Author's Notes:

This one had to be rewritten so many times that I put it on hiatus until I could finally get something to roll with. Now I finally found something to roll with.

Edit: I read a prior chapter so I rewrote the first part of this chapter to keep it accurate.

In the caves where it all began, there is a single room. The room where the Xenomorphs were discovered. This room is being examined by a recently awakened Applejack who feels more tired then she ever has. She guessed that being in darkness now weakened her a little. Her brother left her in the family barn for him to pull her out whenever Big Mac wanted something with the familiar feel, and that's why she didn't punch her brother a mile away sooner. But she never knew that if she was left in complete darkness, she would probably not be able to walk. At least, she thinks she wouldn't be able to walk. Right now she can't even struggle out of whatever black cocooning covers her arms and legs. As for her chest, neck, and head, those remain completely clear. The Mare of Steel attempts to make her eyes do the laser thing again, but all she can get is a faint red glow that appears to only make her even more tired than before. Officially giving up, Applejack decides to examine the room to see how bad of a situation she's in.

The room is covered in the blackish brown cocooning material. The surface looks like the background of piece of art made by HR Ponger. Come to think of it, those monsters that she tried to kill look like they were drawn by that artist too.

At the center of the room are multiple egg like pods, with some of these pods having open tops to them. Littered on the floor near the edges of the walls are the corpses of strange white spider things with tails. After a few seconds of wondering where those things came from, Applejack looks down to the pod directly in front of her as it starts to open. As the poor blonde pony wondered what comes next, One of the white spider things launches out of the pod and on to her face, the thin white tail wrapping around her neck and something long and slimy going down her throat. The white spider thing eventually retracts the slimy thing and jumps to the wall on the other side of the room in search of another face to crawl on.

Feeling pissed, Applejack fires a burst of her heat ray that's only strong enough to cause the spider thing to hit the wall and fall off. This makes Supermare feel even more weak, and she begins to feel something move around in her chest. She begins to lose consciousness, but also hears the sound of something activating. However, the thing in her chest begins to remind her of how weak she currently it. And with that, she falls asleep surrounded by darkness...

Somewhere in a place of vast amounts of darkness, there are clear dormant shapes with opaque lines going through them. It is a collection of clear shapes and opaque lines that have remained dormant for thousands of years...

But, by some miracle, somewhere amongst the collection is a tiny flashing red light that attempts to illuminate the lines and shapes. Above this flashing red light, a screen appears directly over it. As the screen hovers above the flashing red light, it begins to form code and words.

>>WARM_UP_PROTOCOl: STANDBY
>>SELF-DIAGNOSTIC: INITIATED
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>SELF-DIAGNOSTIC: COMPLETE
>>SYSTEMS_CONDITION: 100% [ACCEPTABLE]
>>WARM_UP_PROTOCOL: INITIATED

Within what appears to be the length of a minute, lights spreads throughout the shapes and lines with many colors being shown off. The colorful lights fill the entirety of what was once darkness, and more words appear on the screen.

>>WARM_UP_PROTOCOL: COMPLETE
>>CLK/SF_TRIBORG_MODEL_2.0: ACTIVE

The flashing red light turns blue, and all the opaque lines turn blur as well.

>>INITIATING_"HOLDING-ROOM"_SCAN
>>
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>>LOCAL_THREAT_LEVEL: ACCEPTABLE
>>STEALTH_PROTOCOL: UNNECESSARY

The void of color and shapes now starts to flow with more colors, creating an ever so beautiful display as the lights expand even more to reveal a human brain surrounded by the shapes with some of the opaque lines reaching all the way down to it and receiving ocational flickers of electricity.

And now, the screen above the red light shows off what's happening through the eyes of a cyborg.

In the room that Applejack is restrained to, a panel on the wall opposite to the mare opens with white mist pouring out on the floor.

With the sudden noise going on in the room, a unicorn born Xeno walks into the room to investigate. It looks around at the room to see an unconscious Supermare and a part of the cocooned wall that has been split open along with an apparent mist. As the Xeno focuses on the break in the wall, a metal man walks out into the room. It's bare metal armor plating with some kind of metal lashes hanging off the back of its head. The man doesn't smell like a threat, and the bug can't seem to make anything of it. The bug lets off a hiss of confusion.

