Delta's Days.

by mrlordowaffles

Chapter nine: Brilliance!...and some whole hearted destruction.

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Luna ended up taking me to a place where I could sleep, it coincidentally was near hers. Just a few dozen left and right turns...
The room was fairly basic. Though they had to give me a bed that was originally meant for Minotaur ambassadors... Ya know what, nothing really surprises me anymore. First I can think, then it was tiny ponies that can use magic, and now Minotaur sized beds. Great.

The rest of the room was furnished in equivalence to my size. There was a chair with a desk, which had several ink wells and quills on it. Hopefully paper would be inside the few drawers that were located in it. What looked to be a large chair or maybe a small couch was near the corner. I looked down to see the carpet was rather plain in comparison to the rest of the room, it was a simple light purple. I walked over to the desk and took note of all the intricate carvings in the legs and up the sides of it, I noticed the same with the bed and the chair/couch. A door was near the bed that I am assuming leads to the rest room...been a while since I used one of those.

I walked into it. Inside was a simple toilet and a sink, above the sink was a mirror that displayed my helmet. I decided to take it off. I now understand why the ponies forcibly ejected their stomach contents. My face was not much better than a splicers, though instead of random bumps and near cancerous like tumors covering it, my teeth seemed a bit sharper, I had gone completely bald and all my skin looked dead or like it was ready to fall off. I looked into my eyes and I tried to make them appear lively, but nothing seemed to do the trick. They seemed dead in my head...but at least it was nice to breathe air straight from the source instead of through the filtration system in my suit.

I took off the rest of my suit. My body did not look much better, it appeared that while I was with the 'great' scientist Suchong he had decided to fuse parts of my body with metal. Both of my legs had metal in them, though the left one had metal along the shin down to my foot, and the right had bits of metal that were meant to assist with putting on my suit. My right arm's bicep had a strange metal sliver running down it, though I can't really see how that would be of any use. My left arm was left untouched. My chest had several bits of metal covering it, and from what I could tell from my previous experiences with human anatomy they were covering my major organs. I was surprised to see that my entire head wasn't covered in metal. I had enough of looking at my majorly deformed body and decided to not sleep in the suit, it would probably be horribly uncomfortable.

OOOOODelta's dreamsOOOOO

Eleanor, we made it to the surface, we finally did it, we're free. She was looking down at me, but she did not say anything. I saw Sofia lamb entering from the corner of my vision, no no! She has to go away, she has to go away! "Why do you persist so Delta? This is not your daughter, she is mine. She harbors no feelings for you now, for I have freed her from the oppressive chains of Ryan. You.mean.nothing.to.her."

I began to fall, each time I tried to grab out to a piece of the falling Rapture to pull myself up it slipped out of my hand. All the while Eleanor was looking down at me, with a sad expression on her face, while her 'mother' was leaning over her shoulder, a leer evident on her face.

OOOOOWay to early to be up...just as the sun was coming up, sheesh.OOOOO

I woke with a startled yell, it was odd hearing my voice while outside of the suit. I walked back to the bathroom to well...ya know, relieve myself. I then grabbed the suit (which was kept at a safe distance from the toilet.) and put it on. It was a much lengthier process than taking it off, it would appear as though it augmented my strength somehow, so I was having problems putting it on. When I finally did I felt the familiar feeling of the suit on me. It was strangely comforting. I walked over to the desk and grabbed a sheet of paper and an inkwell with quill. Sadly both my hands were now occupied. Would need to make some kind of carrying case for these things, but that would have to come later.

I was just about to leave my room when I realized something. I have no idea where in the hell I am. How am I supposed to find Starswirl or one of the Princesses? I turned back around...may as well start thinking of a design for the paper and inkwell/quill carrier.

