Coming to in our room I look to the side and see Luna up and by the window, her horn glowing, lowering the moon for the day. As she is doing that I get up and notice my clothes on the side of the bed, freshly washed, as well as my weapons resting atop them. Getting up and off my bed I walk to the washroom for privacy and change into my clothes. Once set I walk back out to find Luna having teleported in a dress for herself and was still looking out the window, watching the sunrise.
“So, are you ready to go look for them?” I ask her. Luna turn and nods to me and after a nurse comes by we both leave for the hedge maze. “Luna, do you know where your sister and the others are?” I ask her.
“Yes. They are most likely in the dining hall eating breakfast. Let us guess, you want to get them just in case?” She says and I nod to her. Luna quickly takes the lead and in a few minutes we arrive at the dinning hall where all but Shining and Cadence are present.
“Adam? Sister? What are you two doing here? You should still be in bed to recover more.” Celestia says with worry and confusion.
“No time for that princess. We have a bit of a situation. Where are Shining and Cadence?” I tell and ask, the girls all getting slightly worried expressions.
“Present!” Luna and I turn and see the duo walking to us, still obviously a little tired from the night before.
“Adam, as much as this is important, we should at least eat something.” Luna tells me and I just sigh. Looking to the table I spot some good looking apples and raise my hand. To everpony but Luna’s shock, my horns light up and one of the apples is covered by the same mixed aura before being launched straight into my waiting hand. I bring it up and take a bite before noticing everyponies shocked expressions. I blink and remember that Luna is the only one who knows I can use magic now, and that was just in the dream realm.
“You can use magic?!?!” Twilight shouts, causing me to flinch from the volume. She noticed and apologized.
“Apparently. Late night I was able to join Luna in the dreamscape so I know basic levitation and dream walking at least.” I tell them. The ponies look to me in amazement as Luna quickly chugs down some coffee and eats some toast with honey. I finish my apple and then levitate two more to me for the two newcomers.
“Adam? What’re you takin those apples for?” AppleJack asks me.
“Last night, me and Luna found some dreams that were not like others. Unlike most nightmares that call out for Luna, these ones called out for me.” I tell them, the CMC now wolfing down their food so we can go. “After entering them, we found out why. They were not the dreams of ponies. They were the dreams of two women from Remnant, the world the Grimm are mostly seen in and the original world of my character.”
“So two individuals from Remnant are now here in Equestria?” Celestia asks, now getting a little defensive.
“Calm yourself sister. These two are not evil. Rather they came here because...” Luna trailed off, remembering what had happened to the two of them. I place a hand on her shoulder in support and pick up where she left off before the others could ask.
“Short answer?” Most of them ponies nod. “They both died before they should have.” The others paled at this. The group, now realizing the situation, finishes their food quickly and get up. We all soon leave the dinning hall, Scootaloo by my side again, and we walk to the hedge maze.
“Luna, Adam. What are the names of the duo we are looking for and what do they look like?” Celestia asks us. I quickly take out my scroll and go though my photos before finding some screen shots from RWBY for Pyrrha and Penny. I turn the device to her and show them the images.
“The girl with orange hair and the bow is named Penny Polendina.” The group gets a good look before I find the next one. “They girl with the red hair done in a ponytail is Pyrrha Nikos. They are both around eighteen or so and likely will be a bit skittish when we find them.”
“Why would they be skittish when we find them? They sound pretty tough to me.” Rainbow says, getting a glare from me and Luna, causing her to flinch.
“How would you react if you died in a fight then brought back to life in an entirely different world Rainbow?” I ask her in an annoyed tone. The others look down in worry for the girls and a few also glaring at Rainbow. She just huffs and turns her head away, but still hovers after us.
Not long after we make it to the maze. Cadence had brought in a first aid kit with us just in case. Luna casts a spell on me so that my magic would work like a tracker for the girls. Celestia summons a map for the maze so we can get though without getting lost.
“Ok, I think it would be best for Fluttershy, Luna and I to talk with them. They may be mentally hurt so we need to be careful. Since Fluttershy is the Element of Kindness she and I will start with talking them down if they are freaking out. After that we will send them to the medical wing for some tests to make sure they aren’t hurt.” Fluttershy and Luna nod.
