Simulation.

"Argh! My aching brain" Travis groaned sitting up on the lab table.

"Shut your cake hole. I'm sleepin' here!" Seethe groaned aloud.

"Come on dude, you gotta get up and help that Princess girlfriend of yours." Travis got off the lab table and went to a panel by the door. He pushed a blue button and a holographic panel game about. Travis pushed  a few buttons then found a large one marked "Bridge."

He pressed it and said "Travis to bridge."

A response came quickly. "Bridge here, Petunia speaking."

"Send someone to get Seethe. He's gonna need help getting to the bridge." Travis said.

"I'm sending Mark." Petunia said.

A few minutes later the lab door opened and a large black coated Stallion in a jumpsuit with "Mark" written on the shoulders.

He went over to Seethe and helped him stand. "Come on, big guy. I gotta get ya to the bridge."

After a few quick minutes of walking/stumbling about the metal corridors of the Destiny. They made it to what Seethe assumed was the front of the ship. The "bridge" was  a large room with many consoles along the walls except the back one and the frontal wall, which was a glass viewing window. In the center of the room there was a circular metal table with orange glass in the center. It looked to be capable of generating the numerous holograms Seethe had seen thus far. Petunia and Celestia were chatting like old friends while messing around with one of the terminals. Seethe stumbled over. Mark walked out of the bridge.

"S-so whatta you gals doin'?" Seethe slurred out still a tad drunk.

"Petunia is teaching me to use one of these.....computers." Celestia said scrolling through files looking for something.

Petunia was looking at the console with her. She looked up and smiled at Seethe. "Celestia seems to enjoy the computer. Maybe she could give you some pointers on how to use it." Petunia said smiling. She looked back at Celestia "Enjoy yourself, I think we have a few games on this. Seethe would you like to see a fun game?"

"Sure."

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Ten minutes later.

Bullets flew over Seethe's head as he ducked behind a pile of wood in the lumber yard.

"Mark! Flank left! Use your shotgun!" Petunia's voice echoed over the covered area where all the lumber piles were.

Seethe readied his semi-auto rifle. "Come on, Mark! I'll blow your head off!" Seethe laughed grabbing a grenade off a belt along his waist. He tore off the pin with his teeth and tossed it, it went straight over the wood pile and waited a few seconds for the explosion. The explosion was his battle cry. He charged out around the left side of the wood pile and saw Mark. Mark fired at Seethe. Seethe dropped low and rolled to the left. He rose back up as quickly as he had dropped. He fired and shot at Mark. His bullet hit right between Mark's eyes. Blood sprayed from Mark's head and his body disintegrated into data as he was expelled from the simulation. Seethe heard Petunia's voice.

"Fire teams: Gamma, Delta. Kill Seethe."

Suddenly 8 large soldier stallions materialized around Seethe each one wielding an automatic weapon. Seethe dropped his rifle and reached around his flank just above his grenade belt and found a holstered pistol. He drew it and began aimed at the nearest soldier. He reached back again and pulled one of the pins with his hoof.

"Bring it on!" He shouted opening fire.

He fired taking one or two and wounding three. At about the time he took out the second the rest opened fire. It took a few more than sixty rounds to bring the Alicorn down, but they did. At the loss of maybe three of their own.

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Seethe erupted out of the simulator pod. Sweaty and out of breath. Petunia walked over and helped him out of his pod fully.

"Congrats you did better in your first last stand simulation than most." Petunia commented.

"Th-thanks." Seethe said breathless and a bit shaky. "Th-that was fun."

"Don't worry about the heart racing or adrenaline, that never truly goes away, even if you do it more." Petunia said seeing his sweat and shaky-ness.

"G-good to know" Seethe said smiling kinda of like someone that had almost died. Even if it was simulation, it was hyper-realistic. And scared the living crap out of him. Experiencing your own death from that perspective would've scared anyone.

"Darn. That was bone chilly." Seethe said wiping some the sweat form his forehead with his hoof

"Virtual Death? In our simulator? Of course it is the first time."Petunia said with a smile. "You did well, though."