The Sword of the Reaper, Armor of a Cyborg

Day 1:

Status: Acceptable, begin system start

"Running full system diagnostic and psyche analysis.", Dycerton heard a voice in his head. He was waking up from his "volunteering" and took a small look around the room. It was a clean room, he was sitting on a reinforced medical bed and in a somewhat typical hospital room, although extremely reinforced.

"Ugh, my head.", he moaned.

"Vocal ability, confirmed. I require confirmation to proceed with further system checks.", the voice said. It seemed robotic, like an AI.

"Who's this?", he asked confused.

"I am your new On-board Automated Intelligence System. Designation, Spyglass." the voice... Spyglass said.

"Alright then, Spyglass. Continue with checks."

"Affirmative." After what Dycerton assumed was an hour or two he gradually gained feeling to his new body. It was the latest in cyborg tech. Copied and improved from The Ripper himself, Raiden. He had "volunteered" to be upgraded to a super soldier to match Raiden. He didn't know how far they would go though. As he looked down he saw that his body was gone, replaced by metal, artificial nerves and muscles and covered by black armor with red details. He eventually realized that the armor was almost identical to Raiden's. Just then Spyglass spoke.

"All systems reading nominal and combat ready, we have orders to begin a training simulation. Are you ready?"

"Might as well. I don't know what this body can do, so lets find out."

"Affirmative, beginning simulation in 3......2......1.......0"

Dycerton closed his visor as his HUD showed his health status, map, and equipment (he didn't have anything at the moment). Everything dimmed as it started,it took a while to get used to the power of the new body, but he eventually got over it. Then the basic swordsmanship, he was already pre-programmed with some sword skills, so it wasn't hard. After that it went into the improvements on Raiden's armor. He was standing on one side of a ravine, with an objective marker on the other side.

"You must access your propulsion units to proceed." Spyglass stated.

"My what?" Dycerton replied slightly surprised.

"Your Flight Propulsion units. Simply think of them and the will prepare for activation."

He did what Spyglass said and two jet engines unfolded out of his back. Excited, he looked back at the marker and started the engines. He flew faster then he thought he would and quickly came to the other side and as he was about to begin the next test when everything went dark.

"Spyglass, did you terminate the simulation?" Dycerton asked.

"Negative.", Spyglass retorted.

As his HUD returned he was back in the hospital room with warnings 'WARNING: ATTACK IMMINENT. PROCEED TO ARMORY FOR WEAPONS ACQUISITION' this can't be good, Dycerton thought as a marker appeared. Spyglass said "Orders acquired, we are to proceed to the armory to obtain our weapons and engage the new threat."

"Got it." Dycerton said as they entered the armory. He recognized a long katana in it's state of the art scabbard. Placing it on his back he figured he wouldn't need to much so he brought some repair nano paste and some assorted grenades. Turning around to exit, his ears were pierced with a screeching noise. It caused him enough pain to bring him to his knee, he could barely hear Spyglass say.

"What is.......ppening.....n-n-n......respon...." He couldn't bother listening over this screech, suddenly he began to get tired and before he could react he collapsed.

It has been a very busy day for Twilight, it has been a month since her coronation and her royal duties were taking there toll on her. So many papers, and so little time with her friends lately. So everyone understood why she tended to go to bed early. In fact she was right about to fall asleep, watching the beautiful moon that was out that night. With sleep within her grasp she heard a terrible screech, one that was too high pitch for a manticore and far too loud to be a cockatrice. Twilight sighed with exasperation.

"Spike did you hear that?" Twilight questioned her assistant.

"Yea, what was it? It doesn't sound familiar." he replied.

"Ugh, great more stuff to deal with." she stated with a tired tone. Just then Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash burst into the library looking worried. "Let me guess you heard it too?" They nodded in unison.

"Yeah," Rainbow said "I was coming over when I ran into Pinkie and she was doing the same thing."

"Yea first there was this SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE then I went OOO OOOOO WHAT COULD IT BE then it stopped and I went------" Pinkie was cut off by a cyan hoof in her mouth, although she continued talking into it, making her speech distorted enough to ignore.

"What are we going to do Twilight?" Rainbow asked with concern and some irritation at her rambling pink friend.

Twilight thought for a moment "We should go and find what made that noise and why. Who knows it might be something new."

Pinkie calmed down and nodded to Twilight with rainbow "Should we get the others?" she asked.

"It would be best if they came as well." Twilight watched ast the went off to get the girls, as she went to retrieve some things to take with them.

Dycerton looked up at, what was once a lab ceiling, what was now a night sky. The ringing in his ears had stopped and he had feeling in his arms and legs.

"Spyglass......Spyglass you there?" he asked exhausted.

"Y-y-yes I am relatively undamaged I am repairing myself as we speak." Spyglass replied.

Looking around he said "Where are we?"

"Unknown"

"Are there any satellites we can hack?"

"Unknown"

"Do we have any worth while readings here? And don't say 'Unknown'"

"Atmosphere: Breathable, Gravity: Similar---"

"Okay get to something worth my time please."

"Odd energy readings detected, two primary sources. 1: 2km deeper into the forest. 2: 5km out of the forest through what seems to be a town or a collection of structures according to sonar sweeps."

"Alright, lets start with the forest, then move on to the town." Dycerton concluded.

"Confirmed."

Spyglass marked the anomaly in the forest and Dycerton ran after it, hoping to find some answers there.