All in the Code

The laughing quickly subsided when all the ponies realized that they were laughing with what can only be explained as an alien robot straight out of a si-fi movie. Now having that revelation hit in full effect, everypony turned to look at Code with something along the likes of two with fear, two with aggressiveness, one with curiosity, and one still laughing. The last one was ignored by all the others as the white one, Rarity, decided to break the silence with the golden question.

"What are you?" She asked in wonder. Yeah, that's the golden question.

Code was about to respond a rather simplified explanation, before somepony else stole his thunder. "Yeah, what are you, and what are you doing here in Equestria!" The blue one aggressively half accused half asked. Again, Code tried to respond, only to be cut off by Twilight.

"And where do you come from...?" She also asked in wonder. Code waited on this one, looking around. The pink one seemed to have gotten her bearings. Pinkie pie was her name, apparently. Fitting. The yellow one, Fluttershy, was still cowering a bit. Well, she lives up to her name. And the orange one, Applejack, was respectively being quiet.

"Well, to answer your questions in order, I used to be what is a human, before my mind was made into this robotic suit as a test of my technology. This makes me a cyborg." Code said. He decided to be entirely honest, something he thought would appeal to them. "Now, normally I would ask why I am here, but it takes question three to answer that. I am from New Earth, a planet that was just about to receive annihilation attributed to the end of that dimension. The reason I am here is that I used a one time device designed and made by me to escape the end. My main objective here is to get as much knowledge as I can." Twilight seemed to look up at that, glad something shared her curiosity. Then something seemed to come to her mind.

"If you can talk, you must be intelligent. If you are, what is your name? And how intelligent are you?" She asked, seeming to write things down in her notepad. Code decided that he should answer not just the important questions, but also the random and whimsical ones.

"Well, my name is Code, and on intelligence scale, I would guess pretty high. I have lived for well over 100 trillion years." This elicited a gasp out of the ponies around him, surprised that something could live so long. "Do you mind if I ask some of my own questions?" The girls all nodded there heads and sat down on there haunches. Guessing this would take a long time. "Now if you don't mind, I will be turning on one of my scanners so I can tell when there is a lie. Is this alright with you?"

Again, nodding, Coupled by a smile from Applejack. "Well alright then!" Code said excitedly, he was always glad to learn something more, and even with his age, he sometimes acted like a child when the opportunity arrived. "Now, what is your type of government and who are your leaders?" Code asked.

"Well, we live in a diarchy under the two princesses." Twilight responded.

"So there are no kings or queens? If so, then how do they choose successors?"

At this point, the rest of the girls decided they had better leave this to Twilight, and left the barn so that they could have there question and answer session.

"Well, there are no kings and queens, the princesses are immortal."

"I take it they have earned there status as ruler someway besides being immortal. Can you elaborate?"

To this, Twilight eagerly nodded, happy that the topic was one she loved. "Well, they are alicorns, a rare breed of us which makes them have wings, a horn, and the strength of an earth pony. They are very kind rulers, and they are responsible for the rise of the sun and moon!" She happily said, only to look at Code trying hard not to laugh.

"I will get on why they are liars later, but I will take your word for it that they deserve there spots, especially if somepony is genuinely happy to talk about them. Now, what is the significance of the horn on your head. In fact, with this can you explain how the pegasi fly? I'll set up a statue for you to show it from." Code then outstretched his arms to the side, opening his hands. A small mass of gray flew out and moved to the ground a few feet away from them. From that, a pure iron statue of Rainbow Dash was created without the mane stripes. Twilight stared slack jawed at it before Code clapped his hands and she was brought back to reality.

"Well, I can answer both questions easily. Magic. Each pony has innate magic in their body that lets them do unique things. This magic not only gives us cutie marks when we figure out our special talent," she said, pointing at her flank. So this was what the mark was called. "but it also gives pegasi the power of flight, even if they don't have the wingspan, earth ponies extra strength and an innate connection with the earth, and it gives unicorns like me a basic control over it."

Code thought for a second, before turning his force field down a bit. "Can you use your magic on me? Something harmless please." Code said. Twilight nodded and used a simple levitation spell on Code. The aura wrapped around him as he was lifted from the ground for a few seconds and then brought back down. At the beginning, Code turned on the nanobots scan mode and opened his hands. The magic wrapped around every single nanobot, giving them all a different thing to scan about it.

