Damn it Rampage fucking hell... this'll end beautifully, I just know it.

Nicely done man!

“Next left. The broadcasting hardware should be through–” Windsheer started to say when Mare Do Well came to a double door marked MASEBS/SPP SIGINTBRDCNTR. What the heck was that supposed to mean? The door opened, and three things became apparent all at once: first, the room inside had once been a control room of some kind, with a multitude of terminals. Second, it was now holding the corpses of a dozen or so dead zebras, none of which were particularly fresh. Third, it had been wrecked. The terminals and controls were smashed, gutted, or dead. Cables and wires were strewn every which way.

“Oh no. No no no!” Homage said as she wiggled off of Dash’s back.

I just realized that the text goes from referring to her as "Mare Do Well" to "Rainbow Dash" around here.

he said with soft chuckle... one not quite as sincere as I’d like, but I'd take what I could get.

he said with a soft chuckle... one not quite as sincere as I’d like, but I'd take what I could get.

Toasted called happily.

Toaster called happily. (Or is this intended? Wordplay and all that.)

There goes Big Daddy. RIP

He returned an bashful smile.

He returned a bashful smile. ?

A between the flight kinda chapter. Sex in space on a rocket, what an achivement. sounds like a more TV-MAer episode of Space Dandy right now. Gah, this chapter will not give it a rest on Glory will it? Fine, be that way chapter. May it be confirmed soon what happened. Cognitum being Cognitum again, countess give me a break. Oh, hi Rampage. Was wondering when you'd turn up. Or would you prefer the name Peppermint?

Xanthe x Stealth Suit.
I ship it.

“Hey, Blackjack. Long time no see. You’re looking good,” Rampage said casually, the blades of her armor gleaming in the moonlight like cold stars. “‘Fraid I have to kill you now.”

Well shit.

7411041 Whoever gave you that dislike has absolutely no taste in shipping.

THERE IS A CHANCE THAT GLORY MIGHT LIVE!!!!!

I wonder what happened to Larry the concerned cyber pony?

“I don’t have a penis, by the way,” said the one on the left, Steel. “Just so you know,” he added in a buzzing synthetic voice.

That sucks bro.
In my head, in battle he's screaming about not having a dick while tearing through brood like a madman. You go Steel, harness that genitalia-based rage.

“Don’t hit the self-destruct button by accident or anything.”

Doofinshvirtz evil incorp-or-a-teeed~

The sun blazed as it came around the curve of the planet, much smaller but far more brilliant than the planet it illuminated

My brain is blowing a fuse trying to fathom what she just described.

She’d brought Twilight Sparkle’s baby all the way up to the stars during a time of war and strife, in the hope of seeing a better future

So true. And now mommas little girl has made it to space too.
There should be a alternate universe short where she is an Astropony.

“You’re disgusting,” Velvet said contemptuously.

“Indeed,” he replied evenly. “Which is why, this time, I’m trying to do better.”

Yay! He's taking Blackjack's advice to heart!
...or at least what's left of it.
Of course, I ended up in Goldenblood

Congradulations! You've won the lottery, and a battered body full of necromantic, toxic pink gas and undead life!

Enjoy your brief vacation in the mind of one of Equestria's greatest destroyers!

“She... she lost a leg.” A tiny note of horror was in her voice.

Oh dear Faust, how terrible, she lost a LEG!
Oh woe is she! The end is neigh, all things good has died!

Oh? What's that? You lost TWO legs?
How pitty on you...

“I

don’t have a penis, by the way,” said the one on the left, Steel. “Just so you know,” he added in a buzzing synthetic voice.

Ah. Those guys.
I liked that guy, he was funny.
Poor fella. Lost his lightning rod.

“Of course not. I’m going to be a real Wonderbolt, Lens,” Windsheer chuckled. Rainbow Dash stared at him as the armored stallion turned his head away, adding in a lower mutter, “For once.”

The one thing worse than what Rampage asked in Neighvarro. An offensive offhand comment like this...nice.
Nice job 'Wonderjoke'.

“A PipBuck cutie mark would be pretty sweet right about now,”

Oh, you do not even know.

I didn’t think I could laugh like that anymore. It took several minutes for me to compose myself and Scotch to quit her pouting and join us. Scotch was young, but ten or less years’ difference wouldn’t raise any eyebrows back in 99. “You really think of me as your mom?” I asked when we pulled ourselves together.

For some reason this really struck a chord in me.
To think that Scotch thinks of BJ as a mother figure...I just don't know how to take it.

I mean, sure her real mom is dead, and she never really got to know her on a fundamental level, but I still can't think of the words 'mom' and 'Blackjack' in the same sentence.
Even if she is pregnant.
I can not fathom how she would take care of or raise them...

