lyra explores aperture

by Erynuki

Rating: everyone
Tags: Dark, Adventure, Crossover, Human
Length: 3967

this story is a parody of a story called cutie mark crusaders and the ainchent temple

This story is a parody of another story called the cutie mark crusaders and the ainchent temple. It is about lyra exploring aperture laboratories with the crusaders and lyra finding more information on humans

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2015-03-24 15:23:13 UTC

lyra tags along

the cutie mark crusaders were wondering around the forest talking to each other trying to think of something to do so that they could "finally get their cutie marks"  the crusaders were entering a darker part of the forest, this caused the crusaders to slow down carefully looking back and forth at their surroundings

when Scootaloo decides to suddenly stop ,causing sweetie belle and Apple bloom to run into each other.  Apple bloom asks " what gives?, why'd you-" she cut herself off after looking at what was ahead of

them , it looked like a sliding door with the words APERTURE LABORATORIES entrance: 07 with a picture of a black figure standing on its hind legs and waving hi with one of its front legs, sweetie belle asks "is this a dragons cave?"scootaloo asks "have you ever seen a dragon with no tail?" sweetie belle responds "well a human is technically a dragon with no tail!" scootaloo says "then it must be a human cave!". the crusaders were terrified just by the thought of entering that...cave, they weren't going in there without at least someone to accompany them for they were afraid of what ever might be beyond this point . The Crusaders headed back to pony Ville and the cave was so far away that by the time they got back it was dinner time so the crusaders thought it wold be a good idea to discuss this over a meal, rarity obviously declined to the offering and applejack said she would go if she wasn't so busy bucking apples.the crusaders were just going to forget about that place but then a pony named Lyra heartstrings said she over heard them talking and wanted to go with them. the crusaders agreed to meet her at the edge of the everfree forest tomorrow morning. all through the night the crusaders were having dreams about what they might find in the cave, sweetie belle thought they were going to find humans and the humans were going to capture them and devour them .morning came and the crusaders were at the Edge of the Ever-free.  Lyra hadn't gotten there yet and just before the crusaders were about to  leave, Lyra

ran up behind them and said "sorry I'm late, I had to get my note books!" Apple bloom says "whatever" and begins to lead the way. The four ponies make it to the ainchent temple and and Lyra see's the sign the crusaders were talking about and immediately starts making notes on it, once she is done she says " perhaps

it is a welcome sign because it looks like the figure is waving" then she looks at the logo on the door and All all though she didn't know what it meant, she still tried to carefully copy it down so that she cold find out what it meant later. Lyra moves the sliding door with her magic and sweetie belle says "you first". Lyra walks into what looks like a lobby, she walks over to the desk and notices a metal box with a large picture frame connected to it with a string that they had never seen before. Lyra makes  some notes on what she see's then turns to the crusaders and says " maybe the humans used this metal box to contain magic and the string can transfer magic from the box to the picture frame.  They continue down the hallway  and find some garbage some dirt ,more magic boxes and something that looked like a ball except it was made out of metal

that had a huge hole and 2 Handles. Lyra takes the sphere and leaves it at the door so that she can take it back to pony ville to study it later.  sweetie belle asks "why would you want to keep such an ugly scratched up ball? " Lyra replies

"  so that we can find out what it's for!" . the four ponies find a directory in the hall way and decide to look at

  it to see where they are in this temple. the crusaders were playing around at this point with Lyra being the only serious one about this. Lyra decided to go to a small room labeled breaker room 2. When they get there the crusaders start running down the isles and flipping random switches, none of them seemed to do anything. Lyra saw what was probably the largest lever in the room and it said in equestrian 'main power breaker' when lyra flipped the switch, bright lights turned on and there was a loud distant voice, Lyra started running toward the voice with the Crusaders following along and when she found out where the voice was coming from she didn't see anyone, apple bloom said "I'm confused" sweetie belle says "there's a ghost!"  then lyra says "it must be a magic recording" when the voice finished it's statement the walls in the room started glowing and displaying words and numbers , the crusaders were now running around while screaming and yelling meanwhile Lyra stayed completely calm while writing things down. One of the walls moved reveling more hallway. When she walked into this corridor she noticed a rail on the ceiling and wondered why it was there what it was for, at the end of this corridor was what Looked like another door, this door had a sign on it that said in equestrian; cryogenic storage. There was a button to the side of the door and in hope of it opening the door, she pressed it. The crusaders were cringing in fear of what might be

on the other side, when the door opened the voice that spoke earlier came on again and this time it spoke equestrian. "Hello, and again welcome to the aperture science enrichment center!, we are currently experiencing technical difficulties due to circumstances of potentially apocalyptic significance beyond our control,  however thanks to emergency testing protocols testing can continue, these pre-recorded messages will provide instructional and motivational support so that science can still be done even in the event of environmental, social, economic

