CHAPTER4:Betrayal

Time: 0003 hours

12 years later...

"I can't believe It's been 10 years since the wonderbolts died....."

With a sigh the large white black red stallion moves around in his bed and stares out at Equestria. Some parts of the world just gray, I've been been named 'Scratches' a few years ago due to my talent for knowing how to Scratch a Vinyl on a turn table funny right?. Anyways the world has grown...violent...I remember when it was more green, now it parts of the world look destroyed. And tattered.

"Cmon Scratch move you ass"

I yelled out to my self as I rolled off my bed and. Stood up stretching groaning a little as some bones crack. I still think it's funny..how the princess of Equestria would resort to war...the over seeing Commander hasn't really heard of any news it's like Celestia just forgot about us and Luna it's like we're..just There.

"Scratches!!"

The mare ran into the room with a panicked look. Pretty odd for that mare too

"what's wrong Circuts!?"

I asked a bit worried

"did you hear...there was an explosion in the hangar and 40 ponies died...we even lost a Saterlite the "gauss doll" prototype...it's gone.."

Circut said in a low tone

"but how??? The systems for the hangar are pretty tight and the saftey procedures ar-"

getting cut off before I can finish

"there was a malfuction with one of the old transport ships...it fired a missile and caused a chain reaction Scratch..."

My face expression went to curious to droopy as I frowned.

"That couldn't be a accident.."

Somthing about that

"malfuction"

didn't seem to sit right with me

"It's okay Circut I'm sure those ponies lived a good life here.."

Time: 1500 hours
Location: viewing platform to Hangar
Most of the hangar was shit, what used to be a big hall of transport ships and prototype ships from Equestria is now a big mess floating around in space. I walked around the viewing platform to get a better look to see some ponies I don't know floating around...lifeless.

"Ah Scratch your here good..."

A voice spoke up and I turned to see a Security guard.

"Yes I'm here. Who are you?"

I asked

"my name is John, I'm part of the Front line Security force and the RFSF"

the stallion says behind the strangely larger armour barding. His visor was golden shiny and his HUD shined red instead of blue like the traditional HUD does.

"Ah now. Why did you say 'there you are"

I asked curiously

"well I'm impressed with your senses of perception, and I wanted a pony who could help me see what the hell happened here, I was about to send a pony your way but I see your here already"

I looked at the guard for a few moments and slowly nodded

"alright...sure lets go and see what happened"

Time: 1600 hours
Location: Fleetship Security B Head Quarters
As me and John walked through the sliding double doors a few other guards looked up from what they were doing

"hey there you are!"

Plasma spoke. She was another Security Mare who's face I couldn't see again due to there golden visors. I could see that her coat was a lime green under her neck collar.

"Yes? What's up"

John spoke up before sitting down

"the footage on the hangar cameras were actually saved. But unfortunately not on these terminals, do me a favour and go down to C and check there terminals will you? I heard there systems are functioning again"

I sighed along with John and I chuckled a bit.

"I'll go"

I said as I nodded

"you guys just...do your work here and research the hangar"

I said as I left and starts my way to the next security block. It was certainly far. I had to take the Engineering rought to get to the dammed sector. Examining the halls I've noticed the emergency lighting was on for an odd reason. But the main power is online, odd...

"Hey hey whoa take it easy Elite what are you doing way out here??? Don't you know this place is under a quarantine lock down??"

A CON soldier spoke aloud behind a metal barrier with a chain gun mounted to it

"no I didn't, if this place is under quarantine where the hell is the gates??"

"These are the gates"

oh Sweet Celestia that's not a gate that's a nervouse stallion with a chain gun.

"alright. Look I'm here under the order of Security B"

I said. The pony in thick armour unfolded his helmet and nodded with his head

"Alright...your okay to go...just don't try anything"

I rolled my eyes a little and walks forward Into the hall. Getting there I noticed there was debri all over.power lines were cut off and there was Plasmatic Rifle Cartridges everywhere. Along with blood, walking forward I noticed a CON mare in a beat up looking white Armoured radiation suit. As soon as she seen me the little mare jumped and even yellped as I raised a eyebrow

"oh sorry you startled me...are you from B?"

