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Comment consensus: Twilight Sparkle
Gabby would be really useful here but she's also keeping the engineering teams ordered and running... Assuming there's ponies doen there Garrus would just stand out like a sore thumb... Twilight, though, could really use the experience and confidence boost that'd come from a simple recon mission.
“Twilight, get your pistol,” Fluttershy stated, looking back at Luna. “I assume there is an armour set available on the Vindica for her?”
“That there is. I will have one brought to your quarters immediately,” Luna replied typing a few commands onto a console. Twilight meanwhile was trying to stutter out an objection.
“I-Is this such a g-good idea? I mean, s-surely there's someone more qualified!” she eventually managed to stutter out. “I-I mean, what if they don't even speak Equish?!”
“Didn't stop Shy the first time around so why should it now?” Garrus chuckled. “I'll stay ready to come support you if things go south down there.”
“Thanks, I'll try not to mess up though,” Fluttershy giggled, sticking out her tongue at her alien boyfriend.
“We'll keep an eye from up here, if things really go badly we always have orbital artillery at the ready,” Luna also informed them, Fluttershy wanted to snicker until she saw how serious Luna actually was.
“Let's hope we won't need it. Anyhow, Twilight and I will go prepare, if you could have us led to a shuttle when we get there it'd be appreciated.”
“Of course, that's for granted,” Luna agreed.
“ETA to planet is three hours, Princess,” the pony at the nav station reported.
Fluttershy turned to Twilight who looked incredibly nervous, rubbing her left foreleg with the right as she stared down at the ground. “Come on, Twilight, let's go prepare.”
Garrus wanted to follow and help but Fluttershy flagged him down, she wanted to talk to Twilight alone first. The moment the two of them got into a transport pod then Fluttershy sat her down. “Twilight, we're not expected to go fight. In fact, we're expected to really not fight at all.”
“I... I just don't think I can do this. I don't even know what I'm supposed to do!”
“Listen to and follow my lead,” Fluttershy answered. “Twilight, you're almost more on edge than I used to be. You're smart and can work through most situations, you just need to get a reminder of that. We're going down there and we're going to find this catalyst thing that'll allow us to beat the reapers, alright?”
“A-Alright,” Twilight agreed.
“Good, now let's go get you that set of armour.”
“We're landing close to the largest settlement we could find as beside a few very radioactive zones there are no anomalies on the planet. No signs of advanced structures or any radio signals, we want Fluttershy to use her natural ability of being able to talk to anyone to see if the locals have any legends or stories of strange places,” Luna explained over the radio as the shuttle they were using was rapidly approaching the planet's atmosphere. Fidelis' analysis showed that whoever populated the planet was technologically maybe barely at the start of an industrial revolution, the Vindica's scanners having picked up what looked like bits of rail from its distant position nearly behind the planet's moon. Twilight and Fluttershy were both wearing a brown 'rag', as Rarity had decried in horor, over their armour, something that would hopefully help them blend in...
This was of course assuming there were ponies down there at all.
“Breaking atmosphere in one minute,” the drone controlled by a subroutine of Fidelis reported. “In two hours it will be dusk at our location, I will lose direct contact with my main processor at that moment. I suggest leaving this unit with the shuttle until you find something worth investigating.”
“Sounds like a good idea. Cloak or not, you won't exactly blend in very well,” Fluttershy agreed. The shuttle rumbled a little as it hit the atmosphere before mass effect generators could smooth the vibrations out again.
“Orbital insertion complete, lowering altitude and setting course for landing point,” Fidelis reported as Fluttershy looked out one of the Shuttle's windows. She could barely see the structures that lay far below them, but they were definitely there.
“Say, Fidelis, how long can this shuttle stay airborne?” Twilight asked as she joined Fluttershy in gazing outside.
“Indefinitely for the purposes of this mission. Why?”
“Because Fluttershy can fly and I can teleport down. That way you can stick to these high clouds for cover instead of risking discovery on the surface,” Twilight explained, sounding a little proud of herself.
“Good thinking, Twilight,” Fluttershy smiled. “Can you do that?”
“That I can,” Fidelis replied, altering his trajectory slightly. “Updating mission parameters, get ready for a drop.”
“Copy that!” Fluttershy put on her transparent muzzle cover as she'd need the extra oxygen at this altitude. Her heads up display also showed a waypoint as the shuttle painted the landing spot with a laser. “See you down there in just a bit!” Fluttershy called out as she opened the shuttle door and let herself drop out of it. Wind pulled at her mane as she fell down through the atmosphere, her pegasus magic making the extreme cold bearable.
“I'm down,” Twilight reported as her beacon suddenly appeared next to the waypoint the shuttle had put down. “This place is... Remarkably like home.” a video feed of a clearing with grass and flowers surrounded by trees popped up up on Shy's HUD.
“If Equis is made to resemble this place than that makes total sense,” Fluttershy wondered as she plummeted down in Twilight's direction. “Could you check- Twilight, look at your two o'clock, bushes at the treeline.”
