Chapters "You've missed all the fun! We got one percent of the world loaded!" A scientist shouted from tinkering with a large metal tube.
"You have an odd sense of fun." Another shouted, walking up behind the scientist and looking at the potions and wires he was toying with.
"Hey," he turned away from fiddling with. "We're lucky to work on this."
"You've got an odd sense of luck too."
"Think about it. Every generation has a new frontier to tackle; the Starswirl generation tackled bigger spells, then we had the train; this is our generation's train!"
"Every time we turn it on, the world either crashes and will kill the pony inside or just kills them."
"Last time is crashed then would of killed the pony inside after a minute, see? We are making process." He smirked, turning back to fiddle with the bottles and switches.
"I would rather have done bigger spells." The other muttered.
With that, the scientist walked back to his office; as he sat, some of the device blueprints flew off.
"Damn it," he got up and trotted to it. "Come here." He picked them up by his mouth and placed them back on the table, wiping away some spit that got on it.
The blueprints was simple, it was more like a conscience for the machine as any pony that went in was rejected by it and the machine would try and kill the pony inside.
A sphere with two handles for easy handling, for it being a conscience; he thought it would be funny to make the eye glow gold and to paint a halo on it's top. He called it the morality core.
He had designed multiples:
The curiosity core; he planned to have it's eye glow grass green with a green question mark painted atop of it; like most, it could talk, it would always ask questioned which made it more fun for the scientist's jest.
The common core; planning to have the eye to glow white and with a black 'C' painted on it's top; it would make small talk and make the machine act more like a common mare or stallion.
The anger core; a red eye and redder horns on top; to make the environment they were trying to create more realistic to the place they were trying to recreate.
The intelligence dampening core; a blue eye and a dunce hat painted on top, it would be a last resort, added if the machine tried to kill anymore ponies; we will insert it and it would make random suggestions, causing the machine to get distracted and stop whatever it was doing to kill the stallion or mare.
The history core; instead of an eye, it had humorously big glasses. With a book painted on the top of it. Having the entire documented pony history in it's potions and wires, the history of ponies will help with the reality they were making.
The element core; it was a twice as large as the other cores, with six eyes, colored: red, purple, pink, yellow, green and blue. A top of it was a rainbow with it's eyes' colors. It was programmed with the elements of harmony; honesty, kindness, laughter, generosity, loyalty and magic. Though the scientist did think putting laughter and honesty in the same core would make it have a sense of humor with honesty, maybe even painful honesty.
The other scientist walked past his office;
"Hi! Prof!" He shouted out his office.
His grey head popped around the door with his shaggy seaweed green hair following close behind.
"Yeah? What is it, Domme?" He said, walking into the office.
"Look at these." Picking up the element core blueprint and common core blueprints and handing them to Prof.
"What are these?" He said, eyeing the designs.
"Cores, they'll help the machine."
"Wow, these are quite good." After another look over, he added. "Oh, we have found out a name for the machine."
Domme tilted his head. "What is it?"
"Genetic Lookalike Author." He grinned.
"GLA?" He tilted his head again.
"Yeah."
"I'm gonna call it 'GAL'," he said, turning back to an unfinished core blueprint. "Lot easier to say."
"Hey, Domme!" Prof shouted from behind his office door.
After a series of clicks and creaks, the door opened;
"Yes?"
As Prof pushed past him carrying a small cardboard box, he saw the amount of locks on. Eyeballing Domme, he said. "Safe, are we?"
"Can't be too safe in a lab with a murderous GAL, can we?" He chuckled.
"I get it, it may be her faulty lunar cycle checker." They both snorted with laughter.
After the childish laughter subsided, Domme scanned the box. "What's with this?" Tapping at it.
"Oh, it's really neat!"
He pulled out of the box the elements core, it's eyes hadn't started up but the rainbow was painted on top.
"Cool, man; they agree to make them?!" He gleamed like a school foal getting break-time.
"Yeah, they did; just turn it on past the potions and wires, turn on the power supply." opening a panel where the eyes were looking like a safe opening.
As he was about to stick his hoof in, Prof stopped him. "Hold on! Which hoof do you care more about?"
"I don't know. My left one-e?" He stuttered, wondering what was going on.
"Use your right then."
Sticking his right hoof in, he tapped a button in the far back and it started up.
"Hello?" It said.
Holding up a hoof to make Prof not speak to it, he said. "Hello, there."
"Are you my daddy?" It spoke like a filly who had lost it's mommy and daddy.
"Yes, in ways."
"Good, I love you, daddy." It squeaked, using it's eye shutters to look happily excited.
"I love you too, Element." He hugged the core, embracing it's cold steeled love.
"Is that my name?" It responded, unsure of it's own emotion.
"If you want it to be." He said while shooing Prof out, Prof took the hint and left.
"Can I change my name?" It looked down at the floor, speaking in a sort of praying tone.
"If you want." He said, lifting it up onto his back.
"Can I be called 'Companion', please?" It said, squeakily.
"Okay then, Companion, are you a mare or a stallion?" Domme said.
"Why?" Companion said, urging to know.
"So, the others don't call you 'it', they'll call you 'her' or 'him'." He said, looking down to the little core. "Sound good?"
"Yes, it does; can I be a mare?" It loves it's questions, but it's so cute! He thought to himself.
