Title:           Sun 'n Fun #4
Author:          Maintenance-Bro
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First Edit:      Wednesday 9th of July 2014 06:08:43 PM CDT
Last Edit:       Wednesday 9th of July 2014 06:08:43 PM CDT

"Will Rex be doings the fixing of me?"
"He will be assisting me, now rest, Foxhound, rest. We'll have you better in no time."
"Da, better sooner. Is good."
"Hush my little pony, let us take care of you." Celestia said letting her motherly side show, letting you forget for a moment or two that she can be a total bitch as you go to assist.
Celestia is looking around rather fruitlessly for the fuel pumps that are probably fried, where as you climb up on Foxhound's back and sit next to the panel, as much as you want to rub it in her face, you've got to spoon feed her how to troubleshoot.
"Ahem, Princess? Did you try looking here? Where the main fuel tanks are?" You say as Celestia goes red in the face.
"Right, let's take a look shall we?"
"Yes. Remember I'm here as an assistant."
"Right, would you move please?" Celestia said as she removes the panel and you can clearly see what the problem was, both a very old fuel pump and obviously eroded fuel lines. As long as you did one fuel line at a time along with pump Foxhound shouldn't have to be on a GPU (Ground Power Unit).
"Rex, I am unfamiliar with this issue."
"Well, what do you see that needs to be replaced with new components?"
"Well, those two fuel pumps, obviously, his booster pumps should probably be replaced after the main pumps, these lines need to be replaced, and I'm going to have to do it in a very particular order aren't I?"
"Correct, there is an order in which you should replace those components. In what order do you think you should?"
"Perhaps the right turbine fuel lines and pump, then the left side."
"Very good Princess. Foxhound will probably make some noise when you remove the fuel pump, seeing as he's rather sickly, I suggest you have the new fuel pump ready to install before we pull the old one." You say as this makes her a little uneasy, the prospect of hurting him was very real in her mind, but you don't see an APU or a GPU around, so that's how you're going to have to do it.
"It won't hurt him will it?"
"No, but his breathing will become more labored, and it will sound like he's in pain, if you had an APU or a GPU around, it would ease the stress on the pumps and we could shut one of them down instead of doing this operation."
"How labored?"
"It's going to sound like he's dying." You say knowing that it will sound like that.
"And the best process to reduce that is?"
"There is none, simply we've got to replace it as fast as possible, sure it's going to stress the new pump quite a bit, but it will give us enough time to make it balance out." You say as Celestia has pulled all the necessary supplies to the two of you with her magic.
"Rex, I need you to guide me on what to do, I've got both pumps set up all they need to do is be attached in the correct places."
"Alright, put the other one down and listen closely."
"Ok." Celestia said as she put the other pump down and held one up and ready for installation.
"Now, inside there's three lines, two to the combustors and one to the afterburner, you'll need to disconnect those after electrically disconnnecting the fuel pump."
"Alright, then?"
"After you disconnect power to the pump you disconnect those lines, then wait, why the hell am I making you do all this, can't you just teleport these into place?"
"No, I cannot teleport organs out of a pony, you have to tell me what to do."
"Alright, power off to pump, remove all hoses and attaching points and pull it all out, then hoses go in first, then place the pump on it's place, attach it firmly, and then reconnect power."
"Same thing for the other side?"
"Do one side first and see if I need to change the procedure." You say as Celestia takes a deep breath and disconnect the power to the pump, causing deathly noises from Foxhound.
"I'm killing him!"
"FOCUS! Get the old pump out and put the new one in so he doesn't sound like that." You say reminding her of what she needed to do.
Celestia is fidgeting as she's more concerned about how Foxhound sounds than actually repairing him. You can tell the old fuel pump is disconnected, so you reach down and rip it out, pulling all the old hoses with it.
"Celestia put the new pump in, quickly, get those hoses in first." You say as Celestia goes to put the pump in place as you initially guide the hoses into their places. With the pump in place, Foxhound sounds much better, breathing calmer than before the pump was replaced.
"Rex."
"We're not done yet, you want to cry, wait until we're finished."
"Right. Thanks for snapping me out of it."
"Do work Sun horse." You say as you're more focused on the job at hand than Celestia herself.
This time she does the replacing herself, with you still guiding in the hoses.
"You alright?" You ask as she's closing up Foxhound.
"I don't know. That was kind of stressful."
"Well, you did alright. Took a little longer than you should have, and the sounds got to you, but you did alright." You say as you finally get a good look at her, it looked like her mascara ran from crying. If you would have looked at her to see how stressed she was, maybe she wouldn't look like hell, but that's why she brought you. She knew you'd focus more on making Foxhound better than on her.
