Day 7
We are over grassland now. We passed over which according to the map may be one of the last villages in Equestria this morning and now we are over the grassland bordering the edge of the jungle.
We’ll likely reach it sometime tomorrow but then we are another day or two of flight away from the area Moon Dancer, Midnight and their team pointed out as a good starting point for our search for the origin of the thestrals.
Moon Dancer has some ideas about how to narrow things down more, but I’m not overly convinced how useful it will be…
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I spread my wing as wide as I could as Moon Dancer ran a measuring tape along every bone I had in it while making measurements on a notepad.
“How exactly is this going to help?” I asked as I turned my head to look at her.
“Don’t move, please,” she answered and measured along the rear edge of my wing, mumbling measurements to herself, her pen scribbling calculations on her notepad.
Well, when she got like that you just had to wait for her to get out of it. I took the time to look around the workshop set up in the cargohold of the ship. One entire corner, the one Moon Dancer and I were currently occupying held several maps and stacks of scrolls and books on several shelves set up around a table with a large map on it.
The rest of the workshop had several worktables as well as storage areas. Right now they were mostly empty other than a couple of ponies working away at their workbenches.
What exactly they were doing already as we haven’t even gotten there yet was beyond me, but nothing wrong with getting your tools ready beforehand.
What I was carefully not paying attention to however was Tempest and Midnight at the other end of the workshop. They were sitting close to each other and Midnight was in the middle of explaining something about what they were reading in the book laid out before them.
Tempest were watching her closely and nodding along before asking a question. Midnight shifted her wings and nodded before she answered, shifting a bit closer and pointed out something in the book.
You know what? I think Cadance might actually know what she’s doing.
“Moon Dancer?” I asked as I turned back to her, folding my wing again, “How will this help?”
Moon Dancer looked at me in surprise like she had forgotten I was there, “How’s your glide ratio? Better or worse than when you had feathered wings?”
I blinked at her, “About the same as before from what I noticed.”
She nodded and went back to her notepad.
Oh for…
I sighed and just moved over to look at the map of the area we were heading to. Not that it was especially useful, it was basically a blank roll of paper with coordinate lines on it. Oh, it had a mountain to one side, but other than that?
Just blank.
Never thought I’d miss satellites as much as I did right now. Just eight days from Canterlot and we were in basically uncharted territory.
...Okay, that wasn’t fair. One, we were flying day and night faster than a pegasus could cruise. We’d actually covered a good amount of actual distance. Two, the area we were going to was honestly dangerous and filled with deadly predators.
So… far away from the center of Equestria combined with dangerous environments didn’t exactly encourage exploration.
Humans might be attracted by that kind of thing but ponies? Not so much.
Speaking of danger, I should go check on the guard detachment and see how they were doing. I had a feeling that we might need them when we arrive and… well, maybe twenty guards was a bit low.
Or maybe that’s just my paranoia.
Moon Dancer moved over to look at the map next to me and I looked to her,
“So, what was that entire ‘measure the wings’ thing?”
“To see if thestral flight capabilities matched pegasi,” she said and looked at the map, “It seems like they are.”
“I could have told you that. But I’m not the best example, I’m no more a pegasi than Midnight over there is a pegasus. Besides, I think my wings are a bit bigger than average.”
“You are,” Midnight confirmed, “As an alicorn you are approximately six percent bigger than the average male pegasus over all. But I can scale that and it doesn't matter that much as the rest of you are scaled to it.”
I’m still growing. I knew that much too, I had caught up to Midnight and Sparks just before my batification. Nopony had no idea how big I would end up.
Celestia, Luna and Cadence seemed somewhat static like they were now. Would I end up as big as one of them? Considering I seem to be passing Sparks and Midnight, I suspected I’d be bigger than them at least. Or maybe I just grew faster for some reason.
What in the world would I do if I ended up with Celestia's stature?
“Does it help?” I asked, flicking my ear, “That seems… imprecise.”
“No,” Moon Dancer admitted with a sign, “Even if you think that a raiding party from a pegasus tribe might not like to wander more than a day or two from their homes, a pegasi can travel impressive distances in a day, even carrying potential plunder. I had hoped your flight capabilities would have been significantly worse.”