Or structural collapse, to eject a subject out of a cryogenic storage tube, press the red button on the control pad. If the- "  the voice cut off and Lyra wrote down every last word it said. Then they look at the cryo room and start walking around on the cat walk, the four ponies are all staring in awe at how big this place is. The ponies reach the end of the third isle and noticed there was something (or hopefully) someone inside this tube, sweetie belle asks "whoa what is that?" Scootaloo replies " How are we supposed to know!?" Then Lyra tells the cutie mark crusaders to be silent. Lyra then shows a large smile on her face and presses the eject button ,as the magic recording told them to do. There was a hissing noise coming from the inside of the tube and the hatch opened it was a human, he was asleep. The human wore a lab coat, black pants, black shirt with a collar

And a dark grey tie, he had a brown mane and he wore glasses. He momentarily woke up and Lyra said "uh...hello?" The man got out of the tube and hit an orange button causing the tube to close, he then turned to the ponies and said " oh my, what happened to this place?".

lyra and the human

The human pressed an orange button on the control pad causing the hatch to close, the human turned to the ponies and asked in equestrian " oh my! What happened to this place?" Lyra was the first to break the silence "uh... hello? " the human replies "hello!" Lyra introduces herself and the crusaders. "hello, my name is lyra heartstrings and these are the cutie mark crusaders "she says pointing at the three filies. the human then introduced himself " hello my name is greg!, i work here" lyra asks " if you work here then you must know your way around, is there an information center in this... building?" greg replies " yes, but its all digital, we'll need a computer to access the files" lyra asks " computer? but a computer is something a pony can do does as a job!"  greg replies " true...true, but we have computers that are mechanic and genetic" lyra is amazed at this fact but greg interupts her train of thought when he asks " did you happen to see any computers when you came here?" lyra replies " i dont think so..." greg begins describing what a computer looks like " it looks like a metal box with a monitor connected to it with a few interface devices" lyra says

" actiualy yeah i think theres a computer by the entrance of the building " greg says " great! lets go there! " the group walks to the end of the cat walk and greg gets out a peice of plastic with a black line and swipes it by a black box connected to the wall and the wall next to it moves and opens a hall way. lyra then relises that humans dont have direct control over magic but rather have objects that help them poses magic, she writes this down in the note book as they walk down the hall way. meanwhile the crusaders keep asking greg random questions " do you know how to fly?, can you do magic? do you like apples? whats your favorite color? how old are you?" greg replies " no, no , i forgot, red, 31". the group make it to the end of the corridor and greg swipes his card again, this time a portal opens. greg jumps through but the crusaders and lyra are a bit skeptical because they have never teleported before greg says " come on jump through you'll be fine". lyra walks through slowly and the crusaders jump. lyra found that they went into the portal and it was blue, then they came out of the portal and it was orange, lyra took note on this. greg walks over to the front desk and relises that they probably arent going to be using this computer. it had it's case open and it was missing its graphics card, its micro processor and its HDD. greg says "yeah we arent going to be able to use this computer" greg looks to the left of the desk and see's a personality core sitting by the door. greg asks the ponies "was that there when you came in?" pointing at the core, lyra answers "well, no, i put it there when i found it, but why do you ask?, what importance is it to us right now?" sweetie belle says "aw the human wants to play ball!" greg ignores sweetie belle and says "this is a computer, if it still works we'll be able to access the main frame"  greg walks over to a metal box on the wall, presses a few button then swipes his card and a recceptical comes out of the wall. greg then plugs in this core and presses a button on it. the voice that spoke earlier spoke again and said "power up initiated" and there was a bright white light at the center of the core, then the core spoke "agh oh god, what happened? where am i? who are you?'' greg says to the sphere " i am employee number 670699 and we need you to access the mainframe." the core says " well i cant exactly access the mainframe but i can direct you to a module that can" the four ponies were silent the whole time , the crusaders were curious and a little scared. meanwhile lyra just wrote on her note pad and stared. the core says " okay i have something, by the way my name is kriton. okay, pick me up and ill tell you where to go". lyra volunteers and greg 'hands' her kriton. she places him on her back with her magic and he begins telling them where to go. they pretty much made a B-line strait for the module because kriton kept telling greg to plug him in at random places just to open doors or move walls. eventiualy they made it to a module then greg got to work on loading data. lyra watched greg as he worked the computer meanwhile kriton was being 'played' with by the crusaders. "hey kriton! do you want to play?!" asks sweetie belle kriton replies "touch me and you're dead" scootaloo starts kicking him around and kriton starts yelling. the crusaders are laughing and playing kick ball now. meanwhile kriton tells them to "STOP!!". greg finishes and yells " SHUT UP!!". everyone stops talking or moving around and stares at greg with a surprised face, kriton, lyra, scootaloo, apple bloom, sweetie belle. and greg just says "thank you". the crusaders are now sitting against a wall with kriton and lyra took a few steps back. greg says ''okay im finished" and un plugs the computer. greg says " i can take this back to where ever you live and hook this up, right after I get a few things from my locker. Greg seems to know the way to his locker, so he leads the way. When they get to his locker, he turns

