The Metal Condition
Chapter 2: A new rival
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The royals just sat there looking at me with interest, especially Luna, oh dear I know where this is going...I'm not gonna stop it.
...don't look at me like that, if you were in this situation you'd do the same.
Anyway, after I told the royals my life story the deduced that I wasn't a threat to Equestria, I almost think these ponies are to trusting, especially to some teen who has been put inside a killer robot (*Cough* FNAF *Cough*).
"Well ladies this has been fun, but if I'm going to be staying in this wonderful world I'll need to know my way around, so I'm gonna go explore."
"Wait!" I turned to see Celestia giving me a cold look. "How do we know that you will come back?"
Boy, looks like I got the sassy Celestia. "What if I leave something that's of grave importance?"
That sparked her interest. I reached behind me and pulled out a chaos emerald. "This is a gem containing almost unlimited power, if put into the wrong hands the consequences could be catastrophic. Lucky for us I happen to carry all seven chaos emeralds, without this one, they won't work, so you keep hold of this, and I'll be back by nightfall." I placed it on the ground and started to fly away.
Flying at a slow pace over the Everfree, I spotted Ponyville in the distance, then I saw a certain rainbow maned pegasus flying about. If I had a mouth I'd be smirking, this was a good opportunity to test my speed. I'm sure a lap around Equestria couldn't hurt. To avoid detection I landed and started running at middle speed as I call it. I encountered a few manticores and timberwolves along the way, all of which I took out with a homing attack or spin dash.
Then I came across a hydra. "Oh dear..." It tried to snatch me with one of its heads but I quick stepped out of the way, then hit it in the jaw with a boost. It then tried to use its remaining heads, as each chased me I ducked and weaved through their necks, resulting in them becoming tangled. "Well, that ties things up here." Again I started running towards Ponyville.
Meanwhile
Rainbow dash was showing off some new tricks to her friends, she'd been working on some more offensive techniques ever since the changeling invasion, which was dealt with by talking things out, much to Rainbows dismay. Right now, she was working on a few tricks that could be combined with the sonic rainboom.
"Wow Dashie, if this doesn't totally blow the wonderbolts leotards off I don't know what will!" Exclaimed Pinkie Pie. Rainbow landed in front of the group.
"Uh, thanks Pinkie, but I don't think a few spins and kicks will do it." The group was still looking at the sky.
"What are you talking about, your trick is still going!" She looked up to see a blue blur pulling off the same moves.
"Uh, that's not me." The blur stopped and started flying off at a great speed. "But I'm gonna find out what it is." With that she shot off towards the blur.
Metals POV
"Oh good I got her attention, now let's see how this goes." I continued flying at a high speed. I then saw Rainbow closing in behind me. Now she was at my side, when she looked at me her face was full of confusion. "Well that's surprising, never knew someone could make you speechless." I said with a chuckle. She snapped out of her trance.
"Who are you?"
"Name's Metal Sonic, and I was wondering if you'd be up for a little race."
"Bwahahahahah, you want to challenge me to a race, that's funny, really it is, look you may be flying fast now, but it's nothing compared to my top speed."
"I'm not at top speed."
"What?"
"I said I'm not at top speed."
"Prove it!"
"Fine." I charged up my engine and shot forward, I still wasn't at top speed. She then caught up and started mocking me asking if this was the fastest I could go, yet again I shot forward, it took a little longer for her to catch up this time and I could tell she was getting nervous.
"Ok, you made your point, surely you can't go any faster."
"Aww, your so cute when you get nervous, and no, this is only half my top speed, oh, watch out for that mountain."
"What mou-" Smack, face first into the side of the mountain.
"I tried to warn you!" Her head was now stuck in the stone and was trying to pull herself out. "Hold on I got you." I flew down and started pulling on her back legs. "One...two...three!" We both pulled as hard as we could and she popped free, she didn't flap her wings in time and she fell. "I gotcha!" I flew under her and caught her in my arms. When she opened her eyes she blushed and flapped her wings.
"Um...thanks I guess..." She didn't look at me when she said that. Nope, not letting that one happen.
"Hey, I need a good rival in this world and you're the only mare that can match my speed here, I wasn't going to let you fall. Where's the fun in that?"
"Yeah, I need a good rival too if I ever want to test my skills more." She held out her hoof and I bumped it with my fist. "Rivals?"
"Rivals." I looked to the area that's she had gotten stuck. "Just watch out for mountains next time alright?" She shoved me playfully. "Race back to Ponyville?"
"You bet, last one there's an egghead!" She shot off. I chuckled and shot off after her.
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