Commanding Officer
"By order of the Princess, you are under arrest!"
Robocop scanned the armored ponies before him with both caution and interest. They were armed with only spears, weapons that wouldn't even scratch his armor, although a few of them had horns, and that meant the energy. His scanners also revealed that their armor wasn't only outdated, but that he wouldn't need his firearm to dispose of them. But that was only if he needed to dispose of them.
"Stand down and surrender or there will be consequences!" one of the guards with a red plume ordered, pointing his spear at Robocop's chest.
"On what charge?"
The ponies seemed stunned, not only by the fact that Robocop could speak, but also by the words that he chose to speak. They shook their heads and took up a battle stance again, not answering his question.
"On what charge are you arresting me? What crimes am I accused of?"
The guards looked at each other again, before the red plumed one stepped forward and answered,
"On what charge? You're a monster!" the guard yelled.
"So, you are trying to arrest me based on my appearance, not on the knowledge or suspicion that I have committed a crime?" Robocop asked them with a slightly angry tone. "That is racial profiling. You are only arresting me based on my appearance. That is against the law."
"And you think anypony will care what you think? We're the guards here and WE enforce the law, anyway we see fit. And I think we'll get nice bonuses for catching a creature such as yourself," the guard with the red plume smirked at Robocop, before letting out a whinny as he charged the robotic officer. Robocop allowed the guard to slam into his armored frame, causing the guard to break his leg against the unyielding metal. As he fell to the ground in pain, Robocop reached down and picked him up by another leg.
'Directive: Uphold the law,' appeared on Robocop's visor.
"Then you are a corrupt officer," Robocop said to the guard with the red plume. "And as an officer of the law, it is my duty to turn you in and see that you answer for your corruption. You are coming with me..." Robocop had just turned to leave when a blast of energy caught him in the leg, halting his movement temporarily. To his surprise, the pony within his clutches was surrounded by the same energy and was lifted back over to his comrades, all of whom glared at the officer as they prepared to attack.
Robocop turned his gaze to all twelve of them, now classifying them as criminals who needed to be brought down. "If you continue this action, you will all be accused of aiding a felon. Stand down now or there will be trouble."
The guards looked at each other a moment, and then responded by roaring and charging him. The biggest one covered the ground between them in seconds and drove his spear into Robocop's gut. To the shock of the pony, the spear splintered against the officer's abdomen, giving Robocop the chance to drive his fist into the pony's face and send him sprawling.
"This is your last warning," Robocop said to the ponies, but his words fell on deaf ears as the guards all rushed him at once. Despite having strength far greater than any man, Robocop still struggled to keep the sheer volume of armored horses from overwhelming him. He drove one of his feet into the chest of one guard and shattered his sternum, but another guard tackled his leg and forced it down. Robocop then grabbed one pony by the face and slammed him into the ground before using his body to knock another guard off of him.
"Hold it down! Don't let it escape!" one of the guards shouted.
Robocop had no intention of being held down, however, and with a surge of strength from his metal form, he hurled all of the guards off of him, which allowed him to stand back up straight as he moved his fingers.
"My turn."
A guard with wings attacked Robocop from the air, but Robocop's targeting computer allowed him to not only avoid the attack, but to also punch the Pegasus right out of the sky and out of the fight. The guards hadn't learned their lesson yet and a number of them charged him all at once. Robocop took the first down with a 'clothesline' that flipped the pony completely, while a knee to the face broke and bloodied another one. The last one jumped onto Robocop's back and tried to choke him out, but all that did was give Robocop ample time to reach back and grab hold of the pony.
"Failure to uphold the law. Failure to do your sworn duty. Assaulting an innocent. Assaulting an officer of the law," Robocop began as he flipped the pony off of his back and drove him into the concrete beneath his feet. The remaining five guards all glared at his emotionless face, none of them knowing that their moves and words were being watched and recorded for use against them in court. "I would recommend that you all surrender, or this will get ugly."
