I walked in the door of the boutique. It had been another good day at school. I was becoming very popular among the ponies there. Especially the younger fillies and colts. I mean, how many ponies get to say they're friends with a robot. My eyes widened when I saw Rarity in front of me. "Sweet Celestia Rarity! You scared me!"

"Sorry about that darling. I just have something very exciting to show you!" Rarity held out her hoof and on it, were two very small blueish lenses.

My eyes widened again. "Are these what I think they are?"

She nods. "finally made x-ray scanners small enough to fit into a lens."

I stop for a second. "How long will it take for you to install them?"

Rarity waves a hoof. "Not long. An hour at most. All I have to do is hook them to your coding systems."

I nod and wait patiently while I feel Rarity open the door on the back of my mane. I felt the flip of a switch and everything went black.

**********

"Sweetie Bot Powering On..."

I look around the room. Nothing seems any different. I definitely don't see any x-rays. I look behind me and see Rarity looking at me. I couldn't easily read her expression. I hate it when I can't tell exactly what ponies are feeling. I always end up saying the wrong thing. I clicked my command key. Run: "Data"

I look at Rarity's face. I see on the screen in front of me, "Sad but also a little proud."

"What's wrong?" I asked her. "What happened?"

Rarity put a hoof up reassuringly. "Don't worry. The upgrade went through fine. You should be able to create a code in your subspace to activate the lenses. It's actually a problem with this." She held out her hoof and I saw a small motherboard with a switch attached. I recognized it from almost two moons ago. It was the pony camouflage switch.

"What's wrong?"

"I'm sorry Sweetie Bot. I couldn't figure out how to fix it. I remember struggling with it when I was first creating it. I could take a ton of moons for me to remember how to remake it perfectly."

I think for a second. I can't tell if I'm truly sad or if I was just kind of counting on having my fur back eventually. "You know what Rarity? I don't want it anyways."

Rarity looked confused. "What? Two moons ago you were practically begging for it. Now you don't want it?"

I shake my head. "Showing everypony that I'm a robot hasn't really been that bad. Button still likes me.." Rarity growled a little at the word Button which made me laugh a little. I don't know why, but she doesn't quite like Button. Probably because he's been getting me into video games lately. "Apple Bloom and Scootaloo still like me. The only ponies who don't are Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. But they didn't like me to begin with."

I had kind of lied there. Diamond Tiara had actually been way worse than she was before. She had become a really nasty pony to me. She threw rocks and taunted me. I honestly didn't know how much more I could take.

Looking back, it turns out, not so much more...

**********

I was sitting in my bed that night. I decided it was time to figure out these x-ray lenses so I could show them to my friends in the morning. I clicked my button and entered the subspace.

Sweetie Bot! What are you doing up so late? You won't have any time to charge if you're here for too long!

Me: That's alright. Cloudsdale scheduled us for a really sunny day tomorrow. Whatever my battery can't hold, my solar panels can make up for it.

Makes sense. I'm glad you're finally figuring everything out about your new body.

Me: Believe me. I am too.

I walked over to my keyboard.

Run: "Free"

The usual quick flash of white, and I was back to coding. I took a couple coding classes this month so I would be even better and more precise with this. I haven't had to use the memory command for a while. Although I don't quite remember why I was using it. I guess that means it worked.

Command: |

Command: X-ray

Define: X-ray?

I noticed that I didn't quite know how to connect this to my new sensors. I think I could figure it out though. I waved my hoof and opened another screen. It was so cool how I could do that. I typed Show: "Recognized_Components" The screen loaded for a second and I saw the names given to all of my components. Thermal_Cams, Memory, Hard_drive... you get the point.

I saw a picture of the lenses with the title "Unnamed." I guess I have to name my own components now. I clicked on the name tag and typed "X_lenses"

I walked back over to my command screen. I reset the screen to start over.

Command: |

Command: X-on

Define?:

Define: X_lenses activate=true

Another prompt...

"This command will activate component "X_lenses" yes/no"

I clicked clicked yes and a download bar popped up. Another prompt popped up. "Activate command detected. Auto-write Deactivate command? yes/no"

Wow! My brain was writing code for itself!" yes.

I saw the code begin auto writing on a separate command screen.

Command: X-off

define: X_lenses activate=false

Another download bar. It seems to have just inverted everything I already typed. Man! Rarity really put a lot of work into building my processors! When both downloads had completed, I stepped over to the keyboard.

Me: Goodnight AI

Goodnight Sweetie Bot

Run: "EXIT"

**********

The next day... The day that I can never stop thinking about. Everyday that I'm out in this forest, I think about that day. You will all understand in a while. Let's continue with this bit of the story. The last bit that I would be happy.

