[Prototype/Viral Warfare] Fading Echoes

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Alex Mercer
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Equestria, Cold Tundra

Snow, Snow and more fucking snow.

There isn’t shit in this God forsaken tundra, I thought.

I at first went to find food for lightning but it stated snowing, covering my tracks.

I was very, very lost.

I found refuge from the elements inside a cave.

As I was exploring the place I was gonna wait out the storm in, I noticed a hole and noticed a very faint glow that I wouldn't have noticed had it not been for my enhanced eyesight. I got down on his hands and knees and started crawling through the small opening. It seemed to be getting brighter as I got further in. Soon enough it got wider and I found myself in a large, wide ravine. Very large crystals jutted from the walls of the ravine. They were so large they could act as mini-bridges. The main attraction of the room was the very large weeping willow tree at the end of the ravine. It was surrounded by a large pool of water. When focusing on the tree itself it looked like it was glowing. It also looked like it was alive and not in the sense of a plant just being alive. It felt like the tree hand a mind of its own. As I approached it I realized it was actually glowing.

Once there, I cleared the gap between the tree and me in one leap. I stared at the tree for a long time until I was broken from my trance by the feeling of something touching my skin. I looked down to see a tendril like vine snaking up my arm. I tried to resist but my body wouldn't respond to me. I then saw that the snake like object was actually part of the tree. I looked in the water and instead of seeing myself staring back at me, I saw a large city. I then saw myself and all of the sudden my vision faded and it felt like my body was shattered into a million pieces and rearranged. I opened my eyes to see the city I saw when looking at my reflection. I took in my surroundings and took into account the battle raging on the streets below. I saw more people like me pointing strange objects at ones that had a wrongness about them that I couldn't figure out.

I realized I had started moving without me noticing. My body jumped off the building and smashed the ground making a crater around me.
I looked closely at the ones that had no pointy items in their hands and noticed how mutated they look. Their skin had rashes and blisters and tumors all over it. They were also covered in blood and had a predatory look in their eye that belonged to that of a feral animal not a civilized human being. The ones with the guns in their hands, thats what I called them because It just felt right, must be soilders of some sort. They were mowing down the feral humans but not after long a large gorilla like creature came and tore them apart. I took note of its
appearance. It had in very small sunken in eyes, along with very sharp bloody teeth. They also had claw like appendages, and red veiny skin. After that horrible scene of death, a creepy blood lust filled smile expanded upon my face.

My body ran of in another direction and found some of those black suited soldiers. I summoned summoned my claws and ripped them to shreds and consumed them. My blood filled desire and hunger were quenched. I then realized the full extent of what I had really done. Then there was a voice in my mind that said, " That is what you could have been."

My eyes closed and opened to darkness. The darkness sone gave way to me in a lab coat mixing some chemicals and talking about some virus. I saw him go to a vaulted room, grab a vial and start running. I heard the alarms sound and I saw me be chased through the city to somewhere called Penn Station. Once there I saw myself get shot and killed by some of the soldiers I had heard myself cal Blackwatch. I watched as I slowly bled out. Suddenly a miniature black hole open up and swallow my memory self. I don't know why I called it a black hole. It was more of just a flash of white light shaped like a circle.

My eyes closed again and reopened into darkness again. I noticed something moving in the darkness. It stopped at around 10 ft. away from me. Then it started talking.

" What you just saw is where you belong.", The voice stated.

" That is your true home.", It said.

It said," I cannot bring you back there but I can teach you how to master your powers."

"But first you need to know the whole story."

After seeing everything, you finally understood. You knew the full story. You then think about what this means. Sombra saved me so what does that mean for lightning and the other ponies. Did you truly want to fight a war against your savior. He also promised mastery over your abilities.

Your thoughts were interrupted by Sombra's voice.

"That is not why I brought you here though" he said. "You have a purpose here, and I can reveal it to you in due time but if you are to become my apprentice then you most pledge allegiance to me and declare me the true King of Equestria!" he proclaimed.

I had made up my mind and was about to say yes when there was a blinding flash of light that banished the darkness.

I opened my eyes to see a Heavenly being before me.

She had baby blue eyes and blue and green mane that flowed in some non-existent breeze. Her coat was pure white and she gave off a feeling of peace. You notice that she was looking at Sombra. In a voice that seemed to loud and commanding for such a graceful creature she said," BEGONE WITH YOU EVIL SPIRIT!". She then fired a blue beam of light off of a horn you didn't notice before. When the beam impacted Sombra, he screamed and started fading away. Once he was fully gone she seemed to finally notice that you existed. You then ask her who she was and why she was here. She responded saying," I am the spirit of the tree of life.". I was gonna tell you about your past when I had you look at the water but Sombra used some spell of his to gain control of the vision. He showed you what he wanted and left out some part's to try and convince you to join his side. I gained back power into to banish him from my realm but he can only use the spell he used when he either is near you or has some of his soldiers near you.

This information came so fast, I had a hard time processing it. After just thinking for a while, I recalled the info she said about Sombra being close to me or have soldiers near me to cast the spell.

I said," I'm very grateful and all but I probably need to get going because of the fact Sombra is most likely very close to me at the moment."

"Very well" she said, but be careful. "I will give you my blessing and a little gift when you wake up. Good luck."

And with that the vision faded and I woke up.