Synthetic but living

by Dark Nightshade


It's not a glitch!

For the next several hours, Raw Data and Twilight scanned Ultrabyte's code traces, to try and find her. As it turned out, she wasn't even close to the city. Her signal was currently being traced to an empty area several thousand miles away. Raw Data got onto another website and started looking at plane times and whatnot.

"I hope you're not planing on going without us!" Twilight said. Raw Data nodded.

"That's exactly what I'm planing," he said. "I don't have any money to help get any of you there anyway." Twilight groaned.

"You don't need to pay for us!" she exclaimed. "Or at least not me, anyway."

"Besides, do you have a plan to stop Burrow and get Ultrabyte back?" Sunset Shimmer asked. Raw Data paused for a few seconds.

"Not really," he said.

"Well, fortunately for you, I do," Twilight said. "Have you ever played Horizon Zero Dawn?" Raw Data nodded. "Have you completed the game?" Raw Data nodded again. "Ok, remember that after credits scene where Sylens trapped HADES inside that canister thing?"

"Yeah," Raw Data said.

"I have an idea that's like that," Twilight said. "I've been thinking about that canister all afternoon, and I might be able to make something like that that could get Ultrabyte back." Raw Data grinned.

"Sounds like a plan," Raw Data said.


Burrow was happy. He had finally gotten Ultrabyte back, and now she was in his complete control. He had put Ultrabyte into a machine that was much bigger and much more dangerous and much bigger than any Deathbringer was. This was the E.X.T.I.N.C.T.I.O.N. It was bigger than any building, and could fight a war all on its own. Of course, it didn't have all of its abilities set up, so that sucked, but it was still powerful enough to take over the country. It had the body of what looked like a bug, but instead of having wings, or having anything that made a bug useful, it had blades attached to everywhere. It also had laser eyes, and insane strength. It also had self sustaining battery power, because nothing could power it for long enough. And now it was all ready. It was ready to finally power up. There was a control booth inside the head, just in case anything went wrong with Ultrabyte, which was probable. His mind control technology wasn't very good still, and besides, Burrow wanted a good view of the destruction. As the hatch over the underground research base continued to open up, and solar panels on the back of the E.X.T.I.N.C.T.I.O.N started to charge up, and the machine started to power up. As its many arms started to lift the many body up and grabed onto the ledges of the cavern, Burrow smiled. He was finally in control, in perhaps the most powerful machine ever built. And it was a beauty. As the machine continued climbing out, he looked at the control panel, which was glowing bright pink.

"Ultrabyte, head towards the nearest nuclear facility," Burrow said. Ultrabyte didn't actually say anything, but the machine did start to turn towards the west, where the nearest, and probably biggest nuclear facility was. Of course, this was instrumental in Burrow's plan, because he hadn't been able to fill up the E.X.T.I.N.C.T.I.O.N with nuclear warheads, and he neaded them.

"How long will it take to get to the facility?" Burrow asked.

"Approximately an hour, forty two minutes and thirty six seconds," Ultrabyte said in a monotone. Burrow nodded.

"Good," he said. "Tint the glass." As the glass blackened, Burrow crossed his arms and closed his eyes. "Wake me up when we're a few minutes before there."

"Yes, sir," Ultrabyte said.


Meanwhile, Raw Data, Twilight, Sunset Shimmer, Rarity and Pinkie had boarded a plane that would take them near where they suspected Burrow to go next. It had just taken off. Twilight, of course, was excited, despite the danger.

"It's the biggest nuclear testing facility ever built!" she said.

"And if Burrow gets into it, who knows how much damage he can do?" Sunset Shimmer asked. "I've heard rumors of powerful magic like this existing in Equestria, but those were just rumors. If these bombs do what you tell me can do, than we are in some serious problems."

"Which is why we need to get there as soon as possible!" Raw Data said.

"Oh! Oh! Oh!" Pinkie exclaimed. "How about we travel by map?" Everyone else looked extremely confused.

"I've been wanting to ask, is she always like this?" Raw Data asked. Rarity nodded.

"Pretty much," she said. "What do you mean by that?" Pinkie grinned.

"Oh, this is what I mean," she said. Suddenly, the screen became slightly transparent, and a map appeared as well as the main image.

"What was in those oreos?" Raw Data asked. After half a minute of the map plane jumping from place to place, they arrived at their destination. Fortunately, Sunset Shimmer had closed her window before Pinkie had done the travel by map thing, which probably would've made the nausea worse. The people in the plane were murmuring to each other.

"Pinkie, please, never do that again," Sunset Shimmer said. She, and the others were clutching their stomachs.

"Ah, don't worry!" Pinkie said. "In a few seconds, something will happen that'll make you forget about your upset tummies!" And something did happen. A woman behind then screamed and pointed out of the window. Everyone else looked outside to where the woman was pointed, and everyone started panicking.

"Sunset, open the window!" Raw Data exclaimed. Sunset Shimmer had fortunately already started to lift it. And when it was lifted, the group gasped. That woman had been right to scream. There was....something stomping it's way across the landscape, several miles away from them. It looked sort of like an ant. A metal, very weaponized, freakishly gigantic ant. People had started to exit the plane, completely ignoring the captains requests to "Calmly exit in a nice and orderly fashion."

"Well, at least we found him," Twilight said. "Hey, Raw Data, you said you know how to highjack a car, right?" Raw Data nodded.

"I think we're going to need it now," Rarity said. As they started to get their stuff and exit the plane, they all looked at the mechanical beast that was on its way towards the nuclear weapons plant.

"We can't go through customs again," Twilight said. "It was a miracle that they let us take the magnate trap with us from Canterlot, but that was because they knew me. We need to find another way out." Raw Data looked around as they entered the airport, and grinned.

"Don't worry, I have an idea," he said as he stared at a security room.