Game's of Flummox

She begins opening her eyes for the first time. Darkness was all over her. Drooping from the exhaustion she had, She couldn’t move or speak. She didn’t have a clue where she was at, who she was, where she was going. She could hear herself being dragged in front of her by what sounded like two figures clip clopping down to who knows where. Panic begin to arise in her body. She attempted to struggle but was far beyond weak and vivid. One of the figures seemed to have noticed her waking up.

One of them slammed a blunt object on the back of her head which sent a short moment of pain, knocking her out cold. She woke up again, Light’s began to turn on but we’re too dim to shine the hallway. Down the corridor she could see a steampunk door that was full of rust with a wheel in the center that can be turned to open it. The walls were full of grey and blue metal color’s. Dust filled the atmosphere which came with a burnt metal smell to it making it hard for Amber to breathe.

“Amber” She thought.

 “Is… that my name?”

Confusion and curiosity began filling her mind. Her eyes finally getting used to the dark, She can see much more better than she did before she was blunted on her head. Walking beside her were two ponies dragging her to the door from her front forelegs.

Her hoof’s we’re chained on the side of the two ponies making it impossible for her to move her upper body. Glancing up one more time to the door. The smell had gotten stronger and repulsive. They had reached the door. The pony on the left side of Amber moved towards the door and began opening it with her horn. The sudden burst of loud mechanism coming from the door made amber want to jump but was to weak to move.

The door had began opening with a shrieking sound to it making it annoying and irritating to hear. Amber’s heart began pulsing fast, She didn’t have a clue what was beyond that door.

“St… Stop” She said.

The door was almost at it’s fullest peak of opening. Beyond the door she could see another steampunk door that was already opened by the other pony which led into a dark, dim room which resembled a restaurant freezer with a door at the end without the cold freezing temperature in it.

The two ponies walked forward past the two doors and threw Amber into the room. Pain slipping into her body as she hits the floor on her side making her squeeze the air out of her body making her cough and struggle for air. The two ponies had set her free and have wandered back into the hallway where she was dragged in the first place.

“Hey, come back!” She said.

Amber looking at them, She stood back up and began running towards them. But the door slammed shut before she even had a chance to get near the door. She stumbled backwards onto the old, hardcover flooring beneath her giving her another glimpse of pain on her back. She stood back up to see her surroundings.

“Hello?” She said.

“Is there anypony here?”

Amber’s mind began questioning on what was going on, who she was and why she is here. Her heart still beating at a pace of panic and worrying what yonders in the dark. Walking carefully through the door she had seen earlier, She finds herself in a old kitchen with a wide window in front of her full of pots and tools that seemed of no use to her. The place was flooded with darkness. Amber contrasting to the darkness she stood quiet for a moment but began exploring the area. In a corner, She finds a half eaten chocolate bar full of dust and dirt around it with the wrapper peeled off completely. Glimpsing at it, her stomach rumbled.

“If it’s going to be anything I’m eating, It might as well not be this hunk of junk in front of me.” She said.

She glanced at the rottened bar one last time and pushed it away underneath a table so it may never be found again. Walking seamlessly to another room past the window she had seen through. The room looked similar to the one she had just exited but the room was full of tools scattered around and what looked like big refrigerators lying silently on the ground with no power to consume. Down at the end of the room was a door leading to another room with light casting out of it. Amber taking a good glimpse of her surroundings, All she saw were garbage through her eyes. Pile of pots laying on the ground sideways, spatulas hanging from the side of the walls and dirt all over the place.

“Well this place is certainly dead isn’t it” She said.

“Might as well go see what’s through that door and peek whatever it is out there that’s shining. It might even be celestia shining her butt out there to who knows what.”

Amber felt abnormal talking to herself like that. But what made her feel different that way was how she knew that name. Amber shivered for a moment but began her exploration once again. She began approaching the door in front of her but stumbled on a hard but soft surface in front of her foreleg and fell making her faceplant to the floor. A short moment of pain shot through her face but vanished quickly.

“Stupid trash!” She said.

“Why don’t you go and make yourself actually usefu-” Her words were cut off.

Her attention began focusing to the object that made her fall in the first place. Glancing at it, She realized it was a saddlebag that had holes on the side but was in good condition.

“Oh. That’s what tripped me, Good for me” She said

“Might as well take the thing and carry it around anyways.”

She approaches the saddlebag and began searching what was left to scavenge in the bag. She found what looked like a big rock shoved inside one of the sides of the saddlebag with the sentence “M.P. Pet Rock” on the side Amber was viewing. Not knowing what it meant. She removed the rock out of the saddlebag and placed the saddlebag firmly on the back of her body leaving it dangling as she moves. It felt discomforting for her for a moment but she began getting use to the feeling.

Moving towards the door again, She begins walking down to the door while she is constantly looking down on her front hoofs so she finds something that makes her trip again and avoids it. Luckily she didn’t, Instead she had found a dining area with a plentiful amount of chairs scattered around the room with big round and square tables standing without ever having to move. Some on the ground laying quiet and still while others are not along with a set of completely barricaded windows, One had light shining out of it lighting up the ground beneath her lightly.

