Rise of The Robopony
Chapter 3: A New Purpose
“Are you still sure you want to do this, you will not succeed in beating me in speed.”
“Just keep talking Steele Mane, you’ll see just how fast I am.”
After they got back to Ponyville, Rainbow Dash was eager to prove Steele Mane wrong about her not being able to fly as fast as him, so they went straight for Ghastly Gorge. Twilight went ahead and got Spike from the library so he could see too, she was fine with closing the library for a while.
Spike was very grateful to Twilight for letting him come along. “Thanks for letting me come see this Twilight, I just know this is gonna be great.”
Twilight responded back. “You’re welcome Spike, I figured you deserved a break for being such a big help.”
Pinkie was excited about this too. “OH, this is going to be great, I can’t wait to see who wins.”
Twilight was set to be the judge and start the race. “Ok, you two ready?”
Rainbow answered first as she got into her ready position with her front low to the ground and her wings flared out. “Ready.”
Steele Mane extended out his wing rods, his light feathers flashed into existence on the rods, ready to go. “I am ready.” Steele Mane then lifted up off the ground and hovered there, waiting for the start of the race with his hooves slightly folded in and tucked under his body. He lowered his head to make himself more aerodynamic.
Twilight began to count down. “On your mark…..get set…..GO!”
As soon as she said that, the racers were off, Rainbow Dash leaving behind a rainbow trail while Steele Mane left behind a light blue colored streak coming from his mane, tail, and wings, creating a kind of cross as he flew. For a while they were neck and neck, then, Steele Mane’s wings started to glow brighter as he picked up speed and pulled away from Rainbow Dash. She took on a very determined look as she poured more speed on and began to slowly catch up to Steele Mane. Steele Mane saw this and started to speed up even more and, within a matter of seconds, he created a sonic boom and speed up more, leaving Rainbow in the dust. But she knew how to catch up.
She quickly flew upwards into the sky, when she felt she was high enough, she let herself drop down at an angle with her wings folded in. Soon a cone of air started to form around her as she held out her front hooves. The cone started closing in more and more. She was almost there. Then suddenly, BOOOOOM, she pulled it off, a sonic rainboom. She pulled up and speed off to catch up to Steele Mane.
Steele Mane heard the boom and turned his head to see what it was, he saw a wave of rainbow colors spread out across the sky as he continued to fly, he had never seen such a sight and was curious about the source of the phenomenon, but that would have to wait as he was trying to prove to Rainbow Dash that she could never be as fast as a machine, he focused his attention back forward and continued on. Suddenly a rainbow streak came up to him and passed him a little faster than what he was going. When Steele Mane saw that Rainbow just passed him with a rainbow trail behind her, something in him sparked. He took on a determined look and poured on as much speed as he could muster, he slowly started to catch up to Rainbow Dash as her wings were flapping furiously. He was now even with Dash as he looked at her, she looked back at him with a smirk.
They continued to fly through the canyon as fast as they could, neither one gaining any more ground on the other, they were evenly matched. The finish line started to come into view with the others cheering them on. Twilight waiting to announce a winner. They were still dead even as they approached. Finally they both crossed the finish line as their hooves met the ground and skidded to a halt. Rainbow Dash was panting furiously after exerting herself so hard as she looked at Steele Mane with a smug look. She may not have won but she did prove to Steele Mane that she was Just as fast as him.
The group was cheering at the race. Twilight came forward to make her announcement on the winner. “WOW, that was a close race. You two tied.”
Rainbow kept her smug smile as she looked to Steele Mane. “HAH, told you I could keep up. What do you have to say now Steele Mane?”
Steele Mane looked at her as he responded. “WOW Rainbow Dash, that was incredible, I’ve never seen a phenomenon like that before, that was amazing, how did you do that.”
The group just looked at him curiously. It sounded like he just spoke with emotion in his voice instead of his usual monotone way of speaking. Twilight then stepped forward to ask him something. “Um, Steele Mane, are you all right?”
