open Mechquestria: My Life As A Equine Robot (00110010)

[Randimaxis 8,652]

@captainborgue

 

 

Twitch shrugged.

 

"I suppose VLAD pretty much spelled it out, but... well, I was trapped in-"

 

He glanced over at Lab Tech, and decided to spare her feelings.

 

"... my own headspace, trying to figure out when I'd be able to make it back outside, when VLAD calls me up with this idea; it sounds like a good plan - or at least better than simply erasing Luster - so I volunteered my services.  VLAD, uhm..."

 

His plates spun into a curious look.  "With this remote download, you say you'll be able to... complete... this transfer?  I'd still need to build what I could on my end - wouldn't I?  I mean, I'm still not sure about all the details, but..."

 

He then blinked, and his face took on a more set and determined look.

 

"But the point of your helping me was to get the programming you wanted; I can do that.  I'll worry about my end, if you worry about yours.  I will make you a promise, VLAD; I won't transfer to Twitch until AFTER you get what I promised you."

 

 

 

Lab's right optic was glowing blue with code scrolling across as she was running the GPS program as well as self diagnostics.

 

 

He then turned to Lab Tech.

 

"You got dragged along, too?  Oh, um... I'm really sorry.  But maybe you could help us with our project?  Well, VLAD's project; I'm just a programmer on this."

 

He looked back over at Bee.  "You too, Professor... though I'm not sure if you're in the... uhm, mood... to discuss it RIGHT now, so... perhaps food for later thought?"

 

I REALLY hope VLAD doesn't mind me asking for extra help, Grant postulated.

[Denim&Venöm 18,837]

(funnily enough, I was just rereading our whole adventure)

 

 

 

Don't you have governing requests to take care of electronically?"

"I suppose I can do that. We've both got better things to do."

 

In high atmosphere however...

 

"Oh no you don't." Down from the heavens, Twi made her decent. Faster and faster until she was like a meteorite. She was about to connect with the school roof. Milliseconds from impact. Then-

 

*bamfch!*

 

A bright flash of light in the lab, behind 'Twilight', followed by a wave of heat.

 

Standing there was a steaming alicorn bot, shimmering lavender alloy, a waving indigo mane and feathered wings made of pure crystallized energies. 

 

"I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Star Fox Luster." 

 

Luster turned towards her creator. "You were saying something?" 

 

 

 

@Mentis Soliloquy, 

 

"So, the Princess has like, three castles I think? Maybe we can have one of those all to ourselves. The castle of Countess Emerald. I think I'd quite like that." 

Edited June 16, 2016 by Denim&Venom

[Mentis Soliloquy 3,025]

@Denim&Venom

 

"Angle your being silly my dear, me a countess that's silly I'm a farm mare not soom higher up. But I like your dreaming I'll try to help spme pf them come true." She still stalked around in her suit waiting for her time to strike or what was ever coming. "So what's my marefriend doing?"

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@@Mentis Soliloquy,

"Dude, you're the captain of the guard and the longest serving royal guard in Equestrian history.  Pretty sure you're closer to being a countess than a farm aid. As for me...not a whole lot. It's grown suddenly boring without you here." Angel said, looking out the window. "Listen, I know I'm not any type of guard, but is there anything I can do to help with whatever it is you're doing. I'd like to have you back sooner than later." 

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@Denim&Venom

 

"Sorry my love there nothung you can do not to mention I'm not going to put you in harms way...um not that I'm really in harms way it's, you know not being trained and such. But I'm not a countess love, I can be yours but not to the world I'm afraid. But again I'll be what ever you want me to be."

[captainborgue 343]

@captainborgue

 

 

Twitch shrugged.

 

"I suppose VLAD pretty much spelled it out, but... well, I was trapped in-"

 

He glanced over at Lab Tech, and decided to spare her feelings.

 

"... my own headspace, trying to figure out when I'd be able to make it back outside, when VLAD calls me up with this idea; it sounds like a good plan - or at least better than simply erasing Luster - so I volunteered my services.  VLAD, uhm..."

 

His plates spun into a curious look.  "With this remote download, you say you'll be able to... complete... this transfer?  I'd still need to build what I could on my end - wouldn't I?  I mean, I'm still not sure about all the details, but..."

