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The Tower spoke to the tanks and their humanoid robots.

"HOW KIND OF YOU TO BRING SUCH A DESTRUCTIVE DEVICE TO US. WE COULD USE SUCH A WEAPON. NOW IF YOU WOULD KINDLY SEE YOURSELVES OFF THE PREMISES..."

It gave a dark laugh as a large number of machines began to emerge from the Tower and head towards the tanks. They appeared to be intent on making the bomb detonate prematurely.

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The artificial fox deposited Sweetie Belle at the feet of Technus. "Excellent," he said with malevolent pleasure. "You've done well, my child.

"The imposter fox is still at large." The Foxtron replied with some anxiety. "Shall I return to exterminate him?"

"All in good time, my son. We'll worry about him when we have to. For now..." he chuckled darkly. "...I have plans for our little guest."

The sudden feeling on a cold floor disturbed Sweetie Belle's abrupt slumber.
She opened her eyes to find that her surroundings had completely changed.

Foxtail was not around. That much she knew immediately.

"Uhm... where am...." she began, trailing off when she caught sight of Technus and froze.

The mechanical filly didn't have much to say.
"Uh.... hi?" she meekly suggested.

OOC: I'm out of this, beye guys

Technus greeted the mechanical filly with false hospitality.

"Ah, yes, welcome! So glad you could visit. I was just about to run a procedure, and I would be more than thrilled for an outside opinion."

The sound of whirring machinery and alarms filled the room as one of the walls slid away, revealing a small lab. A gurney sat in the middle, with a raccoon forcefully strapped to it, snarling and growling as it tried in vain to escape its binds. A ray of sorts sat mounted from the ceiling, aimed precariously at the poor animal.

The machine roared to life as Technus threw a switch, and a bright blue beam engulfed the raccoon, growing steadily brighter until it finally ceased. The coon's features were now vastly different, appearing as a mechanized version of its former self.

Technus chuckled darkly. "I call it roboticization. The subject is robbed of its free will, and is programmed to obey only I."

"So, my little pest, what do you think?" he asked in a sleazy voice, not expecting a positive answer.



A Soldier robot, larger than an average human several times over, barked a single order to its colleagues:



This was met with the enthusiastic shouts of the other androids, and they charged towards the tower, a barricade of Heavies taking the lead.

The Tower's primary defense system began to charge, as its drones engaged the robots.

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Technus greeted the mechanical filly with false hospitality.

"Ah, yes, welcome! So glad you could visit. I was just about to run a procedure, and I would be more than thrilled for an outside opinion."

The sound of whirring machinery and alarms filled the room as one of the walls slid away, revealing a small lab. A gurney sat in the middle, with a raccoon forcefully strapped to it, snarling and growling as it tried in vain to escape its binds. A ray of sorts sat mounted from the ceiling, aimed precariously at the poor animal.

The machine roared to life as Technus threw a switch, and a bright blue beam engulfed the raccoon, growing steadily brighter until it finally ceased. The coon's features were now vastly different, appearing as a mechanized version of its former self.

Technus chuckled darkly. "I call it roboticization. The subject is robbed of its free will, and is programmed to obey only I."

"So, my little pest, what do you think?" he asked in a sleazy voice, not expecting a positive answer.

Sweetie Belle was at a loss for words, a shocked look on her face having cut off any response she was have replied with. The mixture of confusion, terror and dread were locking up the various parts of her body.

"I- I d- but... you.. I..." she spluttered, then paused.

'Why is this monster asking me? It has only seen me once before..'

"Why are you asking me?" she asked in an inquisitive tone, seemingly not being that bothered by what happened to the raccoon. The look in her eyes gave away her want to forget about the fate of the animal.

An alicorn appeared near the base of the Tower. It was Magi Mirthkir.
"Oh my, would you look at this. Whatever could be going on here? Ahahahaha!"

[OOC: Major hiccup in this roleplay on my end. There should have been a post at page 22 detailing Cadence teleporting away. Fixing that error now.]

