When ED-E's circuits burned in the fires of the Divide, there was one small part that held on until the end. It was the fragment that held the Old World memories and the words of his creator in his last moments. At lest that would've happen if a weird man didn't pluck ED-E out of Earth and drop him in the middle of a strange place for some bizarre reason.
Rated Everyone (yes a Fallout crossover that's rated everyone). This is just a silly little idea in my head. Hopefully y'all will enjoy it. Also thanks for HeavyMetalCommunist for proofreading.
Thanks for HeavyMetalCommunist for proofreading. Especially with Ulysses's lines. _____________________________________________________________________
The last of the Marked men fell down after his head exploded when a .50 caliber round passed through his head, fired from a red haired woman with a Eyebot called ED-E that was hovering behind her. The woman reloaded another round into her rifle, keeping the sights pointed down the huge missile control room.
“I believe that’s all of them,” A black man, Ulysses, said monotonously, who stood next to her. The woman kept her rifle up a bit longer before lowering it, letting out a breath she’d been holding for quite some time. The rumble of the nuclear missile behind them quickly snapped her out of her relaxed state.
“We need to stop the launch,” she said as she briskly made her way to the control panel.
“You can’t stop the launch, nothing can.” Ulysses said in a toneless voice. Still, the woman tried to type in a command on the keyboard. Something appeared on the screen which caused her to angrily kick the lower part of the panel.
“Damn it! There's got to be a way to stop it!” The woman yelled as she began to rapidly type in more commands, doing her best to override the launch. ED-E could tell the woman was in a very desperate state and was extremely tense, trying to stop the end of another civilization. The black man was right, there was no way she could ever stop the launch, but...there was one way.
ED-E floated up to her and played one of the many recordings he had in his database. “Experiment log 369248/A – Eyebot Duraframe universal interface override system. This is Dr. Whitley presiding. Initial tests of the override system are promising. Against unsecured or lightly-encrypted targets, the Eyebots have a 98% success rate. More heavily protected systems are still problematic. Military-grade encryption presents a very real possibility of critical overload of key systems. We’ve stopped tests before any robots were destroyed, but if we don’t address the problem our Eyebots will fry themselves hacking military networks.”
The woman stared at ED-E for a while. “Are you...are you saying you can stop this missile?”
≤Confirmatory beeping≥
“But the log said that this kind of encryption would kill you!”
≤Sad beeping≥
The woman shook her head. “No, ED-E, I won’t let you sacrifice yourself like this. There has to be another way!”
≤Sad beeping≥
The woman looked at ED-E with a sorrowful look. “If...if you’re really sure you want this, okay. Go ahead and stop the missile. And...goodbye...my dear friend.”
≤Determined beeping≥
With that the woman stepped out of the way, letting ED-E have access to the universal interface. ED-E began to play his dramatic music that he emitted every time a battle commenced. ED-E sent a small messaged to its original self in the Mojave, a messaged to remind him of the deeds of both him and the woman, and then he began to hack into the control panel. He let out an electrical arc signal into the interface, telling it to shut down all systems. As expected there was a major surge of electricity, which damaged some circuit components inside of ED-E.
The control panel was still running, so ED-E shot off another electrical arc causing even more damage to himself. The room was starting to rumble and small explosions burst out under the floor. The control panel was still functioning and ED-E kept trying to hack into it, causing more damage in each attempt.
ED-E slightly dipped in the air, almost losing control of his small hoover boosters. The room was now shaking, as if the nuke would detonate right there and then, but ED-E could feel that it needed just one more attempt.
ED-E put all available power to his boosters and let out another electrical burst. That was it, the missile control panel finally shut down; however, ED-E's power systems were starting to go critical and were overloading.
The world seemed to slow down, and ED-E literally felt the small energy build up inside of him and his database collapsing in on itself. However one thing held on to his memory, the memory of his creator and of the female Courier. Then nothing.
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ED-E exploded in a bright blue flash of electrical energy. The woman slightly winced her eyes as she held a hand up reactively. She lowered her hand, ED-E was gone, leaving no debris.
“ED-E,” she silently whispered to herself in a somber tone. The room gave another violent shake followed by a giant explosion from the base of the missile. She felt a hand clasp on her shoulder.
“We should head out of here, unless you want to become part of the Divide.” Ulysses said. The woman closed her eyes and gave a quick nod of the head. She turned away from the control panel and sprinted with Ulysses to the exit of the missile room.
As they exited the underground bunker, the ground gave one final shake as a loud explosion could be heard behind the shut door. They were both breathing hard and just stood there, staring at each other.
Ulysses was the first to speak. “This is where we split up Courier Six. I doubt you will have any trouble getting back to Hopevillie.”
“You know, I do have a name,” she stated as she walked to where she placed her duffel bag before entering the bunker.
“I know that. But that’s not the name you’re going to be remembered by, Katherine.”
The woman, now known as Katherine, quickly turned around.
“How the hell do you...” Ulysses was nowhere to be seen “...know my real name.” Katherine looked around the area and then at her Pip-boy. Nothing...he just vanished. “I guess he had a stealth-boy with him.” She lowered her left arm. “You win this one Ulysses.” She readjusted her duffel bag and Anti-material rifle’s leather straps across her shoulder and looked back to the ruins of the bunker, with smoke coming out of the ground.
“Rest in peace ED-E. I guess I’ll meet your other self in Vegas with your signature happy beeping noise to greet me.” She looked at the path in front of her and began to walk out of the Divide...for a second time.
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“Hey...wake up!” ED-E's vision system suddenly booted up and ED-E was greeted by a male human, who had his face way too close to his vision receptors.
≤Discomfort beeping≥ ED-E wiggled out of the man’s grip and pointed his mini arc welder at him.
