Project Mech is a creation to help house the brains of those ponies whose bodies are destroyed. We have one ready to go. We shall do the project on the way to an island that we found a map of. Dr. Slice wishes to show our leaders that we can do more than they want. The brain is a mare that has been housed magically ever since they tried to mimic Twilight's spell to go back into the past to try to end this war. This is my last chance. I must do this, my dear friend. My dear friend Smoke Pipe. Please forgive me someday. For what I did to you, my friend. Oh, the great glory of Mimic and her wisdom please forgive me.

Written to Detective Smokepipe from a worshipper of the great Mimic

Hawk a creature that used to be a pony now a living robotic mech that can be powerful at times. There are many ways to exploit her weakness. One of them is the fact she is a former pony. The brain is not a computer, it can’t think like one. She has emotions, sometimes very heavy emotions. She normally stays to herself and her best friend Roll Roll. But after they found each other again. She barely even talks to him.

The friendship with all the friends is very strained because of the fact Ruby did so much for them. But there is more behind that brain in a mech body. Her cams stare at the army they formed through an alliance. A memory flashes over her eyeless brain going into a daydream to remember.

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Through the Cams of Hawk

I knew it… I knew this would happen if we left the island. We have been betrayed by the camel we met. I never trusted her. Now I watch while the Storm King tries to lie and express why he was stopped. I tried to fire on him causing strange magic to go through me shorting my legs out and falling to my mech knees.

I was the first to be judged before the others. I was being lifted into the sky by the strange wind magic. He twisted that staff that he used on us when he came to invade our homes. The two princesses weren’t only useless but the worst leaders ever. Now they aren’t here and they still would be useless and allow the elites to lead us into a pointless war.

“Let me go!!” The Storm king even Wheel Tread looked up to me. I could see Wheel Tread have sadness on his face. I knew Wheel Tread before he went by that name. He had so much heart then when the war started he blamed the non-pony races again. Saying he was right the entire time. Another twist of the staff the king held. I felt a leg being pulled out of my left joint. The screws and parts of the leg in the wind storm with me. Lucky for me I don’t feel pain unless it’s my brain dome that gets hit.

The rest of my body, even my ammo and guns are pulled out with my cams. I can still see from the dome but barely. I can make out that I am being tossed away. I crash hard into the saltwater I sink below the surface to the sand below. An extra cam comes out of my shell. It’s not as strong as my others. I can’t see through this saltwater. Fish swim past me even sharks turn to look at me and slowly come towards me hitting the dome with their noses. I check my connections to the dome and whatever else can help me move. I turn on my scanner looking for any metals or any rocks to make something to help me get out of here. I no longer have any of the repairing calls to attract my other parts to me.

My scanner takes a while to find anything. I have no way to move or get myself out of this water. Thankfully I had a way to move. Of course, I had to wait 24 hours for it to kick in. I am thankful I am not in the middle of a war when I was on the island. It’s pretty peaceful down underwater but I don’t want to live down here forever.

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A day later.

A set of treads form under the dome while I do my best to find a way out of this water. The pressure causes me to be very slow. Thankfully I got no cracks in the dome. If a normal pony was down this far the pressure might kill them. Using my cam to look around this area. I keep finding old transport ships, even some old Storm king airships.

It’s strange to me. I even found a few three-tribe boats that sank here. Each of these wrecks I go past I gather weapons that connect to my body with the ammo and parts that I can make into more eyes for me. I found a very old cam on one of the wrecks that still works and connects it to me.

I found the motherload then an old battleship that sank so long during the war. I have no idea why the war even came out this far. I am wondering if both sides tried to invade this land. But another power had full control of this land. Looking through the other wrecks I found one of the powers. Is a boat full of Abyininsdions and those parrot creatures? I am wondering if the hippogriffs joined in and tried their best to keep ponies off this land.

I found some old recordings from these ships downloading them into my system while I look through the computers that oddly still work while they’re underwater. I am guessing this is Hippogriff tech. I found an old map leading to an underwater tunnel that held something called a sea pony battle fighter underwater.

The treads go back into my body, finally able to move on weak legs through the water doing my best to follow this map to this underwater base. I am hoping I could find anypony in this base. I’m already worried and not sure what is going to happen to me if I don’t find anything. While I walk I found a small seapony fighter that works underwater. I grab its cam and attach it to my shell. It causes a strange code to download into my system. The code sounds like an SOS that has been going on for years.

My body finally built larger legs letting me get through the water. The last messages of those poor creatures I saw drowned by water battles are finally in my system so I can listen and try to understand why they even tried coming down here. I start the first one to listen. It sounds like a mare that is close to her last breath.

“It’s been six days. Since the unknown craft. Hit us. I am using my magic to keep or try to keep the water from entering here. But I am hungry and losing my magic. I sent a cry for help six days ago. But still nothing. I know… I am going to die here and I accept it. Oh, Goddesses please find me a place at your hooves. This is the last” Before the mare could finish her magic died and the sound of water filled the area she was in. Then all I could hear was her gasping for air then nothing the recording ended.

I wish I could feel bad for these ponies and other creatures that fought each other. But I can it was war. Each shipwreck I see here is of many different races that tried to invade this land. Even Griffins. It’s not going to be easy if somepony refuses all this war to make it to this land. From what I saw it did anyway. It only got that bad when whoever was protecting this land gave up and allowed what is going on to happen.

Looking through the second recording. All I could hear was screaming and the sounds of battle.

“Zebras are trying to invade Kludetown. But something else is attacking them while we are being attacked by them.” A sudden loud explosion causes more screaming and the sound of the ship creaking and cracking.

“We have been hit!” Then the recording ends when a gunshot goes off and the sound of a body flopping to the deck. I had to think of why they were fighting or what was attacking them. Of course when you’re just a brain in a dome in a mech body. You have a lot of time to think. Looking at the map leading to the dock or whatever they called it. Since the ponies never had anything that worked underwater if they did I don’t remember.

I don’t remember much of the battle since. I just remember waking up in a jar thanks to that damn spell that just transported my brain to the past and then froze my brain to be ready to place it in this body. I still feel upset at all this.

The final recording is of the sea ponies. I don’t know what to think we did so much to keep peace with Mount Eris. I wish I could understand what caused the world to become so much like this. I mentally took a deep breath at least in my thoughts to relax my brain to keep it from throbbing too much. At least it felt like that at times.