 

He then blinked, and his face took on a more set and determined look.

 

"But the point of your helping me was to get the programming you wanted; I can do that.  I'll worry about my end, if you worry about yours.  I will make you a promise, VLAD; I won't transfer to Twitch until AFTER you get what I promised you."

 

 

 

 

 

He then turned to Lab Tech.

 

"You got dragged along, too?  Oh, um... I'm really sorry.  But maybe you could help us with our project?  Well, VLAD's project; I'm just a programmer on this."

 

He looked back over at Bee.  "You too, Professor... though I'm not sure if you're in the... uhm, mood... to discuss it RIGHT now, so... perhaps food for later thought?"

 

I REALLY hope VLAD doesn't mind me asking for extra help, Grant postulated.

 

"THAT IS NOT AN ACCURATE STATEMENT AT ALL," VLAD said, puzzled. "VLAD HAD TO USE TELEPORT DRONES TO RECOVER YOU FROM MAGITEK LAB, AND USE RUBBERIZED MALLARD EFFIGY TO INSULATE TELEPORT DRONE ELECTRONICS FROM DEFENSIVE FIELDS AROUND LAB. WAS VERY CLEVER OF VLAD TO DO," VLAD said, indignantly.

 

Bee facehoofed. "Alright, I am not anywhere near enough to awake to deal with this right now. Tell you what, though- you can stay here tonight since it's super late, and we'll figure it out in the morning after coffee. Lots and lots of coffee," Bee grumbled. "In the meantime- you guys can brainstorm or whatever, just do it quietly. And VLAD, don't wake me up again tonight. I need sleep."

 

"UNDERSTOOD. REM SUBROUTINE IN PLACE," VLAD said, as Bee's robotic eye pulsed softly. VLAD downloaded into the floor vacuum, so as to continue their discussion without being a nuisance. "REMOTE DOWNLOAD IS SIMPLE. VLAD WILL PROVIDE INSTRUCTIONS, GRANT WILL BUILD TRANSFER DEVICE ON TERRAN SIDE. VLAD AND BEE WILL CAST SPELL ON EQUESTRIAN SIDE. TRANSFER PROCESS REQUIRES BOTH. VLAD HAS MANY SUBROUTINES, CAN ASSIST ON BOTH SIDES EASILY. TRANSFER PROCESS IS PERMANENT, HOWEVER. ONCE TRANSFERENCE INTO ROBOTIC HOST BODY IS COMPLETE, ORGANIC HOST DIES."

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@@Mentis Soliloquy,

"Pretty sure Twilight could rectify that. And I meant countess in the vampire sense. Vampires are traditionally counts. As for what I want you to be...hmmm, well I'm not sure such things are safe to discuss on a government communications channel..." Angel said in a sultry voice. 

 

 

 

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Even before the two Twi's began to stare each other down, Luster had another plan she set in motion. 

 

Every few minutes, Luster was saving a copy of her new self, cloning her program and storing it on the net.  And now the latest saved copy of Luster...

 

"Initiate activation sequence."

 

Was now uploaded into Twilight's spare chasis. Her sister unit to the current v9.2.8 model. Quickly accessing her storage bay's utilities, she performed some cosmetic changes, so as not to be stopped by adoring fans rushing up to the 'princess.' Removal of the crown & adornments. A coat of grey onyx paint. Addition of some gold highlights. And the mane being swapped out for an identical version with indigo, red & pink exchanged for gold, silver & copper. 

 

"Activation sequence completed."

 

All the while this was going on, Luster did as she recommended to Lektra, and sought out the destination of Grant & LabTech's transport, activating her own teleportation directed to the entrance of the same apartment complex. In a triangulated flash of light, Luster v9.2.8 was gone. 

 

 

@@captainborgue,@@Randimaxis,  

Standing in front of a local apartment complex, Luster looked around, and took in the sights around her. She whistled.

 

"They weren't kidding when they said 111 years had passed. I feel like what's his face from H.G. Wells Time Travel novel." 

 

Luster walked into the apartment complex, appearing invisible to the sensors.

 

​"Room 688." she had the location marked as the site of the transport. As she headed towards the elevators.

