Sorry My Children for being gone forever. But this is the first weekend I have had in the past month to relax and I made the most of it. I also did not take the time to edit it so excuse any mistakes.

***

5:41 PM. Saturday.

Jett grinned as he slowly walked towards the shattered show window. Behind him was utter destruction in the city’s shopping district that was indicative of a massive fight. Behind him was a 20 something year old women brutally fighting hand to hand with a group of men in almost medieval style armor.

“Dane!” she shouted.

In the shattered window was a certain white haired android on his back slowly backing away from his deranged opponent.

“Dude! Calm down! There’s something not right with you!” he called.

Jett cracked his neck before raising his prosthetic, “What’s wrong friend?” he laughed.

“You! You’re behaving like a maniac.”

He cracked his knuckles, “You have nothing to worry about.”

A plate on his forearm popped up revealing the rotary beneath.

“This won’t hurt one…”

It turned. Each turn it clicked revealing something different.

“Little…”

It stopped.

“Bit…”

A large blade about the length of his forearm popped out with a piercing metal shriek. Dane gulped before pulling himself to his feet and straightening his shirt. He glanced behind the android quickly before returning his gaze.

“Okay. I’m ready. One last fight.”

“Don’t push your luck buddy,” Jett grinned.

“Oh trust me. I only need one minute.”

They stared at each other for a little while longer before they both rushed.

***

A few hours earlier.

Jett walked down the street towards a coffee shop. The building was relatively quaint in appearance with a nice outdoor seating area that gave a nice view of the street. At one of the tables was a girl with windy pink hair. She was staring at something on her phone before she looked up.

“Hey you made it!” she said cheerily standing up.

Jett walked up to her, looking a little bashful, “Yeah, uh, I guess I did.”

“So you ready to go?”

“Yeah, but before we go, can we just hold on for a second?”

“Why? What’s wrong?”

“Don’t you think we’re going… a little too fast here?”

She frowned, “What do you mean?”

“Well, we’re already going on a date, I guess that’s what you call it, and I only met you a little while ago.”

“You did say that you were going to be open to new things. So why not try this? You’re only gonna live once.”

Jett pondered this for a moment. Something about it seemed familiar and yet…

He blinked, “You know what? Why not?”

“Great! Now come on! We’re wasting time!”

***

Dane and Gin walked along the cobblestone streets. Dane was dressed in as average clothes for the area as he could as was Gin who had a pair of concealed hand guns hidden under her leather jacket. Both had sunglasses while Dane wore a hat to hide his unnaturally white hair.

“This… is oddly familiar,” Gin said.

“Yeah, like some kind of modern Victorian era earth,” Dane replied.

“How did humans, or at least human like life forms, evolve so far away from Earth? That should be impossible.”

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

“What?”

“Lewis Carroll,” Dane said, “Alice in Wonderland?”

“Ah.”

“They appear to have something along the lines of 40’s era tech but I can’t really tell.”

“Why can’t you tell?” Gin asked, “On the Kardashev scale they’re like a…0.40 about?”

“I can’t tell because they’re all over the place. I’m scanning their grid but it’s extremely erratic. They have cell phones and TV’s and even something resembling an internet.”

“So why is it difficult to pin it down?”

“Because when we were this advanced we also had nuclear weapons, machine guns, all sorts of other things that they don’t have.”

A car looking vaguely like something from the 40’s drove past them down road. Curiously it did not emit any exhaust.

“They’re technology is all over the place. Planes from what I can guess are new to them. Along with anything beyond a bolt action rifle. Anything resembling an AI like me is about as complex as simple hard drive. It’s complicated.”

They continued down the street. Dane continued to observe and take note while Gin stayed vigilant looking for threats.

Meanwhile, just a little farther away, something else was taking place. A group of friends was sitting on a patio at a restaurant, waiting to be served.

“Honestly darling,” Rarity said, “I don’t know why you insist on buying that. It has such a GHASTLY color to it.”

“What’s wrong with it?” Applejack asked.

Rainbow Dash tried to suppress a giggle, “Well, for one, it looks like something Granny Smith would wear!”

Applejack looked down at the necklace she was wearing, “Aw come on, it’s not that bad… is it?”

“Let’s just say I wouldn’t be caught dead in it,” Rainbow Dash laughed.

Twilight Sparkle sighed, “Can you continue this another time please? I’m trying to study here.”

“Oh, what is this time?” Fluttershy asked.

“I’m trying to read up on code systems and computer algorithms.”

“Uh, why exactly?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“That android we chased through the streets the other day? That robot is the most advanced piece of technology in the world at the moment and I would really like to learn more about it!”

