Prologue

It was at that moment the world exploded. Light lit up the horizon with a fiery glow that covered the land. The blast itself never got far but the repercussions were felt everywhere as clones and machine alike stopped and fell where they stood. The lifeless corpses and heaps of metal covering the wastelands like a grim carpet signifying the death of the artificial intelligence A.R.C.H.I.E It's mad assault on the world finally over finally stopping the machines in their tracks. Despite finally being able to be free and never having to deal with psychotic machines attacking them any more many a person did not celebrate the fall of the A.I. Instead the remains of the human race moved out to the fields of death to gather the bodies of the dead and burn them, hoping that the act and defeat of the A.I. would finally bring them peace.

Unfortunately stopping the A.I. also meant the death of all the valiant clone Immortals who fought against the machines to keep what was left of the world alive. It was these people that the remaining humans mourned, these people when killed came back in a new body ready to fight once more. Most of the clones fought not because they wanted to but because it was only them who stood a chance against the machines. They fought for the future, for hope, and for love. The reason they were able to keep coming back to life was due to the collars they all had which, linked their bodies to their minds up to the psi-net. Psi-net is a cloud that holds the conscious minds and memories of the individual people that the clones came from. But this was linked to the main server where the A.R.C.H.I.E. unit was located. It's original task was to monitor and control all operations of the Psi-net facilities Including clone creation, and robotics stations. When he fell so did all the functions he had control of cutting off the mental uplink the clones minds had with their bodies and trapping them in the cloud. All but one who is lost to the system forever.

It was that moment the world exploded in light, rainbows swept across the land in all directions like a tidal wave covering the world. It was to fast for anypony to react every pony who encountered it braced for death only to be surprised when it passed over them harmlessly leaving them unaffected, all but two ponies that is.

Golden Grace was the name of the medic / scavenger earth pony who was scavenging the ruins at the base of a large mountain where a dragon was rumored to reside when the event happened. She was a pony of average height, Her coat was a lustrous gold color, or it would have been had she ever taken a bath more than one a month and groomed her coat. Her main was a tangled mess of copper With various things used in her scavenging hidden away in it. Her cutie mark which peeked out from under her traders barding and saddlebags, was of a open vault with gold caps spilling out.

Her companion and current lover at the time Ready Shot the warrior / mercenary unicorn was watching the mountain and keeping look out and was the first of the two to see the event happen. Ready shot was slightly taller than Grace her coat a dull gray her muzzle scarred from the hard living that come as a mercenary. Her main was a short cut black that looked like it was cut with a combat knife, which it probably was. Her cutie mark was of a target with a full clip on it unfortunately it was hidden away beneath her combat armored barding.

Golden Grace was trying to pick the lock on a door cursing every time she broke a bobby pin. Ready shot chuckled at her antics, glancing over her shoulder and back at grace she said.

"You know G.G I can probably just blow the door of the hinges if you want, Might speed this up just a bit."

Grace just growled caught up in the lock, and it's stubborn refusal to open. Ready shot just chuckled once more and turned her attention back to the mountains. She let her gaze wander up towards the peak of the mountain where a flash of light caught her eye she opened her mouth so say something but was interrupted by a click and a shout of triumph as grace finally unlocked the door. She looked back at Ready Shot a large cheesy grin on her face, turning back to the door she opened it only to be greeted by a wall of moving rainbows that quickly overtook them. As it collided with them a loud thunderclap hit followed by a brief flash of overwhelming blue light happened at the same time. These events coincided in such perfect unison that for any one standing there they were indistinguishable, and as quickly as it came it left leaving both Ready Shot And Golden Grace startled on their rumps checking themselves to see if they were alive. After checking that everything was still attached the looked at each other and asked in unison.

"What the hell was that?"

They paused opening their mouths to say something again just to be interrupted by the sound of an infant crying. Hearing it Grace immediately jumps up and starts searching for the source of the sound. Shot just watched her still semi shell shocked, Grace found what she was looking for in the doorway. It was an infant alright but it was unlike anything she had ever seen it. Right about then Ready Shot snapped out of her daze and trotted over to take a look. Grace was the first one to respond.

"What is it?"
"I don't know. But it looks kind of like a hairless monkey."
"Where did it come from?"
"I don't know but it wasn't here before."
"What should we do with it?"
"Dunno, kill it, leave it alone, eat it take your pick."
"We cant do any of that that is mean it's just a baby after all. It cant even fend for itself yet."
"Or maybe it is just a clever trick from some new creature."
"we are not leaving it, or harming it, or ignoring it."

Grace looked at the baby one more time it having quieted down and staring at them with piercing green eyes.

"We are keeping it."
"WHAT!!??"
"You heard me."
"But we don't even know what it is."

Grace turns grabbing a small blanket from her saddle bags carefully scooping up the child she carefully wraps it in the blanket. As she wraps the child she notices something odd. The child has a small skin tight high tech collar on the child's neck, she gently taps it with a hoof with a small clink noise. Deciding not to mention it she finishes wrapping the child up and fastens it onto her back, smiles at Ready Shot and says.

"Ready."
"I hope you know what we are getting into."
"don't worry for some reason I have a feeling things are gonna turn out for the best."

Author's Note

Forgive the grammar at the moment I don't have an editor an/or proofreader.