PONYHAMMER 40,000. The Warp Incursion.

by Duskrunner

Chapter Thirteen - His Thanks for Those Bountiful in their Gifts

MIASMA, REPENTIA POINT

For three days the beacon burned.

Nopony knew what effect the pillar of light had on the planetoid, or on the Warp. The only thing Twilight knew was that a fire that burnt high into the sky with nothing to fuel it scared her. It was something she didn't want to be anywhere near.

Unfortunately for Twilight and every pony on Miasma everything conspired to keep them from getting further away from it.

For three days the beacon burned and in all that time Twilight and her friends could do nothing more than hold what they considered the best piece of land. Not the best land for a tactical assault or to get a view of the area: Daemons and Emperor's Children both claimed those positions as strong points from which to lay siege to the ruins of Repentia Point. The Space Marine with the DRAIGO banner had been surrounded from the moment he took over the headquarters.

New reinforcements, massive daemons that carried their girth and massive cannons on mechanical legs rained doom upon the wreckage. Every wall, every section of roof, the entire building was shattered. Wave after wave of Daemonettes charged into the dark pits.

No daemon ever emerged from the dark: the earth around the ruins remained silent and the beacon's light continued to flow into space.

For their part the Noise Marines and their supporting squads were happy to let the daemons do the fighting; Draigo's reputation echoed far within the Warp and the Chaos legions knew more about his exploits than anyone living. They were unwilling to engage him beyond volleys of concentrated heavy fire from a safe distance... at least until they had proof that the Daemonettes had managed to wound him.

Three days, an incredible cacophony of noise, and they were no closer to their goal.

Twilight sighed as Applejack passed her a 'tea' - It was little more than boiled water in a container of juice - and after a quick gulp she reassured herself.

They'd managed to claim the other ideal ground; the jagged cliffs to the east. They weren't always cliffs, like everything else the land was just small hills on the plains at first. Of course Draigo changed everything: The mud was either suppressed or cleansed and reverted to its original topography. The same earth it was when city-razing weapons reshaped it into a war zone during the first Chaos invasion.

Roseluck, Carrot Top and even Applejack had been hopeful; if the planet returned to its original state there was a chance grass might sprout and reservoirs of water might spring. Twilight appreciated their enthusiasm but her calculations predicted dehydration within two weeks at the most. She couldn't hold out hope that the planet would regress that quickly, or that even someone as powerful as Draigo could hold out against the army that he had gone to ground against indefinitely.

A noise filled the air, a long loud screeching like the sound of bombs. Derpy and Rarity galloped in, desperate for Twilight's attention.

"Is it bombing? Did something with even bigger guns arrive?" Twilight asked.

Two two exchanged glances and then Rarity answered: "Yes... and maybe. We're not sure."

Twilight followed them out. Derpy held out her magnifiers and Twilight brought them to her face with her magic: through the lenses Twilight saw huge dust clouds - it was nice that there was dust again even if it was a nuisance - and waited for it to settle. When it did she saw large silver five-walled pear-shaped containers. Each of the walls dropped open like a flower opening its petals...

The boxiest, loudest, most inelegant flowers in Equestria. Twilight thought to herself.

As soon as the silver onions opened up they revealed a mechanism mounted on the ceiling inside each one; heavy bolter turrets opened fire on the nearest deamon targets, their rounds exploding Daemonettes from within. The vessels' contents tehn stalked out: calm, quiet, cool.

Twilight looked back at Rarity and Derpy, forgetting the name 'Space Marine' briefly. "They're knights... and they're gray."

And as if to make her point for her, the air filled with the sound of storm bolters firing.

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"What are we looking at?" Twilight asked.

Rainbow Dash was scanning through a pair of Imperial magnoculars. "Whoever these guys are they mean business."

"They're some really tough hombres." Pinkie Pie added, looking through a pair of stripey candy-swirled binoculars.

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes then agreed. "They've established a perimeter and so far they've kept everything out."

Twilight looked grim. The Grey Knights weren't alone; in addition to the Drop Pods and their heavy bolters a Space Marine with a harness like Lyra's landed with an army of cyborgs. The servitors towed armored emplacements and then installed automated turrets. Missile launchers and lascannons tore the teeth out of the daemon Soul Grinders' artillery strikes.

