Omega grew closer to the ponies.

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A few months had passed, Omega and the ponies had enjoyed winter.

No sightings of anything from Bio Int or anything else, a meteorite landed in Neigh York, but there was no concern, the only things that came of meteorites were unlucky deaths, fire, and probably some iridium, which Omega had plenty of.

but now, unknown to Omega, it was time to put winter away.

Walking into town with his specially designed flak jacket to not only warm him but keep him somewhat safe, Omega made his way to the center of town to find everypony gathered and listening to Mayor Mare.

"And so, maybe, we can get Winter wrapped up on time this year, and we do this by tradition, so no magic." the mayor concluded, it was obvious to Omega that he had arrived late.

Wandering briefly, he was caught up in a song.

"Three months of winter coolness, and awesome holida~ays." Dash started

"We've kept our hoovsies warm at home, time off from work to pla~ay." Pinkie continued

"But the food we've stored is running out, and we can't grow in this co~old." Applejack continued further

"And even though I love my boots, this fashion's getting o~old." Rarity finished the first verse.

"The time has come to welcome spring, and all things warm and green, but it's also time to say goodbye, it's winter we must clean. How can I help? I'm new, you see? What does everypony do? How can I fit in without magic? I haven't got a clu~ue." Twilight sang loud and clear, Spike on her back, the Grudge resting in front of him.

Omega was immediately done with listening to this shit, so he started a song listed as Play in case of bullshit that I don't want to hear.

Everypony stared at him and he began rocking out to the horrific, nightmare inducing beats. He stopped after a minute, and looked back at everypony.

"You have a winter to wrap up, focus on that." Omega commanded.

Everypony went back to their assigned jobs. slowly at first, but after confirming that Omega would not burst into flames or grow a mouth big enough to swallow a pony whole or some other stupid fuckery, they went about their assignments full fledged.

"Omega, that was creepy, why do you have that... demonic symphony." Twilight querried, honestly concerned about the cyborg's mental health.

"Don't worry Twilight, I only played that song because I did NOT want to hear about wrapping up winter." Omega complained, having little tolerance for those kinds of songs.

"Oh, okay, to be honest, I didn't want to sing much. I just need to know what to do, without magic." Twilight said, feeling helpless.

"Well, when spring comes around, my people usually plant the crops, and clear the roofs and the ground, and I'm guessing that since pegasuseseseseses can control the weather, then they would clear the clouds. Me, though, I'll use a flamethrower, it's not magic, it's technology." Omega explained, changing his warp setting from "Battle" to "Recon" and summoning a flamethrower, his armor was still only about 50% functional, and if he needed to scout out someplace, he needed lighter, less destructive weapons, so he had a .44 cal Desert Eagle, a flamethrower, an MP5-S or swierlich, german for 'heavy', because it was fitted for 5.56 NATO rounds, and an AK-47 in 7.62 rounds, because it was just awesome, and a last, a Benelli M4, or M1014, same thing, with flechette shells, flechettes were basically a lot of thin rods, about 1mm in diameter, but Omega liked them because they had a great piercing threshold.

"You're going to, just, throw FLAMES everywhere?" Twilight interrogated.

"Yes, you have to admit, it is a sure fire way of getting rid of the snow." Omega said, laughing at his pun.

"But it's inefficient, you would need to flamethrower the whole damn town and surrounding meadows and not burn anything important down." Twilight observed aggresively.

"Well, how is winter made then?" Omega changed the subject on a dime, dismissing the flamethrower.

"What? Oh, nevermind. Winter is caused because Princess Celestia and the months ago recovered Princess Luna cast out a weather spell to cover the land and skies in snow and ice." Twilight explained.

"So the Princesses cast out a magical winter, and the ponies have to clean it up with shovels and ploughs? Sounds pretty unfair to me, and I doubt the Princess are going to make winter manually, so why can't you use magic? It's a tactic that nopony has probably thought about doing, I bet that in Canterlot, magic was the preferred method of clearing winter." Omega philsophized.