“Put that toy away.” The man did a small gesture with his hand and power to his welder stopped flowing. “Is that how you treat all people who just save your life, or only to males?”
ED-E looked around the area he was in, to find it was floating in a room devoid of anything.
≤Confused beeping≥
“You’re in the space between spaces. Which is kind-of-is the Void, but in truth it isn’t. I don’t want to fully explain it to you, otherwise you might bust a circuit, and I just fixed you.” The unknown man said.
ED-E ran a quick diagnostic scan of his system to find everything was back in working condition, nothing was broken.
≤Confused beeping≥
“Yes you really did 'die' to put it bluntly. However, right as you went boom I teleported you here. I made sure no parts went missing and released your memory to float around freely in the Void. I then put your body back together like one big Humpty Dumpty messy jigsaw puzzle. Once that was done I had to recatch your memory putting it back in its proper place before it got lost forever.”
≤Really confused beeping≥
“Yeah, I know this is very hard to believe, but trust me it was way more complicated than I made it sound.” The man then gave a bright smile and asked in a merry tone. “Now I am betting you are wondering who am I and why did I saved your life hmm?”
≤Confirmatory beeping≥
“Well for now you may call me Omega and I saved your life for this one reason.” He leaned in close to ED-E and whispered. “Because you’re not done yet.”
≤Confused Beeping≥
“I don’t know. I was just told to fix you and send you off to your new home.”
≤Surprised beeping≥
“No, not Earth, somewhere different.” The man snapped his fingers and power was enabled again to ED-E’s arc welder. “Now before I send you off to your new home I need to relay two instructions to you. First off try to stay out of public view as much as you can, don’t make a big scene with yourself. Second you are going to meet a certain mare who is going to need your help later on, after that you can make as big of a scene of yourself as you want.” The man said mysteriously.
≤Annoyed beeping≥
“I know they’re not very clear, so are most of his instructions, but they do become clearer later on. You’re a smart robot, I’m sure you’ll figure them out.” He was about to snap his fingers again but he stopped himself. “Oh, and one more thing.” He looked around the empty room. “Ah, there it is.” One of his hands grabbed an invisible object which he tossed it at ED-E. Suddenly ED-E could feel his database being changed and new data was being added.
“There, your recordings are now in Equestrian and you can understand it too. Have fun!” He snapped his fingers and ED-E disappeared in a bright flash. _____________________________________________________________________
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Thanks for HeavyMetalCommunist for proofreading. _____________________________________________________________________
“Are you sure this is safe Scootaloo?” Sweetie Belle asked as she leaned over the tree’s edge and look at the lake below.
“Ugh, come on Sweetie Belle what could possibly go wrong?” The orange pegasus filly known as Scootaloo pushed the young white unicorn closer to the edge of the platform that was built on the tree. “Apple Bloom already jumped and she’s fine.” The yellow earth pony indeed was swimming down below having a great time in the cool water on a hot summer day.
“But what if I miss the water and hit the grouaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!” Fed up with Sweetie’s excuses, Scootaloo shoved Sweetie off the platform making her fall the full ten foot height in the lake. Sweetie Belle’s body made a small splash as it hit the body of the water. The water was agitated by Sweetie’s frantic movements as she treaded above the water. “Scootaloo!” Sweetie Belle yelled out once she stabled herself floating on the water.
Scootaloo remain quiet up on the platform, just out of sight from the two other fillies.
Scootaloo suddenly leapt off the platform screaming, “CANNONBALL!” She landed in the water curled up in a ball and made a tall splash of water. Droplets of water came raining down upon Sweetie Belle
Scootaloo’s head soon popped out under the water, with a big smile across her face. Sweetie Belle just stared at Scootaloo for a while with a displeased look, and splashed some water at Scootaloo in spite. Scootaloo retaliated by also splashing some water across to Sweetie Belle. Soon the two fillies were giggling and splashing water at each other, with Apple Bloom soon joining.
After some time swimming the three fillies swam to shore and walked out of the lake.
“Anything?” Apple Bloom asked. Each filly looked at their flank.
“No,” Sweetie said.
“Nada,” Scootaloo said disgruntled.
“Same here,” Apple Bloom finished off. “Still...at least we had some fun and cooled off.”
“Yeah, still it would be nice if we got our Cutie Mark,” Scootaloo remark as she grabbed one of the towels they brought along.
Sweetie raised a wet hoof in the air, “Um, exactly what kind of Cutie Mark were we trying to get in?”
Apple Bloom was about to answer, when a bright flash blinded her. All their eyes winced and the same thought went through their mind, that somepony teleported right in front of them again...hopefully not Twilight going crazy this time. As their eyes recovered they found no pony standing in front of them, which confused them all.
≤Confused beeping≥
The fillies looked up where the beeping noise was coming from, and saw a flying spherical metal object.
“Whoa,” Scootaloo stated which caused the object to look down at them.
What just happen to ED-E? How will he coupe with his new surroundings? Will the Cutie Marks Crusaders ever earn their Cutie Marks? Found out on the next installment in Fly Far, Fly Fast, right here on Vault-tec Channel 9.
Fallout New Vegas is copyrighted Obsidian Entertainment and Bethesda Softworks. MLP: Friendship is Magic is copyright to Hasbro. All characters that belong to their companies are rightfully theirs. This writing is for fun and nothing else.
Thanks for HeavyMetalCommunist for proofreading. _____________________________________________________________________
After the man snapped his fingers, a bright flash filled ED-E’s vision receptors. Once his receptors recovered enough to see clearly, ED-E was greeted by a green scenic view.
≤Confused beeping≥
“Whoa,” ED-E heard from below. He looked down and saw three little creatures with huge, amazed, eyes staring up at him.
