Chapter 23: The Abandoned Survivor
The Mane 6 and the Princesses watched as the Shuttle flew off into the sky, carrying their enemy with it.
Twilight sighed with sadness
"They got away. What now?"
"Do not worry Twilight, I'm sure we'll be able to stop them soon, as I am certain they will return." Celestia said to her former student.
"I can always fly after them" Dash suggested
"There is no point in pursuing them currently, they will be headed out of the atmosphere, where we can't follow."
Rarity walked out with Flutter shy, who came limping along as they joined their friends.
"Did you get those ruffians?"
"No Rarity, they got away" Twilight responded
"Oh dear, what ever shall we do? They are free to cause more chaos!"
"Do not worry my little ponies, I am sure we will defeat them soon enough" Celestia said, attempting to reassure her
subjects, before she and her sister flew off to go check on the Guards ponies. The group walked back inside.
All the Droids in the room were destroyed, except the blue and white R4 Unit, who was over in the corner, shaking and with a smoking hole in his body. Almost all his panels were open, exposing the various tools within. Clearly the accidental shot from Twilight caused an overload in his systems.
"Maybe this little feller knows somethin'" Applejack said gesturing to it.
The group approached the Astro mech, who slowly began to roll back ways away from them and let out a low almost moan-like sound of fear, as it began to shake further, clearly terrified.
"Hold on little feller, we ain't gonna hurt Ya'" Applejack said, trying to reassure the small machine that displayed nothing but terror to them right now.
They continued to slowly step closer.
Suddenly a few panels on its chest popped open, and a set of small claws and a zapper popped out. Then R4 unit rolled into the corner and sat there shaking, clearly ready to defend itself.
Flutter shy limped forwards and gave a small smile at the small droid.
"Umm…" she began in her soft voice "excuse me, you don't have to be afraid. What my friend Twilight did was an accident. We don't want to hurt you, we just want to talk" she said, trying to be as friendly as possible
The Astro mech seemed to understand her and trust her a little better, because it retracted a few of its arms and seemed to shake less.
"My names Flutter shy, can you tell me yours… if that's okay with you?"
The R4 unit simply beeped its name in Droid speak, R4-F6
"I'm sorry, um, could you say that again?
The R4 unit beeped again, saying that its name in droid speak, as it was the only language it was capable of speaking.
"I'm sorry Twilight" she said, turning to face her "I don't understand what it's saying."
"We'll take it back to the castle, see if we can find a translation spell"
"Okay." She turned to face the Droid again "Would, um, would you like to come with us?"
The Droid shook its head no.
Twilight stepped forwards
"I know you don’t want to come, but we don’t want to hurt anymore ponies. This includes you. But if we're going to fix things you need to come with us."
The droid shook its head again and extended its zapper again and held it out towards the group as it began to roll towards the stairs. Suddenly Applejack whipped out her trusty lasso skills and coiled her rope around the droid, attempting to pull it over. The droid simply rolled backwards, and extended a circular saw from its chest, cutting the rope off and continuing its escape.
R4-F6 was preparing to try and make a flying leap down the stairs when it was surrounded by a purple aura and held in the air.
Twilight pulled him over to her with her magic.
"Can you just listen? We don’t want to hurt you, but you need to come with us-OW!" Twilight said as he extended its small claw arms and pinched her nose and cheeks, causing her to drop him.
The Droid attempted to turn and run again, only for Rarity to grasp him with her magic at a safe distance. Well, she thought it was safe.
The droid extended a small hose and began to spew oil all over her from it.
"EW, EW, EW!" She said, as Twilight zapped it with a stunning blast of magic. The droid let out a small whimper and fell limp.
The droid was dropped to the floor, and Applejack tied around it with more rope, making sure to hold it saw panel shut.
"Ugh, this is going to take forever to clean out!" Rarity said, as he tried to wipe the oil off her coat with a towel. "Just who the hay does this little ruffian think he is to attack such fashion!"
Applejack pushed the droid upright and began to pull it on its wheels with a rope.
"Alright, let's get this little troublemaker back to town."
Twilight said, beginning to walk down the stairs.
"When I get back, I'm going to the spa!" Rarity said quickly following her."
Back in Pony ville, the Mane 6 all entered the Castle of Friendship. Outside, many of the Guards ponies were having a small party, for their first real victory, drinking cider and such in a drunk-like state.
Inside, the Mane 6 were sitting around the cutie map, discussing the day's events and waiting for the captured Droid to reactivate for questioning.
Rarity looked well refreshed, having gone to the spa as she declared, and Flutter shy had bandaging around her front legs and right wing, to help her heal from her Blaster injuries.
Spike entered through the door with a Unicorn Pony, who had been examining destroyed Battle Droids by order of Princess Celestia.
"Hey Twi! Check this out!" Spike said excitedly.
"What?"
