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It took a few more weeks, as it turned out. Summer was just about halfway over when she got to make her first trip across Ponyville—a walk all the way to the Apple family farm. That would be good enough—it wasn't like she visited Scootaloo at her home very much anyway.That trip wasn't made during the cover of night, keeping her from being accidentally seen. It was her first time out in the open. "Are you sure you're ready?" Rarity asked, lingering near the back-door of her store. "It could be…-
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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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The knocking came on Sweetie's door, as clear in her new ears as ever. Part of her wished she could get away with hiding in her bed—but she knew better than to try. A meeting like this might never happen again. If she messed it up now..."Come in!" she called, sounding far more confident than she really felt. "I'm here."Seconds later, the door swung open, and Apple Bloom was standing there.The little earth pony was slightly taller than Sweetie expected. The last time she'd been with her friends, she…
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Lucid's next day was a flurry of activity. It was never his first choice to be up so early in the morning. But once the prototype was up, she refused to sit still. She would probably run off on her own again, potentially causing herself all kinds of worse damage if he didn't intervene. In a single weekend, he'd gone from a hobbyist tinkerer to perhaps the first pony to set hoof onto an incredible road of life extension and medicine, one never before considered. But that meant incredible pressure for him:…
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Sweetie Belle had a long time to think, about a whole list of different things. Once, her world had been a place where everything was horrible but made painful sense. Now all the pain was gone, the hospital was gone, the doctors constantly prodding her and injecting her and muttering sad things to her family. Not a single one had arrived today to tell her how grim her outlook was for the day, or to ask if it hurt.Yes, it hurt, it always hurt, now could they make it stop?The pain was gone now, yet Sweetie…
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Lucid Storm was on the right track with this prototype.Granted, he had thought exactly that same thing on several previous occasions. His garage/workshop was littered with the broken pieces of could've and should've been, as earlier versions of this exact project grew beyond his ability to create them.But this time was different—this time, he was sure."Those weren't failures, Sweetie," he whispered, circling around the machine. "They were necessary experience. I wouldn't know how to make this work if I…
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Hayden floated through a strange place. She had never seen its like before—yet she had visited many, and knew them all. Time was often this way for her now, bending backwards and curved inwards. Better to accept the strangeness of every moment, without ever trying to completely understand them. Much easier for everyone that way. The future was one with electric lights in every hall, but thick stone walls, fine polished floors, and the distant hum of climate control. Heat at that moment, emerging from…-
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"You can't exist," Ilene told her, the first day she arrived at her private cabin deep within Mew lands. "When the airship crashed, it took my brother and father with it. There are no others." Hayden nodded her agreement, since this was clearly true. There was something simplistic about the logic of a steel type. No reason to get emotional about the facts—they were true, if limited in their scope. Strange just how little a legendary with powerful Unity could change over such an…
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There were many trains leaving Unova in the days after the great Equinox Ball. Those of the most important houses left first, often whole engines with only a handful of armored cars and many soldiers following close behind. But for each such train there were a dozen others for common servants and staff—laborers who arrived before a single member of the Great Families ever set foot in the gathering place, and who did not return to dismantle it until they were gone again. These rode the same trains as…
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"What do I have to do?" Hayden finally asked. "I've made my choice. How do I make it happen?" "To unravel their ancient magic? Survive. With every day, the damage grows. Every other soul to make it through spreads that damage further. The celebi you saved, he is one. When there are enough, the torrent will flow without ceasing, and all will be accomplished." Mesprit floated slowly past her, bobbing up and down. Was she already bored? "You might decide to do…
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