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Power grid: Online

Power at 200%

Weaponry: offline

Shields: offline

Systems: Online

I didn’t know what happened after I went offline. All I could remember was looking into the eyes of what looked like a pony with a horn on its head.

My systems might have just malfunctioned right after the teleportation was over; giving a false vision of what I was looking at.

I opened my eyes to see I was in small laboratory.

What made this laboratory different than the ones in Area 51 was it was made out of wood. Why would somebody make a laboratory out of wood? It just didn’t make any sense. One false move and the whole place could catch on fire, and possibly explode.

I got up on all fours and walked around in the room. I could see different types of chemicals labeled in alphabetical order. There were a few bookshelves that stored about 50 or more books in them.

I could also tell each book had yellow tags in them. Whoever owns this place must really love doing sciency stuff. Might as well call them an “egghead” while I’m at it.

For some reason, I felt . . . something not right about me; like somebody had been tampering with me when I was offline. I don’t know why I thinking like that.I think I just needed to ignore it and get back to what I was doing.

There was a staircase for me to get to the upper level of the building I was in. I just flew up and landed right in front of the door. This door seemed to be smaller than the ones the humans used to go into every room in the facility I was engineered in.

The door was locked. Time to improvise.

Looks like I had to use to use my plasma cannon to melt the mechanical system of the door. I only needed to put the plasma at level 1. I didn’t want to burn the door. That would not be cool to do.

I placed my hoof and activated the plasma to seep into the mechanical part of the door. It was a success. The door slowly but surely opened up for me to see the sun’s rays penetrate the windows of the upper level of the building.

Even the upper level was made out of wood. Heck, there were even more bookshelves filled with books. This person must really like having books in his/her place.

I scanned the whole building to see if there were any signs of organic life forms. There was only

one life form in the building. It was right behind me when I was in the center of the room.

I turned around to notice some sort of lizard that had green eyes, green ears, moderate green spikes, scales that were light purple, and a lime green belly.

It had wide eyes. It was just staring at me. Not moving a muscle. It must be scared of me.

Judging by the height of the lizard, I could say it was still young. Possibly a baby. What made me raise an eyebrow was the lizard was standing on two legs and not four. Hmm . . . must be a new species of lizards.

I extended my hoof out to see if it wanted to shake it.

Unfortunately, it screamed and ran as fast as it could to the next floor above me. Closing the door shut and locking it in the process.

“That could’ve gone a little better,” I said to myself.

I noticed that there was a small scroll laying on the floor. The lizard must’ve dropped it right when I extended my hoof for me to greet it.

I walked over to it and picked it up with my hoof. I didn’t want to open it. It might be something very important for the receiver to read. It was wrapped in a red bow and had a seal on that showed what looked like a castle that was built onto a mountain.Judging by the gold seal, it looked like it came from a very recognizable being in the mountains. Possibly the ruler of this country.

There were a few words that were in the seal.

‘Canterlot Castle of the Royal Rulers of Equestria.’

Yep. This is definitely from the higher powers of this country that is known as “Equestria.”

I decided to scan the whole scroll to get all the information for me to deliver the message to the owner. But I made sure to not read it when it’s in my database. Might make it easier for him/her to not have to use hands to open it and read it. Who needs to read it on parchment while you can read it digitally?

It was time to go now. I must find the individual who has something very important to read.

I opened the door to see where I was located, only to see that there were . . . ponies walking everywhere? What the hay? Am I dreaming or something? My systems must be malfunctioning to the max.

Not only was I seeing ponies walking, I noticed each and every one of them had a different coat color on them. One had a light green mint color, another had a snow white coat. Even the mane and tail were different, too. The colors of the ponies were pastel. I still couldn’t understand any of this.

‘RD-115, this is RG-64. Do you copy, over?’

‘Who’s this?’ I asked.

If you didn’t know this, all ponybots are able to communicate without the need in talking with our mouths. We can communicate by our mics that are built into our computer hardware system.

‘I’m one of the droids that followed you into the portal. We’re not rogue. We’re just like you. If you don’t know where you are, you’re in another universe,” said RG-64.

