Blueblood grumbled as he walked into the meeting room around him stood most of the other nobles.
"Well, what do we do now." One of them growled as he glared at the stallion.
"Have the mercenaries move in we deal with this personally. Also bring the good doctor as well. They are currently in the CORE so this is a perfect opportunity to finish what we started."
"And what of the princesses, they won't stand by and let us kill their precious little pet.
Blueblood turned to the nobles with a devious smile. "Oh, but she certainly wouldn't dare to harm her subject." He said with a smirk.
The nobles looked at each other before smiling.
Eris walked in to the Ponyville C.O.R.E.S. Control room and looked around. "Lay her on that table." She said as she walked over to the main controls and began to work.
Celestia walked over to the table and lay Twilight on it before simply watching her sadly.
"You care a great deal for Maker don't you?" Eris asked as she worked.
Celestia nodded. "I love her, not in the sense of romance but in the sense of her being the daughter I never had. I only want her to be safe."
Eris didn't reply only continuing to work. Celestia turned and eyed the robot. "You claim to be a robot but you act so much like a Clockwork."
Eris chuckled as she picked up several cables and walked over to Twilight. "Maker may have crafted me from steel but she still gave me a shard of her soul. I am still alive but I know what it feels like to have my programming dictate my every action, to have no free will at all." Eris shuddered. "When Maker crafted me she was just learning about her powers and abilities. After learning how she gave me a shard of her soul, I didn't know what to do or say. I was a child scared of the world."
Eris plugged the cables in to Twilight before walking back to the control console. She took a deep breath and slowly let it out.
"It's time." she said. "Computer, bring Ponyville CORE AI fully online."
The room glowed and the lights in the room changed from there normal white to a light green. The control console lit up and a robot that looked like Fluttershy appeared. "Shy!CORE online." the console said before looking around. When it noticed Twilight it gasped.
"Oh dear, i-i-it's time isn't it." She stuttered and looked at Eris. "I-I did-n't think i-it would be so soon."
"You'll do just fine, but Maker needs your help." Eris said calmly.
Shy!CORE nodded and and several cords and cables appeared and plugged into Twilight. "Right, I-I'll have to go in." She said and her image disappeared.
"Now we wait." Eris said as she walked over to Twilight and sat down next to Celestia.
Shy!CORE watched as her worked slowly faded and was replaced with an empty void. She slowly looked around shaking.
"What is this place." She whispered as she slowly began to walk forward. She noticed that the path ahead was lighter and she began to slowly walking toward it.
Celestia and Eris waited for a while in silence before the sound of yelling came from the hall as well as the sound of the Clockworks weapons firing. Luna and the HK's ran into the room and took up defensive positions behind the nearest thing. The sounds of the weapons ended and the Clockwork guards were thrown into the room were they landed in a pile groaning. Blueblood walked in a vicious smile on his face, in front of him were at ten ponies all of them varying ages each with a knife to there throat. After them were several mercenaries and behind them was the nobles.
"What is the meaning of this?!" Celestia asked angrily.
"Oh do shut up you whore." Blueblood yelled as he approached them.
Celestias eyes glowed and her main caught to fire. "Blueblood you will explain this now." She ordered.
Blueblood laughed. "Why it's quite simple Celestia, We nobles have grown tired of you and your incessant catering to the impure blooded. As such we are taking over and if you have anything to say about it then we will start killing these peasants you love so much."
"And you think I will simply stand aside." Celestia growled.
"Oh no, of course I expect you to fight but you see there is one thing your overlooking." Blueblood said with a smile.
"And what is that?" Celestia asked.
"Me." A stallion said as he slowly walked forward. The Stallion wore a lab coat and glasses. "Greetings, I am Dr. Technology."
Eris hissed at him. "You, Maker had hoped you had been caught in the explosion and died."
The doctor laughed. "Oh, Twilight survived!" He exclaimed and walked to the side to get a better look at the techno alicorn. "And it appears she was made a machine. Oh this will be fun~." He sang as he approached.
Eris hissed as he approached. "Ah,ah, ah I really wouldn't." He said as he reached into his lab coat and pulled out a device. Eris froze as did the Clockworks and Hk's. "Ah you recognize this." He chuckled.
"Electro Magic Pulse Bomb." Eris growled. "Designed to shut down any and all Magitech."
Blueblood smiled. "Chain the alicorn's up and restrain the machines but make sure they have a good view. After all we don't want them to miss the good doctors work."