Despite the frequent exchange of Chaos Havoks and Noise Marines Twilight knew the balance was in the loyalist's favor: a missile or lascannon would pick off a turret, a group of servitors would go out and replace it and then double up with a second turret. At the rate at which things were going unless the daemons attacked with much greater force Repentia Point's defenses would be fully automated.

And then the Grey Knights would be free to roam on foot.

"Tell me there's good news." Twilight asked.

Lyra joined them. "Actually, I think there is." She pointed to a cluster of defenses freshly erected. "The Draigo praised me for preserving the bodies of their dead. If you're right then Draigo didn't just build a tunnel network to survive the bombardment, he did it to stash everything he preserved. Which means..."

Twilight picked up immediately. "Which means those aren't just bits and computer pieces he's salvaging, they're coffins. Those Space Marines might be here for the long haul but they can't just wait and hope those bodies don't decay. They'll have to move them out to a facility where... um..."

Goldwing chimed in: {Where the Astartes will perform the surgeries appropriate to test the purity of the surviving genetic samples, extract the progenoids, and process the bodies for burial.}

Twilight turned to Fluttershy who pressed some buttons on her narthecium gauntlet and confirmed the information. "It's been too long to simply field harvest their gene-seed. The organs must be thoroughly scanned."

Twilight went on. "Which means a transport will have to land to retrieve the cargo and that will be our way out of here. So, who's ready to start working out how we do it?"

Pinkie Pie's hoof shot up. "Oooooh, oooooh, I've got an idea!"

Pinkie's words had barely left her muzzle when a trio of portals opened within the ponies' cave. Three squads of Daemonettes emerged, their faces shifting between beautiful elven maidens and ghoulish nightmares with dangling salivating tongues.

Following close behind was Immundus, dented helmet, bruised pride and all.

"Or not?" Pinkie added, her ears drooping.

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"Are you surprised to see me again, misshapen blots?"

Immundus' greeting was received with a hail of bolter fire into all three of his surrounding companies. The Daemonettes hadn't even gotten their first glance of the room when bodies began to flicker and vanish back into the Warp from bolter explosions. Unicorn beams tore into them in pairs and trios and Roseluck's flamer washed over the clustered group. Still, nopony did as much damage as Vinyl: between the multi-directional Doom Siren speakers on both sides of her head and the Blastmaster she was levitating DJ PON3's sonic energytore through half a squad on her own.

"Actually, no." Twilight answered. "I've been expecting you for a while now. You and your monsters pop in from nowhere instantly, you've been attacking Repentia Point over and over again with the same tactics. I also anticipated the same trickle of banshees, they're the only thing you have that can move in these narrow caves and tunnels."

"Overconfident xenos! You think your rabble can withstand the might of the faithful just because you observed and decided to imitate a handful of Grey Knights?!" Immundus sounded confident in his outrage but his Warp sight darted across the room even as he dodged a lascannon shot from Rarity. His squads were almost dead but they were closing in. Daemons were expendable and Daemonette claws had been the death of many a squad of Space Marines. A mere handful of survivors were enough to rend their foe before they had a chance to respond. All they had to do was get close and once the unicorns and common ponies were dead he would handle the hovering pegasi menace himself. He charged in the Daemonette's wake; he would be the second wave exploiting the daemon's sacrifice.

Twilight Sparkle smirked at him. "I also figured out that, since you can't foresee anything we do directly, as soon as we put in action a plan that would get us to the Space Marine's transport you'd foresee their reaction to our escape and follow back their investigation to this cave. I wasn't really sure, I mean somebody else might see the future or follow our tracks and that would have thrown off my plan. But, I was willing to bet that if anybody was going to be singularly obsessed with tracking us down the one person we humiliated would be first. So, thank you."

And then, just to rub it in, Twilight created a force field bubble around herself and quickly expanded it. The purple outline flowed around every pony and smashed into each and every Daemonette, tossing them back. The second the daemons were down they were gunned down mercilessly. The daemons under Vinyl and Rose's squads vanished entirely while the third and final team got up to their talons and hooves and charged into the squad under Big Mac's protection.

Another daemon fell to fire before the survivors crashed into Bag MacIntosh's shield. Applejack snared a claw with her tail-mounted power whip as she struggled with the Daemonette that parried her machete strikes. Berry Punch and Octavia, through speed and stealth respectively, snuck up behind their charging foes. Octavia drew a line across her target's neck while Berry Punch ran her twin power blades through the back of the daemon Applejack dueled.

