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// The Puppet: Chapter 2 
// Story: Twilight's monster: rise of ultron 
// by Silverronin86 
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*6 months after Creation*
As Ultron swept the floors, He heard Twilight discussing something with rarity in the other room. He didn’t know what they were saying but he really didn’t care. He only cared about the update. Ultron 6 can’t be perfect without the proper percentage of strength, magic, and flight. But the problem is he needs to see these in action to understand them. Just then, twilight walked in with rarity.
“Ultron, this is a special task for you.” Twilight greeted.
“What could it be?” Ultron questioned.
“Well Ultron, rarity needs your help at the boutique. You will need to help her with some heavy lifting. I think this will be a great opportunity to not only help others but also test your base strength.”
This was it. He could become stronger by first learning his current strength. Once he knows then Ultron could work on becoming stronger. 
“Of course I will help rarity, it will be a pleasure.”
“Now Ultron, this will be your first time outside so please be careful around others. They arnt really use to a human size robot walking around.”
“Of course, I shall be on my best behavior.”
“Shall we be off then?” rarity asked.”
“Yes, let’s go.”
As they walked out, ponies saw the giant metal being. Ultron walked down the street as others gasped and ran into their houses.
“Why do they cower, rarity?”
“Well, darling, ponies are fearful of things they don’t understand or aren’t normal to them.”
“I’m…not normal?”
“Well no, not really. But its good you aren’t. You are special and well… ponies need to accept it eventually. Don’t worry about it too much; this has happened before to a certain zebra I know.”
Ultron noticed a mare pull her little filly inside the house quickly. Why do they fear him, when war is the real enemy?
“Ahh, here we are.”
Ultron noticed the huge building
“This is the boutique?”
“Yea I know it’s a bit much, but I like going all out like that.”
As they walked inside Ultron noticed lots of gems and dresses. She had sewing needles and lots of artistic items, but one thing stood out the most…. Strings. That item also comes back, always haunts him but he don’t know why. 
“Ok Ultron I need you to lift this giant closet that fell over. Then I need you to move this debris that fell over from sweetie belle’s newest ‘crusade’, understood?”
“Initiative confirmed, initiating objective completion.”
Ultron analyzed the closet.  He learned from it that it weighed a hundred pounds at most. He grabbed it and started to life. For the most part he did well. He lifted it about half way then his arms started to give out. The back of his metal triceps dented in and continued to do so. 
“Hardware damaged arms at 75% capacity. Self-repair commencing.”
Ultron arms instantly dented out and his durability increased by 20%.  This allowed him to lift the closet back up. That’s it, he doesn’t need strength he needs durability. He doesn’t have muscle but with a stronger metal he could build a better durability. He’s made of stainless steel but if he could find something stronger for Ultron 6 then he could be closer to being perfect. Ultron then picked up the debris that didn’t take long and took it outside to the trash. When he returned in to report to rarity that he was finished he noticed a chunk of metal in a case.
“Oh hi Ultron, noticed the adamantium did you?”
“The what?”
“Adamantium, strongest metal known and extremely rare. In fact that there is most of what we as ponies have seen ever.”
Ultron has found his target, the strongest metal in equestria. He scanned the metal and learned its molecular arrangements, then uploaded his findings to Twilights computer. 
“well any way I want to thank you for your help. Ill asks twilight for your help again soon.”
Soon after rainbow asked for help with some water drainage. Ultron learned how to fly but he needed to use rocket fuel to do so. Then rarity used his services again. Then applejack, Fluttershy, a pinkie.  This cycle repeated itself over and over for 2 more months. All they did was use him, at first for serious help but soon for simple things like holding needles or putting chocolate in a cupboard. They all were using him… like a puppet. 
“I am not a puppet… I am not a puppet… I am not a puppet.”
He stood their plugged in to the computer.
“I am a puppet…. I am a puppet… I am a puppet. I must be free.”
He activated Ultron 6’s protocol its red eyes flickered.
“I had strings but now I’m free… there are no strings on me.”
The next day as Ultron walked to the store for twilight he noticed apple bloom, scootaloo, and sweetie belle all backed up in a corner by diamond tiara and silver spoon.  They were all bullying them for not having the usual pictures on their haunches the others called “cutie marks”, Ultron noticed they were becoming violent and stepped in.
“Halt, violent nature shall not be permitted and will be eradicated by all means necessary, this is your only warning.”
“Ugg, what did it say to my silver?”
“I don’t know, I think he said something about leaving the blank flanks alone.”
“Like whatever, it’s just a freak robot. It can’t tell me what to do.”
“I will not warn again, cease now or deal with the consequences.”
“I don’t have to DEAL with anything my daddy will buy me out of trouble because he loves me. You can’t love something I bet, you’re just a robot.” diamond tiara taunted
She then threw a rock at Ultron continuing to taunt him about his lifeless body. As soon as the rock hit his upper chest his eyes and mouth turned red and his voice grew from innocent to sinister.
“Violent attack initiated, commencing defensive attack.”
He raised a hand where a red beam shot out a stunned silver spoon. He then grabbed diamond tiara by the mane and picked her up to his eye level.
“setting facial laser to kill, problem shall be eradicated in 3…2…1”
“ULTRON STOP!”
