Game's of Flummox

All around her what she saw were trees with no leaves hanging from the small fragile branches it, Home’s destroyed while others are still standing, The yellow light green grass with a small amount of sand beneath her that seemed to be dead and the blue sky full of white puffy clouds with the sun beaming into Amber’s eyes. It was a wasteland. She’s never seen anything like it. It was both a beautiful and terrifying moment for her to see.

Laying still and quiet with the wind breezing through her body, she snapped out of her daze and began planning what to do next. Before she did anything, Her eye caught something shining off brightly near the door she had rammed through. It was a mirror that was almost in perfect condition with a small amount of broken mirror glass beneath it. Amber decided to take a good glimpse of how she looked like. When she did, she felt a moment of shock when she saw herself.

“Oh my.” She said surprisingly.

“I… I look… amazing.”

Gazing at herself with such aw, The first thing she notices are her eyes. One eye had the color amber to it making it beautifully orange and red with a plush of yellow and the other brilliantly white with a drop of sky blue near her pupil. The coating of her body filled with a light grey brown shining from the sun, her black mane glistening in the sun with a white thunder looking image on the middle of her mane and three white curved hairlines on her left ear along with the back side of her mane blowing gently to her side from the rusty old winds and her long curvy black tail looking all polished and cleaned with the sand from the ground hitting her body.

Amber couldn’t believe how astonishing she looked, especially how the 2 multi colored eyes was the only thing in her body that made her look different.

“But why do I have two different colors in my eyes?” She said curiously.

“Did I get my other eye injure?”

It seemed stupid and foolish to her that something like that could ever happen to her, even though what she’s been through so far after what those two ponies did to her, she doubted something like that would happen but left a little bit of it undoubted within her. Looking away from the mirror, the wind had indefinitely gotten stronger when Amber was looking at herself with such “Aw.” Along with that, the sand that blew underneath her began to blow onto her coating much more harder than it had been just a few minutes ago but has partial effect to Amber’s physical health. The sky had taken a sudden turn of change, The sky became less blue and more grey and dull leaving a shot of shivery down Amber’s spine.

“And now things take a turn… Great.” She said.

Amber didn’t have a single clue where to go to explore.

Near the restaurant was a roadway to what looked like an exit out of the town with two schools on it’s left side and what looked liked a police station on the right that was surprisingly big but both seamlessly destroyed with debris lying around both of them. Amber not wanting to know what laid in the town, she chose to leave instead and follow the path outside of it rather than exploring what the town held for her to discover. As she begins walking down the roadway, things began to look gloomy and dusty.

Amber not wanting to know what would happen after dark, She begins jogging down the roadway passing the two schools and the police station she’d had seen earlier. A few minutes later she’d had already left the town and began her journey down the roadway to wherever it takes her. Passing by a couple of trees that still have leaves on them, Amber was about a mile away from the town.

All she had seen down most of the road we’re more trees, wrecked homes, and more dust stinging into her eyes. Amber began to regret leaving the town but notices something in the distance. There was a cornfield that looked like it stretched on for miles with the roots still intact into the ground but with the corn stalks removed everywhere. Behind all those crops was a big cloud of dust the size of an average tsunami blowing wind harder onto Amber’s face as it began closing in to the town slowly.

She didn’t worrying about it since it’s only a couple of miles away, She continued her journey but it ended sooner than she thought it would. Just after jogging up a small hill behind her, In the distance she sees a tall fence with barbed wire from top to bottom surrounding the whole town spreading down to the sides almost making it look like it went on forever. Behind the other side was a small destroyed barn and a 4-way intersection that had 3 more roadways that led to who knows we’re. What got her attention though was the gate in the middle of the roadway with a sign above it that said

“Gate 077.”

         Amber stares at it for a bit knowing what it could mean.

“What could that mean?” She said.

Amber looking around the concrete walls of the gate, she wondered around looking for some sort of button controlled keypad of some sort somewhere hidden on the walls. Rubbing her hoofs on the walls she found a keypad that was full of dust and hidden in sight but it required a twelve digit passcode to open.

“Really?” She said.

“No way I’m going to figure this old dank code in front me.”

She began typing in random codes into the keypad, not only did it seem stupid but it became frustrating for her to have to wait every 5 seconds each time she gets the code wrong.

“Err” She moaned.

“I’m not going to be able open this stupid door with this thing getting in my way!”

“Screw this.”

