Chapters Welcome to equestria. The most peaceful and magical place in the world. In this world they use magic for pretty much anything. You name it from something as simple as picking up a object to changing the laws of reality. It is so popular and useful the idea of using technology has been stunted dramatically the only advance in technology ever since its concept has only ever been used just for entertainment and medicine.
It deeply offends me that how much technology has been neglected. But that will not last much longer though.
My name is Blade Tech. I am a unicorn stallion that is 1026 years old, but the body of a 31 year old. I am a few inches taller than average for the age of my body. My build is slightly skinny but still strong. My fur is blood red and my mane is black and white in a zigzag like fashion in a Mohawk like style. I am wearing my custom made glasses similar to the glasses vinyl scratch wears except the purple is replaced with a bright red. I am also wearing a black leather lab coat that goes down to my waist while wearing a plain black t-shirt underneath it while also wearing black jeans and black leather boots.
In case you haven't guessed at this point yet I am a bad guy. Now before you all start to think I have an interesting backstory that explains why I am like this, truth be told I don't have any major event in my life that made me this way. I have been like this since the day I was born always have always will, but if you're not satisfied or just confused allow me to explain myself through a famous quote.
“...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”
That is as far as I go to explaining myself for now. Now we shall continue on with this little tale of mine.
***
It was a normal calm day in ponyville. The birds were chirping, the flowers were blooming, on days like this something bad was bound to happen. The mane six were all in the castle at the crystal map. The map had summoned them and right now it was telling them to go to the hayseed swamps.
Twilight spoke up first. “Alright girls looks like we're heading for the hayseed swamps. Although I didn't realize any ponies living in that area. Anyway everyone pack up and we will be leaving in few hours and get on the first train to dodge city. We will have to walk the rest of the way there.”
Applejack then spoke up. “Sure thing Twi and I'll make sure that rarity won't go overboard on packing.”
Rarity looked at applejack with a deadpan face. “I am sitting right here.”
Applejack and the others couldn't help but giggle.
Then pinkie spoke up. “Oh I Wonder What Kind Of Sweets They Will Have Over There.”
All of them laughed after that one. “Alright girls I meet you all at the train station”
They all get up and leave the room. Then the map started to flicker and then turn off. Then a small red mechanical drone the size of a fly and in the shape disk hovered from under the table and started heading back to base without being noticed. While this is happening blade is sitting in front of a monitor with a little evil grin on his face. Inside looks like a laboratory with tons of advanced lab and construction equipment, computers, monitors, and tons of chemicals.
“All the pieces have been set.”
***
Right now they are all on the train toward dodge city and they are all discussing the mission at hand.
Rainbow then spoke up. “So Twilight what the scoop on this swamp place.”
“Well as far as I know it's basically a more grosser but less dangerous and bigger version of the everfree forest. Not very many people go there. There have been some rumors about people that go there and tend to disappear. Although I doubt they are true we all remember the last time we let rumors get to us.”
Pinkie then spoke up. “Who could forget the poison joke, I mean remember I couldn't talk. Oh that was so hard to talk and I missed talking I could-”
Applejack covered pinkie’s mouth. “How about we wait till we get to the swamps before we make any judgements.”
They all agree and go all the way to dodge city and start heading toward the swamp. It takes them a few hours but they arrive in the center of the swamp and set up camp. Applejack was looking around as she was sitting on her sleeping bag.
Fluttershy noticed. “Is something wrong applejack ?”
“Ah don't know it's just that I have bad feeling about this.”
Rarity then spoke. “Oh quit being so paranoid darling and join us. Pinkie is making s'mores.”
Pinkie then spoke. “S’MORES ARE DONE !!!”
Applejack then smiled and spoke. “Alright I guess I can put my suspicions aside.”
The whole group started eating and then pinkie spoke up. “Who wants to tell ghost stories.”
Then a mysterious voice spoke up. “I got one it's about 6 mare that invades private property.”
Pinkie then spoke. “I've never heard that one before kinda sound boring. Wait who said that ?”
They all turn their heads to where the voice came from and they heard the voice. They all see a earth mare that looked 28 years old that is a inch shorter than the average height for a mare her age. Her fur was dark grey with a mane of light grey styled like the way the way vinyl does it. She had ear weaving piercing. She is wearing black leather overcoat with a red T-shirt underneath while also wearing black leather Cowgirl boots and blue jeans.
Rainbow spoke up. “Who are you ?”
The mare had a neutral face. “The name is Anna now I'm giving you all one warning to get the hell out of here or else.”
Twilight then spoke up. “Now hold it were just sent here to-”
She was interrupted as rainbow flew a bit and got up in Anna’s face. “I would like to see you try.”
