A/N: Just a warning, I wrote this when I was dizzy with a headache and half asleep so get ready incase of poor quality chapter.
Chpater 11
. Celestia sat at her desk in her room doing paper work. Being leader of a nation had its perks and its downsides. She heard that Humans used to have computers like theirs only far superior and acted as if it had a mind of it's own. If only she could use one of those… Paper work was extremely hard due to the fact that GLaDOS asked Celestia to specifically keep all lifeforms away from the vastlands between Canterlot and the Crystal empire. Something to do with removing an unstable human device. Celestia Unfortunately had to use a lot of magic to temporarily relocate all organisms in the area.
. Celestia decided it would be better to confront GLaDOS when all was safe about the issue. For now, It was just mounds of paper work.
. The scientist cores were making good progress. The Nuclear warhead has been recovered and was currently being slowly lifted to the surface to they could safely and fully disarm it. The nuclear weapon was a Plutonium bomb used in WW2. One of the most powerful bomb made by humans .It was mass produced in the final months of the alien war to end the threat once and for all. Not as effective as the AN602 hydrogen bombs which were also mass produced but still had much devastation. Fotunately for the AI team, the chances of exploding were still low considering the precautions they took and the time the bomb has dormant would probably lessen the devastation if it ever did explode.
. While the portable lift pulled back it's metal wire from the large hole in the ground which had been dug( with a wide spread laser) to connect with the old nuclear facility, Rick the infamous Adventure core hovered around the fields.
"Huh…. I thought there was gonna be more danger," The green-eyed sphere said.
. One scientist core turned to him and said", You idiot, Is handling a NUKE not dangerous enough for you!?"
"Yeah," Rick replied", But there isn't enough action in this and where there's action there's adventure!"
. The scientist core just decided it would be best to just resume work.
. Rick went back to one of the military carriers to see if there was anything interesting to do. He checked up on the weapons inside the vehicles. There were mostly assault rifles but there was an RPG along with an old Ack-Ack gun if anything turned up. They all still worked. Would've been fun if there was some action….
. Rick sadly turned hovered away to the S (scientist) cores to see if anything had come up for the past 5 minutes he was gone.
. Chrysalis had heard from her spies that the vast empty lands north of Canterlot were to be kept empty of any lifeforms due to Aperture operations. Rumor had got around the hive that the robots were removing an old human super weapon. Chrysalis decided that whatever this super weapon was, she must have it. It would probably boost the Changeling life progress by centuries.
. Her search team had reported back to her the locations of the 'artificial circles' and their excavation point and Chrysalis decided to lead a squadron of changelings there herself.
. She caught site of robots only that these ones didn't have any apendages and hovered around while operating a crane. She also spotted three other metal green monstrosities (Military carriers) just sitting there. Unsure of what it was the changeling group settled down in a distance and waited for the crane to bring up the device so they could catch site of the weapon.
. Meanwhile at cloudsdale, Rainbow Dash was doing another round with flying practice. Dashing through the floating hoops and obstacles.
. Everything was going smooth until she heard something unexplainably loud and obnoxious. She and all the other pegasi looked towards the source and saw a metal winged creature flying at high speeds though the thing wasn't even flapping. It flew up to an empty cloud that had no cloud buildings on it yet and dropped onto it.
. Rainbow Dash had no idea how the huge metal hulk could use clouds as a standing ground but went ahead to investigate. As she approached, a glass top of the thing opened up and a blue-eyed sphere hovered out.
"Bollocks! I never ever wanna do that again," Wheatley exclaimed.
"Hey egg-head! What ya doin here?" Rainbow asked.
. Wheatley turned to the pegasus and responded ", Oh hey there horse thing. Not much. Kinda used a plane to fly out to search for people. Got out of the portal and just flew into the air! Went really fast though. Kinda accidentally up some birds with an Aperture design missle. I hope those were birds atleast. But anyways, so I found this lever that probably does speed so I used the thing-."
