Conversion Bureau: St George

by kryxel

episode 5 part 2: the oncoming storm

(added chapter music in the last chapter. check it out. -kryxel)
One reason why humanity was able to grow and prosper in a world where a moment of weakness could mean the difference between having a meal for your entire family, or being a meal to a family of hungry and annoyed predators, was pride.

Pride. The desire to stand above one’s peers, the drive to surpass one´s rivals, the engine that forced humanity to grow, even if only to surpass the neighbors in the local “best maintained lawn” competition.

The problem was however that pride, if left unchecked, would make people do some pretty silly things, especially when they felt their pride had been injured.

At the moment, Lindie had taken a serious hit to her pride. She had reasons a-plenty to be proud, she was probably one of the best hackers out there if not the best.

She was the girl who was able to hack the NSAZ (National Security AmeriZone) mainframe by moonwalking into the hard drive while making the register play a 16-bit rendition of Beat It. She was the one who took revenge on her ex by overwriting all the video data in the database of a certain popular video streaming business with some homemade videos, accompanied by a soundtrack of laughing schoolgirls throwing insults his way. Better yet, she had been the first one to hack the personal computer of her royal majesty Princess Celestia of Equestria (granted, it was basically a barebones setup that the Solar Regent never used, but the point still stood dammit!)

She could hack capital G Gods, so why should one stupid old Doctor be any problem?!

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Conversion Bureau: St. George
Episode 5, part 2: The oncoming storm
designed by kryxel
programed by ray10k
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"Besides, what could be hidden in there that requires more security than the codes for the nanobombs at Cape Canaveral, or the laser guidance systems placed on the moon?" Lindie had been pacing around the room she shared at the Bureau and constantly shouting questions at anyone or anypony in earshot, just to vent her frustrations.

"Perhaps it ain’t none of yer business, and yah best let sleepin’ dogs lie," Jane said in her typical southern drawl as Elane worked her makeover magic on the cowgirl.

"Lindie, I think Jane is right. If you can hack into the greatest weapons that earth has created, the central nervous centers of the world’s governments, the databases of large businesses and the computers of visiting royalty from another world, and not into this... ‘police box,’ perhaps it is for the better. Who knows what can be going on in there?" Elane said, putting some light mascara on Jane.

Galinda spun around, pointing an accusing finger in Elane’s direction. "That’s the point! IT. IS. DRIVING. ME. NUTS! Here I have a system I have never seen before, holding untold treasures of secrets and knowledge, and here some STUPID OLD BOX is kicking me out like a leaky temp file! I can almost smell those secrets, just down the hall and into the office to the right! Right there on his terminal! No, I shall not let this stand! Even if it is the last thing I do (as a human,) I WILL access that blue box, and see what he is hiding!"

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Spring was bouncing down the hall. The kind Doctor had signed the paper, so all she needed was the other two signatures, one of which she had already requested via mail, while she was currently trying to set up a meeting with mayor Dijon Neighs before he’d rush off to Equestria.

At the moment however, she had to wait a bit. It was early in the morning, so she had to kill some time so she wouldn’t have to wait for the mayor’s office to open. Hoping to just chat to her friend, she trotted up to Ditzy Doo’s workstation. "’morning Ditzy. How are you today?"

Ditzy gave her signature, face-splittingly wide smile. "I´m doing well. And yourself?"

"I’m great! I just need to pop over in town to get a meeting set up so I can meet the mayor for the adoption papers. By the way, would you mind watching the foals for me while I’m out?" Spring asked.

"I don´t mind. In fact, I will bring Dinky and Pinchy. They are always hoping to help, and Berry would be glad to have somepony watch Pinchy," Ditzy said. Her face got ponderous for a moment, before she bounced back up, apparently remembering something. "Oh, if you see Sparkler at the library, can you ask her to pick up some Daring Do books that we don´t have here? Surprise was wanting to read them and I was not able to ask Sparkler to snag some."

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Grace glided through the clouds in hot pursuit of Surprise. Her wings were getting stronger every day, and she could keep up with the white Pegasus easy peasy now, even as the white prankster flew at top speed through the clouds with her blonde mane being the only thing that gave away her location. Soon, Grace would upgrade to Soarin’s advanced classes, and learn some more complex maneuvers and basic weather control. But for now her task was simple.

"Keep up! You don’t want to be late for the party right?" Surprise said, carrying a box of party supplies on her back as she started to descend towards the bureau.

