Lordav trotted up the path to the Apple's barn. He had just been promoted to 2nd lieutenant by the Romanian forces just yesterday and he already had to investigate a case of arson? Not only that but an element of harmony was involved in the fiery feud?

"Heh. Fiery feud." He mumbled under his breath, laughing at his little joke he unintentionally made. His best friend Lordy Snow would've loved that one. It was too bad he was investigating a disappearance of Ponyville's top fashion designer. What was her name? Rarity?

Lordav continued to mumble to himself as he walked up the winding path to the charred barn. Lordav was surprised to see only spectators along with one lone stallion regulating and putting out the flames. With this huge mess, he had expected Canterlot's special forces firefighters to be here but one lone stallion? Not only that but this stallion wasn't very old, maybe in his mid-twenties in the least. His mane was colored distinctively red and yellow, wind rushing through his hair made it seem as if a live fire burned on his head. But that wasn't even the surprising part. This stallion didn't even have a horn! To think, a Pegasus using magic. The thought wrestled in Lordav's mind, trying to make sense of it.

After about a minute the fire was put out, causing the mysterious stallion to wipe sweat from his forhead in fatigue. As he did so, the crowd cheered for his heroic actions causing him to smirk.

"It was nothing, really. There may be ponies in the wreckage! Help me get these bricks and pillars up!" The stallion said, rallying the crowd of fifteen or so ponies into the mess of a barn.

Lordav rushed to the charred remains and started moving the remains if the rubble peice by peace, before finally revealing a tan hoof sticking out from under a steel column designed to hold barrels. He had to use all his strength, but he eventually removed the half melted ste column to reveal an unconscious Apple Bloom, her forehead tainted with blood. Lordav lifted the poor filly into his hooves and but his ear to her breast, hearing a faint beating sound. He smiled at the sound, as when he originally thought she was deceased. He carried her to an empty plot part of the feild and lied her down, rushing back to help uncover more survivors.

Along with their makeshift help team was Lektra Bolt, one of the local scientists in the area. She was headed to the parts and service area of Ponyville's local market when she noticed an interesting contraption, that of Flim and Flam's Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000. As she investigated the strange locomotive, interested in it's mechanical makeup, she eventually smelled smoke emanating from the charred barn of in the distance. Acting as fast as she could, she telekinetically told her friend Blaze Wing about the tragic scene, whom came to the rescue a few moments later.

As Lektra Bolt dug through the rubble, she saw a few nuts and bolts scattered throughout the area. This got her excited.

There might be a machine under here! A cyborg? A robot? Lektra thought, her mind rapidly filing through all the possibilities. Eventually she came across a drill like mechanism sticking up from the rubble. Intrigued, she attempted to pull it up, but it seemed stuck, or heavy.

"Hey! Blaze! A little help here?!" She called to her friend, who was struggling to remove what seemed to be an arm from the destruction. Blaze Wing rolled his eyes as he slowly flew over to his friends location.

"What in the world is that?" Blaze Wing asked of his friend, half expecting her not to know and for her to pull a smart answer.

"That's what we're going to figure out!" She said back.

Blaze Wing rolled his eyes once again, before grabbing onto the arm along with Lektra. They both pulled with immense strength, finally plucking it from it's grave. As the plucked it they both lost strength, causing it to flip as it came out. Whatever it was, it was metallic and pretty heavy.

"Whoah..." Blaze Wing muttered as he stared at the figure that they'd just saved. It was a huminoid creature about five feet tall in size. It had a drill on one hand, but the other arm was missing entirely. Wires poked through the missing area. It was mostly red in coloration, but was black on parts due to charring burns covering it.

Lektra got a sparkle In her eye. She used her levitate ability to pick him up.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Blaze Wing exclaimed.

"Im gonna........... fix him up. Yeah that's right...." Lektra said giving a guilty smile. Before Blaze Wing could say anything se Lektra started booking it to her house.

"Man. That mare." Blaze Wing said, rolling his eyes.

[Later]

"What do you mean you couldn't find Crash Man's corpse?!" Dark Side yelled at his old acquaintance Blaze Wing. He sat in a hospital bed, covered severely in bandages. His arm hung from a string tied to the ceiling. It was an estimated 2 month recovery, but knowing Dark Side he'd probably be gone In two days, thought Blaze Wing.

"Well, it wasn't in the rubble." Blaze Wing lied, protecting his friend. He knew how much authority the stallion In front of him had. Who knows what'd happen to him or her if he figured out.

"How wasn't it dammit?!" Dark Side exclaimed, visably freaking out.

"Hey. Dark Side calm it down some, you might bust a vein."

"And that robot might bust my balls!" Dark Side said angrily.

Blaze Wing struggled to keep a straight face at that one. But he didn't want to risk showing him a sign of weakness. "Sir. Ill get my squadron and we will look for it."

"What squadron?" Dark Side asked, unknowing to what he was speaking of.

"Lordav and Lordy Snow."

"Those two new Romanian high-ranking military officers?"

"Yeah, one of them was helping me with the mess today."

"Alright. Just locate it. We'll destroy it later."

"Gotcha."

After Blaze Wing left, Dark Side lie there looking at the ceiling. He was wondering what Rarity was doing. She kinda wandered off when he rushed in to save Applejack. It seemed weird to him. He sighed and turned his head to his left, spotting the remote control for the television that hung fron a steel bar above his head. He reached his free left hoof over to get it, but couldn't stretch far enough, on account of his broken hoof. Dark Side sighed and began biting at it in futility.

"Damn" Dark Side mumbled in defeat before rolling over and going to sleep.

[Lektra Bolt's Lab]

"What in blazes? Where am I?" Crash Man said as he sat up on a hard steel table.

"That wouls be in the basement of my humble abode!" Lektra Said, stepping from the shadows of her dimly lit basement. She smiled as she walked closer to Crash Man. This was her first encounter with such a creature. It had artificial intelligence. That she took. No, that she modified.

Crash Man began to take in his surroundings. The first thing he noticed was that on his left arm was a hand instead of a drill. He moved it around, getting accustomed to it.

"You probably already noticed that your not intent on killing anymore." Lektra said, walking up to the table that held Crash Man.

Crash Man just sat blankly trying to think of a reason. A justification to kill her.

He couldn't.

"You fight for good now. You belong to me now. We're gonna be best friends!" Lektra said, hugging onto the confused robot.

He still stared blankly, but, unbeknownst to him, he hugged her back.

Crash Man screamed.

Author's Note

This chapter introduced quite a few new characters. These are ocs of some of my acquaintance's. They are as follows.

Lektra Bolt-bronislav84
Blaze Wing-Asura
Lordav-Lordav

These kind individuals can be found on MLp forums. Special thanks to them. This chapter is my Christmas present to my readers.