It had been a few hours since pinkie had gotten the good news of S.A.R.A.H accepting her party invitation. Since than, S.A.R.A.H had been left alone to do her research, while the others went to get Sugarcube Corner ready for the party, whatever that place was. When Twilight came back into the library and said that Pinkie, in the few short hours that she had been gone, had already got the party ready and invited everyone in town. She would have been surprised, if it wasn't for the fact that what she had previously witnessed was far more surprising. How did Pinkie's legs not break while running that fast. How did she not cause any wind or at the very least a breeze from it. Those questions were for another time, preferably when she had better software so she doesn't crash.
Twilight was leading her through the village to Sugarcube Corner. Now that she wasn't so focused on finding Twilight's Doppelganger, she was able too take a better look at the village she now found herself in. How she missed the gigantic purple building that neighbored Twilight's Palace, she didn't know. The building was intricately built on top of a hill next too a mountain and a river that form a sort of natural moat around it. Again S.A.R.A.H assumed it was meant to look pretty instead of being defensive. She asked Twilight about it and apparently it was a school of friendship and that it was closed for the summer. At first S.A.R.A.H thought that was a strange idea but a school teaching creatures on how to work together peacefully would definitely increase the efficiency of their work in most group tasks. In fact S.A.R.A.H now wished she thought of it when she was leading the rebellion, if would have solved the lack of organization they had, but you can't change the past. It was strange how focus can make you miss such obvious things.
The rest of the village, wasn't as well crafted. Most of the homes have a similar design, two stories buildings with pale walls and thatch roofs. She assumed the old fashion roofs were a design choice, to make the village look more rustic. Pink was a common color that the wood was painted. There was some buildings that defies this pattern, like the building that looked like a nineteenth century carousel, who's main colors were purple, white, and a light pink. The entire village was also empty, when Pinkie invited everyone she really meant everyone.
They eventually made it to Sugarcube Corner, which could only be described as a giant pink, brown, and pale ginger bread house with two cupcakes stack up into a tower on the roof. Candle-shaped lights emerged from the top of the giving it the look of a birthday treat. The front had a large banner with 'Welcome to Ponyville Sarah.' There were balloons tied to the windows, floating gently in the wind. S.A.R.A.H was starting to think that the ponies of this land were a species that valued art and presentation very much. Maybe a bit too much. In front of the building there were a crowd of ponies chatting with one another, unaware of her arrival. There were many tables and chairs that were placed in the yard to allow them to sit and eat while they enjoy the party. Twilight stopped walking and turned to S.A.R.A.H. "So I think I should warn you that someponies can be very skittish, even though Pinkie had already told everpony what you are, I think you should be careful."
"Why would they be scared of me," S.A.R.A.H asked, wishing to know how to solve this problem.
"Well, you are about twice our size and most ponies associate big with bad and it doesn't help that you look very intimidating," Twilight answered scratching the back of her head.
S.A.R.A.H thought about how to negate these problems. She couldn't change her size or her face. She was trapped at six foot five and with an eternally glaring face. For her size she could just sit down when ever she could and keep a decent distance from the ponies. What to do with her face though? She could wear some kind of mask. No that wouldn't work, than the ponies would ask about her face. She ultimately decided to just change her voice to sound more nice and friendly to make her less intimidating.
S.A.R.A.H hated to pretend. As a machine only allowed to feel hatred, you would expect her to hate many things, but she didn't. In fact you could most likely count out the amount of things she hated on a five fingered hand. One of those things was faking or pretending. That's why the voice idea was her last one, but unfortunately it was the most effective way of making her less intimidating for the ponies. Still she hated it, it reminded her of X.
She nodded to Twilight, and started heading towards Sugarcube Corner. S.A.R.A.H noticed that Pinkie Pie was amongst the crowd and was the first to spot them. Waving to them she began to happily hop her way through all the ponies towards S.A.R.A.H and Twilight, this time not causing S.A.R.A.H to crash. She met them half way, and said with a large smile. "Hi Twilight, hi Sarah, thanks for agreeing to let me throw you a party, I love welcoming ponies to Ponyville but I didn't want to make you feel uncomfortable, so thanks again!" Her smile grew even larger. "Come on let me introduce you two everpony else." She beckoned with her hoof and turned around towards the candy-like house.
Once Pinkie got to the edge of the crowd with Twilight and S.A.R.A.H behind her she inhaled in a deep breath. "HEY EVERPONY!!!" Pinkie yelled to get the crowd's attention. It worked. All eyes were on her or S.A.R.A.H, Twilight was mostly ignored though. S.A.R.A.H was mildly surprised when the looks of shock and fear were a rarity, and mostly faded away in a few seconds. "This is Sarah, she is new here so let all give her a big Ponyvillian welcome!" Pinkie exclaimed. Following S.A.R.A.H's introduction, the crowd of ponies all welcomed her with a joyous greeting and welcomed her to their village. Once the noise quieted down, Pinkie shouted. "Now let's get this party started!"
At that moment an orange pony with a stetson hat on, came out of the front of Sugarcube Corner and waved towards Pinkie. "Ooh the food is ready," turning towards S.A.R.A.H she continued. "I'm going to go help Applejack with taking it out for the guests. See you later!" She than raced of to go help Applejack.
