Code Name: Dark Star

"Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice. We are all telling ourselves a story and that day mine changed"

By Will Smith playing Cypher Raige in After Earth

The cold chill of the air, the bite into your skin it lies upon, the grey clouded skies above. A new country, a new life, a new goal. Flown thousands of miles with a man she had met days before, she found that this man had a very cynical sense of humor and loved to mess with the people around him, sort of like a child with a pitch fork that had just finished heating. The man had explained where they were going and what would happen if she agreed to join, though he said the basics he didn't tell her about where the exact location they were taking her was, she would soon find out.

Upon landing in Moscony they departed the plane and made there way through the airport, surprising to Twilight was that the bag that held his guns passed through the metal detectors without setting them off, the guard behind the controls had nodded as they passed him. The man turned slightly looking back at Twilight who was looking around at the sights, "Twi' Keep up, once we are outside the association will have a car ready," A man in a black suit walked up next to them, "this country is different to Canterlot, it is near freezing temperatures could kill somebody without proper clothing," He then turned to the man in the black suit, "did you get it?"

The man nodded and pulled his right arm up, a large white carrying bag held something purple, the man pulled out the purple item to reveal a snow jacket. "Here kid, put this on, it helps," he threw the jacket at Twilight who caught it when it got closer, "Its cold out there boss, we have the cars ready and number twenty three is back from her mission to train the next batch"

"Good, we are adding this one to the batch, do we have the facility in place for the training?" he asked as they passed the threshold of the airport where two black cars were parked, four guards stood in front of them, "I expect we have transfered all the subjects and experiments there?"

"Yes sir, all thirty nine other trainees are there and we have X-five through nine at the facility, we will head there now to drop off the last batch of recruits"

"Good," The man said, as they walked forward one of the guards moved to the cars back door and opened it, the man stopped and gestured for Twilight to enter the car.

Twilight hesitated for a second but ended up stepping into the car and moving over for the man to get in, Twilight had too many thoughts running through her head for now to even care that she really didn't know what she was getting herself into, this was her last chance at a free life.

The car moved for around ten minutes before it pulled into an alleyway, at the sudden stop Twilight thought to look where they had got to, looking around all she saw was the snow covered cobble paths at either sides of the car and over piled garbage bins. "Where are we?"

"I am very sorry to do this to you but if you knew of where the facility is you may attempt to run to the politsiya, you know we cant have that," He said, then took out a bag from his jacket, woven thread that likely held flour, "we can either do this the easy way or I can tie your hands, your choice, what do you chose," he gestured with the bag in one hand and a clenched fist as the other.

"I think I would rather have the bag, how long will it be until we are at your facility?" Twilight said in a calm voice but her body showed she was slightly agitated by the bag.

"Not long, I promise," he said as he put the bag over her head, "now just sit tight and we will be there in no time, Kain, get a move on!"

Twilight felt the car move once again, bumps and the sounds of cars, minutes later most of the sounds became drowned out. The car came to an abrupt stop as the doors bolted open, Twilight felt an hand on her arm as she was pulled from the car, the bag was pulled from her face as she needed to cover her eyes from the sudden brightness. When she opened them she was looking at a large warehouse by the docks, as big as four floors of stairs high, large green hanger doors opens slightly as a women in a white cloak walked up.

"T3 it is so nice to see you, how was the western mission? not too... hectic I presume? the man asked.

"Fuck off master, you know it was a ball ache to get that mission completed, they got two of my fingers on that mission," the women said as she pulled her hand up to point half a middle finger at the man.

Twilight looked between the two of them, the master, sounds weird, "how come she called you master?"

The master turned and looked at Twilight, "the reason for that my dear is that out of the thirty two test subjects at the time this lovely lady was the only one to survive training, and as such I was the one to train her, but that's in the past. As for the present I think we shall begin, don't you think miss Twenty three?"

