Silver Blue

A line of police chariots rushed through the streets, it took a while and some digging, but scanning the network and finding Vex's illegal selling of the stuff he stole, we found his location. I was more than ready for the fight, my rifles were reloaded and extra arcane crystals were stored into my reserve pouches.

Dragnet pulled the cyber-chariot, as she always did, and turned a corner. She looked back at me and sighed.

"Are you sure you got the info right?" she asked with a raised brow. The blaring of police sirens behind us nearly drowned her out, where it not for my enhanced hearing.

"Positive," I replied. "They stayed at the steel mill, I think the mill is just a mask, though, like how Vex found me so easily." The memory of my ear being shot off was fresh in my processor. Call me old fashion, but I was looking to shoot more than his ear off.

I pulled out a rifle from a weapon's rack, hooking it up to my side, I then took another rifle, holding it in my hoof fingers.

Upon reaching the steel mill, we're immediately shot at, Dragnet quickly unhitched herself and jumps into the chariot with me, I pass her the rifle while I took the other I put on my back.

My targeting system focuses on twelve ponies, they had armor like before but they were better armed. I was getting a vibe theres more than a simple steel-then-resell black market scheme going on here.

"Gee, partner." Dragnet said as she took aim and shot a Sigma gunner off the roof. "I don't think they were expecting company?"

I fired at two more Sigma Gunners, I targeted another hiding behind a pillar, he was a clever one, but with careful aiming I shot his rear leg at the second knee, making him fall forward, easy target now. With a shot to the head he was down for good.

The rest of the force came in and soon returned fire, the fire fight went on for a few minutes until the last of their forces fell to Nightstick's shotgun round to the head. We wasted no time in entering the building, I went the rout I took before, finding the place I was killed, the memory played out in my mind again but I filed it away.

I saw the spot I hid when watching Vex's goons, Then I noticed something up with the wall. Trotting up to it I ran a scan, the others entered the room with me and Dragnet shook her head.

"Don't run off on me like that, Blue." She said, I can't help but love that motherly tone of hers.

"Dragnet," I started. "Do you have family?"

Dragnet was silent before she answered with a smile. "I had a husband and a foal, but...." her smile melted away as she looked away. "It... It didn't last."

I lowered my head, I heard the tone and my stupid cpu had to look up the information. Her husband and foal were killed seven years ago, a drive by shooting. it was then she joined the force.

"I never got married...." I replied. "No foals, my mother passed, my father's still a royal guard." I looked to her with a smile. "He still makes me strong however."

The chief came up to us and looked at the wall.

"Find something?" he asked, looking at the wall.

I nodded as I punched the wall, leaving a hole that revealed a metal door.

"Hidden door, I can blast it with a sonic blast, but be ready for a booby trap."

After everypony got back and I stood in front of the wall, a panel in my foreleg opened as a small gun-like device revealed itself, it had a dish that folded open and in a matter of seconds, a loud pulse fired, blasting the wall to pieces and revealed the door completely.

I moved up and dug my fingers into the creases of the door, pulling it open. Once I got it open enough, I was right about the booby trap.

"BOMB!" Dragnet yelled as everypony moved to cover, I however stayed where I was and attempted to disarm it.

It decided to blow up anyway, sending me flying across the room and smash into the wall, then everything went dark.

When I awakened, I found everypony surrounding me, I gave out a groan, Nightstick and Gravel Road, another officer, where standing over me.

"Well, I checked, her chest plate needs replacing." Gravel said as he took said component off, it was dented on the side and marred scoring was evident on it.

"Can you fix it?" Nightstick asked as she was looking over my internal circuits, how'd they know how I worked?

Gravel sighed. "It's not like a 76 Celestia Chariot.... I mean I can do the body work, but...." He groaned. "Give me a hammer and a torque wrench, and I can reattach it, maybe hammer the dents out." He said as he put the plate on a table.

A few officers ran out for the tools needed and with little time the chest piece looked ready to go. It's then I felt something connect and I found I could move again.

"AH!" I shouted. "The hell happened!?"

Dragnet ran up to me. "Calm down, the bomb blew off your chest plate and we're trying to jury rig a temporary fix, just, no more playing with bombs, okay?" Gosh I love that smile.

I nodded and slowly got up, Nightstick came back with the chest plate and fixed it on.

Once things were in order, I stuck my head into the room the steel doors lead to, only to get another nasty surprise.

The room lit up with gunfire, several automated guns fired at me as they trained their optics on me. I snorted and went in, standing still as I let them run their ammo dry. A look of boredom on my face indicated I was in no mood for this nonsense.

After a minute of firing the guns went dry, I went up to each one and yanked their power supplies, I turned around to see another metal door open on it's own, there before me in another room he stood.

