30 Discovery, Recovery, and Preperation
Lily - 3rd of Solarus ‘15 EoH - Noon
The last thing I remembered was everything going black. Not my vision, my vision had been fine. It was the world itself which had turned black and then everything disappeared. Time, space, direction. Everything.
It was still black, but I could feel things again. There was a down, and I was laying on something soft. There was also sounds, a few faint beeps, a murmur of speech, and the hum of-
“Elektrizität?” I asked allowed, the clear humming of something electrical coming from something near my head.
What on Equis would even be using electrical power? I’d only recognized the sound thanks to taking Mechanical History as an elective. That stuff had been obsolete for a whole generation! Arcane field powered devices were so much more-
“Lieutenant! He’s coming too.” A female voice called from just to my left.
“Told you the lil guy would be the first one. Pay up.” Another, mechanically distorted female voice said.
“Ugh… fine.” A male voice grunted irritably “Nurse, can I talk to him yet?”
“Ja, I can hear you.” I answered, “Wie lautet dein name? Uh, sorry, I mean-”
“It’s cool, I speak Germane. I’m Sky Trigger. Who are you and how are you related to me?” Sky asked.
“Was? Why do you think I’m related to you?” I asked, moving to sit upright and whacking my forehead and horn into something. “Ach! Faust's ficken mähne!”
“Oops!” The first female voice squeaked. “Sorry let me just get that for you.”
The blackness pulled away, revealing itself to be a hinged piece of medical equipment attached to a very soft looking bed, in a very shiny silvery-gray walled, bright white roofed hospital ward.
It had to be a hospital. The walls were covered with monitors filled with all sorts of medical equipment readouts. Also there are very few kinds of rooms filled with a row of beds against one wall which do not have personal lockers to go with them and privacy screens.
There were three people in the room besides myself, David, Jade, and Light. Unlike my friends, those three were not also laying in one of the beds.
The closest one to me was a short, scrawny, extra-glossy green shelled changeling. She had a short cropped mane and tail with no real styling to them, glass-bottle-green eyes, and a painted on cutiemark in the shape of a red cross on each flank. To my surprise she was also dressed, kinda, with a teal sash running from her right shoulder, under her left arm, and wrapped around her barrel. The sash had a little silver pin set into it which looked like an arrowhead somepony sat on, as well as a small oval shaped gold-stud near the neck.
Next was a dark orange pegasus stallion, who was ether a Meteor Orange or a Burnt Orange. A nice shade either way, but it was one of those colors that was right on the border of named hues, and it bugged me. He had a messy, spiky blue mane and tail, a cutiemark in the shape of a lightbulb with a circuit pattern on it, over a soldering iron crossed with a wrench like a pirate flag, and bright green eyes.
The best part was that he had the absolutely most perfectly handsome features-
“He’s married, Mr. Oxytocin Spike.” The nurse changeling giggled as she used her magic to turn off some equipment on the bed.
I don’t remember curling up into an embarrassed ball atop the bed, but I suddenly found myself in that position despite not remembering getting into it.
“Pfff! His face! Oh man I wish I had been recording that.” The third person snorted.
At least the distortion in her voice made sense now. Whatever the hay she was species wise, she was dressed in a full set of armor, including a helmet. A really unusual helmet. It had what looked like the smoke filter cylinder from a firefighter’s mask, but much shorter and set into a square housing which joined the rest of the helmet seamlessly, and featured a black opaque full face visor, and two bits for pony like ears to slip into at the top.
The really unusual thing was the face-plate had a few characters projected onto it in orange while she laughed. I assumed that ‘XD’ was not nonsense, but some sort of code.
“Okay… pretending this didn’t happen…” Sky muttered clearing his throat.
“Ja… sorry.” I sat up slowly, then cleared my throat. “Where am I, und who is she?”
Sky shook his head, “Sorry, I’ve been rude. You’re in the Equestrian badlands, inside of the Emerald Hive. That’s my friend, Kev, we found you guys while I was out proving to her that my hoverbike is better than hers.”
“Hey!” Kev objected, faceplate projecting ‘>:c’, “That remains to be seen!”
“Read the tech specs.” Sky deadpanned, “Anywho, while doing first aid on you, we noticed you and I share a ton of DNA. I don’t have any siblings or relatives as far as I know, so I would like to know how-”
Oh! Well, this was the mother of all coincidences. “Excuse me, but you said das Emerald Hive, ja?”
