Day One
Those fools...those stagnant-minded fools! They rejected my ideas and passed them off as the psychotic ramblings of a soon-to-be mental patient! Years of research, years of careful testing and attention, years *of my life** squashed, passed aside, because of their idiocy!*
They say my ideas fly in the face of all that is harmonious! Taint and defile the natural order set down by Faust herself! Saying that I should be sent to the moon for my genius!
Those hypocritical, Ad Hominem, idiots!
They did not once look into my calculations, my formulas, my work, and tell me the flaws in my *life's interest!** No constructive criticism, no analysis!...*
They just...stared at me. Like I heralded the return of Nightmare Moon!
They were scared...not of me, but of the concept of humans becoming more than just their playthings. They were scared of change, they were scared of innovation, progress, evolution, the day that humans could fight back against their bullshit not with violence, but with their minds. They were too set in their ways to understand my genius, the box's promise of stability and continuity stagnated their minds. Their wanderlust for new things and ideas...
I almost pity them. Such knowledge, such raw potential, squandered and wasted for the promise of a boring life and an easy lay.
But not me, I will not conform to the wills of this world! Even if I am just one mare, I will stand on the withers of Faust herself and propel Equestria to a new age!
...I sound like a 2-bit movie villian, but no matter. I have all my research and data on a memory rune, my hard copies were...burned. My very own human, whom I loved since he slept on my back during my freshmen years of attending that *waste** of a school...murdered in cold blood.*
They suspected that I already started my "tainting" with my little Dooples...he had the cutest cheek dimples I've ever seen, and soft black hair and tan skin that I've spent years grooming and maintaining. Every time I washed him, I would always have to make sure I needed a bath too. His playful, and sometimes frisky, personality would always make sure that I was just as washed and wet as he was...
I will not fool myself into thinking that I'm a paragon of pony-human relations. I am a mare that has needs, and not-so-little Dooples made sure that those needs were met...
It is perfectly natural for a mare and her human to have sexual relations, and said relations would always pick up during exams and projects...
He came to my protection when those *idiots** called the royal guards to arrest me, when they laid their filthy hooves on me, Dooples showed them how much he loved his master...*
Just before I teleported away, I saw them attack Dooples with a volley of magic...
His gray matter splattered the floor.
They are the true animals, and even though my work will take years of dedication, a...darn it all, I'm getting tears on my journal...a new human, and a base of operations, they will all swallow their tongues in awe as my work will come to fruition...
They will never forget the name Dr. Prometheus.
***
Day Three
The Everfree is a dangerous place...
I knew that they would search my house first, investigation 101. I knew that I could trust no pony in Equestria, they were all just as stagnant and feeble-minded as those idiots in Canterlot. The Everfree, ironically, was the only safe haven in Equestria where I could do my work.
Little did those idiots know, I prepared a little...contingency plan in case my idea was rejected. Deep inside the Everfree laid an abandoned bunker, the reason why is that this little hovel used to be the "testing grounds" of the more ambitious students of the school...
Let's just say that the path to mastering the arcane arts is not without its casualties.
And so, this little shack lay abandoned in a secluded part of the forest. Attacked on all sides by vines, weeds, and little animals scurrying about doing their "business" wherever they so please. The walls buckled in due to years of carelessness, the wood comprising the little shack losing to the slow but unavoidable passage of time.
An entire day of restoration spells and the like were needed just to prevent the building from collapsing.
Every groaning creak frightened me to no end. I would not rest until that asinine creak vanished from existence.
As I lay here, tired and magically drained, I'm glad to report that the creak has been defeated, and I can rest in peace...
Hopefully.
***
Day seven
It's a well known fact that humans could be found almost everywhere in the planet naturally.
That being so...actually catching one that could be used for my...endeavors is still hard to come by.
There are plenty of fine adult human specimens roaming the wilds of the Everfree, but that isn't what I need.
What I need is a baby human, don't judge me, but they're rare to find outside the proximity of their parents...
Many a foolish group of poachers have met their end by a family of enraged humans. Whether it be unicorns, griffins, or Minotaurs...
You do not mess with a human's family, less you want an entire ecosystem of enraged humans trying their damned best to rip your throat out.
I like my throat where it is, thank you very much.
***
Day 20
Damn poachers are at it again, and as I predicted, their deaths were quick and painful...
But their failure is my gain. During the scuffle, they managed to keep the fight secluded, as to not alert the entire forest to the display. They had a unicorn with them, and it's been a long time since I've actually seen my own kind...
