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// Chapter 14: Sunset's Ship Trip - Part 2 
// Story: Spacebound Equestria 
// by TheMajorTechie 
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	For a while, Sunset could only get herself to wander around the urban landscape, admiring the modern designs that had been integrated with the ones she had known. Great towers not unlike the ones she saw in the city towered over the streets, of which seemed to never slow it's traffic.

Eventually, after what seemed like hours of aimlessly wandering the city, she found herself standing right back where she started - the entrance to the supposed cockpit of the ship. After looking back one final time at the sheer beauty of what she had just strolled out of, she quietly slid inside.


~~~{Cockpit and Offices, Equestrian Pride}~~~


Sunset quickly navigated the labyrinth of hallways, mentally taking note of where each door led. She eventually stopped in front of a rather large door that had caught her attention. On the plain steel door, were the words "Equestrian History Archive - The evacuation of Equestria" in gold-leafed letters.

"I wonder what's in here..." she thought, pressing the button to open the door.


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Until Now, Sunset never realized that the hallway that she had been wandering in was in reality, a visual library of the past, with each room enchanted to reenact each and every moment that they documented. To her horror, she discovered that the one that she had just stepped into held a very dark secret.


~~~{Primary Ship Control Deck, Equestrian Pride}~~~


Sunset burst into the main cockpit in a flurry of yellow, red, and orange. "MOM!" she angrily yelled, even though Celestia was already facing her direction. "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME ABOU--"

Celestia raised a hoof to her daughter's mouth, cutting her off.

"Listen, I know that you're mad about what happened about a week ago, but I need you to stay calm."

"I WON'T STAY CALM, NOT UNTIL YOU TELL ME HOW THIS MESS STARTED!"

"Sunset, please understand, even with the Changelings on our side, we were no match for Sombra, not against the army that he led. After the fall of Manehattan, we knew that we were on the losing side. Each city and town that he razed became integrated into his forces. We had no other choice..."

Sunset sat silently on the cool aluminum floor, processing her mother's words. After a few minutes of silence, she finally began to speak again.

"So... we're never going back home?"

"Probably, Sunset. Even with Sombra no longer controlling the land, it'll be pretty hard to bring Equestria back to it's former glory."


~~~{Sombra's Hideout, Equestrian Pride}~~~


A murky figure sat at the end of a long hallway, lined by shards of jet black crystals. A lone stallion from the local security forces nervously trotted down the path, a single beam of light from a headlamp leading his way. Suddenly, the figure appeared to flinch, surprising the stallion. He continued at a steady pace, the beam of light flickering in the increasingly dense veil of darkness. It was beginning to become much harder to see the figure, when it suddenly appeared to lunge upwards, as if it had been shot from a cannon. The stallion shrieked in terror as he realized that the dark cloud around him had begun to become denser and denser, filling his lungs with the essence of Sombra.

Once the dark smog had cleared up, only a single figure remained within the confines of the hallway - the stallion - that is, the living disguise that now housed Sombra.