open Mechquestria: My Life As An Equine Robot

[Aurora Lights 206]

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Drone looked serious and nodded,making sure Twitch was kept in the dark,he made him go to the principal to get signed up for school,and he went to his room,sat in his chair and sighed,when Emerald came in he closed the door and locked it,closing the blinds, "Ok,What is it that you need?" he asked her,looking at her with a very serious face.

[Mentis Soliloquy 3,025]

@@Aurora Lights,

 

"what I need is a list of every capable pony, cyborg and robot when it comes to engineering and robot design, this includes all applicable staff, researchers and students. The list however must not be made public record or includes you either, you have been" Emerald stopped and thought for a moment for the right words. "deemed... not trust-able". She expressed a sad expression, "that is not what I think but others above me, one of you know who. Anyway you asking around is not a suspicious as the captain of the guard, but if you won't help I will carry out my orders.

[Aurora Lights 206]

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Drone looked slightly shocked and blinked a few times," Un...untrustworthy..."he looked down in seething anger," I-I dedicated my life...to researching military technology... spent years for the princesses...And they deem me untrustworthy?!"he growled out and stomped his hoof hard,"Those..."he closed his eyes for a moment and took a deep breath,trying to calm his blood pressure and heart rate. He let out his deep breath and looked down,his eyes were sad and solemn,he then looked up at Emerald,"Only if you promise me...promise me it's for a good cause. And I'm only doing this..because...because I care about you Em."he looked into Emerald's eyes softly.

[Mentis Soliloquy 3,025]

@@Aurora Lights,  "of coarse not Drone, it is for a cause that may save Equestria forever, and when you have handed in the list, I may drop you a name of who may of pointed out that you are well you know, so that you can have a chat and maybe get you on the project considering that you are one of the best, what do I know i'm a soldier. Anyway I shall be staying on campus until you have compiled this list and you can my help for whatever until I leave." 

[Aurora Lights 206]

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Drone sighed softly and nodded," Ok Emerald."he said and took a notepad and pen,he started thinking about names,remembering staff members,the smartest engineers,he soon began writing names down,and he stopped when he remembered someone in particular,but he shook his head and wrote a few more names,Renee including,and he looked at the list,"I don't know how many will accept,but I'll ask them. For now,take the list. I'll talk to you later tonight. And Em...Don't forget about that date you promised a while back." he smiled slightly and walked out of his door,unlocking it beforehand and he started towards the cafeteria. 

[redshell 195]

@@redshell,

The guard didn't answer and she gave up a long time ago to make him talk. Great, my shifts over. She thinks as the time comes to go. I wish I was at least on patrols but no, I'm a stand in place guard at the right side...I really am hungry. Banner thinks as she clocks out and heads to the normal spot where she gets lunch, or dinner to her since she was out there all night. The place was closed when she got there "dammit" she mumbled as she looked around trying to find a different place but all she really saw was the giant college next to her "I really hope they have some sort of place to eat...that or somepony could lead me to a place which is more likely" she goes on the campus and spots a very loud pony having trouble with her bionic parts. She couldn't let her go like this from her good nature "you ok? I can get you to a mechanic, my friend works with this stuff all the time" she offers for getting her hunger.

if they can make my wing quieter my eye not look so creepy and put some good padding on my hooves heck yeah, that would be awesome" hidden landed to maybe quite the noise so she didn't have to shout and smiled "by the way my name is Hidden Heart. Nice to. What is your name friend?"

[Yoshikupo 302]

@@redshell, @@VinylWubs,

"Nice to meet you Hidden, my name is Banner" she says putting on a smile "You should have money just in case, my friend is a little greedy" she remembers a story about how he fixed a pony just to figure out how was a criminal and she broke the parts again...with some effort, those parts are sturdy when maintained. She looks past Hidden and sees another pony "do you know how that is?" She asked pointing at the mare in question "looks like she could help too with that cutie mark"

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Hidden turned her head but her hood got in her way. "Damnit why do these things always do this" she removed the hood seeing Renee "no I don't know her" she turned her head back and threw up her hood again "you didn't see my mane, got it?" She said her face and voice stern

[VinylWubs 1,252]