The mercenaries walked forward and shackled the Clockworks while chaining the Alicorns wings and placing a magic restraint on their horns. "Sorry but those are our families they got, we have no choice." One of them said not looking them in the eye.
The doctor smiled as he turned to Twilight and pulled out several tools. "Greetings my dear, Let's have some fun."
Dr. Technology grabbed the saw and brought it closer to Twilight's chest as it came to life. The doctor slammed it into her chest and sparks began to fly. Celestia and Luna screamed as the blade of the saw met but a ear piercing whine emitted from the saw as it shattered. The doctor stared in shock before lifting his drill and trying to drive it into her chest only for the drill brake as well. The doctor growled and grabbed a welding torch.
As Shy!CORE drew closer to the light she felt her fears began to fade and she began to walk closer, when she finally reached the light she saw Twilight at the center of hundred of Clockworks foals. She lay at the center her wings spread out and covering them.
Shy!CORE Slowly approached them causing the foal to look up. At first they looked at her in fear before calming down. Sensing something Twilight lifted her head and looked at Shy!CORE with narrowed eyes.
"Who are you." She asked cautiously.
"I am the Ponyville C.O.R.E.S. Designation: Shy!CORE." Shy!CORE whispered as she slowly approached.
As she walked forward and entered the light some of the foals slowly approached her while most stayed at Twilight side.
"Um... I was sent to connect with you to help with your...um...Metastability." Shy!CORE said as she stood in front of Twilight.
Twilight nodded. "Thank you Shy!CORE."
"D-do you know were we are, I mean if you don't mind me asking, I was just curious, I didn't mean to be rude or anything!" Shy!CORE panicked.
Twilight laughed. "Your so much like how Fluttershy was when we first met. We're in what I call the Web. When I passed out on the way to Ponyville I was brought here. It seemed to awaken the link between myself and the souls placed in the Clockworks."
Suddenly four of the souls began to cry and look around fearfully. Twilight hurried over to them and embraced them. They were the souls of her guards and Eris
"What's wrong." Shy!CORE asked concerned.
"Monsters!" Scrap cried as she hugged Twilight.
The two adults looked around confused. "Where I don't see anything." Twilight said concerned.
The soul shook its head. "Not here there."
Suddenly Twilight felt a pang in her chest as she looked down she saw her chest removed. She quickly turned to Shy!CORE. "With you here I can go, please protect my children."
Twilight closed her eyes and slowly began to fade.
Dr. Technology growled as he finally ripped off the plate covering Twilight's chest revealing the circuits and machinery inside. "Finally." he sighed as he examined her body.
"Enjoying yourself Doc?" A voice asked.
"Hmm? Oh yes such a shame I can't experiment on her. But Blueblood wan't her dead so I will have to find a way to kill her.
"Hmm, hey doc? Look up." The voice said.
Dr, Technology sighed and looked up only to come face to face with the glowing red eyes of Twilight. "How you doing Dr. Technology?" She asked in a friendly voice.
The doctor stared at her in shock. Twilight ripped through the restraint and grabbed the doctors throat. Doctor Technology began to gasp and claw at Twilight's hand. The nobles in the room noticed and froze.
"Funny isn't it?" Twilight asked. "Seven years ago our positions were reversed as I desperately tried to stop you from destroying Canterlot. You held me over the C.O.R.E.S. and laughed as you released me." Twilight then turned to Blueblood who was trying to leave the room. "And Blueblood, How good of you to join us!"
"Oh, uh h-hello Tw-Twilight..." Blueblood stuttered. "Its been a while... so how are you?"
"Good, I've been good." Twilight said with a smile. "So still planning to kill Celestia?" She asked as the doors began to close.
"Oh, well..." Blueblood turned and ran.
This snapped the nobles out of their shock and they turned as well. Blueblood slipped out of the room just as the doors closed and the other nobles slammed into them.
"Seven years ago you lot conspired to sabotage the Canterlot C.O.R.E.S. and destroy the city. You thought that it would kill me and the other Alicorns and you could then take over Equestria. Blueblood and Dr. Technology sabotaged the C.O.R.E.S. and when I arrived they beat me nearly to death and threw me into the abyss below it as it was set to explode from the pressure building up. I fell and landed in the control room where I managed to send a warning and released the pressure causing the explosion. Though it was significantly weakened it would still destroy Canterlot. I planed to give my life but that obviously didn't happen, instead I survived and now I'm back."