"The alien intruder," The metal man says as lights at its chest and eyes activate and become blue, along with the color of its armor becoming blue.

The man charges energy in its hand and blasts the Xenomorph with a ball of frost that freezes the Xeno solid. The man then charges into the bug and shatters it, sending frozen acid chunks flying everywhere. The man then looks over to Supermare and examines her. It can see that there is a Xenomorph growing inside her and that she doesn't have much time left. With further examination, the man discovers that Supermare isn't entirely anthro equine, her DNA has been changed to something very tough. Even further examination is determining that it might even be invincible, but physically weakened somehow. With a different form deep scan it discovers apparent receptors in the cells that absorbs sunlight, but not the same way as plants. As the man continues to examine the weakened hero, she wakes up.

"W-what in the hell," Applejack says, completely surprised by the appearance of the metal man, "Who're you?"

"I am Triborg, a repurposed Prototype Cyber-Lin-Kuei," The man responds, "May I ask who you are?"

"I'm Appleja- I mean, I'm Supermare," Applejack says, almost blowing her cover, "Hey, are those a set of fancy eyes?"

"If you are referring to the lights on my face, then you would be correct. These are what you may refer to as my eyes."

"Can they see inside me?"

"Indeed. The beast inside you grows, and I lack the capability to cut into your skin."

"A-are you sure?"

"I understand your concern. However, your chances for survival are high. These creatures expand through two similar means that cause an embryo to grow in your chest. As soon as it exits you, I will destroy it and encase you in ice. Your chances of surviving being frozen are also high. I would say you have a ninety-five point six percent of surviving both encounters."

"So, it's not gonna kill me?"

"Nor will it severely critically injure you. It should leave only a single hole in your armor. However, my calculations determine that the beast inside you should come out at any moment."

"W-w-what!? Y-you mean that-"

"Fear not, ma'am. I am here for you. These monsters nearly infested another world, and we brought them to this world thinking that they wouldn't harm anything. It appears that we were wrong. A mistake that I must fix."

Triborg puts a hand on Supermare's shoulder and looks more deeply into the panicking mare's eyes.

"Do not worry as much." Triborg says in an attempt to calm the mare, "You will survive the experience, and I will be here to bring you to a safer location. I have teleportation capabilities that will allow us to exit this cave together. What is your real name? I volunteered to be rebuilt as a cybernetic lifeform. I was once Dennis Zheng. But I know retain an addition of three other memories from three other cyborgs. But i only have their memories and abilities, not their concisenesses."

"M-my name i-is Applejack," Applejack says, still fearing about what is about to happen, "W-will it hurt? That thing leavin' me?"

"Sadly, yes," Triborg admits, "It will bring great pain. But it will only last mere seconds. I will make sure of it."

Within a few seconds, there's clearly visible movement inside Applejack's chest. Something is inside her, and it's squirming all over. The golden mare starts to feel weak in the chest, the squirming moves over right to the symbol of the House of El and it attempts to surface. With an emerging bulge at the 'S', Supermare begins to cough up blood. Another bulge happens, Applejack coughs up more blood, and Triborg's body language changes to one of readiness as he also launches a probe that hovers over his head. Triborg clenches and opens his hand, then moves into a stance that calms and steadies his arm . With one final push-

HSESESESESESESESESESESE

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

A chestburster erupts out of Applejack's chest and causes a pain that she swear she won't survive. But within not even half of the moment of deathly pain; Triborg snatches the chestburster, flings it into the middle of the room, and blasts it with a beam of frost that's intensified by the probe to the point of trapping the developing Xeno in a wall of ice.

"Your survival is improbable!" Triborg announces befor looking over to Applejack. The blonde maned pony now has a hole in her chest along with blood coming out of her mouth. She's not doing good at all, but she's not exactly dying.

As a reaction to seeing the mare in her weakened state, Triborg places his hand into Applejack's wound and slowly encases her injury with ice until she no longer felt any pain. However, with Triborg's work completed, Applejack begins to lose consciousness as the cyborg pulls her out of the cocooned walls and holds her in his armored arms.