“Um, but didn’t the princess say not to bother him without his expressed permission?” Fluttershy asked.

“Which you have still to receive by the way,” Pinkie Pie grinned.

Twilight sighed before throwing her head in her hands, “Yes I know. Ugh! What I wouldn’t give for two of those things! At least one that was a little less stubborn!”

Dane and Gin walked by the café. They stopped on the street corner. Gin removed her sunglasses and rubbed her eyes.

“Oh god that’s bright.”

Dane removed his shades and hat, “I need to clean mine a bit. That dust from that carriage practically pasted my lenses.”

At that exact moment, Twilight decided to look up. It was also at that moment that she happened to get a glance between the gap between Rainbow Dash and Rarity to the street corner several meters away. A rather familiar face, with the addition of a few freckles and instead of a jet black mop, the figure rocked a nest of snow white hair.

The boy turned his head, some unseen words were said to his companion before he pulled his hat and sunglasses back on his head. And yet, something seemed familiar about him. Something odd about it just did not seem right. Like an atheist at a conference of theologians. Twilight knew something was wrong and yet, she could not place it.

And then she heard it. That one thing that gave it away. The one stone that shattered the glass façade. One little slip of the tongue or maybe not even that.

A small piece of a conversation reached her ears.

“… well we’re here you stupid android so…”

Android.

Twilight stood up, “Hey you!”

The white haired figure turned, blinking. His companion turned as well. She gave them both a sly grin.

“Android.”

The two figures paled. The woman reached for something in her coat pocket.

“Gin… run,” Dane said.

The women removed her hand from her jacket and slowly turned the corner. The android turned to face the purple haired girl.

“So strange one, just how do you know what I am?” He asked taking slow deliberate steps towards her.

“Why should I tell you that?” Twilight grinned. Oh she would be ready this time. The rest of her friends by now were ready for a fight and were staring down the android.

“Because obviously you’re intrigued in more ways than one.”

“Yeah wouldn’t you like to know?”

“I would. But I can imagine why. Your race is extremely primitive. I can only imagine the hard on the idea of capturing and advanced piece of artificial intelligence technology must give you.”

This was unnerving to Twilight.

“Hey! Who you calling primitive snowball?!” Rainbow Dash yelled.

Dane kept his cool. Almost unnaturally so, “Thank you for the kind demonstration girl.”

“Rainbow, shut it,” Twilight said, “And so what if I do want to capture you and study you?”

“You won’t and can’t,” Dane grinned.

“How do you know?”

“For one your hands are glowing so it would be very easy for me to run right now without giving too much away.”

Twilight’s hands shot up. A cobblestone box rose out of the street and encompassed the android. Twilight grinned.

“Aw yeah! Way to show him Twi!” Rainbow cheered.

“What was that about not capturing you?” Twilight asked.

“This is rather interesting,” Dane said, “Unexpected but not unmanageable. Let’s just see here…”

A fist punched its way through the box, sending a stone flying down the street. Dane poked his face through, “Here’s Johnny!”

Twilight gulped.

***

“And so anyway,” Starry skies continued, “The moral of the story is don’t wake up the bitch that lives just above the cake shop.”

“Ouch, that doesn’t sound very pleasant,” Jett cringed.

“Oh it wasn’t. She just talked and talked and talked.”

“Like a record without an end right?”

“Yeah, and then she had her first cup of coffee.”

“Wait what?”

“Then it got really bad but that’s a story for another time.”

“Aw,” the android moped.

“Hey, be a patient android. There’s plenty of time for conversation at lunch.”

“Speaking of which, are we there yet?”

Starry Skies smiled, “Yup, it’s that nice place right over there.”

It was corner side restaurant with various areas for outdoor eating. A few rustic lamps dotted the corner, matching the overall theme of the building. Various people were sitting outside and inside the restaurant which internally resembled and old fashioned tavern or pub rather than the high end restaurant it really was.

Skies found a table and led the android to it.

“So what exactly is this place?” he asked.

“Uh, what does it look like? It’s a restaurant.”

“Yeah, no shit. I mean what exactly is this place.”

“This? I used to come here all the time as a kid and I still do. It’s a nice place. Reminds me of home,” she responded.

“I see…”

The waiter came over and took their respective orders before leaving.

“So tell me about yourself,” Skies asked.

“What do you want to know? I’m a robot. Plus I don’t have a memory at the moment so there’s not much to tell besides what’s happened since I got here.”

“Well, uh, what’s it like being a robot?”

“Well, for one I have an optional Heads Up Display. That’s pretty interesting.”

“Do you keep it on?”

