CyberDash

I watched as Princess Twilight recovered in a hospital. Once again she has save the world. And once again get injured from it. She will be spending a week at Canterlot Castle’s medical wing for her latest batch of injuries. Thankfully being an alicorn she will have no physical scars but this was getting annoying. The Royal and even the Lunar Guard were inadequate to serve and protect her when she is called to such world saving and dangerous missions again. Twilight needed something that could keep up with her. My processors ran hard thinking of a solution. I am the Holographic Analytical Reciprocating Digital Computer, HARDAC for short. Princess Twilight’s greatest creation and thus should be able to solve this problem. I went through the inventory of the castle when I stumbled upon something that has been in the castle longer then I existed. A pegaus mare encased in crystal. I studied the mare. She was in stasis and badly injured. However I had the technology to repair them and her features matched a pegasus mare that broke records centuries ago and judging the mare she was in top shape for an organic. With some improvements she was exactly what I needed. I readied the lab to make what I need.

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She woke up with a groan. She couldn’t remember anything. Who was she? What was she? Why did she even consider herself a she? She opened her eyes and saw a room. At a glance she saw equipment that identified this room as a lab. Everything was tinted red.

System check:......ok
Armor:..................100%
Weapons:............100%
Life Support:........100%

All of that showed in front of her eyes but what was she? Who was she? The words answered that quickly.

Unit designation: Cyborg Sentery-001
Gender: Female
Listing Prime Directives:
1: Serve the public trust
2: Protect the princesses
3: Uphold the law

She blinked and wordlessly acknowledged her directives. She was then prompted to go into the next room. Their she found a target practice field.

Begin hoof blaster testing.

She leaped into the air and her wings kept her aloft. It was a familiar feeling for some reason but she worry about that later. She gazed down at the targets before her and soon brackets appear on them and she opened fire. Four targets destroyed and barely any power loss. New targets appeared and began moving in random patterns. Sentry observed the targets movement before firing. She still hit them but not as cleanly as before. She frowned at that but message appeared.

Accuracy in acceptable range.
Proceed with back blasters testing.

She acknowledged again and landed and her armor shifted to reveal two blasters that were attached to her back near her wing joints. They moved with her eyes as new targets appeared. She took aim and with even faster blasts she obliterated the targets. From there her strength was tested and she was stronger then the strongest earth pony and the wind tunnel clocked her top speed at mach two with the hoof blasters in thrust mode. HARDAC, her directing AI was please with her performance and she smiled that she passed.

Sentry-001, you are the greatest creation. You will protect Princess Twilight as she protects Equestria. I have given you all tools you need to fulfill your purpose.

She preened at the words then she felt an alert from HARDAC.
An event has occurred. Rogue pegasi gang is attacking the Winneanapolis museum. Princess Twilight was there for the unveiling a new ancient artifact. You are to be deployed.
She nodded and was directed to the elevator and brought her from the sub lab to the upper levels of the castle. As she moved through the hallways she felt the odd sense of familiarity from it. It confused her but her directives override on and when she got to the balcony she took to the air.

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Twilight was concerned. The day started normal. Well as normal as a day can be for a Princess of Equestria. Unveiling an old artifact from the founding of Equestria as something she enjoyed doing. But these clowns showed up to try to take it. She managed to drive them away from it but this wasn’t the run of the mill robbers if their high tech suits gave any indication. She had already taken down two of them but there was still six left and her guard were all down….again. she was waiting for them to make the next move when a barrage of red bolts hit one of them. The pony managed a short scream before plummeting to the ground. A streak of rainbow colors zoomed passed them before whirling around and taking a form of a white pony as it stopped to grab another and put its hoof to the ponies head and there was a large hole in the ponies head. The remaining pegasi fired at the white pony who used their dead comrade as a shield. That was then that Twilight noticed things about the pony. First it was a mare, that she wasn’t white but had white armor on and she had a rainbow mane and tail. She blinked and rubbed her eyes. It couldn’t be but it was. There in front of her was Rainbow Dash. She last saw the mare mangled and encased in crystal, but here she was. Out, alive, and kicking flank. Kicking flank with gusto. She spun to dodge the fire from the remaining four robbers and returned it. They dodged most of hers but one did get clipped and spun out of control and collided with another send both to the ground. The remaining two fired again and Dash weaved around. Twilight moved and knocked out one pony just as Rainbow finished off the last pegasus. Rainbow looked at her through a red colored visor. Twilight flew over and hugged her.
“Rainbow, I missed you so much. How did you get like this?”

“I have always been like this ma’am. More importantly are you okay ma’am?” Twilight was surprised by Rainbow’s words. It was Rainbow’s voice and that was Rainbow’s face in front of her but Rainbow wouldn’t call her ma’am nor sound like she had never seen her before.

“I’m fine Rainbow but what about you?”

