"What? Is she going to be alright?" Raptor asked as she wanted to know what she had done to her friend.
"Yea, she's going to be fine, I don't know what the hell you did, but it looks like she suffered a hard reset. She'll be fine once her avionics boot up. How the hell you managed that I don't know." You say as that's the conclusion you draw from where the pillow hit Nora, it was above her central processing systems for her avionics, and perhaps they just had a very delayed reset.
"I'll know more when she wakes up, which should be any second now." You say as Nora starts to shift around on the floor
"Anon? What am I doing in your shop?" Nora asked as she looked around with a hoof on her head.
"I'd ask you the same but, you wouldn't know. Raptor brought you here after you were hit with a pillow above your avionics processors. To me, it appears you suffered from a delayed reset of your avionics. How do you feel?" You say explaining some of the situation.
"I remember being hit by the pillow, I think I might have reset overnight, but I don't know. I feel kinda funny, and my head hurts." Nora said as she now lies down on the floor.
"Do you mind if I grab my computer to do an analysis?" You ask
"Go ahead. You said Raptor brought me here?" Nora asked
"Yea, she did." you say as you grab your laptop from a cart along with the proper connections for Nora.
"Raptor why?" Nora asked as you now set up with your laptop on her wing and the connections made to her processors
"You were calling for me to get Anon, don't you remember?" Raptor said as Nora went red in the face and your readings spiked.
"How about you save that until I can't see what's going on inside of your head." You say acknowledging the spike and Nora's heavy blushing
"Sorry Anon." They both say to you
"That's alright, but it looks like it was really just a hard reset due to a little bit of blunt force. I really should replace those panels with something a little thicker to stop this from happening again" you say
"Happening again?" Nora asked
"Well yea, this happened because you were hit by a pillow, if you don't want it to happen again, I should place thicker panels on ya, or your current panels have been wind eroded a little and thin in some spots which allowed your skin to bend and jostle your components." You say explaining it to her as you go and prod around her avionics bay after disconnecting your laptop and placing it somewhere safe.
"How long would it take?"
"All of ten maybe twenty minutes Nora." You say as you ready the panels to be replaced.
"Go ahead, may as well replace them, I haven't had anything replaced since my YF days." Nora said giving you permission to replace her panels.
It's now 0730 hrs. And you've begun to replace the two panels on Nora. When you pull them off you see how eroded they are.
"Nora, these are nearly paper thin. Why didn't you have these replaced?" You ask as you prod the removed panels.
"Well, I didn't win the competition, so I thought I'd just see how long I could keep myself original." Nora said as you roll your eyes and replace the panel as soon as you remove it.
"Well lot of good that'll do ya. Just try not to get into anymore pillow fights with Raptor alright?" You say as you attach the last panel onto Nora.
"Right, I won't let her hit me next time." Nora said in a cheery manner.
"Good, and you two are all set to go. Just take it slow for a little while, some of your avionics are still resetting, it should pass in a few hours. But no flying today because of it. You hear me?" You say as the two of them walk out, smiles on their faces.
"I hear ya, no flying." Nora said as you shake your head and turn to go deeper into your shop.
Doesn't help that it's 0755hrs and Twilight's right behind you causing you to jump back in alarm.
"Damn it Twilight! Don't do that." You say after slowing down your heart rate enough to not need to run like a crazy man.
"Do what?" Twilight asked.
"Sneak up on me like that. Besides you're five minutes early." You say as you walk to your office to grab a spare set of coveralls and boots.
"What's wrong with your legs?" Twilight asked as you walked.
You remember the burns from trying to control the F-5 before you bailed out.
"Those are a memory from long ago, bailing out sucks." You say as you enter your office and search for the clean set of coveralls.
"From the accident?" Twilight asked causing you to sigh.
"Yes, from THAT accident." You say as you put the coveralls on.