"Thanks, I needed to hear that Rex."
"You just locked up for a moment. Got a little more than scared. Your face tells me that." You say as it gets a shy laugh out of Celestia as she tries to use her mane to hide her face from you.
"You're a bit harsh sir."
"Shut up Snow"
"Aye sir, but good job on getting Foxhound fixed up. He looks much better now, more color in his face."
"Snow, what did I say?" You say as he just now smiles and stops talking
"We should be getting back to Avalon shouldn't we?"
"Probably should, what time is it?"
"Three in the afternoon."
"Yea, we should head back, there's towels and a sink in the shop if you want to clean yourself up a bit Princess." You say heading back towards the portal
"Why would you say that?"
"Look in a mirror. Runny mascara isn't something you should be seen in." You say as Snow goes through the portal with you right behind. Celestia laughs a little as she joins you in your shop to look in a mirror after closing the portal. You were right, messed up makeup was no way for the public to receive her. You of course didn't give a shit.
 
Fast forward to 2000 Hrs. Nopony was doing anything interesting, well, maybe KC was, but that was all of showing Applejack around the bar showing her the establishment. Morgan was of course talking to Luna, with Edge as her escort, and you find the sweet irony in the fact that she's paired the only other female in the Sand Island squadron. Well, for the moment anyways. Lightning was being bossed around by Sasha, who the moment Sergei showed up turned her wrath towards him instead. You had to do a checkup on Nora, because well, she forgot to get her systems checked from when she had that knock to her central processors, you walked into their hangar and then quickly executed firethenopecannon.exe and noped the fuck out of those two making love.Clearly Nora was fine.
The crowd is rather sparse, lots of ponies have been leaving throughout the day. So the closing is short, and all you really do is annouce that this year's Sun 'n Fun festival has come to an end and that is shall occur again next year. At the approximate same time. Flyers will be sent to inform you all.
After all of that, Luna, Celestia, Twilight and the other ponies went back to their homes, leaving just the plane ponies in Avalon.
 
2050 Hrs. Your home.
"Anon, are you alright?"
"Yea, I'm alright, I just have this really bad feeling."
"About what?"
"I dunno but it's a little ominous." You say as you and Thunder are watching TV on the couch.
"Well, that's sort of concerning to me, do you know what could be causing that?"
"I wish I knew. I guess it's just one of those feeling that ya get when you don't know what's going on." you say
Morning of 7/7, that feeling has not gone away, and you had an even worse night's sleep than yesterday. There's still a lot of ponies leaving, and Blaze refused to let it slim down to two on duty two off, so all four of them are still here, which isn't a bad thing, but now you can't sneak off and take a nap from the fact that last night was another long hell.
"Sir are you feeling alright?"
"Just tired Blaze. You mind letting me nap for a while?"
"No sir, but don't you have to finalize some paperwork or talk to Nora?" Blaze said as you roll your eyes as you're sitting in your shop. Considering that's your office and apparently your "throne room"
There was a knock on the doors, "Rex you in? I'm here for my check up."
"Let Nora in would you?"
"Oh, and umm, sorry about last night." Nora said as you're still sitting on the small ladder, face now in your hands.
"Right, that, so you did notice me."
"No the F-14, you have the radar cross section of a bird."
"Lucky me, you do know I didn't want to know or see that."
"Yea, I'm really sorry about that Rex. You should have knocked."
"And you should have locked your doors, ready for the diagnostic check?" You say as you have your laptop out and ready for that check.
"You haven't had any issues since that incident a while ago right?"
"Yup no sudden system restarts, not even subsystem restarts. I'm doing pretty good, thanks to those strengthened panels."
"Good do I need to replace more of them?"
"Maybe next time." Nora said as you want to give her a reminder of how paper thin her last removed panels were.
You cough a little and jiggle a sheet of paper before her.
"The rest of my panels are ok, they're not that thin."
"Right, just don't let them get this thin Nora." You say as she walks out leaving you and Blaze alone, who shoved you towards your office to do paperwork, but instead you promptly fall asleep to get no rest.
You somehow manage to get all of five minutes of rest before repainting your ADFX a blue camouflage . You were repainting it because you had nothing better to do and this was rather time consuming so it was better than nothing. So you stand and paint, Blaze watching silently as he pokes his head out the door and then back inside to look at you, it's not even close to noon or lunch.
"Are you hungry?"
