The Aperture in my Heart

by matrixjorel


What About The Humans?

What About The Humans?

When Luna finally came to, the lunar surface was quiet again. The hole in the moon, or whatever it was, was closed and gone. She took this time to look around; pieces of metal were floating about, lying on the ground, making a mess of the area around Orion and Larry. They didn’t move or panic during this entire scene, and didn’t even flinch. Luna has to commend their bravery to not be phased by such a display. But something was still bothering the young princess… she thought she heard a voice…
No, there were many voices. It started coming back to her, but she could only remember what she heard; anything she saw was lost to her memory. There was the first voice— the metallic, monotone voice that seemed to have a deep love for space, judging by the way he screamed the word. The second voice was one that sounded much like a male pony, but with a slight draw to his vowels, when he said things like “Let go of me! Let go! I can still fix this!”
Then there was the other voice. It didn’t sound pony to her; where the first one was metallic with his voice, this one was more… she didn’t know. But it wasn’t natural. Or nice. The only thing she heard it say was “You are not coming back!” Probably to the second voice, Luna contemplated.
Suddenly, a thought struck the alicorn’s mind; where there are voices, there has to be ponies! Unless she was going crazy… she really hoped her first assumption was the correct one. She inspected the area that was the epicenter, as far as she could tell anyway. After walking and looking for at least a few hours, or maybe days, she gave up and began to walk back to her friends when, off in the distance, she heard it.
“Space! I’m in space. Space” It was the first voice, just as monotone as ever. To Luna however, his voice was a chorus of angelic unicorns. She ran towards him more excited than she had boon in nearly a thousand years.
As she ran, she heard the second and more interesting voice. It seemed to be in deep reflection as he talked; “I wish I could take it all back. I just wish I could tell her that… I’m sorry. Yeah. And not just because I’m on this rock now…”
Luna couldn’t stand waiting any longer. After such a long and miserable time in solitude on the moon, here were two ponies that seemed to be in the same boat as her! She finally reached the crater the voices were echoing from and screamed in her Canterlot voice, “PONIES YOUR PRINCESS IS—here?”
There weren’t any ponies here. Only two more sphere pieces of hard metal lying on the ground. One had a yellow circle that she thought was moving… was it? She was too far away to tell. Her eyes must have been playing tricks on her, she assumed. Just like her ears. There were no ponies here. With her expectations shot down, she left the crater with her head hanging lower than usual. “I guess I’m alone again…”
“Wait; is someone there? HELLO?” Luna looked, but there was still nopony there. “Hello? I’m over here! Can you come over here? I can’t move, and—AHH, I’m blind!” Luna took a few steps into the crater. “I’m blind and cold and I can’t move… but other than that I think I’m fine. No big bangs or anything. Still, if you are there and that voice I heard wasn’t my circuitry frying… umm… I would appreciate some help.”
Luna still didn’t see where the voice was coming from. She now stood next to the two spheres. “Make your location known. Your princess does not enjoy being played with like this!”
“Space. Princess in space.”
Luna looked down at the sphere next to her. Had the voice really just come from that piece of debris? No, that was impossible… but she saw the yellow circle move again until it was pointing right at her.
“Hello Space Princess.”
It WAS coming from the orb!
And it was an eye!
She jumped back in terror, and tripped over the second eyes behind her. She fell flat on her back. The other orb thudded a few feet from Luna’s face. Unlike its counterpart, this eye had a blue iris. Other than that, they were the same cold metallic metal eye.
“Ahhhhh…oh, I’m not blind. My orbital lens must have been in the ground. Haha, silly me…” the blue eye looked at the blue alicorn. “Oh look, it’s a little horsey! Well, your rider must have been the one making all that noise; do you know where he went?” Luna was quiet. “Umm… I don’t speak horse… giddy up? Fetch rider?”
