For science, you Monster.

                                                                  Chapter three: Making "Friends"

As the first few days turned into a week and the stubborn AI gradually accepted her existence in this screwed-up world, the bond between the two unicorns had grown significantly. GLaDOS had stopped trying to escape via means of violence or trickery while Lyra and Bonbon convinced her that not all hope was lost in returning home. They had 'adopted' GLaDOS in a sense as a daughter who, much to their dismay, spent the majority of the day in her room working on some project of hers. She felt ashamed and dismayed at how 'primitive' the ponies lived, saying that 'they have much potential, but never realized it since they "always had their head in their asses, sucking up to 'Princess Celestia'; their ever-loving and tyrannical ruler."

"Glady, it's time for school!" Lyra shouted to the pony upstairs, her breakfast already on the table.

"I refuse to go 'school' with a bunch of idiots who don't even know how to construct a simple Arial Faith plate, let alone count to ten. I won't be leave this building today."

"Oh come on Glady, it can't be that bad. Look, if you don't enjoy it I won't make you go alright?"

"Fine, I'll go but if I don't enjoy it you had to hold up your side of the bargain.  I've had enough morons in my life already..." GLaDOS the filly grumbled as she carefully walked down the stairs, her legs still a bit unstable.

"Breakfast is on the table and since its the first day of the semester you're not required to bring anything, and please don't insult any of the children. What you did to Twilight yesterday was bad enough and I don't think they could handle even your worst ones." Lyra had seen the condition the pod was in after the Bearer of Magic had gotten hold of a wooden beam and pounded on it, the little filly was lucky she wasn't dead.

"Yes 'Mom', I won't insult them... Much. And just so you know its GLaDOS, not 'Glady' or any other nicknames. I may look like a juvenile equestrian but I certainly have more intelligence in my right hoof then this 'Celestia'  has in her entire body." Though much of the last sentence was largely disfigured by the food in GLaDOS's mouth, Lyra was somehow able to understand her.

"I dunno, Celestia is pretty smart. And watch how your eating, your getting crumbs in your nice white coat!"

The filly's bright yellow eyes rolled as her adoptive 'Mom' cleaned her face, moving away the brown strands that made up her mane.

"Ugh, you done yet? I'm pretty sure going to hurl  if you do move or don't. Either way, there's going to be a mess."

"Okay, backing off.."

"Why is it when somebody does something you wanted to do? Ah yes, 'Thank you' I believe is the proper phrase."

"At least you aren't threatening to kill me anymore like you were a few days ago."

"I have to admit that was very unprofessional of me, but I'm pretty sure that most individuals would freak out like that if they discovered that they had been turned into a child of a different species.and forced to live in a realm with next to no similarities with their past one."

"I bet most would, just never thought of it that way. Forced to live in a world totally different from you own and reduced to a mere child who has to live with two complete strangers."

"Pretty much sums up my life here so far. Aren't you forgetting something?"

"What are yo- Oh crud I forgot! I've got to get you to school. Come on GLaDOS, lets get going."

Lyra levitated GLaDOS out the door, shutting it behind her and setting the brown-haired filly down on the ground. They began walking shortly after the young mare became accustomed to the feel of dirt and grass beneath her hooves, pausing every once in a while to feel the surface of a different object.

"Is this really what it's like living? Being able to touch and feel everything around you instead of lifeless steel and its cold, hard touch?"

"Guess you weren't kidding about the whole "metal body" thing after all, and this is only the beginning of what you can experience! Soon, you'll be able to enjoy the wonders of winter, the wetness of rain, the feel of a nice breeze on your coat in the summer, the-"

"Feeling of being pummeled by school bullies?" GLaDOS added in a board tone.

"What makes you... Oh, that."

A rather large colt was picking on three smaller fillies, one of each type of Equestrian. One was a white unicorn, the middle a orange pegasus, and the last one was a yellow Earth pony with a girly bow in her hair; though none were spared from the blue colt's wraith. GLaDOS couldn't help but feel angry towards the bully, since she had been in a similar situation before but 2-vs-1 instead and the end result was a moron being put in charge of an entire facility, who speaking of which, already blew it up. Thrice.

