Amiss Fortune

The sun was shining

And a smooth wind graced my fur

I saw Carol trotting happily

and I moved to join her

We conversed in joy for hours

or that's what it would seem

Until a loud rumbling

Awoke me from my dream...

my eyes shot open

But my limbs would not respond

The paralysis spell must still be active

(Of which I was not fond...)

my eyes slowly adjusted

To the strange dark

But the horror that I saw

Would leave a mental mark

Bloodied bodies of ponies

Lay all around me

This wretched gore filled sight

Was so hard to see

I shut my eyes tight

And tasted my own bile

But came to my senses

After a long while

I realized I was moving

And reluctantly looked around

To find my immobile body

Was not on solid ground

I was on a track

That ran towards a large flame

I had to get off of this

Or it would be my end game

I struggled very hard

But was frozen still

Then I remembered Carol Belle

And that enraged my will

I had to find her

But feared it was too late

But I must save her

Or at least know her fate

I slowly got to my hooves

And stumbled on my way

All about this room

Were dark walls of grey

I tripped over a detached forehoof

and a snap came from my side

Passing out from the pain

I thought that I had died...

**********

My next time being awoken

I saw a "familiar" face

It was of the dark figure

And my heart increased in pace

"Don't make any noise"

The stallion whispered at me

the dark outline of a small room

Was all that I could see

"Where the buck am I?"

I asked, lungs screaming in pain

But all I was returned

Was him telling me to shut up again

"You're in Hell..."

He said after a long while

"Please enjoy your stay!"

He added with a grim smile

His mane was red and black

and did not look well kept

This dark blue stallion being friendly

Seemed difficult to accept

He sat silent

Before letting me know

"My name is Night Shade,

"But they call me Shadow

"Well, I'm Amiss Fortune"

I said after some thought

He chuckled and replied

"Well, who is not?"

I ignored his attempt

To lighten up the mood

My pain wasn't just from my ribs

For my stomach was void of food

"They think you are dead,

"So let's keep it that way

"You will be silent and listen to me

"If alive is how you wish to stay."

"Who is 'They'?" I asked

Wanting to know what this was about

He just turned and looked at me

Saying "you haven't figured it out?"

"There is a 'project',

"Of which few ponies know

"For it exists in such horror

"Where pony thoughts choose not to go"

"The idea was to be immortal

"To live life without fear

"But they bit too much off

"And their goal is nowhere near"

"Instead they made a disease

"that infects one's mind

"That amplifies their last thought

"Leaving rational thinking behind"

"Yet they continue testing

"Instead this damn place

"Ignoring that the outside world

"May develop a case..."

I was shocked and startled

At this bucked up news

All this was hidden

From all public views

"How long was I out?"

His answer brought me fear

"Mindless or asleep?

"For the first has been half a year

"Where is Carol Belle?!"

I stuttered in full fright

"I'm afraid she wasn't as lucky"

He said, avoiding my sight...

My mind filled with emotion

No longer capable of full thought

But I promised, no matter the pain

She wouldn't be forgot

The small room filled with choked sobbing

As tears flooded my eyes

I had managed to live

But she met her demise

Shadow heard something

And quickly turned his head

He pulled me to the floor

Before pushing me under a bed

The door of the room opened

And in came a unicorn

Her Pissed off expression

Hid my thoughts that were forlorn

"What the hell are you doing?!"

Came her enraged yell

She held a knife to Shadow's throat

With a telekinetic spell

"Give me a damn reason...

"You shouldn't end up like the rest

"You are given so much here

"Yest still my rules you test"

"Get your ass back to work!"

She barked, lowering the knife

"If you buck up one more time...

"I will end your pathetic life..."

She then left the room

And Shadow too did go

I was stunned and had many things

I still wished to know

One question was,

Where was I?!

Then the important one...

Is this where I die?...

A few hours passed

Ill content with what I'd accrued

I carefully left the room

In search for some food...

After exiting the door

I was in a long grey hall

And was startled when I heard

From a speaker, a loud call

"All security ponies needed"

Came the voice's shout

"In lab D-4,

"The subject has gotten out!"

I panicked and stumbled down the hallway

Feeling very weak

Until I found a sign

For which I did seek

Partially relieved

I was in F-2

But I also found out

This place was bigger than I knew

I heard somepony coming

And quickly passed through a door

But did not notice

That the room had no floor...

I hit the chipped stone ground

And felt my hooves crack

It was quickly evident

I would not be going back

The pain of my body

Was now too great

To the point that

I would have welcomed fate...

Tears came from my eyes

As my body hurt all about

I had no hope in fighting it

So I let them come out

A little while passed

Before I heard a slight groan

And I was startled

Realizing I was not alone

A dirty pink mare

Sat in the corner of the room

Something was off about her

And her presence seemed to loom

"You have had better days?"

She laughed and said to me

"To figure that out,

"I don't need to see..."

She turned her head at me

And I swore it to be lies

But this mare before me

Had removed her eyes...

"What happened to you?!"

I said in sudden shock

And almost instantly

I wished I hadn't talked

"Everypony is so judgmental"

She plainly said

"But I aim to fix that

"By MAKING them use their head!"

"It is so great!

"A wondrous way to be

"You are happy with everything!

"Just look at me!"

I started moving back

My bloodied hooves raking the floor

I fought through the pain

And my whole body was sore

"See? You try to leave me!

"I have been nothing but kind!

"Don't worry, I can fix you

"So you see with just your mind!"

With that she was upon me

With a sharp rock in her jaws

Her damaged hooves cut my sides

Feeling more like claws

I struggled against her

But gasped in shock

As she missed and made my shoulder

Embedded with the rock

I kicked her off me

And saw the rock still there

Where it was lodged

There was a bloody tear

"I am just helping!"

She loudly screamed

I was going to die

Or that is how it seemed

I looked about the room

And saw my wretched prize

Now there was a chance

I would not meet my demise

A metal bed frame

Sat broken and near by

The protruding jagged piece

Is what caught my eye

I felt her hoof

As it connected with my head

I had one chance at this

To spare me from being dead

She was now bleeding

And as we fought it got on me

If I bucked this up

My life would be the fee

I brought up my leg

Knocking her into the bed

The jagged metal impaled her

But she still was not dead...

"I-I was helping you...

"To be a better pony..."

Her tone became soft

"I wanted you to be happy..."

"I just...wanted...

"I... tried..."

Then her breath stopped coming

And with that she died...

I had just killed a pony?!

The thought contested my head

Because of my actions

She now was dead

She tried to cut my eyes out

I quickly reasoned

But I would never come to terms

With what I had done

Covered in her blood

I fell to the ground

With a warm tingle

Then icy darkness all around...