The crystals embedded in the wall played hell with Robocop's scanners as they tried to categorize what material they were, but Robocop's current attention was on the ponies besides him, each of whom was asking him a different question.
"Why haven't ya taken off yer helmet yet? Ah want to see yer face?" Applebloom asked him.
"I cannot without proper tools."
"Can't you move any faster? Come on slowpoke!" Scootaloo said from behind as she tried to give him a push, yet her efforts proved fruitless against the metal frame of his body. "Geez, how many criminals get away from you if all you do is walk?"
"None."
"Isn't this all...scary for you?" Sweetie Belle finished from the side. "I mean, you're in a new land with creatures that I assume you've never seen before, yet you act like this is normal for you."
"I am not programmed to be surprised or afraid. I uphold the law for all sentient beings, even if they are...ponies." Twilight frowned and looked up at him out of the corner of her eye.
"There you go with that word again. Programmed. And earlier you mentioned directives. Robocop, you are a human, you do know that right? From the way you talk and act it's almost as if you consider yourself to be a total machine." Robocop opened his mouth to reply, but his speech functions were temporarily made inoperable by the sight that greeted his visor when Twilight opened the next set of doors.
Six chairs made of a majestic white material sat in a circle around a white star in a golden floor, with a smaller throne next to the one with Twilight's mark engraved in it. More of the strange crystals surrounded the windows, but to Robocop's interest he found the windows to be crafted with emeralds instead of glass. This place would have cost a fortune...and would be a place of criminal desire.
"Yeah, I get that a lot when I bring ponies here," Twilight said with a shake of her head as she welcomed the officer into the throne room. She sat on the throne with her mark while the other ponies did the same, the small fillies taking up a single throne by themselves, one with a rainbow lightning bolt. "Please have a seat; there is much I wish to speak with you about."
Robocop sat down on the throne with the butterflies and a loud crack could be hear as he did so, startling the ponies as the seat of the chair now had a massive crack in it from his weight. Twilight and the others took a moment to register this before she cleared her throat and began to speak.
"Ooookay then, we only got a little chance to talk on the train, but there were still a few more questions I wanted to ask you," Twilight began as she flipped open a notebook, glancing at the questions. "How did you get here? You said that you were incapable of magic and that is the only way I know how to travel between worlds."
"I am not certain myself," Robocop responded as his recordings appeared before his eyes, showing him the moment he fell into the green and blackish vortex that he assumed had brought him here. "I fell into a vortex while performing my duties, so that is the most likely cause for my arrival here."
"Hmm, that does seem interesting," she mused as she wrote down his answer. Out of the corner of his eyes Robocop was aware of the fillies poking his arm with their hooves, but he did respond as they were causing no trouble. "How about the armor you wear? It seems a lot nicer than what we have for our guards and from the little I saw of you in action it seemed to stop our spells."
"Titanium laminated with Kevlar," he responded. "My armor is designed to stop whatever form of weaponry that is thrown at me. So far nothing has gotten through to finish me."
"So why are ya still wearing it?" Applejack asked him from her throne. "We're not gonna hurt ya, so there's no need to wear it around us." He turned his head as his scanners began to make a record of her, causing AJ's face to fall slightly as he stayed silent for a moment.
"This is more than armor to me," he replied after a moment, turning his attention back to Twilight. "This suit is what allows me to carry out my duty and follow my directives. It is not something that I can or would take off."
"So it's like your helmet?" Spike chimed in, getting a nod in response. Twilight pondered over her next question for a minute before her eyes glanced at his legs, causing her to raise an eyebrow.
"Scootaloo did bring up a good point, you are really slow," she muttered as Robocop looked down at his own legs. "Yet you said that you've never let a criminal escape you despite moving along as if you have all the time in the world. Please tell me how you have done so with your speed."
