Twilight and Spike walked into the lab area only to see several large pods scattered next to the lab entryway. Spike frowned “What are those for?”

Vinyl frowned “Safety, I’m all for explosions. They are easy to predict, we know what explosions do but experiments could do anything. These machine create body doubles of us for us to control when we do anything dangerous. Our real bodies will be safe in these, they lower into the ground and are surrounded by reinforced titanium shells.”

Twilight smiled “That very impressive Vinyl, let’s use them then.”

Octavia frowned “You need to insert a sample of genetic material into the machine first.” Twilight put her hoof down while Spike put his claw down, they both winced as they felt something cut them. Spike and Twilight got into the machines and they started filling with a strange green liquid. They felt the entire world go dark and then a moment later they opened their eyes only to step out of separate pod in the lab.

They turned around to see Vinyl and Octavia’s bodies being put together, their skeletons forming then their organs then their muscles followed by skin and fur. Spike winced while Twilight looked like she was going to vomit. When Vinyl and Octavia got out, they provided a bucket for Twilight to vomit in.

Octavia raised an eyebrow “You handled that better that I thought you would, I was expecting to need a second bucket.”

Spike shrugged “I was reincarnated into this body from another world where I was beaten up on a regular basis by my cousin. This isn’t much of a bother to be honest.”

Octavia blinked in confusion “Who would beat up a dragon?”

Spike chuckled “I wasn’t a dragon in my past life, what I was wouldn’t have been able to do even slightest thing against a pony. What wouldn’t even leave a scratch on you could kill my old body.”

Octavia frowned “I see.”

Twilight shouted “Come on you two, I have an idea for something to build!” They bolted following Twilight and Vinyl, Twilight grinned “To power everything we need, we are going to build one of these.”

Vinyl looked at the piece of paper, there was detailed blueprint labelling the entire construction “You wish to build a nuclear reactor, it sound very dangerous based on what you have said here. It can generate a tremendous amount of power but we will need full anti-radiation suits for all of us even with our copy bodies. They won’t hold together for very long in those conditions.”

Spike frowned “Where did you find this?”

Twilight grimaced “The book was in my library, I assume the previous occupant of the tower left it there. I memorised the whole book, it was the first time I was tempted to destroy a book. It was supposed to be in the heavily restricted section. The only pony who had the key to that was supposed to be the Princess, I returned it to her and after I explained everything she took it from me immediately.”

They got to work on building lead lined suits in order to construct the main power source for the building. The four of them then constructed two rooms, one for the suits with lead coated door leading into the reactor room. Even with their suits, the three equine clone bodies dissolved within the hour. Spike on the other hand seemed to have no problems, heck his suit broke down and he was unharmed in the high radiation environment.

Spike had brought the other three radiation suits into the other room before continuing construction. Once he was done the other three looked at him in confusion, Twilight exclaimed “How are you unharmed?”

Spike frowned “I’m unsure. Maybe dragon are immune to nuclear radiation.”

Octavia frowned “The stories do tell that the Dragon and Equestria were engulfed in a massive war. Celestia was stated to use the power of the sun against the dragons and while many did die those that didn’t grew stronger. The radiation of the sun no longer capable of harming them, and that resistance was passed throughout the entire dragon population.”

Vinyl nodded “The radiation output of the sun would make our reactor like a little candle. The sun could output enough nuclear radiation to fry the entire planet a million times over.”

Spike frowned “I wonder how this would affect me when I return to my true body.” Spike used the pods to return to his true body. He then entered the lab area, he entered the nuclear reactor room without a suit. He felt something inside him change and he grinned. He fired a beam of blue energy out of his mouth. He raised an eyebrow “Interesting.”

Spike joined his friends “It seems I can fire radiation out of my mouth like I do with fire but it comes out more as a beam of energy.”

Twilight frowned “That is a very dangerous power to have, the energy output would be enough to vaporise almost anything. I advise you don’t use unless you really have to, I doubt anyone other than another dragon or an Alicorn could take that.”

Spike frowned “So be very careful.”

Vinyl nodded “Basically, now let’s get all of this hardwired. Still I advise you still use a clone body from now on in the lab just in case.”

Spike nodded, his clone joining them in minutes. Soon the four of them had linked up the entire building to the nuclear reactor and turned it on. Octavia frowned “We should construct an AI to run the facility while we are away.”

Octavia frowned “We should also build a host body with sensory inputs so it can go out and enjoy the world. We don’t want an end of the world incident because of a rogue AI.”

Twilight frowned “More importantly it would be immoral to trap an intelligent sapient being inside a computer for it’s entire life. That would cruel.” The other three nodded as they got to work on their new project.

Author's Note

I hope you enjoyed this chapter.