"I hope you're not here to ask about that. I've got enough on my mind making sure I don't hurt Morgan by accident today when I slightly dismantle her for Princess Luna." You say as Twilight shakes her head.
"No, I'm just here to watch you work. They're so interesting, and they trust you with their lives." Twilight said as you laced up your boots.
"Yea, they do. Funny thing is, when I was a mechanic back where I was from, I never thought I'd get the chance to work on some of the types of planes that these ponies are. Even then, here they're planes I never thought I'd get to see outside of a museum flying because of my repairs." You say with a bit of pride seeping through.
"How different are they from the ones you worked on back home?" Twilight asked.
"Systems function the same, except the layout's a little weird. I've documented the differences in all those binders behind you. Fortunately it seems these books were here and I've just collected the correct data from working on them." You say as you point to the binders. shocking Twilight with your organized data collection.
"Can I look at these? Specifically Morgan's so I can understand what you're doing?" Twilight asked as she was mesmerized by the stacks and stacks of books.
"Go ahead, you won't find Morgan's I didn't even have a repair manual for her, it's all up here. Built her from memory, which means I've got to be ridiculously careful with her. They should be organized alphabetically by type. First should be A something." You say as Morgan and Princess Luna come into your shop a little late.
"There's my little girl. First check up. I'll admit I'm a bit nervous to be taking you apart Morgan." You say as she shows the same sort of nervousness, and you can feel it too, her connection to you wasn't just a one way thing.
"Morgan, it's going to be alright. Try to remember that COFFIN works both ways." You think with a smile on your face, as she takes a deep breath.
"Right, so let's get going." Morgan said as your tool chest is rolled up to you by magic yet again.
"Alright. I'm just opening you up for a looksie, nothing's being removed." You say as you begin to move the inspection panels on her wings.
It takes you an hour and a half to open all of Morgan's inspection panels, but the care you've taken in it showed Morgan you're not going to hurt her.
It takes Morgan a little while to build up the confidence to start moving around without being fully covered.
When she did start moving around the hangar, Princess Luna was amazed and intrigued by how she was moving by hydraulic power. Twilight on the other hand was furiously taking notes on the subsystems of Morgan.
"Dad, why is she taking notes?" Morgan asked via the connection.
"Because she's very interested in how you work dear. I didn't remove all the panels, Morganite is still covered. They don't know about that one sweetie." You think back to her as she smiled and sighs relieved.
"Luna, see, we move just like you, but with a different set of muscles. Sure we've got some that assist us in moving, but really we move by hydraulics or if you're a Russian by pneumatics." Morgan said rather happily.
"It is amazing. To think you can have superficial damage and continue to move." Princess Luna said as she ran a hoof along Morgan's side.
"We still feel the damage. Like I know you're running your hoof along me." Morgan said shocking the princess.
"They've said they can feel me working on them." You say trying to make up for the shock.
"So their panels have sensors in them?" Twilight asked, focusing more on the mechanical side of it.
You laugh before correcting her.
"More like nerve endings they can turn off and on when the panel is installed. They're a little more bio then they are mechanical." you say as Morgan's fully comfortable with having certain components exposed to her friend Luna and Twilight.
"Dad's right, I may have been born by being assembled from parts, but I feel just like you all, except for dad, having two legs seems a little weird to me." Morgan said causing you to laugh. "And where I'm from walking on four is weird." You say as she knows it's a joke.
"And yet you're the odd one out." Luna said
"Never said I wasn't. Closeout time Morgan." You say prompting her to stand still so you can close every access panel you opened.
That meticulous hour and a half you spent opening her up, is the exact same amount of time you spent closing her up.
"There you go. Didn't misplace anything did I?" You ask as Morgan's about to have a panic attack.
"NO NO Morgan No! I ask everyone that. It's just a check to make sure I didn't forget anything" You say as you're now about to panic because of Morgan's near panic attack.
After Morgan calmed down she gave you her answer. "Yea, everything is where it should be. Don't scare me like that. You've always asked that question?"
