Fallout: Equestria Swift Tale

Chapter One: Deep Freeze

"How long was I out for?"

Cryogenic sequence disengaged...

Cold...

I felt cold...

Everything was cold...

...But I didn't feel cool, I was not moving but I was breathing. I didn't know what to do but sleep. But I wasn't tired in fact everything was cramped. I needed to get out of there but everything was frozen. It was me and my own thoughts that have stuck with me for the last...I don't remember it was like time stopped. The strange thing was...if I was supposed to be asleep...then why was I awake? I was wet...was I...defrosting? It hurt to think...like it really hurt...The sides of my head were burning. After waiting for about 5 minutes before I was able to open my eyes. From what my eyes could see was in a strange pod with ice melting.

The glass was fogged so I couldn't see what was on the other side. But I swore I saw somepony out there pass by as I heard the sounds of galloping hooves leave me. (only 5 seconds of being alive or something and I was already hearing and seeing things). I was waiting to be able to move as the ice melted from every nook and cranny of my body as well as water dripping off my horn to my face. 1 hour passed and I was able to touch the door. (It didn't budge maybe because it was frozen shut) I forced my self to punch the door. My blood was frozen and my muscles were sore. Ok, I guess magic will have to do...but my head would hurt like crazy.

"okay...here...we...go..."

I tried to levitate the door open it took awhile for me to build up some magic charge and my head hurt like mad as I forced the door open and fell out on the floor with a thump as it echoed through out the dark and dank room I was in. The room It's self-was a long hall with the cryo pods running down each side of the gray walls and checkered black and white floor. The pod was a large chair that could fit one pony or a pony with a new born. (That I saw the skeleton of both of them) There was a small window in the middle of the door so you could look out or others could look in. On the side of the pod was a control switch that could close the door from the out side as well as an emergency switch inside.

I was very weak, so weak that I couldn't move. (Due to my body still unfreezing.) I turned my left but my eye sight was blurry as they were still adjusting to the light coming out of the pod. I could see a long row of the same kind of pods on each side. Some looked like they were broken and the others were either not in use or were in fact broken. The dust in the stale air tickled my nose as I could my first breath in ages. Then I looked to my right and I was spooked by a skeleton of a dead pony that was laying on the floor next to me.

"Sweet Celestia! What happened here!"

I screamed as I shot up to my feet and weakly tried to balance my self. That pony could have been me if I just laid there waiting to die. My back felt heavy like I was carrying some one or something. I was backing away seeing all the skellingtons in the hall and I backed into a glass wall. Slowly turning around I saw me...but not me. I saw a lot of different me's in the broken glass as they reflected back the fear in my face. Instead of seeing my normal self I saw I was still a unicorn...But my stubs had grown out to a pair of large feathered wings.

"No way!, Imposable! This could not happen!"

I screamed in shock to the fact I was an Alicorn. The stubs were replaced with wings. I stepped forward and one of my hooves got impaled on a shard of glass. If I was dreaming that won't hurt. I cried out in pain when I saw my blood was leaking from my body. I needed to remove this and find out why I was here again and what happened to me. Quickly but carefully I walked past the broken glass and down the hall without getting hurt once more. (It hurt to use my magic for anything so I was going to heal the old fashion way.) I looked at my self again still no cutie mark but my wings...well were wings. I tried to give them a flap but they were still frozen.

"Where I am? How long was I here?"

All I could remember was the first time I was jumping into the pod, and even that was blurry. I slowly made my way past the minefield of broken glass and skeletons so I wouldn't get any more glass anywhere else. The water dripping off my body to the floor every time I placed each careful step past the bones of the once lively ponies that walked this hall. I was in their tomb the least I could do was not disturb them.

I managed to walk safely to the next room I entered was a what looked like a hospital or clinic. There were hospital beds with dividers some had skeletons on the beds that didn't look normal at all. Some were strapped down and others were on the floor. There were other medical equipment and some computers but what I needed was bandages. And it just so happens that there was a metal box mounted on the wall. It was not like a normal box but the best box that I needed at the present moment. The medical box was yellow and had three pink butterflies painted on it. It was slightly rusted and the paint was faded. But I was hoping there was something in there that could help me.

"Thank Celestia's back-feathers."

I limped to the box and to open it. I forgot that most of the time they're locked. With no chance of lockpicking it. (Because I knew there had to be something to fuck with my luck) I just sat down trying to think of ways I could open the box as blood slowly was leaking out of my hoof on the floor. Okay looks like I had no choice but to use my magic no matter how much it was going to hurt. I shut my eyes and tried to think of something to take my mind off the pain. I started to think about my love. Her soft and warm smile. The smell of her tuffs of burnt mane she tried to cover up with a cheap perfume. I smiled as I started to use my magic to pull out the glass and heal my wounded hoof.

