As the doors opened for them to head into the hanger, she saw a lot of droids hauling cargo to their respective carriers. She couldn’t help but feel a little excited to try out the things she learned. Even if it was for the CIS.
“Is this what I'm leading?” she asked Roger
“Yep. The rest should be on the Lucrehulk.”
Twilight paused for a moment.
“Wait. What’s a Lucrehulk?”
“It’s one of the ships we have commanded by TA-175.”
“So, your commanders have their own ships?”
“Sometimes. Droids like me can also have their own.”
Twilight felt a little giddy
“So, once I can get my own ship once I become a commander!”
“Don’t get your hopes up. We only have 4 ships. And if the commanders are planning to build more it would take a long time to build you one.”
Twilight was disappointed but shrugged it off, not allowing that to get the best of her.
As they headed to the carriers many of the B1’s saw them and looked confused and surprised at her presence, but some realized that she was on their side and stood respectfully.
“Are we going to be led by a pony?” a B1 whispered to another B1
“She was picked to be a replacement commander. Now keep quiet.” another B1 whispered back.
One of the B1’s then walked to Roger and Twilight. It had camo markings similar to the ones she saw during the battle in the Crystal Empire
“Greeting sirs!” he replied
“How many troops do we have here.” Roger changed the subject.
“We have a platoon of B1’s and B2’s ready to go sir.”
“Alright. Twilight is your commander so make sure to follow her orders. Understood.”
“Yes sir.”
Roger turned over to Twilight.
“Twilight. This is your second command B1-4239. He will help give out orders when you're not around with your troops.”
She when over to the droid and raised her hoof towards B1-4239.
“Hi there! Nice to meet you.” Twilight said he wanted to get a good connection with the droid.
B1-4239 was hesitant but moved his hand to shake her hoof.
“Greetings general.”
Twilight smiled at his respectfulness.
“So, I have to lead all of these droids?”
“Yes sir, but we will have 1 other platoons some AAT’s and an OG-9 Homing spider droid with Dwarfs spider droids to join us as well.”
Twilight didn’t know what and OG-9 Homing spider droid let alone the Dwarf variant but decided to ask about them later.
She then used her magic to grab hold of some wraps from the armor so it would cover her wings.
This confused both droids and Gonky
“Um. Twilight. Why are you covering your wings.” Roger asked.
“Yeah, why are you doing that?”
“Gonk!”
“I don’t want my Friends or Celestia to know it’s me. If they see me as an alicorn they will assume that I joined, you. If I’m just a unicorn, it will take longer for them to guess it’s me.”
The droids were still confused but understood what she was planning.
Once she was finished, she turned her attention back to the camo droid.
“Alright B1-4239 I want to meet my troops.”
He nodded and moved out of the way so she could meet her small army.
She felt nervous in some way as she had never led any alien army before. She may have lead guard’s ponies before, but this was her first-time leading Droids. While she had some good connections with B1’s she had none with B2’s and she wasn’t sure if these Bulky droids would listen to her.
As she got to the middle of her platoon the droids looked at her, not sure what to say.
It was silent for the moment till Twilight spoke up.
“Hi ther-e everypony. I’m-your commander Twilight- spa-rkle. It’s nice to- meet you all.” She said nervously.
A B1 then stepped up
“Greeting commander.” the droid responded.
“Greetings sir.” another one says
“Awaiting your orders sir.” a B2 responded
The rest of the platoons were answering her which started to overwhelmed her on how many respawned.
“All right spread out. Give the commander some room.” Roger told them
The platoon back out of the way give Twilight enough space to calm her down.
“when will you head down to the planet?” Roger asked B1-4239
“In 34 mins sir. Equipment and supplies will be sent from TA-175 Lucrehulk.
He turned to Twilight who was still calming herself.
“Ok Twilight. Once everything is ready for deployment you will be on your own.”
“You won’t be joining me?” she asked
“I have my own orders to follow, this is also your test, but from the training you have learned you should be fine.”
“Gonk!”
“What’s with him?” B1-4239 questioned as he the gonk droid trying to get Twilight’s attention.