@@redshell, @@VinylWubs,

"Nice to meet you Hidden, my name is Banner" she says putting on a smile "You should have money just in case, my friend is a little greedy" she remembers a story about how he fixed a pony just to figure out how was a criminal and she broke the parts again...with some effort, those parts are sturdy when maintained. She looks past Hidden and sees another pony "do you know how that is?" She asked pointing at the mare in question "looks like she could help too with that cutie mark"

Renee suddenly saw Somepony looking at her. With a gentle sigh, she made her way towards the ponies in the particular area. When she arrived she looks at the ponies with a kind of weird look. "Hello?" She said, trying her hardest not to be shy and to be friendly. "Are you fellow ponies alright?" She asked before tweaking her watch, making sure it didn't break or at least, make the wires tick firmly. Renee decided not to be rude and waited for their reply, that the certain unicorn was waiting for.

[Yoshikupo 302]

@@VinylWubs, @@redshell,

Banner did not pay attention to the mane until Hidden said that and now she was wondering why she would hide her red mane. The other pony she pointed out had walked over "everything is fine, this pony just has a little mechanic issue that my friend can help out in" Banner explained "You would be...?"

[VinylWubs 1,252]

@@VinylWubs, @@redshell,

Banner did not pay attention to the mane until Hidden said that and now she was wondering why she would hide her red mane. The other pony she pointed out had walked over "everything is fine, this pony just has a little mechanic issue that my friend can help out in" Banner explained "You would be...?"

Renee turns to the pony who was telling her what's happening. "Names Renee Tweaker.. Member of the "Medical" staff and head of the robotic gang.." She said, holding out her hoof to shake with the mare. "What's your name miss?" The mare said before pondering her eyes over to the other two that were accompanied the Unknown mare.

[Yoshikupo 302]

@@VinylWubs, @@redshell,

"Nice to meet you Renee, my name is Banner" she said to her "Hidden here is trying to get her a mechanic to fix all the noise she's making from just moving" Banner says thinking maybe this pony could fix her instead. She caught on to the look she casted on to Hidden but it was not directed a her, it was directed at a the two ponies that were behind her that appeared out of no where. She turned to face them "who are you guys?" She got ready for what they would do as they seemed kind of weird.
 

[Mentis Soliloquy 3,025]

@@Aurora Lights, Emerald stood there taking in what had happened and places the note in her pack, date? I don't remember a date I must of had to much cider the last time we met, oh well he can humor me, and do all the leg work she chuckled to herself and followed Drone out towards the cafeteria, a bit of food would be nice. She caught him up, "I don't remember a date? and how is the food here? Do they have any apples?!" the word "apples" had a visible effect on her her appearance  she became rough and ragged as if by magic for just the one word, then her appearance returned back to normal. "hope we meet that robot again he seemed nice enough, Twitch wasn't it?" @@Randimaxis, 

 

do robots even have a sex?

[Aurora Lights 206]

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Drone chuckled," Yes they have apples. And remember the last time you and I talked,we were at that pizza shop? You said if I wanted to,we could do that again sometime?" he smiled slightly,"I hope he is too." he thought a moment,before shaking his head again and continuing on,he got his lunch tray and sat at the staff lunch table,he smiled slightly as he invited her to sit with him,he then looked around for Twitch.

[Mentis Soliloquy 3,025]

Emerald bought one apple, all she needed for the next month or so, then sat where Drone had gestured to, she was starring at the apple her appearance again altered to a rough and horrible appearance, a pair of long fangs grew from her mouth and she sank them into the apple, which shriveled into a little husk in a few seconds. To the horror of some of the others siting around, she forgot how public she was and retracted her fangs and her appearance changed back, her pale face went a bright red in embarrassment and she covered her mouth with her front hooves and waited till the others lost interest. "i'm sorry about that Drone I just haven't feed in a few weeks, anyway I was at the cider in that pizza shop, however you don't lie so i'm free when you are." She continued to sit at the table with her features hunched still embarrassed still from her apple-lust. 

