Interference Trilogy Book I: Derpy and the Assimadrons

Chapter 2; The Assimadrons

Derpy was still asleep when the metal backpack that had expanded like that suitcase did in Iron Man 2 was almost finished with basicly enveloping Derpy in black metal, except her head. Xylo still stood next to her, he smiled down at her.

"So picturesque..." he thought.

"and her eyes, ethereal beauty." he returned to his ship and stepped inside. the ship was black with dark green lights blinking on and off on all sides of the main control room. This room had a scaffold-like floor with a green glow beneath it. The door was near the front of the small ship on the right. At the front was a rotating chair facing an arch-shaped console with many high-tech equipment and read-outs. At the back was another room separated from the main control room by a automatic sliding door. Xylo headed straight for the back room, pausing only to push a couple buttons by the exit hatch. The door automatically opened when Xylo came near. The back room is the storage room. This room is filled mostly with large metal chests, with random numbers and letters on the sides like, BD-739.ND, or HDK-93936.82GS.

"Where is it?" he asked himself as he looked through the storage compartments, looking for the Mobile Transport Unit Command Card, or MTUCC. In compartment 9-B, he found it.

"Here it is, now, I need to insert it into the CCTD." The MTUCC is is like a orange floppy disc, except... Actually it's just an orange floppy disc, except... Cooler. The CCTD stands for Command Card Transformer Device. What it does, it take the information on the Command Card and uses it to change the practical use of Xylo's corvette. (I don't mean the car.) Rushing back into the main control room, Xylo ran over to the control panel and pushed a button marked: CCTD. Just above the button, a slat opened. Xylo pushed the MTUCC into the slat, which closed once the CC was completely in. At once the ship began to move. The wings angled straight down, to serve as legs, with the laser cannons at the tips flattened to become feet, the back engines extended and rotated up so the pointed at an angle away from the ship. After a few seconds, the ship stood up. Xylo opened the exit hatch again, now at least 20 feet off the ground. Xylo just jumped down, heights were not a problem when your knees were practically indestructible. Derpy on the other hand was just waking up. The backpack thing had finished, it did not completely cover her entire body, but most of it. Strangely, the chest-piece resembled a rib cage, as opposed to a sheet of metal for protection purposes.

"Ohhhh..." she moaned, sitting up and rubbing her head.

"Hello Derpy." Xylo said, somehow managed to land next to her, bipedal, without Derpy noticing.

"Ahhgh!!!" Derpy yelled as she jumped, scrambling to her feet. Xylo raised his front hooves and held them out in front him, innocently.

"It's okay, calm down. How do you feel?" he asked smiling again. Derpy slowly calmed down, watching Xylo. Her eyes drifted to his and for a moment, nothing happened.

"I feel..." Derpy said before blushing and looking away.

"I feel... Different. More, alert. More..." Then she noticed the MTU.

"Whaaa..." she stammered, backing away from the transformed ship.

"What is that?" Xylo finished, taking a step toward Derpy.

"It's my ship. I used it to come here through that." he pointed up at the Portal. Derpy looked up too and gasped when she saw the Power Core.

"Is...is that... Your home?" she asked shakily, looking back at Xylo. Xylo chuckled and took another step closer.

"No. That is what my people call the Power Core. It uses our sun," he pointed at the sun.

"to keep the Portal open." Derpy nodded and turned to look at the Portal again.

"What's a Portal?" Derpy asked, looking at the outline of the Portal, which shimmered like water dancing on a sea floor.

"Well," began Xylo, sitting down cross-legged.

"My people believe that there are 2 examples of, that." he said pointing at the Portal again.

"The one called Wormholes you can find if you look hard enough, is like a really long multi-colored tunnel that you can use to get somewhere much quicker then you would normaly be able to do. The other kind are usually much smaller, and very easy to make if you have the right machines. These ones, called Portals, you can see right through. The one above us is the second kind." he finished and looked back up at the Portal.

"I actually came from this planet." he said looking back at Derpy. Derpy's eyebrows shot up.

"Really?" she asked, intrigued. She sat down across from Xylo. Xylo smiled at her again, before continuing.

"Yes, I don't remember much about this place except, my hometown was a village named Ponyville." Derpy grinned and said,

"That's where I live too!" Xylo jumped up and said,

"Perfect! Could you take me there?" Derpy smiled and nodded, also standing, but not noticing that she was standing bipedal-style.

"Can you fly?" she asked. Xylo smiled and turned to the MTU.