Steele gave her a curious look. “of course I am, why wouldn’t I be, that was a fun race.” He paused. The group still had their confused looks on. Steele Mane spoke again. “I thought it was fun? But if I had fun, than that must mean I have emotions, but how, I am a machine, machines do not have emotions, but I do but,…….illigical, illogical, illogical,” Steele Mane was once again caught in a thought loop.
Rainbow raised her left hoof to her face as she closed her eyes. “Not again.”
Pinkie smiled as she knew what to do. “Don’t worry, I’ll fix him.” She walked over to his left side, raised her right hoof off to the side, and swung it forward to smack Steele Mane in the back of his head, resulting in a loud *CLANG*.
Steele shook his head, he looked over to Pinkie. “Thank you Pinkie.”
Pinkie smiled as she responded back. “You’re welcome Steely, anything for a friend.” Pinkie then hopped back over to rejoin the group.
Applejack then came forward. “You all right there, sugar cube?”
Steele looked down for a second before answering. “I am unsure, how is it I have emotions, this does not compute.” Steele Mane was no longer speaking in his usual monotone manner.
Twilight came forward, thinking she might have an answer. “Maybe when Celestia was trying to help you regain your memories, her magic did something to you to give you emotions. That’s gotta be it.”
Steele Mane looked at her with a curious expression on his face. “That does sound like the only logical explanation. Magic does seem to be able to do anything, so it only stands to reason that it was Celestia’s magic that granted me these emotions I now have. But what do I do now? How do I deal with them?”
“Don’t worry Steele Mane, we’ll help you figure this out, that IS what friends do after all, remember.”
Steele mane smiled at her. “Affirmative, I remember.”
Spike then came forward. “One more thing Steele Mane, do you think you could try and talk like the rest of us, that whole affirmative and negative thing is kinda hard to understand.”
Rarity agreed. “Quite right dear, to be honest, with the way you speak, it’s sometimes a little hard to know what you’re talking about.”
Steele mane looked at them with curiosity. “Apologies, I will adjust my speech patterns to be more like how you speak.”
Fluttershy then came forward. “We really appreciate it Steele Mane.”
Then Pinkie got an idea. “OH MY GOSH, do you know what this calls for…….A PARTY, we can call it a WELCOME TO PONYVILLE CONGRADULATIONS ON GETTING EMOTIONS PARTY!! I’m gonna head on over to Sugar Cube Corner right now and get the party set up, it’ll be ready to go when you get there, bye!” Pinkie then zipped off to set up the party for Steele Mane.
Steele Mane had a thought about that. “How is she going to be able to set up a party so quickly, it does not seem possible.”
Applejack came up next to him and put a hoof on his shoulder. “Trust me partner, it’s best you try not ta figure her out or you’ll just get messed up again.”
Steele turned to her. “Under-I mean, all right.”
“that was fast, yer talkin like us already.”
The group then began to make their way back into town and leave Gastly Gorge. As they were walking, Steele Mane had a question for Rainbow Dash. “Rainbow Dash, I am curious about something.”
Rainbow turned to him as they walked. “What’s up?”
“I am wondering what that was back there that you did during our race. What was that wave of colors you made that also allowed you to make a rainbow trail as you flew?”
Rainbow gave a proud smile as she answered. “That is called a sonic rainboom, I’m the only pegasus that’s been known to do it. Whenever I brake the sound barrier, a sonic boom and a rainbow happens at once.”
“That is amazing, I have never witnessed something like that before, I do apologize for doubting you before.”
“Hey, it’s cool, we’re buds now, I’m just glad I was able to prove you wrong.”
Steele gave her a smile as they continued back to Ponyville.
Meanwhile, high above Equestria and the planet, a large odd craft hovered over the planet. It was shaped like a large triangle with two fin like protrusions at its back. Inside a large metal room with a screen showing the planet below, a strange creature sat in a silver leather chair as he gazed at the screen showing the planet with a very displeased look on its face. It had pale pink skin, black hair that looked rather messy, two brown eyes, a pair of arms and legs. His right arm appeared to be metallic. He was wearing a black shirt, black pants and boots, had metal shoulder guards on, and chains that crossed from his shoulders, linked to the front of his chest, and went back down and around to his back where they reconnected.