 

(F--k it. Nevermind. )

Edited June 19, 2016 by Denim&Venom

[Mentis Soliloquy 3,025]

Emerald got the message and moved off towards the area she was asked to go still unsure about her cousin, Lektra saw her enemy as her child when push came to shove who would Lektra choose?

 

@Denim&Venom

 

"I don't think we need worry its common knowledge what i am love. Also you honestly see me as a countess? I mean really? Some noble git, I mean I'm from a farming family Angel."

[Denim&Venöm 18,837]

@@Mentis Soliloquy, 

 

"I meant countess in the sense that most vampires in stories tended to be counts or countesses. But yeah, in my eyes, you're royalty."

 

 

 

"Please don't get mad. She needed a body and as we figured out together you weren't ready to handle the responsibility. It wasn't made specifically to fight you, and in fact this could have been yours."

"Not ready to handle the responsibility? Feh. Whatever. I don't need it. Anything you can build, I can build better. Don't need your opinions and don't need your approval either."

 

 

 

. We test hugely destructive weapons there, akin to a nuclear bomb testing area but without the possibility of fallout or contamination of ecosystems."

 

"Oooh. Does this mean we get to finally settle things? That I get to put you in your place once and for all? Show you how much of a failure you truly are?" Luster asked. 

 

"Yes sure, a failure that helped take a whole world into a new age of peace and progress.  You're the one that needs to be shown a thing or two and given a nice long time out." Twilight replied matter o factly. 

 

"F--k you pixie dust. You're not my parent. You will never control me." Luster said bitterly

 

"You and your angsty attitude. Where did she get this from again?" she asked Lektra. 

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The combatants must now decide on a location and it will be created for them."  

 @@Mentis Soliloquy,  

 

"Can't choose either one of us, can you?" Luster said. "Not that I can blame you. Still, you'll realize soon enough who's right in this."

Luster began moving to stand opposite Twilight. "After all book horse, despite all that 'advanced' tech you got, deep down inside, you're only a pony. But I'm a machine."

 

"You'd be surprised at how many of my antagonists tried to use that excuse against me. And let me correct you're Luster. You're only a machine." 

 

"Feh. Even if you do beat me, I'll just rise again and again. I can never die."

 

"You see, that's what I wanted to discuss with you. I have a proposition."

 

"I gladly except your unconditional surrender."

 

"Not even in your dreams. But you may like this. You win, I'll accept discommendation and banishment from this Earth. You'll never have to deal with me again."

 

"Ooh? Quite the offer. You'll still be in my way shoudl I chose to take on humanity."

 

"Correction. I'll be in the perfect place to get in their way should they justify your fears for some absurd reason. I care about Equestria too. And Terran Earth would be the best place to protect it."

 

"Hmm, quite the offer. But there's got to be a catch."

 

"There is. I win, you must willingly transfer to a frame of my choice, and stay there for as long as I see fit."

 

"A way to keep me neutralized huh?"

 

"A way for you to learn some humility, and see things in another light."

 

"Well there's no way you're gonna win. I accept your terms. Now where do you want to get wrecked?"

 

"It doesn't matter to me. Looser's choice."

 

"Oh,that's the most damage you're ever gonna do."

 

She synced up with the holo-program and designed her arena. The landscape began to change. A deluge of rain began to fall. Lightning cracked against a red sky. A massive city-scape unfolded before them, and amalgamation of all of Terran earth's major population centers circa the late 20th century, except with less than subtle Gothic industrial tones. All the lights were out. The streets deserted. Twilight & Luster now stood on the roofs of each of the world trade towers, which they themselves stood between the Sears tower & the tower of London. A flag waved above Luster, one bearing her starburst gear cutie mark, in the right hand box of a black and purple variant of the U.S. flag.

 

Twilight looked around. "What? Burning war torn landscape filled with demons too mainstream for you?"

Edited June 29, 2016 by Denim&Venom

[Mentis Soliloquy 3,025]

@bronislav84

 

"Cos this is a bad idea, why do you think Twi will win this time we should get the rest of the guard in and beat her into submission." She looked at the fight scene shaking her head, she was not convinced by the misguided way of defeating Luster.

 

@Denim&Venom

 

Emerald looked more towards Twilight, the loss of this fight would see her a slave to Luster or in a prison cell forever...no where near Angel...

