Canterlot, CIS
0900 hours, March 21, 1980

Professor Crossbones glared at the empty workbench. She began walking to the elevator. she stopped to wink at orange spray, a stallion she had some ‘fun’ with two days ago. He was currently looking down in embarrassment and shame. She continued her way to the elevator when it opened. Gears and Blueblood walked into the lab and passed Crossbones. He placed Blueblood on the desk, then he got out his blueprints and shell of the staff.

“GEARS, MY OFFICE, NOW!!” Crossbones yelled. Gears looked at Blue and noticed he didn’t seem frightened by the mare’s yell.

“You're not scared, Blue?”

“No, your scarier mister Gears”

“GEARS!!” she yelled again

“I’m coming”

“Not yet, you're not!” she joked. Everyone in the room blushed at this, except Blueblood, the joke completely going over his young mind. Gears entered the office and glared at the professor. She trotted to her desk and sat down.

“Do you know why I called you in here, Gears?”

“Because I didn’t show up yesterday”

“Oh so you do know what you did.”

“Yes ma’am” Gears gritted his teeth

“So why did you skip yesterday?” Her voice was calm but did not lose her authority.

“I had to do something for the princess. I'm sorry for not informing you, that was bad on my part.”

“Okay then, good to know, but I’m not letting you off the hook because you're a stallion. Tomorrow, I want you to help me with some errands.”

“Okay then, Can I get back to work”

“Yes, but don’t forget to wear something sexy and for Faust sakes, wear some makeup and hide those eyesores of scales.” Gears face fell for a moment, but then he quickly gained a neutral expression.

“Yes, ma’am” Gears began to walk out of the office. Crossbones stared at Gears’ flank. She bit her lip as she saw the jiggle of his flank.

“If only he wasn’t a freak of nature, then again”

Gears walked back to his workstation and started on the wires for the staff. Blueblood looked at Gears’ staff. “Mister Gears, what are you doing?”

“I’m wiring the crystal with a staff and connecting it with the trigger so if you pull it the weapon can fire.” he answered angrily

Blueblood winced a bit, but then got off the desk and walked to Doctor Fisherline. She was adding green glowing batteries into her weapon. She turned the dial to eleven, the weapon ping and beeped as the weapon lit up and the radiation meter went into the red zone. Her eyes widened as she pulled out an external radiation meter and saw the radiation in the room was at zero. She had an overjoyed expression on her face.

“I did it.” Fisherline said in disbelief

“What did you do, mis Fisherline?” Blueblood asked, staring at the thing he picked up for her.

“Oh hay Blueblood, I was just checking the radiation from the ammunition for the 1812572114 prototype”

“What ray- ray-iten-aiton?”

“Its radiation, its uh, makes a lot of people very sick, if there's a lot of it that is. It took a lot of trial and error to make the ammo.”

“That sounds bad.”

“It is but now I think it is ready. I’m going to the roof to test it. Do you think you and Gears can come up to the roof with me?”

“Mister Gears! Can we go?”

“I can’t Blue, I have to keep working on the staff, but you can go with the good doctor.”

“Really!? Thank you, thank you, thank you.” Blueblood hugged Gears’ leg. Gears smiled at Blue as he continued to tie the wires. Fisherline tapped on Blueblood’s shoulder. Blueblood let go of Gears’ leg and hopped up and down with excitement.

“Don’t worry Gears, I will take good care of him.” Fisherline stated, Gears nodded as he went back to work, not showing the worried look on his face on what she said.

Doctor Fisherline and Blueblood walked into the elevator and hit the button to head to the roof. Blueblood looked back at Gears. He had his back turned to them. Sparks flew over his shoulder as the professor walked up to him and put her hoof on his flank. But, before Blueblood saw Gears’ reaction, the elevator closed.

Canterlot, CIS Roof
1000 hours, March 21, 1980

The mare and colt got to the roof and walked out of the elevator. Blueblood looked around the roof while Fisherline went to a control panel next to the elevator. She flips three switches, making four ruined stone pop out of the ground. They glowed a pink color as a slow humming noise came from the ruins. A big pink dome covered the entire roof. Seven targets came up from the ground and magical shields popped up over the targets.

“Coooool” Blueblood smiled as he saw the dome

She chuckled. “yeah I guess it is. The princess made it so we can test it out are creations”

“So what are we doing, mis Fisherline?”

“I'm going to fire the prototype at the targets to see if it works.”

“Okay”

Fisherline aimed her weapon to the target that was closer to her. She fired a green plasma bolt with three rings that followed around it. The bolt hit the target, blowing through the shield, the rings burning a hole through the target. Blueblood had stars in his eyes.

“Awesome!”

