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Eggman Empire of Equestria Ch.5

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“Can you talk? How can you speak? Do you have a mouth? If so, how do you eat? Can you smile without a mouth? Wait a minute, is that even possible to smile without a mouth?” Pinkie asked many questions quickly and randomly to Mephiles on regards to his mouthless muzzle. The subject latter remain silent while guiding their journey.

“What are you anyways?” Rainbow asked this time. Again, Mephiles remains silent. She turns to the other who introduced himself. “Gamma, care to tell us what is he?” The heavily armored, red being turns its head the other way to face the ponies while walking. This sort of creep them out.  He made a ‘whirring’ sound to face them and he didn’t seem to mind twisting his neck. To make it worse, his reply was monotonously unnatural.

“Does not compute.”

“Wait what?” The other ponies are also bewildered by his speech and tone. Twilight may be the only who could understand him, though even she would admit that this isn’t something you often would hear from a being in Equestria; which neither Gamma nor Mephiles are likely from.

“Insufficient data.” He positioned his head to face forward, leaving behind the rainbow mare in question.

“O..kay?” not really understanding his terminology.

“Data on Mephiles is limited and confidential.”

“Ugh. In plain language?” whined the facehoofed Rainbow.

"I have just met him," Gamma turned his whole body towards the ponies. "Therefore I know next to nothing of the organic, Mephiles. Other than I am to follow his commands as I do to my masters."

“You don’t know? Did you even ask?” Gamma was silent for a few seconds. He then turns towards Mephiles for guidance.
 
“Inquiry. Should subjects be given information to satisfy their curiosity?”

“Negative. You will belay that.” Mephiles finally spoke.

“Confirmed and complied as ordered, then it remains confidential and classified.” Gamma said to the ponies. This answer dissatisfies them and also bewildered by how Gamma talks. What is Gamma anyways, and why does he talk like that?

"He's a robot," Mephiles turn towards the equines, almost as if he could read their minds. "And that's all you need to know," he finishes off before going back to his posture. When he spoke, the girls find it hard to tell whether or not he's angry. Without a mouth, it's hard to tell from his expression. Just that he has a straight look on his face, judging by the eyes.

“A robot? I never heard of a robot.” Fluttershy said. Knowing her, this is something she would ponder over with her friends. “Have you girls heard of one?” she faces Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie, and Rainbow. All of them shook their heads in reply. If there’s anything unknown to them, they would turn to the bookworm of the group, “Twilight?”

“Never. I have never heard of anything of a robot in my books; this is the first time I have heard of one.”

“Robot.” Gamma said. “By definition, a machine primed to serve its maker and their associates.”

“A machine. With the ability to serve and thus capable of doing what a living being can do. Then that makes you an automaton, correct?” Twilight said with her analysis.

“Affirmative.” Gamma responded with astuteness. While Twilight understands, the rest are having trouble getting through his speech patterns.

“Well you auto-whatever-you’re-called sure do like talking fancy.” Applejack said. “What about these guys?” She points her hoof to the beings dubbed as Egg Pawns.  “Are they machines too?

“Positive,” was Gamma’s answer. The Egg Pawns currently have the manticore under their control with their taser staves. An action Fluttershy disapproves of seeing how the manticore is in pain from them. She listens to the conversations with Gamma to learn more on their intentions with the animal.

“Um…okay. Rarity?” Applejack turned to her and whispered. “Does your sewing machine talks like that?”

“Oh heavens no!” cried the unicorn. “All they ever do is give off a ‘rrrrrr’ sound.

“I thought so too,” Applejack said in response, seeing how Gamma is also making them when he turns his head around. “But they also talk too? Now that’d be just weird, like having a tractor or sewing machines do some talking to you.”

“Twilight darling,” Rarity asked and whom everypony turned to. “You said they were…au-to-ma-tone?” She tried to enunciate.

“Automatons. They are machined beings capable of doing things a living being can do. But so far in Equestria, we’ve been able to use to magic to keep them alive and running and-"

“Magic. Equestria?” Gamma was eavesdropping on them.

