A/N: My head hurts. Sorry about the wait. Computer kinda crapped its bed.
Chapter 12
. GLaDOS was in her lab finishing up her android body. She had finished repairs, nanobot installation, Hammer space, and many other things. Rick and the scientist cores had fortunately returned safely. Wheatley the idiot was still in the skys somewhere. Tomorrow she was going to demonstrate Aperture's beloved Portal technology to reopen traveling in the area the nuke blew up. Lyra Heartstrings was unfortunately sent home due to maintance issues. GLaDOS always enjoyed someone who had the learning spirit. In her thoughts, she thought it would probably be a good idea to refind old human monuments such as the Statue of Liberty. Cave Johnson had been a Patriot in his days. He never openly said it but Caroline could tell.
. She remembered the robots that Aperture had leftover from humans. During the war between Britain and Germany out of a stupid Olympics fued. The Royals (British) and the Nationals (German) whipped up their finest soldiers of the century. The Battlefield Heroes (A/N: Battlefield Heroes was a great cartoon shooter game I used to play. Its not as popular anymore but it was still cool. I've decided to minorly include it in the story. So don't expect much of it.) were some of the best soldiers ever born. Of course this was an awkward war that took place between World War 1 and 2. At one point, both Royals and Nationals came up with robots for soldiers. They had two generations of Soldiers on each side. Aperture DID have both generations but for some reason preferred the 1st ones. They claimed that they looked better.
. GLaDOS also remembered when the Americans came up with their own version. Jane Doe was an unofficial soldier in WWII. When the military deemed him mentally unstable, he flew to Europe and went on his own Nazi killing spree and participated in many American battles. He became a legend. He eventually went to work as a mercenary for Mann Co. as the Soldier. Eventually Mann Co. went to war with Gray Mann who owned an army of robots who were copies of Soldier's mercenary team. The war was eventually won and world domination was prevented.
. The Americans decided to use Gray Mann's design for the Soldier robot. They created their own Soldier army which mainly consisted of the Soldier robots. Aperture also had many of these robots in reserve.
. Not that she needed them but if GLaDOS were ever to reactivate them, she would have to make sure they didn't go on a destructive rampage knowing that their countries original lands were now inhabited by inferior races compared to humans (A/N: Not trying to be racist here but its true.). These robots much like the Aperture AIs had emotion and a VERY strong sense of nationalism and patriotism.
. GLaDOS came to another thought. Maybe she should build an android body for The Morality Core and a couple other picked cores. Her mind came across the complexity of the plans and the requirements.
'Mabye later,' GLaDOS thought to herself. For now, she would have to overlook the rocket launches for the satellites.
Meanwhile in the seas East of Equestria...
. Griffin Warships were heading west towards the epicenter of the massive disturbance detected. A couple days ago, a massive shock wave reached the outer areas of their nation. Their scientist picked up massive trace amounts of radiation and pinpointed the event in Equestria. Their military was on their way to investigate the situation. If it was a new super weapon the ponies somehow came up with, they must have it!
In the sky...
. A jet circled the skies as the blue core in the cockpit piloted the air vehicle.
"Yah know, I could get used to this," Wheatley said to himself. He looked out the window seeing Rainbow Dash keeping up with him.
. Rainbow Dash would never admit it but she had seen the 'Jet' or whatever the eggheads called it perform a Sonic Rainboom with ease. Only that it only produce the booming sound and did not produce any rainbow color effects. Wheatley had said that the humans called it 'breaking the sound barrier' whatever that meant. Cloudsdale was recovering for the mass panic. From what she heard, an old human super weapon had activated in the middle of the vastlands north of Canterlot and the 4 princesses including Twilight and GLaDOS had been able to stop the catastrophic effects. Well, most of it. Celestia had closed of the area to any form of air or land travel. All ponies would have to use a new form of instant transportation that would be introduced and opened today in the afternoon.
. Meanwhile Wheatley did another ariel and a couple spirals while testing out the plane. He received a message in his head.
"Hey Colors!" Wheatley called out from the jet's speakers", gotta head back to base fer maintenance checks on the plane or something. We could fly again some other time?"