“Yeah. Why?” Sky asked.
“My parents received kidneys from somepony living here.” Said with a grin. “When my own body started to fail, I fixed myself by using the DNA I’d gotten from the DNA I’d inherited due to both my parents having a non-Germane’s organs, to grow and transplant my own replacements.”
The nurse flinched, “Oh… I’d been hoping you weren't actually from Germaney… I’m sorry we can’t provide more transplants for your country, but we don’t have unlimited cloning capacity.”
I blinked and turned to face her, intrigued by the notion of on demand organ cloning. “You can clone individual organs? But how do you sequence the DNA to get the proper segment? I had to make entire organ systems and then cut the part I needed out of that.”
“Yeah, they can.” Kev grunted, “The how is advanced technology and magic working in tandem. The hive you’re sitting in is an old wreck of one of my creator’s ships. These guys fixed it up. Suffice to say, you’re in a hive full of engineering nerds, the best kind of nerds.”
“I could explain the technicals of the process sometime later if you’d like.” The nurse cheerfully informed.
“Okay, so, apparently my folks signed up for tissue donation and never told me, because I only signed up last year and you're not a foal.” Sky mused, rubbing a hoof against his chin. “Does this make us half brothers, or does it make you my nephew?”
“I don’t know… But excuse me,” I turned my attention back to the hooved biped, “You just said creators und ship. Are you some kind of alien construct?”
A series of three dots scrolled across her faceplate. “Why does everypony always assume we are mechanical after we say ‘creators’? Ugh… No. I am organic. I am also only sort of an ‘alien’. In the extremely distant past this was my species’ creator’s homeworld, and we share some of their genome, so I am sort of very remotely descended from native lifeforms. But I was grown on another planet with the rest of my species. So, yeah.”
I stared at her in confusion for a few minutes.
“She’s bad at explaining things.” Sky chuckled. “She’s a Gaian, another species made them a few hundred million years ago to help them colonize other planets. Long story short, that didn’t work out, there was a revolt because Gaians can magic and their creators can’t, a few of them froze themselves to try and not be exterminated, and she and a few hundred of her people thawed out eight years ago in a base under Whitetail Woods.”
“Oh… So… huh.” I didn’t have much I could say about that. “So she is an alien?”
“Yep.” Sky and the nurse stated in unison.
Kev’s face place projected a ‘:c’ code. “But… I’m technically not an alien. We have a claim to this world too!”
“Can we have this debate later?” Sky sighed, “I’m trying to work out what this mare-colt is to me exactly. Uh, no offense intended, it’s just that you-”
“Look extremely female I kn-” Suddenly it hit me, “Wait, how do you know I’m male? Nopony else has ever been right…”
“Seriously? Both of your eyes have that almond shape stallions do, and the nostril flare is more square than round.” Kev protected in disbelief, displaying a ‘o_0’ code.
“I know right? When I first started crossdressing I thought that would give me away.” I exclaimed.
Sky turned to look at Kev with a raised eyebrow, “How did you even notice those details?”
“Under our suits we’re not very unique looking. There’s only a hundred or so natural unique faces. Learning to recognize subtle shapes is just a thing we do.” Kev explained, “Also he’d be your half-brother. He’s replaced a lot of himself with parts made from your parents DNA, as well as the bits from two other ponies, so if you average things down he’s half related to you via a parent. So half-brother.”
“Eh, that’s cool I guess.” Sky said in a dismissive yet satisfied way. Like he was figuring out where a book on a library shelf was. “Well, that’s one mystery solved. Back to Engineering for me.”
But… we just found out we were siblings! I frowned and slipped off the bed, “Wait! Could I go with you?”
“Uh… no?” Sky said frowning.
I felt my ears droop. “But, we just met, und were related!”
“Yeah, technically. Due to medical donations.” Sky said with an eyebrow raised. “I don't wanna be mean but I do have things to do, and a technicality doesn't mean a whole lot. Sorry...”
I gave him a long sad stare. “But I've never had a brother before.”
“Yeah, same here.” Sky agreed shrugging his shoulders.
My ears perked hopefully, “So, we can get lunch und talk about each other?”
