Misplaced For Redemption

Ok...I know you guys don't like me and I certainly try to like you, but I think we can put aside our differences and write this story together. First lets get some backstory out of the way and then we can head on over to good old Equestria.

With that being said let's crack on with this sad but funny tale.

Cybe's and Jewels backstory

Our story does not start in Equestria but on Earth. Note that at this time in Equestria Twilight was only recently crowned as a princess.

The year on earth is 2046, a time for celebration. The American military had finally found a way to combine man and machine. For the good of mankind, the procedure needed to be tested on a live human. So instead of forcing a young man to throw away his humanity, they set out to find a willing volunteer. After a year of searching they finally found what they were looking for.

A young man named Cybe Catcher had recently lost three of his limbs during an accidental fire that took his parents. Leaving him to take care of his younger sister Jewel Catcher. The military offered Cybe another chance to be able to take full care of his 8 year old sibling. Without hesitation Cybe agreed to take part in the experiment. And to his luck he survived the process giving him two robotic legs and a cybernetic arm. The operation also gave him a new working eye. But alas, they could do nothing to heal the scars on his cheeks or fully repair his voice box. So they had to improvise.

He was given a metal jaw that was bolted to his skull just beside his ears. It covered the whole bottom half of his face, from the tip of his nose to the bottom of his chin. As for his voice well...you know the thing that Steven Hawking uses to talk? Well they put that into his metal jaw but programmed it to allow more emotion to come from his voice, and not to just sound like a robot. They even made it sound like Jarvis from those Marvel movies, pretty neat right.

As people learned that a young boy was able to care for his little sister again thanks to these body enhancements many others volunteered to take part. Mostly soldiers. Many of the volunteers were disabled and wanted a normal life again. Everything was goin great until a computer virus caused all the newly made Cyborgs to go biserk. The military could no longer keep them under control. However Cybe was unaffected by this virus due to the outdated tech that was built into him. He was brought in to be programmed to fight these new robotic disasters. At first he was not comfortable leading a life as a living weapon, but he soon realised that it was for the greater good. He would be forced to take lives, but he would be saving more than the ones he destroys.

As to ease his nerves about the subject, he was given two modes, friendly and combat. A red card was given to him to put into his arm to activate combat mode. His body was outfitted with weapons and gadgets as well as a built in med kit in case he came across an injured civilian. He would be facing over 250 cyborgs but he had the most advanced weaponry of that era built into his body.

Over the course of three months, New York City turned into a war zone. With the two sides fighting in the streets, all civilians had been evacuated, leaving only Cybe with the task of destroying all of his cybernetic brothers and sisters. And he succeeded. He was seen as a hero, a patriot when in truth he was just trying to protect his little sister, the only family he had left.

After the events of C-day as it would later be called, the military's cybernetic program was scrapped. Cybe was left to live out his life with his sister. He was the last of his kind in a way.

On day, when Cybe brought Jewel out on a stroll in the forest. Jewel came across a strange object. "What is this thing big bro?"

Cybe picked up the object and scanned it with his artificial eye that let him access every database on the planet. "This object cannot be identified."

"You mean it's not even in any files Cybe?" Asked Jewel with big puppy dog eyes that could kill a guy with a heart condition.

"Affirmative, this object is clearly not from this world. There is some foreign energy emitting from the centre." As soon as he touched the centre a bright light exploded from the top of the figure. Acting on instinct Cybe wrapped his arms around Jewel to protect her from any danger. When the light faded they appeared in a different area. They were in a forest infested with thorns, heck even the clouds had thorns in them. The object was nowhere to be seen. When Cybe placed Jewel on the ground he immediately noticed something was not right. He scanned the area and began searching for the nearest database, but there was no connection. Good thing he downloaded most of the files on earth when in the war zone for situations like this.

"It would appear that we are not on earth anymore."

"What?"

"That object seemed to be a portal of some kind."

"Yeah I got that part but how are we not on earth?"

"There is no record of any area like this on earth and from my scan there is no other humans on this world, but there is something else occupying this world."

"Well what is it? Don't leave me hanging here bro." Cybe turned towards the trees and pointed with his metal claw.

"There is a small village in that direction. I suggest visual evidence is what you require."

"Whys that?"