“Equestria is a land where we’re on and magic is what unicorns to do perform tasks.”

“Magic. From our definitions, magic are mere tricks used to deceive its audiences for entertainment purposes. Unicorns…” Gamma paused to look and analyze the yellow and cyan-colored mares with wings, “and pegasi are subjects of mythology.”

“Well here in Equestria, we are real and so is magic, and there's more to magic than just entertainment. Watch.” Twilight levitated a few pebbles on their way to show the red automaton and the dark being.

“Intriguing.” Gamma responded and at the same time analyzed. Inside him, scanners indicate strange energy emitting from the unicorn's horn to lift the rocks.

“We can also use to our magic to make barriers and teleport.” She then exemplify by creating a barrier around herself and teleporting outside of it.

“Fascinating." Gamma wanting to learn more of magic in Equestria.

 "It’s almost like how Chaos energy functions.” Mephiles said coldly while rubbing his muzzle.

“Chaos? Wait what?!” cried Rainbow. She was about to charge into Mephiles to pin and interrogate him. Thankfully, Twilight pulled her back with her levitation magic.

“Wait! Hold on for a moment!” Rainbow struggles but gives up as Twilight gathered all the ponies into a discussion. Gamma, Mephiles and Egg Pawns waited for them.

“He just mentioned Chaos.” Rainbow complained to the group. “Discord has got to be involved!...Somehow.”

“As crazy it sounds, I’ll have to agree with Rainbow here.” Rarity said.

“Uh-huh.” Applejack firmly states. Pinkie nodded in agreement.

“Well we only just met.” Twilight reminded. “And if Discord was somehow involved, the princesses would've let us know.” Of course the said Discord is currently imprisoned in stone in Canterlot. If anything happened, Princess Celestia would’ve let them know and have them prepare their Elements of Harmony. But this time, the mission is an act of diplomacy to the foreign newcomers.

“Should we ask?” Fluttershy asked. The ponies stared at her, “I mean. It doesn’t hurt to ask, right?” They all turned to the newcomers. Mephiles had his arms crossed, almost vaguely based on someone who would also have this habit, Gamma was just standing next to him like a statue, and the Egg Pawns so far hasn’t done much to tase the manticore to keep it under control (much to Fluttershy’s satisfaction).

“Are you ready?” Mephiles questioned. “I could just leave you here and never inform my masters of our encounters.” Rainbow got a little enraged from that remark, but she keeps her restlessness under control now that her friends are around.

“Nah, we’re good. Just one thing.” She had her eyes sternly focused on the dark being. “Have you guys heard of Discord?”

“Discord, a noun or a verb?”

“Discord," Gamma defines, "a state of chaos, havoc, and disharmony or an act of creating chaos, havoc, and disharmony.”

“Ugh.” Rainbow facehoofed. "They can’t be that eggheaded," she whispered to herself.

“No.” said Twilight. “More like a being capable of these things.” Mephiles had to pause for a few seconds before responding.

“You’ll have to be more specific.”

“Well he’s a draconequus and…”

“The meanest, meanie ever!” Pinkie randomly appeared in front of Mephiles who somehow looked unsurprised by her approach. “He’ll make your world upside down…” she slowly crawls away.

“Draconequus…hmmm.” Mephiles was rubbing his chin in thought from this new terminology, “Gamma?”

“No dictionary confirms the term ‘draconequus’. But judging from its context, it can mean a mixture of a ‘dragon’ and a ‘horse’."

“Then the answer is no.” Mephiles turned to the ponies.
 
“Wait, you don’t know?” complained Dash. Mephiles just moved on and everyone had to follow without question.

“Even in our glossaries, no creature called a draconequus can be found.” Gamma said to assure them. “However, if you’re referring to creature that is a mixture of animals, we would classified them as a chimera.”

“At least that sorts things out.” Twilight said reassuringly. “They may not have Discord, but at least they have chimeras.”

“Negative. Chimeras are subjects to mythology.” He then remembers from what the lavender unicorn said earlier about mythology and reality in Equestria. “Our worldview mythology. This is world is need of further study, investigation, and research.”

