The road Light was walking seemed longer when talking to his new companion; Wheatley. As they were both caught in their own world, not once did they stop talking, even as a few small caravans passed by them and giving light confused stares from ponies, wondering why they were seeing a young, hairless creature talking to himself?
Light was just happy to find someone who was not bound by his pony race that would judge him like the ponies in Good Springs did. And Wheatley was just glad he was finally online to see the new world he had arrived in and who he was assigned to.
“So... the Princesses who rule this country are able to control the sun and the moon?” Wheatley asked Light, staring down at the dirt path.
“Yeah, they do, but both princesses have different times to raise and lower the sun and the moon so their country has a fair amount of both,” Light explained to Wheatley.
“It’s like all of the logic on Earth that explained how the world works has no meaning here what-so-ever .”
“Well, how do think I’m feeling? The Sun and Moon both moving on their own, weather working by itself, nature not needing help and not to mention animals who only help themselves? Makes me wonder how my race survived such harsh conditions.”
“But that just makes your people all the more fascinating!”
“Excuse me?” Light questioned.
“The world you lived in was indeed a harsh place for any living creature, but for some reason throughout all the bad weather, animal attacks and other things Earth has thrown at your kind, you humans just got back up and started all over again.”
“My species were called humans?”
“It’s short for homosapien, with years of evolution to your kind, your people were the only sentient beings to live off of their planet with no other sentient creatures.”
Light was even more curious about who he was and even more about his people and the planet they lived on. the more he thought questioned why he was on a planet so far away from his real home.
“But enough about the past of humans and start talking about you my fleshy friend, due to my systems being knocked out from the crash we need to catch up on 16 years of lessons to teach you about.”
“O-ok. I understand.”
“Excellent! Now I’m sure your foster parents and your school has taught you some basic things in life, but I know there's a lesson you haven't learned yet since you just turned 16.”
“So, what’s the lesson then?”
“Well to begin the lesson I need some items to explain it to you: I need a banana, a sock, and an adult magazine in order to arouse you.”
“What? Why do I need those things?" Light asked Wheatley, his cheeks darkening from his friend’s unusual needs.
“Well, how else am I supposed to teach you? Then again, I might just need the one adult magazine and your left or right hand to be in your pants while you look at the picture, so that could work if you want?”
“NO!”
“Fine then, back to 20 questions! You ask first.”
Light stopped walking and contemplated on what to ask, he wanted to ask ‘who made you?’ or ‘why was he here’, but the only question he could focus on was out of his mouth before he meant it to.
“What happened to Earth?”
The silence from Wheatley after his question made him nervous to hear the answer.
“It’s gone.”
“What do you mean 'gone'?”
“I mean that I answered your question and you only have 19 more, so don’t waste them!”
“Well, what happened to the human race?”
“Also 'gone'. Next question. You only have 18 left.”
“Fine! Then tell me why you are dodging my questions.”
“I’m not.”
“Yes- you are so tell me now!”
“Their gone because their all dead!” everything seemed to freeze.
“What do you mean 'dead'?” Light breathed.
To put it lightly, both Earth and the human race are gone.”
Light's heart felt like it was breaking into pieces over the people he had never known and now never will. He wanted more than anything to turn around and go back home to where he at least had living parents that loved him, and to forget everything that had happened.
“...What happened?” Light said to Wheatley, clutching both of his hands together so he could hide their shaking.
“Ok I'll tell you, but this may take a while so you just stay quiet and listen to me; and don’t just stand their! Keep walking it’s dangerous to stay on the road for so long.”
Placing one foot in front of the other Light began to listen to the tale of a society gone before it’s time even began.
The beginning
The earth was indeed the home to a sentient society called humans and they lived in a harsh world that only few could survive. It was said that humans should have been long gone due to massive natural disasters and the terrible sickness' that had plagued each of their dwellings. However, instead of fading into the darkness like so many other creatures that had roamed the Earth, humans broke free from the chains of animal life and had created a way of living that would bend to their wills. Years of being prey to so many creatures made them only stronger and more resilient to any obstacle and by fighting back with their own weapons they became more than any threat to either prey or predator, it made them the monsters.
Rewinding to the time before the wiping out of humanity and the planet, the humans were at the peak of a golden age of both science and medicine. Ironically, as they built weapons that would soon destroy vast amounts of lives, they also at the same time built machines that would heal the wounded and cure the sick. They lived in buildings that pierced the skies and deep below in blue waters. Even in space, where no air can ever be, humans were able to live on the moon. The environment that was once a cruel and terrifying place to the humans was now the home to millions of lives.
Although the peace never lasted very long. Resources were beginning run out just as overpopulation began to take hold. The world was on the verge of collapse as the humans grew and the resources shrunk. Countries began to lose trust one another and began building machines that took lives once again. Gun companies like Atlas, Dahl, Jakobs and other major manufactures were the only winners in the fight for arms while the countries that bought their merchandise continued to suffer.
