Defender Ch 5

Sinister shadows

The mechanical beasts one red optic glowed as it rebooted. It's gears turned and pistons squeaked as it unfurled out of its position, throwing pinkie off of its back. The beast stood on four legs it's one cycloptic eye scanned its surroundings, proscessing the information. The royal guards went into battle positions and awaited permission to attack. The beast looked up at the princesses. It let out a loud mechanical roar, fluttershy hid behind her friends and shook in terror. It's gaze locked on to Celestia,

/alicorn pony-power level 9- name: princess Celestia- threat to mission-objective: terminate/

it said in a monotone voice, it pounced at her, the guards threw their spell at it but hey only bounced off its metallic hide Celestia threw her own spell at it. The spell only temporally stunned it but it gave the mane six and Silver Flight to get into position. Applejack ran down and bucked in the maw.

/earth pony- power level 4- name: unknown- no threat- objective-disarm/

came its metallic voice as it batted Applejack away with its paw nocking her unconscious.

Rainbows turn was next as she flew up and dived down towards the metal monster it said a similar thing to her as it did Applejack and with almost impossibly fast reflexes caught Rainbow by the tail in its jaw and threw the Pegasus pony aside. Rainbow dash lay on the ground groaning. The guards kept throwing spells at it but nothing seemed to have effect. Even Pinkie Pi was throwing random objects that she seemed to be pulling out of nowhere. The cat pounced at Celestia again who was busy shouting orders to the guards but she was saved by her sisters blast. The beast was knocked to the side and land near Twilght Sparkle. Its eye focused on the violet unicorn,

/unicorn pony- power level 6- possible threat to mission- objective: terminate/

Twilght Sparkle tensed as a compartment opened on it's shoulder to reveal some sort of weapon, as is was about to fire it when Silver Flight flew up and pushed Twilght Sparkle out of the way. He then turned to face the giant robotic cat.

/Pegasus pony- power level 7- name: Defender-mission: destroy him/

it pounced, Silver Flight instinctively flew up then down pushing the beasts head into the dirt. It recovered quickly and looked at the Pegasus who was now hovering out of reach. Suddenly the metal plates of its hide shifted and changed reforming the beast so that it looked like a bird rather than a cat. It gave out a mechanical screech as it flew into the air after its prey. Silver Flight dodged making the metal bird crash into the protective barrier. The force was enough to shatter the pink dome. The ponies shreiked as they dodged the dome pieces as it broke apart like glass. Silver Flight looked at his opponent which swiftly recovered, the beast charged at the Pegasus. Silver Flight flew up higher and higher, the robot on his tail. Silver Flight looked back to see the the bird open its beak to reveal a threatening glow forming. The bird shot a beam of light at the blue Pegasus. Silver Flight narrowly dodged his mane singed. The Pegasus suddenly made a sharp u-turn and dove towards the monster. He could feel himself pick up speed as he played chicken with his emotionless foe.

Silver Flight could feel the intense speed on his body. The wind pushing back his face, the strain in his muscles. To him everything seemed to happen in slow motion. He felt energy build up within him and he had no choice but let out as speed.

The ponies on the ground looked up to see Silver Flight charging towards the metal beast. Rainbow Dash recovered enough to witness the other pegasus do the spectacular. A sonic boom sounded followed by a white ring of light. Silver Flight had become nothing more than a streak of white light in the sky and was headed straight for the beast. It looked as if an arrow of light had pierced and shredded the metal bird apart from the inside out. Everyone's jaws dropped. But they picked them up again when the silver streak did not stop. It fell at breakneck speeds and hit the mountain side throwing up dust and debris. Every one galloped toward the newly formed crater to find Silver Flight unconscious.

"get a medic, now!" ordered Princess Celestia. Everyone rushed to get the injured the medical attention the needed.

"damn!" a white hoof slammed against the computer console, "Even with his memories gone he continues to resist and fight, he should've forgotten how to use his abilities," the white unicorn scowled at the monitor that displayed the the satellite view of the battle. Tubes and wires lay tangled everywhere, some were connected to ports that were imbedded in his shoulders.

