The Phantom of Equis

There was once a kingdom inhabited largely by unicorns with wings,which were commonly known as alicorns. These alicorn's society was built around the belief that one’s ability with magic and the how much power you have with int it, shows one’s place in the world. It was for this reason that the lower class alicorn's, whose magic ability is on par with their unicorn cousins at best, were forced to serve the high class ,and the high class the royals. The royals were the caretakers of the celestial bodies,and the two leaders of the royals (and the entire Alicorn race by extent) were trusted with the task of raising the sun and moon. This power was also passed on from generation to generation ,to the eldest born of the lunar and solaris lines, and so it came that the these lines crossed by the marriage of the two leaders of the time.And the birth of two fillies ,that would one day become the leaders of all of pony kind, but this is not their story. No this story starts on a small farm on the edge of the Alicorn Kingdom.

This farm was run by a male alicorn by the name of Green Apple, with lime green fur,a messy blonde mane,and sparkling emerald eyes.He tended to his farm largely by himself.While his wife, a beautiful alicorn mare,who was known as Violet Comet, with dazzling sapphire eyes,a sleek lavender coat,and a violet mane that came down to her neck in curls, took care of their foals.

The eldest was a 10 year old filly,who was named Crescendo, with sparkling royal blue eyes that sparkled with life,her mane was dark purple and was often in a ponytail,her coat was a light purple and her she was also the only one of her siblings with a cutie mark(a mark that symbolized ones special talent) ,which was a flute with a musical note in the background. Her siblings were 4 year old fraternal twins,her sister,Stardust Shine was practically the same has her elder sister except she had purple eyes and a magenta stripe in her hair.While her brother,named Cosmic Storm,was exactly like his dad other than his storm grey hair and purple eyes.

Currently the family was sitting down for dinner. Violet walked to the table the family was sitting and levitating several platters of vegetables,fruits,and pie onto the table.

“PIE!” Crescendo said making a grab for the pie with her magic ,only for her father to give her horn a gentle slap with his hoof.

“Real food first,pie later,” He scolded.

“Yes papa….” Cressedo pouted.

“Alright I'll get the foals their food,” Green said grabbing one of platters and a couple of plates in his magic as he put suitable portions for the little one onto said plates. He then to turned to the foals who were giggling at each other,as they used their magic ,to barely levitate a ball between each other.

“Momma why is magic different colors?” Stardust asked suddenly,turning to her mother expectantly.

Violet signed patiently and said, “Because dear, everypony’s magic unique from one another that's why one ponies magic look different from another ponies, now eat your lettuce,”

“No! I don’t like lettuce it's icky!” Stardust said pushing her plate away from here.

“If you don’t eat your lettuce I'm going to have to give Crescendo your part of the pie,” Violet said with a knowing smirk.

Stardust eyes became as small as pinpricks as she looked to Crescendo who was devouring the good on her plate in hope of getting a piece of pie.

“No mama!I'll eat it, don't give it to sissy!” Stardust said panicking and shoveling her food into her mouth,while her brother laughed at her.

“Hey, stop laughing and eat,” Green Apple scolded Cosmic.

“Yes papa,” Cosmic said as he started eating.

“Is something wrong honey? you seem on edge,” Violet asked worriedly.

“The elites just passed another tax on the lower classes,” Green sighed.

“Again!? What is it this time?” Violet asked in frustration.

“Their taxing fruit sales now, so I’ve got to make double the produce this year so I can lower the price on my produce,or I won't make enough money to may for our ‘protection’ money,” Green sighed.

“Protection from what papa?” Cosmic asked.

“You'll understand when your older Cosmic,” Green sighed.

“But-” Cosmic began before being cut off.

“When your older Cosmic!” Green shouted.

The room went silent,and no one said a word for a few minutes,while Cosmic whimpered as he ate his food. The silence was broken by a loud knock on the door.

“Crap,” Green sighed, “Just keep eating Ill deal with it,”

Green went open the door and said to whoever was outside,”I'll be right there,”

Green opened and a door and said, “ Look I already paid for our protection last we-”

He was then suddenly decapitated before falling to the floor his blood pooling onto the floor.

“GREEN!” VIolet said running to her husband's corpse sobbing,as a cloaked bipedal figure stepped into the room and grabbed her by the throat.

“W-Why?” She choked.

“My master requires fresh meat,” the man said his face still obscured by the cloak,suddenly he stabbed his blade though her stomach area, before tossing her onto the floor.

“M-mamma?” Crescendo whispered in shock before running to her mother's side,while her siblings were frozen in fear their eyes on locked on the intruder.

“Crescendo r-run h-hurry take you siblings and run!” Violet said coughing up blood as her bled out on the floor.

“Fool it's too late for that,” The man said as he took cloth ,walked past the fear stricken Crescendo ,and pressed the cloth against the squirming face of Stardust knocking her conscience before turning to do the same ot Cosmic who tried to fly away only to be snatched mid flight.

“S-stop,” Crescendo shivering in fear said grabbing a fork off the table with her magic and pointing at the man.

The man turned and laughed at her.

“What are you going to do with that?” He said knocking Cosmic and dropping the foal, “You know you could probably make it out the door and fly away,of course then you’d be abandoning your little siblings to save your own skin,”

Crescendo looked at the open door and for a second thought about running away, and saving her own life, she had relatives not too far from here that would take her in. She could leave and continue to live her life ,maybe she could become a famous musician like she’s alway dreamed ,with hundreds of adoring fans. She could buy a big house and live the rest of her life playing the music she loved so much,but she knew she’d couldn’t abandon her family ,she knew she couldn’t leave them alone to whatever fate this man had in mind.

