Hoof Smith, the High King of the Terras, was on his throne listening to suggestions from his counsel, most of it was about peace treaties, insisting skirmishes, trade routes, and other dribble that would not further anything in the long run. Soon his voice boomed out over the debates and talking "SILENCE!... We shall do nothing until i get a report on how our recent, ahem, test has been doing!" The room fell silent and finally someone spoke up.

"W-Well about that" Said a weaselly looking earth pony in the back row of the counsel "You see High King Smith, uhm... The group, kinda, well they did, uhm... They where wiped out by the Uni... We found only one of the ponies bodies and the Crystal Tank Bot was missing..." Hoof Smith sighed audibly, not for any real reason besides showing how much disdain he had for the counsel.

"God damn it... Another perfectly good prototype wasted due to you foal's horrid suggestions." The High King didn't mean it, after all the counsel has helped him out through quite a few bad issues but at this moment he had very little patience for there mistakes "Ok, anything else to report before we end this session?" A gray earth pony wearing quite comically large glasses raised his hoof "Yes?" Smith asked, now ready for some much better and useful news.

"Well sir, from what we have heard a recent group of bandits from the Pegi lands have moved into our land and has been harassing our farms and villages... Sir..." The gray earth pony said quite proudly, until the last part that is where a bit of fear marked his face due to the High King's annoyed face.

"Ok two questions: One, how do you know they are Pegians? And two, why do you feel this matter is worth my time? If they are just bandits then send some bots and a warrior to go deal with them!" The King was at the end of his rope, really he just wanted to get out of here and relax.

"Well sir, we know they are Pegians because they where pegisi and they raided with tamed animals. And why we feel like this is worth your time is well... Everything we have sent at them so far has failed." Smith started to laugh.

He just kept laugh for about thirty seconds "Oh my gods, that is fucking hilarious! A group of bandits come into our land and we can't even take them out with some guards!" The king kept laughing for a little bit more before he returned to a more serious expression "Ok, here is what we will do, first send a scout and a scout bot to figure out where there hideout is and about how many there is, once we find that our me and a group of ponies and bots will storm in there are wipe them out." The King said as he got up, soon objection and calls rang out, almost all of them about how he should not risk his own life for this but Hoof Smith just walked away towards his room.

When Hoof got into his room he turned to one of his servant bots, more specifically he was looking at his echo bot. Echo bot's are pretty much identical to the scout bots besides one main thing, they have no weapon. Instead inside there sphere body there is a slot that you open and speak into, once done it seals and keeps the words you spoke echoing inside forever until it reaches it's destination and then it opens the slot again which lets out the sound though the main issue is that the words can get a bit jumbled. Hoof opened the slot and said into it "Iron Mane, please report to my room with your scout bot as soon as possible" after he said it he closed the slot quickly and ordered the echo bot to go to Iron Mane and give the message.

Once the echo bot was on it's way, Hoof Smith started getting a mission detail ready for Iron Mane. Around five minutes later there was a knock on the kings door "Come in!" the king yelled and soon a dark blue earth pony with a iron colored mane stepped through the door.

"You called for me my lord?" He said with a humble smile on his face "The echo bot asked for me to come with my scout bot, i assume it am doing a scouting mission?"

Hoof nodded and turned around, he handed over the mission detail "Everything you need to know is on there, now then your dismissed" Iron Mane nodded

As Iron Mane walked towards the armory to get his gear he mumbled the words of the mission detail to him self "You are to get your personal scout bot, one warrior bot, and your gear and report to Counsel Pony Heralding Scroll, he has further information on the bandits you will the scouting out..." Iron put the note away and opened the door to the armory, he took some light armor, a rifle, a flintlock pistol, and a sword. Once he got them he clipped on the holsters and sheaths putting them in there place and put on a saddle bag before heading to Heralding Scroll's office.

Author's Note

Sorry for a short chapter, i just needed to set up for the next part.

Also I may change it in the future but i think i am going to keep the ponies of the Pegi land being called Pegians, though i am not 100% sure. Also i am fairly sure that the echo bot could never work in real life but hey, its a fanfic so who cares?... I do... Cri