Yet another somewhat six months for an update. Why? Because gaming addiction got me again, crying to myself over unemployment and depressive mood swings, and another settlement needs my help.

I was originally going to name the title, "Crazy Robo," after E-101 Beta MKii's theme, but I couldn't pass up the slightly abridged name after an old Yu-Gi-Oh! monster, Mechanicalchaser. Which fits perfectly for Beta.

UPDATE as of December 5, 2017: I had my cousin, who is slightly familiar with Sonic but not so much on MLP, to proofread for grammar errors. Following his guidelines, the chapter has been corrected.

Mechanical Chaser

"Wait, what!" Rainbow Dash cried in shock from hearing a monotonous voice in the 101 flying robot, shaped and sounding similar to Gamma, after taunting it afloat in Cloudsdale. Once it finally spoke, it swipes a backhand claw in Rainbow Dash's face. "Hey, what was that fo-," he charges towards her with a headbutt. Luckily, she managed to evade the attack and flew away to announce to her opponent.

"You want to do this the hard way!" She pounds her hooves and flies towards her foe. "We'll do this the hard..." She was cut shortly when she tries to launch a forehoof punch, only to hit a ghostly apparition. "Way?" She looks around left to right, only to be struck from behind by its slashes. The attack sends her flying towards a cloud.

"Pathetic." E-101 Beta mkii robotically snide. He had used an afterimage to confuse the rainbow-maned foe and attack from behind. Something a speedy hedgehog would normally have seen coming.

"Ugh, you're fast. But I'm faster!" Rainbow Dash boosted from a cloud to catch up to the machine, only see it instantaneously moved aside with copies of afterimages. "What the hay?!" She does a series of moving in close to her target, but he reacts quickly every time. "Will you hold still?!" Rainbow complained before she gets hit face front with another backhand swipe.

"Ow..." Rainbow Dash brushes off her injuries and decides to see what her opponent is up to. After seeing through his illusionary speed, she is seeing a pattern. He only counters if he is attacked. But if he were to the one to land a blow. Rainbow Dash holds position and taunts him by sticking out her tongue.

The robot becomes impatient and flies quickly towards her. Rainbow Dash manages to wrap her hooves around his head, does a stomp with her forehooves, and bucked him back with her hindlegs.

"Ow..." Rainbow felt bruised from hitting an armor harder than steel. She bluffs to hide her inflicted pain, "Hah! In your face!" E-101 is slightly short-circuited by the damage but he repairs himself. The flying robot then disappears.

"You can teleport?!" Surprised to see how the black automaton can do something akin to unicorn magic. She looks back to see if he strikes from behind again. Instead, she spots him far above her in the sky. The sunlight blocking her vision. "Dang it," realizing his cheap tactics, she uses a nearby cloud to act as her shades. "I'm ready with whatever you throw at me!" She shouted.

At a distance, she could see projectiles coming out of the robot and closing on her. She dodges the missiles. "That all you got?!" She yelled. Later, she hears hissing from around her. Looking back to where the missiles missed, the projectile took a U-turn and are homing in on her. "Woah!" She dodges them one-by-one until they exploded away from her. "Cheap trick." She spots another volley, gets into position, and used her wings to create mini-whirlwinds to counter the exploding missiles. "How do you like that?!" She bragged. Rainbow Dash hides into one cloud, forcing the mechanical being to descend and close in. He found himself stuffed inside the cloud.

"Does not commute." E-101 is slowed by the cloud's tangibility. He and Eggman had some foreknowledge on how clouds work differently in Equestria, but not by further experience; especially when they are amplified by weather magic of a pegasus. Rainbow Dash quickly flies out of the cloud and bucks it back to electrically shock the trapped robot. The automaton swung out with his claws to clear his area vicinity.

"You're not the only one who likes to cheat." Rainbow Dash grabs one cloud and stomps it to shoot lightning at her opponent. To her surprise, the robot protected himself with a barrier. "Jeez, it's like I'm fighting Twilight here."

