Author's Note

Sorry for the delay I forgot when this was supposed to come out. Welp this was crossover with Chaos Lord Reiuji Kirito please go check him out. I had a lot of fun writing this story even though it was lengthy hehe lengthy. See ya next chapter.

Something unexpected...and robotic

Rainborg’s Private Chambers,

Rainborg paced back and forth, gritting her metallic teeth in concentration. Mechanics whirred in her legs, servos moving back and forth, acting as her muscles as she walked from one end of the room to the other.

“Chaos Gods dammit. If I give them a set timer for activation, I'll be ripped apart as my teleportation device tries to teleport me to each beacon. And I can't just wait for someone to press the button on the current model, since I want to avoid being detected. I do not need a filly or some mare seeing me as I enter the universe. If I can just figure out a way to isolate certain beacons and activate them without activating any of the others…” she glanced back to her project board.

After the amount of imprisoned enemies dwindled down to zero, and the cloning program began to produce more failures, Rainborg had petitioned the Warmaster for more subjects for experimentation. Unfortunately, the Warmaster had denied her request. Rainborg remembered what he had said, and grit her teeth again knowing that he was right.

“Rainborg, I cannot allow you to take more of our people and soldiers for your experiments down in the Factory.” Ahriman sighed from behind his desk, a massive, ornate and masterfully crafted wooden desk, “The equine resources we have left are extremely low, and none of the other nations wish for us to allow experimentation on their people.”

“But, my Lord, I-” Rainborg began, but was stopped when Ahriman held up a finger.

“You did not let me finish,” The Warmaster said, “I cannot allow you to take equines or any of the other species for experimentation from this world, but if you can manage to acquire a new equine resource from, say, another universe, then I would allow it.” He flashed a knowing grin. “As the Head Engineer for the New Black Legion, I know you can create a new means of acquiring these subjects.”

Rainborg growled, “It seemed so simple at first, but even getting the means to transport myself there and to acquire myself a specimen is much more difficult!” She looked around at her workshop, before laying her eyes upon her beacon. This had been her first Beacon, created as a means to find her way home.

Constantly active, the beacon’s signal could only be picked up on a frequency that only Rainborg knew about. It allowed her to always find a way back to home after a successful transport.

“Hmm…” she walked up to it, examining it. “Firefly, pull up the schematics and blueprints for the Home Beacon.” She ordered, the AI immediately getting to the task. Seconds later, the sight in her right eye was blocked, replaced with a schematic of the beacon she was looking at.

“Let's see...if I reverse the polarity of the frequency here… add a broadcasting signal switch here, maybe a delayed timer before the switch automatically
flips itself on, and then…..” she activated her hologram mode, pulling the blueprint up in front of her. She fiddled with the parts, swapping out certain pieces of the blueprint with different machines, before she finally smiled at her handiwork.

“Firefly, send this blueprint to the Assembly Line, and have it begin producing about...five of these? I want to make five tests before I begin a mass production.” Her AI linked up to the Machine Spirit within the Assembly Line, transferring data with it, before disconnecting from the Machine.

“All done, Rainborg. Now all we have to do is wait.” The AI spoke, nodding in satisfaction.

1 Hour Later

After the machine had acquired the necessary resource for the construction of the new Beacons, labeled ‘TRANSDIMENSIONAL HOMING TELEPORTATION BEACON MK2’, with a better name soon to come, the factory had gone to work, assembling the five beacons within thirty minutes. Rainborg grabbed one, testing it’s weight.

“Nice and light, and I can connect directly to it in order to activate it’s countdown. Each one has a security code that is instantly sent to my systems, and filed away into a new memory file. That way I am the only one who can actually activate these things, and once they arrive in the universe they are sent, they will take three days to reactivity and begin broadcasting a signal. Then, once I receive the signal, I can choose to teleport to its location, or, if I do not choose to teleport, it immediately begins it’s three day countdown cycle. If someone without the proper deactivation codes, or in other words, anyone but me, attempts to disassemble the Beacon, it will begin a self destruct sequence, with a minute countdown in order to, should I forget to put in the deactivation codes, reinput the deactivation codes and stop the countdown. That should be good.”