"My legs are armored as heavily as my chest so that I cannot easily be incapacitated by a stray shot or explosion," Robocop replied. Robocop then stood up as the paneling in his right leg moved to the side, causing the ponies to gasp as he reached down and pulled out a long, black item. He spun it once before clicking something on the side of it, then showing it to the princess. "This is why no criminal escapes me."
"Whoa!" Scootaloo said with amazement as she looked up at it, before a confused look came across her face. "Wait, what is it?"
"Beretta 93r, also known as the auto-9. In this houses a three round burst of 50. Caliber ammunition, the strongest of its kind," Robocop answered as he held it to the side of him, Twilight looking at it with interest.
"That's very interesting, but that doesn't answer my question completely," Twilight said. "What does it do?" Robocop thought about his answer for a long moment before he looked at the firearm and then to Twilight again.
"It enforces the law." The fillies next to him and the young dragon wowed at the firearm while Twilight raised an eyebrow.
"Okay, let me be more direct. Can you show me what it does?" Robocop consider saying no for a moment, as he only had a limited number of shots in his gun for an infinite number of criminals. But Twilight was his superior and he had to obey her orders, unless they conflicted with his directives. So with precision aiming he pointed the gun at a crystal hanging from the ceiling, preparing to fire when a noise filled the room.
DING-DONG!
"Huh, I wonder who that could be." Twilight asked before she looked up at Robocop. "We'll finish with show and tell later; right now I need to see to whoever's at the door." Twilight and the others hopped off their thrones and headed to the door, Robocop following behind them slowly as he holstered his gun again.
"Yes, can I-?" Twilight asked as she opened the door before her face turned bright red. Rarity and AJ walked to the side of her to see what the matter was, but the moment they saw who was at the door they both looked at each other with sly smiles before poking Twilight in the gut.
"Hello, Princess Twilight," a pony in a guard's uniform said to the princess with a low bow, Twilight's eyes never leaving him once as he performed the motion. He rose up with a smile at the other ponies before his eyes went wide as he looked past Twilight. "Look out!" he yelled as he tossed Twilight to the side before charging at the metal man behind her. Robocop caught the brash Pegasus with his fist and slammed him to the ground, where the pony coughed as Robocop placed a foot on him.
"I hope you realize what you've done by attacking an officer of the law?" Robocop asked him as he brought his fist back, but with a shriek Twilight placed herself between the fist and the pony.
"STOP! Get off of him this instant!" she screamed at Robocop, who looked at her for a moment before he removed his foot from the perpetrators chest. The pony began to wheeze as Twilight helped him back to his hooves, glare at Robocop the entire time. "Do you have ANY idea what you just did? You could have hurt him."
"He assaulted an officer of the law. He is lucky that nothing is broken."
"For the last time, you are not a law official here," she growled before turning to the pony, brushing her mane out of her face as she smiled at the guard with an embarrassed smile. "Hey Flash. Sorry about...all of that.
"Yeah, don't worry about it," Flash muttered as he looked up at Robocop with narrowed eyes as he rubbed his jaw. "Is this some sort of experiment of yours or is this a common creature around these parts?"
"Actually, we were just figuring out what he was when you rang," she nervously laughed before looking past him to see a number of guards outside, all of whom had smiles on their faces, apparently from the beat down that Flash had just received. "Wait, why are you here? And why are there so many guards?"
"That what I wanted to tell you," Flash said with a serious tone as pulled out an envelope to hoof to her. "This is from Princess Celestia. She wanted to mail it to you, but she currently does not trust the mail systems or magical means of mailing this. Everything you need to know is inside." Twilight skimmed through the letter until she got to the center of it, where both of her eyes went wide with shock.
"Sombra's back?!" she half screamed, causing a number of ponies that had been listening outside to begin screaming. "Oh that's not good. And neither is this! How can he be back?!"
