//------------------------------// // 3: Some Explanation is Required // Story: You Have the Right to Remain Silent // by RDDash //------------------------------// "Twilight please come inside into my office, I think we have at least thirty minutes before they make you chase a stolen hover car or something." Twilight Sparkle has been sitting in the office of now a former Princess Celestia, just like she said Twilight had at least thirty minutes to talk. "You sound very disapproving P..."Twilight wanted to call Celestia by her title, but she stopped herself, "...Celestia." Twilight Sparkle trotted into the large office, it did have a lot of nice things, but at the same time very simplistic. "For starters, I am really disappointed what kind of mayhem your own disappearance all those years have caused to all of us, as well as to Equestria itself." Twilight Sparkle had set down on the chair which was placed in front of the large oak table. Every single office always had a table and a few chairs to sit on. "You mean how after my disappearance everypony turned my friendship lessons into the cult? Would you like to tell me what was all the circus with the space station was all about?" "Simply put it I was so excited to have my old student back, I simply wanted you to meet the only pony who is working on it! You know it better than anypony else that the only way I could do it is by fabricating a false house call." Something was up, Twilight just could feel it that Celestia wouldn't do it simply because she wanted Twilight to visit somepony. "Is that it, just a visit, eh?" "It is, I just thought that she might have wanted to have some friends. That mare is extremely shut in, and in actuality, there is something I still want you to do." Twilight had been carefully studying the whole situation. "Aha, I've got it! The real reason just had come out. Or should I say Huzzah, the real reason had just been revealed." Celestia started to laugh at what Twilight just said. "Quite right my student! But I am afraid it has to be a secret for now!" Twilight Sparkle frowned, "Celestia please be serious! You wouldn't actually believe me but I actually spent some time with Pinkie Pie. She made sure to drill all of the small nuances of Dystopian Future for Dummies into my brain. I literally had been prepared for this world. " Twilight switched position of her body to be more comfortable, "She said in the future there is going to be a lot of ridiculous things to happen." "For example?" "For example, she said that it's only natural evolution that the Equestria that we know and love is going to be turned into and I quote Teen Dystopian Movie. I believe that back in a world where Sunset Shimmer had been living they did make a lot of movies about that. I don't know, I think the only thing that we are missing right now is a teenager on a quest to rebel against the government." Twilight shifted her body once again, "She also said that there is a possibility that Equestria is going to be turned into a totalitarian police state. I think if you ask me we have a bit of a mixed society. We do have a police state, but I don't think that there is anypony who is against it." Twilight shifted her body yet again, "I don't blame you for what you tried to do on Tuesday morning, but please just don't do it again!" She then stood up, "I am really grateful that you invited me, once again thank you for everything!" "Of course, but Twilight!!" Twilight almost already trotted all the way to the door, when the voice of her former teacher caused her to turn around, "Even if I wanted to go back, I simply wouldn't because there is no way I am going to escape the future, which where we are living right now!" Twilight thought she heard Celestia breathe in and then breath out. "Twilight, are you lying to me or are you lying to yourself!" Twilight tried to say something but Celestia stopped her, "You don't belong in this time period, at least not yet, and I know that back then I probably made a lot of mistakes. Maybe, I pushed you a bit too hard and a bit too far. Maybe that mare would help you, maybe she won't! But I want you to try! " Twilight nodded "Okay, but would you willing to do a very simple request for me?" "Name it!" "I want the new wings, fiberglass nano-steel alloy, I am afraid that I lost my old wings in a work-related accident! As you are aware of it we may be immortal but not everything grows back." Celestia nodded, "I'll see what I can do about that! Once again, thank you for visiting!" Twilight smiled, "No, thank you! She then opened the door and walked out of the office on the roof where her transportation have been waiting for her. "Alright back to work I guess, Now then what do we have here?" She picked up a small tablet and looked at data stream, "Robots robbing a bank! Stolen vehicle report! Robots just went berserk and demanding equal rights! Twilight looked carefully at the next portion of the stream,"Smart car malfunctioned and went 200 miles past the speed limit! Fun! That's just in the same exact smart car crashed into sky tower!" A small mushroom cloud just went up South-South-East from her location. "Well, I guess that takes cares of that." She tossed the tablet on the back seat and then flipped the switch, the rotor blades started to spin up and then her machine started to hover a few hoof lengths from the ground. "You do realize that this old thing has an autopilot right?" Twilight heard Spike asking her. "I do! I just enjoy flying it manually, I wouldn't actually mind if they updated the fleet Alright let's just go and respond to the equal rights robot!" "Sounds good to me!" Twenty minutes later a helicopter arrived at its destination a small village that's been located 300 miles from Neo Ponyvile. Twilight switched off the engines and then exited the craft. "It does look familiar isn't it?" "Yes, Spike yes it does! The only difference is that you are now with me!" Twilight went passed all the houses that as she noted had been populated with robots. She walked passed them to the main house located in the very far away from the others. "Robots do like building their own houses symmetrically Spike then why does this specific house is so out of the ordinary for them?" Twilight knocked on the door which then opened by itself, she then waited. Fortunately, the waiting didn't take long, she saw a small unicorn robot mare who smiled at her with a very familiar creepy smile. Twilight thought she could start talking, "May I see your sentience license and registration form please?" The robotic mare stopped smiling, "I am afraid I don't understand, I am just a pony after all!" "No, you are not! I hate to break it too you but you are Class 25U pony robot model, which by Equestrian Friendship Law you are required to have sentience license and registration form...Please just do as I say! So are we going to do this the easy way or the hard way?" Twilight patiently waited for her response, in a way she received when the robot tried to assault her. "I guess we are going to do this the hard way then!" Twilight finished mental calculation and cast a localized temporal field on the robotic mare, which slowed down her by 70-75 percent real time. "You ... Shouldn't ... Be... Able ... To ... Do ... That ... You ... Are ... Just ... An ... Unicorn!" Twilight trotted a bit closer, "I am afraid you are a bit confused I'm not just a simple unicorn dear, you see I was called into the dragon town to settle their turf war, so one of them burned fire on me. In the end, my wings got burned to ash and he received a ten-inch hole into his skull. Mostly, it was a purely reflexive reaction, that flame hurt me, and I reacted in kind. So, would you please give me your sentience license and registration form please!" "It's ... In ... The ... Drawer ... Over ... There!" Said the robotic mare defeated. "Excellent! Thank you for your cooperation!" Twilight then trotted to the drawer and took the appropriate documentation, "Regulations state that I should send you reprogramming center for reprogramming, but I don't really want too." "Well .. You ... Can... Just ... Let ... Me ... Go ... Then!" for a moment the robotic mare face lighted up with hope, maybe she wouldn't be reprogramed after all. "Mm I would of, but then my bosses would just yell at me when they find out, and trust me they would find out simply because everything is documented by a high altitude satellites. So I guess I would just have to take you in after all!"