≤Even more confused beeping≥
One of those creatures just talked. They were the only ones showing up on his radar, so it couldn't be anything else; however, his processors were having a hard time believing it.
“What do y’all think it is?” The yellow one with a red mane with a huge pink bow tie asked.
“I have no idea,” replied a white one with a horn pointing out of its light purple and pink mane.
“I don’t know, but it looks cool.” an orange one with wings and a dark purple mane said with excitement in her voice.
Well ED-E now knew his processors weren’t being fooled, but how could animals talk? Only humans and certain robots could ever talk.
≤Inquisitive beeping≥
The three little creatures all titled their heads in confusion.
“Did it try to say something,” the white one asked the others. The two others(surprisingly) shrugged their shoulders.
≤Disappointed beeping≥
Great, they couldn’t understand his language. ED-E was about to search his recordings to 'say' something appropriate when one of the little creatures said something that made him quite unhappy.
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An idea came to Scootaloo’s head.
“Hey, let’s take it to the library. Maybe Twilight has a book that can help us identify it, and we can earn our Cutie Marks in creature finders.”
The two other girls smiled as they nodded their heads, liking the idea. All three of them inhaled and shouted. “CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS CREATURE FINDERS YAY!!” The flying object then let out some more noise after they finish their shout.
≤Protesting beeping≥
The three girls looked back at the floating object as it was shaking back and forth.
“I think it doesn’t like that idea,” Sweetie Belle said.
“Since when did you become an expert in understand random bits of noise and movements,” Scootaloo asked. A mare’s voice then spoke out from nowhere.
“Look, I know you’ve put a lot of work into this, but it’s a stupid plan. Those rockets will only lead y’all to your deaths.”
The three girls looked away from the object and around the area.
“Who’s there,” Apple Bloom asked out loud.
“And what do you mean the rockets will be the death of us? What’s a rocket anyway!?” Scootaloo added. No reply came. The girls all turned their head back to the each other.
“Well that was weird.”
≤Beeping noises≥
The three girls looked back up, seeing the flying metal object still hovering above them.
“What is it now?” The mare’s voice spoke out again, this time from the metal object, a bit agitated than last time.
“Look do I have to explain it to all of y'all. Line up the sights and squeeze the trigger.”
Sweetie Belle's face brightened once she put the two pieces together.
“That was you!” she exclaimed.
≤Confirmatory beeping≥
“So why didn’t you speak like that the first time?” Apple Bloom asked.
The mare’s voice spoke out once more. “ED-E, do you record everything that I say when you’re around me?" ≤Shy beeping≥ A soft chuckle could be heard. "I guess I should be more careful of what I’m saying around you then.”
“So the mare’s voice we heard was just some recordings,” Sweetie Belle asked.
≤Confirmatory beeping≥
“But it doesn’t look like you are carrying a record player with you.”
“Well, that's not stopping it.” Scootaloo stated. “Still, let’s go take it to Twilight and see exactly what it is.”
≤Protesting Beeping≥
“I think it really doesn’t want to do that.” Sweetie Belle said again.
“Why?” Apple Bloom asked ED-E.
“Now before I send you off to your new home I need to relay two instructions to you. First off try to stay out of public view as much as you can, don’t make a big scene with yourself. Second you are going to meet a certain mare who is going to need your help later on, after that you can make as big of a scene of yourself as you want.” The stallion’s voice mysterious spoke out from ED-E.
The three fillies nodded. “So you don’t want to go with us into town because you might cause a big scene.”
≤Confirmatory beeping≥
“But aren’t you breaking that first instruction right now talking to us?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“Yeah and who’s this mare you’re supposed to meet?” Scootaloo added.
≤Sad beeping≥
“I think it doesn’t know; however, I think it hasn’t broken its first instructions.” Apple Bloom stated.
“Why is that?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“Well, it only met the three of us and nopony else, and since we’re small it hasn’t made a big scene. So if we keep it a secret just between the three of us, it wouldn’t break its first instruction.” Scootaloo nodded.
“Yeah, and we can also help in finding this mare it has to find and we could even earn our Cutie Marks with helping it."
All three of them looked up to the flying object.
“Well?”
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The three fillies looked at ED-E with big smiles waiting for an answer. For the most part the yellow one’s logic made some sense. Omega never did give a variable on just how big the group should be before he made a ‘big scene’ with himself. They could also help him find this unknown mare too, even though ED-E had no idea where to start.
≤Agreeing beeping≥
“Was that a yes?” The orange one asked.
If ED-E could show expression he would’ve let out a big sigh. He played another recording.
“It’s better than walking through a radioactive Vault,” the woman said.
The three girls looked at each other, confused on what the woman said.
“I think that’s a yes.” The yellow one stated. They started to grab their things and head towards somewhere.
The yellow one looked back at ED-E. “Come with us. We have a place where you can stay for the night.” she said.
≤Happy beeping≥
With that ED-E followed the three little fillies away from the lake and into a new world.
Here's a game for my readers. It's called Where is That Recording From?
Fallout New Vegas is copyrighted Obsidian Entertainment and Bethesda Softworks. MLP: Friendship is Magic is copyright to Hasbro. All characters that belong to their companies are rightfully theirs. This writing is for fun and nothing else.
Thanks for HeavyMetalCommunist for proofreading. _____________________________________________________________________
“This is our club house ED-E,” Apple Bloom told the Eyebot as they walked up to a small building built on a tree.
≤Intrigued beeping ≥
“Why are you calling it ED-E?” Scootaloo asked. Apple Bloom grinned sheepishly.
“Well I remember the mare calling him ED-E in the recording he played a while back. So I just figure it must’ve been his name.” She reasoned.
“And its suddenly a he?” Scootaloo said.