"Watch." he said simply as arches of black metal unfolded and folded untill 2 large cylinders sprouted from his back, like a jet pack, he shot straight up and hovered next to the entry hatch of his ship. He waved for Derpy to join him. Derpy's jaw dropped.

"How..?" she began but didn't finish because her own jet pack sprouted and activated, sending her straight up,

"AHHHHHHHHH!!!" she screamed as she went zooming in random directions for about 26 seconds.

"Derpy, try and hover. Think the word 'hover' and you'll do it." he called to her as she zipped right under the MTU and then up.

"Ok!" she yelled back. She closed her eyes,

"Hover." she thought, the rockets decreased power and she slowed down, before stopping directly in front of Xylo, hovering. She opened her eyes again, then she blushed at how close she and Xylo were hovering.

"Uhhhh..." Derpy said, looking away.

"I didn't catch your name." she asked, trying to feel less embarressed and/or awkward.

"Xylo." Xylo said queitly before backing up and opening the hatch.

"After you." he said, bowing. Derpy nodded and attempted to make it into the ship without bumping into anything. Unfortunately, when she reached out to pull herself into the ship, the jet pack deactivated, but a small, green light shot out from Xylo's front left hoof and enveloped Derpy, instantly stopping her fall.

"How..?" she began as Xylo lifted her up into the ship using the tractor beam.

"I used a tractor beam. It creates a dent in the space around you, which keeps you in place, then if I move the dent, you move too. I will show you how to do this too." he finished as he set Derpy down in a chair next to the command chair. Then he entered the ship, closed and locked the hatch, and sat down in the chair at the front of the vehicle known as a command chair.

"So which way to Ponyville Derpy?" Xylo asked turning his head toward her.

"That way." She replied pointing straight ahead.

"Right." Xylo said as he pushed several buttons. Suddenly, the MTU began to walk forward, whiring with every step, and every time a foot hit the ground, a quiet "*Boom!*" echoed across the land.

"Why exactly did your people come here.?" Derpy asked as the MTU began to scale a hill.

"12 years ago," Xylo began,

"My people, the Assimadrons, were building a ship that was supposed to be the faster then our other ships, instead, the engine overloaded and expelled the excess energy into space, which formed a Portal. The Portal led to this planet, which we call Equestron. Curious, my people sent a probe through, to scout out the planet to see if you were hostile, which you obviously aren't." Derpy nodded, listening intently.

"The probe found one of you that was lost, like we always do. Then, the probe took me back to my planet to be Ascended. But the engine keeping the Portal open exploded from over-exertion. But no one was killed." Xylo paused, inspecting a flashing panel, showing a structure nearby. After pushing a few buttons of the control panel, he continued.

"Luckily, the Assimadrons didn't give up. They built the Power Core to recreate the Portal so I could come here and be with you." Xylo blushed realizing what he had just said. Derpy giggled.

"I-I mean come here to-to show everyone, um..." he stopped. Not wanting to say something stupid.

Fluttershy was the first to notice the MTU. Mainly because her cottage was very close to Xylo's impact zone. She heard the roaring from the ship entering the atmosphere, and the noise from the MTU approaching, and panicked... Why am I not surprised? Fluttershy is kindly described as a "gentle soul", she also is highly experienced with any and all animals, the normal ones at least. You could say her cottage is an apartment for animals. Her income comes from the chickens she keeps in her backyard. Chickens, surprisingly, lay eggs! I never knew that. So anyway, she panicked and is now hiding in her bedroom. Note: This is not the first time she's used that as a refuge. The MTU stopped as it reached visual range of Fluttershy's cottage. Xylo blinked. He never guessed that that so many differing creatures could possibly coexist in one structure of that size.

"Derpy? Is that a house, or a animal adoption center?" he asked turning to her. Derpy let out a tiny giggle before replying.

"No silly, Fluttershy lives there." Derpy said gesturing at the cottage.

"She loves animals. Every animal there lives there." Xylo nodded slowly.

"Fluttershy? Is that her real name? Or a nickname?" Xylo asked carefully.

"It's her real name." Derpy replied.

"Fluttershy... That sounds rather..." he rubbed his chin for a second, trying to think of something that wouldn't sound rude.

"...conspicuous." he finished, glancing at the cottage. The mech stopped beside the cottage and it somehow bent down, to allow ease of access. Xylo knew Derpy hadn't yet mastered her jetpack ability yet, so he thought it would be smarter to have the ship bend down instead of risking Derpy careening through Fluttershy's cottage.