Luna had so many emotions going through her mind. The first was fear; this eye was talking to her! It didn’t even have a mouth; was this the sign to confirm that she was losing it? Next was relief. Even if she was going crazy, there was now somepony to spend her solitude with. But the emotion that filled her heart the most was anger; this eye dared to talk to her in such a way? Did he not know who he was addressing?
“I do not have a rider, and you would do well to mind your tone with me, commoner!”
“Oh my God, you can talk! A talking pony!” Luna could tell this eyeball was shocked, but she couldn’t understand why. He had to have met another pony in his lifetime… right?
“Of course I can talk! I have received many forms of education as the princess!”
“Oh, princess, that explains a lot and OH MY GOD YOU’RE A TALKING PONY!”
“I am an alicorn, not just any pony.” Luna was getting fed up with this eyeball’s tone with her.
“Oh an alicorn, that’s lovely, wha—OH MY GOD YOU’RE A TALKING PONY!!!”
“Of course! Everypony talks! Now please stop saying that!”
“OH MY… wait, did you just say everypony?” The eyeball squinted at Luna looking very suspicious.
“Yes I did. Were you not listening?”
“When you say everypony, does that mean… where you’re from, everyone is a pony?”
“Of course. How else could we have come so far as ponykind?”
“Wow… um…okay, let’s try something. Where are you from? Are you from that blue orb in the sky?”
“Why yes, of course I’m from the Earth, that’s where everypony lives.”
“Okay, that’s good…not really… and where on Earth do you live?”
“I am ruler of Equestria… or at least I used to be…”
“Hmm… Equestria… is that in Asia or China?”
“What is Asia?”
“This is not good. But don’t worry Miss Alicorn, no need to panic!”
“I’m not the one panicking, strange eyeball.” Luna’s emotions were all replaced with confusion. All she heard from this orb was gibberish.
“So, you’re trying to tell me that this place—Equestria, and the entire earth— is inhabited by intelligent ponies? No humans?”
“No… what are humans?”
“Oh dear… oh dear oh dear oh dear. This is bad. Very bad!”
“Excuse me; can you explain what the hay is going on?” Luna was not one to use such language, but she was too confused and needed answers.
The eyeball looked back up at her. His breathing was sporadic. Luna could tell that all this new information was deeply affecting. Honestly, Luna didn’t like being the one knowing less about a situation. But she kept her composure much better than this eyeball.
“Oh yes, um, hold on.” The eyeball closed his eyes. He immediately went quiet. What a strange being, thought Luna. Still, company was company, and she greatly desired company. After a few seconds passed, a different voice came from the eyeball, saying “Computer memory manual reset. Section Earth, subsection Species. File: Dominant Species has been changed from homo sapiens to eqqus caballus.” The eyeball opened again. Now his breathing was normal, or rather, normal sounding. The princess still couldn’t understand how it was that an eyeball could breathe. “Okay, now that that is taken care of… OH MY GOD YOU ARE A TALKING PONY!”
“I thought you said you were done!” Luna had had just about enough of this nonsense. “If you make one more comment about my being able to talk, I—“
“No, wait! That was the last time, I promise! Now why don’t we… just… put this all behind us? I know! We can start from scratch; hello there, my name is Wheatley!”
Luna took a second to decide whether it would be a wise decision to answer. “I am the Princess of the Night, Princess Luna.”
The eyeball named Wheatley blinked. “Wow, a real life princess, this is exciting.” He looked up at her. It took Luna a while, but her curiosity finally got the best of her.
“And what, Mister Wheatley, are you supposed to be?’
“Oh, I’m glad you asked! I am Wheatley, AI core of Aperture Science Laboratories! I am head of the Human Stasis Observation crew… or rather I used to be… and I was the only one on the Observation crew… but that means that I’m in charge, right?”
Luna couldn’t keep up with what this eyeball was saying, and it had nothing to do with the speed he spoke. AI core? Aperture Science? And he brought up these humans again, what were they?
She tried to process this new information slowly; “What is an AI core?”