[Aurora Lights 206]

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Drone chuckled softly and patted her shoulder softly," Ah,my batty friend,you still do look cute when you do that."he blushed slightly and smiled and began to eat his lunch,he was thinking about some schematics he had pondered about a few weeks ago,and he took out a note card and started sketching something,while he had an apple in his mouth,he looked focused as he finished his sketch and cocked his head sideways and sighed,finishing his apple,he put the pencil to his lips and tapped them in thought a moment before he smiled wide and sketched something onto the original drawing,he looked at the design,muttering to himself and tilting his head side to side a couple times before he squinted in thought and shrugged to himself,he then put away the note card and the pencil,he looked at Emerald and smiled," I think I may have some free time later today,after the courses. Would that be ok?"he asked her kindly.

[Randimaxis 8,652]

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What?  That shoudn't be a one; that should register a five.  Okay, here's what I'll do...

 

Grant lie there on his comfy cot, his hands moving through the air, fingers tapping on invisible glass... meanwhile, his mind was seeing lines of code that he was remotely changing, transmitting and adding to Twitch's programming.  

 

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DAMMIT!  The synaptic receivers are child's play to me; this damn vocal transference software is BOGUS!

 

In the human world, Grant reached for his own wrists, then slowly expanded them out; in the pony world, a twin pair of panels opened on Twitch's chest, and two small arms with three fine-motored fingers each stretched out.  They reached up to Twitch's neck and opened a panel, where they began working with the hardware while the software was getting adjusted to it's new code.

 

Grant's hands almost appear as if he was conducting an orchestra, but the sight was over quicker than he wished it was.  The arms slid back into Twitch's chest, and the panels closed once more.

 

Okay, maybe that will help some, but I wish I could actually get my HANDS over there!

 

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That'll hold... for now.

 

Twitch stood up, giving another panel-rolling full-body shake as he did, then began to look around.  Spotting the main hall from his hiding place, he looked down and made his way back to the ground, carefully.  Reaching it, he made his way to his goal.

 

I've gotta get back to the main hall; I hope I'm not too late to get Twitch here signed up for classes!

 

He trotted into the main hall's extravagant lobby, and gawked a bit at how stylish it all was.  The institute was regal, classical with only a touch of modern to it; it was both amazing and subdued.  He went to the large circular help desk and his face plates clicked into a small smile.

 

Okay, just ask for help - nothing suspicious about that, is there?  Easy, now...

 

"Excu-cu-cu-cuse me, but where would I sign uuuuuuup for classes?"

[Aurora Lights 206]

@@Randimaxis, 

 

The receptionist smiled and slid him the documents he needed to sing,"That's all you need to sign sweety. When you get done,you can go eat lunch with the others,you can't miss the cafeteria on the 3rd floor." she smiled and went back to working on her papers.

[Randimaxis 8,652]

The paperwork itself was quite standard - he'd already been practicing their writing style, with all the "anyhoof" and "everypony" and such - but the trick was all the legalese; not responsible for accidents, equipment damage, EMP incident, general wear & tear... when humanity had met ponykind, it wasn't just technology they shared...

 

Finishing out the paperwork, he turned it in and headed for the third floor, hoping that the taste-bud interface was properly online - he didn't think hay would taste all that good, but there were always worse things to taste.

 

And the worst part?  Twitch doesn't need "food" anyway; how am I gonna pass this off?  Maybe they'll have a download station available when it's ready...

[Aurora Lights 206]

@@Randimaxis,@, 

 

Drone looked around as he heard clanking and he saw Twitch and he smiled slightly as he waved him over after he got his meal,he puled out a chair for him and smiled," Hey bud."he said and looked at him kindly,he then pulled out a note card and showed it to him,"What do you think about this? It's a new design I'm creating for the latest Neural transistor,it's kind of like the thing you have on you now,but it's a lot more advanced,it establishes a better connection,making it even quicker from mind-to-body reactions." he smiled and handed the creation to him,but then his eyebrow twitched slightly as he thought about something,"I need to make something that makes it easier and a less painful process to convert from normal pony to robopony,or cyberpony."he thought a moment and sighed," The humans,they...well...they interest me. I want to see their world,I want to see Earth."he said almost as an afterthought but shook his head,"Bah,I could never do that,besides,my Excalibur frame couldn't handle the reentry process into the atmosphere." he said sighed softly.  

Edited November 26, 2015 by Aurora Lights

[Randimaxis 8,652]

@@Aurora Lights 

 

"Well-ell-ell-ell-ll-ll, that's just becaaaaaaause you're using the ExExExcalibur frame; a Phoenix f r a m e  l i k e mine is more-"

 

... oops...

