Rejected Memories

Rejected Memories Chapter Nine - Malfunction

I woke up and realized something was wrong. The lights were off and I couldn't turn them on. I ran for my DAMAGE suit. After slipping it on, I issued a command.

"Suit Report."

Facility reactor malfunction.

Reactor meltdown in two hours.

Manual intervention required.

DAMAGE Radiation Suit required.

I pulled up my Creator and looked for the DAMAGE suit, which wasn't that hard to find. After changing suits, I issued another command.

"Suit Locate Varrie."

Varrie is at REACTOR CONTROL

I ran for the reactor control room. I found Varrie standing at the console trying to shut the reactor down.

"Varrie what are you doing here? This entire room is flooded in radiation! Get out of here!" I called over the radio. She didn't respond. I ran in and grabbed her and dragged her out, setting her against the wall.

"Time, the reactor controls don't work, I couldn't insert the control rods. If you have that radiation suit, you should be able to insert the rods manually."

"Where is the hatch to access the reactor?"

"It's hidden in the wall. The code is oh-eight-five-one. Varrie said.

"I'll be back to get you some anti rad once I stop the reactor." I said, running into the room. I took two steps inside and my geiger counter went crazy.

"Suit disable geiger counter!"

Geiger counter Disabled

The sound ceased. I turned back towards the door and found the button to seal it and pressed it. I turned back around and ran to the wall where the access was. I typed the code in and the door opened, allowing access the reactor. I could feel the radiation taking effect. Even this suit couldn't protect me from this level of radiation. I ran for the control rods.

I had no clue what to do. Here I was, standing on a nuclear reactor, absorbing way too much radiation, trying to insert control rods. Think... Think... There has got to be a manual release around here somewhere... Aha! I ran over to the lever and I pulled it, and watched as the control rods shot into the reactor. I stumbled into the access hallway and then back into the control room. I hit the button that opens the door and stumbled out.

"Did you do it, Time?" she asked.

"Can't talk right now, contaminated, need to find decontamination."

"Suit connect facility PA"

Connected.

"Everyone, we're having a radiation problem right now, please go back to your rooms." I said, my voice resonating throughout the facility.

"Suit disconnect"

Disconnected.

"Suit locate decontamination"

Located. Proceed to first room on right.

I ran in the room and found the decontamination chamber, and hopped in. After a rigorous scrubbing my suit was still radioactive, but I wasn't as much.

"I wonder if the Creator has anti radiation drugs..."

After a few moments of scrolling I found some radiation removal injectors and created three of them. I injected myself with one, and ran off with the other two to go help Varrie.

When I got back to Varrie, she managed to get her helmet off, so I reached up and injected her in the neck with the rad removal. She gasped and got up.

"Wow... I don't feel like I've been exposed to a lot of radiation anymore. Thanks Time."

"No problem, but do you know where I can get another helmet, mine's kinda irradiated at the moment." I asked.

"Can't you just spawn one?"

"Oh yeah, totally forgot about that..."

"You know we're going to have to seal that reactor right Varrie?" I said.

"Yes, but there are like three reactors in this place. We can just use another one."

"I'm just tired now, let's go back to our rooms."

We walked off, back to our room. Celestia was waiting there for us.

"Can you create me some cake?" Celestia asked.

"What kind?"

"Chocolate with chocolate icing and chocolate sprinkles with chocolate sauce!"

"Celestia, I take it you like chocolate. One mega chocolate cake comin' up!"

Celestia squee'd and pulled a fork and knife out of nowhere and began eating.

"Thish ish delishish cake!" Celestia said, through mouthfuls of cake.

"I'm going to bed now. If you need me, please, don't need me." I said, and promptly passed out on the floor.

I awoke several hours later, only to find that it was dark again.

"Please, life. I just want to sleep..." I mumbled.

I felt something lying on my face shift. I reached up and attempted to push it off, but I couldn't move it. I kept wiggling and eventually popped out from under the object that had been covering me. What I saw was Celestia and Luna passed out on the floor, still fast asleep, Varrie and Cloud next to them, also asleep, and the spot where I had just emerged from, under Celestia. It appeared that everypony had the same idea I did, and felt the floor, or me, would make a nice comfy bed. As I stood and watched, Luna started to stir.

"Bleh, I'm definitely not a morning person..." mumbled Luna, suppressing a yawn. She looked up and saw me.

"Oh, Time. We didn't realize you were up. Good morning. We hope you enjoyed your dreams."

I nodded and walked to the kitchen, pulling out a few slices of whole-hay bread and throwing them into a toaster.

"Luna, what does Celestia eat for breakfast?" I asked quietly.

"She usually has some whole-hay toast with jam."

I turned around and threw two more slices of bread into the toaster with my magic, and started making some jam with the Creator. By the time the toast jumped out of the toaster I had finished creating the jam, so I quickly made some bread with jam for Celestia and grabbed my plain bread, heading for the table.

By the time everypony got up, it was early afternoon. I decided today would be a good start to figuring out things with my Creator, and set to work on it. After tinkering with the device, a new menu came up, named Remover. Curious as I was, I tapped it, and was then instructed to touch something. I touched the pillow next to me, and it disappeared. My Creator began beeping, and the screen changed to show me that an object was deleted.

"So I can not only create things, but I can remove them also?" I thought aloud.

I went to our living room to inform everybody of the new discovery, only to notice that the living room was, for a lack of a better word, not the living room. It was basically like I had walked into a hellish forest.

"Okay... I'm going to go back to Equestria now..." I said to myself, turning around to go back through the door, only to notice there was no door, only a forest.

"Well crap, looks like I'm not going back that way..."

I began walking, looking for any type of clearing, when the Creator began buzzing. Looking at my hoof, the screen had become completely red with what appeared to be a warning flashing on it.

WARNING! REALITY DISTORTION DETECTED. PLEASE EVACUATE THE AREA.

"Well, that's definitely not good..." I said, racing away, the buzzing getting quieter, and sudden thought of a pink pony with a poofy mane popping into my head, only to be dismissed moments later. The Creator suddenly began buzzing, and displayed a new warning.

WARNING! DISTORTION CREATURE DETECTED. DEVICE LOCKED DOWN.

I looked up, only to come face to face with what has to be the most hideous creature I had ever seen. It was what appeared to be a blob of some kind, with long rope-like tentacles coming off of it, with some very, very sharp object at the end, that appeared very unhappy to see me.

"For Celestia's sake..."