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// Story: To Protect And Serve 
// by Onomonopia 
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There were no Sentinel's guarding the entrance to the massive chamber and any that had been in the area had been struck down by Robocop while he had marched towards the center of the evil acts being perpetrated in his streets. He held his gun next to his head as he marched into the chamber, wagering that Sombra would still believe him to be under control and obeying like a puppet. But there were no strings on this puppet anymore.

Robocop entered the main chamber where Sombra sat in his throne, Robocop seeing that the dark kings back was to him and he gazed intently into the orb that rested before him. Robocop took aim with his pistol and fired, but a barrier of darkness surrounded the dark king and deflected the bullets. Sombra then turned to face Robocop, a look of pure rage upon the dark king’s face as he glared at the puppet.

"Do you honestly think I wasn't watching your every action, watching every time as you betrayed me for the ponies?!" he asked with a roar before channeling his dark magic into the orb and hurling it at Robocop, the officer's reflexes allowing him to catch the sphere with ease. Yet the moment it touched his hand that dark sphere exploded into darkness, knocking Robocop back. "But what you've done shouldn't have been POSSIBLE! I took every precaution, stripped you of everything that should have made you the man you are! I erased your memories of the force, your life before this one. Your DAMNED FAMILY! My plan was one hundred percent foolproof!"

"No Sombra, your plan was ninety nine percent foolproof," Robocop replied with cold emotion, watching as Sombra's face contorted into something beyond wrath as he figured out what Robocop was implying. "I may no longer have a sense of humor like I used to, but even I can find it fun how the part of me that you said was my weakest turned out to be all I needed to fight against the monster you tried to make me. The one percent of my humanity was enough to overcome the dark magic of one of the strongest magical users in the land."

"So how do you still have this shred of humanity left?! I erased everything that made you this way!" Sombra roared from behind the dark barrier, unable to wrap his mind around how his plan had come undone so easily. "I killed the human inside of you when I erased him from your mind!"

"You did erase my memories. I have no recollection of my police work before Equestria aside from the little you left me as a joke. I cannot remember the name of my son or my wife or what either of them looked like," Robocop agreed before he took his left hand and placed it over where his heart was placed within his body. "But just because I can't remember them...doesn't mean I can't feel them. They will always be with me, always being my strength."

"But how?"

Just as I feel those I love in my heart I still feel the pride I took in saying the oath of honor that I no longer remember. I still feel the anger I felt towards the criminals who preyed on the innocent. I still feel the pain of becoming what I am. Because those feelings are in a place that even the darkest of magic cannot touch," Robocop said with conviction as he pointed his gun at Sombra's head. And now Sombra, it is time you are placed under arrest."

"Go to hell!" Sombra roared as darkness encompassed the dark king, creating a torrent of darkness as he hurled himself towards Robocop with an unholy shriek of rage. Robocop holstered his gun for the moment before placing both of his hands before him to catch the dark wave of power, his ramrods driving themselves into the floor of the chamber and held him place. "Nopony before you has been able to escape my dark influence before, no matter how kind or noble they were! And you are programmed to follow directives, no matter what they are! How can Robocop go against his directives?!"

"Because I am only ninety nine percent Robocop," Robocop responded while lifting the darkness with incredible strength, stopping the darkness dead in its tracks. "And because when all had gone dark for me, there was always that one percent. When those who built me tried to kill me and make me into their personal product, they thought that I would stay dead. Just as when you tried to make me into a machine that would terminate all in your way, you believed I would obey without question. But both times the same mistake was made. You both underestimated the one percent of me that will never surrender! You underestimated the man called Murphy!" 

Robocop brought his fist back and drove it into the darkness, blasting Sombra out of his own shadows and through his throne on the other side of the room. Sombra coughed up blood as he picked himself out of the rubble of his throne, glaring daggers at Robocop as the officer began to advance towards him with pistol drawn. 

