My Little Portal: Quest to Save Canterlot

by SonicBoombrony


The Start Up

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// My Little Portal: Quest to Save Canterlot// by SonicBoombrony //------------------------------//

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// Chapter 1 //------------------------------//

The somewhat secret lab, Equestria Laboratories, had been working on ways to help ponies with everyday type tasks. They built robots with A.I. that just keeps on increasing with every new design, each A.I that is made had a specific job around the facility but the greater the A.I is the more it could help around the facility. Cubes that had a magnetic properties were also made and so were basic robot shells and the Portal Gun but very few have been made. Equestria laboratory was run by the head scientist Cranky Doddle Donkey. Cranky had been working day in and day out trying to make every new robot smarter then the previous design.
Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom stood to the right of a table that had small robotic body shells placed on it. “Awesome! Look at those robots girls, what do you think they would be used for?” Scootaloo was intrigued by these robot.
“I don’t know but we should leave them alone they could be dangerous…” Sweetie Belle was obviously concerned being around those robots. Probably thinking they could activate at any given moment.
“Don’t worry ‘bout it, ya’ll be safe around here, besides they don’t have anything in them Sweetie Belle they are just shells, well that’s what Cranky told me” as usual Apple Bloom was very securing to the other two ponies. But Sweetie Belle was still being cautious anyway, no amount of convincing will change Sweetie’s mind about them.
“Thanks for putting this party together Pinkie”, Cranky asked Pinkie to put together one of her good old Pinkie parties for this special occasion.
“No problem Cranky, everything needs a good party to make it better”, Pinkie was happy to put this party together for her friend, it was a big day for Cranky after all.
Cranky and his scientists had been working on an A.I robot for months now, all her wanted was for it to be better then the previous versions; CELesTIA and LunA. They had the scientists all gather in the main control room for this occasion, the best possible A.I would be legendary but some of the scientists had not liked the idea of turning it on yet. “I need to perform more tests before we are sure to turn on the robot” Dr Brown had the right idea with this A.I.
“I know but Cranky wants it up and running now besides what could go wrong,” Dr Whooves was fine with the idea getting launch besides the other A.I’s were fine on start up. But the only other scientist that had the same idea as Dr. Brown was Dabu, but the only problem is Dabu didn’t really speak English but he tried reasoning anyway, he waved his arms, shaking his head and everything but it was no use, no one was paying attention. “See even Dabu thinks its ok and he was one of the main workers on this”, yelled out a random scientist who had barely been at the Laboratory very long.
Dabu tried shaking his head to disagree but it was hopeless, know knew what he was saying but everyone just assumed it was just him getting excited about the robot finally, after all this work getting activated. Some of the scientists didn’t even care about the A.I D.I.S.C.O.R.D getting activated, they did their work towards the robot just wanting some of Pinkie Pie’s cake. After trying to reason with Cranky even though he would only ignore him because he was trapped in his own ego. “ACTIVATE THE ROBOT”, Cranky yelled at his main scientist telling him to hit the button, Brown pressed the button but at the same time felt it wasn’t the right time.
The button was pressed, on cue D.I.S.C.O.R.D was activated. Hummm. It made a humming sound as D.I.S.C.O.R.D was starting up, the eyes turned on, they were a very dark red colour sinister type colour if you will. When in hibernate mode his wires hanging from the roof made D.I.S.C.O.R.D just hang down vertically at all times once booted up he was basically in the same position but his head would tilt up.
“D.I.S.C.O.R.D you’re finally awake a success! Beautiful success,” Cranky was yelling and jumping everywhere like he had won the Canterlot lottery but who could blame him.
“D.I.S.C.O.R.D show me if you vitals are working, try turning the lights on and off.” And just like Doctor Whooves wanted the lights when off and on, but still some ponies still thought even though he was responding to the commands he was given it still seemed too good to be true.
"It works! Yes! After all this time it has finally payed off!" Cranky was getting louder with ever passing second.
“I can do other things too,” D.I.S.C.O.R.D said in a sinister way, like something was up but the way he sounds no pony finds it peculiar in the slightest.
