A Mind Of Steel

A Mind of Steel

Ch. 3 and 4: This Better Work/Success

Disclaimer: I do not own MLP. I do own my OC's.

"..."

he stared

"..."

and stared

"..."

and stared. the pony staring was none other than Net Work. The pony he stared at was a pegasus mare with a fire red coat. What was astonishing was her mane which was a pure silver. Her name was Bright Torch.

"hey." a faint voice said.

"..."

"Hey!" it repeated itself

"..."

"HEY!" it yelled at the top of it's lungs.

"huh?" finally. after what seemed like eternity, Net Work turned to acknowledge his best (and only) friend: Ringo. Ringo had a Brown coat and a mane and tail that resembled the colors of green camouflage. he also wore jeans with a white T-shirt with an orange letter C in the middle, though it didn't make sense, along with a camouflage jacket that matched his mane and tail and orange sunglasses. the two them her on their lunch break. they worked at a laboratory that designed cars. Ringo was a simple janitor. Net Work designed just about everything there. While on break, one of them decided to look at somepony who they adored greatly.

"Welcome back to reality." Ringo said with a smirk, "ya know, you really should tell her how you feel."

"What!?" Net Work's top eyelids shot up to the sky, "uh... feel about who? I don't know what your referring to."

Ringo looked at his friend with a annoyed stare, "really dude?"

Net Work looked away in the, somehow by coincidence, direction of the before mentioned mare. He walked over to her suddenly wearing a red cape with a bandana around his head. she somehow had a flowing dress. she glanced at him, her eyes filled with tears of joy as he swept her into his hooves bridal style.

"I love you." he said before leaning in for kiss as she responded in a surprisingly masculine voice, "um... what?"

Net Work opened his eyes and returned once again to reality. he had lips puckered as he stared at his own boss, a grey earth pony, Strict Agenda. he blushed, returned to normal posture speedily saying, "sorry."

Ringo stepped in, "we're just practicing for the career day show at... uuuuhh... the... Greenwood School!"

Ringo smiled a big toothy smile while Net Work semi-smiled with sweat dripping down his brow. Strict looked at them suspiciously before saying, "ok."

Ringo and Net Work breathed a sigh of relief.

"can't wait to see you there."

Ringo and Net Work looked at the pony in front of them with wide eyes, "what?" they said simultaneously.

"yeah. my son goes to that school. can't wait to hear what you have to say."

He walked away oblivious to the amount of torture strained on the faces of his employees. in seconds the Blue Face turned from agony to anger as he simply stood there, fumes almost visibly coming out his ears.

"look..." Ringo started, "I'm sorry about that. If it makes you feel better Torch is going to be there."

Net Work stopped going over his mental notes of ways to destroy Ringo and looked at his, once again, good friend, "wait... what!?"

"Yeah. Her sister has a daughter that goes to the school so she invited Torch."

"you... you... YOU HAVE A PET NAME FOR HER!?"

"huh...?"

Net Work was in a rage.

"what are you talking about?"

"you just called her Torch. How long have you two been going out? Don't lie to me!"

"uh... every pony she knows calls her that. if you actually spent time with her rather than your little 'hellos' you give her then you might know something."

Net Work blushed and with a sad sigh said, "I can't."

"why not?"

"she'd never like me. I'm just a nerd and that's all I'll ever be."

Ringo looked at his friend and said, "If you promise me you'll talk to her then I'll give you a very interesting piece of info that might help you."

"I... uh..." Net Work wasn't sure about this. the last time he promised Ringo something he ended up with frogs in his bed. After much consideration he finally answered, "ok fine. I promise I'll talk to her. What's the info"

Ringo smiled and said, "She like's nerds." before running off.

Net Work stood there for a moment before smiling. he walked back to his office and thought about what had just happened while writing more of his designs. little did he notice a Pegasus walk behind him.

Feather Breaker walked up to Strict Agenda and said, "I want to know who your smartest ponies are."

"uh... ok."

as they walked Breaker said to himself, "This better work."

"you want to meet some of the smartest ponies?" Strict Agenda asked Feather Breaker as they walked through the building that had a purpose of supplying cars.

"well..." Feather Breaker didn't want to sound weird or anything but his best friends life was at stake so..., "...yeah I do want to meet some of your smartest ponies. I need one of them for a problem we're having."

"oh yes." Strict Agenda's eyes widen in realization, "I heard what happened between you and the Unicorns. I do wonder though? Does this mean all Unicorns are under suspicion?"

"No." Feather Breaker wasn't going to become prejeduce against Unicorns. His mother was a Unicorn and there certainly wasn't anything evil about her. It was Dusk who was to blame for the lives lost that day of the attack. No pony else.

"I understand sir. Follow me and I'll introduce you to some of my finest workers."

-one hour later-

Feather Breaker was fed up with the ponies he was meeting. he had been introduced to everypony from a creepy loner nerd to a more-than-normal social youtuber.

"are you sure you don't want to see anypony else sir?"

"I'm tired of who your sending in." Breaker looked at Strict with rage in his eyes. "I need a pony who can do things that no other pony could. a pony that could be considered ahead of his time or something like that."

Strict was not easy to scare, but needless to say, Breaker scared him. with all his might he managed to say something, "well I'm sorry. there's nothing I can do."

Breaker didn't say anything. he simply looked at the floor without uttering a sound. after the longest ten seconds of Stricts life Breaker got up and walked out. he bumped into a blue pony accidently as he walked.

"hey. watch it!"

Breaker didn't say anything. He simply kept walking till he was outside. As he trotted down the road he started to feel watched he turned around see a bown pony wearing a strange assortment of clothes. Breaker began to take sharp turns as he tried to escape the Stallion. he knew he musn't be followed to the hospital where all the remaining soldiers were. What if someone ambushed them there. they were too vulnerable. he looked around until he though he finaly lost the pony chasing him before he could move, however, two hooves, one with a piece of cloth on it, reached from behind him and covered his mouth and pulled him into an alley way. before Breaker could react he began to feel sleepy. He went unconscious.

"Yay! Success!"

"shush! do want anypony to hear you?"

"maybe."

"ugg!"

Ringo was standing over Breaker with Net Work next to him.

"look Net Work, if you get found out, you could shot for a number of crimes. not as many as me, but, a lot."

"I know that." Net Work looked at the fallen general, "I just wish we could have done this differently." they stood there for a minute.

"I'll meet you back at the safe house." Net said before leaving as if nothing happened."

Ringo picked up Feather Breaker and trotted deeper into the alley.