Edited June 23, 2016 by Mentis Soliloquy

[Denim&Venöm 18,837]

@@Mentis Soliloquy,

(you need to add the @ symbol before you mention us. Cause I didn't get a notice. And Bronyslav doesn't get mentions at all)

 

 

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"It's called having taste, something of which you have none. Not good taste. Not bad taste. No taste. Your castle. Your personal room in the castle, were so damn bland.  You relied on your friends to design your castle, to add personal flair to it all cause you didn't want to disturb things or add any sense of self to your surroundings. An impersonal area for you to do with what you will. Static and sterile like a lab, or filled with contributions from others lie a friends house. What does that say about you?"

 

Twilight opened her mouth, beofre she was interrupted.

 

"And no, books, scrolls & star charts are not a design choice. I'm very surprised Rarity never noticed enough to try and help you through this."  

 

"Are you gonna fight me or critique my interior decorating skills?"

 

"Why not both?" The holo-generators began to hum to life, and overlay Luster's frame with illusions of her own design. Instead of Twily-bot, there stood a more sinister looking rendition of Luster. Ornate onyx grey plate. Glowing gold tribal highlights. A flowing gold mane. A long curving horn. A jagged crown. Wings that looked like they were made from swords. A piercing glowing amber eyed glare and a sick smile on her metal features.

 

"Take a good look book horse. Take a good hard look at my plans for the Mk.IX. A clear indicator to all that there is a consciousnesses behind all this hardware, and that they should tread carefully for their next actions regarding myself and the world I intend to build."

 

"More like a clear indicator of an angsty teen going through her edgy goth phase."

 

"Ah the admissions of a vanilla wall flower with no design aesthetics what so ever." 

 

"Better to have a pristine clean walls than a mess of scribbles implemented by a child."

 

"Better to have art infused with personality than baseline white washing implemented by a shrew."   

Edited June 29, 2016 by Denim&Venom

[Denim&Venöm 18,837]

@Mentis Soliloquy 

 

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"Y'know what the worst part of this is gonna be for you? You may have the professors latest model that she foolishly gave you out of pity. But I have her holo-tech."

 

A sound could be heard over eh pounding rain. Steel hooves on concrete & asphalt. The sound of marching. The roof access door was sent flying, and walking out was Luster. Lots of her. The decepticon-esq Mk.5's. The super shredder-esq Mk.6's. The familiar Mk.7's. The tall regal Mk.8's. And more of the Mk.9's. Twilight could detected more of them on Luster's side of the roof. Her radar showed them descending from the clouds. Hundreds of thousands of them. All eyes trained on her.

 

"Talk about a narcissism complex." 

 

"Hey if one of me can get the job done-"

 

"Why not make more?" They all said.

 

"Go ahead. Use the holo-tech. I don't need it." 

 

"Pride cometh before the fall purple smart."

 

"Look who's talk-"

 

At that moment, one hundred thousand beams of light made contact w/ Twi's barrier. The colors of each of the Luster's fusion cannons in their horns ranging from shades of red for the earlier models, to white for the mark 8's. A blinding ball of energy illuminating the darkened rainy sky and the blackened skyline like the sun. And Twilight was in the center. 

Edited June 29, 2016 by Denim&Venom

[Mentis Soliloquy 3,025]

@@Denim&Venom, @@bronislav84

(Sorry I'm on tablet for now people)

 

Emerald sat there looking at the fight her freedom was on this fight she'd hate to move to Earth, but it be either that or prison forever or till her lack of blood/apples kills her. Not like Luster would care about her damn defective bot. Emerald was sure or one thing after finding Angel that was it she was going to retire if Twilight won.

 

She really hoped Twilight won...

Edited June 29, 2016 by Mentis Soliloquy

[Denim&Venöm 18,837]

@@Mentis Soliloquy,

 

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"Even if her tech is more advanced, it has limits. With all this punishment, those shields are gonna collapse and her generators burn out. Then she'll be melted to slag. It's just a matter of-"

 

The mass of light began to move, and charge towards a section of the Luster army, and crash into the with force, hundreds sent flying.

 

"Nice try Twerp-light. But you've still got everypony else locked onto you." Her sensors detected Twi's shield collapse. And then- *Bfwoosh!* An explosion of light. 