She took the one in her hoof to her workshop, before activating it and tossing it into the air. It vanished into a small tear in the void, being immediately transferred to another universe. Rainborg sat back as the portal closed.

“And now, we wait.”

In a different universe…

A small portal opened up in the blue sky, with a small metal rod falling out and landing on the ground some ten feet below. The cylindrical device lay dormant, before extending slightly, with a glowing Crystal in the center. A high pitch whine emitted from the crystal, unheard by any living being in that universe. Before long, another portal ripped its way into the world, and a dark cyan pegasus slowly trotted out. Gleaming metal reflected off the portal’s purple glow, intertwined with the pegasus’s fur.

Robotic wings extended, metallic talons replacing the wing bones, with an odd fabric serving as the wings in between each ‘bone’. A glowing red eye replaced the pegasus’s left eye, with her ears being black and green metal rods, which shook slightly as they took in information. Her legs were fully replaced with metal ones, which hummed with servos ready to move. A metal imprint of a multicolored thunderbolt and cloud was engraved in her hind legs, where the Cutie Mark would be. Under that was an eight-pointed star, which seemed to almost glow.

Her muzzle was also cybernetic, with false fur covering the metal like a coat. Metal teeth sat in her mouth, ready to break bone and steel.

The cyberpegasus looked around, her tail flicking in the wind.

“Atmospheric status: Similar to Equestria. Systems check: all weapons fully functional. All cloaking systems fully functional. Energy levels at 100%.” A voice stated from inside the cybernetic monstrosity.

“Good work Firefly. Please do not use outer speakers to give me a status report, however. We don't want to draw any attention to ourselves. Activate Program ‘Theta’.” The cyberpegasus said in reply, before her body began to change.

Metal slowly vanished, replaced with real flesh, bone, and fur. Her robotic eye returned to an organic magenta, while her fur color brightened, as did her mane and tail. Wings slowly became more like a pegasus, with fur intermingled with feathers and flesh. Rainborg glanced behind her at a tree, before flying up into the air.

“Alright...now to verify my position…” She flew up into the air to do just that, switching to hover a good eighty feet in the air.

The Griffin lands, once an honorable place now with their rebuilt castle. Beneath the castle was a bustling town full of life, unknown to the threat that awaits them. It had a solid defense: a giant wall encircled around the city, with a moat surrounding it with only two ways in. They had guards all over the walls, ready with arrows and if needed, citizens with baskets of rocks.

“Hmm...looks like some form of Griffinstone.” Rainborg muttered, flying back to the ground. “I wonder if this world’s Rainbow is here…” she slowly made her way towards the city walls, taking note of every soldier’s position on the wall and the entrances. “Now, do I want to go in stealthily, or try to lure her out?” She debated to herself. After a few minutes of walking, she shrugged. “Well, I guess we could start with stealth.” She neared the gate. There were two guards stationed at the drawbridge that halted her.

“Halt! State your name.” the griffin guard said, pulling out a notebook.

“Rainbow Dash.” Rainborg stated, examining the two guards and their equipment.

“Hm, it says here you entered about an hour ago.” he said.

“Huh?” Rainborg asked, raising an eyebrow. “That's weird.”

“Yeash, it says here you were visiting a friend. You had better not be flying out of the walls again.” He said.

“Yes sir.” Rainborg nodded. “It won't happen again.”

“Come on in, and don’t do it again or else I won't be able to let you off easy.” he told her.

“Alright. Thank you!” Rainborg nodded, giving a smile.

“Oh sorry. Lower the drawbridge!” he yelled and shortly after it lowered down creaking as it lowered.

Rainborg walked across the drawbridge, entering the city. “Let's go find them.” She said once she was across the bridge, and began walking through the city, eyes scanning the sky and her surroundings. She went over to a nearby vendor and purchased a hooded cloak, wrapping it around her and pulling the hood over her head. That done, she continued her search of the city.