"Alright team, contain and destroy!" one of them yelled, the other four nodding as they surrounded Robocop on all sides. Robocop noticed that all of them were unicorns and that their horns were glowing, meaning they would use their energy again. He reached down to draw his firearm as they used that energy to create a shield around Robocop, sealing him within a dome of multicolored light with the ponies.
'Energy in field does not match any known energy in databanks.' Robocop did not like the sound of that. He knew that alone or in bursts, the energy could not harm him, but if they all attacked together he would run the risk of being made inoperable. He needed to figure a way out of his predicament.
He whipped out his firearm and aimed it at one of the unicorn's horns, firing a three-round burst at the horn. The bullets tore through the horn, causing the pony to scream as the energy dispersed from him while his horn fell to the ground. Seeing that without his horn he could no longer use magic, Robocop turned and shot the horns off two more guards, causing their sections of the barrier to fall as well.
The last guard was smarter than the others and he changed the barrier so that it covered him instead of Robocop. When Robocop fired upon him, he found to his shock that his bullets that could punch through armor simply cracked the barrier of light. Not daunting Robocop at all, he began to march towards the two remaining guards, taking aim with his firearm.
"You have the right to remain silent. You have the right to an attorney. Anything you say can and will be used against you." The guard with the horn let out a yell as he fired a beam of energy into Robocop's chest, but just like before, the attack barely slowed him down, not even leaving a scratch on his armor. Robocop slammed his pistol butt into the horned pony's skull, dropping him to the ground before pointing his gun at the remaining pony's face. "Thank you for cooperating."
"ENOUGH!"
Robocop turned as he heard a female roar that shook even his frame, looking into the sky to find the source of the voice. He saw a purple pony with both wings and a horn land across the street from him, rage in her eyes as she glared at the robotic officer. But the moment she laid eyes on him, the rage vanished for a moment and was replaced by curiosity. Then she looked at the broken and beaten guards and her face turned back into one of rage. "I have no idea who you are, but unless you want a serious flank-kicking, you will get away from them right now!"
Robocop prepared to deal with the new threat when the guard he was arresting ran past him. "Oh Princess Twilight, thank goodness you're here! We were just patrolling the streets when this...thing attacked us! We tried our best to stop it but it cut through us like nothing!"
"Is that so?" the one called Twilight snarled as she turned back to look at Robocop, who stood still as he processed what he had just learned. "So care to tell me, creature, why you attacked these guards?"
"You are designated as Princess Twilight, correct?" Robocop asked her, getting a small look of confusion from the horse. "You are the elected official and authority for this city?"
"More like the whole nation. Why?" Upon hearing her answer, Robocop began to profile her in his databanks as a commanding officer and his superior in this land. She was someone in authority to whom he answered.
"He is bearing false testimony. I was attacked by this guard and his compatriots for simply being different than them," Robocop explained as he spun his gun and holstered it, Twilight looking at him with uncertainty in her eyes. "Because racial profiling is against the law, I sought to bring these officers in. They resisted and attacked me, so I met their force with force. I was preparing to arrest them when you intervened. If you will excuse me, I will continue."
"Hold on, buddy, I don't where you get off saying these kinds of things, but you can't just go around arresting my guards," Twilight said with a dry chuckle that was met with silence from Robocop. "I mean, unless Celestia or Luna appointed you, you really don't have any jurisdiction, if you are a guard."
Her reasoning was true enough, but that did not stop Robocop's directives. "I uphold the law no matter where I am. It is my duty to the public to protect them and my duty to the criminals to arrest them. That is my mission." Twilight looked at the robotic man with more confusion and interest in her eyes, than the rage she had previously held.
"Just what are you?" she eventually asked him.
"I am an officer of the law created by Omnicorp to combat the criminal element in Detroit," he explained as he stood up straight. "Designation: Robocop." Twilight looked at him for a long moment before looking behind her to the guard who was hiding behind her, sighing after a moment before looking back at Robocop.
"I'm sorry, Mr...Robocop, but I'm not sure that I can trust the word of a stranger over one of my own guards," she said to him with a shake of her head. "But if you can come with me, I'm sure that we can get all of this--"
"He's telling the truth, Princess Twilight."
