//------------------------------// // How Not to be Seen // Story: Fly Far, Fly Fast // by Omega_code //------------------------------// Thanks for HeavyMetalCommunist for proofreading. _____________________________________________________________________ “This is our club house ED-E,” Apple Bloom told the Eyebot as they walked up to a small building built on a tree. ≤Intrigued beeping ≥ “Why are you calling it ED-E?” Scootaloo asked. Apple Bloom grinned sheepishly. “Well I remember the mare calling him ED-E in the recording he played a while back. So I just figure it must’ve been his name.” She reasoned. “And its suddenly a he?” Scootaloo said. “Well, ED-E sounds like a stallion’s name.” Apple Bloom looked up at ED-E. “Are you a stallion or a mare?” ED-E had no idea what a stallion or a mare was, but figured she was asking if ED-E had a gender. Technically ED-E had no gender since he was robot. However, both his creator and the women he traveled with always referred ED-E as a male (for some reason), so ED-E got used to being called by the male pronouns. Apple Bloom’s voice came out of ED-E’s speakers. “Well, ED-E sounds like a stallion’s name.” The three girls were astonished to hear Apple Bloom’s voice. Scootaloo spoke first. “Stallion it is. You do record everything don’t you ED-E.” ≤Shy beeping≥ The three fillies walked up a ramp while ED-E hovered just behind. As ED-E reached the main platform, Sweetie Belle opened the front door. “I hope you like it ED-E, sorry about the mess.” She said. The room was small (to human standards that is) and it indeed was a mess. It looked like a group of prospectors had just rummaged through everything, looking for anything worth selling to some poor person who was persuaded to buy it. “We were really busy working on trying to earn our Science Cutie Marks; it didn’t turn out so well.” “Yeah, who knew lemons could explode like that.” Scootaloo added. ED-E didn’t really care if the room was messy, or if a lemon was combustible. After all, he had seen worse things than this before out in the Wasteland. However, the club house wasn’t as roomy as the penthouse inside the Lucky 38. He did like roaming around, not sitting around (so to speak). “So ED-E where in Equestria do you come from?” Apple Bloom asked. That was going to be a difficult question for ED-E to answer with his limited speech with the girls. He ran through his recording, trying to find the right one to answer that he was not from around here. Suddenly there was a rap of knocks on the door as a female voice asked a question from the other side. “Apple Bloom are you in there?” Apple Bloom’s ears suddenly drooped as her face grew into a worried expression. “My sister,” she said in a low voice, “ED-E hide.” ED-E looked around the room. Where? All of the windows were closed so there was no way to sneak out of the room, and there was no place big enough for ED-E to hide in. Suddenly something draped over ED-E vision. Ah! He was being attack by an unknown hostile. He was about to fire his arc welder when the one called Sweetie Belle loudly whispered to him. “Get down on the floor.” ED-E was now embarrassed. The girls threw some kind of sheet over him and they were going to hide him as part of the mess of the room. This was why he let the people he traveled with do all of the thinking for him. ED-E quickly went down and landed on the floor. He heard something things being pushed up against him. ED-E had no idea what they were doing, but hopefully their plan will work; otherwise...well he had no idea. ******************** Once ED-E was hidden, Apple Bloom opened the door with her best ‘there's nothing wrong or strange’ face on. “Hi sis, there something ya need?” she said to her sister Applejack who looked a bit disappointed in her. “Apple Bloom, do know what time it is?” She asked in her orderly sister tone. Apple Bloom thought for a while. “Um, it’s around one thirty, why should...,” she suddenly remembered something important. “Oh...” “You said you would have your chores finished up before I come back from the market. I come back from the market to find only half of them done. Care to explain?” Applejack said with a frown. “Well...you see...something....,” Apple Bloom fumbled at bit longer trying to explain why. Her ears flattened and she lowered her head. “No.” “Then can you please head back to the farm and finish them.” Apple Bloom nodded her head and trotted out of the club house. “You can come back and play with your friends once you finish them.” Applejack looked at the two remaining girls. “I also suggest y’all clean this club house of yours up. It’s getting a bit too messy in here.” “Sure thing Applejack,” Scootaloo replied with a big smile on her face. “Yeah, we’re already starting on it already,” Sweetie Belle said pointing at a huge pile of things on the floor. Applejack looked at the two girls suspiciously. “I wouldn’t call ‘piling things into one big heap’ cleaning.” Applejack then started to make her way down the ramp. “Don’t worry Applejack, we’ll have this mess all straightened out by the time Apple Bloom finishes her chores.” Scootaloo called out as she closed the door. She leaned on the door let out a sigh of relief. “That was too close.” Sweetie Belle was looking out through one of the windows and soon spoke. “I think it’s safe enough for you to come out ED-E.” ≤Happy Beeping≥ The blanket they covered ED-E with rose up a few feet in the air as ED-E wiggled his way out from under the blanket, and soon he uncovered himself. “I’m starting to think this place is probably not the best spot to hide him in,” Scootaloo said. “But where else could we hide him?” Sweetie Belle asked. The two fillies pondered this puzzle for a while. Sweetie Belle's face brightened as an idea came to her mind. “Fluttershy’s house!” “Fluttershy’s house?” Yeah, she has lots of room, and can even look after ED-E when we can’t.” “But what about ED-E not making a big scene with himself?” “We’ll just make Fluttershy do a Pinkie Pie promise to never tell or show anypony about ED-E.” Scootaloo thought on this plan for few seconds. “Yeah, I guess that could work.” She looked up to ED-E. “Come on ED-E lets go.” ≤Beeping noise≥ ED-E once again followed the two little fillies out into the unknown, wondering who this Fluttershy would be like. _____________________________________________________________________ Sorry for the long wait for such a short chapter. Had a little problem with PM system. Next chapter should be a longer one. Fallout New Vegas is copyrighted Obsidian Entertainment and Bethesda Softworks. MLP: Friendship is Magic is copyright to Hasbro. All characters that belong to their companies are rightfully theirs. This writing is for fun and nothing else.