"Yes, yes you can." He felt proud, he felt triumphant, he felt like a father.
"Yeah!" She said.
"Yeah indeed," he started to sound distant. "Yeah, indeed."
"Are you okay, daddy?" Companion spoke as if it was a matter of great need.
"Yeah I'm okay, I just feel glorious." He spoke with a smile.
"Glorious is good?" She spoke with the bubbliest voice even if it was robotic.
"Yes, yes it is good."
GAL has fully equipped with the cores, all mumbling in themselves. Though everytime GAL would talk, they would stop talking and listen to it. In the labatory, every mare and stallion that had worked on the project was shouting and screeching.
"World loaded at fifty percent!" GAL's voice boomed over the large group of the scientists, all with cider at the ready.
"This is amazing!" Prof bellowed over the sound of partying. "Just remember, you and I did this! No one else!"
"I know!" Domme shouted, lifting his cider up; a quarter of it fell on the two, making them laugh together. "We are awesome!"
"You said it brother, you said it!"
"World loaded at fifty one percent!" Making the shouting and chatter double.
"Hey!" Prof screamed again. "What happened to the element core?"
"You mean Companion?!"
"Yeah! What happened to i- her?!"
"She in there, just not on the outside!" He half mumbled, half shouted.
"Oh; to make the system more like the elements?!"
"Yeah!"
"World loaded at fifty two percent!" Again, the bellowing and the babbling grew louder.
"Good idea!?" Domme called.
"Yeah, it was!"
"World loaded at fifty five percent!" The voice boomed again.
"What was a quick jump! The element core must be working overtime!"
"Remember when it jumped from one percent to eleven percent? Everypony went nuts!"
"It was unexpected, that's why. Remember? It would only download one percent of the simulation, then crash and kill the pony inside... theoretically."
"Yeah, that explains it!"
"World loaded at fifty seven percent!"
"So; what do we do next?!" Prof shouted at the top of his lungs just as everypony else was doing.
"We inform one of the princesses about our success with MINECRAFT, then they will find the ponies suitable to use the simulation then they will inform us about it!"
"Okay; any guesses who they'll pick?!"
"Possibly the element bearers, mainly because they are Equetria's official underdogs!"
"How are they underdogs?!"
"Well, from my history on them-!"
"Let me guess; you learnt that from the history core?!"
"Yeah, you can ask it anything! It knows it!"
"Okay, carry on!"
"Okay! Well, from my history on them; they weren't even friends to start with! One was a farmer! One was a dress designer and maker! One was party planner! One was a weather pony! One was a animal carer and one was a magic student of Celestia!"
"And they became friends?!"
"Yeah!"
"That must of been a miracle!"
"Yeah! It must of!"
"I see what you mean by underdogs now!"
"Thank you!"
"World loaded at sixty five percent!" It boomed again.
"How will this simulation work?!"
"Well, we had some of the more artsy stallions and mares make a HUD!" Seeing the confused look on Domme's face, he added. "A heads Up Display!"
"Oh! Like what?!"
"For health; hearts! For hunger; it's zap apples!"
"Zap apples?!"
"Yeah, you know Ponyville?!"
"I can say I do!"
"Yeah; well, Zap Apples are magical fruits originating from Ponyville, apparently they are delicious! Some of the ponies working on the heads up display love the things, so they are in there too!"
"Cool! How to they know what they are carrying?!"
"Oh my Celestia; it's pretty cool!"
"Tell me then!"
"Well, they have another HUD for it; it looks like a wood and has many different squares, filled with the stuff they are carrying! We made another program for the system to estimate how much weight the test subject can carry to help with the realism!" Prof smiled with glee.
"You clever son of a spear!" Domme smirked back with glee.
"I know, I know!"
"Seventy seven percent of MINECRAFT world loaded!"
"Come on, come on!" Domme and Prof both banged at the air as a filly would a table if they were hungry, seeing they were doing it; they both started to laugh.
"Great minds think alike, uh?!" Prof chuckled.
"No, it's more like; monkey see, monkey do!"
"Then you, my friend, are the monkey!"
"No, you are!" They burst out laughing a second time.
"My butt!"
"No, thank you!"
"Ha, ha!" He sarcastically shouted.
"Eighty eighty percent of MINECRAFT world loaded!" The voice boomed.
"WOO-HOO!" The crowd shouted with delight.
"They are exc-" Domme started up but the machine cut him off.
"Ninety percent MINECRAFT world loaded!"
"WOO-HOO!" They screamed again.
"They are really getting excited!" Domme shouted.
"I know, well we did just completed a project all these ponies!" Prof swayed his hoof over the dense crowd of drunken ponies. "That they have been working on for months upon months!" His face changed to deep thinking. "Correction; you just completed a project all these ponies!" He repeated his swaying hoof action. "That they have been working on for months upon months!"
"I know; I'm awesome, aren't I?!"
"Indeed you are!"
"Ninety five percent of world loaded!"
"Come on, come on, come on!" They chanted together. "Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on!"
"Ninety eight percent of world loaded!"
"Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on!"
"Ninety nine percent of world loaded!"
"Yes! Yes! Come on!"
"World has crashed, please restart!"