Elsewhere, countless miles from the tower. A solitary, Pink Alicorn sat on the grass of a field that was once rendered barren by a fireball of immense proportions.

She had spent the last hour weeping over her situation, quite unaware that doing so was pointless, after all, it would get her back home.

A sudden feeling hit her, dread soon followed. Another Equestrian was stranded on this world, Sweetie Belle Specifically. Her magical signature always felt different from the others. Much to Cadence's bewilderment.

'A- Another Pony, lost on this world? A filly no less? N-No... I won't let this happen!'

'Maybe I could use a teleportation spell by locking onto her magical signature... no.. I'd need to... I can't risk that.' she debated internally.

"I'll just fly then." the Alicorn concluded, swiftly taking flight in the direction of Metalliform's tower. It was a Thirty Minute flight, and she knew that was too long.

Her horn ignited and a dark blue aura, influenced by the darker side of her powers, formed around her wings. She accelerated quickly, easily breaking the sound barrier and knocking off twenty minutes of flight.

She clenched her teeth in frustration, ten minutes was still not good enough.

[OOC: That also means I'm bringing her back in. Sorry for the late realization.]

[OOC: Have I killed this?]

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[OOC: Have I killed this?]

OOC: I wouldn't say you have.

"Once I conquer that brute Metalliform, I intend to use this to force any who refuse to submit to my rein into becoming my slaves. I simply wanted the opinion of... your type."

In a sly tone, Technus then remarked: "You aren't who you think you are."



NINJAsk11 has left the game.

Foxtail was a bit disappointed at this news, though he quickly shook that feeling. "Eh, I was getting tired of Shikari anyway."

Overseeing the conflict between the Tower's defenses and Technus's army, he felt a familiar magical influence, shortly before noticing the dark alicorn at the Tower's base. "Oh jeez, this guy again! I just can't catch a break today, can I?" he moaned with dread. Of all the beings in the universe he would've wanted to arrive, Magi was among his least anticipated.

He would've given the alicorn a piece of his mind - no, he would've given him far more than that, had a sonic boom not ruptured his concentration. He cringed in agony as his sensitive ears became deaf to the world around him, crumpling to the ground, practically screaming in pain.



The drones' assault was met with a rain of pipe bombs.

"Aww, look at them fighting the Tower's drones, as if they don't even realize that the Tower never runs out of drones to fight with! Hahaha! They're all so funny!"

Magi was clearly very amused at the thought of someone trying to take the Tower.

OOC: I'd like to speed this along a bit if possible?

The tank was nearing the Tower, about to deploy the bomb, but it was reaching its limits.

OOC: I dunno, I'm in another creative slump.

The Tower unleashed a series of three massive and immensely destructive lightning bolts upon the tank.

The tank exploded in a mighty fireball, shrapnel flying everywhere, and the majority of the robots died with it. As the dust settled, it seemed that the horde had been crushed completely...

But it was a mere break in the insanity. The next wave was on its way.

OOC: So I'm planning on staying on this wave for a bit, and then depending on where icedragon and I are at that point, I'll send Technus himself in. And of course, he'll have a giant mech.

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[OOC: Have I killed this?]

OOC: I wouldn't say you have.

"Once I conquer that brute Metalliform, I intend to use this to force any who refuse to submit to my rein into becoming my slaves. I simply wanted the opinion of... your type."

In a sly tone, Technus then remarked: "You aren't who you think you are."

"Prove it." Sweetie Belle demanded flatly. She cringed at her own words, if what Technus is saying is true, she may not like the outcome of her thoughtless words.





Cadence was close to the tower, she could feel the power emanating from the area, like the ground was saturated with magic, but not just magic.

She poured her magic ahead of her and a shield made out of the energy materialized directly in front of her. It immediately caused drag, decelerating her considerably until she was flying under her own power again.

Cadence sighed as she let the shield evaporate, continuing in the direction of the tower.


[OOC: Woah, sorry about the late reply.]

"Mmhm, I sense they aren't done yet... Heheh, this'll be fun."

OOC: What about Fluttershy and the rest?