“Do you want to come with me? “
Gonky did the best thing it could do to make understand that he was saying yes by jumping up and down.
Roger when up to the droid.
“Alright that’s too far. You have your own orders to follow too.”
Gonky bent its body down to show its disappointment.
“Why can’t he come?”
“He’s a gonk droid. He won’t be any help in battle and likely get destroyed if he isn't careful.”
She turned and looked at the Gonky who was still sad about not being able to go.
“Hey it’s ok. You'll still be able to help me once I get back.”
“Gonk.” the droid said sadden.
Twilight was sad that her new friend wouldn’t be able to join her, but she would see him again. That was when she remembered.
“Roger. I have one question.”
“Is it about the Gonk droid, because I’m not going to say yes.
“No. I wanted to ask what happened to my droids 1&2?”
Roger paused for a moment.
“Well...I don’t know. Though it’s likely that they could be getting reprogrammed.”
She was shocked to hear this.
“But-they were my droids!”
“You did technically steal them and brainwashed them.”
She was flustered at this and even if she didn’t want them to reprogram them, she really couldn’t do much now. Not until she became a commander.
“Ugh.” she grunted
“Sorry 1&2. I guess it will be a while before we can see each other again.” she thought.
She looked back a B1-4239
“Is there anything I can help with?”
“Yes sir. There is some cargo that we still need to pack, but we got this.”
“No. Let me help you” she said as they both when to help the platoon with preparations.
Roger watched them leave him with Gonky.
“Gonk.”
“I think she do just fine. Come on, I need to let Kraken know that Twilight will be ready to go soon.”
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The sounds of twisting bolts were about to go silent as Glowing Brilliance was add the finishing touches. She started to close the metal casing around astromech.
“Please work. Please work.” Glowing Brilliance hoped.
She looked at the droid hoping for some sign of life in it, but to no avail.
“Ugh. Back to the drawing board.” Glowing Brilliance told herself as she when to her drawing board to see if there was anything she might have missed.
“Alright. I use some parts from these battle droids. Maybe I need to connect some of this board looking thing to the main brain?”
However, as she turned away the sound of beeping and booping startled her.
The droid awoke from its very long slumber.
“Um...Hello?’
The droid looked at her with a confused look even if it couldn’t show it.
“Uh...Something wrong?”
The droid beeped a few times.
“Oh, I wish I had 1&2 with me.”
The droid then got right up to her. Wondering who she was.
She wanted to back up but couldn’t as she was right against the chalk board. She just hoped it wasn’t going to attack her.
The droid stopped in its tracks as it looked to face worried that it made her scared of him and slowly backed away.
Brillance realized that she made the droid uncomfortable, so she did her best to enlighten the situation.
“My name is Glowing Brillance.” she told the droid
The astromech noted this.
“You're acting much differently. Did I mess something up that’s making you act like this?
The droid got confused from her asking this.
“You can understand me, but you're getting confused on what I say.”
The droid once again was confused.
“I’m going to need to tell Celestia about this!”
The droid once more didn’t know what she was going at.
“I’ll explain on our way to princess Celestia. Come long.
“That was something the droid could understand and followed her.
“Well, I guess you can understand that. now let's go”
They left the lab and started to head over to the throne room.
As they were heading to the throne room. Brillance had some questions to ask the droid.
“So. what can you understand. Because to me it looks like you can’t understand things that are too complex for you.”
For a second the astromech couldn’t figure out some of the complex stuff but got it down too. “You can't understand things that are too hard for you.” Which it nodded in agreement.
“Hmm. That could be a problem. Do you know anything about the separatists?”
“This the droid couldn’t understand. He never heard anything about what a separatist was”
“Uh oh. If you do know anything about them that means your memory must have been heavily damaged by discord. Can that guy ever not ruin something in his way.”
The droid then beeped up. Know who discord was.
“Wait. Do you know him?” She questioned.
The droid nodded.
“You know Discord, but not the separatists. Whatever he did to you he must have made you remember him in some good way.” she sighed
The rest of the time was pure silence until they got to Celestia throne room.
“Alright little guy. Were here, I suggest you make a go impression of yourself.”
She then opened the door.