Kiva followed Sweetie back to the book seller's stall, where he was calmly waiting for them. Well...'he' was a bit of an assumption on Kiva's part, as all that could be seen of 'him' under an all-covering cloak was the tendrils he used to manipulate his wares and the glowing eyes in the shadows under his hood. He'd introduced himself as 'Mora', and beyond books and other forms of information had spoken of nothing else. He seemed to writhe as the pair returned. "Ah, there you are," he purred happily. "Please, feel free to seek the information you desire. My terminal is here." He seemed to flow to one side, revealing a very basic terminal with a holo-display and keypad at comfortable height for Kiva to use, and a perfectly round data-port down lower. When he noticed Kiva glancing at this, he gurgled oddly. "I normally keep it lower for my own use, but I adjusted it since you cannot adjust your own height as easily. There is another data-port higher up if you wish more direct access."
Kiva smiled and nodded. "Thank you for your consideration," she offered warmly as she stepped up to the terminal, immediately hooking the cybernetics in her wrist to the data-port via inbuilt cable so her translator circuits could work and let her understand the information she found.
"Fascinating," Mora mused as he observed her actions, seeming to take notes. "And how does this technology handle the buffering between neural and computer data rates?"
"I'm afraid I don't know," Kiva apologized ruefully. "My specialties were combat and mechanics, not programming. I know how to build it and make it work for a human, but I don't really understand the theory behind it." She frowned as her search queries either came up empty or with access denied. "Which would probably help me figure out what's going on here..."
"Oh, the information you want is restricted to military terminals," Mora apologized ruefully. "I'm afraid this unit won't be able to display what you're looking for."
"Display?" Kiva asked incisively. "So it can access the material, just not show it to me?"
"More or less," Mora allowed evasively. "With the proper overrides, the limitation could be circumvented, but those are simply not available..."
"Well, maybe a bit of hacking..." Kiva murmured as she tapped away at her holo-keyboard.
Sweetie watched this for a time, but rapidly grew bored. Glancing around, she found her eyes drawn to the round data-port that was at her level. "Huh," she mused thoughtfully as she examined it. "Kinda looks like the 'horn goes here' slot in Megas' control panel. ...about the same size, too..." Without thinking too much more about it, she stuck her horn into the slot.
Kiva jerked back as energy suddenly blazed around Sweetie Belle, her horn and eyes glowing as Kiva's own data access went haywire. "What the-?" She took in Sweetie's state. "And here I thought children without fingers wouldn't need the 'don't stick your fingers in the electrical socket' warning..." she grumbled as she bent down towards her to try and shift her.
"Kiva?" Sweetie's voice suddenly asked from the terminal. "What happened? Where am I?"
"What are you talking about Sweetie?" Kiva demanded in confusion. "You're right here...aren't you?"
Sweetie glanced around at her surroundings. "I...I don't think so...it kinda looks like I'm floating in a sea of numbers. There are...a few images scattered around, and a lot of...scrolls? Also, I see a few walls of fire here or there. What does it all mean?"
Sweetie waited fearfully for Kiva's response. "Sweetie...by any chance does your race's magic include anything to let the mind leave the body?"
"Oh, Astral Projection!" Sweetie piped up happily. "But that's a really advanced spell, and I don't know it..." She blinked as she found herself flowing through the sea of numbers until a particular scroll unrolled in front of her, showing her details of Astral Projection as it was represented in a particular 'fictional story' that was referenced. "Oh, this is how it works!" She pressed her hoof to the scroll.
"Sweetie, information on Astral Projection just downloaded itself to my wrist unit...in your written language," Kiva explained. "I...I think your magic interacting with the technology caused you to astral project...into the information networks. I can only assume it's something that developed from using your magic to energize Megas, somehow."
Sweetie thought about that for a time. "You mean...like Megas heard Scootaloo's talk about us all getting Megas' themed Cutie Marks, saw I had a potential for something like this, and primed my magic for it?"
"...that attributes far more sentient awareness to the avatar unit than I'm fully comfortable with, but close enough," Kiva allowed. "For now, see if you can't get access to information on the Glorft."
"Alright, I'll see what I can find," Sweetie replied. "Glorft, Glorft..." She swam her way through the sea of numbers in the direction she felt was the right one. "Here's hoping getting back is easy, though..."
Scootaloo found Megas' next opponent was a red, samurai themed mecha and the battle took place in a simulated city, almost. The battle quickly clashed with a mutual charge, and both mechs gripped each others' hands in an attempt to force the other back. Seeing the strength at the moment was evenly matched, Scootaloo changed tactics by pulling back. As the enemy mech went off balance, Megas lunged forward in a headbutt, knocking the foe prone.
At that moment, panels in the floor opened and cables of some sort lashed out in an attempt to ensnare Megas...only for the mech's fingers to turn into claws. A quick spin shredded the cables before they could latch on. "Traps now?" Scootaloo gasped in excitement. "This tournament just got interesting!" Lunging forward, a powerful slash downward with one set of claws severed both her foe's arms, while a sideways slash split it down the middle.