After a while, she began to hear some familiar voices up ahead. Slowing down, she pretended to be a normal bystander as she drew closer. Rainbow dash was talking to Gilda as they were walking down the street.

“Gilda, eh?” Rainborg muttered quietly. She wondered how the Gilda from her own universe was doing, but shoved those thoughts aside as she quietly tailed them.

“Gilda, it has been so long since we've met like this before.” Rainbow dash said.

“Yeah ever since we became more civilized, and learned to not hate each other, we became more open.” Gilda replied.

“So where should we go?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Hm, we should go to the new bar that opened up called the iron dragon.” Gilda suggested.

“I’m not much of a drinker.” Rainbow Dash replied.

“They have apple cider.” Gilda told Rainbow.

“Apple cider? Well, why didn’t you say so? Let's go!” She said, flying off before realizing she doesn’t know where it is as she flew back.

“Hehe follow me.” Gilda chuckled, walking through the town to the Iron dragon. “Well here it is.” Gilda said, gesturing to a simple house with a hay roof and a wooden sign with an iron dragon on it.

“Doesn’t seem like much.” Rainbow Dash shrugged.

“Oh trust me you haven’t seen the inside.” Gilda said, opening the door and revealing a marble floor with a red carpet leading to a fountain spraying out some alcohol. When Gilda looked at Rainbow Dash, her jaw was on the floor. “Told you.” Gilda said snidely. Come on, let's go take a seat.” Gilda said leading her to a red cushioned chair.

“This is amazing!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

“Yeah its pretty good Griffins are pretty showy.” Gilda said.

“Pretty showy? This is overboard.” Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

“Yeah, anyways what do you want?” Gilda asked.

“Apple cider. Lots and lots of apple cider.”

“Bring me a apple cider and a martini!” Gilda yelled out, After a while a griffin waitress a brought their drinks on a platter and placed their drink on the table before walking away.

“Well bottoms up.” Rainbow Dash said quickly drinking her mug of cider. Gilda then followed her lead and began drinking her martini. After they finished Gilda called for another round and another and another until they were too drunk to call another round.

“You know *hic* you have always been my best friend *hic*.” Rainbow Dash said.

“No *hic* you don’t mean that I've *hic* been such an asshole to you.” Gilda replied.

“No no no, we *hic* forgive you” Rainbow Dash said.

“You don’t need to lie to me I know yo-” Gilda started, but was cut off from falling unconscious.

“Hey you can’t sleep while you-your talk-” Rainbow Dash said, before falling unconscious herself.

Rainborg, having listened to the entire exchange from a nearby seat, slipped off her chair, walking over to the two.

“I'll take them back to Gilda’s house.” She told a worried waitress, . “I'm their guard, so to speak.” She lied, flipping them both onto her back. She exited the bar, carrying the two back to Gilda’s house, barely remembering the way from her own Gilda.

Once she entered the house, using a key she found on Gilda, she placed the Griffon on her bed, grabbing a sheet of paper from nearby. Plucking one of her feathers and dipping it in an ink bottle, she wrote a fake letter from Rainbow Dash to Gilda, saying she woke up before Gilda and headed back home, adding that she enjoyed her time here and would want to hang out again later.

The letter complete and signed, Rainborg activated her teleport beacon, creating a vortex back home. Pushing the unconscious Rainbow back on her back, she walked through the portal, the teleport beacon she had arrived through being set to a manual setting, should Rainborg return.

Rainborg placed the alternate version of herself in a stasis tube, keeping her asleep after having removed the alcohol in her system and extracting a pure DNA sample. Taking that sample, she inserted it into the cloning machine, generating over time a perfectly identical copy of the mare currently stored away. Rainborg then brought the new clone over to her personal operating room, sealing the door behind her and placing the clone on the operating table. Having already deactivated her organic form, she pulled out her operating tools.

“All right then.” She chuckled, placing the restraints on the clone’s limbs and grabbing a bonesaw. “Let's see just how much we can put into one body before it isn't a body anymore.”

