Chapter 12 - "Memories"
"Well Church, I guess it's just us now." Twilight said.
"Yeah." Church said, walking into Twilight’s house. "Just us."
"I'll show you to where you'll be sleeping, okay?" Twilight said.
"Yeah whatever." Church grumbled.
"What's with all the talking Twi?" Spike said, coming down the stairs yawning and stretching his arms. "Who's the new guy?"
"Oh this is Church. He's a new stallion in town." Twilight said. "Church, meet Spike. He is my assistant and one of my oldest friends. He's also a baby dragon."
"You don't say..." Church said.
Spike and Church glared at each other apprehensively, seemingly trying to read each others thoughts.
"Hi..." Church grunted.
"Hey..." Spike grunted back.
"Ookaaaaay." Twilight said nervously, sensing the tension in the room. "Church if you follow me I'll show you where you'll be sleeping tonight."
"If it's all the same to you I think I'm going to go for a walk." Church said, walking towards the door. "Y'know, to clear my mind a little."
"Oh okay." Twilight said.
Church opened the door and left, closing the door behind him.
"Twilight, don’t you think that guy seems a little... off?" Spike said.
"What do you mean Spike?" Twilight asked.
"I'm not sure." Spike said. "All I know for certain is that I don't trust him. You should keep a close eye on him Twilight."
"Well, that's what Princess Celestia has asked us to do. Each of us got a stranger that we have to keep an eye on."
"Where did they come from?" Spike asked.
"I don't know." Twilight said, looking at the door to her house. "But I think I need to find out."
"What the fuck was Caboose thinking?" Church muttered to himself, walking towards a stream.
He then sat down and watched the water flow gently down the stream. For a moment, he swore he saw Tex. He brought his hoof forward, reaching for her, but before he touched the water he retracted his leg and let out a sigh.
"I'll miss you Tex." Church said to the reflection, which then seemingly drifted away.
"Who are you talking to?" Twilight asked, calmly approaching Church.
"Nobody." Church said. "Don't worry about it. What are you doing out here?"
"I came to find you." Twilight said.
"Why?" Church asked bluntly. "Am I not allowed to have some peace for once in my damned life?"
Twilight was about to say something but then lowered her head, breaking eye contact with Church.
"Oh. Sorry, I'll leave you be." Twilight said.
Church watched her turn around. "Listen, Twilight, I'm sorry." Church said. "I didn't mean to be rude. It's just everything that has gone on in the past couple years is starting to take its toll on me."
"Have things really been going that bad with you?" Twilight asked.
"You don't even know the start of it." Church grunted.
"I'd like to." Twilight said, intrigued to hear more about the stallion that she had to watch.
Church looked in her eyes and saw that she was genuinely interested. "Might as well take a seat, because it's a long story." Church said, sitting down. Twilight followed his lead. "I guess it all started back in a canyon called Blood Gulch..."
Church then spent the next few hours recalling and telling Twilight about everything that had happened, not leaving anything out. He told her about the freelancers, the epsilon unit and how it related to him, how he was actually an artificial intelligence based off of someone from the original’s past. Twilight listened intently, trying to soak in as much as she could. She flinched occasionally at the more intense parts. She especially flinched when Church told her that he witnessed the Meta stab Tex in the face with the unit, which he thought had killed her.
"And when I finally let her go, the others dragged me out to be face to face with Carolina who told me she wanted to kill the director and, effectively, me." Church said, shivering. "And as if it could get any worse, Caboose then plugged himself into the unit and ended up dragging me right back in, except this time the world was filled with bright ponies, and now I'm sitting on the ground talking to one of them."
"Wow." Twilight said, at a loss of words.
"Yeah." Church said. "Wow."
"When you told me things were bad, I assumed you were telling the truth." Twilight said. "But this? That is a lot for one pony to handle..."
"Tell me about it." Church said, standing up, reaching a hoof towards Twilight.
"So how haven't you... well..." Twilight started to ask, grabbing his hoof to hoist herself up.
"Died?" Church asked, which Twilight responded to with a nod. "As I've said, I'm an artificial intelligence, not quite a real person, but still somehow holding onto some degree of humanity."
"So you can never die?" Twilight asked curiously.
"Pretty much." Church replied honestly.
"Do you still love her?" Twilight asked. "Tex, I mean."
