Chapter 3- Explaining Weird Stuff
Aaaah, sleep is niiiiiice. Well, not sure if a system shock blackout counts as sleep. I can’t recall if I dreamed or not. Either way, when I came back to the land of the waking I was walking down a hall and....wait, I was walking? Do I sleepwalk now? Hold up, time to take stock.
Leg check...unresponsive
Wing check...unresponsive
Eye check... (if you haven’t figured it out yet)
Ok, not in control any more. Guess I’m riding shotgun for now. Best see what mood the driver is in. “Celestia? Are you back at the helm?” I probed.
My host stopped their stroll and looked about for a second. Then I could feel a small smile come across her face.Then Celestia responded in that tone that sounded like a mother talking to a child,“Dante. I’m glad to see you’re awake. How are you feeling?”
“Honestly, a bit better now that I’m not giving your body the ol’ Yeerk treatment. Seriously, I’m not sure if there is anything I can do to apologize properly to you.”
Celestia let a chuckle escape, “You really have a guilty conscience don’t you? I know you didn’t do it on purpose. You don’t have to keep apologizing.”
Despite the sweet tone and the calming quality to her voice, I still felt like an intrusive ass.
“Ok, I’ll lay off the apologies.” Then the really important question popped into my mind, “Wait, did Luna figure out how to put you back in control?”
Celestia shook her head, “She didn’t have to. The second you passed out, I was able to gain control. I was honestly concerned what had happened to you. You were very quiet for a long time, Dante. However, we did learn something.” That last part got my attention.
“Okay, color me intrigued. What did you learn?” I inquired. Any new info might help me figure out what was going on with my current existence.
“I know where you are.”
“...”
“What?”
“Not to be rude, but I’m pretty we established I was in your head...somehow.”
I couldn’t see it but I could feel the all-knowing smirk cross Celestia’s face. “Can you see what I see right now?”, she asked.
“Yeeeeeah? Why?” I didn’t quite understand where this was going but she said she knew where I was. Maybe I had did have a form in Equestria but I was just separated from my physical body? All things considered it couldn’t be THAT far fetched... right?
Without another word, Celestia turned her head so I could see the right side of her body. Then she lifted her wing and I saw something really out of place. And when I say “out of place” I don’t mean a few errant feathers or a tattoo someone would only get in a drunken blitz. It was a black splotch on the canvas of white that was Celestia’s fur. The hell is that? A bruise? No, bruises aren’t tar black. What could… Wait, she said she knew where I...Oh, No. Freakin. Way.
“Please tell me that spot is some sort of minimalist tattoo you got when you were younger.” I pleaded.
“I’m afraid not. When I regained control, I decided to do a scan to see if you were alright. The scan said that your essence led me to this spot.” She motions to the spot. “As far as I can tell. This spot is you.”
I’m a black spot...Somehow I felt like some kind of social commentary. I’m the black spot on the side of Royalty. Ugh.
“Uh excuse my skepticism, how certain that that is me?”
Again, without another word she poked the spot and I giggled...crap.
“Did that tickle?” Celestia asked curiously.
Oh no, I can feel her thoughts switching. Need to shut this down.
“What? No! No, not at all. Course not, I uh...just thought of something funny is all.”
She wasn’t buying it. She poked it again.
*Snnnnck* I tried to stifle the giggle.
Then I got this feeling, coming from Celestia. A dark feeling, a malicious feeling. The kind of feeling that could end empires should it be applied to any unfortunate soul in her path. Then I felt it culminate into a single solitary horrifying action....she smirked. Dear God no.
*Poke*
*snerk*
*Poke*
*heee*
“...”
“...”
*Poke**Poke**Poke**Poke**Poke**Poke**Poke**Poke**Poke**Poke**Poke**Poke**Poke**Poke**Poke**Poke*
I was in uncontrollable laughter and each laugh caused another poke.
“Celes- hahaha! Celestia-! Bwahaha! Stop! Hehe Please! AAAHAHAHAHA!”
“So it does tickle?” Trollestia was in full force, the pokes did not cease.
“Yes! Ahahaha! It tickles, Good LORD IT TICKLES! HAHAHAHA”
Then she stopped and allowed me time to regain myself. I didn’t have to breathe since Celestia was in charge, but the sensation from the pokes took a few seconds to subside.
“That...was cruel...and you know it!” If I had fingers, or hooves. or anything capable of pointing I’d had been pointing it right at Celestia.
I could feel that smirk turn into a smile as she turned to face down the hall again and started moving forward, “I haven’t a clue what you mean. I was just investigating your response to physical stimuli.” She said with that smile still plastered on her face.
