Performer
Chapter 146
Performer
Head down to the park. 81%
Oh what the hell, why not. Just a peek won’t be that bad anyway, was going to pass over here regardless.
Rainbow banked to the side gliding down and coming onto the grass below at the back of the crowd. She listened to the murmuring in the crowd as she pushed through to the front.
“She’s so amazing!”
“Such talent!”
“Oh come on, I know plenty of ponies that can do that!”
“Who dares to challenge the great and powerful Trixie?!”
Rainbow stopped dead in her tracks as she heard who spoke.
Oh for Cel- Luna’s sake! That damned boaster again, I don’t have time for this!
“You! Guard! Was it you who doubted the might of the all-powerful Trixie?!” the blue unicorn shouted as Dash’s attention got pulled back to the stage, a yellow coated pegasus with light blue hair in dress blues stepped up to Trixie. Rainbow immediately recognized the pony on the stage, she was an avid fan of the Wonderbolts after all, recognizing one of their main flight team members was a breeze for her.
But what would Misty Fly be doing in Manehattan? In dress blues no less. Do they have a show here? Nah, then she’d be with the others… well, one way to find out I guess. Hopefully she recognizes me, I know that I’m at least on the Wonderbolts’ radar.
A couple of ponies protested as she pushed past but Rainbow ignored them to approach the podium. “So you claim to be more powerful then the Great and Pow-”
“-werful Trixie, bla bla bla. Bested an Ursa Major, etcetera etcetera...” Rainbow stuck her tongue out made a fart sound as she stepped onto the podium to speak to the Wonderbolt. “Master sergeant Fly, I’m-”
“Rainbow Dash?!” Misty immediately exclaimed, her mouth dropping open in amazement. “But Spitfire said… holy Celestia, you’re alive?!”
Rainbow blushed slightly at being recognized by one of her idols the same way she pretty much thought about them. “Well, yeah.”
“YOU!” Trixie exclaimed as she too recognised Rainbow. “Trixie remembers you! You were there in Ponyville when Trixie’s cart got destroyed!”
“Ursa’s fault, not anyone else’s,” Dash dismissed. “Misty, sorry to disturb you but what are you doing in Manehattan?”
“We’re here with the ‘Bolts, the Solar Guard asked us to help with areal security...” Misty paused as she looked at the crowd who were still listening in. “You know what Dash, we should fly up for some privacy.” Trixie shouted protests up at them as the two pegasi flew up into the sky. “Look Dash, it’s about your friend. The Solar Guard got her nailed in the city, the Lunar Guard has pretty much locked themselves into a compound and refuse entry to anyone.”
“You don’t sound too happy about that,” Rainbow said as she heard Misty’s tone of voice.
“Yeah, the new guard Captain the Princess appointed in place of Shining… well, he’s one of the old guard, doesn’t play well with others at all. Lets just say Spitfire has come back cursing from meetings on various occasions...” Misty looked around, coming off slightly paranoid. “Look, the Cap didn’t state it specifically but I think she’s dealing with the Lunar guard under the table. She might be giving them a window to get out through the air.”
“Well, I hope we don’t have to. Luna might be able to talk Princess Celestia down… speaking about her, do you know where Princess Celestia is?”
“Princess Luna is here?” Misty gasped, “I mean… I think Princess Celestia is at the compound right now if what I’ve heard is right. It’s right there… wow.”
The two pegasi came to a hover over a building, the Solar guard was camped outside the compound with thestrals clearly visible crammed against the windows to look outside while others sat on the walls. Luna had already arrived there and was facing off against her sister that looked to be immensely stunned. Rainbow noticed Spitfire on another roof looking down and nudged Misty to point her over.
“Captain, how long since Luna got here,” Rainbow immediately asked as she landed next to the Wonderbolt. Spitfire’s mouth dropped open as she too recognized Rainbow.
“I’ll be damned. Rainbow?” Spitfire said in shock, quickly shaking it off. “Princess Luna only just arrived. We’re all still shocked at her sudden apparel no less you appearing as well… Did you find your friend?”
“Yep, speaking about her...” Rainbow activated her omni-tool and shot Shy a message, teling the other pegasus to hone in on her location. “...She’ll be here soon.”
“AND WHAT NOW?!” Celestia shouted, everyone’s attention focussed on the two Princesses. Rainbow though did keep an eye out as she didn’t see Cadance anywhere. “Do you have any idea what you have done!”
“A better idea than you have, yes!” Luna shouted back.
“Great! Now I’m sure you’ve found a better way to defend our world then?”
Tension was building as the two princesses faced off, the faint glow of magic around both Celestia’s and Luna’s sword hilts. The guards were looking between each other as they weren’t sure what to do if things came to blows.
“Head out there! We’re not alone in this galaxy, we can make friends!” Luna shouted back, sighing after decreasing the volume of her voice. “There’s dangers out there, yes, but it’s nothing we cannot face.”
Spitfire leaned closer to Dash, “What does she mean by not alone in the galaxy?”
Rainbow looked up to see if the Normandy was visible, spotting a dot high up in the air through gaps in the clouds. “See that dot up there? That’s a spaceship.”
