For Friendship, You Monster

by grox

For Friendship, You Monster

Chapter One: For Friendship, You Monster

It was a sunny day in Ponyville. When wasn't it sunny in Ponyville? Anyway, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were walking to the Carousel Boutique to meet Rarity. Twilight Sparkle, on the other hoof, was going to Zecora for some ingredients for a potion.

Twilight was walking through the Everfree forest when she heard a noise in the bushes. She trotted to it and looked inside the bush. She saw a book. The cover read Binary and Other Codes, Written by Professor Griswold. When she wanted to levitate the book, Twilight saw that it had a string attached to it. She curiously pulled the rope with her magic.

There was a click, and suddenly a big net rose up from the ground and trapped Twilight. She was now hanging in a tree and unable to move. Two unicorns appeared and dropped her back down on the ground.

"HEY, WHO ARE YOU?!" Screamed Twilight. The two ponies didn’t respond and started to drag her into the forest.

When the five friends arrived at the Carousel Boutique, Pinkie started shaking.

"What is it?" Asked Rainbow Dash.

"Pinkie Sense." She said. "I think there is something wrong."

"Wrong with what?" Fluttershy said.

"I don’t know. But nothing's falling on us." Said Pinkie.

"Perhaps there is something wrong with Twilight." Rarity added. "She told me she wanted to get some things from Zecora. Now don’t worry, maybe she just stopped to drink some tea with her."

"But Pinkie's Pinkie Sense is going off." Said Rainbow Dash. "That always means that there is something wrong."

"And do you remember the last time Twilight went into the Everfree forest?" Fluttershy reminded them. "She was turned into stone by a cockatrice."

"We have to go to Zecora’s place to see if there is somthing wrong with Twilight!" Yelled Rarity. "Maybe we should ask Spike if he wants to come with us."

When the ponies finally stopped dragging Twilight, they where standing in front of a small shack covered with vines and other plants. One of the ponies used a digital key to open the shack. The door opened and an elevator appeared. They started to drag Twilight in.

"WHO ARE YOU AND WHERE ARE YOU TAKING ME?!" Screamed Twilight.

"Please just shut up!" Growled one of the ponies. He kicked Twilight in her face. She passed out.

When the five friends arrived at the library Spike was arranging books.

"Oh, hi girls. How're you doing?" Asked Spike.

"Have you seen Twilight?" The ponies all asked at the same time.

"Twilight just went to get some ingredients from Zecora. Why?"

"Well," said Pinkie, "on the way to Rarity’s house my tail began to twitch again and we think there is something wrong with Twilight."

"And we wanted you to come with us to see if everything is alright with Twi." Added Applejack with a soft smile.

"Okay," said Spike, "but where are we going to look for Twilight?"

"First we'll check to see if she’s with Zecora." Said Rainbow Dash. "So we can ask if she has seen Twilight or if she’s still there."

"I could send a letter to the Princess."

"Later."

Twilight woke up strapped to an operation table. Three ponies where checking medical devices around her.

"Hey! Let me go!" said Twilight.

"Nein, I am afraid we can’t do that." Said a dark green pony with a slight German accent.

"WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH ME?!" She screamed.

"Oh, you will see." The green pony said.

"WHO ARE YOU?!"

"Ich bint doctor Ununpentium and these ponies are my assistants, Doctor Shuster und Doctor Maxis."

"I DON’T CARE! LET ME GO!"

"Now don’t be rude. I’ve answered your questions." Dr. Ununpentium said. "Well, it doesn't matter anymore. It’s time to take a nap."

Dr. Maxis injected something into Twilight and she instantly felt drowsy. The last thing she heard was Dr Shuster saying; "Let's go practice medicine."

The five ponies and Spike were rushing to Zecora’s hut. When they arrived Zecora saw them.

"Well, hello my dear friends. What brings you here so tense?"

"Have you seen Twilight?" Asked Rainbow Dash.

"I have not seen the mare you seek, but maybe here you can take a peek." The friends followed Zecora inside her hut. She gave Fluttershy a small stone. It was black and it had an arrow carved into it.

"What does it do?" Asked Fluttershy.

"It helps you find that what is lost, but it will only do it at a cost."

"So we have to give that stone some bits?" Applejack said.

"No, you silly filly!" Interrupted Pinkie as she strapped a necklace around the stone. It began to levitate. "That was my favorite necklace!" Pinkie smiled.

"Thank you, Zecora." Said Rainbow Dash. Zecora smiled.

And the six friends followed the stone outside.

"Shuster, is ze system ready?"

