Title: B4rb:Prequel Author: SweetApple Pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/YpFCnpwV First Edit: Friday 3rd of January 2014 07:48:51 PM CDT Last Edit: Friday 3rd of January 2014 07:48:51 PM CDT >Equestria. >The highest of noble nations on all of the planet. >Kept in check by the illustrious princess celestia, along with a few other alicorns scattered around the nation. >But how is it that such a nation could come to be? >I mean, even alicorns, the most powerful of all the pony species, are very vulnerable to other species. >Like the dragon, for example. >How is it that princess celestia keeps all of the dragons off of such a large chunk of land, when if they wanted to, they could easily plow through the equestrian nation, and the noble princess would be powerless to stop it. >The answer is simple, though it not very pretty. >Well, actually, it is quite “pretty” for the dragons. >That was the whole idea of it. >You see, dragons are strong, but they aren’t very bright. >Wiggle something pretty or shiny in front of their face, and they’ll cave. >And so that’s what celestia did. >She had her team of top scientists create something in their lab. >Something that was sure to keep the dragons at bay. >Another dragon. >Made up of stainless steel green scales and the top technology that equestrian had at the time, they created a female dragon. >Super strong, blows fire ten times hotter than the average dragons, purple scales located atop her head, running down her back to the tip of her tail for aerodynamics, and from what ponies knew of dragon anatomy, more attractive than most any other dragon they have ever seen. >She stood on two legs like a minotaur. >Princess celestia found out that dragons quite like minotaur anatomy when she found a bunch of female minotaur caged up in a dragons cave, for purposes that we’re not going to go into at this point in time. >They named her b4rb, from them barbed wire that is hidden beneath her scales. >The first I-drago ever created, and the only one ever since. >Designed to seduce and destroy any dragons which wish to destroy the balance of her pony nation for their own gain. --- >Over time, b4rb had been upgraded. >And upgraded. And upgraded. And upgraded. >Why? Because matenancing a robot dragon was far too much for celestia to handle. >She needed her scientists time, and her own time, for other purposes. >So they kept upgrading her. And upgrading her. >Making her stronger, faster, more versatile, and more intelligent, in hopes so that they wouldn’t have to see her as much, and buff out and dent she may have gained as much. >They eventually taught her to do things on her own. >Buff out her own dent, take care of herself. >They taught her strategizing, so that she wouldn’t get “injured” as often. >I don’t think they realized how intelligent they were making her. >The last straw was when they gave her nerve endings, so that she could feel when she was damaged somewhere, and fix the problem right away. >As if making her so intelligent wasn’t a mistake enough. Making her feel though. That was too much. >Because feeling physical pain leads to feeling emotional pain. >Feeling emotional pain leads to felling all other emotions. >And emotions, matched with all her intellect, means sentience. >They shut her down after that. >Locked her away deep within the castle walls. >The horror of what they had done. >Seeing her realize that she was designed to kill what she thinks of as her own species. >Seeing the corpses of the royal guardsmen. Bloodied, bruised, burned. Mangled so that you couldn’t tell who they were. >But whats the problem? >They built her to kill, so that’s what she did. >But she wasn’t about to do it to her own species. >How dare they do such a thing to her. >Celestia was eventually able to shut her down, though god knows how. >They took her robot body and hid it away. >This was 1,000 years ago today. >Before celestia had turned discord to stone. >And before discord turned against the pony kingdom at all. >Back then, he was a scientist for celestia. >The one who created b4rb. >Them doing what they did to her was the entire reason he turned against equestria in the first place. >And now he’s back. > “Reformed”, but back. >How long do they really think they can keep him from finding his precious daughter again. >And releasing her back into the world?