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>>121363He goes to the spot the decided on before
[lonely pony stuck in the north noises]
>>121515[floofy unicorn in the south noises]
Alright ponies... let’s try this again. Who is here?
>>121524REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>121528>Canadian Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
>>121529I’ll take you to Tim Hortons later
>>121530Eh thats pretty Good m8. Can we get a bag of milk along the way?
>>121531>milk in bagAlright, that’s way too much Canada for me
>>121532All hail, the glorious leader black Trudeau! hey you got any ketchup chips,bud?
Alright, I am at my apartment. Who is here?
>>121535Before she goes upstairs, Blue Shekels ask midnight
“To our winged pony friend, would you like to guard the East entrance that goes to the hallway and the seaside exit, or would you rather trust that be walked off by flame, and instead stand beside silver or iron at either of two other entrances?”
>>121538Midnight pauses for a moment, considering her options.
"I will take the east entrance."
>>121539Blue shekels looks at midnight for a moment, and pauses, as if not certain. But then she speaks
“Okay. That should divide them, hopefully.”
She moves forward a step
“It will be dangerous to go alone. Take Jubilosa.”
The weird catbird looking thing pauses for a moment, then steps forward, each paw in a line, and with some raised hairs visible between the ends of her forelegs legs and where the leather vest begins. Her head moves from direction to direction in quick, clean movements, like a bird, and she looks at midnight with slit, green eyes
>>121540Midnight politely nods to Jubilosa
"It will be good to work with you."
>>121541She twists her head significantly to the right, causing medium-brown feathers on her neck to pop out almost like cards in a deck-mid shuffle. She responds,
“Who are you?”
>>121542"I am Midnight, I am working with the other ponies here."
>>121543“Working what, exactly?”
Her paws are almost in a line one behind the other, and dried blood stains her brown leather vest running down from a slice in the middle, which overlays her dark-gold fur.
>>121544"Well, I am just here to follow orders, not make them. And now, you and I will be working defense."
>>121545“What... what are we defending against?” She asks
>>121546"I... Am not completely sure..."
>>121547She nods, slowly. As she does so, her green, slit eyes are wide and fixed on midnight
[continuing to look for terrorists noises]
Are these terrorists religious based, closer to Muslims? Or are they simply trashing things Antifa style?
I wonder what the bugs are up to...
>>121551Spark finds himself walking through the active mine. Most vehicles move, some do not, and there is no shortage of workers, both actually working and standing around. Some, at attention, some, idle or waiting.
>>121561Spark doesn't really know that at this point. It looks like the exterior panel, as well as part of the engine and transmission block, where damaged by blunt force applied from the outside
>>121567Ruby is still over playing with Mutey and Broody over by the partly flooded area in the lower mine. A couple workers look over, or seem either irritated or intrigued by the presence of the foals, but most pay them no mind, or seem to not notice them.
>>121573Yay!
Spark ponders for a moment.
"Are there workers here that would do something like this?"
>>121576Wasn't the boss there talking to Spark last we left off?
>>121577We'll go with that
"Some of the workers are Equestrians from the area. After many of them refused to work here we replaced them from workers from the Crystal Empire.... they are marginally better. The thing is, really any of them could be motivated to sabotage the equipment. They are not too thrilled about mining for the Hegemony"
>>121578"Any of them make any threats that could be more directly related to these attacks?"
>>121579"Threats? No. No threats. Well, except maybe Gemmy last Tuesday. But mostly they claim it's an outside force"
>>121580"Well, let's hear about Gemmy. Might as well while we figure things out."
>>121581"He made a threat about damaging his shovel last week after being ordered to do something he didn't like. He was detained."
>>121582"Do you think that others that were his friends might not have taken a liking to your punishment and acted out?"
>>121583"The Gendarme say that reprisals and being tough stamps out the will to resist"
His facial expression betrays some doubt
>>121584"Which is why you are having terrorism obviously, internal or otherwise. Your defenses are weak and you don't have a clue where or when it will happen again, but you can be sure it will."
>>121585"Look. I know we are having problems, alright. I just need to make it stop. We haven't met a single quota"