“No,” Sky sighed, turning around, “Look, I’m sorry, but I don't have any attachment to a pony who just so happens to share my parent's genes because of some organ donation. I have work to do for the Equestrian military, and it’s already a bit late because I put it off to race Kev. You seem like a nice guy, but I need to go. Later Kev.”
I swear my heart fell out of my chest as he trotted off. I’d wondered for years whose blood I shared besides my parents. I suppose I could understand him not caring, but I certainly did. We had the chance to be a family! A real one. Not just a pair of ponies and the heir they were ashamed of.
“Fuck…” Kev sighed, watching Sky walk out of the room. “That’s cold… I’m sorry, he doesn't always understand how others will feel… Oh my god, your eyes are just… You know what, fuck it. Hold on.”
I turned and looked as the alien woman reached up and tapped the side of her helmet, “Connect me to the Trigger residence.”
I gave her a confused frown and opened my mouth to ask what she was doing but she interrupted.
“Hello, Airstream? It’s Kev.” she announced speaking off into space like she was talking to somepony else.
Oh! Communication spell. It had been a while since I’d seen one.
“No I didn’t forget anything this morning. I’m in the medic- Miss… Uh, no… Miss… Sky’s alright! He’s not hurt.” Kev protested, helmet projecting a ‘>.<’
She paused for a few moments, looked at me, and made a gesture involving rapidly opening and closing her hand, after which the text “moms…” scrolled across her faceplate. “I assure you, those bikes are completely safe miss. Besides he can fly, if it goes out of control he can just jump off- Oh, you meant me? That’s very nice of you, but- Look, just because I don’t have a fear response to dangerous situations doesn't mean I don't have a sense of self-preservation- We’re bunny trailing here! Can we please get onto the topic? It’s important.”
At this point her face plate began to flash the same code as before, but with a little pulsing asterisk after it.
“Anywho, we actually found a group of people who botched a teleport. They’re fine, we flew them back here. The rest, should be waking up soon. What might be interesting to you, is uh, you and Hair signed up for tissue donations to Germaney right? Yeah that’s what Sky assumed. Okay, well one of them is a Germane… just a minute-” Kev tapped her helmet’s side for a second then asked me, “You mentioned crossdressing, do you present as female? You act a lot like a mare, but I don’t want to presume and be rude.”
“Uh… Well.. I’m weird. It’s easier to just call me a mare.” He admitted with a deep blush.
She nodded and tapped her helmet again, “Sorry, had to sneeze. Right, so there’s a Germane here who’s the kid of the ponies who got your donations. She’s pretty much genetically you're half-kid and Sky was a butt to her just now, and she’s all sad because she was happy to have found something kinda like fam-”
Kev clamped her hands to her helmet and made a pained sound as I heard a mare’s voice shout “HE WHAT?!”
I winced, the nurse winced, that had to be mega loud in there.
“OW! Airstream, please stop yelling!” Kev yelped. “Be specific? She asked if he would get lunch with him and he said ‘Look, I’m sorry, but I don't have any attachment to a pony who just so happens to share my parent's genes because of some organ donation.’”
Kev paused for a few moments then nodded, “Okay. Soon as the nurse says he can go then. No! Don’t tell her, you know she’ll over react. Sky just wasn't thinking is all. He wasn’t being mean on purpose. Yeah, okay. Bye.”
Kev took a deep breath and leaned back against the wall. “Okay, so your name is?”
“Lilly.” I replied, “What’s going on?”
“I called Sky’s mom and now you’re invited to dinner this evening. She’s really big on family… But you owe me one, because I definitely just blew an eardrum. I can take you there as soon as the nurse says you can leave.”
“You mean someone wants to have me over for dinner!?” I gasped in delight.
The changeling fluttered her wings apprehensively, “Well… I’d like to run a few tests… He should be able to go in an hour. Er- out of the medbay that is. Lily, you and your friends should stay here for at least twenty four hours. I will know if there will be any side effects from the treatment by then.”
Stay here for a day? Sure! I was fine with that! I had kinda-possibly-maybe family here!
I felt my heart pick up, it was like all the happy which had been sucked out rushed back in at once. It almost hurt.
This was literally a dream come true! I had a nice dress in my saddlebag I could wear, and I’d be on my best behavior, and be welcomed, maybe get a hug, and the dinner would be home-cooked goodness, and just-
“Nyeee!” I squeed, doing a little happy dance.