“Well, ED-E sounds like a stallion’s name.” Apple Bloom looked up at ED-E. “Are you a stallion or a mare?”
ED-E had no idea what a stallion or a mare was, but figured she was asking if ED-E had a gender. Technically ED-E had no gender since he was robot. However, both his creator and the women he traveled with always referred ED-E as a male (for some reason), so ED-E got used to being called by the male pronouns.
Apple Bloom’s voice came out of ED-E’s speakers. “Well, ED-E sounds like a stallion’s name.”
The three girls were astonished to hear Apple Bloom’s voice. Scootaloo spoke first.
“Stallion it is. You do record everything don’t you ED-E.”
≤Shy beeping≥
The three fillies walked up a ramp while ED-E hovered just behind. As ED-E reached the main platform, Sweetie Belle opened the front door.
“I hope you like it ED-E, sorry about the mess.” She said. The room was small (to human standards that is) and it indeed was a mess. It looked like a group of prospectors had just rummaged through everything, looking for anything worth selling to some poor person who was persuaded to buy it. “We were really busy working on trying to earn our Science Cutie Marks; it didn’t turn out so well.”
“Yeah, who knew lemons could explode like that.” Scootaloo added.
ED-E didn’t really care if the room was messy, or if a lemon was combustible. After all, he had seen worse things than this before out in the Wasteland. However, the club house wasn’t as roomy as the penthouse inside the Lucky 38. He did like roaming around, not sitting around (so to speak).
“So ED-E where in Equestria do you come from?” Apple Bloom asked. That was going to be a difficult question for ED-E to answer with his limited speech with the girls. He ran through his recording, trying to find the right one to answer that he was not from around here.
Suddenly there was a rap of knocks on the door as a female voice asked a question from the other side.
“Apple Bloom are you in there?”
Apple Bloom’s ears suddenly drooped as her face grew into a worried expression.
“My sister,” she said in a low voice, “ED-E hide.”
ED-E looked around the room. Where? All of the windows were closed so there was no way to sneak out of the room, and there was no place big enough for ED-E to hide in. Suddenly something draped over ED-E vision. Ah! He was being attack by an unknown hostile. He was about to fire his arc welder when the one called Sweetie Belle loudly whispered to him.
“Get down on the floor.”
ED-E was now embarrassed. The girls threw some kind of sheet over him and they were going to hide him as part of the mess of the room. This was why he let the people he traveled with do all of the thinking for him. ED-E quickly went down and landed on the floor. He heard something things being pushed up against him. ED-E had no idea what they were doing, but hopefully their plan will work; otherwise...well he had no idea.
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Once ED-E was hidden, Apple Bloom opened the door with her best ‘there's nothing wrong or strange’ face on.
“Hi sis, there something ya need?” she said to her sister Applejack who looked a bit disappointed in her.
“Apple Bloom, do know what time it is?” She asked in her orderly sister tone.
Apple Bloom thought for a while.
“Um, it’s around one thirty, why should...,” she suddenly remembered something important. “Oh...”
“You said you would have your chores finished up before I come back from the market. I come back from the market to find only half of them done. Care to explain?” Applejack said with a frown.
“Well...you see...something....,” Apple Bloom fumbled at bit longer trying to explain why. Her ears flattened and she lowered her head. “No.”
“Then can you please head back to the farm and finish them.” Apple Bloom nodded her head and trotted out of the club house. “You can come back and play with your friends once you finish them.” Applejack looked at the two remaining girls. “I also suggest y’all clean this club house of yours up. It’s getting a bit too messy in here.”
“Sure thing Applejack,” Scootaloo replied with a big smile on her face.
“Yeah, we’re already starting on it already,” Sweetie Belle said pointing at a huge pile of things on the floor.
Applejack looked at the two girls suspiciously. “I wouldn’t call ‘piling things into one big heap’ cleaning.” Applejack then started to make her way down the ramp.
“Don’t worry Applejack, we’ll have this mess all straightened out by the time Apple Bloom finishes her chores.” Scootaloo called out as she closed the door. She leaned on the door let out a sigh of relief. “That was too close.”
Sweetie Belle was looking out through one of the windows and soon spoke. “I think it’s safe enough for you to come out ED-E.”
≤Happy Beeping≥
The blanket they covered ED-E with rose up a few feet in the air as ED-E wiggled his way out from under the blanket, and soon he uncovered himself.
“I’m starting to think this place is probably not the best spot to hide him in,” Scootaloo said.
“But where else could we hide him?” Sweetie Belle asked.
The two fillies pondered this puzzle for a while. Sweetie Belle's face brightened as an idea came to her mind. “Fluttershy’s house!”
“Fluttershy’s house?”
Yeah, she has lots of room, and can even look after ED-E when we can’t.”
“But what about ED-E not making a big scene with himself?”
“We’ll just make Fluttershy do a Pinkie Pie promise to never tell or show anypony about ED-E.”
Scootaloo thought on this plan for few seconds. “Yeah, I guess that could work.” She looked up to ED-E. “Come on ED-E lets go.”
≤Beeping noise≥
ED-E once again followed the two little fillies out into the unknown, wondering who this Fluttershy would be like.
Sorry for the long wait for such a short chapter. Had a little problem with PM system. Next chapter should be a longer one.
Fallout New Vegas is copyrighted Obsidian Entertainment and Bethesda Softworks. MLP: Friendship is Magic is copyright to Hasbro. All characters that belong to their companies are rightfully theirs. This writing is for fun and nothing else.
Thanks for HeavyMetalCommunist for proofreading. _____________________________________________________________________
"All right ED-E, we got to be real sneaky once we get on the road. You got that?” Scootaloo asked.