Three Days later

Rainbow Dash slowly regained consciousness, feeling her hooves and wings were restrained. Opening her eyes, she found herself in some sort of cross between a laboratory and a mechanic’s workshop. Medical tools sat on a table next to her, out of reach from her restrainments, while a box of odd devices, looking somewhat similar to mechanical limbs, sat in a corner of the room. The room itself was brightly lit, and Rainbow was able to see some blood stains on the floor.

A door opened with the sound of machinery, and a Pegasus mare stepped in, augmented with machinery fused to the few organic parts left. One of the mare’s eyes was cybernetic, glowing with a red hue, while her magenta organic eye stared at her, a patronizing smile on her face as she walked in, her rainbow mane, similar to Rainbow’s own, waved gently as she walked over, the colors less bright as Rainbow’s. what was left of her biological body was covered in cyan fur, though, like the mane, the color was less vibrant.

“Greetings, Rainbow. Bad night to go drinking, I must say. It was easy enough to fabricate a letter to Gilda explaining your disappearance. But that's all in the past now.” The cyborg Pegasus grinned, her mechanical wings stretching out like bat wings as she walked past the restrained cyan Pegasus. “I just got done with the final test subject, and I believe that I have a blueprint prototype model just for you! Before we begin though, mind telling me about any current events going on back where I found you?” The cyberpegasus asked, examining the medical tools.

Rainbow Dash looked around the room, seeing various knives and saws. Fearing for her life, she answered. “Uh, I was just meeting up with Gilda, since she invited me to Griffinstone.”

“I see. Anything else? I'm certain my teleport beacons generally go for a Displaced’s universe. Then again, it is a Multiverse out there, so perhaps there's always the chance of something else.” Rainborg noticed the fear in her eyes. “Ah, I almost forgot to introduce myself. I am Rainborg Cydash, Chief Technician and Second in Command of the New Black Legion. I'm not going to kill you, as I've already tested just how much augmentation you can take with some clones generated from your own genetic data.”

The cyberpegasus looked at her captive, examining her every detail. “Hmm, I think I ought to start with the Reactor. I've managed to develop a prototype Dark Matter Nova Reactor for cybernetics, and I wonder just how well it will work.” She grabbed a small knife. “I might have to remove a few organs for everything to fit, but the heart and lungs will have to either be enhanced or replaced entirely. Oh well, let's get to work!” She chuckled, smacking her organic counterpart in the head, knocking her unconscious as she began to open up the mare’s chest with the knife.

Two hours later

“All right, that should do for the servos in the legs.” Rainborg said, admiring her work. Where once Rainbow had back hooves, Rainborg had amputated them up to her cutie marks, before integrating the machines into the flesh. Giving a small prayer to the Machine Spirit inside the legs, she checked the other systems built into the subject.

“Let's see...the data storage implanted into the brain seems to have successfully linked with the brain itself. The wings seem to be working, though she will likely need to oil them every so often. I can upload the process into her new storage unit later.” Rainborg said to herself, looking at the data rolling by. “The bionic eye will be good to go when she wakes up. Thermal vision seems to be functioning, and the enhanced autolenses are a perfect fit. life signs are still within acceptable parameters. I'm guessing the heart enhancement systems are working as they should, and her breathing rate is still normal. Now then….” she turned to the forehooves, still organic. “Once I remove these, what weapons should I give her?” She pulled up a mental list of infantry weapons she had at her disposal.

“Hmm...a Bolter. Definitely. I think I'll choose the Angelus Pattern. Then, for anti-armor purposes, maybe a Lascannon? Melee will have to be Power Hooves, and for melee air, a Power Sword. I'll give her a Sound Barrier shotgun as well. Other than that, I can't really think of any other weapons for this.” Rainborg sighed. “Might as well also put some of the Astartes Geneseed we collected. Maybe the Larraman’s Organ, and the Catalepsean Node.” She linked with the Factory build orders and added the limbs she needed built, while also fetching a servitor to retrieve the organs she requested.

