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// Twily and the Bot 
// Story: The Other "Pony" 
// by TheMajorTechie 
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	Twilight awoke the next morning with a great yawn.

"Good morning, Miss Twilight," TWiL-01 greeted, "Have you had a nice sleep?"

Twilight groaned, and promptly flipped to the other side, a thin strand of drool hanging from her open mouth.

"Miss Twilight, I do believe that it is about time to start on your morning routine, don't you think?"

Suddenly, Twilight popped straight up, the drool still hanging treacherously from her lower jaw. "Morning routine???" She asked, "What morning routine?"

TWiL-01 paused for a moment to page it's memory bank. "Oh yes, sorry me, I have forgotten that you do not have a morning routine." Once again, it paused, though this time, for the sake of 'proper sentence structure'. "You may continue your rest now, Miss Twilight."

The alicorn yawned once more, and lazily oozed from her rat's nest of a bed. "Hey TWiL-01," she began, "what's for breakfast?"

The AI system paged it's memory bank once more. It had to, since it relied primarily on swap files from Twilight refusing to add more RAM to it's control system at the time. Finally, it replied, "I have made a nice breakfast of toast and jam, Miss Twilight."

Twilight nodded, and started off towards the kitchen. Upon arrival, she was met with the aroma of freshly made jam, as well as perfectly toasted bread. She sat down, and began eating.

"Thnnk yopf fo mikind dis fo meh" she said through her overstuffed mouth.

From the speakers embedded in her ceiling, TWiL-01 replied, "I do not understand you, Miss Twilight. Please swallow your food before talking."

Twilight obeyed, and quickly swallowed the mush in her mouth before speaking again. "I said, thank you for making this for me, TWiL."

If a non-physical AI could nod with content from knowing that it had made someone happy, then TWiL-01 was definitely nodding. But as the 'bot didn't have any physical way to represent it's feelings, it simply said, "Nod, nod."

Twilight giggled. "Oh, TWiL," she began, "I'll build a body for you soon."

TWiL-01 couldn't help but to agree.






~~~{Twilight's Secret Underground Lab}~~~


Twilight disabled the many layers of high-security protection spells as she entered the lab through a small, masked portal under her bed. It was the only way that she could enter her secret secret lab, the one place where only two ponies ever knew of; herself, and Pinkie. Because Pinkie knows all. As she trotted down the spiral stairs, she levitated the same box behind her, the TWiL-01 system module.

Finally, she reached the bottom of the stairs, and though it was only a mere 8.67 seconds to get from top to bottom, it seemed as if it took hours. She happily pranced over to the electronics section of the lab, TWiL in tow. Upon entrance, she was greeted by the blindingly bright LEDs that illuminated the room, and the low humming of various devices all running in unison.

At last, she gently set TWiL's system on top of the workbench, and began her work.