The Fall of Cloud

  I woke up this morning to a loud crash and a scream coming from outside my room. I ran as fast as I could to the screaming of NightShade, I made it into the room, were she was laying on the floor with a bookcase on top of her. "Oh good morning Cloud, uhh could you help me" she asked sorrowfully "yeah, what happened" I said as I lifted the bookcase up enough for her to slide out from under it. "I'm kinda a klutz, fault to my own stupidity" she exclaimed "you're not stupid in the least" I said "you're just saying that because you think things have to be different between us now." She replied "I honestly don't think anything is different between us other than the fact that we're kind of a thing" I stated proudly "yeah, well it's against all protocol for the harvest... at least I think it is" she said "what's the harvest" I asked "the harvest is this company that does experiments like the experiment that you are is the PFL program composed of the AST and POD program, the AST Program, is where we take a ponies mind and blend it all together so they are like you, they know things when they first get out. But they don't have any memories, we just put that brain in a body we genetically created with the POD Program that's how you got here." She explained "so wait, why am I here, was I just created for the ability to be created, if so then why the tests and why the learning?" I asked "well you were originally created to be one of the first biological soldiers to be able to withstand specific problems that no other ponies could survive in." She explained "so I'm a soldier, am I going into a war?" I asked nervously "no you're the only successful bio soldier we've gotten so far so you will be a undercover assassin... a black ops program created by the harvest, that's why we did so many tests and everything." I didn't like thinking about all the tests "one question, are you" I paused for a moment "a test?" I didn't want to ask it but I had too "what makes you think that?" She asked "well for one thing I've known you almost all my life and we sorta, hmmm oh I don't know" I paused "oh yeah that's what it was we had sex" I yelled the last part I'll admit I felt like a asshole but I didn't want to chase something that was just a ploy. "No cloud I-I'm not a test, but I can stop working here any time you want if you really feel that way" she yelled but was crying at the same time I held her in my forehooves "I-I'm so sorry, I love you" I whispered in her ear she looked up at me, again with those big green eyes "ask yourself something, do you really love me, or is this just a test?" She snickered at me "I do though" I say pulling my muzzle closer to hers. I heard a door open and I quickly pulled away from her loosing all my comfort "hey what the hell are you doing in here number eleven?" A grey stallion with a blue and white mane walked in it was BlueMint "I was just" he cut me off "I don't wanna hear it ya gotta take a flying test now, so get your ass down to the track room, I'll see you there" he said as he walked away. "Looks like I have to go" I said sadly "hey I'll see you again tonight, right?" She asked "definitely" I say as she pecked me on the check "now you've got a test to go do, I know you'll do great" she said "thanks, I love you I'll see you tonight" I said " love you too" she replies as I leave the room and meet BlueMint by the track room "alright what new task am I supposed to be doing today, sir" I ask sounding like a jackass in my own mind "you have to go around the whole track without getting cut anywhere on your body" he says as I start laughing "that's like the easiest thing to ever do, especially while flying" I say "good because you haven't seen what we're gonna make ya go through yet" he says as he presses a button with his forehoof. As a wall of barbed wire shot up from the ground surrounding the track, spikes popped up in the floorboards so if I fall I get impaled by big ass spikes and then I most likely die. "Oh shit" I say "yeah, that's the reaction most of the other ones had when they got this far" replies BlueMint "I have a question BlueMint, what do you know about NightShade?" I ask "well what do ya mean?" He didn't understand "I-I like her" I say "of course ya do, I mean just the way y'all act around each other I wouldn't be surprised if ya said ya fucked her." I swallowed hard at the thought of anyone finding out about it "so is she like, a slut" I really shouldn't have been asking these questions about another pony that I loved and held close to me. "Well I wouldn't say that, she's fucked about as many ponies as any other mare, maybe even less I only know one stallion other than you whose had sex with her." He said "wait how'd you know?" I asked him "well we have cameras everywhere and they're always on, and a mare and a stallion don't just go into a bathroom for five hours and do nothin'." He made a good point but that raises a question "does anypony else know?" I asked nervously "calm the fuck down kid, it's ok there's no rule about it, the head of harvest feels that whatever anypony does with another pony isn't any of his business, so you're gonna be fine." I let out a breath I'd been holding "oh thank Celestia." I exclaimed "yeah, so are you gonna do the test or not?"