//------------------------------// // Mass Hysteria // Story: Pony meets Brony // by Dark Nightshade //------------------------------// The portal deposited me and Sunset Shimmer in a place that Scott Black had built only as a fail-safe. The bad was in a lake near the Santa Fe government building, and had all sorts of weapons that had massive amounts of power, but there was only one that could help us. It had never been tested before, and I didn't even need the test to be able to tell you that it was extremely dangerous. It was a creation that had taken Scott Black/me a long time to build and program. The base itself had taken a while, but the machine had taken even longer. Plus, it is insanely hard to build a base near a government building without them noticing. "So, what exactly is in here?" asked Sunset Shimmer. "Multiple things, but the thing that we're looking for is that," I said, as I pointed towards a giant robot. It basically looked like a steampunk Zozobra, except all of his limbs were movable. "Wow. How long did did it take you to build that?" she asked. "About a year. And that's including the time it took me to program it.," I responded. "Wow. That must have taken some serious skills," Sunset Shimmer said. "Yeah, it did. But enough with the chit chat. We have some people to save," I said. We went to the robot, and started our ascent. Fortunately, when I built it, I made a lot of the parts hollow, so that I could get to the head, aka command center, faster. When we got there, I turned to Sunset Shimmer. "Ok, I'm going to need your help strapping me in," I said. "What do you mean, strapping you in?" she asked, sounding uneasy, which was good, because this thing was seriously O.P. But of course, stuff that's O.P comes at a price. This things price would be my brain getting "merged", if you will to the robot. It may sound like something out of an episode of Doctor Who, and it pretty much is supposed to sound like that. Doctor Who is awesome. But back to the point, this would be insanely dangerous, and if the merge was successful, who knows if I come back the same? And then there's the possibility of me not being able to return to my body, and being trapped in this until it runs out of battery, which would take a while. "See that chair with the thing that looks like a spaghetti drainer? I'm going to need you to put that on my head after I've been strapped onto the chair, and flip the switch," I said. "Is that safe?" she asked. "Not sure. Lets find out," I said, grimly. The only thing I thought when the thing was activated was, "This ended up hurting a lot less then I thought it would." When she flipped the switch, however, that was a completely different matter. There was a massive amount of pain, then I blacked out for (hopefully) a couple of seconds. Except I was the robot. It had successfully worked! That was a new. Usually, Scott Black's inventions blew up, or something like that. As I was looking at the body I was now inhabiting, I heard Sunset Shimmer in my head, which kind of freaked me out for a bit. "Oh my god, are you ok?" she was saying when I finally answered. "Yeah, I'm good. This is pretty cool though," I said. Almost instantly, there was screaming. "What? What happened? Did something happen to my body?" I said, starting to freak out a bit. "Oh god, are you speaking thru the robot?" "In a sense. This thing has a ton of fairly advanced coding, ok?" "Oh, wow. That is insane," she said. "Keep hanging out with me, and you'll see some even stranger stuff," I said. "But enough with the chit-chat, we have some people to save."