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you. Now come. Would you like to ride on my shoulder Jewel?" Jewel gave a quick nod and climbed onto her brothers shoulder. They then begin to travel to the nearby town. Along the way Cybe raised his metal claw and let out a small swarm of tiny drones that flew in different directions. Jewel looked at her brother with confusion.

"Um bro, what did you just do?" Cybe then turned to look at his sister.

"I sent some drones to gather data about this new world, they will be back when the scan as much data as they can about this place." As soon as he said that 7 little drones returned to his arm feeding him information. "Strange, I didn't expect any to return this early with this much information." They then heard a growl from a nearby thorn bush, Cybe scanned the greenery and then reached for his combat card. "It would appear we have company." Then four timberwolves jumped out of their bush.

"Brother what are they?" Asked Jewel in a panic.

"They are a species known as Timberwolves, native to this forest. Status, hostile." Cybe then threw his sister into a tall tree. He then inserted his combat card making his eyes glow red. Steam blew out of his legs and arm, releasing the restraints that disabled fast movement when in friendly mode. His arm then vibrated revealing four slots around his forearm, four gun barrels then rose from said slots. These Barrels did not shoot bullets but sent a wave of energy balls at the wolves, killing two of them. One of the surviving wolves lunged at Cybe only to have its face smashed to thorns by the metal claw slamming into its face. The last wolf then looked at its fallen partners and ran off with a yelp.

Cybe then ejected his card and returned it to its storage slot. The restraints then moved back into place. "May it never be said I do not show mercy." He said with a sigh, he then held out his claw and kicked a tree, sending Jewel into Cybe's claw. She then crossed her arms and presented a pout. "Don't give me that, I only did it to make sure you survived." She let out a sigh.

"I know but warm me next time." Cybe scanned the rest of the forest.

"It is unwise to stay here, multiple hostile creatures lurk here." He then swung his claw to the right and smashed one of the timberwolves he shot earlier as it lunged at him. It then fell to the ground. Cybe shook his head. "Fool me once shame on me," he then grabbed all three of the wolves by there tails and dragged them to a nearby cliff. "Fool me twice shame on you, I'm not letting you strike twice." He then threw them over the edge causing them to wail and hit the ground with a satisfying poof. He then grabbed Jewel and activated his built in thrusters on his feet. "Let us waste no more time, I will take us to the village by air."

With that they took off towards the town. Only to start shaking. "What's happening big bro?"

"It would appear that I have little power left after that battle, I can get us to the village but it will be a bumpy landing, activating force field." A green bubble surrounded them, they then began to hurdle towards the outskirts of the town in a ball of fire. When they landed they left a small crater in the ground.

"Phew, thank god we made it." Jewel exclaimed in the grip of Cybe, only to see his eyes closed. "Cybe, CYBE." She then began shaking him when a metal casing wrapped around them. "Oh you just need to recharge, ok them, I could use some sleep myself." She snuggled into her brothers warm chest and began to sleep.

Nearby, a pegasus and a alicorn watched these events unfold from a balcony.

"Did you see that Twilight, it looked like a falling meteor just crashed near ponyville."

"Yes, it's very interesting. We need to go inspect the damage. See if anypony got hurt."

When the two colourful ponies exited the library they both jumped at the sound of thunder. Twilight looked over to Rainbow with an irritated expression. "Did you seriously have to schedule a thunder storm?" The cyan pegasus merely shrugged.

"I'm not the one who plans this stuff Twi." With another roar of thunder there came a sudden downpour. Twilight looked to Rainbow with a raised eyebrow. "Ok that one was me." She chuckled nervously and continued on their way to the crash site.

What they found was a large silver sphere in the middle of the crater. Twilight then cautiously began walking closer the the crashed object.

"What is it Twilight?" Twilight then ran her hoof over the surface of the sphere.

"Whatever it is, it's made of metal, this is not a natural occurrence." Twilight then picked it up with her magic and began walking towards her home. "Come on Dashie, I want to run some tests on this thing." With that they began their trek back to the library, leaving the crater to fill with rainwater.

When they returned Twilight set the object in the middle of the room, she then began circling the sphere with a hoof to her chin. She then stopped and placed her front hooves on the sphere and pressed her ear up against it. She heard something and backed away. Her horn started glowing sending a purple aura around the sphere, allowing her to see a green field around the surface.

