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I've got to give credit to my editor for coming up with a brilliant horse pun that I had completely missed.
Oh my god, a new chapter!!! Keep doing what you're doing, man. This is great.
Oh my, this is just... Well bleeeeep. I wasn't expecting this. Not by a long shot..
Oh man... I wouldn't want to be in that dilemma. do you leave the egg frozen and hope you have a better time to thaw it. Or do you thaw what is quite possibly the last survivor of your hive to raise it in the wasteland?
My grin couldn't be any wider. Whether Whisper likes it or not, she's going to have to be a mommy!
Seriously, such a great chapter! I'm so happy for Whisper. So, so very happy.
ALL PRAISE THIS FIC!
I love this soooo much and can't wait to see what she does.
I'm thinking. Considering that those scientists were propably the last functional-ish hivemates of Whisper, I'm starting to think that the burning ritual has some higher significance.
Like a Natural survival mechanizm that triggers an assencion into a Queen as the drone that burns a lot of her brethren and is a veteran survivor of a hive-extinction level event or a Great Warrior.
Phoenix Dragon could have this running as a hidden story arc where changes that Whisper experienced in the wasteland weren't only the result of the cirkumstances but also the burning of her queen slowly building her up to become a queen herself at the end. We should keep a lookout for Whisper growing or her Shell cracking.
Finally, the search actually goes well for Whisper.
Yes, just, yes, all sorts of yes! This is going to be interesting and I can't wait for the next chapter!
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There's a horse pun?
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I assume it's just a Changeling tradition to never leave behind a corpse that non-Changelings might find. Even if it's no longer pragmatic, it's still symbolic.
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That's an interesting idea. I never thought of that.
Oh my gosh! That's awesome! Whisper has some hope after all!
Poor Gamma. I really hoped she might somehow make it. Whisper shouldn't have to be without other Changelings.
Oh sh!t.
When I first saw this chapter's title, that was my first thought. In the wasteland, family is complicaed, especially for Whisper. It was also what I thought while reading the last paragraph. So well done with the emotional bookends.
She can't thaw the eggs. How could she hope to feed dozens, perhaps hundreds, of changelings? And the wasteland clearly isn't ready, given the reaction of the "loyalist" Enclave troops. Such a thrilling and complex moment...
Your work is excellent as always, Phoniex. Do you write professionally at all? I'd be willing to pay to read more of your work.
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Yeah, we ASSUME. Think abaut it as a story device and what's it's function in the story. It's there to give's Whisper's tragedy a phisical manifestation. Normal corpses do just fine but the pyres are a build-up on that and what is primarily there because it makes sence for a race that lives in the shadows to dispose of their corpses.
But it can have other effects even Whisper isn't aware of like a mean to become a queen because bugs would be killing each other to assend if that would be widely known. For her and us it's just an infiltration-convinient bug tradition but it still can hide some sekrets.
It's funny because the pyres are a mean to accent the increasing stakes of FEq: Chrysalis just like building up chem addiction often serves that purpose in other FEq stories. Pyres are Whisper's mintals, in a sence. No idea why I find it so funny.
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To be honest, I was half-expecting Gamma to rise up from the machine when evryone lost hope. Because a machine that had programming to treating ponies might not detect life signs of a changelings and like wakes up 20 minutes when evryone clebrates the eggs in the next chamber.
Why, I do believe that's the sweetest thing their borderline-psychotic berserker has ever done for Whisper.
A queen's egg, perhaps? I can't recall any info on whether queenhood is determined at conception, or if regular females can ascend.
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Now there's a thought: changeling ghouls, anyone?
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Didn't we already saw changeling ghouls? I think we did in that changeling stable that got irradiated and ghoulified evryone inside. You know, the one next to the megaspell crater if I remember correctly...
Unless you mean sentient ghouls. Then I would be curious how it works with changelings. Their natural affinity with fire might give them simlar abilities to canterlot ghouls or something equally bizzare.
8361519 You know, I had actually forgotten about her hive. No idea how that happened. Whoops.
Still, it would be interesting to see a sapient one. Whisper's gonna have a whole new debate with Echo over the morality of eviscerating 'technically dead' ponies for science.
*squees at seeing the egg*
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Great, that would give the story it's version of derpy...
I HAD A BABY BROTHER! I HAD A LITTLE BABY BROTHER! AND HE WAS PERFECT, PERFECT IN EVERY WAY!
A more sad chapter but really well written. At least the end gives hope for the future. Keep up the good work.
Long live Queen Whisper.
Literal squad goals.
Objectives Updated: <Redacted> must survive.
Remind me, is the motorwagon like a 50s-style military jeep, a humvee, or a more armored vehicle like the one on this page: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Unnamed_armored_vehicle
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I thought of that as well. XD
Seems people are happy for Whisper to finally find something in her searching. The journey isn't done yet, but it's a nice milestone, isn't it?
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I like how you think. Yeah, she found the eggs, but there's still a lot more work to do.
I haven't written anything professionally yet, but it's something I'd like to do at some point. I've got another story idea demanding to be written once I'm done with this one, and it's not pony-related, so depending on how it turns out...
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Yeah, she can be nice, in her own deranged little way. At least this time her efforts to be nice didn't result in a concussion!
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I'd originally written something different, but very close, and once I realized what I had written, well... I had to
Not the only reference I slipped into this chapter, either...
Whisper is going to be mom?
Please let them be alive. Whisper deserves it.
Echo's love of machines is almost as adorable as Sickle's love of frozen treats.
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Sorry, I missed replying to this one!
