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// Chapter 9 
// Story: War Between Gods 
// by Verathuum 
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	After an hour or so, the meteor shower finally began. Everyone in Celestia’s room watched in awe as ribbons of light danced through the night sky. It was clear just how close they would be if they hit the ground, but luckily it seemed most were vaporized in the heat of the atmosphere.

“They’re so pretty,” muttered Fluttershy to herself, “I wonder what the night-animals think of this?” she asked no one in particular. Just to her liking, her comment was ignored.

“Do you think any of them are gonna hit Equestria?” Twilight asked in a muffled tone. She was almost healed, but she still needed a good night’s rest which she was not getting at that moment.

“Doubtful,” Jolterix said, “They have to be pretty big to make it to the ground,” he looked at Tennerac, “How do you think Auflorsung’s doing if there are meteors here?”

“That’s a good question,” Tennerac replied, “But judging by the tone of Vernerasche’s voice and how calm he was sounding, I doubt they’re getting much of anything over there.”

“That’s odd, usually we’re the ones being obliterated,” Jolterix said, “Ah well, it’s nice to have someone else plagued for once. We should get some sleep, there’s no telling when they’ll get back so we should take advantage of everyone being awake.”

“You know Celestia said she’d put makeup on us,” Tennerac said light-heartedly.

“Oh yeah, right,” Jolterix laughed, “Like she’d do that. After the meteor shower, she’ll be right back in bed as will the others. Luna wouldn’t put makeup on us, anyway so there’s nothing to worry about. But if it makes you feel better, you can always sleep with your helmet on.”

“Ha-ha, well get ready for a long day,” Tennerac said as they lay down on their separate cots.
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The next morning, Jolterix awoke last since he was so used to sleeping during the day. When he awoke, he noticed everyone else had left and that the Florian ships had returned. They hovered silently in the sky like they had never left. When everything seemed tinted black, he remembered he had his helmet on because he secretly thought Celestia and the others might actually try to put eyeliner or something on him. Luckily, that didn't seem to be the case when he looked in the bathroom’s mirror. Upon relaxing, and lowering his helmet again, he noticed something odd: red lines and other things painted on his face. He thought back to the incident when he dropped Luna’s helmet when he thought of it and that Luna probably did the same to him. “Dammit,” he thought, he didn’t expect them to actually go through with it.

After a while, he reached the breakfast room where everyone else was enjoying their breakfast. By the looks of things, they had only awoken up a few minutes before he had.

“Good morning,” Luna said to him as he walked through the breakfast room doorway.

“Good morning,” he replied.

“They got that spy to talk,” Celestia said.

“What’s going on, then?”

“Apparently Discordia was mining for metals and they stumbled on those ships. No one knows how they got there, but he said that Discordia tried to reverse-engineer them, which kind of explains why they have some technology we don’t, but when you Florians came over they decided to just fire up the ships and try to chase you away. But we all know how that turned out,” Celestia explained.

“Interesting,” Jolterix replied as he sat down and grabbed some food. “Did anything interesting happen with those meteors?”

“Well a few hit Manehattan and Baltimare, but they were on the outskirts and didn’t do much damage,” Luna told him, “I know what an asteroid can do,” she said referring back to the small videos Jolterix showed her about the last asteroid that struck Auflorsung.

“I’m sure you all will be fine,” Jolterix said, “But we still have to get you all up to the Gluhwurmchen as soon as possible.”

“Alright,” Luna said.

“Good, I’ll call a shuttle to get us up there after breakfast,” Jolterix said as he bit into a muffin, “You know, I think we’ve got this almost all wrapped up. Discordia seems to know they can’t win with us here, so I’m sure you’ll be back here like nothing happened.”

“Hopefully,” Celestia said.