The room was round and full of monitors and screens, all with robots similar in form to the creature, known as a human, with red visors instead of eyes and no mouth could be seen. There were two of them on both sides of the human manning monitors and pushing buttons. The human spoke up with aggravation clear in his voice. “Why hasn’t Alpha-1 reported in yet, that stupid drone is late with its report.”
The robot to the left responded in a kind of high pitched metallic voice. “Unkonwn sir, we are still receiving a signal from Alpha-1 but unable to make contact.”
This made the human angrier as he spoke in a kind of low growl. “What do you mean you can’t make contact?”
The same robot answered. “Sir we simply are unable to open communications with Alpha-1, probability of malfunction, 82%”
The human spoke again. “Blast it, I knew it was a bad idea to send a new drone out alone, can you at least get a lock on its location?”
“Affirmative sir.”
“Good, D-12, D-13, you two come with me, were going to retrieve Alpha-1.” The human then got up off his chair with the two robots following behind, he made his way to the back of the room to a large door shaped like a semicircle, the door opened sideways as he approached and left the room.
Back down in Equestria, the party Pinkie set up was well under way. Pinkie was in front of Steele Mane at the snack table with a cupcake in her hoof. “C’mon Steely, try it, you’ll like it.”
Steele gave her an annoyed look as he believed he was feeling annoyed. “Pinkie, I told you, I do not require food, if I were to try and eat that, it would damage my internal systems.”
Pinkie kept smiling. “Oh yeah, sorry, well then why don’t you try one of the games like bobbing for apples, that’s fun.”
Steele kept up his annoyed look at Pinkie. “Pinkie, if I were to dunk my head in that much water, it would cause me to short circuit and malfunction.”
Applejack saw what was going on and came over to try and help with the situation. “Pinkie, why don’t you go play pin the tail on the pony so I can chat with Steele Mane fer a sec.”
“Okie dokie lokie, see ya later Steely.”
Applejack turned her attention to Steele Mane. “You all right there sugar cube? You look a little down.”
“I believe the emotion I am experiencing is annoyance, Pinkie keeps on insisting that I try some of this food or play a game that will damage me.”
“Sorry bout that, she just wants ya ta have fun, you can have fun now that ya got emotions can’t ya?”
“Affirma-I mean, yes, I believe so, but I am still having trouble understanding this, it is all so sudden, I am unsure of how to handle so much.”
Applejack gave Steele a comforting smile. “Don’t worry Steele, just take it one step at a time, you’ll get the hang of it eventually, now why don’t ya try yer hoof at whackin the piniata?”
Steele smiled back at her. “It does sound like fun, I will try.”
“That’s the spirit.” Applejack led Steele over to where the party favor was set up.
Steele Mane was unsure how to do it. “So how do you play this game?”
Fluttershy was there after she tried and failed, but still had fun. She decided to enlighten Steele on the rules. “It’s simple, you have to wear a blindfold over your eyes so you can’t see, then you take the stick and try to hit the piniata while another pony moves it around. It’s lots of fun.”
Rainbow Dash was the pony who was moving the piniata around. “You ready to give it a try?”
Steele Mane gave a smile as he responded. “I am ready.”
Applejack took that as her cue. “Well, all right then, here ya go.” She then hoofed him the stick which he held in his mouth, then Applejack put the blind fold over his eyes and shoved him in the circle of ponies all watching the game about to take place.
Thanks to Pinkie, the ponies all got to know Steele Mane well and accepted him already. They all started to cheer him on as he got ready to start swinging. Rainbow Dash got ready on her end as she saw him move the stick carefully around to find the target. Once he felt he made contact with the piniata, he brought it back and swung it forth with enough force to break it, but at the last second, Rainbow pulled on the string and Steele missed his target, causing him to stumble a little. He quickly regained his balance and did the same thing as before. He then decided to try and swing it faster so he could hit it before Rainbow could pull it up in time. He readied his swing and brought it around faster, Rainbow tried to pull it up but was too slow and Steele Mane hit it, causing it to burst and all the candy inside to fall out.
Rainbow Dash let go of the rope and came up to Steele Mane to congratulate him on his success. “Nice swing Steele, that was quite a hit you made.”
