> The Lonely One
>  by fluttershy 1700
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> The Introduction
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	You wake up only to remember something you will never forget, next to you is a cold and empty space. You immediately remember that you are alone... utterly alone. "Cmon Austin you have got to find yourself someone who loves you, you don't want to be alone all your life do you?" you hear your mothers words echo in your head.

As you look around the room becomes familiar, your turtle tank on the right side of your bed, and your computer on your left. as you look forward you see your trophies from your junior soccer team. For a second you rest your head on the pillow and dream about those days. You were the star goalie for your team and were praised by your whole team after games. As you look at the clock it reads 7:00. As usual you have an hour before work, but that's not a problem since you work at home for valve. You have a pretty high value job for them and work web security for them. Its fun and pays moderately well.

As you roll over and out of bed you hop on to your computer, this being pretty much the only friend you have, you decide to derp around on it for a little while, until you hear your phone buzz, you have a message from Rye, probably your only other friend except your computer of course. "Hey whats up, hows your morning!" its says. You reply with a simple answer of "Nothing much, and pretty good. How about you?" After doing so you shut down your computer and wait for the screen to go black. 

You like Rye, after all she is the only person to ever really be your friend, and admittedly you would like to be with her. Unfortunately for you she is a lesbian, so unless you get a sex change, or she changes her mind, that wont happen.

You let out a long sigh and hop up to make yourself some breakfast. As you enter your kitchen you once again notice the absence of life, and switch on the light. it flickers a little and finally comes on. " I'll have to get some more bulbs today" you say to yourself. 

You pop open your fridge and grab some bacon, eggs, and bread. You look at the date on the milk and see its three days past spoiling, you open the top and take a swig and immediately regret it. You dash over to the sink and spit the chunks out. It takes everything in you not to puke up whatever is left in your stomach. You toss the milk out and cook your breakfast of a bacon and egg sandwich, your favorite. 

While eating you make a list on your phone for shopping today. as you finish the list you receive another text from Rye. it says "Nothing too interesting, had a bite to eat with Lexi." Ugh Lexi, she is the biggest bitch of all time and none the less a hipster. you reply to Rye by saying " How r u friends with that girl, are u trying to get in her pants or something?" You let out a chuckle and walk back to your room so you can start your day at "work"

As you log in to your personal security team account you see three notifications that attempts have been made to hack into Valve. You dismiss this since they were stopped, and go about checking the firewall. Most find a task like this boring and repetetive, but you usually find a way to make things fun and happy. You see it as the firewall being an actual wall and that whenever someone breaks it down you are a construction worker who gets to repair it. You see nothing but minor "cracks", repair them, and move on. Nothing interesting has happened so you decide now would be the best time to go and grab your shopping.

You hop in your 1968 mustang and ride down to the local store. As you grab your things you see a very interesting sight. As you look over you have to do a double take since you would've sworn it was Rye. On second glance you notice it is her, and decide to have some good old fashioned fun. 

You pull out your phone and shoot her a quick message to put down the jelly she just picked up. As she reads the message you watch as she looks around with a bewildered look on her face. She responds and asks how you knew she'd just picked some up. You respond "look behind u" and quickly get behind her. As she reads the message she turns around and you, being the creep you are, put your face right behind hers. once she turns all the way around she sees you and is startled so much she slaps you nice and hard. 

You both sit in the middle of the aisle cracking up laughing. She gives you a mighty hug and asks why your there. You tell her you needed some things and you both shop together until both of you have all they need. as you check out she follows you to your car and then says goodbye. 

Once again she gives you a massive hug and this time, nibbles you on the ear... She has never done this except for once in high school at the prom, since she was the only one who you knew didn't have anyone else to go with. The look on your face is pure puzzlement as she walks to her car and waves goodbye. You sit there a full ten minutes before dismissing it and driving back home. 

You hop back on to Valve and see nothing has happened while you were out. You decide to play some Planetside 2 while you wait for something to happen. You look at the clock, and see it 12:00, you check again and still nothing has happened. You message Guan, a coworker, and ask if hes seen anything. He says no so you decide today would be easy. You tell Guan to keep an eye out, and he says he will. As you sit there you suddenly remember just how alone you are.

You decide to do something about it, You pull out your phone and find Rye's number. You call her up and ask her out to dinner, but she tells you that she has plans tonight. You hang up the phone and feel a little bit depressed.