The last, snared Daemonette was struggling against Mac's shield when her squad was overrun. The end of Applejack's whip dropped to the ground as the daemon simply faded away.

For all this Immundus managed to push his way around the ponies towards Twilight. Only Trixie and Blueblood stood in his path. "Stand aside, I will have your leader's blood."

Blueblood made no reaction while Trixie snarled. "The Great and powerful Trixie wouldn't give you the pleasure."

"Silence charlatan. I mean the pegasus / unicorn hybrid and you know it!"

Twilight was pissed off. She'd endured enough abuse to her proud species and rushed to accept his challenge. She didn't give him a chance to speak. She raised a pair of bolters with her levitation and unloaded both their magazines as she charged.

Everypony backed against the walls out of her way, constantly moving to avoid stray projectivles while keeping their eyes open for a third wave. Both sprays of ammo went wide, missing Immundus completely. He was running to meet her as well, his force staff held back. The way he carried it suggested he would trust it like a spear.

Twilight vanished just as he thrust.

Immediately after Twilight teleported Immundus found himself on all fours, struggling to lift himself off of the ground after Twilight bucked him in the spine. Unfortunately Twilight wasn't wearing power hooves or even close combat hooves. If she had been the battle might have been over then and there.

Immundus rose to his feet but hadn't finished moving when a dozen live power swords rained at his right. He rolled out of the way using his foresight to find the exact place he would be safe.

Unfortunately for him it was a gap Twilight left intentionally. As he turned to face her he was hit by a beam that to his surprise didn't knock him down like the others. He thought his armor had simply absorbed the effect.

Seconds later Immundus' helmet filled with the static of muffled yelling. The Chaos Sorceror gripped his dented helmet and when he tore it off his head was a ball of tangled curly hair. It wasn't just hair from his scalp, beard and mustache: His neck, his brow, even the fine body hair that covered every inch of his skin had grown, clogging his mouth and nostrils and blocking his view.

His helmet removed, he was tearing off clumps of hair by the fist full his free hand while aiming his force staff behind him, trying to fry Twilight with warpfire.

Browless and enraged Immundus pulled for his bolt pistol; It wasn't even out of its holster when Applejack's power whip snapped tight around wrist and handle. Four different unicorn levitation fields grasped at his armor, helping to keep him still. Immundus tugged to aim at them with his staff when he felt his hand get caught. A servo-harness' power fist clamped over his staff and knuckles.

Lyra hesitated.

"Do it!" Twilight yelled.

Immundus scarcely managed to tear his arm from his power armor's gauntlet when Lyra crushed both gauntlet and force staff.

The sorcerer was panicking: He'd underestimated his foes number and their capacity to deal with his reinforcements and as a result he'd been kept off-balance the entire fight, dealing personally with wave upon wave of non-psychic sorcery. He had to take up the offensive if he was to have any hope against this group. He wasn't aiming for victory anymore, he just wanted one casualty he could present to his god as a morsel...

Twilight trapped him inside a force bubble and immediately reinforced it with three more exterior fields, layered like an onion.

The innermost layer began to shrink, bending his knees and neck. Immundus tried to remain erect and overpower the force field through sheer mass.

The first field cracked and shattered so Twilight began compressing the second field and creating new exterior barriers to replace them. On she went and faster the fields compressed until she achieved her goal: The joints of his knees gave away first, then his unarmored arm. Moments later his armored gauntlet cracked as well. As Twilight shifted the energy shields' shapes from circles to oblong spheres she crushed his backpack as well.

Twilight dropped the magic compacter and teleported the shattered backpack off his power armor; it blinked into the air and fell behind him.The lights in his power armor flickered then died,

Unwilling to yield Immundus raised his broken arm and spheres of lightning shot from his fingertips.

Twilight levitated his body high above their heads and faced him to the ceiling, rapidly spinning him in place like a leaf caught in a whirlwind. When the sorcerer refused to stop creating warp lightning Twilight saw no choice but to slam his body against the cave walls.

"Twilight, stop it, he's had enough!" Fluttershy yelled at the sight of the bloody Space Marine.

"Fluttershy he' ain't normal. You can't tell Twi to just let him go, If anyone's gotta say 'uncle' it has to be him, not us." Applejack called out from behind cover.