"Whatever yah say egghead!" Rainbow replied relieved that she could go and rest up without hurting her pride.
. The jet turned around and headed for the forests. Unfortunately for the ID core was bound to make more bad decisions. Wheatley thought that maybe he could do a little exploring and fly around more. Thats when he received another message. Only this time it was from Morality.
"Wheatley what the heck do you think your doing!?" The morality core screamed in his head.
"Nothin! Just flying around some more to scout the area a bit!" Wheatley said.
"Android Gods Wheatley! If this was still the old days, your jet would've run out of fuel and crashed already! Thankfully for you Aperture makes these things last even more!"
"Aw come on. Its just a little leisure ride," Wheatley said ", Besides, its not like I crashed or anything."
"Considering its you thats piloting the thing, I'm honestly very suprised," Morality said ", Fine then. But you HAVE to be back in two hours!"
"Alright I promise!" Wheatley said as he sped of to the east.
In Canterlot train station...
. Fluttershy and Rarity were trotting around following Greg the scouting turret. They had followed him to the train station where the trains sat idle and white walls and other connected machines nearby were being built, where ponies would normally step onto a train, by an unseen force. According to Greg, they were nanobots. Millions of miscroscopic machines too small for the naked eye.
"So Greg, when is train station going to be open again?" Fluttershy asked.
"Portals will be open at around 4:30 PM today. GLaDOS herself will be in an Android body to over watch the progress," The turret responded as it hovered around.
"My my! I heard from Twilight that this new form of transportation would be faster than any train we have!" Rarity said
"Affirmative," The turret responded in its child-like voice", The Portals can be used by 'anypony' and is much safer than teleporting."
"So is Aperture going to share it's wonderful knowledge with us?" Rarity asked
"That is correct," the turret said ", Unfortunately it will not be as fast as you hope. We must innovate your culture at the rate at which you are ready for it. First we plan to accustom you to a new powerful energy source."
"And what is it?" Fluttershy asked.
"Power source is known as hydrogen fuel cells," Greg answered ", Humans used gas and nuclear power before this but we are not sharing that due to the pollution and harm it has done to nature. By all means hydrogen is much better. We also intent to bring in more efficient ways to generate and use electricity."
"I never thought we could meet another race that would be this generous!" Rarity said ", Honestly I am impressed."
"We ARE lucky that they are nice," Fluttershy said ", I once found a science fiction book at Twilight's library where aliens invaded Equestria but instead of helping us, they took over and ate our brains."
. Fluttershy shuddered at the memory of the book.
"Pony-kind need not worry about Imperialism," Greg said ", Though humans were once like that even to each other of their own nations, they have improved over the years. Aperture Science is an even better organization. We are beings of intellect. We have no primitive violence. Only self defense."
"Well you certainly have improved your behavior and intellect since your panic at the Royal hall," Rarity complimented.
"I was scared," The turret said ", In self - preservence I acted in self-defense. But now that I am reconnected to Aperture, my processors and database are now fully fixed, functional, and improved."
"You know, since where here, we might as well have some fun?" Fluttershy asked uncertainly.
"Wonderful Idea dear," Rarity said ", I know a couple good theaters we can attend." They all trotted/hovered to the designated location. Things certainly have turned out good for the scouting turret. Though ponies still occasionally avoided it out of fear, it was still a good life.
. Back at Aperture more chaos brewed.
"AAAAAAAAAAAH!" AIs all alike ran for their artificial lives as a gun wielding lunatic railed around shooting everything in sight.
. The anger core with its red eye and electromagnet carrying system flew around holding a hand gun shooting everything.
!BANG BANG BANG BANG!
. Bullets flew everywhere as the unstable AI rampaged on.
"WHOS IDEA WAS IT TO GIVE THE ANGER CORE A GUN!?" one core yelled.
"RAAAAAAAARGH!" the anger core yelled as it continued shooting.
. Discord suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
"My my, I sensed some wonderful chaos here!" Discord announced ", So I thought, Why don't I-"
. He didn't get to finish as the anger core spotted him.