Then you remember something you received from an anonymous sender about a week ago. It was a complicated machine and it had been sitting in the corner of your room ever since you assembled it. You pull out the instruction manual and read it, luckily for you, Chinese is your second language so you can read the directions, seeing as they are only in Chinese. 

As you read you notice something, the machine creates a living organism out of water. You get a crazy idea and start your research. The more you read, the more you figure out that it could work. You figure out the machine can make humans and you can create the human however you want them to be, complete with personality, traits, and physical characteristics. You hook up the machine to your computer and run the program while filling up the tank built in to the machine.

The program runs and you see a menu, it gives you the option of what you want to create. You scroll down and select "human". The program loads and begins to feed a bunch of code onto the screen. You immediately recognize this as a simple simulation program as that's what would work best here. And you know exactly what to do with this kind of program.

It is pretty much like creating a Sims character, except much more specific.  You begin with physical traits, you make sure she is nice and skinny, as you are not into fat chicks. then you give her brunette hair, you continue to make her as beautiful as you can imagine, with a thin mouth, and hazel eyes. 

You finish the physical and begin with mental and personality traits. You of course make her smart for obvious reasons, and then make sure shes as weird as you, so some other guy dosn't try to steal her from you, and she just scares them off with her awkwardness. You then makes her just as socially awkward as you, and makes sure shes dangerous (or at least makes her think she is). finally you make sure her brain causes her to be attracted to you.

As you finish up, it asks one final question, what will her name be? You decide on the name Alexa. You hit Enter and the machine starts up. After about 6 hours, the machine, which you learned is called a 创作机， (English: creation machine) finally stops, you carefully open the fogged door and see the most beautiful person you've ever seen, the one who now loves you, Alexa.
> The Start of Something Horrible
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		As you wake up you are greeted with a feeling. A warm, as Pinkie Pie would call it, gooey feeling. Then you realize what it is, something warm next to you

You sit there a moment until it all comes rushing back, last night. The machine, and your creation. You look over to your right, but there was nothing there, much less someone. 

You decide it was a dream and hop into the shower. As the warm water comes rushing over your head you think about last night. You remember the long hours, and all the work you put into making the perfect one for you. You could've sworn that you had created her. You remember her face, her body... she was perfect, but alas you conclude it was simply a dream and that you must have passed out after a putting the information into the program.

You hop out of the shower and dry off your hair. As you get dressed you notice something, the sell of your favorite meat, bacon. This confuses you at first but then you remember you never washed the pan you used for breakfast yesterday, and that the whole apartment probably smells like bacon. 

You walk down the short hallway towards the kitchen, but before reaching it you hear a noise. It sounded like the clanging of pots. You quickly run back to your room and grab a baseball bat. You then spread your wings to look intimidating to whoever was in your house. As you walk towards the kitchen once again you hear the pots clang. You rush into the kitchen and let out a mighty yell as you rear up to swing, but you stop.

Standing in front of you is Alexa, just as beautiful as she was last night when you first laid eyes on her. You are too bewildered to speak and so she simply greets you with a hello. You drop the bat as your vision begins to fade, you she reels you back in with the breakfast she was preparing. Hell that was a five start breakfast right there. But you remember you put the baking abilities of Mr. and Mrs. Cake into her, so anything she cooks will be amazing.

As you sit down with her you are still too stunned to speak and you simply avoid her gaze and eat your breakfast. After eating you finally are able to process the situation. The machine actually worked, and you had finally had someone who will love him. But as you re asses the situation at hand you realize you will have to create a back story for Alexa. 

You see people in Ponyville aren't fond of anything you cant do with magic, such as creating something with a machine. In fact if Twilight found out shed probably ask Princess Celestia to banish me to the moon, and would do Celestia knows what to Alexa.

You decide it would be best to say shes a friend from Trottingham, where you used to live when you were younger, and that she just moved to ponyville. I tell her all these things and she agrees that would probably be best for both. As you clean up the pots and pans she heads off towards the shower. 

You finish up and hop onto your computer, you see a message left over from last night. It is from the software used for the 创作机. You read it out loud "Code Error 3317: Code malfunction" This puzzles you, but you think nothing of it as errors in code are usually just something minor. 

Alexa hops out of the shower and throws on some clotes, and as today is your day off, you decide to take her around Ponyville. Although you input some general knowledge of Ponyville into her memories, you still think it would be good for her to walk around and meet some people. 

