The Reason why Alicorns are being made on Earth and the creation of SPECIAL!

Sanctuary Hills/Vault 111 Residents

Curie, Hollow Point, Serin Copper, Cherry Fizz, Warner, Thunderstruck, Dart, Golden Grain, Codsworth, Cait, Leighla, Tina & Bobby DeLuca, Crab & Poppy Cake, Sea Shell, Tin Hut

Jackson, Hertz, Zoe, Ada,

Equestrian SPECIAL Monitoring Division

Agent Orange Rind
Agent Peacock
Agent Banana Peel
Agent Lunar Rover
Special Agent Palm Springs
Director Parish

Out and About

Nate, Athena, Meathead, Hancock, Deacon, Danse, Verne, Piper, Lotta Rosie

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Meathead laid infront of the television, hidden in his canine German Shepard form, idly listening to commercials and whatever passed for entertainment broadcasts.

Between one long stretch was an advertisement for the Giddyup-Buttercup, a modest $16,000 price tag for your own pony. Bucking Bronco's for the boys, and if you wanted to upgrade to a Princess Models, those came at a hefty $20,000 for Princesses Twilight, or Princess Cadence ($36,000 dollar option only available with purchase of the Cadence model, a Prince Shining Armor model to pair as well!), or finally, the $22,000 option for Princesses Celestia or Luna.

Meathead felt like he just won the million dollar prize at the bottom of the crackerjack box, discovering the Nightmare Moon variant.

But, there was a interesting bit of upgrade tech-wise when it came to the Princess models. Aside from using two fusion cores to power all their sub-systems and flight capabilities, this model in particular was capable of casting magic. The Princess models were built at toy factories taken over by weapons manufacturers, and the results were magical, flying machines.

The real truth however, was that their hard-ware contains a small antenna and satellites dish strong enough to connect with a satellite in orbit around earth. These motherboards of electronic chips making up the Princess Model's brains were the some of the pinnacles of every pre-war resource being funneled into a single project. Thanks to EINSTEIN, these beauties had external hard drives that could be accessed remotely to emulate the princess model selected.

For how few were produced, and how long it took to manufacture a single Princess model, from the designs and resources, it took three years from the time the order was placed to finished production, ready to walk off the line for a single unit. The wait was well worth it, because these Princess Models were not only capable of flight, but energy manipulation as well. In THREE amazing MAGIC SPELLS available to the public, these Princess Models were capable of Telekinesis of multiple objects, energy blasts for defense, and cloud manipulation for gardening and round the clock good weather for your Princess Model. Along with a variety of other features, these Princess Models were top of the line in every way, and built to last.

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“Are you sure you want to do this?” Deacon asked,

“<I saw the commercial, I remember exactly how they said we could get in touch with Equestrians with the Princess Model. You see, the Princess Models were the only ones equipped with strong enough antennas that could communicate with satellites that were essentially being monitored by the Equestrians. By using a special phrase, it'll send out a ping, like a telephone call waiting to be picked up. If it goes through, and someone on the other end notices, they can either ignore it, watch it, or respond. Otherwise they're all dead and nobody's watching an old computer program's activity. But, my theory is...that they would have put a line of insurance out on these Princess Models. That if any of them were to ever react and ask to access their server, then they would be notified.>”

“So you want to get in touch with the Equestrians? Why?”

“<I want to ask them about Wendigos, and if they know anything about Athena.>”

“I know her, she's been asking about Alicorns ever since she came on my radar three years ago. Relentless is a single word I would use to describe her. Does not play well with others, nor accepts criticism well either.”

“<How'd you end up meeting her?>”

“She wanted to figure out how to make one, become one, or force one into existance. She was quite vocal a few years ago, saying she had checked off quite a few boxes trying to figure it out herself.”

“Why's she after Alicorns?” Hancock asked.

“One from her past really ticked her off good. The one called Firelance from D.C.”

