Luna walked along side Celestia as they both walked towards the old wing off the castle. The old wing was where Luna and Celestia's parents room and where the old kingdom was kept mostly from prying eyes. Both of them decided a long time ago that this place would be used to for any secret projects that they would like to hide form Equestrian citizen's prying eyes or more importantly the eyes of those of their neighbors. However no matter how big their projects get, the old king and queen private chambers has not been touched at all.
As they walked they reach the old throne room and headed towards the seats of power. As they approched the seats of power glowed their familiar light of the sun and the moon and parted along with the rest of the back wall to reveal a doorway big enough for the two to walk though.
The sisters walked through the gateway into the lab where the three machines lay in their stasis tubs waiting to be awoken. A unicorn walked up to the princesses.
"Oh hello Princess Celestia, Princess Luna," Said Professor Technical "Techy" Board," What can I do for you two today? Its rather odd that you two should visit when the routine check up and report in only tomorrow instead of today."
"Bad news Techy." said Princess Celestia," We need to wake these golems up."
"Heroes," corrected Princess Luna.
"Yes dear sister sorry," apologized Princess Celestia," We need to wake these heroes up and we need your help Techy."
"I see," said Professor Techy as he turned around to face away from the two princesses," HEY WINCH AND WENCH! SUIT UP AND GET YOUR FLANKS DOWN HERE! TIME TO WAKE THEM UP THE HARD WAY!"
A few seconds pass with loud noise of things getting overturned, pushed out of the way and the sound of things tripping down stairs to reveal two earth ponies who had stopped at the bottom of the stairs in. Professor Techy facedhoofed as he waited for the twins earth ponies to untangle themselves and present themselves in a more dignified manner.
As Princess Celestia suppressed a giggle, Princess Luna asked," What do you mean the hard way?"
"Ah well you see," said Professor Techy as he turned around to face Princess Luna," We have been slowly feeding them magic and electric energy as required as well as doing all of the ideas to wake them up. From the natural way to wake ponies up to the extremes to forcing vasts amount of energy or magic and even sometimes both. But we always stop at a limit. Five seconds at full power, things like that. But since we now have the urgency of your command well.... We are going to pull out all the stops and see if we can generate a lot of magic and energy for a full five minutes. Well see if that can help wake them up."
As Professor Techy was halfway though his explanation, the twin brothers Winch and Wench had untangled themselves and hooked up the three tubs with cables connecting to the giant energy amplifier. The Amplifier would receive power from the Canterlotian Dam that was set up much further away. An assistant who had heard Professor Techy was also preparing by setting up another energy amplifier but this time it amplifies power from that assistant who is a unicorn.
"Er Prof?" asked the assistant," What do ya mean a full five minutes? I can barely last 2 seconds on this bleeding thing!"
"Don't you worry your little head of Mana Pillar," said Professor Techy," I and a couple of the other assistants will be hooked up as well and hopefully will decrease the drain. Now get those helmets ready please."
"Ok but your the boss on this Prof," said Mana Pillar.
The set up took a few minutes to complete and the set up was ready. The two amplifier are hooked up to the three tubs and are ready. Professor Techy raised his hoof and said," Ok colts and fillies! Here we go! In Three, Two, One, Ignition start!"
With that Winch and Wench pulled the levers on both of the Amp and started generating the vast amount of energy and magic into the tubs. As the Amps turbines whined and sparked, Winch yelled," How much more do we pump in this thing?!"
"Four more minutes!" Yelled Wench," But I don't think the Amps can take it!"
And Wench was right. Hitting the 3 minute mark of the needed 5 minutes, the Amps started to overheat and the turbines of both of the amps started to wobble out of the machines. It took another 40 more seconds before the amps decided that it couldn't hold on much longer and started to crash and burn. The amps exploded flinging many of the ponies present to the ground and Princess Celestia and Luna to the wall.
When the two princesses got up they survey the scene to find that while many ponies were hurt or sporting nosebleeds, no ponies were in critical conditions but the Amps were completely trashed.
The experiment looked like it was a complete failure if it wasn't for three things. The three tubs that housed the heroes were opening to reveal.....
A very confused looking Crashman.
A rather indifferent looking Shadowman
And one very Pissed off and apparent in a lot of pain Metabee.