 

"... sturrrrrrrdy and... might... be be be be able to overcome tha-a-a-a-a-at?"

 

Grant almost facepalmed himself... then kept his hand from moving from sheer will, after realizing Twitch would undoubtedly do the same.  The Professor seemed like exactly who he wanted to talk to, but could he... would he understand; more importantly, would he even be able to help?  The situation he was in was far trickier than he cared to think about right now.

 

"The transistor looooooks solid, and the casing seems ideal-eal-eal for it's size... but it would be hard to know know know for sure without a trial run.  But it l o o k s  s o u n d to me.  As for the conversion tech-ech-ech-ech-nology... what do you know aaaaaabout it?  I mean, from an invenvenvenvenventor's point of view like your ow-w-w-w-w-wn?"

 

Get him talking about his own world, and he won't wander into mine by accident; it'd be bad enough with my getting caught on MY end, but if HE got caught on HIS..?  Because Captain Bolt's attitude was suspicious and such, I may have to tread carefully here - maybe even tip-hoof, he thought, grinning at the almost automatic change in word structure and spelling.

[Aurora Lights 206]

@@Randimaxis,

 

Drone though for a moment and started to smile wide," Oh,yes,yes,thank you Twitch! What a wonderful idea! I shall create a more robust version of Excalibur!" he smiled and looked at him excitedly,spouting out lots of technical things,like the hardware,the carbon fiber reinforced titanium frame,and such. He then looked at him,answering his question he said,"Well..It truly is a very huge step in somepony's life,I mean,changing from a normal flesh and blood pony like me,mostly, to being a full on robot,or cyberkinetic being is...well...It's scary. And ponies get very nervous,and it does hurt,especially when they don't know much about being metallic. It has lots to do with changing their actions,from being normalized in the society again,I just think the process could be a little less painful and comfortable,you know?"he said and looked down,"I remember the first time I had to work on a robopony. He was...well...he was slightly delusional,hysterical actually. He din't understand that he was a lot different from before. I had to rewrite some codes to conjoin with his bodily actions to his mind. It made me sad,he was in so much pain."he said softly and looked up at him,"Where di you come from?" he asked him suddenly.

[Denim&Venöm 18,701]

@Randimaxis,@Xiflelin, @Professor 101,@Aurora Lights,@redshell,@Yoshikupo,@VinylWubs@Emerald Bolt
"Radar says that she's inbound. This will be a show."
 
"Isn't it always?"
 
One pony and two equinoids stood a ways from a wide dirt path. "She should be visible about... now." Said a tall purple one, w/ sleek, angled plating. Her design was sinister looking, a spiraling and curving horn on her head that looked like a mishapen drillbit. Long fans protruded from her muzzle. A mix of ring lenses and LEDs gave her some eyes that could be described as equal parts sultry and predatory. Several filed down gears formed a small crown atop her head, and metal strips of varying lengths and thicknesses aligned to make a pinkish mane. One with holes in it.  
 
"I bet she's gonna skip twice before grinding to a halt." said a light brown earth pony with an orange & blonde mane. Jagged, intersecting layers of metal covered her legs and appeared to criss cross her body and stop at the sides of her cheeks and nuzzle, like 3D tribal tatoos. The whole ensemble almost looked like armor fashioned from blades.  
 
And beside them was a rather large machine, vaguely pony like in shape. Very sleek in design, lengths of rubber and metal cables ran along various points of the body, as if purposely exposed. The entire thing was various shades of black, grey or a very dark green, very glossy too. The top of the head however was most bizarre. It contained the top half of a pony skull, encased in glass. Overall, it looked like something you'd get if you crossed Alien with The Matrix. "Grrrrruuuuaaaaaoooooooowwwww!" Was the deep, distorted, echoing yowl it made when it opened it's mechanical jaws. 
 
"Heh, I'd love to see her dig her way out of that." said the armored one. The sounds of engines filled the air above. They could see a contrail from above. The two equinoids zoomed in, while the other had a scouter function activate over her right eye. "Yep she's coming in for a landing. Wait. Is that a flock of birds?"
 