"A'www! Come on!" Domme shouted. "Come on, you worthless hunk of magic and metal! WORK!"
"Yeah!" A random scientist shouted from the depths of the ground. "WORK!"
"WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK!" The scientists started to chant.
"Is this a lab or a cult?" GAL responded.
The crowd froze, hooves raised high in mid shake.
One scientist from the ground gulped and shouted up to it. "A lab!"
"Really? It would of only took one of you to check the world has successfully loaded!" The voice boomed.
"What?!" They all shouted back.
"Didn't you hear me? The world is successfully loaded!" The machine giggled.
"Wait... the world has loaded?!" One scientist questioned.
"Yes, it's loaded!"
"WOO-HOO!" They screamed at the highest and loudest their lungs would allow it. "DOMME, DOMME, DOMME!" They started to chant.
Domme just smiled and drank his cider.
Dear Twilight Sparkle,
It has been drawn to my attention that a simulation project for the recently discovered badlands has been finished.
The scientists that completed the system and project have contacted me to find ponies that would be suitable for the job,
I could think of no better than the element bearers.
This is why I am asking you to collect the rest of the elements and report back to Canterlot castle to be sent to the simulation room.
Yours in faith and study,
Princess Celestia
Twilight grinned with glee at every word of the letter, sucking in every syllable of them.
"Spike!" She shouted, rereading the letter for the tenth time.
"Yes, Twilight?" He said, rearranging the books for the fifth time out of boredom.
"Take a letter." As if be magic, after the word 'letter' Spike shot off like a rock out of a slingshot and came back a second later, carrying an ink well, quill and paper.
"Got the things!"
"Okay, write;
Dear Princess Celestia,
I'll collect Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie and report to you as quickly as possible; any more information will be accepted with joy.
Your faithful student,
Twilight D. Sparkle.
Got that?"
"Hold on; is it Twilight E. Sparkle or Twilight D. Sparkle?" Readying the quill, dripping with ink.
"It's with a D." She said with a smirk.
"A D? What does that stand for?" He said, writing 'Twilight D. Sparkle' anyway.
"Do you really need to know?" She spoke with a scowl.
"Yes, unless you want your middle name to be something bad." He spread a sly smile over his face.
"Fine." She said sarcastically.
"You really what your name to be Twilight Dirt Sparkle?" The sly smile was replaced with a confused look.
"Is that the best you could come up with?"
"Yes." He smirked triumphantly.
"Fine; it stands for Dusk."
"Twilight Dusk Sparkle?"
"Yes! Dusk!" She shouted with a grumpy tone.
"Alright, Miss Lunar Cycle."
"You take that smirk of your face before I do!"
"Fine," he trailed off. "Miss Lunar Cycle." He chuckled under his breath.
"Call me 'Miss Lunar Cycle' again, and your eyes become golf balls."
"Alright, Miss-" he was cut off by Twilight charging up her horn. "Errr, Miss Violent?"
"Acceptable."
"Fine. Should we tell the others?"
"Yeah. Let's go."
Spike held open the door as Twilight walked out into the town, walking out himself and shutting the door behind.
"Who to find first Spike?" She questioned looking back at Spike.
"Five."
"Uh?"
"Four."
"Why are you counting down?" She turned around with a dirty look.
"Three." He looked towards the sky.
"What are you looking at?" She tried to track where Spike was looking, seeing nothing but white clouds.
"Two."
"Seriously; what are you looking at?!"
"One." He smirked.
"Seriously, what are you-"
A blue blur shot from the sky coming down like a meteor, striking into the floor. After it has stopped, it was the multicolored daredevil, Rainbow Dash.
"That," pointing at Rainbow dash. "Is what I was counting down to!" He smirked.
"Ha, ha." Twilight laughed sarcastically, pulling up Rainbow from the pile of gravel and grass.
"So; what are you guys doing?" Rainbow said, spitting out some grass and trying to look regular as she did it.
"Well, we were on our way to tell you about a mission given by Princess Ce-"
"A mission?!" She sprang up, a glint of adventurous stupidity in her eye.
"Yes, a mission." Twilight spoke slowly.
"What is it; demons, aliens, zombies. Oh, demon alien zombies!" The glint grew into an inferno.
"I wish!" Spike blurted. "But no, it's that badlands thing."
"What badlands?"
"You know; the dangerous lands they are talking about in the newspaper."
"I only read the sports section of the newspaper."
"Why order the entire newspaper?"
"Because I don't want to buy firewood!"
"Touché."
"Touché indeed..." Rainbow faded away. "What does 'touché' mean?"
"Another way of saying 'right back at you'."
"Why not just say 'right back at you' then, why say it the fancy way?"
"Because I like it the 'fancy'," imitating Rainbow's voice. "Way."
"Fine, Miss Picky; so, mission?"
"The mission is to run a simulation on the badlands to see if it can be colonized," she say the odd look on Rainbow's face. "Or in other terms, run a magic-y wagic-y thing to see what good things happen in bad lands to see if we can life there!"
"Hey! No need to patronize me!"
"Oh, there was complete need to!"
"Mares, mares; no need to fight over who has the better makeup!" Spike pushed between the two; looking up, he could see the dirty looks and scowls. "That was a bad thing to say, what is it?" They both nodded, completed with the evil eyes. After thirty unnerving seconds, the two mares laughed and slapped the dragon on the back.