"We can't trust him even if he does surrender." Rainbow Dash added, hiding behind stalactites just like the other pegasi now that there weren't any more daemons to shoot. "His armor and weapons might be smashed but he's still got his freaky dark magic!"

"He won't surrender." Octavia said.

"Then do the humane thing already!" Sparkler yelled.

Everypony looked expectantly at Twilight. Twilight was going to ask why.

Then she realized they weren't looking at Twilight, they were looking at Princess Twilight Sparkle. They had a prisoner, he was a monster, and he was dangerous. "You're right. All of you."

Twilight cleared her throat and spoke in a more regal tone. "Immundus, you're dangerous and from what I've seen nothing we do or say will prevent you from doing more-"

He roared and a tongue of unfocused psychic power burst from his body.

Twilight yelped after being knocked down but got up to her hooves quickly; She'd been covered by Sparkler's force field. Twilight turned to Sparkler: the other pony had cast her magic to protect her on instinct.

Twilight spoke and she was no longer regal, she was just tired. "There's nothing more to say. It's you or us."

Twilight's gaze went skyward and her magic sparked.

Immundus vanished then reappeared miles above their heads. His projected fall would drop him half a mile north of their location.

Twilight forced herself to watch. It was an ugly business, a state execution, but it had to be done and she had to bear witness if for no more reason to be sure he didn't sprout wings and escape.

He'd already fallen half the height and was picking up speed with every second. When he reached the final third of his fall a hole in the fabric of space opened up beneath him and he vanished into it. He didn't re-emerge at the other end.

The tear sealed itself and the sorcerer vanished.

Twilight sighed. "He'll be back. I don't know how badly we hurt him so assume he'll be back and be ready for it." Despite the fact that they hadn't killed him, despite the fact that her friends were unharmed and only daemons had been vanquished the ordeal left a bitter taste in her mouth.

Twilight wanted it done with as soon as possible. "Pinkie, what was your plan?"

In response Pinkie Pie pulled out an Imperium tool: it folded out from its square shape into a digging shovel with a pick. "We're digging our way out."

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The hours passed silently and quickly. Nopony would have believed it.

Rarity did the bulk of their specialized work. Her earth vision spell allowed her to find dense masses before they hit them. A bucket brigade kept shoving mounds of dirt, actual dirt, out behind them. Blueblood and the squeezing-to-fit Big MacIntosh guarded the rear, the latter because he was a giant shield, the former because despite his personal growth he still wasn't about to shovel earth.

The digging crew had soon bypassed Repentia Point, its automated turrets and the Grey Knights that defended them.

"Just a bit more, maybe a mile and we'll be past their defenses." Rarity said enthusiastically as she made the earth transparent above her. She kept adjusting their path relative to the surface landmarks Twilight mapped. She kept hoping the bodies she assumed from the bottom were the same formations they had seen on top.

In between passing a scoop of dirt Flitter thought to ask. "Did that... guy say who those gray knights were?"

Cloudchaser mumbled with a scoop in her mouth then repeated. "Yeah. He called them the Gray Knights."

Flitter blinked. "Clever." she deadpanned.

"Speaking of clever..." Cheerilee spoke up. "How exactly are we going to get access to the transport?"

Twilight exchanged looks with Lyra who in turn chuckled to Goldwing. "Leave that to me." Lyra said.

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Lyra crossed the distance from Repentia Point to the transport vessel with Goldwing perched on her back, a crate hoisted on her power fist and mechadendrils and a pair of lobotomized servitors smoking and leaking oil in a tunnel in explanation to the how and why.

The team had waited until a supply convoy got close, smashed the servitors and Lyra took their place. She wore the signet Draigo pinned to her chest and Goldwing had the means to reprogram lesser servo-brains: codes had already been spliced from the scraped servitors' cogitators. If worse came to worse Lyra hoped she could whip out the Inquisitorial Rosette instead of falling back to Rainbow's 'smash them all' plan. Inside the metal crate Rarity and Trixie's levitation helped Lyra with the container's weight while Rainbow and Cloudchaser hovered in place.

Minutes later Draigo's seal and Goldwing's communications were accepted without incident from the guardian sentries and defense servitors keeping a perimeter around the unusual vessel.

