Spoilers for Fruitbat Factory's sora, because this story takes place in an alternate universe that is ponified. Will also contain some spoilers for SUGURI and Acceleration of SUGURI by default. Takes place... well after all the MLP seasons. All of them, except Season 9 which will be ignored. Props to Hailspider for fonting the old cover art, and Achronic Pony for proofreading! Also, new cover art!
Flying over a moonlit plain one night, a young military-trained pegasus named Sora finds herself tangling with a grounded adversary—one who, admittedly, is a little bit on the deranged side of the fence. Having attracted strange cloaked ponies that seemingly want said adversary dead, Sora decides to act and takes her foe to be detained for her crimes—taking into account her worse-for-wear state.
Yet with disapproval from a whole army's worth of ponies in uniform, especially those few in a high position of power who order her around—or, perhaps, in spite of it—Sora stubbornly clings to her decision, and it's one that would be ill-advised in most other circumstances. This is something that she does know could spark either an event as harmless as a dischargement... or lead to less than favorable consequences—though such things she has taken as seriously as she would her duty to said lofty few. Regardless of what happens, it falls under one simple truth: it will be up for her superiors to decide. Whatever the result, she'll have to make do, as will her adversary and anypony else who decides to get involved with them.
But there is a wise saying of ages long lost, one Sora follows to the letter—it is short, simple, and much to her chagrin, the particular predicament she's wound up in. As a wise soul once said, all those countless ages ago: "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer."
34 Chapters:
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Prologue- Hawk of Swords [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jun 4th, 2019
3,933
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Start of Arc I: Chapter I- Liquid Fire [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 30th, 2018
3,408
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Chapter II- Hoofprints [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Aug 28th, 2019
3,186
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Chapter III- Crashing Down [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Feb 19th, 2018
3,018
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Chapter IV- Backswing [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Aug 28th, 2019
6,570
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Chapter V- 'Diplomacy?' [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Aug 28th, 2019
7,371
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Chapter VI- 'Towelettes?' [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 8th, 2019
5,063
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Chapter VII- Crematorium [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Feb 23rd, 2018
4,073
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Chapter VIII- Inexplicable Sense [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 6th, 2019
4,591
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Chapter IX- The First Move [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Mar 16th, 2019
5,070
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Chapter X- 'What Won't You Break?' [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Oct 13th, 2019
3,845
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Chapter XI- A World Frozen in Time [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Mar 5th, 2020
7,659
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Chapter XII- Gears, Halting [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 24th, 2018
3,749
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Chapter XIII- Flashbang [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Oct 14th, 2019
6,561
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Chapter XIV- Apocalyptic Accomplices [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 6th, 2018
4,899
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Chapter XV- Creeping Cold [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Apr 18th, 2019
7,234
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End of Arc I: Chapter XVI- Protocol [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Oct 17th, 2019
7,980
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Start of Arc II: Chapter XVII- Bereft of Choice [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Oct 18th, 2019
5,332
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Chapter XVIII- Assailants [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Mar 17th, 2019
4,514
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Chapter XIX- Embers of Red [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Oct 21st, 2019
3,342
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Chapter XX- Brief Respite [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Oct 25th, 2019
4,034
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Chapter XXI- Shifting Shadows [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Apr 2nd, 2021
5,152
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Chapter XXII- Charged Clouds [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Feb 2nd, 2019
7,532
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Chapter XXIII- Fortress of Doors [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Mar 20th, 2019
5,924
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Chapter XXIV- Whirlwinds of Turmoil [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Feb 22nd, 2019
5,193
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Chapter XXV- Threads Long Lost [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Feb 22nd, 2019
4,465
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Chapter XXVI- Quiet Contemplation [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 21st, 2019
4,904
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Chapter XXVII- Inner Kyoma [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Dec 9th, 2019
5,108
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Chapter XXVIII- Gleaming Silver [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 21st, 2019
4,831
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Chapter XXIX- Respite, Broken [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Nov 17th, 2019
5,639
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Chapter XXX- Diving Into Cold [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 26th, 2019
4,176
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End of Arc II: Chapter XXXI- The Lights Are On... [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Dec 9th, 2019
6,456
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Start of Arc III: Chapter XXXII- ... But the Darkness is Home [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 12th, 2020
6,985
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Chapter XXXIII- Cold Enclosure [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Nov 1st, 2021
5,026