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OOC: So I'm planning on staying on this wave for a bit, and then depending on where icedragon and I are at that point, I'll send Technus himself in. And of course, he'll have a giant mech.

OOC: I'd say that depends on where we are at that time. I've got big plans of my own. This could well end with Velkir appearing and completely wiping out Technus' forces.

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In a sly tone, Technus then remarked: "You aren't who you think you are."

"Prove it." Sweetie Belle demanded flatly. She cringed at her own words, if what Technus is saying is true, she may not like the outcome of her thoughtless words.

Without warning, Technus extended his metal claws and made three deep slashes on Sweetie Belle in one swift move.

OOC: Probably across her face, and maybe one of her flanks.

OOC: Probably across her face and back, and maybe one of her flanks.

OOC: Hello?

Sweetie Belle shot backwards, screaming in pain she held her hooves to the wound on her face in an attempt to suppress the pain. But, instead of her hooves meeting the wet, warm blood she expected, she felt a hard, alien metallic surface much like that of metal.

That instant, she froze. Paralyzed by fear.

"Why- Wh.. what... I... b-b-but!" the mechanical filly whimpered, at a complete loss of what just happened to her.


OOC: Whooops! Sorry about my absence.

Technus viewed her suffering with pleasure, although he himself cringed a bit.

"Shocking how much it hurts to discover what you truly are, your purpose in the universe, and when everything you have known to be truth ends up being a cold... inexcusable... lie!!!" His anger mounted as memories of betrayal flooded his intellect, and he punctured a hole in the wall out of frustration.

"I'm not sure how much longer we should wait," Phantom said. "Should we just continue?"

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Technus viewed her suffering with pleasure, although he himself cringed a bit.

"Shocking how much it hurts to discover what you truly are, your purpose in the universe, and when everything you have known to be truth ends up being a cold... inexcusable... lie!!!" His anger mounted as memories of betrayal flooded his intellect, and he punctured a hole in the wall out of frustration.

Sweetie Belle was speechless, her perception of the world shattered almost completely. Her life, a lie? No, not to her it wasn't, it couldn't be.

'it has to be that device he showed me, it has to!' she assumed as her fear faded, replaced swiftly with anger.

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME!" the mechanical filly all but screeched as she turned her head to Technus, looking directly at him with her eyes. Her eyes considerably more robotic now.

"I've done nothing to you, you dimwitted skunk!" Technus exploded at Sweetie Belle. His breath was heavy with rage and his converter discharged an electric field of several thousand volts, sending the entire room into haywire. "You always have been an android, a mere duplicate, nothing but a product of manufacture!"

OOC: Hoo boy, I think I'm getting writer's block again. I was just sitting at my computer for twenty minutes trying to think of something to put after this, but I couldn't think of anything that sounded good.

"Then explain why nopony in Equestria noticed?" Sweetie Belle wailed as the field washed over her, only blurring her vision briefly. Every word Technus directed towards her fueled her anger, causing her to stomp her hoof with more strength than she normally had, Causing a dent in the metal.

Her optics, or eyes almost instantly changed color from green to red as a visual display of a warning.

OOC: Whereas you're getting writers block, my creativity with posts drops considerably here and there. At least, it feels like that to me.

"Perhaps it was the excellence of your design?" Technus suggested with a complimentary inflection, through tightly clenched jaws. He knew facts and logic would get him nowhere, so he had fallen back on flattery. "You are very convincing; I would have bought the hoax had my sensors not picked it up."

"And besides..." he added. "...even if I did roboticize you, you wouldn't still have the capability to defy me, now would you?" To prove his point, he issued her a command: "Go make a sandwich for me."

OOC: Actually, now that you mention it, what you were describing matches my case closer than writer's block.

"I've met Princess Celestia a few times, and she didn't bring it up. She has enough magical power to move the sun! I think she would have told me, her magic would have easily detected me!" Sweetie Belle roared in response. She was getting tired of Technus very quickly.

'So why didn't she?' the filly pondered. Her anger slowly fading as her eyes returned to their normal green.