"I'll be right back, it's about time someone should that big oaf where he belongs in this screwed up world." Though the brown-haired filly was physically weak, she was mentally strong and therefore more powerful with magic while the blue pegasus was still developing his powers.

"Hey moron, why don't you pick on someone with an intellect the size of yours? Oh wait that's impossible since your so damn dumb."

"Huh? Who said that?" The confounded colt spun around, trying to pinpoint his three little fillies's defender and grinned when he did. "Wanna say that to my face, shrimp?"

"I just did, moron." GLaDOS said in a bored, yet cocky, tone.

"Watcha say? I was to busy thinking of how many ways to pummel you into paste."

"You can think? That's surprising, see that your as smart as a Neanderthal banging to turtle together trying to get fruit from them."

This strange, if not confusing, insult left the colt dumbfounded. Meanwhile, the three fillies had scoot away a good distance but stayed within hearing range. The fight was drawing attention, and that's exactly what GLaDOS wanted.

"That's it, I'm ganna punch you to a bloody pulp, pipsqueak!"

The colt lifted up his front hooves to preform a heavy blow to the insulting filly but she simply side-stepped the attack.

"I see your as smart as you are fast, but you being fatter then an over-weight hippopotamus isn't helping much."

"Grrr, get over here so I can crack your skull!"The blue colt swung again.... and missed again.

GLaDOS's small frame allowed her to move faster then the dumb colt could throw a punch, easily dodging every blow. "At this rate I could re-create the Mona Lisa, construct the Eiffel Tower, and still have time to watch all of J.K. Rowling's movies."

Lyra winced at this last one, guessing that these tasks took an extremely long time to do but the bully failed to understand their meaning. At this point half the students of the school were watching as the fight lingered on, GLaDOS spewing crippling insults like a broken fire-hydrant.

Eventually, the Pegasus ran out of every and could barely lift his hooves. The brown-haired unicorn walked up to him, a evil grin on her childish face. She leaned in, placing her mouth next to his ear.

"You've had your turn, and now it's mine. I promise you pain without end."

The colt's face drained of color as she stepped back, the crowd now silent once more as the white unicorn stepped into a stable pose. GLaDOS closed her eyes, concentrating on the power hidden inside and drawing it out.

The resulting effect would forever traumatize the poor Pegasus and leave several of her classmates with nightmares for weeks. A sizable chunk of earth, concrete, and fragments rose out of the ground, forming a creature of some sort. The body and head was mainly composed of earth, with splinters of wood and concrete creating a razor-sharp spine while the head was mainly a mix of all three, plus two yellow spheres of light that were its eyes. As the its legs and tailed formed, it clanged its rocky teeth together and let out a guttural roar that was heard for miles. The legs were solid beams of oak, pieces together by a ball of earth and ended in a three-pronged foot. The tail, however, ended up to be a short shrub but signaled that she was done creating the monster.

"Meet my lovely pet Thrakerzod. He's loyal, faithful, and also a carnivore. My recommendation? Fly, fly as fast as your chubby little wings can carry you."

A third of the ponies who had been watching the frightening spectical took off, believing to that they were the intended target of the monstrous beast but Thrakerzod ended chasing the blue pegasus only. After both creature who out of her sight, GLaDOS collapsed into a heap of limbs and hair. Five ponies ran over check up on her, two aiding her up by allow the exhausted unicorn to use them as supports. When she looked up, GLaDOS saw that it was two of the fillies from before.

"[size=8]Ugh, that took a lot more out of me then I thought It would. How'd I do?[/size]" Before either of them could respond, someone interrupted.

"Lyra, is this.... filly yours?" A sharp tone cut through the silence like a crusher smashing test subjects to pieces.

"Ummm uhhhhh.... Yes."

'Oh this can't be good'.

"I must say that you must learn to control your child! She could've have killed Sweet Belle or Applebloom with that monstrosity! What kind of parent are you, letting it get that far?"

"I-I-I I didn't mean to-"

"Oh, you didn't mean to? Oh yes, that's makes up for you being unable to handle your child who, apparently, is determined to cause pain and misery to all those who she looks down upon. Why if I didn't know better I'd think that y-"

"I can summon him back here." GLaDOS's signature dark and forbidding tone had returned, oozing malice.