Twilight tightened her grip on the doctor as she looked at him. "I could care less about you lot, let Celestia sort you out. However Technology, You and Blueblood I will be personally dealing with. you for what you did and Blueblood because he planed this" Twilight continued to tighten her grip. "However, I would also like to thank you. With out you the Clockworks, my children would have never been born. So thank you, Dr. Technology." The doctor was gasping for breath as a loud crack as heard and the doctor went limp. Twilight dropped the doctor and glared at his body.
"M-maker..." Eris sobbed causing Twilight to turn in shock and run over to Eris. Twilight broke the chains on Eris and the others before pulling them into hug.
The mercenaries walked over to the princesses and released them before turning to the nobles. "What do we do with them?" There leader asked Celestia.
Celestia eyed him before turning to the nobles. "I will have the guard escort them to the dungeon, as for you..." She eyed the mercenaries.
"There is no excuse for what we did. But we would do it again, These nobles didn't hire us, instead they used their influence to find our families and have them kidnapped. These civilians are our wives, husband and children."
"Your pardoned." Twilight said shocking everyone.
"Twilight, they committed treason and they chained us up, they cant be expected to go free." Luna said shocked.
"And yet in their place would you have done the same. Besides I doubt they will be talking about this." Twilight replied as she looked at the mercenaries.
the leader snorted. "Got that right, we ain't proud of this but it doesn't matter why we did it we still broke the law. We should revive some form of punishment."
"If you truly feel you deserve punishment then you will be taken to the dungeons as well till a trial can be given." Celestia said.
The mercenaries looked at each other before one spoke up. "As long as we aren't placed with the nobles then I think we'll be fine." The other mercenaries laughed in agreement.
Twilight nodded and the doors opened. As they opened several platoons worth of guard swarmed in their weapons trained on the nobles and mercenaries.
"Guard, have the Nobles taken to the lowest cells, the mercenaries will be placed in the noble cells and given what ever they need." Celestia said calmly. The guards nodded and herded the group out.
Celestia sighed and turned to Twilight. "Well today has certainly been interesting."
Twilight and Luna as well as the Clockworks burst out laughing.
Ah yes finally some delicious action. Time to get some popcorn ready for a noble beat down eh? Where has Blueblood gone? There are many of large cities a rich stallion can buy his secrecy in... A wonderful crescendo of a chapter. We made it boys! Ponyville CORES are now with Twilight! Can’t wait for the next chapter.
There's nowhere where Blueblood can hide. Everyone across Equestria will know what he and the nobles have done.
All things considered that went well. Also if Blueblood were smart he would flee, get plastic surgery or the equivalent, and then live a quiet but wealthy life, since he isn’t I can only imagine what he would consider a better prepared attempt.
I don't know why i bothered expecting even the slightest shred of intelligence or subtlety out of Blueblood, or his co-conspirators, given how this story has been going...
Congratulations Blueblood, you've drawn the entirety of the nobility into a legal clusterfuck; that no amount of money or political influence will get you or your conspirators out of.
Tallying a short list of the crimes Blueblood is now wanted for, we get: Conspiracy against the crown, mass property damage (likely numbering well into the billions of Bits), mass murder, two counts of attempted regicide, and two counts of high treason. Blueblood, you are probably now the most wanted criminal on all of Equis.
This particular scene from 'the Expanse' seems fairly relevant here:
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In my opinion there are two versions of Blueblood, the version where he is a master politician but acts all snooty even thought he really isn't and then this version. This version has absolutely no subtlety, tact, or a brain. He expects everyone and everything to obey him simply because he is Prince Blueblood. He believe the 'pureblooded nobles' are superior and that all commoners should be exterminated like the vermin they are. This is the version I despise but it fit with the story.
Honestly expect to see more stupidity from him as he continues to dig himself even deeper and before you ask how deep I'll say this, Blueblood is going to dig a hole, build the catacombs and then a pyramid on top for good measure.
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However, Technology, you and Blueblood I will personally deal with; you for what you did and Blueblood because he planned this.
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I still would like an explanation for how the mane six are also cores, or were converted. Whatever happened there. Especially since Twi just mentioned that the real Fluttershy existed and was separate from the core?!
Did she outlive them and make replicas? But why would she do that, since at the time she did not have the ability to make living mechatronics? Again, that whole thing confuses me.
*Runs a grinder along a long chunk of 20 inch steel with slits running around it* Mmmmmmmmmm old Blue is going to love this bad boy!
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oh what about the rare version of him where he is nice guy, and just act like snob so he can get into the groups so he can spy on them, for his aunt/help his aunt and give to charity without anyone knew it
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I betting that twilight base the cores on her friends,
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I think he falls under the first version but when it's a version of blueblood actually being nice then I like him.