Five Days later

“All right, all the organs are in place, all the cybernetics are properly linked, the recording systems are ready, and the schematics for building some defensive weapons have been uploaded. Let's take her back home!” Rainborg said smugly as she looked at the unconscious Rainbow. After cleaning up all of the blood, the new cyberpegasus’s metal limbs gleaming in the light of her laboratory.

Sending the signal to the Teleport Beacon in her universe, Rainborg grabbed the now complete cyberpegasus, before a vortex appeared in front of her once again. Carefully pulling Rainbow onto her back, she slowly walked through the portal, back into the other universe. She sighed, putting Rainbow down as the portal closed behind them.

“Now I should start up the activation protocols…” Rainborg said, linking up to the power core inside Rainbow’s chest. It hummed to life, though it would take a bit for the new Cyberpegasus to fully awaken. Rainborg shrugged, turning to look at the city once again. She then reactivated the portal, exiting the universe.

5 minutes later

“Augh, my head.” Rainbow Dash groaned bringing a hoof to her head, feeling solid metal instead of fur. “What?!” she said in surprise, looking at her metal hoof. “What the hay happened to me?” she said, looking at herself. From her left, there were numbers, words, and images floating in her vision, giving her information she didn't really understand.

“NBL MK1 Reconnaissance Combat Cyborg.” She read the words at the bottom right corner of her vision. In the upper right was a image of a Pegasus, each limb sectioned off, while beneath it was some sort of circle, with an occasional wave flowing from the center. She stretched her wings, finding them to be made out of a flexible, yet light metal. Her legs were now completely metal, and she even felt different on the inside.

“This is weird, am I some sort of robot?” Rainbow dash asked herself, still looking at her metallic hoof. “This is trippy.” she said, seeing the data being displayed as she looked at her hoof.

“Voice activated weapons systems. Bolter, Power Hooves, Power Sword, and Sound Barrier all ready for use.” A line of text read, filtering through other system checks. “Where am I?” she asked, looking around at her surroundings. “How did I get out here?” she noticed Griffinstone in the background, bombarded by hundreds of arrows. “WHAT!” she yelped, rocketing to the castle.

“Let's see here…” Rainborg said, sitting in a swivel chair. Pressing a few buttons, the secret recording system built into Rainbow flickered on, showing Rainborg what the new Cyberpegasus was seeing.

“Wow, things escalated quickly. Good enough time as any to test out the weapons module though.” Rainborg said, sitting back to watch.

Khyax’s Pov 3 minutes before

I had returned to fight and lead my army to battle. When I arrived at the camp, my forces were surprised to see me there.

“Sir, what are you doing here?” Avera asked.

“I am here to lead my army into victory with my strategy game skills.” I replied.

“What?” she asked, confusion evident.

“Nothing.” I replied. “Anyways,what do we have?”

“About one legion of archers, six legions of speardragons, three legions of pikedragons, 7 legions of infantry, ten ballistas, and five catapults.” she explained.

“Ok, I shall leave the air army to Yolouce.” I said to myself.

“So what’s our move sir?”

“For now, we avoid going into the castle until we open the gates from the inside.” I answered.

“Okay but what do we do?” she asked again.

“Ah yes we will fire are arrows, and I will duplicate them mid air.” I explained in a casual manner.

“How?”

“I have unleashed my magic in the staff with help from my displacer so just have the archer's aim at the rune rings I will create.” I told her, creating bright red giant rings in the sky.

“Alright, Archers in position now just along the forest line! Now aim for the red rings in the sky! Ready! Aim! Fire!” she yelled before a stream of arrows flew into the rings, multiplying and killing many guards on the walls and at the front gate.

“Yes keep up that fire don’t let up!” she yelled at the archers.

“Uh Avera.” I began to speak.

“What?” she asked.

“What is that?” I asked, pointing at the cyberpegasus in the sky.

“It appears to be a cybernetic pony.” she replied.

“I see that, but how?” I asked.

“How am I supposed to know?” she replied.

