> The stallion with all the toys > by The One and only One > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Here it...he comes > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The stallion with all the toys Here it...he comes It was a beautiful winter day on the outskirts of Ponyville, the white snow that was gently falling, and no sound could be heard except for six mares laughing and running around in the snow. One of these mares, a pink earth pony, looked like she was having most of the fun because she was moving so fast that it almost like teleporting. She appeared as fast as she disappeared and threw a large snowball at a white unicorn who was hiding behind a very well decorated fort. "Pinkie stop that, you'll get my main all wet!" "Ah come on Rarity, I'm just having some fun and the point of the game is to hit each other with snowballs anyway." Pinkie said. Suddenly Pinkie is being buried in a pile of snowballs that came from all sides of her. Afterwards four heads appeared just above the snowbank. One of the heads, which belong to a rainbow maned pegasus, started to laugh like there was no tomorrow. The rest, except for Pinkie, who was still in the snow, started to laugh. "I think that is the first time we ever got Pinkie without having to fly or use magic." Said the cyan Pegasus. "Well, I see some ponies are having fun with this, hmm!" Replied an angry Rarity. "Rainbow Dash didn't mean anything by it Rarity." Said one of the other mares, she was a lavender coated unicorn who had one of her hooves put up to her mouth to stop herself from giggling any further. "Ah have to agree with Twilight on this one Rarity." Said the orange earth pony standing next to Twilight. "Applejack you may not care what happens to your mane, but I do care about mine thank you very much." Scolded Rarity. "Well, um...I'm sorry that you're not having um...fun Rarity." Whispered the yellow colored Pegasus. "You have nothing to say sorry about Fluttershy, Rarity just being Rarity." Said Rainbow Dash, who was trying to help Fluttershy's spirits. Just then a giant snowball hits Rainbow Dash, causing her to fall into the snow face first, a second later Rainbow gets out of the snow with a white snowberd and mustache planted on her face. "Okay, who threw that!!" yelled the angry pegasus. First there was a long pause of silence, then from behind the five mares came the sound of giggling, they turn around to find Pinkie putting snow into her party cannon for a second shot. "Pinkie did you fire that snowball at me!" Rainbow Dash said, with some anger still in her voice. "Of course Dashy, you silly, I just had to try out the latest modifications to my party cannon and you were the perfect target." Said the giggling pink mare. Pinkie by then had finished filling up her cannon with snow and aimed it at her five friends. "New game, everyone versus me, the last team standing gets to choose the terms for the next round!" Hollered Pinkie as she got ready to attack. "What in tarnation...hit the deck everypony!" As exactly as Applejack commanded, the four other mares took shelter in a large fort that Twilight constructed while Pinkie was talking. Applejack took the north wall, while Fluttershy took the south wall, leaving Twilight and Rainbow Dash taking the east and west walls. Rarity took the position as the scout, sitting on the second level looking out for any signs of Pinkie. "Any sign of the target Rarity." Twilight asked. "Nothing yet dear." "Ok, is everypony ready," Twilight got out here check list, "first, Rainbow, snowballs?" "Check!" "Fluttershy, snacks?" "Che...ck." "Okay, Applejack, escape sleds?" "Eeyup ." "And last but not least, magically structured snowshields." five snowshields appeared out of the snow. "Check." They all stayed at there posts for the next couple of minutes, Rarity, who was keeping a good eye out for Pinkie, didn't notice the pink blur passing by into her blind spot. ==== Pinkie was moving around the perimeter of the large snow fort, looking at the structure to find weak spots, usually, if she really wanted to, she can just pop into the fort, but where is the fun in that, so she decided to play fair. "Should I take the south wall or the east wall, they seem to be the ones that I have the best chance of breaching, umm, Gummy what do you think of the situation?" Gummy popped out of her hair and started to blink his right eye, but to Pinkie he was giving her valuable information. "You're right Gummy, I should take the south wall, Fluttershy will probably have the slowest reaction time, lets move." Next thing was Pinkie putting her party cannon back into her hair and taking out a very accurate map of the area. "Ok Gummy we will move into position here," Pinkie pointed at a bank of snow facing south of the fort, "then I will point my cannon towards the sky so it looks like I'm coming from above, then I will take my minicannon and take out Rarity, during all the confusion you will infiltrate the west wall, while I take the south wall." Gummy just stood there and blinked a couple more times in response. "Oh and if all fails, we will retreat to the east snowbank...ok lets start operation snow." Pinkie left Gummy in place and ran towards her position, getting both her cannon and mincannon out for attack. "Five...four...three...two one, fire!" ==== "AHHH such a beautiful day, isn't it?" said a large figure in the distance. "Sure it is, and finally we get to settle down after all these years," another voice said that came from the same area. "So what town is this again," said multiple voices, five more to be exact. As a matter of fact there are seven voices coming from the strange