Blaze nods
"Then go get something to eat, I'll be fine here. I'll just turn on the Phalanx system." You say as you stop painting the top and go and flip the on switch on the Phalanx CWIS as Blaze almost angrily stares at you for not turning that on in the first place.
"Go eat something, I'll be fine." You say as you continue to paint your ADFX.
 
1400 Hrs. Your shop.
You've finished painting your ADFX, Blaze has not returned, and you're happily sitting alone in the shop, half asleep.
What you hear going on outside wakes you up and startles you. The sound of 20mm AA fire, specifically your Phalanx arrays unloading into something. Something that you knew was probably after you and you alone.
Running from your shop you don't catch a glimpse of what's attacking, but it's big you know that, it's not bombers, you would have already been cut down by shrapnel. You don't hear incoming engines but a whole lot of outgoing.
"Sir! Get out of there! We've got an Ursa!"
"A what?"
"Ursa Major, please tell me you know what they are!"
"I know what they are Snow, but what the fuck is it doing here!" You yell as Snow stands over you on the tarmac.
"I don't know but it's after something."
"Start evacuating everypony into the air."
"Sir, almost everypony is."
"We've got to check Snow, make sure everypony's off the ground" You say as you jump and climb up on his back by grabbing a wing.
"What the hell are you doing?"
"You can run faster than I ever can, now run you moron!"
"Aye sir." Snow said as he questioned why you climbed up on him like that.
Snow carries you around Avalon's Shadow on his back ensuring that there are no ponies left on the ground. You of course are fumbling with a radio and headset so you can hear their chatter as they're up in the air.
"Dad are you alright? I don't see your ADFX."
"Morgan, I'm fine, I'm on Snow's back, we're making sure everyone's off the ground." You say over the radio as Snow does something remarkably stupid, he takes off with you on his back, causing you to go sliding off and roll and skid to a stop on the ground.
"SNOW YOU FUCK! WHY THE HELL DID YOU TAKE OFF!"
"Shit."
"FUCK!" You yell as you run towards a sleepy B-17 pony yelling at her to get the fuck off the ground.
"What?"
"Get the hell off the ground Patches, We've got a Usra Major loose in the city! Get up in the sky!"
"There's a Major here?"
"Yes get moving!"
"Oh shit! Rex get out of there!" Patches yelled as she began her takeoff roll and cause you to look behind yourself.
"Oh fuck." You say as you now run like hell as you don't have a weapon. You run and see a red beam impact the ground three hundred feet away from you causing you to dive to the right, and continue to run as the laser from one of your kids goes swiping through the Ursa. Unfortunately that did not deter it, the Ursa is still after you like white on rice. Though you're panicking rather badly, you somehow manage to remain cool under this threat and try to think of another plan.
"Morgan, Falken, next time warn me if you're going to fire on the Ursa. So you don't accidentally kill me?" You say on the radio as all you hear is worried laughter from the kids.
"Sorry, but it does look like I hurt it a little."
"God damned it Falken. Be careful with that!"
"Well You saw it didn't you?"
"Yes but a warning would have been nice!" You say as the Ursa rips the tree away from your temporary place to catch your breath, so you run beneath it's legs
You get about 200 yards away from it as it tries to get back up only to hear a massive explosion and the sound of 30mm shells flying through the air. Of course now it's changed it's attack onto the ponies in the air, something you cannot let happen.
"Hey you big stupid bear! What are you here for!" You yell as you throw rocks at it like an absolute moron.
"Dad get out of there!"
"How about I figure out a way to save the fucking city and everyone inside of it by dealing with this!"
"You have got to be crazy to take on that thing."
"Maybe I am." You say as you've got the Ursa's attention again.
"That's right you stupid oversized bear follow the Human, that's going to lead you to your death." You say as you kind of regret saying the last part. You weren't exactly sure how to kill it or if you could. So you run, back towards your shop like an idiot, then it occurs to you, depending on how many charges Falken had left on his laser, he could supercharge it, and hopefully fry this son of a bitch.
"Falken how many charges you got left?"
"I've only used four or five. Why?"
"You need to supercharge it. I need you to fire the supercharged beam at the Ursa, that might be enough to bring this son of a bitch down."
"Will it work?"
