//------------------------------// // Chapter 24 : Surprise Visits and Robots // Story: Friends With a Spy // by cakestealer //------------------------------// Derpy, Vinyl, and Octavia all whipped around to see where the disembodied voice had come from. To their surprise and thankfulness it wasn’t somepony coming to kill them, it was Cherry Charm. Vinyl and Octavia both sighed a sigh of extraordinary sigh of relief. “Oh thank Celestia it’s you. You really scared us bad Cherry.” Derpy scolded. “Well, I guess all that stealth training has paid off then. Anywho, I think I heard something about robots.” “Yes, we found this blueprint.” Derpy pointed to the blueprint and showed Cherry the diagram of the robot pony. “Wow, that is really… surprising. This has got to be big if there’s robots being produced.” “Yeah, there also has been a lot of metal purchases from this shop which probably means there’s a lot of robots. Wait, how did you know we were coming here Cherry?” “Oh, I didn’t know you guys were going to be here. I just knew about the large amount of metal purchases so I decided to come here and investigate. Of course nopony likes when you’re snooping around their property so I decided to do a little investigation on my own terms.” “Oh, that makes sense. I was worried that you were part of Project R.G.R. and had came to take us down, silently.” “Nope, I’m all natural P.O.N.E. agent.” Cherry joked. “Speaking of Project R.G.R. I think we have some confirmation about what they’re up to. Look at this.” Vinyl said. She gestured to a label on the blueprint that said “Project R.G.R.” in big bold letters. “Well isn’t that great. Project R.G.R. is trying to make a robot army and take over Equestria.” Vinyl stated. “There’s probably more to it than that Vinyl.” Derpy replied. “The question is, if there is more to it than that, what do they want with robots? Not to mention who even is Project R.G.R.?” “Derpy’s right. We still don’t know anything about this organization. We should probably figure that out before we figure out what they want with robots.” Octavia interrupted. “We could probably figure out both of those things at the same time. They are pretty well connected.” Cherry added. They examined the blueprint for further details. Labels for all kinds of weapons coated the back of the pony in the diagram. “Right here! It says the engineer’s name! Designed by Steel Horseshoes.” Derpy said. “That’s awesome we can use that to find this guy and question him!” Vinyl said. “Wow, I didn’t expect to be finding out any super important details that quickly after we found out about a different super important detail.” Cherry remarked. “I bet since he’s the designer of the robots he knows a lot of the important stuff about Project R.G.R.!” Octavia realised. “You’re right! We need to figure out where this guy lives and make a good plan to get him. He probably is surrounded by guards.” “Yes, we’ll need a plan. But I think we have what we need so let’s go back home.” Derpy said. She put the blueprint in her duffel bag and started walking to the door. “Derpy, don’t you think the blueprint should go to P.O.N.E. headquarters?” Cherry asked. “Oh, you’re right. Here just let me get a picture first.” Derpy pulled a camera out of the duffel bag and snapped a shot of the blueprint. She handed the blueprint to Cherry. All four ponies walked out the door. Cherry said goodbye and ran into the darkness. The other three of them started making the journey back home. This late at night less ponies were less likely out to be watching Derpy decided so they didn’t have to be as careful about staying in the shadows and being absolutely silent. Once they made it into there own and house and shut the door Octavia left out a sigh of relief. They all took their black masks and clothing off. “I feel like we’re getting ourselves into something that’s more than we can handle you guys.” Octavia said. “No, we got this!” Vinyl said. “Are you sure, this seems like it’s going to be a pretty big operation. I mean it’s a whole concentrated organization that planned this out. They must have a lot of ponies and tech. Especially robot tech.” “Relax Octy, P.O.N.E. has got our backs. They won’t let some new agents die.” “Okay Vinyl, remember how I said I was tired of saying that you’re right all the time?” “Yeah.” “Well this time I think you are actually right and I need to stop freaking out or I’m going to have a heart attack.” “I think so too. I mean if we do what we’re supposed to and make sure we’re careful then we should be fine. That’s why P.O.N.E. instructs us to do that kind of thing, to keep us safe.” “Okay Vinyl I got it. Let’s just try to stick together in whatever happens these next few days.” “Okay Octy.”