Journal Entry #2077, J’Poc Signed In.
They are coming…
The transport parted trees from the ground as it rumbled through the forest towards the landing site of the Interceptor. Princess Twilight Sparkle flew a short distance above with her watchful ancient eyes looking out for any trouble ahead. All of her companions were loaded into the transport itself, Xal driving while all the others were loaded into the back compartment. As well as the away team, a dozen of the village’s hunters had also accompanied them, led by Teneer and Ronaar. They were fighting for their freedom and they would be damned if they let the crew of the Harmony do all the work.
Still, no resistance had been encountered as they traversed the trees, something that only made the Princess that little bit more uneasy. If they had yet to run into any resistance then that indicated they were walking straight into a trap. But while that may be the case, J’Poc still had very little idea as to what they were capable of, what she was capable of. He had no experience fighting their kind, and no specific counter to their magic.
If J’Poc was setting a trap for them, so be it. They were more than happy to spring it.
And yet Twilight kept all her senses focused on locating anything suspicious, any potential danger. As they went on forwards the landing site of the Interceptor got closer and closer, soon they would be upon it.
Inside the cabin, Xal was in constant contact with the Harmony, giving the crew periodic updates. In the back the others all sat in mostly silence; that silence was only occasionally being interrupted by the occasional chatter.
“Your people up for this?” Iynx asked Teneer. “I know you’re doing this to protect your home, but this fight won’t be pretty.”
“I’m counting on it,” Ronaar commented, much to Taneer’s chagrin.
Iynx gave Ronaar a raised eyebrow. “A little eager, aren’t we?”
“You’re one to talk,” Ronaar shot back. “I see that look in your eyes. Your relish battle, live for it.”
“I wouldn’t go that far…” Iynx shook her head. “My people were built around war. In our earliest days that nearly destroyed us, before we began to accept the friendship of others. Still, our warrior culture remains to this day. Almost all griffons learn how to fight.”
“A requirement?” he asked.
“Not at all,” Iynx stated. “Once, perhaps. But not for a couple millennia. If a griffon doesn’t have the stomach for it, that’s their own prerogative. Most simply choose to do so because it’s a part of who we are.”
“And yet you deny your warrior’s spirit?”
Iynx rolled her eyes. “I never said that. I’m a griffon, but I’m also an officer of the ESP. I won’t shy away from a fight, I am a tactical officer after all, but I don’t relish fighting or killing. Quite the opposite.”
“Admirable,” Teneer stated. “One should never let death become normal to them, lest it destroys all that is good within that person.”
Ronaar rolled his eyes. “And that is why he is the Elder.”
“Not by choice,” Teneer pointed out.
Ronaar smirked. “Still, Iynx, let us see how that griffon warrior spirit holds up in the fight to come.”
Iynx smirked back. “And what of the Sha’Du? I have yet to see you do more than take down a couple, while we slagged an entire group of them.”
“That sounds like a challenge.”
“I suppose it does.”
“You finished measuring dicks?” Nimble Star asked, more than a little bemused. “It gets a little boring after a while.”
Iynx gave him an amused, and slightly mischievous glace. “You’re just annoyed that the griffons would have kicked Equestria’s ass several times over without the princesses.”
Nimble gave them a glare. “Excuse me? I think you would find the EUP is perfectly capable today, and has been perfectly capable since its founding.”
“Capable, just not up to griffon standards.”
“Oh? Have you forgotten about the battle of Baltimare, a couple months after the attempted coup by Nightmare Moon? If I recall, the griffons decided that was the perfect time to perform an attack of their own, and failed miserably.”
Iynx scoffed. “Yes, and only because Princess Celestia led the EUP personally.”
Nimble’s glare hardened, his comeback prepared as the others looked on.
“This… could go on a while,” Silver Wrench deadpanned, Geneser just giving a chuckle along with her nod of agreement.
The argument did not go on a while, however, as the helmspony and First Officer were stopped when the transport jolted to a halt.
A loud bang drew their attention to the roof of the transport, where it sounded like Princess Twilight had just landed. Not a moment later, Xal emerged from the cockpit and examined the others with a grim expression.
“We’re here.”
Princess Twilight stood atop the transport, looking steel faced towards a large boulder in front of the transport, the boulder itself stood at the head of a large rocky outcropping. The boulder also had a couple dozen drones all lined in formation with weapons raised towards them, but that didn’t hold the Princess’ interest; rather, her eyes were locked with the one who stood on top of the boulder smirking arrogantly at her, a sharin, J’Poc himself.