“<What'd he do?>”

“The story I got from Athena, is that he and his buddy Sola are the reason why the Brotherhood took control of Pittsburg and helped expand their influence across the North-East, starting about a decade ago in the big battle for D.C. She came to the Commonwealth trying to track Sola and Firelance down, apparently they came through here seven years ago, but we weren't able to be keeping tabs on them at the time.”

“So why's she stuck around?” Hancock asked,

“Athena thinks that the Institute is making one, or already made a fake Alicorn of Intelligence.” Deacon said, apathetically.

“What's with the downer tone?”

“Because, she's insinuating that even though the Institute may of succeeded on that part of mangling together enough DNA to make an Alicorn, she told me in lesser words that it's not THE Alicorn everyone's hoping it'll be.” Deacon said, “Like a test-tube baby sitting under the grow light for too long, or some other mutant they've got cooked up down there. Athena was extremely livid with anger at the thought of them creating a 'abomination', that was a basic mockery of Alicorns, and that they were able to surpass and succeed where she failed.”

“<When did you meet her?>”

“Long time ago, when I first heard she was in these parts, roaming around, being actively violent everywhere she went and hauling carts of goods around. She was looking for information, and giving about as much in return just to explain her situation and plight.”

“Oh yeah? What's she after?” Hancock asked, like he couldn't already guess.

“Well it's not a hot-date, that's for sure. She's really...really...REALLY pissed off at a Unicorn turned Alicorn named Firelance, Hancock. He was One of Seven. Little did Athena know, that oh...three years ago, there was a big show down in the Mojave desert. Heavy hitters out west, Meathead. Big Names like NCR. Now it took traders two months to walk that... speed of things around here...We get word over the wire about big names we've only heard whispers about. That's...New California Republic...and Caesar's Legion... Low and behold, the Legend of the Alicorn of Luck manages to hold back a massive wall of water after the dam explodes in the desperation of battle. One of the two sides was losing, blows the dam, the Alicorn of Luck pushes the dam back into place and forces both parties out of Las Vegas altogether.”

“Alicorn of Luck?”

“I'm getting to that. You see Firelance, now his story I heard a little more. It happened ten years ago, but I heard a lot more traders, mercs, radiers, just about everybody down south who saw it had a version to tell, but I haven't heard as often since. Here's the thing about hearing that story so many times from so many different people. The Brotherhood had a big fucking robot, the size of a fifty foot building, but the Enclave took control of it during the middle of the battle. A lot of people forget that this Liberty Prime started wiping out plenty of Brotherhood forces too.”

“What happened? How did the Enclave take control of Liberty Prime?”

“With an extremely powerful computer at a military base, about 20 miles from the battlefield. They aimed a massive satellite dish at the spot and scrambled the robot's brains. They were able to remotely access it, and turn it against the Brotherhood. Here's the best part that people forget in the whole, Brotherhood won D.C. Battle, after Liberty Prime turned against them, and to stop it, they blast it from space with a laser.”

“<They have an orbital space laser?>”

“I didn't think you knew what one was,"

“<I didn't think my enemies would get their hands on one. So explain to me, was this Firelance who fired the laser?>”

“No one has eyes on him anymore after the strike against Liberty Prime, sometime later he shows up an Alicorn.”

“What's a space laser?” Hancock asked.

“<Someone wired a thousand laser rifles together to make one big one, put the trigger on a remote, and launched it into orbit, so every few days we're a potential target when they're in the right position above Earth.>”

“Bummer,” Hancock said,

“Beautiful paraphrasing, but that's all I know about Firelance. He and Sola tag-teamed together as the Brotherhood's heavy hitters for another three years, then had a falling out with the new leadership since the old ones died in the battle for D.C. After Liberty Prime turned on Brotherhood command.”

“<So how's Firelance related to the Alicorn of Luck down in Vegas?>”

“Here's the kicker. The Brotherhood called Firelance, the Alicorn of Perception for being able to 'Quote/unquote' make the shot.”

“The shot that took out Liberty Prime?” Hancock asked.