"you may have prevented him from recalling his past," the unicorn turned his attention to the figure in the cage, "but you cannot suppress his need to protect the weak and innocent. He has been created with that purpose in mind, that value has been implanted with in him, a part of his natural instincts, I cant say the same for you, though,"

"oh, shut you old fool," the unicorn snarled at his hostage, "I know he can't be taken down easily, as he was created to be the most powerful Pegasus alive, just as you made me the most powerful unicorn in existence," isn't that right, father?" he got out of the chair the wires disconnected from the ports on his body, "now excuse me while I upgrade myself," he said as he walked through the doorway, leaving the figure alone in his cage.

Silver Flight heard voices, one of them sounded like Celestia's the other was unfamiliar. The doctor perhaps? They seemed to be talking about him.

"these are very unusual results," sounded the doctor, "for one thing his bones seem to reinforced with some sort of carbon fiber and coated with a thin layer of unknown metal," his voice seemed to have an edge of puzzlement. Silver Flight kept his eyes closed and body still, he wanted to hear more, "another thing is that he has some sort of highly advanced microscopic machines in his blood," he continued, "also out of curiosities sake I did some genetic testing,"

Celestia's voice boomed out, "did discover anything?"

"yes, but the results are confusing, he is a Pegasus but he has both unicorn and earth pony genes that would be impossible for any natural born Pegasus to have," now it was getting interesting,

"care to explain further?"

"oh yes, right, well for one thing he has genes that are commonly associated with, and only found in highly talented unicorns,"

"you had said 'natural born Pegasus' in a earlier phrase, can you explain?"

"yes, I a hypothesis that he was created rather than born but only he can confirm it," Silver Flight was shocked at this information. Created? Maybe it's true, maybe the dreams that he has been having were not dreams but memories, but if that was true then the figure in his visions was his creator. many questions burned in his mind, who was he? Who and what was his creator? What was that metal beast? where did he come from?

Suddenly he had flashback. he was flying, South by the looks of it, he was flying as hard as he could, "faster!," he thought, "must warn them, they are in gave danger, if I don't their world will be destroyed," a shadow loomed behind him, "oh no you don't, you aren't going to stop me! He looked as some sort of armor formed on his flesh he turned to face the metal monster. He felt energy build with in him and shot a magic beam out of his wings, the beast dodged, "this is wasting time," he thought, with a powerful flap of his wings he broke the sound barrier, out of the corner of his eye he could see the robot falling into the mountain side, before he could react he saw ground coming at him followed by a sharp pain...

Silver Flight shot up, catching the attention of the princess and the doctor. The princess walked towards him, "how are you today?"

"fine," he said.

"how long have you been conscious?" asked Celestia

"Long enough," Silver Flight replied, "and I don't think the doctor is far from the truth,"

"Have you gained some memory back?"

"Snippets of it but enough to know I'm not a normal pegasi, any way how are the others?"

Celestia looked at the door, "why don't you ask them yourself," he saw the mane six, minus Applejack, walk in. Rainbow Dash had several bandages wrapped around her.

"Where's Applejack?" asked Silver Flight.

Twilght Sparkle answered, "oh she's fine she only has a couple of cracked ribs, she'll be up and about in a week or so. What about you? Your the one traveling faster than sound when you hit the ground,"

"a soar muscle here and there, but nothing broken,"

Rainbow Dash limped to Silver Flight, "it was so awesome the way you defeated that-that-,"

"robot?" Silver Flight said.

"yeah that," she said, "and the way you did that sonic silver-boom! It was so totally awesome,"

Celestia took her turn to speak, "you mentioned you have gained some memory back care to tell us,"

Silver Flight then told them about his visions, about the figure, the glass tube, everything. "that's all I remember," he finished. The others remained in a silenced awe,"I don't know if it makes any sense but my instincts tell me that all the answers lay in the north and that we should head in that direction,