"Gladly," T3 said with a grin, Twilight suddenly felt lightheaded as she began falling, she noticed the master and T3 held clothes to their faces as smoke rose from T3's coat, Twilight fell unconscious. "I will now begin the program sir, number forty has been retrieved but I am afraid thirteen have already died"

"It matters not, put number forty in her cell, use blackout as protocol for now and see how she reacts to starvation and malnutrition for now but before that inject her with the X-96-91 fluid before you do so"

"Sir, that is still experimental, it could cause her t-"

"Doesn't matter, just do as I say! Hurry up you only have a short amount of time before she awakes"

"Yes sir"

Twilight grumbled as she tried to move her body, she felt very weak and sluggish, her hair was matted with sweat and a strong pain emanated from her right arm, shifting as she coughed noticing even as she opened her eyes she was in a pitch black room, she tried to cast a light spell and couldn't. She moved a hand toward her head, feeling pain, then feeling a tight metal band wound around her head. "A magic disable band," she tried to get up, feeling for something other than the dust covered floor, "Where is this, where is the master?" She finally found the wall, sliding her hand up she quickly retracted her left hand grasping it with her right, gasping for air as pain gripped her.

The sound of liquid dripping was the only noise apart from her reckless breathing, panicked and isolated, C'mon calm down Sparkle, you have been in much worse... No I haven't, what am I doing here, she thought, slowly braking down as tears took their positions upon her face, wailing into the boxed room. Twilight was now truly lost to the world, her father was now gone, her family resented her and now she was taken by a stranger who she stupidly but willingly agreed to come with, again and again she belated her stupid reasoning until another pain sprung upon her. Not from her palm of her hand, no but from her arm where she felt the pain earlier, her muscles contracted and released as the pain convulsed. Every time the pain grew worse and spread up her arm, with every retraction she screamed.

Not too far away from where she was kept T3 sat watching through night visual cameras that had been installed, seeing Twilight writhe in pain on the floor, every scream of pain echoed in the boxed room. She sighed as she picked up her board and pen, a list of twenty X's with numbers on them, thirteen had been crossed off with a red marker, "Guess this will make number five of the experiments here failure, soon she will die like I had foreto-" grunting from the monitors stopped her soliloquizing and turned all her attention to the screen.

Back in the room Twilight panted as the pain tore far in her arm and chest, close to her heart, she grunted again. She refused to give into the pain, blood dripped from her hand as she clenched her fists, now roaring into the darkness with a indescribable shout of anger. She began smacking the ground with her hands as her back lay to the ground, smack... smack.... smack..... Crack. Faint amounts of energy emanated from her, it was magical but it wasn't from her usual magic reserves. Grunting she got to her feet, she could not keep the pain in so she began hitting the air and walls, unknown to her with every swing of her fist a shockwave so minute exploded at the ends of her fists.

Before now, Twilight had not once swung her fists, be it in anger or otherwise. Twilight was doing this on instinct, the pain numbed her thoughts as her body moved, T3 watched on as she saw the concrete walls slowly make way for slashed and broken knuckles. Twilight eventually dropped to the floor panting, the fluctuations of the pain subsiding but her hands throbbed as the metal smell of liquid dropped to the floor, Twilight also took place upon the floor.

Unknown hours later

Twilight once again awoke in the dark room again, she did not move, only laid there thinking of how she got to this point. When did everything go so wrong, is the world against me? No Sparkle that's just paranoia, then what is it. Is what anyone does worthwhile, are we all to just play the fate of the gods, gods, there is no god for me, not here. I prayed to you, and you returned the gesture with my fathers death, then you offer me a poisoned choice that caused me more pain. That thought sparked a memory from before she woke up, she sat up and moved her hands up, feeling them slightly constricted she gingerly moved a hand over the other feeling it. Pain, she moved her hand pack, it was wet but it seems someone had bandaged her hands as she was passed out. "Is this some sick joke!" She shouted into the darkness, "Where am I!?" No response.