Steele Mane took off his blind fold and put the stick down on the floor. “Thanks, it was short, but still quite enjoyable, I did have fun.”
Applejack then came up to him. “Glad ta hear it Steele. Now how about you try dancin, that’s always fun.”
“But dancing is not in my programming……I mean, I do not know how to dance.”
Rainbow tried to encourage him. “Aw hoarse feathers, just get out there and move around to the music. Trust me, no pony will laugh at you, c’mon.” She then grabbed him by the hoof to join the others on the dance floor with Applejack and Fluttershy behind. Rarity, Twilight, Spike, and Pinkie were all on the dance floor as well, having fun.
Steele Mane watched Rainbow for a second as she danced to see how she moved, he started to do the same with his own variation of moves as he danced to the music. The girls and Spike all saw that Steele Mane was smiling as he was dancing, it was clear that he understood how to have fun.
After a few hours the party started to wind down and the party guests started to leave. Steele Mane just had to express his gratitude. “Thank you girls, for showing me how to have fun and enjoy myself, it was……fun. I believe the emotion I am feeling is happy, correct?”
Twilight came forward to answer. “Yes Steele Mane, the emotion is happy. Every pony feels happy at a party when their having fun.”
Suddenly, a thought crossed Steele Manes head, he took on a rather somber look and the girls noticed. Rarity spoke to see why he seemed sad. “Steele Mane, what’s wrong, why do you seem sad all of a sudden?”
Steele Mane shook his head and put on a fake smile. "it is nothing, there is something I…..need to think about for a moment, please excuse me.” Steele Mane then turned and headed for the door. The girls didn’t believe Steele when he said there was nothing wrong, so they decided to follow him in secret to see where he was going.
Steele Mane ended up in an open green field just outside Ponyville. He just stood there as he looked up with a solemn expression into the blue sky with a few clouds floating by. The girls and Spike finally stepped forward to make their presence known with Twilight speaking. “Steele Mane, what’s wrong, why do you seem so sad?”
Fluttershy then spoke up. “You know you can tell us anything. Please Steele Mane, we don’t want to see you sad.”
Steele Mane turned around to face them to explain. “It’s just that so much has happened in just one day for me. New friends, new feelings, losing my original purpose, and my new friends offering to help me find a new one, it has all been great but.” He paused. “What will happen when my creator comes for me. What if I end up having to give all of this up. I like having friends and emotions, if the one who created me comes, he will take me away. I am….afraid, afraid to lose all I have gained in such a short amount of time, I don’t know what to do.”
Fluttershy came forward to try and comfort Steele Mane. “Don’t worry Steele Mane, I’m sure if we ask them really nicely they’ll let you stay here with us.”
Pinkie agreed. “Yeah, I mean, how bad can they be, if they made such a nice pony bot like you.”
Steele Mane took on a hopeful smile as he looked at his new friends. “I hope you are right. You all have done so much for me. I would hate to lose you.”
Sadly this tender moment would not last as a flash of blurry white light suddenly appeared before the group. Steele Mane quickly turned around to see what was going on. Standing before the group was a tall creature standing at least a foot and a half taller than them, accompanied by two other metallic figures similar to him in form. He looked down at Steele Mane and barked out, “ALPHA-1, there you are, why have you failed to report in, is your communication systems damaged?”
The group looked at the strange creature with fear as Fluttershy hid behind the group. Steele Mane looked at the man with a curiouse look. “Excuse me? Who are you?”
The human put his flesh hand to his face as he shook his head. “Don’t tell me your memory banks have been damaged too.” He lowered his hand and continued to look at Steele Mane. “You are to come back to the ship with me immediately for repairs. Understand.”
Pinkie got excited at the prospect of another new friend as she quickly zipped up in front of the human and started jumping up and down in place. “OH MY GOSH, you know Steele Mane, you must be his creator, hi, I’m Pinkie Pie and if you know Steele Mane then you can be our friend too.”
The robot to the human’s left saw the pony and raised its arm and pointed it at her, a panel on the top of the robots arm lifted up to reveal a tube, it then fired a blue circular pulse of energy at Pinkie, knocking her back to the group as she slid on her side. The girls cried out, “PINKIE!”