No. She would not go down that route, Technus wants that from her. She wouldn't let him have his victory, not like this. She looked to the floor, the small hoof-sized dent she made easily visible to her.

'Maybe if I... yes, let's do that.' she thought with a smirk, she began to lift her hoof that made the imprint, ready to slam it down again and again. She had a way out. At least, she thought so.

OOC: Kinda got nothing to respond to here...

'What is she doing?' Technus pondered to himself with an exasperated sigh. "If you think a simple tantrum is going to gain you victory, you're sadly mistaken."

Despite a growing migraine, he knew he was on the verge of breaking her; he could see it in her eyes. He didn't care that she could wreck his base of operations in this area; he still had several others around the world.

But he took the precaution of electromagnetically attracting a silver and black metal hilt into his grasp should she turn whatever scheme she was brewing on him.

OOC: I really have nothing else to say regarding the Tower either.

OOC: Time to step up my game, I'll be cranking out larger posts from all three characters simultaneously. Provided there is something to respond to.



Sweetie Belle pleaded to herself to have the strength to do something to the floor beneath her, desperate to get away from this foul creature that calls himself Technus. The call for strength echoed throughout her electronic systems as a command, thus leading to a clicking sound in her raised hood.

The filly raised an eyebrow in confusion briefly before she realized what it actually was. she brought her hoof down upon the floor with a thunderous clang shook the floor.

"YYOUCH!" she screamed in pain and hastily lifted her hoof to inspect it. No, no damage was done to her hoof and she let out an internal sigh of relief. She then looked towards the floor to find out if she'd managed to do anything to it.

The now distraught Sweetie Belle lowered her head in defeat, she couldn't escape the room. She had failed herself.

Then it occurred to her, what if she let Technus get close, then hit him really hard on the head, that should do something... right?




Cadence forced her flight to a halt as she approached the 600 meter proximity of the tower, as she peered into the distance she could see a battle being waged. Immediately she suppressed the urge to facehoof.

'Everywhere I go... there is a conflict of some form... why does this torment follow me?' she asked herself while her face wore an irritated expression. She looked into the distance again, and within the carnage she could spot a black Alicorn. Too much was going on for her to determine further details on the mysterious pony.




'Hmm... why is this tower here? Is it something underneath the ground? A network of towers to exert an area of influence on the planet? I d.. I don't know, but this tower is here for a reason.. I intend to find out why.'

Fluttershy coughed softly to clear her throat, breaking a silence she didn't know was there as she was too immersed in her thoughts.

"Umm... yea- Yes, we should continue. If we dwell, who knows what could happen..." she left the end of the sentence empty to add the the dramatic weight she intended to inject into her statement.

"But.... what way?" she inquired. Gesturing to the fork in the corridor with a hoof.

"Two of them are most likely traps... knowing what we recently get through." she announced with a soft tone of caution. She waited for a response, she didn't want to be the one with the only say in the decisions.

OOC: So they're all together then? I'd note that the way to go should be obvious: through a large door to the reactor.

His ears still ringing, Foxtail was simultaneously glad and dismayed to see Candence hovering (?) overhead.

'She hasn't done anything yet,' he thought, 'So I guess I'll give the poor chick a break.' He rose back to his paws as he sent another message to Candence, carried along on the wind. The tone was relatively calm, but still carried his trademark sarcastic overtone with a slight hint of aggravation.

"Oh, hey, you're back. You probably want to know what the heck's going on, so I'll catch you up to speed on everything that went down while you were having your little... episode. So first I saved a filly named Sweetie Belle from the shipwreck- no thanks to you, by the way -and then an old enemy of mine, Technus shows up. He came up with some bull**** about Sweetie Belle 'not being what she appears to be' and then one of his thugs, which was nothing but a half-assed copy of me, kidnapped her; I would've chased after him, but he was way too fast for me. So, yeah, there you go. Oh, and Treetop is missing too."



The mad feline gracefully tossed the hilt to his left paw and it extended into a lightsaber at the press of a button. His claw was reshaping itself into a type of pulse cannon as he seemed ready to pounce.

