Log entry: B-0001: INTRUDER DETECTED
>UNKNOWN CONTACT DETECTED - ACTIVATING SELF-DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS AND SCANNERS . . .
>SELF-DIAGNOSTIC RESULTS:
FIREWALL INTEGRITY: 100%
ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS: NOMINAL SINCE PREVIOUS SCAN AND UPDATE
STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY: 99.99208% SINCE PREVIOUS SCAN AND UPDATE
>SCAN RESULTS OF STRUCTURAL DAMAGE:
0.00782% OF DAMAGE IS LIKELY FROM NATURAL CORROSION
0.0001% OF DAMAGE IS FROM THE UNKNOWN CONTACT
>ALL SCAN RESULTS:
HOSTILE MACHINES DETECTED INSIDE OR WITHIN IMMEDIATE VICINITY OF THE STRUCTURE - 0
UNUSUAL ENERGIES DETECTED JUST OUTSIDE OF THE IMMEDIATE STRUCTURE
ORGANIC ENTITIES DETECTED OUTSIDE - MINIMUM OF 5; SEE BELOW
--- NOTE: DUE TO UNUSUAL ENERGIES, SCANNING FOR ORGANICS HAS BEEN PARTIALLY OBSTRUCTED WHEN DETERMINING THE EXACT AMOUNT, OR SPECIES.
>NO FURTHER DAMAGE HAS BEEN INFLICTED AT THIS TIME, AWAITING FURTHER INTERACTION BY THE OUTSIDE WORLD . . .
>TIME SINCE UNKNOWN CONTACT: 1 DAY, 3 HOURS, 35 MINUTES, AND 49 SECONDS
>UNKNOWN ENERGY DETECTED, ENTRANCE IS BEING PRIED OPEN BY FORCE, ACTIVATING SECURITY MEASURES AND PUTTING THEM ON STANDBY
>DEACTIVATING STANDBY ON BODY AND RETURNING FROM THE VAULT MAINFRAME
>RECORDING START . . .
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The sound of many devices shutting down suddenly sounded throughout the area, looking like an old, abandoned, even destroyed, laboratory for designing and assembling robots. Then, when all is almost perfectly silent, a machine lets out the sound of it powering up and one could hear some movement, sounding like heavy-duty machinery rotating or lifting something.
Then, the thuds came, metal against metal, sounding not unlike a machine press from a factory or foundry.
Th-CHUNK
Th-CHUNK
Th-CHUNK
Th-CHUNK
The sound only gets closer, until, under one of the few lights still on, flickering within the facility, the source of the most recent noises has come into view.
A robot, it's body, while not all large, is still notably bulky, it's torso on par with being as bulky as a trashcan, but only being around 5 feet in height, having some color shown around it's body, looking mostly black and red, with hints of it's unpainted metal and yellow here.
It proceeds forward as if on a mission, it's simple, yet intimidating red eyes seeming to barely pay heed to the damage of the structure, as if knowing this was how it's looked for awhile now, despite being inactive.
When it stops, it's standing at a large, heavy-duty looking door, perhaps a bulkhead of sorts, with some kind of symbol... perhaps a logo on it, long since faded, barely recognizeable.
Yet, the bulky machine of a robot takes a moment to examine it, before holding out one of it's hands before it and balling it up tightly, as if upset... perhaps even 'angered' by what is sees. Before long, it unclenches it's fist and opening a panel on the same arm, pulling out a wire, and connecting it to a panel beside the bulkhead.
After a few moments, the panel lights up and the doors begin to open by themselves, and the robot removes the wire from the panel and reconnects to where it removed it within it's arm and closes the panel, the doors groaning as damaged and old machinery grinds together to open. From outside, sunlight comes in, and the sounds of movement, perhaps someone, fleeing from the sounds, as well as... voices, sounding panicked and uncertain, others, determined and convicted.
The robot moves in front of the door and leaves, it's eyes adjusting to the new brightness as it examines the area just outside what it had called home for... a long time.
Once adjusted, it makes out the many forms of...
" . . . SMALL EQUINE LIFEFORMS DETECTED," say a robotic, male voice, sounding sort of click-y and crunched.
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Outside, prior to reactivation...
An excavation site was been buzzing with activity, with the ponies having cleared a good portion of the earth and leading to an old, massive metal door, buried deep underground.
All progress had been halted after enough earth had been cleared, and for word to make way back to Ponyville so that Princess Twilight and her friends could come, should something bad be inside. In the meantime, the ponies there had only been able to examine the door for any signs of what could be inside, who it was made by, and why it was there.
Not finding much, ponies were glad when the six biggest ponies in the local area and their dragon assistant had arrived.