The sound of 2 sets of metal footsteps were heard behind him, and 2 battered reassembled Battle Droid walked in.
Twilight got into her combat pose, opening her wings
"Behind you!"
"No, no wait! He said "Glowing Brilliance here managed to figure out how they work! Well, sort of. Turns out they're simple, all the computer bits are in their head.
"So, what did you do with these two?"
Glowing Brilliance, the unicorn who was studying the Droids, walked forwards with the 2 Droids following her.
"Well, I sort of worked with a magic spell, that swaps some pony's perceptions. Basically, they're brainwashed to be on our side. Normally the Princesses would forbid this as it would be cruel to living things, but she let me do it because these things aren't technically alive."
"Fascinating! Can we do it to them all?" Twilight asked
"Well, no. You must interface directly with their central control systems in their head, and it takes a few minutes for them to reboot with the desired effect. And it turns out… these things aren't all that… clever." She said, "but at least they're on our side."
"Well, we knew that we distracted some earlier with rocks!" Rainbow Dash blurted out.
The Droids stepped up to Twilight and saluted her.
"What are your orders commander?"
"I don't have any, um… what's your name?"
"I am B1-28401!
"I am B1-77356!
"Can we just call Ya One and Two?" Applejack said, "your real names are mighty technical and I'm not the one for all that."
"Roger, Roger sir!"
"I'm a mare!" Applejack said, annoyed
"Oh, um yes sir, uh mare… sir." The droid said, obviously not understanding that being a mare made her a ma'am.
"So…" Twilight began "can they understand the little guy over there?" she said, gesturing to the inactive R4 Unit.
"Roger, Roger! What are your orders?"
"Can you wake him up, I want to talk to him."
1&2 walked over to R4-F6 and pounded his head. The droid's motor activated, and he hummed to life. He looked around,
taking in his surroundings. He thought maybe he'd been rescued! But… wait there were ponies in the room.
They all came over and sat down in front of the droid.
"So, let's start over again, I'm Twilight Sparkle, and these are my friends Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Flutter shy." She said smiling "who are you?"
The droid letting out small grumbles before repeating his name, which 1&2 translated for the ponies.
"RA-F6? What do you all have names of letters and numbers?"
R4 explained that it was a designation code, no different than her own other than not sounding ridiculous like hers and her friends.
"Hey!" Rainbow Dash said "our names aren't ridiculous! They're awesome!"
R4-F6 ignored her.
"We need you to tell us a little bit more about your friends, the Confederacy as they called themselves" Twilight said, shifting the conversation.
R4-F6 shook his head.
"No?" Twilight said in a bit of shock, expecting the droid to behave nicer now that they weren't fighting. "But if you don't tell us how to stop them, many more ponies could get hurt!"
R4-F6 simply stated that he didn't care about them, as he didn't like them anyways. He continued by saying even if he wanted to, he was forbidden by protocol from revealing info to enemies.
"Come on, please?" she said, making her puppy eyes face again.
The droid simply refused again.
"Fine, but just to be clear, we never wanted to do this. Flutter shy, stare."
Flutter shy turned to Twilight
"But, um, I really don't like to do the stare, remember?"
"These things aren't alive Flutter shy, could you please just do it."
"Okay… okay…" she said to herself as she stood up and let out her angry glare on the Astro mech.
The droid turned its head away, only for her to turn it back.
The droid began to whine a bit, but ultimately was unaffected.
"What?! But the stare always works!" Twilight exclaimed
"Not always, it didn't work on Discord, remember?"
"Hmm… Discord! That's it! Maybe we could use his help."
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Looking forward to how Discord can help the ponies out.
I highly doubt it will work on droids of all things. You supposed to be smart and figure this out right away, STUPID!
"Ponies"? They are called droids!
Stop being xenophobic, Twilight!!
But it was a Pyrrhic Victory. You lost a whole lot of pony guards and dragons back then. It wasn't exactly a "real" victory.
L3-37 from Star Wars: Solo would think otherwise.
It's R4. And they are called droids for a reason. They have designated numbers/letters as such. Luckily, they can have nicknames.
Exactly.
Not really. You are a kid's show character.
I know they are droids through and through. But that is just very rude, coming from the Princess of "Friendship".
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They will be coming soon.
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True. I might need to fix that.
Another story where the stupid over powered stare doesn't work. Nice to see another story do this
This almost makes up for the plot armor before hand.
Yet again another reason to root for the Droids, ponies stooping to brainwashing.
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Reprogramming your computer that you don't think is alive, it's the same thing.
Discord? Now they play dirty...
Twilight: "Discord they injured Fluttershy!"
*Discord snapshot his Talon*
'In Space around Equus'
Kraken: "Why are we all Protocol droids all of a sudden... Also, why do i want to talk the Ponys to death now... Instead of blasting them efficiently?! ... Prepare to talk them to death!"
*Crew prepares poems of mental destruction*