But he suddenly and abruptly dropped to the floor at the sound of a short circuit; the mechanical filly's salvation came in the form of...



"Your are most likely in no state to distinguish between whom you can trust at the moment..." the terrasquid began. "...but he'll only be dead for as long as it takes his converter to recharge. Time is of the essence, so I'll be quick with exposition. My name is Treetop, I am among a race of arboreal cephalopods known as squibbons, and I have been forced to work for this monster under the threat of roboticization. I sincerely hope you are more reasonable than some of the other equines I've met today..." His voice trailed off at these words with an exasperated sigh.



"I could scout ahead" Shaydes volunteered. "If one of these really is a trap, I'd probably be more likely to escape alive. Not to be an egotist, but an enderman like myself is a slippery foe."

OOC: I hope you don't mind me borrowing your layout, icedragon.

Sweetie Belle took her chance and bolted for it, her injuries and appearance quickly forgotten as she swiftly galloped out of the room with a limp yet to be tended too. Her flight response was met with one of the most frustrating to the panicking synthetic unicorn, another door and a long hallway.

She muttered to herself something along the lines of 'my luck is out to get me' and with a quick decision, raced down the eastward corridor.




'Sweetie Belle?.... What is she doing here? How in Cel- Equestria's name is she involved with all of this? Hold on, treetop is-'

"HE'S WHAT?!" Cadence yelled, far louder then she intended too. As the sound of the yell carried into the battlefield, easily loud enough to drown out the everything coming from the conflict briefly.

'Well done Cadence, you've gone and let everything know that you're there!' she berated herself as she brought one of her forehooves to her face.




"Yeah... you do sound like you're bragging." Fluttershy drawled. Clearly not impressed with the say Shaydes spoke of herself. She considered adding a sarcastic quip to finish her sentence off, but now was not the time for such flippant behavior.

"Alright... but be careful" Fluttershy urged. "If there is any sign of da-" Anything Fluttershy was going to say was cut off by the sound of a voice coming through the metal of the tower.

"he's what?!" the distant voice exclaimed, interrupting the butter yellow Pegasus from her sentence.

"Uhh... what... no... who was that?" Fluttershy stammered with a hint of fear in her tone, that voice which interrupted her sounded very angry.

OOC: I'm still slightly confused as to where Fluttershy's group is at the moment...

He cringed; his ears couldn't take much more of this abuse. "Yeah, he's gone... thanks for making my ears bleed, by the way."



Sweetie Belle was gone before he had even finished his explanation.

'My, that was rude... ah well. Perhaps I should follow her; Cthulhu knows what danger she could get herself in.'

And so he did.



Shaydes showed no outward reaction to the voice from outside, although concern was evident in her voice, not from whatever the voice was attached to, but towards her hooved companion.

"I'm not sure what that was... are you okay?" She seemed to have forgotten her initial intention of scouting ahead.

OOC: So, um... an answer to my question?

OOC: I think Shaydes and Fluttershy are still on their own along with Pit, if prextail comes back.

OOC: But icedragon's post made it sound like Fluttershy was responding to Phantom, so that's why I'm unsure.

OOC: Eww, I forgot to post here.

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OOC: But icedragon's post made it sound like Fluttershy was responding to Phantom, so that's why I'm unsure.

OOC: Sorry, but I don't know where that post is, or what it contains.




Sweetie Belle didn't realize that she had cut Treetop off when she began her gallop, and she didn't feel sorry for the Squbbion either. She had to get out, she had to figure out what to make of herself. After all, it's not every day you find out you're on another planet and that you're a machine, a robot, possibly a tool.

As she raced down the corridor, she began to hear beeping emanating from what she assumed was herself. Grumbling in her sprint, she shook her head in an attempt to get it to shut off.

Her "wounded" leg broke following her attempts to ignore the obscure warning, quite literally in two. She fell over onto her side thanks to the loss of balance she suddenly felt. The mechanical filly slowly craned her neck towards what she thought was something she fell over, no. It was half of one of her legs.