“We wouldn’t have to face them at all if you’d just listened to me in the first place!” Celestia meanwhile hissed back at Luna. “It’s… no. I can’t allow you to harm my ponies further sister, not for your damned ‘progress’,” She softly added, drawing her large blade. Luna reacted by activating her omni-sword as the two alicorns started circling each other.
“Tia, don’t. We had the exact reverse of this conversation a millenia ago,” A tear rolled from Luna’s eye as she really did not want to do this. Celestia jumped forward, bringing her sword down towards Luna who blocked it with her own. Sparks came off of the blades as it quickly turned into a contest of strength. “Sister, please...”
A flash of light appeared between Luna and Celestia throwing the two away from each other by a pulse of magic. “STOP THIS!” Cadence stood between the two of them after her teleport sternly looking at the two of them.
“Whoa, who the hell is that?!” Spitfire exclaimed as the scene in front of them got even crazier with the third alicorn.
“Mi Amore Cadenza, or Cadence,” A voice behind Spitfire said, the bolts that were there turned to find Fluttershy hovering nearly motionless in the sky with her black widow in her hooves, semi-ready to act. Her hood was down, showing her scarred face fully. “Equestria is going to get its history rewritten in the coming days, you might want to strap in to get used to a couple of changes.”
“Pretty much… Should we head down?” Rainbow asked, the princesses having lowered their swords as Cadance effectively diffused the situation.
“Well, Twilight should be in that building. Right?” Fluttershy asked.
“Should be. I was going to ‘accidentally’ let them get out of that compound tonight but I don’t think that’ll be necessary now,” Spitfire told them. “Go down, I’ll probably join in a bit… And Dash?”
Rainbow looked over her shoulder at the captain.
“Good to have you back. it’d have been a damn shame to lose such a promising Wonderbolt candidate.”
“T-Thanks,” Dash stuttered before following Fluttershy down to the street below. The Lunar Guard had slowly been getting out of the compound to make a line across the street, A purple dot among the more dull greys of the thestrals.
Fluttershy pushed through the line of thestrals to get face to face with Twilight. The unicorn looked pale as she saw her friend, raising a trembling hoof to touch Shy’s cheek to see if she wasn’t hallucinating. Tears welled up in Twilight’s eyes as she jumped forward and embraced Fluttershy, breaking down into sobbing while Shy wrapped her wings around the unicorn.
“I’m here Twilight. I’m home.”
Finished my ME2 playthrough, started with ME3 now. There's some lines I want to add but we're heading into the last game soon. 
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jeez wtf happened to Twilight?!
Yaay, it didnt blow up.
Now they can turn all their attention, eventually, on Reaper Chow.
On phone, more detailed comment later but...we're at the end of the ME 2 part of the game?
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only collector base left
You had faith, Twilight. It has been rewarded so.
We got a lot of catching up to do all around.
Okay, things are getting heavy, now. Equestrian history is about to be rewritten in a major way. Equestria is about to rejoin the Galactic community since the last time the Reapers razed the Galaxy, and they were targets. Yet, they survived somehow as a species and regrew, albeit to a limit. Celestia has been stunting Equestrian evolution for the sake of perseverance, unknowing, against the Reapers. So they're not nearly as ready as they other races.
Speaking of...
I realized something interesting about the three Alicorns.
- Celestia: Defense - Ability to maintain Societal strength and foundation, but can can be overprotective if left unchecked.
- Luna: Exploration - Ability to pave and expand Equestria's boarders in the Galaxy, but can lead to taking unnecessary risks if left unchecked.
- Cadence: Love - Ability to facilitate acceptance and understanding should contact be made with another race, but can lead to naiveté and vulnerability if left unchecked.
If they work alone, then they're gonna screw up. However, if they three of them work together as intended, then Equus would prosper and return to it's former glory.
I can't WAIT to see the new Captain of the Solar Guard, and ESPECIALLY can't wait for when Shining Armor comes back and takes his title back, subsequently shutting up the presumed ****head.
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Thats IF Celestia can accept the fact that it's time to quit hiding behind a Shield. Time to quit being afraid and actually stand up to face the darkness that is the Reaper threat.
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As I understand, this is the pre-Ascension Twilight. If Ascension is possible, it'll probably come as a total shock to the three alicorns, who appear to have been genetically bred for their roles. If a natural-born Equestrian citizen can achieve it, it'll say something about Twilight's power, which considering her usual character arc, makes sense.
In this context, she's held the faith for something like two years while being chased across Equis by Celestia. The alicorn she used to venerate has been hunting her relentlessly the whole time. That's got to have taken a toll. Maybe Cadance will be able to repair her trust in alicorns again.
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Yeah that makes sense if/when she does become an alicorn what role do you think she will have (besides the obvious Friendship title
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Well, assuming that happens, if she's the first natural-born ascended alicorn in recorded history, I can see her following much the same path as the series (allowing for Mass Effect to adjust some things.) Instead of just opening a School of Friendship for Equis, I can see her recruiting some of the most powerful ponies in her generation to fight the Reapers and eventually open a school for races across the galaxy. In that capacity, the Princess of Friendship would become significantly more powerful than her counterparts, not because of raw power, but because she has the power to create and grow connections. Combine that with her fearsome intellectual capacity, and the bottomless resources of a live extranet connection, and the Citadel races are about to get schooled by a purple twentysomething alicorn.