She had given up on successfully opening the door with her own luck, sadly that did no good to her. Letting out a sigh, she turns around back to the road she had came from only to see the big dust cloud looking three times its size just a mile away from her. “Oh my…” Her heart froze in shock seeing how big the roaring dust of clouds was in front of her. She didn’t think it was that big until to see in front of her own eyes it had gone closer than ever before. It was a foudroyant moment for her to see.

Standing still in shock, her mind only focused what the big cloud of dust would do to her if it consumed her whole body. It sent a chilling and horrifying image in Amber’s mind. Her mind set straight, she starts to gallop her way back to the town with every second ticking down before the big roaring clouds consume her. She didn’t stop moving, with every burning muscle she could move it felt like a hot rod being shoved in her forelegs with every burning pain bursting through her body with the sound of the clouds getting louder andlouder traumatizing her bit by bit as she ran. Her lungs struggled for air constantly making her breath heavily more and more down the road when all she could do is breath in the dust and sand that the big cloud kept on blowing into her lungs. It felt horrible.

She had arrived back at the town with the storm closer than ever before. Panting faster than her heart could beat, she looks around her surroundings for any sort of building she can take shelter in to. The only thing that was closest to her was the school that was partially destroyed with doors wide open in the vicinity. Amber had no choice but to take shelter in the school as the clouds have already consumed the police station behind her. With one final try, she began running towards the open doors of the school as the rushing winds behind her we’re catching up to her.

Closer and closer as the big wall of dust began catching up to Amber, she pushed herself to the max and was almost at the door. With every muscle burning in her gave her a shot of pain with her lungs striving for air. With that, She had finally reached the door.

Immediately when she did, she closed the door on time just before the big wind pushed the door lightly but was unable to burst open. Amber filled with relief, she collapsed to the ground as she panted for air. Her muscle’s still burning and aching from all the running she had done made her tired and lightheaded. Still breathing for air, she looked around her surroundings to see what stuff had laying around the old school. She sits back on a wall giving her time to rest before exploring the old gloomy place.

“I hope I never try something like that again” She said

        While she was resting on the floor, her curiosity began to fill her mind again.

“Why am I here?”

“Why would they put me in this place?” She said with a sniffle.

Staring down at the ground, she let out a small droplet of tears dripping to the floor while she sniffled more and more, almost turning into a sob.

“Why” She said.

Just as she was about to give up and rest herself, a loud metal thud was heard in the hallways. Amber's heart jolted when she heard it.

“Who’s there” She shouted.

As the air was filled with silence, she could hear something breathing heavily and slowly down the hallway.

“Hello?” She said.

She peaked through the hallway to see what was there. She could hear the sound of breathing down the corridor but it was too dark for her to see. She exited the room standing still and vulnerable in the hallway. Not saying a word, the breathing can be heard just a few feet down in front of her sounding more heavier and damper.

“If you can show yourself please, I won’t hurt you or anything” She said calmly.

When she spoke those words, a clop sound was made in the darkness. Amber backed up a bit feeling worried that what lurked in the darkness is not what she had seemed. The clopping sound got closer and closer down the hallway. She began to regret calling out who was lurking in the dark.

“Is somepony… there?” She said hesitantly.

Out of the dark she sees a figure approaching to her slowly.

“Oh thank you celestia!”

“I thought I would never… find… somepo-”

She stopped mid sentence when she realized the figure wasn’t what she thought it was. It was something worse she could have imagined and it filled her with fear. Lurking in the shadow’s was a pony with it’s skin completely removed revealing it’s rottened open muscles with no eye’s and bloody eye sockets open in front of what used to be it’s face, It looked deformed.

Approaching Amber, it wailed in the atmosphere piercing Amber’s ears sending a terrifying feeling down her spine. She couldn’t move, she stood still in shock and fear after the thing pierced her ears with it’s wail. She began to back away from the thing leading her back to the room she had been resting in. She had trapped herself.

Not knowing what she could do, she looked around the room for an exit. There was a door hidden in slight darkness that was barricaded with a metal cabinet on the other side. With no other choice, she started pushing the door with her body. She was too weak to push the door.

“Open Dammit!”

She began ramming onto the wooden door only to have it pushed open slightly, leaving an open crack to see through. With the thing closely approaching her, She tried harder and harder to push the door open with her body ramming at quarter speed. With each ram she did, it opened the door slightly more and more.

“Come on you stupid door!” She yelled.

“Open!”

The thing was just 6 feet away from her. With one final ram, she finally pushed the cabinet out of the way causing it to fall to the ground opening the door. Without glancing back, she sprinted out of the door leading her to another hallway that had a barrel lit down the corridor.