I allow the final message to have many encodings on it and it will take some time to break it. But from what I can read about most of it. Is this the final message of this group? I have to wonder about this SOS I triggered after getting this message I wonder if anypony will come and look for them.
My radar warned me that something is coming closer looking for me. I stop doing my best to mimic the ground below trying to look like something that broke off from the old wrecks and washed down here in the water. Standing still in the sand waiting to see what comes. A couple of those underwater craft come looking through the area. Their lights go over me. I am worried since I have the SOS going off in my system. Then as suddenly as they came a battle starts to happen between them and a sea monster.

Lifting myself out of the sand quickly went through the water as fast as my legs could with the pressure from the water around me. I doubt I would make it to the place I am being led to. Before I could go any further a strange shock goes through my systems. I slowly start to shut down.

Before my, Cams go off. I can make out what is coming for me. My entire system turns off leaving the support for my brain the only thing working.

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Unknown.

I don’t know how long I was out it must have been days. I wake up with my entire body or what was left of it taken apart and my dome connected to a computer. Looking around I am in a part of a base that looks like it just drained water. Sitting at a desk a hippogriff female clicking away looking through my systems.

“Hmm, you’re an old creation made for the pony war I see. Let’s see what was your project name.”

I didn’t care for the fact I was being used as an experiment.

“I didn’t ask to be used like this. Let me go now!!” The Hippogriff jumped out of her seat and stares right at my camera. Oh, I wish for eye lasers right now. So I can make my point. With my hate for this creature.

“You can speak?! You’re not broken down like most of the old war systems?’

I didn’t answer I had to find a way to get out of here.

“Yes, I can speak this brain is of a mare. Now before I give you any information you let me go. I can’t run since my entire body got tossed into many different directions. Thanks to the Storm King.” I robotically sigh even though it sounds so odd. The hippogriff stares at me so intently while I speak.

“Oh yes, we have heard of his return. We warned our Queen.” They still have a queen which is great to know. I should demand to speak to her. I feel that would be a bad idea I am just a creation made for a war long gone. I doubt I have any rights right now or if I ever did.

“Can you please let me go...or whatever happened to me screw up my systems?’

The hippogriff looks at the computer a frown forms along her beak looking back to me nodding.

“We need to remove your brain and completely rework your systems. I don’t know how long it will take. From what I am reading here your system should be self-repairing. A strange jolt that hit you. Do you remember what could have happened?”

I dig deep into my memory of what happened on the island. I have been hit by strange energy from the merchant lizard it did something to the chemical balance of my systems but other than that it was fine. I come to the desert nothing happens but it was harder to repair my systems because of this strange energy and then the Storm King. I get hit and it mixes with the strange energy causing me..to break apart and then I can’t sense my parts.

“I...I..can't sense my other parts. I can barely feel the connection between my brain to the dome. Did something happen to my brain?” A panic forms in my brain causing a few issues to pop up because of the energies that went through my brain. An alert sounds causing me to panic more.

“I can’t breath!!” They want to breathe is great I feel the stress filling my nonbody like my brain is searching for those parts. A wrench smashed into the dome of my shell causing the water to get out and my vision vanished.

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Three days later

I woke up or however a brain wakes up from being just a brain in a dome. I wake up connected to many wires floating in green fluid. I was connected to the same cams I came with. My tissue felt weak and like I have been sliced open and cleaned up.

The tube I am in is underwater and I see Seaponies looking at my vitals and one turns to look at me. It’s the same one I met before. She puts her flipper to the glass giving me a very reassuring smile.

“You gave us a scare there miss Hawk. We learned more about you while you were out. You’re a former friend of the hero that came here. She risked her life to bring hope. But also causing some of the problems herself.”

I couldn’t speak since my ability to speak wasn’t connected to a com or the com on my cams. So I just look around with cams that are my eyes even if I am trying to understand what is going on. A light pink seapony came up beside the other. She wore a doctor’s suit and it kept pretty good in the water.

“Listen Hawk we had to take your brain apart. Whatever happened to you ruined the connections to your body in your brain. The connections are also causing your brain to have mini-strokes. So we had to remove everything. We need a way to help you is there a way?” A felt my ability to talk come back again.

“The only one. I know is Dr. Slice. He is somewhere in Equestria called Tirias heart. I don’t trust him. But I don’t have a choice here, do I? I have a feeling if he doesn’t come soon I die or something?”

The doctor cocked her eyebrow staring at me.

“No. just we won’t be able to connect you again without some help. I doubt it’s that bad you will die. You sure are a very strange creature.”

I am a strange creature? I am a former mare that is now just a brain.

“Well so saids the one that can change from a half bird half pony.” If I could smile oh I would have a cocky smile from that.

“ I can see you must have been a pony then. A mare with a stick up her ass.” The doctor was either being a prick to me or she was trying to get a rise out of me. But I wasn’t going to have it.

“Oh so saids the race that betrayed the pony race because of our elites…” I went on after a while. “Caused us to lose respect from outside races.” I sigh.

“Now you’re starting to understand why we broke off and refuse to join your war. It had nothing to do that your princess didn’t even stop this war. It’s the fact you blamed everything else around you but yourselves. I am happy you notice that.”

I finally see now even after Star shooter told me this her damn self. It’s the pony’s fault for thinking they control the world and have the right to take resources from other races. The fact I used to hang on to every word the elites and princess said. I now regret signing up and helping to kill nonponies. Even if I never really picked up a gun.

“Listen. I am sorry for what happened in the past. I am sure you weren’t there but those that came before you were. I hang on to every word that was said to them. But please help me I need to get back to finding my friends if they even survived the encounter with the Storm King.”

The doctor nods.
“Alright, we will send a scouting party out to find this Slice. But you will have to get used to me and the others around you.”

The others around me? Looking around the room from what I can see. I see many other robotic creatures and my cams focus on one creation. A cybernetic sea-pony male. He turned to look at me with his fleshy eye. I have no idea why I feel I have a sudden attraction to him.

“Um. When will I be allowed to get out of here?” Turning my cams back to the doctor. The doctor looks back up at me and then at the sounds of the scout creations leaving. She turns her eyes to look at me.

“It’s not wise to remove you from there. From what I see here this energy that entered your systems screwed your connection to them like you have been told. But it’s a lot worse than we first thought. Whatever they did to you back during the war we need to learn and understand what they did. A lot of old creations from the past have these issues. I’m amazed this didn’t happen to you sooner.”

