Bumper's Secret Talent

Data was in his room getting ready for another visit to Bumper's. As he sat on his bed drawing on a large piece of graphing paper. You see there was something special about this colt that not many ponies had. So to help Bumper, not that he cared about the colt. He snuck into Mrs. Static's class and snuck a glance of the blueprints for the Einstein cube.

And a glance was all it took, the blueprint told him where all the loose wires. Chips, batteries, flash drive shards, and glass shards (yes glass) we're. And how many pieces we're in the thing all together, what mattered about the loose pieces. Was that if you pulled them the other pieces around it could fall apart and thus make the entire thing go by quicker. Finally he dropped the pencil he had and folded it up as he thought of the day he got his cutiemark.

It had been at his old school and the teacher had just finished writing on the chalk board. Data had been dropped off at school earlier then normal. And had been sitting in his desk watching the teacher. It was raining outside and the teacher was now sitting down.

"Data, you amaze me, you ace all your tests, quizzes, and class works. And finish them with time to spare. How do you do it?" The teacher asked, Data opened his mouth to speak but a stamped of colts and fillies came in. Their muddy hooves dirted up the floor giving the janitor a huge mess to clean. The colts and fillies sat in their seats and took out their books.

"No!" The teacher screamed dragging everypony's attention to the chalkboard. The chalk boards white writing was now smeared and some of it was been wiped off. As mud covered the bottom of it, every kid looked guilty except for Data of course.

"It's alright class I'm just gonna have to go into my textbooks and rewrite the board.....again." The teacher said and every student groaned,

"U-Umm......I can do it." Data said shyly.

"Huh?" Everypony said, teacher included,

"I-I remember what it said." He said and he hopped from his seat and cleared off the board. He then grabbed a piece of chalk and his hoof sped across the board like mad. The student's and the teacher looked in amazement. The teacher took a few steps back as she watch Data completely fill the board just like she had.

"Whoa." The fillies and colts said all at once,

"I-It's perfect.....Data do you know what this means?" The teacher asked. Data shook his head,

"You can memorize things just by looking at them......you have a photographic memory!" The teacher said and Data's eye's widened,

"I do?" He said and everypony nodded. Suddenly something clicked in the little colts head. Maybe he could use his memory to become a scientist or a tech pony. He wouldn't even have to read over any facts a bazillion times. Suddenly his cutiemark appeared and it was a flash drive. All the kid's and the teacher cheered for the colt that couldn't be happier.

Data snapped out of his reminiscing he still remembered the problem on the board. He looked at the clock, grabbed his copied blueprint, his container of flash drive shards. Pulled the hoodie over his head and ran out the door. What was good about having a photographic memory was that he could burn any colt and filly that teased him. And.....of course......it made thing's worse so he learned to hold his tongue.

Data got to Bumper's room door and opened it and ran inside. Bumper hopped over and locked the door. Gizmo, Spark, and Console we're already there working on their part of the cube.

"Come on we already started your lucky Giz convinced me not lock the door." Bumper said,

"Giz?" Data questioned. Bumper blushed red,

"Uh.....yeah It's a nickname I made up for him.....or whatever." He said quickly. Data smiled and he got to work on his part of the cube making sure to use his blueprint and to tell everypony else later.

It was after their visit from Bumper's. And this time they hadn't done an all nighter. Realizing that they could probably do much better after a good night's sleep. Bumper had teleported Gizmo to his room since he still had to look after the cube. The rest of them had decided to walk home. Data, of course, had told the other's and as you'd expect they we're all ecstatic when they heard.

Especially Bumper. And he smiled he didn't want to admit it but helping Bumper felt nice despite the fact that the colt was a bit unstable. Suddenly Data was dragged from his thoughts as a larger colt now stood in front of him with a wicked grin. The colt had a red coat and neon green hair. His cutiemark was two boxing gloves smacking against each other. He also had neon yellow eye's and wore a leather jacket.

"Hello Data ready to gain some more gigabits in beatings?" The colt asked and Data shook his head, he looked at the container of flash drive shards and bucked them over to the side. Hoping they wouldn't get damaged,

"Aww well too bad cause your gonna get it." The colt said as he grabbed Data by the front of his hoodie. The colt punched his victim causing him to tumble to the ground.

"Hey!" A famoler voice rang through the hall, the colt turned to the voice. To see non other than Bumper stepping out of the shadows. Bumper formed his magic into two big mallets.

"You leave him alone, Pummel!" He screamed, as he got up in Pummel's face.

"You and what army?" He replied, and Bumper smirked.

"No army in particular just Marshy the masher and Marinate the mallets of wailing." Bumper said as he flipped the said mallets in the air. Data watched in horror and fear as Pummel got closer to Bumper and said,

"Well this will be a piece of cake; now won't it?"