//------------------------------// // MOLLUSK Industries // Story: The Lightning Seven: The Second Strike *Old story* // by Barracuda cyborg //------------------------------// Our heroes have finally walked into the large facility called MOLLUSK Industries. The entire facility looked like any old office work place would look like. It had cubicles, supply closets, break rooms, it even a mail room. "Crikey for a diabolical corporation bent on turning everyone into a robot they have some ripper good health insurance." Snaggletooth said as he read a pamphlet he got from the opening of the facility. "Well all we need to find the head honcho here and take him out." Tarlok said cracking his knuckles preparing to fight. "Hey there's a TV." Charger said as Glido was frantically pointing towards the direction of the television set. "Cool I wanna see if they have All my feathers" Outlook said as he rushed towards it hoping to see his favorite soap opera, but instead he got a video from the company. "Welcome to MOLLUSK industries, here we give you the most important thing we want, and that's domination. Here we suck they very life out of you and turn you into our robotic slaves to follow our every whim. Now if your looking for the companies boss he is located near the snack room just follow the yellow line. If you are already an employee then remember casual clothes day is tomorrow. MOLLUSK Industries-where our slow pace brings quality machines." The robot on the TV said in a weirdly happy voice as it described what the place did on a daily basis. Rarity was just dumbstruck at what the company was doing and could only try saying something, "well that was a tad..." "Unsettling." Slash said completing the white unicorns sentence. "Lets face it guys were never gonna beat this guy, we're failures." Circuit Breaker said curling up into a fetal position as tears started to roll down his face. "I can live with that." Lightning Scale said as he got on top of the mole reading a news paper he pulled out from the same place Snaggletooth got the pamphlet. "Lets change our names to why and bother." Circuit said as he just gave up on crying himself to sanity. "But I like being Pinkie." Pinkie Pie said as she held up a nametag with her name on it. "Trust me my friend we can and we will defeat this menace!" Sir Slicer said motivated as he slammed his sword against his armor "Agreed we should move on." Twilight said moving from the large group. "I want my revenge!" Thunder Buster said as her wings balled in fists in anger. "Oh there it is." Scalor said as he saw a door labeled 'Boss HQ' next to a snack machine. The group soon walked through the door and through a large series of corridors filled with pictures of old employees eventually coming up to a large empty room "Whoa." they exclaimed as they saw a large snail like robot suspended from the roof with two eyes waving up and down as it noticed the group in its chambers. "Oh its you, its been a long time." The large robot said in a flat monotone synthesized voiced that shook fear into some of the groups members. "Die you monstrosity you do not belong here!" Sir Slicer said as his sword slashed the air towards the robots direction. "It wasn't my fault I was given my position, I was created by creatures like you wishing to pay tribute to the true company founder." The machine said in a low tone. "Tribute? You steal innocent creatures and turn them into your robotic slaves!" Tarlok said as he gripped his hands in anger remembering what the company did to his sister. "Perhaps that can be said about time and advancement it self. In all due time organics shall fall and robotics shall rise from the ashes and dominate the world. It is the order of all life to succumb to." The robot said knowing that the resistances tries were futile as he knew that the robotic age was coming soon and he was just helping advance the progress. "Your worlds are as empty as your artificial soul, our kind ill need something like you." Celestia said knowing the machine was trying to demoralize them into just surrendering. "What is a organic?! A miserable pile of questions, but enough of this have at you!" The machine yelled as hundreds of robots dropped in. They had singular red optical lenses and a subsonic plasma repeater on their left arm. Scalor soon saw the large army before them and soon started to think they were out numbered. "Wait there's twenty three of us and... ninety-eight, ninety-nine." he started to count the robots just to see if the odds were really stacked against them. "Did you count that one?" Pinkie asked thinking that the cybernetic fish miscounted. "Would some of you wear a hat or something, it's so frustrating! I think I counted one of you twice." Scalor yelled now thinking that a large group of identical robots was incredibly irritating to count. "As soon as the copy-bots are done with you, this hit the streets" The robot said as a large robotic suit walked in the room to strike fear into the group more than what the robot had already did. "Statement: interesting designs, I hope you do not mind if I imitate it." The robot said as it began to be engulfed in a red light slowly showing its transformation into Twilight. Pretty soon all the robots started to turn into clones of the rest of the group. "They kinda remind me of changelings" Rainbow said as she saw more robots turn into her and her friends. "Change-what?!" Jumpstart asked as he prepared his guns. "Bug creatures from our world that can change form." Rarity said giving her robotic friend a little food for thought. "Enough talk may the fight commence!" Thunder Buster yelled as she flew towards the army of robotic clones.