What did she mean by this? The pressure was too much. All this has become too much. It’s all I can do to think. My vitals start to go insane from all this news. The stress the doctor stares at the computers and screens that have my vitals. She has a very worried look in her eyes. Another one of the doctors there injects a strange substance into the tube. My vision from my cams slowly vanishes while static fills my vision and everything goes dark. I feel myself getting tired for the time ever in my life since this happened to me.

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A week later

Again I finally wake up back on my dome. Everything connected like it was meant to be. The brain tissue has many scars and some veins that have been replaced. My cams turn on looking around and I see Dr. Slice.

“She is lucky you got to her sooner. The Storm King caused almost an entire meltdown of her systems. I doubt I would have been able to save her. Now hopefully she will be able to find her old body parts. You may have to keep her here for a while.” Slice turns the robotic body him staring at me with his one robotic eye.

“I am not happy to see you Slice… But you saved me yay I guess.” if I could I would smack him for daring to do this to me again. But I should be happy that he helped me. I try to move but I can’t at all using my cams to see I have no legs or even weapons.

“Hawk these kind sea ponies will be giving you weapons and legs till you find your older parts. You won’t have the same abilities with these but your self-repair. I wish we could do more for you. The old lab I used to work at was on the island after all. I doubt anything is left after the war.”.’

I didn’t care I want to leave but I have a feeling they will want me to stay here awhile. They spent a few hours getting my new legs, weapons, and cams so I could be the same. But they want me to stay at least a month or so.

“I understand you want me to stay. But I have to go search for my friends.” I turn on my new cams that are hard to get used to. They’re made of Seapony tech so I can stay underwater now with no issues. I was told when I was underwater without the protection I have now the pressure caused me some problems.

“They can’t allow you to Hawk. I need to return to keep an eye on Star Shooter. Blaze almost threw a fit at the fact I had to leave her wife. She doesn’t trust the other doctors in the town. I don’t blame her. So I will see you again hopefully.”

I watch while some would say my creator gets into one of the strange crafts and leaves. I wanted to follow I doubt it’s wise if I do. Since my connection to Ruby may cause more problems for the town than I believe.

I turn to the doctor who is now in her hippogriff form. Her beak is a lighter pink than the rest of her body. I was finally able to make out her name. Aloeflight is a beautiful name I swear I knew somepony like her before but I can’t place it.

“Our Queen has been told about you. She wants to meet you along with our other allies. So please will you wait here till she and the others get here? Hey Lightstream.” I turn to see the cybernetic seapony again in his hippogriff form and he trots up on his metal hooves.

“Yes, how may I help?” He looks at me and again if I had a heart I felt the chemical imbalance in my brain show that I have an attraction to this stallion. Of course, it doesn’t mean anything because I don’t have a body.

“I want you to help miss Hawk here.” He turns to look at me again with his good eye. I feel weak in my mech knees. How in the world do I feel weak in my knees? I will never understand this idea of attraction. But maybe someday I will get what I want in return. I know it won’t be touching and other things such as that.

“I will help her get settled here till she gets used to her new parts and if the Queen allows her to go.” I didn’t like when he said if the queen allows me to go? I followed him down the hall to an area of the base that hasn’t been underwater. Given an empty room.

“Forgive me I know you may not want to stay here. But miss Hawk these times aren’t the safest for a creature such as you. You’re friends of the hero in this land and they’re hunting you and your friends down. Just because of the hope you all brought.”

A robotic sigh comes out of my speaker. I didn’t like the fact I have to hide now. Star Shooter had to hide as well. It’s something I never understood why she even hid. Now that it’s happening to me I get why now. I just stood around being a guard not understanding half of what was going on with her.

“How long do you think I will have to be here?” I still didn’t get the name of the stallion. When he turns to look at me I try to hide. I have no idea what is wrong with me. I only got this way when I met my husband. I felt a strong connection with him. I have seen him before.

“By the way miss what was your name back in the day?” I turned my cams to him again.

“It was and still is Hawk. I was a purple pegasus that spent her time at mount Aris because I enjoyed how sexy the stallions looked.” If I could smile or blush I would do so. I saw his eye open wide and he looks right at me closer.

“I remember a Hawk. I got into a bad explosion back then and a lot of my body got destroyed including my face even some of my brain got charred. This part of my face here is more preserved. Just I am sorry after we backed out of the war we kept to ourselves and a group of ponies attacked us a small group and bombed a few buildings calling us traitors after that, we broke off fully from the world only keeping those we trusted near us.”

I understood that I remember hearing stories about that attack. It was sad that many ponies were so full of themselves that they couldn’t handle the fact that not every race wanted to fight. This war between ponies and zebras brings in the dragons. It was awful after the death of Ember it wasn’t a lovely sight.

“Miss Hawk my biggest question for you.” My cams look right at him. I could feel the chemicals in my brain again making me have an attraction to him. I have no idea why it confuses me a lot.

“At the moment I am alone. My friends, I miss my friends.” He comes close to me and puts his hoof on the shell of my dome.

“That’s not what I mean Hawk. Are you alone to the point you act as if you may never find another to spend the rest of your life with?”

That idea of living life alone even as I am. I am just a brain in a mech body. Maybe when this journey of mine is over. I have something to come back to. Somepony to come back to and enjoy my time with them. An idea of love even if someday I may never know touch. The touch of another may never happen but the feeling will.

“I would like to get to know you first. As you can tell I am not happy even if you can’t see my emotions. I am not happy because I am stuck here. I want to find my friends. I know I would be hunted down because Ruby brought hope. The issue is sooner or later the creatures of this land will all rise.”

Lightstream nods. He shifts on his metal hooves. I could tell his body seized up even his back left hoof had issues bending the joint. He grunts and forces the joint to move. I look down at my new joints; they look later in my mech life and will have the same problems till I find the old parts.

“I would love to get to know you, Hawk. To learn what makes you tick and to understand you. Maybe someday I could build you a body. A body that could house that brain and not be in that dome.”

The idea of having a body again is an amazing idea to me. Then the question I have could he make it so that I could die of old age? That I could finally join my friends and family in the lands beyond? Maybe someday I could see myself becoming one with the ground. Look away to the connections I can use in this room to learn what has gone on with the hippogriffs over the years.

“The idea of having a body is something I would like. I would also like to die of old age. I don’t want to live till the world becomes peaceful or hateful enough that they can’t repair me or allow me to charge. I have a feeling someday that will happened and I ain’t looking forward to it.”

