Rarity tapped away at her keyboard, she needed to finish her report before she could leave her office for the testing and then she could take a break and grab some lunch. She was busy and it was to be expected when a mare ran a multi-billion bit company, Back when she had first met Twilight her most remarkable invention had been a remote control 4 wheeled cart that ran on electrical power instead of magic, Twilight, like most, thought it was a cute idea but felt magic was far more reliable, as time had gone on she had gone up in the world until the day it had happened, Queen Chrysalis had infiltrated and replaced her with a changeling, one who had no idea how her inventions functioned and Sweetie had called it on it's bluff, and almost paid with her life for doing so. Rarity had arrived home to find her sister's beaten and mangled body on the floor, she'd spent the next month and a half putting her back together, and Sweetie bot Model I was born, three years later Sweetie bots Model was now at XVII, With Sweetie bot came the birth of Rarity's company, founded for a single reason, to make sure her sister was the best version of herself that she could be.
Now a days Rarico was a name brand that could be found in almost every home in Equestria, from Cellular device to Entertainment cubes, every now and again she would have meting with important ponies and none ponies alike, from Shining Armor looking into Robotic Exo-suits for Equestria's Military to Thorax asking her for the millionth time how to send cute cat pictures to Spike over his phone. Rarity was on her way to oversee the testing of the newest Robotic Prosthetic limbs when a loud bang caught her attention, one of her assistants has slammed the door of her office open and was in a cold sweat, Rarity was feared by her staff so for one to burst in she knew there was an emergency,
"Code red?" She asked as she got up "Fire alarm failure, is Blue blood outside again?" The assistant pointed feebly.
"There...there..there was an accident," She said, fearing Rarity's reaction when she heard what happened. "The Science lab was testing your formula for the new plasma beams and one of the Flasks broke,"
"WHAT!?" Rarity asked, her voice echoing with fear "Casualty report! How many..." the assistant turned white.
"Only one," She said "The Flask cracked and the entire team started freaking out...then...then..." The assistant took a deep breath. "Main assistant Spike saw what was happening and had the lab evacuated, the employ holding the flash fainted and it feel and...and...and Mister Spike..." The assistant was crying both in fear of Rarity's slowly dawning realization of what she was being told and from having to relive the event "...he jumped and used himself to shield the still half full lab and...and...it exploded," Rarity said nothing as she stood in silence, staring at her assistant, tears pouring from her eyes.
"My...my Spikey Wikiey...is...is..." the assistant shook her head.
"Critical but still alive, tho he won't last long ma'am," Rarity rushed past the assistant.
"Call The Princess"
"Witch-" The assistant started.
" Any of them, ALL OF THEM!!!" Rarity yelled back as she ran full speed to the Science lab, the hallways clear and all the doors locked open, Rarity slid into the room and Found Sweetie Bot sitting next to a stretcher, the room was a mess of not only burns from the blast, but was covered in pieces of Spike, Rarity ran to the stretcher, there was a blanket over him so all Rarity could see was his head, he was breathing shallowly, he was hooked up to almost every medical machine Rarity had ever build, emergency metal lung, the tin heart and so on and didn't seem to see be aware he was awake, Sweetie looked at Rarity, her eye's glowing a deep blue, her way of crying. Rarity reached for the blanket and Sweetie held her arm up and looked away.
"Don't look," she whispered, Rarity ignored her and moved the blanket, Spike's left arm was mostly gone save a small portion still hanging onto his shoulder, his torso was ripped to shreds, Rarity could see his shredded lungs, and a ventricle that should have had his heart attached to it, his Stomach, kidneys and both small and large intestine where gone, she looked down and noticed what was really missing, Spikes lower body was no longer connected to his upper body save save some scales and flesh holding it together on his right side. His right arm was dislocated at the shoulder, the blast had probably had a heavy kick, Rarity looked down at him in silence, her hand rubbing his face, if he did see her he gave no sign, not that he could. Rarity was crying as she stood up and covered him with the blanket.
"Sweetie you can look now," she said threw the tears. Sweetie looked back at him and put her hand on his face, Rarity stood in silence for a moment.