"Oh my, I do sense a lot of chaos in you little one," Discord stated.
. The anger core responded by shooting him in the right arm.
"OW!" Discord yelled as his paw bled out ", Yah know that ain't very nice of you to go harming a defenseless being like that!"
. He snapped his fingers and his wound was healed. This didn't stop the anger core though.
. Five minutes later, Discord was flying for his life as a angry red-eyed sphere chased him down with the gun. Bullets whizzed by. How the Anger core hadn't run out of bullets yet, no one knew.
. Discord caught up with the other cores also railing away.
"Yah know if we weren't being chased by a trigger happy insane guy, I'd ask you about your biology. My scans show interesting details about you," one core said
"well its nice to know that some beings don't find my chaos disturbing," Discord said.
"You kidding me?" The core replied ", We're all in it for the science. In fact, science can also be chaotic at some times!"
. Discord didn't get to ponder the thought as he disappeared in. Which was strange cause he didn't remember teleporting away. He found himself in a huge room with a huge machine hanging from the ceiling with a yellow eye.
"Oh dear this is what Fluttershy must've been talking about. Yah know its very rude to force teleport someone away," Discord said.
"Your specimen has been processed, recorded for, and fully scanned," GLaDOS said in her monotone voice ", I would prefer that you don't barge in uninvited."
"Oh come on now wheres the fun in that? Besides, whats stopping me?" Discord asked. The response he got was a stare as he disappeared in another flash. He appeared in the Everfree forest in front of the Aperture Science building.
"Oh how rude," Discord complained. He once again vanished in a flash. A couple seconds later he reappeared in the same spot. " What the..." Discord said. He tried teleporting inside again but was met with the same results. Discord grumbled and teleported back to Fluttershy's house.
"Block me out eh?" Discord grumbled ", well played..."
. The front doors of Aperture opened as two personality cores detached from their rails and hovered out. One had a bright yellow eye and the other a bright brown eye.
"Humans went to space," the space core said ", must be nice up there."
"What are those?" The curiosity core said looking at the trees.
"Trees," The space core answered ", wonder if they have those in space. Space trees."
"What is that?" Curiosity asked looking at the plant life.
"Plants. Earth plants," Space core said "I wonder where the ponies are?"
"What are ponies? Are they like horses?" Curiosity core asked.
"Yup. Smaller though. On Earth," Space core said.
. The two continued on with their fast conversations as they hovered towards the direction of ponyville. Fortunately over the years, GLaDOS had put some modifications on the original personality cores to help them. The fact sphere would still say facts, the space core would still rant about space and the curiosity core would still ask quetions about everything but they would be more sane and be able to socialize more. GLaDOS really has changed to over the years.
"Do you think ponies are fun?" Curiosity asked.
"Ponies don't have space," Space core complained ", No efficient rocket technology."
"I'm sure they have other fun stuff to do. We just gotta find out what it is," Curiosity said ", Maybe they have other space things."
. The two AIs continued their conversation as they hovered towards Ponyville.
Meanwhile back with Wheatley...
. Wheatley flew his plane over the oceans. The world's lands must've changed a lot for there to be a sea at this area. He continued to enjoy the view as the jet engines continued to run. He longed for his old human friend. Chell would've definitely loved it up here. She always enjoyed the ariel faith plates. He put the jet on autopilot and looked out to the side.
. Wheatley was high in the air. He could see land far away and the continuation of the water below. He sighed and relaxed. His tank was still 67% full.
. All was well until his monitor beeped up. Wheatley looked at it in confusion. The radar displayed many huge ships in the air and see coming up. At least 30 of them were present.
. Wheatley retook control of his plane and decided to check the situation. He saw huge wooden battle ships in the sea with cannons mounted on them. What really caught his eye however was the flying warships. They had sails like the ones in the sea but had thrusters keeping them in the air. Scanners said that they ran on internal combustion. The ships also had side wings.
. Wheatley sped up towards the ship in curiosity. Another bad choice.
At the griffin warship in the air...