“So, you’re the little trouble makers who just couldn’t die in their shuttle like good boys and girls.”
“J’Poc, I presume?”
The sharin gave a mocking bow. “In the flesh. Though I must say, I’ve never seen a creature such as you before.”
“You could say we’re new on the block,” Twilight responded. “But it matters not, your little ‘kingdom’ ends here. You torture of these people shall not continue.”
“And why do you care? They’re just savages.”
“There is only one savage here. Surrender, we’ve already beaten many of your drones. And whatever else you can throw at us will too be destroyed.”
“Oh, I know.”
Twilight blinked. “You do?”
“Of course, what do you take me for?” J’Poc responded with fake offense showing on his face. “I’m not a moron. You have abilities that are very, very alien. I was not prepared for somebody like you, I know when I am outmatched.”
He formed a grin on his face, no seeming like someone admitting defeat. “It’s also true anything I throw at you would likely be destroyed. Even if I killed those pretty little companions of yours and all those damned primitives, I would still have you to deal with. I mean, wow! Just look at that hair! Screw gravity, right?”
“Are you done?” Twilight deadpanned.
J’Poc chuckled. “Done? My dear, are you honestly asking me that? I cannot beat you, but one thing they can do, is slow you down!”
Just then, the air around them shimmered, and four large turrets seemed to appear out of thin air.
“They were cloaked!” Twilight bellowed in her Royal Canterlot Voice. “Out of the transport, now!”
“And they weren’t cheap, it was these things or better armour for the drones I’m afraid” J’Poc stated, drawing a plasma pistol as he began backing away. “Now I would love to have his dance with you, but I must depart.”
Twilight couldn’t pursue him as the four turrets homed in on the transport and four green beams erupted toward it, forcing Twilight to place up a large shield to protect them as the crew and hunters all clamoured out of the vehicle.
The drones also opened fire, downing two hunters as the rest charged into the enemy full of both bravado and rage. Xal spotted J’Poc fleeing, and fired a phaser beam in his direction, it only missing by a few metres.
“Damn!” he shouted. “Princess, logically he must heading for his ship!”
The Princess leapt from the transport to the ground as the turrets fired again, pacing up another shield around them as the transport exploded into a large scorching fireball.
“Iynx, get after him!” Twilight ordered. “The rest of us will aid the Sha’Du and then join you after this lot have gone.”
“Aye, ma’am!” Iynx confirmed, priming her phaser and using her wings to propel herself after J’Poc.
“Not alone you’re not!” Ronaar declared after spearing a drone, running after the griffon as fast as his two legs would carry him.
“Ronaar!” Teneer shouted after the hunter, but went unheard. “What is he doing?!”
“They can both look after themselves,” Nimble stated as he shot dead one of the machines. “Let’s focus on the immediate problem.
A beam of lavender shot past, reducing one of the armoured turrets to dust within moments as Twilight turned her attention to the remaining three. Despite dividing her attention between attacking and defending her allies, J’Poc was correct, they would ultimately only slow her down temporarily.
As the alicorn and those fighting with her dealt with the automatons, Iynx and Ronaar were in hot pursuit of J’Poc. Several individual drones met them along the way, but were quickly despatched by phaser, spear and talon. The path they followed led around the large outcropping of rocks and towards a large clearing with several Sha’Du slaves slinking back in fear. At the centre of the clearing the Interceptor was perched, one of the airlocks open with a boarding ramp extended.
However, there was no sign of J’Poc.
“Where is he?” Ronaar asked as the two came to a stop at the entrance of the clearing. “That is the thing he arrived in, is he already aboard?”
“If that was the case, then why hasn’t he-” She was cut off as a hoof connected with the back of her head, knocking the griffon to the ground.
“Iynx!” Ronaar shouted, spinning and darting his spear forwards.
J’Poc rolled to the side, firing a blind shot at Ronaar. The shot missed the man, but disintegrated his primitive weapon.
Ronaar darted forwards and grappled J’Poc before he could react, but the equine was easily able to buck him off and to the ground. Despite this, before J’Poc could take any other action he was forced to avoid a phaser beam fired by a recovered Iynx, firing back as he took cover behind a tree at the edge of the clearing.
As the sharin prepared himself from behind the cover, his predatory eyes locked onto something. Ronaar was only just recovered and attempting to rise to his feet, and he was out of cover in the space between Iynx and J’Poc.