"Um Twi, what are you doing, cus I got no clue." Asked Rainbow scratching her head. Twilight gave a tired sigh.

"I'm trying to scan this thing but some kind of energy field is blocking my magic." When the field disappeared they heard some movement inside the sphere.

"Recharge complete." Both of the ponies tilted their heads when hearing this. The sphere then started to fold itself revealing a tall figure standing where the orb once lay. Both ponies had their jaws to the ground. When the figure turned to face them it showed surprise in its eyes. "Oh, hello there." The figure held a smaller figure in its arms, it them turned to the smaller being. "Poor thing, she's had a rough day." It turned to face them. "Forgive me I did not introduce myself. My name is Cybe Catcher and this is my younger sister Jewel. Who might you be?" Both of the ponies were taken back be the politeness of this strange being that stood before them.

"Well uh...m-my name is Twilight Sparkle and this is Rainbow Dash." The figure then gave a small bow.

"It is a pleasure to meet you Miss Sparkle and Miss Dash." He then turned to a nearby couch. "Do you mind if I set Jewel down on your couch?"

"No g-go right ahead." Cybe then gave a small nod and lay his sister on said couch. Once he made sure she was comfortable he made his way towards the ponies. "Um, if it's ok Mr Cybe, I would like to ask you a few questions." Cybe then sat down in front of them.

"I will be happy to answer any questions you may have." Twilight then gave an adorable squeak and pulled a notepad and quill out of nowhere. While Rainbow just facehoofed.

"You don't know what you're getting into, you're gonna be here for awhile." Rainbow warned. Cybe raised an eyebrow.

"I'm not going anywhere for awhile, and I have millions of files of information in my data banks. I will gladly answer any of your questions first if that is ok with Miss Sparkle." Cybe looked at Twilight. She then sighed in defeat.

"Fine, ask away Rainbow. Oh and Mr Cybe, please call me Twilight. I don't mean to be rude but there is no reason to be so formal."

"I understand." Twilight then sat on the couch that Jewel was resting on. "Ok Rainbow, I am ready to answer your questions."

Rainbow then flew closer to Cybe and sat down. "First question, what are you some kind of robo monkey?"

"You are actually not far off. I am what is known as a human being. We evolved from great apes and are the only sapient life on the planet Earth. As for the robotic parts of my body, these are not natural."

"Then how did you get them?"

"I was a part of a scientific project to merge man with machine, the only reason that I agreed to take part was so I could protect and care for my younger sister."

"Why couldn't you do that as you were?" Cybe then stood up and went to a window to look out at the rain.

"About a year ago, there was an unfortunate accident that took the lives of our parents, as well as three of my limbs."

Twilight and Rainbow looked shocked, there surprised expressions then turned to a look of sympathy.

"Cybe, I know it may not mean anything but I'm sorry for your loss." Cybe then turned back to them.

"I thank you for your kindness. It means a lot." He then returned to his previous spot and sat down. "Anyway, after I survived the operation I then became what I am today. After over two hundred and fifty people signed up to take part in the procedure. However after a few weeks, something corrupted the new cyborgs systems causing them to go berserk. There was no cure to this virus, innocent people turned to rampaging monsters." Both Rainbow and Twilight widened there eye when hearing this.

"If that's true then why didn't that happen to you?"

"I am a prototype of the cyborgs, my systems were outdated. The virus only affected the more recent subjects. I was the only one that was in control of my own actions. The government turned to me to get the infected cyborgs under control. There was no way of fixing them or shutting them off." Both ponies looked at Cybe with worry in their eyes.

"So, what did you do?" Rainbow asked hesitantly.

Cybe sighed and looked them dead in the eye with tears rolling down his metal face cover. "I was forced to destroy them all."

The ponies gasped and looked at each other with worry, when they looked back at Cybe they saw the pain in his eyes. Rainbow flew over to him and gave him a hug, which was rare for her but she knew that he needed comfort. "There there, its alright. You did what you had to do. No matter what we can't change the past." Twilight looked to Rainbow in disbelief, she had never done something like this before.

"Rainbow, I've never seen this side of you." Rainbow turned to her with anger in her eyes.