"Hey, Triborg?" Applejack asks.

"How may I be of assistance?" Triborg responds, looking her in the eyes.

"Keep me awake, would you? I don't want my lights goin' out."

"Your weakened state is only temporary. I will bring you into the sun's light."

With that said, Triborg and Applejack de-materialize out of the room to appear elsewhere.

If one were travel to the mighty castle of Canterlot during it's seemingly everlasting prime by train or flight, they would likely be to the simply massive city within a matter of hours. But getting there by hoof is something that would take far longer. It would take the length of two days to get to Canterlot by hoof from Ponyville, a town that is the closest one to the mighty kingdom.

But when the Caribou took over, destroyed the train, and restricted flying, no pony ever really attempted to travel to the once great city. And now, the town is one giant hive that belongs to the Xenomorphs. Everything they could possibly need is over there. With their numbers high enough to wipe out an army in an hour, the need to expand the hive has ceased. As for a supply of food, the forested mountains above contain enough animals to give the Xenos what little food that they require. And even then, a single Xenomorph only needs to feed once every few days. Even the Queen Tarkatan born eats every other day, dispite it's massive size.

But even though the city belongs to the Xenos, a squad of unarmed scouts have been sent out to report just how bad it really is. It has been nine days since the infestation, and the scouts have been there for only half a day. It's sundown, and the sky's glow orange with streaks of white clouds like an orange cream popsicle. The one of the scouts is building a fire while the rest are setting up tents to sleep in through the night. Tomorrow, they move from their camp in a nearby meadow to higher places in the mountains to gain a bird's eye view of the inside of the city.

As the scout that's building his log cabin pile, he looks over to the tall and steep mountainside. He wonders why Caribou were sent to climb the mountain. He remembers running through fields as a child; fields of rain, mud, and puddles colder than ice yet somehow wet instead of frozen. He hated his home, but it was all that he knew to expect from the world. Now, he's discovered warmth and comfort. Never did he think that the days of sleeping under the skins of five different animals would stop, the days of eating meat because the vegetables would freeze, the days of fighting for your village because other Viking clans want it. Now he knows safety, being the superior species, and being surrounded by pleasure. He enjoyed the pleasure, but he hated everything else. He hated surviving but it's what he knew. Instead, he doesn't have to live by the skin of his teeth and he hates that even more.

And then there were the Ponies. Everything made by them is built strong, their lives knee deep in luxury, their talents to be discovered someday because of their naturally occurring "cutie marks", and they have never experienced war for a thousand years. They lived in safety, but this did not confuse the scout as he builds his fire. He knew that they did, and it actually sat well with him. He didn't want to attack Equestria, but then Dainn had to unify the Caribou clans into a kingdom and attack a land that he was taught never to attack. In his village, it was easy to be considered a coward. Being a buck and not fighting was considered cowardly. Treating females unfairly was considered cowardly. And leaving your home for The Land of Beauty for any reason was the most cowardly. Yet here he was, building a fire in front of what he thought would be the most beautiful city to set eyes on and it has been destroyed and made uglier than sin. He couldn't believe his eyes.

With the fire finally complete, he examines the pile of wood for anything missing. He needs more kindling, and he knows what to use. He reaches into a satchel slung to his back, and pulls out a fistful of paper advertisements givin to him by slaves and pleasure shop owners. He takes the papers, crumples them up, and stuffs them underneath the firewood pile that he has set up. He then reaches into his satchel, and pulls out a "bic lighter". Of all the things he's seen in Equestria, commonly produced tool with the capability to start fire within one flick baffles him more than everything else. He flicks the lighter and ignites the kindling with the fire starting minutes later. He considers his feat amazing. At his home, it would take hours to start a fight and he started one within mere minutes.

