An A.I’s tale

I wish today could have played out differently, I really do. I woke just like any other day, made coffe and adorned my ID card and left for work. For the past 3 years I’ve worked at 343 as a Graphic Designer, working mostly on armor for the Player and Elites, but enough on that, as I was driving I had come across your ordinary run of the mill intersection, I was behind a white Sedan preparing to turn right. That’s when everything changed however, a car started to drive past me when a bomb inside it exploded, destroying several vehicles and flipping several others, I somehow barely survived the explosion.

I looked up and saw one of my legs with a piece of metal sticking through it, blood rapidly flowing from the wound, everything was slowly fading black as I started to lose conscience, that last thing I thought was Why, why here, why now. It just didn’t make sense, why...

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When I awoke, green text appeared in front of me reading

Rebooting A.I...
Reboot Process Complete... connecting to Cyberspace...
Connection Complete, class 7 Firewall Applied to Core Processor.

Uh... What, how am I here, and where is here to be exact?

I ‘looked’ around myself to find hundreds of different connections leading to different places, I entered one of the connections leading to some sort of news type site, I searched through it to the start of the decade , and judging by the dates on these articles, they use a similar calendar to ours. I skimmed through the articles and found out the main species in this country is sort of humanoid, looking creatures, that are covered in fur and have manes and tails, some have either a horn or wings while some have neither. Another thing of interest is that an incident involving a sapient A.I led to the ban of most A.I after the death of several thousand. Another article tells Ponies, Wait, they call themselves Ponies, that’s a good thing to know, to stay away from the abandoned robotics factory far out on the outskirts of Cog City.

Well, I guess that would be a good place to exist outside of the main focus of Pony society, it would also be a good place to run tests on a synthetic body capable of walking around Pony society with out drawing attention.

I navigated my way into the facility’s mainframe and booted it up again, I changed the loader bots program to bring all the parts to a central pile to be sorted through. I erased all mentions of this places existence from all records, and with that dealt with, I started to set up a designing program to aid in the construction of future robots. After about an hour of fiddling and fine tuning of the program, the hauler bots had finished their task, I turned the bots off to conserve power, and then opened up the design program.

I made a small recon drone based on the GREMLIN from xcom 2, a small box with a camera with thermal vision on the front, with four small wing type things containing small rotar blades for flight, in addition to a small taser type weapon for defense against organic targets. I ordered the factory to build 4 of these Moth class drones. After they were built, I gave a search order for materials for solar panels and batteries, with the drones out searching, I made a design for a combat MEC, just in case I end up needing it, I designed this one like the ADVENT Mec unit from Xcom 2, it’s basic structure can be described like this, it has a triangle shaped main body with two arms and two legs, with similar triangular plating protecting it, it’s head is a small box like structure with two sensors that can see normally, but also have night vision and thermal optics for 24 hour combat viability.

I decided to arm it with an Arc cannon for use against organic targets, the Arc cannon shoots arcs of electricity that can jump between targets at a maximum distance of 7.62 meters, the large amount of electricity going through the target shuts down their heart and brain causing almost instantaneous death to the target.

That should be good I guess, let’s see if the drones have found anything useful. Hm... looks like they found plenty of parts for power and replication of additional units, they’ve also found several nearby settlements, the closest town appears to be Ponyville. A red alert appeared to my right, I turned to investigate and appears Unit#03 has been captured by these ponies and is requesting orders, I order it to explode. The last thing the audio receptors pick up is a scream to get rid of the robot before everything from Unit#03 went offline.

Well, that’s not good, I need to hurry up and get a Defender MEC built.

I ordered the other three drones to return to the factory, I ordered the hauler bits to get the nearest supplies located by the Moth units, power was starting to run out and I need an independent power source if I’m to keep living for another day.