"I see both of my failed experiments have met each other…" The white cloaked pony makes his way closer to Lucky's group.

"Lucky, it seems that you were right on the train; that scientist is still alive," Peaches remembers back when they were going to Canterlot to meet Lucky's aunt and uncle, "and Lucky is not a failure!"

"She looks just like those two pieces of trash we disposed of when she was born, I would say that's a failure in its self," The scientist like pony's face begins to smirk slightly, "or do you still miss the parents you never had?"

Crimson turns into a lightning bolt once more, shooting towards the smirking pony at blinding speeds. Once she gets close enough to strike she is redirected around the scientist like a planet orbiting the sun, smashing head first into the ground behind him. As she goes to kick him, she gets levitated and thrown to the side by his magic; the sound of gears turning is slightly heard.

Crimson backs away slightly as Lucky sends a beam of light towards the scientist, with the same result as with Crimson's attack, it gets redirected behind him into the ground.

Peaches charges towards the standing pony, readying her sword and its magic sharpened edge, once she gets within range she strikes the scientist at the side. As the sword hits its target a loud metallic clang fills the air, almost as if both objects being smashed together were made of metal. Peaches looks towards the site of where she struck, a small crevice appears to be in the pony's skin. Not like a cut, but more like an opening of some sort with a thin edge coming out of it, just out of his skin enough to keep her blade from cutting him.

She backs away retrieving her sword, watching the opening on the scientist's skin closely. It appears to fuse back together like it was never even there. The sound of gears is softened when it does so.

"Lucky do you hear that?" Peaches returns to the side of the other three, whispering in hopes that the other pony won't hear them talking.

"The mechanical sounds in the background? I assume it's from the castle, all those machines they have in there they may be trying something weird."

"Hmm, maybe, but it seems to be changing depending on what this guy is doing. Let me try something real quick, you guys can't really do much anyways as magic doesn't seem to work."

Peaches rushes towards the still scientist, wildly swinging her sword left and right just trying to hit him without being blocked. Each time it comes close to hitting him he either dodges slightly or that weird crevice in his skin appears again, blocking the attack, almost like some sort of blade. She aims for the head, slamming the large blade into his face knowing that the weight of her sword should force his head sideways snapping his neck.

Another loud metallic clash fills the air as the sword clashes with the pony's face, barely moving his field of vision to the side. Shock overcomes every pony's faces as they try to figure out how some pony could over power that with simply their neck. But as Peaches pulls her sword away it is revealed.

The skin cracks away from the scientist's face, revealing machinery and gears flowing underneath. Everything is metal, even what's left of his muscles and tendons are metallic fibers of some sort. The rest of his fake skin begins to flake away from his body revealing that his whole body and internal organs have been replaced with machinery, nothing organic left. Just rotating gears, pistons shooting back and forth, oil lightly covers some of the items.

The crevice Peaches was worried about turns out to be some sort of blade that freely moves across his entire body through some sort of cable system, and there are many of them sitting idly waiting. Two move to his front legs, then extend outward so his legs are bladed.

One thing that catches Lucky's eyes is some weird electric apparatus, a cylinder with coils of wire inside it in the middle of his back. It seems to be giving off a magnetic field with slight magic properties of some sort, perhaps it's the reason why none of their ranged attacks are hitting?

"Peaches, aim for the cylinder on his back!"

The scientist, now not resembling his former self at all, grits his teeth and glares at the ponies before him. More of the blades pop out of their sockets all over his body; one is on a large arm like appendage made of metal that was placed into his side, now leaving a rather large gap into the middle of the metal pony's body. One last living piece of him can be seen, a beating heart still rest in the middle. Being fed by a reservoir of whatever he has discovered, no pony can guess what it is.

The sight sickens most of them, leaving nauseous looks on their faces.

The scientist simply looks back at them with disgust, reminding himself about why he never liked to show off his "work". No pony understood what had happened, it all started with the plague all those years ago. Sure he only lost a leg to it, but it was like losing life itself. He couldn't run or play with the rest of the teenagers, all he had was his knowledge.

After experimenting and reading for months on end, he managed to make a fake limb beyond anything any pony else had managed. It connected right to the users nerves, if they still worked. It just required an… amputation, one which no hospital would do for him. He had hit the brick wall, he couldn't try his work on any pony else, and he didn't have the means to try his idea on himself.

That was when he found Wretched Darkness, freshly reformed after being beaten by Celestia and Luna before the incident with Nightmare Moon. That fool had the resources he needed, so he sided with him for the time being to get a hold of the lab equipment. All he had to do in return was conduct experiments and whatever other small task appeared before him.

After amputating his own leg and connecting the false limb he had created, it worked perfectly like a normal limb. But no pony understood his enjoyment; they feared him even worse after that causing him to have to stay in that castle after that moment. He would curse the world, wanting revenge on all those that hated his work.

Over the years he managed to create even more parts of the pony body in machine form, which he added to himself. At first it was all about helping those that needed new limbs, or needed new organs. But he feared death and growing old, how could one complete their research if they died?

He never could completely rid himself of a heart; a living beating heart was what was needed. He has to harvest one from another pony then slowly transfer it from pumping blood, to pumping the organic oil that the machinery needed. He even created a new type of "food" or "fuel" for the heart to feed off of, very simple really now that he has been doing this for years and years.

He snaps out of his trance once he notices that Peaches is once again charging towards him, sword in the air to strike down her opponent.

The large bladed arm from his side reaches forward, extending its reach with hydraulic bars, hitting Peaches sword before she can even lower it herself. As it does so sounds of hydraulic fluid pumping through their tubes fills the air. One of the smaller blades begins to extend towards Peaches' neck almost like a dissection on some dead animal.

Crimson once again tries to intervene, this time without using any sort of lightning magic. She smacks the small dissection blade on the side pushing it away from Peaches' neck, giving her enough time to twist her sword sideways and overpower the hydraulic arm slightly, but still enough to move out of the way.

With a puff of smoke the large arm shoots back into place smashing Peaches' sword sideways out of her mouth, she grabs it by the chain, wrapping the chain around the arm locking it up so it can't move.

Many smaller arms come out of their compartments, working to remove the chain from the larger bladed arm. The smaller bladed arms begin to buzz, and then extend on chains that seem to be controlled by magic themselves, shooting towards the ponies with intend to kill or dissect.

Rain quickly grabs Peaches as Crimson grabs Lucky and they both take to the skies, dodging the blades being sent their way. Lucky is trying to shoot some of the blades down with beams of light, throwing up smoke and stunning them for a few short moments. The two pegasi fly upwards until the blades seem to lose speed, then Crimson, still carrying Lucky, speeds over to the side then downwards towards the machine. Once they get close enough Crimson drops Lucky by the machine for her to finish the job.

Lucky runs up to the machine, grabbing one of the small clawed arms and snapping it off. She then continues to run over to the side where the large bladed arm comes from, bends down, and stabs the beast in the beating heart. Oil shoots out onto the sand as the machine begins to lock up, its life blood bleeding out onto the ground. The other two come down means all the blades have shot back into the machine.

Rain takes the opportunity to rip out the cylinder than seems to be blocking their magic from hitting him, they seem to have beaten the monster but with the way things have been going it's better to be safe than sorry.

A strange tube comes from the ground, a machine from the castle; a glass case with more living, beating hearts inside it. One of the smaller, clawed arms takes one of the organs out of the glass case and replaces the one inside of the pony in a few short moments. Oil begins pumping inside the mechanic pony once more, his joints begin to move, the clawed arms remove Peaches' sword from his larger bladed arm then toss it off to the side.

In a burst of light Lucky sends a beam at the glass cylinder, crashing the hearts onto the sand utterly ruining them for future use. Infuriating the mechanic pony, "What happened to my anti-magic," He looks over to his back, seeing that his cylinder shaped contraption has been crudely yanked from his body and thrown onto the ground before being crushed, "It took me years to make that! How dare you simply rip it from my back!"

Lucky shoots another beam towards the mechanical pony, throwing up plenty of sand but not much more. Crimson turns into lightning then zigzags her way ramming into the angry machine, temporarily stunning the electrical components and causing some sort of cardiac arrest as oil spills out the pony's mouth.

He kneels forward, coughing up the rest of the oil as his smaller surgical arms work on the heart deep inside his body repairing the damage done to him by Crimson's attack. The large bladed arm retracts back into his side, blocking their only way to his heart. All the blades retract back into his body; plates begin to move over like armor.

Peaches tries to sling her sword into the pony's side once more, it bounces off the armor plating with a loud clang. Crimson tries to shock the machine with another lightning bolt but as she gets close enough she is punched square in the face by the mechanic ponies front hoof, instantly materialized back as the Pegasus she normally is. Once again this armor has some sort of anti-magic properties.

Lucky begins to form a large spear from the sand under her hooves, long and slender yet very sharp at the tip. As the other two are occupying the enemy she runs at him, jabbing it into the gap at the base of his neck, then deeper into his body, hopefully somewhere around the heart area.

More mechanical stirring can be heard from inside the pony before he collapse on the ground with oil spilling out the gaps in the metallic armor plating. He disappears in a flash of light, not like an explosion but more like a teleportation spell of some sort.

Wretched stomps the earth once more; his researcher is down along with the rest of his higher ranking army, all that's left is himself. His researcher is gone, apparently he disposed of his own body to keep the secrets hidden inside it secret from any pony else. Wretched knew that the scientist could be trusted; he will run some sort of ceremony before resurrecting him once this is all over.

After he killed Celestia's foals he would free those sealed away in the black box, and once again resurrect those killed in this attack. Wretched's payback will be nice and slow…