Iynx also spotted this.
“Ronaar, move!” Iynx shouted as she darted forwards to the man’s aid.
Ronaar was only able to glance towards her as a plasma beam impacted his side, vaporising the hunter where he stood.
Iynx gave a shout of rage as she kept moving forwards, taking to the air as she holstered has pistol. J’Poc fired shots at her but she nimbly avoided them all as she bared down onto him. Her talons reached for his neck, but he stopped them with his right leg barring the way. However, Iynx’s claws buried deep into his plasma pistol, rendering it inoperable.
In response, he ripped off Iynx’s holster attached to her armour, throwing it to one side. With both combatants now unarmed, they each threw punched and kicks and one another. Iynx was able to score a few good hits with her claws, cutting deep into his flesh, something that would likely scar. Instead of waning, however, J’Poc’s rage grew. He ducked under one of Iynx’s swipes, his hoof meeting her face a moment later, knocking her to the ground.
J’Poc was running out of time, and he knew it. The Princess would be coming any moment, and thus he had to leave.
J’Poc kicked Iynx in the stomach, before bolting for his ship. Seeing this, Iynx forced herself upwards as she lunged for her discarded phaser, turning to fire a shot.
She hesitated, however. J’Poc, knowing her next likely action, had grabbed one of the slaves as he ran and was now using them as a meat shield; to make matters all the worse, the slave in question was a mere child. He was also attaching something to the back of the distraught crying child’s neck.
“Catch the ‘bad guy’, or save the kid, your choice!” he exclaimed, pushing the child forwards before bolting off towards his ship again.
Iynx made her choice in under a second.
The griffon rushed forwards to the child’s side, turning him over to examine the device. A red light was blinking, and it was beeping. She tugged at it, only causing the child to bawl harder as the device had been fused to his skin.
Iynx groaned, taking her phaser and adjusting the setting to an extremely low but precise yield.
“This might hurt, kid.”
Iynx aimed her weapon at where the device attached to the kids neck, the beeping increasing in intensity. With extreme care she fired the phaser, taking off the skin the device was attached to as the child screamed in excruciating pain, though bravely tried to remain as still as possible.
With it detached she took the device in one claw and threw it as far into the air as she could, and it was there it exploded mere moments later.
Several of the adult Sha’Du rushed forwards to the child’s aid, and with who Iynx assumed to be his mother whispering comforts into his ear as he held onto her for dear life, the mother looking at Iynx gratefully.
Iynx nodded, turning to pursue J’Poc, only to witness the Interceptor rising into the air as its impulse engines then propelled it high up into the sky.
“Commander!”
Iynx glance behind her, seeing Princess Twilight land just next to her. The alicorn’s eyes were trained on the fleeing starship, before her gaze moved to First Officer.
“What happened?”
“And where is Ronaar?” Teneer asked, he and the others rushing to catch up with the Princess.
Iynx simply shook her head, and Teneer got the meaning with a great sadness at the loss of his friend.
“Princess, can you go after him?” Ensign Nimble Star asked.
“If I was as fast a flyer as Rainbow Dash,” she responded in annoyance. “I wouldn’t catch up in time before they jump, it’s up to the Harmony now.”
The atmosphere grew thinner and thinner as the Interceptor continue to rush upwards through the sky. The blue sky beginning to fall away to the blackness of outer space.
J’Poc allowed himself to relax a little as he sat at his ship’s helm. He was alone, none of the other stations were manned. Stars could be seen out of his viewscreen as he left the planet and headed into space, making his timely escape.
But this was not a victory for him by any stretch. His kingdom, his subjects… All had been taken from him by those aliens. He could have lived out the rest of his life as a king, a god. Instead, he was alone with a single lowly scout ship. His drone forces were all scrap metal, all of his toys had been used up delaying his enemies as they converged onto him. But he was always resourceful, he would find a way to repay them in kind for the humiliation they had dealt him. Ideas were already pouring into his twisted mind, tortures that he could inflict. He would kill that entire crew and all those they cared about, but three in particular deserved his attention. That sharin among them, it was likely his fault they came to the planet at all. That alien who had fought with him on the surface, the one with the features of both a feline and an avian. And finally there was their leader, he was very interested in her.
His musings continued as his escape drew closer, only a little further and he would be able to safely jump to warp speed and finally be rid of his pursuers.