"Yea, I have. It's just you're all alive, and well sometimes I need a double check." you say as the two of you calm down.
"Dad, looks like lunch." Morgan says as you laugh.
 
1230 hrs. Edge of Space.
Avalon's Shadow council meeting.
"Alright, so our visitors would like a show. Morgan's volunteered to fly, anyone else want to go and show off?" You ask in front of the faction leaders.
"Well, I'll see if we can't get the three VTOLs to put on a show." Brezhnev said to much approval.
"The Hornets should love the chance to show off to guests. Considering their attitudes, this is right up their alley." Echo said.
"Well that's mighty kind of her." Applejack said
"Applejack it's fascinating. How they move it's such a complex system of hydraulics but they walk just like us. It's amazing to think we share the same form." Twilight said sharing her enthusiasm with Applejack.
"That's fine Twi, but we kinda need ya right now." Applejack said.
"Oh for the love of god, what are the ponies doing?" You ask wondering what the plane ponies are up to.
"It ain't yer planes, its uh, our group." Applejack said as you laugh a little at the fact the plane pones are playing nice with the regular ponies.
"Really, what'd y'all do?" You ask with a slight bit of enjoyment from it.
"Uh, that's a problem for Princess Twilight." Applejack said as you're now in full enjoyment mode.
"Oh this has to be good." You say as this has your full attention.
"Can ya butt out? This ain't your problem." Applejack said as she was rather frustrated by your inquiries not Twilight's
"Applejack, can it wait until after lunch?" Twilight asked.
"Ah guess it can, but Discord an Fluttershy were supposed to have tea yesterday an he's mighty upset about that." Applejack said as that name sounded familiar to you for some reason but you couldn't remember why.
"He's not doing anything to the plane ponies is he?" Twilight asked.
"Naw, just changin our colors and cryin his eyes out. Fluttershy's tryin to calm him down, but ah think he needs a little extra help." Applejack said explaining the situation on the airstrip.
"Anon, can you attend to him? You do run Avalon's Shadow right?" Twilight said making both you and Morgan burst into laughter.
"Dad doesn't run this place, he may have a big hand in running it, but he doesn't run it himself." Morgan said as you were too busy laughing at her.
"Well, then could he lend us a hand and quiet Discord down." Twilight said as you looked to Luna for instructions. Princess Luna just shrugged and didn't know what to do.
"Alright, I'll got talk to him." You say as you go out
1300 hrs. Main Runway.
There's four ponies gathered around something you've never seen before. You walk up to the group as the plane ponies are staying far away from them.
"Anon, what's going on?" a 150 asked as you walked up to them.
"Dunno, going to go find out." You say as you walk past her.
"What the bloody hell is going on?" You say as you get into the group.
"Now, who are you? And what business do you have with these ponies?" the oddest one asked.
"Me? I'm just a mechanic, I'm here because I was sent by Twilight. Who may you be and may I ask why you're in Avalon's Shadow?" You say questioning Discord
"Ah, just a lowly mechanic, I am Discord the embodiment of Chaos." Discord said as you nod.
"Interesting, very interesting. So I hear you had some issues with tea?" you say going off the information you were given.
"Oh, and who told you that?"
"A little pony told me." You say not revealing your source.
"Oh that honest Applejack. Could never tell a lie." Discord said.
"Right, well, so care to take this off the runway? The others are a little concerned about the runway being blocked." You say prompting them all to move.
"Oh, I'm sorry, but Discord can be a little bit of a troublemaker, I'll try and get him to move from the runway to somewhere safe." A quieter pony said as you turned to look at her.
"Thank you. If you'd please, stay away from the active runways, the taxiways may be a little unsafe, but they're better than being here." You say pointing to the lighted sidewalks for the runways.
"Thank you." The quiet one said as she nudged Discord towards the taxiways.
You return to the bar, and find both the ponies gone, leaving just Morgan, who is now joined by Thunderbolt.