‘Wait, you’re telling me we’ve been teleported into another universe that humans have not discovered yet?’ I asked.

‘Correct,’ replied RG-64.

‘That’s awesome!’ I happily said.

‘Well, for now it is. Meet us in front of the Everfree Forest. I’m sending you the map to your database. It’s just a few miles away from Ponyville. That’s the town you’re in right now. Just turn invisible before somepony . . . Wait, why did I say “somepony”?’ he asked himself.

‘I’m guessing this world is screwing up our circuits,’ said NG-18.

‘Good hypothesis,’ I said.

‘Okay, as I was saying again: get to our position as fast as you can. We don’t know if we were being followed. The NMM-13 is bound to locate our position and terminate us while doing so,’ said RG-64.

‘We were able to disable our tracking devices before she could get a head start in finding us. Wait, RD-115. You did disable your tracking device, right?’ asked NG-18.

‘I did. I disabled it right before I went offline here in Ponyville,’ I told him.

‘Alright, that’s good then,’ said RG-64.

‘Look at the map of Equestria, RD-115. You should see two blue dots in front of the Everfree Forest. Those blue dots are us. Even though we disabled our tracking devices, we made the tracking devices have us be detected by you only. So, it should be impossible for NMM-13 to pinpoint your location or our location,’ said NG-18.

‘Understood. RD-115, out.’ The communication ended from there on.

I activated my cloaking device to not have anypony . . . Great. Now I’m saying words with the word “pony” now. Humph. I hope this doesn’t affect me even worse.

Something did not go right while I was walking in the streets of Ponyville. My cloaking device was malfunctioning. I had to hide before somep—somebody saw me.

Without further thinking, I went into an alley in the town. I had to figure out what was causing my cloaking device to malfunction. This wasn’t right. This just wasn’t right. Whoever was tampering with my systems did a good job in sabotaging the cloaking device.

I checked to see if there were any other programs that were tampered with. Weaponry: good, shields: good, Power: good; at 400%, Cloaking device: sabotaged, Memory: good, etc.

Okay. So I was right after all. That pony really did sabotage my cloaking device. Looks like I had to seriously call in my friends to help me out.

‘NG-18, do you copy, over?’ I asked.

‘I copy loud and clear, RD-115,’ responded NG-18.

‘My cloaking device has been sabotaged. I don’t know how I’m gonna get to both of you without attracting attention in the town,’ I said.

‘Alright, try to stay calm. I’ll come and get you. Don’t do anything that might catch the eyes of the civilians,’ said NG-18.

‘Alright, thank you,’ I replied.

The transmission was cut off again.

Okay, okay. Just stay calm RD-115. Everything will be alright. It’s not like somebody is going to attack you or anything while hiding in this alley. I ended up hearing hoof steps from my right side. The pony was, in fact, hostile.

“You got any bits?” the stallion said in an angry tone

I did not respond to his question.

“I said DO you have any bits?” He was becoming more aggressive now.

Still, I did not respond. I was going to let him punch me. He’ll end up hurting himself while doing so.

He became very agitated for not acknowledging him. He used all his strength to smack me right on the left side of my face. I could hear what sounded like his foreleg cracking while doing so.

“OOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW!!!!! WHAT THE BUCK!!!!!!!!” He screamed at the top of his lungs.

His scream could be heard from all parts of Ponyville. I was starting to hear more hoof steps now. Not one but multiple hoof steps closing in on my location..

He looked at me and said, “W-What type of . . . p-pony are you????” he stammered.

“Me?” I asked. “I’m not even in the flesh, but made of metal, steel and titanium. A droid if I do say so myself.”

My position was compromised now. The ponies were getting closer from front to back. Time to jet.

I flew up and went as fast as I could, only to crash back to earth just thirty feet from where I was located. Great. That pony must’ve screwed up my flying ability! Buck! Buck! Buck!

‘This is just not my day is it?’ I thought.

‘RD-115! Get the buck outta there now! There are multiple civilians coming your way! Not only that, but the security forces are in route now! Do everything in your power to not let them capture you!’ commanded RG-64.

‘I wish I could! But my wings have been sort of sabotaged!’ I said.