"Computer," She said loudly, a rectangle TV came to life on the wall and a voice responded.
"Yes Miss Rarity?"
"Bring up Spike's Agreement file," The Computer was silent for a moment before responding.
"File on screen," Sweetie looked up at her.
"I thought it was against policy to bring up employee Agreement files without asking them," Rarity looked down at her.
"Sweetie do you know what the agreement file is?"
"Why should I care," Sweetie stood up, her eye's glowing both red and blue, sad and angry "Why do you care!? You should be comforting him or....or be doing something, anything!"
"Computer," Rarity called "Read Spike's file to me,"
"Spike ,The, Dragon agreement file read as such, in the case that I, Spike, lose a limb-"
"Skip to the last section" Rarity added.
"-and finally," the Computer said without skipping a beat "Should I ,Spike, get into an accident that was in no way shape or form my fault then I ,Agree, to be Robotized as a worker for the company," Sweetie eyes went from red and blue to blue and yellow, sad and confused.
"Robotized?" she asked "what the hell is that?"
"What I did to you," Rarity said simply as she held up her left arm and turned on her Watch phone, "Mr Gladstone please cancel all meeting for today and inform all employees that they are to go home and will be paid for the day,"
"yes Ma'am," A voice replied as Sweetie's eyes changed colors until they settled on Green and Blue, Happy and Sad all at one.
"You mean your going to-" Rarity looked back at her.
"You better fucking believe I'm gonna save him, Death wasn't aloud to take you and it sure the hell isn't taking my Spikey Wikey from me!"
Twilight practically broke down the door, the assistant who had called her had been a sniveling mess and almost nothing she said could be understood but the fact that an assistant had called her and not Rarity was enough to raise several red flags. The Rarico building was surround in a magical disrupter that prevented teleportation inside and outside the structure, as such it had taken Twilight almost half an hour just to get inside thanks to the idiot guard who stopped every obvious pony and other creature at the gate and tried to convince the rest that they needed to conduct a full body scan to make sure she wasn't a changeling in disguise, a time consuming and an overall pointless endeavor as the magical disruption filed prevented changelings from using the magic disguises. Having finally made it in the actual Building Twilight marched to Rarity's office and found it was empty save one assistant, who was trying to do a job Twilight knew wasn't his.
"Hey," Twilight called making the assistant jump and resulting in the mountain of papers he had been trying to pick up without dropping tumble to the floor and knock him down with it "And that is why Spike is the only assistant allowed in her," Twilight said simply "Now where's Rarity, or Sweetie Bot?" She demanded "I got an urgent call and-" The assistant pointed to a Picture of Sweetie from before she had become a bot, understanding Twilight walked to the picture and pressed her fingers into Sweetie's eyes, they pulled in and the wall opened up into Rarity's not so secret work shop, "Good luck filling in for Spike," Twilight called back, now believing he was in the under-lab with Rarity helping her with whatever problem had arisen. Twilight stood patiently in the elevator as is took her 9 floors down, when it came to a stop she could hear Rarity talking to Sweetie.
"Make sure all emergency power is ready to be turned on and that the back up, back up generators are ready," The elevator door opened and Twilight walked in, Rarity had all her equipment on, medical supplies was surrounding her, and a large machine in the shape of a hoop, that Twilight had always assumed was Rarity's failed attempt at teleportation without magic, was now humming with life, a Glass orb was floating in the center of it hoop and Rarity was hard at work connecting tubes and wires to something on a table.
"Rarity?" Twilight asked a she came it, Rarity turned to her friend and Twilight new something was wrong, Rarity's eyes where red from crying, she had a cut on her cheek and had bandages on her hands.
"Twilight," Rarity said "I'm gonna guess due to how well you look that my Assistant failed to tell you what was wrong?"
"What happened?"
"There was an explosion," Rarity replied "I'm setting up my Robotizer to-"
"That's what that thing is?" Twilight interrupted looking up at the hoop. "How did you hide that thing for so long?"