“Yes. It’s more or less always been on as far as I remember so why not?”

“What else?”

“I see the entire length of the EM spectrum and can hear every frequency of sound.”

“What’s that like?”

Jett frowned, “What do you mean?”

“What’s it like seeing things that we can’t see and hearing things we can’t here? What does it look like?”

“That would be difficult to describe.”

“How?”

“Have you ever tried describing what a rainbow looks like to someone who’s colorblind?”

…

“Yeah I didn’t think so. Even now I can see and hear things you wouldn’t believe. In short I can see and hear more, do more, do it faster, pretty much I’m better.”

“At what exactly?”

“Everything.”

Skies frowned, looking rather intrigued at the android, “So what are some of the things that you can see and hear?”

Jett turned, looking around his environment.

“Do you see that clothing store across the street over there?” he pointed.

“Yeah, why?”

“In the dressing rooms there’s a woman who’s trying on a purple dress that her boyfriend doesn’t exactly find appealing. I can hear their conversation.”

“Wow.”

“Right now I can hear hundreds of conversations within a 100 meter radius. I can see everything from the body head coming off of these people to their bones inside their body. Even as we speak I am aware of a group of guards walking up the street from around that corner over there.”

“…oh…”

“There is also a small insect; I think it may be some kind of fruit fly, crawling up your leg at the moment.”

She squeaked and started rubbing her legs, attempting to brush off the offending insect. Jett laughed.

“Did I get it?”

“Oh yeah, you got it alright.”

She grinned, “You jerk.”

***

Meanwhile across the city, a certain situation of rather peculiar notice was taking place. It was around this time that a giant box of cobblestone and dust exploded and a white haired figure ran out, sprinting full speed down the street.

He bolted down the road at full speed, chasing after another figure not too far ahead of him who was doing the same thing as he was. Behind them both were a group of six figures all chasing after them.

Dane gasped. A cobblestone wall encased in a purple aura flew up in front of him. He leapt into the air and threw himself over the wall before continuing onward. More began appearing in front of him.

“Great!” Rainbow Dash droned behind him, “Another road runner!”

“Rainbow, shut up and catch’em!” Applejack yelled.

“Fine.”

She flapped her wings and pushed herself forward, enough to gain on the android and tackle him to the ground. They both bounced in ball of white hair and blue feathers before Rainbow gained control and gripped the android by the shoulders and tossed him into a nearby light post.

He impacted it rather violently, leaving a sizable dent in it before flopping to the ground.

Dane pulled himself up on his hands and knees just in time to see Rainbow Dash diving on him. He rolled left and jumped back up on his feet before striking out with his palm and catching the girl in the stomach, knocking her back.

Rainbow Dash coughed and held her gut before growing and looking back up at the robot, “Now you’ve officially pissed me off.”

Dane brushed himself off, “Yeah, you see I’d love to stay and chat but I do have somewhere to be so… bye.”

With that he bolted off after Gin.

Gin meanwhile had been running a considerable distance at an impressive speed for a normal 25 year old. Her years of high gravity training and conditioning finally paid off as her body, now accustomed to operating with higher gravity and less oxygen ran like a well-oiled machine. She could still feel her guns bouncing around inside her jacket as she ran.

Every now and then she would risk a glace behind her. This time she glimpsed her friend booking it toward her at full speed with a rather angry Rainbow haired girl flying after him. Behind her was a group of 5 other, eccentrically colored girls. One of them raised her hand and a purple glow enveloped her and her rainbow colored friend. Instantly they teleported and reappeared a few meters in front of Gin and Dane.

Gin put on the brakes as she skidded to a halt. Dane, like a cheetah was soon at her side, one hand on the ground in a starting block form.

The pair was cut off.

“Alright assholes,” the Rainbow one seethed, still holding her gut, “If you wanna escape you’re gonna have to go through me!”

Gin, not even phased by the threat, simply replied, “Okay,” and pulled out her Glock and fired.

A bolt of blue energy flew towards the rainbow haired girl and splashed over her chest. Instantly she dropped to the ground unconscious. Gin, not wasting any time aimed at the other girl and fired.

The purple haired magician dove out of the way as the round continued onward to hit a street sign.

Gin nodded at Dane and they both took off running again.

***

“So that arm of yours,” Starry Skies asked, “Just what exactly can you do with it?”

Jett looked down at his arm. The gunmetal appendage had been there since he had woken up. He’d never really seen it having much of a use at all really. He did know that there were some things like tools in it but what he could really do with them he had no idea.

“Don’t know really. I do know that I have some tools and stuff in it but what I can do with it is anyone’s guess.”