"I guess a lot of the ponies' names are rather... conspicuous." Derpy said, scratching the back of head.

"Like mine."

"I wouldn't say your name is conspicuous." Xylo quickly said, standing and turning to Derpy.

"No you wouldn't because you're very considerate." she replied, smiling at him. Xylo nodded and approached the exit hatch, opening it with his tractor beam emitter. Derpy turned and followed him out of the MTU.

"You seem to be taking all of this very well." Xylo said as he closed the hatch after Derpy had exited the MTU.

"It just seems commonplace to have all this, stuff, around me, almost like..." Derpy mentally searched for the right description.

"I've been around it all my life." Xylo nodded as he turned towards the cottage.

"That's expected to happen. The Assimilation Pack uploads data of all our tech into your brain, however your brain structure cannot handle all that information at once, so as soon as you see a piece of tech, it releases the data, so as not to overload your brain." he finished. By now they had reached the front door of Fluttershy's cottage. Xylo almost walked right into the door.

"Why is... Oh whoops." he said blushing lightly as he knocked slowly.

"What?" Derpy asked.

"Nothing," Xylo said turning his head to answer her.

"I'm just, not used to manual doors. All the doors at my home automatically open when you approach them." Derpy's eyebrows raised.

"Really? That would be helpful." Xylo nodded and turned back to the door. Several minutes passed. Xylo just stood there mumbling about all the reasons why someone should build a automatic door. But it was soon interrupted by a loud squawk from behind the house. Xylo didn't seem to react beyond nodding once or twice. Derpy on the other hoof knew what a chicken sounded like.

"What the..." she said to herself as she began to head towards the backyard of the cottage. Xylo noticed this and asked, rather puzzled,

"Where are you going?" Derpy replied to this, saying, "I heard a chicken, it sounds like they're being attacked or something." Several more squawks were heard. Derpy rounded the corner and gasped. The MTU was firing the same spiders that had pinned her down when she first met Xylo. The spiders latched onto the chickens and began to expand like Derpy's Assimilation Pack did, but on a much smaller scale. Some chickens had finished being Ascended and were attempting to calm the remaining un-touched chickens down.

"It's not going to hurt you at all.",

"The worst is over.", and,

"No! It didn't hurt! I just told you that!" could be heard from the Ascended chickens who were, as previously mentioned, calming the unscathed chickens. Surprisingly, to Derpy that is, she didn't feel as... worried? As she thought she would.

"Must be part of this, Ascension, thing." she thought as she watched the last chicken got hit by the MTU's spider-thing cannons. Xylo had followed her and was now sitting beside her watching the last chicken suddenly jump up, completely Ascended. The other chickens cheered and one noticed Xylo. The chicken waved to him and called out,

"Sir? Could we borrow your MTU for a bit? We'll need it to get to the Steel Heart!" Xylo nodded, then smiled.

"Of course! But just remember to return it!" he called back. The chicken who had spoken got the attention of the other chickens and instructed them to enter the MTU quickly while he, "gives our caretaker our sincere thanks." Then he presently rocketed up to the top-floor window, and knocked on it. After a couple seconds, he peered in. Xylo cocked his head and asked quietly,

"Why doesn't, Fluttershy, answer?" he had to pause to remember Fluttershy's name, due to it being... Conspicuous. The chicken-drone stopped peering and jumped down. Saying something about,

"I would have guessed. Poor Fluttershy." he said as it hopped inside the MTU. Which jumped straight up, and before reaching its apex, the "legs" returned to wings, the engines rotated back and it flew up towards the Portal. Xylo then noticed that Derpy had disappeared. But then he heard a door open, Derpy say:

"Thank goodness you're alright!" Then a very quiet scream.

...

Three guesses who. (Hint: Derpy is covered in black metal.)

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This would be a good place to pause, refill your lemonade, grab a sandvich, and whatever else.

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Meanwhile... (That means that this is happening alongside what you've already read.)

Twilight was reading books.