"You're right on that, all the unicorns in canterlot would just magic the snow away, no problem, winter wrap-up would only last about 15 minutes, and 5 of those were spent waiting for Celestia to tell everypony that all of the winter was gone." Twilight revealed.

"I bet in the Cloudsdale place, they don't even have winter, because it's above the clouds and shit." Omega crudely pointed out.

"Right again, Cloudsdale is above the clouds, so it doesn't heed to winter, they still lug a few tonnes of snow up there to cool down the clouds, it's great, I went there one winter during my studies, after I learned the cloud-walking spell." Twilight revealed.

Flaring up her magic while nopony was looking, she cast a small, highly concentrated ball of magic into the ground, and cleared out about half of an acre.

"That's some serious skill you got there." Omega praised.

"Just doing it the traditional way, at least, traditional in Canterlot." Twilight explained, giggling at the rushing feeling of breaking the rules.

"There you go, do that a few times and winter will be half gone." Omega deduced, deciding to flamethrower the ground on his side, melting a lot of snow as the dead grass went alight and progressed onward, melting all the snow in it's path.

They did this for handful of minutes, sneakily magicking and not so sneakily burning away the snow, the snow was mostly cleared, they decided to get a drink.

[center<>]Applejack looked at the field, it was barely cleared of snow, but through the kinds of miracles that only winter and scoring brownie points with a princess could concieve, the ground was on fire, and the fire heading towards the field.

"What in tarnation?" Applejack said aloud, confused over why and how this was happening.

"I know, I saw about 2 and half acres of snow cleared in a few seconds." Rainbow Dash added, swooping in beside Applejack.

"Fires have been slowly sweeping the town for several minutes, darlings, we are so very lucky that our homes are fireproof, even Twilight's tree library has fire-proofing magic on it." Rarity piped up, trotting up to the pair.

"I just, just blinked and the snow was gone, no water, just gone, vaporized, the animals were happy about it, but I'm not sure about what did it." Fluttershy meekly added, gliding into the group.

"The only onee who aren't accounted for are Twilight and Omega." Pinkie Pie chimed, popping up out of nowhere.

"But Twilight woudn'a just broken the rules about no magic, would she?" Applejack argued, not entirely sure of herself.

After all, Twilight was a highly skilled unicorn whose special talent is being good at magic, and she wasn't here. Omega was the type to be very destructive, and with his technology skills, he could make a way to start fires with ease. None of them were sure.

"Alright, this is the last spot that needs melting." they heard Omega's deep voice say.

"But there are ponies over there, I can't tell who they are though, the sun is in my eyes." they heard Twilight's studious voice say.

"Well then tell it to get out." Omega replied laughing, drinking from a bottle.

"Sun, get out of my eyes... it didn't work Omega." Twilight replied, sounding genuinely disappointed, she took a drink from a bottle just like Omega's

"I was just kidding, heh heh, let's just go down the cliff and do it there." Omega proposed, sounding, off, he took another drink.

"Sure, I'd love to." Twilight accepted, taking another drink.

They slid down the small cliff, only a few dozen feet tall. The group of five watched them from over the edge.

"Did anypony hear what I think I just heard?" Applejack asked unsurely, hoping her conclusion was wrong.

"Sounds like, um, uh, it sounds li~ike." the others stuttered, trying to finish the thought.

"It sound like they're gonna start rutting." Pinkie Pie lilted, not affected by what was being implied.

"That's what ah thought, let's watch, just to make sure." Applejack insisted, peering over the edge.

Twilight was casting out magic, Omega holding her steady, however, being in his somewhat intoxicated state, he held her flanks in place. The spell fired, and a few seconds later the snow had melted away, leaving wet ground.

"Nice." Omega praised, still holding Twilight by the flanks.

"Yeah, I've had a lot of practice." Twilight replied, Omega released her, and they both drank deeply of their bottles.

Twilight suddenly stood up on her hind legs, and hugged Omega, they both started crying.

It was at this point that the other 5 had realized what was going on, Twilight and Omega had been not only been ingloriously pissing all over the rules, they had been drinking in public.