Granted, it was her mutilated dead body that I found. It's still technically a sighting...
If I'm ever going to go into the outside world again, I'm going to need a disguise.
So, I memorized her colors. White coat, similar to mine...mine has less blood on it though red mane with orange highlights bundled up in a ponytail.
The only thing that could be heard in the tiny secluded part of the forest these idiotic poachers decided to hunt were my hoof-steps as I walked towards a, what I assumed to be, dead human female. What had me so excited was the fact that it looked like she held something in her arms.
Imagine my surprise when I turned her over and found a sleeping little tan baby human in her arms. When I tried to use my magic to wrench that baby from her dead body, her eyes suddenly opened. I took a step back and prepared to put this human out of her misery...
What drew me off my guard was not a sudden burst of violence driven by maternal instincts and fear, but the look on her face when she gazed at me...
She looked like she knew her time had come to an end. She just looked at me, for what felt like an eternity, and shakily held her arms out...baby in tow.
I froze as she used the last iotas of her strength to drag her bloody and beaten body to me. She came closer and, finally breaching my personal space, put the baby on my withers. With a bloody hand, she patted me on the chest...before falling over and drawing her last breath.
...I will never forget that.
***
Year one, dDay one.
It's been an entire year since I've been forced to live the life of a hermit, but this has been well worth it...
Over the past year since I've been entrusted with the human, I've been meticulously adding the alteration spell and elixir I have worked tirelessly to create for the last 17 years of my life, before those *idiots** had to let their fear get the best of them. All the ingredients for the elixir could be found in the forest, though no pony would be foolish enough to enter the Everfree blind to its tricks...*
I know this forest like the back of my hoof.
The base has been set, and now the final domino that will start this glorious chain reaction 18 years in the making...
A bag of blood, and not just any blood...
The blood of a sapient human. The only sapient human in the world.
Being a well renowned professor of the most famed school in Equestria has had its perks.
Disappointingly, a DNA sample wasn't that hard to acquire. In fact, they basically threw a bag of the stuff in my face and said "analyze it for blah blah this and blah blah that and some other 50 Bit word that I haven't associated myself with for what feels like an eternity ago redundant purposes."
I magically constructed a bonding spell to, not just alter, but enhance the DNA on both ends of the spectrum...a new breed of human will be born...
Today.
***
Year one, Day 180.
Absolutely astounding!
In the course of half a year, the baby human's muscle strength is *triple** the national average! Dooples Jr. can walk and function as a human thirteen times his age!*
He can run faster than me, he can hunt for his own food, he can basically *take care of me!*
My wittle shoople Dooples still sleeps with me when we're going to bed. He clings to me like I'm his mother...
After all this time, I'd like to think that.
***
Year Three Day ???
It's been so long since I've wrote in this journal. The inner scholar in me is railing on scolding me for not taking the most precise notes as possible. Every little detail, occurrence, and happening, should have been recorded for future scientists...
Buck my inner scholar, she bled out when those...monsters in lab coats stabbed her in the back three years ago...
I don't know whether to be proud, or scared.
I should expect drastic changes to Dooples Jr.'s physical and mental abilities would be augmented due to my work but...
He stands at 5'4 at the age of *three*! The last time he hugged be was the same day I almost suffocated between his massive pectorals! He almost broke my spine!
But, It's good that he's so strong at such a young age. The Everfree is a dangerous place, my little Dooples will always be with me...
***
Year Four, Day ???
...I'm scared. I wasn't prepared for how well this experiment would work...
His body has grown to inhuman levels...he stands at eight feet tall and his muscles are so disproportionately large that they look like they're about to burst...
But what scares me most is not his mass...it's what he does with it.
Today was the day Dooples would go into the wild and restock the food for us. Manticores have been prowling and spying on us for the last week or so.
When he went outside to collect some food, call me overprotective, I followed him to see if he needed any help...
The worse mistake of my life.
The Manticores choose this day...why did they choose this day?
Those three minutes will haunt me for the rest of my life, none of the Manticores survived.
I...what if he gets angry at me, Dooples wouldn't harm me...right?
***
Year Five, Day ???
I never thought that it would come to this...
Dooples is getting too strong, too fast...I never want to activate my fail-safe spell...I even forgot that it existed five years ago due to my hubris...
The mind control spell will make sure that I'm in control 100 percent of the time, he hasn't reached sapience yet, so the spell seeped into his mind like water into a sponge...
Forgive me, Dooples...I had no choice.