Twilight, Robocop, and the remaining guard all turned to see a red pony walk out of the shadows, Robocop recognized her as the assault victim from earlier. She bowed to Twilight before looking up at Robocop. "I'm sorry that I ran away screaming from you earlier. I never thanked you...for saving me."
"You were distraught after an attempted assault. I do not fault you," Robocop replied calmly.
"Princess, I was being assaulted earlier in an alleyway, but then out of what seemed like nowhere Robocop appeared and...took care of the assailant," the red pony began explaining. "At first, I was terrified of him and ran off, but when I had calmed down, I realized that I hadn't thanked him for saving me. I found him again as he walked into a warehouse where drug dealers were rumored to hang out. From the commotion inside and the fire that was caused, I assume that he dealt with them as well."
"Firefighters responded to the scene and arrested the surviving drug dealers as well," Robocop informed Twilight, who put a hoof to her head as she took it all in, not liking the fact that Robocop said 'surviving members'.
"I was about to thank him when he ran into the guards," the pony said with a glare at the guard, who hid behind Twilight again. "They attacked him without any thought for who he was. He...beat them something fierce, actually. I've never seen a pony take so many spells before, but they bounced right off of him like they were nothing." Twilight's face had fallen as she tried to figure out what to do, sighing as she rubbed her head with her hooves.
"Miss...thank you for telling me this," Twilight said as she looked back at the guard, not needing to question him as the guilt was clearly written on his face. "I'll send another patrol to pick up your buddies and our witness here for questioning, but right now..." she began as she turned back to Robocop. ”You and I need to have a long talk, one I really don't want to have right now. Do you mind coming with me?"
"You are a princess, the designated official of this land. I answer to you," Robocop responded formally, getting Twilight to groan at his response. Twilight then had to cover her eyes as the sun rose over the horizon, reflecting off Robocop's silver armor and into her eyes. Once she could see again, Twilight's eyes widened as she fully took in the human for the first time.
"Incredible," she whispered as she walked over to him, looking over his figure with keen and intrigued eyes. "I've...never seen armor like this before. How do you move without it restricting your flexibility? How does it deflect spells so well--if what the witness said was true? Are all humans from your world like this?"
Robocop found it odd that she already knew about humans, but what gained his attention even further was that she called the energy 'spells'. He did not believe it to be possible, but since his scanners could not recognize the type of energy that had been used against him, magic was not an unreasonable conclusion.
"Oh, I'm sorry, where are my manners?" Twilight said with a nervous giggle as she held out a hoof. "I am Princess Twilight. Let me be the first to welcome you to Equestria, Robocop." Robocop shook her hoof with his hand, but her words confirmed his suspicions. He was no longer in his world; he was in another world entirely. He did not know if there was any way for him to return to his home, to return to protect the streets of Detroit like he was programmed to do. If he...could return to his family again.
'But this new land does not changes my directives,' he thought to himself as Twilight instructed him to follow her. She grabbed the guard with her magic and levitated him along. 'I am an officer of the law, and I protect those under that law and arrest those who break those laws...be they humans or ponies.'
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I knew the guards were full of them selfs, but I never thought they would be corrupted racist basterds? I hope Twi reports them to Celestia so she can personally strip them of their rank, and send them to the dungeon.
5247835 she is a princess as well. she can do it just the same. without the bias of being 'motherly' to her little ponies.
Once the guards decided to go on the attack for no reason other than his appearance, it went down exactly as it should have. I would have liked to see them trying to figure it out in an interrogation room, but that works too. The upcoming private chat will simply start a little closer to the finish line.
Awesome this is my favorite chapter so far!
Almost so many mistakes to make me twig out and write a bunch of corrections , but I get told off for that.
A fun idea! I hope he stays more robocop than murphy for the majority of the story ; and no robocop 3 jet packs please .
I bet princess Celestias golems turn out to be the Ed209 analogue
5247872 True, she would be more strict then Celestia, yay Twight would be the better choice to punish them.
Correction. if this is true Robocop then it isn't omnicorp but Omni Comsumer Products/ OCP
There is one thing, if he want to follow the law, maybe he need to check if the law here is the same that in earth
I liked this version better than the new one, sure he's slow, but has better character.