"Ah didn' know Megas could make claws!" Apple Bloom gasped in surprise as the audience cheered.
"Guess I pressed a good button," Scootaloo offered, glancing down at the 'Don't Get Trapped' button that had appeared in the back of her seat that she'd accidentally bumped when she'd reared back from the sight of the cables. She was pretty sure the button wasn't there earlier, but she'd never actually checked...
Astral Projection? I would havr gone with fire magic but whatever...
... So is Megas seriously re-configuring its controls as needed by its chosen pilots?!
So THAT'S where the almighty context sensitive button of omniscience and omnipotence is!
Not sure why, but Megas seems almost as powerful as Gurren Lagann with the CMC (and KIva) as its pilots.
9015708
It seriously wouldn't surprise me at this juncture.
9015740
Ah, good, as long as it's not just me. Besides, let's be honest here: giving Megas sentience and the ability to self-reconfigure would not be the weirdest thing Tats has done. (Granted, it'd be pretty high up there, but still.)
But on to the important question: is it going to be bigger on the inside? Because let's be honest, Megas with a Tardis brain would be ing awesome.
9015737
There is an incredibly simple and flawlessly logical explanation for that.
F LOGIC, WE HAVE CUTIE MARK CHAOS INCARNATE* IN A GIANT TIME-TRAVELING ROBOT!**
...That is all.
*Not to be confused with regular chaos incarnate, party chaos incarnate, or any other forms of chaos incarnate that might occur.
**Considered making "theirs is the horn that will pierce the heavens" joke here. Decided against it.
9015708
It always has in canon.
9015708
The MEGAS does that almost every episode in canon.
9015762
Isn't Megas already bigger on the inside, at least to an extent? I seem to recall one episode where Jamie and Kiva had to drop down inside to get some bugs out of the system, and it was a bit longer than a quick jaunt should've taken.
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I know. That's why I brought it up. >^_^<
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...Huh. I guess I either missed that episode or forgot about it. Wait... *brain gears turn* HOLY MEGAS REALLY IS A TARDIS IN DISGUISE!!! ...Well, either it or Coop's car. I honestly wouldn't be surprised either way.
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9015771
...Huh. You know, I'd honestly forgotten about that. Still, if nothing else, I could've sworn that it wasn't quite as blatant in canon...
Waiiit a sec... on second glance...
Writhing tendrils, glowing eyes, lots of books, indeterminate gender... Tats? By any chance, would Mora's first name happen to start with the letter H?
9015959
Is a cameo of https://www.fimfiction.net/user/81457/Tatsurou himself... or herself, whatever.
9015959
Yes. It was a reference to "Order and Chaos".
9015945
In one episode, one of the buttons was labeled, "Only five minutes left in the episode", which Coop pressed at the five minutes left mark.
Yes, it really was that blatant.
9016020
In regards to cameo/reference/whatever-it-counts-as: I KNEW IT!
In regards to buttons: ...Huh, I stand corrected. Now I'm getting the urge to hunt for the series on Netflix to refresh my memory.
Is Scootaloo going to have Coop- Chicken Coop. I just got the joke. Is she going to rant like Coop?
Like Mag Man steals Sweetie’s body as a bargaining chip, forcing Sweetie Belle to upload herself into Kiva, possessing her body. Kiva Belle will try to chase him but she’s not used to walking on twos. Head Hancho sees the opportunity and takes Kiva as well.
We could get a page where Sweetie uploads herself from Kiva to Megas and then back to her body. But Sweetie saw something odd before being shoved back into her body.
I suddenly have a mental image of Megas projecting itself onscreen as a robotic dog.
9015945
During the Fourth Doctor's run, one of his old Timelord friends had a Tardis shaped like a car.
...headcannon updated.
9016886
Huh... well whaddaya know. Headcanon also updated.
if this giant bot gets an AI that starts calling itself C.O.O.P. then i'll open a betting table here on all of the battles.
I'm curious if Megas is protecting the Crusaders because it's a guy in Papa Wolf mode or if it's a female in Mama Bear mode??? either way, I hope Megas starts talking to them soon and becomes more of a character, maybe with an auxiliary avatar to go around Ponyville. I can totally picture Megas as a blue pony with red mane and a fireball decal as a cutie mark.
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Megas talking is not needed and would break the crossover. Megas did help Coop and the others and never ever talked.
In fact "suddenly voiced" is a way to ruin things.
Like having the Pink Panther talking.
Let silent characters stay Silent please.
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He can stay mute. DjPON-3 is 'officially' mute. But that doesn't detracts from her character.
I think it would be funnier if the only proof of its sentience stays a suspiciously convenient control panel reconfiguration, including such automatic deployment by purposely moving buttons where they will get pressed. Still, making it an actual character later could be fun, but it would be more interesting if it only "spoke" by pantomime or by adjusting the controls (or their labels).
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*facepalm*...dang it. Stupid typoes.
more plz
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