mylittlejamjar | Seventh Starfall: Beyond the Pale [Visual, postdated for after the Closing Ceremonies]

[It's about two hours after the appearance of the Pale Pony, and everything that came with it. You might think that things would calm down again, but no.

This time, Flare Star fires up a scroll ~~that she basically pulled straight away from Dust~~ and starts talking, about as seriously as many ponies have ever heard out of her - the exceptions being Queen Chrysalis (who got to hear the tone when she was attacking the pegasus) and Zecora (whom she helped during Nightmare Night).]

The cards've been played. I don't know what kind of feeling that was that I felt back there, but I know it is evil. No more playing around, no more wasting time trying to understand.

I'm not saying that we don't still need to research this nag, far from it. In fact, we need to centralize our research, so that everypony has the same access to it. It's only right in times of war to allow your soldiers to know of the enemy they fight.

She pulls us all in at random, focusing on those with powers, and then every month, she culls. A few more get drawn into her, possibly for keeps. By standing before us today, by proving that she exists, she has declared war. Not on Equestria, but on every last one of our worlds.

Buck compassion, and buck caring for a pony so far gone that she'll steal souls for her own gain.

She needs to die.

Who's with me?

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[Donna can see the worry on his features and it hurts. She wants him to be perfectly confident and poised. They'll have to be brave enough together.] Good you were able to get a bit. I could hardly breathe when it turned to look at me after singing. [She shudders at the memory of that penetrating stare.]

I wasn't in the stadium at the time. [He lowers his head and stares toward the ground. However disappointed the others will be at this news, he is even more disappointed.]

Believe me, I wish I had been. Ironically, I had been looking for information on her in the Crystal Kingdom Library the moment she appeared. I tried to make it to the stadium but she was gone by the time I was inside. Any successful readings were from the outside and are not nearly as reliable.

We'll have to ask others if they gathered readings. At least we have yours, Andrew. Care to share with us?

[For once Andrew's not going to be a brat about working with the Doctor. He nods.] I'll upload it into your screwdriver. We shouldn't transfer information over the scrolls if we can help it.

Agreed. It never has been clear precisely who set up this network. For all we know, the Pale Pony herself made it available for the offworlders she planned on bringing here. We'll have to ask Princess Celestia what she knows about the scroll origins.

I can imagine seeing her in person would make one quake in their horseshoes. Her presence was not as strong over the scroll but it felt like she was psychically trying to restrain us. Made it a lot harder to get to the stadium.

It...didn't have exactly that effect on me.

What happened to you?

I wanted to go to her. I wanted to be part of...that.

[Doctor looks further troubled. This only confirms her power.]

What a strong psychic mind she must have. Yet others compare her to a machine.

She's not a machine at all. I don't know what she is, but that wasn't a lack of feelings.

Seventh Starfall: Beyond the Pale [Visual, postdated for after the Closing Ceremonies]

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