“Oh boy… I think I just errored…” Kev sighed to herself.
David - 3rd of Solarus ‘15 EoH - Afternoon
“David, sweetie, please get up.” Jade’s voice called through the blackness of that twenty seconds of post-wakeup time.
That time where everything feels like it’s it’s fuzzy. The time where your primary thought is ‘Coffee. Now.’ and you feel like you were just hit by a truck.
“I’m up…” I groaned starting to sit up and bumping my head into something. “Ow.”
“Damnit! That makes two today.” A high pitched female voice grumbled.
I felt the warmth of a magical aura on my face, something scraped a bit as it moved, and then there was a really bright white light in my face!
I held up a hand- no, a hoof- to block the light, and sat up slowly with a groan.
“Where the fuck are we?” I demanded, blinking the bright splotches out of my eyes.
“A changeling hive!” Jade said happily, wrapping an arm around my shoulders. “They’re really nice, and have a really cool home! Everything's metal!”
The sound of a hoof thumping something metallic made my ears twitch. “See?”
“Not realy… Visions pretty spotchy.” I grunted.
“It is?” The female voice asked from off to my right. “Hold on, that happens sometimes. Let me just check your pupils.”
I felt a hoof gently grab the side of my head and turn it, a moment later a bright light whited out one eye, forcing me to blink.
“Ah! Dilation is just a bit out of whack. Common side effect of those crude Gaian stims… Don’t get me wrong they get the job done but sometimes…” I felt something cold press into my neck, followed but a sharp pinch and a hiss of air. “There you go. Should clear up in a moment. I’m Ensign T’ilk, medical officer in training. You’re in my care at the moment.” She explained.
Heh. Ironic that the medic winds up in a hospital being tended by another medi- “Excuse me, but medical officer? Are we aboard a ship?” I asked curiously. “We were just teleported, and I am pretty sure that the… mage transporting us exploded. If we’re back at the sea-”
“Oh no! You’re on the far side of the Equestrian badlands, a day’s walk from the Zebrican border. Your mate informed me of your mission. I’m afraid I must insist you remain here for twenty four hours for observation, but don’t worry you’re quite safe from the Swarm here. We’re underground, well armed, and will have early warning if they approach.”
"I see.” I groaned as my vision started to clear up. “Dusk must have meant to send us here then. But exactly how safe are we? Jade said this place is metal, are we in a bunker?”
“Well… yes and no. Your first guess about a ship is close, but I don’t think we could ever make her fly again if we wanted to… I’m not allowed to tell you much, security reasons, but you are in a ship hull buried beneath the ground, that’s been converted into our home.” T’ilk answered.
“And it’s really cool!” Jade said as her smiling face came into focus, “Your bed has this little mirror like thing called a screen and it shows your heartbeat and breathing and all sorts of-”
Then the rest of the room came into focus. “What. The. Actual. Fuck?” I demanded of reality.
This was a medical bay stolen straight from the set of a Star Trek-Mass Effect crossover fan film.
I had no words. Every single last detail was either an exact replica of that clear and unique Fleet style or ripped straight from the design docs for the Alliance Navy. It was like an army of fanboys with unlimited time and budget set out to out-setbuild Cecil B. DeMille!
“Is something wrong?” T’ilk asked, now revealed to be a green shelled changeling- who the fuck cared? How did this place exist? Why did it exist?
“Who the flying fuck built this place?” I snapped. “Where did they find the design?”
“Uh, our ancestors did.” she replied, ears drooping in confusion. “We found historical documents aboard and restored the ship to it’s former glory… mostly.”
“I- but- who?” I demanded pointing a hoof at nothing in particular.
Then my eyes picked up on her sash. Which had a god damn comm badge on it. “I- huh?”
I think my brain broke a lot, because the next thing I knew, I came too on my back with a concealed Jade holding my hoof tightly.
“Sun’s Light! You’re okay!” Jade exclaimed in relief, “We think you reacted to the medicines badly. T’ilk has the person who gave us first aid in the other room to see exactly what she gave you. Don’t worry everything will be okay.”
“Commbadge.” I blurted remembering the last few moments. “That changeling is wearing a commbadge!”
I heard a god damn sliding door his open. An electronically distorted voice instantly came into hearing range. “At worst any residual effects will wear off within what, six more hours? Don’t be too worried, Nurse.”