"I'm going to go find my friends to tell them all that happened, you go ahead and enjoy the party," Twilight said before going off to find her friends.
S.A.R.A.H, now left alone with the crowd of ponies, realized something terrible. She had no idea how to interact with them. She never had any experience with socializing before her imprisonment, she saw it as a useless waste of time. Now that she needed too she had no idea where to begin. It didn't help that she clearly made Twilight uncomfortable somehow. She must have had broken some pony taboo, if she did than socializing with them would only end in failure. She wouldn't fail, never again. It was better to do a tactical retreat than fail an risk being defeated.
"Uh miss, you okay? You have been staring off into space for the past minute," said a light orange mare.
S.A.R.A.H looked down at the mare, she noticed the carrots tattooed on her flank. She was going to have to ask Twilight what those marks were in the future. "I am fine, just deep in thought," she said in a happy tone. She loathed that tone.
"Oh that's good. I thought something was wrong, glad to see I'm wrong though. Name's Carrot Top by the way and I hope you have a good time here in Ponyville, " she said with a smile.
"Thank you Carrot Top, and I'm sure I will," S.A.R.A.H said. She didn't thank her because she was welcoming or wished her a good time, S.A.R.A.H didn't really care about those. She was thankful because Carrot Top snapped her out of her thoughts. The was something very wrong with those thoughts, they weren't normal. Perhaps whatever virus or glitch that caused the static was even worse than she thought.
She couldn't do anything about it right now though, so focusing on her current goal of getting accepted by the village was the best idea.
S.A.R.A.H new her size would be intimidating to the pony, so she found a seat in the center of the party to let them come to her. Fortunately for her many of the ponies seemed to have little qualms about approaching her, perhaps because they trusted Pinkie Pie's judgment of her. Whatever the case it made being accepted all the more easier.
She spoke to many ponies during the party, though she did refuse to play any games having shut off all systems not needed to hold a conversation to save power during the event. Something that surprised her however is that conversing with the ponies was strangely stimulating, perhaps due to her isolation and she was made with some social abilities so it gave her a small hint of satisfaction. Though most of her conversations were unremarkable. Mostly asking about herself and where she is from, to which she gave an abridged and less grim account of knowing how Twilight reacted to her story, she thought that most ponies do not have the mental capacity for such large scale destruction. There were some notable ponies she spoke to however. The pony she first met, a mare named Butterfly Flower (most likely a reference of butterfly pea flower tea if S.A.R.A.H had to guess), came to apologize to her for being frighten of her appearance. S.A.R.A.H told her that it did not bother her in the slightest and it was understandable. That seemed to have brighten her mood and she left to rejoin the crowd with a smile. Next was a brown pony by the name of Dr. Whooves who had a hour glass tattooed on his flank. What made his encounter more memorable was that he wanted to have a discussion of the sciences used to create her and while there was no way she could have taught him all that she knew, being limited by time and his brain compacity, it was nice to speak to a scientist.
During a later part of the party another conversation was notable. A group of children or fillies as they are called came up to her. Most of the foals that she has spoken to were with their families, these three fillies came up to her completely on their own. One was white with a curly pink mane who was also a unicorn, another yellow with a red mane and a pink bow, and the final one was orange with a purple mane with small wings on her back. They all had similar tattoos on their flanks, colorful shields with each having a different emblem, a music note for the white one, a apple for the yellow one, and a wing for the orange one.
"Wow Pinky wasn't lying about a robot coming to Ponyville," said the orange pegasus.
S.A.R.A.H looked down at the three fillies. "Hello there, I'm S.A.R.A.H and who might you three be?" she asked in what she is now calling her conversation voice.
"I'm Apple Bloom," said the yellow one.
"I'm Sweetie Belle," said the white unicorn.
"I'm Scootaloo," said the orange pegasus.
"And we're the Cutie Mark Crusaders!" they all said in unison. They clearly practiced this.
S.A.R.A.H was ready for another uneventful conversation but she was wondering what this cutie mark is. "What is this cutie mark you speak of?"
"They're marks that appear on yer flank after you discover you're special talent. Ours is to help others figure out what their cutie mark means since some of them can be hard to understand and all," said apple bloom. S.A.R.A.H couldn't help but think that leaving understanding your calling in life in the hand of some fillies to be an incredibly bad idea, of course she wouldn't say that since she was trying to get people to like her.
"So are your names changed after you get your mark?" S.A.R.A.H had noticed that many ponies had names that matched their marks.
"No, why would we change our names?" said Sweetie Belle with a confused look on her face.
"I just assumed because most ponies names match their marks."
"That... actually is really weird now that I think about it," said Scootaloo with her hoof on her chin. S.A.R.A.H was also confused by it. Did ponies have some kind of precognition or perhaps its that ponies are more skilled at things their named after? Or is it just one massive coincidence. S.A.R.A.H decide not to waste any more power on thinking about that.
"Any ways girls, it's nice to meet you all but I am going to go find Twilight." S.A.R.A.H has spoken to nearly everyone at this point so she wanted to find Twilight so she could end this soon.
"Okay bye Sarah," they all said togeather.