"This guy was forced to kill two hundred people Twilight. Of course I'm going to do something like this." She turned to Cybe who had dried away his tears. "You still up for answering some questions?" Cybe turned to her and nodded. "Well I've heard all I need to know so I'll let Twi ask some questions now, ok." With that she flew out the door. Twilight rose from her seat and sat in front of him.

"If you don't mind, I'd like to ask you were you came from, there is certainly no books on your species here." Cybe looked to her and prepared himself to answer many questions.

"We come from the planet Earth. As I said before the human race is the only sepeiant life on our planet. Unlike this world we do not have magic so we rely on technology." The door flew open and the rest of Cybe's droned returned to his arm.

"What are those?"

"They are drones built for gathering information. I sent them to gather info on this world as I had no files on this planet, and from the looks of it they have all returned from a place called the Canterlot Library."

Over the course of the night Cybe continued to answer all of Twilights questions. When she was happy with the new information given to her the library was stacked with towers of paper teaming with the history of mankind. Cybe then told her he had to recharge and to do so he had to incase himself in the sphere they found him in. So they both said goodnight and went to sleep.

The next morning, Jewel was awoken by a sweet smell that hade her nose twitch adorably. When she woke she found herself in a room filled with paper and books. She followed the smell into a small kitchen where she saw her brother over a stove flipping pancakes on a frying pan. Cybe heard the door creek open a turned to greet his sister. "Good morning Jewel, I trust you slept well."

"Yep, where are we anyway?"

"Last night I met two young ladies that let us stay here for the night. We are in the village." Jewel looked at her brother with confusion.

"Didn't you say that no other humans were on this planet?"

"Yes, the young ladies were not human, one of them left last night the other is sleeping upstairs."

"Oh, so I get to meet an alien today? Sweet."

"Remember sis, here we are the aliens. And don't freak out when you see her ok."

"Why, is she some kind of weird slime thing?"

"No, but you will be excited when you see what occupies this planet." They heard some creaking coming from upstairs. "Stay here, I will bring her down and introduce you." Cybe lay a plate with a pancake on the table for her and walked out of the room.

After a minute or so she heard talking, then her brother entered the room. "Jewel, I would like to introduce you to Miss Twilight Sparkle, come on in Twilight. Oh and sis please don't go all hyperactive little girl on her." When Cybe stepped to the side a lavender pony followed him into the room causing Jewels eyes to widen enough to look like a powerpuff girl. The pony smiled nervously and waved her hoof.

"Hi there." Jewel nearly jumped out of her seat with joy and rushed over to Twilight when Cybe lifted her by the collar.

"Hey what gives bro, that's a talking pony." Cybe rolled his eyes.

"What did I just say. Also this kind mare was nice enough to shelter us for the night. I don't want you mauling someon-sorry somepony on our first day." Twilight looked to Cybe with confusion.

"Did I do something wrong?"

"No Twilight, back on Earth it's every little girls dream to own a talking  pony. I don't know why they just do." He turned to Jewel who was squirming out of her brothers grasp. "Now calm down Jewel, let's go eat breakfast." Cybe dropped Jewel back into her seat and Twilight sat opposite her. Twilights nose twitched when she caught a whiff of the air.

"What smells so good?" Cybe lay a plate in front of her and tossed a freshly made pancake into the air as it landed in front of her. When she saw what was on her plate she began to droll. Cybe then placed several pancakes on their plate and sat beside Twilight. His metal covering split apart revealing his mouth but still covering his cheeks. He then began to slowly chew his meal.

"Wow Cybe this is delicious." Twilight complimented. Cybe smiled and turned to Jewel who was still acting grumpy. Cybe's cover closed again to allow him to speak.

"Come on Jewel, lighten up and eat." His jaw opened again as he ate his creation. Jewel gave a huff and began eating. When they were done Twilight was about to lift the plates to wash then when Cybe stopped her. "Please allow me, why don't you talk with Jewel while I clean up." He grabbed the plates and headed to the sink where he began humming 'Angels Fall The Farthest'.

Twilight entered the main room where Jewel was looking out the window to see the ponies in town. "Hey there Jewel." She turned to face Twilight when she ran and hugged her. Twilight was taken back by this but then remembered what Cybe told her. She then wrapped a hoof around Jewel to return the hug.

End of Cybe's story part one.