He turns to look at me after my words he frowns a sigh coming out of his robotic lungs. I am sure he had the same feelings that I do. We will last long enough that most of who we know will be no more. They will come or turn to the dust that we came from. Of course, I know full well the magic eaters like Ruby will last just as long.

“That feeling that you will outlast every creature around you. It’s not going to be an easy feat mind you. I do understand that but sometimes we might be those that live longer than others. I’m sure someday we..”

A ring comes over the old PA system and it shorts out for a second. Then a voice comes out over the pa system.

“Sorry if that hurts anyone’s ears. Hawk we will see you now. It’s time for you to talk to the Queen and our allies. So please come now so we can tell you if you get your freedom back.” To get my freedom back? I am a prisoner from the sounds of it. I guess it’s to be since I am going to be hunted if they let me go.

“I am sorry Hawk. I don’t want you to feel like you’re in a prison.” My cams turn to look right at Lightstream. I could tell he is very sincere about those words. I have been a prisoner since I was put in this dome. His ears fold back to the back of his head. I wasn’t happy somehow he could tell without emotions. I remember Ruby telling me how someone tells me is how I hold myself on my legs.

“Maybe we can talk more about this later Hawk. Come with me I need to get you to the Queen.” I followed him out of the room and through the base looking at other races and then just hippogriffs working together. I see Capper’s race Abyssinaians I remember them back then before the war fully took over and caused them to break off from the ponies.

I could hear them humming a song of coming together a song that the ponies used to sing. A song that brought us all together. Just in the name of so-called friendship. I have seen that there is no such thing as the magic of friendship.

“You must feel homesick.” I turn my left cam to look at Lightstream. He is sadly right I do feel homesick I have felt homesick from Equestria for so long. I didn’t even get to say goodbye to it before I went with the others to become an experiment.

“You would be right. I am homesick. I never got to say goodbye. I was frozen the entire time in a jar. It took so long to.” I went silent suddenly seeing a book on a table. The story of the great Mimic. I remember that religion formed around a mare named Mimic that had golden shoes. Shoes that could see the future. I stop looking at the book Lightstream stops turning to look at the book as well.

“Why is that here?” I turn my cam trying to understand and I could tell from the look on his face it was not something pleasant.

“All I know about this Mimic she was a unicorn from the land of Dream Valley. We learned that some ponies in the past found Dream Valley and brought back these books. Now Dream valley has been silent since the end of the war. So our Queen is sending a group to search for the rainbow of light and the story of the one known as the Megan.”

The one is known as the Megan? I remember old stories of this Megan. Even though the stories are legends. The story of the rainbow of light. Even though many stories of Dream Valley did come true in the past. The fact that one of the judges of the Lava beast caused many a problem in Dream Valley.

“Come on Hawk let’s get going.” I didn’t wish to talk to the Queen. I knew I would lose my freedom. Even though I never had my freedom. Walking through the halls again each room we go through water drips from the walls and the ceiling. Every room just had the water removed from the systems.

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The meeting room

I finally walk into the room. Seeing three creatures sitting in the chairs. Before I said anything though I look up to the wall seeing a recent painting. Inside this painting is Ruby amess holding the hoof of a dying mare. Under the panting are a set of words. ‘Never let hope die.’ I feel many emotions washing over me.

The Abyssinian looks back at the painting a frown forms on his features. I would never expect that the hope that she brought was of helping those that wanted to die to die.

“Yes, you see your friend. She didn’t know that there are more of her and others. But that one the Queen wanted here.. Oh I am Rassie;... I and the others here allowed our hate to cloud our judgment and we gave her up. So she could die for bringing us hope.”

The upholi sitting by the others she wore a captain’s outfit. Just hearing the name Ruby her eyes cloud ringing with a strange piece of paper from the anger in her eyes.

“How.. dare she brings hope to us?!” Her hate causes her eyes to glow and to cloud more. After a while, the hate in her heart calms and her eyes go back to normal. “We have no idea why. We turned on her as we did. The entire land just turned on her ready to let her die.”

The light blue hippogriff Queen lifts her claw to silence the other two.

“There will be time for regrets later. I am going to go on a journey to find Dream Valley with a group of others. My daughter will take over while I am gone. But now for what I said. Do you want to go to search for your friends and the body of Ruby? There are rumors that her body was never found. Even though they will keep searching for it.”

I stand tall well as tall as I can. Showing that I am strong enough to handle whatever they toss at me.

“Forgive me if I don’t bow to you. After the war, the idea of rulers soured me. I don’t see the point of another telling us what to do when they lead us to war. Now if you think keeping me here is a wise idea I can tell you it’s not.”

Ocean wave looks up at me. She clicks a button right on the table and every part of my body stops working and my parts fall off. Looking back up with the cam that still was attached to me. I should be upset. Looking towards Lightstream the look on his face and horror from what she did he wasn’t happy.

“Why would you do that to her?!” He yells at his Queen. She is taken aback by this. I have never seen a Queen so surprised by one of her subjects. “If you asked her to stay she would. You can’t blame her for acting like she did if you suddenly do what you just did. Tell her why you want her to stay here.”

“These are strange times. I had to do it till Ruby is finally pronounced dead by the Storm King. He and the judges are using the fact she may not be dead to gain more power. They’re going to narik and many other towns even trying to invade Hard Rock and harming the creatures there.”

I can finally stand back on my new legs staring at the queen. But I do understand what she means. I feel a great powerful unknown in my not foreseen heart. I no longer want to be here. But I am stuck here till I can get out of here.

“I will agree to stay then when Ruby is finally thought to be dead. Then I will leave to search for the rest of my parts and my friends. If I am allowed to by your daughter.”

Ocean sighs stroking her temples with her hooves. I could tell this is hard for her. She didn’t want to tell somepony this and keep them locked in a base.

“Yes, I do agree with that. Just remember I won’t be here and be prepared you might have to help defend this place if it’s found. Wheel Tread knew about this place and he even knew about Peace Rock but not the locations of either. Still, if you are found here please fight till the death.”

Fighting to the death for this base? I am not sure it’s something I want to do but It’s the best way to do so just in case something or someone just tries to invade this place. I turn around to leave I am hoping I can leave before they try to talk to me more about anything else.