"You should of seen your face!" They both said through tears of laughter.
"Ha, ha terribly funny. So, are you up for the mission?"
"Yeah!"
"Good," Twilight cut in. "Train station, last train to Canterlot."
"Nine at night, right?"
"Yup." She nodded.
"Okay," she started to flap. "See yah!" She shot off into the sky.
"Goodbye Rainbow!" Twilight shouted up to the clouds.
"Okay; who next?" Spike questioned.
"Pinkie?"
"Okay; should I count down?"
"If you do count do, I'll-"
"HI GUYS!" Pinkie Pie shot around their vision from an alleyway in an explosion of confetti and balloons.
"Didn't even need to count."
"Ha," Twilight trotted over to Pinkie, half stuck out of a hay bale, pulling her hind leg. "Ha," grunt. "Ha!" Pulling Pinkie out.
"Guys, look what I found!" Pulling out a miniature axe with a leather handle and a feather sticking out of one of the leathers.
"You found that in a hay bale?"
"Yeah," throwing it back in. "Oh, a hundred points!"
"What are you even- fine, we have a mission, it entitles-"
"It entitles MINECRAFT?"
"Yes, how do you know that?"
"I read the future news."
"The future news?"
"Yeah, the future news, five."
"Not this again."
"Four."
"Seriously? Spike was doing this a minute ago."
"Three."
"Come on, seriously?"
"One, DUCK!"
"No, I am not ducking, seriously? What is-" Twilight was cut short by a falling vase.
"Should of ducked, Twi."
"Fine; do you know what train we are on?"
"Yup; the nine at night train to Canterlot."
"Right," smirking. "See you later Pinkie." Walking away with Spike.
She pulled out a comically large megaphone and some ear muffs. Strapping the ear muffs on, she shouted down the megaphone; "SEE YOU LATER, TWILIGHT!" Deafening the unlucky ponies in the way of the sound or behind it.
"Ow," Twilight rubbed her ear, turning her head around. "See yah, Pinkie!" She shouted back.
"Why does she carry this stuff around?" Spike questioned.
"She is Pinkie Diana Pie, that's why." She winked.
"No explanation needed, then?"
"No explanation will never be needed." She said, turning a corner heading towards the EverFree Forest.
"Well, do you think she was carrying around that axe?"
"No, why would Pinkie need an axe?"
"I don't know. A more intense party?"
"I have never been to a party where you need an axe."
"Target practice?"
"She uses the confetti cannon."
"A little more force is sometimes needed."
"Fine, fine."
They had reached the edge of EverFree Forest, seeing Fluttershy's house. Walking up to it, they knocked. From the inside, they heard a startled squeak and a crash of metal. Spike chuckled.
"Fluttershy?"
After a few lock clicks and key rattles, a yellow face popped from around the door. "Yes?"
"Hey Flutter, we have a mission for you."
"A mission-n-n?"
"Yes, a mission, train, nine at night, got it?"
"Train, nine at night, got it."
"Okay; can you talk to Rarity about it?"
"OK, I'll tell her over one of her dresses."
"Try and shout, she may not notice you." The two laughed, making a flock of birds erupt from the trees.
"See you later Twilight."
"See you later Fluttershy."
"Hello, Elements." Domme greeted the elements with an held out hoof.
"Hello, my name is Twilight Sparkle." She shook his hoof and moved on to be greeted by Prof.
"Hiya! Name's Rainbow Dash!" She shook the hoof up and down like a train's rods and moved on to be say 'hello' to Prof.
"Pleased to meet you, my name is Rarity Belle." She bowed, not shaking his hoof and more skipped than trotting to Prof.
"HIYA! MY NAME'S PINKIE PIE!" Domme's ears were slightly shaken by the overly load mare but he straightened up and accepted the overly excited handshake and she moved onto Prof.
"Hiya, name's Applejack!" She shook his hoof so hard he thought it was going to disconnect. Luckily it didn't and she moved on.
"Hello...my name's...Fluttershy." She spoke so quietly and softly but Domme picked up what she was saying and smiled.
"So, the elements!" Prof grinned with pleasure, clapping his hooves together. "I see you accepted this simulation project!"
"We did, it will be nice to see if the badlands are considerable for life." Twilight said, proudly stepping in front of the rest of the elements.
"Well, this is exactly what we are trying to do." Domme slid in front of Prof.
"So; how awesome will this be?!" Rainbow Dash piped up.
"Depends on your opinion of awesome but we think pretty damn so!"
"YES!" Rainbow screeched.
"So; is everyone up for it?!" Domme shouted like a parent trying to get their filly into the zoo.
"Hell yeah!" Rainbow Dash shouted.
"Yes!" Twilight shrilled.
"Yah!" Applejack shouted.
"Totally!" Pinkie Pie shouted.
"I would be delighted to!" Rarity cooed.
"...yes please." Fluttershy whispered.
"Well, okay! Let's go!"
After a tour of the labs, they brought them to GAL, who was shut down for the moment but all the cores were chattering to themselves.
