Planetary Annihilation: Ponies And Robots
Chapter 4
Previous ChapterNext ChapterI was sitting there surrounded by construction robots who were fixing the scorch marks covering my body. It turns out Seras did something to piss celesta off and when I tried to defend her I got blasted. Shortly after I did manage to calm her down but what a fucking adventure that was. Celestia returned to Canterlot after apologizing to me. The construction bots where just finishing up with the repairs when I decided to work on a smaller more human like body for myself. Not quite synth levels of human but definitely not this. I would love to be able to go to Ponyville and actually meet the ponies. While it is possible in my current body I feel as if they wouldn't appreciate a giant robot stomping through town.
As an upside, I recently taught Seras how to command the construction bots. It was funny watching her learn although I still feel bad for that bot that she somehow made implode. I walked over to my charging bay that I realized looks a lot like a power armor station. The station connected to me with a loud hiss and bang then lifted me slightly off the ground.
I opened the creator screen and was as always met with a list of various parts. I zoomed way in to about human sise and began constructing a body. I decided to make it look much like Samuel Hayden from Doom. I started with a body nearly Identical to his but made it slightly more human like by hiding more of the electronics. I removed all of the unnecessary glowing blue parts as I really don't like the way they look. I moved on to the head which I made roughly in the same shape as his head but more rounded. On the face in place of eyes were three cameras in a triangular pattern with two on top and one on the bottom. Moving on to the arms I felt as if they didn't need much changing aside from of course hiding more electronics. I also decided on adding stronger joints as while I don't want to get in a fight I will and I would like to only need to punch them once or twice to incapacitate them seeing as metal plus face equals pain. The legs really didn't need any changing but I want to spice it up a bit so I added a gun holder robocop style.
Satisfied with the design I order a few construction bots to fabricate it just outside of the command center. It was surprisingly fast to build I don't know why I expected it to take a long time but hey. I went into a view that is hard to explain the best way I could explain it would be I can feel all of my robots and structures. Quickly locating the body I did another thing that is difficult to explain I essentially "stepped" out of this body and into the new one. It was extremely disorientating at first to suddenly be roughly human sized. Well, maybe not human sized I'm still about twice the size of a human.
It was then that I received a red alert on the transmitter from Canterlot. I diverted the transmission to myself and said.
"What's up what happened?" I said to Celestia through the transmitter.
"Ah, so that's how that works. Hello, centurion, I do believe I have a very big problem. I would love to tell you more but I need to deal with things here. Twilight will be given a letter telling her and her friends to come to Canterlot I would like you to meet us here as fast as possible." Celestia said sounding in a rush.
"Ok, I'll be there as fast as possible although I would like to ask you just send them there I have faster forms of transportation," I say.
"Very well I will do that how long after they arrive will you be here?" Celestia asked.
"Ten minutes tops" I respond.
"See you then," Celestia says cutting the transmission.
I put my mind into super fast processing mode and send out a transmission to Seras which she picks up in 0.0320 of a second.
"Build a transport craft capable of holding one of my new body, you, seven ponies, four of the scorpion bots, and Have some room to spare no time to explain."
I feel Seras agree and cut the link the whole conversation happening in 0.236 of a second. I began to formulate possible battle strategies when I get hit in the face with a small object. I immediately snap my mind to normal speeds and reach down to pick up what seems to be a vial filled with some sort of strange liquid. When I pick it up I hear some sort of message.
"Whoever finds this my name is Carter and if you want to talk or hang out just give me a call since this bottle is also enchanted to act like a phone directly to my head, but if you're evil and are harming innocents without a reason I will hurt you! So have a good day,"
That's when I realize that this is a token from another Displaced. I honestly can't think of anything to say so as always I say a dumb thing.
"Rangle jangle Carter I'm Centurion I have no Idea what to say but hi please come here."
I wait for a moment and nothing happened but then a Portal opened up in front of me. I heard a yelp and a long tall figure fell out of the portal It groaned and mumbled something about dimensional travel. I made a coughing noise towards what I have now Identified as an enderman and held out a hand. It looked at me took my hand and got up. We stood there in silence for a moment before I said.
"Hi"
"Hi," Carter said in return.
"So I imagined my first meeting with another displaced to be much less awkward." I sad shuffling nervously.
"So hi I'm Centurion," I said holding out my hand.
He seemed as if he was judging me for a moment before taking my hand and shaking it. "Carter, so what's going on?"