Also, could you imagine a strike force made up of Starlight Glimmer, Sunset Shimmer, Tempest Shadow, and Twilight Sparkle? Throw in Shining Armor and Cadance, plus Luna, Rarity, Rainbow, Moon Dancer and Fluttershy, and the Reapers might just reconsider who the most dangerous threat race in the galaxy is.
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That strike force would be the ultimate power house the Mass Effect universe could ever hoped to achieve and the reapers would actually have to target Equus first instead of Earth
or in theirinfinite wisdomstill target Earth and get ownedalso Twilight having access to the extranet is a scary thought because of numerous reasons
Wait this was all just ME2!?!!!!
I really hope rainbow can eventually get out her armor. Even if they have ot partially skin her to do it.
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Mass Effect is really darn long
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I would have loved that list to include Thorax, but he didn't split from the Hive until the Wedding Invasion. Which didn't happen in this timeline. Aside from Cheese Legs and any loyalists the Queen has with her, the Changelings are effectively extinct.
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Speaking of which, what option did we miss that would have prevented the xenocide of my favourite species in MLP?
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What makes you think that?
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Agreed. Just because Shepard undoubtedly fought his way out of the hive after deploying the Heretic virus, that does not automatically mean the enemy is extinct. If Shepard was that big a threat, the Reaper war wouldn't have been such a big thing. While I'm sure they fought a lot of bugs, the hive is huge. Chrysalis will be rebuilding for a while, but she'll rebuild just the same, and come back twice as dangerous next time.
This extinction argument sounds awfully unresearched. It's like claiming that after the dwarves encounter and smash the goblin tribe in The Hobbit that the entire goblin race in Middle Earth is extinct, because the PC's fought them and got away. There's... umm... a ton of holes in that argument.
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I'll reread the relevant chapter, but it came across as the citadel containing 90-something percent of the Changeling population suffered a "scorched earth" event (no live captures), with only the hoof full that escaped with their Queen being the known survivors. Even adding in those not on site at the time, they are probably below the 50/500 population threshold for short term/long term genetic survivability.
Again, this is taken from the impression that the Hive was secured with no prisoners taken. I may have mis-read a line, or Garrus may have mis-spoken and given that impression in error. Either way, I will be rereading the last few chapters through several days worth of "ugly crying" tears, as mentioned when I refused to vote last chapter.
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Bear in mind, the genetic diversity requirement is for humans and other species who mate in pairs, and typically have a small number of offspring. You need a certain number of genetically diverse people at a minimum to ensure the race continues.
But an insect queen carries the entire racial genetic sequence within themselves. And they can predispose the individual offspring for what the hive needs. So when you get right down to it, only Chrysalis is irreplaceable. The rest of the hive is reproduced as needed.
As for Thorax, if he's showing up in ME3, he probably hasn't even been born yet.
Edit: As for the main series, I hope Thorax undergoes a spontaneous gender swap at some point. Because without a new queen, the redeemed Changelings are kind of screwed.
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I think I found my mistake, starting with Rainbow Dash being the the talking:
See, both of those things together led me to believe that the death count included most of the Drones in the Hive, rather than simply most of those in the chamber. That is a significant difference in depopulation percentage right there. Also, CommanderApplejack owes me an apology for not correcting me on this yesterday, and thus saving me from an extra day of unnecessary emotional damage. I wasn't exaggerating about the "ugly crying", btw. Just so we're clear.
Edit: "Owe" is a little strong, as she may not have seen the post in question at all.
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In reply to the edit: Given the presence of a female Changeling amongst the Student Six, it is implied that multiple Changelings have become proto-queens, resulting in a more Mammalian breeding pattern. Or, barring that, that Ocellus is the new Queen. YMMV.
It's a good thing we brought Cadence along. That would have been messy.
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I see...and I imagine that might come after things are settled with Celestia.
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Excellent and exceedingly dumb...
Damn... So this is the actual story behind their fight. Celestia better get her shit together.
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Three is a good number for a tie braker.
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Yep, Celestia has a Tendenz to run away from her bigger problems in Canon...
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If she finds the time for it... The Reapers are on their way...
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Knowlege and progression
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Damn... Give the Galaxy a few years and the Reapers have to fear the time of returning...
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Twilight: "So mutch knowlege! To busy reading to save the Galaxy
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Bless the no longer existing original Bioware team.
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Yep, at best a few Hundred Ling died, at some point fatige is setting in. Also the Tower is so massiv depicted that a few thousand should easy fitting in.
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Yep, a well argued topic. Often in clop Thorax changes to female for the breeding and laying or simply permanent.
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Celestia thinks herself the Alpha, since Luna is not a equal but a obstical to overcome...
telling
Celestia is no longer the undisputed ruler, probably a tough truth to accept.