"I love you Mr. Bubbles."
―Unknown
Alpha curled around his Little Sister keeping her warm in the cool night. Although he would have preferred a Little Wonders Educational Facility this wooden shelter was still appropriate for their needs; even if he broke every single ladder rung trying to get on. Alpha shuddered as numerous bad experiences with stairs and ladders leapt forward in his mind. He watched her sleep peacefully as he thought to himself. He never slept, except for during repairs, as he had to always keep guard, but it did allow for him to plan things out and spot out eventual problems. He began a mental list of important questions and problems.
'Where am I? This does not look like any part of Rapture I have seen. Perhaps I'm on the surface. That means I am living among the parasite and away from the source of Adam and Eve. I will have to depend on my little sister to be my source. I am going to have to hide myself from those Greedy Americans and Stupid Socialist Comm-'
A sharp headache and the feeling of yet another warm nosebleed running down his muzzle interrupted his thoughts. He shook his head and tried to recollect himself.
'I am going to have to hide from the Equestrian and Griffin parasites if I am going to keep my little sister safe here on the surface. These headaches and nosebleeds are interrupting my thoughts and jumbling my memories. I almost forgot the day I was given my one and only Little Sister here. I will have to keep track of these nosebleeds and treat them with Adam once she produces enough.'
Alpha inhaled deeply knowing that he would be able to take care of his Little Sister. He inhaled again feeling something was terribly wrong. Alpha made sure that he was breathing air that was being pumped from outside his suit at that very moment, but it was to no avail. His Little Sister was not producing the pheromones necessary to keep him alive.
'What happened? She was producing pheromones just yesterday. Why would she stop? As long as she had Adam she should keep producing them. So why... That's it she just needs a little more Adam! Tomorrow I will put her in a safe location and go grab her an Adam slug.'
Alpha nodded to himself approvingly causing shadows to bounce around the tree house due to his yellow face lamp. Feeling better about his situation he waited for his Little Sister to wake up.
Scootaloo was woken up by her alarm which she quickly silenced. She yawned and talked to herself like most sane individuals.
"I had the weirdest dream last night... I was being chased by timber wolves and a giant fabric and metal cyclops saved me. I’ll have to tell Sweetie Belle and Applebloom about it."
Finally Scootaloo realized that for some reason the floor of the tree house was unusually soft and realized that she was sitting on some kind of strange tan fabric. She quickly realized that the cloth and metal cyclops wasn't a dream after all and she had fallen asleep on it. She did the only sensible thing that every pony in a horror movie failed to do. She ran as fast as she could away from the monster. After running only ten feet away from the tree house her great escape came to an end as the very ground shook violently. When she regained her footing she realized what had happened. The cyclops was so heavy that just by jumping the short distance from the main floor of the tree house to the ground it had caused an earthquake. Scootaloo froze in place and stared up at what had to be the biggest pony she had ever seen; if it even was a pony. The cyclops was at least three feet taller than Big Mac; Scootaloo had seen adult Manticores that weren't as tall as the thing in front of her. Then just when she thought the bulbous metal cyclops couldn't be any more terrifying, it started walking, causing a minor earthquake with each step. Scootaloo was panicking, frozen in place with no idea what to do.
"Stop!" She cried out in desperation, shutting her eyes tightly. Somehow as if by magic the rumbling stopped, and everything was quiet. Scootaloo opened her eyes in surprise and stared at the motionless giant in front of her. She couldn't believe it, she just commanded a massive monster. "Sit?" With a loud thud and yet another earthquake it sat down in front of her. Scootaloo sat down as well in complete disbelief. "That actually worked?! You can understand me?" The behemoth didn't respond and tilted its head. "Do you talk? You know.... Words. 'Blah Blah Blah' like that? Can you do that? Blah blah blah?"
The giant stared at her for a moment, before speaking what sounded like deep grunts. "Argharolllgaroghall"
Scootaloo flinched but tried to be supportive, like a true friend. "...well... You get the idea anyway." She lifted up a small stone in her hooves. "This is called a rock. Rock." She tried to copy how Miss Cheerilee would teach the young foals how to speak.
The cyclops looked at her for a moment, got up, and ran into the Everfree at a speed that was very unsettling. Scootaloo wondered a few moments why it had left, then suddenly it returned carrying a boulder the size of the tree house. "ROAGHK!"
"Very.... Good...." Scootaloo couldn't believe what she had just seen. How could something be that strong. After taking a moment to recover she tried to continue her lesson. She pointed at one of the orchard trees of the Apple’s farm. "And that is a tree."
Before she could even react the giant walked over to the tree she pointed out and pulled it out of the ground. "TREEEH!"
'And that was destruction of property.' Scootaloo switched into panic mode."WOW! WHAT ARE YOU DOING PUT IT BACK! Apple Jack would kill me if she found out you did that!" And with that the cyclops put the tree back in its hole rather confused. "I think that's enough of our lesson... Can you at least understand me and answer with a nod for yes and a shake for no?" It nodded back in reply. Excitement filled her tiny body. She had so many questions that she wanted to ask, but so few of them could be answered with only yes or no. Suddenly she remembered her wish.
"Are you my Daddy?" He nodded again. Scootaloo jumped in the air in celebration. "I am so going to rub this in Diamond Tiara's face! This is the best thing that has ever happened to me! I should tell every pony about you! ...No... They'll panic. The ponies of Ponyville always freak out whenever something they don't understand happens. Like when we met Zecora. Okay you stay here and don't get seen. I'm going to school." Scootaloo pointed at the tree house for emphasis before she started walking towards her scooter and school. Unfortunately her hoof steps had a thundering echo. This was going to be a long day...