“Miss Hawk.” I turn my cam to look at the one speaking it’s the cat. “I respected your friend Ruby. For a small creature such as her, she had a big heart for freedom. Even at the time, she was under Wheel Treads’ control. I could see the weary heart she held while she helped the wounded and the dying. She never argued with any of us even when we used the dead to fight.”

Using the dead to fight for them? Taking the bodies of the dead and just using them as a weapon? I remember stories of zebras not wishing to do this even though some ponies wanted to do it But sanity won in the end. To see in this world there is no longer any sanity that is the issue.

“I would normally express my view on this. But I am in the presence of a queen any views expressed would be countered because of her yes men.” I turn my cam to stare right at the Ocean wave. “I have no respect for either of you. You could have stopped Ruby. You could have fought this hate you had for her. No, if it’s no skin off the nose of a leader then.”

Ocean smashes her claw on the table staring right up at me. I went silent I’m not scared of her. She flaps her wings and flies right to look right into my cams. She had no anger on her features. There is great hurt in her eyes as well. She held one of my cams in her claws.

“Listen I cared deeply for your friend. I regretted everything I did to Ruby. I even regretted sending her out there. The hate she got just for being out there. If I could turn back time. I would have sent it here right back to you and the others. I would have tried to break the control Wheel Tread had on her. I am greatly sorry for what happened but I am not to blame.”

I didn’t say a word as the queen removes her claws from my Cam. Turning to move away I kept silent about how I felt.

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A year later.

I have been in this base for a year. It’s been attacked by the Storm Kings minions four times. Each time a part of the base gets ripped apart and we have to rebuild. I have heard stories of a healer on an island. But I am more focused on getting my parts back. But I still haven’t I got married to Lightstream. It was more that I felt it was time. Also, the fact the Queen hasn’t returned yet like she said she would.

It was pretty late in the year and finally but also sadly Ruby to these minions of the Storm King is dead. I can leave now but I have so many friends I even have one I fell in love with. But someday I am going to have to leave to find my friends and my older body. That day is today. Lightstream has spent most of the year building me a new body. A body that is robotic but I need this old body.

“Lightstream..” He turns to look at me. The flesh part of his face is now gone. But he is still able to smile. The body is not even close to being finished. I still miss the ability to touch and feel. Just staring at him with my cams to see him and finally get my old body back.

“It’s time for me to go. I love you my dear stallion. Please wait for me to return?” Lightstream stands on his robotic claws and connects his forehead to my dome. The two of us stay silent for a while.

“I shall wait for you Hawk. Just you and I both know there will not be a peaceful end to this battle. If your friend is alive and she helps free this land. You know what will happen to you and the others.” I couldn’t nod but I knew what he meant. Someday the land may be free but something will happen that will cause anger from those that we saved.

“I know what will happen Lightstream and they would have a right to use us as such. I don’t mind if they do. It is our fault that we brought hope to this land.” With that, I walk out of our room and go to the docks that hold the creations that would help me get out of here. One was built just for me so I could finally leave.

The underwater vessel opens lifting me into the cockpit area. Its been created for me to use small robotic arms in my dome to use the machine. I look back at the friends I made over the year. Looking at my husband for the last time waving with the robotic claw. He waves with his claw. It’s not easy to leave but I must find my friends and follow the parts.
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The war-torn land.

I get to the shore not too far from Kludetown seeing smoke from old fires still coming. Looking at the bloody sand and fresh bodies littering the land. It looks like whoever did all this murdered a bunch of creatures and ponies. A group of them who caused it are still around. The old tunnelers that helped us and the naga creatures. They’re picking through the bodies and one of the nagas looks up to me.

“Look.. at this. Such a waste of life. I haven’t seen such a field of death since the war.” This naga is female and she is old from the look of her scales. I am guessing naga lives longer than most creatures.

“I know this well. I survived the war just to be trapped on an island.” The naga stares at me. The cloud of hate fills her eyes. She held tightly to her weapon getting ready to strike me. I notice this myself and get ready to fight.

“You’re from an island... Would it be called devils due?” The naga hisses holding the hilt of her blade tightly. I get ready to prime my weapons I can see the cloud of hate turning her eyes red. If this is all I am going to get.

“ESA.” A voice sounds out. I turn my cam to see a larger female slithering over. She wore golden armor and had a large dragon tooth spear on her back. She places her hand on the other shoulder.

“You’re friends of the one known as Ruby? I can tell it seems every time you and your friends come up the cycle of hatred becomes very well shown in the hearts and souls of all who are here. Esa, stand down now. She is not a threat.”

I didn’t understand how does this one know who I am?

“Forgive me how do you know me? Unless even though Ruby is now thought to be dead.”

The naga laughs softly.

“Oh come on it’s easy to tell you’re a walking mech with a brain in a dome. You stick out like a sore hoof. But you have nothing to worry about from us or the tunnelers. Just be prepared there is some hate sickness tied to you and your friends. It’s gotten worse since some still cling to hope. Now we won’t tell anyone that we saw you. Come to Esa we need to get back to the meeting with the others.”

I watch them leave putting up my hud to see where the first piece of my parts is. Looking at the burning town of Kludgetown I see that one of my parts is there. I knew it wasn’t going to be that easy.

Looking up at the town have no idea what I am going to do. A strange knock on my leg looking down at the large warrior type of the tunneler. He or she looks so close to being a dead ringer to Ruby. I felt my emotions take control of me.

“If you wish to get into there it’s best to go underground. Of course, I can’t promise anything because what happened here is the resistance that formed in this town. It got badly crushed some are still alive they escaped not all though.” I nod my dome and the creature leads me to one of their tunnels. Looking back at the bodies decaying in the hot sun. I am starting to see the war of the past return.

The tunnel is pretty large and suddenly we are brought to halt and the tunneler looks back at me.

“Listen they’re even looking for tunnels like ours. They don’t attack us but if I tell you to hide in the sand walls and look destroyed please do so. Even our own will attack you because of some cloud of hate. It took all I can to stop myself from outright attacking you.”

I turn my cam not understanding this cloud of hate. When I turn my cam I see a goat with red eyes glowing looking right at me. A dark smile forms on its face. Deep in the tunnel, I see him Grogar. His horns glowing bright red as I swear I see this cloud of hate coming from him. Then I wake back up finding myself deeper in the tunnels. I had no idea what is going on. But a group of large tunnelers kept the smaller ones back from attacking me. They all have a cloud of hate in their eyes.

