Stagnation is Death

by Firefoxino

[OLD]Chapter 1 The Lab [EDITED]

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Author's Note

sooooooooooo this is it I did it i wrote something on fimfiction, like I said tell me if you see errors and advice are extremely welcome thanks again :twilightsmile:
yes is short I'm already planning what to do but turn ideas into word is difficult!
But worry not I promise next chapter will be at least 5K words until next time folks!

IMPORTANT NOTE! Young reader that reached this story, I want you to go to the last chapter published in order to understand that this story will change from what you are going to read in this very chapter. Thanks for your help


[OLD]Chapter 1 The Lab [EDITED]

Here I am in an hospital bed, alone, and I have what? 5,10 minutes before the cancer claim my life? Not that I can complain seems like the world doesn't like the idea of me having a family. Yep, they all died I know it's sad but with the years you learn to cope with that and... Dammit! I was telling this without introducing myself first! Ok then, hello there I'm Philip Mercer.
No, my dad is not Alex Mercer, I'm a 20 year old man with short black badly kempt hair and brown eyes, I'm 175 cm tall and I HAD a good figure until 5 months ago, and most important information of all, I'm a brony. Yep I discovered MLP thanks to a friend of mine and I immediately loved it, but that's not important, right?.

Now where was I? Oh right, I was dying yeah. Just before I started to close my eyes for the final time I felt something, and everything just became grey. Everything stopped, the nurses, doctors everyone; and then someone talked.

"Heeeeello my boy, how are you in this beautiful day?" I immediately looked at my right and then I saw him. Discord.
"What are you doing? Trying to imitate a goldfish?" He asked.

I just continued to stare at him then I said with "Uhh oook, so now I'm officialy dead and I'm imagining you or what?"

He laughed and answered me"Or what. No my dear boy you are not imagining me and you are certainly not dead. See, your old friendly chaotic neighbor is here to ask you something. What's the thing that all the living creature do to survive?" He asked.

"They evolve themselves, so they can survive better and better." I answered. He looked at me and then he grinned with a look of satisfaction.

"Then you won't have a problem with becoming the best at that, would you?" He said in a low voice. He snapped his paw and after that, nothingness.

DISCORD POV

It's done I did it! You can try to kill me Celestia but chaos never die. Let's see how good you are against something that not even you can predict hahahaha!

"Discord. It's time."Said an old voice with a kind yet authoritative tone.

"yeah yeah I know big guy. I know"Good luck Philip, you are the only one that can save Equus from destruction now.

PHILIP POV

Dark, darker, yet darker, I can't see anything but I can hear...voices? No not exactly voices more like thoughts but they are not thoughts either. Strange...I'm dead? No I'm not, I don't know how I know this, I just do. I feel something new. I try to open my eyes to see and indeed I see something, some kind of green liquid surrounds me. I can watch outside and if I wasn't paralyzed I would certainly have jumped all the way to the roof. They...They are ponies?!

WHAT?!

What the fuck, how? How can they...wait a second ponies don't walk on two legs, and don't have hands but the muzzle and the hooves are unmistakable. Discord threw me into Equestria the question is, why? And while I was asking myself all of this they noticed me.

"Professor Becker! He’s awake!" Shouted a vanilla mare with a lab coat and a brown, curly mane.

Becker? Really? I thought.

"Really?" Said another voice, this time male. Becker, I presume. "Finally. Quick, tell the princess about this and prepare test chamber number 8"

Test chamber? I feel the tank I'm inside shifting and moving and I can see they are transporting me away.

You remember how I told you that I love MLP? Forget it! On the way for the test chamber I saw horrible things.

A long line of cells filled with ponies in chains, some without fur and some with disfigured extra limbs, some with fangs too long to be useful.

I then arrived at a gruesome, revolting scene. A group of three ponies almost unrecognizable with no fur, no mane, muscles could be seen beneath their skin with big gross veins. They had clawed fingers and were festering with the blood and interior of another pony, a light grey stallion with a green mane with no clothes, this one was chained by his hands to the ceiling.

And it was alive.

The screams. God the screams were horrible. I couldn't believe it. How? What sick person could do something like that? But the worst part was that I didn't feel repulsed, yes it was horrible to see and hear but I wasn't feeling sick or disgusted.

I was feeling hungry.

"NO. nononononono. I can't feel hunger at that display I just can't, it's inhuman. What's happening to me? Why I'm not freaking out? At last, we arrived to the test chamber and I felt the liquid drain away and found myself falling.

I landed on my back and as I try to move this time, I succeed. I try to stand, but it seems I'm a bit rusted and I fall on my face, strangely with no pain.

"Have they drugged me?" I get up and I start to analyze where I am. It's a circular room with no windows and only one door,the structure seems made of concrete while the door was made of metal, steel I presume.I was suddenly interrupted by a loud voice.

"Hello subject 000 I see you can stand, can you comprend me? Can you talk?"The voice asked .

"Yes. Yes I can, now a question for you. Where the fuck am I? What do you want from me? Why are you calling me subject 000?" I angrily asked.

"Those were three questions, but I'm a kind soul and I will respond to all of them. First, welcome to the Genetic Engineering Neverdawn Establishment or G.E.N.E for short. I'm here to test you, and you are the first living creature genetically enhanced by us to shapeshift, consume, and evolve, thus the name subject 000. Enough talking, we shall start testing now! "

"Genetically enhanced? Consume, shapeshift, and evolve seems like...like the blacklight!"

I have to try this I look at my hands and I start thinking about them becoming claws like in the game, and just like that, they do.

Suddenly the door in front of me opens up and I can see something, a pony? A red furred with a darker tone of red mane. I couldn't even think about what I was supposed to do. The pony started to run in my direction, screaming and showing me his fanged mouth. I wasn't thinking anymore I didn't know what to do, so I did the only thing my brain could come up with. I start running! But when I sprinted I didn't expect to run so fast, I barely avoided crashing against the wall.

"What are you doing 000? Kill him!"Shouted Becker.

"No! What's wrong with you? Why would I do that?" I shouted back.

"Because if you don't, he’ll kill you!".

I then noticed an error from my part, I wasn't looking to the mutant. I felt a scream from my right and I barely dodged the fist of the mutant. CRACK. His fist cracked the wall! He cracked the fucking wall!

Ok if he hit me that will hurt, they won't let me escape right? And after all he is just like the zombies on prototype he is not himself anymore and there is no other solution, besides I'm gulp hungry. Oh God.". With my claws I ran towards him and slashed him.
Right through the middle of his body, severing his lower half from his upper half. Then multiple tentacles sprouted from my body and connected with his. That was my first consume. And it was magnificent to finally satiate that hunger. Strangely I didn't receive any memory from him.

Is it because he was mutated like that? They don't have any emotions, nor desire then? Well at least I can say I didn't kill him. He was already dead. I felt a surge of power though. Had I just absorbed his strength?

Becker talked again."Wonderful, wonderful. 000 the princess will be pleased and I will be recognized for my genius hehehehehehehehe. Now then, sleep." I heard a click and the characteristic sound of gas, then blackness.

I woke up in a cell of some sort, completely covered in plates of metal. I was wearing a sort of straightjacket but my arms were free, instead I had a white colored metallic collar around my neck.

"000 the princess is here to see you. Don't try anything funny if you don't want to know what that collar does." Said a female voice that I had never heard before.

"Try something funny? I'm not an idiot. If I'm really made of blacklight now, I have to evolve before doing anything".The door opened and a tall mare with white fur and a celestial mane stepped in. Celestia.

"Hello subject 000 how are you, my most powerful weapon?"

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