Slaughterhouse

(Please, read the authors note at bottom after this chapter)

I slowly awoke to the sound of beeping. I slowly opened my eyes, looking around the room I was in. There was talking around me. "His injuries were really serious, ma'am...we'll be lucky if he ever wakes at all." I groaned a bit, looking at the voices. I could just make out the outlines of two ponies. "Would you look at that...a week later."

"W...W...W...h...her..." I tried to talk, I felt a hoof on my shoulder.

"It's okay," The doctor said. "Don't talk...you've been out for a while now..." I slowly nodded. "Shake your head, yes or no. Can you see me?" I shook, then nodded, then shook again. "Is it all blurry...?" I nodded. "Sorry about that...you'll be fine in a bit. We used an EMP to destroy the electronics in your head...too risky to get out of you. As for your abdominal region...we did what we could, you lost quite a bit of blood, the wounds you had, some were infected with...blood. What ever those...things had in them...was a toxin based substance...you were slowly dying to begin with...but thanks to a mare giving you some of her blood, luckily you were both the same type, and some anti-toxin, we were able to take care of that. Your mother is in the room right now and she has been the almost the whole time you were out, she persuaded doctors to let her ride in the ambulance ride from the abandoned factory you came from...as of the rest of the victims...the guard has yet to tell us. All we know is that you are the only survivor and we all...and we all witnessed it..." I blinked a couple times, my vision slowly getting better. I looked at the doctor.

"T....Thanks...f...for..." My voice was like a frogs, and scratchy and I croaked when I talked. "Water..."

"I'll have a nurse on it right away, Mr. Tone." I nodded, looking at my mom.

"M...mom...."

"Shhhh..." She held my hoof, sitting next to my bed. "It's okay, sweetie..."

"I...I'm sorry...I...k...k....kill....ed....t...those p...p...ponies..."

"About that..." The doctor said. "There is a...problem...including death threats being hurled at both you and your mother...along with a...Ms. Sky Storms. She is protected by the guard as is the whole hospital.

"I...want to...talk to...her..." The doctor looked at me.

"I'll...work on getting her..." He stood and walked out. "Nurse? Nurse...Bring Ms. Storms and a water to room 303. Thank you." I closed my eyes.

"I...killed all those ponies....mom I..."

"Enough, White..." She sighed. "It's all...being figured out..." I nodded. A nurse came in with a glass of water, followed by a mare. I looked at her, she looked...amazing...Black mane, blue coat, green eyes. She looked at me. She looked like she had been crying for a long time. She slowly walked over to me.

"You're the colt who was with my Thunder...?" I nodded. "Arty..." She looked at my mom. "I'd like a word with him...alone..." She called my mom Arty...her full name was Artemis Tone, all her friends called her Arty. Did they...know eachother...?" She nodded and left, closing the door. She handed me the water. I took it and drank.

"Thank you...You...called my mom...Arty..."

"When...Thunder died...I went looking for her...there were addresses next to the names of ponies...I...watched you with her..." I nodded. "White...when I first saw you from Thunder...I though you were gonna kill him while he was stuck...then once you freed him...I...thought you were gonna use him to get to the end then kill him. Once I...saw the way you acted when...that mare shot him...I took back everything...the way you protected him...acted when he died...the thing you did to him after he died..." She sniffed. "White....I...I'm..." She hung her head, crying. I reached out a put a hoof on her shoulder.

"I...It's...Ok...ay..." She looked at me. The door opened. We looked to it. The captain of the guard himself; Shining Armor. He walked in, followed by two other guards.

"Ms, we'd like a word word with White..." She nodded, getting up and leaving, closing the door behind her. He walked up to me. "White...who put you in there...?"

"I don't know...fuck..."

"What do you remember before waking up in there? Where were you taken from?"

"I was taken from my home...I woke up twice before...before I was put in there..."

"Tell us..." The guard next to Shining was writing everything I said down. "We want to help you."

"I was being operated on...they must have been putting the stuff in my head...then the second time...I was being thrown into the back of a van..."

"Did you see anything?"

"When I was being operated on...it was just...all black..."

"The van, what did you see in the van?"

"It was all blurry..."

"There has to be something, White."

"I...I don't know...!"

"Think....hard...before, something leading up to your abduction."

"T...There was a note..."

"Do you still have it?"

"It's....at my house...in my desk..." He looked at one of his guards.

"Send some guards over to White's house, look for that note." The one not writing nodded and headed out. "What else?"

"J...Just that..." I said. "Nothing else..."

"Alright...you remember the room? With the files and the tape recorder?" I nodded. "We can't seem to find it...we request you help us go in there a-"

"NO!!!" I yelled. "I'm not fucking going back in there....!!!"

"White...we need you to do this in order to find out who-"

"I don't care if you NEVER find that pony....I'm not going fucking back there!!"

"White we can do this the easy way or-"

"I'M NOT GOING BACK THERE!!!!"

"White this is-"

"Shining Armor...." We looked at the door...there she was...Celestia...followed by Luna. He stood. "You've done enough..." He left, the princesses walked to me.

"W...What do you two want....?"

