Author's Note

Something I war writing when I wasn't working on Natural World. I thought about making it a series, but I figured it would've been better off as a ones hot thing. If people want more chapters I'll just turn it into a short story or something.

First Day

I woke up with the grogginess of my mind still present from last time I was awake. Drugged? Most likely. I crack open my eyes slowly and try to get adjusted to this new concept of light being on me. It's been a long while since I saw or felt such intense light. Perhaps the sun? I'd doubt it honestly. Haven't seen the sun in ages. Yet it's warm touches sometimes still linger within my mind.

I try to force myself up, but find it a lot harder to do than all the other times I've tried. Well, other than the first time they decided to knock me out. I give a grunt and sigh in frustration. Looks like I'm not getting up for a while. Oh boy... can't wait to see what she's going to do to me this time. Maybe she'll feed me some more of those ever changing oats. Gods I hate the stuff... Sure it helps me survive just a little bit everyday, but boy oh boy does it get old.

Maybe I'll get off easy seeing as I probably don't even have the strength to feel any pain right now. I may be undergoing some experiment right now and not even know it. Hell, she could even be in the room watching me seeing what the effects of her latest invention has on me. I still remember that long needle sliding into my neck with that strange blue fluid following right behind it.

I would shake my head to get rid of the image if I could. It seems I have control over my voice and breathing, but moving is out of the question for now. Perhaps I can get her attention from all the way down here.

"Hey! I can't feel my body! If you're taking notes again, put that down along with giving me a cure if you don't want me to be late." I yell up to the cement ceiling.

... Cement? How the hell does cement get inside of a tree? Actually, no. When did she even move me? Well of course I wouldn't know seeing as I've been drugged for the umpteenth million time. Gods. I'm starting to lose my senses here. That should've been the first thing I noticed. Well I haven't been moved from place to place ever since I left that giant castle place

Well, seeing as I'm no longer in the house, I guess I'll just wait it out. See what happens. Just like all the other times. Again, I would shake my head if I could. After what seems like hours of waiting, I hear what sounds like rusted metal on rusted metal opening followed by yelling and screaming, more metal, and two voices that I have become well accustomed to.

"I don't know about this Rainbow Dash... he hasn't been taking to the experiments too well as of late. I keep trying to regulate the power output, but I don't think that he would survive something pushing him above his capability. I think if I was to run a few more tests..." A nerdy woman starts to speak followed by the clopping of hooves.

"Twilight!" Another woman with a more sporty attitude as well as eagerness in her voice, "Enough with the science and testing! We need to put this guy into action! The only way we can do that is by doing a field test! Besides, what's the worse that could happen."

"He could explode from the inside out, he could vomit up his guts, catch fire from inside out, failure of organs, lost of-" She rambles on.

I drown out their conversation knowing already that this is going to go well. Whenever those two are together talking about field experiments, it usually ends with me on the ground with weapons in my face and a very angry looking pair with murder in their eyes. I'm still surprised I'm not dead after the electric punishment I had to under go. That really let me know that my so called owner knows what she's doing. Even with the lack of information of my anatomy. Though that isn't a problem anymore as of late.

Suddenly the feeling of my muscle start coming back to me and I can taste something metallic in my mouth. I put myself back into reality to realize that those purple eyes are looking down at me while she holds some long tube into my mouth. She pulls it out and turns to, only assuming, to her friend and nods.

"Alright champ! Rise and shine or do I have to knock you out of that bed!" The sporty one practically yells into my ears.

I groan and rise up as I start to feel pain raise through my muscles. Things were so much more peaceful before all the experimentation happened. I actually almost felt like I had when I first arrived, well, first was before I was forced into this world and into the hands of a mad pony. I look at the purple horse, or pony as she has corrected me to say, and wonder why she's looking completely nervous. She's even wearing clothes for once when around me. Her torso is covered in a purple shirt with a giant star on the front and black pants that hug her lower section surprisingly well. It really accents her muscle that she doesn't have.

As for her friend. She's sporting a similar shirt except with a blue shirt instead. Same pants as well, but unlike my master she has muscles to show off. I've learned that they aren't for show very fast. Her and her butt buddy both hit very very hard. A lesson I will never forget.

I stand and wonder If I've gotten bigger of late. Oddly enough the ponies only come up to my chest now instead of my chin.

"Now we're talking! Look at him Twilight! He's a lot bigger and I bet a lot stronger now!" The blue pegasus, I still have a hard time believing I'm still alive because of her, says flapping her wings that stick out the back of her shirt through hastily cut holes. I can tell because I've seen what hasty looks like on more than just shirts. Though I do have to say that her rainbow hair doesn't go too well with what she's wearing. Not like it matters anyway.

