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// Updates 
// Story: Not another One-Shot-Ober 
// by Admiral Biscuit 
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Updates
Admiral Biscuit

“So what do you think of our town?”

Jade shrugged.  “It's nice, I guess.”

Pinkie Pie glared at her.  “Nice?”

“Well . . .”  she rubbed a hoof against the back of her neck.  “I guess it's not what I'm used to.”

Pinkie gave her an expectant look.  Old Pinkie would have been right in her face but ever since the pony psychiatrist had prescribed pink pills, she didn't feel the need to do that anymore.

“I'm used to buildings being more . . . crystally.  Less, uh, organic.”  She noticed the small frown on Pinkie's face.  “But the ponies in town are nice.  It's hard for me to imagine all three tribes living together like this.”

Pinkie nodded.  “I guess it wasn't like that in the Crystal Empire, was it?”

“Just crystal ponies.”  She looked up as a pegasus skimmed overhead.

Suddenly, both ponies' ears turned as a siren wailed.

“What's that?”

“It's noon on the first Saturday of the month,” Pinkie said.  “Just watch.”

It was like a switch had been thrown.  In the marketplace, every unicorn they could see set down whatever they were holding in their auras and stood on all fours, tilting their heads back until their horns were pointed directly up into the sky.  Other ponies who were near them moved out of the way, giving them space.

By the time the alarm had stopped, the other ponies had gone back to what they were doing, but not the unicorns.  They stood in position, completely motionless.  Their pupils were tiny pinpricks, staring off at nothing, and all of their horns lit simultaneously with a faint glow.

They stayed that was for five minutes, before all the auras flicked out.  Every unicorn shook her head, and then they went back to their routine as if nothing had happened.

Jade looked over at Pinkie for an explanation.  “What was that?  What just happened?”

“The unicorns were downloading updates.”