And now they had reached the state of crying and blubbering, which would be shortly followed be either sleeping, or vomiting AND sleeping.

"You know Omega, you make me feel like a better pony, even if I break the rules, it's for the greater good, right?" Twilight gushed, voice heavy with alcohol

"That's right, Twilight, there are no good or bad decisions, just results, and the results of this are really good, winter is gone, and that's all that matters." Omega reassured, voice heavy with alcohol though not as clouded.

"But what will Mayor Mare think about this?" Twilight asked in concern.

"The mayor can suck a bag of dicks, winter is gone anyway." Omega confirmed, winter would not be back until, the princesses cast the winter spell again, in late october.

"What is the meaning of THIS?" speak of the deviless, Mayor Mare angrily trotted up to the intoxicated pair.

"Winter is gone, just like we all wanted." Omega answered logically.

"Yes, BUT, you used MAGIC to make it go away, and that's against the RULES." Mayor Mare reassessed, still thoroughly pissed off.

"Whose rules exactly?" Omega questioned cheekily.

"The, uh, I, um, the ESTABLISHED rules." Mayor Mare faltered, her anger started to crack and it was being filled in by frustration.

"Listen, Mare, I know the value of hard work, but hard work is for things that cannot be done in an easier and more efficient way, winter was cleared in 15 minutes, and Twilight's only pains from doing it almost entirely by herself is a minor hangover, so calm your fucking crotch-tits, okay? Me and Twilight are going to go into the forest and find something to kill, because we're drunk." Omega forcefully proclaimed, grabbing Twilight in his hand and quickly leaving towards the forest.

Mayor Mare could only gape in awe, she silently walked back to town, entered her house, went into her bedroom, and laid down for the day.

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Omega threw up, feeling no hangover, as his cybernetic parts performed their functions to negate such effects, Twilight on the other hand, needed some medicine and water.

"I don't know why we stayed here for the night, but I have some medicine for your hangover." Omega said blankly, his mind was empty, he looked around before letting go of the pills he was holding and his brain returning to normal.

"Thanks, my head hurts like hell." Twilight said graciously, taking slow gulps of water and swallowing the medication smoothly.

"Would you like to know what it's like." Omega offered vaguely.

"What do you mean?" Twilight replied in suspicion.

"Being a cyborg, it has made my life a lot better, kept my body from breaking down in a lot of situations, and not to mention the non-fading memory perk, I've kept out of a lot of trouble with that one, being able to recall something perfectly in seconds, however many seconds it would take." Omega extrapolated.

"Uh, that, sounds good, hook me up with some robot brain parts." Twilight accepted, hesitant at first, but feeling okay with her decision.

The procedure only lasted a handful of minutes, sedation, incision, installation, and closing it up again, Twilight woke up with only a minor ache which was quickly fading.

"All done, in only 10 minutes, now your body with work significantly more efficiently and you'll have a lot more memory capacity, enjoy that, I also installed a battery, which should stay charged at all times, because magic is like a super electricity, I made it into a nice magic design." Omega debriefed, pointing to the small circle now in her body, at level with her shoulders, it was a glowing lavender hexagram.

"Nice, thank you Omega, I'm sure this will help me in my studies." Twilight said gratefully, turning to exit.

"Can you have Rarity make a copy of your measurements and then can you bring them to me?" Omega asked the odd question without hesitation.

"Um, why?" Twilight asked back, not sure where the gray and red man was going with this.

"I need them to make armor, I want you to join me in Bolverk Squad." Omega revealed the epic plan.

"You want me? Of all ponies, me? Why me? Why not somepony else who could help you in your killing quests." Twilight began to deny.

"They're Black Operations, meant to be done without a trace and without fault, we don't just kill, we acquire information on evil people to stop them from hurting society as a whole, it's an important part of keeping the world safe, and I want you to help, you're the best I could ask for to do this job, human or pony, Twilight, I need you to help me." Omega extrapolated, desperation creeping into his voice, she was a valuable team mate and a good friend.