"Sombra, you are charged with the following crimes." Sombra roared with rage as he picked up the chunks of the throne and hurled them at Robocop, who allowed the rocks to break on his chest as he continued to move forward. "Breaking and entering." Sombra cat his magic into the stone suits next to him and breathed life into them, the Sentinel's roaring as they lunged at Robocop.

"Kidnapping." Robocop punched the first Sentinel in the face and brought it to the ground, where a shot from his pistol shatter its skull. The second one bit into his shoulder, but the armor held true once again and allowed Robocop to fire into the creature’s skull. "Aggravated assault."

"Die already!" Sombra shrieked as dark spikes erupted from the ground and dug themselves into Robocop's armor, but they never broke through the best humanity had to build. Sombra continued to fire more and more dark magic into Robocop as the officer broke himself free, the spells never slowing him down as he continued to advance.

"Disturbing the peace. Robbery. Homicide. Animal Cruelty." Sombra cast darkness into his own veins, using his magic to increase his physical form until he toward over Robocop. He lunged at Robocop and swung at the officer with all of his magic enhanced might, but Robocop caught his hoof and stopped the attack then and there.

"Stalking," Robocop continued as he threw a devastating right into Sombra's face, knocking the dark king back. "Child abuse." Another metal fist knocked teeth from Sombra's skull as the blow snapped Sombra to the ground. Sombra screamed as he rose and slammed himself into Robocop, who held once again against the combination of magic and rage. "Assaulting an officer of the law. Attempted murder. And the murders of a number of innocent and one Granny Smith!" Robocop roared as he lifted his leg and drove it into Sombra's chest, shattering his ribs and hurling him across the room. He collapsed to the floor with a weak moan next to a pool as Robocop lowered his leg and continued to march towards him.

"For the charges stated, I hereby place you under arrest," Robocop finished as he walked towards Sombra. The dark king shook his head as he struggled to see straight, but his eyes went wide as he realized what he was looking at. He rolled weakly onto his back to look at Robocop, holding his hooves weakly up. "Do you have anything to say for yourself?"

"Alright, I give. Take me in," he said weakly. Robocop stopped walking towards Sombra and took aim at his head with his pistol, causing Sombra's eyes to shrink as he realized what Robocop was implying. "Whoa there, you're not going to kill me are you? That goes against your oath!" Robocop slowly advanced towards Sombra with his gun pointed right between Sombra's lying eyes, knowing that he could end this with one pull of the trigger. "Dammit, you're a cop!"

"Yes...I am a cop," Robocop confirmed as he lowered his gun to the side. "And you are now under my custody."

"Pity. For a second I believed that you were going to do something that was smart," Sombra said with a smirk before he hurled himself into the pool behind him, Robocop dashing forward to pull him out of it and end this. But the moment he reached the poolside a blast of pure magic shot into the air and hurled Robocop back, slamming him into the wall on the other side of the room. He shook his head and looked up to see that Sombra was now floating in the air; his red eyes the only color visible amongst a storm of darkness. "Because if you had killed me right there, then you and all the ponies would have lived."

Robocop had just risen back up to his feet when a blast of magic unlike any he had ever felt assaulted his chest, flinging him across the room and slamming him into another wall. Static quickly flickered across Robocop's eyes as he rose back to his feet, looking down at his chest to see that his armor was burnt and had small tears in it.

"So the almighty Robocop finally sees that he's not invincible," Sombra mocked Robocop as he continued to fire more darkness and Robocop, the spells tearing into him and his armor, which could barely protect him from the assault of the enhanced magic. "Now you get to see that despite your fancy armor you're nothing more than another guard that I have to kill before I get what I want. I suppose that isn't fair though. You're the LAST guard I have to kill before all of Equestria is mine."

"You have the right to remain silent!" Robocop roared as he swung at Sombra with his left hand, only for it to be caught by the darkness that now was more than a match for Robocop. Sombra let his teeth shine in the darkness before he tore with all of his magical might, ripping Robocop's arm out of its socket. Robocop collapsed to his knees as he looked at the torn wires and metal where his arm used to be, before slowly looking up at Sombra.

"Anything else you want to say?" Sombra asked with a smirk.