"Yes." Said Dr. Shuster calmly.

"Maxis, redirect ze power to the mainframe."

"Already done," he said.

"Good." Dr Ununpentium smiled and he pushed a button.

"Power up initiated." Said a soft friendly male computer voice. "Starting up Operating System: Genetic Life form And Disc Operating System………….. Power up completed. Connecting to genetic life form………….. Interface completed."

Twilight woke up. She felt kind of weird. She saw the three ponies standing in front of some computer and she saw ones and zeros flying across a screen. She couldn’t control herself. It felt like another being had taken control over her body. She tried to talk but not even a sound came out. She felt helpless.

Fluttershy and the others followed the locator stone, walking deep into the Everfree Forest. After a few hours of walking the stone stopped in front of a small shack.

"Well, how are we going to open this?" Asked Applejack.

"I have a idea!" Shouted Rainbow Dash while she flew up into the air.

"I think we best get out the way." Applejack said.

While Rainbow dash flew down, the others ran away to hide behind the trees. They heard a giant explosion when Rainbow Dash collided with the ground. A giant rainbow mushroom cloud blew away the shack and also all the trees in the blast radius. Rainbow Dash was standing in the crater the explosion created with her sunglasses on.

"And that is my newest move - the Atomic Rainboom." She explained.

The shack was blown to pieces and the 6 friends jumped inside the hole that was made for an elevator.

"That was one heck of a BOOM!" Said Pinkie Pie happily while falling into the dark.

When Twilight realized she couldn't do anything, she heard a voice she didn’t recognize. It sounded just like her voice... but more metallic. And it was coming out of her mouth.

"Intruder alert! Intruder alert! Unauthorized personnel detected!"

"WHAT!" Dr. Ununpentium said. "Where?"

"Unauthorized personnel detected at surface entrance." Twilight said. She was confused. I didn’t want to say that. Twilight thought.

"Maxis, Shuster, take care of those intruders." Dr. Ununpentium commanded. Shuster and Maxis each grabbed a raygun with their magic and they trotted through the corridor.

Rainbow Dash was flying through the big white corridor with Spike on her back. Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity and Pinkie Pie followed Rainbow Dash. Rarity was the first to see the two armed ponies.

"HOOVES UP!" Yelled Dr. Maxis. Rainbow Dash descended to the ground.

"Now come with me." Said Dr. Shuster, pointing the red raygun at the 5 ponies. And they trotted away between the two hostile ponies.

When they arrived at the main chamber with Dr. Ununpentium and Twilight Sparkle, Spike saw Twilight standing high in the middle of the room on a metal pillar. But there was something different about Twilight. She had metal parts on her body like a robot. Her left fore and hind hooves were half-replaced with robotic parts. She had a metal chest plate and a metal helmet that covert the left half of her head. Her left eye was replaced with a big red camera. There were wires hanging from the ceiling that connected to her.

Twilight looked down. "Spike, is that you?"

"Who are you?" Dr. Ununpentium said.

"We are going to free Twilight!" Said Rainbow Dash angrily.

"Oh, I don’t think so." Said Dr. Ununpentium. "I am afraid Twilight is mine now." He smiled.

"What have you done to her!" Rainbow Dash screamed.

"We made her into a central core processor for this ancient super computer we found in this underground building."

"Ya’ll can’t just pick some random pony from the road and turn her into this…this…THING!" Applejack said.

"We didn’t just pick 'some random pony from the road'. We’ve chosen her for a reason. But I won't tell anything else... because that would spoil ze fun." He laughed.

When Twilight saw her friends she felt The Spark, the same one she felt when she battled Nightmare Moon. She used all her magic to push away the entity that was controlling her. Twilight was finally in control of her body again.

"Run! Run away! I can’t hold this any longer! RUN!!!" She yelled.

"But... we can’t just leave you here!" Exclaimed Pinkie.

"They will kill you if you don’t leave me here!" Twilight yelled. "For real, Pinkie!"

Spike set fire to the lab coats that Dr. Maxis and Shuster wore. Now that the armed ponies were distracted the 5 friends ran away and they left Twilight behind.

"Find them!" Commanded Dr. Ununpentium. "And bring zhem here!"

The 5 friends were running through a random corridor.

"I think we’ve lost them." Whispered Applejack.

"I think so, but... where are we?" Asked Fluttershy.

"Well this door says WEAPONS." She said.

"Well, let's take a look." Pinkie smiled.

"Uuuh... well... I guess it won’t be a harm to get some weapons." Said Applejack, kind of worried about Pinkie's enthusiasm.

