//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 // Story: Coded Purpose // by Mei Rummy //------------------------------// Center of Canterlot, Year 1004 L.B -- TIME: 8:00:00 AM -- I didn’t expected that process of waiting would be so long. But it’s finally 8AM, and citizens are awake for at least 3 hours, but libraries, unlike ponies, weren’t awake, or open in theirs case Until now, that is Sparkles quickly looked around while scanning area, and noticed a pony with a book, with light yellowish… gray color of coat, Brilliant amaranth with moderate purple and grayish violet colors of mane and tail Book means Library, usually… And even if she’s not headed into library, she could give me some directions So, time for some action Droid quickly collected himself, and without missing a moment, approached The Mare with a Book “Excuse Me, Miss? Do you know where library is? I’m kind of lost.” asked and explained Sparkles while hoping that she’ll answer him The said mare took notice of Sparkles and quickly answered to his delight “Yea, I’m actually headed into Canterlot’s library. Are you new here or something?” “You could say that. So… lead the way?” “Alright, just don’t fall behind” And they took off to one of many Canterlot’s streets, while mostly staying silent. And they could have stayed silent, but The Mare with a Book decided to break up silence and start a little dialogue “So… What’s your name, stranger, who’s looking for a library?” asked light yellowish gray - colored mare “My name is Sparkles. And what’s yours, The Mare with a Book?” asked Sparkles in teasing intonation? “Moondancer” “Nice to meet you, Moondancer.” - said Sparkles and decided to proceed to ask his questions - “So...How long have you been living here?” “All of my life I guess. What about you? Where are you from?” - Moondancer said and asked Oh No, I don’t know other town’s names! I need to say something! Maybe something with species-related? Chances of this working out are very low but I gotta try “Heh, I lived somewhere in… Ah, shoot. Forgot the name again, but it was something with “Pony” in name… “You mean Ponyville?” There’s town with that name? Ironic “Yea, that’s actually it! I still somehow manage to forget that town’s name.” - exclaimed Sparkles while he was making up reasons as why he was here, because as far as he was aware, no one just moved to different towns without a solid reasons. “I see, you should train your memory a bit, It really helps you in a long run. Really helped me while I was writing a lot of assignments, and I write them a lot, thought my friend Twilight writes a lot more, or at least she wrote a lot, until she became a princess.” That caught droid’s attention in a moment “Wait, your friend is a princess?” asked quite shocked Sparkles while making a mental note to find a history book with recent events “Yeah, unbelievable, right? She’s the princess of friendship, thought I knew her before she was one. She changed so much, not gonna lie, but that’s expected, everypony changes with a time.” “Yeah… They do, still, I bet it’s awesome to be friends with one of princesses” “It is… Oh, look, we’re here!” said Moondancer as they both approached the Canterlot’s library It was huge, with statues of unicorns besides stairs and pillars It’s huge, really huge… Wow… “It’s…. Huge, like, really huge… I bet there’s restricted area or something like that.” said open-eyed Sparkles as they started at go into Canterlot’s library “Are you sure you’re from Ponyville?” “Well, I remember myself from Ponyville since I was a little colt, but who knows…” Man i'm really lie a lot for a droid... I should tune it down “Okay, I think it’s where our paths go separate ways, I hope you’ll find what are you looking for here, good luck!” “Thanks, have a good day!” And both went into different directions and Sparkles went looking for a vocabulary and history book Okay, so, historical section. There I should be able to find history boo-. Oh wait, I already found one, alright, that’s good. Next one is Vocabulary Book on my list And when he got into needed aisle, he was surprised with amount of books that his scanner caught Okay, more than one book… After picking book 3 books, one history and two vocabulary books in his magic grasp, he looked for a place to settle in and read collected books, and everything would go as planned… Except he passed “Magic Theory and Application” aisle, and oh boy, we all know how’s that gonna end up ...I’m in Equidroid heaven… Now equipped with five books in general, he found a free couch and settled in, opening and decided to start on history book Hmm, what time is it? -- TIME: 9:12:11 AM -- Alright, let’s start reading . Fast-Forward . -- TIME: 01:02:12 PM -- As figures out, Sparkles is really fast reader, By 10AM he was done with all collected books and then proceeded to collect other books and now he had a little bit of understanding of history, historical events and places He one thought about why years are counted from “Luna’s Banishment” and answer that there were actually two princesses who also were sisters explained that. She was freed from Nightmare by Twilight Sparkle and Co. Now he knew who that Twilight was. However, he still didn’t knew the exact date He knew what year and hour it was, but not the day and mouth, which is disorienting. He closed his last book and went to pick up others books, now with sci-fi theme, and while he walked, he noticed that some ponies were talking about him “Is he new here or something? I’ve never seen him in Canterlot before…” "He looks like he's 17 or 19..." “What’s up with that blue glowy thingy on his head? What do you all think?” “Did you see how fast he can read? Unbelievable” “He’s just skimming over them, no one can read that fast unless they’re… robot or something…” “Hey, Moondancer, isn’t that a new guy who asked you for a directions?” Moondancer’s still here? And with friends? He unknowingly looked into direction of pony who addressed Moondancer while he was going to science fiction aisle, which alerted said pony “Holy Celestia, how did he heard that? There’s so many noise around…I’m not even gonna mention the distance between us...” “To answer your previous question: Yes, he’s the one who I helped to find library and he’s really nice, thought a bit strange, not gonna lie.” Kay, noted, I need to be more careful now on He walked as he listened to little chatter about himself which quickly died down. Now in Sci-Fi aisle, he took one fat, worn out book, worn out usually meant good It was a little lesson that he learned from his creator when he was in stage of tests The Iron Horse… Ponies even wrote about robots in pony society, sorts of like me? Cool... I’ll definitely read that. -- TIME: 04:27:31 PM -- . Fast-Forward . -- TIME: 08:29:12 PM -- Sparkles was reading his 121th book when he heard that Library is gonna be closed in few minutes, so, without losing a minute, he went out of library with strange feeling inside his robo-chest He didn’t belonged here, he didn’t had a place to say He didn’t had a purpose I’ll fix that First off, I’ll need to rent a house here, house means job… Job means income… It’ll take some time… But I know the main direction at least -- NEW DIRECTIVE: FIGURE OUT WHO I AM -- Yeah, that sounds good. In meanwhile I’ll need a job -- NEW SUB-DIRECTIVE: FIND A JOB -- Marvelous - Thought Sparkles as he decided to explore the whole city overnight so he could navigate better It was about… -- TIME: 09:01:24 PM -- 9PM I should really figure out what day it is… Maybe a newspaper will he- And random newspaper hit his face because of wind “So Equus’s nature is comedian as I see, heh.” - he said to one in particular as he levitated random newspaper that was still covering his face The 10th of May So that means that whole date is… -- DATE: Friday, 10th of May, Year 1004 L.B -- That makes sense… Good. To be continued...