Ch 5: learning new things

The next morning, Steve and Rainbow Dash walked downstairs, and began their normal routines. Rainbow Dash ate her breakfast, and started out for her walk. "Where are you going?"

Steve asked her. "I'm just going for a walk; I'll be back in a bit less than an hour," She replied. With that, she walked out of the door. The day was windy, and the clouds were a bit dark. Rainbow Dash could tell from her years as a weather pony that a storm was brewing. She could also tell when it was going to start raining, and shortened her walk a little bit to see if she could avoid it. Surely enough, not two seconds after she re-entered the house did rain start coming down. "You just barely escaped it." Steve told her. "Well, my years as a weather pony taught me to interpret about when it would start raining. There's a pattern in the shading of rainclouds, and when it repeats, it starts to rain. It's a really hard pattern to pick up." Steve went over to the couch to watch the TV.

"Oh, I love this thing! Question is, what is it?" "This is called a television, or just a TV." Rainbow Dash sat on the couch next to Steve. "A TV, what a strange name, yet I must say that this is a very, well…strange device. Speaking of strange devices, what was that thing you came home in?" "Are you talking about when I came home from vacation? That's my car. There's all kinds of them, wanna see?" he asked. "Sure. I'd love to." She replied. Instead of showing her real ones, Steve got on his computer and looked up pictures of cars. Though Rainbow Dash thought they were cool, she was more interested in the computer. "What is this thing? I wanna try it!"
she said. "The computer? I don't know about that." Rainbow lowered her head and sighed. "Alright, I guess that's okay with me." It hurt Steve to see her sad, and as she slowly left room, the he just couldn't take it anymore. "Okay, well, I guess you could try…"

She zipped back in the room, a giant smile on her face. "Really, you mean it?! Oh, that's awesome!" He let her sit in the chair, and he taught her a few basics of the internet. She dismissed every lesson with an ok that said 'come on lets go already'. As he left the room, he felt a small surge of fear. He remembered reading a fan fiction story where a filly Rainbow Dash came into the world, and was raised by a guy. The Rainbow Dash in the story didn't remember her past, and when she found out, she left him. Steve knew she could remember her past, but how would she react to seeing it in the real world? Would she be excited by her fame, confused by the sight of her own face in a world like this, or fearful at the thought she was watched while without knowing it? He felt his fear well up inside him when Rainbow Dash called him into the room. He was expecting a computer covered in Rainbow Dashes, but instead found a maze waiting for him. "I can't get past this. Can you do it?" She asked. "I guess so. Are you having trouble?"
"Yeah, my stupid hooves make it too hard to move this mouse thing." Steve made it through the first two mazes. On the third, he accidentally hit the wall. A scary looking face popped up and a bloodcurdling screech came from the speakers. Both of them were on the ground. Steve was on the ground recovering from fear, and Rainbow Dash was on the ground…laughing. When Steve was up again, he wasn't happy at her. She brushed a tear from her eye and smiled at him. "Why did you do that, after everything I told you?!" "I didn't mean for that to happen, I just typed 'game' in and this maze came up. I'm really sorry; I just laughed because your reaction was priceless!" He sighed at her. "Well, just be more careful, remember to call me in again if you aren't sure about something, ok?" She obediently nodded. "Okay. Wait, I have an idea! You know how random things come up when you type anything in? Well, let's go to the picture search thing and type my name in! Then, we can laugh when some random thing comes up!"