Forced Reboot

by Duct Tape Master

Captured.exe

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Waking up in a green sac of goo after falling asleep somewhere else is never a good thing.... Usually because it means that some form of very wrong has happened, and that it is imperative that that wrong be corrected, as such, I woke up in a sac of green goo, which was somehow allowing me to breathe... I also happened to be staring at the same changeling that had kidnapped me.

"Oh... Already awake I see? You really are resilient" the Changeling was obviously Chrysalis now that I had gotten a good view of her in the dark I could only see in monochrome, so color was a bit hard to distinguish. I fouldnt really talk so I decided to start figuring out my options for escape. And trying to do such right in front of her was probably a bad idea, so I rolled my eyes sarcastically instead. "You are mine now, destined to be my leverage to finally take equestria as my own, if you defy me I will punish you..." her voice sounded like there were several voices speaking in time. She was obviously keeping me uninformed of everything othernthsn the bare minimum to prevent or at least postpone escape. She decided to leave me in the gooey thing and just leave the room, 2 of her minions were posted to guard me... Hah, as if they could stop me, once I broke out of this gooey prison I could teleport or just plain rip and tear my way through these little bastards... Which i was looking foreward to because they helped instigate my existence in this universe.

The first part My day was boring for the most part, there Isn't much to do when one is trapped afterall, so i decided to experiment with the functions of the visor, because that still worked at least. I checked the 'settings' tab first and scrolled through, all the while learning more about myself and what was going on in my hack job of a body. I managed to find an almost sci fi style readout showing all of my organs and their assorted attached devices, it had my 'main reactor' labeled as being offline, I looked further in and found out that it was because it needed to recalibrate itself and run a diagnostic. So everything was running on standby from... somewhere. I also found out that I had tons of intricate little bits to keep all of the normal functions running. After a few hours of poking around in the setttings I decided to sleep and allow myself to think about some of the things I found and why they were added, as well as contemplate the meaning of a list of coordinates I had in my brain.
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In my dream, as soon as I was aware of the fact that I was dreaming, I almost immediately saw Luna flicker into existence, her image was faded and grainy but visible enough.

"...an......ear.......s.......va?.....lease.......spond....." she sounded like a hand radio that was at the end of it's range.

"I can hear you... But it's rough..." I tried answering to what I thought was her question, her image flickered and vanished only to flicker back into existence several seconds later.
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Luna Pov

"Did you find her sister?" Tia asked us in a very expectent voice.

"I hath seen but a flicker of her dream, and a whisper of her voice, we do not know where she hath been taken,"

"Thank you for trying Luna, I will summon Twilight for assistance in this matter, in the mean time I suggest we resort to other methods.

"We understand Sister, but we wish to comtinue our search, Please inform the night court we of our absence"

"I will handle it sister, just make sure to avoid exhausting yourself" with that Tia left our chambers and left us to continue our search.
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I awoke at what I could asume was around 8 pm, although I could never be sure. Contact with home through my brain was sketchy, Luna had managed to contact me 7 times, each time it invariably failed Luna finally gave up after the eighth attempt outright failed off the bat. I had about an hour of mental peace and quiet to cultivate a plan to escape before chrysalis finally showed up again. My current plan was to slowly make a precise incision partially through the suprisingly tough outer layer of this cucoon, then when the right moment presented itself I would tear it the rest of the way through, kill the guards, and run...the last part would need work. I also thought on what my purpose in this thing was in the first place, and whether this liquid was doing something important. I pulled up a small analysis program I found. Which I would gess as to allow my body tl know how to cope with various harmful agents,I selected a region to scan, my lungs were the most convinient so I picked them and allowed it to run to hopefully analyse the purpose of the liquid other than a substitute breathing medium. I put scans for my bloodstream and various other regions of my body in a que and waited, while also starting to toss around a backup plan, or some way of communicating with home, without magic, in a form that ponies could recieve and convert to a message, that immediately ruled out conventional radio, and there was also the problem of complexity, the message would have to ne rediculously short to prevent interception or problems with decoding, and yet very descriptive to ensure the message wouldn't be misunderstood, and. My location would also be a problem... Because I had no idea where the fuck I was.

My mental calculating was cut short when I saw Chrysalis walking up to me, in the dim light I could see that she was, 1, nude, and 2, very pissed off at something.

"You're more resistent than I thought, the gell hasn't even touched your mind or body yet, by now most ponies would be well on their way to becoming a changeling. Although, I must say, that in and of itself is impressive, but totally useless to me..." she gaped her mouth and stabbed her fangs into the cucoon, and I saw a very dark liquid seep from the two needle like teeth and start to dilute into the 'mystery goo' that I was currently residing in. I felt no immediate change, and desperately hoped that my immune system and my ludicrous internal body temp would prevent it from doing much.

After she left, I heated my finger nail up and began to carefully slice into the cuccoon's outer layer, thus allowing me to retain some kind of stealth and begin a hacked together plan of escape. After it was most of the way through I waited, all I would have to do was wait for the guards to look away for a second. After about 20 minutes both guards began to visibly relax a bit, another 10 minutes and I tore the cuccoon's back open in one swift move, and tore my way out, the guards remained almost completely oblivious, the sounds of buzzing and hoofsteps drowning out most other noises, I snuck up behind one of them and positioned my longer horn against the back of it's neck and quickly plunged it straight through its neck, I apparently hit slmething vital and the changeling immediately went limp, I dragged my horn out of the wound and watched the little fucker's green blood spurt out, the other changeling looked toward me and jumped at me, I countered and slammed the changeling into the floor...hard, it was still alive so I grabbed it by the head and gave a sharp twist to the left.

"DIE YOU LITTLE SHIT!" I almost yelled but refrained a little bit to keep from having attention drawn to me.

The changeling went limp and I grabbed their weapons, Being on par with luna in terms of scale, I could relatively easily weild two normally 2 handed weapons without too much of a problem. I quickly made my way to a door and used my magic to bore a small peephole, I got a good look through the hole and fired up a modified teleport spell, I flashed onto the other side of the door and immediately squeesed into a ventilation intake across the little hall.

After I had crammed myself into the duct I squirmed farther in and around a corner before I finally relaxed a bit and began to think.

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