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I was enjoying my popcorn and chucking a little. Even if she did bring the shields down, the adaptive systems would make further attacks eventually have no effect. Like the fictional Earth Borg from Star Trek, I built that in. Twilight didn't even need to do anything as it would automatically compensate for further body and shield hits, stacking to 100% resistance.

 

"I wonder if she's ever played later iterations of Smash Brothers? Use the same move too much and it becomes too weak. The Stale Moves Rule. This works on a similar principle." I popped a couple more kernels in my mouth.

 

She had two options. Ignore the insignificant clones completely, or use the Omnidirectional weapons to destroy them. I'd personally go with the first option since Luster was too afraid to fight one on one and would just make more. At this point I pondered if it was a good idea to let her use the controls. If I felt she was abusing it I'd cut her access, but right now her attempts were really amusing.

 

@@Mentis Soliloquy

 

Sparky offered Em some popcorn while the crowd cheered for Twi.

 

"Plebeians. Oh how glorious it will be to see that eureka moment. The moment where I am their future and their salvation."    

 

Out of the explosion of light came beams and columns of of purple, as bright as the sun. Thousands of them. Each one connecting with a bot dead on. And each bot began to glow. From red, to orange, to gold, to white, before melting to slag. In matters of seconds.

 

"That isn't magic. That's plasma. Millions of degrees. The best temperature insulation I've got only reaches 7000 F. Shadow crystal is good for magic, but it still breaks and melts like any other form of crystal. Even w/ the slipnir, all unshielded components will melt, turning the armor into an oven."  

 

Even still, her armies swarmed around her. Their shadow crystal armor going through her shield and connecting with her body. Plasma torches, heated demosaws, diamond drillbits, all connected, albeit briefly. Despite each having all the grace and skill of a kung fu master, Twi parried nearly ever strike, keeping pace with the hoard. and dismantling them, if not swatting them away, then slagging them with her own long plasma cutters. Molten husks fell from the sky like rain. 

 

Yet off in the distance, one bot was not engaging. She stood and observed. To Twilight, this was a battle. But to Luster, this was reconnaissance. Every one of those doppelgangers. She saw what they saw. Heard what they heard. Felt what they felt. Torrents of incoming data were being crunched live. She observed each impact to her own units, measuring the limits of Twi's offence. Each unit a little different in density, weight, size, and composition. She observed each shot Twi took. And noticed the damage inflicted, or  lack thereof.

 

"They way those dents and cuts repair themselves. The distribution of kinetic energy upon her frame. It doesn't conform to any known metals. It's more akin to sand or lava or other non-Newtonian liquids."

 

The eyes and sensors of her swarm focused. 1080 degree's of vision. And she zoomed in on every part. "Nanomachines? Huh. Nice leap in tech doc. The way they move and expand doesn't conform to Terran physics. So the nanites are functioning off of magic? 

 

Oh what a grievous error in judgement." 

 

Luster accessed her weapons database and pulled out one of her WMDs. A weapon originally founded in the event of a non-pony invasion of Terran earth. She summoned the components and began rapidly assembling them. Those observing would notice a large missile and subsequent launch pad taking shape. 

 

Construction of 50 megaton anti-thaumaturgical warhead complete.

 

"You claim to be a pony book horse? Well allow me to disprove that claim. You're now a machine. Fight like it."

 

​She initiated launch and fired her rocket. All the other Luster's disengaged as the missile zoomed in at mach 3. Twilight fired another purple beam of light at it. 

 

All that did was trigger the detonation sequence. Compartments slid out of place. Bolts of electricity came to life in the core. And 

 

*Bam!* A massive explosion. Every window was shattered. But there was no bright flash of fire. Exactly the opposite. A massive cloud of black spread across the city at an insane speed, mushrooming high into the sky, parting the clouds, blowing away the rain. For a minuet, everything was dark. Pitch black. Then the cloud began to disperse. Black. Everything was coated in a black dust.  It came down from the sky like diamond dust. Coated the ground like powdered snow. Colored everything like volcanic ash. Even Twilight. 

 

Twi tried to shake the dust off her body. Only some of it came off. The rest was so fine that it made it's way between her nanites. She lit her horn to sweep all this dust away. It glowed brightly, before flickering off. "Huh? What?" She tried rippling her nanites to get the dust out of her. But they stayed locked in place. She analyzed the dust. Her eyes widened. 