A million of the and Code himself scanned how it was done and gathered that it was done by manipulating a pure energy around and in you. With this information, after the millisecond of scanning, the nanobots went to work at the shell of his body to make something to absorb this energy. Some more nanobots at the start scanned on what the energy was, while others scanned it's source. The source was revealed to be the sun and the core of the planet while also relating to space itself. With all this information, the nanobots continued to work with a purpose now. As he was set down and the aura was out, Code automatically announced: "Magic Upgrade in progress. 10% complete." A small blue glow appeared all around him as electricity moved to signify the nanobot upgrading.

Twilight decided to immediately take notes on this, watching as the glow decreased and decreased. About half way through, Code announced "Magic Upgrade 50%. Absorbents complete. Starting on focal point settings and wire connections." The glow moved more quickly this time, breaking up a lot faster. "Activating new connection through eye of harmony." Code himself noticed a change in the eye, and scanned it. He noticed that the star was releasing the magic that was scanned from Twilight, and put more absorbents around its chamber. He theorized that this would give him an infinite supply of the stuff, so he put extra care into those. "Magic Upgrade 75%, building storage unit." Code announced.

Now the glow moved completely to his chest, having a circle of electricity in the middle. The glow quickly turned green, and spread out to a good amount, making it look like a green band around his midsection. "Magic Upgrade 95%, ironing out bugs and activating devices." The glow turned to a dull yellow, turning very slowly back into a green. Once completed, the green glow stopped, and Code announced: "Magic Upgrade complete. Magic is now accessible to home body unit."

With this, Code snapped out of his stupor and, still standing, flexed out his hands. He decided to add a protection to this magic to his force field, to his body, and add a radiate addition to the outer absorbents. This way, when his storage reached top levels like his normal electricity, it would radiate off of him, giving him a small intimidation factor. He reached out his hand to the side and a green/black aura appeared around his fingertips, and, reaching out with his magic to it, appeared around the statue. Code realized quickly that he could do anything with this, so he lifted the statue up in the air. With some thinking, he sent out nanobots on the stream of magic only now visible to Code. The nanobots destroyed the statue within Codes grasp, and Twilight stared slack jawed again at the sight. When the entire thing was gone, the magic faded out and the nanobots went back into his body.

Twilight shook hew head, trying hard to stop her own curiosity from this display. "Do you have any more questions?" She asked as politely as she could. She sent a small message to Spike to get a message ready for the princess with her magic, and it went through one of Codes nanobots that were still hanging around the barn. The nanobot sent the information back to Code and, with the info, Code learned how to do so.

"I would first like to ask you if you could teach me how to do magic in the first place, so I can get a better use for it." To this, Twilight nodded her head over excitedly, giddy at the thought of teaching someone magic. "Also, my only other actual question is, would you like to start asking some of your own?"

Twilight nodded again, getting out her notepad and quill again. She decided to ask her questions all at once. Code noticed this and turned on the recorder setting on his ears. She asked question after question after question, quickly deciding to get the important ones out first. "What is the eye of harmony? Does it have anything to do with the Elements of Harmony? What were those things that made the statue? How did you give yourself the ability to do magic?"

"In order, the eye of harmony is a star frozen in time to give out infinite amounts of solar energy. It is inside me in a void orb that is in a sub dimension anchored to me. This star, since it is frozen in time, will never die out. A perfect energy source courtesy of the time lords. Don't ask who they are. This has no connection to whatever the Elements of Harmony are, so if you could explain those, that would be great. The things that made and destroyed the statue are nanobots, small robots as big as a germ made by me and only by me under my command. I am a cybernetic machine, so I can build off of myself to upgrade my abilities. I did this with your magic."

"Okay... well, the elements are six artifacts used by me, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack and Pinkie pie, the mares you saw earlier, through the magic of friendship. They work to preserve harmony in this land. Now, I need to check this out with my friends, can I trust you to stay here?"

"Instead, can I leave and make my own house somewhere? I promise it will be somewhere not owned." Twilight nodded, and told him about the entrance to someplace called Whitetail woods, giving directions. Code nodded, and starting walking towards the place, ignoring the ponies outside. With Code walking towards his to be made home, Twilight and her friends went back to the library to send a letter to Celestia.

Following this, a vengeful laugh was heard through the Canterlot gardens, and a white crack appeared in a mismatched statue...