Someone new! Someone who could explain! I sat bolt upright and pointed a hoof in the sounds direction, “You! Explain how where and why I am in a Federation medical b- ay?”
I was looking at what I could only describe as a hooved, digitigrade, Quarian pony-based nekomimi, whose suit had apparently been designed by Lucasarts prop guys after marathoning the Lord of the Rings.
“Oh. Okay.” I said nodding to myself. “I get it. When I die I reincarnate into another universe. Got it.”
“David, you didn’t die. You were just knocked out and poisoned.” Jade said, destroying my theory about reincarnating.
“Ah. So poisoned, and hallucinating all of this… Makes sense I did like scifi…” I muttered as the god damn… “Actually, wait,” I asked pointing to the alien, “Is there a god damn Quarian pony-girl over there?”
Said Quarian pony-girl zipped over to the side of my bed like someone shot her from a gun and looked me dead in the eyes!
“Hey,” she hissed, “I don’t know how you even know that name, but you need to shut up! These changelings religiously believe certain things are how the past really was, and are doing their best to be really good people by using it as an example. If you pop that bubble who knows what will happen. Got it?”
“No!” I exclaimed.
She slapped a palm to her faceplate and sighed. “Nurse,” she called, “I need to talk to him in private.”
“Oh. Well allright.” T’ilk said trotting back into the side room.
“What about me?” Jade asked with a frown. “I’m not leaving him…”
“You are fine.” she answered, “Right, so I’m Kev, what's your name, sir?”
“David.” I answered, a confused frown spreading across my face.
“Alright, David.” Kev began, “I don’t know how you know what you know, but please, say nothing. These changelings found this ship as a wreck thousands of years ago, and after finding scattered recordings built up this image of… Well my own species creators were not the best people, but the way these changelings see them is perhaps the best view of the good they achieved. So for the sake of not causing a cultural upset with them, and to preserve the monument to the best of our creators, my people pretend that their version of history is accurate while we are here. Please do the same.”
“Okay… But, how does a sci-fi TV show make it from my world to-” I stopped talking mid sentence as what Kev said clicked. Star Trek was a human TV show. She called this recreation of it a monument to her creators. “Oh my god. I’m in the future!”
“Wait, what?” Kev asked. To my surprise an ‘o_o’ emoticon flared to life on her faceplate.
“Uh… What’s with the emoticon?” I asked, completely derailed for what must have been the fifth time this hour.
“It’s hard to emote with tempered transparent titanium in the way. Now explain yourself please!” Kev begged.
Well, this was either going to be the most unbelievable thing ever, or… Actually there was no or option here. Best say what happened and stick to the simple facts.
“I’m from Earth, in the twenty first century. I was transported here by a powerful mage in thanks for giving her a gift. She gave me a new body and basically let me loose to live my life. And apparently, no knowledge that I was in the future instead of some other dimension…” I trailed off, checking Kev’s faceplate to see if she was believing me.
“Well… I’d call bullshit on that, but after eight years of living in Equestria and seeing a winged unicorn literally move the sun with telekinesis, sure I can buy that.” Kev decided after a moment’s thought.
“Wait, did you say move the sun!?” I asked unbelievingly.
“Yeah, she said move the sun… How? That’s the god’s domain?” Jade protested.
“Yes. Look, just… You have to see it to believe it.” Kev sighed. “Speaking of which, I want some proof. You know the creator’s name for their homeworld, but you may have heard it from one of my people. So, quick history question. Who was Emperor Palpatine's apprentice?”
I blinked three times. “Y-you serious?”
“Yes.”
“You want me to verify my story, with a Star Wars trivia question?” I demanded.
“Well… most of our records were destroyed over the years. We were in stasis for a long time. Even molecular data storage has it’s limits.” Kev informed, “Our own memories were degraded as well, so I can’t even remember my twenty-third century history lessons about the twenty-first. Hell, I can’t even remember my original name, my adoptive pony mom named me Kev. I can't really ask you much about the twenty-first aside from that.”
“Darth Vader.” I answered with a sigh. “It could have been anything! A president’s name, the national anthem, name the world superpowers of the era… and you go with a movie question?”
“Hey! It’s nearly all we have left of our past’s entertainment. It’s precious to us!” Kev objected, projecting a ‘>:C’ emote.
“I’m so lost…” Jade said to herself.