The mare tired her head looking up

"yes I am, where is the Security C quarters"

I replied
"Oh it's just down this hall"

she said

"by the way..the hell happened here"

immediately the mares ears folded back and smile nervously

"o-oh well that virus that broke out in the food supply once again broke out...over half of this block went crazy....we lost a huge number of security and soldiers..but we mostly captured and killed those horrible ponies, they kinda...ate each other......"

The mare nodded

"I didn't tell you anything okay?"

She said and I nodded before walking down to the security HQ, trotting in a found big pile of body bags and frowned as I looked around. The stench..of ponies rotting as flesh. A security stallion popped up and looked at me and smiled

"oh well hey there Scratch..YA here f-f-for te tapess????...."

I frowned a little at his speech stuttering and noticed his eyes a bit wider and his pupils small. Also he looked pale

"yes..I am...do you have them?...and..are you alright"

He smiled stupidly

"o-oh yes yes I'm alright I've just been up for a while working heh...."

He got up stumbling for the consoles and ejected a few memory tapes

"h-here you g-go.."

he walked up to me and starts to float the tapes to me as I held my hoof out. Stopping he stared at my hoof for a few moments

"are...you al-"

and with that the guard lunged forward grabbing ahold of me or trying to as he bit through the flesh of my hoof

"gah! Dammit what's wrong with you!!?"

My magic grabbed his baton and pulled it out and flipped the switch on the side of the weapon and it sparked with energy the guard chuckled and looked up at me still nawing at my forehoof

"tastes great!!"

He muffled out as I yelled and slammed the baton onto his face. The shock got him, it also traveled through him and got to me and we both flew away from each other, the baton flying away a few feet

"ah dammit you bit my hoof!"

I yelled as I got up recovering from the shock and seeing him get up, those grey eyes narrowing towards me, I scanned the area quickly and limped backwards to a desk and quickly yanked the drawers out, finding a EMTF Plasmatic Bolt Magnum. Loading the weapon with a left over Plasma Cartridge I held it up with my magic and aimed for his head. He lunged forward and I fired, with a loud bang the Part Metal and plasma turned his head into a red spray and his limp body flew through the air and hit the ground

"I-...I just killed...a pony...."

I talked to my self and dropped the gun, that instant the rest of the guards ram through looking at me then the body.

"What happened!?"

One spoke

"h-he just tried to fucking eat me!!"

I yelled as I pointed with my bitten up hoof

"shit, get the dam medical mare and make sure to his this body in a bag"

one of the guards spoke as I grabbed the memory tapes.
After a few minutes a small brown mare trotted in quickly with a mane a few shades darker than her coat, she looked around and spotted me sitting down before rushing pulling out equipment I don't even now

"now 005 just stay still...this is the fourth dam time I had to treat a bite..."

She sighed but starts to clean and after a few checks she injected a needle an started her suprisely fast stitching fluent work

she was certainly more attractive than other mares for some reason..maybe it was the lack of muscle than most mares have on this ship...? I questioned my self in my head and before I knew it she was done.

"Alright, your done now go and do your duty"

she said as she quickly packed her stuff and left. I left to, on my way back to Security B.

Time: 1800 hours, Loacation, Fleetship Sector B Halls
"So..you..killed a pony?.."

Circut asked as we walked down the halls back to Security HQ B

"I had no choice to...plus...it was just somthing that urged me to ..shoot..."

I replied to her question

"it's okay, ponies go wonky like that al the time. You get used to it kinda?"

She tilted her head jumping a little, as I chuckled

"Circut you remind me of Pinkiepie"

arriving to the HQ Circut yelled her goodbyes quiet litteraly and I walked into the room unlocking the doors, John looked up from his terminal, still not taking that dammed helmet off I could tell he was smiling

"first kill huh? Almost everypony gets at least a kill in there life" he chuckled.

