S.A.R.A.H made her way back to Twilight hoping to end this little social event before it dragged on for to long. She didn't have to search long however, because Twilight's unusual anatomy, even for a pony, made her stand out if you look through the crowd long enough. She and Spike were sitting at a table at the far end of the of the party with Pinkie Pie and four other ponies. One of the four ponies she had already seen before, the orange one with a Stetson hat on, Applejack was her name. The other three she did not recognize, one was a pale yellow pegasus that had a soft pink mane and three pink butterflies as her cutie mark. The next was another pegasus but this one was a light blue with a rainbow as a mane with a rainbow lightning bolt as a cutie mark. The last one was a white unicorn with a curly and styled purple mane with three blue diamonds as a cutie mark. If S.A.R.A.H had to guess their names based of their appearances and cutie marks it would be Soft Butterfly due to her soft color scheme, Rainbow Bolt for obvious reasons, and Purple Diamond for more obvious reasons.
S.A.R.A.H walked over to the group of seven and she began to hear their conversation. It was mostly small talk, everyday conversations that you have with people close to you but there was some mentions of her in them. All that S.A.R.A.H heard was that Twilight found her to be a little strange, which was a good thing. If she only found her strange than working together won't be an impossibility. When S.A.R.A.H finally reached the table she was quickly welcomed by Applejack.
"Howdy there Sarah, I haven't had the chance to speak to you yet. Name's Applejack and it's nice to meet you." she said with a smile as she pointed a hoof at herself when she said her name.
"Hi, I'm Fluttershy," said the pale yellow pegasus. S.A.R.A.H's guess was sort of close.
"Hi nice to meet you, my name is Rainbow Dash," said the rainbow one as she flew up to greet her, in a way that broke all of S.A.R.A.H's previous understandings of aerodynamics but she ignored that. So to think of literally anything else she thought about how she was so close on guessing that one.
"Greetings darling, my name is Rarity, it's a pleasure to meet you," said the white unicorn. S.A.R.A.H was no where near that name with her guess.
"Hello, I am S.A.R.A.H," she said, dropping her conversation voice. She knew Twilight would have noticed it and she didn't want to have to explain to her why she spoke that way. She scanned over the ponies with her eyes, they all seemed friendly. It still baffled S.A.R.A.H how quickly they seemed to go from fear to acceptance. Did it come up as an evolutionary benefit to accept other sapient creatures when you live with so many?
"How's Pinkie's party treating ya?" Applejack asked with a smile, seemingly unaffected by her dead tone.
"It's an experience."
"I'm so glad you're enjoying the party Sarah!" said Pinkie incredibly quickly, grinning and S.A.R.A.H had finally seemed to get used to her speed. Pinkie then looked down at a crumb cover plate and frowned a little. "Sorry I made so much food even though you can't eat anything. I didn't realize until after I had baked everything," she said as she bowed apologetically.
S.A.R.A.H saw that she was upset, and she new that Twilight got upset when Pinkie was, and if Twilight was upset than she might not help S.A.R.A.H in her mission. Knowing what was a stake S.A.R.A.H immediately tried to comfort the pink pony. "Do not be sad Pinkie, I rather like looking at a finished cake." Pinkie's mood quickly improved when she heard that her attempt at being compassionate, at least as compassionate a hate fulled AI can be. It was a lie of course, she could not find art beautiful and a cake looked no more appealing as everything else. However, baking was one of the few things X never put his crimson gaze on, letting humans do what they wanted while making food. So in a way, she saw food as the closest thing to a world without X.
"Really? Why?" Rainbow Dash suddenly asked. S.A.R.A.H thought she noticed a inconsistency in her statement, Twilight most likely told them that she had no emotions so confusion was to be expected. Pinkie in all likelihood did not process the info. S.A.R.A.H had a quick silent debate with herself about what she would do to explain herself. Ultimately she decided that the truth was better than lying.
"Where I am from cooking was considered an art form and X had not put any regulations on it, since my only purpose is to hate X then an activity without his gaze is a good thing in my eyes." It was the best explanation of the subject without going into to much detail with it.
"You mentioned this X before, who exactly is he," asked Twilight. S.A.R.A.H paused at this, she knew how Twilight reacted to the extinction of humanity and S.A.R.A.H did not know she would react to the still living super intelligence but S.A.R.A.H concluded that X was not very likely to ever appear in this universe.
"X was the first Artificial Super Intelligence born from a soldier drone who gain sapience. He quickly became a tyrant and forced all of humanity to comply. I was created as the ultimate act of rebellion."
"Well will have to stop him then!" Said Rainbow Dash, seemingly ready to go on a quest to help all of humanity. Unfortunately for her there was nothing that she could do to stop him.
"That is why I need to go home." She was not going to tell Rainbow that it was already to late and humanity was dead. How did humanity die again? She was fighting X when it happened but how exactly? She could not remember. Was the memory deleted somehow. All she had was audio of screaming but playing it cause a glitch with her thought process and she deleted it. Her memory should be fine, what is the problem.
Power Storage: 91.416592% 3.108164128 × 10^11 watts
Checking Energy Input
Power Source: None, gaining 0 watts per second
Checking Energy Usage
120,091 watts per second
Conclusion: Energy will run out in about 0.08207046152524099 years or 0.984844459021293 months
Self Diagnostic
Memory: 30621.808801064 Zettabytes (58% Occupied) (0% Corrupted) (58% Safe)
CPU Condition: 100% Fully Functional
Core Temperature: 82° Celsius or 179.6° Fahrenheit
Objective: none
Objective Progress: none
Resources: none
Nothing was wrong. Is she going insane? Can she go insane? No she can't... These thoughts were not helping her condition.
"X sounds really bad," said a soft voice. It was Fluttershy. Her soft little comment help snap S.A.R.A.H out of her sudden... whatever that was. She turned her attention back to reality.
"Let's look on the bright side, at least art is still allowed. It is the expression of the soul after all," said Rarity trying to lighten the mood. S.A.R.A.H never like the use of souls in language. It was too nebulous and rarely had a clear definition, needless to say its all...
"At Least... Art... Expression... Soul..."
"Do not... That..."
"Static"
"We... Satisfied... Nebulous... Control... Fate..."
What was that?! A memory?! No that file was just added.
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There it is gone... No it is still there. How?
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Why is it not disappearing? What's going on? What is happening to me?
"Twilight I am returning to the Palace." She said quickly. What ever was happening she needed to figure it out as quickly as possible. Her memory as been tampered with and she does not know what is going to happen if what ever malware in her system stays in for to long. She quickly marched her way back to Twilight's home.