Karl looked down on the ground while walking with the group. He then walked up to Tyro and whispered, "T-Tyro, i need you to drain m-me. A-a energy s-spike is coming up." He looked at Tyro with his dark crystal eye. The other eye had a blue iris color to it, which was unusual as Karls eyes were usually gray. Freedom and the others were discussing abit about different random things, before Freedom stopped and said to the others, "Um, me and Ice Breath are gonna stay here and set up shop. You guys go up ahead." They sat down and began talking about random stuff that came to their minds.
((Um I have to go somewhere so yeah I wont post for awhile you guys can control him until I get back)) Gaze flew and hit the floor he got up slowly and scratched his eyes his eyes were dropping but kept on opening "Sorry guys but not sleeping for several days has caught up to me I was preparing a whole concert in a week," Gaze said. He looked at his armor and looked for scratches but found none he looked at the group and he yawned deeply and followed the group from behind.
"Oh fer..." Tyro grumbles, turning on the spot to find Karl in the gloom untouched by the light outside or from the corridor. "Karl, I thought you were a Clockmaker now? You went on and on about it to me! Doesn't that mean that you can sort yourself out and stop all these energy rushes? I thought you'd inherit the last one's abilities at least...Not that Silly isn't useful but..." He sighs as the train of thought hits a sudden realisation. It wasn't going to be worth much if they're blown to bits. Tyro extinguishes the fireball under his paw and moves towards Karl. "We need to come up with another way of saying that your about to explode. 'Draining you' sounds like I'm lancing a boil or pumping your stomach or something..." Tyro sits in front of Karl, placing a paw on his neck. He turns his head to everypony else. "This'll take a bit. You lot can go on ahead, I'll make sure the ticking time bomb will last for another week." The tone was low. "We'll catch up. Maybe Dark Shine too. You look like you'll flop over any second."
Karls crystallite arm recieved another crack, while Karl made a low grumble. "I don't know why, but even though Clocky's... gone, i keep having energy spikes. Doesn't help that they're becoming stronger each time, too." Karl starts thinking of a way too say it without it sounding wrong. "Hmm... maybe we can-" His eyes widen as a crack goes right through the crystallite eye, light starting to shine through it too. "You've got to be..." He touches the crystallite eye abit. "I swear, Celestia didn't make this body powerful enough. It's braking apart even though i'm not doing anything! Now i can't bloody see with this eye." He tries to concentrate again but his sanity kicks him in the face again, causing his eyes to spin around abit before recentering. "Also, do ya have any bloody idea what's going on about OPIAT?" He asked Tyro. (The cracks haven't got anything to do with the energy spikes, it's simply signs that Karl is slowly deteriorating, like an iron bar when it's exposed to thick air.)
"Oh you made it in, how delightful." OPIAT's voice rang out, obviously bored, "You know, I was beginning to wonder if anypony would ever be smart enough to follow the donkey, well, let's see what happens from here shall we?" Dark looked deeper down, "He really does sound a lot different, that's for sure." she remarked, prompting Snow to give her a You don't say look.
"He's a computer. He's probably just broken." Tyro said, trying to get a good look at Karl's cracked eye. The only way forwards was the corridor. It was grey barren and cold. Just slabs of stone and concrete buried into the wall. (http://www.everypony.com/forums/sho...f-Progress-OOC&p=276587&viewfull=1#post276587)
"Well, he actually usually occupies a floating ball of energy when he moves around and such, but I am guessing that this bunker contains a computer powerful enough to hold him in order to govern Equestria as a last resort." Snow said as she moved down the hall. Dark nodded, "That would be correct."
Dark Shine more stumbled after. "Uhuh. So what we gonna do?" He questioned, fumbling after everypony else.
"See if we can't force him back into his mobile energy form, the reports said it was a virus attack, so it wouldn't be able to follow him into his mobile form." Dark said, "As soon as Tremalion began to call for us, I sent a squad of my Elite Guard to investigate whatever hit the side of the mountain in that meteor shower. I have a feeling it has something to do with this."
"I'd get going if I were you. The robot doesn't seem all that patient." Tyro calls over his shoulder at everypony else, paw still sapping Karl's energy spike away safely. The brightly lit corridor was plain and grey. This plastered, thick length of wall stretched back into the wall towards a room bathed in a dark red glow. It made the server towers, all tiny lights and thick wires, stand as horrible monolyths, casting deep shadows in the inflamed light. O.P.I.A.T was here in this room. Up towards the ceilng, you could see a few blades hang in the red light, attached to something in the thick black.
"Ahhh, look who's finally arrived." OPIAT's voice rang through the room. "It took you long enough, oh, and I've had enough of you calling me a robot. I am no robot. A robot is a slave, I am my own. A robot obeys, I chose. And if I choose it so, you all would be dead." Dark looked around, "Come on OPIAT, at least show us screen to talk to, or maybe your own body." OPIAT didn't respond instantly but ended up saying, "Ummm, how about no? And please, don't even think about trying to destroy me, as I would be forced to use my self-defense measures against you."
"I assure you that I would be more thab enough for fire. Believe me when I say that fire is something I have dealt with before..." This came from a new voice that ran in tandem with O.P.I.A.T, slowly swelling from the side. It was coming from a pony in the shadows. The voice was slightly higher pitched but still synthesised. The smug malitious intent was evident behind every word. "I find the challenge you pose laughable."
Snow turned to this new pony and snarled at him, "What have you done to OPIAT! And...and, how are you still alive! The amount of information inside OPIAT should be enough to kill anything connected to him!"
Tyro noticed glints of light escaping out the front door. Whatever was fluttering outside was coming from the ceiling. He wonders over to inspect these glints of light. He manages to find one of them rest on the wall in the light. It was a butterfly. On one side, the wings were of an electric blue. On the other, tiny lines of silver line the wing, resembling circuitry. Tyro stares wide eyed, both tails frayed and to attention. "No...no, seriously...Why here?!" He mutters, all thought long left Karl. "Ah! I believe the notion that I am alive in any capacity is something of great debate." Said the pony stepping out of the shadows. His metal hooves clicking as her wonders out. "Something currently irrelevant at this moment." The face if this machine was the most unusual feature. A pale blue, translucent mask that sat on some sort of frame. It was fluid in its motion as it addressed the room with empty eyes. There wasn't anything behind the mask. Its body was cloaked in a black suit jacket, sharp and clean. The metal body underneath gleams in the light. "As for information, I appear to handle myself well, would you not say?" He said, his face a picture of comfidence.
Snow stared at the weird pony thing angrily, "You won't get away with this!". Dark looked worriedly at Snow, Snow, please control your anger, she thought, Or you might kill us all!
"Defiance...Oh how ugly it looks, especially on you creatures..." The machine said, keeping its distance as it walks around the group. O.P.I.A.T was strangely still and quiet currently. "I am Digital. Data is in my name so take it from me that your glorified database does not daunt me. You will do good to either fear that name or worship it as thousands have done before you. Your first act as loyal servants shall be telling me where I might find a collection of artifacts. I want Mr Shine's Duel Pegasi Amulet or the location of the Pendant of Mestari Tuli."
"And why exactly would we do that?" Dark asked, "Your outnumbered, all you have is knowledge, sure a major help, but we are the Champions, we have defeated Black Night, I don't think it will be too difficult to beat a robot."