5248298 actually he was suppose to be as fast as the new one they just couldn't show it with the tech of the 80's and the suit he wore was very stiff to the point during scenes of him driving he wasn't wearing the pants.
Pony have drug dealers? What the heck?
Oh yeah, it just multi-universe.
5248530 huh, the more you know...Still think he's awesome.
hahah i love this! keep it comming i wonder what happen next
5248298 I have watched robocops 1 and 2 and the new one, and I have to ask: what character? The only version that has any character that I can see is the new one. Maybe the third old robocop goes into it more? I haven't gotten to that quite yet.
5248766 Well to me Robocop is somewhat of a tragic character, sure he gets back life, but is he truly human more? Or is he a machine? it's a mystery that hasn't been solved easily. Sure some may have the answer or view him different, but that's what I see of robocop.
5248769 I thought the newer one got into all this stuff deeper and in a more realistic manner. But I guess by the end of it he's much better off than the old one was. The old one could be made into a truly fascinating character in my opinion if he is explored deeper than the movies did and maybe regains enough humanity to be able to actually understand his own predicament. But heck even so far without any of that the story is kinda fun already.
5248811 true.
huh what about the drawbacks of his armor like limited ammo and power?
That... went better than I expected. Dead criminals is one things, dehorning guards in self defense is quite another. I actually liked how this turned out, a bit of action but no ponies killed this chapter. If Twilight requests Robocop limits himself to non lethal take downs I'm sure he'll comply unless an innocent or he is in danger. I mean, one punch from him should knock out even a big Earth Pony. I can just see Robocop and Shining getting into a discussion of police tactics and the guard finding themselves with a bunch of new training directives.
5247835 By Dungeon do you mean the moon???
I kid, but I think a better punishment would be strapping them down to listen to Twilight lecture on acceptance of other races. You know how she gets once she starts lecturing, if she's not interrupted she'll never stop.
5249009 Twilight knows the twin powers of Science and Magic! Just look at her basement lab I'm pretty sure she can figure out a way to recharge Robocop. Ammo could be built, but as I mentioned in an earlier review I favor Twilight basically finding a way to make a gun that shoots magic blasts for Robocop.
Well, this made my evening.
5249009 Ammo is a problem, but power should sustain him for a long time as long as he doesn't sustain serious damage. Magic may be the answer though it is seen in his load out that when he is hit with electricity his power increases slightly if the energy is absorbed he may just charge though being shot by minor spells.
You know, Robocop may be the first character in your stories that will actually obey almost every word that the princesses say to him. Since he sees Twilight as a higher authority, and therefore his commanding officer, then there is little doubt that he won't see the other princesses in the same fashion. This should make his interaction with princesses quite interesting.
No words can describe how I feel about this chapter. Other then it was freaking awesome but still falls short.
another very good chapter and I can't wait to read more of it.
I can't help but wonder how will the Mane Six, Royal Sisters and others will react when they learn about Robocop's origins. Luna could walk into his dream/memory of his death which was outright brutal. Which one of them will become the closest to the cyborg officer? What do you have planned for Flash Sentry? I have an idea but I'm not going to mention it until I know for sure.
I can also picture how the meeting between RC and Pinkie or the CMC would go. SYSTEM ERROR SYSTEM ERROR.
It was a quiet night until along comes a lone Robocop, stumbling onto some crime when suddenly...
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Yes! You magnificent explicative! I've been waiting for your next story after you hinted at Robocop. If the other stories are anything to go on this will be great!
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Sing it sister!
Directed at Onmonopia:
Buuut if you do need an editor I'd be happy to help, and I can show some credentials if needed. In the name of classic Robocop, of course. I may be very very very late on the Robocop band wagon, but I know awesome when I see it, and Robocop is that classic kind of awesome that will never die, and deserves proper respect no matter where he's portrayed.