Vengeance shall come, one day, and it shall be like ice cream, cold and sweet!
With my plans for vengeance stored away for a later date. I came back to the realization that I was still some kind of blob on the side of Sun Princess. “So, am I...stuck to you? I still don’t get what I am now.”
Celestia shifted and was contemplative for a second. She was going through how to explain my current form. Then she broke it to me in a solemn tone, “I don’t know what you are now.”
Well, that doesn’t help much.
“However.”
Oh,”However” could change things.
“You seem to be linked with my nervous system, which could explain how we both were able to experience the same pain before, and also how you were able to control my body in my mental absence. Not to mention I can sense your essence throughout me.”
Huh, sounded like I had attached myself to Celestia in every sense of the word. Was this permanent? Was I going to forever be this “thing” on the side of Celestia? Did I even serve a purpose?
...Wait a damn second.
“Celestia...am I a parasite?”
“I don’t think so. Actually,my scan said you are actually helping a bit.”
Did I miss something?
“Uh, did I clean the castle while I was blacked out? How have I helped?”
“You’re actively accelerating my healing.”
And straight out of left field comes a strange power that I had no clue about.
“Wait, so I’m giving you an accelerated healing factor? How? I wasn’t even aware I was doing that!”
Celestia took a second and collected her thoughts, “You appear to coercing my natural healing into an advanced form of cellular regeneration.” She rounded a corner and we were in the throne room from yesterday. She trotted into the throne room and made her way to the royal seat on top of a golden platform. I never really got to check out this room, but it was impressive.
The room was at least half a football field long and had several beautiful stained glass windows depicting different moments in Equestria’s history. The sun must have just been coming up as the western side of the room had multiple hues of colors flowing over the ground. It was astonishing.
Celestia snapped me out of my admiration of the room when she reached the top of her throne and turned her gaze to her left. I could see the impact crater I had caused. Oh guilt, back for another visit? Why, you look like you gained some weight since yesterday. Oh you’re here to crush me? Please go ahead. Uuuugh.
Celestia turned her gaze back to the front. “That impact should have broken most of the bones on my left side and left me with some kind of internal damage, Dante.” The tone she chose to say this in was very serious and didn’t help my guilt.
“Should have. Yet, I walked you out of here with only a few fumbles and a bit of soreness.” Thinking back on it, I had always thought alicorns were tough based on them being so powerful. To hear that they could take damage just like any other creature shifted my perspective of them. They were just ponies like any other who could get hurt like any other...but also had the power of the Sun and Moon at their disposal.
“The soreness seemed to be the main byproduct, but it is definitely coming from you. Despite your small size you are exuding a decent amount of magic which seems to be-”
I stopped paying attention. Did she say I’m using magic? Passive magic apparently, but hey I have magic! If I could do that without trying, I wonder if there are other things I might be capable of doing. Wait, she’s still talking. Act like you are listening still!
“- and with that type of potential you might be capable of incredible feats.”
DAMN IT! I missed something important....okay, okay, I can recover uh...play dumb!
“So...could you maybe explain that to someone who doesn’t quite get magic.” Come on luck don’t fail me now! You don’t want to admit to Celestia that you let your mind wander during a very important lecture.
“Oh sorry, I tend to ramble when it comes to new interesting things.”
YES! Dodged the bullet!
“Yeah, it's cool. I guess that’s where Twilight gets it from.”
Celestia suddenly stiffened and was quiet. Really quiet. Her mind on the other hand was not, “How do you know about my student?”
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! I slipped! Quick, make an excuse! Wait, I can’t. She knows I’m human and not from here. AAaaugh...this is going to suck donkey balls.
“I...I...I’ve seen her and her friends. What they’ve done. I’ve uh...wow, I need a word better than ‘watched’ right now.”
Celestia was getting mad, I didn’t even have to see her face. I could feel the temperature of the room rising.
“Ok, remember when you saw my memories?”
Celestia didn’t say a word. Why was this worse than if she had said something.
“Right, on my world there’s this show....and this show just so happens to revolve around your student, Twilight Sparkle, and her friends. Me and thousands of others know about them. They’re...interesting.”
I was nervous and couldn’t think of anything better to say. I dun goofed and had the power of the sun about to bear down on me if I didn’t explain my sudden knowledge of someone whom I had not met. Lying was definitely not going to help and I needed her to trust me. Especially, if I wanted her to help me determine what else I was besides a black spot.
“Interesting how?” Celestia asked darkly. Jesus she was scary when she was serious.
