The Tower

Twilight faded in and out of reality, each time her world consisted of a grey sealing and a light just out of her view. She moaned as she regained enough of her consciousness to remember what happened. Sitting up, Twilight looked around her room, no cell she realized noticing the bars that lined one wall. What ever she'd been shot with had only knocked her out. She scanned her cell it contained a bed, a floor drain, a single light, an odd box with a blinking light, a sink, and a slightly larger drain for sanitary purposes. Suddenly the drain seemed very useful as she darted over to it and vomited.

Twilight cried a little and yelled, "Oh no, this can't be happening not now!"

Twilight tried the lock on her cell using her magic. She concentrated as hard as she could trying to overpower the forcefield. After three minutes a soft click sounded and Twilight rushed to her cell's door. It was still locked. Twilight looked down the hallway and realized the click had come from the door at the end of the hallway.

After a moment the manlin stepped through and walked down to her cell. He turned to face her and a stone pedestal rose out of the ground behind him; which he proceeded to sit on. He began to sort through papers intentionally ignoring Twilight.

"Well, this is the part where I interrogate you. This will take as long or as short as you want it to, depending on your willingness to answer my questions. Understood?" He asked.

"Understood." Twilight responded

"First question, what are you."

"A pony."

"Where do you come from?"

"Equestria."

"Show me." He commanded as he slid a thin disk through the bars and set it on the ground. A three-dimensional picture of the world appeared out of thin air.

"I'm sorry but this map is inaccurate. This should be land not ocean." Twilight explained pointing to a spot on the map.

"Quantx are the satellite feeds still operational?" He paused waiting for an answer, "Good, update the current world map based on the satellites' geographical scans." The map changed to become a perfect representation of the world.

Twilight pointed to the map just above where they were and said, "Our capital city is right here."

"When is the earliest point in your history relative to this year?"

"Well the earliest point of our existence is about a thousand two-thousand years ago."

"So you have no history of what happened before than?"

"Well your species' history is really the earliest significant event we know of."

The manlin sighed, "I suppose it would be selfish of me to let the early history of this world die with me so I think I'll tell you a story. Well, first the planet formed then for about four billion years nothing important happened after that a species known as the humans came into existence. Now us humans had a knack for not planing ahead so we just colonized and expanded more and more until we covered the entire planet. When all the land had been claimed by the different countries the we decided to fight over it. We developed more powerful and more deadly weapons until we finally out did ourselves with the creation of the atomic bomb. A single atomic bomb was so powerful it could wipe out all life with a few miles, and each of the countries had hundreds of them. Tensions built until one of the countries fired their's off. All other countries responded in kind. The initial blast wiped out almost all life on the planet but a few of us in bunkers managed to survive."

"But what happened to them?"

"I'm getting to that hold on. So anyway, there was one problem; the atomic bombs generated so much ash it completely blotted out the sky creating something called a 'nuclear winter.' This winter lasted longer than anyone could have guessed and the we realized they were going to become extinct. Then they made a discovery; it was possible do draw in energy from life it self."

"Magic?"

"Magic is just misunderstood science. We figured out how to harness the planets life force to build a terraformer which we used to filter the ash out of the air.

"So humans used magic to clean up the ash."

"Precisely. Now, at this time the planet's tectonic plate activity caused the world to resemble what your world looks like today, so there were just two major land masses. Two governments formed one on each landmass; the Republic my enemy, and the Alliance who controlled this fortress. War broke out and it lasted for thirty years. I joined high command about fifteen years into the war and worked my way up to general. Since I was a bit of an inventor they put me in charge of this tower which houses most of the army's experimental weaponry as well as the world's only robotic army which you had the pleasure of meeting. Anyway the army had me develop an experimental; extremely deadly poison called 'D-Tox 24.' The Alliance decided to detonate it in the upper atmosphere above the Republic in order to kill them. Based off the computer's information, it worked better than anyone could have imagined not only did it kill every single citizen in the Republic it completely contaminated the planet's atmosphere killing everything that breathed air. Luckily I had access to our experimental stasis equipment which saved my life. After that all I know is that the field around the tower that absorbs the energy from living beings couldn't get enough to run the base because of all the deaths that occurred and that caused my pod to fail. Aside from that all I know is that some astronomical force completely erased my all traces of my civilization from existence except for the tower."

"How could the Tower survived the Force of Life?"

"Force of Life?"

"The blast you mentioned was created by our current rulers to restore the planet to full health."

"The forcefield acts as an inertial dampener meaning the more force that is applied to it the more it resists. It can deflect a direct impact from an atomic bomb and since the point of origin for the Force of Life likely wasn't my tower, I can see it surviving."

"Your forcefield must be incredibly powerful in order to deflect forces of that magnitude."

"Indeed. Now, you slept for quite a while so I'll bring you lunch. I have work to do and will return in an hour." The human concluded retrieving the disk from the floor and walking back down the hallway.