“I guess we just have to do it the hard way then.”
No, twenty guards is definitely too low, let's hope that Skitter had a few dozen changelings sneak onboard
There will always be more work to do when you're in unexplored territory.
Well,for Page to become an Emperor he must become tall XD
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Sipioc, please. If you would be so kind and generous, do a proper image of very tall Emperor Page along his royal Royal concubines (for comparision)
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I prefer the WH40k Orks comparison, due to cutie marks being suspiciously close to how Madboyz are stated to work.
Meanwhile by Midnight and Tempest.
“Princess Midnight?”
“Yes Tempest?”
“...it is difficult for me to say this...but I-I...”
“Want to have Pages foals?”
“Yes.”
“Me too.”
Cadance: Great! Finally Page praises my work and it was towards the wrong pony! Stupid Hiver...it was suppose to be Moondancer...
Discord: Well...it can't be helped now. We have to accept it. I may be the Lord of Chaos and you may be the Princess of Foo--I mean Love but Hiver is GOD of this world. There's only so much we can manipulate in our favor.
Cadance: *sigh* I guess you're right. Midnight looks happy and that's all that matters.
Discord: At least Tempest will be now out of the running to be Page's 3rd waifu. We can get him to focus on the PROPER choices now. Eyes on the prize Cadance!
Cadance: YES...eyes on the prize!
Pegasi is plural. The first use in this chapter is correct, the rest ("a pegasi") need to be replaced with pegasus.
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Skitter, Chrysalis and Celestia should be on the list
Of course, in order I wrote it so Skitter should be a priority :)
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Oh of course! Cadance has Celestia as top-tier while Discord has Fluttershy as top-tier. (Because duh!)
Skitter and Chrysalis are high-tier as well tho in my "storyline", Chrysalis is more pragmatic. Gaining Page's gene for the Hive's future generations and maintaining a positive relationship with Equestria is more important. Thus any Changeling from her Hive becoming waifu for Page is a WIN for Chrysalis.
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While having more combatants would be better, after all when going into the unknown you can never have too many fighters. However, I'm no expert in aeronautics, but I feel like the weight on an airship is a very important detail that can't be ignored, thus a dozen hidden changelings, whom for the sake of argument we will say they weigh 120 pounds each (as they are changelings I imagine they are lighter than the average pony). A dozen 120 lb Changelings would be a total of 1,440 extra lbs of weight that the captain and crew did not account for, which could be bad.
With all that in mind, I imagine sneaking 2 or 4 onboard probably wouldn't be too heavy.
What a shame! The danger in/of an adventure is half the fun!
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Changelings appear capable of altering their mass, otherwise the huge combat form some of them take would be utterly useless. Add the fact that they don't require provisions, the fact that they can replace cargo rather than adding to it, and the fact that changeling stowaways were enough of a given to be deliberately planned for...
More important is what if EVERYTHING is growing bigger and larger Luna wouldnt mind Dont think Page would mind being
'the stud'
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Discord what are you doi- DON'T SNAP YOUR FINGERS
Suffer.
Source: I'm 6'4," my shirts are too short, my feet hang off my bed, I literally can't comfortably fit into some common vehicles (fuck the 2008 Ford Escape), and the neck pillow for my chair is more of an upper back pillow.
Honestly I wish I was tall like celestia
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Why? I'm 6' and there are plenty of times I find it a pain. Celestia is more then 2x's bigger then any pony.
Hm... Blank Page will be hung like a horse, if he isn't yet... He will be 👍
in this universe stallions are bigger than mares, if he is growing fast it's because his total size is too far away so his body is growing faster, he is passing Twilight, and at the end of the series she was the size of celestia, he maybe is a hull or two taller than celestia at her best.
it would be good for them, a stallion bigger than them, as they lived most of it being the biggest
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he's a pony he doesn't wear clothes (and the ones he has are made according to measurements) he lives in a castle everything is big, it's been said that celestia's pillow was three times bigger than her, imagine the bed, and he's from royalty everything would be adapted for him and it would be easier since Celestia, having a tall stature, has already done a good part of the housing for that kind of life.
as a human he can be shit, but as a pony, just none, it would actually give him more respect from other races since he would be big and strong.