Vengeful armour

Richard was having a good day. He just got finished mowing the lawn for his dad, his son was playing outside with his wife Caroline. His mother was bringing him some of her famous chocolate chip cookies and lemonade. The sun was shining, and there was a nice breeze to keep him cool.

As he wiped the sweat of his face, he ran over to his son, and picked him. He started to laugh and set him on his shoulders, one of billy's favorite places to be. "You having fun bill?"

His son looked at put his hand over his dad's face and said " Yeah. I like the pond. Can we go swimming later?"

Richard set him down, and gave a smirk at his son. " Depends. Did you get all of the sticks out of the backyard?"

His son gave an innocent giggle " Yeah dad."

The memory then faded away as one of the scientists came up and poked him. " Subject overlord seems to be non responsive today. During tomorrows test, we'll have to inject with 8mm of pain simulator to get response." With a clipboard in her magic, she wrote down some notes and walked out the cell door.

Richard sighed, and looked around his cell. It was nothing special, with gray metal and a gray door. There were no windows, save for a small air duct, that had a metal covering on it, but no other ducts or windows. None that he could see anyway.. There was a small bed in the corner,and a mirror, but that was about it. There was some red splotches on the floor, but that was where he had been bleeding from his metal body.

As he got up, he looked in the mirror again. He didn't know why he did, but he did anyway. Maybe he was still hoping that this was all just a horrible nightmare.

As he looked at himself, he saw his helmet with no visible eyeholes, and a large hole where his mouth should have been. His arms where thick like a tree trunks, and his fingers looked as sharp as daggers. His left shoulder had a strange symbol on it that looked like a C surrounded by commas. He knew that it was a mark, and he knew who's it was. He he grabbed a side of the mirror, and slightly bent it with his hand. ' Celestia.' He growled. suddenly he heard a raspy voice.

" You know, if you keep trashing your mirrors, they won't get you anymore."

As he looked up, he saw what a normal person would call a monster, but to him, it was just one of his friends. "Sunshine," he sighed " you know I don't like it when you crawl in here without knocking. It's rude." As his friend dropped onto the floor, he looked at her.

She was a yellow Pegasus, but that wasn't what was would make her a monster. No, what was weird was that every single one of her feathers had been replaced with a large sewing needle, and her pony teeth had been replaced with manticore teeth. That, and the fact that her cutiemark had been cut away. She wouldn't come out of her room for months after that. Just another sin on the scientists head, and ultimately, Celestia's.

" So sunshine, what's new in hell?"

" Well, the scientist's have been grumbling about how celestia may be shutting us down, so they've been trying to make all new monsters to keep her favor. So expect some new playmates soon. Plus, the singer twins were able to perfect their death song, so the revolt is that much closer."

" Good, good. Anything else?"

" Yeah, we were able to get wither to make acid balls for us to fling at the walls, and ragnorok was able to teach the lesser shadows how to alpha scream, and scream resonance, so that happened. Other than that, not much happened."

She jumped on the bed, and in a unusually serious voice said " Richard, even if we get out, I'm scared. Would any pony accept us? I mean, we look like demons, and when we tell them that Celestia did this, no one is going to want us around. Another thing-"

Richard put his hand on her back, and started to pet her. She gave a small smile and said " Thanks, I was starting to freak out a little."

With a sigh he moved his hand up to her head, and said " I don't know Sunshine, but i'm sure I can find us a home. There's always someone willing to help." After a few more minutes, Richard moved his hand away, and said " The Warden will be here soon, You should get back to your cell." Sunshine gave a sad groan, but eventually got off the bed, and dragged herself into the vent.

As he waited, he heard the trademark whistle of the warden making his rounds. "Hello cellmate M-9, how are you today?"

Richard just stared at the door, not saying a word. As he heard a heavy sigh, and the sound of a button being pushed he thought ' Oh crap.'Electricity filled the air, and he gave a ear breaking scream. He heard the warden say " Good thing for mufflers huh? Now, as I was saying, how are we today?"

As the warden yelled lights off, he got on his two sizes too small bed, and hoped that something interesting would happen. ' You better hope we don't get free celestia, or all your skeletons will come crawling out of the closet.'

Little did he know of the being that was being born in the ice and cold. A being that would cause his freedom, and the freedom of his blood brothers, as long as it wasn't killed by ice golems.