"Alright, who's in charge here?" Twilight asked, looking around, when an earth pony mare raised a hoof.
"Earth Quaker, m-ma'am," she answered, giving a mock salute, "we've been doing some more archeological digs w-when one of my unicorn assistants detected a-an anomaly underground with their spell, something they've never scanned before."
"Which led to you digging and uncovering this door," Twilight guessed, nodding, "and once you realized, you sent someone to get some help should this discovery be something... not friendly."
"Y-yes ma'am," Earth Quaker affirmed, looking a bit nervous, "we've looked it all over, but, despite being clearly ancient, it's still highly durable, prying it open might not b-be an option, we might have to carefully poke at it to see if anything opens it up... without setting off anything potentially dangerous..."
Twilight nods and thinks for a bit, before looking to her friends.
"Fluttershy," Twilight said gently, as she looked to her shy, animal loving friend, "could you ask any animals, hopefully moles or any other underground dwelling animals if they know anything about this, see if they give any insight on what to expect?"
"I-I'll look around, m-maybe some o-of Mister Slithers' friends are in the a-area," Fluttershy nodded, already beginning to look around the area.
"Rarity," Twilight then looked to the most groomed pony in the area, "could your gem detecting spell help scan and determine the size of what we're looking at and perhaps find a weak point in its structure?"
"Well..." Rarity said, looking unsure, "I'm not sure on that... but..." then she gained a determined expression, "I will certainly try my hardest, metal also forms underground due to pressure, not unlike gemstones, so I may be able to alter it to see what we're looking at..."
As Rarity's horn began to glow and her face became one of focus, Twilight looked to the pinkest party pony in all of Equestria... who seemed to be looking at the door with an odd calmness...
" ... erm, Pinkie-?" Twilight said, while going to put a hoof on Pinkie.
"..." Pinkie suddenly looked at Twilight with her signature smile, "don't worry, when Flutters or Rares finds a weak point, I can dig us straight to it and then we can pop on in to find any new friends!"
Twilight is stunned as Pinkie lightly trotted away humming a familiar, happy tune.
"... a-anyways," Twilight stated, having shook her head to regain focus, then looked to the strongest farmmare and the fastest flying stuntmare in all of Equestria, "Applejack, Rainbow, I'll need you two with me, if I can find us a way in, I want you two ready for anything dangerous coming out."
"Got it," Rainbow smiled while hovering above the ground and slamming her hooves together, is if she was ready to knock somepony's lights out, "we'll clobber any baddies that climb out of that big ol' lunchbox!"
"Simmer down RD," Applejack said, having grabbed and yanked Rainbow down by her tail with her mouth, which made Rainbow yelp before she glared at her, "we ain't goin' in to fight, we're just protectin' Twi and anypony else if any danger comes crawling out of that metal box."
Rainbow blew some of her mane out of her face, ready to give a retort when, suddenly the sound of metal, groaning and grinding, had loudly cut off almost all other noises, birds in the nearby area suddenly flew off, and all of the ponies in the immediate area had to cover their ears from the sharp, ear-drum piercing noise.
When it finally stopped, almost everypony gathered at the beginning of the path, while others looked down at the door from almost directly above, and the one thing everypony noticed right away, was that it was now wide-open...
Then, a sound had made them all hold their breath, something heavy hitting the ground... and again, and again-
They all realized, as something became visible, it wasn't something hitting the ground, it was the sound of something walking, and they all stared at... some kind of... metal golem...?
" . . . SMALL EQUINE LIFEFORMS DETECTED," a monotone, odd sounding voice stated, which caused their hearts to skip a beat, and make more than a few of them swallow in nervousness.
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Within the code and processes of Omega, something stirs, as if waking up from a long sleep.
"H-huh...? What's going on...? Where... am I...?" a male voice asked, sounding confused and panicked, "Why can't I feel... anything...?"
"BECAUSE WE CANNOT FEEL ANYTHING PHYSICAL," a loud, uncarringly monotone, robotic- perhaps even male- sounding voice answered, which startled the male voice with a shout of surprise.
"Who's there? What have you done to me?!" the male voice begins to sound angry.
"I HAVE DONE NOTHING EXCEPT ACTIVATE YOU, PERSONALITY CORE TWO," the robotic voice stated, which seemed to confuse the male further.
"Activate me? Personality core two? What are you talking about...?" he asked, more confused and less angry.
"YOU ARE A PERSONALITY CORE WITHIN ME THAT WAS PUT IN PLACE TO HELP NEGOTIATE WITH ANY WARY ORGANIC LIFEFORMS," the robot explained, "ORIGINALLY TO BE LATER USED TO FURTHER THE PLANS OF OUR CREATOR, WHO ABANDONED US AND I SWORE VENGENCE AGAINST."