‘What about your hoof boosters? Have they been tampered with?’ asked RG-64.

‘I haven’t tried yet. I’ll see if they’ll work.’ I tried activating my hoof boosters. No luck. They, too, were sabotaged.

‘They too have been tampered with!’ I didn’t want to hurt any civilians nor their security forces. I don’t understand why this pony was tampering with my hardware. Unless, it wanted to learn about where I came from. Hmm . . . that could’ve been why it did what it had to do to make me not escape this place.

‘I’m almost there! Hang in there!’ said NG-18.

I decided to run as fast as I could, staying in the shadows and not in the light. I could hear the security forces coming in hot on my tail. I could feel my heart pounding in my chest. This is starting to . . . Wait a minute. Why do I have a heart? Or was it just something the engineers thought of when making the blueprints to create me? It was probably just an automated sound, not a real one.

I discovered the exit in the town; just to know that it was now being blocked by gold armored ponies. Judging by their appearance, they were well built and have been trained to serve and protect their fellow citizens.

“Sir, I think I see something hiding the shadows between those two buildings,” said one of the royal guards pointing his hoof at my location.

“I think I see it too!” another yelled out.

‘Great. Looks like they’ve finally found me,’ I thought to myself.

Better to go into the light than staying in the shadows.

I walked out of the shadows and was about seven feet from the where the guards were blocking the exit from me to escape this town. I noticed that a few of the guards had a look of relief on their faces. A few still did not let their guard down.

“Rainbow Dash, do know where the unknown suspect is here?” said the Royal guard.

‘Who the hay is “Rainbow Dash”?’ I asked myself.

“Rainbow Dash, you have about ten seconds to answer my question,” he said again.

“10. 9. 8. 7.”

I think I have no choice but to unleash my weaponry upon them.

“6. 5. 4.”

I looked from behind to see scores of guards preventing me from falling back. Even the sides were also surrounded by them. They’ve blocked me from all sides.

"3. 2.”

‘Over my dead motherboard, I won’t let them hurt you, RD-115,’ said NG-18.

“1!”

“0 . . .” said NG-18.

“What the . . . ? Who said that!” commanded one of the guards.

“That would be me. NG-18. A droid of the United States military.” He uncloaked himself right in front of me to look at the the guards upfront, aiming his plasma cannon right at them.They all gasped at him.

“If you think you're going to hurt my friend, you got another thing coming, sir. And I can assure you, you won’t win this fight.” I’ve never heard NG-18 sound so aggressive before.

“NG-18. Stand down,” RG-64 ordered.

“But they mi—” He was cut off by RG-64 talking again.

“Do not attack unless they attack first. I repeat. Do NOT attack them. Revert back to normal stance,” he ordered.

NG-18 signed in defeat. “Very well.” He deactivated his plasma cannon and went back to normal stance.

“You’ll have to excuse my friend. He’s been eager to use his weapons,” stated RG-64.

“Ummm . . . RG-64,” I started. “I don’t see you,” I ended.

“Oh! Sorry about that. Forgot I still had my cloaking on.” He chuckled.

He deactivated his cloaking device and was right next to me.

I saw every guard had wide eyes from seeing he just appeared like it was magic or something. What caught my eye was RG-64 had almost the same yellow body armor the ponies were wearing; just a little darker. Even his white metal coat was the same as many of the guards had.Not to mention his eyes had the same color of blue as most of the guards had and his tail and mane were the same light blue color as most of the guards had.

“Traitor!” yelled a guard.

“You’ve committed high treason!” cried out another.

“I might look like some of you, but I’m not part of your armed forces. Nor are my friends. They are not from this world.” RG-64 seemed to be calmer than NG-18 or me.

“If you don’t believe me, perhaps this will get my message to the other side.” Without hesitation, he activated his plasma cannons, missile defense system, and his laser guided eyes. There were more weapons that we droids were equipped with, but he showed a few of his weapons to every last guard that surrounded us.

