All in the Code

Inside Applejacks barn was what looked like a metal... thing, there was no other way to describe it. It seemed to be sleeping, but it wasn't showing any signs of being alive. From pure curiosity, it was left alone until it awoke, as nothing anypony had done to try and study it worked. Magic wouldn't effect it, the greatest minds couldn't disassemble it, as if a force of nature was protecting it. Through the week of it staying there, many ponies had come to try and do something to learn from it. On the first day, the Elements of Harmony had tried on it, having it being in the barn of one of them.

In this day, nothing much had happened. They had what would be a boring and generic discussion on it and what to do with it, and decided it would be studied.

Well, more so that Twilight Sparkle vowed to learn about it and proceeded to try everything possible for two days, gaining nothing. Eventually said force of nature that was protecting the object decided it was annoyed with Twilight and, on the beginning of the third day, threw Twilight a good twenty feet outside the barn. Through the side. The girls unanimously decided to stop studying it that day.

On the fourth day, Celestia and Luna came to the barn, only to find the object laying in the exact same position with a few blue sparks around what looked like a head. The body flashed, and the princesses decided the leave it alone, and let it do whatever it was doing. Nopony else went to do anything with it, and just waited.

As Applejack walked into the barn on the Eighth day, she say the object glowing a bright light blue, and called for the girls to come over quick. It was fast, since Rainbow Dash was with AJ this day, so the girls eventually got to the barn in time to watch the spectacle happen.

"Vocal system online." Code announced automatically, having the blue light stop glowing around its mouth. "Translator system working and connected to Vocal system." He announced again, oblivious to those around him. And why would he know? I don't know, answer that for yourself, reader. The girls now around him at a safe distance watched as the blue light around certain areas faded into a green, then shut off. "Electronic eyesight, radar system and sonar system online. Moving back to Main Computer." It announced, the green glow moving to the inside of the things head. The glow moved to the middle of his chest. "Now reawakening link with the eye of harmony. Restarting inner-power grid." This caught the girls attention in a way. This thing had something to do with harmony? Maybe it had come for them, to test them...

The glow turned to the rest of its lower body. "Activating artificial muscle program. Error detected in lower legs, activating hand levitation." A glow appeared in the tips of something at the machine as it lifted in the air, the glow covering his body and encasing him. In the bubble, Code righted his body before setting back down on the hay bales. The glow stopped from his hands and turned from red to green. "Body righted, activate limbs." The glow now raced to his head again, having stopped from his body. "Activating anti-spy ware program from eye of harmony. Cleansing of impurities." The now bipedal being, still laying on its back, began to glow white. The white light began to disintegrate from Code, and ended at his feet.

"Cleansed, now activating inner command computer. Restarting consciousness." Code announced, the gained back his mind. He stayed still for a moment, and decided he shouldn't get up until a scan was done. From his eyes, a green flat beam appeared and started swaying in the room, getting everything in its light. "All other novelty devices up and running. Nanobot AI system back online." Said the new mechanical bird from Codes shoulder.

Code released a sigh when all he scanned were six female, somewhat intelligent horses. He was hoping for something like this. Mostly the part about not humans and semi intelligent. And in a barn, and not a lab. Apparently his nanobots knew what he wanted. He slowly got up from his little hay bed and got a good look at his barn-mates. He knew they didn't live there, but he liked the pun anyways. He already had names and now faces to associate them with, he didn't feel the need to explain them to himself. And if any of you don't know the elements, you shouldn't be here.

As he was about to speak, he was interrupted by a groan of frustration, followed by a panic from the purple one, who was apparently called Twilight Sparkle, looking around for something. Noticing the quill and notepad in the piles of hay in the corner, Code reached out with a small pulse of electrical energy and floated them to the unicorn, who grabbed them in haste with some kind of other pure energy and a "Oh! Thanks!"

Then, everything stopped as the unicorn looked upon the notepad, which stared back blankly at her. Following another groan, she yelled out a very loud, "NOOO, I FORGOT TO TAKE NOTES!!!!!!"

This was responded by the laughter of everything in the room, including Code.