“Yes, just as we would like to learn much from you.”

“Like what are you going to do with the manticore?” Fluttershy said with concern. “You’re not going to anything bad to it, are you?”

“By bad, you mean cause harm or ultimately euthanize it?”

“Eeep! Euthanize it?!” said the frightened, pegasus. This shocking news is almost enough to cause her a heart attack.

“Unlikely. A manticore is a creature of legend in our world.” continued Gamma. “Our masters are more likely going study it, and it goes against logic to terminate an organic of incredibility.”

“Then what’s that on your arm? Isn’t that a cannon?” Rainbow jumped in, seeing that this is something Pinkie carries.

“Affirmative, however, it was supposed to knock it out. No lethal ammunition was required.”

"Oh okay," relieved Fluttershy. "But what are they doing to it?" pointing to the Egg Pawns. She's trying to understand what the staves did to stop the manticore from being further volatile.

“What are these things anyways?” Rainbow flew over to the Egg Pawns to examine their weaponry. The Egg Pawns just looked at each other with their blue eyes, not sure what to make of their course of action other than deliver the beast to base. They stood still while a blue pegasus was observing their staves. She made a poke on their tips.

“Caution: taser staves contain 50,000 volts,” Gamma warned. It was already too late. The staves gave her a shocking surprise. “But rest assured,” he monotonously continued on, “The staves are not designed to be lethal, only to subdue the subject from further aggression.”

 “It’s no biggy," Rainbow said while shaking off the electric shock. "Pegasus play with lightning all the time,” feeling that they may be no challenge at all if they pick a fight against her. However this isn’t the case.

“An activity deemed inadvisable. Each lightning bolt generates an estimate power of 1.21 gigawatt; powerful enough to cause permanent damages to the body when it strikes on living tissue.”

“Well, we do it all the time when we’re managing the weather.”

“Managing? Pegasus can control the weather system?”

“Well, yeah.”

“The pegasi have the power of atmokinesis. Interesting.”

“The atmo-what-now?”

“This information will be proven resourceful for my masters to learn from this world.”

“What are your masters like?” Twilight asked.

“That remains to be seen.” Gamma said to remain confidential.

“Do they happen to be automatons?”

“Negative, they’re not robots.”

“Then what about him?” Pinkie hopped while following Mephiles. “You said he’s organic and…Twilight, what’s organic?

“Basically a living being.”

“Yeah, what is he?” Pinkie was eager to know. Mephiles stopped and stared menacingly at Pinkie. Everypony was frightened by his approach and became cautious of him. It looks as if he could strike at any given moment.

“I am…” he clutched his fists. “Nobody.” He then walked passed Pinkie, shrug her off like she didn't exist, and continued on.

“Awww.” Her mane became flattened, and then it puffed back up. “Wait, does that mean that-”

“Pinkie,” Twilight pulled her, “That’s enough. I think we’ve asked plenty of questions for today.”

“But still,” Fluttershy budge in, “that’s a pretty harsh thing to say.” She would say in her sad tone. “To refer to yourself as a nobody…”

“We’ll know that this isn’t the case, Fluttershy.” Twilight stated. “At least it shouldn’t be. Somehow....”
Prologue: fav.me/d66ftmu
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So who's the Heartless Colleague now, huh?

It took me almost 4 months to submit a chapter... Eh, it shouldn't be that much of a big a deal considering that a lot of Sonic MLP fanfic writers kinda have this pace here in dA. It'll probably be faster for me if I write outside of my house more often. The problem? I get homesick very easily :faint:

I did have fun playing with their dialogue between the robotic and the organic.

Discord is currently imprisoned in stone in this fic. Meaning that this is set somewhere before Keep Calm and Flutter On as Twilight isn't an Alicorn yet.

I was originally going to have the other half of this chapter explaining Mephiles's being, but that one was a lot wordy than I thought. So I decided I should post this as a separate chapter instead. I should have the other half done within a few days.

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Mephiles is a hedgehog version of Mephistopheles, an antagonist from a very old German folktale called, The legend of Faust.