those pikes that Rainbow Cloud had to learn. I walk deeper into the storage room finding even more weapons. “This was a weapons supply room.”  I put my hoof on my mask to contact Claw. “Claw, are you on a private communication channel?” Claw and I go into a private channel to talk. “Claw, find some you trust. We need to make sure these weapons don’t get into the wrong hooves.” Claw sighs. “I will see what I can do but I can’t promise anything. Don’t blame me if someone shouldn't have these weapons.” I didn’t like what he said but I didn’t have a chance to argue with him. Shadow and I have a job to do. Just we need to find a way to move these weapons. Shadow and I spent many hours moving each weapon. We try to do it in a calm manner trying to make sure none of these blow-ups.  “I worry about somepony getting a hold of these weapons that might cause big problems with them.” It took us a day to just get the first room cleared out. Since we only had a week, the workers union brought us a tent and a filter to make sure we don’t breathe in anything that could harm us. They also set up a shower for us. I came back into the tent after being fully clean taking the mask off. Shadow looks up from the book she is reading. “Feel better?” I nod, sigh, and shake my head. “I don’t understand why they just didn’t move all these weapons, to begin with.” Shadow chuckles. “I think I know fully why. I am reading an old journal I found here. It looks like it’s a journal that one of the old explores dropped. Listen to this. We found these weapons after finding this room. We had no idea what to do with them. We took a few of them and we wanted to test them. A group of ponies took one to a meadow. The ponies that conducted the test all died from whatever the weapon did. The princess took this as something to fear. So they went to find everyone connected to this. They wanted to erase all the memories. I came here before the wall was built and hid my journal here. To those that find it please don’t trust anyone.” Now that makes sense why no pony remembers this room. The old ones got their memories taken away from them. I wonder if even the princess removed their memories of this. We spent the rest of the last few days getting all the rooms cleaned out. The weapons were taken down to the station’s supply rooms. It was locked and after all, was said and done. The weapons would be put on a scow and then sent into the sun to burn them all. It took Shadow and me almost the entire week to get the rooms set up for each. We just had to get the rooms ready. Then we could take a vacation. I was going to take Shadow our new friend Red Glow. We were finally done and Shadow and I just stood looking out the window. Our work week is over now. So we just watch the scow holding all the weapons get ready to take the weapons to the sun. _______________________ The scow “We are ready to go C & C. Just give us the okay and we will start taking all the weapons to the sun.” A voice came over the PA “Stay safe.” The zebra clicks the buttons and they take the scow out of range. The scow makes sure to get out of range of Project Harmony. She looks over to the other zebras with her and sighs shaking her head. “Do we have to do this?” The other zebra turns to look at her. “Yes, he will pay us a lot when we get there.” The zebra mare clicks buttons to bring up a screen. Two stallions pop up on the screen. A zebra stallion and a unicorn.  “Hello, Mister Gleamer and Glyph. Like we promised we would steal what is on this garbage scow. Will you pay us when we get there?” Glyph chuckles “Hm yes we will and hopefully my grand design won’t need these weapons, my friends. This is just a means to make sure war never breaks out.” The screen turns off and the zebras look at each other. “Oh, stars… forgive us.” They click the buttons of the scow and the hyperspace hole opens up and they go inside. Project Harmony is one non of the wiser that an evil zebra and one known as Gleamer are about to get ahold of weapons for some war brewing.