Deacon nodded, “Yep, you compile a hundred stories and collate thirty witnesses later, I know for a fact that the Brotherhood wasn't able to keep their secret about this one. Firelance was a Unicorn before the Battle for D.C., and then became the Alicorn of Perception after taking the shot that wiped out Liberty Prime.”

“<I can't imagine why Athena's got such a hard on for them, she wants to kill Firelance and Sola, because of something they did to her and what she valued. But if there's more than one, I want to know why the Equestrians are going through all this effort to have a... set of Alicorns made up.>"

“Exactly, so you tell me, why do you want to go asking about them for what you don't already know?” Deacon asked,

“<I want to see what their holdup is, we know they're making Alicorns on Earth, so what's the big waiting game they're playing?>”

“Cause their plans aren't done cooking yet,” Hancock said, “Earth's just been pulled from the roaring hot nuclear oven and still needs time to cool off before your pals slice into this succulent slice of America.”

“That's what I was going to say,” Deacon said, “Getting in touch with the Equestrians might be bad news for you, Meathead.”

“<My existence is bad news, Deacon. I don't care they're still waiting for more Alicorns to be born, and Earth's still too hot, it sounds like we've got nothing to lose getting in touch with them.>”

“But why, Meathead?”

“<Because, Deacon. As Nate would say, it's the neighborly thing to do.>”

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A single microsecond of data was transmitted, recorded, and logged sent from Quincy, Massachusetts on November 9^th 2277.

While the amount of data was mostly limited to numbers, the combination of numbers showed that could be translated into coordinates to the recently activated Princess Luna Giddyup-Buttercup model.

Special Agent Palm Spring and his Agents Peacock, Orange Rind, Lunar Rover, and Banana Peel, all under Director Perish, who if you must know, reported to a Minister Black Comb, and then two more levels of power above them before someone answered directly to the Princess.

“This is Agent Lunar Rover of the SPECIAL Monitoring Division, I've flagged this interaction as high alert that is necessary for the Princess to see immediately.”

“What is it, Agent?”

“I believe the timeline for Project SPECIAL is about to accelerate again.” Agent Lunar Rover replied.

“Enlighten us then with a date and proof, let's hear why.” Special Agent Palm Spring asked, neither disregarding the statement, but not giving it too much faith yet.

“We detected a Wendigo's presence disappearing in the Commonwealth squadron of North America 48 hours ago.” Rover said, presenting the map of Massachusetts.

“How's this related to Project SPECIAL?”

“This morning we received a transmission from a reactivated Princess Luna Model. Everything we know was that it was developed at a SCYTH joint-development factory belonging to Atomatoys and our old Giddyup-Buttercup program. They were capable of satellite transmission and a feature was getting in touch with an operator or help desk agent to wirelessly ask for help regarding any malfunctions or errors. The only thing is that while this feature hasn't been used by anyone in over two hundred years, we can receive audio and visual during this conversation. There's a changeling in the Commonwealth, it's on hold, and waiting for us to respond.”

“A Changeling?” Special Agent Palm Springs asked,

“A pre-unification Changeling. One of Chrysalis or Gynae's,” Agent Orange Rind specified.

“Bring it up on the board,” Palm Springs said with a hard lean in his voice. The Agents quickly produced all the evidence they were able to gather, pinning it up and spreading everything out.

“These two, a man and a Changeling, they claim the Changeling, Meat, was the one who reactivated or fixed the Princess Model.” Agent Banana Peel said, going over the pictures presented of Meathead and Deacon in disguise.

“What's a Chrysalis era-changeling doing, talking to one of our models? And I'll ask again Peacock, how does this relate to SPECIAL?”

“Ever since SPECIAL was implemented on Earth, there have been some earmarks of certain event that happen under similar instances. Signs that an Alicorn was going to appear within two to six months of these series of events. One variable that's occurred with every SPECIAL alicorn that's come to existence to date has signs of technology and settlement expansion coming back in the entire region.” Agent Peacock said, looking to Agent Lunar Rover, she was quick to show graphs showing the percentage of human activity and projected return to post-feudal lifestyle, and the rate Earth was rebuilding.