. Rainbow Dash got extremely annoyed with the long talk the thing was giving.
"Look! I just want a straight answer! Why and how did you get here!? And who the heck are you!?"
. Wheatley paused for a second. ", Uh…. I'm looking for my old friend and I borrowed a plane. My name is Wheatley, the Intelligence Dampening Sphere of Aperture design." Wheatley said while staring at the pony with uncertain.
"Wait a minute," Rainbow Dash said", Are you telling me your one of the Aperture things?"
"Yup! Say! You should visit some time! We've got great faith plates to use there it would really be-" Wheatley said.
" Then would you mind telling me how the heck you managed to land solid heavy metal on a cloud!?" Rainbow asked
"Hmmm… oh that?" Wheatley inquired", I honestly have no idea. Was getting sick of flyin for a sec so I thought 'Hey! Why not try and land on a cloud like one of those winged pony things?' so this option popped up asking if I wanted to turn on anti-gravity option or something so I said yes and that's when I landed my plane on the cloud."
. The conversation continued on as Rainbow Dash was calming down her shock with questions.
. Back at Aperture GLaDOS was working on one of her projects while Twilight and Lyra were relaxing at one of the old waiting rooms between testing. Recovering or rather processing the mass of history that they had both just received. GLaDOS decided to fix up the automatic refreshments center while the two ponies talked it over on the couches.
. GLaDOS was just about to attach a compartment on her project when Morality came rushing in.
"Let me guess," GLaDOS said ", The idiot is at it again."
"Yup," The panicked Morality core said ", He stole a jet to try and look for Chell."
. GLaDOS sighed", Lets just hope he doesn't do any major public damage."
. Meanwhile in the waiting room…
"Yah know, In all my life I'd never thought I would be able to prove my theories of humans true. Much less experience even a little portion of their lives," Lyra said.
" I know right?" Twilight said while sitting on the couch ", These refreshment drinks are so different from what we normally drink and the snack bar that's provided is filled with flavor."
. Twilight was eating from a bag of Lays chips.
"Yah know Twilight," Lyra said ", I may never take anything in life for granted again. Seeing how the humans went through much warfare, violence, poverty, and other horrors just to get to stages of life such as ours, we should be grateful of what we have."
"I know," Twilight said ", I'll never look at life the same again. For instance, Remember the war with the Griffons we were taught in school? Cause that was the biggest war in Equestria and yet the human nation called the United States of America kill far more in just ONE battle in a Civil war."
"I feel depressed yet grateful at the same time," Lyra said.
"Well cheer up then. GLaDOS said she would give us a small tour of Human society and technology later on," Twilight said.
"Well I guess your right," Lyra said ", But for now lets rest up our heads."
"Maybe there's a library down here that I can check out," Twilight wondered.
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" Hand over the relic!" Chrysallis commanded.
"Are you crazy!?" a scientist sphere yelled ", The destructive power of a nuclear war head is far too complicated for your primitive minds to understand! Muss less control. You'd most likely blow your own home up without proper management of the weapon!"
"Fool! Do you know who you speak to!?" Chrysallis challenged while clearly insulted.
"Well I see a big over grown stink bug ready to be squashed!" Insulted Rick.
. The AI cores stood in front of the huge missile currently being deactivated. Rick held an M1 carbine using his built-in electro-magnetic moving system. It was if he had invisible hands. Chrysallis and her changeling squad stood facing them eager to take what they thought would be the turning point for changeling survival.
"If you will not give it over we will take it by force," Chrysallis announced while she and her troops charged their horns.
. Rick aimed the .30 calliber bullet rifle ready to shoot while the other cores slowly hovered backwards.
"What the hell are we gonna do!?" a core yelled ", if she fires that beam in our direction, the radiation might trigger the bomb."
"Heck It might even increase the firepower!" another yelled
"I know what we do!" Rick yelled "Shoot first!"