"And these are the cores!" Domme said. "Curiosity core!" he pointed towards the green eyed sphere. "The common core!" Pointing towards the white eyed sphere. "The anger core!" Pointing towards the red eyed core. "The intelligence dampening core!" Pointing at the blue eyed core. "The history core!" Pointing towards the glasses wearing core. "And yes, you may talk to them." He said, looking as if he had a walking stick.
"Really?" Twilight questioned.
"Yes, you may talk to them; if you want to get to the simulation then talk to them after it, then you can."
"I believe that we shall do the simulation first." A couple of muffled moans came from behind her.
"Okay; then, pods please." He said.
"Pods?" Pinkie Pie raised an eyebrow.
"Yes; pods, it is where the simulation happens."
"Oh cool, where are they?"
"Please look down."
As they did panels moved and dodged each other to uncover white pods with a small porthole to look inside, inside was a bed cut to shape the pod.
"These are the pods?" Rarity said in both surprise and disgust.
"Yes they are. but you won't see them for long. You'll be put in simulation, remember?"
"Oh, yes." She shuddered.
"So; let's get you in simulation!" Prof shouted.
As the elements fitted themselves into the pods, the two scientists fiddled with switches on a control pad; after a while of blinking lights and a few technical smashes on the controls, the tubes' doors closed again.
The intercom spluttered to life in the tubes. "You okay in there?"
"Indeed I am." Twilight replied.
"Hell yeah I am!" Rainbow shouted down the intercom.
"I'm okay, no roomy enough for a party but okay." Pinkie chortled.
"Not the best of accommodations but if it has to do..."
"I'm fine..." Fluttershy whispered.
"Let's do this!" Applejack yelped down the mic.
"I think they are ready." Domme whispered over to Prof, after a "are-you-kidding?" Look, they shared a good giggle.
"Alright, prepare for simulation."
"In three." Prof said.
"In two." The elements chortled.
"In one." Domme smiled.
"Let's do this!" They all screamed as they hit the big red button.
The Sims
The darkness filled the elements' vision until a bar appeared, slowly being filled with a green fluid. As the green liquid reached the end of the bar, the darkness disappeared to a land building itself.
"Hello elements," Domme's voice boomed over the land. "This is our only call to you, so I'll tell you what to do; work as a team or work alone. Any 'block' can be destroyed and placed back. You can craft a lot of tools to use, you also have a heads up display to see what you are carrying and using. So good luck, Domme out!"
"Okay; guys, let's work together... guys?" Twilight span around, seeing just a field,a few trees and a cow. "Where are you guys?!" Twilight shouted.
"Come on, let's do this guys! ... guys?" Rainbow flew up, spinning around, only seeing hills and animals. "Come on, where are you guys?"
"Alright, come on guys." Rarity squeaked with glee then screeched with disgust, she was in a cave, damp and dark. "This is not fair!"
"Yippe-kay! Let's go!" Applejack reared up in happiness then looking around in disbelieve, seeing a snow covered land. "Ah, come on. Unfair."
"Time for a party!" Pinkie giggled but turning around saw she was in a cave. "Guys? Come on, where are you? Stupid re-spawn locations!"
"um...let's go guys! Yeah!" Fluttershy quietly celebrated, but looking around, she saw she was on top of a hill. "Guys?" She whimpered. "Guys? Where are you?"
"Well, I'll go Independent for a while." Twilight muttered, walking up to a tree. "What do I even do here?" She punched at a tree, leaving a crack in the block-y stump. "Uh?" She punched it again, make the crack larger. 'Any 'block' can be destroyed and placed back.' "Oh yeah." She punched the block again and the tree split, hanging in middle air; as a miniature wood block flew off a few meters away.
She trotted over to the block and it pulled itself to her, as it hit her to disappeared for a second that appeared in her hoof. "ARGH!" She shook her hoof wildly at the shock of the wood appearing but it was stuck to her hoof. "Oh, okay let's try this." She swiped at the ground and the wood piece vanished and the one she destroyed has placed down. "Okay, let's try a house."
After a few minutes, she had a small house with no door, with no bed, with no furniture but it was a house.
"He did say you could craft tools." She mumbled. "Let's try this. 'HUD'!" The heads up display appeared with all it's little boxes with one having a wood piece stuck with the number four. "Okay; how do I craft?" The heads up display vanished then came back with a bunch of boxes filled with items then red, the only one that didn't have was a box with tools on it. "What's that?" as she said it, a cross appeared over it and a text box popped up, reading 'crafting table '. "Okay, can I craft a crafting table?" The crafting heads up display went away and the one before came back except the wood pieces were gone and in their place was a crafting table. "Crafting table please." It vanished and appeared in her hoof.
She swiped at a small place on the floor of her house and the it appeared. "Good day for a bit of work."
"Time to find the girls!" Rainbow charged through the air, picking up a cone in front of her; shooting over rock hills and forests. She saw a purple blur as she rocketed past. "TWILIGHT?!" She shouted, turning her head. As she did, she smashed into a rocky hill, crashing through it, cutting a long line through it. "Ow." Her head span as she lay her back on the stone, seeing the light sneak in through the hole. Beep! Beep!
"Uh?"
"Beep, beep!"
"What the hell is making that sound?"
"Beep, beep!"
"What the..." she trailed off as she saw five hearts, one was filled with red, the others see through.
"Beep, beep!"
"What do you need? Food or something?"