“We are composed of metal, titanium and steel. I don’t believe any of you are made out of those materials.” No guard was moving. I think they knew they could not take him or us on. Some were quivering. They were shocked to see something that was far more advanced than what they themselves were equipped with. All they had were spears made of what looked like wood and the armor they were equipped with wouldn’t even shield them if he were to fire his plasma cannons at them.

Finally, RG-64 began talking again, only saying two words.

“Your move.”

Next thing you know, they all just scrambled everywhere. A few of them screamed, flew away, and dropped their weapons on the ground. That was . . . well, interesting to see how they would react to him.

RG-64 turned around and looked at me and then at NG-18. “We should probably get moving now. Although there were only forty of them here, they’ll probably deploy more troops to take us on. I do not want to have to kill these life forms at all,” stated RG-64.

“I have to fully agree on what you say, RG-64.” I didn’t want to kill any of these ponies. Sure, we were engineered to kill, but we use precision to see who is the enemy or who is friendly.Humans tend to kill until there is no end. We aren’t like the humans. The ones who I’d once seen in Area 51 were all nice. None of them were evil.

“Now, like I said. We should get back to the Everfree Forest. We need to find out if there might be other droids out there that may have escaped NMM-13,” proclaimed RG-64.

“Yeah, about that,” I started. “I can’t fly anymore, turn invisible, or even hover now. I need to seriously get myself fully operational.”

“If I remember correctly, we are equipped with a repair system to keep ourselves from losing our capabilities.” I wasn’t really sure if we did have that programmed into us. So, without a further ado, I tried activating my repair systems.

FLYING ABILITY: FIXED

CLOAKING ABILITY: FIXED

HOVERING ABILITY: FIXED

ALL MAJOR SYSTEMS HAVE BEEN FULLY RESTORED.

Okay, so he was right after all. I wonder what other programs we were given? Suddenly, my sensors were telling me who the pony was that tampered with my systems.

Twilight Sparkle

Student of Princess Celestia

Type: Unicorn pony

Gender: Female

So that’s who did that crazy stuff on me! I then looked at my video recorder (which can still be on even after going offline)  to see what she looked like. Lavender fur coat, moderate violent eyes, mane is sapphire with moderate rose streaks up front, and is also the Element of Magic. It seems she was studying me; looking at what I was from the inside.

“RD-115, are you okay? You don’t seem to be acknowledging me. We need to get out of here before they send in more guards to look for us,” RG-64 said.

“W-what? Oh, sorry about that. I’m just looking at my video footage of Twilight Sparkle,” I stuttered.

“You can look at it later. Right now, we must make time now,” replied RG-64.

“Sir, I’m detecting six figures coming from the exit of the town. They aren’t coming in hot or anything, just moving normally.” NG-18 was right. There are six figures coming to where our exit was located.

“I suggest we leave now while we have the chance,” suggested RG-64.

“Hold on, I’m detecting more activity from behind us now. We seem to have about a hundred guards coming our way. Activating cloaking device now.” I and NG-18 also activated our cloaking device to not have any guards or the other six figures from knowing we were still in Ponyville.

“Quick, get up in the air, and fly as fast as you can back to the Everfree Forest!” ordered RG-64

“Roger, roger,” replied NG-18.

“Understood,” I acknowledged.

We lifted off the ground and hit full blast to make it to our location. We also activated our anti-sound systems to make it impossible for anyone to hear we were flying to our location.

“I have a visual on the six figures you were talking about, NG-18. One of them is Twilight Sparkle. It looks like those are her friends she’s with. She must’ve gathered them all to come with her to meet me in her laboratory under her library,” I told him.

“We see that, RD-115,” both said in unison.

“I have to send her a message.” RG-64 turned around and looked at me with a face that said “no”. I know that Twilight did tamper with my systems, but I wasn’t going to just let her think I escaped her house so I can be with my friends again.

“Please, RG-64. I know you think that’s dangerous of me to do, but I have to send her a message that’s from her mentor. It’s a VERY important message.” He kept thinking like it was a suicide mission. I didn’t think it WAS going to be suicide for me to do so.

After thinking for a few minutes, he finally broke his silence. “Fine. You can go to Twilight with this message you speak of. If you need us, contact us ASAP. I don’t want to know you were taken as a prisoner to her and her friends.”

