Celestia stood looking over the remains of an ancient facility, at her side stood a mare with tan coat and black mane and tail. "So any idea what exactly this is?" The Mare asked as he looked to the Princess.
Celestia shook her head. "Despite my age this world still holds many secrets Ms. Do." She said as she and the Daring Do approached the ruins. "If I had to guess I'd say you found one of the ruins of our predecessors." She explained.
Daring frowned. "So what, there was some super advanced society before ponies or something?" She asked sarcastically however when Celestia didn’t respond she looked at the princess in shock. "You're kidding?" She asked.
Celestia sighed. "We don’t know what happened to them but the evidence is undeniable." She said calmly. "From what we understand they had no magic or physical attributes that gave them an advantage, as such the used their minds to invent technology to advance their society." She explained before sighing. "Sadly there are few surviving records of them left; this race was near extinction when my mother was young, if that gives any clues to how ancient we're speaking." She continued as they reached the ruins and entered it.
As they walked they saw what appeared to be golems of metal however as Daring poked one it fell to dust. "Damn, looks like whatever’s left is too old or damaged to use." She said with a sigh.
Celestia nodded. "Most of what they built is like that but there may be areas underground. If there are then we might get something worthwhile." She said calmly as they began to explore the area till Celestia noticed a stairway almost hidden by a section of collapsed roof. "I found the entrance!" she called over to the adventurer.
As Daring joined the Princess she watched in amazement as the princess used her magic to lift the collapsed roof easily. Daring whistled. "Damn, wish I could use magic. It would make my adventures way easier." She muttered.
Celestia smiled as she raised her hand and an orb of solar magic appeared. "Let's go." She said as the two made their way down. As they reached the bottom they stood in what would most likely have been a massive chamber with hundreds of clear glass tubes however now all the tubes appears broken or smashed open. Daring approached one of the shattered tubes to see the body of a machine like creature in it. "Princess... what is this?" She asked as she turned to Celestia.
Celestia frowned as he walked over and knelt down the light in her hand illuminating the decay on the robot. "It seems that this was done recently." She muttered. "They couldn’t have died more than a few centuries ago at best."
Daring frowned. "I'd of said sooner given they're still decaying."
Celestia shook her head. "No, they decay slowly." She said as she rose. "But this doesn't make sense, the way these tubes are smashed shows it was done by an outside force." She muttered as she looked around. "Somethings wrong here, some oner destroyed these containers willingly and who ever did it used magic, it's fain't but there's definitely a magic signature." She said as she rose and increased the light. "Stay close to me Ms. Do, what ever did this may have left traps." She said as she began to walk deeper into the chamber.
As they walked deeper something began to watch them, an ancient conciseness that had long grown warped felt them draw near to its charge. As they reached the end of the corridor and found what was protected it deemed them a threat to its protocol however no bodies were available. As the two organics approached the doors to their salvation he deemed it time to awaken.
Celestia froze as she sensed a massive magic surge. "Princess, what's wrong?" Daring asked. Celestia narrowed her eyes as the walls around them suddenly began to glow and a massive robotic hand thrust upward breaking through the floor and pulling the body of a massive golem that was heavily damaged out of the floor.
Daring looked shocked as the massive mechanic monstrosity seemed to glare at them angrily. "More of you pony intruders!? Thou dare walk these hollow halls after the transgressions of thy committed upon us last time?" It growled. "thou shall not slay our Queen for as the King of the Nasod we shall stop thee our self!" He roared as he charged his weapons.
The light in Celestias hand transformed and grew till she held a glowing Hallberg in her hand as the King unleashed a blast from his weapons. Celestia blocked the attack with her magic by summoning a shield and charged the massive golem who blocked the strike with his arm. As the King blocked the attack his other fist charged a glowing red energy and as she leapt away he thrust it forward slamming it into the ground leaving a crater in its wake. "You continue to persist, thou have slain all those who protected here, we did nothing to you or your kind and you kill us!" The Mechanical being roared in anger as Celestia ran forward leaping onto it's mechanical arm and running up it her spear charging as she moved leaping as she reached the end of the limb and thrusting her spear forward into the robots head.
The robot screamed in what seemed to be pain as he fell back clutching his face. For a moment he tried to raise once more however Celestia forced the robot the cease its attempts as she threw the spear into the core of the Nasod Kings chest. The King froze for a moment before is seemed to fall back and slump against a wall it's light flickering as he looked at the two intruders, it's demeanor shifting from aggression to what appeared to be fear. "F-or-give m-e Master Adrian, I c-ould no-t p-p-ro-te-ct our Little Queen." It said as the light left it and it fell silent.
