It had been about 2 days, I had exclusively stayed in the vault as I had started calling it. I was making a plan to escape, this prison was much like Alcatraz, seemingly impenetrable, but like Alcatraz, it isn't perfect, afterall some clever dudes in a raincoat raft had supposedly escaped. I started to look at the details and making some logical assumptions, 1 this place is haphazardly built, as if it was thrown together one afternoon, 2 magic is extremely limited, so even if I knew how to teleport it wouldn't help, 3 i was first placed in this room, althoigh the importance of that information was suspect. My bodily functions seemed to be normal for now, which was weird because I thought they ran on magic, which based on the 'no complex spell' thing, shouldn't he possible based on the hasty build quality of this place, as excluding my vital spells from the whatever it was thats keepimg me from using most of my magic would probably take months. So by that logic I wasn't being run on magic, at least not entirely. I activated the visor and looked into it a bit deeper, I fiddled with it until my view changed from various vision modes to a relatively non invasive menu mode, on the far left of my vision I could see little labeled boxes, 6 of them, labeled from top to bottom as; information, maintenance, settings, navigation, communication, and finally, blueprints. The last one was weird but interesting, it was also interesting in the fact that i hadnt figured this out sooner. The left disk on the visor could rotate, allowing me to navigate the menus. I swapped to the 'information' button and clicked the disk in slightly, as soon as i clicked a short summary of apparently me popped up.

Hello Traveler, your body has been outfitted with several extra abilities to allow you to survive in most situations, these including but not limited to, weapons, regeneration, speed/agility, and increased perception and adaptation. The power for your new body is provided by a hybrid antimatter fusion reactor contained in the right side of your chest, high power active abilities are locked to begin with to prevent issues with lack of control, activation/deactivation of these abilities can be done whenever you feel it necessary in settings.

A simple paragraph but very useful, I went into settings and unlocked my 'active' abilities, which included weapons and tools, whatever it was that did this to me, I silently thanked them for this, because now, I could hopefully escape, depending on how much digging I have to do. Escaping wouldn't be easy, even with my newfound goodies, mostly because Celestia, I had no idea where Luna or Cadence stood on this matter, so trusting them to not shoot me on sight after escaping would be risky.

I woild still have to alcatraz the shit outta my predicaments, one of them being the party mare turned nightmare fuel that was probably waiting for me just outside the door, the other being digging out, even with digging implements it wouldn't be easy. I decided to see what I could do, as well as making a better plan then to dig and then run away.
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The pink creature decided to just watch me from the corners of my vision, creepy as fuck. It hadn't attacked me again after the first instance, although that in and of itself was worrying, at least I was intact. I had been wandering the unoccupied areas of the labrinth for the past couple of days, trying to discern where I was or where would be the best place to try and dig, I found an area that seemed worth trying, upon hitting it with the pick, it sounded more hollow than anywhere else, so I thought of giving myself a mining drill, after a few seconds I heard and felt something coming from my arm; about halfway down the back of my arm something was assembling itself, parts flashed into existence and then found their place among the others, within about ten seconds the drill was done and displayed a green indicator on a small rearward facing screen on the side of the unit, i looked it over, the device looked like something a borg from star trek would use, almost, it had the greenish glow but it was less....less thrown together looking as well as more minimised, it was more of a skeleton in some areas while others were fully encased. I felt a button under my index finger and one under my middle finger, both were encased in the tool latched onto my arm. I pressed the button under my index finger, I was rewarded by a rewarding click of the button and the end of the drill started up, since it was a mining tool the bit reciprocated as well as rotated, acting like a very angry jackhammer. I pressed the tool into the wall and saw cracks form as the drill began to bite in, soon I saw noticable pieces falling away, i continued to chip away at the wall until I felt something on my shoulder.