It was then a beeping caught his attention, the instruments in front of him showing a ship incoming. He switched the viewscreen to view aft, and sure enough a starship consisting of a saucer and two nacelles was veering down towards him.
On the Harmony’s bridge, the acting command crew studied the ship displayed on the viewscreen. Combat alert had already been sounded, and the crew were all at battle stations.
“Sir?” the tactical officer called out to the acting captain.
The pony studied the enemy vessel a moment longer, and then gave the order.
“Fire.”
The Harmony fired its phasers at the fleeing scout ship, scoring a direct hit on the aft shield and heavily damaging them. The Interceptor initiated evasive manoeuvres, not even bothering to fire back at the much larger starship. That, and focusing on a fight and flying at the same time would put J’Poc at a distinct disadvantage.
The Harmony moved to adjust itself to the smaller ship’s evasive pattern, though its phasers missed the next few shots. The Harmony rounded the Interceptor as it tried to slink away again, but this time their targeting was on point. Phasers slammed into the ship’s back shields, and a torpedo finally evaporated them completely.
Sparks flew across the Interceptor’s bridge, J’Poc seeing his foe targeting his ship’s warp core.
“You’ve pushed me to my limits,” he growled. “But I have one last trick just for you.”
The Interceptor shot upwards and did a barrel role as it went, speeding forwards in the opposite direction towards the Harmony as it dodged three torpedoes sent its way. A phaser skimmed the hull, taking out a chunk which was quickly sealed with an emergency forcefield. The Interceptor danced its way over the Harmony’s hull, flying over the saucer as the phasers moved to train back in on J’Poc.
“A gift for you.”
A hatch on the back of the Interceptor blew open, revealing a custom made compartment out of which a device not dissimilar to the one Commander Iynx extracted from the Sha’Du child’s neck was ejected into space above the ES Harmony.
“Sir!” the Harmony’s helmspony shouted. “He just dropped something!”
“Something? What something?”
The tactical officer looked at his instruments, alarm building quickly. “It’s a mine!”
The acting captain’s eyes widened. “Evade!”
The mine armed, its detonation imminent.
The Interceptor was temporarily forgotten, and as the scout ship again fled the ES Harmony dived out of the way. It rushed away from the incoming explosion as fast as it could possibly go, the mine erupting into a gigantic explosion of epic proportions that the Harmony was just barely able to outrun. However, the ship was knocked off course by the shockwave.
The much faster Interceptor sped away from the scene, J’Poc looking back at the Harmony in both satisfaction and relief.
Then, the Interceptor jumped to warp. He was gone.
I actually hope that Twilight will rage-shift
Thats the annoying thing with all powerful weapons being so very much slower than light speed. its so difficult to hit anyhting that can manouvcer quickly. I mean, with a laser, for low orbit, you only miss by about 6 foot without motion prediction and leading.
Looks like Jpoc is following the Travolta method. Pity theres nothing available to return the favour, like some Wesly dust.
The only way the Harmony would miss would be for the interceptor to be hundreds of thousands of miles away. The change in position the engines can effect just isn't near enough to generate a miss.
I feel like J'poc is about to discover something severely damaged about his precious scout ship. That or Xal managed to make it to the Interceptor first and is either going to sabotage or kill the bastard.
I also find it amusing that this scum of the galaxy thinks he could actually do something to Twilight Sparkle. Come back when you've lived a couple thousand years, little kiddie. And may your gods have mercy upon your soul when you discover there are FOUR (five if you count little Flurry) immortal beings you're tangling with.
GAH! He escaped! Great chapter though, update again soon!
Really? This was plotholed for him to escape. Twilight should have grabbed him when he foolishly showed himself. Your Twilight apparently can't use telekinesis.
7781067 i had similar thoughts.
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Or rewrite it where they were talking to a computer screen they were talking too. I mean he didn't have to be there to taunt them, he could be in the facility setting it all up before running to the ship.
Okay for J'Poc, I got a less Romulan feel and now a more of a Negan from the Walking Dead. Speaking of which, how much more scared are you if some like Negan commanded the Romulan Star Empire? Just food for thought for how terrible this enemy could be.
Nice, simple chapter title.
Oh you better believe it, asshole.
Gee, it’s almost like you’re several thousands years ahead of them in technology.
Wrong your.
GO IYNX, RIP HIS THROAT OUT!
Ronaar noooo!
You mean leg?
God damn it, that fucker better not get away after all this!
GOD DAMN IT HE GOT AWAY! My hatred for him only grows.