In an attempt to get his mind off the Ponies' prosperity, he looks back up to the mountain. But it only gets him thinking about the ponies again. He fought for his safety at his old home, yet he heard of ponies dying amongst their own safety out of boredom. Not intentionally killing themselves, rather doing dangerous things such as climbing mountains, living amongst dry deserts, creating machines capable of flight for the ones not meant to fly, and developing "sports". Individuals purposefully throwing them selves into danger because safety is boring. He found it so fascinating and amazing at the same time. And some of these ponies had a talent for committing such extreme acts. So incredible, he thought. Almost as incredible as a strange shiny figure that he's now fixating on.

The scout by the fire can't seem to fully make out whatever that figure is, but it wasn't there a few seconds ago. Soon after, a second figure stands beside it. This one appears to be dressed in blue with a red cape and what he thinks is blonde hair flowing in the wind. To make sure that he's actually seeing correctly, he rubs his eyes and looks back to the mountain with the two clearly still standing there.

"Darcius, have you heard rumors of red caped figures that live in the mountains?" The scout asks loudly to get his answer.

"Other than those bugs being so ugly that one look can turn you to stone, I have heard nothing of any rumors that live in the mountains," Darcius answers, "Are you sure you haven't been enjoying any of the ponies' 'sweet leaves'?"

"It's called marijuana, it's not a hallucinogen, and I didn't even bring any! My sight is fine! Just look over to the mountain!"

"... It appears I was wrong, you are in fact seeing something with a cape! Maybe we are lucky and it doesn't want anything!"

"I do remember talk of a mare that wore a blue costume with the red cape," One of the other scouts interrupts, "I even heard some of the Colts giving her her name. Something like 'Supermare', or some bloody hero name. Supposedly she was seeing attempting to fight off those demons. But she crashed into the dungeons of Canterlot and was never seen again."

The caped figure launches into the sky and approaches the squad of scouts, and the shiny figure disappears.

"I've got a bad feeling about this," The scout that built the fire says.

"So, exactly how many Caribou 're down there," Supermare asks, her wound fully healed.

"My sensors detect eight lifeforms," Triborg answers, his armor now yellow and his lights now green, "I am ready to engage at your discretion."

"I say that we stand around here for a while. Get noticed. Then go down. I fly into the sky and you do... Whatever you do."

"I shall engage stealth mode and engage the enemy through a more direct approach. May I recommend that you wait for my attack before engaging yourself?"

"Can do. I can hear things from a long way's away so I'll hear ya."

"Roger." Triborg affirms as Supermare's takes to the skies. The cyborg goes invisible before leaping a great distance towards the meadow. Before he lands, hidden boosters in his back, hands, and feet let off a burst of thrust that soften the landing so that he doesn't grab any attention. He approaches the camp and listens in to the talk between two shaken Caribou.

"What should we do," A Caribou standing next to a fire asks, "The caped thing just flew off!"

"Yes, but it won't help us if we panic," A Caribou setting up a tent says, "I say we let this instance go. Besides, that hike up here has left us tired. Just look at Sam, he's already set up his tent. He's probably napping now."

New objective, A notification states to Triborg, "Discover the napping Caribou.

Triborg sneaks over to the only fully set up tent and scans it's contents. He discovers a Caribou that is far from sleeping. The Caribou is masturbating, and further scans indicate that he's going at it pretty hard.

"Oh yes," The masturbating Caribou silently says to himself, "Strawberry Fields will be mine. I just need to kidnap her from my neighbor and she'll be all mine." -The Caribou starts going at it harder- "I can fuck her all I want when she's mine. I want that strange mare, and use her to bare my sons-" The Caribou bites his finger hard, "-mmm..." The Caribou makes a mess of himself, and feels relaxed, "I will have you, Strawberry Fields. I don't know why that damned Damian lets you live normally in his house, but I will force you to be like the rest."

Triborg is able to enter the tent with none of the other Caribou noticing.

"What you speak of brings dishonor to your name," Triborg says to the messy Caribou, his body de-cloaking.

"What By The Gods Are Yo-" Triborg extends a saw blade from his arm and slices the Caribou's throat wide open. The noise from the kill puts all the other Caribou at high alert as they all flee from the camp. Triborg re-engages his cloak and slowly follows the running Caribou.

"Why Didn't They Provide Weapons!?" One of the Caribou cries out. A few seconds later, and Supermare lands right in front of the remaining seven Caribou.