Passing the barrel, she had stepped on a bear trap causing it to snap and chomp into Amber’s right rear foreleg causing her to scream in pain.

“AH!”she screamed.

The pain was unbearable, It felt as if a hot rod had been hammered into the bone of her leg that burned her from the inside. She began to squirm her way out but it only sunken the trap’s teeth deeper into her leg causing her to scream even more.

With the undead thing moving slightly faster than before, Amber started pulling on the trap’s teeth with her left rear foreleg and right front foreleg making it wide open for her to lift her leg out. With that, she had set herself free only to see her leg is full of blood from the bleeding wound she got rendering it useless and incapacitated. Adrenaline was filled all over her body but it wasn’t enough to even numb the pain slightly. She whimpered with tears of pain sprouting out of her eyes.

With the hideous thing already around the corner, Amber tried to runaway but her leg prevented her from doing that. She was unable to run anymore.

“Get away from me!” She shouted.

With her leg in pain, she did a certain short paced sprint walk down the hallway doing it in a squirming look. Down the hallway was a staircase with another barrel lit below it that led into another corridor. Since her leg was incapable of going down the staircase, she did a slow careful step by step method down the stairs.

It was working well until the thing had shown itself just above a quarter of the stairs. Amber panted when she saw it take steps down the stairs. She increased her pace even more a quarter down the staircase but stumbled and fell down the staircase giving her moments of pain as she fell down.

At a point, she hit a broken concrete beam on her injured leg that made a loud snap in the air causing her to scream louder than ever. She had finally reached down the staircase with pain and slight inches of blood all over her body as she laid still and quiet moaning with pain. She nearly passed out with all the pain thriving in her meanwhile the thing was already almost down a quarter of the stairs, she struggled to regain her strength but was already too weak to even move.

“N...No” She said weakfully.

It still moved towards her. Amber filled with panic turned to see a hallway leading to two different directions with a lit barrel in one of the corridors. She starts by moving hoof to hoof dragging herself with small pile of debris beneath her piercing and poking her skin.

Adrenaline sweeped in like a missile giving her enough energy to move before she tires out completely. She’s gotten weaker by the minute due to the blood loss she has in her open wound but that didn’t stop her from moving away from the atrocious being.

Finally being able to run at half speed, she takes the right side of the hallway leading her into more corridors with lit barrel’s in it. Not even thinking twice before entering, she headed straight to where the hallway led her. It’s the same as any other hallway she had seen here. filled with lit barrel’s, debris on the ground and dust roaming everywhere until she had reached a dead end with two doors on each side of the hall. One was locked while the other had the knob off completely.

“Dammit!” she said

        “Why!”

She turned to reach back to the other hall she had been in but the thing had already made it’s way down to the hallway Amber was in. Running away into the room with the door with no knob, It was actually a long closet that was filled with complete darkness. She couldn’t stay open in the light with the monster coming to her. So she ran into the darkness, when she did she hit her face straight on into a wall giving her another brief moment of pain.

“No” She said

“No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!”

It was a dead end. She panicked more than she had before. Death was ticking for her. She calmed to stay hidden in the darkness so the monster thing didn’t see her. The door had been shut and Amber prayed to celestia she’d make it out alive if the thing doesn’t catch her. Who knows what the thing would do to her. Eat her? Take her? Turn her into a thing? Amber had never pictured such a horrifying thing in her mind.

Before she began picturing more, The door opened with a chilling creak sound to it. The thing was at the door staring at Amber atrociously. With it’s distorted breathing and disfigured body, it slowly began walking towards to Amber. As it did, she panted faster and faster as it came towards her. She just accepted the fact fate had to take it’s way.

“Fine!”

“Go ahead and fricking eat me will ya?”

The thing still kept its pace towards Amber. Amber didn’t want to see what it would do to her, so she shut her eyes closed tight and accepted the fact she was going to die.

        Bracing for death, she concentrated so much on keeping her eyes shut, she collapsed to the ground nearly passing herself out to the darkness. She laid still on the ground looking at the monster approach her just a couple of inches away.

        “Just… put... me... out”

Closing her eyes slowly, She heard a loud gunshot in front of her. Her eyes widened and alert but still laid still. The thing stood still with blood dripping from it’s forehead, then it dropped to the floor. Amber looking at the thing finally actually “dead,” she see’s a dark short figure at the door with what looked like a gun holster on her sides. It looked like a midget.

“Are yo-”

Amber’s hearing began to fade into the darkness and so did the rest of her body as well. She closed her eyes and set to sleep.