Anna smiled “I was hoping you would say that.”
She pulled how M9 pistol and pointed it at rainbows face. And all the mane six were all confused on what she was holding. Rainbow then spoke. “What the hell is that ?”
Anna then spoke “it's called a gun and if you don't want to die I would recommend you come with me.”
Rainbow chuckled. “Haha yea right what is that-”
Anna pulled the trigger and shot her in the left wing while she flying and then she fell down to the ground in pain. Then the rest of the girls screamed.
Rainbow said in pain. “OH MY CELESTIA THAT FUCKING HURT !”
Anna then pointed her gun to twilight and before she could react Anna shot off her horn. “AHHH MY HORN !!!”
Twilight collapsed in pain and then Anna shot rarity in the hip, fluttershy in the back, pinkie pie in the chest and applejack in both her legs.
Anna then pointed the gun back in general direction of mane 6 so they know not to run off. She then pulled out her cell phone and called blade while the main 6 all were on the ground in worse pain than any of them have ever felt.
Blade smiled “Great to hear I'll be sure to ready to get the experimenting room ready for there arrival. Which one should operate first little sis?”
Anna looked over the mane 6 then narrowed her eyes on rainbow dash as she later they in serious pain. “Let's start with rainbow dash.”
Blade got up from his chair and started heading toward the experimenting room. “Excellent choice I'll meet you soon.”
Anna just smiled evilly at rainbow dash. “Bye big bro love you.”
She hung up and then kneeled down and got up in rainbow dash’s face. “I tried to warn you. But don't worry that pain won't last much longer.”
She then punched rainbow dash in the face and knocked her out and she did it to the others.
“This is going to be fun”
---POV Rainbow dash---
After a few hours later I crack my eyes open barley. “Uh what happened?”
My wing still hurts like hell. I then turn me head to see my wings extended and my wound was stitched up. I then notice that every limb on my body was strapped down to large metal table. Next to the table was another slightly smaller table completely filled with surgical equipment, chemicals, and record player.
Right above here was a light pointed at her but luckily not very much in her eyes. The room’s walls and ceiling were made completely out of steel and there was a door the of sorts in the center of the wall in front of her.
“When I get my hands on the bitch I am going to take that gun or whatever thing she had and stick up her-”
The door in the room opened slowly to see a red unicorn station scientist and he had evil smirk showing his sharp teeth. “Rainbow dash The former element of loyalty, wonderbolt fanatic, and the only person in equestria to perform a sonic boom.”
Ok this guy is a first class creep. “Yea that's me and mind explaining who you are and why the hell in here and why I shouldn't kick your ass right now.”
He chuckled “Oh rainbow dash always the one ready for a fight and would dive straight to hell with a smile on her face. You will be a excellent test subject. Now the only question now is what should I make of you.”
Ok I take it back this guy is first class psychopath. “What the hell is that so pose to mean ?”
He chuckled and then turned on the record player and it started playing old creepy victorian music. Ok I've seen enough horror movies to see where this is going. I then struggle with all my might to get out of the straps.
“Why don't we find out ?”
He then puts a gas mask on me and it starts pumping sleeping gas in and start to slowly fall unconscious.
***
I open my eyes to darkness. It was kinda cold but I'm not complaining. Infact I couldn't really feel much of anything. I look around and only see more darkness. But was weird is the most I stared into the darkness the clearer it became. After a few minutes I could completely see the room. Not only that I could see the whole room from like every angle. I had like total 180 vision. It may sound difficult but after a minute I got the hang of it pretty quickly actually. I was sitting in the right corner of the room.
I was in large steel room completely empty of anything. I tried to look around for anything but there was nothing. I then try to speak. “Hello ! Anybody ! Can someone tell me where I am. My name is… wait what is my name ?”
I don't know my own name. What's going on what is this place. WHAT THE HELL AM I ?!
Then a hidden door opened. I saw as red unicorn stallion with grey earth mare which was carrying a large mirror. The stallion then walked right up to me with a warm smile on his face despite the sharp teeth.
“Welcome to world shadow dash. My name is blade tech but I would prefer if you called me master blade. Also this is my sister and assistant Anna.”
She smiled. “Nice to meet you.”
I said nervously “uh hello.”
Master blade then showed me the mirror. I was a Pegasus mare that had black fur and mane sorta like rainbow except the 6 colors were each a different shade of grey. My eyes were blood red, although I wondered why I even had them to begin with even though I have total 180 vision but whatever. I was wearing black tank top underneath a light grey hoodie and dark grey jeans and black tennis shoes. The weirdest thing was I could see through myself. I even put it to the test and put my hand on the mirror and my hand went straight through it. However when I touched myself I could feel it.