"You...have the right to an attorney," Robocop continued as he struggled back up to his feet, slowly marching towards Sombra once again as he reached down into his right leg. Sombra's horn flashed with power as the darkness wrapped itself around Robocop's right leg, shredding the metal and wires as he tore it off of Robocop's body. Robocop fell to the ground and began to breath heavily, reaching out with his right arm and dragging himself towards Sombra.

"Anything you say...can...and will...be used against you," Robocop stammered as he struggled to move forward, Sombra laughing with delight as he wrapped his tendrils of darkness around Robocop's left leg and tore it off as well, laughing as Robocop began to twitch as he reached down to where his leg was no longer.

"Then if I say it's over and you're dead against me?" Sombra asked with a laugh as he dropped Robocop's left leg in front of him, throwing back his head and laughing while Robocop reached into his left leg and pulled out a small disc. "What's that? Is it your final weapon against me? Or is it one of those explosives that you used to kill the Lumberwolf. I hope you realize that in this for I cannot be hurt. But go ahead; give me your final act of defiance. Because after you do, the next limb that comes off is your head."

Robocop wanted to fight against what Sombra was saying, but he knew that the dark king was correct and that his weaponry was no longer up to the task of killing Sombra. Robocop looked at the disc in his hand with absolute certainty that this was the end, that he had failed when he had been needed most. But then his scanner started up and began to display information on the screen, telling him that the magic that fueled Sombra was the same magic that ran the Sentinel's. 

'No, it is not certain. There is still a one percent chance!' Robocop thought as he pulled his right arm back as far as it could go and hurled the disc at Sombra. The dark king cackled as the disc sailed through his body, missing him completely and landing in the pool. Robocop could feel the darkness wrap itself around his head as Sombra brought his face in close, a smile on his face.

"Well Robocop, that truly was a pathetic last attempt to kill me," the dark king taunted with arrogance flashing in his eyes. "So, any last words before I tear your head off and make it the first of many to be mounted on my wall?"

"Level ten." A massive explosion went off in the pool, turning the liquid magic within it into steam from the heat and force of the explosion, cracking the structure of the chamber and beginning to cause it to collapse from the shockwave. The green magic that had flowed through the walls began to pulse with a dark light before exploding, the magic growing more and more powerful without a source to manage it. Sombra howled in pain as the magic that was within began to erupt, causing the darkness to burst forth from within him, blasting his armor off of his body and the horn off of his head. Sombra collapsed to the ground next to Robocop once the magic had expelled itself from his body, weakly looking around as the magic within the building began to go critical.

"Dammit...whole place is going to explode...got to...escape," Sombra muttered as he shakily got to his hooves. But the moment he did so a data spike shot out of Robocop's wrist, which Robocop then drove through Sombra's leg and buried it in the ground. "What are you doing?!" Sombra howled through the pain.

"As I said, you are in my custody," Robocop replied weakly, but his data spike was buried within the ground.

"Don't you get it you fool, if you don't let me go then we will both die here!" Sombra screamed at him, but when he looked into Robocop's cracked visor he found resolve in his eyes. "I'll make you a deal; if you let me go I’ll get you out of here as well! Come on, what do you think?"

"If I let you go here, then more innocent will die. More ponies will be harmed because of you. And as an officer of the law and one who has sworn his life to the safety of others I cannot allow that to happen! No Sombra, today is the day that you answer for your crimes. Whether I take you in front of a judge that is a pony...or The judge that eventually judges us all, I am taking you in. So be it dead or alive," Robocop said as he glared into Sombra's eyes with his own, eyes that filled Sombra with more fear than the explosions around him did. For Murphy's eyes were not afraid of death. 

"You are coming with me."

A flash of green light enveloped them both, creating a massive explosion that shot into the sky for all of Equestria to see. The chamber that was at the nexus of the explosion was completely destroyed, along with anyone or thing within it. But yet as one being was blasted into nothingness with a scream of rage, the other smiled as best he could as the magic engulfed them both.

'Directive fulfilled. Innocent...protected. Robocop...shutting down.'