“Just interesting, we watched them to see what kind of adventures they went on, how they interacted with each other, what they learned from each other. They inspired us to be better people, to be creative, to..to...
"Honestly, I could hardly believe it when I was in control of your body. My mind was burning a mile a minute trying to determine if this was even real. But it had to be. I felt pain, guilt, worry. I...I just want to try and exist without causing too much trouble.
"I swear to you, I mean no ill will. This world is so different, cool, and interesting. I want to see it and learn about it, and I really want to know what I am now.”
I finished my spiel and it was quiet. I felt Celestia’s mind consuming what I had said. She was working out what to do with me. Her wings twitched and ruffled a bit. Must have been a bad thought. We were both silent for what felt like hours. Then Celestia spoke.
“While you were unconscious, I sent Twilight a letter describing what happened last night.”
Oh, that could be bad or good.
“I also asked her to do some research to see if anything like this has happened before. In all my many long years, I can’t recall anything like this ever being reported to me. I would like to know what you are as well, Dante.”
Whoo, progress!
“But”
Shit.
“You need to tell me everything you know about Equestria and my subjects.”
“How much time do you have?”
“I have an hour before my first hearing. Get through as much as you can.”
For the next hour, I went through the majority of season one of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I told her what I knew about Nightmare Moon and the discovery of the Elements of Harmony. I went through the various lessons Twilight learned. I did stop a few times when Celestia asked for clarification on things that Twilight left out of her reports. Apparently, Twilight never mentioned the hydra in Feeling Pinkie Keen. She wasn't too happy about that.
I got to the end of season 1 and the events of the gala. Celestia giggled at some of the antics the bearers got into while she was dealing with greetings. Then I went on to season 2, describing the return of Discord (which apparently I just missed. DAMN IT!) I was about to start on another episode when the guard announced the first hearing on the day. It was a dignitary from the Griffin Kingdom. COOL! We can pick this up later, if you want I told Celestia as the guards let the griffin in.
10 minutes later
Oh God they're just talking politics! It's like CSPAN live! Ugh, I wish I had my own head so I could beat it against a wall!
"Shush, you are distracting me," Celestia said, trying to silence my mental complaints.
"Mmmmph, fiiiiiiiine" I tried to keep my thoughts as non-distracting as possible. I decided to look over this griffin dignitary. I guessed he must have been a bit older based on how faded his gray coat was. That and his face looked old, worn, and just plain tired. The feathers on his face were pretty droopy too.
I Kinda felt sorry for the guy. He could definitely use a vacation to a tropical island where all the drinks were served in coconuts, that and a few young griffin girls to keep him company....What? I can't try to make an old man happy in his twilight years? You cruel unfeeling, bastards.
Anyway, I felt bad for the guy. He even had this weird twitch going on. It kept coming on every few seconds and his wings kept...wait. Something is off here. I kept closer focus on his wings. Those twitches had some kind of pattern going on. Left twitch, Left twitch, Right twitch, Right twitch. He kept doing this with a few variations. The hell was he doing? Then I had a feeling. The kind of feeling when you feel like someone you can't see is watching you.
"Celestia, sorry to bug ya, but can you look to your right, near the ceiling?"
"Why?" She asked with understandable confusion.
"Might be nothing...but I think something is watching us."
"How certain of this are you?"
"It's just a feeling. A bit paranoid. Like I said, I'm sure it's nothing. Just like to put it to rest, ya know?"
She still felt unsure but she obliged me anyway.
Ever been glad, you trusted your internal intuition? I might not be psychic but I was damn happy Celestia indulged my paranoia. There was a unicorn perched high in the rafters holding a crossbow, and that crossbow was pointed directly at Celestia! ASSASSIN!
The unicorn looked startled that Celestia had looked their way, but that didn't persuade them away from magically pulling the trigger. The bolt flew from the crossbow and was on its path to end a life. Time slowed, I felt Celestia's magic spring forward and reach out to grab the bolt and stop its flight.
Yet, it didn’t stop.
Something was off about this bolt, as it seemed to completely resist Celestia's magic completely! What the, actual, fuck?! Spell resistant bolts?! Oh God, she's going to die! I need to do something! DYING SUCKS! I tried to act, force her out of the way, will her body to move, SOMETHING! The bolt was within inches of ending Celestia's life.
Celestia was doing everything she could. She poured spell after spell she could in milliseconds, casting faster than the eye could track. Nothing was working. There was nothing she could do at this point. She was going to die.
NO!