Keep in mind though I am referring to classic Robocop, I may be brand spanken new to the fandome but I knew well enough to stay away from that...thing...that existed.
Yours Truly, The Cake Devil.
5248530 Actually the reason the actor didn't wear the pants when driving was because the added bulk meant he wouldn't fit in the car. It was purely an issue of size.
No major issues to report in this chapter other than the fact that you used Omnicorp instead of Omni Consumer Products. I do like how you're using the intended version of the character rather than the one portrayed due to tech limitations.
Looks like the infuriating errors in chapter 1 were mostly flukes.
I have difficulty getting into your stories for reasons I'm not really able to explain.
But I don't seem to have any problems getting into this. I assume because this is Robocop as I remember him.
Part man,
part machine,
ALL COP.
Predictable, but staisfying conclusion to that dilemma.
I loved how you made him say 'on what charges?', because, I could think of a few...
Damn. Reading this just reminds me how much I friggin love Robocop
It was interesting to me though to find in the comments that Robocop was supposed to be FAST! Even in the story where he's doing fast stuff, I'm just thinking of the slow walking powerhouse of the first Movie. It's kinda strange to imagine him being fast, lol
OH YEAH AND HE BLASTED THOSE UNICORNS HORNS OFF. DAMN ROBOCOP YOU SO COOL
5251533 For some reasons I was remined of when he shot that guy in the 'third leg' in the first movie when he shoot the horns of those unicorns.
Corrupted officers are not to be tolerated. You don't go motherly on corrupted law enforcers, you go
on them.
Yay, fast Robocop!
5251116 your right I got my facts mixed up
Yay! Friend gained!
"How do you move without it restricting your flexibility?"
okay twi... have you seen him move... the dude is about as flexible as a rock...
My Turn
Failure to uphold the law
Failure to do your sworn duty
Assaulting an innocent
Assaulting an officer of the law
You have the right to an attorney
Anything you say can and will be used against you
Thank you for your cooperation
And thus so did the GREATEST crossover of our community commenced! 10/10
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Lava Demon: If that happens, I would kill Flash Sentry, take his place and girlfriend, just imagine a demon loving the princess of friendship.
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West Cowboy: Hey, imagine if he encounter Fluttershy, squeaking: System Error: Cuteness levels reaching overdrive.
Uphold the law?
I am out of my jurisdiction. Therefore:
-I have no privileges or authority beyond that of any random civilian.
-As a civilian, I am quite likely in violation of local laws with regard to weapons and armor.
I am in the wrong country. Therefore:
-Since I have not gone through whatever form of immigration and customs the place has, I am an illegal alien and likely a weapons smuggler.
-I do not know what the local laws are.
-Causing problems may well be an act of war, which could quite possibly cause massive civilian casualties at home.
-Acting as a vigilante is generally illegal in any case.
I am not of the local dominant species. Therefore:
-There is no reason to believe that I have any civil rights.
-I am apparently not on Earth- yet the locals speak English. Either I am somehow in a fantasy dimension or I am hallucinating (and if I am hallucinating I should NOT be discharging my weapon).
"I have detected trace amounts of a substance that was (is) similar to narcotics". However:
-A great many substances - many of them quite legal - are similar to narcotics.
-I have no idea if this unknown substance is legal or not in this area.
-I have no authority, and thus am committing felony breaking and entering when I break down the door.
-Any deaths occurring during the commission of a felony are the responsibility of the felon - although this also applies to the presumed drug dealers if they are committing a felony. Legally, however, I have likely just qualified as a mass murderer.
The presumed criminals observably have no weapons that can harm me and all innocents have exited the area. Therefore:
-Using lethal force is clearly excessive, since I am in no danger.
I have opted to resist arrest (and yes, verbal arguments are indeed resisting arrest): The local police are entitled to take any necessary methods to enforce my arrest.
-No, they do NOT have to tell me the charge and any policeman would know that they cannot be expected to; charges are decided on by the prosecutor, well after the arrest.
I have accused the local police of using "racial profiling" for treating a member of a different species differently from a member of their species.