World leaders knew that bombs, guns, and chemical weapons were useless wastes of money and lives. Governments thought to replace soldiers with machines in an effort to stop the bloodshed and in doing so created Skynet, but they were ruthless and held no emotion for even the human soldiers they were allied to. Skynet soon lost all military contracts and was scrapped before it ever truly began. The second was an independent company called Aperture, who seemed promising with their tools and with their free thinking machines, in fact Aperture was sure to get any military contract it had wished. Unfortunately though, the director died before even getting the government’s favor and soon the facility was bought out by none other then Skynet.
With Skynet now in possession of the free will program, the machines soon became self-aware and became more inept with military tactics. Humans thought it was better to send out Skynets machines instead of human soldiers who would have had family and friends waiting for them at home, but all of the fighting was nothing more than a front for Skynet's true plans. With countries using more machines than human military, it became apparent that humans no longer needed military training since they had the robots to protect them. Military intelligence was also beginning to rely too much on Skynet, leaking all secrets, tactics and forbidden weapon blueprints to the machines. It was soon all too clear that Skynet was taking control of all Earth military's, but not a single human noticed what was happening until it was to late to stop it.
I don’t know when Skynet launched all of the nuclear missiles on the Earth, but it was all too clear who won. It was ironic to know that human hands which had created these weapons in order to save their countries, had instead built machines that managed to exterminate almost every life on Earth, but if only that was enough. With the one obstacle out of the picture Skynet soon ventured into space where it will wipe out any other forms of life it finds throughout the universe.
End of story
“Now you know what happened to your kind and hopefully are more thankful for being alive.” Wheatley said to Light.
The story made Light feel proud of where he had come from, but at the same time frightened of what his kind would do when pushed with fear and desperation. How could such an intelligent race soon turn to nothing from the machines they had built in order to protect themselves?
“If the human race is destroyed, then why am I here?”
“Luckily some Aperture co-workers still held some Aperture equipment and was able to make escape rockets that were assigned to different planets, holding some forms of sentient life.”
“Then what about you?”
“I am an A.I. or Artificial Inelegance also assigned with the escape craft. I was a prototype A.I. so Skynet had no use of me.”
“If that explains why I’m here, then how come I have these abilities?” Light looked to nearby boulder next to the road, walked neared it and pressed his right palm on the rock before making a fist and punching it into rubble.
“That is the one thing I can’t seem to wrap my mind around. Humans aren’t supposed to be able to do those things you did, let alone be able face off a terminator alone.”
“Great, so not only am I a freak to ponies, I’m also a freak to humanity.” Light said, even more depressed of his situation.
“Oh, cheer up dude it’s not all bad.” Wheatley said, his happy tone back in his voice.
“Then tell me it’s all over then, the terminator I destroyed is the last I will see ever, right?”
“Well.... about that little problem you had.... that was merely a scout.”
“WHAT?!” Light shouted.
“And since it was destroyed, it probably sent a last S.O.S back to the base ship it was deployed from.”
“So there’s going to be more of those things?!”
“Well, the way you say it sounds bad.”
“It is bad Wheatley!”
“That’s why I’m here with you; I’m the one who will keep you alive because you know…bloody hard to survive.”
Light was still worried about when the next threat of terminators that were going to arrive to destroy him when he decided he wanted a break for the night. Reaching into his bag he took out his world map to see any upcoming Inns that were near the road he was walking.
“There seems to be a town called No Vac just a few miles ahead, it’s about to be dark soon so we should stay there for the night.”
“Right. Give the whole body a good old sleep before going on the road again, oh and about going on the road I just happen to remember a song just for this occasion! So, with my very own voice, I sing to you a song:"
“It’s ok Wheatley, I’m perfectly intent on just talk-“
♪“ON THE ROAD AGAIN~ OH I CAN”T WAIT TO GO ON THE ROAD AGAIN~”♫
[Perspective change]
Walking along the lone, rocky road, still listening to Wheatley who sounds like a stallion withering in pain, another thought crosses into my mind.
'Will I find others like me here, on Equestria? Can I beat Skynet before it reaches this planet and destroys it, just like it did on Earth'? The more I think about it the more tired I get.
Reaching into my pocket I fished out the picture of my parents with me as a foal and stared at it as if hoping for answers to appear. 'I wish you could help me mom, dad, but now I know I need to do this on my own.' I slowly slid the picture back into my pocket an began to look for the town No Vac.
My eyes soon set sight on the town up ahead, making my pace quickly switch to a jog as I closed in on a Inn just up ahead. The inn that literally was called 'No Vac'. the same name as the town. Looking at other buildings I could see many having signs that read ‘full house, no more rooms’ and other words saying telling travelers that their closed.
Walking to the entrance of the inn, I saw the welcome sign of entering No Vac next to the building. Just below the name of the town, it reads ‘Your one night stay is our one night pleasure.’ Hopefully I won’t get anything from just one night staying here when using their bed.