“Fuck, this is going to ruin our plans.” I said.

“Maybe it's on our side? Perhaps Tyalor created a robot pony.” she said.

“And how are we supposed to find out?” I asked.

“Go ask.” she shrugged.

“I swear, if I die, I will kill you.” I told her, walking off.

“That doesn’t even make sense, but good luck.” she said, waving to me.

I walked out of the treeline getting a clear view of the cyberpegasus. “Uh, hey, um, are you friendly?” I asked, before it snapped its attention to me. “Ah, I see I have your attention so what are you doing here?” I asked it.

“I am Rainbow Dash, NBL MK1 Reconnaissance Combat Cyborg. I will tell you once, and only once, leave or die. You have twenty seconds to comply.” she says, pointing her hoof at me. Said hoof split apart, reforming and extending until it was entirely replaced with a large barrel, with a box-like piece in the back. “You now have fifteen seconds to comply.” she said in a neutral tone of voice.

“I can’t just give up this battle, what will my people think?” I tried to tell her.

“You now have ten seconds to comply.” she said again.

“You can’t do this, stopping everything I have started with just one threat.” I tried to tell her again.

“You now have five seconds to comply, four, three, two, one, I am now authorised to use physical force.” she said, firing spiked pellets at me but I was quick to react, flying high into the sky to just avoid it. Her eyes were trained on me, before also flying high and opening fire on me. I quickly cast a thick barrier to block them, but they passed right through and hit my body but bounced off my head. I quickly teleported out of the way to avoid anymore blasts before closing the distance by teleporting in front of her and punch her in the side of the face. This resulted in a broken wrist and pain, a lot pain.

“My turn.” she growled, hitting me in the side of the face, rocketing me to the ground.

“Did anybody get the number on that cab?” I asked, dazed. I stumbled to get up before being pelted in the back.

“Pay attention to who your opponent is.” she said, a smirk on her half-mechanical face.

“That is it, no more mister nice xenomorph.” I said morphing my staff into a crystal blade and charging at her. Her other hoof began to change as well, a sword extending out. The sword began emitting a blue hue around it’s blade.

“What?! That’s not fair! I call hacks.” I yelled, before getting back into combat. I slashed relentlessly, trying to find an opening, but she didn't have one. It was impossible, even though I can fight for a long period of time I still get exhausted, so she's winning this one. I might have had to use something incredibly stupid that might kill me. If nothing changes soon I will need to use it. Still continuing this battle, she went on the offensive, slashing at lightning speeds. I'm only able to keep up thanks to my rune spells. I had tried to slow her down with spells but they just didn’t work. I batted her sword away with enough force to cause me to spin. I used this momentum to change my blade into a scythe and placed the blade around her neck, not enough to pierce it though but enough to sling her into the ground.

She got up, enraged. She then began flying at speeds unimaginable, performing a sonic rainboom. I teleported out of the way, watching her go up and out of sight. I try to find her, but she was too far up. I could make out something in the distance coming right at me, before I felt a painful burn in my wing. I turned to see a hole in my wingbone. I begin plummeting, unable to flap my other wing without hurting it. I fall on my feet luckily, but with me being so occupied with my wing, I failed to notice another one going right at my chest. Blasting right through, I cough up acid. Seeing more, I spit webbing at them, which caught the bullets sized missiles. I couldn’t block all of them, and I couldn't cast a barrier, so a lot of them went through my chest. I was left on my back, melting the ground from my profuse bleeding.

“You are on the ground, wheezing and bleeding, while your army hides in the forest like cowards. Any last words?” she asked, landing and pointing a bulky gun at me.

“Yeah, some come to mind, oh great displacer bring forth your power unto me and allow me to vanquish this enemy, no matter the consequences.” I said, before slowly rising from a green light, healing all of my wounds suddenly all at once I feel new power in me burning. My eyes had turned pure white from the the overload of power, I quickly flew up in the sky with Rainbow dash on my tail before creating a purple vortex to send her back to ponyville. She tried resisting the force of the vortex, but all she could do was keep herself from going into it. she couldn’t move from flying with so much force. “You know you should really conserve your ammo. Don't worry, I’ll give it back.” I said, using my magic to dislodge the bullets from the webbing, and fling them straight at her at fast speeds. She was blasted back into the vortex. I closed the portal before she could get back through and promptly fall unconscious bleeding from my nose.

