Central Research Center
"So...where to?" asked Necra. I reply by flying down once more to land in front of a door, it opens as I walk towards it. inside is a white room with a pedestal in the center surrounded by various different types of scanners along with a counter off to the side with chemistry flasks on it with hot plates and bunsen burners. On the walls are what looks like clear tanks built to house large amounts of raw magic. At the end of the room are a few desks with computers on them and a few papers.
"Put the Heart on that pedestal, we need to run some tests." I say as I point to the pedestal. Necra does so and fallows me to the work station. The heart floats above the pedestal as scan data comes in. We work for many hours and make much progress in what to do with the Crystal Empire's castle.
"A bubble shield?" asked Necra.
"Yes." I say.
"Whats' that?" she asks me.
"Its a hollow sphere of energy that can be enchanted by programable magic to preform various tasks. In this case, I suggest we rebuild the Crystal Empire's castle with a pylon on top of it to generate the bubble shield powered by the heart." I explain.
"That's...brilliant, but what if the shield loses power?" said Necra as she already knows that previously the shield could only remain active if the citizens of the Empire were happy.
"A backup generator would need to be installed, but to give the citizens and the rulers of that country comfort I don't recommend telling them about the safety protocol. Of corse to make the ponies believing the illusion that the heart is not its only reliable source of power. I would need to consult Cadence about this." I explain further.
"Ok...what about Cadence herself? Ponies won't live as long as us, and I don't know how long a low level alicorn such as her would last if she were the one to know of this secret." said Necra as she analyzes the situation.
"My scan data on her indicates she has a life expediency of about 650 years, after that I'm sure her baby would take over, and her life expectancy is around 2 billion if left undisturbed, and that's to say if the Empire still stands in 10,000 years." I say to establish the long term plans of the Empire.
"How...long will I live?" asked Necra a bit surprised that my scanners can actually put a death clock on life forms.
"...4,000 years...unless you want to become a cyborg or an angel like me one day." I say with a heavy heart.
"...One day..." she says as she begins to fantasize.
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Nova
Deep Space
The Innovation arrives in a galaxy where we continue to search for Epsilon.
"I know we're close...I can feel it..." I say as electricity flows around my body, pulsing with power.
"This galaxy has the most amount of dark magic in the entire universe, and from the looks of it their's a planet illegally being invaded." said VALeRY from the intercom.
"We're out of my legal jurisdiction, are you accessing files on the local intergalactic empire?" I say in a curious tone.
"This is Lavarien space, an Empire controlled by a race with a tech level 6. According to their laws, you have permission to intervene with their affairs." said VALeRY as she displays a bipedal moth like creature on the screen along with images of their technology.
"And what are these so called "invaders" doing to the planet?" I ask as I want to be sure it would be wise to exterminate this pestilence.
"Those ships belong to no major faction...wait...well that's interesting..." said V as she looks through captured data files from the local net.
"What is it?" I say with a spark of satisfaction.
"Their ships are in atmosphere and their leader is in league with the Slayer terrorist group. In fact some the tech they have is from the same facility they stored her." said V.
"It's been so long sense I've had to crack some skulls..." I say as I spin the wheel making the ship turn around as I fire up the ultradrive. The turbine spins up behind the ship as I set corse for the waypoint. We warp over a green and blue world as vast fires can easily be seen from space, a few the major land masses have been effectively glassed. I begin to smile evily as they would have never expected this.
"Keep those ships grounded, we can't afford to let them get away from us this time." I say as the rings forming the cockpit around me rotate back into the hard light floor.
"My thoughts exactly." said V, clearly agreeing with me.
"Thats my girl~" I say as I wink and flare all 10 of my wings.
"Give em hell." said V with a tone of joy that could only be expressed by some one who has seen more wars then what is reasonably acceptable. At those words I launch myself out of the bridge, shattering the hard light force felid that acts as the window. I fall from the sky straight through a battleship in the middle of their ground forces below. Above me the once horrific battleship erupts into flames as it starts to fall behind me. Surrounding me is what looks like bipedal raptor like aliens with black and red armor cloaked in a laughable excuse for an overshield. A small impact crater is at my feet, I stand my full hight.
"Hello boys~ Mind if I join the party?" I playfully ask, at the instant I finish that statement two glowing double edged energy swords deploy out of my gauntlets as I lunge at one of the solders before his brain could process what was going on.
"Oh come now, it's rude to keep a lady waiting." I say as I smile in such a way as to inflict a spark of fear into weak minds. I give off a shockwave of kinetic energy to send everyone around me flying miles away, clearing the area around me but not the tanks and solders 100 yards away. I fire an energy whip from my right gauntlet to grab onto a tank with it's gun aimed at me, I pull it towards me as it is forced into the air. I jump into the air as well with the thrust of my wings to slice it in half. I float in place to be engulfed in the explosion, it clears after a few seconds. I lunge at one of the solders once more to pound him into the ground, I stand in a pool of his blood as the impact has such force that his weapon floats in mid air for me to catch it. I quickscan the weapon, it's a close range unfocused energy weapon, so it's a plasma shotgun? My HUD picks up an enemy behind me, I thrust backwards into him for him to be hit by my back. I smack my wings together to crush him to a bloody paste. As I do this I fire the shotgun at an enemy in front of me to give me more of thrust backwards. I turn to my right and fire the shotgun at a solder in the chest, sending seething hot blood splatter everywhere, after this I turn around and hit another solder with the butt of the gun as it spins in my finger a few times before I let the trigger be pulled at the momentum, I calculate this so that the shotgun blast hits another foe. My HUD reads that the weapon needs to be reloaded, no time to do that in the middle of a battlefield with everyone shooting at me.