figure, each one being slightly different from the original. The figure got out his map from inside his coat and looked at it with great detail. "According to the map, this is Ponyville." "Ponyville! What's so unique about this place?" Asked the other voices. "Well, if news tells me well this place is home of the elements of harmony, never gets boring, and both Princesses visit this place often," Answered the head voice, the other voices just did 'wows' and 'hmms', now understanding why they came to this specific town instead of the other ones they have paced by. The figure put his map back in his coat and started heading towards to what was unknown to him as the mane six's fort battle ground. One of the voices, being more observant, noticed that there was a lot of fallen snowballs and thought, 'this is going to be interesting.' > Ummm...hi? > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The stallion with all the toys Ummm...hi? Pinkie Pie was giving all her friends, expectually Twilight, a run for their own bits. It all started with lumps of snow falling around the perimeter. Then Rarity and the upper level of the fort was hit by smaller, but still effective snow projectiles, taking her out of the game almost immediately. When the four remaining mares realized what was happening, it was too late. "Applejack, do you see her!" "I ain't seen anything Twi." "Ok, Rainbow grab a snow shield and some snow balls, if you find Pinkie and when you do find her drop the snow balls and return to base, if you don't return within ten minutes we will have to assume that you are out." "One snowed Pinkie coming right up." Rainbow Dash went outside and took a cloud to try to hide herself. "Lets see, Pinkie where can you be hiding...hmmm...how hard is it to find a pink pony in a giant field of white snow." While Rainbow was looking around she saw a large hooded figure walking, she wasn't sure if the figure was walking away or towards her friends back at the base. "I've never seen that pony beforaaahhhhhhh!" She never got to finish her sentence as she was hit by a large snow ball from above her, she fell to the ground and was declared to be out of the game. ==== "Well that was weird." "No it wasn't!" "Well, we do have a point there, because it is strange to see a large ball of snow land hit a cloud and have the cloud fall to the ground with it instead of having the snow go through it, it doesn't make sense." "When did things ever make sense." "..." "..." "That is what we thought." "Should we investigate?" "YES! We can find out why the cloud fell with the snow and then later we can figure out how that large collection of snow got there in the first place." "Ok then, we will investigate." "Wait!" "What now!?" "We need some music." "AGREED!" The sound of trombones and a piano started to play as the figure moved to the rhythm. ==== Pinkie was an unstoppable force of speed and snow, Twilight being the last one left in the partially decimated snow fort. After Rainbow left Fluttershy surrendered to Pinkie because she did not to get hurt or sick because of her duties taking care for Angel. Applejack got covered in snow as a part of the second floor collapsed on top of her. "Pinkie you are truly a worthy foe when it comes to snow." Muttered Twilight, "Hey that rhymes!" Before she could even make another coherent thought she heard the sound of screaming in the distance, the screaming got loader and loader until 'BOOM!' a large figure fell through what was left of the second floor. =A FEW MINUTES AGO= "He's mister white christmas, he's mister snow!" "That's right ha ha!" "He's mister icicle, he's mister ten below!" "Friends call me Electro-light, whatever I touch, turns to snow in my clutch ha ah, too much ha ha!" Too much! "I like it how we changed the lyrics to have our name in it." "Please me, please, it was just a slight change." "We're here, it doesn't look like it was a natural ball of snow?" "Nothing like that could be natural." "It was probably pony-made." "Let us see if anything is under it." "I think it's moving." The once ball of snow started to shake until a Rainbow Dash popped her head out of the snow. She locked her eyes on what looked like to her as a large figure, said figure seemed to be taller then Celestia, but really bot her attention was that it stood on its hind legs. She tried to look past the hood and what she saw scared the living spirit out of her. She could see the sharpest, largest set of teeth she had ever seen, with a pointed snout the shined against what little light that showed. Then she saw it, not two, but four sets of red-yellowish eyes. She dare not move, she wanted it to make the first move. "Ummm...Hi?" The frightened Rainbow Dash flew straight at Electro-light, turning around at the last second to buck it with all her might. She made contact at his chin. Electro-light went flying almost straight into the air, leaving a shaking Rainbow Dash hiding behind the snow pile. =PRESENT= "TWILIGHT! APPLEJACK! RARITY!" Yelled out Pinkie as she was franticly digging into the snow looking for her three friends. "Nonononooo this wasn't supposed to happen, I get them all good, then we have some laughs and go back to the treehouse." Said Pinkie as her hair went straight. "Pinkie." Pinkie Pie turned around to find Rainbow Dash slowly and cautiously walking towards her. "Rainbow Dash thank goodness you're here! I need help finding Twilight, Applejack and Rarity, and did you get scarfed by something?" Rainbow Dash quickly stood up with the bravest look on her face and said, "Me scared, no way, I just thought that if I made myself look scared then it would make you feel better." "Oh, okay!" Shortly