Thanks for HeavyMetalCommunist for proofreading.
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After the man snapped his fingers, a bright flash filled ED-E’s vision receptors. Once his receptors recovered enough to see clearly, ED-E was greeted by a green scenic view.
≤Confused beeping≥
“Whoa,” ED-E heard from below. He looked down and saw three little creatures with huge, amazed, eyes staring up at him.
≤Even more confused beeping≥
One of those creatures just talked. They were the only ones showing up on his radar, so it couldn't be anything else; however, his processors were having a hard time believing it.
“What do y’all think it is?” The yellow one with a red mane with a huge pink bow tie asked.
“I have no idea,” replied a white one with a horn pointing out of its light purple and pink mane.
“I don’t know, but it looks cool.” an orange one with wings and a dark purple mane said with excitement in her voice.
Well ED-E now knew his processors weren’t being fooled, but how could animals talk? Only humans and certain robots could ever talk.
≤Inquisitive beeping≥
The three little creatures all titled their heads in confusion.
“Did it try to say something,” the white one asked the others. The two others(surprisingly) shrugged their shoulders.
≤Disappointed beeping≥
Great, they couldn’t understand his language. ED-E was about to search his recordings to 'say' something appropriate when one of the little creatures said something that made him quite unhappy.
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An idea came to Scootaloo’s head.
“Hey, let’s take it to the library. Maybe Twilight has a book that can help us identify it, and we can earn our Cutie Marks in creature finders.”
The two other girls smiled as they nodded their heads, liking the idea. All three of them inhaled and shouted. “CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS CREATURE FINDERS YAY!!” The flying object then let out some more noise after they finish their shout.
≤Protesting beeping≥
The three girls looked back at the floating object as it was shaking back and forth.
“I think it doesn’t like that idea,” Sweetie Belle said.
“Since when did you become an expert in understand random bits of noise and movements,” Scootaloo asked. A mare’s voice then spoke out from nowhere.
“Look, I know you’ve put a lot of work into this, but it’s a stupid plan. Those rockets will only lead y’all to your deaths.”
The three girls looked away from the object and around the area.
“Who’s there,” Apple Bloom asked out loud.
“And what do you mean the rockets will be the death of us? What’s a rocket anyway!?” Scootaloo added. No reply came. The girls all turned their head back to the each other.
“Well that was weird.”
≤Beeping noises≥
The three girls looked back up, seeing the flying metal object still hovering above them.
“What is it now?” The mare’s voice spoke out again, this time from the metal object, a bit agitated than last time.
“Look do I have to explain it to all of y'all. Line up the sights and squeeze the trigger.”
Sweetie Belle's face brightened once she put the two pieces together.
“That was you!” she exclaimed.
≤Confirmatory beeping≥
“So why didn’t you speak like that the first time?” Apple Bloom asked.
The mare’s voice spoke out once more. “ED-E, do you record everything that I say when you’re around me?" ≤Shy beeping≥ A soft chuckle could be heard. "I guess I should be more careful of what I’m saying around you then.”
“So the mare’s voice we heard was just some recordings,” Sweetie Belle asked.
≤Confirmatory beeping≥
“But it doesn’t look like you are carrying a record player with you.”
“Well, that's not stopping it.” Scootaloo stated. “Still, let’s go take it to Twilight and see exactly what it is.”
≤Protesting Beeping≥
“I think it really doesn’t want to do that.” Sweetie Belle said again.
“Why?” Apple Bloom asked ED-E.
“Now before I send you off to your new home I need to relay two instructions to you. First off try to stay out of public view as much as you can, don’t make a big scene with yourself. Second you are going to meet a certain mare who is going to need your help later on, after that you can make as big of a scene of yourself as you want.” The stallion’s voice mysterious spoke out from ED-E.
The three fillies nodded. “So you don’t want to go with us into town because you might cause a big scene.”
≤Confirmatory beeping≥
“But aren’t you breaking that first instruction right now talking to us?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“Yeah and who’s this mare you’re supposed to meet?” Scootaloo added.
≤Sad beeping≥
“I think it doesn’t know; however, I think it hasn’t broken its first instructions.” Apple Bloom stated.
“Why is that?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“Well, it only met the three of us and nopony else, and since we’re small it hasn’t made a big scene. So if we keep it a secret just between the three of us, it wouldn’t break its first instruction.” Scootaloo nodded.
“Yeah, and we can also help in finding this mare it has to find and we could even earn our Cutie Marks with helping it."
All three of them looked up to the flying object.
“Well?”