"Shut up and take the tapes"

growled and tossed them to him. He shrugged and shaked his head

"not my fault the pony went bonkers"

he said as he looked around

"Since you did get the tapes you can go and rest it's starting to get late"

I nodded and left kind of ticked off at his behaviour, before I got a chance to leave out the door the same medical mare walked in, she didn have her uniform but her bag and she lightened up

"there you are I forgot to give you these"

She said giving me a hoof full of needles

"what for?"

I asked

"that shot I gave you will cause some pain...heh..."

Even though Johns visors covered his face you can see through the side

"who's this?"

the medical mare asked me pointing to John, once again I could tell...was he blushing?...I smiled a little knowing that he was blushing

"uh...I'm Im John"

he took the helmet off revealing his faded blue mane and grey coat Along with his Bright green eyes..almost like Applejacks..that's what it reminds me of anyways

"oh well nice to meet you John Im Syringe"

she smiled and walked up to him shaking his hoof. I nearly laughed seeing his red cheeks so dam red.

"Oh well that's a pretty name"

he smiled

I'll heh I'll leave to two alone"

I said walking out of the quarted and headed back to my living quartes.

Time: 1100 hours
Location: Scratches Living Quarters.

Laying in my bed looking up at my ceiling I sighed and activate my HUD. The fuzzy blue hollow gram screen appeared and I started to fiddle with the radio suddenly the commander of the Fleetship spoke up

"good evening ponies, today has been horrible for Sector B and C Secotor B hangar was destroyed due to a malfunctioning missile...every pony in the hangar died to the lack of air...an Sector C was infected with that mysterious Virus or disease in the food supply, story comes from the Security HQ in Sector C is that Scratches Elite 005 was down there in after math. The security team have told us that a infected pony attacked him and he repelled by shooting it in the head....I hope you are alright 5. And that's all I have for tonight. Rest well Fleetship, may Celestia rest those poor souls lost today. And now for High Strings newly released song! It's violin Solo... I give you...Cottage of the Rising Sun..."

I sighed and turned the radio off as the Hollowgram dissapeared not in the mood for a song. I moved around and noticed I still had my saddlebags on.

"Oh dammit silly me"

I got up and unbuckled the to me comlicated straps and tossed te bags aside. With a thud a extra memory tape fell out

"huh?,...must've forgot about it..."

I got up and turned on my desk lamp for enough light and picked the heavy little Metal rectangle. I could see the mini memory orb stashed in the metal casing shining out a bit

"well I am helping after all..."

I said before grabbing it with my magic. Just hope that it ends before waking hours

I Layed down and floated to my horn and drifted into the tape in a instant.

I'm a camera..or I'm seeing through a camera lense as the head swivels side to side watching everything going on near the Transportation ships, watching ponies do there work is...boring honestly. It's funny the EMTFS managed to make an memory orb work with electronics. After a few minutes a pony in a guards uniform walks around Mostly examining the transportation ship my camera was closest to....is that?....John?...hearing him walk past a few engineers as he looks around and quickly steps into a transport ship and into the cock pit for a few moments before jumping out and running off ' no he did not!?!' My head yelled. Did he just arm the missiles?!. It was his armour I seen his ID number on his chest...no he wouldn't do tha- my thoughts were cut off seeing a few missiles from the wings of the transportation ship fire and next you know nothing....

Time: 0500 hours
Location: you know where dummy

coming out of the tape I jumped up looked down at the tape and panted before picking up the tape with a hoof

"why would John do that..."

He wouldn't do anything like that... It's easy he is an ass but I know innocence and bad behaviour when I see it.

"Sweet Celestia...."

I sigh and slowly getup out of my bed and quickly make the bed before looking around and placing the tape in my saddlebags

"okay...my job is to....show this to Security...but...John is Security..."

I told my self

"well..maybe maybe I can go see the Fleetship Commander! Yeah thats it!"

I said before fixing my mane to its proper spiky form and opened my door up and started heading to the Bridge.

