After no longer being needed as much in the Crystal Empire, Sunburst moved to Ponyville to assist his friend Starlight Glimmer with her work at the School of Friendship. Being the new guy in town, Sunburst understood that he wasn't as familiar with Ponyville or the creatures that live there as most of the locals. Still, a couple of children running around with what is obviously a robot pretending to be a filly is a strange sight no matter where you're from.
However, when he mentioned this robot to Starlight and Rarity, they acted like they had no idea what he was talking about. Surely he wasn't the only pony in town that could tell she's a robot, right?
...Right?
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nice story, I would love to see the continuation one day in the future,
Maybe she is enchanted such that ponies see her as a pony rather than a robot. Sunburst won't figure it out though because he won't exist in two days. Maybe Sweetie Belle will replace him with a robot.
There is an increase of Sweetie Bot fics in the past month or two.
Clearly they have found a way to assymilate authors and through their inception protocols are creating an army of cuteness and death.
For those of you who don't know about "Perception Filter"
Somehow Sunburst accidently broke Sweetie Bot's programming of blending environment, only his perspective.
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Since she switched to "Gaslight Protocol" at the end I'm assuming that she's going to convince him that he's imagining things instead of eliminating him.
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It's because AI art has been all over the news and of course our favorite AI is going to be involved in any story that draws from that.
Everyone in town has just been heavily gaslight. Everyone else died
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You know what happens when you light gas, right. :) kerblamo.
You have NO idea
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this was REALLY amazing!!
Okay, this is bothering me: Why is it that no one else can tell Sweetie Belle is a robot?
They probably know she's a robot, they just don't want to be terminated. Like in that Twilight Zone Episode will a young Bill Mummy.
"Engaging Cutie Mark Acquisition Program..."
Personally, I think this is just the town's way of hazing the newbie.
Please tell me you're planning a follow-up to this, I need to know how this ends.
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I may revisit the idea in the future, but for right now, I don't have any plans for a sequel. I'm glad you enjoyed it though!
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Here a cute thought
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nice try, sunburst
I cannot believe Sunburst would be so rude!
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Those are good videos.
At this point this is what I'll be sayingstatic.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/confound_these_ponies_they_drive_me_to_drink_3889.jpg
They out here gaslighting me to the highest degree.
Maybe everybody had their turn of being convinced that they’re just seeing things and that Sweetie is actually Sweetie.
Wait, lemme type the location in file explorer
I've recorded reading this for the audiobook version.
You probably know by now how I add music and sound effects to make it more entertaining.
Just wondering if you had any suggestion about how I form the soundscape for this in editing.
One line I found particularly interesting was...
'Plus, she vocalized an underscore out loud somehow!"'
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Well, I can't particularly say I wrote that line with the intention of it actually being heard out loud, so... I'll leave it up to your interpretation!
Doh! Sweetie's last line was in green text.
When you listen to the audiobook you'll hear that means I made a mistake.