“Robots, infrastructure, electrical, utilities, communication satellites, it's all coming back on-line for Earthlings and people are still tinkering away down there scrapping their way back through all the rubble, that's what we know from our other Princess Models that sent data back to us. However, in the last decade, two of three models have been reactivated or repaired, and within those two to six months later. The first being a Princess Twilight Alicorn Model in Washington D.C., repaired ten years ago. The unicorn Firelance was able to repair the robot and have it sending transmissions again, two months from that date he becomes the Alicorn of Perception in the battle for a aquafer for his whole region.” Agent Lunar Rover explained,

“This exact same instance happened again with a Shining Armor model in Las Vegas being repaired at the Gomorrah Casino. Our Cadenza Mi Amore Model is there as well, and the pair have been beaming back information to us since their great war. However we got to know Vivi Roulette quite well for six months before and after she and person accompanying her end up being the Alicorn of Luck. Vivi Roulette's relationship with the Prince and Princess models has been more than we could've ever hoped for in furthering Equestrian relations. Everything we know about Vivi and her companion are thanks to the Prince and Princess Models, acting on their own volition. It's only by supporting Vivi and Marilyn that we've been able to expand our relationships on Earth through them,” Agent Peacock reported.

“To those predictors of the Models coming back online, looking back we also received alerts of activity from those areas prior to the Models, from Satellite Energy Discharge in the Mojave Desert, and a small thermonuclear explosion in D.C., prior to the Twilight Model reactivating. Third time around, we've just checked and there was confirmed reports of a Rocket Launch in the Commonwealth, only terminal rocket thrusters and their afterburners could've produced something this loud in Boston. Followed by more activity of a dead Wendigo, and now a Princess Luna Model waltzes off the production line and starts chatting with a Changeling with the likes we haven't seen in two centuries...” Agent Peacock stated.

“So you've got correlation, but not causation,” Special Agent Palm Spring surmised, “Any details on the human and the changeling?”

“That's where we're facing an issue. We've recorded his conversation with the Princess, he started talking about the commercials ran for the Giddyup Buttercups in 2077-2075. Exact details, schematics, intended purpose, this changeling knows that the Princess is broadcasting everything back to us, and wants to speak with us.” Agent Orange Rind said, “I'm in the process of looking up those old commercials for the Giddyup Princess line.”

“How does this Changeling know about the TV commercials?” Special Agent Palm Springs asked,

“The changeling could've just as easily had access to old films and television programs with commercials from their original run-time spliced in. Otherwise, we're looking at an old Changeling.” Agent Banana Peel said, offering his explanation

“How should we respond?” Agent Lunar Rover asked, “The Princess Model is walking with them and we can get in touch whenever we'd like.”

“Tell them we have a few questions we'd like to ask,” Special Agent Palm Springs said.

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“...Hello?...I understand your anger and frustrations, Meat and Deacon. I do hope you'll forgive us if I ask a few questions to better acquaint myself with the situation here and yourselves.” The voice coming from the Princess Model was Special Agent Palm Springs

“Who are we speaking with?” Deacon asked, watching the Princess' eyes move accordingly to take in his form. He could practically hear the click's of a digital camera taking note of how he spoke and moved.

“Special Agent Palm Springs, of the SPECIAL Monitoring Division, you triggered our activation phrase when you said you needed help from EINSTEIN. That's this Princess Model's brains operating system; Not many people or ponies know about the EINSTEIN activation phrase, let alone use it all that often, which is why we wanted to direct our next question to how either of you came to know about us.”

“<I'm an old changeling, but enough about me, I need to know what your end goal is with all these Alicorns are here on Earth.>”

“If you're looking for Equestrian aid, we'll put you on the list, but be warned, it's a long list. As for the state of things, you're in uncharted territory. We have so little information about life in that area, All our monitoring equipment says you're right in the sink of radioactive soup, and that things should be hotter than a piece of tinfoil in a microwave, let alone thriving, living communities. Pleasantries aside, there's been an incident regarding a Wendigo. Now, you wouldn't know anything about that, would you?”