She screamed into the darkness for someone to react, no response, her fingers felt tingly when she shouted. It was a weird feeling but Twilight thought it was due to her injuries, after that thought a gurgling came from the room as Twilight noticed it was her stomach, she hadn't eaten since before the plane ride. "Hey, I know your there, I'm hungry. Please, anyone, C'mon, PLEASE!?" She knew they were listening but her imagination wandered to other thoughts.

For hours she sat there, slowly getting more hungry until she fell asleep, huddled in the corner of the dark room. T3 looked through the monitor as the Master watched from behind her, he giggled slightly at her face, "I did say it would work, she has the eyes of one who wont give up, she has been through a lot of trials. I expect she will be one of our best if we can keep her alive long enough, Don't you miss T3? maybe even better than yourself my dear?"

"Don't push your luck Master, If I know you, you are planning to break her. Just as you did me, she will be a completely new person after going through this, only... if she survives that is. Thirteen died tonight, four have bitten through their wrists, nine died from malnutrition. Your new recruit and X-4 have been producing good results though, though I say that, its only been a day since X-10 was given X-96-91, number four has fully integrated with the aspects of X-96-89, X-5 to X-9 who were introduced to X-96-90 died in order that they were given the dose of it. X-96-91 is only the slightly revised version, I still think there is going to be more to her changes, even if she doesn't survive I am sure the data and body recovery will give me lots to work upon." T3 said as she read down her list.

The master sighed as he reached in his pocket, pulling a packet of cigarettes and a lighter out, shaking a fag out and moving the box up to his lips as he lit it. "You know T3, have I ever said you would be cuter if you just kept your mouth shut, you really talk too much. Next time don't explain every detail, I just don't care. All I want is them," He said pointing to a few screens.

The first held a man sat with a calm demeanor and crossed arms, the second was a small girl with blonde hair who was staring at the camera even though it was pitch black, The third held two girls. The girls were twins, too close for normal twins though as they held each other in the dark, the last was another girl who was stood staring at the wall until T3 and Master looked at the monitor. When their attention was solely on her screen she turned, facing the camera with a scowl, her black hair turned grey as she raised her hand. The monitor sparked as she was staring, frost could be seen on the screen as it finally became static. "See that, that is the power of a killer T3," The master said ecstatically, "X-4, what was her name again?"

"Sir we never found out, we found her in that storm with a battered body if you remember? you really have an aloof personality"

"Hmm, a storm, really? then how about, well storm?"

"What do you mean sir?"

"C'mon, we both know she is going to survive, she will have a codename soon anyway so why not now. So storm, what do you think of that?" He said as he puffed a cloud of smoke out.

"Too clee-shay, Seems cool but I am sure we can't use that, but naming an operative by where we found her is a little... you know. I mean we can't just go ahead an-"

"Tundra! that is what we will call her, Tundra!" The master said as he flew his arms up, fist pumping like a little kid making T3 sigh at his antics, "Cool ain't it? is it? is it?" he said nudging her arm.

"Yes sir, very..." she sighed, "cool..."

He nodded in pride at his achievement, then turned his attention on the other screens he seemed keen upon, Twilights catching his eyes. She was still asleep but the camera had slight static, slowly the camera had more and more until it was fully static, when it came back on. The room was full of dust as Twilight was screaming.

In the room, Twilight had just awoken at the sound of an explosion, several small cuts and gashes over her body from the rocks that flew away from the walls. "WHATS HAPPENING!!" she began hyperventilating, the dust was too thick as she coughed, needing more air she sucked in, another fit of coughs. Noticing this both T3 and the Master came through her door just in time for her passing out again.

They quickly moved her to another room, thick metal walls, a medical bay bed and old hospital equipment littered the room. On inspection of Twilights body they noticed many gashes, T3 first put a respiratory system in place to clear her airways, looking down she noticed the white tank top she was wearing slowly going crimson across her stomach. "Master hand me those scissors and then get out," He did so as he snickered, giving the scissors and then leaving.