. Rick fired the gun and it hit the changeling queen in the shoulder causing her to fire her energy bolt leading to her troops to do the same.
. The scientists dove away as the blast hit the nuke.
"OH FOR THE LOVE OF ANDROID GOD! RUUUUUN!"
"AW COME ON YAH WIMPS!? ITS JUST A LITTLE ADVENTURE!"
"SHUT UP RICK!"
. All cores shot past Chrysalis into their vehicles and immediately sped away. Chrysalis grimanced from the bullet wound but detected a large source of power building up. A look of horror and fear shown on her face as she teleported her changelings and herself away.
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. GLaDOS was continuously working on her unannounced project when she received transmission.
. GLaDOS sighed. They would have approximately one hour before there would be a nuclear explosion.
"Morality!" She transmitted ", Watch over the facility while I'm gone."
"Wait what!?" Morality replied in confusion.
"Hmmm. Well I guess this will have to do." GLaDOS said as she activated her project on the work table.
. It was an android body similar to that of a young adult female human. The android's entire body was white metal with black lines running around it in a unique design. It was dressed in a bright orange shirt and pants. The hair was more like a shell than multiple strands.
. GLaDOS's body went still as the android activated. The eyes opened and they were a pure yellow glow as the black lines running down the body gained a glowing yellow line in the middle.
" I suppose this prototype will have to do for this." GLaDOS said to herself in her new android body. The body would always be connected to GLaDOS back at the main AI chamber by a tiny portal inside the android body's head with multiple wires connecting the android to GLaDOS so it would never go out of range if she used wireless signals. Which meant GLaDOS wasn't actually inside the body but controlling it. But from GLaDOS's point of view she WAS in the thing.
"Well then, I believe its time to take action," She said in her still monotone voice.
. Celestia had just finished paper work and had decided to return to her bedroom for a quick rest. When she got there however she was met with a most strange sight. A huge white metal bipedal creature that was atleast a foot taller than her was standing there as if it was waiting for her. Celestia was too stunned to do anything.
"Sorry for the intrusion princess but I do believe your assistance is required," The thing said.
"GLaDOS?" Celestia asked from the recognizable voice.
"I will explain on the way but for now we must go rally up the other alicorns for the disaster that must be prevented," GLaDOS said.
. Luna was currently residing in the royal dining room taking a quick lunch break when a sudden violent white flash happened and Celestia along with the strangest bipedal creature she's ever seen appeared.
"Tia, what is the meaning of this?" Luna asked.
"We will explain on the way Luna. But for now we have an emergency to tend to." Celestia said
. Princess mi amore Cadenza was overlooking economical progress in her quarters when a bright flash exploded and the two royal sisters along with and unknown creature was present.
"Wha…." Cadence began.
. Back at Aperture Morality railed into the waiting room.
"Princess Twilight! We have an emergency that requires your help!" Morality exclaimed while handing her a wrench.
"Wait whats going on!?" Twilight asked in alarm.
"GLaDOS will explain everything but for now you must go!" Morality urged.
"Alright then but how will a wrench hel- " she began but didn't finish as the Eureka Effect teleported her away.
" What about me?" Lyra asked.
"I highly suggest you stay in this room for this event." Morality said.
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. As Twilight appeared in a flash, she was surprised to see Celestia, Luna, Cadence, and a human-looking creature that strangely resembled GLaDOS's eyes.
"GLaDOS… are you…" Twilight began.
"No I am not human. This is simply another body I made for myself to become mobile. As for the emergency, I have gathered you alicorns here due to your exceptionally powerful magic as found out by in my research. As you all probably guessed, there is an apocalyptic event is about to happen to Equestria. A weapon known as the Plutonium nuclear bomb created by the humans was unstable so I sent a team of AIs to deactivate it. Unfortunately Chrysalis and her troops somehow managed to reactivate it even more and it is about to explode in 20.8093 minutes." GLaDOS explained", Now I believe you all can perform efficient shielding spells."