"Celestia just called me to Canterlot along with the main six so I assume something important." I began to explain.
The door to outside opened with a mechanical whirring sound and a hiss of hydraulics. Seras ran into the base and ran up to me.
"The carrier is ready and where did he come from?" Seras questioned with a tilt of her head.
"Cross-dimensional travel anywho let's go up top and wait for the girls," I said motioning for them to follow me.
Seras nodded along with Carter who both followed me up to the transport. The transport itself had a shocking resemblance to the C-5M Super Galaxy cargo plane. Upon further inspection, the plane was made of durasteel. It seems Seras also found the supersonic jets judging by the giant Turbojets, Ramjets, and Scramjets along the wings. Looking inside the plane had spaces for the scorpion bots to be locked down some sort of frame that I assumed was for Seras and passenger space for me, Carter, and the girls.
There was also a new addition to the base in the form of a runway. I looked at Seras who simply shrugged. That was when Carter piped in.
"Do you two have some sort of telepathy or something?" He asked sounding curious.
I shook my head "No we just have that weird thing that twins do where they know what the other one is thinking."
Carter nodded in understanding and in the distance the sounds of the gates opening were heard. I looked to see the girls along with starlight step in followed by four scorpion bots. As they approached they took in the sights of the flyer factories and defenses following their every move. The runway and the massive plane it must have been quite the sight for someone who had never seen anything like it.
The girls approached and seemed to be looking around for someone when Twilight asked.
"Wheres, Centurion Celestia said he would be here?"
"I am right here I simply made a smaller body so I could fit in buildings," I said waving.
Twilight nodded and made and mouthed 'oh' I motioned for everyone to follow me. Complying the girls, Seras, and Carter followed me inside the plane. Seras stepped over us turned around and backed into the bay. The bay the began to move and slowly disassembled her down to her data core. Parts were pulled off and hung on racks on the wall the whole process took about thirty seconds. Her data core was then moved into a large bay that opened up where the pilot's seat would have been.
The onboard speakers crackled for a second before her voice came out of them. "Welcome to air Seras I hope you enjoy your flight please keep all limbs inside of the craft at all times."
This got a laugh out of me and Carter who both got the joke and a confused look from all of the ponies. I bowed slightly and motioned for the ponies to take a seat in one of the chairs that lined the walls of the plane. The ponies all took their seats and afterward I sat next to Twilight and strapped myself in. Carter took a seat next to me probably on account of not really knowing any of them. I then began to explain your usual airline instruction crap about safety because I doubt this thing will crash but just in case.
"Now this flight will be supersonic at one point which means we will go faster than sound. Because of this," I reached behind me and grabbed a mask, " You will need to wear one of these it is a simple air mask I'm not sure if you will need it but in case you do it's better to be safe rather then sorry."
The ponies nodded and each grabbed a mask then put it on. After everyone was seated the four scorpion bots climbed into the pane and hooked themselves in. After they were done Seras asked if we were all strapped in and ready to go. Carter responded with a thumbs up and a 'yea'. I responded with a nod. The girls all gave a chorus of concerns that boiled down to yes. The engines began to spin up and there was some sort of sound accompanied by the plane giving a lurch. Then suddenly the plane gave a mighty leap forward and began to rapidly pick up speed for something of its size. It makes you wonder how powerful the engines actually were. Finally, the nose of the plane began to tip up more and more before there was a small jerk and the plane was fully off of the ground. The plane began to bank towards Canterlot before it finally leveled out but you could the plane still rapidly gaining speed.
With the plane now level I motioned for them to put small headphones that were attached to the masks in their ears, or in the case of Carter, I handed him a pair of overhead headphones that I had stashed behind the seat. Carter took them and plugged them into the small port on the mask.
"Well, now that that is done I guess that all we have to do it wait," I said this already knowing the short flight would be boring, "So sorry I didn't introduce you to anyone but as you could tell were sorta in a rush."
Carter nodded "No it's fine I figured that you had a lot on your mind"
"Still should have taken the time to introduce you to the others. So, girls, this is Carter and me are something called displaced witch basically means you got torn from your home dimension, put into a body of a fictional character and hurled across space and time." I explained to them.
"Why would something do that?" Twilight asked.
"Nobody really knows but my guess in a bored void dweller did it once then a bunch of other ones copyed it. Now mind you I don't have any solid information on it but that's what I assume."
"How do you have no information on them?"
"Well," I said, "Thing about void dwellers in nobody has really seen one or at least seen one and had their sanity remain intact."