For the next few hours Twilight was treated, surprisingly on first inspection she looked normal but her left leg had become lacerated underneath her jeans, an arm had broken and a small rock had embedded itself close to her right kidney. Once her casts and stitches were in place she was unceremoniously thrown back in a new cell, groggily looking up at T3, reaching a hand out for help only for it to collapse to the ground as she passed out again.

"That girl... I wonder?" T3 pondered a thought as she closed the door, giving one last look at the girl on the ground, "It couldn't be," She said locking the latch. She walked back to her office after removing the old clothes of Twilight into a bin. "Now to see how the first batch of fights have turned out, Lets see how our X numbers have done so far"

Is this de ja vu, again this room, again I am hungry, still hungry actually. Twilight tried to move but screamed as soon as her muscles moved, M-m... my leg, shifting her head she tried to see what was there, Damnit Sparkle, no lights!. She resolved to find out what it was that was on her leg, though for some reason her stomach muscles were too numb to lift her and using her arms was also very painful. The wall! with great intense pain Twilight flipped onto her stomach, with slow pace she dragged herself forward until she finally hit the wall. Whats this... metal? feeling around she felt a cold surface albeit being very bumpy like the concrete it was much smoother, she reached up and found a round handle. Gripping the handle she gasped as pain shot through her arm, trying to ignore it she finally sat up, as she sat there panting her mind was blank. No thoughts made way for the few things that were on her mind, what was on my leg? Food! why is my stomach numb? Only these thoughts occupied her brain. leaning forward she grasped her leg, being quite a bit larger she realized there was a cast upon it, Sighing she sat back against the cold surface falling asleep.

Two days later after monitoring her behavior, screaming in pain, shouting for food, becoming delirious. They finally dragged her out, too weak to resist her feet dragged upon the ground as two hooded men held her as they followed T3. The arrived in a room with two chairs, one desk, a window and a light. T3 told them to place her in the chair, they did and left, T3 took her place across the table. "Hello Twilight, its good to see you, do you know how many days you have been here?"

Twilight didn't move, her eyes slightly glazed over as her breathing was very slow. after a few minute T3 asked once more, finally getting an reaction from Twilight, Twilight looked in her direction and from her dried up split lips came a whisper of a voice, "a week... I don't k... know"

"Four days, fours days Twilight, you have exceeded the amount a human should be able to stay alive without water or food. If you don't eat soon you will die, I assume you won't survive the night without it-" Twilight collapsed off her chair, "Dear me, I wonder how you will survive today against 29, he has already killed two for a meal, he will snap you like a twig," T3 said moving around the table to pick Twilight pack up.

Twilight was sat back down as a trickle of blood fell from her nose, not even noticing she was bleeding, she was numb to pain. Noticing this,T3 grinned, the formula is finally bonding with her cells, looking again she noticed the obvious scratch that would heal had but some of the more severe cuts had healed. "Twilight... Twilight?" she slapped Twilight who just shifted her eyes, "Listen, do you want food?" a gleam came to Twilights eyes. "Yes! then you will have to fight for it, number 29 has stolen your meal, he will be eating it soon, what will you do? he has been doing this for a while now Twilight," Twilight slowly shook as her eyebrows moved with the last bit of strength. For some reason, the stare shook T3's core, this little girl who was too weak to move had somehow scared a veteran killer, "I like that look, we will move you now"

In the room behind the window that was a one way mirror, the master watched on with a huge grin, there it is, that look. I knew she had it in her, its all about the instincts Twilight, forget about yourself and delve into them. Twilight was moved once more in the same way, dragged from where she sat and down the halls, endless grey that was indistinguishable at every angle. Finally arriving in the room, one light with a dirt filled floor, as she was sat down her head tilted back noticing another window with a few fuzzy figures stood behind it. She didn't care who it was, she wanted food, she wanted it now.

A few minutes later the doors opened again, in walked in T3 and the two guards with another man in a tank shirt and cuffs, once in the man broke the cuffs and grabbed one of the guards. "Fuck you! this is for hitting me you little shit," with a quick snap the guard dropped to the ground.