Twilight quickly checked her to make sure she was still alive, she was breathing. Twilight announced to the group the good news. “She’s ok, she’s just unconscious.” They all let out a relieved sigh.
Steele Mane then turned his attention to the human before them. “What did you do that for?!” He then quickly brought out his lasers and aimed them at the human.
The human gave a wicked smile as he looked over the scene. “Well, well, talking ponies, this is most interesting. Alpha-1, why are you defending them.”
Steele Mane glared at him as he answered. “My name is Steele Mane, and they are my friends. I am not going anywhere with you.”
The human gave a wicked smile. “You dare defy your creator, you really are malfunctioning, no matter, I have just the thing to fix that.” As he spoke he slowly used his mechanical arm to reach into his pants pocket and pulled out a remote. He held it and pointed it at Steele Mane and pushed a button on it.
Steele Mane’s eyes started to flash between red and blue until finally settling on the red color. His rays then retracted back into his body. The girls watched in worry and confusion at the scene. Rainbow dash cried out to him as he approached the human. “Steele Mane!”
Steele Mane struggled to turn his head to the right to look back at them as his head seemed to jolt back and forth, he only managed to glance at them out of the corner of his right eye as he tried to call out to them in a distorted robotic voice. “GGiiirrrRRLLlsss.” Just as he finished that, he, the human, and the two robots disappeared in a quick flash of white.
The group just stared at the space that was once occupied by their friend and the strange new beings that came out of nowhere while Pinkie was slowly coming to.
Steele Mane woke up in a room with metal walls on a long metal table, there was a robot to his left in front of a monitor pressing buttons. He looked around some more to see parts of other robots laid out on another table against the wall to his right. He saw a tall rectangular metal door in front of him. The door slid open and the human walked in.
“You are proving to be quit the headache Alpha-1, I had such high hopes for you, you are the most advanced technical marvel money can buy and you lose your memories from a simple lightning strike. However, thanks to the data you’ve collected, I know how valuable the resources on that planet are. Now that your memories have been restored, the only thing left to do is find some way to get rid of these….emotions you seem to have gained. I already know how you got them. I have already gone through the data in your memory from your time on that planet.”
Steele Mane looked at the human with fear. “No, it is against the law to mine planets with sentient life, you cannot destroy that planet.”
“You seem to forget, I don’t care, I am a greedy human and I will not let some stupid law protecting some stupid ponies from making me the richest man in the galaxy. Now, TELL ME HOW TO GET RID OF YOUR EMOTIONS! As long as you have those, you will be able to defy me, and I will not be defied!”
Steele Mane smirked at the human. “You cannot simply delete my emotions, my emotions are tied to my friends, and my friends are tied to my emotions, no matter what you do, I will always be able to defy you.” Steel Mane then began to struggle to stand.
The human looked on in anger as Steele Mane managed to get up on his hooves. “No, how are you doing that, your motor functions should be deactivated!”
Steele Mane continued to smirk as he jumped down from the table and looked at the human, he then lowered his head as he looked to be struggling with something else. Suddenly, a panel on the back of Steele Mane’s neck flew open and a small chip went flying out, the panel then closed back down and Steele Mane’s mane and tail came out.
The human grew furiouse. “NO, THAT WAS YOUR OVERRIDE CHIP, HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS!”
Steele Mane kept his smirk as he looked at the human. “Willpower.” He then brought out his cannons and blasted the droid in the room as it charged at him, the robot blew up and pieces of it went flying all over the room. Steel Mane then turned his attention back to the human who was furious now.
The human called out, “D-7, D-8, Stop Alpha-1!” Two more robots entered the room, they raised their arms and produced the same cylinders that were used to stun Pinkie, only this time, they were firing red lasers. Steele Mane used his horn to Produce a shield to protect himself. The red lasers bounced off of his shield. Steele Mane then got an idea, he pointed his lasers at an angle to a point just above him and fired them both in a continuous beam, it started to create a large red energy ball above Steele Mane.
