Metro: Canterlot Line

Sprocket trotted down the tunnel his headlamp barely illuminating the path ahead of him, he noticed a hand-painted metal sign nailed to a wall. In very messy and scrawled hoofwriting a simple message had been placed upon it:

“Now entering:

Canterlot Lower Estate Tunnel

‘Beware the Ghosts”

Sprocket had heard rumours of ‘haunted’ tunnels in his lifetime many spoke of the eerie and supernatural feeling they developed upon entering them accompanied by the feeling of being watched. Now Sprocket had never been one to believe in the bizarre tales of other ponies that he barely knew, but the ghost stories he had been told were made more realistic by the facial expressions of the ponies telling them. Looks of pain, confusion and sorrow were the most common while other, more adventurous ponies, spoke with a look of ambition and excitement on their faces strangely happy they had encountered such an eerie setting on their travels. Now that Sprocket had actually been confronted with a sign stating there were ghosts in the tunnel he began to lose any trace of doubt that ghosts didn’t exist, if somepony put up a warning sign surely it must be for a valid reason.

Shaking his head and clearing his trail of thought he returned to thinking of the matter at hand, that obnoxious DJ that in such a short space of time had had grown to like as the closest friend he had ever had. He stared blankly into the dark tunnel ahead and thought over his plan, hesitantly taking out a hoof-held torch charger he powered his torch to its fullest extent allowing him to see but a few meters in front of him. Not enough to hold his own in a fire-fight with bandits who knew the layout of these tunnels but enough to stop any impending danger or spot any traps set which by no doubt the bandits would have set to protect what they considered their own territory. Sighing and replacing his air filter Sprocket trotted into the irradiated darkness of the Lower Estate Tunnel and as he did so he immediately understood the feeling of being watched. A feeling he would never forget.