I immediately swung around to find a different pink abomination staring me down, this one looked more like pinkie, her body was almost the same other than the slightly demonic looking tail and the red glowing eyes. I tried to run but was stopped by something grabbing my leg... I looked back and saw that a long black tounge had grabbed my foot and shin (if thats what it was, i have no idea what the horse terminology is) I felt it tug back on me, it knelt down and trarted to reel me in. "FUCK!" I pointed the drill to her head and waited to get close enough, once it touched i turned the drill on and it immediately bored into her head, the tugging ceased for a second and I removed the drill, I was about to free my hoof from its mouth when its tounge suddenly tightened and it sucked my right leg into its mouth,"No no no no no....no no....Shit!" i braced my other leg against its face and pushed, but to no avail, I tried harder and even used the drill again, this time it did almost nothing....shit... she could adapt. My other foot slipped in beside its compatriot and I was now waist deep in this thing, "Gosh Fucking Damnit" i whacked it on the head with the drill's casing and was unsuprised that the creature just shrugged it off, "motherfucker....." i jammed the drill in its eye and turned it on, the creature immedieately stopped again and I gained a foot of ground before it started again. I realised that this was an losing battle en with my wings, channeling plasma at its face and frying it, and even using my wings as a rocket by pumping plasma through them and using magic to help force the air through, even after all that I was still sitting at about chest height in this fucker, killing it from inside would be easier so I just let it finish, and realised how gross this thing was, it felt like I was in a water balloon filled with corn syrup, probably the most nasty thing I have ever expirienced. Once my head joined my body I shifted so i was facing forward and prepared another weapon, whatever this thing had in it didn't seem to ne causing harm at the moment. I swapped to a probably overkill circular saw, overkill because the blade was six pointed and razor sharp rather than having little carbide nubs mounted on many little teeth, I was about to start the saw when I felt movement, it was walking....somewhere....I decided to wait on the texas chainsaw massacre for a bit so I could figure out where this thing was going, it felt like farther into the labrinth, but I wasn't sure.

After awhile the thing stopped and probably sat down, because I felt myself drop before everything settled again, then the fucker slapped her stomach, which ended up hitting me in the face, immediately after that my current prison started filling up. "Oh shit", this was what I really feared, since being eaten alive was not as scary as I originally thought this was the next worsed, being trapped and drowning, I fired up the saw and the blade spun up, as soon as it did that, i moved the blade away from parrallel with my face and shoved it into the creature, I heard a sickening tearing noise as the blade blended anything in its path to a bloody pulp, "HAHAA DIE MOTHERFUCKER" I yelled over the whirring blade as it finished its dirty job and I stepped out, i immediately turned around and sliced its head off before doing anything else, because I didnt want it to be alive anymore than a fly wants a spider to live. I looked at myself, filthy, bloody, and in desperate need of some Russian brain bleach. "Fuck this place..... Damn I need some alcohol...." I looked around, for some reason the thing had eaten all of my junk along with me, but i wasn't complaining, i whipped out my map and looked, I was pretty far from "home", apparently against the east wall. I decided to try drilling again. This time I had much better results within 20 minutes I shoved the last bits of a hole out into an empty cavern, upon crawling out through the scarcely 3 foot wide hole I found myself in a cave full of crystals, I had read about this place in a book before my bout with insanity, as well as seen it in the tv show. I got up and looked behind me, the prison was just dug into the wall, now that I was clear of the magic dampening field I could use full range of my somewhat limited magical skill.
"Alright, thats it, Celestia is gonna get one hell of an ass whupping. For this bullshit" I retracted the drill and began to search for an exit.
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3 hours later I had found an old indistrial elevator shaft well as old mining equipment lying around, I grabbed whatever was useful from the junk and placed it in my bag before inspecting the elevator. At the bottom of the shaft was the elevator, and it had obviously been stick here for awhile, it was rusted through in areas and looked as if it would just fall apart. I shoved the ancient doors aside a bit and squeesed in, I needed to duck to get in. Once through I looked up, I found the emergency hatch and shoved it out and climbed onto the roof of the car, I flew up the empty shaft until I was once again on the surface. I found myself in an old abandoned mining town positioned on the back of the mountain, apparently this wasn't the same cave as I thought. " Time for a hike I guess, " I wanted to stay on the ground for now to remain more hidden, In the air I was pretty obvious, among the grass and foliage I could be inconspicuous enough. As I walked I would abruptly change direction ant then fly along my normal course for awhile then land and continue walking, all in the effort of covering my tracks, I had assumed that they would be searching for me now, it wasn't as if they would leave something as dangerous as me unmonitored.
3 hours later I rounded the mountain onto the"front" where canterlot was posistioned, I could see the underside of canterlot, it looked pretty weird from this angle, id went around on the opposite side of the mountain, in otherwords where the train tracks weren't, getting to the city in relative stealth would only require a bit of a climb, almost 1000 ft. straight up. My climbing expirience was completely composed of a crash course my uncle gave me on a climbing trip, and the gym in elementary school, so to say the least I was a climbing noob, climbing a vertical wall, without safety equipment, at least dying wasn't an issue.

