The next day, Canterlot Castle

Cybes vision slowly started coming back to him. He was greeted by a bright light when he opened his eyes, causing him to wince slightly.

After his eyes adjusted he looked around and found he was laying on a marvel floor. Getting to his feet he found he was in a large room with huge stained glass windows with illustrations of ponies accomplishments. A throne sat on top of a flight of stairs. "Where am I?"

"You're in Canterlot Castle, the throne room to be exact." Turning around he found himself face to face with an alabaster mare with a flowing multicoloured mane. He rubbed his eyes and looked again, realising he was in the presence of the princess of the sun he got on one knee and bowed respectfully. Celestia was taken by surprise, much like her sister she had never expected a cyborg to bow to her. "Please, rise."

Cybe did as she asked and got to his feet. "What's going on here? All I remember is getting that purple unicorn to get the other two out of the area, then...nothing." Celestia frowned.

"Tell me, do you have a name?" He blinked and nodded.

"I am Cybe Catcher, your majesty." He suddenly stood up straight and looked around cautiously.

"What's wr-" Cybe put a finger to her mouth and walked very slowly around the room. He listened very closely until he changed his claw to his blaster and fired at a cloaked drone hiding in the corner of the room. It's cloak system failed and it dropped to the ground, smashing on impact. "What? What is that?"

Cybe just pointed to it. "It's a stealth drone, built for gathering info on the Dressian empires enemies. It's able to sneak past any and all detection methods, except one of its own design. That's how I was able to tell it was there." He pulled a computer chip out of the broken drone and put it in his pocket, thinking it could be of use later. "Now, would you be so kind as to tell me why I'm here?" He asked in a polite manner.

""Well, the captain of my royal guard had captured you and your squad of cyborgs. We planned to have your body examined and broken down for research, but a certain shy Pegasus told me that you were not like other cyborgs."

"My squad of cyborgs, I don't have a squad." He stated confused. "The only othe cyborgs in the area were the enemy ones. I don't remember any other ones like me being there."

This peaked Celestias interest. Her horn lit up and a table with two chairs appeared. "Would you like a cup of tea?" She asked with a smile.

"I'd love some, thank you."

Flash Sentry stood outside the large golden doors that led to the throne room. Celestia had wanted no one else to be present or near the meeting that most of the ponies in the castle believed was an interrogation. The only guard she had let be near the room was the young Flash, he stood with his spear in hoof as he stared up at the large doors. "I hope the princess is ok in there, the cyborgs are really scary and dangerous."

In another area of the castle, Twilight, Cadence, Fluttershy and Shining Armour sat in the dining room eating their lunch. Shining had a proud look on his face as he munched on his hay-fries. "With the new model cyborg I captured we should be able to get an advantage over the enemy and hopefully bring an end to this war before the summer sun celebration." He stated with his chest puffed out.

"Um, I love you bro, but you might be a little off with that analysis." Said Twilight in a shy tone.

"Oh, and why would that be?" He asked sarcastically.

"First of all, he's not a new model, second he was protecting us and third he wants nothing to do with the war. You basically captured a civilian that was protecting one of the nations leaders and two of the element users." She stated flatly. Shinings ears folded back and he looked to his meal.

"I got caught up in my pride and ego again didn't I?" All three mares nodded. "But how could he not be a new model, he was coloured differently and had more weapons and tools?"

"That I don't know, hopefully he'll let my examine him when we get back to Ponyville." Twilight clapped her hooves in excitement.

"If he's even allowed into Ponyville, he could be seen as too great a threat and be destroyed. You need to think realistically here Twily."  He went back to eating his fries. "Oh, and before I forget. I left you an inactive C-unit back in your library, the power core was separated so you don't have to worry about it coming online any time soon." Twilight teleported out of her seat and brought her brother into a bone crushing hug.

"Oh thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!" Shining chuckled and returned the hug.

"I wonder what the princess is doing with the cyborg right now." He said to no one in particular.

"And that is why I will never eat a strawberry shortcake ever again." The two burst out laughing and Cybe wiped a tear from his eye.

"He seriously did that to you? There of all the places on your body?" Celestia nodded and they burst out in laughter again. "Now that's what you can call a failed attempt to spice up the relationship."

"I know right?" Celestia poured them another round of tea, she was greatly enjoying herself. She never got to talk about this stuff around anyone else as it would be seen as 'uncouth' and there would be rumours spread around the capital. "I must say that this has been the funniest tea break I've ever had."

"Same...although this is the first tea break I've ever had so it can be considered the worst as well." This got Celestia to smile.

"Well, you have shown that you mean no harm to me or my little ponies, so I graciously welcome you to Equestria Cybe." She held up her cup.

"Thank you Celestia." They clanked their cups and took a sip. With everything they had talked about, Cybe was glad that he was accepted by the sun goddess. He hoped that he could possibly start a life away from the war, mainly helping in the background where he could be at peace. All he really wanted was a nice, quiet, normal life.