She realized she was in a restaurant that was abandoned for what look liked dozens of years. The place looked old and felt completely abandoned with no sign of life whatsoever. Amber looks to her right and finds an ordering counter area with cash register’s opened while others are not. One had a bobby pin stuck into it’s keyhole but looked like it was broken and jammed in it’s lock.

“Huh… Lockpicking” She said

“Gotta learn some of that myself if I ever want more goodies in this place, whatever this place served anyway.”

Looking at what the menu’s offered, A majority of them had been decayed or ripped away from the menu. She squints her eyes to see the menu more clearly and carefully. On the left of the menu’s was an image of a big bun filled with hay, tomatoes, lettuce and ketchup along with a side of fries on the right with the words above it saying

“Big Macs Hayburger Combo Meal! Served with Hoof Fries and a Medium Soft Drink! 6 Bits.” Glancing at the food, It made Amber’s stomach grumble again just by looking at the delicious food. Looking away as if she hadn’t seen it,  She’d had completely forgotten about the light outside the boarded windows. She approached the small hole the light was beaming out of and decided to take a peek on what’s outside but when Amber put her eye’s in the small bright beaming hole peeking through it. Bright Light shot into her eyes leaving her temporarily blinded for half a minute.

“Damn that’s bright!” She said

She backed out of the way the light was shining and began rubbing her eyes with her hoofs to regain concentration. Being able to see again, She turned to her right side and found what look liked a door filled with wooden barriers all over it with a small pinch of tiny light poking out of it and a big wide rusty chain with a lock in the center locking it from the outside. As she takes a closer look to the lock, There was a key underneath it that was already placed in the keyhole. Amber felt excited and terrified at the same time not knowing what may lie behind that door. Animals? Vegetation? Other Ponies? Amber was filled with curiosity and ecstasy. As she disengages the lock, The key suddenly breaks apart into two making it useless and unrepairable.

“Oh crap.” She said

Amber as she foolishly begins to converge the two broken pieces together. She began reinserting the pieces back into the keyhole unwelded and forcefully began to try and turn the lock. But no luck. Amber letting go of the key parts to fall to its descent, She began scavenging the area once again to find anything useful to remove the lock on the chain.

Back to the ordering counter area that she’d had gone, she inspects the area carefully to find any sort of tool to her aid. To her luck, she finds a safe underneath one of the cash registers in a cabinet with glowing number pads on the front. Amber felt a little frustrated and let out a loud sigh not knowing what the code was. As she gently begins to put her hoofs on the number pads, The safe all of a sudden began opening slowly creaking as it did.

Amber to a surprise felt relieved she didn’t have to go search for an object to help her open the safe. She glances at the safe again only to snap her eyes at what looked like a lock gun designed specifically for earth ponies along with a small match box with six or seven needle picks and a book with a lock gun on the front cover with words saying

“Equestrian Weaponry Guides: Lock Guns for Earth Ponies. Beginner's Edition!”

Amber began to felt vigorous, knowing she’d had found something useful to aid her.

“Oh yes!” She said.

“This I'm definitely stashing in here!”

Amber as she returns back to the padlock she grabbed the utilities she had found in the safe. Surprisingly the gun itself felt lighter than she thought it would be. Analyzing the padlock, Amber inserted the lock gun into the padlock and began pushing the trigger on the gun. She holds her breath for the suspense, a loud clang sound was made from the padlock. It was unlocked.

She removed the weapons needle out of the keyhole, The lock fell to the ground making a loud metallic thud sound when it hit the ground.

“Yes!” She said.

 “It worked!”

The moment the padlock had been removed, The chain’s themselves have fallen to the ground as well to suffer the same fate the padlock had. Amber glancing at the door, her mind began facing something that didn’t quite feel right. She began to back away from the door and felt worried and afraid. Not knowing what it was, Amber wanted to ignore the feeling but the force of it was too strong. Trying harder and harder to ignore the feeling, she just couldn’t resist the force of this unknown thing. She was beginning to face fear.

Amber tried to ignore what lies behind the door. As she did, she begins walking to the door in a uncomfortable manner. Hating the feeling she is suddenly having, she felt rigorous and began to turn that fear into a small handful of anger to use. Amber giving a glance of the restaurant one last time, She runs straight towards the door at half speed looking down on the floor charging at it and broke the door down completely.

“Gah!” She yelled as the charged outwards.

Amber as she stumbled to the ground after charging through the door with her forehead, a shot of pain went through her head leaving her cringing with her hoofs rubbing the pain away on her head.

“Oh man.”

“That definitely hurt, hope I don’t try that stupid move again anytime soon.”

Amber contrasts to the light on the outside. She still couldn’t see leaving her temporarily blind. But as she began to regain her concentration back into her eyes, she began feeling small things pinching and poking into her skin, it felt uncomfortable and began shaking her whole body around like a dog. Finally her eye’s being able to see again, she looks back up and to see her surroundings. What she see saw left her speechless and dreadful.