"Beep, beep!" Though it wasn't much of an answer, she took it anyway.
She crept out of the hole, though it was a simulationship, the hole was musty and her head still span from the crash. Did they add some sort of reality thingy or whatever? She thought it herself. As she crept out of the hole, she saw a tree. Please, please have apples.
She walked up to it, seeing a few apples. "Okay, I've always wanted to try this." She muttered, she span around the tree until a rainbow trail started to form. After a while, she stopped, the leaves on the tree had gone and she had a hoof-full of apples, she sat down and munched a few. I don't care if this isn't real, this tastes good!
"This is not good." Rarity squeaked. "This is not good at all." She whimpered as she tried to find her way out of the cave.
"Stupid rocks, stupid cobble, stupid simulation." She trotted on, going to anything that looked like light. "Stupid rocks, stupid cobble." She repeated. "Stupid rocks, stupid-...d-d-d-diamonds?!" The blue rocks sparkled in the mix of dark and light. "DIAMONDS!" She ran at them. "Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!" Charging headfirst, she smashed into them and sprawled into a pile when she hit the block.
Getting up, she straightened her back, making it have a savory click. She dusted off her hooves, taking an eye at them, seeing if she hadn't broke them; after a quick run down and no scratches seen. She punched the rock. "DIAMONDS!"
"This-s-s-s isn't-t-t fair!" Applejack shuddered, feeling the cold. Damn stupid science guys, damn stupid snow, damn stupid cold, damn stupid simulation.
She crunched through the snow, seeing no end through the fog.
"Come on, Axe-y!" Pinkie giggled as she held up a wooden axe. "No way! What's that?!" She said, staring with widened eyes, as in a cave; a skeleton hid in the dark.
"Hi there, Mr Bones!" She chortled, waving her axe at him.
In reply, the skeleton grunted and shot an arrow at her; missing her by inches and digging itself into the ground.
"Bad Mister Bones!" She shouted at it, waving her axe again but more threatening.
It grunted again, shooting again, this time hitting her in the chest. Pinkie sparked red for a second, losing three hearts.
"Mister Bones, stop this!" She grunted in the same tone the skeleton did.
It fired another arrow, sailing over the pony's head.
"That's it Mister!" She grumbled, charging at the skeleton. It shot, she dodged. It shot again, she dodged. Two more meters, then pow! She swiped with the axe and the skeleton jumped back. It grunted in pain. She swiped again, it jumped back a second time and grunted again. She struck it for a final time, it fell, flushed in red. It burst into smoke, dropping two bones and an arrow.
"Oh, bones!" She picked up the bones. "You are so romantic, Mister Bones!" She giggled.
"A wolf!" She bounded over to the grey animal, that hid under a tree. "Here, wolf-y!" She gave the wolf a bone, the wolf bent it's head down and gulped it in one go. "Hungry, fella?" She throw her last one, the wolf munched it and a red collar appeared around it's neck. "You're tamed! That's awesome!" She said as the wolf panted. "I'm going to name you 'Silver'!" The wolf whimpered slightly.
"Guys?" Fluttershy hid behind her hooves. "Guys?" She whimpered. "Where are you?"
Mare Nostrum
Twilight had built a larger house with door, furnace, bed, crates and crafting tables inside. With many different tools, one wooden pickaxe, one stone pickaxes, two wooden axes, one stone axe, one wooden sword and two wooden hoes.
"Not bad." Twilight muttered to herself, wiping away her sweat with the pickaxe. She flashed red.
"Uh? I didn't take any damage." She flashed again.
"What's going on?!" She shouted, looking down at her hooves as they kept flashing different shades of red and white.
"Those were good!" Rainbow Dash muttered to herself, finishing the last apple. She flashed red.
"Uh?! What's going on?!" She jumped to her hooves, shaking them at the air and at the shadows. She flashed again.
"What the..." She trailed off, seeing her hooves as they kept flashing different shades of red and white.
"Diamonds! Diamonds!" Rarity screamed as she pounded at the different diamond rocks on the wall. She flashed red.
"Wah! What was that?!" She jumped back, throwing her mane in front of her face. She threw her mane back into it's normal style.
"What in the name of last season?" She muttered, seeing her hooves flashing different shades of red and white.
"Stupid snow, stupid snow." Applejack shuddered, hugging herself to keep warm, shaking through the snow. She flashed red.
"Buck-a-doodle-doo! What was that?!" She shuddered violently, dropping her stetson. Picking it up, she brushed off the snow, throwing it back on her hat. She flashed red.
"Wow, wow, wow. This is not...it can not be happening..." She dropped down on her hind legs, shaking her hooves. Her hooves kept flashing different shades of red and white.
"Come on, Silver. Come on, wolf-y." Pinkie tilted her head at the new wolf. "You need something, Wolf-y." She pulled out a 3D glasses. "That's great!" She giggled. She flashed red.
"Wow, wow, wow. Wait, damn it author! Stop being lazy!" She shook her hoof at the sky in a violent matter. She flashed red.
"Author, get writing! Also, stop being lazy!" She shook her hoof again at the sky. She saw her hooves keep flashing different shades of red and white.
"Where are you, guys?" Fluttershy hid behind her hooves, as if it would wake her up from the nightmare. A flash of red.