The knob a few times then it pops open. First he pulls out a multi colored cube with nine tiles on each side

, lyra pulls it out of his hands and she starts messing with it, then he pulled out a book, no one but him and the core knew what the title was because it was In English. Then he pulled out a set of keys and said "oh yeah!" Lyra asks "what is it" greg says "theres one more thing I need to get.

greg finds his robot

greg says he needs to get somewhere called the robotics depot so that he can get something he doesn't want to die. he guides them to a sliding door and presses a button.  The poniEs don't know why its taking so long for the door to open then when it finaly opens the ponies give greg a comfused look. Apple bloom asks "why did you open a closet door?" Then greg steps in. The others follow since they don't want to lose him. Then he presses a button and the doors close, the ponies are scared that they might be locked in there but then they felt motion. Lyra asks "what's going on!?" She drops the cube and starts freaking out.

"Don't worry, it's just an elevator" says greg as he picks up his cube. The door opens and the crusaders are comfused about how they are in a different place than when they entered , but lyra understood what the Word elavator meant. Greg says "it's just through here" he swipes his card and walks through. This place Is huge, lyra doesn't know how they'll ever find the robot. But then greg pus his key in the module, swipes his v

card then punches is a code. Imediatly, there are engine noises and some objects start moving around on rails from high in the air. Eventiualy a box that is attached to the rail comes towards them and lowers onto the balcony they're on. Greg takes his key out of the machine and opens the box. Inside of the box is something that looks alot like him exept it's eyes are completely pitch black and it has a puppet like jaw. Greg inserts the key somewhere in it's left shoulder blade and presses a button. The robots eyes light up with a pleasant blue. And the  Voice speaks. "power up initiated" said the voice. The robot begins moving it's limbs and it says "calibration complete, this android will be active in 3...2...1" greg says "hey atlas...you all right?"

The android replies "yes master, it's good to see you again!". greg says to lyra "sorry but this robot only speaks english, if you want to say anything to it you'll have to say it to me first". Greg asks the robot to direct them out of the building, the robot says "certainly!, who are your friends?" Greg says "this is lyra and kriton, these three claim to be the crusaders". Atlas stands up and says "follow me". Atlas is completely wireless so he can open doors without using a key card. Atlas suddenly stops in his tracks, he turns around and his eyes are red implying that he has become rogue!, atlas lunges at lyra and yells "you killed them all!!" Greg has to use a computer paradox to stop him. Imediatly greg yells "THIS STATEMENT IS FALSE!!". Atlas and kriton both shut down and atlas falls to the ground. Greg pulls his key out of the robot and picks it up, putting atlas on his shoulder. Lyra asks "why would you keep that thing aftfter what it just did!!?" And greg replies "because he's probably just a little sketchy from not being used for a long time" for a while they completely forget that kriton is turned off, but once they remember him lyra is kind of skeptical about turning him on. Meanwhile in Ponyville It is getting late, applejack and rarity are getting worried about their sisters. Applejack says to rarity "perhaps they just had so much fun that they lost track of time!, I'll bet they're headin' back right now!"

