Blackheart nodded. "May we scan you while you do this? I believe it might be possible to replicate the effect if we understand how it works." ******************************************************************************************************** Nightshade, as soon as she stopped laughing, shifted back to pony form and took a seat at the bar. "I could fix this, you know. Not sure I wanna. Too funny."
"Wait, what's going on?" Asmo opened one of his strange, reptilian wall eyes on the door, then burst into a fit of laughter.
*MEANWHILE, IN ORBIT ABOVE THE DISTANT PLANET DRACARYS IV* Silver Crescent stood on the bridge of the newly-built Dracaryn corvette Luna, watching the battle around him. The Dracaryn rebels were putting up a good fight, but the forces of the Apophii Empire had them outnumbered and outgunned. Silver estimated they'd be wiped out in less than an hour if they couldn't break through the blockade. His lieutenant, the Dracaryn warrior Staal N'fuurno, snarled. "They're killing us, Silver. The rest of the fleet should have been here by now!" Silver nodded. "I am aware, Staal. General Siinrat must have run into Imperials on the way. He will be here. Do not lose faith." The ship shook as a plasma blast struck the shield, followed by two more in quick suggestion. Silver sighed. "They are targeting us. Take evasive action and return fire."
Raven snickered. "Alright, think they've had enough of this. Babe, switch 'em back?" "Sis!" Moondust slid himself out of the booth and walked his way towards Raven. Raven smiled and knelt down to him. "Hey, bro. You had something to do with this, huh?"
Rep: hmm. You may try. I suggest you focus the scanners on the energy passing from me, rather than on me. If you try a direct scan, my own natural energy flows and makeup would scramble your system...happened recently to a television satellite I passed near a different planet, don't worry about your television covergae tonight. It tried bouncing a signal off of my energy conduit I had opened, which if I hadn't been using it, would've passed through just fine, but I was using it and the signal bounced back and scrambled the satellite. (Prepares to build the grid form)
"I wouldn't have your Discordlike friend do anything to Maya. Past simulation have shown the femtites and that particular brand of magic don't mix. " It was the whole reason Lio had her hunt down the heart of Discord. Also why Lio removed the femtite canister from Discord's room when the creature decided to stay at the Glass House. "Kimitsu is on the way." "What's taking her so long?" "She probably just wants to make sure she has the right equipment." "Or she has to convince Usagi that she can't take her along. Usagi loves Equestria realities." She was really curious about the gray Unicorn. She had heard her father was partnered with Grimlock. Grimlock called her Megan. [The Heart of Discord was what Lio met Grimlock for in Club Myst. The stuff about femtites and Discord's magic not mixing comes from The Glass House]
Nightshade's tail shifted and extended into the wyvern tail of her draconequus form. She tapped her stinger on the bar, and the magic that had switched the manes reversed itself. ************************************************************************************************* Blackheart's horn sparked, arcing to the nearest computer and turning on the scanners. "Whenever you're ready."
Dusty breathed a small sigh of relief. "Thank you, Nightshade." "I still look like not me," Maya said. "Guessing I'm gonna have to wait for your dude." Moondust nodded. "Yeah, I wanted to make Daddy pretty, but... I did a bad." "Oooh..." Raven ruffled up his mane. "Made a mistake, kid, but that's some of the coolest magic I've ever seen?" Moondust smiled wide. "Really?" Raven giggled. "Yep." Asmodeus, upon composing himself, walked over and sat with Az. "So, big guy... how do you feel?" Az shook his head. "Defeated, my friend. Look. I heard enough of... Let's talk about that whole thing over drinks?" Asmo nodded. "Aaalright. You weren't suppose to hear any of that, but HEY, MIDGET HORSE, ONE WHITE MANE, ONE ENTIRE FRIGGIN' BOTTLE OF APPLEJACK DANIEL'S! Oh. These ponies... they smell familiar." "Coming right up, you absolute bully." Dusty floated them over their drinks, beer for Asmodeus, much-needed whiskey for Azrael.