Celestia opened her eyes and I got a glimpse of what lay before her; a pitch black hand gripping the shaft of the bolt that was centimetres from penetrating her skull. But what caught her interest was the source of this new appendage. She followed the arm to find it leading under her right wing to where I resided…
I just saved the life of Princess Celestia... and had no idea how I had done it.
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He did? Damn. I've also checked FimFetch and they did not have copies of the work there so unless people have their own copies, the original is gone.
Translation: you were about to tell her about things that haven't happened yet, or at least potentially so (the timeline is impressively screwy considering that none of the problems were actually caused by time travel despite several episodes using it). I would have maybe paused and asked both myself and her whether that was a good idea.
I can't wait to see Celestia's Venom suit
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Not sure she is. I read this story before the previous author deleted it. Unless I’m forgetting how the story played out he is nothing like Venom. Maybe since it’s a revival story it’s changing up some stuff but definitely didn’t recall a full body suit.
Anyone else know correct me if I’m wrong on that statement.
@IMR1 fley question for ya. Posting chapters 1 per day till you leave off from when it ended last time? Or you going to edit some of them as it goes along? Loved the previous story so it sucks that I can’t at least reread what happen before it just dropped off. Glad to see it again even if it’s under someone else just curious the plan
Yes I read the post few days ago but haven’t seen fuller detail yet. Point me where to read any filler details besides you saying it’s “being revived by you with little twist here or there”. It’s little boring waiting to reread again but, it if you change where it leads I’m definitely okay waiting.
Good luck and thanks for reminding me of this story
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The original story didn't reach a point of a full venom-esque bodysuit by the time it was cancelled. If it follows the logical path, it may be included though.
Pretty much, I'm going to be posting them 1/day, though after tomorrow, It'll probably have to wait until the end of the weekend, since right now I only have the first four chapters edited and ready, and the rest of my week/weekend is packed with school/military shit.
I'm going through all of them, mostly dealing with format and spelling errors, however there will be a somewhat substantial difference in personal goals, specifically regarding Dante's arc as a character. These changes/differences will start to be much more apparent around CH 6 if I'm not mistaken.
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he is a bit more like the cartoon venom then the movie venom
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Well no rush. Personal life does comes first. Curious how it will play out to the cliff hanger of the original story or differ from the undercover mission. Although of Ch6 builds on him could lead to different path so looking forward ethier way it leads
10573469 I know the venom MC character but if this previous version of him I’m not sure how it will go? I really wish the previous version was up so I can recall what Zecora said. Recall the symbio helped them before during a “mating season in the “swamps””?? before disappearing with no trace. Think have some hints about him at least. But it’s not that story so have to see fully where it leads
god i can't wait for more of this, i read this when it first got published but then it kinda disappeared and i forgot about it, i absolutely loved the premise and now that its back it's going right back into my lists!
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The sheer fact the MC is there means it's not the original timeline anymore, though.
Trying to keep stuff with 'no changes' is mighty pointless, as it's both boring for OOC observers, and a really screwy habit to form for the MC in-character.
Also, see the Assasin thing.
Immediate non-cannon territory with this one. Ergo, no point to try and keep things as they 'would have' gone.
So, yes, I do hope MC doesnt try to do the "I know shit but can't tell you"-thing.
Mind, I kinda hate the "I saw it all in a show"-trope as well. I prefer the character keeping quiet on that sort of shit throughout the story...
...while ideally also considering everyone 'real' from the get-go and not bogging down in a "is it real if I've see it in a piece of media?"-discussion.
Of fucking course it's real, ye dipshit, now stop leaning in the 4th wall when there's no need to!
I see the similarities between this and the old chapters, yours has some twists to it, which I honestly think make it sounds better. Xd
Keep them AWESOME chapters rolling! Xp
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My point was more that he hasn't even noticed he has future knowledge yet. He was just about to blithely move on to the next episode that he potentially still has time to stop in its tracks.
...Actually, the next episode after Discord was about Twilight not having a friendship lesson to send. He's already derailed that just by existing, and Celestia would have noticed that if the conversation had continued.
This is awesome!! Keep jp the great work!
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i wonder if this will be in the same time as the original or some other time?
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If your interested you can find the old story to read here https://fimfetch.net/story/259768/symbiopony
Chapter 4: We are (not) Venom.
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I do much appreciate that. Didn’t know it was up somewhere else. Mostly prefer keeping 1 accounts so not often I check other sites with similar interests of the same topic
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That might give Luna idea to re-design her Shadowbolt suit.
He is a Klyntar awesome why is this missing the crossover tag?