Time: 0600 hours
Location: Fleetdship Bridge(near)

On my way for an odd reason all the types of ponies came to thought in my head...there's the CON soldiers that have the duties of Containing deadly creatures or viruses or just being there to fight, then there's your typical Fleet Security guard, the ponies that are supposed to stop violence when it happens quuckly, they do there job decently but lots of bad things are starting t happen and I just have a feeling the guards aren't goingto be able to be much help, then there's the engineering pony, there all over the place making sure this Fleetship is alright and is in order, there's all kinds too..there's the HUD tech pony then the rare Elite Sword crafter or just known as the Sword engineer. And did I mention the new type of soldier? They call it a diamond dog warrior...uses all kinds of fancy equipment. That thing..heard it's gonna be usedfor special stealth missions in the future im Equestria. There's also the Very rare Elite pony...a special pony that's designed to be an Alicorn when they get older. A pony that's stronger and faster than most...a perfect soldier...and appearently I am one it seems like I'm the only one...
Walking up to steps I by pass a few guards and opens the door to the bridge. I've never seen the bridge nor the commander of Fleet 005. Oddly he was alone and he looked different from other ponies, his coat was a silky looking silver coat that seemed to glimmer at the time and his dark grey mane that was neatly done up, his cutie mark was three large silver bullets

"005? Is that you? My goodness come here I haven't seen you since your creation"

I frowned a little as I walked up

"uh...sir there's no time for that stuff right now....I have evidence to the 'malfunctioning' missile in B hangar"

I replied to him as he frowned and walked up to me holding the memory tape

"I thought those go to the security guards"

I stopped blushing as if Just stole it, did I?

"no no sir it's all a funny story heh...I was the one to retrieve these from sector C and well I forgot this one in my saddlebags"

he examined the tape

"so why didn't you take it to security?..."

I sighed

"because...one of the Security guards is the one who set the Missile in the hangar..."

He stood there a little hesitant before snatching the tape and quickly trotting to his room

"I'm sorry 005 I need to check this out..."

And with that he disappeared behind the Fleetship halls .

Time: 0800 hours
Location: Fleetship Masters Bridge
The masters bridge was the most fanciest,lots of dark polished wood by the looks. Silver bullet walked out as he sighed and looked up

"it is Security....Unit 77..."

He said as I stared at him "well what are we doing about it!?"

I yelled

"I'm sending CONsoldiers after John ..im putting him into a cryo chamber"

he looked up

"well what are you waiting for lets go"

I replied To him as he grabbed his key card

"I'm seeing this guard myself cmon 5"

he said as followed the commander off bridge.

Time: 0930 hours
Location: Stallion Security Living Quarters
As we walked down the hall the sight of the commander ponies immidesdly went into there rooms or moved aside as the big CON soldiers move to Johns door and starting passing the panel. A few moments later and the door opens up the door doors over lapping sliding away from each other, the stallion quickly got up from his bed along with the medical mare Syringe

"Unit 77! You are under arrest for the death of several engineering ponies and three foals!"

SilverBullet yelled as the soldiers run up to him there horns glowing

"what the hell are you talking about!?"

He yelled as he turned and bucked one of the CON soldiers sending him flying across the room and grabs his baton, Activating the piece of metal the baton sparked and slammed it several times against the other CONs helmet breaking the visor eyes and keeps beating.

BANG

John hit the metal floor hard missing his left hoof as Syringe screams

"John!"

He gets up and tackles the commander before getting pulled off by the guards in the hall. I just stood there....watching at what I seen

"you bastard!"

The mare scrambled in the guards grip as she was dragged away, the commander getting up and sheathing his magnum

"clean this dam mess"

he dusted him self off and angrily left the room as two more guards and dragged the bodies out.
After that...I don't know..I didn't know how to react to that...how they acted.....perhaps John didnt activate that 'malfunctioning' missile...

"Scratch dear son please head back to your quarters quick quick"

one of the old guards said in a discrete tone and with that I took off.

Footnote: Level up. Iron magic, your magic's grip is strong and has a bonus of 5 Melee points.