Twist Tech/The Cyber Knight

By RetroArcadeRat

• April 15, 2014




Age: 23

Gender: Male

Species: Pegasus

Appearance: The picture is him as the Cyber Knight. He doesn't look a whole lot different without the outfit. Just light grey body, green eyes, same hair, and his cutie mark is an inverted orange power symbol.

Cutie Mark: ^ inverted orange power symbol.

Personality: He's pretty shy, and tends to stay away from other ponies, but he has a few close friends. As a superhero, he tends to not do much to help until the main superponies seem to be out of their league, and then he fucks shit up. (Pardon my french.)

Backstory: (Story of how he became a superhero pasted from DeviantArt)<br /><br />Twist Tech was still a fairly young pony when it happened. He'd just gotten a job with a stallion who was constantly changing his title between scientist and engineer. His role was to keep the electronic database organized and the programs that ran the scientist's machines running smoothly. It was a sunny day in spring when it was finally time for the scientist to reveal his most prized invention. Screw prosthetic limbs, he'd created a prosthetic brain. The only problem was that it could only be used on fresh wounds. But all the kinks could get worked out, he figured, if he could just test it out. And today was the day he was going to get it cleared for testing. When the inspector came, she was sharp and professional, and after touring the facilities and getting an explanation of the project, she said simply,<br /><br />"I'm sorry Dr. Circuit, but this project can't continue. To test this in reality would mean to purposely damage somepony's brain, and we can't do that."<br /><br />"Look here, inspector, this is my life's work! I can't just abandon it!"<br /><br />"I really am sorry, doctor, but that's what you're going to have to do."<br /><br />The engineer remained silent, and you could see his rage growing on his face. Suddenly, he pulled out a gun and pointed it at Twist.<br /><br />"No one move."<br /><br />Twist Tech froze. He'd had a pretty normal life so far, and had definitely never been in a situation with a gun before. The scientist was getting closer and closer. Twist couldn't move. He barely heard the gunshot before everything went black.<br /><br />-<br /><br />When he woke up, everything was blurry, and he could hear strange sounds in the peripheral of his hearing. He blinked, turning his head to the side. The inspector was handcuffed to a large file cabinet and the scientist had just gotten up and was once again walking towards him. Groggy as he was, he only had one thought. 'Must keep scientist away from me...' He started to roll to the side, away from the engineer, and ended up falling off of the table he had been laying on. The jolt seemed to wake him up, and the strange noises got clearer. They sounded like voices. Strange, metallic voices in his head. Great. Ignoring them, he stood up, backing away.<br /><br />"How are you feeling, assistant? Liking your new brain?"<br /><br />Something about those words struck sudden fear into Twist and he just wanted to be away from everything. The light was hurting his eyes and he just wanted to go home and- wait. The lights had just turned off. Every light in the facility had shut down. How did he know? Because he'd asked them to do it. The voices were becoming clearer now, and he could hear what they were saying. He could hear his computer, his phone.<br /><br />But no time for this now! He had to get out of here. He took off, running down the corridors towards the least known exit. Finally, he was back out in fresh air. He ran all the way back home, and sat on his bed, shaking. He didn't want to look in the mirror, but...he had to. He slowly make his way to the bathroom mirror. Nothing was really visibly wrong but.... He lifted his mane out of the way with a hoof and flinched when he saw the fresh stitches. He briefly considered just giving up. But no. He decided that as long as he was alive, he might as well try to make the best of it. And that's how the Cyber Knight was born.