T3 nodded to the other guard, "Well that's lovely, you just killed my lackey... again."

"You know you love it you kinky whore, I see you shiver when the neck snaps," the man said licking his lips, "C'mere," he said trying to grab her, getting a heel in the shoulder instead.

"I am not the meal ticket Twenty nine, that over there is the meal ticket," She said pointing at Twilight who was slumped over in the chair.

"Really, Its my lucky day, a fresh girl to kill and she looks pretty fucked up," T3 looked disgusted as the giant of a man moved passed her, the size difference was horrendous. Twilight measured up to around four foot eleven and 29 was six foot four, the difference in a normal fight would make it a hard fight.

Why did the master not give her any supplement for the fight like the rest, she will just die in this fight, does he not want her anymore. T3 wondered what was going on until she saw that gleam once again through the locks of Twilights bangs as the giant moved closer too her.

"Time ta' av' me sum' fun aa' lassy, this will be fun," he said as T3 left the room and closed the bolted door. 29 bent down and grabbed Twilight by the hair lifting her head, "not too shabby, you ain't the worst I have seen in here, I think I might have some fun first hehe," his laugh was sinister. 29 was known to beat his female opponents into submission and have his way before killing them, he was one of the recruits that were on the list for the skull division if he survived.

T3 made it up to the room where the few watchers were looking down at the two before them, the master was sat in a leather chair as his cigarette slowly burned away.

29 raised his fist as Twilight came off the chair, "this is just too easy, ain't yah' gunna fight back lassy," he raised his other hand and thrust it forward into Twilights stomach, Twilight gasped slightly which sent a shiver in 29 as he did it again. A few punches later Twilight dangled from his hand with her bangs over her face, 29 turned to the window, "Is this really what you give me, she already dead, she ain't moving, I ain't gonna fuck dead meat you arseholes," he once again punched her and dropped her to the ground. "This," he kicked her, "Ain't," once again, "Fuckable!" he then tried to kick once more but was met with teeth. Twilight had bitten into his calf as he kicked, 29 roared in pain, "Ah! you little bitch," he pulled his leg back as two white teeth were still embedded into his muscle, "you are so dead now lassy," he started an assault on Twilight. Kick after kick, punching and kneeing her after picking her up, blood spurt from her mouth, ribs broke and other bones became bent and twisted.

T3 stood up and pressed a hand against the glass looking down before looking back at the master, "Aren't we going to stop him, she has to be dead by now?" she said, the master though watched on and then pointed at Twilight.

T3 turned to look again at the bloody mess on the ground, 29 lifting her into the air before slamming her back down, roaring in anger as he did so. "Look at her face T3, isn't it just beautiful," the master said, in fact it was a bloody mess, cuts and blood gushed from her scalp, broken teeth, it was actually disgusting but her eyes. Her eyes were still not registering the pain, it was like she didn't care, all she saw was a task she had to achieve, a goal. "Its instinct, when you corner an animal with something larger than it, the animal achieves its goal on instinct alone. I did everything up until now for this, I starved her, injected her with the X gene, and finally set her against the most violent recruit from the normal sector for this. I want her to realize the one true fact, the fact that fear, fear only holds you back"

Twilight watched through her eyes as 29 destroyed her body, she could feel every crunch of a bone, every tear of a muscle but for some reason she was calm. If she could giggle she would do, back when she was a child she would freeze in fear when confronted with violence, now she was dying by the hands of an over sized prick as she couldn't move. Finally after so long, at the last edge of her tiny life in this little blip of existence clarity came over Twilight as she was lifted into the air once more, 29 roared again as he through her across the room two meters into the wall, Twilight dropped to the ground face down.

29 turned and looked up, "you owe me a meal, I am hungry, get me another fight so I can have someone else meal too," he said in a smartass tone, but his face went from prick to a less amount of prick as he became confused. The master had been looking behind him, what is that fucker looking at? he turned around as surprise hit him, Twilight was standing, just barely.