afterwards, both Pinkie and Rainbow got their three friends out of the snow. "Pinkie what hit the fort?" asked a slightly irritated Twilight. "Well, when I was about to finish you off I saw a large black object come out of the sky and hit the fort, I also heard some screaming of in the distance." Rainbow Dash started to act strange after hearing about what Pinkie said and everyone noticed it. They all stared at Rainbow Dash, hoping that she would tell them what was wrong. After a short time Applejack decided to break the silence, "Something wrong sugarcube, you're actin mighty strange?" "Nothing is wrong, I'm...um...its just hot out here, yes just a little warm?" "It can't be hot out here, is the middle of winter silly, well unless you mean there is fire snow OHHHH that would be SO cool, I don't mean like cold cool, or do I..." Pinkie continued to ramble while Twilight decided to join in. "I'm sorry to say this, but Pinkie has a point, so what is really going on Rainbow Dash?" "Rainbow dear I also have to agree, you look like you've seen a ghost." Just like earlier Rainbow buffed up her chest in defiance, "I'm not afraid of anything or anypony!" Just at that moment, Electro-light popped out of the snow in front of them. "WHY DID YOU KICK US!!! WE DID NOT DO ANYTHING TO YOU AND YOU JUST SCREAM THEN KICK US!!!" That mane six stopped talking and stared at Electro-light, who lowered his head to their level and was still wearing his cloak, everything went completely silent , except for Electro-lights panting, the air became so think that you could physically cut a piece out of it. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Screamed out Rainbow Dash as she trying to fly away, only to find that she was so scared that her wings were frozen in place. Twilight was about to also scream and then teleport away when Applejack turned around and bucked Electro-light right in between the eyes. Electro-light jumped up and started to sway back and forth. "AHHH! That sm...ar...ts." Electro-light finally started to loose focus of everything around him and started to fall over, making his cloak fall off, showing his true form and then THUD! > Finally to the point! > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The stallion with all the toys Finally to the point! Everypony, except for Fluttershy, who was now at her cottage, and Pinkie Pie, we're still looking at the large figure that somewhat looked like a combination of a diamond dog and a normal pony, but 'it' wasn't, to Twilight, it looked like it may be eight to nine feet tall, it had metal cylinder arms that had four red diamond digit talons, its legs were set up like a ponies in some areas, the knees behind metal with one spike coming out of the front. The hooves were not hooves at all ,but metal cones with three blue diamond toes on each foot. On the face were four rectangle eyes, two being on each side, one its right side, both eyes had a monocle on them, its lower jaw was completely mechanical, with diamond teeth and its nose was replaced with a pointed metal end to mach the end of its lower jaw. It was wearing a red bow tie, underneath that was metal panel. The ears had been replaced by right angled tesla coils. It had a faded black mane and a faded green coat. It also bared a cutie mark that was a wrench with tesla coils coming out of the sides with a red lug nut in the center. "What in tarnation is this thing!?" "I don't know Applejack, but it looks like some sort of pony-machine creature." Pinkie found a card laying near the pony-machine and started to read it. "Twilight! How can you at all compare this thing to a pony, it looks terrible, just disgusting!" "That's mean Rarity!" Pinkie interjected, but it came to deaf ears as her friends ignored her." "I have to agree with Rarity, it probably came from the Everfree Forest!" "No Rainbow! He's from Canterlot!" Pinkie tried again to get their attention, but still nopony listened to her. "No, it looks to complex, it could be lab experiment gone rampant." "GIRLS!" Pinkie yelled out, finally getting their attention. "What is it Pinkie?" Twilight asked. "I found this in the snow, it says that 'it' is a he and his name is Electro-light, he's from Canterlot." "That's impossible!" Yelled Twilight. "Why?" "Because Pinkie, Professor Electro-light worked at Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns, he looked nothing like this thing." "Well, the card also says he did work there and also that he is retired." Rainbow Dash adds in after reading the card behind Pinkie Pie. "No, you don't understand, I personally knew the professor himself and he wasn't some sort of monster, he was a kind hearted pony who was one of Celestia's greatest assistances and a great professor in the school, he helped me sometimes while I was studying. The only thing that makes this...THING similar to him is the old signs of the color in its mane and coat and the cutie mark, but that could mean anything, right...right...AM I RIGHT GIRLS!!!"By the time Twilight was done rambling, her mane had frizzled up and her ears were twitching. Her friends slowly started to back away. "Twilight, ponies change over time, he could have been in an accident or something else could have happened and the card even says Disabled and Mentally Unstable." At those last words everyone again became tense at the knowledge that next to them was a possibly insane cyborg with the possible power to kill them all and unbeknownst to them was that the left arm was starting to twitch. ===== 'Accessing Secondary Power Supply' 'Accessing Primary Protocols' 'Activating Motor Functions' 'Higher Brain Functions Starting Up' 'Power