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The three fillies looked at ED-E with big smiles waiting for an answer. For the most part the yellow one’s logic made some sense. Omega never did give a variable on just how big the group should be before he made a ‘big scene’ with himself. They could also help him find this unknown mare too, even though ED-E had no idea where to start.
≤Agreeing beeping≥
“Was that a yes?” The orange one asked.
If ED-E could show expression he would’ve let out a big sigh. He played another recording.
“It’s better than walking through a radioactive Vault,” the woman said.
The three girls looked at each other, confused on what the woman said.
“I think that’s a yes.” The yellow one stated. They started to grab their things and head towards somewhere.
The yellow one looked back at ED-E. “Come with us. We have a place where you can stay for the night.” she said.
≤Happy beeping≥
With that ED-E followed the three little fillies away from the lake and into a new world.
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Here's a game for my readers. It's called Where is That Recording From?
Fallout New Vegas is copyrighted Obsidian Entertainment and Bethesda Softworks.
MLP: Friendship is Magic is copyright to Hasbro.
All characters that belong to their companies are rightfully theirs. This writing is for fun and nothing else.
1358796 Why does that pony look like she's being eaten out?
Great chapter... bit short, but great nonetheless. I await more chapters in the future.
More. For ED-E!
"Where is that recording from?" Isn't that a mission from FONV?
ED-E. by far my favorite Fallout: New Vegas companion.
You have... I... the CMC... ED-E...
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I can't seem to do that quest. ED-E my love
Ive gone to all the people who can set off the hidden messages but it won't work
Very nice, at first I thought why would all three of them just accept this so soon? But than I remembered that they are children
MOAR ED-E
please...
seems a bit short for my taste but good none the less
Good update. My senses tell me Twilight is the mystery mare.
Also, I found a mistake here:
let’s take to library.
Should be let’s take it to the library.
1401462 have you tried waiting?
the quest triggers once ede hears 2 KEY WORDS meeting the people who say them dosent count
the key words have something in common with the enclave and the solar powerplant/ solar based weapon of mass destruction (or whatever the flying fuck you wanna call it) if neither works then the game is glitched
1401546 right so I have to start again
1401562 lol, ede's companion quest is most likely one of the most time comsuming quests in new vegas and its reward dosent exactly pay for its costs either, but its more of a quest you can drag along as you travel the world and do once you are near by one of the key areas, i swear i was draging around that quest and ede not to long ago all the way from when i first found the bugger on my newest character up until i was lvl 35+
so unless you focus on doing it and nothing else, you gotta like ede a little to much in my opinion
1401595 you only get a weapon upgrade for ED-E
But a quest is a quest
1401562 Just know that finding the people is part one. Part two either requires speaking to em and hoping that one of the topics causes Ed-E to access a recording or that they have to talk to someone else and Ed-E is close enough to catch the words in their conversations (at least that was what I could figure out anyway [though boring as anything when you have to follow em around till they find the right person to talk to]).
1401677 I went on a website that listed all the people who trigger the memories and went to all of them. Most where the brother hood of steel
TEARS OF JOY AND I HAVEN'T EVAN STARTED READING YET!
New Vegas and ponies? You sir have my immediate, favorite, watch and likedl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/Vinyl_Scratch_lolface.png
1401533
Funny thing is that what my brain told me it said when I read it over multiple times. Fixed and thank you.
1401371
No...at least I don't think so. I just made it up since the recording ED-E will play throughout the story will come from his travels with Katherine. And the things she says are related to either real quests or places she has been to.
this idea is the best idea ever
i love you
1401645 actully a weapon upgrade are only one of the rewards you get, the other is a health and armor upgrade.
if i remember correctly, once ede hears all the key words, all the recordings have been unlocked, the BoS and the ... (FUCK cant remember what those goodie two shoes are called) if you give ede to the BoS they will give ede a armor and health upgrade while the other party gives a weapon upgrade.
either way this IS a very time consuming quest as it requiers you to wait quite a few ingame days for the recordings, key words and the parties who whant ede's recordings and stored info
1402090 the other is the followers of the apocalypse I think
1402114 ye thats it, but i still stand by the fact that ede's companion quest is not something you shulld do with it only in mind, its fine IF you already have to go to for example jacobstown and talk to the doctor for quests or someone else who just happends to be related to ede's quest but other wise ede's quest is just to time consuming and with rewards that dosent cover the time and effort put into it, that is why i often just end up draging it around for god knows how long until i finally end up finishing it.
1402114
Here's a wiki link for the quest.
1402141 um I already have a link for it
I believe a said that
1402180
Must've glance over that...o well.
