[h1][center][color=Purple]The Responders[/color][/center][/h1] [hr] "Alpha, I spotted a pony running into the forest." "Lovely, if 'one' avoided the Cordon it's possible there's more." He shrugged is off like it meant nothing... Technically "Irrelevant. Our immediate objective is to recon the crash-sites, we'll worry about strays after we're sure of other potential threats, until then, that'll be the regular guards duty. What do the rest of you see." "Sir, The big chunky one appears to have managed it's crash in the best condition... I think, They're all so foreign some parts I don't know if it's damage or aesthetics." "Either way, there's 'definitely' something alien coming out of it, nothing we've been educated on yet though." "It's hard to tell at this distance through the forest and haze, but they look big, and armored, several 'were' moving towards the forest, but I think our arrival frightened them back into the cover of their crash. Good thing we weren't here to 'sneak' around, heheh." "The lack of whole-sale evacuation tell me they've got the site under 'some' control though, i don't wager we're waiting for something to explode." "Sir, the one in the middle of the forest looks like it's just scrap now, only a couple of survivors appear to have climbed out of it. Their clothing reminds me a bit of merchants... or pirates." "This other crash on my side might be contending for decent condition, I don't see many missing chunks, but it's more plain compared to the other one, of course I can't see inside either." "Kindof like the other one there doesn't seem to be any hurry for survivors to bail out." "This other one looks like it had a hell of a tumble when it hit though, I can see that the sister's old castle is missing one of it's towers now too, looks like it got clipped on the way down." "There 'are' some sort of creatures outside of the crash, but it's difficult to see them well even with out enhancement, I suspect that means they're darker than we're used to." "Think we can get some targeted moon-light?" He'd been quietly processing each report as it was provided, but something that had been said snatched his attention "Wait! They clipped the tower?!" "Yes, why?" "... We may need to inform the Princesses of that. There's a reason that more orthodox crews haven't been around to refurbish or tear down parts of the castle. We need to be ready incase they triggered any ancient safe-guards." [hr] [@wanderingdragon] He'd managed to have a fairly quiet period of travel, at first... granted, it wouldn't be very fast... a skateboard in the middle of a forest already wouldn't be an especially effective mode of travel, things were always so 'rough', nevermind doing so at 'night'... in the 'everfree' though? One would be lucky to find a patch out ground long enough to gain 'any' speed, nevermind enough make the effort any faster than just running on foot. One would need some pretty special skills, or a special board, to hope to traverse a forest of this magnitude with it... Of course, that wasn't mentioning the attention that a strange creature making strange noises in the middle of a recently awoken forest would draw... That being the sudden presence of growling amidst the trees, and if he looked, there would be quite a collection of sickly green eyes glowing in the darkness of the under-brush... it seemed that so far what progress he made had prevented him from actually being surrounded, for now. [hr] [@thedman] The adjutant was quick to respond to the command *Beep* "Tracking... Judging from the speed of Approach, Our diminished Sensor quality near this forest may lose Tracking on targets while in motion." *Beep* "While Broad-spectrum detection demonstrates a large energy signature, visual sensors are unable to register the targets properly." *Beep* "Concealment inconsistent with known cloaking technology. Visuals resemble intense heat distortion blurring targets beyond recognition..." *Beep* "Thermals confirm, Energy Sources producing high volume heat... Trails bear residual heat... Ambient Unknown Energy does not seem to be producing similar heat..." *Beep* "Secondary source also lacking heat production... Visual sensors still blank." *Beep* "Seismic activity approaching... slowly... Patterns inconsistent with Known Zerg patterns. [hr] [@ninja][@Rune_Alchemist] Zecora was thoroughly caught off guard by the newcomers sudden appearance, something she was not used to with the sense for danger she had developed in the forest, and she quite readily took a few steps back as it approached and she so suddenly found it 'touching her'... Well, it was very quickly revealed to not be aggressive, at least not overtly, and the sounds it produced were quite pleasant, if thoroughly unintelligible to her, though there was enough recognition to pick up on it actually being 'language' that was being spoken. "Perhaps this is too much for me... I should retrieve someone of higher authority..." She'd already started to back-away when there was some rumble that went through the ground... it was pretty localized though, only around the castle itself, it was enough to make her stop and stared worriedly at the door...