At Seventy Percent' 'Accessing Sensors...Five Equines...Two Pegasus...One Earth Pony...Two Unicorns' 'One Is Familiar...Accessing Memory Files' 'Unicorn Identified As [TWILIGHT SPARKLE]' 'Identified As [FRIEND]' 'Start Up Sequence Completed [ELECTRO-LIGHT]' ===== Electro-light began to regain consciousness, as he did he could hear somepony say, "Stay back, you monster, and don't try anything funny" "And why would we do that Miss Sparkle, we haven't done anything to get treated this way, we have to say we are hurt by your words old friend." "You are not my friend, I don't even know you." "Yes, you do!" Pinkie interjected. "Not know Pinkie and you!" Electro-light, finally reciting the events that happened earlier looked at Twilight with a look on his face that read 'What did I do?' "One, what did you do with the real Professor? Two, who and what are you? And three, how do you know my name and get this card?" "Ohh and also how did you that weird voice thing, it was so cool?" Pinkie again interrupted. "Not know Pinkie okay." "If I may intrude, but I believe I can easily answer Miss Pie's question, while answering yours." "Oh how, how, how?" Pinkie was just jumping over and over in anticipation. "It's really simple." Everyone again looked back at Electro-light in confusion, until Twilight said, "So, you are just using magic to put your voice in different areas, so?" "Not exactly Miss Sparkle.." "You see, well on paper its simple, but in reality it is..." "Quite difficult." "But we will show." "You anyway Twilight, Pinkie, and the rest of you." Immediately after finishing his sentence, the girls started to hear the sound of gears grinding. Soon steam started to sprout out the Electro-light's back, following the steam came out six figures. During this Fluttershy decided to come back, only to run and hide behind Rarity. The rest looked in amazement as the steam dissipated, leaving behind six additional, identical, and complete metal versions of the original head waving around, each one looking at the six mares with curiosity, happiness, and intelligence. The heads each had a long 'neck that retracted back into sections of Electro-light's body. "Hello!,Hello!!,Hello!!!,Hello!!!!!,Hello!!!!!!,Hello!!!!!!" Said the six heads, each one at a time in a musical tone,"How are you!" Everypony, except for Pinkie, looked baffled at the six heads. "Ohh, that is so cool, what are they, well I know they're heads, but are they, like other ponies or are they separate personalities, ohh or are they just you so you can talk to yourself and other ponies at ounce, its almost like having a clone, but they are still you and..." Pinkie continued to ramble on as usual when Twilight decided to take matters into her own hooves. "You still haven't answered my questions!!!!" Twilight activated her horn and Electro-light was lifted off the ground and was flipped upside down, eyes leveled up with Twilight's, "So talk!" "Twilight darling, don't you think you are overdoing it just a tiny bit." "No Rarity, I don't think so, i just want some answers!" "It's okay Miss Rarity, we understand were Miss Twilight is coming from." "Most likely when something that looks like a monster is said to be a old friend." One of the other heads rotated to face twilight right side up, "We will answer any and all of your questions to the best of our knowledge." > Questions and answers > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The stallion with all the toys Questions and answers "Who are you?" "My name is Professor Electro-light, I used to be a..." "NO!" "No, what?" "You are not Professor Electro-light!" "Yes we are, we have been and always shall be Professor Electro-light." "We'll start this again, but with a different question, where do you live." "We don't have a residence." "Ha ha, I knew it, the Professor lives in..." "USED! to live in the higher parts in Canterlot near the southwestern park, we used to live there." "Until we retired a year ago and started to travel across Equestria." "If that is the case, then why didn't you start here, Ponyville is the closest town to Canterlot?" "Because we wanted to visit the less known parts of Equestria like Winniepeg, we actually asked Princess Celestia herself to teleport us there so we could start near the border and slowly move closer back into the center of Equestria." "Well, umm..." Twilight was starting to doubt her own accusations and her magic started to falter, "but I know Electro-light, the REAL Electro-light, he is kind and gentle and always could put a smile on my face." Twilight started to cry and her magic finally faded, leaving Electro-light to fall face first into the snow. While the rest of the group were keeping an eye on Electro-light, Applejack went over towards Twilight to comfort her. "Twilight, Ah'm sorry to say this, but he's telling the truth." The rest of the group shot their eyes towards Applejack and Twilight. "But, it can't be him, it just can't." Twilight said as she tried to push herself away from Electro-light, as she did Electro-light turned around to look at Twilight. "We're sorry to have caused you so much pain Miss Twilight, we understand if you don't believe us, so then we will be off so we won't bother you again." Electro-light got on his feet, with the rest of the girls tensing up as he did, he turned around and started to walk away, grabbing his cloak along with him. Unbeknownst to anypony was that three starving manticores were slowly easing themselves behind the group of friends while another was hiding behind a snowbank waiting to tackle Electro-light. The manticore was much larger than the other three and couldn't wait any longer and jumped over the snowbank and took hold of Electro-lights arm. The girls, except for Twilight, saw what was happening, but before they could take action, the other three manticores decided to join in and circled the mares. Twilight finally opened her eyes to see the evil manticores slowly moving closer and closer. She couldn't take it anymore and she did the only thing she could think of and that was to scream. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" ==SECONDS EARLIER== 'Life Form Detected' 'Species...Manticore' 'Condition...Weak' 'Threat Level...Minimal' 'Course Of Action...None' "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Electro-light turned around to see three more manticores circling Twilight and her friends who were ready for the kill. Electro-light became furious, knowing that they wouldn't stand a chance against the manticores. 'Error...Error!' 'Course Of Action...Kill All Manticores!!!' "SHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!" ==PRESENT== "SHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!" Everypony turned around to see Electro-light grab the neck of the first manticore and started to dig his fingers into the manticore's flesh, crimson blood spewing all over the place. The manticore roared in pain as the talons dug deeper into its neck. The manticore finally let go of Electro-lights arm only to be drop kicked across threw the air and crash into a tree with a blood curdling roar. Electro-light raised his arms in a defense position, only to have a rainbow colored ray come out of his four eyes, blasting the manticore and tree into an explosion of fire and smoke. One of the other manticores ran towards Electro-light to avenge its fallen comrade, when said manticore was inches away from him, it jumped at him, Electro-light tried to dodge the attack, but was hit with the two longest claws, putting two deep cuts into his side. "SHRRRRRRSHSHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!" Electro-light, turning around to face the manticore, he lunged at the manticore and grabbed the manticore's scorpion tail, lifting the creature up into the air and slammed it into the ground as hard as he could. He stepped over the manticore with a look os hatred and disgust. He started to slam his talons into the manticore's back over and over. The creature started to screech in pain with blood poring out of its back. Electro-light continued to do so until another manticore jumped onto his back, clawing effortlessly at the his spine, but failed to accomplish anything with the metal plating. Electro-light was rapidly moving his upper torso to try and remove the monster. It only caused the manticore to start attacking the parts of his back that were still flesh, ripping up his left shoulder with its powerful teeth. Eventually, Electro-light's other heads came out and four of them took hold of the creature's limbs, leaving the other two to start eating away at the manticore's belly. it continued to scream in pain until it was thrown off of Electro-light's back, landing on the ground with a great big hole in it, breathing its last breath. The other manticore died because of its wounds during the struggle. The last of the manticores was smarter and jumped Twilight while the rest of the girls were staring at the site before them. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Both Electro-light and the girls turned to see the manticore on Twilight, still screaming in pain as the manticore was biting down on one of her hooves. "SHRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASHRRRRRRR!!!!!!" Before anypony could react the rainbow color ray hit the manticore's side, causing the creature to let go of Twilight and it turned around to see Electro-light standing before it. "SHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAA!!!!" Electro-light's heads came out and each head grabbed a piece of the manticore, moving its body away from Twilight and stared to pound its body into the ground repeatedly, but unlike the last manticore, he continued to beat this one until it had blood coming out of its mouth. he finally let go to start brush of his talons like he just got done putting them into garbage. "SHRRRRSHRRRR!!" He talked up to be in front of the manticore, his eyes still rotating between colors, with his blood stained talons, he took both the upper and lower jaws of the manticore and began to open the monster's jaw forcefully, he continued to do when everypony could hear the sound of bones breaking, it wasn't until he took all his might and ripped the lower jaw of the manticore and threw it at the dead bodies of the creatures comrades. He pounded the manticore's head into the ground. "SHRRRRRRRAAAAAASHHHRRRRRR!!!!!" The manticore got slowly got up on its legs and began to fumble towards the forest, with a crimson trail following it and making blood gurgling sounds. Electro-light continued to be in a defense stance until he could no longer hear or see the manticore. The then stood up and put his arms to make the shape of an "X" on his chest. "SHRRRRR!" Blue electricity began to flow back and forth across his body, healing his cuts and gashes, burning away the blood in his fur and on the rest of his body. It continued for a few more seconds then it stopped when Electro-lights eyes returned to their glowing red. He started to calm down until he heard, "SOMEPONY HELP US, TWILIGHT IS BLEEDING OUT!!!!!" > To the Rescue > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The stallion with all the toys To the Rescue "Out of the way!" "No! ya'll made enough trouble as it is!" "Miss Applejack please, we're begging you, we need to see