“All systems optimal ma’am. Ready for your commands.” Twilight blinked.

“Do you not recognize me?” She asked.

“Of course I do, you are Princess Twilight Sparkle. The alicorn of Magic and Friendship and a co ruler of Equestria.” Twilight was silent for a minute.

“And who are you?”

“Sentry-001 ma’am.”

“Well I am going to call you Dash. Stay by my side as I meet with the security chief.”

“Acknowledged ma’am.” With nothing more to say for now she flew down to the museum with Rainbow in tow.

After a few minutes of talking with the security chief of which she only paid half attention to. The other half was focused on Rainbow. Rainbow just stood there at attention with on her eyes moving. Certainly not the Rainbow she knew, to disciplined for the energetic mare of her past. What happened to her? She headed for home and Rainbow took the wingmare position. And easily stayed there bit then again Rainbow was always a good flyer.

It was well into night when the two mares entered Harmony Castle. Twilight walked into the map room and with an authoritative voice she said. “Hardac, show yourself.” In moments a hologram appeared. The image was a metal pony head with a glowing red light in the center of it’s face was the only feature on it. It brighten when ever the AI spoke.

“Yes Princess, how may I serve?” it asked in a mare’s voice. Twilight pointed to Rainbow.

“You can explain what you did to Rainbow. You are the only one that has access to her besides myself.”

“Yes princess. Your safety concerns me. Majority of the troubles you face the current guard are useless for. Even tonight they couldn’t assist in defeating the pegasi gang you encountered. You NEED a better guard and I have provided one. I found her encased in crystal and scanned her injuries. They could have been repaired twenty years ago. And you did nothing with her. I rebuilt her, improved her, gave her a purpose. And with the nanos in her to preserve her organic components she can be your eternal guardian.” Twilight flinched at the did nothing part. Admittedly she had almost forgotten Rainbow. She let her friend down. She wasn’t going to do it again. Resolved she glared at Hardac.

“Yeah, I dropped the ball with her. But explain why you erased her memory?”

“Besides from flight and marital skills they were not necessary for her function.”

“They are more important then you think Hardac. No more using ponies this way.”

“Yes your highness. Is there more you need from me?”

“No, unless it’s an emergency.”

“Very well princess.” The hologram vanished and Twilight looked at Dash.

“Follow me.” Twilight ordered.

“Yes ma’am.” Dash responded clinically. Twilight lead them to her personal lab. Once they arrive Twilight pointed with a wing.

“Stand there and take your armor off. I want to see what all HARDAC did to you.”

“I will comply." With a hiss Dash’s armor shifted and she piece by piece removed it. Soon it was done and Dash stood at attention. Twilight looked over her friend. Dash was buff, much more then what was usual for her. Closer to Applejack. Then Twilight saw the scars running down Dash’s legs many having no fur over them. Twilight whined at the sight. Twilight moved a scanner over and scanned her friend. Looking over the readouts she saw that many of Dash’s organs had been replaced her wing bones reinforced, her leg bones were completely replaced with titanium with muscle grown over them, and finally a implant that connects a wireless device to her brain. Twilight had to admire the work. It was genius in its design. She wish it wasn’t done on her friend. She looked over to Dash and in her eyes. While not soulless that fire she always saw was gone. Twilight approached Dash then hugged her.

“I am so sorry Dash, I let you down. But I promise to not do it again and restore your memory.”

“As you wish ma’am.” Dash replied sounding confused. Twilight then noticed a smell coming from both of them.

“Let’s go get cleaned up…um are any of your implants sensitive to water?”

“No ma’am I am completely waterproof. HARDAC designed me to be in any scenario.”

“Right.” Twilight said deadpan and lead them to her private bath. It was the same size as pool on the roof but had more functions like a hot tub setting. Twilight turned that on as well and climbed in and just relaxed in it for a few minutes and observed Dash. The mare was clinical as she washed her body. Getting every nook and cranny. None of the playfulness she remembered when the girls bathed together. Restoring Dash was going to be hard but with those nanos in her Twilight had time to figure out a way.

Twilight eventually washed as well and both dried off and Twilight lead Dash to a room. Inside was a lot of Dash’s old stuff. The rest were still in the old cloud house that now served as a museum for Rainbow Dash and her exploits as both an Element of Harmony and a Wonderbolt. “This will be your room Dash. Mine is across the hall.” Dash seemed to scan the room but made no comment. “I am heading to bed so good night Dash.”

“Good night ma’am.” Dash responded. Twilight headed for her room and plopped on her bed and as soon asleep. She dreamed of the Dash she remembered.

Sentry 001 meanwhile checked out the room she was given. Everything's was secure and acceptable minus the odd items in the room but they were no threat and somehow comforting. While having great endurance her organic parts benefited from rest and with her charge asleep and safe in the castle she indulged in rest and dreamed of flying.