What Happened in September...

Everfree Hospital - September 23rd - 4 Months B.N.M.

A sharp whistling noise penetrated the air, the screams of thousands upon thousands of ponies crying out across the sky, the sky lighting up with the color of fire.. It was only until a thudding 'Boom!' echoed out through the darkness that Hydro Gen's eyes snapped open. He took in a shuddering breath and let it out as a soft wheeze, his body shaking as a cold wind blew over his dazzling white coat. His red eyes squinted from the flickering flashes of the broken light fixtures that were crackling nearby. His whole body ached as he weakly lifted his head up, groaning and feeling spine pop in a few places. He was laying halfway out of a glass door that had shattered, the hospital behind him in total ruin and the sky lit up with the color of blood. He looked towards the outside and gasped, his pupils shrinking to the size of needles and his body shaking with horror.

A gigantic, yellow bubble of magic had surrounded the town of Old Ponyville...or at least what was left of it. A rainbow-colored mushroom cloud hung like a dark symbol of death over the glowing, fiery ruins of the destroyed town. Hydro Gen weakly got up on his hooves, staggering a little as he took a few steps towards the magic bubble, the color of it fading and holes starting to form on its surface. Hydro watched as pillars of ash and smoke spilled out from the holes of the shattered bubble, getting caught on the breeze and mixing the color of black into the sky. After a moment, the yellow bubble finally shattered and dissipated, a sudden gust of powerful wind blowing Hydro back on his haunches. Tears spilled out of his eyes as he watched the atomic cloud rise higher up into the air, the ring of rainbow energy that had blasted outwards from the explosion lingering above.

He pulled himself back up onto his hooves and slowly walked forward towards the cloud, his breath coming out in raspy wheezes. He blinked as he started to hear noises in the back of his mind, sudden yelps and lines of conversation rapidly flowing through his brain. Amongst the noisy chaos, he heard his own voice ring out and state calmly

"My name...is Doctor Hydro Gen...I'm an Atomic Scientist of the Canterlotian University of Magical Manipulation and Arcane Study, and Princess Celestia's star pupil. For years now I have been forced to grow up in a vile, disgusting place called 'Equestria', a dark, rotten cesspool of disease and hate. It wasn't always like this...Equestria used to be a peaceful land...filled with joy...happiness...and peace for all. But over the past several years...a dark shadow has crept over our once tranquil lands of calm and peace, and the world as we knew it had died. Celestia and Luna tried their best...tried their very best to stop all the pain, all the suffering. Nothing was working, and my life suffered because of it. Things had become difficult for me and my Marefriend, Angel Hooves, and for my best friend, Alexi Snow-Walker. I can't really tell you what happened here, because quite frankly I can't remember...

I can't remember, what happened in September... when everything is gone, when It's dark and I'm alone. It's been forever, since I could have remembered. Where the hell is everypony...I just want to know the story, of what happened right before....

...I become so alone."