"Yeah." Church sighed, starting towards Twilights place. "But I'm not sure if I would really call it that. I mean, I was programmed to love her, but that's basically how I feel. I feel that it isn't a real love, that it's being forced down my throat."
Twilight nodded at Church, trying to understand what he meant.
"So that's my story, and I pretty much told you everything I could." Church said.
"You know, I read a book about love once." Twilight said. "One of the lines really stuck to me and it made me think."
"Oh yeah?" Church said, letting out a depressing laugh. "What did it say?"
"It said: A great love is a lot like a good memory. When it's there, and you know it's there but it's just out of your reach, it can be all that you think about. You can focus on it, and try to force it, but the more you do, the more you seem to push it away. But if you're patient, and you hold still, maybe... just maybe..."
"It'll come to you." Church finished, smiling brightly at Twilight who was smiling in return.
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....My mind is right now trying to comprahend the epicness of this story...
Epicness
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Godspeed, DarkWing. Keep up the awesome work.
Keep up the cool work!
Also sorry it's taking so long for another chapter. I kind of got a lil' high and crashed in my backyard with my friend
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Don't worry I only do it on special occasions. My bud got a call from a place that he applied to across the country saying that he was hired and he had to go to train there, but my bday is in 4 days and he knew he wouldn't be back for it so we decided to have a little party
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Let it out, Church.
weed is good, wrighting is good... do both!
do both at the same time... while wrighting about grif would be better!
Damn, even though I love Red vs. Blue, I miss how it used to be that everything was their fault. Caboose killed Church because Donut "stole" the Blue flag, but also because Church disables Shiela's anti-friendly fire program. Since Donut stole the flag, the blues had blue command send a freelancer (Tex). Tex attached a plasma grenade to Donuts head, which cause him to throw another one at her, killing her. Since Tex was dead, OMally infected Caboose because he overheard the blues plan to earn the reds. Since Tex and Church were dead, Church had blue command send a medic (Doc). Since Caboose was infected by OMally, Tex and Church went into his mind and tried to kill him, but OMally escaped and infected Doc, who had been talking to Vic at the time. And it just went on like that for some time.
Storyception; Twilight talking about a quote that ties with RvB and some of the cast are thrust in Equestria...
Twilight quoting what Church said makes complete sense, for none of that is actually happening in the story, they are still in a computer generated space. Therefore the imprint church left in there when his AI went inside the epsilon unit the first time is still there, and has found its way into the other generated worlds. This could end badly, it means files from one world has corrupted another, this could turn into a shitstorm. Well i guess I found out once I read the rest of the...how many chapters were there? lets see...ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT
"I feel that it isn't a real love, that it's being forced down my throat."
*que simmons
BOW CHIKA BOW WOW!!
que tucker*
i mean
that last was just Brilliant, and perfectly used
i fear that this will be answered differently then i think.
is tex twilight?
whao O.O
twilight just quoted church
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That's LITERALLY what I said when I read it!
Somewhere, in the distant chapters, I think Church and Twi will be more than freinds.
As PewdiePie once said
Hash sho coot!
Spike and Church glared at each otherapprehensively, seemingly
Look what I found.
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whao i just quoted someone
*manly tear*
1350689 i agree, though you cant help but laugh at the funny things that happen in this, especially when cboose is involved.
...oh, fuck it.
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Wow, this may be the best thing that ever happened to Church/Alpha/whatever he is now.
729726 Don't you mean Tucker?
3774260 Don't you mean Caboose. Hey chicka bum bum
Seems Epsilon missed the part where his robot body was turned into a real one.
SO MANY NEW SHIPS ARE SETTING TO SAIL!
Sarge x Apple Jack
Caboose x Pinkie Pie
Church x Twilight
Grif x Fluttershy
Tucker x Rainbow Dash
and Simmons x Rarity
I change my mind. This is better than Twimmons.
Also, LOL RVB SEASON 8 FINALE QUOTE!!!
5054242 Now to find artists who'll take commission for these pairings.
You know, I think these ponies may be able to fix our spartan friends. God only knows just how broken they are.
Glad to see Epsilon-Church and Twilight getting along, a pair of snarky ponies should in theory get along.
HOLD IT!!!
Right now they are in the epsilon unit which is the Alpha's memories. The Alpha is based of the director, which means......
THE DIRECTOR IS A BRONY.
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They both have a habit of overreacting.