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// A Split solution 
// Story: Sweetie Bot vs Glitch Spike 
// by Silver Butcher 
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"I can't believe this," Rarity muttered as she pushed the stretcher that held Spike's body into a Cryo-tub for safekeeping, even in her lab she could hear the panic above her "Dammit Twilight," She sealed the tub and headed back to the elevator, the ride back up to her office was tense, not from what she would be facing when she arrived at her destination, but because she was worried that the glitch Spike would arrive without warning. She didn't know what he could do, but the unknowable factor of adding Alicorn magic to his core was enough to make her fear him.
Across town Glitch Spike was sitting atop a building in silence, as far as he could see technology was everywhere, he could see screens in-store displays, ponies playing on their phones, talking to others, he could see the digital information flying through the air, invisible to all but him. He watched as it moved all around him, bits of code, random information, voices being digitized and transferred to phones so their friends could hear them, how long he had been there he had no idea, he felt what he figured was his brain trying to decide where he should go, what he should do when he got there, how he should arrive there, should he be hiding, should he talk to others. Spike sat in silence, so overwhelmed by choices that his immediate choice was to talk to himself. Glitch Spike began sparking as more cracks appeared on his body going in a straight line Until he had split himself into half the two halves became two entire Spikes and looked at each other.
"Witch one of us if the original?" one of them asked making the other scratch its chin in thought, resulting in sparks.
"I suppose both of us are and aren't the original," The other decided "As we are both half of it we are both half old and half new, the two stood in silence, they were exact duplicates of one another.
"Well then," The one who had spoken first said as he offered his twin the hand that was disconnected from his body, "Hello I am Spike,"
"Hello," His twin said as he used his connected arm to shack the other hand "I am Spike,"
"What should we do now?" the first Glitch Spike asked
"I am unsure," The second replies simply "You and I are the same, anything I could think of, you would also think of,"
"I was thinking of that same conundrum," The first said "Perhaps splitting me into us was the incorrect path to take?"
"I disagree, as I'm sure you do," The second said confidently "as just by us talking we have already made far more progress than when we were me,"
"Yes, but what do we do?" The first asked as it sat back in confusion, its eye's scanning the sea of code.
"Perhaps we should do all of our plans but split them as I have split into us," The 2nd decided "I shall remain here and learn what this code can teach me,"
"Then I shall go out and do what I please," The First responded simply. The Two waved and the first one walked to a powerline, the very same one it had used to get there, and turned into Purple electricity zapping away to do whatever it wanted to do, the Second looked to the code and stood in silence as it observed it's patterns and inconsistencies.



Rarity made her way out of her office and found that a fight had started in the lobby, a very mixed one it would seem.
"You should have let him rest in peace," Ember said angrily as she shoved her finger into Sweetie-Bot's chest, he hand was swatted away by Applebloom who shot back at the Dragon Lord.
"No, Twilight should have respected Spike's wishes, he agreed to be Roboticied in the event of a fatal wound, Twilight is so clearly in the wrong here!"
"It's unnatural and, disrespectful" Big mac said as he looked down at his younger sister "Just cause Rarity says it's his soul doesn't prove anything, she has never once been able to prove that the robot in front of us is actually Sweetie Belle, at the bare minimum it's a robot with her memories that thinks it's Sweetie,"
"You take that back," Scootaloo said angrily as she put her hand on Sweetie-bot "You have no right to judge what others want even if this is just a copy of Sweetie's memories it what Sweetie wanted and it's what Spike wanted! you have no right, none of you, to take that away from them,"
"As his older sister and a Princess-"Twilight tried to cut in only for both Cadance and Shinning to stand in front of her, both looking less than happy with her actions.
"As his older brother," Shinning said with Cadance jumping in.
"And as both his Friend and a Princess both me and Shinning agree that you were in the wrong here Twilight," Twilight looked shocked.
"How could you say that I could have revived him-"
"What as a Zombified head in a jar?" Shinning snapped "Sweetie told me what shape his body was in if he hadn't been missing over half his body and if he had agreed then I'd be fine with him being a Jiangshi but he agreed to be robotized like Sweetie and he was missing a large chunk of his body," Before the two groups could continue arguing Rarity, who had gotten a megaphone from one of her assistance, called out to them all.
"Alright enough fighting, We can deal with who to blame for this later, right now we need to find and detain the Glitch Spike," After nearly an hour of trying to pick groups of individuals that wouldn't fight amongst themselves Rarity found herself alone with Twilight and Sweetie, leaving them as the final group.
"Alright," She said as she looked at Twilight, who stared back at her "Follow me to my Lab you two, we're gonna try and find a way to Track it,"