"As the letter says, Celestia doesn't know for certain herself, but she wanted to inform you as quickly as she could. Unfortunately with Sombra on the run, she wasn't confident of this letter reaching you except by giving it to me. Sombra would most likely tamper with the other systems," Flash said before nodding to the guards behind him, who gave him a sneer before they all started to walk away. "Sigh...the guards were stationed here by Celestia herself to keep you and your friends safe, as you are all the most likely candidates for Sombra to attack."
"That seems brash, even for Sombra," AJ said from besides Twilight. "If he is back, then he'll know that we now possess magic even greater than that of the Elements. He'd just be walking into another flank whooping!"
"Yes darling, but remember that we all need to be together for the magic to be at its strongest. If he wished, he would pick us off one by one weaken our strength considerably and with Dash out of town..." Rarity said before she walked over to one of the hunkier guards and battered her eyes at him. "However, I have little issue being protected by our finest."
"Yes...it sound like it's for the best for now," Twilight agreed as she looked down at the three fillies around her hooves. "Alright, I will contact my friends and tell them what is going on. Girls, I want you to listen to me closely. I don't want you going anywhere in Ponyville without either me or the guards with you. Sombra might try to get to us through our families. Flash, I know that you were most likely sent here to protect me, but I want you to stay with these three. They're far more vulnerable than me."
For a moment Flash's face fell before he stood up straight and saluted. "Very well Princess Twilight, if those are your orders."
"I will patrol the streets and make recording of areas this...Sombra might appear," Robocop began as he tried to walk past Twilight, but she constructed a barrier that prevented him from going any further.
"Oh no you don't! You are staying here," Twilight ordered as she gave him a regal glare. "Until I have a full assessment of you and your weaponry I do not want you leaving this castle unless with me or a guard. Am I clear?" Robocop gave her no answer, but he didn't move from where he stood. Twilight sighed and hoped that he would listen to her before she walked out of her castle, Applejack, Rarity and the fillies following them.
'I listen to my superior's orders,' Robocop silently thought as he watched them walk away, never knowing that his fist was clenching as he thought this.
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"Urgh, their magical barriers have gotten far stronger than the last time I tried to take Canterlot," a dark shadow sneered underneath of a large tree, looking through the canopy of the forest to the city that rested on the side of a mountain, figuring that at any moment the streets would be swarmed with guards that would be looking for him. "Bah and here I was wondering what my two favorite princesses were up to in that secret factory of theirs. No matter, I shall learn soon enough."
The shadow slithered across the floor of the forest, making sure to stay out of any light that shown through the dark leaves that blocked out the sun. He did not like to take risks, especially since he was still far weaker than he was used to being. He took on his pony form in a particular dark part of the forest, allowing his black mane to fall across his shoulders as he pulled a map out of the darkness, narrowing his eyes at his location.
"I see. I am by...Ponyville? Say, isn't that what the new Princess Twilight and he infernal friends call home?" he asked himself with a chuckle as he reached back into the darkness and pulled out a book on the new Elements of Harmony, flipping through the pages to learn about each of them. "Oh yes, it seems that would be so. I should pay them all a visit. But as fun as it would be to slit their throats right now, in my current state it seems that I am no match for them. What to do?"
His answer came in the form of a snarling beast that leapt out of the trees, roaring at him as he spun around to face it, a smile spreading across his face as it snarled at him. "You'll do. While my magic may be too weak to influence ponies," he began as he shot a beam of darkness from his fractured horn, blasting the manticore in the eyes. "A mindless beast such as yourself is easy prey. Now then, what should I use you for?"
He turned his attention once again to the book, smiling as it rested upon the families of the mane six. "Well, I am never one who passes up the chance for a bargaining chip or three. Beast, I have something...or should I say, someponies for you to foalnap. Soon."
Nice inclusion of Flash Sentry. I really like where this story's headed. Keep up the good work!
Well, things got interesting.
5266418 my thoughts exactly.
Uh Twilight, you did see your boy toy assault someone without provocation didn't you. Guard or not, that's enough for a citizens arrest in my opinion.
You really like sombra He seems to be in a lot of your stories.