Wheatley chuckled. “Oh yes, you’re a pony. I should have known better. But essentially, I’m a super capacity computer with a conscience. Is that better?”
Luna was still silent.
“Wow, tough crowd… how about this—I’m a really really smart pony trapped in an orb.”
Luna was beginning to get the idea, but it was still too much to take in all at once. “So, you have lived your life in an orb. Does it not bother you that you cannot leave your little prison?”
“Yeeeaaaa… no, not really. There isn’t really a lot to see though. On my tracks, all I can see are the smelly humans in their deep sleep.”
“And what are these humans that you continue to drone on about?”
“You really don’t know what a human is? They are the creatures that ride you!”
Luna was so offended that she got up and walked away without saying another word.
“Wait! Come back! Princess Luna!!!! Did I say something wrong?”
The alicorn was filled with fury as she turned around. She screamed out at Wheatley “You’ve insulted me more times than I have ever been offended in my life, tell me why I should stay here!”
“Well… because… I’m… alone here. I don’t like it. Not having anyone to keep you company. I had someone back on Earth, but she sent me here, all because I made a mistake. I thought I was doing the right thing… I mean…”
Luna didn’t hear Wheatley continuing his contemplation. All she knew was here was somepony—the only other being—to have been banished to the moon. And by someone they cared about! Maybe this eyeball, or AI core as he referred to himself, was just the friend she had been longing for, who knows her pain, and has seen the world through her eyes, as it were.
“… or maybe it was me calling her fat… or an orphan… but she knew I was only kidding, right? I mean, maybe I could have told her—“
“Excuse me, but why were you sent here, Wheatley?”
“Oh, don’t get me started on that again Lun—I mean, your highness.” Luna’s glare seemed to have struck fear into Wheatley. Luna took note of this just in case.
“Well, we have a lot of time. Why don’t you tell me your story…friend?”
“Friend? Wow, okay… well, I started my life as an accountant’s computer processor…”
……………
Princess Celestia took a step out onto her balcony. She looked up at the full moon in the sky and thought about her sister. She thought about her every night, and wondered what she was doing up there on the moon.
“Maybe I should go visit her this weekend… before the summer sun celebration. Maybe if she’s ready to come back, we can have a huge celebration, and on the 1000th year!” Celestia hoped that her sister was ready, just like every other time she visited her. It hurt her to see her sister was in so much pain up there, but her duties had to come first, even before family. The white alicorn sighed.
Suddenly, a purple unicorn came rushing to her side. Usually, Princess Celestia would not like to be disturbed while she was gazing at her sister’s prison, but she would make an exception for her prized pupil of magic.
“I have come to report my findings on magic as you requested, princess!”
“You have? Proceed”
“Well, I have found a spell that will allow me to teleport short distances. It will take me a while to harness its ability, and a lot of practice to execute properly, but with another day of studying, I should—“
“Twilight Sparkle, have you ever heard the story of the Mare on the Moon?”
“Why yes, but I do not have time for little fairy tales for fillies… unless there’s some magical lesson I need to study?”
“Well, if you want magic, there’s the Elements of Harmony, but that’s not—“
“Elements of Harmony. Got it! I will begin studying right away!” With that, Twilight Sparkle turned and ran off, ready to complete her next assignment.
Celestia chuckled. “That’s my prized student, always with her head in her books.” With that, she looked back at her sister. “I love you, Luna. I really hope you are ready this time.” Celestia turned and went back inside.

The End (Until chapter 3!)



Okay folks, now that I got your attention, (and this is matrixjorel, by the way, how are you audience?) two things; though this is the more interesting of my two stories, anyone reading this one should also follow my first story, A Sense of Belonging. It’s a lot more meaningful and personal to me, and I’d love to see it successful! Second, a shout out to my homie brony BHoang56, who is now my editor/proofreader! Check him out, he’s awesome, and… yeah. Peace!