"Yeah well. It didn't increase his brain at all. I still don't think this is a good idea Rainbow Dash." Twilight says shuffling her hooves, "Plus I don't even need to do this. I have Celestia and the other princesses that can happily lend me none essential humans for this."

"Look. He's alive, standing, and looks a bit pissed that you called him stupid." Rainbow Dash says flying up a bit, "Plus, I'm sure he wants to hit anything to relieve a little stress."

"You have no idea..." I say wanting to punch, kick, and kill the both of them.

I don't remember ever being so violent before she gave me that damned red pill. She said it's good for you and I shook my head to tell her I didn't trust her. I couldn't tell her no because she had my mouth wide open with that freaky magic of hers. God... a purple unicorn and a blue pegasus. I once thought I was high while here in my early days. It didn't go well. In fact, that actually caused my first near death experience.

"What do you even want me for? Where the hell are we?" I ask trying to clear my throat. I sound so gruff and my throat feels kind of dry. Side effects I often experience.

"Manners." Twilight says as her horn glows and I feel fire spreading through my body from my head down.

It doesn't hurt, but it's enough to let me know to watch what I say or else it will hurt. I'm not very good at doing that though. I'm slightly better than what I was during the training days, but I'm still no good these days. I know how to keep my mouth closed, but being in this type of situation makes everything in my head scream to talk back. A lot of the times, which I mean all the times, it gets me in more trouble than it's worth. I nod my head at the glaring unicorn. She coughs and turns towards what I assume to be a gate. Magic opens the way out and releases an onslaught of noise to my ears. I cover them up quickly with my hands to only have Twilight drag me forward with a conjured purple line leading to my neck. What's even worse is she ties my hands behind my back with her magic as well so I can't protect my ears. I hate that bitch.

I keep walking forward hopping to get this over with as fast as we can so I don't have to suffer this any longer. A bunch of ponies and different creatures walk around both slaves, like myself, and free. I can sympathize with some of these creatures. The ones being pulled and shoved. But the ones sitting and acting like they're the kings and queens of all the slaves. I wish I could put them in their place. I guess Rainbow Dash can see my glares and flies up to me.

"Don't worry. You'll get your chance soon enough." She whispers in my ear.

The sad part is I feel happy about that. I know I shouldn't, but I'm pretty sure these experiments have changed my mind and how it works. Hell, most times I find myself thinking about ripping every living thing around me to part and feasting on it's flesh. Sometimes I'm pretty sure I'm no longer human anymore. Whatever they have done to me, I know for sure there is no cure.

The crowds soon disappear as we enter a guarded white door that leads into a narrow corridor. Rainbow Dash walks behind me while Twilight takes point. Another door on the opposite side leads out into a room full of unicorns and nothing but human slaves. They see Twilight and some get nervous while a few only scoff. Even more eye me up. Same goes for the humans as well. One I'm not looking forward to meeting face to face is the one with rippling muscle with a mask over his face that glows green. Yeah... not the type of guy I want to meet in a dark room. But it is truly something to go from hardly seeing any of your race to seeing a bunch of your race. I had wandered why I rarely saw any of my kind, so now I might get my answer.

"I don't like this Rainbow Dash..." Twilight says starting to back out of the room.

"You can't be like that Twilight." Rainbow Dash whispers walking confidently through the room, "You got to have more confidence. Plus. They don't have your brain and my training methods."

Twilight goes silent as she continues forcing me through the room. I'm pretty sure I know what they have planned for me and all the others of my race here. I'm not too pleased about it either. But hey, I've done all I can to fight back. It just means nothing now a days when they can just zap a bomb in ya whenever they please. I only wish I was joking about that.

Twilight stops us near a stand as Rainbow Dash walks up to a counter. Papers are passed and words are exchanged before she comes back to us. I wasn't concerned about that though. Didn't cross my thoughts about wondering and seeing what they were talking about. Nope. My thought are all on the stuff going on around me as well as all the people around me.

The closest human near me is some guy slightly smaller than me with spikey green hair that seems to have electricity spark popping out of it. Oddly enough the electricity seems to match his hair color. He dawns a ripped up yellow shirt with a warning symbol on it and white shorts that show off his athletic legs. They're also a lot smoother compared to my hairy legs. They figured they'd just let me grow out my hair for weather purposes. Of course it was a pain when they had their little dessert experiments and they could never get the sand out of my hair. So now every so often they cut down on all of my hair across my body.

