Eventually I came too and shook my head before looking around, hopefully not encountering that demon from earlier. My head ached in fact my whole body ached from being dragged about and getting hit over the head.

I let out a small sigh of relief and smiled slightly before completely breaking down in my spot. I shouted out, “Why did all of this happen to me?! Killing ponies? Sinking a city? Why is this happening?!” Tears ran freely down my already dirty fur and splashed onto the wooden floor.

The whole place was dark and dingy not to mention the constant smell of blood mixed with rot. It was almost unbearable.

This was not how today was meant to go down… Twilight and the others… they don’t even know that I’m down here! I wanted to go back in time and change everything so this would have never happened but I wasn’t a unicorn so there was no chance of that ever happening.

I took deep breaths in and I slowly felt my heart hate go down until I was breathing normally. I collected myself and sat up whilst wiping the tears out of my magenta coloured eyes. I looked around the sphere and saw to the left of me what looked like a small hoofheld radio.

I walked over to it and picked it up before randomly pressing a few buttons to see if it worked. As if luck was finally on my side it switched on and a few different voices came through. None I could make out though but at least it worked for now.

I clipped it to the strap of the saddle bags and slowly walked out of the sphere. As I walked over the bridge and to the middle of the spacious room I noticed a big chamber that had some sort of electricity sparking around in it with a few ruined suitcases in front.

I shrugged and cautiously walked over to see what exactly it was. On the top of the machine it said ‘Vita-chamber’. What the hell is one of those? I ignored the weird machine and looked down to see a first aid kit partly buried beneath the suitcases.

I pushed the cases aside and picked up the kit with my wings before opening the lid to find a few bandages, a bottle of aesthetic and a few gauze pads. Despite the old and worn out exterior, the lid must have kept everything clean and sterile.

It was defiantly going to come in handy later so I flipped open the slightly full saddle bag and chucked it in before closing it again and turning back around. I quickly but cautiously walked over to the other side of the room which had a giant metal door leading into what I presumed was another room. I gazed in slight awe at the door since I had never seen anything like it before, the intricate swirls swirling around a round circle in the centre and the fine detailing around the edges of it made it something different.

I walked up the few steps leading to the door then stuck my hoof out to touch the door to see if it did anything. As I was about to touch it the door lifted up into the wall showing me the next room.

As I was about to enter I heard the scraping of metal on metal and looked around frantically to find the source of the noise. I called out, “Is anyone there? Hello?” Panic and fear were becoming increasingly present in my voice with each word.

A faint laugh echoed around the room and the sound of hooves walking around got closer and closer to me. I shook my head and walked forward through the doorway trying to drown out the scraping by listening to the sound of my own hoof steps. This must be a dream right?

I made it through the doorway and down the small set of stairs into a smaller room with tables flipped over and fallen pillars all around me.

I was about to take another step forward when the thing decided to make it’s appearance and jumped down in front of me with what looked like rose petals falling down after it.

I screamed in fear of the thing and ran to the nearest corner by instinct. Bad move. The thing sauntered over to me as if it were taunting it’s prey ready to strike at any moment.

My eyes darted around the room looking for something and that’s when I heard it. At first it was a small whirring sound in the background but as it got closer the sound grew louder and louder to the point where I could see a green light to the left of me.

I looked in the direction of the light and slowly made out what looked like a floating machine gun with a light shining in my direction. Next there was a loud beeping noise before the machine gun started firing at me. Without thinking at all I flared my wings out before wrapping them around my head.

I heard a scream and the tearing of metal before something dropping to the ground. I peeked through my feathers only to see the thing laying dead on the floor, the things chest ripped wide open with blood oozing out of it and bones sticking out at funny angles with bullet holes through them.

As much as I wanted to throw up on the spot something compelled me to walk over to the thing and investigate what it was. I folded away my wings whilst walking over to the thing that looked increasingly like a mare, a pegasus mare.

I took a few steps back in shock realising that it was a pony just like anyone else. How could somepony turn into a brain dead, kill-on-instinct thing.