My only complaint is that the chapters for this story are not long enough.
Just my opinion but...
Bringing harm to the CMC = Immediate forfeiture of life.
On a more serious note, I eagerly look forward to more Ono!
5266502 THATS WHAT I SAID!!!!
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Out of all the mlp villains, Sombra is the one I can use in the most variety of ways. He's my go to when I need a villain, more so than any of the others.
Seeing as how shit is about to start getting serious I figured now would be a good time to put this into play.
embed this into every page on a loop please
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He's a guard, who saw an unidentified, intimidating, potentially dangerous creature in close proximity to one of Princesses.
What he did was not assault; it was his job. He was complying with a directive of his own.
Twilight you're very quick to try and convince him of this.
He's a giant made of metal with a foldy out mechanical gun hiding leg. That stomps everywhere like a tank. Removing his armour requires power tools and removes his limbs. That's quite a bit different to the colourful "humans" through the mirror you've seen.
He's barely human (hell at this point he should be literally nothing but cyborg using some human squishy bits as spare parts recycled from a dead cop, and mostly nothing more than his programming)
Twilight obviously needs to brush up on her post human science fiction. He's should be far too much more robot than man at this point.
5266544 hell to me harming any child = immediate forfeiture of life.
Dark Runner: It's better Twilight give Robocop the permission of acting like a Officer, because he is the only thing, aside the Elements, that can defeat Sombra, these guard that the Princess Quadruplets trust, they aren't worth of that trust level, if you look at where I am sitting, it's a mountain of royal guards that are or dead or K.O. by my bare hooves, serious.
THis is awesome!!
Fucking robocop and shit being in Equestria!
Why do I feel like this version is so much more awesome than the movie versions? and yes I mean both of them.
Also... how about his energy? he will need to be recharged after all.
5266751 Because stories don't have the same limits as movies
it's ".50"
Because of the half-inch
*her
not he
5266763 so true.
wow... I just discovered this was made by the same author of "A Dark Knight for Equestria", "The Strongest There Is" and " A Heart So Cold". They are like some of my favorite stories on this site!
This guy deserves a medal for creating awesome stories for superheroes from both DC and Marvel mixed with Equestria!
Im surprised she never brought up him arresting her corrupted guards?
5266612 huh makes sense. His character was under developed and you got that whole multiple universe thing going on gives you a lot of room to tweek his personality how you see fit. Not a bad idea.
I AM THE LAW~!
You have my interest. Please proceed.
Keep up the good work. Deus tecum.
If I recall correctly, Robocop's torso holds a large magazine of ammunition for his gun. Its fed through his right arm down to his hand where it's fed directly into the gun. This way he can keep firing untill he's completely out of ammunition. No need for him to stop and reload.
oh please twilight robocop is a cyborg
but you will find out about his background and his story on what trully happen to him
maybe a flashback too
5267023 I thought that was Judge Dredd not Robocop...
I can already see what's happening. I think. Celestia's Gargoyle Guard thing is gonna have its mind eventually taken over by Sombra, it's gonna supposedly kill RoboCop and while Sombra is maniacally laughing away thinking he's won, RoboCop is going to be having a near death epiphany, (possibly with the Silver Mare) gets back up, destroys the Gargoyle Guard and thoroughly kicks Sombra's arse! All a theory, of course.
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The way I see it, they are the same. Both had campy 80's/90's movies, both had decent 21st century remakes.
Well, in this chapter we get some literal Flash Sentry Bashing.
I almost feel sorry for the manticore, but I'm fairly sure it's going to get a bullet in the head soon.
5266544 Oh so very true. Nobody likes seeing those fillies in danger.
5266721 That should be Robocop's fifth directive.
5266780 Actually, it could be 50. because who knows what he author envisioned. Plus i like imagining robocop with a 50 inch wide gun barrel that he magically pulls out of his leg.