Rainborg’s universe

“A Displacer is helping that thing?” Rainborg asked no one in particular, growling as she watched the screen displaying the events from the new Rainbow Dash. “Damn. Not much I can do about that kind of power, unless I had Ahriman to back me up.” She checked some of the results from the battle.

“Let's see… flight efficiency compared to previous models has increased by 50%. Weapon failure has decreased to nearly zero. The new reactor was successful in it’s use, though there was a possibility of power overload, which would require a way to discharge the excess energy during or after battle. The bionic eye implant was successful in keeping opponents on their toes in hand to hoof combat, and the power weapons were used well. That is likely due to the artificial memories of using such a weapon effectively that were downloaded into her neural implants.” She read through the rest.

“Overall, the prototype is a successful step in the direction I wanted. The new cyborg prototype has the same amount of technology place inside it, except with less bulk and the design looks more equine than machine. With future experiments, I am certain that creating a cyborg with no outside difference from a fully organic creature can be achieved.” She finished. “Firefly, record these results and the methods used. Also, sync her teleport beacon to the one I used to arrive in her universe. I'm not one for letting resources that I have made be removed so easily. Also, prepare an active communications link between myself and her once you locate her and link her to the teleport beacon.” The hologram of the AI assistant nodded, vanishing briefly.

Rainborg sat in her chair, and waited to be patched through to her latest creation.

“Rainborg, I have established a connection, but the prototype appears to be heavily damaged. My systems check has revealed several breaches in her mechanical parts, and a few areas where she is bleeding. The blood clotted already, showing that the Larraman’s Organ is working as hoped. However, she will still need some sort of repairs or medical treatment.”

“Fine, sync up her teleport beacon to my operating room, and get me my tools.” Rainborg sighed, getting out of her seat to move off towards the specified room. Once there, the cyberpegasus she had created appeared in a flash of light, landing on the floor with a heavy thunk. Her armored side was cracked, with a small pool of oil grew from said cracks. Her augmented eye was cracked, the protective glass showing intense damage. As Firefly had said, the other wounds had clotted, and Rainborg gave a sigh of relief.

“Well shit, looks like that vortex did a number on you.” Rainborg said, lifting her up onto the operating table carefully. “Let's see if I can fix you up. Can't have you dying just yet, prototype.” She looked at the cyberpegasus. “Firefly, I need to see internal damage and her vitals. Get it done.” Within moments, a series of images showing the different systems and their conditions.

“Well shit. Looks like her front left hoof will need to be entirely replaced, while the Bionic Eye will also need to be replaced. Most of the internal machinery is fine, the reactor is, thankfully, still intact, and her wings are going to need to be removed.” Rainborg sighed. “Firefly, get me the replacements, but make sure they are of a better metal. Use some of the Astartes plating. In fact, I'll need to replace all of the armored metal with it.” Rainborg sighed, grabbing her equipment.

A few hours later

“Alright, activate her.” Rainborg said, and the reactor inside the Rainbow Dash began to activate. She slowly opened her eyes. “Greetings, Prototype! I have repaired the damage done to you by that creature you fought, and also replaced the armor with a ceramite-adamantium combination. I also developed an untested power discharge weapon and stuck it in you. When your energy reading gets too high during combat, you can activate this device to discharge the excess energy in a devestating blast of energy, which can help with removing potential threats. I also replaced your front left hoof and bionic eye, as they were damaged beyond repair. How are you feeling?” Rainborg asked.

“Like I got hit by a dragon, which then proceeded to cook me and eat me. And I went through the digestive stages, but here I am now.” Rainbow Dash said.