A couple of them chitter I can’t make it out. But it’s the same panic chitter that Ruby has when she is speaking Magic eater. The warrior bug that is leading me looks back at the features on his face that have made him look sad and worried. Of course, it’s hard to tell Ruby can do it but others of her kind can’t that well.

“I am sorry that this cloud of hate is even infecting my kind. The Queen has gotten to the point she won’t even speak of Ruby. She misses her and thinks of her as one of her daughters. In fact when the death of Ruby came to all of us. She spent almost a week crying in her chamber.”

Hope is what is bringing this cloud of hate. I am starting to wonder if I should find my parts find the others and get on a boat and head back to the island. Place this land behind us let it fall to this. Then go back to our home with our new friends. I am willing to cut my losses and see the land I called my home. Is no longer my home.

“I am starting to wonder if when I find my friends and the body of Ruby we cut our losses and head back to the island that we came from.” The one leading me turns around his eyes full of pain at my words.

“Please we need you and the others. There is more going on than you know. I can’t explain it because if I do a spy that is in this tunnel might tip off those waiting to strike.”

There are spies everywhere, even others turning in their own. I turn my cam seeing workers looking at me and them expanding the tunnels for their queen. I feel bad for these creatures. They won’t be treated correctly since they might not drink water and eat food like those above.

“The bigger issue is a group that calls themselves the worshipers of Mimic have been showing up. They don’t have either side but those that have no hope they’re bringing to their sides.” So the order of mimic has resurfaced as it did back during the war. It’s sad to hear this and the fact they’re bringing so many under their hooves.

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Kludgetown.

It took half a day to get into the town and pass many patrols that might be working for the judges. Coming out of the ground near the inn. I noticed a magic shield around the inn and it’s been there for a while from what I was told. The battle for this place happened so long ago and I haven’t even been cleaned up. Decaying bodies of zebras and others are still around.

“Now go to the inn you might find some help to find your parts. But you will be safer in there than out here. If you see any of the Storm king minions make sure to hide.” He left back into the tunnel as quick as he could and then I quickly got into the inn closing the door.

The inn is pretty empty only a few ponies and zebras helping the wounded and the sick. I saw that painting of Ruby surrounded by the troops ready to fight. She looks so tired and but the features on her face are of showing how happy she was.

“I see you have found us miss Hawk.” I turn my cam to look at one of the zebras.

“Yes, I am here looking for my parts. At least one or more of my parts somehow got here. Just I am looking at how happy my friend was till.” I turn my cams and see Ruby in a cage with all the white-eyed hateful creatures leading her down to the judges. I walk to it that someone painted this is crazy to me.

“Yes, that wasn’t something we wanted to happen. But so many that came to try to stand for her came from Peace rock. They’re the only ones that didn’t get hit by that cloud of hate. It could be because of their connection to the stars. Peace rock loves her she brought so much peace to many there. Just if you have to head there hide there for a while and never return.”
I kept staring at the paintings of how they treated Ruby. Seeing her locked in the cage makes me feel like the cage I am in right now. I look to the counter seeing many creatures conversing and speaking of their pain and issues. Some of them talk about the treatment they gave the hero. One of them is a large bear.

“Yes she fixed the tower on the roof and we just treated her like she was trash and now she is dead. Her friends are either dead or on the run. Anyone who is going for that reward for them would simply go right for it.”

Reward? Looking to the other wall and I finally see wanted posters for me and the others. The reward for me was a year and a half of a supply of water and various foods. Before I could even think of sneaking out of here. I heard guns cocking and aiming right for me. I turn my cams and see raiders ready to fire.

“So...I am your target and you wish to fire in a place of innocents just for water and food? So this land fell the other way. Just for food just for water for lives.”

The raiders all aimed their weapons at me. Looking at the badges on their armor and battle saddles. They’re the law now they’re the ones who control this land. Turning watching them getting ready to fire on me.

“What are you waiting for? Is your hate that much for a friend of the hero? Are you all willing to give me up because of the cloud of hate?” The hate cloud starts to affect me. I feel the anger receptors in my brain throbbing intently. I feel my anger for Ruby and everything she caused.

“I am no longer her friend!! She lost that right when she didn’t even ask if we wanted to help this land.” My cams glow bright red steam coming off them. I have never felt such hate and anger in my life. “Now you accuse me of being a problem?! You’re the problem!!” The raiders were taken aback by my sudden rage and before they could do anything I charge right at them. I stomp with all my might on the head of a stallion crushing his head to nothing.

Finally what was happening got the attention of the guards and the others in the building. I roar out of hate or anger. I fire my guns right at the next killing them without remorse and the other raiders run out before I could do anything.

“Come back!!!” When they left the hate sickness or cloud many started to call it. Finally left me when I came out of the stupor of the rage. A unicorn mare with a strange orb on her flank. Stands beside me looks at the two bodies and then nods to the guards to take them.

“It’s called the hate sickness. It’s been here ever since the curse of the nightmare moon. It didn’t take effect till hope started to be spread in this land. There is much to hope it’s something that everypony wants. But even if hope is there it’s still evil even though it’s a needed feeling in the heart.”
The poor nurse zebra hide quickly behind a table she did this right after she noticed I was looking at the wanted poster. She comes out from behind looking at the bodies being lifted. I just stood there staying silent.

“Sickness.” I turn my cams to the zebra nurse. “All sickness happened. But miss Hawk you’re lucky no one is bothered by what you just did.” I didn’t even say a word. I just kept staring at the bloody smear I left from the killing.

“Guilt is a feeling I do have. Why would I feel like that about Ruby? I cared deeply for her. The hate I had in my feelings for her. I loved her like she is my sister. We spent years together after the war on the island rebuilding.”

I felt guilt go through my brain. I felt it like it was a brick a heavy brick that smashed into my brain like a bat out of hell. I fell to my knees like I was demanding peace in my broken heart. Do I have a heart still? Oh, Goddess the pain of this guilt. I didn’t want to kill them I never wanted to kill them during the war. But in the name of Celestia, I killed I even killed these here.

“Hawk?” The zebra nurse worried about what is happening.

“Shhhh.” The nurse looks at the pony. “She has many things she needs to work out. That is another point of the hate sickness. It brings to light the problems you have with others. The sickness can also be used by others at times if they wished it. So leave her she will leave in a day. Then be on her way to find peace and her friends again. If not she will die and be like the dust again.”

I was left alone to wallow in my sadness. Can just a brain in a dome have sad feelings for just being a mesh of thinking flesh and wires attached to a dome connected to a robotic body that allows me to move through the world? I stood on my feet again when I finally did this it was night.