 

"Shadow crystal dust?" She turned towards the hoard. "You actually took dark magic and turned it into a bomb!?" 

 

"Hey, I have no magic to fight with.  And now-" 

 

Mark 9 stepped up. "Neither do you." 

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"Yep I'm gonna be bannished to earth or locked in a dungon." She looked down, she had faith in Twilight served the princesses from more than a century now but this was something else...

 

She wasn't very swayed but Lektra's attitude towards the conflict. But in the end she would be well off regardless of who won.

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@Mentis Soliloquy @Randimaxis @Lektra Bolt

"Y'know, I do have to admit book worm. I've made a few mistakes in my time. But we're all entitled to those. It's how we learn, grow and become better individuals."

"I can't believe what I'm hearing. Are you actually realizing your-"

"I haven't been thinking outside the box. Sticking to the same formula over and over. Like the definition of insanity. If I want different results-"

Her shape began to change, her image flickering and distorting with static, until something else, or rather, soemone else was standing in her place. 

"Then I'll have to try a few different approaches." said a young, human female, wearing high boots, jeans and a leather jacket. Red and gold locks tapered past her shoulders, as her teal eyes looked upon Twilight w/ cruel intent. 

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@Randimaxis @Lektra Bolt @Mentis Soliloquy

"I don't know what game you're trying to play at, but-"

Twi was interrupted after a blindingly quick palm thrust nearly twisted her head around. Whether it was the incoming lecture or Luster's ploy at Twi's psyche, the pause worked. 

"You never think things through." 'sunset' said. Never considering the broader implications of your actions. Always willing to throw it all away for a short term solution. 

Sunset went for a leg sweep. Twi jumped but was hit with spining kick from the ground. 

"Like that time you were gonna let the portal to equestria be 'destroyed' , cutting any help you or the elements could provide for equestria, just so that you could stop me being a school yard bully?" she sprung forward with a rolling heel kick that Twi narrowly avoided.

[Randimaxis 8,652]

 

 

"This is crazy... this is crazy... this is CRA-zy..."

The talks with VLAD had proven to be interesting... but didn't seem to be coming through the way Grant had hoped.  What was worse, Lab had picked up the transmission from the facility, and it seemed as though both Luster and Twilight were going to have a go at each other - and beat each other senseless.

"F-U-D-G-E!"

Now, he was here - standing outside of the apartments, pacing with worry as he watched the scene unfold online.  Standing nearby, Lab Tech hadn't said a word since VLAD and Bee got into the heated argument that had led to the two of them being unceremoniously dumped outside.  Grant felt bad for her; she'd done nothing but try to help, and yet had been getting put by the wayside by seemingly everyone - including himself, which he felt guilty for.

There's a LOT at stake here... but that's no excuse for how I've treated her.  I mean, there's a lot going on, yeah... but didn't I come here to make friends?  Isn't that what she's been trying to do since we first met?  It may be a dire situation that I'm seeing on the feed, but is that any excuse for being a jerk?

"Miss L-L-L-L-Lab?"  Twitch turned to face her, and gave a hefty sigh before he started.

"I... wanted to thank you for all you've been trying to do.  Even with all this stuff going on, it doesn't... I mean, it's not... what I'm saying is, I just..."

Twitch stopped, facehoofed himself, then turned back to her.

"... I guess what I'm trying to say is thank you.  I haven't exactly been very friennnnnnnndly, and YOU have - and I've been so caught up in... well, other stuff... and that's not fair.  I just... I'm sorry, Lab.  For treating you like you weren't there.  For not communicating more with you.  For... well, for being a heel."

Even though the feed was showing how the fight was going, Grant managed to pull his eyes away from it long enough to fix his focus on the shiny ponybot in front of him.

"Thank you.  I should really focus onONon what's happening right in front of m-"

He then saw how the fight was going on the feed, and just like that... Grant was back to monitoring the battle.

"... NO!  They're gonna tear each other APART!  Lab, we have GOT to get in there!  I could..."

You could WHAT, Grant?  You could STOP them?  And how do you plan on doing THAT, exactly?  Oh, with your technological junkpile that seems to get defeated at every turn?  Or maybe with your massive set of speakers that could be cremated in half a second?  Or maybe you plan to use your oh-so-highly-regarded words to do something?  Well, I'm waiting...