“Hmm, I see.”

Jett grabbed his cup of tea and took a sip. Starry Skies wore a friendly smile and seemed quite content. This place seemed… off. He couldn’t quite place it but yet it was there, like an itch in the back of his head he just couldn’t seem to scratch.

Suddenly Starry Skies jumped up, “Hey, I know what we can do!”

Jett was pulled out of his thoughts, “Oh? And what’s that exactly?”

“You’ll have to follow me,” she grinned.

Jett finished his drink, “Alright. Lead on. But I have to be back on the base by 7:00.”

“You have a curfew?”

“Well, yeah I guess I do.”

“Well that’s a bit boring,” she pouted.

“Well what am I supposed to do? Spitfire will have my head on a platter if I’m late.”

She laughed, “Alright I’ll be sure to get you home to mom before supper.”

“Don’t make fun of me,” he fake pouted, “She’s my boss.”

“Alright, alright. Come on, we’re wasting time.”

***

“There is nothing on this earth sexier, believe me, gentlemen, than a woman you have to salute in the morning. Promote 'em all, I say, 'cause this is true: if you haven't gotten a blowjob from a superior officer, well, you're just letting the best in life pass you by.”

-Colonel Jessep. A Few Good Men.

***

Princess Celestia sighed. Sure things were good in Equestria; democracy, good quality of life, high living standards, tolerant of all non-threatening lifestyles, practically a paradise. But as in any paradise, you had to work to keep it that way. With the day’s work done, all the politicians dealt with, all the ambassadors addressed, all the taxes filled, she could finally relax and enjoy her afternoon.

The royal gardens of the palace were one of the few serene parts of the fortress where the sun princess could get some peace and quiet without having to lock herself in a tower. She relished in it; the peaceful silence of it all. The only noises, if any were the calming sounds of nature.

The princess was sitting calmly at a nice custom made, handcrafted picnic table, enjoying a glass of tea when, in a flash of light, her sister appeared sitting across from her.

“Sorry we’re late sister,” Luna huffed.

Celestia raised an eyebrow, “’We’re’ late?”

Luna turned red, “Again, sorry. That still happens sometimes.”

“Understandable,” Celestia smiled before returning to her tea and picking up a newspaper.

“So how are you enjoying this fine day?”

“Well for once the council and I finished things up on time so that’s a good start.”

“I’m sure,” Luna smiled, “So… how is that other thing going?”

Celestia put the newspaper down, “You mean with Spitfire’s new friend? Well so far he’s been just minding his own business so far, you know… just doing stuff…”

Luna frowned, “Spitfire recruited him didn’t she?”

Celestia put up a grin, “All’s fair?”

“Humph. Next robot that pops up is mine.”

“That’s if he even wants to join your team. And if you do recall, mine is still 3 people short of a full house.”

“Yes but-”

A flash of blue flame appeared above the picnic table and a small scroll. Celestia picked it up and unrolled it.

“Well this is interesting.”

“What’s interesting?” Luna asked.

“Seems that some of our guards have been found unconscious all throughout the city along with reports of a chase.”

“Seems like you are not entirely out of the woods yet, sister,” Luna said.

“Yeah… Well, I better see what’s happening this time. I just hope it’s not another robot.”

***

1 Hour Later.

“Just what are we doing down here?” Jett asked.

Starry Skies giggled.

Something snapped, cracked or fractured in the android’s mind. Something… vaguely familiar. Like a memory embedded in a piece of glass stabbing into his head that he couldn’t quite pin down. It was there oh so briefly.

“Come on, I’m not Dane. I suck at this stuff.”

“Here, just take your arm and put it here.”

…

“Now take the other and put it here.”

…

“Now I take my arms and put them like this.”

…

“And now we dance.”

“You’ll see.”

They were walking down through a series of underground caves. They were following a carefully laid out trail a few meters across. Just off the trail was a large underground river decorated with glowing crystals embedded in the rock around it. There were even some small plants around the area.

Starry Skies led him to a large underground gate. It was made of some kind of stony metal and consisted of two double doors. A small door slit was on one of the doors. One the doors were the letters C and U.

Starry Skies walked up to the door and knocked on it three times. The door slit opened.

“State your business.” A deep voice said.

“The Night Is Young and I have Time.”

“Very well.”

The two large double doors opened. Jett and Starry Skies entered. Jett’s eyes widened.

“What is this place?” Jett asked.

“This?” Starry Skies smiled, “Is the Canterlot Underground.”

Author's Notes:

Again I apologize for being off for so long but my education comes first and I must focus on that before I can do any of this. After MAY is over I should be back to writing.