≤Confirmatory beeping≥
“Hopefully that’s a yes.” The orange filly stuck her head out from a bush, looking left and right down a dirt road. “All right it looks clear, let’s go.”
≤Sneaky Beeping≥
The two fillies walked out of the bush and ED-E floated right behind them. One of the two fillies occasionally looked behind them to make sure no one else was walking up upon them. Normally ED-E would’ve been the one on the lookout for anything dangerous, but that was being a bit of a problem for him.
Yes his radar was working perfectly fine, but it was based on the Pip-boy’s Friends or Foe system and it was picking up on multiple living beings, all of which were showing up as Friends. ED-E was having a hard time telling who was casting them and how far away they were. The only good news was that ED-E hasn’t detected any hostiles since he got here.
Minutes passed as the three of them continued making their way down the dirt road until they came upon a weird little house. It looked like one of the country’s home ED-E had seen from Ralphie, except it had a thatch roof instead of wood. There was a small creek running alongside it and dozens of animals were running or flying around making ED-E’s radar go crazy with rabid moving yellow rectangles.
≤Discomfort Beeping≥
For the first time since ED-E was booted up, he had to shut down his radar for fear of an overload of information on his processor.
“Okay ED-E, we need you to wait here for a moment. Fluttershy has tendency to not react well with meeting new ponies or other things for that matter.” Sweetie Belle said to him.
≤Confirmatory beeping≥
The two fillies continued, with Sweetie Belle saying one final thing.
“I thinking I’m starting to finally understand those beeping noises of his.”
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“All right Mister Ferret, take it easy on that paw of yours and it should heal up in no time.” Fluttershy said to the ferret she just bandaged up. The ferret looked up to Fluttershy before snuggling himself on the small comfy bed he was lying on. Fluttershy gave him a warm smile before gently walking out of the room, careful not to wake the ferret up.
As she exited the room, she heard the familiar, impatient, tapping of a rabbit’s foot on the wooden floor. She looked down to see Angel standing next to her with his two front paws crossed over the other with a cross look on his face.
“Oh, is there something you need Angel?”
The white bunny put his two front paws out as if he was holding onto something and started to nibble on an invisible carrot. Fluttershy smiled as she understood what Angel wanted. She made her way to the kitchen and took out a nice bright orange carrot. Angel took it as it was lowered to him and started to munch on it. Fluttershy smiled once again and was about to make her own snack, since she was feeling a bit famished.
There was a series of knocks on her front which slightly startled Fluttershy.
“I’m coming, be there in a sec,” she said as loud as she could (which wasn’t that loud to normal standards). She made her way to the door, wondering who it could be since she wasn’t expecting any visitors. She opened the door and was greeted by two friendly smiling faces.
“Oh, hello Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle, it’s nice to see you two.”
“Hi Fluttershy,” the two fillies said at the same time.
“Is there something you two need that I can help with?” Fluttershy asked. The fillies nodded.
“We wanted to ask you something.” Scootaloo said.
“Is it you’re looking to adopt a pet?” Fluttershy eagerly asked.
“What? No, we wanted to ask you if you could look after a new friend of ours.”
“Oh,” Fluttershy disappointingly said. “Who’s this new friend of yours?”
“First we want you to Pinkie Pie Swear that you will never talk about him or show him to anypony.”
Fluttershy was surprised by this.
“Why?”
“Because he’s on a mission looking for a mysterious mare and can’t show himself to the public till he finds her.” Sweetie Belle replied.
“And that’s all we’re saying till you Pinkie Promise.” Scootaloo reinforced.
Fluttershy was a bit baffled by all of this but she wasn’t going to disappoint the two fillies by saying no.
“Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.”
Fluttershy did each of the movements of the promise, closing her left eye before laying a hoof on it. The two fillies beamed two happy smiles as Fluttershy finished the promise.
“So who is this new friend of yours?” She asked as she put her hoof back on the ground.
Sweetie Belle turned around and yelled out. “ED-E you can come out now!”
ED-E? What a strange name for a pony, Fluttershy thought. A few seconds passed, then Fluttershy saw the fillies' new friend. A spherical flying metal orb flew across her small bridge and up the gentle incline of the path to her front door.
“Fluttershy, I would like to introduce you to ED-E. ED-E say hello to Fluttershy.” Sweetie Belle asked.
≤Friendly Beeping≥
Shyness immediately took over Fluttershy when ED-E got closer, of course this happens every time when she sees something new and unfamiliar.
“Um, it’s nice to meet you too ED-E,” she softly spoke out.
“ED-E, Fluttershy is going to take care of you, you understand?” Scootaloo said. She turned to Fluttershy. “Thanks again Fluttershy. Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom, and I will be back once we finish some minor chores.”
“And remember to never show or talk about ED-E to anypony.” Sweetie Belle added.
The two fillies quickly made their way down the path and back to their club house to wait for Apple Bloom, (and to clean it up of course) leaving Fluttershy wondering what she got herself into.
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“So...um...Mr. ED-E, would you like to have anything to eat or drink.” Fluttershy softly asked once she lead ED-E inside her home. Fluttershy was still a bit uneasy of having ED-E around here, not that she was disturbed by ED-E’s presence, the fillies’ trust in him alone was enough for her not to be totally scared. It was that Fluttershy had never seen a creature like ED-E before. She knew almost every living creature in her world and even some of the mythical ones, and ED-E didn’t match up with any of them.
However, that wasn’t the only problem. Some of ED-E’s characteristics were also making her a bit uneasy. Like how he was flying without the aid of wings or even magic, the fact he had no sort of facial expressions, and the fact he had skin that seemed to be made out of metal.
Out of all of the strangeness ED-E that made Fluttershy uneasy, she felt she could still trust him because the fillies liked him. When he spoke to her the first time, he sounded very nice, which also helped cement that fact.