After about half an hour and a few failed attempts I'd finally figured out how to effectively climb this thing, basically shi mying along a long outcropping until another one came into reach, climbing up and repeating. After 3 hours, and a couple of breaks later, i'd reached the underside of the city, there was a small catwalk and a ladder leading to a hatch in the bottom of the structure, upon arriving at the catwalk and jumping the guardrails opposite the gate, I looked up at the massive and very alien looking structure above me, I felt like I was sitting below a spacecraft from Independence Day. After id remembered enough of Will Smith ranting about stinky aliens and deserts, I climbed the ladder, on the hatch it had small red letters that spelled out 'canterlot service access tunnel 1, authorized ponies only' I tugged the handle and found it to be locked, as would be expected. For some reason I'd learned how to pick locks, mostly because of my freind from highschool and the internet. I didn't have a paper clip, or any hairpins so pi used my newfound ability to create some decent picks, I looped my lege into the ladder rungs and began to pick and prod the lock....after 10 minutes of fiddling with pins and tesion, the lock begrudgingly let me in, i shoved the door open and climbed up, making sure to relock the door to slow down any persuers. I looked out across the girdir filled sub levels of canterlot, huge steel beams in a giant lattice occupied the space above, while catwalks and the bowl shaped bottom of the structure sat below, the structure of canterlot looked like a large bowl from here, definitely more practical to embed a large piece of the foundation rather than sticking it to the side of the mountain without any extra suport, upon further inspection I found a diagram on the walls that laid out the sublevels like in a mall. After reading the panel while straining to see by the dim light, I found out that the lower levels were devided into 12 levels, the lowest 4 being the support structure and the lowest part of the sewer system, above that was the bulk of the sewers, and above that was a subterranian set of appartments, shops and maintenance facilities. I found out where a stairwell was, it was actually pretty close, probably for ease of movement during inspections and maintenance. After ascending the dimly lit metal stairway I found myself looking at a large hatch, which looked like it was designed to hold pressure, printed in worn red letterin it said something along the lines of 'cannot be opened when light is red' the rest of the labels were illegible, the light was glowing a dim red, and considering that this was a sewer, opening it would be a very bad idea. Luckily there was a service elevator nearby so I could get to the inhabited levels without smelling like shit.

Upon reaching the upper limit of the elevator I disembarked and looked about; tunnels loads of them, each wide enough for a 2 lane road. Along the sides I saw various shops as well as hatches labeled with maintenance access, considering my location i assumed I was in the industrial district. I wandered for awhile before reaching a large number of shops, mostly those related to tools, hardware, and other carpentry/equipment shops, i had no need to shop but it is always useful to know where hardware stores are, considering my somewhat worrying knowledge of how to weaponize almost anything, it could be very helpful to me.

After amfew hours I finally decided to bite the bullet and confront Celestia.

Author's Note

Time for some bloodshed.

Btw, thanks to anyone who liked/fav'd the story, it feels good to know that someone likes what i write.