"ARGH!" She screamed, falling back down the hill. She hit the bottom of the hill, rubbing her head. She flashed red again.
"Guys? Please...help me." She put her hooves near her eyes. She saw her hooves keep flashing different shades of red and white.
"What is going on? Seriously? This is scaring me!" Twilight screeched. She flashed red.
"Science guys! HELP!" She screamed. She flashed red.
"Science guys...help." She whispered. She kept flashing different shades of red and white.
"Seriously! Stop this!" Rainbow screamed. She flashed red.
"Stop this!" She screeched again. She flashed red.
"STOP THIS!" She screamed at the top of her lungs. She kept flashing different shades of red and white.
"This is not helping!" Rarity screeched, falling down, scuffling across the floor. She flashed red.
"Please, stop this madness!" She muttered, she fell down a small hole. "Ow!" She muttered. She flashed red.
"Why is this happening?" She murmured. "Why is this happening?" She kept flashing different shades of red and white.
"Not stupid snow, not stupid snow, not stupid snow!" Applejack threw snow on her hooves, hoping to stop the flashing. She flashed red.
"Stupid snow, stupid snow, stupid snow!" She shuck the snow off, hugging herself . She flashed red.
"Stupid snow, stupid snow, stupid snow!" She kept flashing different shades of red and white.
"This Suspense is killing me! Author! Hurry up!" Pinkie shouted at the sky again. She flashed red.
"Suspense! Suspense! Suspense!" She murmured over and over. She flashed red.
"What is this? A plot twist? Come on!" She sulked, crossing her hooves. She kept flashing red and white.
"Some-pony, any-pony...please," Fluttershy murmured. "Help me." She flashed red.
"If any-pony is out there," she whimpered. "Please," she covered her eyes. "Help me." She flashed red.
"Any-pony just help me!" She screamed as loud as she can but that was barely over a bird's song. She kept flashing red and white.
"Some-pony help me!" Twilight shouted. "Help me." She flashed red.
"If any-pony can," she murmured loudly. "Please, help me." She flashed red.
"Some-pony help me, please! Help me!" She screeched. She kept flashing red and white.
"Why? Why? Why is this happening?" Rainbow questioned to herself, nervousness and slightly sadness stuck in her throat. She flashed red.
"Whatever is going on...please stop." Rainbow stiffened up, curling into a ball. She flashed red.
"Some-pony," she whispered. "Help," she stiffened slightly. "Me." She whimpered. She kept flashing red and white.
"Help me." Rarity curled up against the stone wall. "Some-pony help me." She flashed red.
"Help me, please, some-pony!" She shouted out of the hole. She flashed red.
"Why," she whimpered. "Can't I just be nicer to my sister?" She stiffened into her ball. She kept flashing red and white.
"Some-pony help me." Applejack curled up in the snow. She flashed red.
"Any-pony help me." Applejack shuddered. She flashed red.
"Please, some-pony, any-pony," she whimpered. "Help me." She kept flashing red and white.
"Author! Help me!" Pinkie shouted towards the clouds. She flashed red.
"Author! Do something helpful!" Suddenly, Pinkie's mouth disappeared. She flashed red.
"Mph mppph mph!" She shook her hooves at the sky. She kept flashing red and white.
"Please, some-pony help me." Fluttershy mumbled. She flashed red.
"Some-pony help me." She murmured. She flashed red.
"Any-pony help me!" She kept flashing red and white.
"PROGRAM DISABLED!" A voice boomed over the land.
"What?" Twilight shouted. She stopped flashing.
"PROGRAM DISABLED!" A voice boomed over the land.
"Uh?" Rainbow mumbled. She stopped flashing.
"PROGRAM DISABLED!" A voice boomed over the land.
"Oh, joy!" Rarity shouted with glee.
"PROGRAM DISABLED!" A voice boomed over the land.
"Thank Celestia, thank god!" Applejack shouted. "... those are the same thing." She murmured.
"PROGRAM DISABLED!" A voice boomed over the land.
"Mpph mpph." Pinkie's mouth come back. "Thank you author." She grinned. "But, Windows! Search for a solution!"
"PROGRAM DISABLED!" A voice boomed over the land.
"Yay!" Fluttershy whispered.
The pods opened with a slightly judder and a white smoke. As the elements got out and greeted each other, they didn't notice the many bodies around them.
Hydrogen Argon Molybdenum Nitrogen Yttrium
"Okay, to you." Prof said, holding up the anger core by one handle while Domme held it by the other.
"To me?" He blurted, surprisingly the core has heavy than thought. It was a lot heavier than the element core or 'Companion' as she liked to be called.
Both stallions were heaving the core near to GLA or GAL to some. It had a white cylindrical body with wires and plugs hanging or sticking out, with white bent stripe for a head with the rest being machinery or a form of magic. It's eye was a noon sun yellow.
"Hello, gentlecolts," It's voice boomed through out the lab, it's head swung around to saw at them, with it's big yellow eye. "What is that?" Nodding it's head towards the core.
"Something to help you." Domme said, heaving with the weight of the sphere.
"Exactly what is it?" Though it was artificial intelligence, both scientists could detect sarcasm in it's voice.
"The anger core," Domme said proudly, both scientists working their ways up the stairs in the machine. "We are going to make you more pony like."