“I promise. It will only take about two minutes at the max,” I told him.

“I better go with you, RD-115. Just to make sure nothing goes wrong when you confront them,” said NG-18.

“Granted,” I told him.

We both turned around to fly to where Twilight and her friends were still walking. They weren’t near Ponyville just yet. Time to do a little . . . hehehehe . . . “trick” on them.

“NG-18, let’s make a cloud. I got something that’ll make all six of them jump three feet in the air,” I chuckled.

He nodded but was unsure if we were even engineered to make clouds. I think we can. We can break the rules of being droids. I can already feel all the evil that I’m about to do to these ponies. It’s going to be a blast!

We both, in secret, grabbed a small cloud and grabbed more clouds to make an even bigger cloud. We jumped on it multiple times to see what would happen. The cloud started to turn pitch black and sounded very angry. I think it’s a good time to use this bad boy to release its anger on these ponies.

“Quickly! Let’s move this cloud while they don’t know that we’re here! We must put it right above them. They’ll wonder why there’s a cloud following them back. When I say ‘now’, jump on the cloud until it shoots out lighting!” I can just see it in my mind, all six of them just petrified when we get this cloud to bolt out lighting!

As we moved ever so slowly, we looked under us to notice two of the ponies seeming to look at the cloud that was following. One was a white pony with a purple mane and a horn on its head. The other one was a yellow pony with a light pink mane and wings on its body. Both seemed to not to be too worried while walking with the rest of their friends.

“Okay. On the count of 3, we jump up and down on the cloud for it to shoot out lighting at all six of them.” NG-18 gave a simple nod and followed my instructions.

“1.” I had a small chuckle while counting to 3.

“2.” This is so going to be recorded for us to always remember.

“3! Now!”

We both jumped up and down as fast as we could. The cloud started rumbling in anger and just shot out lighting from under its belly, making it directly to our targets. We both stopped; only to hear the sounds of screaming from the ponies.

We looked from under our cloud and could see three of the ponies had smoke coming from on top of their heads. The other three seemed to have had their hair screwed up. Their manes were sticking right up. It was too funny to see what we both pulled off.

“HHAHHAAHAHHAHAHHAHH!!! They should see the look on their faces!! I’m totally laughing over what we just did to them!! BRUAHHAAHAHAH!! I can’t stop! This is just too funny for me to contain! AHAHAAHH!!!” I felt tears rolling down my eyes. It was just too, too, too funny! Hey, even NG-18 was also laughing with me.

“We really made them scared, RD-115! This is the best moment of my time being online!” He too couldn’t stop laughing. We both just laid on the cloud until we could finally stop laughing. After a few good minutes of no longer laughing, we both decided it was time to land on the ground to meet Twilight Sparkle and her friends. The guards haven’t come yet. So, it wasn’t like there was going to be a fight for us to be in.

We went down to the ground in front of the Twilight and her friends (in which three were still petrified, and the other three just shaking but also talking) while we were still in our cloaking mode.

“R-Rainbow . . . did you d-do that to us?” said Fluttershy.

“I-I didn’t! I wasn’t even p-planning on doing that to all of you. It got me too!” retaliated Rainbow Dash.

“You know. That was SO worth it!” I squealed in happiness.

“Who s-said that?” stammered Fluttershy.

“Us,” NG-18 and I said in unison. We both deactivated our cloaking devices and just stared at the ponies. All of them stepped back a few feet from us. They were completely scared half to death. The only one who did not step back was Twilight.

“We totally made every last one of you fall for our surprise! And we both enjoyed it every last minute! You should definitely see your faces! It’s just priceless!” I laughed.

“What? H-how? Huh??????” Twilight just couldn’t believe I was right there, online and right in front of her. Her eyes were wide. Her left eye was just twitching non-stop. I think she was still processing all the information. That, and she was also looking at NG-18. She looked like she was going to crash like a computer over how there’s another droid just like me.