"I hope so." You say as you run trying not to get yourself cornered and keeping it in the open so Falken can cook this thing. You get the beast to run up the runway chasing you, and that's when you see the bright gold laser beam heading towards you, forcing you to stop and run towards the Ursa like a man possessed. There are only two outcomes, hopefully your ECM shielding holds and you walk away with a bad sunburn and a dead Ursa, or you have a bad sunburn and the Ursa is even more pissed off, but you don't have the time to think about that as you're scurrying beneath its legs as it tries to swat you with its paws placing its head into the laser. You don't look back but keep running until something knocks you off your feet and away from the Ursa
You sit up and look at the dead Ursa now fading out of existance, well, you definitely killed it alright, and the cheering you hear on the radio confirms that, along with a three foot wide swath of laser damage to the runway, which thankfully was nothing more than a black mark. You are in the grass besides the runway and you don't see a sign of what knocked you off your feet, that is until you look down.
You look at what appears to be a really bad burn on your left side, and you take your headset off before you say anything about that.
"Fuck." Is all you manage to say before lying back down awash in pain, there were bits of exploded rock all around you, and it looks like your shielding saved you from that, but the burn is like you were nicked by the laser.
You're still lying there as your family and the guards come down to talk to you, along with every other pony in Avalon's Shadow.
"A..... Anon, ar... are you ok?"
"No, it fucking hurts."
"Stay still, we'll get you patched up."
"Thunder, get the kids out of here."
"Archer, get Morgan and Falken away." Thunder said as the Sand Island squadron tried to escort them away, but your kids pushed their way to see you.
"Dad?"
"Hey, Morgan."
"You don't look so good."
"Don't you worry. I'll be alright." You say lying to her, you know it's not, you've managed to take a second look at the burn, and it was pretty bad, chunks of skin and what should be internal organs flaking away in the light breeze.
"You're going to be alright right dad?"
"Yea, I'll be alright, don't you two worry" You say as you cough up some blood as you lean against a rock now, still hiding how hurt you are from them
"Dad, I'm sorry. You were so close. I didn't mean"
"Falken, I know, don't you worry. Don't you cry Morgan, it will be o o okay" You say with blood dribbling from your mouth and breathing becoming labored
"Anon don't you leave me! Not like this."
"Who who said I was was le leav leaving?" You say as you try to laugh but only cough up more blood
"Save your strength. You'll pull through won't you? Won't you?" Thunderbolt asked her eyes tearing up as she leans in close to you, only for you to wipe her eyes.
"Not this time. Damage bad, lungs bad, I'm gone. Thunder, it's ok. I'm not going silently into the night." You say very weakly as the last sentence you said activated something in your mind and elsewhere.
"I was never meant to live forever anyways. This body wouldn't handle it." You say as your breathing slows.
 
Boot complete ........
Initiate awakening sequence..............Complete
Name............ Rex Tremenadae
Status:
Human body: Malfunctioning, damaged beyond repair
ADFX-02 Morgan: Booting.........Awakened.........Awake and waiting
Memory, data and personality transfer......100%
All processes complete, awakening in 5.... 4.... 3..... 2.... 1......|
 
Your body is now limp and lifeless, Thunder and the kids are crying, every pony in Avalon's Shadow, rife with sadness at your loss. That is, until they hear a familiar voice that sounds like it's coming from your shop.
"Why the hell is everyone so god damned sad?" the voice says, getting a few ponies to turn around and look at the source of the voice.
"Dad?"
"Who else would it be Morgan?" You say as Morgan rushes the only other ADFX around and hugs you in an increasingly tight hug, which you return, now capable of wrapping your arms around her.
"Didn't I say it'd be alright?"
"Anon? Is it really you?"
"Yea, It's your Anon, but I'd like to go by Rex now. I've had enough of being Anonymous. Guess those really shitty nights of sleep was me being pulled into this new body. Gonna have to get used to it, but I'm glad Morgan taught me how to walk already." You say as Thunderbolt comes up to you tears still in her eyes. You wipe the tears while Morgan now starts to cry herself, where as Falken is still looking at what was your body.
After you wipe their eyes, you go and stand beside him.
"Hey."
"I'm so sorry dad. I didn't mean to." Falken said
You and Falken stare at your former body for a while before you Blaze put a sheet over it.
"I know you didn't buddy, but you did me a favor."
"Dad, I didn't want to hurt you."
"Sure that hurt, but soon it numbed, and then I didn't feel it anymore. Now I'm standing beside you looking at what I used to look like. You've still got your father. Like I said you did me a favor. I couldn't live forever in that body anyways." You say with a light smile on your face, as Falken has no projected eyes, and seems to be filled with sadness.
"Did you a favor?"
"You saved me from dying of old age, failing organs that can't be replaced, and memory loss. I would have died anyways, it just would have taken time. Besides, now I'm not so damned frail." You say as you give him a solid tap and his head turns to you, as if he didn't see you at all.