You first take her to meet someone much like you, Fluttershy. You and Fluttershy have the same childhood, and shes yourr sister, you grew up without parents, and in the same orphanage in Trottingham. You guys are pretty close, but like you, she never has had that "special someone" While you guys are pretty good friends you never felt any attraction to her, for obvious reasons, and her the same to you. She comes to you when she needs help, and you help her as much as possible. You introduce the two and they seem to like each other. You tell Fluttershy about how Alexa is an orphan as well and just didnt go to the same orphanage as us, but that you knew her. Fluttershy accepts the story and we wave goodbye.

Next we walk on over to Twilight's library/home. You never really had a good friendship with twilight, but you figured you should still introduce the two, seeing as shes a "princess" now. As you walk towards the library you see her, and Rainbow Dash miserably trying to teach her how to fly. This is quite a funny sight as Twilight crashes into the leaves of her house and falls to the ground. You may be Fluttershy's brother, but fortunately for you, you are a very good flyer, some say your even on par with Rainbow. You walk over to Twilight and help her up. "Having fun Princess?" you ask her. She shyly looks away as shes still not used to being called princess. "I'm okay, just a little shaken up." she replies. Alexa gives a shy wave, and they introduce themselves. 

You walk over to Rainbow and strike up a conversation with her. "Hows the teaching going Rainbow Dash?" you say to her. "ugh shes soooo slow, and its so boring having to break every time she crashes, which is about every time she gets up. I'm dying just for her to fly straight!" she tells you. You let out a chuckle and offer to help, but she refuses.

Your final stop is the cakes, as you walk in you see Pinkie munching down on about thirty cupcakes, and the twins drooling at the cupcakes while she trys to keep them from stealing the cupcakes. You say hey to Pinkie and of course, with it being Pinkie Pie, she is all over Alexa. She begins asking tons of questions and Alexa answers them all without flaw. Of course she would, you made sure she has extensive memory, just like you. After Pinkie is satisfied she talks about a welcoming party and how she'll get her party cannon. Alexa insists not but when Pinkie wants a party, she gets one. You decide to let Pinkie have her fun and you both amuse her by partying the rest of the day with her and half the people in town.

You get home and set up the futon for Alexa. She takes one look and says "fuck no i can sleep with the person I'm dating." Up till now you thought you were just friends and that was the error in the code, but apparently not. You finally had someone who loves you. As you crawl into bed, she looks at you and tells you something that sends chills down your spine. Right before you drift off to sleep she says "Austin, I have the urge to kill..." And you fall asleep
> Dealing With a Problem
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	You wake with a start, Alexas words ringing in your ears. You snap your eyes open and stare deep into hers. She repeats herself, "I have the urge to kill." You sit up and both look into each others eyes for a long moment. You finally ask her what she means, she says to you "I saw some blood on twilight after she fell down, and ever since then, i've just wanted to see more..." 

This troubles you, but you didn't input anything about blood into her memory, so it could just be because shes never seen it. You lie, and tell her that's normal for someone who has never seen blood. She sees to accept the fact, and you both lay back down to sleep. As you begin to drift off you drape your arm over her, and she snuggles into you. The second she does this, you feel as though you are whole, and that blackness you know lurks in your heart is fading away, and is replaced with affection.

You wake up in the morning and see Alexa is still asleep, so you decide to make breakfast, as she must be exhausted. As you walk to the kitchen you think about your first party with Pinkie. Although they contain almost no alcohol you still wake up feeling worse than a sack of shit. You make breakfast, but notice something, when you reach for the sharp knife you keep for cutting up fruit is missing, you think nothing of it and that it must've been stuck in the dishwasher. As you plate up the breakfast Alexa walks in, you look over and its as if the sun is radiating off her, even though her hair needs a brush like crazy. She happily eats the simple breakfast of toast on egg. You ask her how she slept and she responds "Better than last night if that's what you're asking!" You let out a chuckle and continue eating. 

Today is once again your day off, so you decide to sit down and watch some T.V. You flick it on and change to the news, and read the headlines. Apparently there is breaking news, a body was found next to the river, and found by none other than Rye! You turn it up with dread in your heart, was this another one of your victims? How did you not remember anything, you always remembered something? A million questions raced through your mind, and you decide to go see if Rainbow Dash needed help, since she is the lieutenant of the police in town. Back when you were in college you majored in blood spatter as well as computer programming, and occasionally the department would call on you to help. Even though they didn't ask for you by name, you decided it would be best to see if this was your work.

As you get ready to leave Alexa insists you not go there. You tell her you must, and if she wants she can come. But she refuses, you figure this is normal since she is new to the world, and shouldn't be exposed to this kind of thing just yet.