her!" "Why? So you can cause more trouble!" Applejack and Rainbow Dash were trying to keep Electro-light away from Twilight's mangled body, Pinkie was crying with her mane straightened out, and both Fluttershy and Rarity were in the snow unconscious. "You don't understand!" "Understand what? That you are a monster that just wants to stop us from saving Twilight!" "NO!" Both of the girls flinched at the sound of one of the heads next to them. "WE CAN SAVE HER!" "YOU TWO ARE JUST WASTING MORE TIME!" Electro-light's eyes started to change colors again. Applejack's legs began to shake at the sight of his eyes. Rainbow Dash on the other hoof, did not even falter. "WE SAID OUT OF OUR WAY!!!" Now both Applejack and Rainbow Dash had the look of fear in their eyes as Electro-light jumped over them, landing next to Pinkie Pie and Twilight. Pinkie saw him and grabbed his foot. Electro-light looked down at the broken mare, staring into her eyes and gently said, "Let us, let me help her, please." Pinkie straightened herself up understanding what he must do and let him pass. Rainbow Dash looked at Pinkie with disgust and Applejack looked at her with confusion. Electro-light hovered over Twilight's almost lifeless body, with a tear in his upper left sensor he whispered into her ear, "It's going to be okay." Then each of his heads circled over Twilight, wires coming out of their mouths, attaching themselves to Twilight's crimson smeared coat. 'Repair Sequence On Standby' 'Heart Rate...Low' 'Blood Count...Low' 'Power At Sixty-five Percent' 'Chances Of Success...Minimal' 'Commence Repair Sequence' Just like before, a blue electronic wave formed around Electro-light, slowly engulfing Twilight as well. Immediately after she was engulfed, Twilight's injuries started to fade away and the blood was evaporating into the air around them. 'Power At Thirty-two Percent' 'Abort Repairs...Continue Repairs' Applejack and Rainbow Dash began to slowly move towards Twilight and Electro-light when suddenly bursts of the electricity started to break around the field, causing it to ripple around the two. Electro-light began to shake under the intense pressure. 'Power At Twelve Percent' "Just a little more, come on almost there." 'Power At Ten Percent...' The field finally gave into a flash of light consisting of multiple colors. The three mares looked away at the sight when Electro-light was thrown into the snow, holding a clean, breathing lavender unicorn in his talons. 'Repair Sequence Completed' 'Heart Rate...Normal' 'Blood Count...Normal' 'Power At Five Percent' 'Sequence...Successful' Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash went over to Electro-light with worried looks on their faces. Electro-light lifted his main head at them with a smile on his face. "It was a success." At the sound of the news Pinkie's hair 'popped' back into its normal look and smiled at Electro-light. Applejack and Rainbow Dash also started to smile at him,but before anything else could continue everything for Electro-light went black. ===End Of Act I=== > Day two - Maximilian and First Contact > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The stallion with all the toys Day two - Maximilian and First Contact Within the Everfree near the area that the events of the day before took place, under one of the larger trees stood a large metal bipedal figure with what would be called "Chicken Designed" legs with three toes and a sliding knee joint. The upper torso of the machine was a large middle piece that was shaped like a large smooth ended snout, the lower part having a rectangular opening. On each side of the torso were cylinder shaped with the right side having a single barrel at the end and attachments on its side. The left cylinder had two barrels sticking out at the end with no attachments. The main color was black with silver on the upper torso and on the underparts of its toes and what could be considered its arms. With the sun coming up for a new day, the machines insides began to light up and flicker. 'Resting Sequence Completed...' 'Activate AI System...Good Morning [MAXIMILIAN]' 'Time...Six-O-Seven...Checking All Systems' 'All Systems Running at Normal' 'Checking For Signal...' 'Signal Not Found' 'Directives From [ELECTRO-LIGHT]' '1. Do Not Harm Sentient Life-forms Unless For Defense' '2. Protect Master [ELECTRO-LIGHT]' '3. Be A Good Boy' '...Locate Memory Banks From Twenty-Two Hours Ago...' {ELECTRO-LIGHT}-'I'm going ahead to explain everything to the fellow ponies of Ponyville. Do not leave this spot unless I do not return in twenty-four hours or my signal is no longer detected, ok. Also, be good and rest...you earned it boy'-{ELECTRO-LIGHT} 'Signal Is Lost' 'Course Of Action...Infiltrate and Rescue' 'Activate All Binary Systems' 'Activate All Weapons' 'Locate Signal Echo...Echo Located' 'Signal Faded Beyond Use' 'Course Of Action...Activate Old Scent Coordinator' 'Commence Operation (RUN AND FETCH)' Maximilian began to get his leggings and started to sniff the air with the 'Scent Coordinator' and began to walk away from the tree in a senseless direction. Moving with each step, making a "THUD" as they hit the ground. He continued at a slow walk and then began to speed up so he could get his mission complete and get his master away from danger. ====== On the trail to Zecora's hut, a young unicorn was trotting along to get some potions from the zebra mare. She was just having a good time until she heard. "THUD" "THUD" She stopped to listen, she had no idea what the sound could be or what was making them. "THUD" "THUD" It continued to get loader and faster as it got even closer, she was more curious then scared