When he felt it was big enough, he quickly rotated his lasers to face forward, as he did the red ball of concentrated heated energy went flying across the room to the two droids, completely obliterating them. The human was kneeling down behind a table while all this was happening. Steele Mane readied his lasers to blast the human. He shot a beam at the human, but before it hit him, the human disappeared in the same manner that he brought Steele Mane up to the ship.
With the human gone for the moment, Steele Mane quickly made his way over to the console the first robot was working on, he stood in front of it and opened a panel on his chest. A metal cord snaked its way out of his chest and connected to a hole on the side of the console. “Come on, locating ship schematics, downloading, all right, that should do it, time to get out of here, and back to my friends.” Steele Mane Turned around and focused his lasers just above him again, he created another concentrated energy ball above himself and fired it at the wall, with a loud explosion, he made a hole that led out into space. A female computer voice started to sound off as air was being sucked out. “Warning, hull breach in science lab, warning, hull breach in science lab.” It continued to repeat.
Steal mane retracted his lasers and brought out his wings. He galloped out the hole and flew off back down to the planet and to equestrian, leaving the ship behind. The human reappeared on the ships bridge in the same white flash as he screamed in anger at what just happened. “RRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! D-12,GET REPAIR DRONES INTO THE SCIENCE LAB NOW.”
Steele Mane made his descent down into Ponyville and landed right at Twilight’s doorstep, he retracted his wings and knocked on the door. Twilight opened the door with a solemn look on her face which quickly changed to a look of surprise and happiness upon seeing Steele Mane again. “Steele Mane, your back!” She quickly grabbed on to him and gave him a hug, he returned the favor.
Twilight broke the embrace and spoke. “Steele Mane, I thought we’d never see you again, thank Celestia your all right.”
Steele Mane looked at her with a smile. “It is good to see you again too Twilight, but, I have to ask, how long was I away.”
Twilight looked at Steele with a puzzled look. “Steele Mane, you’ve been gone for almost two days now. What happened, who was that creature, and how did he force you to go with him?”
Steele Mane took on a serious look as he began to speak. “I will explain everything later, right now it is urgent that I speak with princess Celestia and Luna. They need to be made aware of what is going on.”
“But Steele, what happened?”
“Twilight, I promise to explain everything to every pony in front of the princesses, please Twilight, this is urgent.”
Twilight still wore a worried look but decided to wait for an explanation. “All right Steele Mane, Spike can you come down her please!”
Spike came out of the room and made his way down the stairs, when he saw Steele Mane in the room, he was filled with joy. “Steele, you’re ok, thank Celestia. What happened.”
Twilight interrupted. “Not now Spike, I need you to send a letter to the princesses telling them that Steele Mane is back and needs to speak with them. It is very urgent that we meet with them as soon as possible.”
“I’m on it.” He gave a little salute then produced a scroll and quill and began to write down a message. Once it was done, he blew green fire on it and sent it on its way to the princess.
It wasn’t long before a response came back. Spike picked up the scroll and read it out loud. “My most faithful student, I am pleased to hear the good news that Steele Mane is back, however, if he has something important to tell us then you may come to the palace as soon as possible. Signed, Princess Celestia.”
Twilight spoke up. “All right, let’s go gather our friends and head to the palace, Spike.”
“Don’t worry Twilight, I’ll stay here and take care of the library.”
“Thanks Spike.”
And so, Steele Mane and Twilight made their way out the door to get every pony together to meet with the princesses.
Meanwhile, up on the space ship, the human had come up with a plan. “All right, listen up you two, you hunter drones are to go down to the planet and bring me back a unicorn alive, I need to do some studying on this magic thing. Understand.”
Two larger buffer looking robots stood before the human on the ships bridge. “Affirmative” They said in unison with a deeper robotic voice. The robots turned and made their way off the bridge to follow their orders.
The human smiled a wicked smile as he thought of his plan. “I will not let some stupid malfunctioning piece of scrap metal ruin my plans for becoming the richest man in the galaxy, I’m going to make him pay for defying me.”
Back down in Equestria, the girls were all happy to see Steele Mane again. They had gotten to the palace and they were all gathered before Celestia and Luna with steele Mane in front, standing before the princesses in their throne room. Celestia stepped forward to address Steele mane. “Steele mane, I am pleased to see you are ok and have come back, but what is so urgent that you had to meet with us like this?”