It didn't feel half as bad and I opened my eyes to see my hoof healed as a sighed happily as I remembered her. Then I remembered why I was here. The misshaped bones and the medical equipment everything started to make sense. I was here because I wanted to die. I didn't want to take my own life because that was not how I would not want to be remembered. Instead, I signed up to be a test subject of the unethical tests I have been hearing about. The tests that one pony would go in and never come out. And if they did they were never the same again. I saw the faint green glow of a terminal that was activated...recently.

"Strange...really strange...how did you turn on..." I walked to the terminal and looked at the what it had to say. Most of the logs were corrupted but I saw the most recent one the log of me.

Subject: Swift McGlides Code Name Swiftlestia.
Status: Activated.
Pod ID: 0000007.
Race: Alicorn (was our only perfect unicorn test subject)
Sex: Stallion.
Doctor: Aloe vera.

"Strange...no one else knew that but me...from all my days in the war...no one but..."

I looked around the room. As much as I was baffled at what I just read...only...Sarah...would know that... I looked around then back at the terminal. There was no way she was alive...she is dead and I am going crazy I'm seeing stuff and I'm hearing things. I continued to read the log as I felt like I had to know its secrets. I clicked on one of the files and read the first one.

...I don't care what the ministry mare says, She wants an army of alicorns that are all female. I believe it would be better to breed them instead of dipping unicorns in a vat of the Impelled Metamorphosis Potion one at a time. Oh well, what she doesn't know is that me and some of the team are here with our own plan to deal with that problem and we have loads of test subjects even one who shown much willingness to do anything and everything. In the rest of the logs is detailed info on what happened to the others. After all, we already started dipping them in the vat of the I.M.P so we are far from what the ministry is doing taking their own sweet ass time when there is progress to be made. That is why we have our own stable away from the ministry so we can do our own experiments with no one to stop us.~ Head of the project Doctor Aloe vera

"Well, she sounds like tons of fun."

I said with noticeable sarcasm as I typed on the terminal to access the other logs of this crazy mare known as Doctor Aloe vera. "Here we go Swifty Time to find out what the hell happened."

Subject: File name corrupted virus detected.
Status: Dead.
Pod ID: 0000001.
Race: Unicorn.
Sex: Stallion.
Doctor: Mantis Toboggan.

...Okay, so we started the test right away after we heard a loud noise from what I can gather it was a balefire bomb. I demanded we start at once due to lack of time. We readied the first test subject and lowered them into my own batch of the I.M.P for three minutes. After that, we lifted him up and were shocked to see that 0000001 had melted into the batch. So that was a waste of a batch I will have to fix that after all, I don't really care about what happens to them I just want to see progress! I sware if somepony fucks this up I'm going to force them into the dip! In other news, the control visor is in testing, more on that later. So I guess it's back to the drawing board...Again!

I was horrified!

"They melted ponies in this I.M.P stuff! And what is a control visor?" I kept reading the logs.

Subject: Flank West and Buck Green.
Status: Dead.
Pod ID: 0000002 and 0000003.
Race: Unicorns.
Sex: Stallions.
Doctor: Silver Gear (Dead).

...We lost half our team today after we tested 0000002 in the vat. When he came back up he didn't change and he was "dead." When we sent him away to get an autopsy about 30 seconds later he was walking in the lab with his guts falling out onto the floor, his eyes cloudy and the blood of Doctor Silver Gear on his mouth. The Doctor turned as well as another medic and they were trotting at 0000003 and bit him. I had security shoot them and take the bodies to the incinerator and burn them but not after taking some samples for later. All but 0000003 we dipped him and...well we got some interesting results after all this was a nice breakthrough even if it wasn't what we needed but it was something...

I stopped reading, each time I would read the logs I could see that it would have been better to blow my brains out than be apart of this sick and insane shit that these ponies have been doing here to the soldiers and...and...what they did to me. I felt sick and I wanted to throw up but realized I was hungry...Not just hungry I was starving. I needed food badly. Okay, no more reading till I find some...

Stable door cycling sequence activated please stand by.

A loud noise filled the stable of the sound rusted metal on metal as the massive steel door was pushed out of the way. As the musty smell of the outside flooded into the whole stable. My head was killing me and I tried to limit the noise in my ears. I felt the rumbling from the door on my hooves. Somepony had opened the door for the first time in ages. Then I heard someponies trot into the stable.

"You sure this is the place she told us about?" some pony said.

"The map box thing I stole of that bitch that the others raped and killed says this is the place she said to go." This other voice said.

"Let's just find what she wants and get out of here, I hate these stables they creep me out."

"Don't be a baby, Okay it looks clear go tell the others to move in."

I could hear their voices from the hall. They didn't' seem friendly at all and something tells me I had two choices. One meet them and die. Two fight back. And I was wondering what my new body could do... I heard them coming closer as well as more hooves. So I left the terminal and when to hide somewhere to get the jump on them. They were in my cave with a hungry alicorn and if they thought they could best me then...

They were doomed...HAHAHAHahahahhahah!

Footnote: Level Up.
New Perk: Cannibal-- Your so hungry you can eat a small horse. When sneaking you gain the option to eat a corpse of your fellow ponies to feed your self and regain health.