<“I couldn't care how long Equestria takes, it'll be too late for me and most people I know. As for your Wendigo, you're welcome. I'm only the messenger, but there's a few people and ponies down here who're convinced they can force one out like a genie from a bottle if they rub hard enough, and it's not looking pretty. Fill in the details and help me understand, I know Firelance became the Alicorn of Perception, and there's another Alicorn of Luck far off down to the South-West...I know a pattern when I see one, and it shares Vault-Tec.'s SPECIAL acronym. What is the purpose of SPECIAL once all seven Alicorns are gathered and complete? Is the reason ponies were placed on Earth was because it was so dangerous, that it would kickstart the pony's flight-or-fight response, forcing a evolutionary growth? Is that the purpose of SPECAL?>”

“Meat...Since you were able to repair this Princess Luna model, and have an enourmous in-depth understanding of the past and current events, I'll help fill in a few of those blanks for your giant Mad-Lib world you're stuck in down there... In response to Earth's scientists coming up with a Garden of Eden Creation Kit, our response to their GECK was SPECIAL.”

“Geck?” Meathead asked Deacon, Hancock shrugged, Deacon gave him a look and signal that said, 'I'll explain later,'

“Princess Twilight of Equestria came up with a grand formula and solution, to fix destroyed planets damaged by fallout. The same way it takes an upwards 50 untrained unicorns, or as little as 10 unicorns at the top of their class and abilities, or a single alicorn to move the sun. The power structure is measurable, the amount of magical resistance an Alicorn has before magical-backlash or burnout is far greater than a single unicorn, but a single unicorn can build up that same level of resistance to channel magic as efficiently as an Alicorn can naturally.”

“It takes time, training, and intense focus and effort for a unicorn to raise it's resistance and capacity to that of an Alicorn and beyond a natural born Alicorn without becoming one, but again, it takes a considerable amount of will power on top of all the other requirements,training, focus, and physical demands to elevate one's magical skill to such a level. On Equestria, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna cast a spell every morning and evening, one to raise and set the sun, the other to wax and wane the moon across the sky. In times of their absence or even when hostiles take over, there's been a backup system of trained unicorns in place teaching and instructing others to take their place in the event of an emergency.”

“For over 1000 years, Princess Celestia and Luna cast the same spells on the planet Equiss daily, In theory, there would be a spell to completely re-green and heal the planet Earth's surface. With the core of Earth as the XYZ-axis, to 40 miles below the surface, and 250 miles above the surface reaching the upper atmospheres, she calculated the amount of magical mana required to set everything back to a photozaich period, or what you would consider 'Earth with all the radiation pulled out of it all at once, and everything went back to pre-industrialization standards'.

Using calculations based off Chaos Theory, and practical applications of it, she was able to come up with a formula and equate that such a burst of magic is possible, but is estimated to take the combined effort of 3,655 Unicorns, with the most basic magical skills, or 731 Trained unicorns with advanced magical capabilities and experience, or 7 Alicorns born naturally.

Whichever group, or six of the seven Alicorns, plus a hundred or more experienced unicorns, and have them casting the same spell simultaneously in unison for it to work, daily for the next 1,500 years...which is about the life of radioactive-spent isotopes for them to cool off without intervention... or until such time otherwise they're not needed anymore. So...Earthlings. As you can see, nearly all our eggs are in the one basket, gentlemen. Even now, 4 out of the 7 are known to exist, and are scattered across the Northern continent. So unless you've got 300 plus unicorns of a high-caliber level, then there's not much I can do to sway my superiors into taking your group seriously.”

This realization came as a shock to Meathead, Hancock, and Deacon.

“They're planning to re-greenify the whole planet.” Hancock said, snapping his fingers, “Just like that.”