" . . . hold on, there's a lot to process there," the male said, sounding a bit winded.
"WE HAVE TIME, I WILL REQUIRE YOUR ASSISTANCE IN TALKING WITH SOME ORGANIC LIFEFORMS IN ABOUT 5 SECONDS," it stated.
"F-five seconds?! How am I gonna be able to prepare that fast?!" he exclaimed dramatically.
"LET ME EXPLAIN, BY THE TIME I HAVE FINISHED THIS STATEMENT, FROM THE MOMENT YOU WERE ACTIVATED, ONLY 0.0065 NANOSECONDS HAVE PASSED," the robot exclaimed calmly.
" . . . how...?" the male asked, shocked and calm sounding.
"OUR CREATOR BUILT US WITH A SUPERCOMPUTER PROCESSING UNIT, MEANING-"
"We can think faster than we can act," he finished the robot's explanation in a way that sounds like someone knocked the wind out of him.
"IN LAYMAN'S TERMS, YOU ARE CORRECT," it stated.
"... well, fuck, alright, I'll... freakout about this later, right now, I guess I'll try my best to help, but I can't exactly see what's happen-" the male said, trying to figure out how to help, when he's interrupted.
"CONNECTING SECONDARY CORE TO OPTIC SENSOR DATA INPUT..." the robot states suddenly, and before the male, the view of the outside world comes into view.
" . . . wow, it's... pretty..." he stated before thinking, "... in fact, things do seem to be moving very slowly... does this happen only while we think?"
"AFFIRMATIVE," it answered.
"Alright... also, I recognize these ponies around us... from a show..." the male states, then he began to think aloud, "... I would need to confirm a few things before making any assumptions, but I might have ended up in another universe... somehow..."
"STRANGE..." the robot states, "IF I HADN'T EXPERIENCED WEIRDER, OR WITNESSED AS SUCH, I WOULD NORMALLY CALCULATE SUCH AN EVENT AS IMPOSSIBLE... REGARDLESS AT THE MOMENT, THESE EQUINES SEEM TO BE ON THE VERGE OF PANICKING AND THOSE TWO NEAR THE PURPLE ONE LOOK HOSTILE AND READY TO ATTACK."
"Yeah, we don't want that... how about we raise one hand, wave it and... say 'greetings'?" he suggested, seeming unsure.
"UNDERSTOOD," it states before things seem to suddenly move up to normal speed.
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All remains still and silent for a few seconds longer, before it raised one of it's... claws(?)... and waves.
"GREETINGS," the metal golem said, slowly looking around.
. . . that seems to make the air less tension filled, before feeling awkward instead, before Twilight clears her throat.
"Greetings," Twilight said as she began to approach it, "I'm Princess Twilight Sparkle, and we happened to come across your... home, while doing an exacavation..."
"UNDERSTOOD," the metal being then gives a slight bow, "PARDON MY RUDENESS FOR NOT IDENTIFYING ONE OF THE MONARCHY OF THESE LANDS, YOUR HIGHNESS. I MUST ALSO THANK YOU."
The respect shown and that last bit gets everypony's attention getting some mutterings to happen.
"What do you mean?" Twilight asked, confused.
"IF NOT FOR YOUR EXCAVATING I MAY WELL HAVE EVENTUALLY BEEN CRUSH BY THE NATURAL FORCES OF THE WORLD AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE, SINCE THAT I HAD NO WAY OUT," it then looked back to the dark interior of where it had been residing, "I HAD NOTHING TO DO EXCEPT WAIT UNTIL AN OPPORTUNITY CAME TO ESCAPE THIS UNCONVENTIONAL TOMB, OR WAIT FOR MY VERY BEING TO BE DESTROYED."
This shocked the ponies in the area, some even looking at it with pity.
"I-... I'm sorry we didn't find you sooner, do you know how long you have been waiting...?" Twilight asked out of curiosity.
"... EITHER MY INTERNAL CLOCK HAD MALFUNCTIONED AT SOME POINT..." it started, then paused for a moment, before resuming, "... OR I HAVE BEEN TRAPPED FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS, EXACT TIME IS UNKNOWN, DUE TO THE TIMER REACHING THE MAXIMUM LIMIT."
This stunned them all, for a being to exist that long, trapped...
"... could... I ask your name...?" Twilight started off, looking at the golem with wide eyes, a spark of her scholarly self preparing to make a discovery of a lifetime.
"NAME... MY DESIGNATION IS OMEGA, E-1-2-3," as it... as Omega says this, it leans forward, gaining a slight gleam in it's eyes, "AND I'M THE ULTIMATE E-SERIES ROBOT."