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There's not much more to say. Spike on the other hand, was asleep, dreaming of *blank*. (Take a guess. Correct answer: Rarity. Duh.) Today, Twilight was researching a topic that had recently come up, according to an old record book, there was one Unicorn that drove himself mad from drinking posined water several years ago. According to the book, the Unicorn, driven mad, used his magic as a weapon, not an indirect weapon, like dropping anvils on people's heads, or as a "beam of virtue" but focusing the magic into an incredibly dense beam, that was devestating at close to long range. The Unicorn ended up killing himself in an explosion caused by a massive overdose of magical power. Twilight figured that this could be used if Discord ever reappeared. Which was doubtful. (NOT FORESHADOWING!!!) All records regarding the specifics of the spell were banned, but the vague record was not. Twilight knew how dangerous the spell was because, I mean come on! The spell created a 2 mile deep crater in the middle of nowhere! It's obviously dangerous! Spike was not doing anything dangerous, unless you count dreaming dangerous. Which I don't. Who would count dreaming dangerous? Unless you're in a coma, then its dangerous because if don't stop you could die. I'm getting off-topic, sorry. Twilight's studies were interrupted by a fierce knocking, which jerked Spike awake.

"It wasn't me officer!" Spike yelled as he sat up. (Whut?) Twilight put her book down and trotted to the door and opened it

"What's wrong?" she asked, already assuming that if somepony was knocking on her door that hard, their must be something wrong. Turns out there was 2 ponies at her door. The first was Apple Jack, and the second was Pinkie Pie, who didn't look at all like her normal cheery demeanor, in fact they both looked downright scared out of their wits!

"Twilight! Come look at this!" Apple Jack said shakily, pointing at something in the sky behind her house. Twilight raised an eyebrow, but stepped out and looked at the sky, right in the middle was the Portal, through which, she could see the Power Core and the Assimadrons' homeworld. Twilight's eyes widened in shock.

"Do you know what is?" Asked Pinkie Pie. Twilight turned to them and asked,

"What makes you think that I know what it is?" Apple Jack looked to Pinkie before replying.

"We thought so because you read so many books and maybe you might have read about it." Twilight questioned the logic of that statement inwardly. Now I bet you're itching to find out what happened with Fluttershy and all of that, what happened was that she fainted. I'm honestly not surprised. Derpy felt bad about it, and Xylo used a stimulant to wake her up. They tried to explain the situation, but she just fainted again. So Xylo used his tractor beam to place her in her bed. Then they continued on the way to Ponyvile, but as you know, the Ascended chickens had to use Xylo's MTU to fly to the Assimadrons' homeworld, which has remained unnamed, but fear not! I will disclose its name now: Vratran II. …yes, that's the planet's name. However, the Assimadrons call it "Steel Heart" because it is the Heart of their entire collective intelligence. (That seemed too easy.) Anyway, Derpy and Xylo had to fly there using their jetpacks, they passed overhead and headed to the center of the deceptively large town.

"How long did it take to build this town? Xylo asked, landing in front of the town hall.

"Uhhh... I actually don't know." Derpy replied, landing beside Xylo. Xylo nodded and looked around at the ponies who had frozen in their tracks, gaping at him and Derpy. Derpy spotted the Cakes among them and instantly felt embarrassed. Suddenly, some kind of visor rose up and obscuring her face, through it, she could see all kinds of strange things, such as: A clock, personal vital signs, air density, altitude, longitude and latitude, etc.. Xylo on the other hand, waved at one pony who was shakily pointing at him, then looked up at the Portal to Vraten II (I will refer to it from now on as Steel Heart FYI.) expectantly. Meanwhile, Twilight, Pinkie, and Apple Jack had seen Derpy and Xylo fly overhead, and raced after them, mainly because they wanted answers, if a massive alien Portal opened above your hometown, I bet you would want to know why they were there. Anyway, the Ascended Chickens had reached Steel Heart and set the MTU, or Scout Corvette, as it's called when in space, on an automated course to Xylo. Xylo saw the Starship approaching and stepped back to allow the ship room to land. Which it did, unfortunately, the wing slammed onto Xylo's head, knocking him to the ground, before anyone could react, he just stood up, and rubbed his head, otherwise uninjured. Xylo and everyone else in the vicinity weren't the only ones to notice the ship, nope. Rainbow Dash saw as well. Her reaction was surprise, opposed to panic. She followed the ship as it landed in the square.

"What the hay is going on?" She thought to herself. Then she spotted Twilight, Pinkie, and Apple Jack, who had just made it to the square and were about to approach Xylo. Twilight cautiously approached him, but saw that the other one (Derpy) was closer and approached it instead. (Holy crap! Twilight has serious guts!)

"Uhh, hi! Why did you come hear?" she asked, which caused Derpy to jump and snap around to face Twilight. This also caused Twilight to jump. For a second neither did anything except stare at one another. After several seconds, Twilight shook her head and said, rather cautiously,

"Why are you here?" Derpy was afraid to reply, because her "distinctive" voice might give her away.