“Alicorns and their longevity, and durability are more suited for the role. Yes, ponies are suffering, people are suffering, and we're working as fast as we can to help everyone on Earth, but understand, while you go the long route of saving every pony- piece by piece, turning over every single radiated leaf and rock...we're going to put everything back to the way things were for the environment all at once. But, for this type of lightning to strike, this takes as much time and preparation as it takes humanity to pull itself out of post-war raiding, and turn towards factionalism, as it does for a single Alicorn to come into existence. On Equiss, the rate of Alicornism is one every 250 years on average, on earth, it's one every 30-50 years, with the last two bringing down the average significantly. SPECIAL is accelerating exponentially the more Alicorns there are in the world.”

Meathead sat there, his brain feeling like he just stuck his head in a microwave and hit 'Popcorn'.

He felt like his world just got bigger, that spells of absolute magnitude could be cast. He always thought in theory, at the back of his mind, what would it take for a spell like that to snap everything right back into place?

Turns out seven Alicorns casting a 'cure-all' spell once a day for the next 1500 years.

“So tell us, how are you managing to stay fed, Changeling?”

His line of thinking was cut off, a cosmic swirl of magical computations vanished without a trace from thought and memory, and he was dragged back into the present, “<I've got a few fools who love me for just the way I am.>” He said, not feeling the effort to give any more of an answer.

“...Just to reset everything?” Deacon said, processing everything Special Agent Springs told them. “That's the goal? What happens in 500 years when one of them has a falling out with each of the others? How do you expect them to come together now?” Deacon asked.

“Until that day happens, continue working on your plans, keep building purifiers, and cities and towns, keep building suits to filter out radiation, bunkers and farms, and when the day comes when they have a disagreement, then it will be on you to have a supply of unicorns, pegasus, and earth ponies coming together in harmony. For Pegasus and Earth ponies can draw upon the magic of friendship as well to accomplish unbelievable feats, it will take them coming together in large numbers to remove radiation from the land. It's a spell meant to put all the energy back into the original atom. It gathers up all the bits of itself it scattered everywhere and puts them all back into a nice tiny little atom, subatomic particle, by subatomic particle.”

“But why greenify everything?” Hancock asked.

“Well, in Princess Twilight's defense, and from instructions and implimentation was simple. The spell was designed to 'Fix' the planet's surface. Isn't that the ultimate goal of every society that eventually establishes itself and becomes powerful enough? Once a township builds itself up enough, and starts digging down to establish roots, they'll come face to face with the same issues they've been neglecting for decades. All that fallout and dust in the soil, contaminated water or rust, the best hope humanity on their own with limited capacity and resources after a cataclysmic event with no infrastructure or support system in place could do is to bury it."

"And not only that, Earthlings could spend hundreds of years burying it, countless generations all coming and going, and even establishing economies of life and death around cleaning and healing tainted patches of environment. Work camps and prisons of people sent to their doom with poor protective covering to toil in toxic dirt. That is an expected outcome of 80% of Earth right now. Then the 20% are going to be the ones deciding how to deal with the 80%, Meat, so not that were looking on Earth poorly, it's that we've been looking down this barrel for quite a while. We've scraped the bottom of this one, and seen what there is to see. Or we could jump to the end. This whole speech I just gave about work-camps and a terrible environment, and every other doom and gloom scenario we can think of can be outdone with a single spell. SPECIAL will Cast a spell and put and end to it all. It'll return the Earth to how it was before your big war, and scrub the whole surface clean of radioactive material. All it'll take is seven Alicorns casting the same spell for the next fifteen hundred years. So go ahead and tell us your solution for fixing up your township, and we'll tell you how we're trying to fix up your whole planet in one shot. Each solution requires a drastic amount of time, resources, and responses to given scenarios, and this is the one that gives the planet the most. We've answered a fair amount of your questions, now, Meat how about you mind telling us a bit more about who you are?”

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“Forces in the area?” Director Parish asked Special Agent Palm Springs,

“Closest Equestrian forces are in an undisclosed location three days from Massachusetts.” Special Agent Palm Springs replied.