We walk though the maze for a few minutes, my horns acting like a tracker and we soon reach an area with a large pond and some ducks and flowers. Suddenly a duck runs up to Fluttershy and start quacking in panic.
“Oh, what is it? Please calm down for a second and tell me what is going on.” Fluttershy says softly to the duck. They take a breath and begin quacking again, but slower. Fluttershy’s eyes widen and she looks to us in worry. I have a good idea of what the duck is saying. I crouch down and look at the duck.
“Have you seen some odd looking females? Maybe one with orange hair and another with red?” I ask. The duck nods and turns, before beginning to waddle away. I look to Fluttershy and she nods. We follow the duck to the the edge of the pond where a large tree is located.
All of us look around the area, before Scootaloo looks to the tree again and begins to walk to it. Going past the tree she sees a creature that looked just like the photo.
“Hey, I found her!” Scootaloo calls out. We all converge on her position and find one of the two new Huntresses. Her orange hair still in its curly style, and her bow still being in the same spot. Penny Polendina was here in Equestria.
“Great job Scoots!” I say to her and rub her head and ears. She smile and leans into my hand. I stop and go to Penny to look her over. I see that the sleeve of her arm is cut and just dangling on her reattached limb. It is as I am looking her over that I notice something.
She is....breathing?
I do a double take and see that her chest has a steady rise and fall. Putting my hand near her nose, I feel the air being exhaled from her.
‘What the heck? Penny is an android, she shouldn’t need to breathe. Unless...’ I stop that train of though and carefully place two fingers on her neck.
“Adam, what are you doing?” Luna asks.
“He is checking for a pulse. Though I don’t know why, she is clearly alive.” Shining Armor says. Luna looks to me in confusion. I feel her neck, just putting enough pressure on, when I feel it. A steady, resting pulse. I pull my hand back with a shocked expression on my face.
“Luna, do you remember what Penny was back in Remnant?” I ask her, not looking away from Penny.
“Yes. She was an android. A machine. The first android capable of generating an aura you said. Why?” Luna says, the group being shocked by this information.
“Tell me. What do living things have that machines do not.” I ask the group, each of them thinking for a minute.
“Well, machines don’t have will, reason, a soul, a heart-“ Twilight cuts herself off as she sees where I am going with this. She looks to me then to Penny. “No way.” She whispers. I nod to her and Twilight and Luna both come close and place a couple of fingers on Penny’s neck. They both felt the pulse and look at her in shock.
“She-she is alive?” Luna says breathlessly.
“Looks like whoever or whatever brought her here decided to make her dream a reality. She is human.” I say with a smile at this. It looks like Penny is living up to her inspiration of Pinocchio. The others don’t get a chance to react to this, before we hear a soft groan. Looking back to Penny, her face is scrunched up in discomfort and she is slowing moving.
We all back up as Penny’s eyes slowly begin to flutter open. Her eyes are the same shade of green as before and she looks tired.
“Where..?” She says. She opens her eyes fully and blinks a few times, rubbing them. She grimaces and places a hand on her head.
“Ugh, my head. I think we may have made some miscalculations in that duel.” She mumbles to herself.
“Not exactly.” I say. Penny immediately looks to me and then to the others next to and behind me. She tilts her head and feels near her bow, only to gain a confused expression on her face.
“What? Where is my data manager?” She asks in confusion. Everypony looks to her in confusion, while I walk forward and crouch to be eye level with her.
“Penny.” She looks to me. “When you were constructed, did they program pain receptors into your body?” I ask.
“No, they did not. Though Father did make my processor recognize danger and they can sometimes come in to form of headaches.” She says in her almost robotic tone of voice.
I take this info and nod. Before reaching forward and flicking her forhead. She flinches back and rubs her head.
“W-what was that?” She asks, slightly shaken up.
“Pain.” I say simply. Penny looks to me in confusion. “Penny, when they constructed you, did they make it so you could feel certain sensations like heat or cold?” I ask again.
“N-no, they made it so my coating would be all but immune to natural element so I wouldn’t malfunction.” She answers. I look to Luna and wave her over. Crouching with me, I take Luna’s hand and place it on Penny’s face. Penny’s eyes widen.
“I-I can feel that. I feel your hand.” She says in shock. I nod and take Penny’s own hand and place it on her chest. She looks down in confusion before freezing. She feels her heartbeat. She places her other hand on top of the first before moving them away and looking to them in shock. She looks up to me questioning.
