Equestria Pony Meat Business - Woona's Tale

Chapter 1
Confused

I was in water, cold water, but, I wasn't wet. That was the very first thought to enter my mind as a large hoof pulled me out of the water. My next thought was that it sure was noisy, there were voices I did not recognise all around me.

"Fun Fun Fun!"

"I don't want to go to the factory!"

"How is this even possible!?"

"Fun Fun Fun!"

"Don't cry Fluttershy, we're going to be helping all of Equestria."

"Luna! What happened? Did you do something different?"

"Fun Fun Fun!"

"Shut it Pinkie!"

"I... I don't believe so..."

I slowly opened my eyes. I was in a cave, a cave containing many large cages, filled with ponies of all sorts; colts, fillies, mares, stallions, Earth Pony, Pegasi, Unicorn, Alicorn, even Zebras. For each pony I saw, I could see that there were at least a dozen identical copies of the same pony, two dozen for a certain achingly pink Earth Pony, many of which seemed to randomly chant the word fun for no apparent reason. The cave was illuminated by many glowing flowers, mushrooms and a bright, perfectly circular pool behind me which reflected everything, a mirror pool, if you may. That's how I got my first look at myself, a small dark blue alicorn filly with light blue mane and bright aqua eyes and a black ink blot pattern on my rump. My cutie mark was a white crescent moon and I wore a black tiara, a black necklace bearing my cutie mark and blue hoof boots.

Turning around I saw a figure towering over me, an alicorn like me, she had the same regalia, eye colour, ink blot pattern and cutie mark as me, but her coat was a darker blue, and her mane flew as if in an eternal breeze, and looked as if it had caught and trapped a chunk of the night sky within, she was truly beautiful. "Mummy?" I asked hesitantly, for who else could this mare be but my mother when we looked so alike.

The alicorn's eyes widened and I heard somepony giggling. "M...Mummy!?" the mare sputtered, "I.. I am not your mother, I am Princess Luna, the Princess of the Night, young one, and you are but a clone, a copy of me, but something seems to have gone awry, for you resemble myself from my earliest years..."

I recognised the name Luna, quickly realising that it was indeed my name, and I also felt that this Princess Luna was telling me the truth. I immediately thought that the name Luna didn't fit me, and wouldn't until I grew up to be as beautiful as the Princess before me. A name quickly came to my mind and I blurted it out. "I am Woona."

Luna looked even more shocked now, "how could you know my old nickname? You hold none of my memories..."

"I dunno, it just came to me I guess," I replied with a shrug, not sure how to react in this situation since I had very little understanding of what was going on. I was a clone of Princess Luna in a noisy cave full of other clones, she did not expect me to be this young, my name was Woona, that was literally all I knew.

"Twilight, has this ever happened before?" A massive white alicorn spoke up. She had golden regalia and a sun cutie mark, and her mane flowed just like Luna's, but it was a pastel rainbow.

"No, it hasn't Celestia, at least not in the time we've known of the Mirror Pool," a smaller lavender alicorn said. She had a magenta and white starburst cutie mark and her mane and tail, which didn't flow in a magical breeze, were dark violet with purple and magenta streaks. "Luna, could you try making another clone since we still need one more of you, and we'll see if it happens again."

Luna nodded and stepped up to the pool, then began the chant. "And into her own reflection she stared, yearning for one whose reflection she shared, and solemnly sweared not to be scared at the prospect of being doubly mared."

To my amazement, Princess Luna pulled an identical copy of herself out of the Mirror Pool, thought this clone wore none of the regalia of the original. Twilight immediately lifted the new, very confused Luna with her magic and shoved her into a cage with eleven other Lunas. "Huh, Woona must be a one-off then, a fluke."

"I think I should take Woona straight to KARiN, she's going to want to see her as soon as possible, and these other clones won't be reaching the Factory until tomorrow morning, speaking of which, the workers need to start loading up theses cages onto the carriages so the Fliers can get going sooner rather than later," Celestia said.