Their motorwagon is kind of a hodgepodge affair. Originally it was a multi-terrain light cargo truck, so vaguely like a humvee (lower and wider than a usual light cargo truck) with a large cargo bed in the rear. At some point (Probably after the war) it had armor welded on (Covering over the doors in the process) and a heavy machine gun mounted on the top. So it's a weird little ad-hoc all-terrain lightly armored cargo technical that probably looks suitably Mad Max to be driving around the Equestrian Wasteland. It had a decently powerful motor (It was intended to haul cargo, after all), but the armor and the amount they carry with them slows it down a bit, so it's probably a bit on the low side for motorwagon speeds. But hey, it beats hoofing it!
I really should draw the thing some time. It's something I've been meaning to do for a while, now.
OH HAPPY DAY!!!!
oh god it's foe:PH all over again.
leave the eggs : leave the kids
unfreeze the eggs : unfreeze the kids
kill the eggs : kill the kids
don't do what she did, please don't.
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Having not read Project Horizons, I can't say for sure that I'm not doing the same thing it did... but I'm pretty sure I'm not doing the same thing it did.
inb4 egg gets blown up with balefire egg, in the middle of serinity,. or wherever all the bad changelings are, leaving whisper to contemplate suicide as everyone tries to comfort her, and even sickle opens up.
That, or inb4 echo sacrificing herself to save the egg. Alicorns are way op, somethings gotta happen, something really bad.
As long as echos in the group, the only real danger they have is her blatant lack of tact,whichj admittidly, might get them all killed if they are all caught unaware.
Wow! and I was expecting them to find a freezer full of the last survivors of the complex, given the lack of corpses...
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Youth mortality rates were well within "acceptable levels" iirc. Even if a few die, whisper is likely about to be the parental big sister to her hive... right as an army of evil changlings is about to try and take over the world.
No the more evil and likely route is they all get eggnapped by chrysalis.
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Youve just doomed them you realize...
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Not exactly. When the story is nothing but death, it gets old. Gotta have some hope.
Besides, it's not as if Whisper can thaw them. It's not safe.
(She might have to though)
Oooooof. At least there was one survivor.
Oh my God. This was the most horribly fucking perfect thing.
Hey guys, remember Project Horizons?
I'm wondering just how Ultra this sentinel is.
I find it a sad, cruel irony that the first living changeling she had found from her own hive died just like that.
But I think that death is redeemed as she discovers the egg.
a new life waiting to begin, however with no real past to collect on.
still, I'm imagining Mother Whisper now, and Aunt Starlight.
Damn that would be so fucking aforable.
Oh, oh no, wiat!
aunt Sickle! I know for a fact that she would pamper the fuck out of it.
probably by making icecream.
Oh yeah...
Haha. Kid's got a new toy.
Oh, come on
Whatever you say, Starlight. Whatever you say
Nice! That means it's intact. Crap. That means they need to fight that thing.
Unless she goes in alone. Last place didn't mind her...
Welp. Guess it's dead.
Hah.
Kid's got another new toy!
Too bad they'll probably need to destroy pretty much the same vital component on any robot they encounter, meaning she might not be able to assemble one working one from the pieces
Fuck yea!
Oh damn. That's not just supplies. That's a freaking fortune in luxury goods.
Hey, here's an idea... they could freaking live here
I mean, it's powered. Come on. That's freaking priceless luxury all by itself!
Betcha they'll find a room stuffed with carcasses later
Or, given the site's purpose, a freezer room full of two century old pony popsicles.
lawl. Totally justified though.
Heehee. Another one I've used in my story too. Master hackers, unite!
Hah. Even mentioned the "crypto".
I'm with her. Everybody scream for ice cream!
She's gonna be perfectly zen for the remainder of that tub, isn't she?
Oohhh!
Oh no... after all that...
No, Sickle's got this. She knows that sad ponies need ice cream, even if it's her ice cream.
YESSSS! The eggs!
All the more reason to claim this place permanently. You gonna build a hive, this is a great place for it.
Remarks and corrections:
> peering at the vehicle for several more seconds,
> before shaking her head.
There's a line break there that I don't think should be there.
> “Much better,” smiling.
Something's missing there.
"It was a changeling egg, perfect in every way."
PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE don't let this end in tragedy.
Welp, 2 more chapters till I'm caught up again, and only one way to find out.
I'm just so heart broken for whisper.
Oh please let those eggs be ok!!!
I think the story will end with either this egg being a queen or whisper evolving to become one.
AAAAAAHH!! I knew it! Ever since the reports Whisper found about the mortality rate in Project Permafrost between adults and infants I KNEW that was where they would find the eggs!! It was, after all, safest for youngsters the smaller the mass, while the adults had greater chances in any other project.
It was heart wrenching with the CoolBugs of course, dang Whisper got through an emotional rollercoaster at that site. So close yet so far and then, bam, the future of the Hive still secured! Just as at much longer time tablet than hoped. And still too many dangers before the eggs can be safely hatched.
Damn, that was awesome reveal and then her worries right in next chapter. Aaaaah yiiisss <3
Okay thats it! There are suspension of disbelief and then there is this... Phoenix_Dragon I had thought better of you, you have paid so much attention to details, brought up gun facts that made the gunnuts cream themselves and then you do this to me... You did not let the icecream defrost! That strawberry icecream would be harder than a brick, and good luck licking that super chill icecream off a metal spoon! Just because the freezer... Ohh you did note that the process was to put the "subject" back at below freezing, not the freezer... Well cary on!
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Hey, now, I wouldn't mess up something like that. Ice cream is serious business.
Huh. Could Echo have been the same alicorn that dug Little Pip out of the wreckage?
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It's certainly a possibility
Congratulations on opening the vending machine!