"Wow, I, I didn't know how important that was, I was really afraid, to be honest, because I thought you basically ran a butchering squad." Twilight admitted, she had always held some unsureness about Omega, he seemed so cold, so distant, always willing to do whatever he wanted, no matter who or what said, he wasn't reckless, he was just either abusive of his strength, or precisely calculated and exactly measured with it, probably both.

"Ha, no, I don't hurt anyone who doesn't deserve it, but the people I do have intelligence that I siphon to help me and my squad defend the peace." Omega extrapolated further, his voice returning to its calm tone.

"Okay, Omega, I see your point, I'm sorry for doubting you, though you can see why I would...." she trailed off.

"I do, and I understand." he reassured.

"...Sooooo, I'd be happy to join, you've made me realize how boring my life will be, you've given me a sense of anti-trepidation, I fear that nothing would happen if I don't get myself out there and look for it." she lilted, Omega had indeed planted seeds of desire for action into her mind, changing her as a whole, she felt like she could take on anything.

"Alright, remember, Twi, measurements." Omega reminded happily.

"Okay Omega, I'll get them to you tomorrow." she promised.

"Do you mean tomorrow tomorrow or tomorrow a week from now." he asked playfully, laughing.

"I mean tomorrow tomorrow." she answered, smiling, they had kept her delays with the ticket conundrum and applebuck season as a joke whenever each of them used the word tomorrow.

"Alright Twi, see you then." he farewelled to the departing mare.

He had to prepare things.

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The next day, Twilight had indeed returned with a poster-case, magically opening it and removing the contents, it was a measurement diagram with Twilight's name written in fine writing in the top left corner.

"Alright, time to work on that armor, we'll start off with something simple." Omega mumbled, using his decent skills of weaving and other such shit that he had developed at one point.

He crafted a triple-layered kevlar weave and covered that with steel carbide fiber weave, coloring it to look like the black and dark purple, like the night sky, it would protect against most standard rounds, yielding to higher magnum sputters and NATO spitter rounds

He remembered which rounds were which using 2 codewords, spitter and sputter. SPI-tter is the spike end, SPU-tter is the hemisphere end.

Finishing the simple armor jacket, which would run down her back to just short of her cutie mark, and cover her forelegs down to her hooves and most of her neck, he loaded it into memory, locked it Twilight's DNA, and, with Twilight's help, made it into a spell that she could use to summon the dark purple and black jacket from it's data form.

"Alright, that's all, you can go now, if you want." Omega finally said.

"Okay, Omega, I heard that Applejack's little sister, Apple Bloom, was trying to get a cutie mark, and I felt like helping her, I'll see you some other time, bye." she farewelled, leaving the HQ and heading back into town.

Omega looked at her retreating form, closing the door, he walked over the large crystal he had set up in hopes of gathering raw magical energy, he wanted to try a few things to see if he could manage to perform magic, he had an idea on acquiring a magical well and magical outlet.

Focusing on the energy, he felt a warm, tingling sensation in his right hand, which was bare, the left holding the Ballistic Nightmare, he looked at it, it was a symbol of the sun with a crescent of the moon on it, the sun was yellow with orange rays and the moon was white with the rays that crossed its side being dark gray, the thing had a black outline on the rays, between the rays and the celestial bodies, and between the 2 celestial bodies themselves.

He had an outlet, and he had raw energy in front of him, he focused on casting a spell, not sure if he should try something simple to start, he was torn between a temporary pony-transformation spell, and a clone spell, suddenly, the magic flared and was completely used up, he was knocked back, and then he blacked out, the last thing he heard was a pair of thud noises.

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Twilight sighed at the sight in front of her, the newly formed Cutie Mark Crusaders were chattering away happily at ideas to earn their cutie marks, they soon left, leaving Twilight with nothing more than to explore her robotic mind parts.

True to Omega's word, her battery stayed at full charge no matter how long she watched it, she had loaded copies of all of her learnings into the robotic memory, still not occupying even a tenth of the immense space, and that was over a thousand books worth of information, she galloped home, her breathing remaining even and steady, instead of labored as it would normally be, the robotic parts were more than worth the slight cost of non-vital flesh.