I shook my head with tears in the corners of my eyes whilst quickly walking away from the body, heavily resisting the urge not to throw up on the spot.

I looked in front of me to the entrance to the next room only to see that it was blocked with fallen and crushed pillars. I tapped the pillar but nothing happened so I shoved it only to get the same result as before.

I groaned in frustration and looked around for something that could help me get through. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a glimpse of something so I turned my head in the direction of the light only to see that it was a rusted red wrench buried under a fallen pillar.

I slammed my front hooves on the ground before pivoting around then used my hind legs to buck the pillar. The pillar in question moved back only a few feet but it was enough to grab the wrench.

I reached out with my wing and quickly picked it up before moving back over to the blocked doorway. I tightened my grip on the wrench and stretched my wing as far back as possible before bringing the wrench down hard on the fallen and cracked pillar smashing it into small pieces.

I crouched down whilst tucking the wrench between the straps of the saddles and my fur then squeezed through the small space.

Once I was through I stood up again only to be met with a demented laugh and a large wooden desk that was on fire falling down the stairs toward me.

I panicked and flared out my wings before crouching down and jumping into the air whilst forcing my wings down giving me the extra boost I needed to avoid the desk.

I landed again and quickly got out the wrench with one of my wings and ran up the stairs to face the larger thing throwing what looked like flaming bombs.

I didn’t have time to notice what the thing looked like since the thing was throwing the bombs at me. I ducked under one of the bombs before smashing the wrench into the things face.

I heard the crunch of bone and the scream of it. I screamed uncontrollably as I smashed the wrench into the things face over and over and over, my eyes wide and my ears flopped back.

As I beat the thing to death blood splashed and spurted on to me but I didn’t care I just wanted the thing dead.

I hit the thing for the final time before sinking to the ground crying uncontrollably. I looked shakily down at the thing and realised that it was a male earth pony that I had just brutally murdered without a second thought.

I brutally killed a pony in self defence right? Keep telling yourself that. I shook my head trying to get rid of the horrible thoughts before standing up fully, the wrench back securely placed under the saddle straps and I started walking forward into a room which was defiantly more spacious than the last two rooms combined.

At the other end of the room hung a giant red banner with the words ‘Welcome to Rapture’ on it in gold to make it stand out even more than it already had. Around me were tables and chairs, some still standing in perfect condition whilst others thrown about like a rag doll. And to top it off in each corner of the room was a small waterfall with a stream running along the edges of the room to make it look even more magnificent.

The only problem was the distinct smell of rot and bodies of ponies laying around, some with chunks of their necks missing and dried up pools of blood around them whilst others had whole limbs missing and bulled wounds all over their bodies. It was as if I had walked into a homicide or a horror movie, I couldn’t decide.

I forced my legs to move forward father into the room and my stomach to stop churning from my surroundings.

I made it through the room with ease but that changed in the next room as I walked though it.

The door slammed down behind me and I heard another laugh, this one much deeper than the last one.

The room itself was beautiful with a walkway in the centre and two lowered area’s to the sides with giant glass panes looking out into the city but was ruined with cracks in the glass letting a steady stream of water flow in and the ceiling constantly dripping into a growing puddle.

I explored the lowered area to the left and reeled back in shock when I saw a decaying body of what looked like a unicorn stallion dressed up as if he were going to a meeting. It was literally a skeleton with clumps of flesh here and there stuck to the bones and a rotting smell coming from the water.

I averted my eyes to the suitcase in the opposite corner. I glided over to it before unconsciously rummaging through it to find anything at all that could help me.

I found about twelve dollars but that was about it. I walked up the second set of steps and I reached the door only to hear a thud and another taunting laugh.

I slowly turned around to be met with a hoof flying at my face. I cried out in pain as the hoof slammed into my face which resulted in sending me flying down the stairs.

I placed my hoof lightly on my cheek only to immediately remove my hoof as my cheek was already tender and a dull pain constantly present.

