Aurora Lights

@@Denim&Venom, Drone looked down and softly placed his hoof on her shoulder, "The elements were real. They did help the world, but not in the way you imagined. Friendship was the policy...but after the humans...They showed us military might...They saw how effective it was, so...they did it." he said and looked at her, "But never loose faith. Yes, they did terrible things, Yes you were told lies...But never, Ever, let that stop YOU from being the one to change things the right way...I'm not saying I'm a saint, nor am I saying I've never hurt anypony or killed them...But I'm saying, You have the option to choose...Now, I chose the wrong way...I gave in to my...urges...I indulged in violence, hatred...I gave up the chance that anything could ever change my ways...I know the difference between good and evil. And yes...I do choose to kill..." he said and looked down slowly.

@@Denim&Venom, Ahhhh good idea!!

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@@Denim&Venom, ((Oh no sorry)) Drone shook his head softly, "The power of money and Gems is quite persuasive Angel. I never saw real combat, and maybe not all of them were massive wars, but the ones that were, well, they were started by the princesses from the inside." He said and sighed softly, "I'm sorry...I've probably just said too much...I-I'm sorry if I freaked you out..." he said and sat beside her.

@@Denim&Venom, Drone looked at her in the eyes and said, " Why would they give a weapon sympathy. Not to mention, Why would they ever, EVER, mention assassination. Why would they slander their name. Everything you know...is a lie... Emerald and her friends all know. And... Who says they have to have a reason to make a trump card?...I was a plan B, Technically, I don't exist. They had wars... Trust me, They had wars, GIANT wars... But it was all secret. Secret wars and national lies. Trust me, kid...The world you see, the world you've been shown is just imaginary...Like nocturnal rainbows...it's all a lie." he said and walked over to the sink, washing the spoon he had.

@@Denim&Venom, Drone looked around and nodded as she spoke, He then looked at the cartons of ice cream and he smiled slightly as he picked out Vanilla and took a spoon from the cabinet and handed her one. He then started eating his treat. He sighed softly as he sat on the couch and said, " So, I guess now is the time to come clean. Never really told anyone my real story. I've always had a cover-up story... But now...Now is the time to be real." He said and his face got serious as he looked down at the floor, still eating his ice cream, " So, 90 years ago, There was...a demand, a need...The princesses needed the perfect fighter, the perfect assassin, the perfect...warrior... You see, they couldn't find that warrior, no pony was strong enough, fast enough, smart enough...Not to mention even if they found that perfect warrior, he could die. So, what else to do than to genetically modify unborn ponies? It took them 5 years to finally create a stable subject. The previous ones, they all died...every single one...from what I can remember it was somewhere around 8,000 subjects that died, and all the parents were, of course, assassinated. The princesses couldn't afford somepony to slip up and tell ponies about their plan. So, Finally, I was born. My parents were also assassinated, so, no I have no family. While I was growing up, I could remember vaguely about being split open, examined, tested. Of course, I can't remember everything they did to me because, of course, they wiped my memories. Everything I knew was a lie. And for a while I believed it. I believed my parents died, I believed I was given a gift, I believed I was divinely chosen...Turns out, I was wrong...A few years before I got iced, I started getting nightmares...horrible nightmares...But they were memories. Those pictures at the lab, they were just...simple tests..." he stopped and looked at his melting ice cream and he sighed hard, "Damnit...I-I'm sorry...I let this stuff go to waste..." he growls at himself and goes to throw away the melted treat.

Drone sighed as they neared the top, "Holy-hay-A...Luna,how many more stairs?!" he cried out as they neared the floor, soon they reached her apartment door and he waited patiently for her to open it, looking down the hallway at both ends, "Nice place." he said as he looked around. @@Denim&Venom,

@@Denim&Venom, Drone blushed lightly as he drifted off about dirty thought, "Ahhh~ One day~" he shook his head as he was snapped back to reality again and this time they turned around to go to her house which had obviously been passed up by mistake. He walked up to the door and stepped aside, "You got the key,hoe." he said in a nonchalant manner.

@@Denim&Venom, Drone didn't even flinch as she threw her hoof around his neck, he just chuckled, "Yeah. Your right. Common ground and all that." He looked away a moment before he looked back at her face, "Yeah. I think we could make this work. I mean...it'd be a damn cool bar story." he shrugged and continued walking with her, "Listen, I think if we tried, and I actually make a real, true friendship...or whatever this thing with us will be...Then I think I'll actually...actually start to show who I really am...And I'm a little scared of that..." he said with a soft chuckle at the end, throwing his forehoof over her neck and smiling at her.