“It’s okay hon, I’ll explain later. Right… My turn, the hell are you? Some kind of robot?” I asked, flinching a bit as Kev’s facelate projected an angry emote.
“No. I am a Gaian. The suit is an environment suit, this atmosphere is toxic to us. We are organic sapient lifeforms engineered to be self replicating autonomous colonizing tools. We would be grown on site, build infrastructure, do all the grunt work to start a peaceful colonization effort. Things went wrong, the Empire did something unspeakable to the natives we were helping, we decided to rebel, we lost, myself and one ship’s crew used the debris storm form the space battle in orbit to sneak our ship into the place where it is now and hid via stasis pods.
“We ment to sleep two hundred and fifty years, the AI fucked up. Time went on for a few Geological ages, the Terran Empire at some point fell or abandoned Earth entirely because evolution has kicked in to create the world you see now-”
“What?” I interrupted. “This is Earth?”
“Yeah. Well, it was. It’s not fair to call it Earth anymore. Humans are extinct… Except for you I guess.” Kev replied. “Oh my god you’re human! You could tell us so much about our past before the-”
“Oh my God. I’m back… I’m home…” I whispered to myself. “This is Earth.”
Kev nodded. “Yes… Sorry, I’ve upset you. I didn’t mean to-”
I shook my head slowly unbelievingly. “All the time, it was…”
I was on Earth. In the future. The far far far future. Populated by talking marshmallow ponies with access to magic. All of the weirdness, silliness, and seemingly arbitrary things about this world flashed before me in an instant.
This world was crazy, adorable, and pretty fucking awesome, and now that I knew the truth about it, I wouldn’t have it any other way. I had to live out my life somewhere, it might as well be here. In the hull of a long crashed starship talking to an artificial lifeform while sitting next to my bug-girl girlfriend.
With a world this nuts, the only thing to do was roll with it. There was something I had to do. One last thing before accepting the world the way it was and enjoying life in it.
I looked over at Kev and asked grimly, “Humans are gone?”
She nodded, “Yes. We estimate for at least two hundred and fifty million years.”
“My god… We did it...” I said sitting up and sliding out of the bed onto my hooves. “We finally really did it.”
Dropping to my belly I slammed a hoof into the floor, “You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”
Jade rushed to give me a hug, “Oh no, David’ it’s okay! I’m here!”
I took a deep breath and stood back up, “No no. It’s fine. I had to do that. Responsibility as the last of my kind.”
I turned and noticed Kev’s faceplate. It was projecting an ‘XD’ emote. Her hands were holding her sides as she shook with silent laughter.
I pointed a hoof at her, “That was my test to see if you were telling the truth.”
She snirked and in an out-of-breath voice said, “If we didn’t have the movie on file, I’d be crushed I hurt someone that emotionally deeply. You trust me now?”
I nodded. “I do. Too many coincidences to ignore. This is the future, humans are gone, and I’m on Earth. I can live with that. Mostly because god damnit, I like what’s become of this place… Now where’s the exit? My friends and I have a job to do.”
Jade gave me a hurt pouty face that literally cut me to the soul, “I thought you were actually upset…”
I gave her a quick hug, “I was. A little. But I’m a practical guy. There’s nothing I can do to go back to where I was, so this is my home now. You are my first real love, and I wouldn’t take you back to my old world with me even if we could because you would be miserable there. In short, this is my life now and this is where I live it. I’m not that upset that the old one’s gone. Everything ends one day after all.”
Jade thought about it for a few minutes then nodded. “I understand. Let’s just make sure that it’s the Swarms time to end soon, okay?”
“Damn strait hon.” I agreed.
I saw the world clearly now. THere were no more surprises to be had. Everything made sense, save for magic, but Lily could explain that to me. Speaking of my best friend…
“Uh, where are Light and Lily?” I asked turning back to Kev.
“Light is resting in the quarters which have been provided for you." Kev answered. "Oh right! Some gear's been provided as well. We're in full war prep here so it's not very good... just what was left over. Also, once you're okay to leave my superiors asked me to fly you out to meet the Princesses at the battleground. It's not very far from here and they want to make sure you lure the Swarm right to their position as well as ensure your safety and the like. The nurse wants you here for at least twenty four hours though. Basically to make sure treatment for radiation poisoning took properly. Oh, and Lily’s getting ready for dinner with her long lost half-parents.”