I growled with tears in the corners of my eyes as I stood up and got out the wrench with one of my front legs. I ran forward to the thing as it ran at me and when I was close enough I swung the wrench into the side of it’s face then down on it’s skull repeatedly. I didn’t even give the thing a chance to fight back as I beat it to death.

I struck one final time before putting the now dripping with blood wrench into it’s spot. I laughed to myself as I bucked the door open and muttered out loud, “You haven’t even been here one day Dash and you’ve already killed 3 ponies… I’m a monster…”

I entered a huge room that dwarfed the last three and could probably fit half of Ponyville in it. To the right was a doorway with statues of stallions reaching up either side of another door with the sign above it of ‘Welcome to Rapture’ engraved.

To the right was a set of stair cases leading up to a second level and a desk in front of it. My curiosity got the best of me as I walked up the set of stairs to the right and saw a what looked live a rusted vending machine with little filly’s either side smiling wildly up at the machine called ‘Gatherer’s Garden’.

I gulped and inspected the machine closer. In the slot that dispensed whatever it sold was a round metal bottle with a red liquid circling around in it with a needle that looked surprisingly clean.

I picked up the bottle with my wing and read on the tag, “Electro Bolt Plasmid. Nothing like having a fist of lightning at your control. Huh.” I griped the needle in my mouth before carefully shoving it into the hole in the top of the plasmid thingy and took out most of the liquid.

I removed the liquid from the mostly empty bottle and discarded it as I shakily brought the full needle to my front left hoof. Wait what am I doing? Sticking a needle with something I don’t even know about into my arm? I’m a bloody idiot…

And without another thought I plunged the needle into my arm and pushed the liquid into my veins. I cried out in pain as the thick liquid entered my blood stream and pink started to flash around my eyes.

I ripped the empty needle out of my leg and started unknowingly moving backward. This pain was nothing like I had ever felt. It was like a million lightning bolts coursing through my veins never stopping.

I bumped into the metal railing and fell over the edge as the pink flashes became constant and black was seeping into my field of vision.

I hit the floor but felt no more pain then there already was surprisingly. I blinked slowly and one minute I’m looking at a door to a tunnel and the next I see two demented stallions walking by muttering something to themselves then loud thumps and a low, metallic groan and a filly say happily, “Look Mr Bubbles! An angel! Wait this one isn’t dead yet. Shame but soon she will become an angel!”

The filly in front of me was wearing a ruined striped purple dress with a white corset but the worse thing was that her eyes were glowing bright yellow.

I tried to scream but only a slight whimper came out and I blinked and this time nothing was present or around me.

My vision slowly cleared and I sat up with a painful headache. I ignored it as best as I could by looking at my left forehoof expecting to see a large hole but instead saw a light blue bar in place of the hole with it filled in with white blocks.

I didn’t know what any of it meant but somehow I faintly knew. I tried to rub off the bar with my other hoof but it was no use. It wasn’t going anywhere.

I groaned out loud from the stress of everything and took off my heavy saddlebags before placing them in front of me.

I dug through them wondering what actually was in them. I found a set of maps which looked like they were maps of Rapture, a few bars of oats, another first aid kit, a piece of paper with only the name ‘Teanembaum’ and finally what looked like the little radio clipped to the straps but it was larger and had a pause and play button on it.

I pressed the button and a voice said, “If you are listening to this it means you are in Rapture.” It was the same voice as the mare that dragged me here. Proper and well thought through. “Now listen carefully. In order to survive in Rapture you must remember this. First of all, the demonic looking things are ponies just like you or I but the only difference is the fact that they have been corrupted by lust for power of the plasmids that drove them insane which brings me to my next point.”

She paused then continued, “Plasmids are bottles of liquids which re-writes your genetic code allowing you to use lightning or fire or anything like it. Audio diaries just like this one give you an idea of Rapture was like when it wasn’t like this and what caused it to fall. Now my final point. Big Daddies. They are stallions in a deep sea diving suit that work on the buildings in Rapture by either repairing it or defending it. They got their name from the little sisters that follow them around as if the monsters were their actual father. Now I repeat never, never. Try and take a little sister away from the big daddy which will enrage it and most likely kill you on the spot. I wish you good luck in Rapture. Your going to need it.”