"Yes but Wait," Cadence began ", I thought bombs only had a 15 meter radius of damage."
"Cadence, Do you remember the stories of the Ancients and their technological accomplishments?"
"Wait, So your telling me that the Ancients really are humans and that this is one of their super weapons!?" Cadence asked ", Dare I ask how destructive it is?"
"The Plutonium bomb is by far one of the most powerful nuclear weapon designed by humans. These bombs were able to destroy a city twice the size of Canterlot. Also being unstabalized by Changeling magic which consists of element radiation not even present at human time, the estimated destructive force would be all of Equestria as you call it." GLaDOS explained.
. All princesses gave a look of shock.
"Can't you do anything?" Twilight asked.
"I'm sorry but Aperture Science is still not fully up and running yet. Our emancipation shields in Canterlot will keep the city safe but we do not have the means, devices, or time to efficiently stop the explosion." GLaDOS said
"Then thou must tell us what must be done?" Luna inquired.
"Correct,"
"Then whats the plan?" Celestia asked.
"I will have to position you four in equidistant positions of the center of the bomb. From there all four of you must work together to create a surrounding force field using your combined alicorn magic. I calculate that it should be enough to block out the harmful part of the explosion and when the shield breaks, what is left will be a really long shockwave. I will provide my own assistance though I warn you it will NOT be easy. I have already calculated the positions." GLaDOS said.
All four princesses were slightly overwhelmed at the task.
"Then tell us where it is and we will get the job done," Cadence said.
"No time. I will send you there myself." GLaDOS said and in another flash they were all sent to their positions.
. Twilight appeared facing the open lands. She was surprised to see GLaDOS appear right besides her.
"Wait, Why are you here?" Twilight asked.
"No offense but you ARE the weakest of the 4 so I thought it would be more strategically intelligent to provide my own assistance from your side. Now I believe you should start the spell." GLaDOS said.
"Oh right!" Twilight said as her horn flared up establishing a connection with the other alicorns. The shield spell was put in to work as a very large violet dome around the bomb. GLaDOS could see the other princesses in the distance with her superior vision.
. Once the dome was completed, GLaDOS put her hand on the energy shield. Her hand crackled with energy as the density increased along with a variety of other improvements and things were added such as a function that the explosion would not blind the princesses. From where her hand was applied, The shield turned a dark shade of blue.
. Celestia sent out a mental message ", Well then girls, I hope GLaDOS is right. Let us brace ourselves."
. Unknowignly to anyone GLaDOS had intercepted the message somehow and smirked Which was kinda creepy.
. Meanwhile at CLoudsdale…
"And then I was like 'no! there IS a bird there so you better check on the door' but he was like 'Shut up its only a bird!'- "
. Rainbow Dash was normally the one who ponies tell to be quite and stop boasting but this was just ridiculous. Her day couldn't get any worse until she saw Hoops along with Dumb-Bell and Score fly by.
"Hey guys look who it is. Its Rainbow Crash," Hoops taunted as his friends chuckled.
"What do you want guys," Rainbow said.
. The three ponies were about to respond until Wheatley spoke up.
"Um, I'm sorry but I think you blokes are mistaken. Yah see her name is Rainbow Dash and Crash. You guys should really get your heads checked," Wheatley said.
"Beat it tin ball," Score said ", This is personal business here."
"Hey! I'll have you know that I'm made of very sturdy carbon fiber! What ever that means. If anything I should be called Carbon fiber ball or carbon ball but no that sounds too organic so I think I'll go with Fiber ball but that makes me sound like a vegetable and vegetable are pretty nice but from what I've heard humans say their pretty nasty and it kinda- " Wheatley said.
"Will you shut up already?" Dumbell said
"Shut up? Well one time I met this bloke. Good tester. But he never really enjoyed- " Wheatley began.