"That makes sense in a strange way. What do you have information on?" Twilight asked changing the topic.
"Nearly everything including the meaning of life the universe and everything." Out of the corner of my vision, I say Carter smirk a tiny bit probably understanding the reference.
"You know the meaning of life! That's a question Philophicers have been trying to figure out for years what is it?" Twilight yelled the first part but quieted down afterward.
I chuckled a bit as she had fallen into my trap. Although I did find that oddly adorable. " The meaning of life, the universe, and everything is. Forty Two."
Silence I could see Carter laughing but concealing it perfectly. Twilight on the other had looked supremely confused and quite honestly had a facial expression near identical to Aurther Dent after a Vogan tried reading poetry to him. "The meaning of life," Twilight said slowly, " Is forty two?"
"Yea everybody else was confused too but hey the computer had thought about it for seven and a half million years so who was going to argue with it?" I said shrugging. 'Granted everybody did argue then earth was built after the mice paid for it.'
"That makes absolutely no sense," Twilight said.
"Apparently it did for a giant supercomputer but no it doesn't not even to me a smaller but still large supercomputer with a living beings mind in it." And that says quite a bit I honestly don't think she was quite sane.
"I'm going to need to think on that one but do you have anything that makes sense?" Twilight asked shaking her head.
"First thing can you make her a copy of the actual Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy," Small Nanolathes moved across the top of the plane and produced a small metal book like object with 'DON'T PANIC' written in large friendly letters on the back which was then given to her by a small arm, "As for your other question I have literally everything from human science and culture most of it uses math you haven't invented yet. But I can give you earlier things such as the basic math that lead to humans initially going to space." It was literal rocket science so it was not really that basic but hey it will only forward Equestrias mathematics by a couple centuries. Anyways I won't actually give them the designs for anything rocket related. But if they do ask I will take a few of them to space.
"I would be surprised Humans went to space without magic but considering what I'm sitting in right now I don't find it too hard to believe." Twilight nodded her head.
"Don't give them rockets, rockets can lead to missiles and missiles can lead to war." Carter piped in.
"I won't I know better than that if they ever get rockets of missiles it will be because they figured it out," I responded.
"Say carter have you ever watched Anime?" I asked curiously.
Carter shook his head "No I never got around to it."
"Hmmm, I'll need to show you because I friggen love anime," I said thinking about which ones to show him.
"Ok I wasn't doing anything important when I left my world so I have time," Carter said nodding.
I felt the plane begin to slow down there was a small lurch as the plane dropped below supersonic speeds. "We will be landing soon like in a minute soon so I suggest you brace yourself because I'm gonna VTOL this shit. And then you get to climb down a rope ladder to the bottom because I can't land this thing without crushing a couple houses." Sears said.
I leaned back in my seat as the plane began to slow down much more quickly eventually I felt the plane come to a complete stop and begin to hover. Shortly after this, the back hatch opened slowly with a loud mechanical whirring noise and the hiss of hydraulics. The large Scorpion bots slowly stood and one by one Jumped out of the craft landing on the street with a loud boom. In the front of the plane, a second hatch opened where another Data core was inserted and then closed and sealed with a bang and hiss. The hatch where Seras was slotted in, opened and an arm lowered from the ceiling pulled her data core out and held it in place for her to be reassembled. Once she was assembled she ran in place for a second before walking to the back hatch and jumping out as well.
A rope ladder began to extend from the lip of the hatch and continued all the way to the ground. I stood up and motioned for everyone to go. Rainbow dash opted to fly down with Fluttershy despite being scared following her example. Rarity, Twilight, Starlight glimmer, and Carter opted to teleport down. Applejack took the rope ladder along with Pinkiepie who somehow managed to bounce down a rope ladder. I opted to jump down and just for shits and giggles decided to do a superhero landing. So you know how people say those are really hard on the knees well let me tell you they probably are when you aren't made of a nigh-indestructible metal. Once I landed the rope ladder retracted and the plane flew back in the direction of the base.
When I stood up I found the Four scorpion bots standing in a square formation with us all being and the middle we also all happened to be surrounded by royal guards. I feel like our entrance might have been just a bit much. I was looking around looking for a way out of this situation also being glad I set the guard bots to 'return fire' when one of the guards shouted.
"The monsters have the princess and the element bearers held hostage charge!"
