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“Come on girls!” Twilight’s voice called from up ahead, insistent. “The train leaves in a few minutes! There won’t be another one until tomorrow!”Scootaloo slowed a little more, dragging her hooves through the sand. Her wings buzzed against her back, but as usual she remained firmly on the ground.“We’ll come and visit,” Sweetie Belle said, pausing long enough to give Terramar a goodbye hug. “I’d like to hear your mountains again. Maybe bring my sister along… it’d be…-
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Sweetie Belle could get used to her new body. It wasn't the kind of lesson she could learn in a day, or even a week. There was no magic switch she could flip and suddenly be comfortable with her greater height, strength, and grace. All that took the adaptation circuits Lucid had told her about, and that hardware took a long time to work. But it did work.As the days passed, she became far less overwhelmed by the return of two old but familiar senses. Touch and smell were back, far stronger than she had…-
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Alex hopped along behind Cloudy, annoyance on her face. It wasn’t that she wanted to bounce along the floor like an animal. But Alexandria’s master wizard, the most skillful spellcaster in all the world, hadn’t made her cure.“I meant to get to it,” Joseph said as they walked, in a tone that suggested he hadn’t thought about it once until they showed up at the door. “I was working on something else. Didn’t… get a chance.”“We gave you a whole day!” Alex squeaked. She wasn’t sure her…-
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Spellsong hadn't needed an entire day to choose her partner, when there were so few options left in the world of ordinary ponies."It's almost nightfall," she said, cresting the stairs to Dyson's library many hours later. Of course she hadn't been here all that time—she'd been out searching Saddle's End for somepony, anypony else she would've rather had as her copilot.But even if she found some old friends still remembered her, none of them were particularly suited for a role with such high stakes and…-
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Sweetie Belle had little experience with funerals. After her first, she was content to keep that number as low as possible for the rest of her life. This was by far the worst—never before had she stuck around until the very end. She couldn't just be a passive participant in this one—almost everypony in the room wanted to talk to her and Scootaloo, even if it was just for a few moments."You're a hero," said a hundred ponies, a hundred different ways. "We heard what you did." "Brought her up from…
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Chip stared at a blank stone wall, pulling the cloth of her single blanket close about herself. She had stared at this wall for a long time—long enough that her reserves of glamour were starting to dwindle and she felt hunger clawing at her empty stomach. Her captors brought a tray of mashed grain each morning along with a small wooden cup of water, and that was all. Some days she drank the water, but she never touched the grain. Eating it was completely pointless. The guards who brought it felt no pity…
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What was it like to live as an intelligent machine? Never a question that Sweetie Belle had ever thought to answer—or anypony else she knew of, for that matter. It wasn't even a question she could've known existed until the moment she woke up as one. How could a machine be alive? That was the question that troubled Apple Bloom. Once introduced to the idea, it became a hostile pattern in her mind and troubled her as well.She asked Lucid Storm during his next visit only a few days later. He came with…
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It was a good thing Sweetie Belle had the entire night to think about what she would say next. She'd known this conversation would happen sooner or later. If she tried to make it later, her friend might just die of anxiety. Her little hummingbird heart could only take so much stress."If you can let me go at my own pace—and if you can be okay with being with a mechanical pony. And... if you can be okay with not knowing if it will work out. Nopony has ever tried to have a special somepony who was made of…
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Tracy stared down at the pony in his living room, taking in her terrified visage. She might not be physically shaking anymore, as she had been when he first arrived. But she couldn't hide the fear from her scent. This was a pony on the edge of their endurance.Now did Discord intend for you to run into me, or was that an accident? "Why don't you start with the details you remember," he said, taking the seat across from her. He shifted slightly in the seat, adjusting his legs. It had been long enough that he…-
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Whenever Princess Cadance organized the annual Crystal Ball, she knew to expect strange creatures. The more universalist Equestria became, the more friends they made with distant tribes and species she'd never even known existed, the more of those creatures she began to see wandering around Equestria at large. Before too long, those even ended up visiting her parties.Ponies could be flighty, even xenophobic at times. But the ponies of her Crystal Empire had never failed to impress her. They welcomed all…
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