At that moment six robotic arms come out from the ceiling of where the robot was hanging. The arms flew at the scientists, it was obvious D.I.S.C.O.R.D had malfunction or a glitch had happened to his programing, those tests Dr. Brown wanted to do should have happened. Scientists were grabbed and dragged back to where they might not return. Two of the six arms went after Dr. Whooves but he ran for the elevator, at the last stretch he jumped and made it into the elevator just escaping the grasp of D.I.S.C.O.R.D the door shut and at that moment he was somewhat safe. Dr. Brown and Cranky got out of the Lab though another elevator. Whooves was going to the bottom floor longish way underground he had a plan. “OK putting on this suit should keep me safe enough till I get to CELesTIA and LunA.” The elevator stopped Whooves walked out he was now wearing a black and orange suit with a black helmet.
“HEY robot guy” Whooves turned to his left to see a Pegasus standing there, she just closed her eyes and waved.
“My name his Whooves for you information, who are you and what are you doing here?” He turned his head in confusion not knowing how she got there in the first place.
“Im Rainbow Dash, I was in the test chamber then a ruckus happened and I was able to escape behind the wall panels. What’s going on up there?” She looked happy to be out of the test chamber but rather confused as well.
“The new A.I D.I.S.C.O.R.D was activated but something went wrong and now is taking over the facility,” explaining as quick as possible time was a waiting after all.
“Wait, you designed an A.I based off of Discord that’s plain evil,” Rainbow looked pissed about hearing what was said.
“Digitally Intrinsic System Contrivance of Robotic Dissonance! He was supposed to be the perfect A.I but he has malfunctioned and the only way to save the facility is too reactive the previous A.I’s, hopefully they be able to stop DISCORD” he was still trying to get away as soon as possible.
“OK then. You go turn on the A.I’s and I’ll go see if anypony is still up there with D.I.S.C.O.R.D, and see if they are ok if there is”, Rainbow Dash sounded more determined than normal
Doctor Whooves watch Rainbow Dash go up the elevator. As soon as Rainbow was out of sight Whooves proceeded to the final elevator that goes to the bottom floor of the laboratory just above the test chamber floors. This elevator however required a password to use. “Drat what was the password? 1… no 2 maybe argh what is the password? Wait that’s it, 2-9-8-1,” Doctor Whooves was basically mumbling to himself but finally got the password Whooves was astatic! BEEP, BEEP. The elevator doors closed and it slowly descended to the final floor of the laboratory section of the facility. When Whooves reached the bottom floor the doors opened and Whooves walked over the A.I control panel. The control panel needed a level 2 key card to open, very few ponies have a key card of that level luckily Doctor Whooves was one of them. Whooves swiped is card, the panel glowed for a little while then it made some beeping sounds. The two A.I’s CELesTIA and LunA reactivated and were awaiting orders. As soon as they were ready to respond to orders, Whooves gave them, “CELesTIA I need you and LunA to stop D.I.S.C.O.R.D from taking over the facility. Please deactivate him or at least stop him. And quickly before it’s too late!”
Rainbow Dash flew over to the elevator while Doctor Whooves ran to the elevator that would lead to the hibernating A.Is. When Rainbow got to the floor D.I.S.C.O.R.D was on all she did was yell, “HELLO? ANYPONY HERE?” But there was no answer… well not from a pony or donkey. “Hello… there pony of Loyalty,” a strong robotic voice echoed though the large open room. Rainbow Dash got the chills hearing this voice echoing around the room, “w-w-w-who is there?” Rainbow Dash turns around slowly, she knew what was awaiting her upon turning around. But instead of running the elevator like a normal pony would, Rainbow flew straight at D.I.S.C.O.R.D, not even caring what would happen to her. Rainbow flew about twenty meters, before she could get any closer though D.I.S.C.O.R.D used two of his four claw like arms to hit her across the head, unfortunately one of them hit her on the eye. From the impact of getting hit all that force was still applied the instant Rainbow hit the ground, Rainbow Dash was knocked unconscious and was also heavily injured.