“Your name is shadow dash and I am your creator. I'm sure you have a lot of questions but I will answer the biggest for you. You are a shadow pony hybrid.”
I slightly smiled “That is… AWESOME ! I'm like 20% cooler now.”
He then spoke a soothing calm voice. “Good to hear. Now follow me Shadow dash.”
I then follow him. “Sure thing boss man.”
***
We walked down a large hallway with steel walls and ceiling with lights on the ceiling. It felt a little uncomfortable to be under a light but I'm no coward. I think. We kept walking until we stopped in a room that was also made of steel with a few metal tables and chairs and there were 6 doors in the room.
Master blade then spoke. “Take a seat, the others will be joining shortly.”
I gave him a small salute and sat down in one of the chairs. He and Anna left the room as the door closed. Hmm they seem nice. I look at my hand and decide to experiment a bit. I concentrate and my hand actually touched the table. After few minutes testing out my powers someone else walked in.
I looked to see a light purple alicorn mare that looked entirely out of metal. She had no mouth and her eyes were black with purple pixelated pupils. She was wearing metal clothing that looked like she was wearing a light purple dress and skirt with hot pink sock legging and big dark purple boots. She also had one of kind dark purple mane that was also made out of metal.
She seemed a little nervous. Although I had to admit even if she was a whatever that is she did look kinda cute. I waved to her and she waved back. She then sat in a chair next to me at the same table.
dash then spoke up. “Hey there what's your name.”
She then spoke in a robotic voice even though she didn't have a mouth. “I'm Twilight sparks.”
“Pleasure to meet you I'm shadow dash. So what are you anyway.”
“I'm a robot alicorn. You ?”
“I'm pony shadow hybrid. Oh watch this.”
I then stuck my head through the table. I was expecting her to freak out but she just look in awe. “Very impressive.”
“Thank you. So ? Do you have any powers ?”
“None that I am aware of.”
“It's alright you will find them out eventually.”
“Thank you.”
“Don't mention it.”
Twilight would be smiling if she could.
After that another door opened up. This next one was very unexpected. Out came a orange furred earth mare with a blond mane. Her hands and feet looked wooden and had sharp claws. Her eyes were glowing green and had very sharp wolf like teeth and vines sprouting out of her back like tentacles. She was wearing blue jeans, a white T-shirt underneath a red over coat and while wearing a cowboy hat.
She sat down at the table me and twilight were sitting at and she spoke in heavy western accent. “Hello there sugarcube pleasure to meet you 2 I'm Timberjack.”
She put out her wooden hand for a handshake. I then tried to shake her hand but it went right through. “oops forgot”
She just waved and said. “So What are you ?”
Timberjack then thought about it. “If I remember the doc’s words I believe I am so pose to be a combination of a pony and a timber wolf.”
Dash looked excited. “That's cool ! I'm a pony shadow hybrid and she is alicorn robot.”
Twilight just nodded to confirm. Then she asked. “So Timberjack-”
Timberjack interrupted. “Please just call me Jackie.”
Twilight then looked dash who just shrugged. “Ok Jackie do you have powers ?”
“So far all I know is these vines that are coming out of my back work as extra arms and can stretch pretty far and back. Watch.”
Timberjack then stretched one of her back vines over to forest corner of the from where they are then she wrapped it around a chair and brought it to their table.
Twilight then spoke. “Impressive.”
“It's nothing special Twi.”
Rainbow then spoke. “It is still cool.”
Then 3 more door opened this time. The first person we all saw was a white furred unicorn mare with a purple curly mane. She was wearing a grey top,black skirt, black gloves, thick sunglasses that covered her eyes entirely, and matching boots.
The 2nd was dark pink furred earth mare with a slightly more darker pink mane and it was completely straight and flat. She was wearing a black prison outfit, black boots and metal collar around her neck. She also had blue eyes and a knife in hand.
The last one was a bat pony with dark yellow fur and dark pink mane but it's lighter compared to the other mare. She had blood red eyes. She was wearing black leather overcoat, green T-shirt underneath, black fingerless gloves, black boots.
They all pulled up chairs and sat at our table. I then spoke up. “Hello I'm shadow dash. She is twilight sparks. And she is Timberjack.”
“Hello”
“Nice to meet y'all.”
The unicorn then spoke in a heavy canterlot accent. “Pleasure to meet you I'm clarity.”
The pink mare then spoke in kinda creepy but childish voice. “Hi always glad to make new super best friends I'm called pinkamena.”
Then the yellow bat pony spoke up in shy and quiet voice. “I-I-I-I'm flutterbat.”