"Oh I didn't originally Robotized Sweetie, I made her into a cyborg, but then her living tissue started decaying underneath the metal that kept her alive so I set to work and made that, and now she's fully robotic, I'm almost ready to do the same to Spike," The was a long silence. "Oh wait I didn't tell you-"
"What?" Twilight demanded running to the room and looking at the table, Spike was laying half dead on the table, the hole in his sternum mostly full of wired and other such stuff to keep him in place. "You can't just..."
"He agreed to it, all my employees have, it's in their contracts," Twilight looked at her brother, then to Rarity.
"I don't care," She decided "I'm his sister, I'll fix him the proper way, a few spell and he'll be right as rain!"
"We don't have time for the fickleness of Magic," Rarity replied irritably "My science is flawless, Once I remove Spike's soul from his body and place it in the Soul-drive I'll have nothing but time to make him a new-"
"I'm not gonna let you pull his soul out with one of your stupid toys!" Twilight said angrily "This is serious you can't just..."
"Can't just what?" Rarity demanded "You think just cause you don't understand science that it's the wrong way? I'll remind you that my science saved my sister,"
"And you family refuses to talk to you or your sister because of that!" Twilight shot back "This is no better than raising him as a Zombie, but if I did that then I could talk to my family and convince them it was the right way!"
"How is turning him into a walking corpse better than turning him into a robot?" Rarity yelled back, Sweetie looked in to room as the two screamed at each other over who's opinion was right.
"Um," She said getting the two's attention "The Power back ups are ready, you can start the transfer," Rarity smiled.
"It dosen't matter if you think I'm right," Rarity said looking at Twilight "All that matters here is that Spike thought I was right and agreed to this," Rarity pulled on the Switch only form magic to force her hand to stop "Are you serious right now!?" Rarity demanded as Twilight lit her horn "He's already set up, not to mention that by the time you removed him he'd be dead!"
"I am not letting my brother become some wind up toy for you to play with,"
"hey!" Sweetie called back "I am right here," Twilight didn't respond.
"Well guess what?" Rarity replied "Your not to only one with Magic!" Rarity light her horn and pulled Twilight's feet out from under her Twilight's spell lost it's juice and Rarity pulled the lever, The color started fading from Spike's eyes, at the same time a green light burst to life inside the glass orb, Twilight looked at it in rage.
"If I can't stop you I'll stop your machine," She said as she lit her horn.
"Twilight wait I don't know what'll happen if your Magic touches- Twilight's spell wrapped around the orb and a mixture of magic and electricity shot threw the room, Sweetie shot forward and held up her hands, in a flash two blue shields formed from her palms and kept both of the elements away from Twilight, Rarity, and Spike's body. the color fully left Spike's eyes and the machine died down, Rarity , who had covered her face on instinct, moved her hands and looked at the Orb, Spike's green essence was flowing inside it, but there was also some sort of Blue energy in the orb with it, Twilight got up, her face glowing red, her anger died when she noticed the looks on Rarity and Sweetie's face.
"What is that?" Sweetie asked as she looked at the Blue energy swirling with Spike's.
"I..I don't know," Rarity replied as she looked at the orb "Twilight's magic mixed with the machines energy must have caused it, but I'm not sure what it is," Rarity pulled on her hair. "oh this is bad,"
"You think," Twilight demanded "You just turned my brother into...whatever the hell that is!" Twilight looked at the swirling green and blue orb as an electrical spark came off of it.
"Computer!" Rarity called, the computer on her desk came to life.
"Yes Mrs.Rarity?" It asked.
"Scan Spike's Soul Drive now," she demanded as she put on a long black glove,
"Scanning Soul Dri-" The Computer was shut off mid word, Rarity looked back at it when a Red light came from behind her, she looked at the soul drive, Spike's Green essence was glowing red there was a blinding flash and, after blinking the light from her eyes Rarity looked at the Soul drive, it was now full of Purple light.
"Computer, scan now!" She Demanded, the computer said nothing, "Computer she repeated,
"Am I?" A voice asked, the trio froze as a Purple light came off the Computer screen , "I don't feel like a Computer," Twilight was the first to react.
"Spike?" she asked
"I dunno," the voice replied "I don't feel like a Spike either," Sweetie walked past Twilight, who was in shock, While Rarity turned to the Soul Drive in deep thought, Sweetie made her way to the desk and looked at the screen, Spike's face was on in, it was glitchy, the eye's moved but the mouth didn't as it Spoke.
"Oh I think I remember you, Sweet E Bot," Spike's voice sounded like it was as broken as he looked at her, his face had cracks running threw it, one of his eye's looked like his normal one while the other was just light, to make things even harder to see he was made entirely of Purple light, he tapped his chin as he looked at her. "You seem like you have more freedom at the moment that I do," Spike suddenly vanished off the screen, his voice still echoing threw the room. "I wonder where I am?" Rarity frowned as the Purple essence went from swirling aimlessly to combining into a spear, then it had eyes and a mouth, Rarity screamed and jumped back as the tiny Spike in the ball looked at her. "Oh here I am," Spike's voice was muffled from the glass.
"What is this!?" Rarity demanded as she looked at him "Twilight what the hell did you do?"
"I don't even know what's happening right now!" Twilight replied as she walked to the orb, Spike looked at her, his head exploding into static for a moment before he pulled himself together.
"Oh now you, I definitely know you," Spike squinted then blinked "Hey where'd my arm go?" Spike lost all interest in Twilight as he tried to solve his arm problem.
"You corrupted him," Rarity whispered.
"What?" Twilight asked looking back at her,
"You dumb bitch!" Rarity got on her hooves, Twilight was taken aback and held her hands up "Your magic caused an influx in the machine and shot both a large amount of electricity and Magical energy into the orb!" She pointed to the Spike in the orb who now had a neck, "Now it's collided and fused with Spike's essence, he's not even fully Spike now, at best he has a loss concept of who Spike is,"
"Ah," The Spike replied "So that's why I don't quite feel like a Spike or a Computer," Rarity groaned.
"You and I," She said pointing to Twilight "Are going to have a serious fucking talk later, for now I have to put Spike into an Containment Cube until I can rip him out of that mess,"
"What did I do?" The Spike asked "I don't feel like I've done anything that requisitions a punishment of that degree,"
"You'll be fine," Rarity replied as she input the code to release the Soul Drive from it's hovering position "I'll keep you nice and safe, and Once I rip Spike out of that mess I'm sure the rest of you will resort back to how your suppose to be,"
"I feel like I should get a say in if I get ripped apart or not," The Spike replied.
"Well you don't" Rarity replied as she pressed enter, a large X lit up her screen "The hell?" She added as she re entered the code, another X lit up the screen, this one stayed on the screen before laughter came from the panel and the X turned purple.
"Sorry Doc." Spike said as the X turned into him "But I really think it's my choice if I live or die," Rarity took a step back as the Purple electricity sparked across the panel, She and the other two watched as The Spike in the orb laughed before turning to electricity and jumping out of the orb and into the machine, the electricity jumped form the machine to the closest light, witch turned purple before exploding, and then it was gone.
"What the fuck?" Rarity asked as she looked at the empty Soul drive "What the fuck just happened?" She turned to Sweetie who shrugged.
"I could scan for-"
"NO!" Rarity snapped "The Computer was scanning him when he jumped into it, I don't need him corrupting you,"
"What do we do then?" she asked.
"First things first we're going back to my office and informing everypony of what just happened. As this was happening the Spark that was Spike found it's way to the roof and took form, he looked like Spike, but he had cracks running all along his body, his Left arm's elbow join and a small area surrounding it was none existence his hand and the rest of the arm not attached just kind of floating in place, his tail cut off near the base leaving a small broken stump, his torso had a large jagged chunk missing from his right side, his right foot was missing one of his toes and his face was frozen in a smile, his canine teeth where fused to his lips and much longer than usual, his left eye had a crack running threw it while his Right one was just pure purple light.
"Well now," Glitch Spike said as he looked out at Ponyville in the distance "I wonder who I'll end up being?"