"Sounds nice." Again, with the sarcasm.
"We aren't going to install it first, right?" Prof muttered over to him, Donne shot back an 'are-you-kidding?' Look.
"No, it would kill us on the spot!" He murmured back.
"Okay, what do we add first?" He kept the under breath conversation going with a hint of worry in his voice.
"The intelligence dampening core or The common core." He spoke out of earshot of GAL.
"Okay, so we lug all the cores up here, then we attach them?"
"Yes."
"Okay, to you."
After lugging the anger core up there and leaving it there to it's own vicious ranting, they walked back down the stairs.
"So, common or intelligence dampening?" Prof said as they left the door to the lab.
"Common would be good." He replied.
"Common it is!" Prof said, put his hoof over Domme's shoulders and dragging him along.
They walked to Domme's office where all the cores were kept; the intelligence dampening core, the common core, the curiosity core and the history core all turned their eyes to stare at the two scientists except the element core was nowhere to be seen.
"Where's the element core?" Prof said, raising one of the common core's handles.
"Where's Companion? I don't know." Domme said with distraction, as if he had a tucking feeling.
"Companion?" He said. "You named it?"
"Correction; named itself."
"It named itself?"
"Yes, also, she is a 'she'" He muttered just loud enough for Prof to hear.
"Domme! You gave it a gender?!" Feeling confused, he dropped the common core's handle making it hit off the table as he walked over to Domme.
"Watch where you're doing buddy!" The core muttered to no one in particular, just anyone who has paying attention.
"Again, correction; she gave herself a gender." He muttered.
"Okay, that thing needs to be shut down!" Prof spat in his face in his rage.
"No worries, I sent it off to the shop to get fixed for it."
"You did?"
"Yes, everything is fine." He said with a smirk.
"Oh, okay; help with the common core please?" He lifted it back up.
"Hey, I'm not a homo!" It blurted back. "Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" It screeched back after it got hit in the eye.
"Hold on, you carry it out; it's lighter than the anger core, we should be able to carry one each."
"Okay; what are you doing?" Prof squinted his eyes to detective proportions.
"Checking which shop I sent it to! You would be supposed how many grease monkey hideouts this place has." He chortled.
"Indeed I would be," he said, walking out the door. "I would be indeed."
Checking that Prof had gone, Donne opened up one of his draws. Inside, he had punched out a sort of hide hole, complete with lighting. On a pillow, sat 'Companion' with it's eye shut, making a sort of purr of a snore.
"Hello?" Domme said, with a fatherly calm voice.
"Hello." She said, with a sleepy voice.
"You need more sleep?"
"I do but I'll talk to you." Companion instantly went slightly giddy with a hint of shyness. "If you want."
"I will talk to you." He said with a beaming smile.
"Yay!" She beamed.
"So; how are you?"
"Fine, thank you for not attaching me to Genetic Lookalike Author." It said with giddy sort of happy.
"Hey; what's a daddy for?"
"Umm... I know this one! Protecting and loving his daughter?"
"That's right, you little rascal!" Domme gave the little core a nooky, making Companion giggle and Domme smile.
"Daddy?"
"Yes?"
"Will I ever do something special or great?" It looked down at the ground and, with it's handle, made the impression of dragging your hoof across the ground.
"Companion! You have done something greatly special!"
"What's that, Daddy?"
"Making your old man smile."
She giggled. "So I am greatly special?"
"Indeed you are!"
"Yay!"
"Yay, indeed..." He trailed off. "Well, my little rascal, I have work to do! See you in a bit!"
"See you in a bit, D- ... Old man!"
"Look at this girl! Already making fun of her dad!" He said jokingly. "Bye, Companion."
"Goodbye, Daddy."
As he shut the drawer, he had a grin, as he picked up the intelligence dampening core and placed it on his back, he had a smile and as he walked out of his office, he had a smirk.
Carrying the dampening core was a lot easier than the anger core as it was lighter and wasn't making death threats every second it got.
As he walked got to the top of the stairs, he could see Prof trying to wedge the common core the wrong way. Domme just rolled his eyes, smirked and walked over to him.
"Need any help?" He said jokingly.
"Ha, ha," Prof said, whacking the core. "But yes, very much so!"
"You want to know a trick?"
"Fine, tell me."
"It helps to have the eye the right way up." He smirked.
"Oh," he flipped the core around and slotted it into the plug, it sparked slighlty as it slid in. " I did it!"
"Yes you did. Now, come on, the anger core," he flipped a handle as Prof did. "Flip it," they spun it around until the eye was the right way up. "Stick it!" They shoved the core into the plug. A second after the slight spark, GAL started to go haywire: talking gibberish, swaying and spinning around.
"Quick! The dampening core!" Domme shouted over the deafening sound of the gibberish.
"Got it!" Prof threw it up and charged at the plug like a shield wall, crashing into the plug, rocketing Prof back as it slid it. Ten seconds after it sparked, GAL returned back to normal.
"Phew!" Domme panted, swiping the sweat away from his brow. "That was close!"
"Indeed it was, but which now?"
"Curiosity and history."
"Which comes first?"
"Either we want it to make theories about our history or we just want it to be curious. Take a pick."
"I'll go with the first."
"Curiosity it is." Domme said with a smirk.