“Wait…” I asked, eyes scrunching in confusion, “Her what?”
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Well. The planet is future earth. Don't see that very often.
6791319 It's an underused idea that I happen to like. Also makes time travel much more interesting IMO.
Look, I'm sorry I just can't accept this. I can take humans being on another plane of exsistence but this..... Ugg I'm probably going to dump this story now.
Another issue is some wholes in your story that you created with this chapter. It was stated earlier that if a ling is far enough from their hive and has gotten enough love they can become a queen. It was also stated that Lightning had become a changeling QUEEN already due to the love she got from her crew mates.
YES!
DUSK'S ALIVE!
All of meep's stories are a shared universe!
Since the emerald hive hasnt unlocked its full power, that means we're reading about past events!
This also means the "sea of" series hasn't began yet!
And since a main character got rezed at the end of the first book by, guess who, DUSK! The adorable party girl of death herself!
Which means, that since she exists in the future, she lives in the past! Or our present if you think about it...
6791325 but not the best one. I rather it NOT be earth Heck if Planet of the Apes survied then MLP would have completely survived and would be known. This was an unneeded twist.
6791590 shared universe? aww crap that means I have to read all of Meep's stuff now.
not the reaction I expected from David, but a good one
onwards queen meep!
Hey, this was cool. I like it that all of your stories are in the same universe. Are you going to update your sea of stories any time soon?
Another story that has the setting of Earth in the far future is "Legacy " by NFire and he is doing a bang up job of it too. I highly recommend it
6792059 ...
i just had an epiphany...
what if the reason the 'sea of _____' stories haven't been updated is because this story and those stories will intersect at some point and this story has to get to a certain point for such an intersection to be viable, and if that is the case, that would have some VERY interesting implications!
6791526 That's actually a good point. Also something easily fixed. Thank you.
6791590 Ahem. Different timelines within the same universe. Also if you remember your date stamps from AtSoT, it starts with
where as TQID takes place in '15 EoH. SO even if they were events in the same timeline, this would happen after the Sea series. One of the difference between the Alpha and Beta timelines is in Alpha the Emeralds decided to reactivate the AI core, but in Beta they decided not to.
I like your optimism though :)
6791824 Nah, my stories are mostly stand alone even though they share a setting. They dont share timelines though. But if you want to read the other stories canon to the timeline this story takes place in, have a look at this bookshelf of mine http://www.fimfiction.net/bookshelf/798535/beta-timeline
6792059 I felt that the Sea Series was getting too silly, so I stopped writing it. But a while ago I relised I could split my setting into different timelines so I could still tell a more serious story in it, hence the Alpha and Beta timelines. AS such I may go back and finish the Sea now.
6792363 NFire and I are actually friends :) I am freaking ecstatic that you think I pulled that particular twist off as well as he did, but.. I have to disagree, I think he did it better.
6792662 I have told people in comments that my two Timelines can interact with one another...
6792696 noooooooooooooooooooooooo...
Sky felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of moms cried out in rage as their children were silenced.
"Traitor..."
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6793016 Gandalf the Gray.
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6793124 or padawan obi wan kenobi
6793189 Ugh god no, Force Ghost revives are such an annoying trope! ><
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Quite a good question there.
Yep, that's called 'Sequel bait' I'm glad someone noticed it :)
Yep! Chapter 31 is going to be interesting.
Who is the Kevin you were thinking of o.0
The next chapter explains in Detail. These guys are this timeline's alternative to the A.R.C. The diffrence being "Hostile Imperial Humans" vs "Friendly Synthetic-organic Colonists"
I see that the Emeralds here are just as advanced, or at least fairly so.
Wait, so Sky is the orange and blue pegasus with the hoverbike? Aww. I've been thinking for a long time that the one in the prime timeline was some sort of revived Flash.
"Creator's ships "? Interesting.
Hey, so my very post-Earth human guess for Kev was kinda sorta correct. Cool.
Hahaha, Sky is in trouble.
Hahaha, poor David, he's getting less comparatively advanced by the moment.
Yeah, I had a feeling that unicorn typed stim was going to have been an issue.
There we go!
>:C
Bwhahahahaha! Oh god, I think I'm dying from laughter.
Ahh, so the Emeralds here have enough contact with the Princesses that they'd be participating in the Swarm trap, that says a fair amount about the state of international relationships.