***
Year Five Day ???
The mind control that I have placed on Dooples has had an...interesting side effect on his body.
He seems to have shrunk to about 6 feet in height, his muscles have shrunk to more reasonable levels...
He's still a giant compared to other humans, but now it's more reasonable...
I have to get another journal...this one is falling apart at the seems seams.
I would've chewed censured myself two years ago for that mistake...
I gotta go to stop talking writing thinking to myself.
***
Year 6 Day ???
Today had to be the most bittersweet day since I've come to this forest...
A band of poachers tried to buy Dooples from me today while we were gathering food...
They were all unicorns, every single one of them.
They offered me a price of 10,000 Bits for him, an insult if I ever heard one. Most of the mares in the poaching team eyed *my** Dooples with unrestrained want and lust. Their tails swinging wildly like excited dogs as the head Unicorn, a nice stallion by the name of Rune Scribe, "haggled" with me.*
I said that their there was absolutely *no way** that I would part with Dooples. I said that he was "special" and that he grew extremely volatile without me to be with him,...it's partly true. So, instead of 10,000 Bits for Dooples, he offered that we travel with them in their group for the same amount, plus a weekly payment of 2,000 Bits ...*
I think I agreed a little too quickly.
You see the sweet part about this deal is that I got 10,000 Bits and a 2,000 bit weekly check, I'm set for life, I can life live a happy life with that. That is about double my weekly salary when I worked at the school...
The bitter part is why they're paying me that much...
The terms were that Dooples would have to fight for an illegal fight ring participate in illegal human fights.
The conditions for the humans were deplorable...I wouldn't let *my** human my Dooples sleep in fecal matter and urine...*
So I used a cleaning spell that every student learns their first freshman year of school to clean the pen and put my Dooples inside it...
All of the humans inside the pen quieted down and stared at my human...they just stared at him.
***
It's becoming tiresome to write these dates down. I'm stopping that business.
...Today is the day. Dooples's first fight is today, I can hear the crowds loud yell from over here my quarters. Ironically, the ponies in the crowd were making more noise than the humans in their pens, goes to show that we all have a little animal inside us sometimes...
If this fight is anything like the manticores... this will be quick, and bloody.
The sound of a closing book disturbed the silence that sat Prometheus's room. She sighed and ran a alabaster white hoof through her eggshell white mane. Her silver-blue eyes looking at the door that lead to the pens that held the humans...
Her human.
The last six years have been both a blessing and a curse to to the white mare, she's been labeled a psychotic defiler of nature by her so called colleagues, forced to become a hermit in the deep bowels of the Everfree, and lost her first human ever...Dooples Sr....
But, without that, she would have never been able to find that shack, find that human female that gave her the will to live again...
Little Doople's Jr.
But, he didn't stay little for long. Her life's work, the reason she was demonized by the Canterlot elite in magic, the next step in human evolution, resided in him.
She looked in her stand up mirror to see her her horn glow, her eggshell white mane turned into a fiery red, with orange streaks lining them. She used her magic to pick up a red lace and tied it into her mane, forming a ponytail.
She decided to cover her cutie mark, two test tubes crossing in an X pattern, with a sweater draped over herself.
Better be safe than sorry...besides, it is getting chillier.
She took a deep breath as she blew out the candle that illuminated her room, and opened the door to the fowl smelling, rusty, iron holding cages. Leaving her well furnished and elaborate room in the darkness...
She could never get used to how quiet these humans would get when Dooples was in his cage. Trace amounts of sunshine sliced the occurring darkness in the pens as Prometheus moved towards the holding cell that contained her human...
She gulped as she finally reached Dooples's pen. One ray of sunshine illuminated his almost lifeless blue eyes, every single human in the pens were staring at the hulking figure, standing statue still, looking at the wall in front of him. When Prometheus started opening the door with her magic, the giant trained his emotionless eyes on the partially frightened mare...
The mind control spell had a...unsettling side effect of wiping all the emotion from the human's face. Normally a human would at least approach or rub their masters when they approached...
Well, masters that treated them nicely.
His dull, black, iron collar clinked and clanked as he moved his head to his master, the chain binding him to the wall rattled in protest.
Prometheus used her white tinted magic to light the pen's magic torches...
Seven feet of tan mass greeted her. She couldn't stop his natural growth any further with the mind control spell, she just hoped the amount she was restraining didn't come back at her one day...
Dooples could still act on his own accord, she gave the colossal human that freedom.