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same here but you don't see him all that often which is sad, when he nice I love it when he with twilight, with him being in love with her since they first meet and not sure how to say he love her but same time does not want to out of fear of her being dirty by politics.
anyway keep up the good job
Really like this story, unique concept and execution, it also help that I am a sucker for technology and techno-organic beings.
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The long and short of it is that that wasn't the original method. The original Clockworks were made from metal but Twilight changed somewhat mentally somewhere along he line. She began to become more attached and actually care for them so she tried to make them better. In the process she discovered that she could remove portions of her body and grow them like one would grow living tissue and she began to fashioned them from that. Eventually she kinda stopped seeing machines and saw her children. Honestly when she interacts with normal ponies in the future she will actually be somewhat confused about them even though she was once one of them.
Answer away!
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Question 1 - I will be explaining this in future chapters so this will wait.
Question 2 - The difference from the CORES and the Clockworks is that because Clockworks have souls they are pretty much a pony made from metal and also are able to act independently of their code. Remember what Eris said when Celestia asked why she was so different? She said and I quote:
This actually plays a critical point in the story. The CORES, despite how advanced they are, are experiencing what is called 'The Illusion of Free will'. Their actions are still dictated by there programming even though it may not seem that way. However they are still AI's meaning that they will also go through the Rampancy that Twilight is going through. Twi!CORE has already gone through it but the others haven't yet
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so here they are. (If you haven't read them scroll down)
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Ah. That makes sense. As does the R.A.F.O. (read and find out).
What was the rampancy again? And why would the regular AIs get it (and can it be cured)?
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Reread Chapter 4 - Metastability part 2 - HK-47 Meets Prince Blueblood as it explains a whole lot and you will see what I meant by Twilight mental state slowly changing.
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So, it IS the one from Mass Effect (I think that was the name... Ed. Nope, Halo. Okay, I know even less then...). I don't really know much about it, though.
Okay, so basically they degrade and can only live for seven years, and Twi thought that she might have it.
Did I miss the timescale of this, where she was actually in there for at least three years? Or was that accelerated time for some reason?
Is Twi immune to it (to some degree), or is she limited to only a few years, if it already applies to her?
But it also said that they were a full person after stage four, so I don't know how that relates.
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Remember Twilight was turned techno-organic meaning that she is in fact part AI. The Canterlot Catastrophe happened 7 years ago however she was trapped in the Control for the first three years. Under normal non-strenuous situations where an AI has the ability to interact with others it will survive for the full 7 before Rampancy starts to takes effect, Twilight was in a highly strenuous situation with no one for three years, during this time time the Rampancy took effect. After she decided that the only way out was to completely merge herself to the CORE and became Twi!CORE the CORE began to develop and became Rampant as well though it was able to fix itself, since it fixed itself it then began to combat Twilight's Rampancy which has evolved in to the final stage, Metastability.
Now some time during the third year the first 100 Clockworks were created from steel and after she merged with the CORE became the guards for Twilight base which she names HUB. After a lot of experimentation she creates Biometal and thus the first real Clockwork. After more experimentation and (SPOILER) she manages to remove a shard of her soul and places it in a biometal cube where it grows into a blank soul that she takes shards from and places them in to the Clockwork bodies she 'births' thus giving them life. Over the next four years Hub becomes an underground city of Clockworks. It is somewhere on the seventh year that Celestia and Luna lead an expedition to Canterlot and the story begins.
So when Blueblood slipped out the bulkhead(?) from the control room did he escape or did Twilight lock down the entire castle?
I'm also quite interested in what she is going to do to him when she gets her claws(?) on him.
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He got way from her since she could only lock down that room so he only just barely slipped from her hooves but yeah... it will be interesting.
On a completely unrelated note, ever seen the anime series Hellsing or its abridged version? I like the part where they invade the Hellsing family manor.
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If the nobles did what they did IRL I'm VERY certain they'd be executed, I know I'd have them executed.
I figured that Blueblood, had something to do with the Disaster. I see a lot of jumping ahead in the story. I'm waiting for Discord to make an appearance. Think of what he could do to TwiCore. How could the Cores deal with villains. They all seem to be in a VERY limited, and vulnerable state as biomechs.
AND...does the tree of harmony have some relevance to the Cores' new existence ?
Will the Core system expand to all of Equestria ? ALL the biomechs are SO dependant on the Core system, that they seem very vulnerable to outside influences.
I wish I could enter
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