"Must we throw a baby shower for the three new newfoal foals? I´m sure Pepper and Chip won´t mind, but Sales may. He was a teenager before conversion, and they said his mind hadn’t changed..." Grace said, also carrying balloons and a few small boxes of supplies and party favors.

"Of course he’ll like it! Besides, new foals are new foals, and they need a baby shower to be welcomed!" Surprise said, somehow pumping a foreleg without dropping her cargo. "Regardless, I’ve already sent out the invitations. Tonight’s party will be a blast!"

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"Tonight’s party will be the perfect cover... For operation Blue Light, take two!" Lindie shouted with fire in her eyes, as she put the finishing touches to a cartoonish looking anthromorphic mouse, an upgraded version of her standard tracker program. But the tracker wasn’t the only thing to have gotten a facelift.

Her virtual room had discarded its "inside a computer tower"-look in favor of one Lindie thought would fit better for the task at hand. A heist planning center, ripped straight from a Hollywood production. Big blueprints of the "building" lined a chalkboard, next to the old worn out couch with a few springs sticking out of the seat. Next to the old couch stood a cooler full of "nourishment" (adrenaline boosters to be used mentally), and last but not least all of this was contained in what looked like a old 2000's style suburban house basement. Lindie had even put a few holographic images of some typical gangster style rough guys around the room, just for the sake of making everything look and feel as if she were the protagonist in an old heist movie, ordering around a ragtag bunch of misfits to perform the perfect heist.

She turned to the guy who just happened to have taken a seat on the couch, and started speaking. "Okay, the plan is to retrace my steps by accessing the Doctors computer directly from Surprise’s. Now that I have his IP address, I should be able to jump straight to him and avoid whatever traps he has thrown in since my last visit. Surely he has put some protection on his connection to Derpy’s computer, but he will never expect an attack coming from some party animal. Once I’m in, search for whatever is hiding the blue box and gain access. In the meantime, the lot of you just hang around here and let the professional handle things. Then, when I find that piece of depressed kindling and crack open it’s security, it will be mine! All mine! Heh, heheheh, ha, muh hahahaha!"

The small window in the corner lit up, as a bolt of lightning accompanied the deranged laughter of the mad hacker.

Just you wait, Doctor!... Only this time, for real!

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In the vast reaches beyond both the world that was slowly being devoured and the world that grew at the cost of the dying world, something stirred.

It was eye piercingly pink, with a wild magenta mane that held the promise of eternal parties. Wherever it went, is was accompanied by strange music coming from both everywhere at once and nowhere at all that drove men and ponies alike to joyous insanity. Wherever it stood, colors and balloons materialized without her even acknowledging their existence. Wherever it looked, joy reigned.

In short, Pinkie Pie popped up.

With her eyes that could pierce through the veil of reality itself-

“Get a move on already, we don’t have all day you know!”

Ugh, fine. Party pooper.

Anyhow, Pinkie took a look at the scene as it unfolded, before breaking the fourth wall even further and turning to you, the reader.

"Will our obsessed heroine gain access into the computer of the Doctor? Will Surprise’s party be a hit? Will Ditzy be able to take care of all those foals? What was the bet that Victorious and Terrence put on that game of battleclouds? Why am I here? And what is the worst possible flavor of cupcake?!
All of these, and many more, may possibly be answered in..."

Pinkie reached offscreen, pulling a chalkboard into view.

On the chalkboard, written in pink chalk, it says,

"Operation: Take two!"

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Ray10k here.
About the “Capital G Gods”-comment: regardless of whether you consider the royal sisters goddesses or not, fact is that they are immortal beings who manipulate the very heavens on a large scale every day, so it would not be hard to assume that many if not most people would call them goddesses.

Also, my mind is a confusing and scary place. That is why I recently found myself wondering, “what if a Dalek got converted?”

Comments

[kryxel]

348903
yes. he is one of the best in taking the gibberish i write and crafting it into something epic.

[kryxel]

352560
well no. this is technically post ponds (they leave then he lands on the planet where time goes backwards so he "un-regenerates" to 10) and besides. his companions would be ponies.. well exept maybe rose, and donna.

[Sarpedan]

“what if a Dalek got converted?”
TOLERATE!

[miniapplejack]

I was thinking about the question on Daleks. Since the actual Dalek is inside the "pepperpot" and looks kind of like a crab or spider, I suppose it would actually just convert into a pony in a similar fashion to humans converting into ponies in the story. I don't remember if there was anything specific about their environmental requirements (whether they breathe oxygen, etc.), but they would have to be pulled out of the machine to be converted anyway.