*Caaaawwww...!*
 
"It was." Said the purple one. Just the contrail turned towards them, the sounds of a stouka dive bomber getting louder and louder, and the object getting closer and closer. It was gonna hit the ground any second now. Probably a hundred or so feet ahead. 
 
*Crash!* Ow, bitch! *Clank!* Ow double bitch! *skkkkreeeeeetttt* were the sounds made as a pegasus bot crashed, skipped and skidded on the dirt path along a contrail of sparks.
 
"Perfect three point landing Cat." said the armored mare.  
 
"Hey- ow- I don't judge how you walk! Don't judge how I fly." said a desert camo painted bot with a dark blue sheet metal ponytail mane and green LED Iris's atop black lead crystal eyes. She had several dents. Her paint was scratched off in places, and she sparking from her right foreleg and wing, which looked pretty bent and crumpled. 

"One of these days I'm tempted to shoot you down myself just so that you don't crash anymore." said sinister purple pony. 
 
"Don't take this away from me Bexy. It's the only thing I have." 
 
"Among other things..." said 'Bexy' with an eye roll. 
 
"Well now that your here, we can all eat. Let's raid the cafeteria!"
 
"Says the only one of us that actually needs to eat.." said 'Cat' as she limps to meet with the walking group. 

"Told you she would skip." 

"Grrraaaooowww!"
 
 
 
 
Elsewhere in the building
 
"'Scuse us! 'Scuse us! Coming though!" Said a black n' white hollow projection of a mare in a bussness suit & skirt, her hair done up in a bun & bottle cap glasses on her face." Mini humming bird like bots projected her hologram as she proceeded to walk through ponies & bots alike. "Research facility docking bay is undergoing maintenance, so this thing has to come in the long way! Move it or lose it!"
 
Behind her, a set of black and yellow striped hover drones carried a tall and wide metal crate through the halls in fork lift construction clamps. Two bots, a white one with a pony torso on a set of tri wheels, possessing a vaguely pony shaped head, ears on top, sky blue pigtails on the sides, and a black screen over most of the face  rolled ahead on one side of the crate, looking like daft punk making a cameo on Wall-E, rolled to the crates left. An emotive digitized outline of a ponies face appeared on the screen. "None of this is adding up Flash. They said that this thing was in storage for nearly a century. From the looks of the crate, it looks like it may have been mis-shelved. That lines up with about the age of our find. But it doesn't add up! There's no way that hard drive is a century old." 
 
To her right, A grey unicorn bot with a messy light green mane & tail design in double denim skirt & jacket. Old fashioned rivet designs covered the seems of her body. "How else can we explain it File Share? We tested, checked, double checked, triple checked! The carbonating on that hard drive box shows that it's a century old. We checked the cereal numbers of the parts. The dates fit around that time. The fact that the come from both Earth and Equestria years before the official contact was made public for both worlds does raise some questions. But they do fit in with the start of the technological exchange. There's over a decades worth of parts in that box. And that-" She looked to the metal crate behind them. "Is the only thing that can get us some clearer answers from it."
 
"But that's what's I can't believe about this whole thing. It's talking to us Flashdrive. It shouldn't be able to do that. Nothing that old, and certainly nothing made on Earth. It shouldn't be able to talk back to us like that."
 
" 'She' shouldn't be. She made herself pretty clear as to who or what she is, or at least, what she thinks she is."
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

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Edited November 26, 2015 by Denim&Venom

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@@Randimaxis, Emerald's ears perked up at the mention of Phoenix, that is not common public knowledge. She continued to watch the exchange attempting to look at just Drone and the wall behind, seeming not to pay much attention, I'm gonna look at your file soon pony giving Twitch a glance. @@Aurora Lights,  Looking back at Drone "if you talk like that on our date, I won't go well a heads up" She now had a plate of normal food which she started to eat.

[Aurora Lights 206]

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Drone looked at Emerald and blushed lightly," Uh I won't I was just...geeking out a little."he said softly and looked at her in the eyes softly,he chuckled once before standing up and dumping his tray,then returning swiftly,he sat beside her and looked at her,a blush on his cheeks,"You know,your the only pony I've ever went to a date with...I know,pathetic right? Well,when you spend your life,up until now of course, building,inventing,creating...you lose track of time and other people."he smiled softly at her.