“It worked, it worked” Fisherline let out a squeal as she looked at her experiment. Blueblood tapped her leg and gave her a smile. “So Blueblood, you and Gears seem to be getting fond of each other.”

“Mister Gears is scary. Well he just looks scary, but I like him more now.”

“Yeah, remember, just because it looks scary doesn't mean it is. Does Gears do anything that scary?”

“He yells but not all the time.”

“Well, yeah, yelling is a bit scary but I think he might be working on it. He doesn't seem like a bad pony, so just don’t let him yelling, stop you from being close with him.”

“Okay”

“Well, I need to go back inside to show this to the professor, and I’m sure Gears wants to see you too.” Fisherline grabbed Blueblood and placed him on her back. Fisherline turned off the safety and range and headed back to the elevator.

The elevator opened, and the two walked to the workbench, passing other scientists messing with their creation. An orange stallion held a silver explosive in his hoof. He put it on the work beach and it went off, but instead of the floor being engulfed in flames, big foamy suds went everywhere, covering everyone in the room.

Canterlot, CIS
1030 hours, March 21, 1980

The professor and Gears were laying on the desk not wearing clothing either were normally seen with. Sweat dripped off the two’s bodies as Gears’ blushed in embarrassment and shame mixed in his face. Gears got off the desk and grabbed his pants and put them on quickly. “So are we even now. I don’t have to go with you tomorrow.”

Gears put on his pink button up and walked to the door. “No, Gears, you still have to do that.”

“What?! But you said”

“I just said it so you could sleep with me”

“But you gave me your word.” Gears' face contorted in anger, tears forming in the corner of his eyes.

“You honestly thought I meant what I said, please you colts are so gullible.” Gears slammed his clawed hooves on the desk, his sharp teeth on full display. After a long moment of tension, there were screams of pain outside the office, making the two ponies stare at the office door. Gears looked back at the professor, then bolted through the door.

BLUEBLOOD! BLUEBLOOD! WHERE ARE YOU?!” Gears shouted over the soap suds. He heard a pair of little lungs screaming. Gears galloped to the screaming and picked him up. He placed Blueblood on his back and ran to the elevator.

Canterlot, Gears’ Condo
1110 hours, March 21, 1980

Gears was bathing Blueblood with fur safe soap. Blueblood was crying as patches of fur fell off his body and landed in the water. Gears stopped scrubbing Blueblood's mane and looked him over. He dried his hooves on and wiped the tears from Blueblood's eyes. Blueblood looked up at Gears, seeing his sad smile etched on his face.

Does it still hurt Blue?” Gears asked in a calm, low voice.

Blueblood shook his head and raised his hooves to Gears. He picked up Blueblood and placed him on his back. “Come on blue, let's get you some clothes for the time being.”

O-okay M-Mister G-Gears” Blueblood said, wincing as the air touched his exposed skin. Gears noticed this and decided to get some ointment for Blueblood instead.

Canterlot, Gears’ Condo
1110 hours, March 21, 1980

Red Harvest was flying discreetly above to peer in the condo window. She saw Gears and Blueblood run out of the building. Blue covered in red suds, she didn’t know what happened or the existence of the damage till now. She saw Gears with dark purple spots on his legs, indicating that he had irritation on them. She flew over to the bathroom window, hid next to it and peered in. Harvest was shocked as she saw that the red suds were removing Blueblood’s fur. He was crying and saying that it hurt. She looked at Gears and saw he also had pain in his face, but he was hiding it well.

“Oh bluey, what happened?” she asked under her breath as tears rolled down Blueblood’s face.

After a few minutes Gears took Blueblood out of the tube and after the two spoke with another she flew to another window to keep them in sight. Gears walked away from Blueblood after putting him on the couch. After a moment of sniffing from Blueblood. Gears came back with rubbing medicine. Gears put some in his hoof and gently rubbed it in Blueblood’s blistered skin.

“It's cold, Mister Gears.” Blue complained

“I know it's blue, but it's good that it’s cold. If it wasn’t, that would be really bad.” Gears said in a stern toun.

“I’m sorry Mister Gears”

“For what!”

“For whatever reason, you're mad at me.”

“What?!”

“You sound mad, I’m sorry”

“Blue I am mad, just not at you. A mare in the office made me do something I didn’t want to do or else she would fire me, and that made me really mad.” Gears explained, wanting to reassure his adoptive son.

“What did you do?”

Gears looked down in shame. Blueblood couldn’t see Gears’ face, but from the window was angled just right so harvest could see the look he had. Harvest ran through scenarios in her head as she saw his face. The more that ran through her head, the angrier she got. She looked back at the two. Gears picked up Blueblood, and the two began to walk out the front door.

Author's Note

don't forget to comment everyone