One of her legs was badly injured if not broken, an arm was snapped across her forearm, the white of her uniform was now mostly crimson as she lifted her head. But with all this it was not that she was standing that surprised 29, it was the smile that adorned Twilights face and the eyes that were glaring at him, he took a step back in fear.

The master leaned forward, "haha, see, 29 is feeling fear. Fear is just a chemical produced by the brain that we portray as something we should avoid, in this case 29 has hit the wall that is gradually climbing that is named Twilight Sparkle," not even caring about the ash that fell down he watched with trepidation.

Twilight took a step forward only to fall to her knee's but stood once more after a struggle, she slowly moved on 29. 29 was slowly backing away from her as sweat fell from his brow, C'mon, I ain't a chicken, its one tiny little girl, what can she do? Kill her kal, stop standing like a dope and do something, anything... He thought as Twilight grew closer.

Suddenly the room began to simmer, heat filled the room as Twilight stopped, steam rose from her limbs slowly as she looked forward. The room rumbled with power as the ground around Twilight lost its gravity, slowly drifting upwards, the metal bar on her head became cracked as it split into pieces falling to the ground. Twilights cuts and bruises glowed slightly as bones shifted back into position, blood cleared away back into were they poured from as the tips of her fingers tingled once more. Slowly 29 watched as a monster was born.

Ten minute later

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The master was still sat in his seat, he looked to be bemused with his thoughts as T3 rattled on her nonsense, "how... magnificent, that was perfect, feed her well tonight," He said standing as the crunch of glass beneath his feet sounded his leave.

"But sir, what do I do with the... leftovers? I can't study them as they are now and the room is gone, SIR!?" T3 asked, no answer so she turned back around, What the hell happened, I mean I saw that but... A sick feeling made its way up into her mouth, slightly gagging at the thought of what Twilight did. "Oscar! get in here, I want all of the recorded data on the fight, everything up to the point of the explosion," She hollered as a spectacles man ran up in a lab coat with a friar tuck hair style.

He nodded before running off, "Yes Ma'am"

"That was no normal being, that was a monster, I have to study her blood sample of the X-96-91 gene we implemented into her, this reaction has never been seen," She said as she moved out of the room.

Half an hour later T3 stood over her monitor as she watched the tapes of Twilights fight up until the point the Cameras had been obliterated. Twilight stood in the center of the room as her limbs relined, X-96-89 the latest known advancement in the X-gene development implemented a higher rate of cell reproduction meaning a body could heal at a faster rate than usual. It also hardens the skin, bone and muscle tissues so that the subjects can stand far greater amounts of pain, but what happened was something that has never been seen before.

After Twilight had regenerated to a point she could move more better she proceeded with her trudge to 29 who in the end lunged at subject X-10, this only made things worse for subject 29 as he was gripped now in the magical grasp of X-10, lifting the man in her dark red hue. She wrote the color change down of Twilights magic as a side note, as he was lifted up tendrils of magic bore holes into 29's arms and dug under his skin, he flailed in the air helpless. This is when T3 put the video in slow motion, the flash of light was so fast she couldn't see it. Once again she replayed it, too fast, again, too fast... Finally she caught a glimpse of what happened, on the tips of Twilights fingers began turning black as it spread up her arms, moving the hands through 29's body with super human speeds, then light. After the light the camera's had been destroyed but it was probably easy to deduct the rest, the body of 29 had been split into around fifteen parts as they flew around the room, the small explosions that were created by Twilight had sent them flying and smoldered the walls whilst shattering the glass to the room.

After which she looked at her hands, pure obsidian, her hands shifted as her skin moved. Then she looked up, her eye was blank, devoid of emotion, purely running on instinct. That was when the master had to intervene, he jumped down before Twilight moved upon them as well. When it all ended Twilight was moved to a thicker cell and given food, and that is where we find T3 studying the tapes.

