The Dungeon Master of Equestria
Chapter 38: To Question the Dungeon Master
Previous Chapter Next ChapterThe night I came back went by in a flash. It was rather uneventful after all that had happened, kinda helped that the others didn't see me when I got back.
The DM had sent Tirek?! What the hell! I thought something else was going on, but no, it's the DM trying to do something to entertain himself. Douche.
And now I have a robotic arm. Let me mention that I woke up today because it groped me in my sleep. I had a massive boner when I woke up. Seriously, what was up with it?
"DM!" I yelled. "Take the sentience off the arm. NOW!"
Sorry, buddy. No can do.
"And why not?" I asked.
Because I refuse to mess with that. It's from one of the worlds I warded. I am not coming anywhere near things from that world.
"Dick," I said.
I started wandering around the rooms, searching for the girls. I found a stone pony in the entrance to the organ room. After a little bit of investigation, I found that it was Pinkie. She looked so peaceful in her sleep. Then again, so did all of them. I picked up the stone Pinkie and started carrying her further into the room.
I just have to say thank goodness she was asleep, 'cause my robot arm started groping her. Damn it, robot arm! Why must you be horrible?! OH GREAT, now it's signing at me.
"Shut up arm," I said quietly. "Just focus on carrying Pinkie, and not groping things."
The arm just gave me a thumbs up before doing what I asked. Huh, apparently it doesn't just grope things and sign at me. It's better than I thought.
..... And it just flipped me off. Real mature, arm. Real mature.
I carried Pinkie into the center of the room, where the rest of the ponies were, and then I went back to sleep.
When I woke up, I found that all the ponies were looking at me and whispering. Apparently they had waken up just a few minutes ago and seen my new arm.
I heard things like: "Where'd that come from?" and "Oh my gosh! A new arm buddy!". My favorite reaction was from Twilight, who seemed to be having a total nerd freak out about me having a new robotic arm. All you could hear from her was how she had something to study, that there was something new to learn about. I even think I heard her say something about writing a book about it. It was hilarious and cute at the same time.
"Whoa, calm down everyone," I said, getting up. "Now, what's up?"
At that, I heard a collective gasp. Apparently, the arm wasn't all Jack had done, because they were all staring at my face instead of my arm.
"What?" I asked aloud. "What's up with my face?"
"You're eye, deary!" Rarity said. "Something's happened to your eye!"
"My eye?" I asked. It took me a minute, but then I realized what she meant. Jack must have put the implant in my eye. And to think, I was somewhat joking about that. Oh well, an improvement's an improvement. I moved myself into a standing position before continuing. "Listen, I can explain everything that's happened to me. I just need to go take care of something first."
I meant it, too. My arm had started going nuts! It looked like it was going to jump off my body at any second, only to go and start groping people the next. What the hell was wrong with it?
I walked back into the room with the Tree of Harmony and started talking to my arm.
"What's up?" I asked the arm. "Why are you wigging out so much?"
It just signed out that it was something to do with its AI. It then turned over and popped up a holo-screen before playing a video. The video was about how to use the eye implant and how the arm normally works. It didn't really tell me how to fix it, but I didn't really mind. It had an AI, and one that helped. It just liked groping things.
Let's not get started on the eye. It was really cool. I started scanning EVERYTHING. It documented everything with ease. It even knew what everything was. Funny thing is though, it thought the petrified ponies were all just statues of them, but it knew who they all were. Had Jack been able to document a non-anthro world, or was Hyperion just that good?
"Hyperion's just that good, kid," said a pop up hologram of Handsome Jack. It gave me a smile and a thumbs up before disappearing back into the hand. Heh, Jack, always the modest one.
I spent the next few hours just scanning away. Man, I scanned everything. Somehow, I even found something that caused an error. Apparently there was something that the Hyperion database didn't know about. That object was the Runic Portal Matrix. I had to freaking input the data, myself. It wasn't that much fun, but at least I got to sign who discovered it.....
It was through this that I found my Hyperion Data Card. It was as follows:
Name: Dox
Codename: Nerd
Age: ???
Race: White and Nerdy (PALE AS SHIT)
Specification: Nerdy and Annoying. Less annoying than Claptrap, evidenced by the fact that I can actually talk to him without losing brain cells.
Wow. Either Jack liked me, or he didn't. I couldn't tell. Oh well, at least we were on okay enough terms.
The rest of the day was spent explaining to the girls what had happened to me the night before. It took a while to explain what Hyperion was, and what the displaced Jack's version of it was. Hell, it took them a while to be convinced that the displaced one was actually a good guy. They did kinda just shut up when I mentioned F.A.U.S.T., however. Apparently, she was a goddess here, and maybe in most of the other worlds. Probably should ask her about that the next time I see her.
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So yeah, a call back to the last chapter.
I don't really have much to say about this chapter, other than the fact that it's kinda short. So yeah.Anyways, this is Music Mod, signing off.