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The song

I didn’t know this feeling while I walk on my own in this dead city. I kept to myself watching the young pick at the decaying bodies. The dogs eat at the dead. I look back at what the war in Equestria started back then. It’s the same horror, the same pain. I could feel soft music in my heart. It’s somehow that music that finds its way into the background.

“Oh, where has the friendship gone? The world has lost its spark of becoming full of hope. A land of former friendship. A world that is known for its friendship magic. But all I feel is emptiness. Oh, the emptiness.”

Walking through the allies of kludgtown. I didn’t feel any hope but pain. Looking to a young zebra mare holding onto a hungry foal. The poor creature starts to sing for all to hear.
“Oh, what happened to all the friendship. I hunger with my child. As I wait for us to die. We become another victim of the system of this land.” I watch while she takes the child to a brothel and I look on the inside. She gives the child to an old donkey in the back who watches them. Then looking through the window to see her giving her body.

“Oh… If only there was another way...if only there was another day. A hero gave us hope. A hero gave us a fight for our freedom.. Look at me now...look at me now.” I leave the scene I couldn’t watch anymore. I see a lone light in a broken-down building looking in. I see a stallion who softly adds to the song.

“Oh look at me now...I am alone. A former warrior, a former soldier. A lonely wretch that killed his own. In the name of the hero. In the name of the hero that came to save us. Oh, look at me now...Oh, look at me now.” He lifts a pistol and releases all but one bullet.

“Some see the desperate cry of a young buck, a young stallion. Or an old one at heart. Look at me now..” He lifts the gun up to his head tears fall down his eyes.” Look at me now…” Before he pulls the trigger the door opens a mare dressed in a maid suit from the cleaning staff. I am sure gasp seeing him with the gun aimed at his head and she pulls it away from him with her magic.

When she finally forces it to the floor.

“How dare you?!” She screams in the song. “ You can’t give up now. For you have more who love you… More who love you.” She softly whispers. The stallion turns to her, his eyes full of pain and tears.

“ I am a wretch, a bringer of pain. I fought in the name of the hero. In the name of the hero. I killed in her name. I killed in the name of friendship and hope.” He sobs his words in the song. The curtains on the window close shut. I move on looking for the part even though I am starting to care less and less got my parts. I notice on my hud the parts are moving away from me anyway.

I look towards the water.

“It’s time… for me to end this path!!” I scream in the song and run. The guilt, the pain, and everything that has happened over the past year. I found happiness, I found love. I want to see them again. But I need to do this. I work hard and run fast enough that the parts start to break. I can no longer see hope in my ways. All I can do is follow the hud to the water I run to the water getting in the water. I look at how long it would take me to get to all the parts. It said it may take a year because of how deep the water is and the fact these parts can’t handle the water.

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The second year.

I was shut off after I traveled in the water. I had no idea where I would end up. The currents did ever they wished to me. I don’t know if it was fate though. But a net from a fishing boat caught me. They let me go and I then drifted to shore. I don’t know how many days or months or even years it was. But when I finally got to the shore I climbed to it broken and unsure what to do. The strange thing is my old cams and parts somehow came with me. They connect to my body is this fate?

I didn’t understand fate. But when my cams start to work I see I am surrounded by many creatures and a pony dressed in power armor. When she took off her helm. It’s the motherly mare Cranberry I wasn’t very happy to be here or to see her. I got to know that she made a big name for herself as a healer. I doubt she could fix many things.

“Oh Hawk… what happened to you?”

I just stare at the mare not answering.

“I’d rather not explain it. I need to go to the middle of your town.” I didn’t allow her to say anything to me. It’s been so long since I had my batteries charged. When I got to the middle of the town I completely shut down and the dreams finally came after so long. I haven’t had a dream in over years of being in this shell.

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The dreams

I open my eyes and I am in my old body. The dream came to my vision and I am in a cell in cantorlot. The day is when the Storm King invaded. At the time we have been through so much. We never thought things would become like this. I think this is the time when we thought that making weapons like guns and so on would be great for any threats that show up.

The dream passes through many of my memories like it was a memory orb itself. Then Wheel Tread himself shows up in my dreams. I remember when he first shows up and didn’t know who he was at the time. It was a calm night and I sat under the moon watching the stars. I watch while one of these new creations called aircraft flew over. It felt wrong to me.

“Wonderful ain’t it?” I turn my head to look at Wheel tread he didn’t even sit on a chair around this time. I didn’t think it was wonderful. The threat of war came closer and closer. The fact that many of my friends have been kicked out of town. Just for being zebras, one is Desert Rose. I heard that she killed her family. She was taken into custody by the black hooves. A new group was created by Luna who took over for Princess Celestia.

“I wouldn’t call it great Wheel Tread. Our connection to our allies has almost been completely shattered. Thanks to the tensions the school of friendship might be closed down. Thorax broke off from us completely. There are rumors he is accepting the Queen back. The yaks won’t even speak to us. So you say this is wonderful?” It’s been so long since I felt like this. The last time I felt this way is when Discord first escaped. We did nothing then but allowed the elements to gain more power in the world. Then more threats show up and the elements gain more power. Just because they save the day. When we sit back and do nothing.

“Tell me Wheel Tread can we still trust the elements? Can we even trust princess Twilight? How do we know they aren’t the threat and the zebras are trying to save us from a threat worst than death?”

Wheel Treads lifts his right eyebrow in surprise at my words. His face softens at the fact I don’t trust this world now. I don’t even trust him he is too close to the princess.

“Well war seems will happen no matter what now. But there is something we could do. Starlight is helping a group make a new time travel spell. It will be the same spell she used to stop Twilight and the one that Twilight used to go back in time to talk to herself. They want somepony to go back and stop this coming war. Do you wish to do it?”

A chance to stop this coming war? I just give a nod. I would do anything to stop this war. I was told in a week the spell would be ready. I did everything I could to get my body and soul ready for this spell. Starlight did what she could to help me get ready.

“Spells like this can cause pain as well as disorientation. You’re just going back to stop this war. That would mean you would have to speak to yourself or do it yourself. But you look older now back to that time you were younger. So try your best not to screw up the timeline more.”

I took a deep breath. I didn’t care for Starlight I did think of her as a friend after a while. But I still felt that she got off too easy for what she did. If it was up to me. I would have her become stone and then wake her up later like Discord.

