Metro: Canterlot Line

The gunshots illuminated the horrific surroundings of the decaying metro tunnel as the last few mutants fell into the puddles of irradiated water. The tunnel soon returned to its pitch black state apart from the dim light produced by Corroded Sprocket’s head torch, he returned his bolt action rifle to its strap on his backpack and took a moment to glance at the filter timer on his left hoof.

15 minutes, not nearly enough time to make it to Canterlot Gardens with distractions like this. He began to frantically search the tunnel as the minutes flew by. He kept glancing back at the watch as his time began to run out

5 minutes, the corpses of the mutants had been searched and disposed of and he frantically began to run in the direction of Canterlot Gardens

3 minutes, after briefly stopping to manually recharge his head mounted torch Sprocket began to break into full sprint as the thought of reaching Canterlot Gardens in time became nothing more than an impossible task.

1 minute, in the distance he could see the glint of the spotlights from Canterlot Gardens barricade after taking a shortcut through a different tunnel and encountering a single mutant; seems luck was on his side.

10 seconds, the spotlights had turned out to be farther away than expected and he knew that his oxygen would run out far before he reached the barricade

5 seconds, not a single shred of hope remained in Sprocket’s mind as the final seconds of breathing oxygen passed by, his vision beginning to fade as he started to breathe in the irradiated air from the Metro tunnels and he fell face first into an irradiated puddle.

So this was how it ended for Sprocket. After all that had happened...

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Several years ago many tests were being performed by a small group of scientists formally belonging to “Neigh Science Laboratories”

The experiments conducted contained not only highly explosive and radioactive chemicals and materials but were conducted in poor, low funded conditions most of the time being in a house, the tests performed usually resulted in no harmful output and therefore the ponies which conducted the experiments thought it safe to continue. But after a few months of testing the tests gave off a result that nopony could have anticipated, the skies turned red as an explosive wave destroyed and irradiated all above ground. Forcing the citizens of Equestria underground, whether that be to places like shelters or basements or the newly constructed metro stations connecting all of Equestria’s largest towns together.

And so life was changed for everypony, fortunes and estates were lost in an instant and families were shattered like a pane of glass. Canterlot was the least effected by radiation and the explosion being lucky enough to be the furthest away from the origin of the explosion. Everypony adapted differently, some instantly changed despite losing everything and the ones with nothing to lose at all became the fastest adapting and usually the leaders of the new colonies spread around the Equestrian metro line.

This however is the story of one ‘Corroded Sprocket’ who was nothing more than a newborn at the time of this and his adventure in the Canterlot Line.