Two weeks later

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The master laughed as he watched the tapes, blood would fly away from her body as the knife would pierce her flesh, she wouldn't dodge since she did not care. The hammer would smash into her ribs as they broke, after which it found its way into its owners head, a grin was plastered across her faced the whole time. "Oh Twily, I do so love watching you work," he smiled tapping on a board, fifteen names, fourteen were crossed out and the last was marked in red, Tundra. "I want to see how you react when put against an animal who is much like yourself, I have taught you to let go of fear, fear is not real but you are misunderstanding. Danger is real, a normal human cannot threaten you but against powers that rival your own you need to learn to fight effectively and not injure yourself.

A white room, one sink and mirror, one door that was locked. Twilight sat on her beds edge as she looked over to the door, when it opened she didn't flinch or move but just moved her eye to who walked in, T3 strode in as a plate was in a magical blue hue. "Hello Twilight, I have brought you food, how are you feeling?" She said with speculative eyes, Twilight huffed before getting up and moving to the food, bandages fluttered as she did so. When she sat back down with the sandwich she let T3 come close to check her body, "you cuts are doing fine but you overdid the last fight by letting 17 slash your stomach, this is somehow being a difficult heal, you may have heightened healing abilities but you aren't invincible"

Twilight grunted as T3 dug a swab in her bloody wound, thirteen large staples held the wound closed just a few center meters above her belly button. "Why give them a knife then? why put them in there with me? you are making me do this to survive," Twilights eye still showed no emotion as her voice came calm and cold, "How long until you release me from this place?"

T3 swabbed one last bud before sighing, "you know we can't release you now, for one you have our experimental information sitting in your body, two you are now a full fledged killer, even if you don't like that fact you can't deny it. We will be keeping you indefinitely, okay well you have the graduation fight today to move onto the next program of training, it seems you will be fighting... you can't be serious..." she coughed to clear her throat, "It seems another X-subject will be your opponent, X-4 code name Tundra will be your opponent, no weapons"

"Fine, lets get it over with," Twilight said lying down, waiting until she was called to fight again, T3 stood and left the room. Twilight lay there as she thought to herself, I wonder if Shining and Mom are worried about me, not likely, they resented me... most likely they celebrated my disappearance, Twilight thought over her previous life, all the times it would have been different if she made better choices.

But no matter what choice you make, fate always holds the deck, fate will always hold you in its sadistic grasp.

T3 had come back to the room and collected Twilight, they moved through the grey halls to a place Twilight had never seen before, once they passed the doors Twilight noticed the dome like ceiling and the rocky structures around them, then her eyes focused on a black silhouette, a small girl looking to be a few years younger than Twilight stood in the center of the room staring at them. T3 made her way next to Twilight, "This is your opponent, I warn you now, you can't just take her blows."

A speaker sounded off as the Master talked through them, "T3, be quiet, come up here and begin the fight"

T3 scowled at him, "Just be careful," Twilight grunted as she walked forward into a position not too far away from Tundra.

Tundra was looking at Twilight with sad eyes, Twilight was confused as to why someone would be like this, all the others either looked angry or scared of her but this young girl looked saddened at Twilight. "Why are you looking at me like that"

"ya chuvstvuyu zhalost' k vam," Tundra said in Rusquine, confusing Twilight who turned to face the window.

"What is she saying?"

The master stood up and moved to the glass, "She says she feels sorry for you, she pities your weakness, so she should as you are to open to attack Twilight. You have lost fear but in doing so have gained arrogance and a naivety to the dangers that surrounds you"

"She feels sorry for me?" Twilight said turning back to Tundra, "I should be the one who is sorry, I don't like doing this but even a little girl like you makes no difference any more," Twilight sprung into action and ran at Tundra, seconds later she was across the room wondering how she got there. Blood trickled across her eye as she moved her hand to her head, a large gash had opened that was slowly closing, after moving her arm down she felt broken bones, the bones weren't healing, she got to her feet again as she looked on at the face of the little girl.

"What just happened to me?"