@@Denim&Venom, Drone smiled slightly and shook his head, "Sounds like quite a life." He said and kept walking in silence for a few minutes before he piped up again, " You know, The lab we were at...the one we met at...I don't know how many photos you saw, or how much you heard...but I want to be transparent with you...both of you... You both saved me even though I was a total ass. And I've been thinking about what you said, some decompression would be nice. I can't exactly explain it, but, I think I feel something with you...Shit I just said that aloud..."he sighed and blushed lightly before he shook his head to himself.

@@Denim&Venom, Drone watched the video and started thinking deeply, he took her hoof and stared at the screen, replaying the video twice before letting her hoof go. He smiled slightly and took a deep breath, true, inside he was boiling, but, for some reason, seeing Emerald happy, seeing she made connections with somepony else... it made him happy. Truly happy. He looked at Angel in the eyes and said with the most honest, and caring voice he could muster, "Angel, I thank you. I thank you for, well, Taking care of Emerald. Our time together was...short... And, I don't think I could have found a better...better match for her, than you. You seem genuine...Kind...You and Emerald are similar in ways, some ways you remind me of elements of her. And somehow...Myself...Not just because of your cybernetics, either. Listen, Angel, I think we got off on the wrong hoof... I don't know what they did to me to make me this...unstable... But, I want to make it up to you. I judged you before I even heard your voice. And I offer my greatest apologies, and I'd like us to start from scratch." He smiled at her, he was starting to feel a little like himself again, " So, my name is Sentinel Drone... I'm over 85 years old, I have a cybernetic spine infused with a type of highly advanced armor, and I'm a professor here...or was, I do hope I can work here again. Anyway, I just wanted to say that. I got some more back ground info for you when we get to your place... Come on, you can tell me on the way there." He said and he started walking with Angel on the sidewalk when they left the building.

@@Denim&Venom, Drone cracked a soft smile as he chuckled softly, "I haven't had ice cream in five years, hell, I was a Sentinel pop for all five years. But, eh, what the hell, yeah I'll have some." He looked down as he tried to regain his composure. He smiled slightly as he thought about the times he had before he was frosted, "Hm...Hey, wanna know something funny? When I first met Em, I could tell something was between us. I-I mean, not just romantic. But, you know, deeper...deeper than what I normally had... I, Uh, I don't really know how to explain it...Well, Actually. You know when you just get that feeling, you know, the one that tells you that something meaningful is bound to happen... Yeah, That one. But, It just sort of felt, at least to me anyway, That we had...a connection. Some way, Some how. I don't know why, but I did." He sighed as he thought back and smiled softly at Angel.

@@Mentis Soliloquy, @@Denim&Venom, Aye! I agree cap'm!

@@Denim&Venom, @@Mentis Soliloquy, Drone watched Angel turn and leave, He then looked at Emerald as he started to really think about what she said, he turned around and started walking for the door, but he stopped in his tracks as a question screamed in his ears, fearing the question, but fearing the answer even more, he asked, " Em...W-What do you think...What do you think they...did...to me...I-I can't even sense when I'm about snap...I-If it's as bad as you say...M-Msybe the best thing for me to do is...Is..."he took a long pause as he thought about his next words, tears welling in his eyes, "...Stay...frozen..." he turned around without letting her finish and started slowly walking to the door, each step becoming harder and harder as pain crippled his heart, Fear and sadness clouding his mind. The only thing he could think about is...What if he did snap again, What if-What if he just, like exploded? What if he killed somepony he loved? O-Or...Worse... What if...What...if.

@@Mentis Soliloquy, @@Denim&Venom, Drone sighed softly as he looked down, "Y-You might be right...I might just be paranoid..." He said and looked to Angel," Well, Not really. She is the commanding officer. And you and I are V.I.P. I presume." he said and kept walking with the two, his armor beeping twice, signaling it was low on batteries. He wasn't normally paranoid, nor did he ever get angry and loose his composure, Emerald knew this about him, so she obviously noticed his adverse behavior. It was just a matter of time till he snapped again, and if so, and this issue isn't confronted, the consequences may be more severe than imaginable.

@@Mentis Soliloquy, @@Denim&Venom, Drone started thinking as they walked, '​Four years?...Definitely copies of Excalibur...Just accepted them? Hell, I'd expect at least some resistance. Wait...if they are running off the Excalibur mainframe...' He looked at Emerald and whispered in her ear," These machines are copies of Excalibur...Their armor Is very powerful, and I can spot they are using Nuclear power in the batteries, And yes, they were once a military project...But if a PMC group has them...Wait.....Wait...If a PMC group has them...Then...This evacuation is a false flag...They want the tech that's in here, They want the minds that can control it...Em, I fear soon they will start executing my fellow staff and students..." ​He said in a worried voice, he looked around at the shiny armor

@@Mentis Soliloquy, @@Denim&Venom, Drone kept staring at the mechs, the machines were strange, yet they looked eerily familiar, though he couldn't quite place what it was, " Em, What are these symbols painted on their chest plate, they look like PMC symbols..." he looked even harder at the mechs and thought of scanning their internal software with his suit.

