Ghost in the shell: Equestrian architecture

by knut124345

Puer ex machina

Previous Chapter

A bar of light spread across Twilight´s eyes. The narrow light spread to fill her gaze and within a few moments, she saw a living room with a sofa and coffee table. Osborn sat in the couch with can of soda.

“Welcome back.” He turned to her. “Sorry about using the EMP but I was close to getting my head blown of.”

“How long was I out?” She looked at her arm and could clearly see that it had been replaced by looking at the point where she got shoot.

“About two days. The foreign ministry send a team after us while you were diving. I managed to hold them off for a few minutes before I had to use the EMP. Applejack showed up and gave us a ride home. We contacted HQ and Celestia gave us clear instructions to stay away until further notice. After that we had to replace parts of our body, so I called in a few favors in order to get new parts.”

“What about the prime minister’s public appearance?”

“After this little incident, which they are going to call terrorist attack, the whole thing was cancelled. The negations with the Crystal Empire took a nose dive after that.” He took a sip from the can. “Oh, and the android apparently contained project AG19201914 or the discord program, a classified spy program made for keeping an eye on other governments. Explains why the foreign ministry didn´t want us to have closer look into that android.”

“How do you know all this?”

“Fluttershy sent me some updates.” He put the can down on the table. “One more thing. The bullet farmer we brought in was found dead in his cell this morning. Apparently he had a pacemaker that decided to go haywire and give him a massive heart attack.”

“Maybe someone hacked into that pacemaker.”

“Maybe. Speaking of hacking, did you manage to find Trixie in that machine?”

“No.”

“Damn. Guess we´re stuck waiting for her next move.”

Twilight rose from the chair. “Where are we?”

“Applejack´s safe house.”

Twilight looked around and her started to recognize things in the room. “I`m gonna go now.”

“Just don´t go to HQ or any other government facility. Celestia is still trying to keep this thing somewhat contained.”

“No problem.”

“See you later then, Twilight.”

Twilight walked out the door. The cold night air filled her lungs and tickled her nose. She looked at the city below the hill she was on. It shinned in neon blue lights from the sings and lamps with yellow lights shining from the cars. “What should I do now?” She asked herself.


Author's Note

We´ll, this feels strange. This that was the first story I ever finished. It was quite the learning experience and I hope I can take the lessons I learned here and apply them to future stories. :twilightsmile:

I also want to give a huge thanks to everyone who read this story and followed it. An especially big thanks to Dorath who found errors and pointed out dumb things I did and Silverstain who helped proofread even though he was slow has a brick sometime.

Oh, and has for why I didn´t include Rarity or Pinkie the reason was that I couldn´t find proper roles for them. :twilightblush: