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Friendship is Magic:Equestrian Heroes

by Kyuubi16

Chapter 257: Mechanical Empire: Originals vs Copies!

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Mechanical Empire: Originals vs Copies!

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Mechanical Empire: Originals vs Copies!

Equestrian Heroes



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Naruto x Harem



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For Normal Speech



Inner thoughts, Text read, Italics used to represent characters speaking in different language.



Demonic rage, Demonic characters, Kurama Speak



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Story Start



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Danger Approaches



In the city's central plaza, a massive looming darkness began to canvas the area.



A single figure dropped from above. The figure was that of an armored figure. Its torso covered in dull light silver armor and sporting the mark of a chimera symbol in its center. The rest of the armor on its arms, legs, and chest are predominantly black and red. Its pointed, armored boots are black and red and its upper arms and thighs have wide, supplementary armor with red edges covering them.



The helmet itself was silver with a red chin and its hands and neck are covered by a black material. In the middle of he helmet nestled in the forehead area was a jewel with a faint cerulean glow. Slowly the glow grew brighter and increased in size.



He simply stood there and waited like a sentinel to ward off intruders daring to invade a sacred tomb.



He waited, he knew they would come eventually. That was when he picked up the sound of movement.



'Impulsive as always Rainbow Dash.'



Rainbow Dash indeed had attempted a sneak attack only for a barrier of magical power to erupt around the armor figured sending her crashing back against the ground.



"Rainbow Dash!" The cry of her friends echoed as they joined her.



"I'm okay!" The pegasus shook off the attack.



"This is...unexpected." The armor being spoke as the bearers drew out their weapons. "What? No banter? No questions?"



"You are nothing more than just another villain. Greed. Power. Revenge. Your motivation does not matter all that matters is stopping you here and now." Twilight was already beginning to charge a spell in her staff. The longer this battle wage the worse Equestria would be off.



The armored being looked between each of the bearers as they seemed to be closely watching him. Waiting and ready to anticipate his moves.



"You've always been great heroes. If only things could have been different." The armored being's voice sounded almost haunted. It seemed to be filled with regret. "Do not fight me bearers. I do what I do out of necessity. This world, everything you'll ever know will fall to a great evil you would never imagine. Let me save Equestria. Let me bring it to a state where it can thrive the way its supposed to be. Do not force me hurt you six, it would bring me great pain to do so, but even those feelings will be suppressed if it means accomplishing my mission for the sake of Equestria."



"You speak of saving Equestria yet you would not hesitate to cut down her heroes."



Celestia emerged from a teleport as she stood among the bearers. "Princess! It's too dangerous! You shouldn't be here!" Twilight couldn't conceal her worry and she wasn't the only one.



Celestia was in no condition to be trying to face the enemy at the head of this invasion."I am Princess Celestia," she announced to the being in front of her. "Co-ruler of all Equestria. You will face justice for these unforgivable crimes you committed against my lands and its citizens!"



"Bringer of the Sun! She who holds the fate of many in her hands! Your nation cannot keep taking beatings like this! Your citizens are in far graver danger than you can imagine! Stop this futile effort. Work with me. Equestria will fall and be enslaved by mad creatures if you stay the course you are on now. At least by my methods your nation will continue to live."



"You dare attack my citizens. Destroy homes. Bring another war on our doorsteps interrupting the peace after so many dire conflicts and speak of surrender being our only salvation. You are just as insane as the many power hungry conquerors I have defeated in my time. I will tell you the same thing I told all of them. Move aside or be crushed beneath my hooves." Celestia was brimming with anger at the arrogance and callousness of this being.

'Oh Celestia. Grand stand all you want, but I know at this point in time you're powerless.' The armored being thought. His attention turned back to the bearers who were still ready and waiting.



Looks like they were going to continue on the side of caution. 'They've been trained so well, but at this point in time they're not as strong as they can be. This is a battle they cannot win.'



Raising his hand a stone appeared before the armored being. It glowed with power. "The emperor calls you forth girls!" He spoke as the sound of high pitched whirling filled the air.



The bearers and princesses looked around trying to find the origin of the noise until multiple bodies dropped out of the sky at a rapid rate. The seven figures landed on the ground, surrounding the armor being.

"How may we serve you Metal Overlord?" The seven robotic voices echoed in tanden.



"What in the hay are those monstrosities!" Applejack voiced the thought coursing through their minds. Mechanical doppelgangers of the mane six. Each one of them correct from the color of their bodies matching their counterparts fur to the additional limbs corresponding to their tribe. The odd one out was the tall Unicorn who had mix-breed Earth Pony build and a majestic Unicorn horn.



"Majesty. You and the Hyper Mechanized Mane Six keep our guests busy. I have some redecoration I need to do." The Metal Overlord remarked as he began to walk away.



"Get back here!" Rainbow Dash shot after him only for her mechanical copy to appear in front of her instantly. 'W-What?' Next thing she knew the copy spun kicked her and sent her flying through a building.



The other bearers soon found themselves having to contend with their duplicates.


The last thing Applejack had expected was fighting a copy of herself. How do you fight against somepony that seemingly knew your every move? At least that is what it felt like.



Applejack's fist glide by her doppelganger's face by inches as it turned and launched a kick nailing the farmer in her midsection.



Applejack felt her midsection tightened involuntary from the blow. She felt like she got kicked by ten earth ponies. The breath was knocked out of her momentarily. Another kick came soaring, aimed for her head, but she ducked just out of the way. She scampered away and put some distance away from it. Rearing back her arm Applejack shattered the wall of the building and made her way in.



Her mechanical copy shot after her, throwing a series of punches she was barely able to block. Each solid blow sent a surge of pain through her limbs.



Hooking one of her feet around a statue Applejack broke the base of it. Dropping back she caught it with her left hand and swung it at her copy while using her right hand to catch herself. The creature shattered and caused the mecha copy to spin to the side momentarily. With the momentary distraction Applejack pushed off the ground and righted herself back up. With all her might she slammed her boot into the side of the copies head. Thankfully whatever the thing was made out of it wasn't tough enough to damage her boots. Mecha Applejack though was hardly phased and turned back to Applejack.



"As you are now ya never be able to protect yer family."


Pinkie leaped off the wall and used the momentum to spin her canon and fired at Mecha Pinkie.



The mecha pinkie merely flew out of the way as her stomach opened revealing a canon of her own. Yelping Pinkie leaped out of the way as Mecha pinkie fired a beam that sent the bench that was behind her flying with concussive force. Trailing down the street Pinkie was able to get a good deal of distance between her copy before pulling out her staff.



She charged forward, the weight of her charge easily overcoming her doppelganger's attempt to attack her as the staff slammed into its throat and sending it flying back. Seconds later it recovered as it appeared next to Pinkie and fired another beam, that missed her by mere inches.



This wasn't good. Her agility didn't mean much of anything against a foe that could match her.



"How could someone so weak bring happiness?"


Rainbow was having just as tough as time. No matter how hard she tried to out maneuver her fake it kept up with her. Blow by blow was matched and pain threshold wise Rainbow found herself on the losing end. It didn't how equal they were, Rainbow couldn't keep this up forever against an opponent that didn't tire or could not feel pain.



Barely dodging one of mecha Rainbow's strikes she twisted around and locked her arms around it into a headlock. She got a surprise in the form of a nasty electric shock that resulted in a blood curdling scream erupted from her mouth and shot away from her copy.



"What's wrong? Do your dreams mean so little to you?"


The beams from the two Twilight always met and petered out with equal force.



How? How had this Metal Overlord created such copies? Where did he get the power? How were they matching their moves so well? Every single dodge and faint was read and matched accordingly.



It was like she was in training with Naruto. This Metal Overlord knew what he was doing. He was ready. He came prepared to win.



Cutting. Blasting. Melting. Concussive. Element Composition. Every spell she threw was countered.



Desparate time called for desperate measures. Closing in for what appeared to be a close range blasting spell Twilight did a faint and attempted a jyuuken strike.



Twilight's excellent ability to recall and finesse with magic allowed her to recreate something similiar to the Hyuuga's Jyuujen strike. It came as a result of spending time with Fluttershy and learning from the mare in greater detail about equine biology.



After having spent most of the battle observing every movement her copy made from energy usage to maneuverability Twilight had concluded the location of Mecha Twilight's core. Right as she was about to land the blow a small circular barrier appeared before she could strike.



"T-That's not possible!?" H-How? This was...nopony...no one should know...so how did she...?



Twilight found herself being sent hurtling back as Mecha Twilight unleashed a magical barrier. These copies did more than look like them. It was as if they were fighting another version of themselves.



"You are not worthy of your station."


Fluttershy was surprisingly serene when it came to fighting her doppelganger. She recalled a bit of advice that Pinkie had given her. There was always a chance, a possibility Fluttershy might had to deal with what the party mare had to deal with. There was the possibility that the evil seed of chaos might latch itself to 'new Fluttershy' and develop as a personality.



So Pinkie's advice. Imagine everything about yourself you don't like and project it onto your evil copy. That was working spectacularly as she rammed her shield into the copy, but it seemed to do little but slow it down momentarily.



Despite her can do attitude Fluttershy was finding herself on the end of a beating though. Her copy did not share her weakness of flying and was much faster than her. Even her arrows were proven to be of little effect against the mechanized creature bouncing off harmlessly against her thick armor.



"Your Kindness does nothing more than drag others down."


Rarity would never thought she would live to see an image of herself she thought of as absolutely horrid.



This fake. This...this thing was a cold machine that had no heart. It had no soul and spirit and it was obvious in the cold way it battle. Rarity's rapier only worked as efficiently as a butter knife against the creature's cold hard shell.



And as if to mock her it only brandished a rapier using a perfected version of the style she was still in the midst of mastering.



Summoning a hailstorm of diamonds at mecha Rarity the real Rarity used the Sight to try and pin point any discernible weaknesses, but could note nothing.



It was...it was flawless. A flawless machine built for war. Built for terror. And it was slowly getting the edge on her.



"You simply lack what it takes to make a difference!"


Celestia had stood little chance against the souped up mecha unit. The fact she was still severely weakened meant she could do little against the machine. But that did not mean she was not still willing to try. Just as the machine charged her Celestia ready a spell when she sensed magic.



A spiral beam coursed passed her and pierced the hide of the mecha unit. For a moment she was stunned as the machine began to tremble.



Something. Something in its eyes was haunting familiar to Celestia. "I...am...free...thank...you!" The mechanical unit collapsed and began to glow. A barrier quickly formed around it as an explosion occurred in the barrier. The barrier soon dissipated.



"I...I made it just in time!"



Celestia turned at the sound of the speaker to see a figure in a cloak. "W-Who...who are you?"



"Princess Celestia there are so many things I wish to say. But we do not have time. The Metal Overlord has to be stopped." With that the figure in question completely removed the cloak. "I hope this is enough to prove to you I can be trusted. Sense my magic and you know its me."



Celestia was struck into silence. If that...if that was who was truly in front of her then the situation was more dire then she thought.


'I...I can't win!' For Rainbow Dash to go as far as to admit loss was a large indicator how dire the situation was at the moment. 'This damn fake copy is as good as me. I can't beat it!' She said over the bond.



'It's like I am fighting myself.' Fluttershy added.

'Girls we cannot give up. After all we survived and fought against, metallic copies are small fry compared to fighting actual gods.' Rarity tried to assure them.



'Girls, I think we need our elemental armors before its too laaaate!' Pinkie Yelped.



"Twilight, we need to call our elements!' Applejack insisted.



'No,' she could feel the disbelief through the bond. 'Its like you all said we're fighting ourselves. We all know how capable we are. If these things wanted us dead then they would be using a lot more force then they are now. They should know how tought we are if their master has been studying, remember what the reports have said. They are trying to capture us and I bet anything he knows about the abilities of our armors as well.'

'Well Twilight, in that case put that big brain of yours to use and think of something. I can't take much more punishment!' Rainbow told her as her weariness could be felt through the bond.



'We never used them in battle before. Its a one in a hundred longshot. But we'll have to use that technique.'



'But Twilight darling, is that wise?'



'We, we have no other choice Rarity. Everything has been calculated. What we thought were nonsense moves were simply the Overlord' masking his strategy to weaken our forces and separate our squadrons. Luna and Naruto were taken out quickly. Endless hordes of weak and ineffectual units send in to tire out all except our elite forces before sending in stronger unites. His real strategy masked by what seemed to be nonsense tactics based off having more knowledge on our forces than anypony or anyone should. The only way to turn things around is to use something he could not have possibly account for.'