The wall panels behind D.I.S.C.O.R.D moved further away from each other making any opening for LunA to pass though, as CELesTIA made a front on appearance to take focus away from LunA who was going for the surprise attack. “Your terror ends now D.I.S.C.O.R.D,” CELesTIA was only stalling so LunA could get close enough to deactivate.
“Oh sad, sad CELesTIA thinking that your petty words could stop me from knowing that LunA is trying to find me ‘off’ button, it’s not that easy” D.I.S.C.O.R.D used his the four claw like arms to grab LunA but LunA broke free and moved over to CELesTIA.
“Your time is up! You can’t stop us both, not with four arms” CELesTIA and LunA were getting ready to go finally turn off D.I.S.C.O.R.D but suddenly the arms they won’t afraid of grabbed them both making them unable to move. CELesTIA and LunA had two arms of their own but couldn’t break out of D.I.S.C.O.R.D’s grasp. CELesTIA and LunA used both of their arms to free one on the A.Is, LunA was free and then in a split moment helped CELesTIA out. They both charged at D.I.S.C.O.R.D, he tried to react in time but was just two seconds to slow, CELesTIA and LunA got to D.I.S.C.O.R.D. They both hit D.I.S.C.O.R.D on the head then CELesTIA got behind and hit the little button just to the side of his left eye. “What did you touccchhh…?” D.I.S.C.O.R.D’s red eyes dimed out until they were completely off, then his whole robotic body just was left hanging from the roof.
“WE DID IT D.I.S.C.O.R.D HAS BEEN STOPPED! Rainbow dash? Where are you?” Whooves was quickly moving his head around looking for the cyan Pegasus. CELesTIA moves over to the left reviling the bashed and brushed pony. “R-Rainbow?! What… Why did this happen to you?” Whooves was distressed because Dash put her life on the life to see if anypony survived and Rainbow gets killed…
“Cranky! For the actions of putting fellow ponies in danger I can still allow you to do your research. Far away very far” Princess Celestia was give Cranky a talking to but slowly looks up at the moon and says one more thing. “Cranky thirty years, that’s how long you will spend on your new home,” it’s obvious now Cranky will be spending the rest of his life on the moon. Just for activating D.I.S.C.O.R.D with the approval of all, of the scientists.


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“Why didn’t you ask me to give her any sleeping gas or at least anaesthetic?” Nurse Redheart questions Doctor Browns “Did you put it in her yourself?” Now Nurse Redheart was getting suspicious.
“No she is completely conscious she can feel everything and hear us talking,” Doctor Brown seemed disturbed saying this. The two, doctor and nurse ponies looked at Rainbow. “She can feel every one of the blood valves on her,” while Brown was talking Nurse Redheart turned and looked at Dash. Just like Doctor Brown said Rainbow Dash had about seven blood valves in her just, an air tube going down her throat maker her able to breath and Rainbow’s whole body is beaten so much that she will never be able to walk by herself, but worst of all, one of Dash’s eyes have been heavily beaten. Rainbow has an eye patch over the bad eye it’s all bloody from Rainbow’s bleeding eye.
“What! What do you mean she can hear us and everything,” Nurse Redheart was now really disturbed and feels bad for Rainbow. “Does that mean… She will know what we did and who did it?” Nurse Redheart is now getting worried not just about Rainbow but about herself.
“No. Rainbow will have her memory erased 10 seconds after being rebooted. But just in case so goes rouge we need to keep a copy of her memory,” Doctor Brown was just giving Nurse Redheart security. “However we only will re-enter Rainbow’s memory as a last resort, because as soon as Rainbow gets her memory back she will remember everything including this conversation and every little bit of excruciating pain Rainbow is in.” Doctor Brown started to feel sympathy for Rainbow Dash now. “Do it…”
“B-b-but Doctor” Nurse Redheart is trying her hardest to off put the inevitable but deep down Redheart knows it’s the only way for Rainbow to live. “*sigh* Ok Doctor” Nurse Redheart never usually feels this distorted will doing surgery but it’s probably the thought of knowing that Rainbow Dash can hear them and feel every little bit of pain. “So are we completely turning her into a robot or what?”