"I agree," Twilight said, using her magic to ring a bell signalling to some Earth Pony workers to start carrying the cages above ground to the carriages.

"I'll see you next Tuesday Twilight, to clone the next batch of Celestias. Luna, I'll see you back at the castle once I've finished with KARiN." Celestia then picked me up in her magic, and suddenly there was a flash and the cave dissapeared.

I don't know how I knew that we teleported, I just know that we did. It felt strange, uncomfortable, like being squeezed through a very tiny hole, and it seemed to take ages, but it really only took a second. We appeared in a room, the room was brightly lit, full of computer monitors, with white panels on the walls, and a big window looking out into some sort of massive factory. There were shelves on one wall that were filled with some really super weird looking rainbow things... Dog toys maybe? There seemed to be balls on ropes, maybe those could be used for tug-of-war? Some super weird cucumbers with balls on one end, were they chew toys? All sorts of leashes and collars and some other random straps for other things, and there were lots of really big hooks that looked like they could catch a shark! Whatever pony owned all this stuff must really like dogs and extreme fishing, maybe I'd get to meet their dogs!

Celestia seemed to notice where I was looking and used her magic to turn me around, a blush on her face. Now I saw there was another mare in the room, but she was strange, she seemed to be half made of metal. Would it hurt to be half made of metal? "Do you have dogs here?" I asked suddenly.

"No... We don't have dogs here," the strange mare said, looking confused.

"Oh... Then why do you have all those weird dog toys and those dog collars over there?" I asked, pointing to the shelves, confused, not noticing as Celestia blushed redder.

"Oh," the mare chuckled then, "Those aren't for dog my dear," she said. This only served to confuse me further. "What is this Celestia?" she asked, looking at me.

"Well KARiN, I'm not entirely sure, Luna pulled her out of the Mirror Pool instead of a full grown mare, you see, this clone appears to be of Luna at age seven or eight. She said her name is Woona, which was Luna's nickname at the time," Celestia said.

"Hmm, could Luna repeat making a clone of this type?" KARiN asked, hoof to her chin in thought.

"No, she could not," Celestia replied.

"Well, thank you for bringing dear Woona to me, it just so happens that she is exactly what I need to solve a little problem I was having, you see, one of our loyal customers has paid 20'000 bits for us to surprise him with something completely new that no one has ever seen before, along with his regular monthly order of one alicorn Twilight, two Pinkie Pies and an Apple Family member, a Breaburn this month." KARiN appeared to be studying me, it was kinda scary.

Celestia's eyes widened at the mention of the price. "Really, that much?"

"Yes. And now with this filly here we will no longer be required to delay his shipment and it can reach him at the usual time. We'll ship her and the others out tomorrow morning, all the other clones are ready, they just need to go in the crate. We'll send a note to tell him that this, Woona, is one of a kind, since it will possibly a year or more before we can figure out how to recreate her, and she is completely innocent, so he can have all the fun he wants destroying that innocence." KARiN smiled at the thought, imagining the moment this fillies innocence was destroyed.

Celestia nodded, "that sounds good. I must be off now or I'll be late for dinner with Luna, I'll see you later KARiN." And with that, she teleported away, leaving me confused and alone with the still smiling, quite scary mare. I had no idea what was happening, or what anything they were saying meant, all I could figure out was that I was the solution to some problem they were having and I was being 'shipped' somewhere, which must mean I was going to be going on a ship, which sounded exciting.

"Oh Twilight," KARiN suddenly called.

"Yes mistress?" A Twilight in a lab coat walked into the room. There was a big chunk taken out of one of her ears.

"This dear little filly is to taken to the shipment department as part of the order for customer 305, be sure to put her in separate crate and keep her G rated. You'll find a letter printed out at printer 4D to put with the usual papers. Then gather the rest of the order and get it shipped out first thing in the morning."

"Yes mistress," the Twilight said, leading me out of the room. I was disappointed that there had been no dogs here, but I hoped to never see that KARiN pony again, she confused me a lot, and kinda scared me.