"Yeah, just what are you doing here?" Derpy jumped and spun around. Rainbow Dash was floating behind her, her front hooves folded.

"Uhhhh..." Derpy said, glancing between Rainbow Dash and Twilight. Fortunately, Xylo came to her rescue.

"You'll see Rainbow and Twilight. You'll see." Rainbow Dash raised an eyebrow.

"It's Rainbow Dash, if you don't mind." she said floating a bit higher off the ground. Xylo turned to her, smiled, and said,

"Of course." then he turned back to his ship, which he was having trouble getting open.

"Open you dumb door." he muttered. But it swung open with such force that he was launched through the air like a catapult's ammunition. He activated his jetpack just before clearing 10 meters away from the ship. He rocketed back, landing in front of the now open door. He clambered inside, heading to the cargo room again. This time, he was looking for the Ascension Zone Command Card. (AZCC.) It looked like the MTUCC, except purple. He found it under half of a nuclear refrigerator (...The Fr'ij am I saying?) near the back. Then he inserted it into the CCTD. Outside the ship, Derpy was still standing between Twilight and Rainbow Dash, when the corvette began to shake. Everyone except Derpy, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight backed away from the ship, which suddenly shone brilliantly. Derpy stepped slightly closer, she could just see through the light, it seemed. The light began to dissipate, revealing a small building, with a small podium by the front door. The building itself was a cube. The front door was an automatic double door. On the left side was some kind of small pad. To Derpy, an image of a teleport pad appeared in her head. But everyone else didn't have that info. Xylo was standing, yes, I said standing, bipedal no less, at the podium. He waved to Derpy to come join him. Derpy waved back and walked over to him, and stood beside the podium. Xylo looked up at the Portal absentmindedly. He scratched his left ear, looking around. His eyes drifted up to a castle hanging off of a cliff in the distance. (Caterlot.) and raised an eyebrow. He closed his flesh eye, allowing his mechanical eye full control of his view, but before he could take a closer look. Twilight and Rainbow Dash stepped up. Xylo reopened his flesh eye and looked at them.

"Uh, what is that for? What is your purpose here?" Twilight asked glancing at the building.

"Oh that." Xylo said, looking at the it as well.

"That, my friend is what my people call an Ascension Zone, or an AZ. As for what it does, imagine you were an artist. Say you went in there," Xylo pointed at the AZ.

"when you came out, you would be a better artist. Not in the sense that you would make masterpieces every time, but you wouldn't need any equipment, the Ascension process adds all of the required equipment needed." Xylo rested his head on his front hooves.

"Oh yeah? What if you were a good flyer?" Rainbow Dash asked, still hovering.

"You would be outfitted with scramjets, for maximum speed potential."

"What about a good farmer?" asked Apple Jack, who had just stepped forward.

"Automatic hydration mechanisms, alongside a whole new variety of seeds that apparently don't exist on this planet." Xylo said, glancing at her.

"Good partier?" Asked Pinkie, who had appeared next to him from seemingly thin air.

"I'm not sure that's a word..." Xylo said slowly.

"Oh." Pinkie said, and sunk into a deep thinking period. Xylo blinked.

"You certainly have a diverse populace." he whispered to Derpy. Twilight was thinking.

"An alien that looks like us shows up saying that he can improve on our traits. It seems almost too good to be true." she thought.

"What if, you were a good reader?" she asked. Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. Xylo looked at Twilight before replying.

"I don't know about that, but we have a database about everything that ever happened to my people. Makes for a good read. If you want to take the time to actually read through it." Xylo pointed at the AZ.

"As to why I'm here." he pointed at the AZ again.

"That's why." Twilight turned to AZ, and begun to slowly walk towards it. Everyone's eyes were on her. When she reached the front, the automatic door slid open. Inside was just blackness. Gathering her courage, she stepped inside. The door closed behind her... Then a metallic voice rang in her ears.

"Welcome, prepare yourself. There's no turning back. Do you wish to proceed?" Twilight was sweating now. She was disoriented, was she standing on her head or her hooves? Was the exit in front of her or behind her?

"Y-Yes." she stuttered.

"Excellent. Close your eyes if you haven't already." Twilight obeyed.

"Now, hold still..." Twilight heard a high pitched whirring sound right by her ear... Then...

Nothing.........