5266694 Potential danger does not correlate with hostility. While I can understand caution and suspicion, attacking someone because they are an unknown species is unacceptable behavior for a pony in the royal guard. An appropriate response would have been to order the "creature" to back away slowly and identify itself and it's intentions. This would have lead to an explication but instead he throws himself at the obviously bigger and stronger "creature". After this Twilight yells at robocop for defending himself from her boy toy when she knows that he restrained himself and could have done far worse to the idiot. Bottom line, robocop is the true law enforcer while Flash is just a pretender.
With who out of town?
5267600 withs dahs, dude haven't you heard about her? She fucking sick (SARCASM)
5267706
Oooooh, how could I be so blind! Well, I assume that Dahs is is in the same place as Flutterhsy, right?
5267718 ye.
5267600 I believe he meant to write Dash as in Raionbow Dash.
I hope Sombra seriously underestimates Robocop and dies of a bullet in the forehead in a completely anti-climatic way.
5266780
Nope, Robocop pulled out an entire cannon.
5268027 Story cannon is an actual Mach Cannon I think that trumps magic as it just charges him.
5267578
I don't think that's quite correct. Furthermore:
It is stated in no uncertain terms that Flash Sentry is in uniform when he appears. Robocop should have been able to identify as an officially recognized law enforcer; there is no good reason he would not be able to. He then should have taken some action to attempt to defuse the situation.
Robocop was told by Twilight that he is not presently acting in a capacity to enforce the law. He is also not recognized by the Equestrian government as a law enforcer in any official capacity. Claiming that Flash, then, assaulted as officer of the law is at best inaccurate, and at worse a false accusation.
Finally, Robocop has established that ponies are not capable of damaging him, at least not without some kind of heavy weaponry they have not yet demonstrated themselves to possess. So, even if he wouldn't have been able to reasonably identify Flash as a law enforcer and then acted to diffuse the situation (such as by raising his hands to show he does not intend to engage), and even if Twilight was not clear enough regarding Robocop's current capacity relating to law enforcement, he nevertheless met whatever threat Flash may have posed with excessive force, and he would know this.
The use of excessive force by an officer of the law in response to a threat is unlawful; Robocop demonstrates that he understands and recognizes this when he apprehends Clarence Boddicker.
Engaging in unlawful activity is a violation of Directive #2: Uphold the Law.
Therefore, Robocop has violated one of his Directives.
Flash Sentry is tasked with defending the Princesses, including Princess Twilight, from threats.
Per our own observations, Equestria is home to many threats, including some that were unknown at the time of encounter, such as changelings.
When Nightmare Moon first appeared, she had not taken any obviously hostile action, yet the Guards present took aggressive action towards her; from this, we can conclude inductively that aggression is the standard response guards are to take towards potential threats, per Royal Guard doctrine.
Flash was confronted by an unknown entity and potential threat, and engaged immediately in aggressive action in order to protect Princess Twilight.
Therefore, Flash has complied with one of his directives.
Whether or not the action that Flash Sentry took towards Robocop was morally or ethically correct, we see from the above evidence that it was lawful. Flash Sentry is not in the wrong in this situation, and Robocop is.
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1) Twilight was in no danger and showed no signs of deress.
2) Even if it is unlikely for a pony to damage him normally, it is still not unlawful for robocop to defend himself and put an end to an unwarranted aggressive act (which could have escalated if not stopped quickly) whether or not he is reconized as law enforcement. After all, if a civilian is assaulted by a guard because of their species; I would hope that the equestian gov would recognize the use of self defense.
3) Given the situation, robocop did not use excessive force. He grabbed him and pinned him to the group roughly (oh how terrible). And exceccive use of for would be shooting the assailant which we both know he would never do.
4) You talk about defusing the situation when Flash was in the position of authority and should have been the one to open up dialog instead of attacking first.
5) The situation with NMM is not the same as she usurped the throne declared herself ruler.
Flash acted rashly and payed for it.
