"We were warriors in the beginning, built to fight and protect, we still are. The first of my line, and the first Titan, Executioner, was just that, a proud warrior. The history is clouded, but what I know for certain is that he built Sanctuary. The Void Master was still very active in the Multiverse, so he was fighting as well." This was my beginning of my Line, my heritage.

"What is Sanctuary like? What happened to bring you here?" Daring asked these questions with wide eyes and a smile as she pulled out a notebook and wrote down what I said eagerly.

"Was, and I will get to that. As I was saying, Executioner was a hero, and he built the Forge, the sacred birthplace of all Titans. No one is sure what technology powers the Forge, but we know what it does."

"And what does it do? I assume it has something to do with building Titans?"
My basic ground motor functions were 75% repaired, I began setting less nanites to ground and moved them onto the wings. My wings were only at 10% functionality, and my weapons were burned out almost completely, I need to move quickly to begin my work. Protecting this Pony and its kind has been set as Secondary Directive, alongside the Primary Directive.

" Yes however, building a Titan is different than building any other machine. A Titan, in its most basic form, is an artificial Soul." My Soul was completely stable so I showed my manifestation of it, a rapidly beating red heart, in my claw. Daring stared with wide eyes at my Soul, I am Determined to see this through, protect until my final breath.

" WAIT! You're saying that you, a machine has, a SOUL!" Daring obviously was very shocked by this, and I decided to explain.

"We do not know how, but after the Void Master, after creating the Big Ten, which are the Titan Lines. They were called, in order of creation Bias, Doom, Armageddon, Vigilance, Peace, Shade, Noble, Annihilation, Tranquility, and War. After their creation, the Master created the Forge, it was his final gift before the Master's recession from the affairs of the Multiverse. The Forge allowed the big ten to put small fragments of their Souls in, and get a combination of their traits in a new Soul. But no one knows how. After the first children of the Big Ten began populating Sanctuary, history begins to cloud. The Big Ten guided the Titans of Sanctuary, who then guided the organic creatures who settled into Sanctuary, as that was its initial purpose. For millennium, we flourished, more Titans were created into families, the Big Ten had dispersed across the Universe after seeing Sanctuary to completion, as they had wished to retire peacefully. But all good things were to come to an end." My wings and weaponry were fully repaired along with basic motor systems. I was ready to leave but she needed to know.

" Armageddon, Doom, Annihilation, and War all became corrupted, they fell to time and began to unleash a warpath to Sanctuary through all Titan occupied space. When they reached Sanctuary... It was a massacre for everything, we failed at our Prime Directive: Protect all organic life. But then... my team were the last ones left"

"I'm so sorry, nopony should have to go through that." Daring's face was downtrodden and I could see tears welling up in her eyes.

"My team was guarding a comm tower, it was the primary one used in Multiverse communication, we were under siege, the corrupted Titans taking over our automated defenses easily due to their natural hacking skill beyond normal Titans. We fought hard against the one leading the siege, Doom, but eventually I stood alone, Doom fought me, but somehow, someway I defeated him, his defeat sent a signal throughout the Multiverse, apparently a fail safe built in so that if one fell the others could get revenge. The remaining Big Ten arrived quickly after. Bias saw the destruction and had tried to save me, but the other corrupted descended upon me with the entirety of their arsenal, my body torn apart, my Soul supposedly destroyed. However, my Soul trait was unique, no Titan ever had a red soul, it required a spark, but my sacrifice sparked an inferno in my soul, which was reignited by you. My Determination to protect allowed my Soul to begin stabilizing itself. That is my backstory, that is who I am."

At this point Daring was bawling her eyes out, so while she calmed down I used an ability I gained from a friend called "Judgement."

Daring Do
HP: 35/40
STR: 30
SPD: 20
MN: 0/0
SPR:0/0
An adventurer at heart, uses the pen name A.K. Yearling to publish stories about her adventures. May not be the fastest flier but is very maneuverable, and knows her way around many cave systems on this planet. Has a Soul of Bravery with higher than average traces of Determination.

After a couple more minutes of waiting Daring finally recovered from her sadness.

" Daring are you ready, I have completed repairs,"
" Y-Yeah, sorry."
"It is alright, here allow me, you can sleep once we reach the surface, and I get a direction, I do not know where I am." I grab her and begin flying straight up tearing through the ground with my excavators. I quickly reached the surface flying high into the sky.

"You have never truly flown until you fly with a Titan." I engaged my wing jets, as well as erecting a shield to protect my passenger. Then I said, " Where to next?" Daring pointed in a direction and we were off, cruising at a gentle speed of mach 10.

Author's Note

Second Chapter! As usual, comments and criticism is welcomed, just try to be a little gentle. Also we got a fight scene coming up! I hope you all are as excited to read it as I am to write it. Anyways, have a good (insert time of day here)!
Scourge.