The guys looks at me and his green eyes are so unnatural. They're like a super bright green and seem to be locked so far away. It's like he's looking past me and into the distant future. My distant future. For all I know he probably is. This guys honestly looks like he's seen some serious shit before. He's got scars that goes across his forehead and neck. Whip markings and parts of his peach, more like rotten peach, skin has giant splotches of pure black spots. War is hell isn't it buddy?

I look away, mostly because this guy is starting to freak me out, and try to find something else to occupy my mind. I mean, he reminds me of someone trying to get high off of bath salts and succeeding. I know results may very, but may the gods bless him. I'm glad I got off with what I got seeing as how he is as well as a couple of other are practically walking zombies hardly held together. Some of these pour souls are missing limbs, finger, and probably even organs if I had x-ray vision to check. I look down at Twilight and she seems as disturbed as I do as she looks around at all the other humans. Either that or she's hiding behind a mask to not tip me off that they've given her all sort of ideas to enact on upon me. Experiments that she'll have to repeat over and over again either because she wants better data or because it's fun.

After what feels like hours of waiting and watching ponies and their slaves be called up and leave out of a door at the far end of the room, Twilight hears her name be called along with mine. I grimace as I don't recall people or ponies coming back through this way. Well, if this is in fact the end of me....

Better late than never. I mean come on! This should've happened so much sooner than later! There's probably like a million and one ways I've could've died before this and yet here I am! I hope this puts me down or else I'm going to be seriously pissed. I'm still going to resist, because that's the type of person I am, in order to die with a as much pride as I can have. Given that that really isn't much.

I walk behind Twilight with my head held high. Because why not? If I'm going to face my death, like all the other times, than I at least want my head to be up high and with no regrets. Well, except for never seeing home again. I think that one might follow me beyond the grave. I hope I come back as a ghost so I can haunt Twilight for the rest of her life. Knowing her she probably has some ghost repellent or spell ready just in case. She always seems to be prepared for something when it comes to me. She's probably future proofed everything in that damned basement by now.

I stumble back as I feel something hit me in the stomach. I back up and glare forward at Twilight as she regards me with both an upset and worried look. What she got to be worried about? Not like she's being sent on some random experiment. I still have no idea what I'm doing and I don't feel like asking to only get back a generic answer like: Don't worry about it, or it's a surprise.

"Get your head out of the clouds champ! Only Pegasi belong up there!" Rainbow Dash says giving me a hard jab in the side. I mean, like a hard jab. I swear I heard something snap.

I wince against the pain, intended or not still hurt, and look around where we are. We're currently standing in a dome like room with weapons lining the walls as well as what could be considered armor. It's not really much, but hey any bit is a good bit right? Twilight is levitating a sword in front of me and places it at my waist. Well it's good to see she's smart enough not to trust me with untying my hand with so many weapons around. I'd certainly use them against her. Even if she just melted them all. Plus the walls are made of metal as well behind them. If I did she'd probably just teleport and poison me or something see as this place probably has no ventilation.

"Good luck..." She barely whispers as the two leave the room. When the door closes my hand are released from their bond.

I stretch out and walk around the room. The armor might not protect much, but it's fancy as hell. I'd have to give it that. I unsheathe the sword to find it weighted towards the pommel. I can tell because when I swing it I have to apply counter pressure not to lose myself in the swing. I look through the other weapons to see if there's anything else I could use. Against the wall near where the sword was is two daggers with green jewels attached to the bottom of them. I place the sword back, horrible thing, and take the daggers. Sure they might not work well in stopping an attack, but if I catch someone by surprise.

A loud buzzing noise sounds before all the weapons and armor get locked away by a giant metal wall. The floor shoots up and I fall to a knee as I go sailing up. Who boy. Glad I hadn't eaten anything in a while. When the floor stops I drop to my hand and knees. I'm still inside of the dome, mostly metal and glass now, and can see up into the sky do to the now noticed glass roof. It's a beautiful thing with clouds and animals floating across it. It puts a smile on my face as I get back up to my feet. I shake out my limbs and walk through the opened doorway ready to find out what this little test of hers is. Like I haven't already guessed.

I walk out right into a battle area with a million ponies and other creatures or so watching me. First thought, why the hell. Second thought, Why the hell am I'm surprised. Third thought, I hope it isn't that mask guy.