".50"
Eh, no. Not even close. Robocop's Auto-9 is a modified Beretta 93R, a 9mm firearm, giving it a caliber of .354.
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The structure of your statement implies that Flash would reasonably believe that nothing could ever sneak up on Twilight. I know this is not what you meant, but this claim relies on an assumption for which there is no supporting evidence; that Flash would reasonably believe that nothing could ever sneak up on Twilight.
False equivalency. A civilian assaulted by a police officer would be justified in defending themselves. A civilian wearing face-obscuring, mil-spec personal armor who immediately responds to a show of force from an officer acting in a lawful capacity with another show of force is unlikely to receive the same considerations; rightfully so. This actually ties directly into...
Flash is part of the Royal Guard; his job is to protect the Princesses. He is certainly, as we have seen, empowered to enforce the law, but his primary duty — his Directive #1 — is to protect the Princesses, first and foremost; he is less a cop and more of a special agent, because his Directive #1 supersedes any other Directives. Upon entering the castle, he saw a then unidentified creature, wearing mil-spec personal armor (from his point of view), either standing behind one of the Princesses, or approaching her from behind. Given the information that was available to him, he acted in a rational and lawful capacity; it was not his duty to deescalate the situation or open a dialogue, but to protect the Princess by all means available and within reason, including putting himself into harm's way so she can escape, even if it will likely result in injury or death to himself, which is exactly what he did. Which ties back to....
Incorrect. "Excessive force" is the application of any level of force that is greater than necessary to meet a given threat, whether real or perceived (excessive force can be considered reasonable if an individual would reasonably believe they were in greater danger than they actually were). Robocop had hard, empirical evidence that ponies do not possess the means with which to damage his systems. Standing still and allowing Flash's strike to harmlessly (to him) bounce off his chest would have been equally effective, would have been unlikely to inflict worse injury than Robocop himself inflicted. And finally...
... know what? You're right; it's not the same. I still say what we saw implies that guardsponies are to take aggressive action towards potential threats by default, but given what we saw and heard, they absolutely had probable cause to attempt an arrest, including the use of reasonable force.
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Ok I'm done arguing because it's obvious that we have different perceptions on what's happening (which is ok). I'm just concerned and uncertain about the idea that this attack first mindset is acceptable in the usually peaceful Equestria (land of second chances and acceptance). I still personally don't believe that this behavior is appropriate for a Equestrian royal guard but at the end of the day this is not my story and I just have to see where this story goes.
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On the grounds of lawfulness, I stand firm. On the grounds of appropriateness? On that, I am much less certain. Given the mess with Tirek and now Sombra returning, Flash (and the rest of the guard) may be be especially zealous to prove their usefulness.
It's not clear if there are mutual feelings between Twilight and Flash, but even if there are not, I don't doubt he's going to be extra eager to prove that he's useful; he doesn't seem the type to be satisfied with being just a pretty face, and all things considered, the Royal Guard certainly do seem that they're only around as window dressing. It's almost a sure thing that Flash's judgement and emotional state are compromised.
Plus the clear issues that Robocop is having, not being allowed to comply with his Directives. I think it'll be interesting to see the interplay between them.
Flash Sentry gets roughed up? Tis a good chapter
AND GUESS WHICH SHADOWY DOUCHEBAG IS BACK YET AGAIN! DAS RIGHT. ITS YO MAIN BOI SOMBRA!
Out of curiosity(as I still havent read through all your stories) have you given Sombra different attitudes and personality's each time he's shown up? I think using him so much and alternate realities could give you that shot.
Also make chapters longer becuz uuuuugh the waiting is killing me. It hurts me
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Sombra does change slightly between stories, but a constant factor is out of the equestrian villains I consider him to be cunning and manipulative as opposed to Tirek's overwhelming power. Sombra for me is a villain that only fails in the end because he underestimates his foes.
I LOVE the fact that Twillight got all up in Robocops face for hurting Flash when it was Flash that tried to attack our steel clad hero first.