"...." Megatron was glad nothing happened. He half wondered where Maya's mane went since Grimlock was still bald. Nevermind she just regrew her hair. The former tyrant wonder why the former Dino waited till now to regrow it. Just then a comm window opened up. "Hey Megan do I have permission to bridge directly into the bar, or should I bridge outside of it. The Equestria you're in seems rather advanced and I don't want to risk setting off defenses." "Hey, Maya, Kimitsu want's to know if she could open a Dimensional Bridge in the bar. Or should she do it outside?" "Space Bridge, Ground Bridge, Dimensional Bridge, Time Bridge. Why don't we just have one system that goes everywhere?" "The way it was explained to me is that the energy for the Demon bridges is completely different then the Ground and Space Bridges. I didn't know there were Time Bridges." She liked that nickname. Demon Bridges sounded cooler than Dimensional Bridges. Thanks to her work for Lio she had a personal Demon Bridge projector and a form translator. Not that she used the latter much. The former was pretty fun. The downside of the personal projector was it took a month for the crystal battery to recharge. "Time bridges only span crosstime, so they might as well be called Demon Light bridges." "What?" "They're not proper time travel devices. They're more like the time machines in Dragonball. You're not actually traveling to your past, your traveling to the past of an alternate timeline." "Level eight intelligence or not, time travel and the like gives me a headache."
Nightshade reached behind the bar with her wyvern tail and pulled Windsor closer. "Connemara cream, sweetie. You know my brand." Releasing the annoyed barstool to get her drink, she hopped off her stool and took a seat beside Raven. "So let's talk about how you two just threw the professional fighting world into absolute chaos!"
Rep: (throwing an orb of energy outwards that quickly expanded and every aspect of the web of magic that criscrossed the bay was rendered visible, and a grid form appeared around the damaged beam, glowing somewhat ominously to show that there was a flaw in the material.) Selena: (had stopped laughing and gone back to eating.) ((Gonna have one of my two mains play background for a while.)) *A note appears in front of Selena "From the Desk of the L. A. To whomever it may concern, the protections that the Architect has placed around the property this notice has been sent to, are still in effect although due to possible degradation, a renewal pattern has been included in the molecular structure of this notice. The protections are also due to expire in two weeks of local time unless they are renewed, please burn this notice and crush the remnant within two meters of the property to ensure the continued efficiency of the protections."* Selena: Maya. You should have a look at this. (Holds up the notice)
"Yeah. I guess I kinda did." Raven scooped up Moondust and sat up at the bar with him in her lap. "Hey, Dad." Dusty nodded. "Hello, dear. I like the new mane. And... I'll remember not to annoy you." "You can open the bridge in here as long as it doesn't break anything," Maya answered.
Megatron used her 'magic' to quickly read the note. "Okay, but will that affect the bridge or not? I mean it didn't stop the discorded one from porting in." "Don't know what the note says, but as for damaging stuff, that shouldn't happen. The bridge is just a hole in the air. I guess it could damage a table if it was opened on one, but so long as it opens in an empty space there's normally no problems." Nightbird took a look at the note too, even if she was a pony, the unicorn horn allowed her to uses her natural telescopic vision as quoute/unquote magic. "Like whoever that's from accounted for all variations of transportation tech. Hundreds of universe, hundreds of continuities, and he's really account for all of them? Has anyone from our reality ever stepped foot in this one before?" "Not as far as I know, but people in this reality have been to other realities we've been in before. Grimlock is familiar with Maya and her husband." Contrary to what her daughter might have thought the Cybertronian bridges weren't a very unique transportation method. They weren't even originally from their native continuity, Lio brought them back with him from a continuity that more closely resembled the G1 Transformer comics of his original earth. Their continuity had facets from the comics but more overall resembled the G1 cartoon of that earth.
Blackheart watched the figures and symbols flashing across the monitor. The energy Rep was using was unlike anything he'd seen before, but it was measurable. It would take time, but he was certain they would be able to duplicate it.
Rep: (Setting down a second layer of the gridform, that doesn't have the ominous glow. Pulls out a hammer like tool, to serve as a focus so to allow Blackheart to have an easier time scanning, and smashes it into the upper level of the gridform, forcing the layers to merge and forcing the error to not-be, and causing a wave of energy to spread from the point of impact, outwards in all directions.)
Rep: Do not use it too often. If it is done more than once in the same area within 3 weeks it'll shatter the material you tried to use it on, and the energy surge will unravel any magical construct within the range of the grid form.
"Then let's do it," Maya said. Azrael sighed. "I used to be the best fighter in Equestria..." Asmo rolled his eyes. "You still are, you doofus. You have 30 wins just this run, to one loss. Who else has a record like that, my guy?" Raven nudged Nightshade on the side. "Hey, stranger. I know a lot's gone on today, but I wanna run a song by you."
A portal opens up in the empty floor space between tables and white unicorn wearing a lab coat with a short purple tail and mane steps through. She trots over to Maya and her horn glows as she give Maya scan."Hello, I'm #20, or Kimitsu."
Selena: (thinking and looking at the notice.) Huh. Granddads protections usually make a noise when they are about to expire. I wonder why his frineds sent a letter instead....