[youtube=X0sW8KrZF5s].
This is the question. Are YOU proud of being a Brony
the couror please give me a challenge
First Recording: Come Fly With Me
Second Recording: Flags of Our Foul Ups
Since ED-E is best fallout character in my books (because he's both fking amazing and we technically share names (my nickname is eddy) ) i shall like immediately and read.
if it is done well i shall favorite.
edit: it was done well enough, and its pretty interesting to boot.
...plenty better than alot of other Fallout crossovers i've seen, thats for sure.
*faved*
The first of the recorded messages EDE used from the little shooting tutorial at the beginning of the game....
“Now before I send you off to your new home I need to relay two instructions to you. First off try to stay out of public view as much as you can, don’t make a big scene with yourself. Second you are going to meet a certain MARE who is going to need your help later on, after that you can make as big of a scene of yourself as you want.” The mysterious STALLION’s voice spoke out from ED-E.
Mare & Stallion. Don't you mean Woman & Person?
1405395
Those are human's terms and since I was in CMC point of views I had to use pony's terms for male and female.
1405719
But if that was ED-E's recording and since It/He is from Earth wouldn't the human terms make a bit more sense (Something like that) and confuse the CMC?
1405747
Yes, but remember the CMC can't truly understand ED-E beeping so the recordings are his only way to communicate, and they don't know what a human is. So in their minds they could tell for now that one sounded like a mare (Katherine) and the other a stallion (Omega). If I'm in ED-E's pov then I will used the human's terms.
1405782
Oh ok, that makes sense.
Aren't those all from the quest with the ghouls who fly off in the rockets?
1402090 Not really time consuming, all you have to do is walk up to The Followers of the Apocalypse, or Brotherhood of Steel person, have a very short dialogue and agree to let them take ED-E for a little while, then get him back. If you hand him over then start one of the DLC missions that he can't accompany you on he'll be ready by the time you finish. Also, the Weapon upgrade is definitely worth it in my opinion. The armor upgrade makes him all shiny and removes his signature bumper stickers and stuff.
Man, I was wondering how you were going to get around the whole "ED-E never speaks human" thing, but you did it brilliantly. I'm starting to really like this story, keep up the good work!
1409900 the part where you turn in ede isent the time consuming part, its finding all the people who say the key words (or even to get ede to work in the first place), wait betwen recordings to unlock, wait for the BoS and followers to ask you if they can have ede and then wait some more for a reward witch isent in my opinion worth it
1410655
<Happy Beeping>
1411888 Oh, and about that, try to keep the words you use to describe his beeping consistent. For example, most of the time you use adjectives (<Sad beeping> and <angry beeping>) but a couple of times in this chapter you used other words, such as <inquire beeping>. "inquire" is an infinitive verb, not an adjective. So for consistency's sake, you should probably use "inquisitive" instead. Subtle, I know. But try and keep an eye out for it.
1411484 It isn't like you have to go out of your way to get him to hear those things, I think you hear all the necessary ones while you do important things anyway... If anything its more time consuming to avoid hearing the things that set the recordings off.
1412020
Thank you and I'll keep that in mind. You would think writing for a character who only talks in beeping should be easy
1412409 thats the thing, if you just focus on ede's quest its quite time consuming but if you just drag it along as you meet the people along your way its still a time consuming quest.
my point is that no matter what ede's quest is one that you will be carrying around for quite some time once you get it
1412421 It is only time consuming if you focus on doing it. It is much simpler and smoother if you just go along with the story and get it as you go. Also, the weapon upgrade is more than worth it I can't even think of how many times him vaporizing things with his Alien blaster-like gun has saved my hide in FNV.
1412451 by time consuming i mean it times the most time to complete both if you focus on it and not its a quest you will be draging around for a majority of your game, as for the weapon... i brealy notice the diffrance, maybe its becourse i think combat in new vegas is easier than in fallout 3 since i can basicly sit 2 miles away with a hunting rifle and snipe everything before they even get to me or maybe its something else, either way in my opinion neither the hp/armor upgrade or the weapon one is worth the time requierd for the quest both while draging it along and actully trying to finish it
1401533 Aye, That be my Mistake, I'm the proofreader of this fine piece.
1404343 You must read A Not So Lonesome Road then, If you like Ulysses that is....
1412020 That also be my mistake, I left ED-E's beeping alone because I thought I might screw it up, I'll be on the lookout for that when I get to proofread my next Chapter.
1414825
You shouldn't have to worry about ED-E's beeping. There are only a few adjectives that can truly go with them.
1415506 Okay then,