Across the Equestrian seas lay a proud country. It's name was Dressia, home to the humans of Equus. This nation was vast and it was powerful in both physical and technological power. No natural plants grew in this nation, all food was artificially grown and created in factories. However, what the locals of this proud nation didn't know was that one of these factories grew something else.

Dressias greates weapons and soldiers were built in this steel giant. The soldiers known to Equestria as 'Metal Warriors' but we will just call them Cyborgs for now. Cloned from one of this country's greatest military commanders, these cyborgs were all the same in appearance. They all had spiky brown hair and red eyes. They had a rather small build and broad shoulders. They all wore grey jackets with red stripes and a yellow collar. They also wore red jeans and grey boots. Their legs were robotic as well as their right arms, not resembling human parts only in basic shape.

One cyborg however was different. Instead of brown hair he had blonde, anything read was blue.

The assembly line came to a halt as an error was found.

Warning: Defect detected

Battle data override

Artificial memory failure

Free will restored

Unauthorised upgrades attached

Course of action: Destroy defected warrior

Before a large crane could grab the defected soldier, the cyborg leapt off the moving platforms and made a dash for the exit. Multiple defence systems activated and attempted to blast the rogue, but to no avail. The defect burst through a metal wall and made it to the outside. He looked around at the grey city before him, only lit by red neon lights across the buildings. He looked behind him to see a team of cyborgs chasing him. He ran across a narrow platform until he came to the edge of a cliff. Looking back he saw the cyborgs slowly walking towards him. Taking a leap of faith he jumped into the black ocean below and sank to the bottom.

Once under the water his perusers could not detect him. He knew he would not last long in the water, he frantically looked around for anything that could help him. As his systems attempted to shut down due to the water pressure a message appeared on his HUD (heads up display)

Hello soldier. Do not panic, I have built a special upgrade into you that will allow you to survive underwater. Just engage systems 124 and you are free to live your life as you see fit.

Before you start questioning why you of all of the soldiers have your free will, I had chosen at random. Your name is Cybe Catcher, you have one mission from me and one mission only...live life. I have set the coordinates for the land known as Equestria in your systems, if you have any hope of finding friends, it's there.

Go now, before you deactivate

Cybe read the message before engaging this new system. Finding his metal feet turned to propellers and a mask over his mouth supplying oxygen to his organic lungs, he pressed forward, searching for the land that the message had spoken of.

Meanwhile one lone cyborg continued to stare at the water. During Cybes escape this drone had accidentally been hit by a laser and it rewrote his code. Staring at the ocean while the harsh rain fell down on him he turned back and headed inside.

A few days later in Equestria

Fluttershy sat in her cottage, surrounded by her animal friends. Thanks to being further inland, Ponyville was nowhere near the ongoing battles by the Equestrian coastlines. For now they were safe from the humans and their horrible machines of destruction. Equestria never wanted the war to happen, they never attacked beyond their borders and only acted in defence. So far they had managed to hold their ground while keeping the cyborg army by the coasts where they could drive them back and into the water.

Security forces had been placed all over Equestria, just in case any Dressian forces managed to sneak inland. The thought of the war terrified the timid mare, although out of all of the citizens in Ponyville she was the safest, as her home was secluded in the woods and could only be reached by following a certain pathway.

She had received word that her father, Lightwind Breeze, and her brother, Scuttleshy, were fighting in the war to reclaim the lost land.

Twilight had been researching the cyborgs with a destroyed model provided to her by Celestia, in hopes of finding a way to turn the Metal Warriors off and end the bloodshed.

Rainbow Dash would always be on the lookout for anything unusual.

Pinkie was...Pinkie, cheering up soldiers that were sent to fight.

Applejack had been working overtime harvesting food for the battlefield, a few other earth ponies had volunteered at the farm to help her out.

Rarity still went on as normal, although she received a few special orders for custom uniforms now and again.

That left Fluttershy, unable to help in any way. She was too scared to even leave her cottage to do anything, other than walk into a secret area in the forest which provided her with sanctuary. No one blamed her though, she was too kind a soul to be involved in something like the war.

She got out of her seat and made her way to the door. Shakily placing her hoof on the doorknob, turning it slightly she opened it and walked outside. She made sure to check the area before entering the woods to visit the woodland creatures that couldn't fit into her home.

A short walk later she reached a small clearing with a large tree in the middle. Her smile faded as she heard robotic monotone voices.

"Search the area, the rebel must be around here somewhere." She hid in a bush and watched as a team of three Metal Warriors looked around the area. Shaking with fear, she tried to hold back her whimpers but to no avail, causing one to slip out.

The three soldiers immediately turned to face the bush and surrounded it. One reached in and grabbed Fluttershy by the mane and pulled her out.

"Specimen identifies as female pony, course of action, terminate." The one holding her up with his human hand levelled his robotic claw to her head. The hand retracted and a blaster mussel took its place. She closed her eyes, expecting the end to come when the cyborg holding her was hit by a laser blast.

Fluttershy was dropped and she scurried away behind a tree. She peeked over to see another cyborg standing there facing the others, although his colour scheme was different.

"Target cyborg number #0512 found, proceed to destroy." The two remaining enemy cyborgs pointed their blasters to the new one and fired. Cybe dodged their blasts and held out his hand, it propelled forward with a rope attaching it to his arm and grabbed an enemy's head. He retracted the hand with the rope, bringing the enemy to him where he slammed it into the ground and stomped its head. The last remaining enemy charged forward and the two began a battle of strength.

Cybe threw his opponent off of him and clenched his metal fist, a sword of energy formed around it and he cut the cyborg in half, causing it to explode. Once the dust settled Fluttershy peeked over again and got a good look at the rebelling cyborg. He looked around until he spotted her, causing her to quickly duck her head out of sight.

"Hello, miss? Please come out, I won't hurt you I swear." She listened to his voice, it wasn't monotone, it was definitely a bit robotic but it was filled with emotion. "It's ok, I'm friendly. To ponies anyway, not to cyborgs." This peaked her curiosity, taking a chance she slowly peaked her eyes around the tree trunk to look at him. "That's it, it's ok, I promise to not hurt you. You're actually the first pony I've met so far, it's a miracle that I even got to this place without being spotted by the guards." Fluttershy just looked at him suspiciously. "What's your name?"

"Uh..,um...I'm...Fluttershy..."

He looked at her confused. "I'm sorry I didn't quite catch that."

"F-Fluttershy..."

Cybe smiled warmly. "A beautiful name. My name is Cybe Catcher, it's a pleasure to meet you miss Fluttershy."