. Rainbow Dash could only watch in fascination for the next five minutes as the three bullies eventually got sick of Wheatley's nonsense and flew away with out wheatley even noticing.
"- And so I said no but he said yes so I-" Wheatley continued.
"How'd you do that?" Rainbow asked.
"Do what?" Wheatley asked.
"Annoy them to the point where they leave?" Rainbow said.
"Oh that? I have no idea. Right in the middle of conversation people just leave. Its just bloody rude! I mean I could rant all day about it!" Wheatley said.
"Please don't ," Rainbow said.
"Okay. I won't. but I think I need to check back on my plane cause something odd is happening. I can feel it."
. Rainbow Dash turned to look at the jet to see something similar to the shields in Canter lot eject out of the plane activate a emancipation shield or whatever those egg heads called it. The shield spread around all of Cloudsdale trapping everypony inside causing panic.
. Just then the floating shield generator projected a huge hologram of Morality.
"Hello citizens of Cloudsdale. There is currently a nuclear crisis at hand and we've sent a shield generator to your cloud to protect it from the blast. Our calculations show that the shock wave generated by the explosion will severely damage your cloud structures without protection So Aperture urges you to remain calm. The shields will subside once the blast is over." Morality said as the giant hologram turned off.
. All pegasi immediately panicked and ran indoors to protect themselves.
. Rainbow Dash's curiosity got the best of her.
"Hey egg shell. Do you think its safe out here?" She asked.
"Well the emancipation shields are pretty sturdy." Wheatley said.
"Cause I just wanna see WHAT is going on here!" Rainbow said.
"Well I guess-" Wheatley didn't get to finish as the blast wave hit Cloudsdale. The shields lit up brightly but still strongly held. The loud noise of the after explosion clouded out all other sounds.
!BOOOOOOOOOM!
. The struggles began as a blinding white light ignited from within the dome.
!BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
. Celestia was having the most trouble holding the shield up. She had no idea how she was able to hold it up after failing to hold it up to a small 'shotgun shell' as they called it from a turret but GLaDOS had explained that those 'rounds' had piercing modifications whatever that meant.
. The reached out mentally and saw that everyone else was also having a hard time. Behind the shields all she could see was light. What could possibly make humans want to make something such as this!? It was just scary and horrific. It appeared that Equestria still had lots to learn about warfare.
. Celestia could see cracks forming but pushed on with more energy and the cracks disappeared. As the light slowly dimmed in what seemed for every, Celestia could feel the pressure building up.
. Celestia heard in her head a telepathic message sent from Twilight.
"Everyone! GLaDOS says that when the barrier breaks, prepare to immediately shield yourselves from the shockwave. She says that the most destructive part will have been gone but the suppressed shockwave can still cause major damage at this close of a distance."
. Celestia could already feel the barrier cracking. She was the SUN goddess. How could something so small overpower her? But on the other hand, this WAS an old human weapon tampered by Chrysallis's magic.
. As the dome finally shattered, the four princesses immediately threw up their own shields around themselves. Celestia could only hope that the other cities would not be too damaged.
. The residents of Ponyville were going about their daily business filled with joy when a great force stronger than the normal winds along with a tremble and a boom noise swept through the town causing much collateral damage. Nothing too major though. But that didn't stop the majority of the population from screaming and dashing around in panic.
. The residents of Canterlot also panicked. Though it wasn't as bad for them due to the emancipation shield with lit up in the blast, the tremble still effected them and the explosion noise caused even more panic.
Fortunately in Cloudsdale the only thing that cause fright was the flashing shields and the trembling noise leftover from the suppressed explosion. It subsided after a good 15 minutes.
"What the heck was that!?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Hmmm," Wheatley began ", The message that I received said to 'prepare for nuclear explosion',"
"What the heck is that supposed to mean?" Rainbow asked in fright.