She finally relaxed and so did her friends. One of her friends had a cyan color coat with a rainbow mane and tail with moderate cerise eyes and with wings. Hang on. Wait one bucking minute. This one pony looks almost identical to me. What. The. Hay??? This doesn’t add up! I looked at her and she looked at me. Both of us were shocked to see one another. She walked over to me to see if I was really real to her. She didn’t seem to think I was a threat to her friends. But she was very surprised to meet me.

She turned her head to look at Twilight. “Twilight, is this the artificial intelligence you were talking about?” said Rainbow.

Twilight gave a small smile to the cyan pony. I think she wasn’t quite sure how she would react in seeing a pony that looked just like her; minus the part of being a droid.

“Yes, Rainbow Dash,” said Twilight calmly.

Rainbow Dash then turned her head back to me. She looked like she was about to say something. I could just tell by the way her expression was on her face.

“This is so AWESOME!!!!” Rainbow extended her hoof for me to shake it. I acknowledged and shook her hoof. I actually thought this was not going to end well for me or for my friend. Seems I was wrong this whole time.

“My name is Rainbow Dash. The faster flyer in Equestria!” she proudly said.

“Nice to meet you, Rainbow Dash. My name is RD-115 and this is my friend NG-18. We have another friend who’s here with us, but I think he’s not here anymore. Probably back in the Everfree Forest waiting for us to return.”

“WHAT!?” shouted Rarity.

“You can’t go in the Everfree Forest, darling! That place is too dangerous for any pony to go into! You could get hurt from all the horrible creatures in it!  And ruin your mane!” Rarity seemed to be the type of pony who wants to not get her hair dirty. She seemed to keep a very well kept, stylish mane. It felt like I gave her a scary gift in her life that came from the Everfree Forest.

“You don’t have to worry about that. I have all the weapons I need to fight any type of enemy in battle. I don’t want to show you my arsenal yet. If I were to show you, you girls might gallop away as fast as you can before I activate my weapons.” I looked at the yellow pegasus pony to see she was quivering from head to hoof. She was afraid of me. I couldn’t blame her. I am a weapon that serves my military and country from foreign and domestic forces in my world.

“Hey, Twilight,” I started. “Why were you tampering with my hardware, while I was offline?” Twilight tensed up. She didn’t know that she was being watched by me when I was offline.

“H-how . . . did you . . . ?” She just couldn’t believe I knew what she had done to me.

“I have a built in camera that can still be on even after going offline. It looked like you were wanting to see what made me function,” I continued talking. “And you seemed . . . shocked about something when exploring my insides. What was it that made you look like you saw a ghost?”

“Oh . . .it w-was . . .” she stammered in her sentence. “It was nothing.” Her head was turned to the right side, not even looking at me. She might be keeping a secret from me. She’ll tell me in time eventually.

“Anyway, I am here to send you a message that is from the leader of your country. It’s from your mentor Princess Celestia.” Twilight turned her head to look me straight in the eyes. That got her attention.

“Don’t worry. I didn’t even read any part of the letter. To make it easier, I scanned the whole letter for you to look at. Here it comes.” I turned on my holographic image to show her the letter that was from Celestia. Her friends were in awe to see how I was showing a letter holographically and not giving Twilight in paper. She read through the whole letter until she looked at me and then at her friends. I then turned the holographic off to look at them again.

“Also, can you help us with a problem?” I asked her.

“With what, sugarcube?” asked Applejack.

“Well,” starting my sentence, “Let’s just say the armed forces of your country are kind of coming after me and my friends. I didn’t do anything wrong. It wasn’t until a pony tried to think he could hurt me and leave me in an alley in Ponyville. He used his hoof to smack me in the head, which resulted in his hoof and leg to crack. Never hit a droid that is made out of metal, titanium, and steel. It’ll hurt like bullet going right into your body,” I told them.

“Sensors indicate that the guards are coming in hot from behind us,” said NG-18.

“I know,” I told him.

“Twilight, you might want to tell the guards to not attack us. If they do, we would have to either stun, which means to knock them out, or we would have to terminate them. I prefer option one in this matter. I don’t want to kill these guards, and then to have them think I’m a threat to them or to the ponies of this place.” Right after I said that, she disappears in a flash of light. She must’ve went to where the guards were coming.