And of course, I couldn’t resist spoiling myself. Here’s hoping.
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It's like unicorn twilight is the one in charge instead of Alicorn Twilight with thousands of years of experience. She should have vaporized the four cannons and been able to grab j'poc before he had time to turn around.
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1) Alicorns are not all powerful as the show does show their power is limited and while more powerful then most things, Twilight is probably not more powerful then a starship or Q. Especially when she is forced to take time to make sure others aren't heart by the enemy or by her own power.
2) You also forget that Twilight maybe a little rusty in the combat area since she dealt more with politics and diplomacy then battle and adventures, which is only made worst since Equestria is generally more peaceful then your average planet. She probably seen more battles since this mission then she has in the last three centuries alone, so forgive a girl for being rusty.
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Fine, I'll give you that, but she didn't need combat magic. She could have solved it all with levitation. She could have lifted the canons up to point away, or even just shifted the barrels. We know that even as a unicorn she was exceptional at lifting multiple heavy things at once, and this is thousands of years later.
Magic is supposed to be, y'know, her thing.
Feel like a bit of a cop out. Twilight could have captured him easily. She is a couple thousand years old and with her studying I think she be more talented the sisters in what she can do.
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I have something else planned for him. Something special.
Also, Twi's powerful but I'm trying not to make her so OP there is literally no threat. She defeated all the drones and the turrets, but between that and concentrating on stopping any of those with her from dying she couldn't concentrate on J'Poc.
7781127 Well, I always imagined him with Ramsey Snow's voice so...
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Oh god, now I hate him even more.
well crap this is not good.
7781953 have you ever thought of making a sequel to this? I think the sharin and the alien natives should join with Equestria to create some form of federation just an idea
Well there goes the fuel...
7783040 Luckily, J'Poc didn't exactly have time to pack.
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And then, we would get "Mary Sue" complaints.
7784164 Pretty much. Either way there are going to be complaints. We have the people who want Twi to be good but to be challenged, and then the people who want her so OP she could solve the entire plot with a wave of her horn.
Had similar complaints with Change at one point, with people saying that the princesses should have just turned up and defeated Crudelis the moment she turned up. Which would have negated all tension in the plot.
I believe the princesses are powerful but not to such a ridicules degree as some others do. And honestly, there is a reason Discord goes on holiday every time my stories occur, that kind of power makes things far too easy.
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Honestly, the more prudent thing to do (on both sides) was simply not have J'poc being there at all, but taunting them over radio/hologram/whatever.
The way it happened kinda makes both him and Twilight look pretty dim witted - him for turning up in person for no good reason and putting himself in direct danger, and Twilight for simply not grabbing him with TK (a very, very basic move that requires no OP powers whatsoever). It's a bit of a plot-inducted-stupidity on both their parts, which could have easily been avoided by having him not be there in person and everyone would have come out of this looking smarter for it.
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He's both insane and arrogant.
She was focusing exclusively on the shield at the time to stop everyone in the transport from dying in a fiery explosion. Once that was done, he had already ran off. Then she stayed because without her there would have been more casualties in the fight.
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What if there were other cloaked turrets? A shield makes tactical sense in the heat of the moment.
I think that should probably be his right leg.
Unless J'Poc has truly strange anatomy.
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By now, Flurry isn't so little anymore...
7781637 The problem from that tactic alone stems from the technology that runs the turrets. Say that Twilight did nudge them off target or tried to aim them up in the sky. Do you honestly think they'd stay pointing in that direction? No. They were programmed to target anything that's hostile, so naturally if they're forced off target they're simply going to adjust until they're on target again. And that's even if they let themselves be forced off target in the first place. What's to say that they wouldn't have resisted if Twilight had tried altering their firing trajectory? Because I'd bet my next paycheck they would have, and that would have been precious seconds spent fighting at getting the turrets off target that would have given the turrets more than enough time to cause some real damage. Trying to levitate them skyward wouldn't have worked, either, because classic turrets are capable of a full 360 sphere of movement. So even IF Twilight had managed to wrest them from their installed hardpoints, the turrets would simply start aiming down as they're lifted higher. Honestly? The shield was the best tactical decision Twilight could have made in this scenario, even if she didn't actually stop to consider what might have happened had she tried to influence the turret directly.