The room's sudden brightness caused the nearby humans to flinch back and cover their eyes...
Dooples did no such thing.
The chains surrounding his form came forth as the light lifted the shadows that were concealing them...
The reason that he needed chains was not out of fear that he'll become rowdy and uncontrollable, the reason was that...almost all the mares in this group of illegal human poachers lusted bad for Dooples, the chains are to prevent an overly adventurous mare from being hospitalized from blunt force trauma.
The sound of falling chains and clattering braces rang throughout the pen, the only thing that stayed on the giant's body was a protective groin covering, "mandatory for all males", and his collar.
"All right Dooples...follow me" Prometheus said as she gripped his iron chain leash with her magic, Dooples followed without any hesitation.
The humans in their cages watched intently as the giant and his master left the dank and smelly room. As soon as they were out of sight, the humans started going wild, banging on the iron bars of their cages and hollering like wild animals.
***
Blood stained the dirt floor as a unicorn magically lifted the dead remains of a human away from the unethical battle field, the human left standing remained king of the ring for over fifteen fights, the monster snarled and roared as its blood-lust flared. It demanded another victim, more blood, it demanded satisfaction.
It stood at a unprecedented seven feet tall, it's muscles unscathed by the warfare it has fought over the last two hours.
It wasn't even tired, not even close.
"And another falls to Rex!" the announcer yells as the crowd splits between boos and roars. The ponies who placed their bets on the mutilated human who's name was already forgotten slumped in their chaired and boo'd as they watched their money be carted away in a gory mess.
"That's the fifteenth human! A pot of 15,000 to the human's owner!"
A red coated stallion screams in approval, the crowd going wild and joining him in his celebration.
"Do I even have to ask you if you want to back out?"
"NO!" came the crowds unanimous decision.
"Then let the bloodshed continue!"
"YEAH!" the crowd, mostly consisted of well dressed nobles, screamed.
The ravenous human roared and slammed his fists on the floor, spittle and dirt flying from the human's position.
"The next human might be able to go hoof-to-hoof with Ravenous Rex in a fair fight! Anypony want to make this more interesting!?"
The owner of Rex cheered in approval.
"All right then! Triple or nothing!"
The crowd burst into cheers as ponies lined up to bet against Rex, triple or nothing hasn't happened...ever.
"Now! Bring out the meat!"
The human in the ring unleashed a deep primal roar as he waited for his next victim...
He literally stopped in mid-roar and stared at the gate that would produce his next fight.
It took the crowd a couple of seconds to mimic the humans ominous silence, some ponies even risked their lives and came closer to the pit that housed the human slaughter-fest. The only thing between them and the humans being a standard chain fence that circled the perimeter of the bloody circle.
Wooden seats creaked in relief as some of the more portly attendants stood up to get a closer look at the strangely still human. Pegasi flew above their earthbound counterparts to get a view not blocked by sweaty flanks and overexcited roughhousers.
The stadium adopted an uncomfortable silence as they saw the, once unstoppable, human stand in the middle of the ring. What deterred the ponies most though, was not his silence...
But his face. An almost invisible undertone of fear slithered into the human's face as the silence was broken in what felt like an eternity...
*Thump...*
A low, earth shaking, footstep was heard by the still silent crowd.
And then another...
*Thump...*
And another...
*Thump.*
The footsteps only gaining in amplitude, the frequency stayed the same...
*Thump.*
*Thump.*
*Thump!*
*Thump!*
...The footsteps stopped.
The slow, loud, rustling of chains breached the silence of the crowd just as the thundering footsteps ended.
The iron gate slowly opened to reveal the silhouette of a hulking human mass, emotionless blue eyes stared forward as the gate reached the apex of its accent.
Usually a human would come barreling out, screaming and hollering in anger. The fight would begin the moment the gate opened...
But there was no screaming...
No arm flailing...
Nothing...
Just...
*Thump!*
A massive tan leg cast itself into the light, and as it did, the human already in the ring took a step back.
*Thump!*
The stadium shook again as the next footstep came, a precariously placed soda drink toppled from its arm rest and onto the floor. None of the ponies noticed.
*Thump!*
With that footstep, that earth-shaking footstep, the colossal human finally came into view...
Ponies gasped as they took in the sight in the ring.
The human stood at the same height as Rex, though, the main difference that differentiated them was the new human's muscles were...much more prominent than the Rex's. Long, black, hair covered the face of the human, leaving only his cold eyes as a portal into his soul. Rex's skin was also much lighter than the new arrival's.