"Here, I think you dropped this!" I say as I make the weapon levitate in the air for half a second before injecting it with so much potential energy it glows white. I aim the velocity at a rather surprised solder as I convert the energy to kinetic, the shotgun gets launched at the solder, snapping his neck upon contact with such force that his spine can be seen poking out of his body. I deploy my energy swords once more and set the magical element to acidic with a power level of 2/10, making them glow green with a poisonous vibe. I launch myself forward at mock 2 to slice a solder's arm off, as his arm forcefully separates from his body his insides start to melt away at the acidic spell starts to take effect. After a fraction of a second I suddenly turn left to slice through another solder with my sword for him to slowly melt away. I continue to slice my way through wave after wave of solders, making blood splatter in all directions as their bodies dissolve into a pool of gore. In only 4 minutes every last solder with in 50 miles dead along with all of their vehicles, now all that remains is the air support. I look up at the sky to see more battleships loom overhead as well as fighters swarm the sky.
"V, did you disable their warp drives?" I say into my headset.
"Already done, they really didn't expect us to be out here, so that would explain the laughable security system." said V as she pulls up the fire walls being broken on my HUD.
"Whats my kill count this time?" I ask as I recall last time being only 3,506.
"2,985" said V as the sky seems to dim greatly.
"Man this isn't even fair anymore...I hate it when it's not fair..." I say as I'm used to dealing with enemy nations hell bent on destroying my Empire, stealing it to reap the technological and magical advancements, or just killing me specifically. The Pure Fire of Innovation blocks out the sun as it hovers 2,000 miles above the surface. The ship envelops us all in its massive shadow.
"Well there's not much left out there, the ultraverse is horribly unsafe for an Empire of your size." said V with a hint of concern.
"Yeah...I know, I guess I'm just starting to miss the challenge is all...it's safer this way though, ok patch me into their comms." I say getting back on track.
"3...2...1...go." said V as she is already in their system.
"Greetings, I am Nova Borealis, Empress of the Harmonic Empire. Not only are you breaking the laws of the local Lavarien Empire that has control over this galaxy, but also...your leader has a bit of information I need, So! Unless you want to end up like the comically huge felid of gore I just made from your troops...I suggest you cooperate." I say as I try to negotiate with them. My reply is their ships flying away from me.
"Why do they always run?" I ask to no one in particular.
"Perhaps they still think they can escape?" said V as she observes the events from space.
"Well it's been a while sense I've been in a high speed chase!" I say as my tone changes to determined. I flare my wings as I launch myself from the ground at supersonic speeds and fly after the escaping enemy fleet. I give off a sonic boom as the air ripples behind me out of my sheer force. I fire my energy grapple at a fighter and yank it towards me, heavily damaging the haul in the process out of the massive Gs. Inside the ship the pilots are very much dead by being through against the controls. I set my energy swords to atomic destabilization power level of 5/10, making anything made of matter break if not weaken the atomic bonds upon impact, this makes the blades glow white. The ship is on a collision corse with me, but I slice through the entire thing with ease as tiny atomic explosions happen around me as a direct result of atomic bonds of the molecules being forcefully broken. My wings give off another burst of speed as I continue to accelerate to mock 20, the air around me start to heat up. The enemy flagship comes into view surrounded by a fleet of battleships in a diamond formation. As I fly up to the side of one of these ships they fire their turrets at me in an attempt to shoot me down. I ignore this as I fire my grapple at one of the ships and suddenly increase my speed to a million MPH over another ship, pulling the ship behind me only for it to slam into the ship I just flew over before it could change corse, I turn to face another enemy battleship and clinch my hands together for a ball of destruction magic to charge up.
"Star power can go along way~ Here, why not TAKE SOME!" I say as I fire a beam of pure destruction magic at the battleship directly in front of the flagship so the can see for themselves how fucked they really are. The beam is bright white and briefly outshines the star of this star system as it plows through the ship causing it to erupt into flames as it explodes shortly afterwords. The beam bends and shifts into a huge cloud of controlled super heated plasma as it starts to swarm around the flagship, laying waste to anything in the area inside the raging inferno. The other battleships and fighters get melted in a matter of seconds as the blue ionized matter bombards them. The Australia sized plasma hurricane flows around the flagship as it slows to a halt as to not to fly into the storm. Below the eye of the storm is vast wasteland of scorched rock not made by me, but by their orbital strikes. Above the storm is the Innovation as it locks it's guns on the flagship below. The lonely vessel sits in the middle of a huge vortex of white and blue glowing matter of what would look like something from an unstable blue star. I fly up to the bridge window and cross my arms as I reconnect to the coms.
"It wasn't a request, resistance is completely futile." I say with a disappointed tone.