Intensive Core Friendship

"Erm, Fluttershy is it?" Wheatley asked the yellow mare beside him.

"Yes! Your name is Wheatley, sorry if I am wrong." she replied.

"Um, what did you mean by talking to the animals?" he asked.

"My special talent is conversing with animals and taking care of them. Can't you do that in your world?"

"No, the closest we ever got to that was telling a dog to roll over." Wheatley said with a laugh. He looked around, everyone was wearing either dresses or suits. "What is this about? Is it a fundraiser?" Wheatley asked her.

"No, the gala is just a gala, there is no real reason behind it." she replied.

"Hmm, interesting. Where I come from the only reason to have a party like this was to raise money for a cause, like giving food to third-world countries." Wheatley explained.

"What is a third-world country?" she asked.

"An undeveloped country or something, I never got a chance to learn about them before I was thrown out of the control mainframe by Chell and GLaDOS." Wheatley said with a sigh. This made Fluttershy even more confused, but she didn't ask any more questions because they had made it to the garden doors.

"Ooh! We're here!" she said excitedly before running through, Wheatley following tentatively. Once outside he saw that there was a large assortment of animals, monkeys in the trees, fish in the water. Then something flew down at him.

"GAAH! BIRD! GETITOFFGETITOFF!" he yelled, running away from the small toucan that had just flew over to investigate him.

"Its only a bird silly. They are harmless." Fluttershy said, picking the toucan up. "See?"

"To you! To me they are evil little monsters that try to peck your eyes out!" Wheatley yelled, then he remembered something. "Wait, they didn't do that to me! I think I have some of GLaDOS' memories after being plugged into her mainframe. But I am still terrified of them!" he jumped away as a finch flew towards him, making Fluttershy giggle softly.

0=0=0

"So, when are we going to learn some magic?" Rick asked Twilight as they followed close behind Pinkie and the Fact Core.

"Tomorrow probably." she replied happily. She loved it when she could share her vast knowledge of magic with other ponies.

"I am all for incognito but do we really need to follow them like this?" Rick asked, causing Twilight to question what she was doing.

"Right, Pinkie probably already knows we're here, so lets just go and check on the others." Twilight said.

"Fine with me." Rick replied. But before he turned away he noticed something. "Hey, Twilight, should the moon be moving that way?"

"Huh? Of course, why would Princess Luna move it in the other direction. she replied, making Rick spit out his punch in surprise.

"One of those ponies moves the MOON?" he asked.

"Yes, why? Do you mean to say that the moon moves on it's own in your world?"

"Yeah, it does!" Twilight was taken a little by surprise by this.

"The same with the sun?" Rick nodded.

"In fact, we don't have magic, or unicorns, or Pegasi. Horses don't even talk!" Rick said, finally realizing everything that was different in this new world. "Hey, listen, whatever you do, don't call Wheatley a moron. According to the memory banks of Aperture GLaDOS did just that and he turned her into a potato battery."

"You call him a moron." Twilight deadpanned.

"I have an excuse, i'm a corrupt core, he just thinks i'm crazy." Rick replied. Twilight took a mental note of this, she knew that Fluttershy would never insult him but Rainbowdash may call him an idiot if he angers her. "Hey, is this punch alcoholic?" Rick asked her.

"Yeah, why?" she replied.

"Oh crap! SPACE! GET AWAY FROM THAT!" he yelled, running towards the punch bowl where the Space Core and Rainbowdash were hanging out.

0=0=0

Pinkie was too busy thinking of plans for a welcoming party for the cores to notice the Fact Core asking her questions, and it wasn't until he poked her that she finally responded. "What is your favorite type of cake?" she asked him.

"Fact: I have no idea, I have never had cake before, I have only heard the Cake Core talking about it." he responded. Pinkie gasped.

"Ohmygosh! You never had cake before! We need too get you cake, stat!" she said, grabbing one of his hooves and dragging him towards the snack table. "Oh hey Dashie! How are you enjoying the evening?" she asked the rainbow maned Pegasus.

"Oh i'm doing great, though I think Space here is a little down." she replied, looking at the Space Core.

"I miss space." he said sadly. Pinkie once again gasped.

"Ohmygosh! You should totally talk to Princess Luna! She loves space as well!" Pinkie said excitedly.

"Fact: That is a good idea." the Fact Core agreed. Then Rainbowdash grabbed a punch glass.

"Here, try this stuff Space!" she said, giving him the glass. He was about to drink it when a voice sailed across the room.

"SPACE GET AWAY FROM THAT!" they all looked over to see Rick running towards them, then back at the Space Core to see that he had downed his glass and was now wearing a huge smile.

"Fact: That was a terrible idea Rainbowdash." the Fact Core said, backing away from the Space Core slowly. Rick was then next to them.

"Oh god he drank it." he said, worried. "Lets all hope it has no impact on hi-"

"SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" the Space Core yelled, jumping up and down. "Got to get to space. Gotta see it all. I love space. Okay, play it cool, here come the space cops. Space cops. Sp-p-p-p-pace!"

"Fact: Oh crap."

0=0=0

Wheatley had tried to help Fluttershy out, he really had. Its just that he kept jumping away from random birds and dropping all of the seed he was holding. "Sorry Fluttershy, I guess i'm just no good at this." he said, scratching the back of his neck.

"Its okay, not everypony likes animals as much as me." she said.

"You know, for you name having shy in it you aren't very shy." Wheatley observed.

"Its because I am around these animals, I normally don't know how to talk around other ponies, but when I am around animals I am usually too preoccupied to be shy." she responded, and Wheatley nodded to show he understood.

"How do you think the others are holding up? I truthfully can't believe something hasn't gone wrong ye-"

"SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCEEEEEEEEEEE!" Wheatley, Fluttershy and all of the animals turned to the main gala building.

"I had to say it, didn't I?" Wheatley grumbled, running to see what happened.