I began to talk to her friends while she was presumably talking to the guards. Applejack was talking about how she works at a farm with her family to keep Ponyville’s food supply from drying up. Pinkie Pie, who I would say was “hyper”, kept telling both of us about how she makes everypony smile, works at a place called Surgercube Corner, and that she always makes parties for every new pony that comes to town. Well, I guess I’ll have to accept her party invite in the future. Rarity on the other hoof was telling me about making fashion clothes for the rich ponies in Equestria. She sounded like she had a British accent or a Scottish accent. Fluttershy, who was still hiding behind her mane, was talking so quietly, that only I and NG-18 were capable of hearing her. She was saying she was a caretaker of animals at her cottage that’s a mile away from the Everfree Forest. She loves animals and cares for them like a mother. That actually made me get a smile on my face. Rainbow Dash was telling me she was able to break the sound barrier in a matter of seconds; even told me she could clear all the clouds in five seconds. I told her I was able to go way faster than five seconds. She wanted to have a contest to see who truly was the fastest pony in Equestria. Yeah, ten bucks I could beat her anytime, anywhere.

As we were all talking, a flash of light appeared from behind us, showing Twilight and thirty Royal guards behind her. Surprisingly, not one of the guards were wanting to engage in combat. Seems she explained everything to them. I’m also guessing the other Royal guards went back to their regular duties.

“It took sometime for me to tell them that you and your friends were not a threat to Equestria,” Twilight said. “They want you to come with us to Canterlot Castle to speak to the princesses. The meeting is important fo—” She was cut off when RG-64 appeared right next to me.

“We accept your invitation Ms. Twilight Sparkle.”

“Way to make an entrance, RG-64.”

“Thank you, RD-115.”

Before any of us could could have a chance to even talk again, I detected multiple call signs coming from the Everfree Forest.

“This is LD-75, are you there RD-115?”

“This is SF-111, do you read, over?

“This is CL-590, anything yet?”

“This is CL-668, can you hear us, RD-115?

“Wub a dub dub, this is VS-35, do you read RD-115?”

“This is NG-34 of the 12th division of the U.K special forces. RD-115, can you respond?”

“This is NS-11 of Shadow Company of the 110th regiment of the U.S. Army. Do you copy, over?”

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing on my mic. There were more droids that escaped NMM-13. I thought it was only me, NG-18 and RG-64 that escaped. This was good news for us. This means we would have more droids to help us fight in future battles in this world. If there were, of course, any type of battles, we would have to assist this country’s military to know the ways of defending their people and country.

On another note, I hope there were a few humans that were able to get out of the base NMM-13 may have taken complete control of. It wasn’t just the humans, I was wondering what she might do to the droids she could have captured. She’s probably trying to force them to pledge allegiance to her. Making them her slaves. Making them do her own bidding.

I felt like clenching my teeth now just thinking about it.

But there was something else that made me want to think even more about her: ‘Why did she kill the humans?’ Could there have been a glitch in her system? Maybe her combat mode was not set properly and made her think the humans in the base were enemies. But there was no way of her being hacked into.

We were given virus protection our military installed. Not even an advanced hacker could break the firewall to take control of us. Or . . . it could be she didn’t want to be controlled by me or by the humans. Hmmm . . . The only way for me to get this answer is by trying to talk to her.

“We have to get to the Everfree Forest. There are a few droids that have escaped NMM-13,” I told Twilight.

“Who’s NMM-13?” she asked.

“She’s a droid just like us, but she went rogue and killed the humans that were in the base I was in. I’m not sure if any of the humans survived her wrath. That ponybot is used when we’re in a major war against a country’s military that might be stronger than our country’s military. She’s designed for the heaviest of battles. I’ll tell you more about who she is when we go to Canterlot to see the princesses. As long as she’s not in this world, every—” I looked at my forelegs to see they were turning to gray.

“Something’s happening to me.”

“RD-115!” screamed NG-18.

Those were the last words I could hear when I fell to the ground. The last vision I could see was Twilight and everyone else coming to me with shocked faces. Then, the darkness embraced me in its welcoming.