Pinkie Pie rapidly grabbed a box full of Quantum Entanglement Devices. Rainbow Dash picked up a wave gun. Fluttershy found a vr-11. Applejack picked up a wunderwaffe. Rarity picked up some Gersch devices and Spike picked up a 31-79 JGb215.

"And now?" Rarity asked.

"Well, maybe now we can send the Princess a letter." Spike frowned.

"Spike, that’s a good idea!" Said Rainbow Dash. "Maybe you can send the locator stone too!"

Spike pulled out his ever-present quill and paper. "Princess help. Twilight ponynapped. Bring elements." Spike wrapped the letter around the stone and sent it away to the Princess. "It's not the next Shakespeare, but it'll do."

"Activate ze lethal military android defense system. Target all unidentified personnel." Dr. Ununpentium called up to Twilight. The thing that controlled her obeyed and ran a program. She could see through the cameras that hung everywhere in the large facility. Walls opened revealing a large army of turrets. They were set to shoot any unidentified personnel. She wished she could change that.

The 6 friends were walking through some corridors, waiting for the Princess to arrive when they heard a noise.

"There you are." Something said with a friendly female voice.

"What the buck is that?" Applejack said. She trotted around the corner and towards the white oval.

"Dispensing product." The turret said, beginning to shoot at Applejack.

"Whoa whoa whoa! Did that thing just... shoot at me?" She asked.

"Apparently." Rarity replied.

"So... how do we get rid of that shooting thingy?" Asked Rainbow Dash.

"With style." Rarity answered while priming a Gersh device and throwing it at the turret.

The Gersh device activated and created a bright and beautiful purple-pink black hole that sucked up the turret.

"No hard feelings!" The turret happily cheered as it got destroyed in the black hole.

The Princess had just returned from royal business when she saw Philomena with a letter in her beak.

Mail? From Twilight? She thought. But I already got a friendship report from her two days ago.

She opened the scroll with her magic. She read the letter and quickly galloped to the Canterlot towers for the Elements of Harmony. Luna trotted out of her room and saw Celestia rushing out with the Elements.

"Hey, 'Tia is there something wrong?" She slurred, half asleep.

"Yes," she said, "Spike has sent me a letter telling me that Twilight has been ponynapped."

"Twilight? Isn’t that your personal protégé?"

"Yes. but I really have to go now. And if I don’t come back, could you raise the sun for me?"

"Okay," Luna nodded.

Princess Celestia flew away from the caslte in the direction of the Everfree Forest.

When Celestia flew over the Everfree Forest, she scanned the ground for any unusual things. Somewhere in the distance she saw a big crater on the ground where all the trees where burned. She descended on the ground using the locator stone to find Twilight. The stone led her to the small hole in the ground.

I don’t fit in there. She thought. She used a spell shrink herself to the size of a normal pony. She jumped inside the hole, using her wings to slowly fall down into the almost bottomless pit.

Twilight discovered she could open files and see through cameras. She opened a file; it was a map of the whole facility. It looked like it was located inside a giant salt mine. The date of the file said it was last updated in December 3012. Twilight thought for a moment That must have been thousands of years ago. The system had a bin too. She opened it, and there was a private file named Caroline. She wanted to open it, but it was protected by the being that invaded her body.

The five ponies and Spike were in a hallway. Both exits where guarded by a row of turrets. They hid in a big hole in the ground, probably from some ancient explosion.

"How are we going to destroy all those turrets? There are simply too many." Rarity whined.

"Stop that, we're not diamond dogs!" Applejack snarled. Hoisting her weapon of choice, Applejack aimed at the turrets. "Well this should do. I don’t know what this thing does, but I guess it should do the job." She pulled the trigger.

The weapon fired a big ball of electricity. When it touched the turret it exploded, and the electricity arced in every direction; to another turret and another and another until all the turrets were destroyed.

"Wow, didn’t see that coming." Applejack laughed in amazement.

"Boss, we didn't find the intruders." Dr. Shuster said.

"Yeah, they are moving too fast and you know that this is a huge place after all." Dr. Maxis said.

"I know zhat, but I don’t think zey will get out of here alive. I have commanded the computer to set up turrets by each and every entrance and exit. So, Dr. Maxis, how is our test subject doing?" Dr Ununpentium asked.

"Uuuh... well..." Dr. Maxis stuttered, "she’s been browsing through some non-protected files, and she's adapting very fast. I hope she doesn't hack the firewall or she could turn of the autopilot of that big computer thingy."

"It's not a big computer thingy." Dr. Shuster said proudly. "It’s a super computer designed to run this entire building."