-Unless I either routinely send children to the pound for not having a dog license, or routinely send dogs to school because they're being truant, I am well aware that there is no requirement to provide equal treatment to members of different species even where the laws known to me apply. I am a complete idiot and/or very badly damaged indeed.
-I have no justification for injuring a law enforcement officer.
As subnotes...
Ponies don't really have "races" - for example, the earth pony Cakes have a pegasus and a unicorn for offspring - but even if we presume that the subtypes count as "races" Equestria will never make it illegal to treat ponies differently based on "race". Otherwise, for example, a warden could transfer some Earth Pony prisoners to a Cloudsdale prison without taking precautions against their plummeting to their deaths without being guilty of anything. After all, it's illegal to treat them differently from pegasus prisoners isn't it?
Now the guards are being portrayed as incompetent idiots - an unknown, but heavily armored being of unknown type and capabilities is talking, but otherwise doing nothing. Starting a fight is beyond stupid.
So... I'm afraid that this is enough. If I want to read about a lunatic supercop shooting people, I'll go read Judge Dredd. What made Robocop interesting was trying to RECLAIM his humanity, not acting as a murderous vigilante.
5291858 Dude Omnicorp has gotten permission from all countries to operate in them and also RAPE AND ASSAULT ARE RAPE AND ASSAULT IN ANY WORLD UNIVERSE ETC!!!
Yeah, tell em Robocop!
5291858 Dude, I don't think Omnicorp programmed him for inter dimensional altercations or meeting aliens. Like this other guy said, Omnicorp probably programmed him to be able to uphold laws in all countries, but seeing as Equestria is not listed as an Earth nation, he was unsure.
5291858 Just because ponies can have different kinds of children does not mean they don't have races. As far as we have seen in the show, the three types of ponies are a gene. Mr. Cake had nervous chuckle, because it was a hint that he may have cheated ore that he was worried ponies suspected him. Just because society and Celestia demands equal treatment does not suddenly change genetics. Your logic is crazy.
You were saying that they are treated equally then you said this...
What do you mean otherwise? What is your argument? You said that all pony types ARE treated the same, so a warden could do exactly what you said. Although, nopony is that stupid or cruel and Equestiran law wouldn't allow it.
Before you bash on a story you need to fix your logical arguments. Also this is only the 3rd chapter and Murphy is doing what he was programmed to do. He had seen a newspaper and wondered about home. He also mentioned wanting to get back to his family in the end of this chapter. What do you want? Do you want him to collapse in the street and start crying and spewing his life story? You haven't given the story any time.
5291858
Good points all. But in addition we have Twilight Sparkle ignoring dead, bleeding, and dying ponies on the ground. I can't imagine she she would react to anything less than horror to the idea of a unicorn's horn being removed. I can also see Twilight giving him a casual scan (which as a non-weapon might pass though his armour) and then discovering several whole new levels of horror when she sees exactly what has been done to his brain and body. Or ripping his gun right out of his hand, because strong as Robocop is Twilight's TK is crazy-strong. Or any number of other ideas that probably won't show up here...
To fully enjoy this fic, I recommend listening to the robocop theme song
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Wholeheartedly agreed. For the discerning listener:
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Fuck that, he's Robocop. He UPHOLDS THE LAW.
5291858
To be fair, we saw during his introduction that his OS isn't exactly soundly coded. When a directive is triggered it overrides contradictory directives already in action. If he didn't have what was left of his human personality still floating around in his brain and nudging him along he'd be prone to locking up in such situations. What you've got here is essentially a buggy PC rig thrust into a world of Macs with only a fragmented Linux OS to keep it running. You are right, however. He is in quite the legal mess at the moment.
That, however, is just plain fucking stupid. Not just the example but the point you're trying to make with it. Modern legal systems of even the least refinement take special mental, physical and medical needs into account when sentencing and housing convicts and what we've seen of Equestria (in the show) has shown that they're not much different from us in terms of general social development. You also fail to account for the fact that Equestria is a land of numerous sapient species who encounter each other with some frequency, meaning that they in fact would have a need for such laws. An even greater need than our own, at that.