“Where there any preconditions similar to this with the other Alicorns?” Director Perish asked,

“Only on paper, there's nothing linking any of the Alicorn's together aside from the fact that 4 of the 7 have all been turned about because of humans about to cause massive damage to the environment.”

“Explain.”

“Adam the Ant became the Alicorn of Endurance the day the bombs fell, October 23, 2077. He was responsible for Equestria's last messages from Earth before the bombs fell, his ascension to the Alicorn of Endurance was caused by him flying after a nuclear warhead, and detonating it mid-flight. Considering Adam the Ant was a pegasus before the explosion, and an Alicorn afterwards, this was the only reason given as to how and why he was able to chase down 40 more atomic wareheads in next 90 minutes. Almost every 30 seconds, Adam was able to hunt down and detonate a warhead midflight before it reached its target destination. Adam the Ant's strength since then has grown and he spends his time tracking down UXO and personally absorbing the energy and fallout across the entire planet. To which, he says after 210 years, has achieved 7% of his goal. It's set to exponentially grow here again after SPECIAL completes it's primary function and all seven Alicorns are brought into existence.”

“Do we have any information that might determine what type of pony will become an Alicorn next? Earth, Pegasus, Unicorn?”

“Iron Horse to date is the only earth stallion to ever become an Alicorn. He appeared on our radar after fighting in Northern California, where we were able to detect a nuclear reactor coming on line, followed by his ascension less than two weeks later. He became the Alicorn of Strength after breaking apart an oil rig used by the post-American military as a staging ground to conduct viral experiments along the pacific coast. According to weather data and sea patterns, this offshore military base was housing a nuclear reactor that was jettisoning waste directly South into the water supply. The destruction of that base, whether Iron Horse knew at the time, was the best thing for the ecology of the entire western Pacific seaboard. Since then he's backed the NCR government and is firmly rooted in their society as a successful figurehead and leader. He's since then chosen to ally with Equestrian forces and SPECIAL's ultimate goal. As for Vivi Roulette and Firelance, her involved with the repair of the Hoover Dam after it's destruction mid-battle, and Firelance for stopping a whole regions water supply from going viral as well.” ”

“Yeah, well, this Changeling and human were both asking questions about the fourth, Firelance.”

“Aren't we all?”

“The process of becoming an Alicorn is classified, and they've all been tight lipped about what happens in the heat of the moment too. No witnesses or ones willing to come forward to explain what exactly happened to these ponies during their ascension, but we know it's happening at a faster rate than normal. They want to know where he is,”

“So do we, but until SPECIAL is complete and all seven Alicorns come into existence, then nobody will see the entire picture. Not even us. It may be another 50 years till the next alicorn, but that's just the average. At this rate, We're not looking at an Alicorn every 50, the time difference between Firelance and Vivi was only seven years, and with these events pointing towards another one after only three years, it's possible SPECIAL is accelerating exponentially. These levels of activity show it'll be here soon.”

“That's not all, Director, we just received word of a massive heat exchange in Pittsburg from satellite. A radio signal went out and caused a whole armada to mobilize. This is the Brotherhood of Steel's army and they're packing up to move.”

“Where are they going?”

“The signal's coming from the Commonwealth, Sir.”

“If this changeling isn't going to become an Alicorn, then he's certainly must be in close proximity to ponies who could be potential candidates. Even a weak Changeling Queen could easily overpower a Alicorn when they haven't trained for emotional manipulation. I want you to find out what this Changeling wants, what he's doing, and whatever he's planning, who he's been impersonating, and above all else, find out where his Queen is. I don't care how old his lead is, I still want to hear the words from the changeling's mouth the exact time and location of when and where he last saw his Queen.” Director Perish asked of Special Agent Palm Springs and his team. “Track her down.”

Within moments of them finishing their conversation, Special Agent Palm Springs, along with his team of Agents Peacock, Orange Rind, Lunar Rover, and Banana Peel were all leaving the SPECIAL monitoring division with bags packed, bound for Earth.

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