"Dad. You! You're the same model as Morgan!"
"Yea, and we still share that link, so quit your crying Morgan I didn't leave this planet, only changed forms!" You say as you turn back and see Morgan both laughing and crying at the same time, her tears were tears of joy at the thought of you being just like her, and she could now say I'm just like my daddy, strong, stubborn and capable of killing you if you look at me wrong.
"Well, that was a thing. So how about we all go get something to eat? I'm getting hungry."
"Rex, let's go home, I think we all just need some time today." Thunderbolt said as you felt her lie across your back, well, that's a new feeling for you, but you can now support her weight and not be crushed to death.
"You got it." You say as the four of you walk home with your four escorts following shortly behind after figuring out what to do with your former body.
 
2000 Hrs. Home.
"I told you this would happen if you ate what you used to eat."
"But it tastes sooo good."
"Rex, even as one of us you've got a particularly thick head."
"Ugh, but my food. My favorites." You whine as your head is in a toilet, meat does not agree with you
"Rex, you'll be wasting fuel if you keep this up."
"I'm not giving up until I can at least stand one bite."
"That's a losing battle if I ever heard of one."
"Thunder." You say as you are now the one sipping on a barrel of fuel. To you it's too rich and you can't fully handle it yet, and it has to be on food or something, even if that means you're now reduced to eating grasses, flowers and other things ponies ate. Though you weren't going to give up that easily.
"Hey dad, I know now's probably not the time to ask, but you want to go get ice cream or something?"
"From where?"
"Where else?"
"Luna it's 2000 Hrs. We'll be there at 2300, nothing will be open."
"Yea but we can get it from Luna, she's always willing to share what's in the castle. Besides you need to show off a little."
"Not tonight. We will go for a flight tomorrow, I need to relearn a few things." You say as you finally feel well enough to leave your bathroom to see Morgan smiling and Falken not moping around like he killed you. Then again, you never knew what was going on in that head of his, and you'll probably never know, unlike Morgan who you can read like a book.
"I thought I lost you today."
"Me too. I didn't expect this, but I've got to figure out a way to be able to repair you all. I mean I can't do it like this, hooves and big. I can barely pick up a fork." You say as Thunderbolt giggles a little at your comical efforts to eat with a fork during dinner that you kept dropping despite your best efforts, that is until you gave up and ate like Falken. And now you understand why he eats like that, you just hope he tries to eat normally before Twilight.
You yawn, and Thunder looks at you.
"It's only 2015 Hrs how are you tired?"
"Apparently my lack of sleep carried over. It's been one hell of a day for us, I think we should sleep. Well, at least I am."
"Well, now you and I can cuddle, but I am going to miss protecting the little you" Thunder said as you both head to bed
0700 Hrs. Home.
Breakfast, the usual fuel soaked pancakes, which you could now eat without killing yourself because of the fuel.
"Man am I a good cook."
"Dad, so we still good for that flight?"
"Of course Morgan. Thunder, Falken you two want to tag along?" You say as you're both cooking breakfast and eating it at the same time.
"No, I don't think I could keep up with the two of you, but you and I will have our time to go and fly soon enough Rex."
"Well, I do hope you're not planning on surprising me again."
"Who knows." Thunder said as you laugh and give her a kiss on the cheek. You're still surprised you can do that, and not feel like an ant compared to her.
"You want to come along buddy?"
"Do you want me to go with you?"
"It's your choice buddy, if you'd rather stay home and read, that's fine." You say as you can at least cook with hooves. Still don't fully know how ponies can do things with them.
Around 0730 the Sand Island squadron comes in and they look rather tired.
"You four didn't stay up all night did you?" You ask as they just sit at the table and take some of the pancakes you were making prompting you to keep making them. All you got was a collective of groans from them, a rather funny sight, they either all stayed up or they couldn't figure out how to take turns.
"Morgan and I were going to go for a flight today, after breakfast probably, so we'll be gone for a while, I highly suggest switching to two on duty and two off. That is unless you've got some more ponies you think are capable of being guards. That is after everypony readjusts to me being well like this now."
"Yea, we'll go two on two off, I'm sure you can look after Morgan yourself. All things considered."
"Blaze, you guys need rest."
"We know. We've been busy. Keeping you four safe. We should probably look into recruiting." Blaze said as the rest of the squad was eating breakfast.
"You ready dad?"
"Yea, I guess so. Let's go and fly."
"Alright, follow me." Morgan said as you both left