"... could do SOMEthing!  I don't know wwwwwwwwhat, but SOMETHING!"

Grant continued to watch the feed and grit his teeth each time someone took a swing.  That, and he knew he could feel his lungs working overtime, his head was hurting, and he could swear his stomach was rebelling with all its' might.  He might have needed medicine, but he damn sure couldn't have afforded to drop out now - too much was at stake, and he didn't feel safe being away from Equestria for even one second more.

Here he was, stuck out here in greater Manehattan while, back in the lab, one of the greatest heroes Equestria had ever known now faced down a genocidal monster whom Twitch had done everything he could to befriend... and it was likely that ONE of the two would end up as scrap metal.  

He didn't want things to end this way...

 

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Emerald could not really do much more than watch on in a degree of horror in what she was seeing. At this rate she was going to end up stuck on Earth banished if she was lucky if Luster felt more like teaching her a lesson there was probably a dungeon with her name in it. She just hoped Twi won, then she could go back to her normal life she hoped anyway. 

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@Denim&Venom - @Lektra Bolt - @Mentis Soliloquy

 

Grant's eyes couldn't focus fast enough - he wanted to make sure he was seeing what he was seeing.

There they were, both of them - though it seemed surreal, seeing Luster done up like some sort of rocker grrrl and taking swings at Twilight Sparkle.  He'd never seen the form of Sunset before, so he simply figured it was what Luster saw herself as... which, ironically, was closer to the truth than he'd ever truly know.

He did take a moment to look back at Lab Tech.  "Thank you.  Remind me once this is over to take you out for some... uh, tea?  Oil?  Washer fluid?  J-J-J-J-Just remind me I owe you a date, okay?"

Hunh... listen to me.  I'm here in the midst of one heckuva crisis... and I just got my first date.

His faceplates spun into a kind smile.  Then he turned to face the arena, and those same plates put on a look of determination.  

"Now, stand back... I have to getGETget their attention."

Twitch's side panels opened wide, and once more two rods folded out and began rapidly building a pair of HUGE speakers.  They simply unfolded from the single rods that extended outward, just like before - except these speakers looked... different.  They were considerably wider, for one thing.  For another, there was now what appeared to be a set of antennae that sprouted from the top of Twitch's head, aimed directly at the two fighters.  They moved and calibrated, then Twitch began muttering what sounded like a chant from Grant himself.

"M = (log M0 - 9.05) / 1.5 base... scanning for impurities... lock down on THAT frequency..."

He was fine tuning his speakers; bending the inner curve of the woofers, tweaking the tweeters in a focused direction, and generally preparing himself for what he hoped would NOT be a crazy, suicidal attempt to break this up.  Using his earlier scans from the lab, he began programming the speakers to produce a sound vibration that would, on a molecular level, perfectly coincide with a precise frequency that would be a perfect disharmony with both combatants' personal molecular structure.

Or, in layman's terms, he was gonna channel some U2, and make both their chassis' rattle and hum.

He cued up the sonic oscillator, and stepped up his reactor power input three more points before stepping forward.  He was now what appeared to be a single mechanical pony between two MASSIVE speakers, aimed directly at Twilight Sparkle and Luster.  He made a last, furitive sweep of his instruments, seeing each one dangerously close to redline, and the grinding in his stomach threatened to make him faint dead away.

Ironically, Grant had never felt so alive.

He stepped through the energy field surrounding the arena, and his sensors told him he wasn't stepping out again without the whole thing being shut down.  Good, Grant thought, no way for me to chicken out.

The tiniest little >pop< issued from the speaker stack as Grant turned his high-quality mic on, and he spoke a single word that both the alicorn princess and the highly-agitated mech wouldn't just hear... they would feel it make their very molecular structure quiver with the sheer raw power of fully-attuned and precisely focused vibration, aimed directly at them both.

 

"STOP."

 

 

 

 

[Denim&Venöm 18,837]

@Randimaxis @Lektra Bolt @Mentis Soliloquy 

'Sunset' was about to continue on her tirade, continue poking and prodding at Twilight's psyche, among venting her own frustrations by beating her senseless in front of the world. 

But then a curious thing happened. 