"E-excuse me?"

"I can call Thrakerzod back here if you want and have him tear you pretty little head to shreds."

"Why, why I never thought-"

"You'd hear such a violent and disturbing thing form a innocent filly such as I? Oh then you thought wrong. You shouldn't even be thinking at this point. You should be using your stupid little horse brain to figure out how to get the hell outta here lady because no-one, and I mean NO-ONE insults the only creature to ever show love and passion to me. Got it Ms. Frilly? Good. Lyra, let's go home. I'm tired."

Lyra promptly did as she was told, levitating the her adoptive/genetic daughter on to her back as aquamarine began the trek home.

Rarity just stood their stunned at the sheer ferocity the little white filly had shown in defending her mother, far beyond anything she had ever witnessed. In fact, she didn't even budge when her little sister ran to catch up with the filly and talked to her as they walked away. The same went for the other two CMCs, who joined in on the conversation.  As they spoke to the  filly, the Bearer of Generosity could've sworn that the little beast turned her head and stuck her tongue out.

"Wow, that was so cool how you just created that mega-monster thing! How'd you do that?" The pegasus known as Scootaloo asked.

"Science. And magic. But mostly science." Replied GLaDOS, having regained a bit of her energy.

"So what exactly was that thing anyways? Certainly nothing that I've seen before." Said Sweet Belle.

"It was somewhere between an lion, a wolf, a shark, and.... I think a bit of spinosaurus."

"A spina-whata?"

"A really big lizard that's now dead."

"Oh."

"Did ya have to be so cruel to him? I mean, he's no older then you or me." Applebloom said, finally deciding to speak her mind.

"Oh he had what's coming to him. He wasn't going to stop you know. I've seen his type before. He would keep going and going and going until you finally snapped like a rhino trampling a twig. Into a billion little piece between his hooves. I was lucky that he was so slow, else I would, most likely, be dead right now."

"Wow, so you really risked yourself back there for us. Thanks-"

"GLaDOS. My name is GLaDOS."

"GLaDOS, We really owe you one. Anything we can do to pay you back?"

"For now, you can just go away. I currently have this throbbing headache and our bickering certainly making it stop."

"Alright then, see ya latter!" "Thanks again!" "Bye!" The Cutie-Mark Crusaders waved goodbye to their new-found friend, though GLaDOS would of preferred the term "ally" to their word choice.

The talk had taken place over 2/3 of the trip, leaving Lyra and the filly to have a little time to speak among themselves.

"I'm very.... proud of you GLaDOS. Not many ponies your age, or rather size, would have stood up to a big bully like that. It was a very mature thing to do."

"So almost slaughtering a helpless colt is considered mature? I think I'm starting to like this place already. Hopefully that'll be gone in the morning once I wake up and remember that there's no way back home for me."

"Oh come on, lighten up. At least you have some friends here instead of a 'moron' who constantly spewed bad ideas while a mute psychopath tried to kill you all day."

"First off, she did already and over-threw me last time. Second, I guess I miss the thrill of testing though it was more of a pre-programmed liking of mine. And yeah, I guess I do have some, bluh, 'friends' here."

Lyra floated the key out of its hiding spot and unlocked the door, carefully closing it behind her and locking it once more. The young mare was almost sound asleep on her back, GLaDOS's eyelids now droopy. She smiled as they ascended the stairs, placing her hoof on the familiar digit-scanner that unlocked the heavy door that led to the inside of the AI's room.

"Wow, you have been busy haven't you? Seems like your a bit homesick."

White panels had replace the drab wall-paper from before and was completely bare excluding a few things. A pile of broken devices and spare parts littered one corner while diagrams depicting strange inventions were tapped to the walls. The pod she had arrived had been converted into a comfy-looking bed while a device called a 'radio' placed some smooth jazz. Lyra carefully placed GLaDOS into her bed, covering her up snugly with the covers.

"Night, my little trouble maker." Said the AI's adoptive mother, smiling as she heard the shallow breathing coming from the pod. As she walked away, she swore she head. "Night mom...."