My eyes narrowed as I looked up at Vex, snorting as I slowly approached. "Hello, again. Vex, is it?"

Looking down at me he tilted his head. "Do we know each other?"

I chuckled which turned into a laugh. "Six years ago, in that room next to this one." I said motioning my head to emphasize. "You shot me to death, tortured me, It was agonizing, painful."

Vex was standing on a platform, behind him a room with pillars holding a sealing above his head, below the platform posts held it up. My guns slowly swiveled outward to both my sides.

"Ah, yes." Vex said looking at me with what sounded as though he grinned at his hoof work. "The officer who shot one of my ponies."

My targeting recitals focused on the bottom posts, if the data was right, he'll fall to the bottom floor. Fall to my 'gentle' waiting hooves.

Vex sighed as he paced. "You do not know the work we are doing, officer." He said as he went on a rant. "The Princes..... well, Princesses now, would have these artifacts to be locked away! To gather dust." He looked to me as his horn glowed and a tarp beside me.

"The Celestia's Heart," He said, stating what the artifact was. "And the Lunar Crystal, paired with but one more artifact, can become one of the most powerful arcane weapons Equestria's ever seen!"

I looked over at him with a raised brow. "Six years I was gone, and your only able to get the heart recently?"

Vex looked at me for a time before continuing. "The heart was difficult to find, I had to pull strings to get it here."

Once he turned he began ranting. "For years I worked to get this far." he said as he looked at the crystal, on a pedestal on the other side of me. "Ponies far and wide will no longer have to worry about other races, the fear of Dragons, Griffins, no, they shall fear US!"

"This is what this is about!?" I said in shock. "The fear of the unknown!? Equestria has lived in peace with griffins for thousands of years, nopony is worried about them, Dragons, okay maybe, but what could be so dangerous!?"

Vex stared at me for a time before he pointed at me. "You." I blinked. "You, a bastard unholy creation!" that's going a bit far. "A mix of pony and machine, you have no right!"

My brows furrowed. "And what of you, Vex? Let's see who's under that mask. How do we know YOUR not a cyborg as well?"

Vex sighed before pulling his mask off. He.... Whoah, HER!

Under the mask was the face of a mare I never seen before. She had red fur, orange mane, done up in a mowhawk, with a long ponytail in back. Her eyes were yellow, She had a badass scar across her left brow, over the bridge of her muzzle down over the right side of her lips, Despite the scar, she was hot!

I blinked. "Nice mane." I said with a genuine smile.

Vex grinned, "Well, thank you!"

"Shame it's about to get roughed up..." I said with real disappointment as my rifles fired at the supports for the balcony Vex stood on.

The mare tried to get away from the falling platform, but I fired several rounds to cut off her escape, sending the unicorn falling to the floor in a heap with the balcony. She groaned as she looked up at me, I approached with my hooves making loud 'Thunk!' sounds.

My foreleg pulled back before I swung it, clocking the mare across the side, sending her across the room, sending her crashing into a rotted wooden wall.

"You are under arrest, for the murder of many police ponies, two royal guards, and most of all, ME!" I said as I grabbed Vex and flung her across the room once more, sending her to crash into the pedestal holding the Heart of Equestria.

"Stop!" She yelled, firing at me with those magic bolts. The look of horror on her face was precious as the bolts bounced off my armor as I slowly advanced was priceless. "No, please, listen!"

I grabbed her again and pulled her close as I glared into her eyes. "You have the right to remain silent," I threw her yet again, sending her through he doors and into the room I was murdered, the other officers stared at us as I picked her up again, continuing, "Anything you say can be used against you,"

"Stop!" Vex yelled only for me to throw her into a pile of boxes, as she got up she targeted Nightstick only for me to grab her again before she could fire off a spell bolt.

"You have a right to an attorney, If you cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed to you." I threw her to the hooves of Dragnet who was waiting with a pair of cuffs and a magic suppressing ring.

"Do you understand your rights, Vex?" Dragnet asked as she cuffed and placed the ring on her horn.

Vex, who was now bloodied up, bruised, and and defeated. "You'll hear from my lawyer!"

I looked down at her and sneered. "My programming is preventing me from killing you, right now, but I'm a cop, not a vigilante."

Vex snorted as she glared at me. "I get out, I'm gonna have you turned to scrap."

Dragnet and I looked to each other. "That sounds like threatening a police officer, Blue."

"I'm incapable of acting out my anger, Dragnet." I said as I grinned at her. "Oh my, I think I saw some evidence over in that corner, it be a shame if some righteously pissed off Officers decided to put their anger out on a cop killer while I turn away to investigate it."