“Your mom tasted like… apples,” he said with such certainty that I knew, from that point on, I would never be able to eat Sugar Apple Bombs without thinking about the part of my mom I wanted to think about least.

“Oh…” I closed my eyes. “I… didn’t want to know that. Why did I have to know that?”

Mmm, these apples sure are good.
Yeah. Tasty tasty apples. And toast on the side. With a little butter scotch candy as desert.

Apple pie.
Apple tarts.
Apple fritters.
Sugar Apple Bombs!

Dang apples are delicious!

Something like liquid sunlight glimmered at the bottom. Carefully, he replaced the stopper in the bottle and slipped it into his dragonhide cloak

Anypony wanna bet that's part of Big Daddy?

Instead, this was just a healthy mare’s body wrapped up in a suit of stealth barding that was a little bit more snug than I was comfortable… actually, it was perfectly snug. Just in all the wrong ways.

Sounds like that ghost REALLY likes Xanthe. I wonder just how SNUG a fit it is...lol.

The suit ‘screamed’ in pain, “Owie!”

Oh my. Sounds like quite the grevious injury you've got there Mr.Stealth suit.

The unicorn mare’s laughter pursued them. “Run all you like! You’ll all die in the end. But we shall live forever!”

So the brood are developing I perial attitudes...dear Faust, it really IS the and of the world!
What shall we do as the previously lifeless brood lord over us all with their demeaning speeches and superior egos!

Nooooooooooo!!!

“Hey, Blackjack. Long time no see. You’re looking good,” Rampage said casually, the blades of her armor gleaming in the moonlight like cold stars. “‘Fraid I have to kill you now.”

Only Rampage could pull that off casually and mean it.

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Sounds like that ghost REALLY likes Xanthe. I wonder just how SNUG a fit it is...lol.

I ship it.

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She knew it from "Perceptions," chapter 63, which had a section about that.

The author's notes continue to grow more amusing as time goes on. :)

So, no surprise Big Daddy didn't make it. No surprise there's a question as to whether Glory is actually dead. (I'm honestly on the fence about that myself, though I've at least figured out one, maybe two ways she could have survived.) No surprise Cognitum can tell when Blackjack is riding her; shouldn't be surprised Boo can do about the same.

I mean, admittedly, I kind of want Glory to be dead, because that was a fittingly epic, and above all, meaningful, death for her, coming at a time when I was not feeling super-sunny about her, so it hit harder. But if she's not, I won't be too surprised, and I'm interested to see how she got out of it.

Scotch thinking of Blackjack as a mother figure is a nice touch. (Poor kid.) P-21 having a real cutie mark is a serious cocktease. D: I said I wasn't surprised Big Daddy bit it (what was in that potion?), but I'm still sad because he was cool and I wanted to see him fight Stygius. :( I like how Toaster is the one irredeemable character not siding with the bad guys right now, and I hope Candlewick burns his ass, because it will be very satisfying. :B

‘WELCOME PRINCESS LUN’ proclaimed a banner across a large lobby. 

oh, nice reference to the "welcome princess Celest" banner at the beginning of "swarm of the century."

MASEBS/SPP SIGINTBRDCNTR. What the heck was that supposed to mean?

Ministry of Arcane Sciences Emergency Broadcast System / Single Pegasus Project, Signals Intelligence Broadcast Center.
Easy !

The sun blazed as it came around the curve of the planet, much smaller but far more brilliant than the planet it illuminated.

*snort* Try call it small if you get a little closer...

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Thank you good person!

“To sail the cosmos with the corpse of this planet as his vessel"

WHAT I WANT, CLOUD

My hoof brushed against a rough burr on the otherwise smooth metal around the porthole, and I glanced down in dull curiosity. ‘For Tarot. May she see the future.’ I ran my hoof back and forth over the words. Marigold had been here in this very rocket. The first mare to leave the world by pony ingenuity and return safely. She’d brought Twilight Sparkle’s baby all the way up to the stars during a time of war and strife, in the hope of seeing a better future. She’d been rewarded with scandal, snide insinuation, accusation, the end of her career, humiliation… and a daughter. Tarot’s future had ended in a stable, and ten generations later, here I was, walking in Marigold’s hoofsteps. Returning to the moon.

That is absolutely beautiful. Destiny. No other word for this.

He stared straight into my eyes, and said evenly, “I want you to take care of Scotch Tape if I die. Make sure she lives.”

thats called foreshadowing.

Big Daddy left like a fucking badass. Love him

Stronghoof still being like that in an actual battle and not just in front of Blackjack gives me new appreciation for Crumpets. Hope Palsm gets her shit together and protects my boy.

Not sure if it has been mentioned yet but why can't Littlepip use the SPP to help everyone?