until she remembered that she was in the Everfree Forest, the most dangerous place in Equestria. She was getting ready to just run towards Zecora's hut until she saw a large, metallic creature break through the trees and stop. She didn't know what to do, but in her mind the best thing was to slowly walk away. ====== He finally broke out of the trees to see some more trees just ahead. This confused Max because it was unnatural to him, he looked to his left and saw what looked like a dirt trail. At this point he had lost the scent of his master and was looking aroung until he heard the sound of hooves moving. He turned around to see a Pink coated unicorn mare with and blue mane and tail, with a whit rose as her cuite mark. She was facing away from Max, slowly walking in the direction she was facing. "HALT!" His voice was loud and distorted, but it had the impact of authority and importance. The unicorn stopped in her tracks and turned around to face him. "Y-yes?" Whispered the unicorn, but Max's sensors where able to detect it. "YOU WILL ASSIST ME!" He commanded, "WHAT IS OUR PRESENT LOCATION!" "I-in the Everfree Forest." Said the frightened mare. "DO YOU KNOW OF A TOWN CALLED PONYVILLE!" "Y-yes." "IN WHICH DIRECTION IS PONYVILLE FROM MY POSITION!" "That way s-sir." The unicorn replied as she pointed a hoof in the direction Max was looked towards earlier. He looked at the unicorn and towards the direction she was pointing at, walking away from her towards Ponyville, but then turned around and asked, "WHAT IS YOUR NAME!" The Unicorn flinched as replied, "M-my name is Living Bloom." "IT WAS NICE TO MEET YOU LIVING BLOOM AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION!" He then continued to walk away from the frightened and confused mare, she sat there for a while until she eventually decided it was just her imagination and continued her walk towards Zecora's, but decided that she would tell her what just happened just to see if it was her imagination or that it was real. ====== It was another peaceful day in the Ponyville market area, where ponies come over everyday to by goods and foods. it was a very good day for Big Macintosh and Apple Bloom, because this year they have enough apples for the entire winter. Ponies were buying apples left and right, yes it was a good day until. "THUD" THUD" Everypony stopped in confusion, the sounds became loader and loader, but were at a steady pace, "THUD" THUD" "THUD" . Some ponies were leaving the market place in fear of the sound. Eventually one pony yelled out, "LOOK!" And everypony turned towards the east end of the market, only to see a large black and silver, chicken legged machine that had to be at least taller then Princess Luna, but shorter then Princess Celestia. It continued to march forward as ponies got out of its way, until it reached the apple stand. Both Big Mac and Apple Bloom stared in amazement at the metal giant until they heard. CRUNCH! Everypony looked down at its left leg to see it crushed a whole basket of apples, the machine lifted its leg and started to shake off the apples from its servos. Once it was finished it was going to continue walking. "Hey!" Yelled Big Mac, Max turned around to face him, "You ain't going anywhere until you pay for those apples!" Big Mac started to walk towards Max. "HALT!" At the sound of his voice, everypony flinched in fear except for Big Mac, who was very angry at Max, he took a broom with his mouth and put himself in a attack position. "LAY DOWN YOUR WEAPON AND LEAVE ME ALONE...YOU ARE INTERRUPTING A IMPORTANT INVESTIGATION...I AM SORRY FOR YOUR APPLES, BUT I AM BUSY!" "NO!" Yelled out Big Mac, even with the broom in his mouth Maximillian was still able to understand him. "YOU ARE TALKING TO AUTHORITY!" He opens up a compartment in his left appendage to reveal a detective badge and a certificate certifying it the right to kill anypony as long as the pony is a criminal want dead or alive or if they interfere with police business, but only known to Max was that both were outdated and he just wanted to intimidate they stallion, "LAY DOWN YOUR WEAPON OR I WILL HAVE TO USE LETHAL FORCE!" Max's weapons were ready for dealing with this situation, "YOU HAVE THIRTY SECONDS TO COMPLY!" > Complicated > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The stallion with all the toys Day two - Complicated '...Systems Starting' 'Begin Systems Check...' 'Systems At One Hundred Percent' 'Activate AI [ELECTRO-LIGHT]' 'Systems Beacon...Deactivated' 'Reactivation Of Beacon In Two Hours' 'Scanning Area...' 'Maximilian Is In Area' 'Activation Commence' Electro-light began to stir from what most ponies might call slumber, opening his receptors to a bright light, to fix this he dimmed the sensors. He started to regain his hearing at the sound of beeps and clicks. Looking around he could see that he was in a pale white room. Next to him were medical devices and by looking at them he could tell that they had been modified for him. He was in a hospital bed. By his internal clock it had to be at least a quarter before noon. "Good to see that you are awake." Electro-light turned his main head towards the door to see a white unicorn mare with medical clothing, her mane was pink with a medical cross as a cutie mark. Looking through the files in his data banks, he concluded that this mare was Nurse Redheart of the Ponyville Hospital. Redheart was looking at the now awakened machine-pony-thing, when one of its secondary heads came over towards her. Staring at her for a few moments, she was slight feel of discomfort. "Greetings Miss Redheart, Nurse of The Ponyville Hospital and are you here to check up on