ED-E seemed to be looking around inside the house, taking in the sight of all of the many animals that Fluttershy kept inside her home and other little details.
≤Beeping Noise≥
“Oh, okay.” Fluttershy lowered her head and thought about what to say next. However, another rumble in her stomach reminded her of her earlier predicament. “Would you mind if I made something for myself,” she asked as she looked back up at ED-E, who was hovering really close to her face. She release a small squeak of surprised as she hastily backed away.
≤Ecstatic Beeping≥
Fluttershy was a bit confused on what he had asked, but she hesitantly answered.
“Yes...I can understand you. Why does that matter?” While it was known Fluttershy had a special gift in understanding the language of the animals, she couldn’t fully understand the words ED-E was trying to say, just what he was trying to get across. She was a bit confused why ED-E would ask her such a question. After all, the three fillies seemed to know things about ED-E, so that means he could have at least spoken to others already.
≤Happy Beeping≥
Fluttershy was a bit surprised by his answer.
“I’m the first to understand you?”
≤Confirmatory Beeping≥
Fluttershy’s mind was boggled by this new fact. She was about to ask more questions but two things stopped her; another growl from her stomach demanding to be fed food, and a tug on her tail. Fluttershy turned her head around and saw Angel standing right next to her, staring right at ED-E. “Um...excuse me ED-E, I need to make myself something to eat, if you won’t mind.”
≤Beeping noise≥
Fluttershy turned around and made her way to her kitchen. Angel stared at ED-E for a few more seconds before following Fluttershy.
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ED-E watched Fluttershy walk away with the small white creature closely following.
≤Happy Beeping≥ He emitted very softly, lowering his volume.
His processors were bursting with joy...so to speak. There were so many things he wanted to ask, but he didn’t want to be rude by interrupting Fluttershy’s meal time. After seeing what the woman once did to a group of Fiends who decided to attack her during lunch time, ED-E made a small note to himself never to disturb someone’s meal time.
So ED-E decided to do a small little project to help pass the time, editing his data. Since he got here ED-E had been recording, making a digital map of the areas he has been through, and other minor things. While doing all of that might take up a lot of data on his memory, his database is based on the same stored system on RobCo Industries’ Pip-Boys, and those were theoretically stated to never run out of memory.
Still, ED-E liked to do some housecleaning on the new data he collected to keep his database neat and orderly. He started off by editing through all of his recordings. First, he kept the entire conversation he had with Omega, having a feeling it might be useful later on. He then edited through his time with the three fillies, deleting only lines he already had, or felt were pointless to keep. He left alone his conversation with Fluttershy for another time, since there was not much data there to mess with.
Next he went over his digital map. While his navigation system couldn’t find a satellite to link up to get an overlook map and GPS location of the area he was in, his sonar mapping radar was still working. He put a few labels on it, like where the fillies’ club house was located, Fluttershy’s house, and the lake where he met the fillies.
Finally he went over the miscellaneous data, such as temperature levels, energy levels, and other sorts of things his sensor collected about the outside world, he deleted mostly all of them. Though, just before he deleted the data he did notice the differences between Earth and this world.
For one it wasn’t as hot outside here than as it was in the Wasteland. This world was cooler by an average of twenty percent. He sensor were also picking up on unknown energy signature. At first glance they almost registered as gamma radiation, but at a closer look there were some significant differences between to two. For one it had the strength of a gamma wave, but doesn’t seem to be able to cause the same amount of damage that a gamma wave could. While those energy waves looked harmless, ED-E made a small sub program in his processor to keep track of those energy levels.
All of this took about five minutes and twenty-six seconds for ED-E to do. ED-E let out a non-existent bored sigh. He was expecting his clean up progress to take a bit longer than that, at least till Fluttershy was finished eating, but since the data wasn’t that big he shouldn’t have let his hopes up. He glanced over where Fluttershy was to see her sitting next to a table eating some sort of sandwich. It also looked like she was having a small conversation with small white creature he saw from earlier.
ED-E found that a bit strange. Not only was Fluttershy able to talk with him, but also to animals. That made some sense since Fluttershy appeared to be an animal herself, but then shouldn’t the small white creature also be able to speak English too? Then Fluttershy shouldn’t be able to....ED-E aborted that thought process before he ended up in a paradox situation that could freeze up his processors.
ED-E began to look around the room. He noticed that some of the animals were looking at him with curious eyes, not like the small white creature who had distrust on its face. Of course this brought up new questions for ED-E, since when were animals able to mimic human expressions on their faces, but again he didn’t exploit that thought.
This world was clearly nothing like Earth, so it might have different rules in how it works. So until either he figured them out or was told about them, ED-E will answer these paradoxical questions as, “It’s not Earth.”
ED-E stopped on an open window in his scan around the room. He just stared at it for a few seconds. It was big enough for him to fly through. He wasn’t thinking about leaving Fluttershy, he just wanted to explore the area and expand his map since he was staying with Fluttershy for some amount of time. ED-E thought it would be best for him to scout out the land to know the area, Just in case Fluttershy needed him someplace and she wouldn’t have to show ED-E where it was. Also because of Ralphie, ED-E just loved to wander around and explore.
ED-E glanced once more towards Fluttershy to see she was still eating, though the small white creature was nowhere to be seen. He then looked back to the open window, gave power to his hover boosters, and soon was outside.
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The chattering of the animals silenced as ED-E flew by. Two squirrels who were arguing on where to hide their nuts paused when they heard a fuzzy buzzing passing above their head. Birds who were singing their merry songs, decrescendo in their volume as it changed into gossiping chatter about the flying eye-bot. Even a ladybug stopped her meal of munching on a leaf to see new guest that already was full of rumors.