Rarity says "but what if they're not! What if they're trapped or lost in the everfree forest!" Applejack roles her eyes at rarity. Greg Wishes lyra would hand over the core but she won't "give me that core!" "No!" Lyra and greg are fighting meanwhile the crusaders are taking a break. Apple bloom is playing with greg cube and Scootaloo is sitting on top of the computer acting like it is her throne. Sweetie belle asks "you think I should try to calm them down?" Scootaloo says " go for it" sweetie belle gets up and walks over to lyra asks lyra if she can see it. Lyra thinks that sweetie belle wants to play with it or break it so she just sets it down next to her, then sweetie belle rolls it over to greg and greg quickly turns it on. Lyra yells "you bastard" Then kriton asks what happened when he was out. The fact that the core is acting normal calms lyra down but she is still angry. greg tells the core what happened "atlas went rampant and I had to use a computer paradox to shut him down and you shut down with him." . The group make it to the elavator and greg considers s

turning atlas on but relises that he will probably try to kill lyra. They step out of the elavator and they are in The lobby. Greg is tired of carrying around two robots and says that they were going to take a break. Kriton was playing I spy with the crusaders and lyra and greg were discussing what to do with atlas. Lyra is suggesting that they burn him or leave him here to die, and greg is suesting that they keep him. In conclusion they both agree to turn him on again but lyra can restrain him with her magic. Greg presses the activation Button and greg turns on "power up initiated, calibration complete, android active in 3...2...1" greg says

"Atlas, what the hell were you thinking!?" Atlas replies "sorry mastEr, it's lIke I just...glitched" lyra is skeptical about it telling the whole truth but puts him down any way. Greg is talking to atlas telling him to never atack them again and yelling at him. Once he finishes he steps oUT side and says "we should probably stay the night" then he picks up kriton and plugs him in, next he makes a pillow out of his lab coat and offers it to one of the ponies before setting it up for his use. With the robots in stand by mode and everybody calmed down everyone peacefully went to sleep.

captured

Greg woke up to find that he was tied up and in a carrage. He looked at his surroundings and saw that atlas was also tied up. kriton was sitting in the corner looking afraid like they were going to die

, he looked to his left and saw the ponies were just lying down sleeping, the one named Apple bloom was using his lab coat as a blanket. Greg was afraid of what might happen to him and the ponies. He tried to get kriton's attention "hey, psst, kriton, what happened?, why are we here?, why am i tied up?" Kriton says " three ponies walked into the building wile we were sleeping, long story short we are trapped...". The cart stops and Greg hears someone coming, (probably one of the ponies that captured them). kriton closes his eye and acts like he's turned off, Greg just stares at the door to the back of the Carage, an orange-ish pony with blonde hair and a hat appeared and then a white one with purple hair. The orange one got into the cart and asked apple bloom if she was all right. then the white one climbed in and asked sweetie belle if she was okay. The four ponies woke up and relized they weren't at aperture any more . Lyra asked apple jack what happened and she said

"the's monsters had you locked up in that temple and we went over there and saved ya'll'' apple bloom

states "they're not monsters they're just friends"  Applejack says " heh! Friends!? Friends don't keep you locked up in a temple".  the robots and greg had completely woken up now and relized that they were in a

bad situation. Lyra says "they didn't lock us in there, they let us stay the night because it was dark out".

The robots and greg were thinking "thank you lyra!" In their heads. Rarity asks "why would you want to make friends with such ugly creatures!?" Lyra responds "because they helped us around the building" lyra then walks over to greg and un ties him but she still doesn't trust atlas. Kriton says "thanks for explaining what actiualy happened!". After that apple bloom, sweetie belle and Scootaloo all go home witch leaves lyra greg kriton and atlas. Lyra says "would you come to my house and set up the...uh...computer" greg says "certainly!". Lyra caries kriton and atlas just walks along with them. the four walk into town and there isn't a single pony around the place Exept lyra. Lyra opens the door to her house and shortly she relises there's no way to plug it in. Greg sets the computer and kriton down on the counter. And starts explaining what electricity is and how to make it. Greg decides it would be easier to just go back to the building and get a solar panel for her. So that's what they do and greg helps her set it up on top of her house and get it ready for use. It takes about two days but lyra and greg managed to get the computer operating. Greg teaches her how to use the computEr and shortly after relized that he has no where to go. Lyra says he can live with

her if he pays rent witch meant he had to get a job. He got a job working in twilight's basement laboratory

Witch was just the place for him given that he was a scientist. Atlas had to be terminated but kriton got to

stay with greg and lyra.

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