"Goin' anywhere?" Supermare asks, her eyes glowing red.

The Caribou try to go to the side, only for the first one to get blasted backwards by a random explosion caused by Triborg. In addition to getting blasted backwards, Triborg pulls off his own head and throws it hard enough at the Caribou for his head to become the cyborg's.

"Body snatch complete," Triborg says as he turns around and begins to fight the Caribou using the body their now ex-comrade while Triborg's headless body launches over to grab another Caribou and takeoff to the sky with it.

Supermare knocks three of the Caribou over with her heat ray, then proceeds to get closer while one gets up to punch her in the face. As the Caribou lands his hit, his hand breaks upon the blond mare's face. Supermare uppercuts the Caribou that hit her with a force strong enough to launch him into the air while shattering his upper and lower jaw. Another Caribou attempts to swing a punch at her but she grabs him by the threat and looks into his eyes with a burning rage. Unlike when the Xenos attacked her, she's facing opponents that don't have a chance against her. The power she feels is intoxicating, especially how her eyes becoming red as they stare down the Caribou and pour fear into him. She cries out in anger as she bores two holes through the Caribou's head and blasts the remaining Caribou with her great anger.

Triborg has already killed his two Caribou, and his body has broken the neck of the Caribou it took with it. Now whole again, the cyborg walks over to Applejack while observing her continually boiling anger.

"Applejack, the fight is over," Triborg informs. But Applejack's anger doesn't subsidie. Instead, she turns around and blasts at Triborg with her rage fueled heat ray... But before the heat ray hits, Triborg's body dematerializes along with his limbs flying off. The cyborg puts himself back together behind Applejack and cloaks as he knocks Supermare down. The angered hero gets up and sees that Triborg's cloak is surrounded by smoke along with the cyborg himself seeming to re-materialize and uncloak. His armor is now black and his lights are red with the smoke still surrounding him.

"Applejack, your rage is getting the better of you," Triborg states as he sets himself to a counteroffensive Lin-Kuei stance. Applejack throws a punch, and Triborg dodges it to deliver an elbow into Supermare's back as he bursts into a cloud of smoke that surrounds Applejack. The mare throws punches into the smoke, but hits nothing. As she attempts yet another punch, a black hand grabs Supermare and tosses her into another black fist that knocks her down.

The smoke comes back together to form Triborg, but two other Triborgs materialize next to him and surround the angry mare. The two additional Triborgs are in The two previously seen settings- the blue and yellow settings- and they all prepare to deliver separate blows. The yellow Triborg slashes Supermare across the chest, causing her to stumble around to the blue Triborg who blasts her with a beam of cold that freezes the hero in place. The two Triborgs grab the frozen hero, launch into the sky, and the black Triborg blasts himself up words with an uppercut that knocks Supermare out of her icy shell. The hero falls, and the black Triborg grabs her as the other Triborgs dematerialize and return to the main cyborg. His boosters allow the assassin to land softly on the ground with a now tired Applejack secure in his arms.

"W-why did ya have t' do that?" Applejack asks.

"Sometimes it is best to use Kombat in order to calm one's nerves," Triborg says, "You felt great anger towards the enemies, and you let it blind you."

"I guess I did lose my temper," Applejack admits.

"Fear not, you simply require guidance. I shall give you this guidance, the same guidance that a man named Kuai Lian gave me. With this guidance, you can beat anything that dares to oppose you in a controlled manner."

"If it means makin' me a better hero, then sign me up."

"We shall start tomorrow."

"But my-"

"You have already told me about the oppression of your people. It is thinking about it that blinds you. You seek to become a hero and a symbol of hope. If you seek to save your kind, then blind rage will cause you to fail. I shall teach you how to be a proper hero, and we shall liberate your people together. Only then will you succeed."

"... Alright, I'll do whatever you say."

"Excellent! Rest tonight. There will be much to do tomorrow."

With that said, Supermare heads to the ex-Caribou scout camp and finds a tent. As for Triborg, he begins scans the mountainside for certain materials that Kuai Liang used to teach him his skills and discipline. He will make Supermare into a true symbol of hope.