Pulling Together

I uncapped the syringe and placed it by Rainbow Dash's neck. "What do you think you're doing?" asked Red. "Saving a life" I replied as I got back to positioning the needle. "I implore you to at least consider your decision"! "I've already considered Red and didn't I deactivate you"! I did a manual override of my own systems in the seconds it took you to do that" she decreed proudly. "Well why don't you use your processing power to stop me from doing this" I said as I plunged the needle into Rainbow Dash.

"You absolute moron, one day you will need that more than anything and then you'll be sorry" shouted Red as the serum went into Dash's bloodstream. "You might want to step back" I told the five ponies waiting with baited breath around me. Rainbow Dash started to moan and thrash as her chest wound was sealed until only a scar remained, then slowly (not to mention grossly) her wing bone began to grow and flesh and muscle began to wind its way up it.

At this point Rarity threw up followed by Twilight, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie whilst Applejack succeeded in not spilling her guts.

"That is the grossest thing ever" said a really green Pinkie Pie as I stared at the rebuilding of the wing. "Compared to the things I've seen this is absolute nothing" I murmured although the sight was no less pleasant.

I decided this would be a perfect time to leave and got up and walked over to the others. "She'll be fine in a few days but she took a heavy hit, keep her in bed for a while no matter how hard it is". "Finally you most likely have a few questions, well tough I'm not answering them I saved your friend and lives so just leave me be" "Try to follow me the. You'll end up like him" I motioned to the bloody Manticore mess in the back of the cave and Rarity threw up again.

"So I bid you farewell ladies and the hope your friend recovers". I turned and strode quickly towards the exit before they could stop me, behind me I heard Twilight shout "thank you" before her words were lost in the emptiness of the caves.

I walked on out and back into the forest, I couldn't help but ponder Twilight's words "thank you" I didn't quite understand the meaning as no one had ever really thanked me before. I saved civilians, soldiers and cities before but I'd never got a thank you before. It made me feel warm and as I kept walking I just kept repeating the word in my head.

"Are you finished with your petty thoughts" came a sudden voice. I stopped and opened my backpack, I set Red down on a tree and her image flared up, only this time bright red.

"You do realise that you have disobeyed command and ignored your advisors advice!" she said rather angrily.
"Disobeying direct rules is against protocol and you have certainly overstepped the line this time" she said in a tone perfectly matching that of my old training instructor. "Listen you" I said "I'm getting tired of your hypocrite ways you say I ignored protocol then who deactivated themselves by bypassing their protocol, or how about this orders thing, as written in the laws of robotics the living organism with access always makes the decisions, you are nothing it some mirror relays in a super computer tiny black box... start acting like it".

The red image suddenly turned blue and shrank a bit too. It promptly cut off feed and deactivated. "Whatever go hide in you damn box" I yelled as I picked her up and threw her into my bag.

I was angrier than usual, maybe the fact that Red the person I'd come to trust had objected at me to saving a life. I didn't want to think about it however as I began walking east, through the forest and hopefully Canterlot.

Even though I was angry I couldn't help but give a grin as I saw the forest for all its glory. Due to the fact that I'd either been injured or asleep during my time I had never really taken it upon myself to admire the beauties of nature.

I remembered my time how the closest thing to a tree would be a piece of old furniture which in turn would be used as cover, or the animals that would actually be food...

I always tried to avoid eating meat due to not only the fact it was disgusting to taste but also barbaric. However when you've gone for a week without food the rats start to look pretty tasty.

I stopped walking when I noticed it was about mid afternoon and settled down against a log. I decided it was time to look over my gear and clean out the bits of gore from the Manticore attack. I places Red on a nearby stump and laid out everything I owned.

My Plasma rifle, Sidearm, combat knife and sets of assorted grenades was pretty much my weapons arsenal.
A few bottles of painkillers and. ASIC First Aid Equipment was the healing Frontier. My armour and pack were my defence. Finally Red, a bunch of sensors and trackers and my watch was the closest thing to a computer I had even though Red hadn't said anything for hours.

"Red Activate" I said softly as I began cleaning my gear. Nothing happened for a few seconds and I was about to call again when suddenly her white holographic filly image appeared. "Captain" she began quietly "I wish to... Apologise for my earlier acts towards you, you are correct I am a computer, a tool for work and you are a User, a pony who is in charge of your own life..." "I'm sorry" she said solemnly turning a purple colour now. I stood up and went over to her, "you were following your programming, your orders and I can respect that but this is different, our world is war and hate and death where as this world is kindness and friendship". "We, I guess you could say are friends but I need you to be more than that I need an advisor about this world and I'd like It to be you".

Red looked thoughtful for a moment before nodding her head. "I accept your proposal Captain, now what are your orders"? "We shall take two days to reach Canterlot and
by then it will be three weeks until the assassination so here's the plan" I said as I stared to pack my gear away. "I will keep up a jogging pace for all that time but I'll need a day to recuperate once we reach Canterlot". "We'll from there build a camp on the outskirts of town, once completed we shall recon the entire city for the next week including the castle". "Then we shall follow Princess Luna as I'm guessing she hasn't gotten back into ruling she'll have a pretty basic routine but we need to get her routes recorded". "Finally we'll plant some trackers on her which should be tricky considering the fact she's supposed to rule darkness in general" I said which was about as close as I got to comedy.

Red nodded as I picked her up and put her in my pack, "The current plan seems quite feasible but what about the margin of error"? I frowned when she said this and the best I came up with was "we'll see what happens when we come to it" and with that I began a slow trot towards my mission.

Okay could it have been better? I write these on my IPod on the bus everyday so quality might suck now in then but it does mean I can push them out pretty fast! XD