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// Fall of the beast 
// Story: Synthetic but living: Adventures in Cyberspace 
// by Dark Nightshade 
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The beast no longer focused on anyone else, just running on to Canterlot High, which was fortunate.

"What's the plan?" Raw Data asked. Flash had filled them in on what Derpy had done.

We put up some mirrors, Derpy said. It should realize that it's looking at itself, and destroy itself. Flash repeated Derpy's words.

"That's really smart," Ultrabyte said. Derpy blushed. She was glad no one could see her, and it wasn't just because she was naked. She had never been the best at making ideas, and was very clumsy.

Aww, thanks! Derpy said. Flash repeated that to Ultrabyte.

"You're welcome," Ultrabyte said. "Now, we're almost there, so we need to get mirrors from wherever. Where are we going to get mirrors?"

"There are some in the bathroom," Raw Data said.

"And in the drama classroom," Flash said.

"Ok, I'll try to find some others," Ultrabyte said. "Flash, just park in front of the school." Flash's car came to a stop in front of the glass doors of Canterlot High, turned it off, and Flash and Raw Data started running towards where they had said mirrors where hanging. Ultrabyte sighed and took off towards the girls bathroom. As each person collected mirrors, Infinity Crisis wandered the insides of the school, looking for 'Ultrabyte', AKA himself. It couldn't find her. Maybe she had already left. As it turned a corner, it saw someone standing at the far end of the hallway. Whoever it was moved something in front of itself, and Infinity Crisis suddenly saw 'Ultrabyte'. It screeched and started sprinting towards it. 'Ultrabyte' did the same, mirroring his own movements. As Infinity Crisis reached 'Ultrabyte', he morphed his hand into a blade and attempted to plunge it into her heart. She was still mirroring his movements. As the blade hit 'Ultrabyte', she shattered and pieces of glass fall to the floor. Behind it, crouched low, was a kid. The kid pointed behind Infinity Crisis and yelled "There she is!" Infinity Crisis turned around, and sure enough, there was 'Ultrabyte'. She was still mirroring his own movements. Infinity Crisis heard noise behind him and turned around. 'Ultrabyte' had somehow managed to get behind him. He looked back towards the other end of the hallway. She was still there. Both 'Ultrabyte's' started closing in on Infinity Crisis, and he started to realize that they were mirrors. He was Ultrabyte. His mind exploded at the thought, and smoke started pouring out of where his ears would be. He looked at his hands as his mind processed that he was the person that he was hunting down. It realized that there was only one thing left to do. Its hand morphed into a light saber handle, and without a further thought, it activated it. The light blade pierced through its chest and through its power core, destroying it almost instantly. Raw Data and Flash peeked across the sides of the mirrors they were holding and saw the robot collapse. The room was silent. Until they heard the actual Ultrabyte's footsteps closing in on their location. She turned the corner and saw the crumpled blood covered body of the robot lying on the floor.

"Wow, it's dead," she said. "What happened?"

"We caught it in between two mirrors and it killed itself," Flash said. "It must've recognized that it was the person in the image that Derpy gave to it and decided to actual finish itself." Ultrabyte nodded, astonishment clear on her face.

"So it's all over," she said. "Hopefully, that's the last of General Burrow, or anything he makes for a long time." Everyone stared cheering, including Derpy, even though only Flash could hear her. As they started towards the door, a sudden swarm of armed policemen turned the corners.

"Put your hands up!" one of then called out. Flash, Ultrabyte and Raw Data froze, except for their hands, which were raising above their heads. Nobody moved for a few seconds, until another voice rang out.

"Is that the murderer?" it asked.

"Is it dead?" another voice asked.

"Did they kill it?" yet another asked. The next hour and a half was spent by the police going over their stories, making sure they checked out, and eventually releasing them, but not before giving them a thorough chewing out about facing off a dangerous murderer without backup, and that it was incredible fortunate that it ended up killing itself. The police had decided on the story they were going to tell to the public: That some insane person had programmed a robot with one purpose, and one purpose only: to kill. As the excitement of the night began to come down, Flash's car also had to be examined, because it was so damaged and covered in blood. It took a little while talking to the police about that, and having to reveal Raw Data's organic repurpasing machine, and that the girl who had been killed in his car was actually still alive, although not physically. That sparked up some interest in the police force, and Ultrabyte got some more people she had to train. As they finally got to go home, or to Raw Data's home, they talked as they walked.

"What if Burrow has something else that will try to kill us?" Ultrabyte asked.

"Well, then we train," Flash said. "We train to destroy coding fast, and efficiently."

Or we could train to reprogram them, Derpy said. After all, that's what I tried to do, and my body is dead. We should do that. Flash nodded.

"That is true," he said. "Who knows, maybe we can reprogram them to make muffins?" Derpy giggled.

That would be nice, she said. Ultrabyte and Raw Data decided to not ask what they were talking about, getting enough information from what Flash had said. They got to Raw Data's house, dragged Derpy's body to the repurpasing machine and put it into the genetic material compartment. They continued to wait for the next half hour, talking about what might be coming. And finally, the machine was ready. Of course, Raw Data had gone out to collect some twigs and sticks to make up for all the lost blood, and to help remake the parts of Derpy's body that had been to damaged to be remade into her new body. As Derpy entered the machine, and started up the process or making her new body, they all continued to talk. Until they fell asleep, anyway. And when Derpy's newly made body fell out of the machine, she fell asleep alongside the others. Fortunately, she had something soft to land on: Flash's stomach. She had waken him, but he hadn't minded, probably because she was butt naked. The next morning, of course, when they got back to school, they were greeted with excited students, talking about what they had heard and seeing if what they heard was true or not. It made class rather difficult. That afternoon, after school had ended, some more students had joined the group to learn how to put themselves into computers, along with half of the police force. Burning Brilliance was happy with the amount of people wanting to join them, but was unhappy with having to make more Elixir of Exchange. Derpy and Flash got the day off, though, to help Derpy train her new bodies muscles. All in all, people were happy with the destruction of the robot, glad that it wasn't able to kill anymore, although many people were sad because of the deaths it had caused, but Derpy was still seen as a hero. As the sun set of that night and Ultrabyte fell asleep, fate was etching her path, along with the people she was close to, and making their paths reach far, far into the future. If only they had known. Derpy would've pack muffins.