The covert work was finished once Lyra, with Goldwings help, reprogrammed the servitor's cogitators to accept that one pony-shaped servitor with power armor was actually twenty-one. Rainbow Dash took a tentative first step out from the container and everything ignored her.

Everypony sighed in relief: they were clear. Rainbow took flight to retrieve everypony else and soon Twilight Sparkle and everyone else joined them. Twenty-one ponies, two dozen servitors, five defense turrets and a growing mountain of scavenged supplies.

The group's leadership got to work: a servitor's tasks were interrupted to answer a request for replacement food and water supplies, emergency replacements for bolter ammunition and flamer prometheum had to be scavenged. The brains and logistics ponies then met: they needed to find a way to get everypony up and out, ASAP.

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Derpy was acting strange, stopping at odd times, waiting for things nopony else was waiting for. Something had happened as soon as they reached the orbital craft but nopony could guess what. She said she couldn't tell them what it was.

She had lied.

Nopony saw her talking to herself; nopony saw her sadness.

The voice in her mind said his peace. He was a body invisible to everything but her. "Let's be clear about this, 'Ditzy Doo'. Your coltfriend 'Time Turner' has a bit of experience in this area. He knows when something can't be changed."

"Fixed events in time." She said nodding.

"That's right. Some are a little more... flexible than others. As lousy as his word choice was Discord was trying to sound sympathetic. I'll put it like this: that transport is going to make it off this planet and make it out of the Warp, and it's going to do so with twenty ponies stowing away on board. Not twenty-one, twenty."

Derpy's heart sank. She looked at everypony watching the expressions of relief on their faces.

"Was it always meant to be me?"

"No, I have to say it wasn't. There's a few of you it could hit depending on circumstance. We could delay it a few hours, a few days, but it will have to happen."

Derpy looked thoughtfully at Sparkler, at Carrot Top, at the distant Princess Twilight.

With no other thought she went to Sparkler and Carrot Top and wrapped a hoof around each of their necks.

Sparkler looked back at Derpy with relief. Carrot Top said: "Aww, don't do that Derpy, you'll make me nervous."

"We made it, everything is gonna be just fine." Derpy said confidently.

She got closer to Sparkler and said: "You've always made me so proud. I don't think I'll ever get used to how strong you really are.
It makes me feel a little old but that's ok; it's been worth it to see you grow up to be who you are now."

"M-momma... stop. You'll make me cry."

Derpy held her tight then let her go. "It's ok, Momma's just being silly. Sorry for being such a hoof-full Golden."

"It's ok Derpy. What's the occasional fridge between friends?" Carrot Top answered, meaning every word.

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Derpy walked out a few paces, looking over the cases and crates like everypony else had. She opened a fresh arrival and rummaged, eventually finding a strange foodstuff. It looked and smelled like bread but when she bit into it all she tasted was raw paste. "Ugh... some things are just not worth thinking about."

"It's time."

"Now?" Derpy asked startled. Her crossed eyes looked worried as she looked around, trying to identify the source of danger.

"You need to move a bit but yes. If you don't somepony else could be the one. Or you could warn them, make everypony duck.

Derpy stared at the ground.

You could delay until the Grey Knights return and discover you, or until the Emperor's Children come in force and take more than just one."

"They're going to use the panic as an excuse to get the ship into orbit and leave the system."

Discord whistled, sounding thoroughly impressed. "And some people say you're not that bright."

Derpy closed her eyes, gave a small smile and shrugged.

"Just take five steps forward and hold still for a count of two."

Something else bothered him, something he had to ask. "Don't you even want to know who you're taking a bullet for?"

"I don't really need to: I'd do it for any of them."

Discord smiled at her. She was just so endearing.

"Will it hurt?" She asked.

"I promise you won't feel a thing."

"Shouldn't I put down my saddlebags and power sword?"

"No dear. You'll need them where you're going."

"What?"

you're going to light the way

Something about the way Discord thought that made her feel completely reassured.
Derpy took a step forward, took a deep breath and stopped.

The crack filled the air a fraction of a second after the round crossed the sky.
A hidden Emperor's Children Chaos Marine scanned through the scope of his Daemon Eye long range bolter.

The shot went straight to Derpy's head.

There!

Derpy snapped back, suspended in mid-air for the briefest second before her body was encased within a perfectly cut yellow gemstone.