“What is the last thing you remember?” I ask her. She looks down a second to think.
“I remember being called up to fight against Pyrrha Nikos. The duel started and we were pretty evenly matched. I noticed that Pyrrha was panicking slightly then...” she trails off as she remembered what happened. She looks to herself, seeing her torn sleeve and then to her waist to see a scar running through. She looks to me again, this time with realization.
“You were torn apart. Though it was not Pyrrha’s fault.” Penny tilts her head questioning. “Emerald Sustrai. Her Semblance is creating illusions for someone. She made Pyrrha think your eight swords were actually hundreds. She sent a magnetic pulse that she thought was just strong enough to protect herself, when in reality, it was enough to destroy you.”
I hear several gasps behind me but ignore it. Penny looked over herself again, passing her hand over the scar on her arm especially and then turning to look at Luna. She raises her brow and looks Luna over.
“Excuse me, but I have never seen something like you before. Are you some kind of Faunus?” Penny ask, Luna just chuckles at the question.
“Well young Penny, the reason for that is because this isn’t Remnant. I am not a Faunus, but an Alicorn. You see, after your demise some sort of powerful being had said that is was not yet your time to die, so they used some of their powers to send you here, to the land of Equestria with this new body so you could live.” Luna explains.
Penny looks to her hands again and feels her chest once more. A small smile soon breaks across her face. “I-I got my wish.” She whispers to herself. The others are curious about what she means but I know. I place a hand on her shoulder and smile to her.
“You did. Your alive.” I say. Soon tears begin to fall from her eyes so Luna and I bring her in to a small hug. She cries for about two minutes before calming down with small sniffles and hiccups.
“S-so that is ‘sniff’ what it is like to cry.” She says with a smile. The others look to her with smiles all around. Celestia summons a box of tissues and helps clean her face. Penny laughs lightly at the sensation of a tissue wiping against her cheek.
“Can you stand?” Cadence asks Penny, coming close. She nods and carefully lifts herself off the ground, using me for support. I am rather surprised by her height, being only about five and a half feet. Then again I am freakishly tall so...
Once Penny is to her full height she walks forward for a few steps to get to Cadence, still retaining the basic motor functions from before. Cadence quickly checks her over, finding nothing wrong with her physically.
We are about to start on our way when we are interrupted by a small growl. Looking around, we see Penny holding her stomach and frowning. I just laugh a bit, getting her attention.
“Looks like someone is hungry. Then again, who knows how draining your transition here was.” I say before taking out one of the apples from before and handing it to her. She looks at the piece of fruit before carefully opening her mouth and taking a bite. Her eyes shoot open as she eats the apple and a couple of happy moans come from her.
“Wow. Ya’ll would think you never had an apple before.” Applebloom says in surprise at Penny, only for the new human to look at her with a sheepish grin. “Ya’ll have never eaten an apple before, have you?” She deadpans, to which Penny nods.
“Makes sense. An android doesn’t need food and water to survive. All she would need it to keep her power source full. Speaking of, what was your power source before anyways?” I ask.
“Well, my power source was electrical dust powered cells that would be recharged in my room at the end of the day. I could have gone a few days without recharging and could even last for a few hours without them, but then I would go into power saving mode until I was fully charged, like a coma.” She answers after finishing her apple.
“Well, perhaps we should have some proper introductions.” Cadence says, all the ponies nodding. I move Penny next to me and begin to introduce them.
“Penny meet Princess Celestia of the sun, Princess Luna of the moon, Princess Cadence of Love, Prince Shining Armor, the Elements of Harmony Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, AppleJack, Rarity Belle, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, and Applebloom.” I say pointing to all of them in order.
“Salutations!” Penny says with her normal upbeat tone and smile. she looks to me. “And you are Adam Taurus right?” All of us look to her in surprise.
“Well, yes and no. My name is Adam, but I am not the same one as in Remnant. Clearly.” I say back to her. She nods with a smile.
“Yes, I could tell. You are not like the Adam Taurus I have heard of.” She says. I just smile. I look to the others.
“Well, now that is done, there is one more person to find.” The others nod and we begin to walk back into the maze with my horns lighting up, Penny right next to me.
‘One down, one to go. Hold on Pyrrha.’