//------------------------------// // Processing the Data // Story: Fly Far, Fly Fast // by Omega_code //------------------------------// Thanks for HeavyMetalCommunist for proofreading. _____________________________________________________________________ “So...um...Mr. ED-E, would you like to have anything to eat or drink.” Fluttershy softly asked once she lead ED-E inside her home. Fluttershy was still a bit uneasy of having ED-E around here, not that she was disturbed by ED-E’s presence, the fillies’ trust in him alone was enough for her not to be totally scared. It was that Fluttershy had never seen a creature like ED-E before. She knew almost every living creature in her world and even some of the mythical ones, and ED-E didn’t match up with any of them. However, that wasn’t the only problem. Some of ED-E’s characteristics were also making her a bit uneasy. Like how he was flying without the aid of wings or even magic, the fact he had no sort of facial expressions, and the fact he had skin that seemed to be made out of metal. Out of all of the strangeness ED-E that made Fluttershy uneasy, she felt she could still trust him because the fillies liked him. When he spoke to her the first time, he sounded very nice, which also helped cement that fact. ED-E seemed to be looking around inside the house, taking in the sight of all of the many animals that Fluttershy kept inside her home and other little details. ≤Beeping Noise≥ “Oh, okay.” Fluttershy lowered her head and thought about what to say next. However, another rumble in her stomach reminded her of her earlier predicament. “Would you mind if I made something for myself,” she asked as she looked back up at ED-E, who was hovering really close to her face. She release a small squeak of surprised as she hastily backed away. ≤Ecstatic Beeping≥ Fluttershy was a bit confused on what he had asked, but she hesitantly answered. “Yes...I can understand you. Why does that matter?” While it was known Fluttershy had a special gift in understanding the language of the animals, she couldn’t fully understand the words ED-E was trying to say, just what he was trying to get across. She was a bit confused why ED-E would ask her such a question. After all, the three fillies seemed to know things about ED-E, so that means he could have at least spoken to others already. ≤Happy Beeping≥ Fluttershy was a bit surprised by his answer. “I’m the first to understand you?” ≤Confirmatory Beeping≥ Fluttershy’s mind was boggled by this new fact. She was about to ask more questions but two things stopped her; another growl from her stomach demanding to be fed food, and a tug on her tail. Fluttershy turned her head around and saw Angel standing right next to her, staring right at ED-E. “Um...excuse me ED-E, I need to make myself something to eat, if you won’t mind.” ≤Beeping noise≥ Fluttershy turned around and made her way to her kitchen. Angel stared at ED-E for a few more seconds before following Fluttershy. ***************************** ED-E watched Fluttershy walk away with the small white creature closely following. ≤Happy Beeping≥ He emitted very softly, lowering his volume. His processors were bursting with joy...so to speak. There were so many things he wanted to ask, but he didn’t want to be rude by interrupting Fluttershy’s meal time. After seeing what the woman once did to a group of Fiends who decided to attack her during lunch time, ED-E made a small note to himself never to disturb someone’s meal time. So ED-E decided to do a small little project to help pass the time, editing his data. Since he got here ED-E had been recording, making a digital map of the areas he has been through, and other minor things. While doing all of that might take up a lot of data on his memory, his database is based on the same stored system on RobCo Industries’ Pip-Boys, and those were theoretically stated to never run out of memory. Still, ED-E liked to do some housecleaning on the new data he collected to keep his database neat and orderly. He started off by editing through all of his recordings. First, he kept the entire conversation he had with Omega, having a feeling it might be useful later on. He then edited through his time with the three fillies, deleting only lines he already had, or felt were pointless to keep. He left alone his conversation with Fluttershy for another time, since there was not much data there to mess with. Next he went over his digital map. While his navigation system couldn’t find a satellite to link up to get an overlook map and GPS location of the area he was in, his sonar mapping radar was still working. He put a few labels on it, like where the fillies’ club house was located, Fluttershy’s house, and the lake where he met the fillies. Finally he went over the miscellaneous data, such as temperature levels, energy levels, and other sorts of things his sensor collected about the outside world, he deleted mostly all of them. Though, just before he deleted the data he did notice the differences between Earth and this world. For one it wasn’t as hot outside here than as it was in the Wasteland. This world was cooler by an average of twenty percent. He sensor were also picking up on unknown energy signature. At first glance they almost registered as gamma radiation, but at a closer look there were some significant differences between to two. For one it had the strength of a gamma wave, but doesn’t seem to be able to cause the same amount of damage that a gamma wave could. While those energy waves looked harmless, ED-E made a small sub program in his processor to keep track of those energy levels. All of this took about five minutes and twenty-six seconds for ED-E to do. ED-E let out a non-existent bored sigh. He was expecting his clean up progress to take a bit longer than that, at least till Fluttershy was finished eating, but since the data wasn’t that big he shouldn’t have let his hopes up. He glanced over where Fluttershy was to see her sitting next to a table eating some sort of sandwich. It also looked like she was having a small conversation with small white creature he saw from earlier. ED-E found that a bit strange. Not only was Fluttershy able to talk with him, but also to animals. That made some sense since Fluttershy appeared to be an animal herself, but then shouldn’t the small white creature also be able to speak English too? Then Fluttershy shouldn’t be able to....ED-E aborted that thought process before he ended up in a paradox situation that could freeze up his processors. ED-E began to look around the room. He noticed that some of the animals were looking at him with curious eyes, not like the small white creature who had distrust on its face. Of course this brought up new questions for ED-E, since when were animals able to mimic human expressions on their faces, but again he didn’t exploit that thought. This world was clearly nothing like Earth, so it might have different rules in how it works. So until either he figured them out or was told about them, ED-E will answer these paradoxical questions as, “It’s not Earth.” ED-E stopped on an open window in his scan around the room. He just stared at it for a few seconds. It was big enough for him to fly through. He wasn’t thinking about leaving Fluttershy, he just wanted to explore the area and expand his map since he was staying with Fluttershy for some amount of time. ED-E thought it would be best for him to scout out the land to know the area, Just in case Fluttershy needed him someplace and she wouldn’t have to show ED-E where it was. Also because of Ralphie, ED-E just loved to wander around and explore. ED-E glanced once more towards Fluttershy to see she was still eating, though the small white creature was nowhere to be seen. He then looked back to the open window, gave power to his hover boosters, and soon was outside. _____________________________________________________________________ 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.