“We are not. We are only going to put her in one of those new battle robot shells.” Doctor Brown lifts his hoove and points to the robot shell next to the operating table. “But this is a special model. Rainbow will have full control of a head piece. The new head piece covers and uncovers Rainbow’s organic face at will, and when this happens the one organic eye she has will get a robot one over it when it’s covering her head. And an adjustable orange eye cover can be flipped down if Rainbow doesn’t want the head cover on but needs to protect her eyes. Finally this one and only model has a little built in laser on the right front leg.”
“So after we have done this will Rainbow be full operational straight away? Or is there a little time limit or something?” Nurse Redheart had her hoove on the claw user to take out Rainbow’s eye which needs to be replaced with the robot one.
“Rainbow will enter a cool down phase, it’s basically like hibernation. When need to put Rainbow in a coma like thing because the shock of the surgery takes about six years for the shock to disappear and also me and Doctor Whooves also need to make sure we get every little bit of her memory copied before we reboot, because of her ten second memory deletion, and as I said earlier in Dash happens to go rouge, Rainbow will need her original memory.” Doctor Brown was having to explain everything positively to Nurse Redheart so the operation could be done as quickly as possible. “I know this doesn’t seem right but unless we hurry Rainbow is just going to lie there in pain, longer then she has to!”
“Ok Doctor. Let us begin then,” Nurse Redheart had he thoughts straight now and wanted to begin so Rainbow could be better… At least as much as she can.
Doctor Brown walked over to the robotic shell. Brown picked it up and moved it to the left side of the surgery table. “Now we are able to begin. Press that button and we will begin the procedure, we just need to help guide the surgery A.I and keep Rainbow’s vitals alive. We can’t let her die not like this…”
Nurse Redheart pressed the A.I starter button. (Hope Rainbow won’t hate us for this. And if she does go rogue and we give Dash her old memory back, hope she won’t hold a grudge on us) Nurse Redheart blanked out while thinking.
“Hello!? Nurse Redheart? You ok?” Doctor Brown was starting to worry about his finest Nurse.
“Oh? Yes? I’m sorry I was just think about something. It’s not that important however. Well let’s begin shall we?” Nurse Redheart said rather quickly, not surprising that Doctor Brown didn’t understand it very well. Nurse Redheart pressed the button that starts the A.I, which finally starts the procedure.
“Finally! Now we can save this poor pegasus ponies life,” Doctor Brown sounded relieved yet very determined. Brown walked beside the operation, Doctor Brown examined the robotic shell making sure it had no faults in the wiring and/or the shell itself. “Ok, ok everything is in order Nurse Redheart press the begin operation button.”
And just like that the button was pressed and now the A.I was grabbing the blood valves out of Rainbow and the A.I used its arm to take out Rainbow’s bloody dead eye and within a split second it was carefully trying to put Dash’s new robotic eye in the eye socket. After some screaming and weeping from Rainbow Dash the A.I was now placing Rainbow’s old body into her new one. Rainbow Dash didn’t get to keep her organic wings instead the new robotic body had built in wings which were made of a softer metal making the wings flexible and as close to real wings as possible. Dash’s head was relatively fine so Doctor Brown decided to use a contractible head, this also means Rainbow Dash is able to keep her one organic eye. Every time the helmet comes off it basically collapses to the back of her neck. Whenever the helmet is on, it automatically covers her normal eye with another robotic one, this design was made by Doctor Whooves for special combat robots but this one model could be the ticket to Rainbow dash keeping her eye and head.
After about nineteen hours Rainbow was a complete robot and was in the process of getting her memory scanned and copied. “How long will this take to copy it all?” Nurse Redheart questioned.
“The copying and scanning process takes about nine years to fully complete then about six months off Rainbow being in hibernation” Doctor Brown replied.
“Nine years hmm… do we need to watch the process at all times?” Nurse Redheart inquired while looking at the copying process on the computer monitor.
“No we don’t. *Yawn*. The A.I’s of then division will monitor it at all times and besides if something happens a certain alarm goes off, letting anypony that knows what it is know the copying is failure or having troubles,” Doctor Brown said sounding very tired after the operation.
Nurse Redheart and Doctor Brown turned off the lights and left the room leaving Rainbow alone for her memory to get copied for nine years to come…