@@Mentis Soliloquy, @@Denim&Venom, Drone looked at the piloted mechs and blinked a few times," When were those put into service?" he asked, fearing his technology may have been duplicated. He looked down as he felt adrenaline pump into him, he was ready to suit up and mount an attack, but he had no weapons, no ammo, barely any armor...he would be destroyed if he fought them head on.

@@Denim&Venom, @@Mentis Soliloquy, Drone sighed softly as he looked down," I don't like putting my burdens on others...Hell, it might make them more mentally disturbed than me..." he sighed and shook his head, "I guess I'll talk...To you...both of you... I guess if I'm going to actually get in a relationship, well, I guess I might have to tell you what I really am..." Soon they dropped by the college and he stared at the students and staff, "What the hell is going on here?" He asked them, making touchdown with the ground.

@@Mentis Soliloquy, @@Denim&Venom, Drone sighed and looked down, "Well... I-I don't know...I might...Maybe...one day...eventually." He shook his head and looked at Angel, "So, What's your favorite food?" he asked kindly, he then smiled at her kindly, He was a handsome stallion. At times he could be seen as brash, brutally honest, even evil at times. But, sometimes, times like this, He didn't seem to be as hardened as he actually was.

@@Mentis Soliloquy, @@Denim&Venom, Drone nodded, "Could be. But why would I show them what I really am...Who I really am. Why would I- A killing machine-Ever let anyone know what really happens in my head... Trust me Em... If I ever let you look into my head, Those photos back there will seem like child's play..." he said in almost a sad tone of voice.

@@Denim&Venom, @@Mentis Soliloquy, Drone smiled slightly before looking away, "Thank you Angel, it'll only be about a week. I promise, I'll compensate you for everything..."he said and started flying towards the city with Emerald. He sighed as he realized most of his students have passed his classes, so now he has to talk to new students, had to put on a new fake face... He hated putting on his fake self, The happy go-lucky, smartass he made himself out to be was hard to hold up throughout the days, especially when he talked to Emerald, She had only seen his true colors once, and only a little earlier when he was in the picture room.

@@Denim&Venom, @@Mentis Soliloquy, Drone nodded," I may have been frozen for the past 5 years, but hey. I can still fly." He started flapping his wings and lifted into the air as he looked to the direction of the city, "Oh, Em, Uh...I-I kinda don't have a house anymore...or any of my normal things...B-But I do have a security deposit box- um, 5 of them,heh... They all contain large amounts of money, ea-each one has um... over uhh...Let me see...Oh yeah, over 10 million dollars in each of them...so If you know, you need some money for rent while I try to find my own place..." he looked away, He felt so embarrassed about having to ask to live at her house, Sure, he did love her, but...He just didn't want to bring her into his deep personal life...not yet...

@@Mentis Soliloquy, @@Denim&Venom, Drone blinked as his armor covered his body, he stopped and growled, "Oh yeah...can't do that... " his armor retracted and he opened his flesh wings, looking at the other two, Angel's forearm over Emerald and he said, "Yeah, Always kinda wanted to have a relationship with one of my students. Now that you two are here... Well, I can fulfill that feti- I-I mean...Dream." he looked around after the last part and shook his head, "Come on, we're wasting time. I don't like this place..." he said and waited for them anxiously.

@@Denim&Venom, @@Mentis Soliloquy, Drone chuckled softly before looking away, thinking quietly to himself before he said, "Well, it would be pretty bad-ass...Ah screw it, Sure, I'm in." He glanced to both of them before his gaze settled upon Angel, "So, I suppose you and I got some catching up to do. First things first. I have two things I need to get accomplished before the end of the day. The first thing...Eat. I'm so hungry I could eat...well...you. Both of you. Second thing, I need to find the ones who took me. Froze me. When I do..."he looked away and glared at the wall a minute before he said in a burst of anger, "Fucking assholes...I'll eliminate every one of those fucks..."he growled out in a low tone, just then his pupils shrunk to tiny points, he then looked back up at Emerald and he growled out, "Let's fucking blow this shit house...These photos are making me angry..." he said and advanced towards the door.