And as for Twilight grabbing J'poc... sure, it would have been smarter to not show up. But he's a stupid, crazy bastard that thinks he's invincible because he always has a backup plan. And because he's so bat shit crazy, he assumes he can take anything Twilight can toss at him. So he shows up, if nothing else so he can taunt her when he inevitably wins. Never mind what the Alicorn did to his drones, he can take her in a fight. Yup. So to that end, he makes an appearance himself. However, even if Twilight had grabbed J'poc then what? She'd have the fucker, sure, but that would still leave turrets free to rain down their death and a lot of drones to do as they please to those she was trying to protect in the first place. She'd have to juggle keeping a hold of a struggling J'poc (and I'm pretty sure its not easy to hold someone struggling heavily in a TK field), keeping a shield active against the turrets, and taking out the drones. Sure, we (as readers) assume Twilight could do all of that without breaking a sweat (seeing as how she's now over 2,000 years old), but doing so would, as our dear author pointed out, would make the plot completely irrelevant. Even if she did do it just in this one scene, any future scenes similar to this would result in readers expecting Twilight being able to solve every problem with ease, which again, ruins the whole premise of a plot. I mean, if Twilight is that powerful, why not just have her repair the Harmony all by herself so they can be back home in just a few days. And then there you go, the story was ended in just a few chapters. Personally, no thanks. This way is far more interesting and fun.
7785107 Thank you, and I sincerely mean that. You nailed it on the head, and I honestly couldn't have said it any better myself.
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It's not about being OP. She has abilities that would make him regret showing personaly. She would pacify him the moment he showed.
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So why not atomize them?
7786432 She did atomize one of them. That still left her with three to deal with while shielding her allies from more bots and the other turrets.
No offense, but its people like you that kind of ruin the whole writing thing for the rest of us. You don't particularly care for the plot, you'd just rather the main character(s) solve every thing near instantaneously. I deal with readers like you with my own works, too. As explained in my previous comment (and I'll even bold the relevant part so maybe you will see it this time) I mean, if Twilight is that powerful, why not just have her repair the Harmony all by herself so they can be back home in just a few days.
The entire point of Twilight not being all powerful and all knowing is so that there is actually some sort of very good plot to work with. Having her solve everything because hur dur she's an Alicorn completely trivializes any attempt at an engaging story. If tom117z's Twilight were portrait like that, this story would barely have enough writing in it to pass as an extremely short one shot, and new stories need to be a thousand words minimum to even be published.
7785165 You be welcome! I deal with this sort of thing on my own stuff. I've been here since I discovered Change (although alas, I've not managed to finish that one yet). You're an author that's managed to keep my attention in a story, which is saying something considering how picky I am.
7787511 The timeline is something that is up for constant debate and many have their own headcanons for, I am no different in that regard.
Star Trek Cliches:
* Showdown at Kirk's Rock
7802035 Good to know someone is picking up on all these!
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And I just now noticed that the comments are not chapter separated like I long thought
Some people have commented that they think Twilight should have won this battle easily, but I don't agree. There's never really been a hard and fast defined scale for alicorn powers. She has to have limits, or there's no tension to the story. Also, history has shown repeatedly that someone can go up against superior numbers and superior power with superior tactics and win the battle. This is sort of what J'poc did here (where the "victory" condition was defined as "save my own ass")
7854084 It works the same way as conventional warp drive, their version just requires magic to function properly while other species of course had to work out how to make it work without magic (which is harder).
I...was actually not expecting him to get away, though that certainly is room to worry, considering his intelligence. Not only that, but now that he has seen the tricks of Twilight, he will be MUCH more cautious about such things in the future and be better prepared to fight her and her crew in the future @.@
fight and flying perhaps?
Twilight, you have telekinesis! Grab hold of the Interceptor and haul it down. If you can move planets, a dinky little scout ship should be nothing for you.
But no, idiot ball time again.
What I want to know is, why didn't Twilight just simply snatch him off the rock the moment she saw him? She could have snapped his neck with telekinesis, or knocked him out at range through the simple expedient of giving him a concussion, either with a rock held in telekinesis or just direct magic. She could have even simply pinned his entire body to the ground and held his mouth shut and his limbs immobile with her telekinesis to prevent him from issuing any orders if she didn't want to harm him, although that would open herself to retaliation if the bots were programed to respond violently if he was disabled.
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Pointless drama that serves no purpose whatsoever to build suspense the cheap way.
butts xd
*boulder
*J’Poc
*J’Poc
I assume you mean 'he' (twice)
*could
Damn. I wanted him dead SO BAD.