A/N: not much to say here...
Chapter 9
At the changeling home...
. Chrysalis was still fuming and raging about her loss in Canterlot. They were so close to victory when those creatures ruined everything! She kicked another table over and shrieked. She heard a knock on her door and opened it. Standing in front of her were a few scout changelings.
"Well what is it?" Chrysalis asked slightly annoyed.
"We know you are unhappy about the hive's loss my queen," spoke one scout.
"But we may have some information that will delight you," said another.
Hours earlier in the Aperture main AI control center...
"So what are you planning to give them?" Morality asked.
"Hmmm. We definitely need to help there advancing in technology. Their standards are so pathetic its just painful to look at," GLaDOS said.
"We could start with early human advances but then we would have to worry about pollution to the Earth...again," Morality said.
"True," GLaDOS said", Also, Hydrogen fuel cells would take care of the problem but its too much of a technological jump and the idiots would probably not know how to handle the material and cause them to go explosive. They already do have electricity so a wise choice would probably to give them early industrial revolution cars powered by electricity instead and give them a blue print of the Wright Brother's gliders and early planes."
" Assuming that they use it properly. But we'll also have to do a slight redesign to fit pony use."Morality suggested
"Oh I'm pretty sure they can do that themselves," GLaDOS said annoyed.
"Well I guess it wouldn't be too hard for them considering they've already developed hot air balloons. It just suprises me that they haven't developed any form of mechanical fast aerodynamic air travel for the non-pegasus ponies." Morality said
"That reminds me," GLaDOS said", We need to conduct research on the clouds and pegasi in clouds dale and the ability to use clouds as solid ground yet still manipulate them for their natural properties.
"Shouldn't be hard," Morality said", Aperture HAS done much more mind breaking feats and things in the past."
"True," GLaDOS said as the Morality core left the room.
. Outside the room on the rails Wheatley was waiting for her.
"So, um... do you think shes still mad at me?" The Intelligence Dampening Sphere asked.
"I believe 'extremely annoyed' is the better phrase,"Morality said ", I mean, we're all family in this facility. Probably the whole reason she pulled you back. I mean she DID used to be human."
"Yeah... lovely person she turned out to be... In her files I mean." Wheatley said "Humans... yah gotta love em. If only I could've made things right."
"Its alright Wheatley," Morality comforted", I'm sure she would've forgiven you at this point. 47.89% of the time you constantly think back to the time where you could've just escaped with Chell."
"Thats the thing!" Wheatley said ", If it wasn't for my STUPID self and power corruption, everything would've been fine!"
"But on the other hand," Morality said ", If you had not done what you had, she wouldn't have had to stop you and this facility wouldn't even exist."
"Yeah...Fates be cruel," Wheatley said.
"Maybe perhaps one day we could reinitiate the human reanimation projects and find her," Morality said
"Yeah... thats right. And then everything will be better! I'm gonna go find as many Ariel Faith Plates as I can!" Wheatley said as he railed of to start his new project.
. Morality knew that the chances of finding Chells actual body would be less than 0.00001% with generous rounding considering the time that has passed and the damage nuclear war has done to the planet but it was still good to give Wheatley hope. She artificially sighed as she railed off to overlook the upcoming plans.
. Meanwhile in a room near the surface, Rick and some other cores were mounting up into old US military vehicles modified for them to use. The old US designs were armored carriers built to resist all kinds of explosives and even distanced nuclear explosions.
. Rick was the most excited of all of the cores from not being able to adventure out for thousands of years. Everyone else however was worried about safely containing an old nuclear weapons facility. They had brought along drones to assure safety of AIs but that didn't stop them from worrying due to the extreme conditions of time.
. The cores all detached from their rails using hover technology to mount into the 3 carriers they were given and before anyone could protest, Rick himself called driver of the head carrier and plugged himself into the driver's seat.
"C'mon guys! Whatya waitin for!? Theres a whole new world out there just waitin to be explored! Time for an adventure!" The Adventure core called out.
. All the other cores looked at each other nervously.
"Why did we agree to let him come again?" one core asked
"Because he was programmed for this sadly," another responded.
. They all plugged themselves in to the carriers and a large portal opened for them on the wall.
"YeeeeHoooo!" yelled Rick as he gassed the carrier out of the room only that the cars weren't powered by gas but by hydrogen fuel cells.
. The other carriers protested but had to follow with the lead car.
Meanwhile in Ponyville...
. Everything was peaceful and happy as normal. Rarity was taking a nice afternoon stroll around town gathering inspiration for her next project when she heard what sounded like a whole bunch of teens and motor scooters.
" Oh dear me, do they always have to..." She said but paused in fear as she turned to see what was happening.
. there were huge green metal monsters running through ponyville. Everypony was galloping away in fear trying not to get run over while Rarity could only stare in shock as to what was going on.
"WOOOOOOOOOOOO!" The monsters seemed to scream as it sped off leaving panicked residents to recover.
. Rarity took this as a good time to find her friend Twilight for some quetions as to what had just happened.
To Be Continued...
A/N: Well there... I somehow got this done a week before mid-Finals. What a pain...