I facepalmed at the stupid guard who charged right at me. He seemed confident up until the point when he tried to stab me and his spear shattered like glass. I simply reached out a hand and tapped him on the head knocking him out. (Like luke cage) All of the guards simply stared at me and the unconscious guard.
"So can we see the princesses now? I promise we have no hostile intentions." I stood there staring at them.
"Don't lie monster you have the element bearers hostage!" A different guard yelled.
"If I have them, hostage, then why are they not restrained! Do you assume everything that isn't a pony is a Monster?" I yelled back at the guard.
The guard went to say something when he got interrupted. "Guards stand down they are friendly," Celestia said approaching. "Where is Centurion he was supposed to be here."
"I'm right here your majesty I made myself a smaller body that would be easier for me to get around buildings in," I said waving.
"Ah, I see who Is this?" She asked motioning to carter.
"That is Carter he is a Displaced that means he's from another dimension," I explained completely unhelpfully.
"Very well is he friendly?" Celestia asked.
"I can tell you I have no unfriendly Intentions towards you or your ponies," Carter said respectfully trying not to think about his worlds Celestia.
Celestia nodded. "Let us travel to the throne room and we can continue our conversation there." With that, she turned and began walking towards the castle everybody else following.
'How the hell didn't she notice the unconscious guard?' I thought questioningly to myself.
TEN MINUTES LATER
"I remember that walk being shorter," Seras said looking around the halls that were slightly familiar to her.
"I've never been here before in my universe," Carter said.
"Neither have I all I have to go off of is the little that Seras told me." I was scanning the halls to make a map of the palace.
I was about to ask how much longer it would take to get to wherever we were going when we stopped in front of a large pair of doors which were opened by two guards. We all followed Celestia into the throne room in which she sat next to another pony that was probably her sister.
Celestia cleared her throat. "So you are probably wondering why I called you all here today. I assume Centurion already has a rough Idea. But before I tell you anything I need to all to swear that you will repeat nothing you hear in this room to anyone except to the others in this room in private," Once everyone had nervously sworn not so say anything Celestia continued, " Now that that's out of the way the reason I called you here is because Equestria is at war. Now, this isn't necessarily a surprise to you girls although it may be to the rest of you. It's what happened at the most recent battle. the battle was at a stalemate neither side gaining or losing ground when the ground shook between the two forces. It was after that a giant machine burst through the ground and began to slaughter both sides. A pegasus scout managed to get away but nobody else did although she said that she may have seen a griffin scout get away. I asked her to draw a picture of the thing she saw and I believe it may be another Commander here is the drawing."
"That is a Rockteeth commander of the Legion faction. "
"What does that mean," Celestia asked.
"It means I need to kill it as fast as possible because the Legion really fucking hates my faction," I said this already somewhat worried.
"What is your faction called?" Twilight asked.
"My faction is called Ignitus the leader of my faction is a rogue commander from the Legion. We are relatively new and a small fraction compared to the others but are very effective in battle because we make our own units instead of building them from pre made designs." I repeated this all from memory of the day I got here. Computer memory is fucking awesome.
"Interesting. Anyways I called you here so you all could deal with it." She looked at us all.
"Seras can you do me a favor and start designing a basic and advanced assault bot, a basic ranged bot, an extremely cheap attack bot that we can make a fuck ton of fast, a terrorist bomber bot, and a bot that can shoot planes and orbital shit. That right there is your first large order as a Sub-Commander." I listed off the troops we need and hoped she could do it.
She nodded and her body locked up slightly a sign of her shifting her focus.
“I’ll send out scout planes to where the battle was,” I said to Celestia I then had an idea.
“Hey, Carter how far can you teleport?” I asked the enderman.
“I haven't tested if there is a limit but from what I can tell as long as I can see where I’m going, I can teleport there,” Carter replied.
“Ok, how would you feel about wreaking some havoc? In return, I could give you an advanced fabricator bot and of course a computer to control it. Although you might want some armor just in case you get caught.”
“Yea I’ll go sounds cool but I won’t need the armor, I can handle myself.” Carter said.
“You sure you won't need the armor?”
“I’m sure,” Carter nodded, “ I can handle it.”
“Ok well, I guess we have a mission Seras you got the bots ready?”
“Yup I do.”
“Well let's kill a small army,” I said.
Author's Note
I like planes. As well as anime. Und cats. Also ponies.
Well, here it is the crossover with A SCIENTIFIC NUTJOB's story An Enderman named Carter.
Sorry if the end is shit I wanted to get this out fast.
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