The Galaxy Project

T-MINUS 248 YEARS

T-MINUS 248 YEARS

(ORBSyndicate) 

EARTH THEATRE

Bon Bon rammed her muzzle into the desk. "Lyra... We do not use the word "awesome" in reports."

"What? Why not?"

"Because we're agents! We're official! We use formal language!"

Lyra sighed. "This is why you write all the reports-"

"Well I don't have a magic unicorn horn to use this human keyboard so you get to do it."

"With you watching over my shoulder like a hawk." Lyra grinned.

"Yes....." Bon Bon sighed. "Just finish writing it up. I need some air." She trotted out to the hotel balcony, looking out over the city's skyline. They were still in London, opting not to leave and instead help Tau'Ri Intelligence (TRI) investigate what exactly had just happened.

It had been a few weeks, and there had been on leads. No one knew what had attacked her. Lyra had quickly ruled out other unicorns or Priors - she noted that the magic felt "different" than anything she'd felt before. She did mention that it was closer to unicorn magic than a Prior's powers, but it definitely wasn't. Bon Bon often forgot that Lyra had gone to Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns and actually knew quite a lot about how magic felt, how it worked, and how it could be used. In fact Lyra had, on her off time, actually been spending a lot of time theorizing about how magic worked across the universe, and what exactly the thaumic fabric was. She was spouting out arcane jargon Bon Bon didn't know the meaning of on a regular basis. If she wasn't such a conspiracy theorist, she'd probably be a celebrated wizard or scientist at this point.

Bon Bon sighed. Lyra was amazing - but she wasted her potential so much of the time. It was by pure accident she had gotten to become an agent.

Bon Bon breathed in the city air before wrinkling her nose. Erg, why did the Doctor like this place so much? They had found out a bit more information from the Tau'ri government. Apparently he was one of the last remaining members of the Gallifreyans - one of the five races in the Great Alliance - who owned a time machine and spent a lot of time observing interesting events and places. He was considered something of a hero across the entire galaxy, apparently, even if he was a bit ridiculous. The problem was no one knew how to contact him - and given the fact that he travelled through time such a contact might have ended up calling a past version of him which would be useless. So that had turned into a dead end.

Lyra said they needed a planet-wide magic detector, the one Bon Bon held just didn't cut it. There was also the issue that the people may not be on the planet anymore - though after analyzing the speech Bon Bon doubted they were aliens. She actually suspected there were some human magic users living in the shadows of Earth, away from public view. Given the history of "burn the witch" she had uncovered from the history archives, she could understand why. Though since they were going to such lengths to keep themselves a secret, she wasn't sure they deserved to live in secret...

Of course Lyra took it one step up and thought the entire planet was part of some magic conspiracy, but that was Lyra for you.

The general public ate up the story because of her and Lyra's involvement, and Lyra in particular was being showered in praise. But it turned out that they didn't care much for the crime itself and few cared about the investigation beyond the two aliens working on it. News reporters had stopped coming and the world continued to turn as if nothing had happened.

Bon Bon growled. She wanted to find those knuckleheads.

"Bon Bon..." Lyra said, frowning. "Don't take it too hard-"