I walked over to the table and sat in the chair that was slightly too small. Ignoring the minor amount of discomfort I set the inkwell, paper and quill down. I started to sketch out basic designs for the pouch, considering several materials such as leather, wood, metals of different types and fabric of some kind. I was leaning towards metal or wood seeing as how those would be the most stable materials to have something hold ink. I could always put a cork or something on the ink well though. I heard a semi-loud knocking at my door. I put the papers in the drawer of the desk, hopefully I would be able to come back to this and carry out my idea of a holding pouch for the paper and inkwell/quill.

I walked over to the door only to have it be smashed open. I stood there, a few feet from the door, and from what I remember about my face, it looked grumpy. Standing there was Celestia...and a battalion of pony guards behind her. "How did you do it!?" Wut?

I walked over to the desk, all the while receiving a death glare from her and each one of the guards, I noticed the one that had repetitively hit me when I first arrived here.

+How did I do what?+ She started to grind her teeth now.

"You know very well what I am talking about! How did you free Discord!" Discord...Discord, isn't that the one Starswirl mentioned once?

+I think Starswirl mentioned it once, though I had no idea it was imprisoned. Her face was filled to the brim with 'I don't believe you.'

"I am the current bearer of the element of honesty, take off you-...never mind." Her face paled, then turned green when she was about to ask me to take off my helmet. Element of honesty? What does she mean by that? "I must go. You will stay here. Discord must be dealt with." When she said ""You will stay here."" She jabbed a hoof in my direction.

"I want two guards outside its room." She lowered her head down to a pony near her. She probably thought I could not hear her...for the most part though, I could not. I caught a few words. Such as "Study, too friendly, tests and magic pulse test." What the hell is a magic pulse test? Celestia left the room after she gave me one last glare.

Starswirl came in, a rather expressionless look on his face. "How did you do it?" Ugh, not this again.

+How did I do what?!+ I stomped my foot for emphasis, this may have been a bad call because the next thing I realized about my situation was how deeply embedded in the wall I was. Namely about half a foot in.

"Nopony is so guile and deft at getting other ponies to like them! You don't even speak! Huh!? Is it one of those gene tonics you're talking about? Or are those even real!?" Sheesh, he is reacting rather harshly. Then again, how did I, I mean it is rather strange that they would be so...accepting of me so quickly, what's going on?

+I have a plasmid that lets me do something like that, but it can only be used on one perso pony at a time, even then it has a time limit.+ He squinted his eyes at me.

"I don't believe you, prove it." I readied my hypnotize two plasmid and shot it at him, his eyes widened for a moment before it took effect. I waited for it to finish that way he coul-"GAH!" THOW ME INTO A FUCKING WALL! The very second it wore off he threw me into a wall, a large hateful grin on his face.

"So you're not lying. Should you ever do that again, I will throw you harder." He steadied himself a bit "This was your friend yesterday, but not today." "Come with me. The Princess wants tests done on you."

OOOOOoooooOOOOOoooooOOOOO

What.is.going.on? Starswirl's horn was glowing very brightly and he had a look of total concentration on his face. I felt a similar feeling from when he was realigning my bones, though this time it was a much more heavy feeling. It reminds me of when the escape sub was rising to the surface... Eleanor had just save-

"Nothing. Not a single bit of magic in you at all." He was saying it as though he were amazed. It seemed rather obvious to me that I was from a world completely different from this one. For Pete's sake these are tiny ponies instead of humans! I was rather angry with them, thus far I had only seriously injured some of them, which is really saying something given my previous track record on finding living things.

He looked to be deep in thought. I guess not having magic is a really big deal or something here. "More. More tests are needed." Oh, gee that's great. This is what I wanted to do when I was dead, not be in a perfect world where I could kill splicers in amazing ways with unlimited amounts of eve. Nope. "How does this 'eve' work?"

I brought out a piece of paper, I had been permitted to carry some with me. I began to explain how eve is basically a fuel for adam. He read it with a touch of enthusiasm, some disbelief and a little bit of awe. Guess it is a REALLY big deal to not have magic innate within the body. Weird.


Author's Note

I'm tired. It's three A.M. and I can't add anything more without finally going into the heart of the story...so here ya go! *Que the banana thrown by Celestia.*

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