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// Equestria and the Mysterious Stones-Chapter 62 
// Story: Equestria and the Mysterious Stones 
// by LunicStream1105 
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Chapter 62: The beast revealed


She galloped up to him, "Are you okay?" despite that his other leg was strangled and he was thrown once again by those monsters, he tried to stand up.

"Yeah, don't..." he fell as he tried, "Worry..." he sighed, "Just keep going..." JetStream stated as he laid against the wall, it almost looked like her jaw dropped.

"What!?" it was a good thing she had the sound barrier.

"I'll stay here until I know I can move again." JetStream looked away from the floor and toward her.

"Are you kidding? That was only two, you and I both know there's more out there." JetStream nodded.

"Yeah, but you have magic, and it seems we can't get close to them at all... just go on ahead, I'll try to catch up when I can." she sighed and turned around. She walked to the door that opened to the main room.

'This is it...' she thought, but before she entered, she gave her last look toward JetStream. He noticed her looking and just looked at the ground instead of her. She breathed in deeply, and then exhaled as she opened the door. Knowing what dangers lie beyond that door, JetStream's heart started to beat harder, he let his head hit the wall.

"Why did I say that? I don't know when I'll be fine..." he looked at his left leg and gave an unknowing attempt to heal himself, he moved his hoofs over his leg. After 30 seconds he stopped and sighed, "What am I doing?" after some thought, it actually struck his attention, "I wonder what happened before I ever woke up... Did we ever even free Celestia from those things?" JetStream stopped to stand up, he was finally able to stand. He kicked his left leg out to see what would happen, it would hurt him to fully extend it, 'Now what if I gallop?' he started to trot back and forth in the hall alone. The trot went into a fast gallop, and about seven seconds into doing so, JetStream felt his leg reacting, to the point where he stopped, 'I guess I do need to stretch... I'm coming soon, Twilight...' he smiled. The pain from his leg was obvious, but it wasn't enough to fully trip or completely stop his progress, the worst it would do was slow him down, he turned around and trotted toward the door, "I know I'm ready now..." he slowly opened the door and peeked out, "... Shoot." he cursed as he wasn't able to see much, he opened the door just enough to where he can slip through, he quickly turned around so he could shut it slowly and quietly, "It's actually kind of quiet in here..." he walked across the room until he reached a point where the wall stopped covering for him, he went to that corner and looked when he thought was possible, he looked around the corner to notice Twilight has put up the same sound barrier spell. It was good thinking considering that robots were probably in the hallway across from JetStream on the other side of the throne room. Although it looked like Twilight was confronting Eggman about something, "Dang, I want to know what they're saying, but I don't want to get involved just yet..." he looked to the other hallway, only to notice there are unnatural lights in the other hallway, "What's going on in there?" he decided to head that way, but he needed to be clear from Eggman before he did. JetStream tried to dim his Aura, "Now all I need is for Eggman to..." Eggman turned around to grab something, "Now..." JetStream went into a full sprint so he could pass unnoticed. Twilight could hear steps behind herself, she turned just in case if it was an ambush, but nothing was revealed, she quickly turned back so she wouldn't look anxious. JetStream made it to the other wall, the lights he saw were now clear and obvious as he knew something was going on in there. He had to decline more stairs, and he took each step cautiously. The stairs took a 90 degree turn before he entered a room. There right in the middle was the machine, "Oh... This must be the roboticizer they talked about..." the machine was a huge black colored container.

"Initiating Test..." one of the robots spoke suddenly.

"Forgot those things could speak..." as he hid behind the wall, he was nervous to make a move, but before he did, "... What test?" JetStream was patient, but he didn't want to possibly see what the machine would reveal, but by then it was too late. At first there was a grey, shining horn, "Oh no..." almost half of the mane was metallic. The whole left side was turned into metal as well, there were lines and ridges along the body horizontally, there were even screws or bolts right above those horizontal lines, it shined it's usual very bleak grey and whites. Her left leg and right arm is turned to metal. All the curvature of the pony stayed the same, but the pony practically looked like she and/or he was coated in metal armor. By now it's pretty obvious who it was to him, "... What did they do, Celestia?" her closed eyes finally opened, her right eyes was fine, but her left was turned into what looked like a camera lens, the pupil was all the way in the back of the eye, the color of the iris is now just a purple-pink mix of tiny plates put together in a circle. And the last couple of things was that her crown was gone and the metal over her cutie mark bearing the phrase "Subject #4-0001", "..." he wanted to get Twilight's attention but she was with enough of her own.


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