Finally Here

"Thank the makers we're finally here" Red said in Frustration. I could only sigh very loudly at her immaturity despite her barely being a year old in terms of when she was made. "Barely two weeks to go until the Princess Dies, we'd better get a move on" I said as I strayed off the main road which all the other ponies were taking and headed into the small forest.

"Right, I'll set up camp while you... do computer stuff" I said trying to sound as comical as I could. "Oh sorry was that a joke?" "Yes ha ha ha it was hilarious no really my laugh meter has gone off the charts". "You have a laugh meter?" I said in a puzzled voice. "Just shut up and keep walking" she responded annoyed now.

I made my way into the tree line of the forest warily, although I'd never really seen a forest before this time I was getting a little bit sick of nature. Red was talking about scanning the city from its centre so as to get a rough layout when I interrupted her, "why is it that they only sent back me" I found myself saying the words before I could stop myself.

Red stopped talking mid sentence and suddenly the vibrant forest turned very quiet. "Why do you wish to know" she asked me. "Well I've been thinking, the U.E.R doesn't waste time just messing around, if they wanted Luna to be protected they'd have sent a company of Strike Ponies back through time instead of one ordinary Captain with two defect marks on his flank" I said now suddenly realising that the more I thought about the less sense it seemed to make.

Red made a robotic sounding sigh before speaking up. "Go find a place to set up camp Captain and I'll tell you what you want to know".

So I found a nice spot just into the forest and set Red down, the little filly she had taken as an image seemed sad or guilty and turned purple every now and then. "Captain, I know that you haven't had a tough time what with being plucked from your time to this time and adjustments and such but I'm afraid that it is going to be difficult to accept the following information I'm about to impair to you".

I looked at her in incomprehension as she began her explanation. "As you know all factions fighting in the war began to get more technologically involved as time went on, however none were as good as the Earth Ponies who ruled the industrial line for many years". "So during 2673 they began experimenting with genetics and bio-weapons more and more about the same time as they started working on time travel".

"I'm not going to bore you with the details Captain but in the 28th century they found that a normal pony couldn't survive the time energy which needed to be flooded into a ponies body to travel so having made a breakthrough at the genetic labs the two very different branches of science began working together to create the perfect pony". "A pony with the strength of five, with an everlasting agility and stamina, perfect bone structure and cell regeneration system twice the normal standard". "Finally when they were nearly finished they something very rare into him, something even classified to my data banks". "By the time the first genetically improved Pony was ready it was 2712 and they needed him to begin training immediately so even though many believed that he should have been trained in a top secret raining facility they put him in with the regulars, Training Facility 1276 where a new field project was undergoing and he was to be part of it". "He quickly surpassed all other ponies in survival, intelligence and skill whilst all his original comrades fell". "However upon the P.P.R discovering nuclear fusion he was immediately taken from the front lines so he could complete years of planning and hope". "So you see Captain you are special, not just being the only pony to travel in time... but the only pony to have never been born simply made".

I stared with my mouth open as Red finished her monologue. I looked at my hooves and then my body. "I...I'm made, I never was... I'm like". "Yes Captain, you are like me, you were built to be perfection to be perfect like me, so you see now that we are the same".

I looked down at the ground as I fell to my knees my head in my hooves. "I'm not real I'm just a machine" I felt a watery substance beginning to trickle down my face. "Captain Asimov Foundation, you are not just a machine you are so much more, look at myself I am a machine engineered In a factory by scientists like you except with flesh you can feel whilst I simulate pre-programmed feeling for instance you are crying whilst all I can do is simulate sadness and turn blue..." she said this now turning blue.

I took my hooves off my head and looked at the bright sky, how I disliked myself, the U.E.R and the war which was going to happen unless I saved the Princess of the Night from her almost certain fate.

"You're right Red, I can't think of myself as a machine after saving the Manticores and helping Rainbow Dash". "That's the spirit now go and make camp" she yelled triumphantly turning a very green colour.

So I began to set up our forest camp, I dragged tree branches leaves and all the other kinds of camouflage and protection I could find before settling down in my newly made base of operations. "Red I put on a piece of wood so that she could see the surrounding camp and I sat outside talking to her about the next objective.

"We're going to go into Canterlot tomorrow and recon the area, but I have to leave my armour behind in order to stay as low profile as possible" I told her. "Sure a black, silver mane pony with two stamps on his cutie mark and enough scars to open a fracture in time and space" she said rather bluntly. I don't think it was intended as malice towards me but the comments on my scars and cutie mark really hit home. I brushed them off however continuing the conversation. "The centre of town is where I'll take you and you can scan the city and we'll be out, then I'll climb that mountain over there the day afterwards to get a bird's eye view before finally we construct an image of the entire city". "What about the castle where Luna will be spending the majority of her time?" asked Red. "Yes, we'll have to be stealthier when it comes to that, but if I can acquire a guard's uniform I can recon the castle by day and follow her by night".

"Are you forgetting about sleep Captain" she asked me. "Who needs sleep" I said as I nestled down to relax but found myself instantly snoring.

Phew, okay then that was fast. No but I'm sorry if I'm not explaining it in the full degree which is why this chapter is sort of a bridge...Yeah so Yeah... "Like a bridge over troubled water I will..." sorry sorry but I just really love that song. XD