Silver Raven

...It took me about an hour or so to reach my destination. It was a two-story gray bulding, owned by 'Innovations Incorporated', or something like that. The entrance was opened, so I went in. A Stallion, wearing some kind of uniform blocked my way, before I could go deeper in the bulding.

"Hold on a second, Madame." He started to speak. "Before you can go any deeper, we might need to identify you."

"My name's Silver Raven. Do you need anything else?" that's what I replied. Hm. Madame. Sounds good.

"Allright. I'l need you to place your hoof here." He pointed to a metal plate in the wall at his right. I did so, and the plate started to glow. I think it readed my hoof, or something like that. There was a crystal over the plate, and it started to show my name, age, and even from where I was from. And, a picture of my face, and cutiemark. I don't remember signing up on anything like this. Were they spying me? They'll better have some good answers.

"...Anything else?" I asked.

The Stallion started to read the words in the crystal, and once he was done, he just said "Come with me, please." He said that quite gently, like if I was his boss, or something like that.

So, he opened a metal door behind him, and entered. I followed him, and after a maze-ish walk later, we stopped in front of another metal door. He pressed a button, and after a while, it opened. It was a rather small hallway, that ended in a wall, ten feets away from the entrance. He stepped forward, and waited for me to do the same.

"...Are you coming in or what?" He asked.

I took a step front, and the door closed behind me. Then, the whole room started to go down. Oooh, I get it. It's an elevator.

After a while of going down, the wall that was behind the Stallion turned into glass. Holy blizzard... What was behind the glass completely surprised me. There was a huge bunker down there, with white walls, and different roof-less rooms scattered all around. There were huge orbs hanging from the ceiling, thet seemed to be suns, or something like that. Oh, and the ceiling was easily twenty times my height from the level of the floor. Once the elevator reached the ground level, the door opened, and we went out.

Another maze-ish walk. At both sides of the trip, they were doing different experiments with different machines. One of the experiments that I remember, is that they were shooting something at the walls, and the things were bumping on the white walls. Another one was some kind of experimental invisibility suit, that made the Mare that was testing it mimetize with the colour patterns behind her. Well, now I get why it's called Innovations Incorporated.

So, we walked for a while, and we reached a metal staircase, that leaded to a series of offices hanging in the roof. We stopped in front of the office of somepony named Alexander Dragunovv. Huh, what a name. The Stallion opened the black metalic door, and showed to me the office. It wasn't quite big, and it only had a glass table in the middle, two chairs in it's front, and a black office chair behind it. It also had a crystal attached to the wall in the left, and at the end of the room, a glass with a nice view of the whole bunker. Laboratory, I mean.

"Wait here, if you don't mind." Said the Stallion that was guiding me, as he left the office. I walked to the chair, and dropped my briefcase in the table. Then, I seated, and waited, while observing the experiments from the distance.

Hardly ten minutes later, the same Stallion came in. "Sorry, Alex's not here anymore... He's... Not with us anymore."

...Wait. You're saying that he's dead? Great. One pony less that can answer my questions.

"...But, he left a message for you. One of his... Assistants will come with his message." Ended the Stallion, before leaving again. I was starting to get tired of waiting.

Not less than a minute later, two ponies came in. Well, one and a half. The first one was an orange Unicorn, and her hair was orange too. She was wearing white glasses, that made her yellow eyes look even bigger, and the same labcoat that everypony was wearing in the area. The second one was... A robot. A robot pony. It was made out of the same mix of metals from the pieces I had in my briefcase, but more polished, and shiny. It was of the same size of the Mare that was accompanying it. It's solid eyes were glowing in an eerie orange, and it was very detailed in facial features, so was it's "Mane" and "Tail". It seemed to be a very high-tech thing, if you ask me.

"Sorry for this way to welcome you, Silver Raven." Started to speak the Mare. "But we lost contact with Alex since he went to Canterlot. And he only said that you were coming, and left a note that only you could read in his drawer. Give her the key." She ordered to the robot. It walked to where I was, and took out a silver key from it's "Pocket", where it's "Cutiemark" should be at, and gave it to me.

"Um... Thanks?" I said to the robot, that nodded back. Well, robots now have a code of honour, or something.

Well, I went to the other side of the table, and there was a drawer under the table. It had a keyhole, where the key would obviously fit. I unlocked the drawer, and opened it. There was a small sphere inside, made out of the friggin' same mix of steel and copper. Like if that metal was cheap... So, I picked the sphere, and watched it. It had pretty circular carvings around, but no clue of anything else.

"...Um. What does this do?" I asked, showing the sphere.

"No idea." Replied the Mare.

"Instructions: Let drop." Said the robot, with it's automat voice.

...Let drop. Okay...

I left the sphere fall from my hoof. Then, it shooted out four small bug-like wings, and started to fly around the office. Meanwhile, it was playing some sort of prerecorded message, with a Stallion voice coming out of it.

...Silver Raven. If you're hearing this, you must be seeking answers. Let me explain myself. My name is Alexander Dragunovv, head of security and innovations. You'll find a propper document in my house, number three, Pegasus avenue, with everything you should want to know. Say my name at the entrance, and they should let you come inside. Good luck.

Then, the sphere softly landed on the table, and retracted it's wings. Another place to go...

I picked the sphere, and placed it in my briefcase, along with the other things. I nodded at the Mare, and at the robot. Only the Mare replied with another nod, and headed out. I tried to make my way outside the maze, that took me about half an hour, only to find the elevator, and another half an hour to leave the bulding. Gesh, it looks way much bigger from the inside.

...After that, straight to the location that the sphere told me to go.