Needless to say I stared at a curious mouse while the precinct practically beat the hell out of Vex, The whole programming bit was all bullshit since I was free of it now, never the less, Vex was put securely in my chariot and put in jail with me watching her. She sat in the cell, staring at each other for a while, I can now win any staring contest.

Unfortunately, I still had to recharge, Dragnet came into the cell room with a cup of Applesauce for me, and a cup of coffee for her in magic aura.

"How about a rest, partner?" She asked with her lovely smile, I shook my head.

"Battery is 63%, but I can still operate in good condition." I said as I watched our guest, waiting for the DEA to get here and take our friend off our hooves.

Vex just sat there staring at us, Finally she spoke, "So this your girlfriend?" She asked, glaring at Dragnet, my partner snorted and glared at the cop killer. "She looks tough, think she's tough enough to take a magic bolt to that pretty face of her's?"

I glared at her, but Dragnet took the bait. "How about I come in there and bash your horn into the bars until it breaks off, freak!?"

I pulled Dragnet back. "Stop, she's trying to goad you."

"It's working!" Dragnet said as she growled.

"Oooh, lover's spat." Vex said as she grinned, one of her teeth missing. "Maybe you two should go to the garage, I'm sure your metal friend has an app or two to help you relax!"

Dragnet growled and levitated the chair in the cell, throwing her out of it, She grinned as she sat the seat back down.

"Oh my, you seem to have slipped out of your seat." my partner said with a grin.

Eventually, I had to go to 'sleep', simply put I needed to recharge, sitting in my chair with wires hooked up to me, I put myself in a sleep mode, I had no dreams, but still, I didn't like putting Vex in charge of somepony that could fall asleep while watching her, what else could I do?

When I woke up, I found Dragnet sitting next to me watching me. I couldn't help but shout a little as it startled me.

"Dragnet, the hell!?" I said as I kept myself from pulling out my guns. "Jeez, never, EVER startle me like that!"

Dragnet sighed and smiled. "Sorry, I got bored, Chief's got me pushing pencils, I finished the paper work on Vex." She said as she sat down with a large box in her hooves. "We got her on so many laws broken, she'll rot for a long time, Celestia's coming by tomorrow, to send her to tartarus."

I nodded. "I'd prefer letting me shoot her with revival talismans to keep her alive so I can shoot her more, but hey, what can we do?" I looked at the box and finally my curiosity got to me. "What's in the box, Drag?"

She smiled as she pushed it to me. "Some good news, We looked around and found out some of your stuff got put in storage by your Dad, he..." She rubbed her neck with a hoof. "Uh, He found out last night while we went on the raid, and.... He's furious, but wants to see you."

I blinked, great, more drama, I took the box and scanned it. Dragnet grinned. "He did say he hoped you'd like what he could save."

I opened the box and found some things, a photo of mom and dad, Ocean Blue, and Silver Lining, a smile formed on my mechanical face as I had the photo put on a monitor, I then pulled out the next item, an old stuffed Royal Guard plush my father got me as a child, my mechanical hoof fingers were gentle as possible with it, time wasn't gentle with it, none the less I put him next to my chair.

The other things were my old badge, name tag, and mom's Recipe book, which I gave to Dragnet, in case she found something in it I could actually eat.

At the bottom, my eyes went wider then my optics could perform.

"YES!" I shouted, which I'm sure the whole station heard. Inside the box were my old Ponyformer toys. They were in decent condition with some wear. Dad tried his best to take care of them.

Getting up from my chair, and letting the cables drag behind me, I went to an empty shelf and set them up on display, with Prowl at front and center.

Dragnet trotted up beside me and leaned against me, careful of the cables. "So, what was up with you getting mad at Vex when she snipped about us like that?"

Dragnet's smile melted and she blushed. "N-nothing!" She said, "Blue, you know I had a husband, I'm not going to be able to find somepony else."

I blinked. "That's not an answer, Drag." I smiled and shook my head. "I don't think I'm capable of living a normal life, I doubt I'll find anypony unless they where a cyborg..." I looked away. "I don't even have....." I went quiet for a while before sighing. "Vex was just trying to get to you, don't let her. Soon she'll be in Tartarus, and I'm sure we'll have more cases."

Dragnet growled and turned. "It's not right, they should have let you have, 'Something'!"

I shook my head. "I could probably get 'upgrades' but I'll never feel it."

Dragnet snorted. "Well, I'll head home and see if I can find something from this recipe book, you go back to sleep, Blue, and try not to let it get to your head."

I shook my head. "Your the one who let it get to your head, partner. Is there something you want to tell me?"

She went silent then ran out. "Bye!" and she's gone.

I chuckled and looked at my photo of my parents. "I wouldn't mind either way, I just don't think it'll work out now."