However, said new guest was completely oblivious of the creatures’ reaction to his presence. Instead ED-E was enjoying the discovery of seeing so many creatures. Most of them he recognized from the TV show 'Ralphie', though there were plenty of others he had no idea of what they are. ED-E continued to fly around, taking in the sights and collecting new data to sort out.
ED-E was beginning to understand the two children’s’ logic of making this area ED-E’s new home. Fluttershy had hundreds of animals and enough land to house them. It was the perfect place for him to stay out of sight while looking for this mysterious mare he had to help. ED-E stopped over a pen full of white birds with red things on their heads making clucking noises.
He began to think about the mission Omega gave him. To ED-E it seemed almost impossible to complete with all of unknown variables in it. He had no idea who this mare was, where to find her, or what he needed to help her in. Heck he didn’t how he was supposed to search for someone without making a ‘big scene’ of himself.
≤Sad Beeping≥
To ED-E, this was going to end up as another task he will fail to complete, like his original task. Navarro, the place his creator wanted ED-E to travel to. A long journey from the East coast to the West coast, a journey that would’ve proven too difficult for any lone human to make alone. However, ED-E wasn’t a human and he was able to do it...well almost able to do it. He traveled through the middle part of the Old World, flying through packs of vicious animals, killing drugged up physco humans, and even snuck past some Brotherhood of Steel members, but two well placed shots, one at one of his engines and the other at a processing circuit, took him down.
That would’ve been the end of him, if it wasn’t for the woman. And if it wasn’t for the woman, ED-E wouldn’t have even remembered his original directive. ED-E silently wished she was here to help him out. The woman always seemed to find some way to solve any problem that came across her. Being the first one to run through a field with missiles raining down from the sky and not getting a single scratch, overcoming the odds of assaulting an enemy camp and killing their leader, or fixing something no one else could even get working.
Though, given the woman’s past history of stirring up trouble from out of nowhere, it was probably the best she wasn’t here.
“ED-E, are you still here?” Fluttershy's voice mildly spoke out. ED-E turned around to see his new caretaker roaming around looking for him.
≤Loud Beeping Noise≥
Fluttershy gave a startled jump and looked towards him, and a relieved smile grew on her face. “Oh thank goodness, I thought you ran away.”
≤Sad Beeping≥
“Oh you don’t need to apologize. That's just how my mind works; I tend to worry about many things, and some of those things I shouldn’t even have to worry about.” She sat next to him, also looking inside the pen of white birds (whom seemed happy to see her). “So what were you doing here?”
≤Beeping Noise≥
“I see, thinking about home. You must miss it for being so far away from it.”
≤Sad Beeping≥
ED-E suddenly realized what he just said.
≤Evasive Beeping≥
Fluttershy giggled in admiration. “You don’t have to deny it. I understand how you feel. When I first moved down here from Cloudsdale, I really missed my family and the comfort of my home. I was scared, a bit sad, and lonely, but...,” some animals were starting to gather around her and ED-E, “...I had my friends to help comfort me. So...I know you can’t make many friends because you can’t show yourself to anypony else, but I’m here to help you cheer up when you’re feeling down.”
ED-E found it…sweet that Fluttershy would care on trying to make sure he would be in a happy mood during his stay, though it was a pointless goal since in reality ED-E had no feelings. Sure ED-E can express different kinds feeling through his beeping, but those were made through the process of several algorithms which were based on human’s emotional reactions on different types of situations. ED-E could never actually feel those emotions he was emitting.
But yet...something...stirred in ED-E's processers, and he had no idea of what it was. It felt…warm, not his circuits are overheating kind-of warm, just some comforting warm from the kindness Fluttershy was offering.
≤Shy Beeping≥
Fluttershy beamed a smile. “Well, how about a tour of my home and to show all of my friends. I’m sure they would love to meet you once they get to know you.”
≤Happy Beeping≥
Fluttershy turned to the white birds. “Well first off, Camilla, Ethel and Stephanie, this is ED-E. He is going to be our new house guest…”
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Angel parted away the leaves in the bush he was hiding in. He watched Fluttershy introduce ED-E to some of the chickens. His eyes narrowed as they peered upon ED-E. He didn’t trust ED-E, not that he was too different, Angel handled all kind of strangeness from the time he has been living with Fluttershy. It was just that something was off about ED-E, he didn’t feel right; that he could be dangerous to Fluttershy's health.
Angel was going to get to the truth and expose it to Fluttershy. Fluttershy and ED-E began to move away from the chicken’s pin and move to one of the bird’s houses, and Angel followed them in the shadows of the bushes.
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“Y’all did what!?” Apple Bloom exclaimed after hearing what her two friends did when she was finished with her chores.
“We left ED-E at Fluttershy’s house so she can take care of him when we can’t.” Sweetie Belle cheerfully answered.
“I think she understood that part Sweetie Bell.” Scootaloo stated.
Apple Bloom paced back and forth frenziedly. “What in Celestia's name gave you that bright idea?”
“Well, what other choice did we have? Our club house isn't that big...” Scootaloo answered.
“He’ll be easily spotted if somepony ever came up here,” Sweetie Belle said. “Especially now since me and Scoots cleaned the club house spotless.” Sweetie Belle raised a hoof at the mysteriously sparkling room with a proud smile on her face.
“So that means we had to find another hiding spot for ED-E, somewhere where he had lots of room to hide in, safe, and away from lots of ponies so he wouldn't make a scene.” Scootaloo continued.
“And Fluttershy’s house fit all three of those.” Sweetie Bell interrupted once again.
Scootaloo narrowed her eyes and gave a snippety look at Sweetie Bell causing her to give a sheepish smile.