Celestia sighed as she swayed for a moment breathing heavy, as she tried to regain her breath Daring Do came out of her hiding place. "Are you alright Princess?" She asked in concern.
Celestia sighed. "Aside from my pride I'm fine." She said out of breath. "I was just forced to realize how out of shape I've become from ruling, something I'll have to remedy in the coming few years." She said with a sigh.
Daring frowned as they looked at the King. "Not so out of shape if you can do that." She said as she walked over and examined the Nasod King. "Still what he said was odd." She stated as she turned to the massive door before them. "But it looks like we got a name for their race, Nasod." She said as she turned to Celestia. "You think that Adrian person he mentioned was their creator or something?" She asked.
Celestia frowned. "It's possible." She said unsure. "Like I said earlier, we know very little about this race as it was almost dead when my mother was young." I do believe she mentioned a King of the race once or twice however I imagine that if that was him he's been here for at least a little less than a hundred thousand years. If that the case then who we just faced is nothing more than a fragmented remain."
Daring frowned. "So he was crazy from living here so long and maybe not even at full power?" She asked receiving a nod from Celestia. Daring groaned. "Great, just what we need; an overpowered and craze golem race that is alive too." She said sarcastically.
Celestia frowned. "What do you think He meant by us coming to slay their Queen?" She asked causing Darring to shrug.
"I don't know." She said as she looked over the door. "But I do know this door has power and it can be opened." She said as she pressed a button and the door activated with a hiss and began to lower. As the door slowly lowered a wave of stale air rushed out and the two ponies saw a new chamber.
The chamber was circular and despite its size there was only one thing inside, a glass cylinder containing a floating creature similar to them. Celestia approached and examined the being before her eyes widened. "He was protecting her." She whispered causing Daring to loom confused. "The King thought we were here to kill the Queen, he was protecting this chamber which means..."
Celestia trailed off and Daring picked up in a shocked tone. "Which means that this is their Queen." She finished.
The world was dark, where was she? Why was she here? She remembered something, Eve... Is that her name?" She couldn't remember. Suddenly she felt the darkness began to fade away and words appeared before her
>Reboot in Progress_
Reboot? What was rebooting? She thought as she began to wake. More code flashed before her eyes and she felt her systems coming on line more.
>Running Systems Check_
>0%_
>Primary Mainframe: Operational_
>Human emotion circuits: Operational_
>Growth AI Protocols: Operational_
>25%_
>Nasod Code Backup Bank: Operational_
>50%_
>Artificial Intelligence Core: Operational_
>75%_
>Core Release System: Operational_
>90%_
>Error_
>Scanning systems for cause of Error_
>10%_
>50%_
>95%_
>100%_
>Memory Banks: 53% damaged_
>Initiating Data Recovery_
>>All Data recoverable from Nasod Code Backup Bank_
>>Beginning recovering_
>Time Elapsed: 00:02:00_
>Perpetual Gear: Offline_
>Status: Drive Data Missing_
>Imaginary Gear: Offline_
>Status: Drive Data Missing_
>Gravitational Gear: Offline_
>Status: Drive Data Missing_
>Quantum Gear: Offline_
>Status: Drive Data Missing_
>Shadow Gear: Offline_
>Status: Drive Data Missing_
>Nemesis' Blade: Offline_
>Damage to Electra Data_
>Restore Electra Data to reactivate
>Elrian Clock Detected: Offline_
>Elrian Clock Locked_
>Restore Sariel Key Code to reactivate
>Code: Electra Data: Offline_
>Status: Damaged_
>Initiating Repair_
>Time Elapsed: 48:00:00_
>Code: Battle Seraph Circuit Chip: Offline_
>Status: Damaged_
>Initiating Repair_
>Repair to Electra Data required before repair permitted_
>Transcendence: Offline_
>Status: Locked_
>Initiating Unlocking Sequence
>Repair to Battle Seraph Circuit Chip required before unlock permitted_
>Code: Sariel Key Code: Offline_
>Status: Damaged
>Initiating Repair
>Reactivation of Transcendence required before repair permitted_
'So much damage... why am I so damaged?' She thought. 'Was I engaged in combat? If so who was I fighting?' The sound of an explosion shook the darkness she was in drawing her further into the light. "What's going on?!" She yelled into the darkness however as she did memories flashed through her mind. They hurt, she hurt, and then she remembered; she remembered her race, the Nasod, she remembered her creator, Adrian, a simple scientist who loved her and tried to give her a wonderful life.
She remembered who she was; she was the Queen of the Nasod, Eve.
>Memory Restoration completed_