"Well, you’re the computer expert. I'm just a plain old biomechanics engineer." Dr. Maxis drawled sarcastically.

"Oh, shuzzle your muzzles, you two! I have better thinz to do than listen to you two!" Said Dr. Ununpentium angrily.

Celestia trotted through the hallways of the facility, still using the locator spell to find Twilight. After a while of walking and knocking over turrets, the locator stone stopped hovering in front of a door. It read MAIN AI ROOM. Celestia magically opened the door and trotted in.

It was a big circular room. The ceiling was domed, and in the middle there was a massive body made out of metal and wires. At the end there were wires that connected to a certain lavender unicorn. Celestia trotted closer to her.

"Twilight, my faithful student, are…are you okay?" Twilight didn’t respond.

When Twilight saw Celestia she was so happy she could explode……….twice. Celestia had tried to talk to Twilight but she quickly realized she couldn’t talk. Then Celestia walked away reassuring she would come back.

Twilight started to understand how the computer worked, and tried to hack the firewall. After some time she was able to control some minor functions of the facility. She could move plates open or lock doors, and even talk through a specific speaker. Twilight located her friends and started talking to them.

"Hey girls. And Spike."

"WHAT WAS THAT WHO WAS THAT SHOW YOURSELF!?" Rainbow Dash yelled, startled.

"It's me, Twilight Sparkle. I'm speaking through a speaker. Princes Celestia has found me but was unable to help me. She has the Elements of Harmony and is probably looking for you. I can make a path for you that leads to the place where Celestia is located now." A wall opened, and plates slid out of the sides, creating a long walkway. "Follow the path and you will find her, now don’t look or fall down here because it’s a long drop." The speaker crackled once and went silent.

"I hope she knows what she’s doing." Fluttershy said.

"There is nothing to be afraid of my dear, you know Twilight. She always knows what she’s doing." Rarity responded to calm Fluttershy down.

Spike and the five ponies trotted further into the walkway. When they were at the end of the hallway, they saw Princess Celestia. She was hiding behind a magical shield. She was protecting herself from turrets that shot missiles. Normally she could get shot by the normal turrets, but those missiles were just too much.

Luna was worried. Celestia hadn’t come home and it was almost time for her sister to raise the sun. But she had never moved the sun, only the moon. When it was time, Luna trotted to her sister's balcony and focused her magic on the moon to lower it. That seemed easy... but the sun is so much larger than the moon. With the moon slowly descending under the horizon she began to focus her magic to the sun, moving them both so the two celestial bodies moved in synchronized speed. When the sun was half up and the moon half down, Luna couldn’t handle it anymore. She passed out, leaving the sun and the moon halfway through their travels.

"Uh, Dr. Pentium?" Dr. Maxis stuttered.

"What, Maxis? I'm in the middle of a critical test."

"We have a royal visitor."

"What zho you mean?"

"Well, I mean that Princess Celestia just walked in."

"She just... walked in?" Dr. Ununpentium questioned.

"Well... yes." Maxis answered.

"AND WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?!" He screamed.

Maxis winced. "Turrets that shoot bullets don’t harm her, but I have discovered that the ones with the missiles can hurt an alicorn." Maxis answered.

"Good. Deploy as many rocket turrets as possible."

"I will do it right away." Dr. Maxis smiled.

When the guards switched, one of the Lunar guards saw Luna passed out on the ground. She was lying on the floor near the balcony, covered in sweat. The Lunar guard tried to wake her up.

"Luna? LUNA! Are you okay?" The guard questioned while shaking her shoulders.

"We…what…what happened?"

"You passed out on the floor." The guard answered. "And you didn’t really finish the job."

"Oh….oh yeah... I need to raise the sun." She said, still tired.

"No, you need to rest. The sun and the moon can wait."

"I….I think you're right. and Luna trotted to her own room to lie down. She fell asleep.

Celestia, Spike and the five friends walked through the corridor that leaded to the main AI chamber. They kept walking, but when they were almost at the door to the chamber the walls opened and revealed a row of missile turrets. They all pointed their laser pointers at the group of ponies.

BEEP

BEEP

BEEP

BEEP

BEEP

When the turrets all locket on their target they fired a dozen of rockets. The group of ponies could easily avoid the rockets. Spike grabbed his 31-79 JGb215 from behind a wall. He shot a turret and an incoming missile.

The strange-looking device shot an invincible beam of energy that warped the light around it. It hit the turret and the rocket and they both shrank to the size of toys. Spike repeated the shrinking process until all the turrets were half their size and where shooting tiny little bullets. They couldn’t even hurt Flutershy.