us?" Redheart was at first cautious of the head, but after hearing the head speak she relaxed. "Yes, I just wanted to see if you were doing well, but because you are awake answers some of my questions." The rest of the heads join in, "Your words indicate that you have questions that have not been answered? "Well, yes I do have some questions." "Ask away, Miss Redheart." "Well, my only other question would be how you healed all your wounds so quickly, and how you put those 'implants into your body?" "Well that question is a tough one, when we have more time we will explain it in more depth, but for now all we can say that it took years of study and a lot of pain." "Oh, okay, and also you have some visitors Mr...?" "Electro-light, Professor Electro-light." "Okay, they will be in a moment." Nurse Redheart left the room and met with the mane six and some bystanders who saw Electro-light's body and were waiting out of curiosity. Twilight looked towards Nurse Redheart as she gave them the signal to follow her to the room. Twilight and the rest of the girls followed the nurse to room six. "How is his condition nurse?" Twilight asked. "He is doing very well, all of the wounds and scars he had when you brought him here are already gone and show no signs of damage at all." "He was in a worse condition before he saved you Twilight." Commented Rainbow Dash. "That also intrigues me, you girls say that Twilight was on the verge of death and Mr." "Professor!" Pinkie interrupted. "Yes, Professor Electro-light saved your life with a large amount of energy, amazing!" "Ya'l should of seen it, Ah haven't seen anything like that in my life." "It...was nice looking though." "Yes, it was just fascinating darling." "Well, you can all ask him when you see him, which will be soon since we are here." They all stopped to stare at the door number, six, behind that door was a being of great power and wisdom. Twilight was now convinced that behind the door was Professor Electro-light, he saved her for Celestia's sake, and also she did send a letter to Celestia to see if his story was true, which is was. They opened the door to be greeted by three heads, which suggested that Electro-light was getting curious at what was taking them so long. "Hello Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie Pie... Rarity, Fluttershy... Rainbow Dash, and Nurse Redheart." "How are you all this fine day, it is right now six thirty-five, oh and how may we help you." Nurse left the room after explaining that she had to do some other things and that she would come back when it was time for them to go. "Well, we just wanted to see how you are doing?" "Ya, you were all like jump, kick, punch, pow, and then you saved Twilight's life, how cool is that, and that roar, it was so cool...hmf!" Rainbow Dash put her hoof in Pinkie's mouth to stop her rambling so Twilight could continue to speak. "And I also wanted to say I'm sorry for not believing you, its just that I'm not used to things like this, well I'm used to crazy things, just not this type of crazy." "It's okay Twilight, I know you very well, I should have expected such a reaction." "Well, of course silly, Twilight always become scary and creepy when strange things happen." "Ah think he gets that Pinkie." "Okkie dokie lokie!" The room became silent again as Twilight was waiting to see if any other pony had anything else to say. The silence was broken by Electro-light's slight cough. Twilight looked at Electro-light in confusion until she realized he was signaling her that it was okay to talk again. "Well, thank you for saving me Professor." "Why wouldn't we, we wouldn't be able to see you smile, we thought you looked so adorable when you were a filly." "Ya, your right, I was adorable." Both were giggling while the rest were watching. Applejack stepped up to ask a question that was on the rest of their minds. "Ya'l both act like father and daughter to me, you knew each other that well." "Yes, you're partially correct Applejack, you see how Celestia was like a second mother to me." "Well, Ah have to agree with that." "Professor Electro-light over here is like a second father to me." The girls went "OH" in understanding of Twilight's explanation. "Well, Electro-light, how was your journey, was it like daring doo cool or just cool?" Asked Rainbow Dash. The rest of the girls except for Pinkie Pie turned their heads towards the cyan Pegasus with looks that said 'really'. Rainbow dash just looked at them and said, "What?" Electro-light didn't seem to notice and began to answer Rainbow's question. "To us it was amazing, traveling across Equestria was amazing, we saw many things on our way, just us and Maximilian, aww it was just amazing." Electro-light was relaxed until he tensed up and whispered, "Maximilian." Everypony stared at him in confusion, "Maximillian?" They asked in unison. All of the secondary heads come into view, "Maximilian, my dog, I left him in the forest while I went to investigate. I told him to stay and wait until I came back, but if i didn't come back in twenty-four hours he was to start looking for me or he was go after me if my signal stopped, my signal has been deactivated for at least a day." Applejack walked towards him with anger in her face, "You left a defenseless dog in the Everfree Forest!" "Not exactly, he isn't normal, he's more machine then dog, I think the only part of him that is still organic is the brain and other important organs. He has his defenses and is extremely intelligent and powerful, if anypony got on his bad side, since he's looking for me, would end very badly." As if on cue explosions began and could be heard throughout the hospital.