My Friendly Iron Giant

Discovery

Dash returned to the forest holding a large piece of metal and a camera. She could have used the camera on her phone, but people might not believe it was real. "Hello!" Rainbow Dash yelled. "BIG GIANT ROBOT GOT SOME FOOD FOR YAH!!" She shouted, hitting the metal with a stick. She placed the metal on a tree stump and scurried behind some trees, waiting to capture it on camera.

She waited for the robot to appear, but minutes turned into hours, and Rainbow Dash was still waiting. She texted her friends for a while, and cleaned the camera lenses, but accidentally took a picture of herself, causing her to be temporarily blinded, before ultimately falling asleep. When she woke up, she saw that the metal piece was gone. Dash gasped and looked around for it, only to find it crushed in front of her. She put two and two together and looked up to see a giant metal robot with bright yellow eyes and a robot fin on top of its head.

Dash froze, looking up at it before deciding to run away. She dodged trees as she turned back, noticing it still looking at her before it started following her. She ran faster and kept looking back as she ran through branches, not realizing that her camera had gotten stuck on it as she kept running. She kept looking back at it again before keeping her eyes on it as it kept following her. Suddenly, her running came to a stop when a sturdy branch hit her face, causing her to fall. Rainbow Dash groaned and felt her eye throbbing before sitting up and turning.

The robot then stopped walking and crouched in front of her, looking at her. Rainbow Dash held her arm up, thinking it was going to attack her, but it didn't. Instead, it sat down on the floor, copying her sitting movement. Rainbow then got into a starfish sitting position as the robot did the same. "Hey, you're copying me," Dash said, smiling softly. "So I guess you're not going to hurt me?" She continued before the robot placed its arm up almost like it was going to smash her, causing Dash to shield herself. But no, it dropped a shutoff switch. "The shutoff switch?" Rainbow Dash asked curiously.

"You saw me save you, that's why," she said as the robot turned its head curiously. "So where did you come from? Wait, you're the thing that came from the sky, right? The creature that sailor man Johnson saw?" Dash asked, pointing up to the sky. But the robot continued looking at her curiously. "Do you remember anything?" she asked as she noticed the dent on the robot's head. "That's why you don't remember anything. Can you speak? You know words like blah blah blah?" Rainbow Dash said before the robot also started doing it. "So you can, huh?" Rainbow said before picking up a rock. "This is a rock. Can you say rock?" Rainbow said before the robot picked up a boulder. "R-Rock," it said in a grunted voice.

"Good," Rainbow said before the robot picked up a tree and got it confused as a rock. "No, that's a tree," Dash said, pointing to the tree and pointing to a rock she called the rock to make it understand, which it did. "This is awesome, almost as awesome as me. I'm the luckiest teenager. I gotta tell someone... wait, no, they will immediately start attacking you and get scared of you," Rainbow said as the robot looked at her, confused as the day started to almost end.

"Okay, you stay here. I'll go home and be back at night," Dash said as she started walking away, and to her surprise, the robot didn't follow her. Just as she made it home, she noticed her mom's car wasn't parked outside. "Mom? If you're not here, don't say anything," Rainbow called out. Just as she heard nothing, she heard what sounded like a crash. Rainbow Dash immediately ran out of her house and started heading to a set of train tracks near the forest and her house. Just as she approached the tracks, she noticed the robot eating the tracks as the train was turned over. She immediately ran over.

"NO! PUT THAT DOWN!" Rainbow shouted as the robot put the half-eaten track down. Rainbow then heard a groan and looked to see the conductor waking up. "Change of plans, let's go," Dash said as she ran and moved her hand to tell the robot to follow her, which it did, as they escaped the scene. On the other side of town, the agent was talking to the mayor of the town.