“So we took ED-E to her home and told her about ED-E’s predicament and made her do a Pinkie Pie promise about keeping ED-E a secret before she ever saw ED-E. She agreed, did the promise, and we left him there. Then we came back here and cleaned the clubhouse while waiting for you to come back.”
“We have to get him back!” Apple Bloom worriedly stated.
“Why? Fluttershy wouldn't break her Pinkie Promise; ED-E is perfectly safe.” Scootaloo said with confidence in her voice. Sweetie Bell nodded her head in agreement.
“What about Angel?” Apple Bloom asked.
Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo's faces dropped in realizing what they did wrong.
“Oh...” they both stated at the same time. Fluttershy’s favorite pet has caused many hiccups in some of their plans, especially if they dealt with or near Fluttershy and/or Fluttershy’s cottage. Like Cutie Mark Crusaders Lion Dentist; Angel told Fluttershy before the girls could even open the cage. Cutie Mark Crusaders New Coat of Paint Painters; Angel stole all the paint. Cutie Mark Crusaders Animal groomers.... Point is, Angel might tell somepony about ED-E, and the girls couldn't let that happen.
Scootaloo rushed over and grabbed her helmet that was sitting on nearby table, deftly strapping it on her head. Her wings began to buzz vigorously as she proclaim. “Well then let’s get a move on! To the wagon!”
The amount of animals Fluttershy held at her home was overwhelming; it was like a miniature zoo, but without any of the grumpy, lazy, bored looking animals.
“This here is Mr. McBitey-Pants the lion,” Fluttershy told ED-E on their tour of her backyard. The lion’s head perked up and looked toward the pony and the robot. He then jumped off the rock he was sleeping on, maneuvering his way next to Fluttershy. He put his face right next to hers, and gave her a big sloppy lick while purring really loud.
Fluttershy’s face blushed beneath a thin layer of lion’s slobber. She placed a hoof on one of the lion’s cheeks and began to scratch it vigorously. The lion’s purr got louder as he leaned his head into Fluttershy’s hoof. “He might look like a mean, scary loin, but really he has a soft, kind heart; however, he does have a bad habit of chewing on pants.”
≤Inquisitive Beeping≥
“Well yes, but I have something special for him and other carnivores to eat that substitutes for meat. I mix it into salads for them to eat, which they all love.” She put her other hoof on the other side of the lion’s face and rubbed both of his cheeks. “Mr. McBitey-Pants loves his salads with slices of tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions, and lots of cheese.” The lion murmured in agreement.
≤Inquisitive Beeping≥
“Oh he’s not truly mine; I’m just watching over and training him for his owner who’s a griffon from across the seas. His training is almost done, but there a few things I need to make him understand before I return him.” The lion began to whine when Fluttershy stated that, but she just petted harder saying, “Don’t worry, I’ll try to send you a letter or two to check on you.” The lion began to purr once again. “Okay now, back to your habitat, there’s still a lot for me to show Mr. ED-E.” The lion gave Fluttershy one last lick to the face before jumping back up to its home.
Fluttershy then led ED-E to show some of her other animals, telling a few facts about them, all of which the eyebot listened to carefully, and only asking a question or two now and then. As the two headed back to the cottage, Fluttershy built up enough confidence to ask the question that’s been plaguing in her mind.
“Um, Mr. ED-E, where do you come from? If you don’t mind me asking...”
Again ED-E pondered on how to answer that question. With Fluttershy it should be easier since she could understand his natural language. He thought he found the right approach and began to answer.
A loud crash and the panic wail of chickens erupted into the air. Fluttershy’s head whipped towards the sound and a combination of fear and concern grew on her face. “Oh dear, I need to make sure they’re all right. Sorry Mr. ED-E.” Fluttershy opened her wings and took off with surprising speed.
ED-E was about to follow her, but something soon stopped him.
*CLANK*
A small pebble bounced off his metal body, making a ringing noise bounce around inside of him.
≤Irritated beeping≥
ED-E turned around towards the direction the pebble came from and was surprised to see who had thrown it. The little white creature from earlier, a bunny from what Fluttershy told him, was sitting right under him with its two forepaws criss crossed over the other and a sour look on its face. It then moved one of its forepaws up to his eyes and did the motion of “I’m watching you closely” at ED-E.
If ED-E had eyes he would be giving the little bunny an “Are you serious” glare. ED-E was used to numerous types of dangers from the Wasteland, and being threatened by a little bunny was like a bloatfly trying to scare a deathclaw.
ED-E floated down towards the little white creature to the point they were face to face. The bunny wasn't intimidated by the eyebot and stood his ground as the distance between the two of them got smaller and smaller. Soon only inches of empty air stood between ED-E and the bunny. The bunny, feeling very bold, leaned in closer, giving a menacing stare at the robot.
ED-E having enough of this little game arced up his wielder and adjusted some of its settings. The bunny’s eyes were caught by the sound of servos motors and the crackling of electricity. In a flash, arcs of electrify danced around the little bunny, doing no sort of major damage other than making his fur stand on its ends and his skin tingle like never before.
The bunny’s ear shot up and he jump several inches back, looks of fear and horror filled its face. ED-E then played one of his favorite recordings of the woman’s saying.
“Don’t you ever messed with me,” the woman’s voice said in a low threatening voice through ED-E’s speakers. In the blink on an eye, the bunny bolted as fast as he could away from ED-E and left Fluttershy’s yard.
ED-E felt pretty smug with himself, but that was quickly snuffed out when Fluttershy’s voice angrily yelled out. “ED-E what did you do!?”
ED-E turned around to see Apple Bloom, Sweetie Bell, and Scootaloo standing next to an irritated Fluttershy.
≤Worried Beeping≥
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