You head down and the second Dash spots you she pulls you over to the body, and what you see is pure horror. As you look down at the mangled body you immediately know this is not your work. You are much more precise, and careful. You begin an analysis, by jotting down some obvious facts in a personal notebook, as you like to keep the towns serial killers in check.

-killer is new, and experimenting
-stabbing and slicing
-used a sharp knife

You close up the notebook and look again down at the body to start your official report. It has cuts all over the body, you count them up, 47 in total. you then count up the stab wounds, you manage to find 14. Whoever the killer was certainly was a screwed up bastard. You continue your report and notice a missing eye. The stomach has a slice right down the middle, and the internal organs were laid around the body in a circle. As you move each organ into separate evidence bags you notice one missing organ, the heart. You search around the body and eventually notice an unusual bulge in the neck. As you take out a scalpel you find the "missing" heart, and hold back your breakfast.

You finish up the report and head back home, when you walk back into the house you hear sobs coming from the bedroom. You rush in and find Alexa, crying uncontrollably on the bed. You run over to her and ask her whats wrong. She turns and looks at you with her big hazel eyes, and says to you something bone chilling."I killed that girl." she says. As you look down at her, you tell her something you've never told anyone. "There's this feeling in me that causes me to... kill people as well."
> Her Powers
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	You wake up feeling refreshed and energized, you were finally able to get something off your chest. You look over and see Alexa is still sleeping, best not to wake her up. You pour yourself a bowl of Celestia Puffs and chow down.

You hear Alexa wake up and hop in the shower, so you finish off the cereal and wash the bowl. She comes out dressed in jeans and a black t-shirt.

"Today's going to be pretty important and I want you to listen to everything I say, okay?" you say to her. "Okay but can you explain why I feel this way?" she responds. "I can't explain it, I can only quell it, not even I have found a way to explain it." you tell her. She seems to understand and you lead her into the spare room in the apartment. It is a room you haven't used in a while, as you have been distracted lately.

"In this room I will teach you how to kill effectively and how not to be caught. It will take months of training and whenever you get the urge you come straight to me, because the longer you put it down, the harder it hits you when it next arises." you explain. She nods her head and you begin.

"Today's lesson will be pretty easy, but eventually you will be able to act upon your urge only for good, and not get caught while doing so." You say to her as you grab a drawstring bag from under a table. From within you pull out your favorite knife. It is about 4 inches long, and is always kept sharp. It has a simple brown, wooden handle with a silver inlay. At the top of the knife is a vicious curve, which you have found is extremely useful for causing excruciating pain when pulled out. It was given to you by a poor mugger who happened to cross your path while that tingly feeling was in full swing.

You hand her the knife and watch as she admires it, looking deep into it. "This is any killers most trustworthy weapon, a knife can be sharpened, repaired, and even if it is blunt you can still do massive damage with enough force. But, if you can't get your hands on a knife, this will always do the job for you." You produce a screwdriver, and she looks at you with astonishment. "That's really all that deadly?" she says. "Many think that this simple household tool cant be all too deadly, *You walk around the table* if you hit them right here,*You grab her in a bear hug and put the screwdriver right above where her spine starts* your victim will be dead in no less than a minute" you whisper in her ear. "But before we do anything with weapons we will have to physically train you. Now i may not look strong, but that is where my enemies make their first mistake.

You turn her towards a punching bag hanging from the wall "I want you to punch this bag for an hour-" she cuts you off "An hour! You have got to be joking Austin!" she proclaims. "No i'm not, if you want to continue to live on this world, and not in a prison cell, I suggest you do exactly what I tell you." you respond sternly. She protests slightly, but eventually begins to hit the bag. 

You head back into your room and check on the firewall. Nothing major has happened except a slight "break" in the wall. You quickly patch it up and head back to check on Alexa.

You walk into the room and watch as she continues to punch the bag, you notice her punches have gotten weaker. "You need to hit it harder." you tell her. "I would but I feel so weak" she replies. "Oh come on after thirty minutes? Bullshit, you just have to push yourself." you tell her.  She hits the bag "Harder." She hits it again. "Harder!" you yell. She hits it again. "HARDER!" you scream at her. You watch as she hits the punching bag at full force, and see a fireball erupt from her hand and blow the bag off the chains. It sends you and her both flying at opposite ends of the room smashing you through a table. You hit your head hard on the wall and slide down. You look over and see Alexa running over to you

"Oh my god what have I done" she yells, tears in her eyes. "I think that's today's training" you say as your vision blurs and you fade into unconsciousness