“You should know this well Starlight. I know your friend just vanished one day. But didn’t you think you could at least try to move on? I know it’s not easy since foal hood trauma can be bad. But didn’t you try at all?” Starlight stared at me in surprise hatred didn’t form in her eyes or on her face. Just the fact it’s been so long since this happened. Nopony has brought it up for years.

“Listen Hawk I do agree with your words. I should have been smarter and stopped myself from what I did. I didn’t think as I should have. Yes before you speak I didn’t at the time care. Too much hate was inside me like a hate sickness. If I didn’t do what I did and hated Twilight. I would have thanked her. But the hate got to me first.”

I open my eyes in surprise she was calm about this. Twilight has changed this mare. I am happy to see it. Finally, though it’s ready for the spell. It was a calm early night. The moon was a pale orb in the sky. A magic spell had been put in place on a strange machine that they had to build to keep me in the past. They called it the time displacer.
“Alright, Miss Hawk the magic will stay in this machine so you can stay there as long as you need to. To leave twist it clockwise and it will bring you back. Just remember try to stay out of history unfolding try to say a word or a trigger that would cause you to change the future and stop this war.”

I nod and stood in the middle of the group of ponies. Starlight’s horn glows with the others. While the magic builds getting ready to fire onto the creation. We didn’t notice the attack from a group of something called commando changelings. A group of changelings allied with the zebras. It was only four of them. While the machine was getting ready to send me. The entire group of ponies got attacked. They didn’t stand a chance at all. One by one each of the ponies was killed and Starlight did her best to save them. A strange spell hit her and she was lifted by a group of changelings. I couldn’t do anything since I was trapped in the spell while it charged.

“The Queen...will finally get her revenge.” They lift the broken Starlight into the air and take her away. One Changling is left behind turning to look at me. She gives a sweet evil smile I have a feeling she knows what is happening. Her horn glows and aims for the machine.

“Enjoy…the past.” She softly spoke shooting a beam of magic into the machine and my entire world went black. I finally woke back up but I was in the dome shell it had been years after. We weren’t even in Equestria anymore.

But in the dream something came to me it was Mix?

“I can finally speak to you before. The stopwatch finally dies. Then I die for good myself. I should be dead but this is how I can speak to you. Throughout the time of your memories amazing spell, the stopwatch was. But Hawk I need to warn you… Things don’t go well for anyone after you find Ruby. Things get even worse and I have no idea who wins this war.”

I took a deep breath the fact I have lungs still is amazing to me.

“Then why are you here?”

Mix shifts his body scarred and broken from the fight on the island.

“I saw what I could of your past Hawk. Do you remember who cast the spells on you to send you back?”

I nod of course I did I just saw it in my head. Starlight and others did it.

“Yeah Starlight. She helped me through it. She even spent her time helping me get ready for it.” Mix frowns well at least how his kind frowns their eyes give it away.

“Hawk they forced you in the spell. Do you remember that group of ponies long ago that attacked mount, Aris? That was you and many others. They captured you and you were given to the ponies. They brainwashed you in the desperation of war. They made you believe that Starlight was there and the one who cast the spell. They made you think she was there. When in reality you were strapped to a chair pumped full of drugs. You weren’t being used to stop the war. They were using the time magic to make the stopwatch. But something went wrong and your brain vanished from your body and the rest is that.”

The anger made my head hurt so much. I felt my rage in my heart or what is left of it. They used me and then my brain went back in time. I took a deep breath feeling myself wake up. The pain is so much. MIx grabs my face with his little bug hands.

“Listen to me your brain was found by a young Dr. Slice he learned who you were after. He took you to the island and made you into a project mech to protect you. He was scared that they would find him again and turn him into an evil machine. So he broke off from Equestria with Bulk and the others and went to the island. Remember this the ponies of the past are long dead who did this to you. Don’t allow it to happen to anyone else Hawk. Don’t allow what happened to you to be in vain. Fight win and save this land. Save it from the Storm King”

A voice rings in the darkness. Causing Mix to finally vanish the magic of friendship fills my body making me glow and float.

“The magic of friendship...the power of all friends and the one to win a war.” The soft voice adds and I woke up.

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Friendship

I have no idea how long it’s been. My vision in my cams clears up again after I wake up from repairing myself and charging I look at my other friends. Even though I am not happy to see them. A beam lifts off our glowing bodies how I am glowing makes little to no sense. I watch the beam shoot right into the storm showing us the path of Ruby.

Then a mare spoke to us a mare that told us we need to go to Mount Aris. We need to gain friendship with each other again. I look to Roll Roll and the others. I can’t do it not right now anyway. I still love them as well as consider them my friends. Just for now, I need some space. We didn’t waste any time getting to Mount Aris I of course had to go into the water.

But before I left the mare took me aside.

“I am the one that found your eyes. They were being held by Laven. He hung them up in his volcano castle. I had many friends that died getting those back for you. We are counting on you Hawk.
I look down at the mare staring right at her.

“Are you part of the resistance then?’

She shook her head. She looks towards the others and moves her cloak just a bit on her shoulder a tattoo buried deep into her skin without the fur blocking it. I know that symbol I know it well.

“The order of Mimic?” She gives a nod looking back to the others who get on the boat. I had a feeling that this is not going to be easy. Most don’t even know who the order of Mimic is. In Dream valley before its fall. I remember the stories of the issues they caused.

“What is in it for you ponies then? Every cult has a reason to join the winning side more than anypony. Are you trying to find DreamValley like the rest to get a hoof up on everything? I am sure the order Mimic wants is one of those we won't be able to trust later on."

She shook her head.

“The order of Mimic has an interest in this battle ends. Ending with less death and with this land still together. There are times a cult even if it’s not one to the others. Is needed to end a battle. In the name of Mimic. We shall join you in the final battle. Unless you consider part of this threat?”

I stare at her while the others left. I didn’t know what to think looking back at the mare. I stay silent while I walk into the water and walk to Mount Aris seeing the old train tracks that connected the land to the rest of the world. On the track is one of the old trains.

I look into the broken windows seeing the dead. So much death and I might have caused some of it in my rage and hate for the HIppogrifs in the past. I move on from my past following the tracks to get into the mountain and learn what could happen. I for one wish to see this to the end.

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Footnote: The friend of the sea: You have become friends with the one that lives within the sea. Your reputation with them is doubled and anyone who is with you will be respected.

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