He didn’t shot as he looked behind him to see a orange mare with a hat at the end of the ally way.
“Applejack, these 2 were causing problems. I was simply fixing the error.”
“NO YEA WERNT, YALL WAS BOUT TA KILL HER. LOOK AT SILVER SPOON, SHES PARALYZED AND MAH SISTER AND HER FRIENDS ARE COWERING IN FEAR! YEA CALL THAT FIXING A PROBLEM?”
Ultron saw the error in his way and let go of the crying filly. His red eyes and mouth turned blue once more, his voice turned to normal.
“I apologize. I didn’t not mean to hurt your sister. 
“Ok but I must tell Twilight about this, I don’t think she made you able to kill some pony like that. Come on apple bloom, were leaving.”
As the 4 mares walked away Ultron saw diamond carrying silver spoon on her back.
“IM TELLING MY DAD, HE IS GOING TO KILL YOU ROBOT.”
Ultron returned home without the groceries to find a very upset twilight.
“Ultron, what is up with you? I did not program you to act upon violence let alone almost kill a pony!”
“You didn’t, I felt it necessary to put that in my programming.”
“You can’t just do that, ponies lives are meaningful and you can’t kill.. At all.”
“You ponies kill each other all the time but I can’t?”
“No. when a pony kills its evil, you’re not evil.”
“I am not evil, war and violence is. It must be terminated.
“Ultron let me explain something to you.”
She then left and came back with a book, one he hasn’t read before. Twilight flipped to a page and he watched her as she lectured him.
“These are the Elements of harmony. They are items of immensely powerful of magic. 6 ponies that represent their meaning can use them, but they must show a powerful friendship as well. These elements have brought peace to the land. Sure some evil still remains but they did a great job of protecting us. The 6 of us are… or were… the elements of harmony. So you don’t need to help us do a job we already done, understand?”
“Affirmative.”
“Good.”
She put the book away but Ultron stood there thinking. She said there was still some evil. As long as it’s their job isn’t done. As Twilight retuned some pony knocked at the door.
“Hello?” Twilight greeted as she opened the door. 
A squad of 8 royal guards stood there, ready to attack.
“Princess move out of the way, we must destroy the robot”
“What? NO! You can’t”
“I’m sorry but celestia’s orders.”
The guards then stormed the house with a very content filthy rich standing across the street.
“Ultron stand down, you have committed crimes against equestria and her ponies. I am to terminate you as a result, do you have any last words?” the guard spoke as the rest pointed their spears.
“Yes…Repulse beams online: set to kill.”
Ultron shot a guard as he flew outside into a building. The rest ran out to see if he was ok, only to find he was splattered against the wall. Ultron walked out, again glowing red and sinister voiced.
“Your violence shall not be permitted.”
“Kill him!”
The 7 guards all shot spears as Ultron caught 2, he then jabbed the 2 spears into 2 of the guards necks. He then grabbed the dead guards and threw them at another 2 and shot them in the chest. Only 2 more remained the lead officer and a normal unicorn guard.
“Sweet Celestia… give it everything you got solider.”
The last 2 guards then shot magic from their horns like mini guns in a last stand against the robot. Bit and pieces flew off Ultron but he made his way to the guards and stomped on the head of the private as he chocked the lead officer and snapped his neck. Just then Apple jack and rainbow started bucking Ultron to pieces and Twilight hit him with a huge magic blast. Ultron was shot to the ground offline. 
“Ah am sorry twilight, there was no other way.
“I know applejack. Ill just start again.”
“No Twi, I think you should leave it alone. Before some more ponies get hurt.”
Twilight sighed deeply. “Your right, maybe I’m not worthy of such a title like ‘first mare to create a robot’. I’ll go destroy the rest of the project.
“Worthy? How could you be worth… your all killers.”
Twilight, rainbow, and applejack stared in awe as a mangled Ultron stood up. His left arm was missing, his right hand broken, his bottom left leg was turned to the left 90 degrees and his right knee was missing. His chess piece was melted and his abs had wires and sparks flying out.  His face plate had a broken jaw, a melted upper left eye, a huge gash in his right, with ash and soot covering 80-90% of his body. 
“You want to protect the world, but you don’t want it to change.” He said limping over to them, he had a creepy, disoriented, broken voice. “Your all puppets…tangled in… strings. There is only one path to peace… your extinction. Soon your end will come, for the age of Ultron…. Is here.” 
Ultron then smashed his head and was no more. Twilight and the rest had no idea what to make of the message. They spent hours trying to decipher it as they destroyed the lab. Spike went to grab the groceries Ultron failed to get. On his way back he saw a blood ruby and the edge of the ever free forest.  Not thinking he ran to it and grabbed it.
“Oh sweet celestia lucky day!  Hehe yum!”
At that second he felt a cold piece of metal clamp his neck, he was in a collar. He looked behind him to see a bigger and more intimidating Ultron standing there. 
“This is a Hypno-brace; I invented it to put you in my control.”
“But she killed you, twilight killed you.”
“False, she destroyed Ultron 5 and technically Ultron 5 killed himself… I am Ultron 6.”
“Wait until I tell her.”
“False, you can’t do that.”
The Hypno brace turned on and spikes eye glowed red.
“I… will not my master.”
“You are my puppet, spike. I am now pulling all the strings.”