Both her and the machine charge and collide against each other back and forth. Rainbow Dash using her speed to bash while E-101 has his. Neither side is inflicting damaged, but Rainbow Dash is harmed whenever the robot counters with a barrier. They both clashed together to a deadlock with neither of them holding back.

"Waste of flesh." E-101 Beta said while sounding like Gamma.

"That's supposed to be your insult?!" Rainbow Dash retorted back. He then ejected backwards, slightly confusing Rainbow, stick out one of its claws and fires a laser.

"Almost like Twilight would've done." Rainbow Dash predicted and dodged the attack. "Ha! You missed!" She mocked her opponent before feeling an tremor in the air behind her. "What the-!" She looked back to witness its explosive power of the laser fire. "Woah..." Luckily no Pegasus or pony were close to the area, but nearby Cloudsdale house residence were caught on fire with close-by pegasi trying to put it down. "Hey! You better watch where you firing that thing!" She shouted at the robot.

Noticing the organic's response, E-101 Beta takes this as an advantage. He rapidly spins his body with his arms extended and fires his lasers everywhere in his.

Rainbow Dash takes it to heart as an Element of Loyalty to rescue all ponies, not just ones putting out the fires but also anyone close to the exploding area-of-effect. Many times, she was caught in the crossfire, suffering the burns for every rescued civilian.

""You're attacking everypony! What gave you the right to strike Cloudsdale in the first place!" Rainbow Dash yelled.

"Pitiful." The metal being bearing a 101 label declared. "Compassion for non-ruling organics is a weakness for the vulnerable. A liability to be discarded."

"I can't let you get away with this!" Rainbow Dash declared while ignoring her opponent's unusual speech patterns. "I'll have to take this up a notch." She jet-speeds up in higher altitudes with no ponies or cloud buildings around but with sufficient oxygen. The robot chases and fires his exploding lasers at her. "That's right." She said while luring her opponent and dodging his attacks. "Time to end this!" She boosted far away from her chaser faster than the speed of sound.

"Scanning. Target at sonic speed. Initiating defensive protocols." E-101 Beta stated. It spotted a rainbow ring exploded from miles distance with the rainbow pony charging towards him at Mach-10 in a Sonic-Rainboom. "Activating barrier." The robot dared to challenge what it was originally programmed for, for his opponent matches a speeding hedgehog. The rainbow being collides with Beta's barrier, pushing him down and far away from Cloudsdale.

"Charging shield..." E-101 Beta statically said while holding back his hardest against the Sonic-Rainboom. "At maximum..."

Rainbow Dash used all her might to push the shielded robot until they're above the Everfree Forest. Even with her explosive signature move, the automaton manages to hold its position while Rainbow Dash takes a breather from the Sonic-Rainboom and the previous beatings.

"Systems...nominal." E-101 does a scan to his CPU with a few electrical delays. " Battery level...at 25%...Had I not been...powered by a Chaos Gem...I surely would have...perished..." Rainbow Dash didn't pay attention to his self-analyses while taking a breather. That is until she hears a familiar voice.

"You have done well, Beta." She could her the human doctor's voice like a radio speaker coming out of the robot. "Now return to base."

"Acknowledged." Beta turns around and flies at sonic speed over the Everfree Forest.

"Hey! "Rainbow Dash shouted while exhaustively panting. "Get back here!" She chases him somewhere where the Castle of the Pony Sisters would normally reside. Only to find it vastly different from before.

"This is just like fighting Sonic," Eggman said in front of the monitor showing Beta's visual. "Only with wings and without a Super Form. Not to mention the ability to shoot lightning." He had seen his nemesis using the wind from super-speed, but not so much on electricity. "I wonder how my other minions are doing..."

Ugh...these fight scenes are a pain. I thought it'll be easy like playing a fighting game. Turns out, it's a different challenge to write them out. The past fights were essentially curbstomps with the robots triumphing over minor mlp characters. Going against main characters, it's back-and-forth back-and-forth. "Am I doing this right?" I would say to myself. I don't read much books with action scenes, but when I do, it gets confusing. "Nah, I'll just get this over with."

Hopefully the fight scenes are more simpler for the other Mane fights, and therefore shorter and easier for me to post.

Long Live the Eggman Empire

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