Unlike how it had come to end during the great war, the Big Grin glowed with new light, the light of hope. After Aria had visited it, she came to carefully watch over it in the years to come. However it was ultimately her decision to let the remaining members of the Think tank to continue their research, and bring in a new age of technological research, this time, with ethnics and morality at the front of their guiding principles, instead of being ignored. Which had always been The Big Grin's purpose. Past the laboratories and Science, it had always been intended as a place to build the future for all equine kind.

In the battlefield that had once been the forbidden dome, there was no longer enraged shouting or the sounds of machines at work. With Bull Frown dead at the hands of Aria, alongside the giant mechanized spider that was once his secret weapon, the back of his labor force was now broken and demoralized. Once the think tank had resumed control of the facilities robotic defenses, the menaces within the facilities would start to dwindle, and without any new lobotomites, they would die off, finally putting to rest the twisted creations of an era long dead. Bull Frown would forever be silenced, and eventually forgotten by those who dwelled within its walls, as just another failed attempt to over take the Face.

The infiltration programs had been a complete failure, years of hard work and self development torn to shreds by a Changeling and her robotic companion. Eventually though underneath the Think Tanks influence, it turned its attention away from weapons and armor development and began to recover the red suits that plagued The Big Grin and put their inhabitants into the grave that they had been denied so long. The suits themselves would be eventually reprogrammed, to allow the crippled and badly wounded to walk again with a carefully reprogrammed aide. These suits would also serve as the new crew of manual labor until a new generation of life could inhabit The Big Grin.

Aria, organs intact, continued onwards, a little less heavy of step, but with all the organs in the right places. As they should be. After all, brains can develop a life of their own when left to their own thoughts, and Aria's brain was more clever than most.

In the battle, Dr.Cyan, also known as Dr.Kind, had fought with his two loyal coworkers against the inhumane methods of the Think Tank. Together with Aria's occasional guidance they rebirthed technological research into medicine, and into curing the various problems of the wastelands, The previously irritated ground around the big grin would be cured and turned into fertile farmland and eventually a new city would form, one based on the premises of ingenuity and compassion rather than militant force. However, the think tank never left the Big Grin. They knew the world outside belonged to their changeling, and if anyone would shape it... well, she had already called dibs.

There is an expression in the wasteland, "The Big Grin."

It refers to those so obsessed with keeping up appearances that they hide their true feelings behind a facade, so much that they forget their own ways, and can no longer judge what is wrong and what is right for themselves. They stare into what was, rather than what will be, ideals flickering out like a torch submerged in water, as the realities of their world continue on around them and sweeps them along. Like life, science is often the same way, events that may seem sudden, is often is not felt until it is rediscovered years, even centuries later.

Following the battle for the liberation of Stable 103, however, The Big Grin took on new meaning. Where once it was viewed as a form of deception, of sadness and hidden desires, it became an expression of rallying for the future. It can be easy to see Science as evil, technology unchecked as the source of all ills, all misfortunes. With Aria at the helm, it became a beacon in the wasteland for a utopia hidden in the mountains where hope triumphed.

We could say more, but the stories in the Big Grin speak for themselves. Now armed with the Transportalponder, Aria could return to the Dome at any time and crack open the secrets of the Big Grin, one by one.

You guys wanted an DLC ending slideshow, so here it is. Made for fun rather than seriousness. Borrowed one of the brain slides because my attempts at making a brain jar failed. I hope you enjoyed it though!

Edit: Photobucket is no longer displaying many of the custom images, so I reuploaded the images to Tumblr, where it can be found Here .