She gritted her teeth and screamed charging the man,to his utter shock,and jamming the fork into his leg. Unfortunately the man had some kind of energy shield around his armour,that stopped the fork before it was even a inch away from the armour plating beneath.

The man howled in laughter, “You have spirit! I would have killed you if you had tried to run ,my master has no need for cowards,”

He then grabbed her by her throat and hoisted her up,as he pulled back the hood of his cloak. Revealing some kind of monster with mandible and dragon-like head.

Cressedo couldn't even scream as the monster choked her out.

After a unknown amount of time in a unknown location

Crescendo woke up slowly, she now found herself in a large dark room, she couldn’t see a thing,but she could feel cold metal under hooves,she could smell several other foals including her siblings, and she heard the sobbing of other foals. Suddenly she felt two small fluffy things huddle up close to her.

“Cwsenso? I’m scared! Cwsenso!” she heard her sister say as the little filly huddled even closer.

“Hey um it’ll be ok if they wanted to hurt us they would have already, right?” Crescendo said thinking quickly hoping to calm her sister.

Crescendo couldn't see her sister's face but she seemed to relax a bit more and Cosmic’s whimpering seemed to lessen.For the next several minutes the only sound that could be heard was the foals crying and calling for their parents,but soon everything went silent when the room was flooded with light,temporarily blinding all the foals. Soon Cressedo’s eyes regained focus and she what she saw shocked her.

All around her were dozens of foals her age or youngers, some could barely walk straight due to being too young,and others were dirty and malnourished most likely due to living off the streets,but that's not what shocked her, no what shocked her was the beings standing above them on a elevated platform. Standing on these platforms were ten monsters ,like the one that had kidnapped her and killed her parents, wearing jet black armour and a strange emblem on their shoulder guards, in front of them were four beings wearing black cloaks and whose details Crescendo couldn’t make out, but the one in front of all of them, the one who Cressedo assumed was in charge of all of this was….. A elderly man in a lab coat.

“Greetings and salutations, I am Doctor Ivan Seingburg,” The elderly man said smiling ,his eyes hiding behind his black tinted glasses, “And you are my new test subjects!”

“Test subject!” Crescendo thought in horror,as her siblings cowered behind her.

“Screw you old man I'm not going to be your lab rat!” a colt shouted stepping out of the crowd.

“Oh? That's too bad….kill him,” The Dr.Ivan said indifferently.

One of the monsters smirked taking pointing the long device he was holding and pointing it at the colt before a beam of light hit the colt in the head,blasting a smoldering hole through his skull.

The some of the young foal began crying and a few even started running around hoping against hope that there was a way out.

“Now then, Does anyone else have any objections?” The doctor asked looking around the room, “No? Well then we can move on now, just do as your told from here on out and you’ll won’t end up like our brash friend here,” he said before pressing a button on his watch.

Suddenly a wall opened up,and several of the foal ran through though it.

“Oh eagar I see!” The doctor laughed before saying, “Good! Now Vadum could you feed that corpse to the hounds, it’s annoying me,”

“At once my lord,” the one of the monsters said jumping down causing the rest of the foals,including Crescendo who grabbed her siblings onto her back, ran out of the room.

The doctor snorted, “Predictable,” before walking through the door behind him the four cloaked figures following him.

The next room was actually connected to several hallways with signs on each one. One lead to a cafeteria,another the bunks,and one even lead to a bathhouse.

“Big sissy what are we gonna do?” Cosmic asked as Crescendo took him off her back with her magic.

“I don’t know,” Crescendo said still shaking from all that had happen.

“We’re gonna get out of here!” a filly said confidently.

“Did you see what happened to that colt? If we try to escape they'll kill us!” Another filly said. The two then got into a heated argument.

“Come on let's go explore,it'll take our mind of-of,” Crescendo said tears in her eyes trying not to cry.

Unfortunately her siblings weren’t as strong willed as her, and immediately broke down crying.

“Hey Hey, it's gonna alright don't cry,” Crescendo said pulling them into a hug as tears flew down her cheeks, her siblings turned and bawled into her fur,and after a few minutes they cried themselves to sleep,and Crescendo up curled up around them falling asleep sobbing.

Meanwhile the Doctor was having a meeting with his main supplier,as far money went, none other than the king of the alicorns King Cosmos! He had a flame colored mane that flowed in a invisible wind ,as well as having a milk white coat and a violet eyes,he wore a purple fur cape and dazzling gold crown with emeralds surrounding a giant ruby.

“Ah your majesty,it's good to see you again!” The doctor said with a smile as he sat down across from the alicorn stallion at a large table.

“Yes indeed,I trust you were successful and collecting those low class foals, I’m sure killing the parents was easy feat,as well as picking up the street urchins,” The King asked.

“Yes, and don't you worry I have a good feeling about this batch!” The doctor said grinning.

“Indeed soon equestria will have warriors strong enough to stop the coming clamity, now if you excuse me, I promised my wife Id spend time with her and our daughter,” The king said getting up.

“Oh yes! did you finally think of a name for the infant?” The doctor said faking interest.

“Yes we’re thinking ,Celestia,” The king said before teleporting away for with a smile.

The doctor looked at the spot the king had vanished form and started laughing.

“Ponies! They are honestly much to easy to manipulate! Soon my latest project will be complete and I can turn this whole planet nay! The whole universe into my test site!” He cackled madly.