"Please...we are sorry for his behavior...he want's to be the one to find this pony...we ourselves want this to be ended before anymore of our ponies are hurt...I'm not asking you to go in there, but it might help speed this up..."

"I'm not going back there...if I had the option of a slow, painful dead or to go back...I'd choose death...."

"Very well...the guard shall continue the search for that room...as for you...you, your mom, and Sky Storms will all be given a room to stay in in Canterlot Castle while we wait to find out what exactly is going on." I nodded. "Once you are fully recovered, you will be taken to the castle."

"Thank you..."

"White...you are the key to finding out what happened here...we beg of you to help and cooperate when you are needed."

"As long as I don't have to go anywhere near that place...I will.." They nodded.

"You will be given a personal guard for when you leave. This guard will consist of two ponies...they are my most trusted guards and will do anything and everything to protect you."

"I want my mom and Sky to get one too..."

"It will be done..."

"And when the room is found...I want all files and recordings...I want to look them over..." They looked at eachother.

"White...that will be left to the guards to figure ou-"

"I want those files...I want to know why I was put in there..."

"I..." She pursed her lips. "That will be left up to Shining...but we'll try...again, we are sorry for what had happened to you...but the body of Thunder was found..." I looked at her. "He was being...consumed by one of those monsters when the guard found him. They managed to get what was left of him...but his funeral will be in two months time...his family requested that you be there..." I nodded. "When you are ready...you will be escorted to the castle..." They both left. I laid back, sighing. Somepony else walked in.

"White..." I looked over. It was Twilight...shit. I hadn't seen her since...highschool.

"T...Twi..." She walked over to me. "You uhh....wow...changed...like...a lot..." She nodded.

"Yeah...as have you...especially since...you know..." I nodded. "You shouldn't have won..." She sat down.

"You....what...?"

"I didn't want anypony to win...or for this to happen at all..." She looked at me.

"What are you saying...?" I asked.

"You know what I mean..." She looked at me. "Some ponies want you dead....if there was no winner this wouldn't have happened..." She stood. "I don't even...want to be here I was made to..."

"You can't still be upset about that...."

"White...I was made a laughing stock!" She looked at me. "It ruined me!"

"The way you took it ruined you..." I said.

"Why couldn't you just say yes?"

"Because I didn't want to..."

"Well because of that I was made fun of..."

"You were crying....that's not my fault..."

"Oh please...so you didn't start Crylight?"

"..."

"Exactly!"

"Twi...listen...I'm sorry about that....but for you to tell me I shouldn't have came out of this alive cause of that is..."

"Is what...?"

"The reason I rejected your offer to the mare's choice dance was cause I was expecting somepony else to ask me..."

"Whatever...also the countless other stuff you did..."

"Can we stop this...I'm starting not to like you again..."

"Good..." She looked at me. "That Quick mare should have won...that's all I'm saying..." She left. That was nice...The Princess of Friendship herself wished I died in the game...I felt nice and warm inside now.

The next two months were painstakingly long, but eventually me, my mother, and Sky were moved into the castle. No less the a week later, I had attended Thunders funeral. I was given a turn to speak...I gulped, Sky had just finished talking, walking down, sniffing. I stood and walked up, sighing.

"My uhh...time with Thunder...although short...greatly..impacted me. We could have met in a better way...but..." I sighed. "I mean...what can I say? Even given the situation we were both in we still became friends. If that doesn't say what kind of pony he was I don't know what will. Right now I bet you are all thinking he was just..an object I used to get out alive...but I meant every word I told him. As time went by as we were in that...that Slaughter House, the more and more I meant what I said. I would risk my life for him to return to his mare, family, friends...I still have nightmares about not being able to save him..." I looked at the ponies. "I feel so...bad...all of you have these heartwarming, amazing stories about Thunder and I...all I have a a sick, twisted, fucked up story. The story we both went through...the one you all know and watched...but...what I can say is...that Thunder was a good pony. He lived through hell, took what it threw at him and much, much more. He was strong, brave...a lot more then I could have ever been. He was also one of the smartest ponies I've met...and the one pony who greatly changed me into the pony I am now. He was my friend...and...one of my only friends. Had we met in a different environment...I'm sure we would be better friends. Before I...give the stand to the next pony...I want you all to know...I did everything in my power to keep him alive...and I'm sorry I failed you...all of you..." I went and sat back down, looking at the floor. Sky looked over at me. Soon we went to the cemetery, where Thunder was being lowered into the ground. I watched as his parents and Sky teared up. I began to as well. I closed my eyes. It wasn't Quick's fault...it was whoever put us in that fucking place...I would do anything to find them...anything and everything. I turned and walked off, away from the burial of my friend.

"White...! Wait...!" I looked back, Sky was running after me. She stopped. "W...Where are you going...?"

"To give Thunder the revenge he needs...I'm helping the guard find whoever put us in there...even if I have to go back in there...relive everything...or even put into another 'game'. I will find that pony..." She looked at me, tearing up then hugging me.

"Just...be safe...Thunder wouldn't want you to do anything that would cause you to get hurt...I don't want you to..." I nodded. She let of and I left, getting in my car. I put the keys in, then turned them, driving back to the castle...telling them I was ready...ready to go back...to the Slaughter House...