Then at the moment master blade walked in. “Hello girls glad to see you all got to meet each other. Now if you will follow me i will answer all your questions.”
We all said at the same time. “Yes master blade.”
Blade just smiled after hearing that.
---POV Blade Tech---
I brought the girls to another big metal room with big round table in the center and big widescreen TV on wall. I sat down with the TV screen right behind me and the girls sat on the opposite side of the table.
“Alright ladies I'm sure you are all very confused on what going on and want to ask me a billion questions.”
They all nodded. “Well that's why I'm here. You are all apart of top secret project. The equestrian elites. You see a very long time ago I started this project with one goal in mind. To keep equestria safe by any means necessary. You see this world is not as peaceful as it seems to be. It has very ugly and evil side that not very many people know about.
There are Heros in this world that do protect it, but they only go to the fight when the problem reaches to high enough point that they need to step in. However this project was made to make sure those threats never escalate to equestria danger levels.
As for your past. I'm not going to lie. You were all once the greatest Heroes in the land specially the bearers of the elements of harmony and were all great friends to each other. You all have saved equestria more than once. But about a month ago you were all captured and tortured to near death with very little chance of pulling through. Celestia felt awful for what happened so I took it upon myself to make sure you all lived to see another day.
Unfortunately there was only so much I could do and I was forced to use unorthodox methods to make sure you all lived and I am sorry to tell these changes are permanent. As for why you all don't remember anything is because you were all so traumatized from the experience it drove you all to near insanity a fit only got worse so the only way to fix it was clear your minds. Your old memories will come back to you over time but I made sure the traumatic experiences will never come back.
I'm sorry if hate how you turned out in the recovery process, but equestria still needed Heros and wasn't going to just sit by let equestria die. I perfectly understand if you see me as a monster, a criminal, even a psychopath I won't blame you.”
All the girls stood in small shock at what they just heard and were all speechless. They then all turn to each other and then twilight spoke up. “If it's ok with you can we discuss this in private.”
I then got up from my chair. “Please take all the time you need.”
I then walked out the door and closed the door behind me. Anna was leaning up against the wall beside the door. “You seriously told them the truth ?”
I smiled. “A little trick I learned a long time ago. Sometimes the truth can be the best lie.”
She had a deadpan expression. “You're a psychopath.”
I chuckled “Tell me something I don't know.”
Anna just rolled her eyes. “You really think they will actually work with you ?”
“If they don't we can always try again we still have the mind erasing tech. That's why we experiment. We study and learn from our mistakes to improve.”
“Whatever you say big bro.”
After a few minutes blade comes back in to check on them. “Have you made a decision?”
They all were quiet for but but then twilight stood up. “We have. We all agree that it will be hard to get use too. But we have agreed that you had good reason to do what you did. Even if might not like our new bodies it was necessary sacrifice if it was to keep equestria safe. We will gladly stay with you if it means we can keep equestria safe.
This went better than I expected. I then smiled. “Glad to see you all agree now do you have any more questions?”
Twilight then spoke. “Just 1 can we see our families.”
My smile faded and sighed. “I'm sorry but because of new forms I know from experience that the public would not like what they see. For the time being to keep the public from going into total panic you have to make sure to avoid anyone who might recognize. I'm sorry but to keep equestria safe and at peace the world must think you're all dead.”
They all looked sad. “I am so sorry but I will do everything in my power to make sure your families will be safe from anyone who wants to hurt them if villains get too reckless. You have my word.”
They all looked at each other then back at blade. Then Timberjack spoke. “If you think it's for the greater good doc then I trust you.”
The clarity (aka rarity) spoke. “If she's in then so am I.”
Then flutterbat spoke shyly but still showing some courage. “C-C-C-Count me in too.”
Then pinkamena. “Sure thing Mr. master blade.”
Then twilight. “It would be my honor.”
Then finally Dash. “You bet your ass I'm in.”
Blade smiled warmly. “Glad you all agree. Now if you will all follow me so I can show you your rooms.”
***
Blade took them to their rooms. There were 3 identical rooms. They had metal walls and ceilings with 2 plain white beads in each room. Shadow Dash bunked with Twilight Sparks, Timberjack with clarity, and pinkamena with flutterbat. They were all very tired and all went to sleep when they got the chance.
I walked toward back to my room but I ran into Anna on the way there. “They decided to stay on their own.”
He held out his hand. “Pay up.”
She groaned and got 50 bucks from her wallet and gave it to me. “Oh wipe that smirk off your face before I do it for you.”
I rolled my eyes as I took the money. “We both know you won't. Love you little sis”
I walked back to my room as she rolled her eyes to head toward her’s.