Those things called ‘Splicers’ were really ponies just like me but corrupted. How could somepony ever end up like that? I quickly packed up everything back into the saddles before putting the heavy gear back on.

I stood up once more that day and walked over to the door which opened for me. I entered the tube like tunnel which had curved glass all around me so I could see the breath taking view of the city around me.

As I progressed into the tunnel I heard the sound or rushing water and when I walked down the set of stairs in the tunnel I was met by a current pulling me away from the floor and down into a version of rapids.

As soon as it started it ended as I was slammed into the corner connecting to the left to another area. I cried out once again as I tried to get up and walk away from the currents.

Slowly and painfully I stood up as liters and liters of cold water poured down on me. I stuck my right hind leg around the corner and pushed with all of my might to get away from the water and on to the stairs.

I pushed once more and finally managed to free myself and tumble through the open door and into a lobby and a dead male splicer.

I got to my feet and violently shook my body spraying water in every direction off my fur. I heard a shout then a fire bomb coming at me from the right.

I ducked under the bomb then stood up on my hind legs and rubbed my forehooves together creating sparks around my left leg, my rainbow hair starting to stick up at every direction from the friction created.

I saw the splicer gallop at me and when he was close enough I stepped forward and shot my left hoof forward, electricity shooting out of the hoof and into the unprepared stallion in front of me.

He screamed out in pain and clawed at his skin violently trying to stop the electricity but it was no use as I dropped down on to all fours and grabbed the wrench then whacked him in the head as hard as I could.

The stallion fell forward dead on the floor as his head split open and blood and brain mucus came pouring out of it and on to the floor around me. I cringed from the death and the smell in the air but walked past it putting the wrench into it’s spot.

I looked around the room and in the far corner to the left I saw another one of those ‘Vita-Chamber’ thingy. Around me were various elevators all most all of them destroyed in some way.

I ignored it and walked over to the one working elevator and hopped in before pressing the only button in the thing. A metal gate slammed shut in front of me and the elevator started moving up.

All I wanted was for this nightmare to be a nightmare and I would wake up on a soft cloud in Ponyville in the sunshine but I knew in my gut that it wasn’t simply a dream but real harsh life.

The elevator came to a stop on the third floor and I got out only to hear a lullaby coming from the right.

I scanned the room quickly for anything but I found nothing at all so I walked toward the voice, subconsciously getting out my trusted wrench.

At the entrance to a restaurant called ‘Kashmir Restaurant’ was a mare hunched over a pram singing a lullaby that I had never heard before. She seemed quite normal at first but as I got closer and closer I noticed the looked more and more like a splicer.

She must’ve heard me coming since she suddenly turned around and swung at me with a crow bar. I jumped to the side then rubbed my forehooves together and stepping forward whilst flinging my left hoof out, electrocuting the woman to death.

I walked over to the pram and saw instead of a foal a loaded revolver. Without a second glance I snatched the gun up and put it in the left saddle.

I continued into the restaurant and gazed in disgust at it. Tables and chairs were flipped over and water from different spots poured into the room.

Every doorway in the room was blocked but the stallions toilets. I groaned in frustration and didn’t even bother to look around the ruined rooms whilst waking over to the gentlecolt’s bathroom.

I turned left and walked into the toilet area and walked down the narrow pathway. I kicked open each toilet door to reveal rubble, more rubble, dead body and even more rubble.

I got to the door at the end and pushed it open to find a hole in the wall which looked like it lead to platform of some kind.

I walked through the hole and stopped dead in my tracks as I said out loud, “What the fuck is that?!”

Author's Note

Yay Chapter 2!! I know that I need to edit this but bare in mind that I finished writing this at 1:13am in the morning so I'm too tired to be bothered to edit but it will be done soon ^^'

Comments and critique are appreciated!