'Well, what'd are y'all waiting for. Let's show these varmints why we're Equestria's Heroes.'


With a sharp exhale Naruto rose out of the bed.



How? When? God it felt like his body was going to Atrophy. "L-Luna?" He slowly craned his head to the slowly awakened Princess of the Night.



"W-We are free...how?" She asked, only to be startled by the sudden fierce hug of her sister.



"Thank the divine gods." Celestia whispered as her face was buried in Luna's mane.



"C-Celestia." Naruto said weakly as he slowly adjusted on the bed. "W-What the hell happened? What's going on?"







"Sister? What's going on? How are we free?" Luna was of course still dazed. While they were trapped echoes of their kidnapper had been left behind and it had been tampering with their mind with fake images and memories.



"Much has happened Princess Luna!"



Naruto turned to the speaker and his mouth dropped. "Twilight!?" This wasn't the Twilight he knew. This Twilight was a fair bit taller and with wings.



This was an Alicorn Twilight.



Twicorn.



Wait...why the hell did that pop into his head?



"Tia! Explain!" Luna didn't care what the situation was, there was no way she could accept her sister recklessly giving somepony the key to ascension even if the pony was Twilight Sparkle.



"I am not the Twilight you know Princess Luna. If everything goes according to plan...I will...never be." There was such a strong undercurrent of sadness in her voice. "There isn't much time to explain. The Metal Overlord is after the Elements of Harmony. The only way we're going to stop him is to engage him with fighter's he is not expecting. Please trust me when I say what we need to do is the only way we can stop him."


Power of Friendship



Thanks to her built up reserves rapid teleportation was not difficult for Twilight. They knew they only had a short amount of time before their mechanical doppelgangers would catch up to them. They all parted into pairs of two.



"The Combination Transformation is a highly advance technique. Something tells me that someday this could be useful."



And it looked like the day was about to come.



"This is the hand seal for it. Then you try to visualize becoming one with that person. Focusing on a single thought. A single desire. The initiator, the one with the higher reserve will use chakra and iniate the transformation."

Applejack stood opposite of Rarity.



Rainbow Dash stood opposite of Pinkie Pie.



Twilight stood opposite of Fluttershy.



"The fusion of two beings into one brand new being. With that the two beings work in harmony to maintain both the body and mind. Focus is the key. Losing focus loses the form."



"We will be strong and protect those we care about."



"We will stand firm and face our fears head on."



"We will fight until our last breath!"



With that the fusion initiated as three bright flashes filled the air. Soon the six mecahnical ponies arrived to where they last tracked the signals. Soon the light died down to reveal three new ponies. The machines scanned the newcomers and began going through the data bases, checking, referencing, and cross referencing , trying to make sense of what this development was.



The first was a tall mare with light orange fur and a large majestic horn. She was built like an athlete as observed from the muscles on her arms and legs yet sleek enough to look agile. Her mane was a brightish Indigo and her eyes with light blue. On her hand materialized a crystal apple symbolizing her cutie mark.



Due to the second mare's bright indigo fur it was forgivable to mistake the mare for Twilight if not the prismatic colors of her mane and tail not giving away she somepony else entirely. Also well built and powerful looking this mare was smaller than the first one with large majestic wings. On her hand symbolized multiple color balloons.



The final of the three mares was the shorest of them with a lovely slender figure and bright golden fur. She had a large horn slightly edging out the first mares with sleeks, fairly formed wings smaller than the second mare's wings. On her hand materialized a butterfly with a star emblazoned in the middle.



"So how does it feel?" The violet mare asked, her voice light-hearted yet confident. "I am feeling...like a Rainbow Pie."



"I do admit sugar this is indeed a new experience. Call me Rare Apple if you do not mind."



"It worked! We can do this!" The final mare exclaimed delighted before a blush appeared on her cheeks at the outburst. "Are you ready girls?"



"Of course Sugar, but you really should have a name."



The unnamed pony was about to argue but relented. "Flutter Sparkle."



The copies seemed finished going through their data bases and came up with nothing.



"New Objective! Eliminate interference!" They chimed as they began flying at the fused mares.



"Let's go!" Flutter Sparkle ordered as they charged forth to battle their mechanical copies.

Next Chapter: Mechanical Empire: The Fusions vs Overlord! Estimated time remaining: 6 Hours, 30 Minutes
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