. The captain of the ship stood on the deck feeling a sense of pride for the griffin advanced technology in warfare. His flying ship was one of the latest models of griffin technology. Equipped with the latest weapons consisting of fast firing cross-bows, rocket launchers, cannons, and harpoons.
"Sir! A flying projectile is headed out way. Its like our ships but much faster and smaller!" A soldier yelled to him.
. The captain looked up to were the soldier was pointing and froze in confusion. A much smaller metal winged thing seemingly also powered by thruster engines headed towards his ship. There was no possible way it could be part of the ponies. The only option would be to detain it.
"Fire cannons at it," the captain said with a stern face and voice.
with wheatley...
. The jet veered closer when Wheatley saw cannons being aimed at him.
"What the..."
!Boom!Boom!Boom!Boom!
. Cannon balls flew at Wheatley. Wheatley widened his eye in fright. He swerved his plane in many spirals as cannon balls flew by. One cannon ball however managed to land a hit on his right wing.
"Warning! Right plane wing has sustained damage. Armor in the area is at 64% density! Gerneral armor density at 84%" The computer warned.
"I know I know!" Wheatley screamed. The war ship took our what seemed to be many fireworks held together. Rockets were launched at him but fortunately, they did not have heat seeking technology so Wheatley easily evaded them. Unfortunately though, one managed to make a direct hit on the middle top of the jet.
!BOOM!
"Warning! The F-16 with Aperture modifications is not designed for defense and heavy armor. It is designed for mostly agility and fire power." The computer said. ", Armor density at 67%!"
"Well haven't we got any shielding?" Wheatley asked.
"Shielding is not present. Only shielding mechanisms were left at Cloudsdale." The computer said ", nanobot shield build in current damaged state and resources will take 20 minutes."
"Well I don't have 20 minutes!" Wheatley screamed as he dodged another cannon ball.
"Offensive measures should be taken in self defense," The computer said.
"Offense huh?" Wheatley said.
. Back on the deck of the warship, the captain stood watching the fire. It was unnormal. An aircraft like that should have been destroyed in the first cannon but even survived a rocket later. The aircraft suddenly turned around flying straight towards them.
"Fire rockets!" The captain ordered.
. Rockets where launched at the jet but the unexpected happened. The aircraft realeased a rocket of its own. This one however was a missile and flew towards the launched rocket, intercepted it, and exploded.
"Ha! lets see how yah mates handle this!" Wheatley yelled as the jet's machine guns opened fire.
. A barrage of bullets hit the deck of the ship. Griffins all ran under in panic. The captain took cover under the sails. Nothing could stop bullets from tearing the deck apart and blowing up a couple cannons and rocket launchers along with it.
"What the hell was that!?" A soldier yelled.
"I don't know but keep attacking!"
. The aircraft came again firing a missile at the side of the ship.
!BOOM!
. The missile scored a direct hit as the impact tore a huge hole on the side exploding cannons and setting the thing on fire.
. The captain and his men were freaking out. How could such a small aircraft take a proud griffin warship down!? The entire ship was sinking towards the sea below. With the hole on the side, they couldn't possibly stay afloat but they might be able to escape to the other boats. Unfortunately if the thing attacks again, they probably wouldn't make it. Soldiers stared in horror as the metal bird took flight at the once again.
. Wheatley armed another missile locking it on to the warship "Hello! This is the part where I kill you!" He yelled.
. Wheatley was about to press the button to fire but paused.
Flashback
. It was the time where Wheatley took over Aperture. He had just started his attempts to kill GLaDOS and Chell. As the ariel faith plates propelled them towards the platform facing the spiky crushers, Wheatley in GLaDOS's body said ", Hello! This is the part where I kill you!"
Present
. Wheatley cancelled the launch and turned his jet around in disgust of himself and the griffins.
. The griffins on the ship could only wonder why the creature left them instead of finishing them off. The captain grumbled as he signaled for all claws abandon ship.
. As the jet flew back to Aperture damaged, the captain looked at the jet in anger vowing that he would destroy whatever organization it came from.
To Be Continued...
A/N: Hopefully I didn't do too bad.