The leg that was now in pieces was the hind leg on her left side, one that was now creating sparks that spread across the floor and slowly faded.

Her ears folded backwards and her pupils dilated, she did not see this coming.



"The honor is mine!" Cadence declared with jovial mirth, intent on joking around despite the information Foxtail recently departed to her.

"Soooo.... What's this?" she inquired, gesturing towards the battle she just interrupted with a hoof.




"So much anger...." Fluttershy weakly stammered, the voice having paralyzed her legs with fear. She couldn't move a muscle in her legs, not an inch.

"You.... you scout ahead.... I need to.... collect myself" the Pegasus insisted.



OOC: Also, I might be writing a MLP:FiM fanfiction, I already have a good idea where to take it. Except I don't have an ending thought out.

Eh, I started writing it on a bus anyway.

'Must find my portal gun... must find it...'

He knew his odds of escape would be greater if he had said device, so it was imperative he found it. He silently prayed that Technus wasn't incompetent enough to leave it in unsuitable conditions. "Certainly, he knows that the miniature black hole can and will destroy everything when handled without care..."



Wiping his ear blood in the dead grass, he continued. "Those robots, the ones that look like humans, they work for Technus, and if I know anything, they're trying to take the Tower for themselves. Technus is sort of dumb like that, thinks he can handle anything. You shouldn't worry about him, he's nowhere near as bad as Metalliform."

"Now, that guy..." He gestured toward Magi. "...is Metalliform's magic counterpart, Magi. Treetop, Blister and I met him in the Nether, and Blister was about to fight him before you scared him off. And Blister was livid about it. You should hear him when he's drunk, he just won't shut up about it! Now, I don't know what Magi's capable of, but if he's anything like Metalliform..." His voice trailed off into a worried sigh.



She wouldn't readily abandon anyone in a condition like this, but Fluttershy sounded serious. Shaydes made a mental argument with herself- go on, or care for her? -before she came to a conclusion.

"If you insist..." she responded in a concerned tone, and walked off into the middle corridor, pausing to shoot a worried back every so often.

OOC: Depending on one's perspective, Magi may be even worse than Metalliform in a way, just by virtue of his insanity.

Magi looked towards Foxtail and Cadence and gave a sinister smirk.

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OOC: But icedragon's post made it sound like Fluttershy was responding to Phantom, so that's why I'm unsure.

OOC: Sorry, but I don't know where that post is, or what it contains.

OOC: I'm just going to assume that they haven't joined up yet then.

Edit: Hello?

Foxtail averted his gaze; it was probably no use, Magi had noticed them, and his attempt at preventing the attraction of unwanted attention failed...

At least he tried.

OOC: Running on fumes here...
OOC: I am planning on reintroducing Blister into the story soon. And maybe there could be a trap for Shaydes?

There was a sudden hissing sound in the corridor that Shaydes was in.

"Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope." She knew perfectly well that hissing was never a good sign, and upholding her promise to retreat at the sign of danger, backpedaled with her rifle at the ready. Why didn't she just teleport back?

You know, I really have no idea.

Flames burst forth from the walls and floor.

Muscle memory was on her side. Bathed in the inferno, frantic teleporting landed the enderwoman back where she left Fluttershy. "Uh, yeah, I'm not entirely sure, but I think that one might be booby trapped" she remarked, still burning. Calm under fire, she was.



No sign of his portal gun, although the terasquid did find a monkey wrench lying around, claiming it as a weapon. "It's better than nothing, I suppose..."

OOC: We really need Icedragon here...

[OOC: I honestly don't know what to write.]

OOC: No possible response to Shaydes on how that corridor just MIGHT be booby trapped?

"Well well, would you look at that..." Magi commented. "Look which two special people just dropped in to say hi. Heh heh heh heh..."

His tail twitched in annoyance, and his tone reflected this as well. "Nice to see you too. How have you been, ya yellow snake?"

Magi snickered. "Oh, I've been just fine. I'm sure you care a lot about me, yes?" He knew Foxtail didn't really care.

OOC: Mind if i join back in? If so, where can i?