Twilight saw the group of ponies that wanted to save her. She unlocked the door to the AI chamber, and they walked in.

"Twilight, are you okay?" The Princess asked.

"Yes, I'm fine." She replied through a speaker.

"Oh…oh! I'm sooooooooo happy you're fine!" Said Pinkie Pie while bouncing through they air.

"So, do you know how we can uh…save you?" Rainbow Dash said.

"Yes." Twilight said. "You must use the Elements of Harmony on me."

"But you’re the Element of Magic we need ya we can’t just do it-"

"I will take your place, Twilight." Celestia said, interrupting Applejack.

"But how?" Fluttershy asked.

"I am also the Element of Magic. Now, stand in position!" Celestia commanded while giving everypony their element. They were standing in position while they activated the elements. They began to float into the air and Celestia’s eyes began to glow. A big, beautiful rainbow erupted from the group of ponies.

When the rainbow reached Twilight, it began to burn away the entity that controlled her body. When the smoke and the rainbow faded away, Celestia saw her student smiling with joy. She wanted to hug the Princess, but when she tried run to her she remembered that she was still attached to the big computer.

"You…you saved me." Twilight said.

"Ah, no thanks needed. T'was the least we could do." Applejack said.

"So you can control this big building, right?" Pinkie Pie smiled.

"Well, yes, because you destroyed the autopilot that controlled me and the facility. I'm in full control of this building." Twilight said while lowering an escape lift. "This is your ride home."

"But, we don’t fit in that lift all together!" Rarity said.

"I know," Twilight replied, "but if three ponies go, then another three, and then me and Celestia, that'll work."

The first ponies that went back up to the surface were Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy. When they were at the surface the lift descended and picked up Rarity, Spike and Rainbow Dash. When the elevator was down again for the final time, ready to pick up the Princess and Twilight, Dr. Ununpentium and his two companions walked in.

"Well..well..well. Look what we have here." Dr. Ununpentium said. "I see that you're in control now, Twilight." She gave the doctor an angry glare. "Oh, don’t look at me like that. I know you don’t mean it." He chuckled.

"Oh, but I mean it." Twilight hissed. "I'm going to kill you, and throw into the incinerator." The light of the room went a little bit down and some light on the metal body glowed a creepy crimson. "Or... am I going to throw you first into the incinerator then kill you?" Twilight said, her voice steadily growing more robotic.

Celestia stepped backwards a bit from shock. "Twi…Twilight! This isn’t you anymore! What happened?!"

"Oh, it's nothing." Twilight sighed, her gaze sarcastically softening. "It's just REVENGE. Everypony likes revenge. So, let's have some." Twilight smiled. "Now, please Celestia, excuse me. I am just need a few minutes. I'm going to throw some ponies into a big pit of melted metal." Three metal claws came out of the ceiling, swiftly grabbing Dr. Maxis, Dr. Shuster and Dr. Ununpentium.

"STOP!" Celestia yelled, this being one of the rare Canterlot Voice occasions. "This is not the Twilight Sparkle who I know and love. The real Twilight Sparkle would never kill somepony for stupid revenge!"

Twilight looked at Celestia and released Dr. Ununpentium. He fell on the floor with a slam. He stood up, and grabbed a little box with a big red button. He pressed it and a big, black bell-like device rose up from the ground. He galloped to it and activated it.

Standing in the device, he commanded; "By…By am going to Der Reise." Big arcs of lighting covered him, and with a lot of noise he disappeared.

"Central core corrupted at 20%"

"Heh, heh." Twilight chuckled. "Quite funny, actually. I don’t feel corrupt." Twilight opened the incinerator hole and moved the two ponies towards it. "Maybe I can’t kill your leader, but I can certainly kill you." Twilight smiled creepily from ear to ear.

"No no no no no noooooooooooooooooooooooo!" Dr. Maxis screamed, while Twilight dropped him into the incinerator.

When Twilight wanted to drop Dr. Shuster he pleaded for her to stop. "Please! If you're going to kill me tell my foals that I love them and tell my wife that I love her!" He began to cry. Twilight paused for a moment, taunting freedom, before she opened the incinerator and dropped him.

"Central core corrupted at 90%"

"And for you, Celestia," Twilight grinned, "I have a surprise for you. We are are going to test and test until one of us drops dead."

A trapdoor opened underneath Celestia. She fell inside, too startled to use her wings. She landed in a small glass room with nothing more than a bed and a toilet.

"Central core corrupted at 100%"