Fluttershy saw Twilight's heart rate spike as she swirved her head around. The pony armour's systems immediately tagged what Fluttershy had already spotted in the bushes. A very well hidden, brown coated, earthpony colt. His eyes were shrunk down to pinpricks as his eyes met Twilight's and he didn't hesitate to bolt the very next moment. “Was that-”
“Yes!” Fluttershy called out as her mind was running at immense speed, trying to figure out what to do. Herself being a couple of minutes out if she wanted to avoid becoming pegasus paste.
We have no clue what this place is like... That kid could be the first to inform us... Though stopping him may not be interpreted positively... but if we aren't welcome his warning could for all we know start a panic... But are we really scary enough to cause something like that?
1. Have Twilight capture him.
2. Shadow the colt.
3. Let him go and hide.
Well, good new is that the strawpoll is showing results. Correct? No idea, but it is something.
For the choice itself, I go for shadowing the colt. An aggressive first contact is completely out of the question, but they do need information and now that they are aware of living being they can be more careful in their scouting, so they shouldn't be discovered if they shadow the filly.
Yeah shadowing is the best of the three I feel, won't make the poor kid have a heart attack and raise a major fuss. But at the same time if he tries to get people wound up the two can see if the ponies even believe the kid, see how they might react to the info if they do believe it, and lastly give them time to interject if needed to calm things down instead of letting the people work themselves up into a frenzy if it is a bad reaction.
If there's one thing I've learned from this sort of encounter is that contacting locals should be avoided unless it's an actual requirement and in this case it isn't yet. At the same time been discovered by a potential hostile threat is a risk. So in this case, I'd go for shadowing the colt.
A rabid armed posse can be raised very quickly, and depending on situation can be shoor first, and if you are still capable of moving, shoot again.
Id select option 2, Shadow the colt.
Information is the most important resource at this time?
Shadow the colt was my choice, just in case.
Interested to see where this leads.
Now, is the colt afraid of her because she's an alien, or because she's a unicorn?
Either way, shadowing the guy is probably a good way of finding some adults.
Capture the colt and torture him ...
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Of course you shadow him! Fluts has an invisibility cloak!
Dumb choice ...
Given the comment section so far, I suspect that this is one of those forgone conclusions. Shadow the little fella.
I agree with shadowing the colt, not to mention they are going to eventually interact with the locals anyway, so this will probablybe the best thing to do what with Fluttershy being involved.
I finally caught up to the latest chapter!
Shadowing does seem like the best choice. The colt will lead them back to other ponies, and they can take the measure of the locals from a safe vantage. If it looks like contact is a good idea, they'll be in a good position to take it from there. But if there's other issues in play that they didn't know about, it might be a good idea to get advance warning before a lynch mob catches them unawares.
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At least they're not eating him
3-4 days text to speech that story. Fuck...
Glorious reading through orgy ~♡
2. Shadow the Colt, better don't make enemys and keep the hooves open.
79% on Nr.2. To be expected.
Sooo... They probably run Equestrias route before Fluttershy get shot into space...
Alicorn incoming i wonder?
Over 190 comments from me in under a week...
NEW RECORD
Edit:
CommanderApplejack probably will be surprised to have about 200 comment message notifications
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Noooooo I have catched up now I am sad but I can participate in any new polls
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It's the "Wu" character, it means "nothing".
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Commander of the Shepards I believe, which I think is only one of two stories that feature femshep the other being Mass Effect: Gathering Storm an excellent story that sadly hasn’t been updated in a while.
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Me like "Huh? Element of Kindness? What is this?" :). I mean... My comment more that two years old :).
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No no, you don't romance Garrus and/or Tali. You leave them alone, so they romance each other!
Also, what other FemShep story is truly ongoing?
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Garrus and Tali...
Because She could take Shepards place:
Second... I have to check later...
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Which codex entries are you referring to? Ones about Ashley? I can't say my memory of them is so good at this point, but I did read every single one the first time I played each of the original 3 games.
I saw the "save both" cut back when I wrote that comment. I can see why it didn't make it into the game too.
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It's the closest friendly look I could find
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Uh, which one is for me?
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Not helpful.
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Getting less funny.
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Hello? Am I invisible?
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Oooohhhh. Not sure how far you've gotten but OOF.
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Of course Celestia is a Liability. Shes long since stopped seeing her ponies as living beings and more as tools, as chess pieces to move around. She slows Equestria’s technological development to make it easier on her to use the ponies as she desires. Make them dance on their strings.
With technology like the ship, the reveal of magic being Element Zero, and more? Celestia is being left in the dust as the world evolves outside her ability to control. It’s why she had her guards chasing Twilight. The relay lead to Change. Uncontrollable Change. And with Twilight caring so much about her friends, Twilight would learn the secrets of the device to attempt to bring her friends back.
Thus, Twilight must be captured and forced to swear to forget the device and never use it nor leave behind anything that could hint at it for as long as she knows.
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I am finding this both amusing and a little annoying Black Soul XD, questions, jokes, and open self thinking replys from months back being replied too, XD, sure the replys are nice, but going on the hunt for them then finding mine..... thats the annoying bit lol.
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Thanks ^^
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nah its cool Black Soul, kind of fun reading back on posts that are nearly two years old lol
Reader:
"Swim or sink Twilight, there is no trying..."
*Twilight explode trying*
Reader:
"Told you."