The True Me

by lightningman


Chapter 42 - Look Before you sleep Part 1

As Thomas and I walked toward the treehouse, I knocked on the door. Twilight answered.
“Oh, hi lightningman. What are you doing here?”
“Came for another friendship lesson.” I smile. “Can we join you?” I asked.
“Oh, sure.” She nods and we come in.
"Just so you know Twi, I'm aware of the future just like lightningman."
"How do you know that she knows lightningman's aware of the future Sir?"
"Because he mentioned how this sleepover becomes a friendship lesson and she didn't even flinch." I laugh.
“Yeah, I told them a bunch of times that I knew the future. I guess this finally pushed it further.”
“Yeah, now they know two people that know the future”
“Anyway. Let’s go to the sleepover. What are we doing?” I ask
“Hmm... let me check.” She looked through her book called ‘Slumber 101: All You've Ever Wanted to Know About Slumber Parties But Were Afraid to Ask.’ I laugh at the sheer ridiculousness. It’s you hanging out with friends, do whatever the (beep.) you want within reasonable barriers. “Ah! Here we are. It says to give each other makeovers.” I managed to keep a straight face underneath my mask but inside I was screaming in horror.
“You can make my face look better without makeup. I refuse to wear makeup. Anything else is fine.” I sit down and look at Thomas.
“Don’t come near me with that (Beep).” I laugh a bit.
“Alright, then you get ready with a ghost story.” I smile as I take off my mask. My hair has overgrown a lot in the last few days so the front of my hair was down to my eyes. I swept it to the right to get it out of my face. “(Beep)ing hair. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it.”
“True,” says Thomas as he steps out of his armour. “Let me know when you're done with the girly makeup (Beep).”
"I said I wasn't wearing the makeup." I roll my eyes
"And I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to them."
"it was in my general direction."
"Anyway, how long is it gonna take you 3 to do the makeup (Beep)?" Asked Thomas as Rarity and AJ started arguing. "And here we go."
"maybe a minute or two"I then pause. " I just remembered a ghost story." I pull out Sam and begin to conjure a large book named "the book of useless information"
"Whats the most pointless thing you've read from that book so far?"
"there's a person the named their kid Nero." I say as I look for the entry. "mobster screw ups.... body language.... cross-dressing. AH! here we go. LaLaurie the Gory."
"Who or what the (Beep) is LaLaurie the Gory?"
"woman who tortured her servants/family members in...."I check the book. "between 1825 and 1834. died in 1842."
"Wow, that's... dark."
"that's not the worst of it. ill save it for the story." I turn to Applejack and Rarity. "Are you done?"
"Please be done, the sooner we get this lesson over with the better, I didn't like this episode much."
"same, but its an episode, so I need to be here." I sigh. I then heard them say. "yeah, we're done." twilight looked through her books and saw ghost stories. "OOH! I have one. gather around. Sam, you want to listen?" I hold out the harmonic wand. Multicoloured smoke came out of the wand and formed into a pony.
"There’s a pony in your wand... cool."
she looked up at Thomas and the suit. "should I make a joke here about wrappings or a book by its cover insult?"
"Says the magic, literally, pony. I heard you say her names Sam, but who is she exactly?"
"the mane 6's and my daughter." I reply bluntly. "and darknings body is a magic construct." I point out
"You guys made her with magic didn’t you?"
"yes. but she still has a mind you know."
"Never implied she didn't. Hi, Sam names Thomas, nice to meet ya." Said, Thomas, as he got out of his armour.
"you too, I've been listening since you came here." she smiled. she then moved forward and reappeared behind you. "so, this is Karen? Karen, take control of the Warmachine armour please."
"As you wish Ms. Sam." Said Karen taking control of the armour. "Its pleasure to meet you."
"you too. it's nice to meet a girl that arent my moms."
"Yes, it must be weird having the only 6 girls you know, to be your parents. Whats life like living in a wand? Do you think its anything like being an AI such as my self?" Asked Karen kneeling down to be more level with Sam.
"it's not so bad. I decorated the inside, plus I get to visit dads mind. he warns me to stay out of a place named NSFW though."
"Listen to your father Sam."
"I must agree with Sir Thomas, I just looked up what that meant."
I burst out laughing. "BAHAHAHAHA!" I cough. "holy hell that was great." Sam smiled before turning back to Karen. "I want to try something. Dad?"
"Yeah?"
"Wand, please. I need you to make a link between the wand and the suit please." I do so and Sam disappears. there's a glowing that goes from the wand into the suit of armour.
"What's she doing?"
"probably trying to get into Karen's mind." I say. "she's done it a few times with darkning."
"May I ask why you're in my mind, Miss?"
"Because I've been in a human mind and I wanted to see what an AI mind was like. it's roomy," said Sam from the audio box
"I'm not surprised I have more room for data than 10 supercomputers combined."
"Holy (Beep) that's a lot of storage.”
“Yeah.” I nod. “But Sam? I don’t think there are any rules regarding this, but let’s just say it’s rude to enter people’s and ponies minds without their permission.
“She’s technically not a person.” She pointed out.
“But she has the intelligence of one, so come on out.”
“Aww…” Smoke flowed out of the suit and reformed into a Sam again.