"MOMMA!" Sparkler screamed and everypony reacted to her.

Applejack and every pony with a bolter turned towards the outer perimeter and unloaded their weapons' ammunition.

A war cry rang out from the hills and an army of Chaos Marines rushed from their cover, charging into the Gray Knight lines.

"Twilight, Help!" Rarity screamed.

Twilight turned from the sight of Bon Bon manually directing a servitor's autocannon shots and Vinyl raising Tartarus with her blastmaster to find Rarity levitating Derpy's crystal chrysalis with her magic.

"Rarity what ware you doing?!"

"I can't hold onto it. It's getting away!"

Twilight didn't understand but the second Rarity's magic slipped she saw that Rarity wasn't levitating the stone, it was hovering on its own. Hovering and rising into the sky with no sign of stopping.

Twilight caught the gem with her magic, looking for some sign that the pony within was conscious.

Derpy wasn't moving.

Twilight held on but the gem continued to rise and rise until at last it broke free from Twilight's levitation field.

Sparkler blinked into existence on top of the gem, anchored herself onto it with her levitation and wasn't letting go. Focused to the last she hadn't even thought to put up a force field around herself. Bolter fire ricocheted off the stone's smooth yellow surface. The Chaos weapons didn't leave so much as a scratch.

"Momma, Momma help me! Momma get up! You have to get out of there! Don't leave me!"

There was no answer.

The gem rose higher and higher, gaining speed with each passing second until Sparkler was no longer riding atop but simply holding on for dear life to its side. Tears filled her eyes as the gem hit escape velocity. Her power-armored hoof slipped.

She fell.

For achingly eternal moments she fell and all she could see was that yellow gemstone vanishing in the distance.

Two pairs of hooves caught her. Flitter and Cloudchaser had her, hoisting her up with their hooves under each one of her 'armpits'. They spread their wings and slowed their dive, controlling their descent so they wouldn't impact like a meteor. Once they were in control they shifted their flight and buzzed into the open hangar door to the planetary craft.

Bon Bon dragged in the damaged autocannon servitor while Lyra and Goldwing combined their talents to get moving. "The servitor crew's accepted our emergency orders. Hold them off until the hatch's closed!"

Twilight and Trixie combined their magic to create a force bubble while Big Mac and Blueblood stood in front with their shields raised high.

Applejack shoved a large heavy crate towards the ramp. A team of ponies copied her and shoved another crate forward to create cover.

The last bursts of bolter fire impacted and exploded when the ramp finally sealed and the environment changed to cold air as the cargo hold was pressurized.

Lyra called out to Twilight. "Goldwing says we're headed into orbit. This thing's called a Thunderhawk Transport. Well, the ship is in any case. We're just cargo loaded into a transport pod. The servitor pilot has instructions to take us into orbit and load us specifically on a transport that's headed for the Sol system."

"Anything special about the Sol system?" Twilight asked.

{Holy Terra. The Center of the Imperium. This vessel is headed to the heart of the Galaxy.} Goldwing replied.

"Twilight...?" Applejack asked nervously.

"How long will it take us to arrive?" Twilight asked anticipating Applejack's question.

{Warp travel estimations are notoriously inaccurate. Furthermore we are assigned to a funerary convoy vessel, Mundus Vecturae class. The Vecturae is an ubiquitous commonplace civilian mass transport. Our assignment to one suggests we are to pass anonymously through the bulk of Imperium traffic. Given the reported nature of our cargo: deceased Space Marines and Imperium servants to be processed for re-harvesting and burial, and the quality of our vessel it is unlikely we will arrive to the Sol system with any haste.}

Twilight turned the AJ. Applejack nodded in a manner that said Twilight had guessed her question right and that she could live with the answer. Twilight looked tired. She settled down on her belly and closed her eyes. "We'll worry about that once we're underway. The alternative's taking over a ship we can't control by force."

Lyra looked worried, then said. "Goldwing'll take care of it so we aren't scanned, and he'll transmit a note that we've got multiple servitors monitoring and preserving the remains so we'll need extra supplies of food and drinking water."

Twlight nodded but her heart wasn't into it.

Lyra moved on while Twilight could do nothing more than stare at Sparkler, looking up to the ceiling of their container as she huddled in the corner.

Comments

[FluffyPanzer]

Nice chapter