- ((You are still Anon))
- "I don't even know what to say."
- >"Oh! I know! How about 'Hi! My name is Anon! What's your name?'"
- "What do you go by?"
- >"You can call me Mickey"
- "Mickey, huh."
- >"Yep!"
- "Are you... Shaking?"
- >"Oh, uh, maybe, I am hyperactive, this happens from time to time."
- "How am I going to take care of you? Ugh."
- >"Well, I'm easy going. Feed me, care for me, love me. Do everything you used to do Anon."
- "Used to do, sure Mickey."
- >"Excuse me a sec."
- >She walked out of your room and started bounding around on the couch in the living area
- >"Woo! Things feel so different out here!"
- >At this point you are both amazed, but nervous as well
- >Now that there is this, well, Audacity pony in your life
- >How are you going to carry on with work?
- >What are you going to feed her?
- >How much is she going to cost you to take care of?
- >Can you bring her out in public?
- >By the time you were done thinking, she must have been standing there saying your name over and over again for three minutes now
- "Hmm? What do you want?"
- >"Whew! I thought you were going to pass out again>"
- "..."
- >"I'm hungry"
- "Okay. Hold on."
- >You walk into what is sort of a kitchen
- >Your condo is terribly small
- >Tiny bathroom, tiny bedroom, and a living area that is half kitchen
- >You put some peanut butter on a piece of bread and roll it up
- >You walk over to her, stuff it in her mouth, and go to your room to get your laptop
- >She follows you the entire way, crumbs falling out of her mouth
- >You open your laptop and lay on the couch
- >She climbs on top of you and starts to chew loudly in your ear
- >You cringe
- "Enjoying your... Snack? Mickey?"
- >"Ipf goof!"
- "Okay then."
- >You start to do a little more research on this fairly new 'software pony' stuff
- >Looks like there is not only one other software pony but about twenty
- >Some guy even wrote an article!
- >You begin to read through it.
- It scared the wits out of me.
- That moment after my whole apartment was shrouded in smoke, I had no idea what to expect.
- If you were to tell me that on this day I would have a super-computer pony at my side, I would have called you crazy.
- The fact that these are just bugs in software is considerably amazing.
- The things that little Jackie and Winnie here are capable of are incredible.
- This of course was what held me back from introducing them to the world.
- Because of they're abilities and uniqueness, who knows who is out there wanting to snatch them up?
- Well, Jackie here brought up a good point.
- 'You can't hide us forever.' She said, the day we met Winnie.
- So they are now connected to police computers everywhere, constantly being helped, and helping the police themselves with constant diagnostics, to someday in the future, build even stronger, better software.
- With these two little ponies, we can unlock some of the most amazing things.
- One thing I have already unlocked are two great friendships, and one heartwarming, irreplaceable, intimate relationship.
- >You Triple-take the last part
- >Relationship
- >Does that mean he is in love with a pony?
- >How on earth does that work?
- >"Aww! That is so sweet!"
- "It is kinda sweet but, how are even supposed to have a relationship with a pony?"
- >Dirty thoughts come to mind
- >Oh god stop
- >"I dunno. Oh hey look at that!"
- >Mickey points to a diagram thumbnail image in the bottom left corner of the screen
- >You click it
- >'Anatomy of an Ai Pony.'
- >It listed every single body part and function of an Ai pony
- >Apparently underneath all of their fur and skin, is an entire exoskeleton built of extremely fine circuits and microchips, allowing them to glow in a fiber-optic sort of way
- >You start to get really sucked into this
- >They have two genuine and lifelike eyes, but they act as projectors and navigation for within their system, and their outside environment
- >They have all of the capabilities of a miniature pony, and a supercomputer
- >Then you realize something
- >Ai ponies are completely, anatomically correct
- >Huh, alrighty then
- >"I want to meet them."
- "Who?"
- >"Jackie and Winnie!"
- >You take another look at the article
- >They live all the way up in Washington State, you live in New York
- >How the hell are you going to manage that
- >At the moment, you are afraid to pay for a wrecked speaker
- "Sure! I can just magically pull a wad of cash from my pocket."
- >"You can?! That is so cool!"
- >You grab her by the wings and drop her on the floor
- "No."
- >She whimpers and whines a little
- >"Ow! Ah! Anon! P-please be more careful with me." She said as she winced in pain
- >She started trying to grab a wing her mouth
- >You could tell that she was fighting back tears
- >Oh god what did you just do
- >You get off of the couch swiftly and kneel down to her level
- "Mickey I- I'm sorry." You say, tears starting to well up in your eyes as well
- >Why are you getting so emotional around her?
- >"N-no Anon, I'm sorry."
- >You reach out and pick her up
- >You plop her back down on the couch
- >She stands on her hind legs and leans over the side, her left wing stiff and stretched out
- >"It huurttsss!" She wails
- "I'm sorry Mickey! I don't know what to do!" You say, wiping your eyes
- >"It feels like it's dislocated or something."
- >You begin to plot places to push on or massage
- >You press your thumb at the base of her left wing and begin rubbing it in a circular motion
- >You hear a 'Pop!'
- >She yelps
- >Ohgodyoubrokeit
- >Her whimpers stop and her wing slowly folds back to her side
- >"Thank you Anon."
- "Mickey, I'm really, truly sorry. I'm just a big asshole."
- >You're still sort of crying
- >"It's okay Anon, I understand you, you don't need to change one bit."
- "Thank you, Mickey"
- "...Mickey?"
- >She had already fallen asleep again
- >Way too much is happening, and way too fast for that matter