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Because he's not.
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He is a symbiote
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Could be something new inspired by symbiotes
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A Symbiote is merely something that exists in Symbiosis with another creature. It's like calling the Aliens "Aliens" in Alien vs Predator. They're actually named Xenomorphs, but they're referred to as "Aliens." It's their colloquial terms, just like "Symbiote" is the colloquial term for the Klyntar. ^^
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Yeah I know also im hooked
I read through the first couple chapters you fixed up. I really like the shared body without loss of mind element and got impatient and read through the abandoned one.
Then unlike most related works i've seen mc is both accepted and changes hosts frequently and without significant issue.
One of the things that bugs me about the character is that he never learned how to voluntarily swap control without having to physically disconnect, could have been kept for some critical future plot element but otherwise it just seems rather inconvenient.
If it's intended to be a safety thing it would be understandable if he never gained the ability to take control but he should at least be able to release control to the host especially since this is a constant problem because he frequently wakes before his host.
Another is that mc doesn't seem to have good control over his own body like he is able to remove himself without aid but then he learns he can do the exo thing which for whatever reason prevents him from removing himself unless his host is relaxed, again maybe it was intended to be a future plot element but it feels unrealistic
I'm really looking forward to seeing it continued! The abandoned one is good!
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Because he's not? If this continues the same way as the abandoned one mc is an extinct native species of equestria.
well I did not read the original fic, reading this now, it catches my attention, I hope many more chapters!
a couple things,
Please for all the holy things and the flying cows, don't send him to ponyville, second, get him a body and make him be a romantic couple of Celestia, make a lot of chaos hahahaha
I also feel like speculating on what happened in the abandoned fic for fun so; They all disappeared after leaving to spawn which they apparently all do at the same time so the obvious explanation is just that their marsh dried up while they were there and they were going to bring some clouds and wake them all up at some later point in the story.
I really like the idea that it's tied into the changelings origin story either some group killed them in a power grab transforming themselves into changelings or that mc's species tried to make bodies of their own and it resulted in them becoming what are now known as changelings.
Like that sounds exactly like something discord would do "you want bodies? *snap* now you have bodies hahahaha" but I prefer if it was something they did themselves, I absolutely hate discord being involved in origin stories in any fic where discord is reformed because then there has to be some BS cop out reason why he doesn't just fix them which is clearly well within his power so it's much better if he had nothing to do with it.
Anyway I think that would have been a really cool result if it was discovered mc was the changelings preTF form
In addition they were the zebra's protectors and allies so this would be SO PERFECT for them to end up as bug ponies and end up at war with the zebras by accident like zecora seemed to have experience with changelings in that one episode so it would all fit...I know, I know it would be impractical because while mc's species can only squeek changelings can talk so you'd think they would be able to explain what happened before then but I really like that explanation.
tl;dr Changelings used to be mc's species, they were able to get their own bodies but weren't able to to remove their dependence on others
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👍
Xd
I am glad to see that this story is being continued.. even if it is a reality off of the original world that was consumed in the void.. I hope that this one will last longer. I look forward to what you will show us.
Nobody:
Mc:
Please I need more!
Awesome! I was just hunting for this story recently, and am glad to see that's it's not only been revived, but will be continued! Favorited, and looking forward to future chapters.
This story is already too awesome, how can someone kill it?
Huzzah! Corporeality unlocked!
By the way as much as I love the story I couldn't help but feel an extreme amount of happiness to see somebody make an animorph reference.
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FIRST PERSON TO CALL IT! YES! xD
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Its been years since I read that story. Can you point out the reference for me please?
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Honestly, a bit better now that I’m not giving your body the ol’ Yeerk treatment. Seriously, I’m not sure if there is anything I can do to apologize properly to you.”
In your head!! In yr head!!!
The Griffons territory get a angry letter very soon. The Assassin is just dead after this.
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A very sad fate for mindblowing good storys...
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Would explain Celestias behavior troughout the Series seasons... She is rather passive and almost suicidel inactiv in many ways...
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Biting heads off to get brain chemicals might cause problems...
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The true challange comes after all prewriten chapters run out...
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Pros & Cons. His every move might make or brake stuff. Just winging it seems the only option here.
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I wonder how Discord will react to him. Hes quite the special case...
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Interessting idea. Wonder what the rest of his race is doing this days...
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If that a clever joke for crossing Boundarys and connecting from one individual to the next i applaud you 👏
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More of a Luna fan myself. Luna is quite lonely. She would totaly be my host if she agree...
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Hope it gets more update... Last was 2020...