The last bit where I would be safe at all...

**********

I got out of bed and walked over to my schoolbag. I picked it up and started dragging it down the steps. I threw it to the side when I got down the stairs and went into the kitchen to see Rarity cooking breakfast. I decided to test her limits a little bit and walked right past her towards the pantry. I reached up and grabbed the bottle of cider that she keeps in there. I walked back across the kitchen and poured a glass of it. Rarity finally looked over.

"Sweetie Bot! What do you think you're doing?"

I laughed as she continued to scold me. Finally she sighed, "Fine! You can have a little but just a little. I don't want you going to school drunk!"

I laughed again and drank the glass I had poured. By the time I was leaving for school, I had eaten and gotten my artificial mane brushed but I realized I never actually tried my x-ray vision. I figured it might make it hard to walk so I just decided to wait until my friends were at school to show them.

When we had all arrived, I made a big spectacle for them. "Rarity gave me the x-ray lenses. I think I coded it right so I should be able to use them." They watched as I pressed my command key. Run: "X-on" My vision wavered for a second and then I was seeing things in green and black. There were a few different colors marking where different things were. Nice touch Rarity. I thought.

"Did it work?" I heard Apple Bloom ask. I looked over and saw her heart beating along with all of her bones. I nodded and saw her and Scootaloo jump around celebrating. I pressed my key again Run: "x-off" My vision returned to normal.

"Wow!" Scootaloo said. "with a robot friend who's a total coding nerd, what else could we want?" I smiled and we jumped around. Suddenly, the entire mood changed.

I remembered a movie I watched with Rarity one time. Correction: I watched it. Rarity covered her eyes most of the time. It was a horror movie called "Final Destination." It was about a pony who had a premonition and messed up Death's design and he started hunting them down one by one. I remembered that there was always one thing that set the death scene in motion. The toilet leaking, the mug cracking, there was always something.

Sorry for getting off track, I haven't watched a movie in almost thirty moons. What I was trying to say, was that the chain of events was about to start with one action. In fact, what I didn't know, was that disaster would strike in about three seconds.

Three: A jealous pony watches me and my friends jumping from the side.

Two: She bends down and scoops up a rock.

One: The rock sails through the air in my direction.

Zero: The rock strikes the back of my head...

**********

My eyes flash red for a second. I turn around just in time for another rock to hit me directly in the eye. I see Diamond Tiara picking up another rock and winding up for another throw. I look over and see Miss Cheerilee talking to a bunch of parents. I guess I have to handle this myself.

I walk towards Diamond Tiara. I feel something in my brain snap. I'm done with this. "Sweetie Bot STOP!" I hear Apple Bloom yell.

As I walk I hear mutters of "Her eyes are red!" and "We better get inside."

Diamond and I start circling around like dogs about to fight. "Well well well..." She says. "Look at the all-powerful robot. Can't even stop a couple rocks." we continued circling until Diamond Tiara pounced on me. She began hitting me with her hoof in the face over and over. Ponies watched from the sidelines as one of my eyes cracked.

"You pissed me off one too many times!" Diamond yelled as she continued literally punching my lights out. "Had enough yet? Stay out of my way!"

I look at her face, fuming with anger. "Y-Y-

"What? Can't even speak now?"

"You're just jealous."

Diamond shrieked with rage and continued hitting me over and over. I began to feel my consciousness draining. I use my last bit of strength to push the enraged filly off of me. We both stand up, directly across from each other. I reach down towards my command key. "Sweetie Bot DON'T!" I hear Apple Bloom yell from behind me.

It's too late. When the keyboard pops up, I type...

Run: "Defense"

Just as I thought, my sides pop open. Two minigun looking blasters pop out of the compartments. They extend until they are full sized. They begin shooting towards Diamond Tiara.

My x-ray sensors blink on and off in my left eyes because of the impact Diamond Tiara had made. I see x-ray from one eye and normally from the other. While one eye saw blood, the other saw bones shattering under the impact of the bullets. Shot after shot, bullet after bullet. Cheerilee looked up from her conversation in horror.

My lack of sleep the night before caused me to lose power fast. My battery couldn't keep up with the sudden power surge. The guns slowed down and I collapsed to the ground. I looked over to see the dead pony in front of me. The strange thing was, I felt no regrets. Once again...

Everything went black

)To Be Continued...)

Author's Note

All inspiration for this story and Sweetie Bot's design go to this image and these songs. Give them a listen I know you'll love them