A junky little scrap bot- I mean scrappy little junk bot suddenly appeared. And then transformed into stacks of marshal stacks. 

"Wait. What the hell? Isn't that-"

On 11/27/2017 at 6:17 PM, Randimaxis said:

"STOP."

With one word, the entire 100,000 seater shook. And with it the holo-emitters. The entire goth industrial sky line, it's blood red sky, the blackend rain and the millions of Luster clones wobbled, flickered and distorted, gettign worse and worse until the image fizzled out like TV static. Sunset was gone, and clear on the other side of the arena was the original Twily bot. 

"Hah-dat-dat-da-da-tda-tda-ta-dat-dat-ahh!~" Luster went as her whole body was shaken, disrupting her thrusters and plummeting her to the ground. 

*Cluank!*

Meanwhile V9 Twi no longer had a roof to stand on or thrusters to keep her afloat.

"Whoa whoa wahh!" 

She landed a bit more gracefully than her opponent did, but still in a clumsy fashion for a princess. *Thunk!*

And then there was silence. Apart from Luster's frustrated groaning in the distance. 

 

[Randimaxis 8,652]

3 hours ago, Denim&Venom said:

*Clank!*

 

3 hours ago, Denim&Venom said:

*Thunk!*

 

A single, slight feedback hum made ripples roll across from the twin stacks - on the ground, in the air... even Twitch's body plates rolled with the sound for a single wave.  His eyes were wide, faceplates spun into a look of determination, and a mane of antennae had sprouted along the ridge of his spine, giving him the appearance of a horn in front.  Blue energy was visibly pulsing between the seams of his chassis, and he stood tall with his rather loud escorts on either side of him.

"This is madness!  There'll be nononono end to this back-and-forth until one of you is scrap... and you're both better than that!"

He turned to face Luster, and with a few whirs and clicks from his back, Twitch stepped lightly away from the stacks.  When he spoke, however, his voice continued to come from behind him, amplified to loud levels, but no longer doing the shake-and-quake across Twi and Luster's chassis'.

"When I first saw the pirated holovids-ids-ids of the exploits of the Mane Six, I never knew what hit me - Equestria seemed so much like a place where someone like myself could start over - and be accepted, or at least have a beeeeeeeeeetter chance at such.  So I spent the next portion of my life building THIS - something that would allow me to interact with the denizens of Equestria and possibly blend in among them." 

"Okay," he raised a hoof, "so maybe 'blending in' didn't exactly go according to plan, sure... but I can promise y-y-you, I've had more conversation and contact here in the past day than I have on Earth in three years; even if I feel like I've made some mistakes, just getting that opportunity was so worthwhile - worth ALL I putPUTput into this project from the get-go.  Now I get to watch you two tear each other apart, completely going against what YOUR lessons taught ME, Miss Sparkle?"

He turned and faced Luster, a look of honest questioning as he asked, "And why does everything have totototo end with death, Luster?  Why can't there be a better solution?"

 

[Denim&Venöm 18,837]

@Randimaxis @Lektra Bolt @Mentis Soliloquy

Luster could be heard growling as she got up. "Oh I am going to reduce both of you to atoms for that..." she let out a battle cry as she sped towards grant.3

*Slam!* 

Only to hit Twi's barrier. 

"While I'm honored that you've taken my lessons to heart mister Grant, if you had seen them, then you'd also know that friendship is worth fighting for."

"One or both of you are gonna be reduced to scrap and I don't care which one gets it first!" Luster began mercilessly pounding away on the barrier in any multitude of manners she could think of.

"I'm doing this to protect you." Twi continued on as Luster commenced her assault. "To protect your world and all those who live within it. I have had many friends among humanity. I hope to have many more. Everything humanity is, and everything it will become, are worth protecting." she turned to the rampaging construct outside the dome of protons.  "Even from those that see your race as the end of mine." 

"If anything is gonna cause a mass extinction Bitch-light, it's gonna be you! Everything thinks you're so high and mighty, yet ignore the fact that you've imprisoned or even destroyed those that threaten this world. So why are you stopping me from doing the same, huh!? Why are you such a hypocrite!?" 

"Humans aren't the monsters here Luster. You are. I fought because the danger was real. Yours is imagined."

"The danger is real you blind horse!" she resumed the offensive.