//------------------------------// // Twilight Vs. Laptop // Story: Twilight Vs. Technology // by ChainReaction //------------------------------// The sun shone brightly in Ponyville Park. It was a peaceful Saturday afternoon, and there were plenty of ponies laughing, conversing, and having picnics while enjoying the warmth of the giant celestial orb that rotated in the sky. In the middle of the park, Twilight sat down in the grass and looked up at the sky with a smile. She saw the clouds drift by ever-so slowly through the sea of blue that was the sky. She saw the occasional pegasus fly happily in her field of vision and across the perfect summer sky. "Ahhh," she spoke contently whilst basking in the warmth of a pleasant day. She levitated her bag she carried with her to the ground and sat down in the soft grass. The light chatter of ponies and the laughter of little colts and fillies could be heard. "It's so peaceful out he-" BAM! Twilight was cut off as somepony slammed into her side, making her tumble along the ground. "Give it back Sweetie Belle!" Twilight was knocked over by a little white filly who had an orange hoofball in her mouth, before being promptly trampled by Scootaloo. "Agghh!" Twilight screamed as she was pummeled into the grass by the little pegasus. Sweetie Belle looked back at her pursuer, who was struggling to keep up with her speed when she didn't have her scooter. "If's mun, 'nd ooh cn't h've't!" Sweetie Belle yelled through the hoofball she had her teeth sunken into. "The hay ever, I can't have it!" Scootaloo yelled in protest as she chased the little filly until they were out of sight. Twilight had her eyes on them and her hoof to her head, gently rubbing the soft spot right underneath her horn. It had a perfect imprint of Scootaloo's hoof. She looked to where they left with a scowl, before letting out a long sigh. "Fillies will be fillies," she said with a soft giggle. She only wished that they didn't need to trample her in the process. Of course, back when Twilight was a filly, nopony even survived the raid of the legendary Fort Book. There were many casualties, her brother being one of them. He still had the scars on the back of his head to prove it. Twilight's eyes widened. "Ohmygosh, I forgot!" she jumped up from laying down in the grass to check where she left her bag. She let out a sigh of relief when she saw that it wasn't damaged. "Oh thank Celestia..." Twilight exclaimed as she opened the cloth flap and levitated a pink laptop out of the bag. "It would have been really bad if this thing was broken. It was six hundred bits, for cryin' out loud!" Twilight said. "I can't believe how much they charged me. Who pays that much for a dumb laptop? Twilight Sparkle, that's who!" she yelled, annoyed at herself for being such a horrible spender. Twilight then realized that several ponies had decided to stop their conversations and look at her, who stood screaming at herself like a madmare. "Hehe. Maybe I should keep my voice down," she told herself. She then gently opened her laptop and placed it down on the ground. She pressed the power button down with her magic, being careful as not to be too rough and put too much strain on the device itself. As the boot logo came up, which took on the form of a multi colored window, Twilight looked around herself. She could see Pinkie talking to a lime green earth pony and a grey pegasus mare to her right. Twilight quirked an eyebrow as she watched her friend in the distance. For some reason, she had a yellow balloon tied around her fluffy pink tail. Four chimes came from her laptop, indicating that it had booted and settled on the log in screen. Twilight smiled happily down at her laptop and began to punch in her password with magic, which happened to be her nickname for herself. "Celestia...2!" she said happily as she punched in her password and hit the enter key. It took a while for her desktop to load, but her icons appeared right away. She only had five of them, and one was her recycle bin. She then opened the front zipper to her black bag and fished through the pocket with her magic. Twilight squinted one eye while puckering her lips in concentration. "Aww, come on! I know I put it in here. Where in the hay did....Ahh, there it is!" Twilight spoke as she felt her magic grasp onto a plastic device which she recognized immediately. She took the device out of her bag and held down the tiny power button on the back. As soon as the power turned on, Twilight smiled from ear to ear and clopped her hooves together happily. "Yay!" she spoke softly in a way that would have made the Element of Kindness proud. "Now, with the Cradlepoint CTR35, I can have web wherever I go. It's so useful having a hotspot," Twilight said as she placed the hotspot device down next to her laptop. "Wait a sec," Twilight spoke. "Why did I say that like I was announcing a commercial?" "I dunno," her laptop answered her through its speakers. "Yeah, weird..." Twilight said. She then gave a sheepish smile. "I hope I'm not going crazy. Hehe," she spoke to the inanimate pink PC. Twilight touched the mouse pointer with her magic gently and scrolled across her taskbar to check if the hotspot's network connection was available. When she found the network connection provided by the Cradlepoint, she squee'd with delight before clicking on the network. She then clicked connect and went over to the Canternet Explorer icon on her taskbar, opening a new window. Luckily, she had learned already to connect to her email by this point and found it was much easier to type and email with her magic. After then clicking on compose a new message, she began to type. 'Dear Princess Celestia,' she thought to herself as she began typing up the email to her mentor. 'Recently I have been battling something new, only to discover I keep failing when I try.' Twilight typed the message while giving an understanding yet disappointed expression to the ground, as if she was beginning to learn a valuable life lesson from her experiences. 'But I realized that falling at the first fence is something that happens in all walks of life! And what defines a pony is her ability to push herself to her hooves and try again.' she thought. Twilight chuckled to herself before continuing her typing. 'This Email is proof of that! And I look forward to trying my hoof at technology, regardless of how first impressions go!' Twilight closed her eyes as she typed. 'Being unsuccessful is not failure, it is a learning opportunity! Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle.' she finished happily. Twilight opened her eyes and looked at her pink laptop. Twilight stared at the screen without emotion. Spike sat, napping under a tree peacefully at Sweet Apple Acres. He woke up slightly and stretched his little limbs out while yawning. "Ahhh, this is the l-" "WHYYYYY?!?!?!" came a voice from Ponyville that nearly shook the entire ground with tremendous force. Spike shot up, heart racing and completely oblivious to the apple that had been shaken loose. "Was that Twili-" PLOP! Spike quickly fell back to sleep after receiving a bump on his head from a large Red Delicious.