Chapter 6: More Introductions
The sun began to set as they walked up a long dirt path and out of town, walking along an immense apple orchard on the other side of a fence, eventually coming up to a gate that led to a farmhouse and barn.
Walking up the path they came to Applejack, who was standing next to a tree with a bunch of empty buckets underneath. She stood up on her front legs and prepared to kick the tree behind her but stopped.
"Howdy! Nice of ya to stop by! What can ah do for ya?"
"Well we were just going on a walk around town and I thought we'd stop by"
OOM-340 stood there, thinking of what to say when an important question came to his mind
"Why are you kicking a tree?"
"Cuz that's how ya get the apples from em?"
OOM-340 thought that was strange, because it didn't seem possible for a creature of her size to knock them down by doing that.
"How?"
"Like this!"
Applejack stood on her front legs and gave a powerful kick into the tree, and suddenly all of the apples fell down into the baskets.
OOM-340 was confused more than anything, but still somewhat impressed, as she was stronger than she looked.
Suddenly 3 smaller ponies came zooming up in a scooter, 1 of each species. One that was yellow with red hair and a bow, one that was white with white and purple hair and a horn, and one that was yellow with dark pinkish red hair with wings, but in stead of utilizing the for flight appeared to be using them in a way similar to an airboat to power the scooter that they were riding.
"Hi Twilight!" They all said in unison
"Hello girls, how are you today?"
"We were good" said the yellow one in an accent similar to that of Applejack, "but what we really wanted to do was talk to the alien! Like where he's from!"
"Yeah, like how he got here?" Said the small white unicorn
"Well, only if it's ok with him" said Twilight.
"Yeah it's fine, I think I can answer some more questions." Said OOM-340
"Oh! Twilight! Before ah forget Pinkie gave me this to give you! But it's secret and you can't tell anypony!" Said the small yellow one again, holding a piece of paper in her mouth for Twilight to read, but keeping it out of OOM-340s view. Not like he could read it anyways, their alphabet was different, it wasn't written in Aurebesh or any other known fonts.
"Oh, thanks girls! I'll leave you 3 to your interview!" Said Twilight cheerily before walking off with Applejack to talk
The 3 sat down in front of the Droids and began asking their questions.
"So, first things first" said the small yellow pony "Im Applebloom, this is Sweetie Belle and that's Scootaloo" she said gesturing to the small white unicorn and small orange Pegasus. "We form the Cutie Mark Crusaders, a group devoted to helping others find their special talent and get their cutie marks!"
"Umm, What's a Cutie Mark?" OOM-340 asked
The all pointed towards the symbols on their back legs
"Well, Cutie Marks" Applebloom said "are a special marking that everypony gets once get discover their special talent! We originally formed this group to help each other get our Cutie Marks, but now that we have them, we help other ponies get theirs!"
"That's… nice of you. So do you get them painted in like my yellow markings or what?"
"Oh no, it's an amazing moments there is a bright white flash, and the Cutie Mark appears on a pony's flank! Do you have a special talent?"
"Well, um… not really, I'm kinda… normal for my series I guess?"
"What do mean series? And what are you? And what's your name?" Asked Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle and Applebloom
"My production model, is called the OOM Series. My designation is OOM-340."
"So you ARE robots!" Exclaimed Scootaloo
"Well, not really. That's like calling a common beetle a Geonosian."
"What's a Geonosian?"
"It's not important. But it's an intelligent insectoid species that created my design. Infact actually I think I'm supposed to look like them."
"So they look like you?"
"Kinda, but their more organic looking, with a hard exoskeleton, and they don't speak basic like you do."
"You mean Equestrian right?"
"No, I mean basic, that's what you're speaking."
"Well we call is Equestrian."
"Okay?"
The sun just sunk below the horizon and Twilight came back over with Applejack.
"Celestia's setting the sun! You know what the flyer said girls, let's go!" Twilight said
"Where?" OOM-340 asked
"Its secret! Now come on, we're gonna be late! Shouted the 3 fillies
"Okay…" Said OOM-340 as he was practically pulled by the 3 off towards Ponyville in the night.