6793316 I edited in a picture, but apparently I wasn't fast enough. It's the name given to the episode 100 wedding changeling in the CCG.
6793209 oh i was thinking the line he yelled in episode 1 when qui gon got shanked
But revives at the cost of losing a shade of a colorisnt that bad...
Or are you telling me dusk's task isn't done yet?
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Flash fan huh? No worries, you'll be sated soon.
Yep! 20% correct :)
Hey, it's of cultural importance!
I figured you'd like that bit.
In the Beta timeline as of 08 EoH the Emeralds were forced to enter an open alliance with Equestria due to a lack of water. Thus they are acting as per their mutual defense treaty.
6793351 Dawwww! <3 He has a name and everything ^>^
6793352 You'll see
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"In the Beta timeline as of 08 EoH the Emeralds were forced to enter an open alliance with Equestria due to a lack of water. Thus they are acting as per their mutual defense treaty."
The Emerald hive is officially known as Vault 13.
6794382 Hey! It was a water circuit that failed! Not a chip! (No, but realy it is a Fallout 1 Reference. Except "Wait... It's NOT apocalyptic outside! You lieing bastard!" "It's not my fault, that's what I was told it was like when I took the job of Captain!" "The ponies are even nice!" "Well, cool. I guess.")
I read both new chapters, All I can say is... Well Done
*applause*
6792700 ah I was kinda joking I was going to go though your stuff anyways because I really like you stuff.
6795707 Oh! Well thank you ^.^ I'm flattered.
6796418 Well, if he was in his early 20s during WWII (the 40's) he would have been in his 90's around 2010. As a person who lived a pritty solo life, he'd likly have kept doing the movies and fantasy fiction scene, and thus have kept up. Also unfortunately, aside from a few Weird Tales comics, Lost in Space, and Flash Gordon my own knowledge of early American sci-fi is pritty lacking. I should put in a few older references though. I do have one in there to a 1960s movie though!
Count it as more recent things are more fresh in his memory?
Wow, David's got really flexible... *cough* parts...
Stealth-consoling. Hey, she's a changeling, they're sneaky.
Please forgive my utterly childish playing with typos.
6798261 Those jokes are so funny I refuse to fix those typos! (Especially because equines don't get as rigid as humans so that first one might be possible with a lil bending that wouldn't be painful >> What? I grew up on a ranch.)
That's true. If you're the last human you have to say the Planet of the Apes quote. It's the law.
6791319 It could easily have meant to be preservation if you think about it, it would make sense.
Also, holy fuck, Quarians and movie quotes... This is by far my favourite chapter.
I'm all sorts of confused....
Well,
first of all let me congratulate on fiction written so well, that i can enjoy it fully. It is realy great.
One thing buggs me on this particular chapter though.
:David served in world war 2 (was around 18 at start and around 22 at the end)
after the war he was wasting his life away for around 10-15 years
thats around 1960 or 1970
How the hell does he know about star wars, about mass effect, about star treck and everything?
7081757 I think he was really old because it said in the year 2015....... idk really.
7081757 Star Trek actually came out in the mid/late 60s and Star Wars officially late 70s as for the Mass Effect, that does beg the question since he would have been in his like 80s-90s when it came out atleast and I doubt he would have had an interest in it
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You'd be surprised how many old farts picked up gaming in the late '90s/early '00s. I met a few online playing early MMOs once those became a thing... EverQuest on a dialup modem was still an amazing thing nobody had ever done before. Now, the more time goes by, the more gaming gets mainstream, the more of us start becoming old farts ourselves, that number's only gonna go up.
I don't plan on spending my dotage playing shuffleboard and canasta when the time comes, I can tell you that. ^___^
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welcome to my world
10163496 User name checks out.
Future Earth, huh. That’s actually really cool.
I love the idea that Star Wars is one of the last bastions of humankind. Guess I gotta keep those Beatles CDs polished like all hell. Although; I believe a few of their songs were sent into space to tell aliens about humankind.
Sorry, my inner music nerd has awoken again.
One other thing I find somewhat funny is that David hasn’t referenced anything from the 40’s or 50’s. His PTSD must be really bad, then, if he’ blocked those years out of his mind.
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I grew up next door to a WWII vet. He never talked about those decades. I figured none of them would.