Intensive Core Friendship

Wheatley burst through the doors to see the strangest thing he ever had beheld, Rick was arguing with Rainbowdash and the rest of them were trying to the Space Core, who was running around the room like he was high on cocaine or something. "What the bloody hell is going on?" Wheatley yelled to the group, who then shut up and turned to him. (Save the Space Core who was still running around in circles). Rick spoke up first.

"Rainbowdash gave Spacebrain over there alcohol!" he said, pointing an accusatory hoof at Rainbowdash.

"I had no idea that would happen!" she defended.

"So you just expected the mentally insane corrupt core to just shrug off a shot or two? You may as well tell Glad0s to play nice!" he responded quickly. Wheatley looked around, why the hell were none of the other ponies caring about this? You'd think that it happened before.

"It doesn't matter who did it, just stop the damn thing!" Wheatley yelled, making the other two cores to look at him.

"Whoa! Dude, that sounded like old man Johnson!" Rick said. Wheatley shook his head, he had just said something that Cave Johnson would say!

"SPACE I'M COMING FOR YOU!" the Space Core yelled, jumping into the air and flapping his wings. Much to the surprise of everyone present, his wings fired up like booster rockets and launched him through the roof and into the night sky, leaving a large trail of smoke and fire in his wake.

"Whoa! That kid is fast!" Rainbowdash exclaimed. Wheatley walked over to Rick.

"Did he just turn into a rocket or something?" Wheatley whispered.

"I think so." Rick replied.

"Hiya! Watch'a two talking about?" Pinkie said, appearing in between the two.

"GAAH! When did you get here?" Wheatley said, trying to lower his heart rate back to normal.

"I got here when you did silly!" she giggled, making Wheatley give an inaudible sigh.

"Is he gonna come down from there or am I gonna have to fly up and get him?" Rainbowdash asked, and was quickly answered by a pony falling back down through the hole in the roof with a huge, stupid grin on his face.

"I went to space." he said, he looked lightheaded. Pinkie gasped.

"Hey look! You got your cutie mark!" she said, pointing at the Space Core's flank. Sure enough, there was a picture of a rocket in front of the moon sitting where his white fur would normally be.

"I knew he would get his first! After all, he is being taught by the fastest flier in Equestria!" Rainbowdash exclaimed.

"Well that was easy enough, hey Wheatley, you wanna help me hold a door open, that should totally get us some marks of awesome!" Rick said with a laugh.

"Cutie marks." Twilight corrected.

"That sounds way too girly for me! I'm sticking with marks of awesome!" he said, causing Twilight to roll her eyes.

"A cutie mark is not earned easily, it is a thing that can never be rushed." a voice said from behind Wheatley. He turned around to see Princess Celestia standing there.

"So how do they appear? It can't just happen, can it?" Wheatley asked.

"When a pony finds their true and special talent it just appears on their flank." Celestia replied. Then a dark pony, the same height and type Celestia was, flew in from seemingly nowhere.

"Did I miss anything?" she asked, causing the six mares, and Celestia and the other pony to laugh hysterically.

"I don't quite get it." Wheatley said, making them all look at him.

"It is a long story." Twilight said.

"Ah yes, I believe none of you have met my sister yet, Princess Luna." Celestia said.

"Hello princess!" Wheatley said.

"Fact: I am pleased to meet you." the Fact Core said.

"Hi, my name is Rick. I am an adve-" Rick was cut off by the Fact Core.

"Fact: He did not go on ANY adventures."

"Aw man, do you have to steal my thunder."

"Space is fun!" the Space Core said gleefully. Luna looked down at him and smiled.

"You like space?" she asked him, and he nodded. "What is your favorite thing about space?"

"The space!" he responded, the grin still reaching both sides of his face.

"Have you ever been to space?" Luna asked him.

"Yes I have! I was just there a minute ago!" he replied. The other core's jaws hit the ground once again.

"Did he just go a sentence without the word space?" Wheatley exclaimed. Luna looked at him oddly.

"Yes, why though? Does he not normally do that?" she asked, making everyone present other than her and the Space Core nod.

"I miss the Cake Core, and space." the Space Core said. Luna looked at him and cocked her head.

"Cake Core? Sounds like something my sister would have in her kitchen." she said, receiving a glare from Celestia.

"Sister I will explain it all to you when we get back to the castle." Celestia said.

"You all know what, I am tired, very tired. What with all the evil birds and the crazy corrupt space core and surprises that just happened in a matter of ten minutes I think any of you would just want to lie down and fall asleep." Wheatley declared, causing them all to laugh. "Can any of you show me to a room with a couch or a bed?" Celestia nodded and her horn lit up. Then with a large flash they were standing in a small room with a bed in it.

"When they are going to leave I will get you." Celestia said.

"Thank you!" Wheatley replied, and the princess nodded, then exited the room. Wheatley plopped himself down on the bed, thought for a moment, then came to a conclusion. "What. The. Hell."

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GLaDOS looked away from the screen that showed her how the two testing robots were doing and sighed a little. She was bored, she never thought this could happen with all of the wonderful testing that was being done, but she was, she was bored. She missed making fun of Chell, or torturing her, or insulting her. But most of all she missed that little voice in the back of her brain that would spout random bad ideas, it was just so fun to call him an idiot or a moron. She missed shooting down every last one of his ideas, good and bad alike. "I wonder what happened to that little moron and his friends." she said to herself. "I know what will cheer me up!" she exclaimed. Then she turned back to the monitor and activated the speaker system. "I hope you know you are failures, you have done every last test wrong. There are toasters that have tested better than you. I am only talking about blue by the way, orange you have been doing amazing." she said, then she deactivated the speakers and sighed again, it usually entertained her but now it didn't. She decided to check Wheatley's history files again, but this time she looked past the first line that stated that he was the dumbest moron ever, and what she saw blew her mind. "Oh no, I just sent that little moron into space." she said regretfully.

0=0=0

"Wheatley must have had some rough night to leave the Grand Galloping Gala." Twilight said, then mentally face-hoofed. Of course he had a rough night! He just appeared in their galaxy after being sent to space by an evil robot and a kind woman, as well he was apparently attacked by birds, just realized that one of his only friends was not completely insane and had found out that there was no technology like what he had here. He was probably having the worst day of his life!

"No, trust me, he has had much worse." Rick said with a laugh. "Hey Facthead, you remember the time he was thrown into the crushers!" the Fact Core shook his head. "Yeah, I don't either, but it could have happened!" Rick said. "Oh well, lets just enjoy the gala without Wheatley, I mean, just because he wants to leave doesn't mean we have to!"

"Yeah!" they all said together. Then a builder pony walked up to them.

"Hey! Are you the ones who broke the roof?" he asked, and Rainbow nodded. "Here is the bill, cause I ain't payin fer it." he said, handing a piece of paper to Rainbowdash. She paled.

"What kind of roof is this!" she exclaimed.

"Well it was supposed to be unbreakable." he replied, and Rainbow face-hoofed, then handed him some gold coins.

"Space, you are so going to have to pay me back." she said to the Space Core, who was still conversing with Luna. "You know what, these galas really aren't amazing, I mean every year we just ruin it for everypony else. I'm leaving, anypony else with me?" she said, then the group nodded. "Then lets grab Wheatley and go."