Referenz schrieb:Prologue: Of PipBucks and Cutie ___

If I’m going to tell you about the ___ of my life -- explain how I got to this place with these people, and why I did what I’m going to do next -- I should ___ start by explaining a little bit about PipBucks.

What is a ___? A PipBuck is a device, worn on a foreleg just above the hoof, issued to every pony in a ___ when they become old enough to start work. A blending of unicorn ___ magic and science, your PipBuck ___ keep a constant measure of your health and even help administer ___ poultices and other medicine, track and organize everything in your ___, assist in repairs, and keep all manner of notes and maps available at a hooftap. Plus, it allows you to ___ to the Stable broadcast whenever you would like as it can tune into and decrypt ___ about any radio frequency. And that’s not all. Apony’s PipBuck generates an E.F.S. (Eyes-Forward Sparkle) that will ___ direction and help gauge whether the ponies or ___ around you are hostile. And, per-haps most impressively, a PipBuck can magically aid you in a fight for brief periods of ___ through use of the S.A.T.S. (Stable-Tec Arcane Targeting ___). Oh, and a feature not to be forgotten: it can keep track of the location of tagged objects or people, including the ___ of other PipBucks. So if a pony somehow got lost -- don’t ask me how you could ___ lost in a Stable, but it does happen on ___ -- then anypony who knew the lost pony’s tag could find them instantly.

It can even be made to glow like a ___.

So yes, PipBucks really are a ___ to unicorn pony arcane science. And yes, having a PipBuck is a big ___. So with how wonderful and miraculous all that just sounded, it’s hard to ___ upon ponies who never ___ in a Stable just how ___, how pedestrian, a PipBuck was in the eyes of the ponies living in Stable Two. And why I was disappointed to have one as my cutie ___.

Every pony in Stable Two had a PipBuck. All that stuff I ___? Most ponies don’t use even half of that. They just used it to ___ into the Stable broadcast -- listened to the sweet, sweet voice of Velvet Remedy in the evenings or the ___ school singing competitions ___ the day. The Stable had two soccer leagues, one which allowed S.A.T.S. and one which prohibited it. Otherwise, most ponies paid their PipBucks almost no attention at all. The Overmare issues each pony their own PipBuck on the day of their Cutie Mark Party -- usually a day or two after you get the mark on your ___ that tells everypony what makes you ___, what you’re ___ to be good at. Once it shows, the Overmare knows what work to assign you; you know your ___ in the Stable. So no, I was not ___ that what made me special was something that everypony had, which was a lot like being told I wasn’t special at all. ___, getting a PipBuck as my cutie mark could have meant I was destined to become an awesome PipBuck repair filly or something, but in reality it was like getting a cutie mark of a cutie mark.