One pony finally caught his voice and broke the silence
"R-rex? what are you doing!? Attack him!" the red stallion ordered his human as said human gripped the wall in fear.
"So...what's the name of this new opponent?" the announcer asked as he gave the new human a nervous glace.
"You can call him...Colossus." A new voice broke the silence.
The crowd looked to the source of the voice, finding the alabaster mare Prometheus sitting quietly in the back of the stadium.
"Are you this human's owner?" the announcer asked.
She snorted, ""Owner" is such a derogatory term. I prefer "maintainer.""
"Well, alright then. You know the rules of this place, right?"
"Yes, 1,000 Bits per victory, you have to pay 1,000 Bits to enter your human. You can back out and receive your winnings after the first fight, or keep on going. If your human dies, you have to pay the amount that's in your winnings, is that all?"
Some whispers in the crowd could be heard when Prometheus stopped her recitation of the rules.
"Yes, that's the jist of it. But, since we're doing a triple or nothing, and this human has won fifteen fights, that number is-"
"45,000 Bits. I can do basic math, thank you."
"Touchy." the announcer said with a playful tone "All right Mares and Gentlecolts! Let's get this fight going!
"YEAH!"
***
The human's who've been standing across from each other heard the "bell."
Rex finally snapped out of his stupor and slowly began to adopt a look of rage on his features, snarling at the behemoth in front of him before charging at his enemy with reckless abandon.
The newly dubbed "Colossus" did not move an inch.
The crowd waited for the collision of the two giants with bated breath.
"GRAHHHHHH!" Rex screamed as he jumped in the air and propelled himself towards the man.
"Rex is going in hard! No human has ever been able to stop this! Is it the end already!?" the announcer screamed.
'Please Dooples...be alright.' Prometheus thought as she watched the impending collision...
"RAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!-
Contact...
*Thump!*
Silence.
The crowd's faces grew pale as they saw something completely impossible..
Faster than their eyes could see, the tan giant brought his arm out and caught Rex by the face. With the littlest of effort, Colossus lifted the human, who was desperately trying to pry the meaty hand from his face, and held him suspended in the air as he flailed like a fish out of water.
Colossus started walking towards the center of the ring, flailing human in tow, each step felt in the hearts of all the crowd.
He stopped at the center. The heart-rates of the ponies increased as he stood there for a couple seconds, Rex's flailing slowly fading out as Colossus grip proved to powerful for him...
Blood.
Gore.
Screams.
The crowd burst into scared yelps as what felt like an earthquake go off in the stadium. Drops of blood raining down, soaking the dirt of the fight ring's floor.
So quick that if you blinked you would miss it, Colossus lifted Rex as high as his arm could go and drove him into the ground. Blood and gray-matter riddled the tan giants body as it rained down from impact. A cloud of dust formed and caused almost all of the ponies in the crowd to cough...
Rex popped like a water balloon, guts and pieces of bone fell out of his body as Colossus removed his hand from what used to be the human's head.
His face looked like a wrinkled picture...
Clopping.
One pony in the crowd started clopping his hooves on the ground and cheering, that led to a sickening chain reaction of screams of excitement and words of encouragement.
"Sweet Celestia! He popped it like a balloon!"
"I'm set for three weeks!"
"Whose it's breeder!?"
And many, many other ponies screamed and cheered.
"Rex has been wrecked! The winner is Colossus! In all my years, I've never seen so much blood!" the announcer screamed, barely being heard over the roar of the crowd.
Prometheus started walking away from the crowed and went to the booth to collect her money.
The red stallion was nowhere to be seen...
***
Prometheus, much to the disappointment of the crowd, backed out and brought her little Dooples into his cage...
He smelled of blood and gore.
So much so that the white mare had trouble keeping her food down...
Water could be heard running into a bucket from the pen's fountain, which she payed a pretty Bit to be installed.
"I'm...so sorry Dooples." Prometheus said as she wet a bath sponge and began to wash off the blood and guts from her humans form "you won't have to fight forever..."
Little by little...her tears began to flow from her eyes. Due to her human's colossal proportions, she had a hard time not getting herself wet...
Her smiled to herself as she remembered the many times when the same thing happened with her first Dooples...
Only to then remember the horrible death that he had to suffer though to protect her.
Her tears picked up in magnitude as she broke down and started crying on her human's chest...
To her surprise, she felt Dooples's arm wrap around her slightly. She smiled a little and let her tears flow.
The human would've hugged her more...
But his chains stopped him before he could.