Reading her books more than twice as fast as before, she cleared out a quarter of the library by the coming of night. Sleeping with much more ease, she loved her new additions.

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A few days had passed, and a new event, the running of the leaves, had approached, the Whitetail Woods worked on a different schedule from the rest of Equestria, and the Everfree Forest worked on whatever schedule it damn well pleased, but the point in fact was that for the Whitetail Woods it was fall, and that meant the tree shed their leaves, but they needed help doing that.

So she had, with her still new sense of adventure and seeking thrills, joined the event, because it was also a race.

So the event was here, and Twilight confidently approached the starting line, however, she saw Applejack and Rainbow Dash standing there, both stretching, and Dash had her wings tied down for some reason.

"Hey girls." she greeted cheerfully.

"Huh? Oh, hey Twilight, what are you doing here, come to watch the race?" Dash guessed, not noticing the number sheets on Twilight's flanks.

"No, I'm going to be competing." she answered happily.

"What? Ha ha ha, you? That's hilarious, good one Twi." the two mares praised, not understanding Twilight's seriousness.

"I'm not kidding." she corrected, stopping both from laughing for a few seconds before they started laughing even harder, Twi was getting a little pissed off.

"You're SERIOUS? Let me laugh harder!" Dash choked out between cracked giggles and guffaws, she was interrupted by Twi poking her in the muzzle with a hoof.

"Look at my face, you think this is a fucking game?" Twi said with vigor, pointing to her very serious face.

"Geez Twi, calm the language, there are foals present." Dash mildly criticized.

"I don't care, I said to Omega that I thought it would be a good idea to participate in the run, and he agreed with me, I will prove to you that this is no Celestia-damned game, Rainbow Iris Dash." Twilight voiced with ferocity, using Dash's full name for emphasis.

"Okay, Twilight, I stopped laughing at the fact that you're competing in a physical competition, but don't expect us to go easy on you." Dash replied somewhat meekly, Omega's strength had been rubbing off on Twilight in chunks, it seemed, as her voice now carried much more power and leadership than before.

Twilight suddenly shot off like a bullet, it tooks Dash and AJ several seconds to realize why, the race had started.

Through the various shenanigans that they each performed to slow down the other, AJ and Dash had tied for last place, they sought out the winner, they found the pony wearing a gold medal on top of a thick black and dark purple jacket, they looked at the mare in the face, and were shocked.

"HA, I won, what do you have to say NOW?" Twilight prodded, dismissing the Shadow Shell armor jacket with a flash of magic.

"How did YOU of all ponies win?" AJ interrogated.

"I didn't get tired, like the other 9 of the Top Ten runners." Twilight answered, gesturing to a group of exhausted, gasping ponies.

"But you can't RUN. How did you get fast enough?" AJ continued.

"I practiced, and Omega helped me, turns out he knows a lot more about health that somepony would think." Twilight answered again, trotting away from the pair of last place athletic mares.

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The next day, Twilight was eating breakfast, when a loud crash sounded out at her door, followed by another, and another, and then her door decided it wasn't going to take any more punishment, and opened, Omega and somepony rolled in, engaged in a hardcore CQC match, with bleeding faces.

"STOP!" she commanded to the 2 males, they both stopped what they were doing, stood up, and looked at her expectantly.

She looked at both of them, Omega looked fine, and the pony looked fine as well.

She observed the mysterious stallion, bright orange eyes, light gray coat, dark red mane and tail, with a slim yet incredibly strong build, he was a unicorn, horn standing proudly on his head, his cutie mark was a red shoe that was so dark a shade it was almost black, the shoe had flared tips, he looked almost impeccably similar to...

"Omega?" she querried.

"WHAT?" the 2 males replied simultaneously in their deeper than Johnny Depp voices.

Author's Note

Twilight is now somewhat cyborg, and she's okay with that, AND she's now casually swearing, Omega is having an obvious effect on her.

That aside, Omega has fucked up, he's fucked RIGHT up, and on his FIRST attempt at using magic.

Next chapter coming soon, I <3 you all.