Steele Mane began his story. “While I was gone, the creature that took me restored my memories, he is a creature called a human. His name is Malcom. Humans come from a distant planet called earth, currently, the humans have a project going on to try and save their own planet which is dying. They are trying to mine other planets for resources that cannot be found on theirs. They do have rules about that, and one of them is to not mine a planet that has sentient life on it. The process they use to mine the resources destroys the planet. Your planet is rich with gemstones that the humans deem very valuable.”
Luna got curious about a statement Steele Mane made. “If it is a law that they cannot mine planets with sentient life, does that not mean we are safe?”
Steele Mane continued. “I’m afraid not, the human who took me is my creator, he is a very greedy human and will stop at nothing to get what he wants, he will not give up unless he mines all the resources and gems from this planet,….or he is stopped permanently.”
Celestia got worried at that statement. “What do you mean by that Steele mane?”
“I mean that he must be destroyed.”
The room fell silent at this. Sure he may be evil, but to speak of such a thing is still unthinkable. Twilight came forward. “Steele Mane, are you sure about this, I mean he is kind of like your father if he made you?”
Steele Mane looked at her with a determined look. “I realize this Twilight, but he must be stopped or your world is doomed. I know what my purpose is now, my purpose is to protect this world and its inhabitants as best I can. I will do whatever it takes to make sure every pony is safe.”
Celestia gave Steele Mane a warm smile. “Steele mane, I cannot tell you how grateful I am that you would be willing to go to such great lengths to save my home and subjects, you have my gratitude.”
Steele mane looked back at her as he smiled. “You have my thanks as well your majesty, if not for you, I would not have the emotions I now carry, and I am now able to make my own choices, which is why I am choosing to help my friends.”
Somewhere in Equestria, a lone pony with a light blue coat and a white and light blue mane and tail, wearing a magicians hat and cape was pulling a make shift small hut on wheels along a dirt road. It was a unicorn mare, her cutie mark was a wand crossed over a crescent moon. As she was walking by, two large muscular looking robots dropped down in front of her from the sky. “Halt creature, are you a unicorn?” the one on the left asked.
The unicorn was afraid of what was standing before her but she did not let it show as she spoke. “Be gone with you, the great and powerful Trixie is busy right now, whatever you are, I do not have time for you.” Clearly this pony was full of herself as she spoke.
The robot on the right asked again. “Are you a unicorn?”
Trixie gave a disgusted look at them as she answered. “Of course I’m a unicorn, the great and powerful Trixie is the most talented unicorn in all of Equestria!”
The robot on the left then raised its arm and produced its arm cannon, it fired a stun pulse at Trixie, causing her to fall to the ground unconscious. The robot on the right then walked closer to her and removed her hat. “Target confirmed, return to ship.” The robot then picked her up and teleported out.
Trixie awoke to find herself in a small metal room on a white metal slab sticking out of the wall. She looked to see an archway that led out of the small room with the same two robots that attacked her. But they weren’t alone, the human was there with them as he smiled wickedly at her. Trixie felt very afraid but she tried not to show it again as she spoke. “You let me out of here this instant you mutant monkey, I, the great and powerful Trixie demands it.”
Malcom’s smile never left as he looked upon her. “Well, well, aren’t we full of ourselves. Look her miss unicorn, you are my prisoner now, as long as you do as I say, you will live to see another day. Otherwise, I may just cook you up for dinner. Now I suggest you lose that cocky attitude of yours.”
Trixie still continued with her defiance. “You don’t scare me, I am the great and powerful-AAAAHHHHH” Trixie was cut off as a surge of electricity went through her body.
The human spoke again. “You failed to notice the collar around your neck. This remote I hold in my hand is the trigger. If you don’t do as I say, I will fill you with so much electricity, it will turn your insides into goo.”
Trixie looked down at her neck and, sure enough, there was a metal black collar with two green lights on the front around her neck. Trixie was really scared now. Seeing no way out and trapped by this strange alien, she simply nodded quietly with a sad look on her face like she was on the verge of tears.
Malcom spoke again. “That’s a good little unicorn.”