I stop gawking at the crowd and look across from me. There's a chick loaded down in armor while flames burn upwards in her hands.... Flames? I don't ever remember humans being super natural. I mean, when you get high and stuff sure, but I think this goes well beyond that. Unless my high theory is right. Than I'm having a horrible realization that I have a horrible imagination that hates me. I guess I'll put these knives away now than seeing as none of this is probably real because of high theory. Is this really what it like to be high? Probably.

An announcer comes on yelling almost immediately after the domes disappear behind the both of us. Well, I saw her dome disappear so I can only assume mine did as well. Anyway. Let's go back to the point about flames coming from her hands. I don't think what the announcer says is important.

I don't think she'll be getting anywhere fast with that armor on her like that even if she is hot. Even if she did there'd be no penetrating that stuff unless you had something hard and long to... hit... through...

"Fuck!" I yell as a gun goes off.

For once I hate I didn't listen to her. Well fuck her. I can do this myself. Just, whoa. When did she-

"Oh Jesus Christ!" I yell as I fall backward from a flaming fist to my face.

Her left hand points down at me as a jet of flames fly out. I hold up my arms as I feel it scorch and burn them pretty badly. Just an average day on the pain train. I act quickly and force myself up on my feet and tackle her. She might have armor on, but it's pretty light weight. My arms and part of my face are pretty burnt up. My hair is probably on fire as well. But I could care less. I punch her straight in the face since that doesn't have armor on it. She cries out in pain as I slam my fist right and left into her face. First thing to break was her nose that immediately spilled blood into her suit of armor and on me.

"First Blood!" The pony, most likely, yells with a mic making the crowd go wild.

Midway into my fourth punch I feel hands press against my stomach followed by a deafening explosion knocking me into the air. I hit the ground hard and roll for a bit before hitting, what I assume, to be the wall of the arena. I can't hear anything other than the Insistent whining, or is that buzzing, noise in my head and ears. I get to my hands and knees to only have a knee hit me in my gut. I spew blood as I feel flames burn against my back and legs. I reach out and grab something and yank it towards me. The intensity of the flames stop, but I'm fairly sure I'm on fire. Great...

I hold onto her leg, is what I'm assuming, as I get on top of her dragging it with me. I use all the strength I can muster to keep her from getting up as I yank the leg up and further past where her leg should go. I didn't know I had that much strength. Rainbow Dash better watch out. I see her face moving in pain and tears falling down her face, but I can't hear a damn thing. Well I guess I'm deaf now. Deaf and on fire...

I let go of her leg, which I'm sure is broken, and try to get up. I mange to get to wobbly legs, take a step, and fall back to my knees. The pain is starting to come in now. Yep, senses coming back slowly. I can smell the burning skin and the vomit. Is it mine? Probably not.

I look back to see her holding her leg and screaming. My vision is really swimming now. There's a constant stream of pain now, but I'm just gritting my teeth like always. Why give them what they want. they probably want me to kill her don't they. Well I won't do it if I can help it. I'll just take a quick breather and gather some strength before pinning her down correctly this time and just tell her to give. I crawl to the wall and place my back against it as I sit down. I decide to take a damage control report. I look at my arms to see that they are on fire. Check. My legs have had the skin burnt off and meat and blood is showing. great. My chest has too small holes in it from that blast. Perfect. I'm probably screaming in pain right along with her despite how in my mind I imagine my mouth closed.

The woman flips over to face me with her right arm stretched towards me and her crying and bleeding face in contorted in anger. I raise my own right arm to give her the bird. She yells something, but I can't hear her. While one hand gives her the bird, my other hand takes hold of one of the knives I pocketed. She yells something again as a ball of fire collects in her hand. I point towards my ear with my middle finger and shrug with my right shoulder as I hold the knife waiting for her to not look or something. I know she'll probably just roll out of the way if I'm not careful. Not like it'll actually hit anyway. Or at least I don't plan on it too.

She raises her arm to throw it and I see my opening. I toss the knife as hard as I can while aiming at her face. Her eyes go wide as she realizes her situation she's already started her throw so she can only hope that the knife misses. Of course the ball is still coming for me either way. It's not like the fire dies with her. Fire has a mind of it's own most times. The knife hits it point. Right in her forehead. I smile as the giant fireball falls towards me. My one lucky shot has to be when I don't want it and when I'm going to die.

My thoughts immediately go to a song I haven't heard in ages. In the arms of an angel. Flying high. Speaking of angels, I think I see mine coming down right now as the ball hits. Either that or it's a demon here to take my soul. Oh well. I feel wind rush past me and a massive pressure slam against me. My world turns to black as I close my eyes against the brightness of the fire.