“Well that's a usual response to being forcefully thrown through a dimensional vortex. Anyways, I put you back together, and also downloaded some instructions on how to repair yourself, plus the blueprints on how to build some defensive weaponry, into your head.” Rainborg glanced at Rainbow. “Though, you seem to be all too accepting that you were forcefully turned into a cyborg. Why is that?”

“I don’t know, either the vortex, or the fact I can protect and serve equestria better.” Rainbow Dash said in a mocking tone.

“Well, that's definitely the opposite response of what Rainblade thought of it…” Rainborg muttered, shrugging. “So, I have also given you a way to contact me directly if need be, though I may not answer. There's also a teleport beacon back in your universe that will allow you to return there, should you somehow get thrown to a different universe. Right now, I can just have the teleporter inside you send you back right to where you were when it brought you here. If you are ready, just say the word.”

“Wait one question why are you here?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Well, this is my personal operating room.” Rainborg replied. “But I get the feeling you are asking me why I randomly kidnapped you and made you into a cyborg. The answer to it is simple. Research, Experimentation, and Surveillance. In time, I want to create a cyborg that looks perfectly fine on the outside, the perfect stealth unit. You are my first test subject, Prototype 01. It's unlikely you will be the last. Though possibly from your universe, you will be the last.” She shrugged. “Unless I decide to intervene further in the events of your universe, which I'm certain some beings beyond divinity will be pissed about, I'll likely only visit for routine checkups, on both your physical and mental health.”

“Okay, but if you have your own universe then why don’t you do it there?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Ran out of test subjects.” Rainborg said. “Originally they were mass produced for a war effort. Never really got the chance to improve upon the design until much later. And by then the number of test subjects was low. And my boss wouldn't let me acquire new ones from our universe. So I improvised.”

“So who could possibly be your boss?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Ahriman, the Third Warmaster of Chaos, Warmaster of the entire planet’s military, and he’s a Void Dweller.” Rainborg replied, checking on a Power Sword nearby. “He's a good ruler most of the time, though he has an occasional tendency to love fighting.” She shrugged. “Then again, he was made for war. Can't really blame him. I wonder what Khârn is up to….” She sent a drone to investigate the whereabouts of the Khornate Champion.

“Mhm okay I think I’m ready to go back home, but first can you teach me how to clone?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Hm?” Rainborg glanced at her, confused. “Why would you want to learn that?”

“Lets just say before I was forced through a vortex I took a piece of him with me.” she said holding up a black spike covered in green acid.

Rainborg raised a mechanical eyebrow. “So you want to create a clone of the thing that tried to kill you. And by making this clone, which could retain the memories of the original, quite possibly endangering yourself and whoever might be near you. Am I understanding this correctly?”

“Yes, what’s the big deal? It will be in quarantine.” Rainbow Dash replied.

“Do you know how to properly contain it? Have you, or anyone in your nation, ever encountered this creature before? It would be wise to learn how to properly contain a creature.” Rainborg said. “If it got out because you didn't know how to contain it, you and anypony near you will be killed. Granted, you yourself could likely survive, but no one else. Could you live with the guilt of causing the death of innocent ponies?”

“Look, can you help me or not?” Rainbow Dash asked impatiently.

Rainborg sighed. “Fine, but don't say I didn't warn you.” Rainborg pulled up a panel, uploading the blueprints of the cloning machine into the other cyberpegasus.

“Yes, now the dragon army won't stand a chance!” Rainbow Dash said.

“Welp, I shall keep in touch from time to time.” Rainborg replied, activating a portal back to Rainbow’s original universe. “When you get there, take the teleport beacon that is there to wherever you live. It will allow me to return on occasion. Don't want it destroyed.”

“Anyways, before I go, I want to say thank you, even though my life will change forever.” Rainbow Dash said, leaving.

“I'm gonna put some anti-magical Universe viewing thing later…” Rainborg shrugged, watching the portal close.

Grizzly POV

“Well it looks like a new foe has presented itself. Looks like i’ll have to do some extra work.” Grizzly said before tapping the crystal ball stopping him from seeing the other universe.