"Oh don't worry that WAS the explosion." Wheatley said. Not sure why it was only a blast wave…"
"The All- clear has been given," The shield generator announced to the town", the Emancipation shields have been now informed to let all ponies, other life forms except changelings, and other vital supplies pass through. Please keep in mind to not fly over the vastlands north to Canterlot for the next 2 months or this will result in internal organ shut down due to concentrated radiation poisoning. Thank you and have a good day."
. The shielding turned invisible and pegasi came trotting out of their homes in fright.
. The Crystal empire faired somewhat better than ponyville. With Shining Armor generating his own shield spells, the Crystal Empire only panicked under the trembling and noise.
. As The explosion died down, all princesses received a telepathic message to return to Canterlot's castle.
. As the four princesses and GLaDOS gathered in the throne room, Celestia ordered the gaurds to leave them.
"Well then. That went better than expected," GLaDOS said
"Better than expected!?" Cadence exclaimed ", I could literally feel the power of the blast behind the shields! We could've died."
"Could've died," GLaDOS said ", Fortunately though the cities received minor collateral damage with minor injuries."
"And how does thou know of that?" Luna asked
"My drones are quite efficient when it comes to gathering information," GLaDOS said ", It'll be even better when my satellites are in place tomorrow."
. Luna decided not to question that as she was too tired.
"But still though. You owe us an explanation!" Celestia scolded.
"What are you blaming me for?" GLaDOS asked ", It was Chrysallis's magic that triggered the event. Other than that, what would you like to know?"
"Why in the world would humans make something like that!? Its horrific!" Celestia yelled.
"As you all probably know, the humans used super weapons called nukes to fight the Xen aliens on their last days on earth." GLaDOS said ", Those bombs are the nukes."
"Jeez! Its like discord without mercy!" Twilight said.
"Then lucky for you the god of chaos was more into having fun than killing," GLaDOS said.
"But why would a race much more wise than our own rely on such mass destruction?" Cadence asked
"In order to imagine what the humans sacrificed to save their kind," GLaDOS began ", Imagine a bomb like that only 1000 times more stronger and bigger of an explosion."
. The Alicorns nodded
"Now imagine hundreds of those bombs exploding all over the Earth destroying most of the life forms present," GLaDOS said ", The humans didn't just fight of the aliens, they killed and wiped out many species of life on the planet. After that, the entirety of Earth was uninhabitable. They even managed to rip a huge hole in the atmosphere. How it got fixed, I have no idea. The humans had eventually left the planet in search of a new home."
" Wait so your telling me that this bomb isn't the most devastating one?" Cadence asked in disbelief.
"Unfortunately not," GLaDOS said ", When the hydrogen bombs were unavailable, the humans resorted to the first ever nuclear weapons. The Uranium and Plutonium bombs. The one you just stopped is the Plutonium bomb which is pretty impressive due to Plutonium being much more destructive."
. The Alicorns would've smiled if they weren't so exhausted.
" Fortunately though, Any other nuclear lab being handled in the future will be fully safe once Aperture has fully reactivated," GLaDOS said.
. The princesses all visibly relaxed under that.
"What do you expect us to do with transportation to the Crystal empire and back?" Celestia asked ", the Train tracks are most definitely destroyed now."
"Train travel will definitely be a bad idea. Any life form should stay away from the blast zone for atleast the next two months due to left over radiation." GLaDOS warned ", I will have portals opened up between Canterlot and The Crystal empire for anyone who cannot teleport. Come to think about it, I have no idea how radiation will effect magic radiation so its best to just portal there and back."
"I thought thou doesn't not use magic?" Luna asked.
"Its not magic," GLaDOS proudly stated "Its simply one of Aperture's most prized possession. The Portal gun. Now I suggest you all get some rest. I know royal duties are anything but easy."
To Be Continued...
A/N: Just another reminder, I wrote this when I was half asleep so if the chapter was crap, you know why.