Chapter 2
The Crate

I followed Twilight as she led me through corridors, down elevators, and even up stairs. This place must have been huge, and we never saw anypony else the whole time. What I didn't know was that Twilight was purposefully taking me the long way to the shipping department so that there was no chance of me seeing something I shouldn't, they wanted to keep me completely innocent after all. Eventually we came to a large room full of large crates, the sign on the door had proclaimed it to be the 'Packaging Room', part of the shipping department. There was a big door at the opposite end of the room with a sign over the top saying 'To Portal'. Twilight then led me further into the room towards two crates, a big one that could probably hold 5 ponies, and a smaller one that might hold two, stamped on the side was some sort of logo and underneath were the words 'Equestria Pony Meat Business'.

"Twilight?" I asked hesitantly.

"Mhmm?" She looked back to me.

"Umm... What's the Equestria Pony Meat Business?" I asked, pointing to the logo and words on the crates.

"Oh, well you're standing in it. You know that cave you were in?" I nodded. "Well that lovely little pool you came out of is called the Mirror Pool, and it is a magical pool that creates clones, exact copies, of a pony who says the right words."

"So... It could make lots of me?" I pictured myself playing tag with lots of copies of myself, it would probably be really hard to win cause we'd all know exactly what we'd do.

"It could, but we've found that clones of clones are never as good as clones of the original, sure they will act the same as the original if given memories, but they aren't as good where it counts, so yes, while the pool can clone clones, we don't. No, we'll be using science to figure out how to create more of you, without skimping on quality." She explained all this with a little smile on her face.

"What do you do with all those clones? There were heaps in that cave!" I couldn't imagine what they would need all those clones for, one pony sports teams maybe?

"We sell them to beings called humans who live in another world, right through the portal behind that door there," she said, pointing to the big doors.

"Why do these humans want pony clones?" I asked, curious.

"Well..." She seemed to be a little nervous for a moment there, but then her expression brightened, "Well you see, many of the humans are lonely, and they buy clones from us to be companions, as well as playmates and friends for their children. The humans absolutely love us ponies, they even have a tv show about us, but we can't give them the original ponies, too many humans want the same ponies, that is why we clone them, so that every human can get the ponies they want."

I had no idea what tv was, but these humans sounded great! I hoped that I would get to be a friend for a child, it would be so much fun to be someones special friend! "Wow, that sounds super duper awesome, it's so nice that everypony agreed to get cloned just to make a bunch of creatures in a strange world happy!"

"I'm so glad you think so, now, lets get us settled in your crate shall we?" Twilight led me to the smaller crate. It was rough wood on the outside, but inside the crate the walls had been sanded smooth so that I wouldn't get splinters. On the floor was a pile of very soft looking hay, along with a blanket and pillow. "You're a G rated filly so you get special treatment in the crate," Twilight said as I stepped inside.

"Why am a a G rated filly? What is a G rated pony?" I asked, confused by the term.

"Oh, umm... the G stands for great, you been been rated to be a Great filly, and as such, you get a special treat after your dinner," she gave me a bowl of a near clear soup, though no spoon, and a glass of water. "Now eat that like a good filly and you will get your treat."

At the mention of a treat, I excitedly gulped down the soup straight from the bowl, barely tasting it, and washing it down with the water. "Very good girl, now here you go dear," Twilight then handed me an icy pole, which I immediately bit into, instantly regretting it as the cold hurt my teeth. "Careful, it's very cold," Twilight said, "most ponies prefer licking them."

I nodded, swallowed my mouthful of icy pole, then started licking it, enjoying the lemonade taste of it. As I got braver I began sucking on it, and all too soon I finished. Sighing, I smiled, "that was really good, thank you!"

"You're welcome, now I think you should lay down and get some rest, I'm sure you're very tired," she said, and as if on queue, I yawned, nodding. "Alright, well we'll just close up this crate so that you can get to sleep, and when you wake, you'll be at your new home, how does that sound?"

"It sounds nice," I said with a smile, my eyelids getting heavier and heavier by the second.

"Very good, good night Woona," she said as two unicorn stallions appeared and started to close up the crate with their magic.

"Good night Twilight," I said quietly, then sleep claimed me.

Outside the crate, Twilight smiled to herself, the filly was the most adorable, pure, innocent creature she'd ever met, and she wanted one of her own to toy with, it would be so fun to corrupt and break her. The sound of a door opening alerted her to the fact that the rest of the shipment had arrived. Another Twilight walked towards the larger of the two crates, along with two Pinkie Pies and a Breaburn. "Welcome clones, this is the crate you will all be traveling in to your new home." The clones looked at her apprehensively, the crate was like Woona's, smooth walls, hay on the floor, but no blankets or pillows.

The two unicorn stallions from before returned with four bowls of the same soup they'd given Woona before. The clones were used to eating the soup by now, so they took it without a fuss, it was all they had eaten during the two weeks leading up to being sent out, so that their bodies were cleared out of anything nasty from their bodies. The soup was specially deigned to contain all the vitamins and nutrients their bodies needed, without creating any solid waste, that way the humans could be certain their meat pony was completely clean of all that nasty stuff and was immediately ready for the spit if they so wanted. The buyer of these clones always ordered at least two weeks worth of the soup to come with his order, as he mostly ordered the clones to be the meat his family ate for the month.

Once they'd finished their soup, the four clones filed obediently into the crate, making themselves comfortable. Twilight smiled, these meat ponies had been trained impeccably to be obedient, they would do exactly what their new master told them to and wouldn't raise much of a fuss, even if he was butchering them alive. Most of the time they left some of the fight in the clones, many customers enjoyed the challenge of breaking them in, but there were many customers who just wanted a placid meat pony. This particular customer only occasionally ordered a more spirited pony, along with his usual four, and Twilight had to wonder just what he'd do with Woona. The unicorn stallions behind her closed up the crate and went on their way as Twilight gathered the shipment documents along with the letter that KARiN had written. Making sure everything was in order, she put the papers in a box attached to the crate, then headed to bed for the night.

Author's Note

Hey down-voters, just curious as to why you're down-voting, all feedback appreciated :)